vinny had been an exile he'd been tried in absentia. he was arrested shortly after it became clear, he was back in georgia. and they had been expect expectations did. he would bring more voters out in his support. we haven't seen significantly larger turnouts than previous elections. this time rounds but certainly the opposition have been hoping that this would be a referendum on the government they. they were expecting them to do worse so that they could then make a realistic demand for this government to hold snap elections. ah . top stories around is there, hundreds of marches have taken place across the u. s. to defend women's reproductive rights in the wake of new abortion laws. in particular, in texas, which have effectively band practice in washington dc. thousands of demonstrators march to the u. s. supreme court to highlight the issue,

the test to say they fear the growing restrictions haven't been taken seriously enough. and the country risks slipping backwards. it's incredibly important that we make sure that we are all roe v wade. and if that doesn't happen, we need federal protection under the law to make sure that women and doctors all around the state of michigan and are on the united states and are literally in prison and are turned into criminals simply for exercising their right to choose. why actually to daughter here, and of course i want them to have control over their lives later when they grow up . so it's really important to come out here in a. libya has rounded up and detained at least $4000.00 refugees and migrants, including hundreds of women and children. the crackdown in the western town of gaga rash has been described by officials as a security campaign against illegal migration and drug trafficking. got irish is known hub for migrant refugees and has seen waves of raids over recent years.

rival protests have been held in chile against and in support of migrants. some rallied against the influx of refugees at a time when chile is already grappling with growing inequality. the counter march described itself as fighting fascism that must be exterminated. they are going philippine president rodrigo detailed to his, announced his retiring from politics, fearing speculation that his daughter may run for president. the constitution prevents to charity from standing for president. again, it is confirmed, he won't stand for the vice presidency in next year's elections. and polls are closed in cutters, 1st legislative elections. citizens, when electing 30 members to the sure council. it's a 45 seat advisory body, and until now, all its members had been appointed by the amir. 2 thirds will now be decided by voters. the listening post is next examining the c i a plan to kidnap wikileaks

founder, julius honors to stay with us. i for now, ah, with the cia under president trump plant kid. now assassinate what he makes bad. actually, youngster is annoyed. 19 he was a journalist and that the united states is trying to criminalize journal well the and i've with all the freedom of brands and the united states law. i'm richard ginsberg and you're at the las me post where we don't cover the news. we cover the way the news is covered. here are some of the media angles we're examining this week. it's the kind of news story that wiki leaks has been known to break only. it was about wiki leaks. julie in

a satch and how far the cia was willing to go to put the organization out of commission, some senior trump administration officials and c i executives even discussed fascinating us on facebook is under scrutiny yet again as a new p r initiative. backfires translation is transformation how literature changes as it moves from one language to another. and after 16 years of leading the country as a chancellor, i was reading germany a saying good bye to angle america. it was like something straight out of a bond, fell not the one that premier to in cinemas this week, but a factual story allegations of kidnapping and assassination plots discussed by american intelligence officials targeting wiki leaks, founder julie in a satch on september 26th. yahoo news dropped an explosive report based on

interviews with more than 30 unnamed former us in legend sources, detailing what a called the c i. a's war on wiki leaks, a trump administration plan to silence the man and organization that unveiled some of the american government's most guarded secrets. the expos, they rippled through the press, freedom community because of its implications for more conventional journalists, but like so much of the assange story, it has received nothing like the media coverage it deserves. with sandra's legal fate being decided in a british extradition hearing later this month. yeah. whose report could end up before the judge in the form of evidence is our starting point. this is washington the trump era ended 8 months ago, leaving the biden administration to deal with some of the consequences such as this investigation by yahoo, something you have with ministration officials,

sci executives, even discuss a launch. and the 3 reporters involved say they interviewed doesn't as a former us intelligence officials, all of them anonymous who confirmed the cia and the trump white house, repeatedly discussed the links that they would go to to get to the man julian assange and the organization wiki likes that have played the american government. it's defense and military established most sectors that do so much of their work. in seating ne claims have interviewed more than 30 former u. s. government officials, including a who spoke of scenarios such as a possible abduction of julian assange or even clots, to kill him. they were concerned about possible, fought for the russians to break juliana on out of the academic embassy. and some of the scenarios ended involve a british systems as well. and then also discussing a rendition operation against julian assad, something previously unknown, taking

