now is the issue of climate change? i think that's the main thing that i can talk about cause a is the one which is now shrinking the habit of who might have the elephant numbers increasing. but if you don't have the proper habitat for them, that is the main challenge of the moment. the poachers bullet and poisoned arrow may largely be things of the past, but these iconic creatures still find themselves in danger of extinction. cat in soil, alta 0 and bassetti national park in southern canyon, a volcano on the spanish island of lapel, almost continuing to spew love after it began erupting nearly 3 weeks ago. 6000 people have been forced from their homes more than a 1000 buildings have been destroyed. la palmer islands airport remains closed. ah, let's take you through some of the headlines here now to sierra now. senior

u. s. and taliban officials are due to hold talks in cutoff, that will be the 1st in person meeting since american troops left afghanistan, i so as high on the gender after a suicide bomber killed 60 people in conduce on friday. and thought your name has more from doha. expectations should be tempered regarding a breakthrough because at this juncture, it appears there still quite a chasm between what the us wants and what the transitional government in afghanistan wants. the united states is simply framing this meeting as, quote, a continuation of pragmatic engagement. it's had with the taliban on matters of vital national interest. american interests, i should note more than a 100 people are dead or missing. after a boat sank on the congo river authorities in mongolia province have been on the scene since the vessel capsized on monday night. 39 people survives and 51 bodies

were recovered on friday. chinese president, she ging ping, says peace full reunification with taiwan will happen soon. he spoke of the ceremony marking a 110 years since the end of imperial rule. taiwan has come under increased military and political fresh from china to accept it. sovereignty. the number of people in brazil killed like having 19, has surpassed 600000. it's the 2nd highest death toll in the world. after the united states, around $600.00 people are dying a day. that's down from a peak of 3000 in april. the u. s. is announced, it'll accept fully vaccinated visitors as long as they've received jobs from approved jobs approved rather by the world health organization. the new rules will come into effect in early november. iraq's prime minister must awful cover me,

says he'll do everything to ensure fair elections. parliamentary votes will be held on sunday. every war leaves a devastating impact. tell me environment. earth rise explodes, some of the efforts to recover what was lost from the syrian scientists. safeguarding one of our most valuable results is these are important samples. we have to make sure they are surviving to the refugees. striving to co exist with nature. okay, so what's going on there? we're assimilating what happens when an elephant comes life off to conflict on al jazeera, facebook, c, e o. mark soccer is strongly defending the company. he has apologized to 3 of his social media platforms, including my last count of the number of times. he's been proud of message from whistleblower branch, his hunger if that makes women should declare memorial to bankruptcy. hello,

i'm richard gilbert in europe. 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. a whistleblower, a system crash and the u. s. congress is on its case. facebook is under the microscope, and the me makers are having a field day collaborative journalism strikes again in the form of the pandora papers and expose a on how the rich and powerful hide their wealth and being a social media influence or in egypt. especially if you're a woman, can be a dangerous business. facebook and it c o. mark zuckerberg. i've never had a week quite like it last sunday, 60 minutes and american news institution broadcast an interview with a facebook whistleblower data. scientist francis, how good. we've heard the allegations before that the company puts profits before people. it's corporate well being before the greater good halligan put a face on that story and she had the documents to back it up. the very next day

facebook's system crashed. ever had a problem updating your saw well. facebook, instagram and whatsapp were all blocked out for almost 6 hours affecting more than $3000000000.00 users worldwide. the day after that, francis hogan was back in front of the news cameras telling lawmakers in washington the time has come to act against a company that has become a societal menace through algorithms that can fuel disinformation conspiracy theories and put people at risk. facebook has grown accustomed to defending itself . this kind of scrutiny, however, is on another level. our starting point this week is the moment facebook and its other platforms went down. mm hm. it's $840.00 a. m. in silicon valley, california. 11 40 am in new york, late afternoon in london, nightfall in new dummy users of facebook and other apps owned by the

company. what's act and instagram are seeing error messages instead of home pages. what was supposed to be a routine update of the routers that make up facebook's backbone. the ones that coordinate traffic between its data centers goes wrong. mobile outage, taking down to facebook around the world well and truly has with all of those platforms crash. and for the next 5 hours, the planets dependence on one big tech company is laid bare i became aware by trying to communicate with my family group shots on whatsapp, friends and family were based in iran. i thought there was something going on with the internet and the ron. and when i realized it wasn't, i went on to twitter,

