itself and be gone for the day with all the sentiments, minerals for amendment is printing in the ground. this will change the environment here. from the ash nature will come back, but it won't bring back mercedes is home. she sees in this land turn to fire the consequences of people disregard for the environment. because talk algebra with the yellow slip out my spade. ah, this is al jazeera and these are the top stories. china has read to canadians who were being held for nearly 3 years. michael covert can michael spousal were accused of espionage. they were arrested in december 2018 shortly after police in canada. arrested chinese executive on one show. there is going to be time for reflections and analysis in the coming days and weeks. but the fact of the matter is,

i know canadians will be incredibly happy to know. right now this friday night, michael covert them. michael's favor are on a plane and they're coming out earlier among herself was freed in canada. a canadian court discharged her after her. us extradition case was dropped. she is now on her way back to china. the incident has strained china's relations with the us and canada. at least 100 members of to the largest political party. another have resigned in protest against their leadership. those who have step down and clue, deputies and former members of the constituent assembly. they say the parties leadership is failing to engage any common front against what they call imminent time, radical danger. earlier this week, to the president case, i cemented his one man wants to declare and he would woo by decrease a group representing catholic bishops and canada. has apologized its role in the countries residential school system. the canadian conference of catholic bishops

had been under pressure to do so for years. earlier this year, the remains of hundreds of indigenous children were found on the grounds of former schools. you as president joe biden says, he takes responsibility for the harsh treatment of haitian migrants on the border with mexico. he says border patrol agents will pay after they were film using hoarse reins against people trying to cross over from mexico. 3 more towns have been evacuated after explosions from interrupting the volcano, intensified the canary on its volcano on the palm of started the romped on sunday. for the 1st time in 50 years. while the 7000 people have already fled their homes. hundreds of buildings have been destroyed. as the headlines, the news will continue here on al jazeera right after the listening post say shortly, bye bye. talk to al jazeera we owe. what gives you hope that is going to be peace

because the situation on the ground seems to be pointing, otherwise we listen. we were never on whatever road to off migration. we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories on the new york times released an investigation into the u. s. drawing strike that one . we will be together for the 1st time. in the hours we killed the instigators rated some serious questions. i'm here today with sort of record straight in acknowledge, almost like hello richard gilbert and you're at the listening posts where we dig into the coverage and look at how news is reported. here are the media stories we're examining this week drawn warfare exposed. but why did it take the new york times and see and, and so long to get such a big story? russian opposition activists develop a voting app to fight vladimir putin in an election. only to be stymied by us big

tech. it's a time of reckoning in the great white north and canadian indigenous journalists are leading the way on reporting on the nations residential school stand and the south african satirist. we have literally read things in your favor, taking a dig at the fossil fuel industry and it's government faculty. it was the kind of reporting that gets taught in journalism schools and investigation by the new york times, but destroyed the pentagon on story about the drawn strike and cobble last month. the us military initially said the strike took out a member of isis k. the groups afghan off, shoot the times investigation and another by cnn concluded the target was in fact an aide worker. that all 10 of the people killed were civilians, and most of them were children. the pentagon had to change a story. the times is reporting the testimonies it heard the forensic sleuthing it conducted stands out because we hear so little about america's drone warfare.

that's the way the u. s. government wants it. and over the years, with drones penetrating the air spaces of more and more countries to many american news outlets have complied. neglecting the story, which makes the journalism on this drone attack, different and worth examining our starting point this week. it's called the september 1st 3 days after the drone strike in cobble killed can afghan civilians, 7 of them, children. the pentagon is making no apology. all of the engagement criteria were being met. at this point, we think that the procedures were correctly followed and righteous strike 1900 days and 2 journalist investigations later different general different story, effectively rewritten for the pentagon by the new york times. and the cna, a comprehensive review of all the available footage and reporting on the matter,

let us to a final conclusion that as many as 10 civilians were killed and the strike. i'm here today to set the record straight and acknowledge our mistakes. the 2 news outlets revealed that the target was no terrorist strike. what the military apparently didn't know was that he was a long time worker. the murray of money worked for the us based in g o, trying to end food shortages in afghanistan. he was the father of rhyme, or which i'm in the colonial mrs. visually quoting here with very crucial and to humanize the victims and to show their faces and to show the world. this is how the people look like the people we thought. but tara, and for that reason, it all colors the u. s. narrative. effectively around 10 30 pm zimmer, i begin filling water containers to take back home to his family. the u. s.