a plane and abducting him from the ecuador embassy, bringing him back to the united states, potentially interrogating him in secret. and they redefine the organization as a hostile entity, language that my pompei of use in his 1st public remarks is cia director. what do you, leaks, walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service lou the yahoo team reported the cia stepped up, its pursuit of julian assange under donald trunk and was ordered to do so by its director at the time. mike pompei, the u. s. government's war on wiki leeks, pre dated trump's time in office. but the obama administration had drawn a line. ready it faced what it called the new york times problem. the perception, the going after assange and wiki links amounted to an attack on more conventional news outlets. ready yahoo reports that the vault 7 story which wiki league broke in

early 2017 changed the think because of what it revealed. and because palm pale, and the intelligence operatives at the cia headquarters in langley, virginia took the vault 7 leak. personally. the vault 7 material contained the c i as most sensitive hacking tools. how the cia penetrated computer networks around the world. how it penetrated i phones, how it track the communications and activities of perceived adversaries. this was a huge, sensitive matter for the cia might pump pail. had been somewhat dismissive of wiki leaks, role in the 2016 election. but when he comes into langley in early 2017 and the vault 7 leak happens on his watch. now it is agency,

he's the one responsible and i'm pale, was embed 1st by he didn't want to go seeing president donald trump and faced him and have a discussion about what went wrong with the cia. and in fact, ca had laughed at the pentagon as they saw that. those files from the pentagon exposing the iraq and afghanistan wars were published by wiki leaks. and they laughed at the state department because $250000.00 plus diplomatic cables were published from chelsea manning by wiki leaks. and so this was an embarrassment and he decided that he was going to be out for blood and seek vengeance against where he likes. i can say we never, we never conducted planning to violate us law. compel is unapologetic, who's tried to discredit yahoo sources but has stopped well short of denying the story beyond the volt 7 angle for more than 30 sources. yahoo had the

detailed quotes from senior trump administration officials. the story was not entirely new reports of cie plots to target julian assange had already made the rounds. but it took yahoo rather than legacy news outlets, like the washington post or the new york times to put it altogether. mainstream outlets including the time which happily published the news wiki leaks revealed and benefited from all those clicks have been suspiciously silent on these latest revelations, which is consistent with their lack of interest and coverage of a sanchez, ongoing extradition case. in the u. k. this particular story has gotten pretty wide pickup in the u. k. now, by most of the major newspapers here, although notably not yet the b, b, c in the u. s, it seems to be getting less coverage that maybe fits into a bit of a pattern with julian sanchez place. there is a public perception of him very unhelpful at times. and i think that has turned

many people. there has been a growing amount of coverage that extradition proceeding started, and i think there is no growing consensus that there needs to be solidarity on the principles of this case. whether or not individuals decide that they feel a saw himself is worth the funding extent of miss yates efforts to silence the fund . my send a chill down, any national security report or spine. the reason that the cia targeted julian and the justice department later indicted him is that he solicited and obtained and published truthful information on matters of clear public concern stating back to 2010 to, to work effectively. and many of these charges could have been brought against and could be brought against national security and investigative journalists for doing their jobs. unlike his predecessor, president biden talks a good game on the importance of the 4th estate on the world press freedom day. he said, journalists uncover the truth and are indispensable to the functioning of democracy

. okay, let's go to your 1st, which landed his press secretary in a tough spot when asked by al jazeera, to explain the discipline between biden's rhetoric on press. freedom and his administration is continued pursuit of jewelry and so i don't have anything to say on the, on julian font, you see silence, you see dodging. you see evasion from the bible administration for this year. with respect to i have nothing. i have nothing to speak to, and really this man, every day that the by an administration continues this prosecution there, emboldening authoritarians or tyrant, are giving them a way to deflect any questions about how they treat journalists within their own country. and i'm not saying this hypothetically, you can cut to a clip right now of the leaders of countries. we like as

a good beige on say that they are not going to take questions from the b, b, c, and address their own press freedom. how do you assess what's happened to mr. assault? is it the reflection of free media in your country? because julian assigned is in a jail cell. we saw this with china's foreign ministry, who has said that they do not have to address concerns about how they treat journalists because the u. s. is continuing the case against julian a such. earlier this year, a british judge denied washington's extradition request. ruling julian assange would be a suicide risk if put in a u. s. prison or the american authorities. hello p. back hearing is set for later this month. a sanchez lawyers will forward over the yahoo the board, which may have bolstered the case against extradition on the grounds that the british