which is when i realized that this will actually a global infrastructural issue happening with facebook. be as soon as you can solve this particular outage is because it's not just 3 apps. it's loud company which on the schools how huge this company is. ready probably of records have probably near a 3rd of the population on the planet, have a facebook or set and or instagram accounts with us. this is underscoring throwing in to start really the market dominance of this one company. many people run their businesses off of facebook and instagram. they receive orders for shipments through facebook and it's around. they depend on advertising to facebook and instagram to keep their businesses going. i'm just a professor, so i wasn't affected personally in any way, but i was deeply aware of all of the people who are now deeply dependent on facebook and instagram for their livelihood. facebook, c. e. o. mark zuckerberg has been dealing with

a succession of damaging new stories. his company is leaking like a sieve to some big name news organizations. tonight, an explosive report in the wall street journal. the wall street journal revealed facebook was planning to launch an instagram kids zap, despite the company's own researchers concluding the platform already has an adverse effect on the mental health of teenage girls. the new york times then reported that facebook was planning to clutter its own news feed with positive stories about facebook to counter the growing criticism out there. but critics are a dime, a dozen x facebook data scientists turned whistleblowers are not. there were conflicts of interest between well is good for the public. and what was good for facebook and facebook this past week, francis helgrin, the unnamed source behind the wall street journal story shed her anonymity. facebook on research says it is not just the instagram is dangerous for teenagers

there. harm's teenagers is that is distinctly worse and other forms of social media . in her interview on cbs news is 60 minutes. how can said the social media giant should declare moral bankruptcy for putting astronomical prophets before people. facebook has realized that if they change the algorithm to be saver, people who spend less time on site, they'll click unless ads, they'll make less money, the elderly. this is something that people have known for a while. what is significant is this whistleblower came out with actual research and you know, the documentation and words of facebook themselves outlining these very harmful impacts from their software and from their algorithms. she was on one of the probably most impactful news shows in the united states is which is

60 minutes. and so for the 1st time, many things that many internet researchers, digital rights activists have been saying for many years or reaching the ears of, you know, millions of ordinary americans and global citizens. every whistleblower is doing a public service to so francis houghton has gone public because she has very good reason to do so that she got on 60 minutes is indicative of how serious mainstream is. organizations are taking us after all. and i had to compete with these digital services. and now our grants, it's time to settle a few accounts. facebook refused an interview request from 60 minutes issuing a statement, instead, diminishing how guns roll in the organisation, her credibility as a source. the company claimed that algorithmic changes facebook has made, improve people's experience by prioritizing posts that inspire interactions. which

research shows is better for people's well being. but how gin wasn't done. on tuesday, the day after the blackout, she testified before a senate subcommittee on consumer protection. congressional action is needed. a won't solve this crisis without your help as one of the senators put it. she came armed with thousands of documents, how god had copied before quitting her job. looming over her testimony was the outage the day before it's impact. facebook's dominance. and the question of what the u. s. government should do about american law makers have an ideological aversion to new forms of regulation and breaking up monopolies is hard to do. i suspect miss hogan will be remembered as one of the most important whistleblowers in american corporate history right up with those who released

devastating documents on how tobacco causes cancer. this might be in that league ultimately because we can no longer accept the denials and dismissals of facebook leaders. it's all too clear that they've been misleading us, and this is just as important. the significance really lies in re amounts and troves of documents that francis was able to bring out when we're seeing it today. in the hearings in the united states, we're going to be seeing it in the european parliament. the digital service says, act is you know, being formulated as we speak and they're inviting francis to bring her documentation to help inform these regulations going forward. because the question of how it's she really a, b, c math like facebook has been one of the like questions boggling. digital rights and government isn't just regulating facebook is regulating big tech john tech companies. it's the idea of relationship between our governments. ah,

our rights and freedoms and the opportunities that being able to connect online using video platforms like when we're using to record this interview. well, they offer us as well, but it doesn't mean it just because something's technically possible. that is actually right. well that it's appropriate either by law or ethically and those are really lash debates and we need to start having them an american company. facebook is a much bigger player in other countries than it is at home. india, with its 340000000 users, is facebook's biggest market. and among the most dependent in brazil, almost 150000000 people are on whatsapp. it doubles as a political platform there and helped bring president bull sonata into office. there's me and mar. wherefore, tens of millions, facebook, these, the internet. it's where they live and conduct their business online. so the

