las soto, a nation that has no cinemas, to watch films in, but has produced an outstanding dark drama that has already won a prize at the sundance film festival for visionary filmmaking. for people in brick kina faso, this event is an opportunity to experience the diversity of african narratives and for african storytellers, a chance to get their work seen on a global stage. nicholas hawk al jazeera. why good to go? ah, sorry for quick check of the headlines here on al jazeera, the number of people killed in friday, suicide attack, and come to haws risen to 65. meanwhile, mass funerals had been held as the taliban promised to step up security. at sheer mosques. the attack took place in kandahar on friday. i sell in afghanistan as cream responsibility. it's the group's 1st large scale attack in the south of the country and follows a similar blast in the northern city of condos last week. they're not gonna do

smuggle people our coward enemies, merciless to all the we asked d islamic emerett to seriously think about our security, because our enemies will harm our society by any means. they can thousands of demonstrators of rallied in saddam's capital cartoon to demand greater representation and government. the prime minister, bella, hon doc says the divisions are causing the worst crisis yet in the countries transition to civilian rule. tensions have been growing since on attempting to last month. the lease and the u. k of extended the detention of the man arrested for the murder of an m p from the ruling conservative party. david amos was stamped to death as he met his constituents on friday for our minister bars johnston, along with the opposition leader kissed armor, laid wreaths at the sight of the murder, which is police are describing the starting as a terrorist incident. the french president has condemned a frank dal on algeria and protested that happens 60 years ago in paris. on the eve

of the anniversary emanuel macro observed a minute's silence at the spot where dozens of demonstrators were killed in 1900. 61 micro said the crackdown was inexcusable. hospitals in northern ethiopia, overwhelmed with malnourished children as the fighting in and around to dry causes hunger to spread. the un says belly, any aid has made it into to dry. in the past few months. the open government says that responsibility for the crisis lies with a to gripe people's duration from at least 6 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded in bangladesh. allegations at the koran was disrespected in the temple began after controversial images appeared on social media, sparked outrage. politicians say people are being deliberately provoked. well, those are the headlines. the news continues here on al jazeera, after the listening post statement. thanks for watching, backing up incarcerated the over half his life convicted by and known unanimous jury for a crime in weeks. no one was hunt

a black male making eye contact when the white parson could cause him to lose his wife. and in this particular situation, it cause him to lose his freedom. why did the law deemed unconstitutional by the supreme court? still keep people behind boss in the state of louisiana. being incarcerated is just another form of slavery. the jim co convictions on al jazeera nobel peace prize has been awarded to jealous maria theresa, i guess yet, as journalists have long exposed time, a world without an active so long a world without em truck days. and no doubt committee says press freedoms the necessary to the democracy and please alarm richard gives burton. you're at the listening post where we don't cover the news. we cover the way the news is covered . here are the media stories we're examining this week. the war against journalism results in nobel peace prizes for 2 journalists. and there's plenty to read into

this story. in singapore, the authorities raised the spectre of foreign interference to pass a new law that reporters don't like the look of the games people play. the pentagon included the video game industry is proving to be a useful ally for the american military. and martin, that is one of the i've been to help out a boy, the journalist turned comedian, who has become the go to guy for iraqis looking for political commentary with a little bite. the awarding of the nobel peace prize for 2021 is a sign of the times and not promising. the 2 winners were both journalists, filipino american, maria, russia, and russian. dmitri moved off. it has been 85 years since the peace prize was last awarded to a journalist. it was back in the 1900 thirty's. europe was tilting towards fascism and a german news editor wanted for his reporting on ad, off hitler's nazi movement. so the nobel committee is decision to recognize ressa

and water act off amounts to a wakeup call over the state of global journalism. rest as news site rattler and what i toss the newspaper no via gets yet to have stood up to harassment repression, even death threats to expose corruption, the abuse of power and state sponsor disinformation, which is why when the offices of president detective and president putin congratulate the new nobel laureates. it rang more than just a little hollow, given that there is the kind of reporting that those leaders tried to find. we have to starting points this way. manila and moscow, ah, 2 journalists, covering different countries defying different forms of authority. both of them now and nobel laureates. maria rash, co founder and ceo of the filipino new site wrangler. when she's not in court fighting off the new territory, government's efforts to throw her in jail. and dmitri more after the editor of

moscow based no fire because of paper that still dares to be critical of those in power. even after having 6 of its reporters killed over a 10 year period, they are the 1st journalist to receive the nobel peace prize since 1936 awards. that amount to a shop in the arm for journalism. and a walk in the face for government focused on committing crime against it showed that the importance of price, freedom in iraq. the fact that the noble committee wanted to acknowledge that importance and the role that the media plays in the era. and you know, that she's confronting unprecedented challenges of an existence released nature. price, freedom, nissan, to attach it is in fact the unprecedented attack. the new has been wip to to tail

the freedom of the media and the freedom to, to report all of these while lead off like you feel it be within them or the bullets. and from this he got from the same issue, no one that while sensor i was the was on money. well, why? she was the why he wasn't russia because the nobel prize huge huge. but she did an accident and not award for wanting to make a ward for gym. this was under 5 years, like the nobel prize is put the spotlight squarely on to precedents who go after their journalistic critics. in contrasting ways, rodrigo do care. fe is openly contemptuous. of reporters, he galvanized as his base by attacking the news media and pursues journalists like