judge used to block the u. s. government's request for extradition were pretty narrow. they were about the risk of suicide. that assange would face where he served time in the u. s. prison. the british court case doesn't go to these larger issues with press freedom and potential government misconduct that we laid out. and now there is talk among a sondors legal team of possibly trying to broaden the parameters of that british extradition case to include some of these allegations. journalists at yahoo. i have likely strengthened the case against extradite ng julian assumption united states through the reporting that they've done here the yahoo news reporting reveals that us officials seriously considered taking extra judicial and frankly illegal actions at the filings to lena and i expect that his lawyers will make a strong case in defense of the magistrate court decision to deny the united states request to expedite that would be poetic american

journalists through their report. it potentially having an impact on a court case that has such significant implications for the future of journalists. a project that was given the green light by facebook, c e o. mark zuckerberg to push positive stories about the company on its own news feed has backfired. mean actually, rob has been on this mina. this looks like a p. r campaign. gone bad. exactly. richard. according to the new york times, project amplifier was signed off by soccer berg in august and it's been child and 3 american cities. it pushes stories, lake best to the top of news feeds. facebook, the latest innovations for 2021 on achieving quote, 100 percent renewable energy for its global operations. the news feed is central to the facebook experiences where users see what's being shared. it was never sold as a stage for facebook's own peered material. and this is happening when outlets like

the wall street journal are doing stories on facebook that appear to be slightly more news feed worthy. yeah. last week, the journal published an investigation in which it showed that according to facebook's own, internal research problems have repeatedly been flagged up with how the site is used. for example, by human traffickers, or even disturbing data on how the platform affects the mental health of teenage girls. despite knowing the extent of these issues, facebook has never done enough to fix them. project amplify was all about enhancing facebook's public image and then there are other problems that social media sites like facebook, like instagram keep running into down under industrial. yeah, cnn has now decided to disable its facebook page in australia. and this is after a high court. there rule that publishers are legally liable for defamatory comments under the posts of news organizations or any media sites. cnn asked facebook for help to disable the comments function in australia. but the company says it cannot

do locations specific common, disabling. if you switch off comments on a facebook page in one location or in one country, you are centrally disable ed for users around the world who come to that pitch. this high court ruling has significant impact on australian media companies. many of them just don't allow comments on their posts any longer, because moderating or policing a comment section takes too much. time takes only moderators and just too much money. okay, fax me, it's something you see a news coverage all the time or hear the voice of translator and they don't always get it right. the translation of literature from one language to another is an even trickier business literature is much more subtle than journalists. it's less direct and languages come with particularities, audiences with their own cultures and expectations. the language most frequently translated into english by american publishers is french followed by spanish. when

it comes to arabic and persian translations have been known to come up short, leading to cultural misunderstandings, the kind that reading the texts of the other are supposed to correct. in many cases, foreign language novels are selected for translation by publishers because they can help explain a country's politics or its current affairs. and when translators are editors fail in their jobs, context can be sacrificed and stereotypes and yet reinforced. let me post terracon off and now with a look at what gets lost in translation. mm hm. nice, interesting part of literary translation for me is to capture the voice of the tax that you're working with. you're not just translating them across languages and across cultures. you're conflating them across time. mm. nuance of course will be lost,

but also new. it says can be pre discovered. that's part of the alchemy that is literary translation. one thing that's poorly understood about translation. if that when a text moves from one language to another, it is transformed, it is almost never word for word. for translators become cultural mediators, balancing faithfulness to the original with the needs of a new audience. this old world notion of translation as a kind of sterile mechanical process that involves a direct reproduction of a text into a target language that is more or less faithful to the letter or spirit of the original. but that's not the case, and it's almost never the case. i don't think they could ever, ever, ever be a totally faithful translation. because any translator coming across anything has

to read the text and then decode it and put it back into another language. an old language is a different translation is the manipulate and other taxed into not only a target language, but a target culture, a target consumption environment. and consequently, this process will be impacted by power, imbalances by ideologies, by perceptions, preconceptions, misconceptions. in the 19th century and era of european imperialist expansion, the group of western scholars, painters, and translators, known as oriental f, took an interest in the middle east. but there re imaginings of arab and persian culture were often detached from the realities of the people that fascinated and beguiled them. richard frances burton was an archetype. orientalist,