approach that us lawmakers take, whether they decide to call in the regulators, will have even greater implications overseas than it will domestically. what we're talking about here is dependence, a very short period of time, a significant portion of the world has been invited to be fully dependent on one company, one american company that can't seem to run itself well. that's dangerous. it's not just dangerous that it went down. it's not just dangerous that people are dependent on it. it's their combination. we should have resilience and diversity in our communication and media systems. so that the whole world is not depended on one or 2 companies to get through our day. and sadly, that's what we've created. turning to another media story now that's reverberating through the world of the rich and powerful, the largest ever leak of offshore data. flo phillips has been on the case flow,

who led this investigation, one of the forth, which are the pandora papers, are a collection of leaked files revealed by an organization that we've come to know. rather, while the international consortium of investigative journalists faced in washington dc, it was responsible for wendy thing, both the panama and the paradise papers in 20162017. the i, c. i. j has been working on this investigation for nearly 2 years throughout the pandemic. going through almost 12000000 financial records and they didn't do it alone, and that's where the consumption bit comes in. they've been sharing the files with more than 600 journalists in 117 outlets across the globe. some big names like the guardian in the u. k. 2 smaller outlets like taller in algeria, but they took, contained information about off shore companies, the kind that can hold assets, properties, boats, stocks and shares without the owners of those assets having to pay tax in their own

countries. basically places where the rich can hide the holdings with so many national leaders named in these documents, $35.00 plus the billionaires, the celebrities, and must be difficult to pick a stand out story from all of this. while we could go with the king of jordan, who's been using some of these actual companies to buy no fewer than 15 properties across the u. s. and the u. k. worth more than $100000000.00. his lawyer said that the king quote has not at any point misused public monies, and they added that he has deeply for jordan and its people, which is an interesting addition given that many jordanians wouldn't have known much about the revelations. jordan appeared to block the i, c i, j website, just hours before the pandora papers were released and coverage of the story was know to be absent from news outlets in that country. what tangible change is, what reforms are likely to come of all of this any. so the problem on the paradise papers, publications did lead to

a variety of arrests and some financial reforms. since these papers were published, leaders in countries including mexico, india, spain, germany have all bound to help strengthen international financial regulations. however, those are leaders who wasn't named in the papers for hiding their own assets off shall. ok, thanks. it's been more than 10 years now since the arab spring protests swept across egypt and president cc's government has been progressively tightening its grip on cyberspace. several independent new sites and opposition. websites have been censored, or blocked, and citizens have been targeted through some sophisticated spyware. this past year has seen the emergence of another disturbing trend. women, some of them university students getting arrested over their social media posts, mostly on tick tock and instagram. the charges tend to be vague, such as violating public morals and undermining family values. neither of which the

state has actually defined. and those charges seem to be gender specific. they have not been applied to mail social media influencers. the women convicted have been hit with some heavy fines, even jail sentences at what the government's critics are calling the intersection of the surveillance and patriarchal state. the listening posts mean oxy robbie, now on the young women who have come to be known as the tick tock girls. ah, i'm expected. it was a shock for a lot of us and scared me not to want to post anything online. that was a voice move from an injection woman out of more than 10 people that we contacted, asking to speak about what it's like to be an egyptian woman active on social media . today, she was the only one who would be to speak with us, not on camera,

but to these recorded voice messages. ah, i let assuming and you are scared to talk about these issues. our society seems as into fear. shims us into silence. what happened was ellison, what happened was the sentencing of 2 women honeyed awesome, and mobile ada adam. in june this year they were sent to prison for 10 and 6 years respectively. the videos they posted on social media platforms like big dock and instagram, had brought them to the attention of the authorities. so huntington and mo, at the are 2 girls who are 20 and 22 years old. their college students who were very popular on the platforms of tick tock and instagram. we're each had either one or $3000000.00 followers. there were posting videos of themselves lipsynching songs

and so they weren't doing anything out of the norm hunting. hassan was contracted by like he, the social media company, and she was an encouraged to establish her own agency and to recruits other influencers. so she went on instagram and she sent her an invitation specifically to young women. and in this video, she says, in order to apply, you need to have a strong internet connection, you need to, you know, have a good personality. and if you're successful, you might be able to make a decent monthly income. and then over at thomas that is week of des moines and logan dash out on a loop to that, you know, go to them and he lived empty luggage to the domain. oh, good. good obama. when the hacker was going to hell of the and the 1st signs that something had gone awry with where that was, that there was thousands of comments from social media users that this was an invitation by honey, who sound to encourage from sex work online?

