says they're part of turkey feature tom, we will never give up on our goal for fully independent country promoting technology and making turkey a country that leads in every field. hurricane faces complex than pensions on its orders. and as an 8 member, it is sometimes at all for the l laws encountering what it regard as the threats. so turkish officials and the military are keen to develop a defense industry that is independent. and this festival is designed to in college, to countries to take part and contribute new ideas. so you now go to a little else as soon as stumble. ah, there reminds now of the top stories. heads of state from around the world are addressing the un general assembly in new york. keynote speech is warned about the corona virus pandemic of gun storm and climate change. us president joe bought and

delivered his 1st address to the global body. we've ended 20 years of conflict gas then and as we close this period of relentless war, we're opening a new air of lenders, diplomacy of using the power of our development aid to invest in new ways and lifting people up around the world, renewing and defending democracy proving that no matter how challenging or how complex the problem is, you're going to face government by and for the people is still the best way to deliver for all of our people that have been condemnation, half to alger, their video of us border patrol agents on horseback aggressively pushing back migrants went viral. the un says the white house policy of deporting haitians could be in violation of international law. more people have been forced from their homes after a new volcanic vent blew open on one of spain's canary islands. rivers of love have

been flowing across the palm lessons interruption on sunday. while the 190 homes have been destroyed. an earthquake has rattled se australia shaking buildings and causing damage and mel that the shallow magnitude is 6 quake hit on monday. the real estate arm of china is ever ground group says it will be able to pay an interest bill on thursday. if ground isn't more than $300000000000.00 of death, it owes $83000000.00 this weekend. another 47000000 next week. the european court of human rights has ruled russia is responsible for the 2006, killing a former spot, alexander lithonian cope. he died after being poisoned with polonium 210, a rare radioactive substance that with us saw those headlines one use here. now they're after the listening posts, usually by a lot of the stories that we cover, a highly complex. so it's very important that we make them as understandable as we

can as ologist correspondence. that's what we strive to do for you. because you mentioned that when you go to the crackdowns worth playing into an obvious restructuring of both social and home life. hello. i mean actually that the and you're at the listening post, this is where we disconnect the way the media work. what gets covered and why it's covered that way? here to the story is we're looking at the speak. basic wants to control what it calls badly behave superstars out of control, super fans, and monopolistic big tech. indigenous colombians have been toppling statues of european colonizers, challenging how the country's history is. remember, media shut down and misinformation. a month of taliban rule is leaving. it's mark on of kind of sounds, news, industry. and the taliban has been dictating terms on what off can women can,

where triggering some serious pushback online do not touch my clothes shows off, can women in their true color? the indications have been there for months in speeches, policy, proposals, and party propaganda. but in the past week or so, it's become clear that season things china has embarked on a campaign that could transform the country's tech, entertainment and media industries. much of the parties current focus has been on regulating china's tech giants that have grown at warp speed. establishing monopolies and abusing consumer data. officials are also asserting control over the rocket and often toxic world of celebrity and pop culture. the communist party has advocated for stars who quote, uphold political literacy, modern conduct, and artistic standards. it has criticized a feminine men on screen and has thought to curb an obsessive fan culture. all these decrees have been presented as being aimed at the moral well being of

citizens. critics are calling them an overreach of a paternalistic seat. a starting point this week is the cult of celebrity in china the thinking like, you know near to him, william to some point, but he's a good evening she can do without him to him. we've actually the way out. hopefully it was all this story almost reads like the screenplay for the t. v. drama. except that it is in fact very soon and it's playing out across china. on one side, you have some of the countries, most popular young celebrities, actors, musicians, online influences with fan followings in the hundreds of millions. on the other

side, a serious set of policymakers. men in su, looking to instill some discipline and propriety on an industry that many would have thought to frivolous, to attract much of aging detention for the chinese communist party. and for the chinese government, it has always been crucial to occupy what they call the commanding height of ideological background. so in that regard, the regulation targeting celebrities, our cher and time and media, i'm not exactly privilege because there are political implications of payments, media and celebrity voucher. we're starting to see more specific guidelines. and in some cases like training resources. being released for these celebrities and influencers, not just in terms of like political correctness, but also in terms of how they dress,