an explorer soldier, scholar and spy. he wants smuggled himself into mecca disguised as an arb button is author responsible for the translation of $1001.00 knife and the kama sutra. another englishman, edward fitzgerald, took the poetry of persian polymath on what i am and transformed it beyond recognition on its way into the youngest fair sir. this power dynamic where the, the western are basically feels as if they own us and in a way they, they really did own us. and our country's kind of became a playground for these. a wester is kind of run around in and finding manuscripts and find tags and they don't feel a responsibility to treat them fairly, or they don't see the culture that they're coming from as equal to them. and this is especially the case with fitzgerald, who translated high young. he did say, it amuses me to take what liberties are likely these persians who really do need

a little art to shape them. and that has been seen as one of the, in a sense, most offensive of the old, colonial statements about translation. but what fitzgerald does with omar, i am, is he, he turns it into we must be honest and say, an extraordinarily beautiful pine. so successful that it's generally regarded as, as one of the very, very few cases where a translation entered into the canon of english literature. the world of translation has moved on since fitzgerald he wouldn't be given such licence today. however, more subtle distortions continued. publishers can play a role here by selecting or editing translated literature in a way that reinforces old stereotypes. so the, the passive, victimized veiled, muslim woman, the barbaric, violent era. male, you know,

these are, these are this the stereotypes that we're talking about. so if the novel already has these themes in it, then it's certainly easier for it to land a translation deal in the english speaking world. now alyssa tao, waive this very iconic feminist activist from egypt when her text moved from arabic to english. what essentially happens is that she becomes simplified and she becomes reduced to only caring about, quote, unquote women's issues. but she had a wide ranging remit of critiques. she was an anti imperialist, and anti capitalist translation can be a murky process. but ultimately, the publisher gift the last word, larry price was confronted with this after working on in praise of hatred by syrian author, i look relief. she later discovered that the final chapter she had translated wouldn't be included in the novel. it chops the progression of the narrator. he was

a young girl into a very intolerant version of islam. and bits narrates had in the context of increasing crackdowns against any kind of descent within syrian society. they decided that they preferred the book to end. after chapter 3, they felt that it was a stronger ending. in this chapter, montoya has left syria and she is now living and working in london. but even though she's ostensibly free and unveiled, she is haunted by the events in her homeland and they have not left her. and so that ending was excised the way that it refrains. the story is consequential because murderer, the title character does become this kind of stereotypical veiled, secluded oppressed female and,

and it's an image that is reinforced on, on the cover as well. and so the text is made to cater to that rather than disrupt those ideas or those expectations. increasingly, translators are becoming more outspoken about their walk. persian poetics is the brain child of translator mohammed, ali. muradi is where he calls out the world famous, but miss translated quotes of persian susie, poet, roomy, one of louise most popular translated birth. it reads out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing there is a field i'll meet you there. the original, according to majority, is closer to beyond heresy. and faith does another place will yon for what's in the myths of that desert plain become stripped away. the islam again stripped away the, the are cases i'm and they took out the roomy and he blended in this meal you that

was existent in the sixties and seventies is kind of vaguely eastern buddhism, hinduism. islam kind of all mixed together with words like a guru and mentor and, and things like that. these books have huge impacts on the way that things are perceived when, as i'm off of that say, oh islam is this, it's where barricades, evil, it's devoid of any deeper meaning. deeper truth is of beauty in islam i. when i pull up, people like roomy, a lot of times they would say, or roomy doesn't count because he's not a muslim translation has always been somewhat of an under appreciated art, with translators often confined to the margins or remaining totally invisible. that's not the case anymore. the translators voice is being heard and recognized, and readers are better off when they understand how the mechanics of translations work and how that influences which books you see in your local bookshop. translation is a dynamic process and it's

a process that is never neutral and it is always impacted by power imbalances. it holds within it all of these different contextual ideas and biases and prejudices. and being made aware of these factors will enhance your understanding and your appreciation of the text itself and of the culture that it comes from and how it has come to your culture. ah. 1 1 and finally, after 16 years and the jot, germany's 1st female chancellor angle of merkel is leaving politics. merkel, worked with for american presidents, 5 british prime ministers, 8 italian heads of government, scored higher approval ratings than just about any of them. and eventually came to be seen as the de facto head of the european union. this next video by puppet regime, a comedy series by g 0. media not to be confused with al jazeera includes some of

the policies merkel will be remembered for like opening germany's borders to a 1000000 syrian refugees at a time when other countries were shutting theirs. you may recognize the music. it's a re max of a classic from another german power house craft work was the next time. here to listening. i was reading with a

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