military says around the same time drawing footage showed the driver loading heavy packages with other men into the car. the coverage strike like this where you're seeing people in the moments after something like this has happened. and they're speaking in a way that everybody can understand. this is incredibly valuable. i feel my father lying in the car. it was shrapnel and he throws everywhere that blood with flowing through the not just because it forces the pentagon to acknowledge something that it rarely acknowledges. but because perhaps it, it forces the millions of people who see those images and hear those voices to put themselves in the position of people who are living under this threat all the time . i was the moment to strike the sort of journalism that we ought to have in providing about every drone strike

something bad 1st to kick us our try narrowly, by how absent it typically is in mainstream journalism. and since 2015, afghanistan has been hit by an average of more than 2000 american drawn strikes per year, most of which go unreported in the u. s. why has this one produced so much journalism? location matters most drawn strikes take place far from the capital place. it's hard for journalists to reach harder still to report from this one within the heart of the capital. there's the context, the american pull up, the chaotic after the scores of journalists already in the city. then there's the issuing of the origin. it came from the pentagon and not the cia. the generals at

the d, o d, the department of defense have to answer for they're drawn strikes the intelligence operatives at the cia. do not. you can't underestimate the difference between d o, d, c i. if this had been a ca drawn strike, you would still know nothing. and the way in which the americans have so disastrously conducted the withdraw. there really is a media frenzy looking to see what are the other myriad mistakes that the americans have made and makes it a juicy story. we should. one day before the striking, cobbled, the way we had another room, right? none got had a problem in eastern afghanistan, and unsurprisingly, we didn't hear much about the wicked terrace from there. we don't know their stories. the official narrative is that an isis plasma has been killed by the

american. but we should ask ourselves, is this really true? on the 29, the investigations conducted by the new york times and cnn painstaking graphic and well explained were exceptional, especially given the times it's track record. it's reporting on the war, ontario in 2004, the paper had to apologize to which readers for its failings in the run up to the iraq war when it due to flee, quoted anonymous us intelligence sources on saddam hussein's fictional links to al qaeda. the non existent, w, m. d 's. we will find those who bid it, we will smoke them out of their holes. the bush administration launched the drone assassination program in afghanistan, shortly after, invading the country in 2001 before spending to pakistan. president obama, up to the number of strikes and targets adding yemen, somalia, and libya to the list countries. the us was not even at war with the times that did

not take issue with that, arguing in a 2013 editorial that drone assassinations were justifiable, as long as capture was impossible. looking at the u. s. for protection, they started became some of the last victims in america, long or 8 years later, the times has captured the other side of the story. the question to fronting readers of this really exceptional the york times investigation about the cobbled ground strike is fundamentally one about why it was so exception. american journalism has quite a lot to do in cindy osis with the perpetuation of the war on terror. there's been amazing, probing, vital, powerful journalism in america and brought exposing the war on terror. but unfortunately, it's the exception, not the rule. i saw

a massive change in the media begin to happen around it happened, coincidentally, with the $911.00 attacks. most major news outlets were really struggling to survive as consumers can used to getting their news for free. and so they cut their budget for investigative journalism. this gave rise to what i just called access report a when you saw this in the run up to the american invasion of iraq, people who are never investigating the bush administration's claim, right. they were simply reporting it. and i would argue that this has really remained the nor the mainstream media has definitely played a role in normalizing drone warfare. i can us, striking back it has the benefit, supposedly of staring the lives of our own true learning that has been really compelling part of the logic of jerome warfare and encoded in that is

a kind of hierarchy of the world in which some people's lives are worth more than those of other people. the american authorities are making it more difficult to report other facts about the drone war. daniel hale is a whistleblower who works for the se. spike agency from 2011 to 2013, identifying drone targets for assassination in 2014. following what he called a crisis of conscience. he still classified documents from the essay leading to the biggest journalistic expos day of the drone program. to date, this past july hale was convicted under the espionage act and sentenced to 45 months in prison. daniel hills, writings from prison show someone from a 1st hand perspective with deep knowledge of us drone strikes in places like