how they sort of conduct themselves. it's interesting, it's not just the conduct of celebrity themselves and craft down on, but also the conduct of their fans as well. my goal is to ensure that can be very active. even raven seen it is developed into a subculture that is very vivid, very lively. you look at some of these websites and chat groups, it's in a language and media and that frightens people who like order and control like the chinese come, his tidy, the 2021 has been a mentor for the chinese communist party. the ccp in july, it marked its intensity. the

challenge at the home and the country is president feagins being in his 9 years in office. he has not been shy about his desire to stay longer in his post, even orchestrating the removal of term limits on the presidency, so that he can remake the chinese state in accordance with his vision. over many months, she has been reiterating his blueprint for the next piece of china's development. in the chem shantee there mean? hopefully, she does laming. gym down the flu of new regulations on the tech industry and on the entertainment sector are part of what she calls the common prosperity plan. policies to narrow the growing wealth gap in the country, the furtive move. but the party, i'm the president seem confident now is there time shooting pin has banks a lot of not just regime supports,

but political capital that is in part or result of china's relatively good handling of the crew of our supper. demick. he believes that he is now able to do some pretty bold things to really fundamentally reshape, becoming decades through technology and through the communist parties. hold on culture through, you know, it's increasing involvement in the economy of the state. we have seen for some time that she's being wants to instill a new sense of purpose and discipline and orthodoxy on chinese culture. but i think it really began with chinese canadian singer actor general celebrity called chris who, who has been accused of sexually assaulting some of his fans, rate back inventions against a pop star has pushed china's me to movement back into the spotlight. i think that

particular scandal, perhaps escalated attention to this issue in chinese society, but also being chinese policy making and leadership as well. ah, can be broke in july, this year, unleashing a torrent of vicious online attacks from his followers against some of his alleged victims. it wasn't the 1st time. overzealous times had created headlines in china ways. i think one probably some of your highest it's i thought you would should have gotten to the challenging was a competitive fandom. dr. online engagement and revenues for many of the agencies and brands and studios that back. china's top celebrities. however, it led to newness instances of obsessive stocking, persistent trolling, as well as unchecked spending by young fans on products dad. idols, indoors. the boy. up until lunch today. yakking dash bank champs

and how to keep g dunkin back back at the same time as all this. that have been a dizzying idea of new regulations, but china's online space. they affect thousands of businesses from taxi healing companies like dd, 2 multimedia and kick conglomerates like 10 cent and social media behemoths, like bite, dance that only app tick tock on the regulators radar, our data privacy, tech monopolies, and predictive algorithms. ah, so they are actually issues that western government and the regulators wrapping with facing the astronomical growth digital platforms. these are companies that are really abusing their power because they have grown

into such giant digital platforms. and they often, almost as the structure of many other daily public studies in china, users are being more and more concerned with how corporations are able to access and use their data. especially tense. alibaba, which, you know, given the portfolio of companies within these 2 friends, they can make quite detailed profiles, you know, people shopping spending, health data, so on and so forth. so it's a thing that a lot of people in china say it's long overdue quote. apart from a concern to customers, which i don't think was entirely fine by any means. i think there's also plenty wedge, their sense that these companies are getting away with this because they think they're getting a bit to politically after the as well. and therefore, we need to put them in line and remind them that as they go low making profit,

they will have to remember what the political bottom line is in china. with the chinese government regulatory spree has stood debate amongst citizens, investors, and international media. some are calling it a new cultural revolution. is this the 2nd, the cultural revolution? comparisons with malice, cultural revolution back in the late 1900 sixties and seventies have abounded. but they've been off the marked. so i think a lot of people make comparison between what's happening to the cultural revolution, just out of abject ignorance than the appeal of using such a comparison is because that is the only sort of political that the mass campaign that they are aware of. the cultural revolution actually was effort by mouth kind of do an end run around of the party itself. and to attack the party using

sort of, you know, the mobile is ation of young people from its flags. the main victim of the cultural revolution was the communist party itself. and so that is clearly not what is happening right now. this is the party itself being more assertive. it is something that she has kind of articulated all along the vision of powered prosperity for a china led by the chinese hobbies party. me this week mark a month of taliban roland of kind of sun, and it's becoming increasingly clear what the takeover means for the countries media to hannah, who have been following development. joe, what's the latest? well earlier this week, colo news, which is of kind of stands most widely watched of television news network reports that at least 153 of gun media organizations have seized operation since august