ah, the comments of the videos, eluted egyptian authorities awesome, and a lot of wood existed and convicted of quote, violating egyptian family values and human trafficking. dares are the most high profile cases out of at least 10 instances of women being leaded ested for their online activity over the past. collectively, they are now known as egypt tick, tock, girls, since 2018 to laws have been used to control the egyptian online sphere. the media regulation law, which treats social media counts and blogs with more than $5000.00 followers as media accounts and the law the women were tried under the cyber crime law. one specific clause of that law article $25.00, also called the morality clause, prohibits the use of technology to quote, infringe on any egyptian family principles or values. that clause has been used in nearly every one of the cases against the women on picked up. we are not against

issuing a a cyber crime law. however, nobody ever thought that this would be used against women specifically and the article 25 that criminalized late the family morales. we have seen the increasing use of this article, not just by the prosecution, but even when people report crimes on social media. oh, this act, this dancing the, this women hurt the family morales but with no definition of what is the family morales while for a very long time, it was about journalists and activists and protesters to dates about young women who actually have large followings. because what is more threatening to the state than a young person who has millions of people that wake up and every morning and see what they posted. that is deeper reach than the state will ever have. and if they're to, they dancing and lips thinking tomorrow they may be talking about. there's pot

holes, there's open sewage, there's poverty. i don't think i have prospects for a job. once the language moves into that category, then the state has no control over the dissemination of voices of dissent. me. it is no stretch to say that addiction street sees young people with online followings in the millions as potential threats. just a decade ago, online active is improved crucial in mobilizing masses of egyptians to protest. the rule of president was the mulatto to eventually bring him down. and more recently, in september 2019 activists used social media again to organize demonstrations demanding that a movie of current president of the for thought of c. c. even with that history though, the campaign against egyptian women active on social media seems particularly aggressive. we don't have any cases of using cyber crime law and it's

article of violating family morales used against any man men, dance men use on appropriate language and they're not prosecuted for it. but also i would add that it's not just the cyber crime law that is used against these women. the law on prostitution is only used against women in egypt. so there is a wide context of using several laws against women. this was part of what we think about in terms of the gender nature of authoritarianism. but really about state patriarchy, the only way for an authoritarian state, which each of the is to day post military coup, 2013, to continue to socially control. every one is to actually become the patriarch of society. now, the current president and president cc saying, i'm going to lay on you a level of patriarchy. and if in still in the family of fear of the unknown,

a fear of cyberspace, a fear of that your children will be taken into this space where you can no longer control it. because you don't understand it as very much in the nature of gender. patriarchy or gendered authoritarianism in a country like egypt. and i think another important point to bring into this as well as class, is that these women, the tick tock women, they're not from the upper classes of egyptian society. they weren't educated in foreign institutions, are educated abroad. they come from a lower socio economic backgrounds and have exploded on to the see and who have avenues for financial and dependence and those sorts of values and the kinds of dances and songs that these tick tock women were performing. we're just not what is expected for women from their associate economic background. mm. we contacted

the office of egypt, public prosecutor about the cyber crime law and the sue of cases against young women. we received no response. however, in a statement posted on his facebook account on the 2nd of may, 2020, the public prosecutor justified the rest of the women. seeing forces of evil would abusing the new virtual electronic speech to destroy our society, demolish its values and principles and steel, its innocence. for many egyptians on social media, especially women, the cases have had a chilling effect. honeywell sunny's a young girl and for her to receive any or send them sequence to the old, her youth east, away from the impact that is intended is that if you are women age, it don't have our platform where you can your influence don't, especially for, for my low social, economic background, or from middle class, these cases represent part of a like a broader regime of information control be at the censorship websites online via

the mass surveillance of civil society. the arrests on mass of civil society and human rights activists. the crackdown has gone beyond solely political expression and they are particularly targeting women in this case. and i think that these cases only become more numerous. and this sort of broader regime of information controls this is not going anywhere anytime soon. wow. and finally, live by the me die by the me. it's been that kind of week for facebook. imagine having to use a blow torch to get into your server rooms to fix a high tech problem that's locked you out. that actually happened at facebook, a workaround straight out of the industrial revolution. then while desperately trying to get your platforms back up and operating in the back of your mind, you just know that means are being manufactured at your expense. and they're making

their rounds on your rival platforms like twitter, which was always going to rub your nose. it will leave you now with some of those names. and we'll see you next time here at the list. ah, did. oh, i, i, i, i,

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