pakistan in places like yemen. and he gives a real crucial aspect to what this enterprise is and how people from the inside navigate this whole past. and you draw the conclusion that they can and that they have to do with the public. know what the guess is us. it ministration do and will continue to do affording the president to live in the public president vladimir putin and his united russia party have just won an election that the kremlin made sure was never in doubt with a little help from silicon valley usa. correct now for has been following developments there, tara, how did this election unfold? and what's the technical? well, with opposition leader alex in yvonne,

the in jail and his movement outlawed in russia. his supporters developed a strategy called smart voting, which is the use of technology to unify voters behind strong rival to kremlin, back to candidate. now on the 1st day of voting, apple and google caved to government pressure to remove those out from their online stores. youtube also blocked the video that contained voting peps from nevada, the feat, what kind of political pressure that those us tech companies face, and how would they justifying their actions? both companies are keeping quiet for the time big, but several u. s. news outlets reported that in the case of google authorities in russia, singled out company employees based in russia and said they would face prosecution and left the company complied both apple and google like to taught the language of free expression and human rights. but ultimately, the,

the business decisions need the company wants to lose access to the russian market or have their revenues effect it. russians have also seen some of their own journalists faced new restrictions. what kind of measures are we talking about? while until recently a growing community of alternative news outlets was producing some quality journalism online. as the election approached, most of both outlets and a number of jonathe and russia were labeled foreign agents by authorities in moscow . these are measures designed to show costs sponsorship and make it harder for janice to reach both by sofas and their readers. ok, thanks. talk. canada has just held a snap election and voters there have reelected prime minister justin fruit as liberal party to a 3rd term. i'll be it with another minority govern, one issue that did not get enough play during the campaign. despite making headlines in the months prior,

was the disturbing story of mass graves discovered in their thousands, at what used to be known as residential schools. buried, there are the remains of indigenous children. students of these re education centers that dated back to the 1800s who were left at the mercy of the churches that ran many of the schools. most canadians had no idea of what residential schools represented. but the discovery came as no surprise to indigenous communities that for decades have tried to get this story out. they were up against govern churches and too often media outlets that just weren't interested. but listening posts, ryan, cause now on why it's taking more than a century for the extent of abuse, a candidate residential schools to get the media attention. it deserves me 19. 07. a shocking story makes it to the front pages of canadian newspapers. revelations of horn conditions

and startling death tolls among indigenous or 1st nations children made to study in residential school. colonial institutions created to quote, assimilate indigenous people, while in fact eradicating their culture. the man who uncovered these details, peter brace, the chief medical officer for the canadian government. it was a national new story. even that wasn't enough to get the government to help the kids. in fact, what the government decided to do was come after bryce. they push him right out of the public service and a recent from history. what happened is that the headlines died and that allowed the children to can, to die, to develop a story out of british columbia. the remains of more than 200 children have been located may 2021, and much of the same information available for all canadian, 3. 1987. perfect discovery is rocking the nation to its core. it starts

in western candidly, in the city of cameras where an unmarked mass grieve of $215.00 bodies is discovered through the use of ground penetrating radar. we have breaking the life of another terrible fight, then the dominant. brandon manitoba maryville sketch one cranberry british columbia in total $1300.00 graves, very likely to be the remain the young indigenous students found across the nation, the disclosure of the mass graves and unmarked graves, that residential schools across canada has been explosive this summer. because while many canadians may have known intellectually about what went on at residential schools, i think this year, it whole, it had home viscerally. there has been like a long trajectory of the dialogue of residential schools in canada.

but particularly, i think this pandemic probably had an impact when this story came out. everyone is thinking about our mortality, and it just seems that people are more open to hearing the truth about these things . there are little children outside of these residential schools, buried in unmarked grace. it's a total crime scene when you have these remains being found and an absolute genocide. the reverberations of this story have not ease months since it broke in the capital ottawa, a memorial for candidate last 1st nations. children is laid out in front of parliament between 1830 in 1996, some 150000 indigenous children were course to attend. the government funded school majority of which were run by the catholic church. they were kept in unsafe unsanitary conditions, thousands died of disease, and nearly all the students were subjected to intent,