15th, which is the day that the former government fell to the taliban. are these outlets include newspapers, radio stations, television channels, in at least 20 provinces. a media workers at these organizations have cited new restrictions under the taliban as well as economic hardship and the main reasons for terminating their activities. now the taliban has repeatedly claimed that is committed to providing a safe environment for journalists to operate in. but these new numbers of these now defunct media organizations clearly tell a quite different story. the telephone has also been accused of body media access to the punchy valley. that's the area in the northeast of the country, which was the sight of an armed rebellion, which supposedly fell to the taliban just last week. there are also reports of the taliban killing civilians in the area, but it's very difficult to corroborate what's happening on the ground there. right? yes. and that is because the taliban has imposed

a complete communications blackout jamming both phone and internet connections. now they have also closed the main axis wrote into this region, meaning that is extremely difficult to verify any reports of the killing of civilians. but even the taliban claim that has taken full control over the region. now the taliban is justified this communications blackout by saying that it was needed to dissuade quote, those who wanted to turn punchier into a bat of sedition. ok, so it might not be a hot bed of sedition, but it's definitely a hot bed of misinformation. now. absolutely take, for example, this a grainy video that circulated on twitter. it was posted by a pro resistance movement account. and it shows heavy fighting and a mountainous area, allegedly, from recent battles in punch here. but it later emerged that that video was actually shot years ago, most likely in yemen. and the dissemination of these kind of fake videos definitely

makes it a lot easier for the taliban to discredit any report than to make it out of the region. including those of the killings of civilians. now the taliban has told the international community to quote, take a closer look at the area to find out for themselves. that would be difficult because that's the area they've closed off, right? exactly. okay, thanks joe statues are among the oldest forms of visual media for millennia. they've been used to send implicit messages about the kinds of people and values we should look up to quite literally. when people had icons down, it's most often in rejection of what they stand for and the 2020s. it's a tactic that the on trend since the killing of the african american george floyd in may last year. i'm p basis on both sides of the atlantic have toppled hundreds of historical monuments from slave traders to european monarchs. but few protest groups have made as much of a tangible impact as columbia indigenous mis,

a community. as core players in anti government protests over the past year, nissan leaders and their allies have toppled numerous statues of european colonizers. in doing so, they have ignited a debate about the country's history and the place of indigenous communities in it . the listening posts, daniel tutti now on columbia fallen statues, and the legacy they're leaving behind much of the well deserted cities have been defining images of the pandemic era. but not in columbia 1000000 to fill the streets in successive waves of strife and protest. what began as a movement against economic reformed as mushroom, into a mass uprising, inequality corruption, and police brutality. protesters had targeted the status quo itself. and some of it most foundational likely owners like barely enough,

and i'm on the bottom that stopped last at 10, but demonstrators, from the indigenous nissan community began knocking conquistadores spanish colonizers off their pedestals. they handle stuff for young. why don't i spell? oh, so the 1st of all was best the on the bellow, cows in the city, he founded papa, yeah. assumed it was someone who, dispossessed, and 9 lated are people. we see him as a repeat enough murderer and the land, the community decided to carry out this autonomous act optical in my station and nobody met. okay, well 1st thing i did when i saw the statue falling was to run and hug a guy, another community leader. because there was a feeling of the risk of what we remembered the struggle of our ancestors. and felt the conviction of being part of a historical jonathan law. who is this a study guy?

what columbia government called an act of vandalism, was merely a warning shot in april, protested in the city of cali, hold down the last remaining monument of babylon, coz a month later in the capital bobo, top me sack demonstrators performed a traditional burial for another conquistador gonzalo humanistic as the 2 men were among the mercenaries who lead the spanish conquest of the americans. they landed in the 16th century, conquered much of what is now columbia, and the slave don't massacred. indigenous people who stood in their way off the columbia became independent in the 1900 century descendants of european settlers remained in charge and they told their version of columbia as history in the statues they built. a visual medium that all colombians, literate or not, could understand so young as i have in columbia at the time this touches will me,

we're trying to build a nation. and we build that nation on the shoulders of the conquistadores and also our independence here. so the statues were about reaffirming us and its roots, reaffirming that the conquest was a valuable and praiseworthy and devil stop by yourself and be hourly man. it's meant to think almost these monuments also create an image of power because they're made of bronze and so imply authority. but they're controversial because they symbolize the conquest in the genocide and the position of religion and the new political structures that came with it. so the statues represent severe repression for many social groups were by the group of indigenous people have been at the forefront to columbia as protest movement, demanding the return of ancestral lands and justice. but the killing of community leaders, according to the un, 69 indigenous human rights defenders have been murdered in the past 5 years alone.

