saying that the biggest consumers of online home content for movies are also the most frequent ban them all go is as well. so, you know, we're not going to lose them all streaming or anything like that. but i do think that, you know, you can go and feel that your way to get your money back. we're going to bring more people back into the cinemas. ah, hello, this is al jazeera and these are the top stories. this, our america's top military officer has called the end of the 20 war, and i've got this done. a strategic failure during questioning by sentences on capitol hill, defense officials admitted taliban forces advanced on cobble faster than anticipated. heavy cal, hey, has moved from capitol hill. the term during chief of staff, mark milly say that there was an intelligent failure. and he said one reason for that could be could be that they withdrew advisors from those units 3 years ago.

again, that would have been under the trump administration and he said, you can't really tell if people are willing to fight. if you're not around them, we can count tank so we can count guns for we can't know the willingness to fight unless we know the soldiers. so that's really the only clear indication that the military is starting to realize what went wrong in this absolutely chaotic withdraw him all the taliban says it's planning to rein state constitution from nearly 6 decades ago. i've got to start a new rule is one to apply the 1964 java but only where it doesn't conflict with a version of islamic law. the world health organization is promising reform and accountability after l. g. allegations of sexual abuse by work is sent to fight abolla in the democratic republic of congo, the agencies head has apologized to victims am is alive, pitches of lava from the volcano. this on the spanish island of la palmer,

which has now reached the atlantic ocean, a huge cloud of toxic vapor and gas has been released into the air as the lava mixes with sea water. spain is declared the island and the canaries. the disasters on more than a week after the year option began. japan's vote for new prime minister is going to a 2nd round the the live pictures after the full candidates for the liberal democratic party leadership fell to when a majority whoever wins the runoff will take over his prime minister and lead the party into november's general election russia has launched a new criminal case against gerald opposition later alexi navarro name. the prominent kremlin critic is being investigated on vision of forming and leading an extremist group, if convicted, he could face up to 10 years in prison. those are the headlines. i'm emily anglin, state change on al jazeera for the listing post. bye for now. little is more distressing for women than a month 20 pregnancy going horribly well. aside from then being punished, boy,

salvador victor, boston, lord, have seen women incarcerated. some say their only crime with a devastating still, but i mean the story of one woman struggle that ignited miscarriage, of justice, a witness documentary on al jazeera, the new york times released an investigation into the u. s. drawing strike that one half. we will be together over the 1st time me hours. we killed sophistication, raises some serious questions. i'm here today with sort of record straight in acknowledge our search alarm. richard gisburne. 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 staff and 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 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 time's 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 its story appliances 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 drawn strike in cobble killed. can afghan civilians, 7 of them, children. the pentagon is making no apology. all of the engage criteria will be met at this point. we think that the procedures were correctly followed, and the righteous strike 19 days and 2 journal istic investigations later different

general different story, effectively rewritten for the pentagon, which is 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 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 u. s. based in g o, trying to end food shortages in afghanistan. he was a father of which i'm in the colonial furniture and this was the visual reporting here with a 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 all for challenge. the u. s. narrative effectively around 2 30 pm. them are, i begins feeling 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. it was shrapnel and he throws everywhere blood with flowing through. 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 bad 1st is to stick 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 content of the american polo, 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 to cia. the general's 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 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. 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 on terror. 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 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 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 city osis with the perpetuation of the war on terror. and 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 attacks, most major news outlets were really struggling to survive as consumers became 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 were never investigating the bush administration's lame, 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 today. and i've kind of can us striking back

it has the benefit, supposedly of scaring the lives of our own true learning. 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 dos 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 spy 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 expose of the drawing 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 drones, right? in places like pakistan in places like you haven't. and he use 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't and that they have to win the public. know what the guess is us administration do and will continue to do according to presidential why. 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 criminal back candidates. 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 both apple and google. like to talk 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 will 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 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 ran many of the schools. most canadians had no idea of what residential schools represented. but the discovery is came as no surprise to indigenous communities, but 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. but listening 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. mm revelations of a 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 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, grieve of $215.00 bodies is discovered through the use of ground penetrating radar . we have breaking the life of another terrible. why then the dominant form. brandon manitoba. meribelle sketch was 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 a 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 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, 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. what can you and journalists turn politician for many years that candidates national broadcaster,

the phoebe 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 we're, we're, we're doing the story. the reality is there are not enough indigenous journalists in newsrooms today. and that's now being recognized in there, you know, efforts to change that and to rec, and my dad in like the aboriginal peoples television network, a btn, i've been at the vanguard of the launch, the 1999 with government funding. the out 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, a p t n were 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 graves 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 past in human rights residential course. 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 confronting to what my vision of, of candidates. so we know 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, residential school survivors, but also more broadly, inertia understand in digital history, better you can put the genie back in the bottle like now that so many canadians know, and so many canadians care. and so many canadians are angry that they, they didn't learn, that 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 politician 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 course 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. do the south africa hi, mrs. c. with a message from the south african government. i'm good to tell you about an exciting investment opportunity for africa's fossil fuel business. so right now we have literally read things in your favor, shoot expense to our citizens for huge games for you won't let those, why in the, in the why would they and tool, great site and need for clean water. we've got to 3 still plan to make sure you cover one with everyone. distracted by the pandemic, require to change the law to stop community override watson people to vote in favor of your company. all those typically have been,

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public post breakfast, woes and station to plan benefit can the government offer reassurances of times ahead lie coverage of the conservative quality conference. i just i hello, i'm emily anglin and joe. hi, these are the top stories on al jazeera. america's top military officer has called the end of the 20 war and ask dentist on a strategic failure during questioning by finishes on capitol hill. defense officials admitted taliban forces advanced famel quickly than anticipated. petticoat hang reports from capitol hill are the ones in unusual move, the top military brown.