mental and physical abuse. i don't think it's surprising to any indigenous person in canada because we know this history. we've lived this history, our ancestors, our parents or grandparents have survived this. what do you want canadians to know? now that you have a chance to, to be heard? someone can easy and be what we went to that school. and also not surprising that most canadians were surprised by it, because i think that we have to think of this story in the bigger context of how indigenous people have been portrayed in media. how or stories have been under represented in media and, and often misrepresented. i've heard the truth from the survivors before. i had been to actually kamloops residential school with an elder, who told me the stories about the children that were buried in that ground. so it was all there for people to see. the canadian government knew those children were

in the ground. it was an intentional decision to try as much as possible to keep canadians in the dark about the horrors that were perpetrated by the canadian state . and that's why people were surprised, ah, candidates, indigenous population is vastly under represented in the countries media. those who have made it into newsrooms, they've had to battle bias, institutional racism, and a tendency to dismiss or down place stories from the community. for many indigenous journalists, and it's been very hard work to get stories about residential schools published. part of that battle has been a fight over terminology to convince editors that words like survivors and genocide are appropriate when describing the reality of the school. why can you and journalist turn politician for many years at canada's national broadcaster, the cdc there was on sundays and uphill battle to try and get the coverage to be accurate for us, us to push,

to use the term residential school survivor. but now in 2021, there can be no denying that the term residential school survivor is accurate. some kids went to residential schools and died there. therefore, the other kids at residential schools survived them. right. and so just in that one battle that we had some 10 years ago, just that little showdown over language, i think shows some of the structural resistance to telling this story accurately. you know, i think that there is an ignorance in this country about the truth about our shared history, about how indigenous people have lived in the realities that we faced. and i think that, that those attitudes existed in the living room where we were broadcasting across the country, but also in the newsrooms that were, were doing the story. the reality is there are not enough indigenous journalists in

newsrooms today, and that's now being recognized in their, you know, efforts to, to change that interact. me with like the aboriginal peoples television network. a btn, have been at the vanguard of those efforts. launched in 1999 with government funding. that said, that is dedicated to quoting, telling me unfiltered truth about indigenous history and current events. decades before most canadian newsrooms paid attention to the residential school story. we're on and i can tell you that are a current affair show called contact. one of their very early shows was going to the shing walk residential school and chief mike khaki, g pointing out there are unmarked grave right here that they talked about that they knew exactly when they were kids, but you recognize and what happens those children there were voices and somebody gives them a voice. we can never,

never reconcile. they knew that happened. some kids are even involved. they tell us in preparing these graves, even in some instances, canadians were really found on ongoing system of propaganda by government were the best in human rights, residential schools. that was just a dark chapter. but we've said we're sorry and we're moving forward. unfortunately, that's wrong. and i think that we have the editors and newspapers that never stop to look at the facts, but too often they just said a whole it has to confronting to what my vision of, of candidates are. no, no, no, we're not going to use that word without a p t m. this would still be a backwater story that no one paid attention to. i'm hearing from residential school survivors that i know well, who are saying. finally, the story that i've been talking about is being understood and appreciated by the rest of the country. and we can't under cell how important an organization like

a p t. n has been to that because when other folks, perhaps either weren't listening or they weren't listening closely enough to the survivors. it was networks like a p t n who were there and who were listening to those folks. this story has triggered what seems like a moment of awakening for many canadian, both in the public and in the press. there is a momentum around the cause of justice, residential school survivors, but also more broadly in urge to understand and digital history better. you can put the genie back in the bottle like now that so many canadians now and so many canadians care. so many canadians are angry that they, they didn't learn the truth. they didn't learn the truth in our education system. they didn't learn the truth. and our newspapers are in our media and they didn't hear the truth from, from politicians, and they're demanding that, you know, we do a better job on the and finally,

politically aware is a south african online news kind of show. that's how it's creators describe it. there are a bunch of comedians who produce videos that satirize the news industry and certain news makers. their most recent effort is the collaboration with the climate justice coalition and 350 africa dot org. it takes aim at south africa as energy minister. his continuing support for the natural gas industry, despite the climate change implications. how do you know when your satire is hitting haul? when the minister's department tweets that the video was not their work, and called at fake news, was the next time. here at the listening. you a fossil fuel company who's sick and tired of being told to feel bad about climate change, dirty hippies protesting on your st. oring scientists getting in the way with the annoying facts of african department of literal resources and energy welcomes you.

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