to base see these injustices as legacies of european domination. legacy is embodied by colonial statues. but it was a black lives matter movement to the united states. protesters are carrying down and damaging memorial that 1st demonstrated the power of toppling monuments as an act of protest, millennial by saying that they love such a nation of the african american, george floyd, and all the reactions to it was a very important for us struggling up in america, tell you america latino and sued him in 2 important things because we just moved and columbia is about to sign up for a struggle for territory. he struggled over and moshing the statues, symbols that re victory money. but that's like for memory. it's a form of colonial education. now for 2 months, i will hear on the phone. yeah,

i'll set that up in the computer. it's a continent wide movement, but in this country it's also part of the new awakening among the socially excluded . it's about questioning symbols that represent the power of certain social which isn't being shak, toppling the symbols is powerful because it shows that there isn't just one version of history. there are many that been altered by them can feel that we can still see those yet most this indian through the low premier agent is colombians. a resent defeat in the conquest and the fact that the dominant ideology going to cover towns, squares across colombia and the world. that's what dominant ideologies do. the conquistadors will people acting according to the ethical standard of their time. and we can't judge what they did, even though in some cases i was horrible based on the standards today of the euro centric version of the colonial past. the one that still dominate colombia public

spaces from statues to school text books to st. names. dissenting perspectives have long been confined to the fringes, among indigenous colombians and on the political left. but the protests of the past year have amplified those voices, and the spectacle of falling monuments has forced the mainstream to pay attention. as media outlet cover, the pros and cons of the conquistadores indigenous leaders to use the exposure to explain their motive ways dotie. i'm in the, in my get them i was, i don't even know the government has also changed consulting with nissan leaders in pledging to review the presence of monuments. but the protest is whether indigenous or not fema convince in june demonstrates in the city of baron kia tore down

a statue of christopher columbus. the stunt could scarcely have been most symbolic or provocative. this is the figure because the very name of the country stems from his name and his involvement in the discovery of america. even though we know that they were actually early a european settlers on the american continent. but for digital people, he represents the conquest and colonization. and that's why we've seen columbus that she's knocked down all over the world over the last few years. and the 1500 for us. but can you run like my can deny that he was a great marina who discovered the new word and that's why such a thing were built just from a nautical standpoint to deserve the monument. the economy does sympathize with the mesa protests, but we believe that no one has the right to knock down what's already there because they're part of our history. part of who we are. it's that simple as he hasn't seen her, then. if we hadn't taken me, the government would not be doing anything about it,

whether it be reviewing the presence of statues or something we citizens probably, but only about the government. we're asking all institutions to rethink how they operate and allow indigenous people to participate can just be instruments of doors and seems all that we are leaving people. people who are demand territory demand life chrissy stories for lima glasses. marya, the toppling of colonial statues, has triggered a debate about columbia history and identity that is now playing out in the country public spaces. the culture ministry says it plans to replace the fallen monument. however, its latest move has been to take down other me, sack targets in the capital. in the meantime, protest as in kelly has put up a statue of their own, the monument to the resistance colombians and watching the spaces to see where the

story of what columbia is goes from here, we're going back to a story from a canister now, for many african women, especially those in the big cities, the return of taliban rule has meant alien position of stringent limits and personal freedoms. restrictions on what professions women can pursue, whether they can study and what they wear. the full body veil known as the cha doors, often blue or black in color, is what the taliban have mandated claiming it to be islamic dress. it has spurred protests by african women across the country and they've been joined online by a campaign with the hash tag. do not touch my clothes. it was started by doctor behavior lolly, an african historian, and it is triggered a flood of images from professional women, academics, journalists, both inside and outside the country, reading a range of colorful off concludes. here are some of those images and tweets. we'll

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