and i might be, we can spend money on better things, do we, do we need an italian, a line in modern europe. what once upon a time, perhaps when aiden a tangled alarm, because otherwise now would flutter on really tell me that not a philosophy shared by the government. indeed, italy is betting on the new airline, backing it with more than 1300000000 euros and state funds. the hope is that perhaps just a reborn, al italia will find its wings and take off financially. adam rainy, i'll just here. rome ah. type of quick check of the headlines here on 0. molly's prime minister has accused from abandoning his country, as most troops prepared to leave. speaking of the un shall grow. carla miguel said his government is justified in seeking of a partners referencing a private russian military contract. my leading it's principally concert does molly

regrets for the principle of consultation and concentration which should be the rule between privilege partners? it was not observed before. the french government's decision in the new situation resulting from the end of operation. but honey, which present smalley with a fait accompli and expose of it to a kind of abandonment in mid flight leads us to explore ways and means to better show security independently or with other partners. sofas and yemen have told us here that the rebels have hit a neighborhood in married with a missile. and an drone causing a number of casualties fighting has been intensifying for control of the city, which is the government's last northern stronghold. at least 3 people have died after a passenger train derailed in the us state of montana. it happened in a remote part of the state. at least 4 carriages tipped over the truck drain was on its way from chicago to seattle. the thought about sense is rounded up dozens of fighters linked to iceland canister. the city of jamal about the operation comes

after a series of attacks in the area. a chinese tech executive has returned home and the 3 example she was detained in china, who always chief financial officer among when joe was greeted by big crowds and she was soon after hercules, to canadians of freed from prisons in china. michael coverage and micro spaces were detained, accused of espionage, not long. after long when joe was arrested in canada, both in germany's election opened in a few hours with parties holding their last campaign values to gonna support from undecided voters. anglo merck rallied for c d u candidate arman. last year in the western city of austin, social democrats and shelter also held his last dimension, post them outside berlin and the okay. now on the palmer island in the canaries is continuing to produce loud explosions and asked clouds almost a week after it began erupting a new crater has opened, forcing the small island to close fits airport. well, those were the headlines and he's continues here now to 0 off the listing post.

thanks so much bye for now. did you know you can watch or english dreaming live on? i do 2 channels plus thousands of our programs award winning documentaries. and you get to choose to scribe. you choose dot com, forward slash al jazeera english. the new york times released an investigation into the u. s. drawing strike that one. we will be together over the 1st time, the hours we killed sophistication, raises some serious questions. i'm here today to send a records and acknowledge our search alarm richard gilbert and you are at the listening post 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 to 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 south african satirist. we have literally read things in your favor, taking a dig at the fossil fuel industry and it's government factory. it was the kind of reporting that gets taught in journalism schools and investigation by the new york times that destroy the pentagon story about the drone 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 as reporting. the testimonies had 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, and 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 the righteous strike 19 days and to journalistic investigations later different

general different story effectively rewritten for the pentagon by the new york times and c, n n. a comprehensive review of all the available footage and reporting on the matter. let us to a final conclusion that as many as tim 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 a us based in g o, trying to end food shortages in afghanistan. he was the father of ryan murray, which i'm in colonial mrs. visually quoting here with very crucial 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. and for that reason,

it 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 of a 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, but it was shrapnel and he throws everywhere that blood with flowing through. it's 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,

ah, this was the moment to strike the sort of journalism that we ought to have in providing about every drone strike. something that at 1st it seems to us our cry narrowly by how absolutely. 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 content of the american poland, the chaotic aftermath. scores and 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 after ca 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 place, we had another drawn right in the province 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 clamor has been killed by the american demand. but we should ask ourselves, is this really true? on the 29th, the investigations conducted by the new york times and cnn painstaking graphic and well explained were exceptional, especially given the times as 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 expanding to pakistan. president obama,

up to the number of strikes and target, adding yemen, somalia, and libya to the left 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 to the u. s. for protection they started became from the last victim 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 new york times investigation about the cobbled trans 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. a rad. it happened, coincidentally, with the $911.00 attacks. most major news outlets were really struggling to survive as consumers can use to getting their news for free. and so they cut their budget for investigative journalism. this gave rise to what i'm, where i just called access report, where 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. can the us striking back

it has the benefit, supposedly of staring the lives of our own true. that has been a 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 whistle who works for the n. s a spike agency from 2011 to 2013, identifying drop 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 strike in places like pakistan in places like yemen. and he gives a real crucial aspect to what his enterprise is and how people from the inside navigate this whole past. and in his case, draw the conclusion that they can't, and that they have to win the public know what the guess is us ministration, do and will continue to do according to president of 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, counted the selection unfold. and what's the technical? well, with opposition leader, alexandra von, the in jail. and his movement outlawed in russia. his supporters developed a strategy for smart voting, which is the use of technology to unify voters behind strong rival, to criminal back 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 action? well, 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 faith prosecution

and left the company complied by apple and google. like to talk the language of free expression and human rights. but ultimately, these are business decisions need the company wants to lose access to the russian market or have their revenues affected. russians have also seen some of their own journalists face 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 choke off sponsorship and make it harder for janice to reach both by sources and their readers. ok, thanks. talk. canada has just held a snap election and voters there have reelected prime minister justin food or

liberal party to a 3rd term, albeit with another minority government. 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 at these re education centers that dated back to the 1800s who were left at the mercy of the churches that rang 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 the government's churches and too often media outlets that just weren't interested. well, let me post ryan, cause now on why it's taken 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 foreign 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 bryce, 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 race from history. what happened is that the headlines died and not 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. 19. 07. perfect discovery is rocking the nation to its core. it starts in western candidly, in the city of cameras where an unmarked mass green was $215.00 bodies is discovered through the use of ground penetrating radar. we have breaking the life of another terrible wind. then the dominant storm. brandon manitoba. maryville sketch y cranbrook 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 the residential schools, i think this year it whole,

it hit 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 1900. $96.00 from 850000 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 intense 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 canadians be when 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. candidates. indigenous population is vastly under represented in the countries media. those who have made it into newsrooms have 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. what can you and journalists turn politician for many years that candidates national broadcaster,

the cbc. 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, the truth about our shared history, about how indigenous people have lived in the realities that we face. 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 efforts to, to change that interact my dad in like the aboriginal peoples television network. i've been at the vanguard of those efforts. launched in 1999 with government funding that says it 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 it. 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 kac g pointing out there are unmarked graves right here that they talked about that they knew exists when

they were kids. but you recognize and what happens those children, there were voices and somebody gives them the voice. we can never, never reconfirm. 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 editors and newspapers that never stopped to look at the facts, but too often they just said hold has to fronting to what my vision of of candidate . so we know, 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 just 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 or 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 you're satire is hitting home? when the minister's department tweets that the video was not their work and call it fake news? was the next time here the listening past. you and fossil fuel company was sick and tired of being told to feel bad about climate change,

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