recipe through the courts when they refuse to stay silent. vladimir putin government is more subtle, using its justice ministry to brand certain reporters and news organizations. as foreign agents effectively putting many of them out of business. so when the nobel prizes were announced, both governments had some serious spinning to do. the kremlin initially offered murat off its congratulations before the president reminded him that laws written in moscow take precedence over awards and handed out in also i was pretty good about it cuz she told me that that was the. but the only thing i see is that i don't need the south month in the official filipino response was more brazen. the government tried to take credit for rest as a war recipe that we live in the proof, even the noble price of even the money. if there was

a nobel prize. as for hypocrisy, rodrigo, do 10, would be among the nominee. a couple of years ago, i saw a press conference of dorothy when he was talking about the shortest thing. this is a man it keep trying to call this award for my ref. i think it's going to be a great shame. there was an attempt to highlight, maria versus nobel prize win as evidence that everything is good in the philip pain . but the same time as this is happening, she's still facing decades in jail. she could potentially spend the rest of her life in a manila prison if she's found guilty on all of the charges she currently has. right against the suggestion that maria's victory is the victory for the the philippines governments of rodrigo, deter, say, in maintaining press freedom. that's a lie, the kremlin deeds, the minimum. it was required from it on the very same day and

a bunch of journalist where called for imagines as a sky, the 3 media we praise the journalist gives the novel peace price. we say the right words. but the line, the policy is going to stay the same for both the philippine and russia, the nobel peace prize of law to their image. so the trying to appeal their way out of the perry ball. this would be a slap going to be is it something that the government can certainly it is not a slap in the government. if you really care about him till national recognition, then they need to pull it. they need to pull it by repealing in rush. other for an agent law, and that the claims john and his and desirable, they need to prove it in the pin by lifting and getting rid of all those next issue

. a lawsuit against maria the reporter is working under maria reza and to meet remote us are up against online forces that align with the authorities and are sometimes paid by the state to discredit independent journalists. rest us is a case study in the kind of harassment reserved for female journalists. it's massage in istic and medicine. she's facebook death. seen her home address, posted online, and deep and faithful for the graphic. images of herself, circulated on social media. it's a tactic designed to intimidate and it knows no borders. the online violence campaign being waged against women general font maria risks really operate at the intersection of massaging and this information. we examined over 500000 social media posts from twitter, and facebook directed at 60 percent of those abusive pies were

designed to trust, erodes credibility and trust in her journalism. so they called her a liar, align bitch often because what they wanted to do was to witness sultani as well as the anti journalism, anti free press, marriage sheets that they peddled. i met my address about 6 years ago. i got, i got join, i was on breaks, clean, fresh government. my life had been made miserable, especially with multiple tactics of intimidation. my image was mod, done up one video and played all over the country and you feel like the government has put you out there in front of what you are legible. and i spoke to maria and she said, i feel you, i've been there. mm. one cannot take the measure of the 2021 nobel peace prize story without considering the time the last journalist to win the award

was a newspaper editor. it was 1936. karl von aussie etzky was the german and brought the news while locked up in a nazi concentration camp needs to recall the climate in which they were going to be in the united states was given to the german journalist who was actually investigated in that see military activities, given the fact that she brave journalist mandate isn't she received that price in 2021 means that we are in a kind of difficult world in terms of the freedom of speech. it must feel too many journalist that they are operating in an incredibly difficult, dangerous, and toxic environment. so good, no bad price is in many ways an attempt to turn all of them. we've heard you,

you're not alone. and we want to and you're back together. we can say no to governors that are using the law ex chinese go means to silence. credible professional reporting to gather we can stand up for price freedom and i think that's what the nobel committee is inviting or. so to do, i think this is a very strategic decision by the nobel peace prize committee. they are signaling something very significant here. but there has never been such a convergence of threat, the freedom of expression and independence journalism to critical journalism and to the safety of journalists since world war 2. to think about that, i turning to singapore now where the

forty's are taking a page out of moscow's playbook by passing a new foreign interference law that has some troubling implications for the news media. nick moore has been following the story. nick, what a journalist seeing in this new law, what's the concern then you know, it's called fica, the foreign interference counter measures act, and it has genders worried because in a country where the flow of information is already tightly controlled, the government now can make things a lot harder fight, it gives the authorities the power to block or censor online content. it can demand, use the information from internet companies that can band apps based on nothing more than a suspicion, a suspicion of foreign interference. furthermore, the government can designate an individual or organization as politically significant, meaning that they are very closely monitored. and once you go onto that list, it's very difficult to come off. the only way to do it is not to the courts, but through the gather knowledge that you weren't name on that. so what is the criteria for being deemed politically significant?

well, that's the other troubling aspect of it should. the wording of fica is vague and therefore open to interpretation, and that is by design. the countries minister of home affairs said that foreign med list often hide behind, seemingly legitimate friends. he said the language has got to be broad enough to cover that. that body is apparently normal but is actually not normal and they are severe punishments for falling a fall of fica. if an individual is found guilty of punishing information, political information for a foreign principle, they can fines of up to $75000.00 us dollars and for organisations it's $750000.00 . so what a journal is saying about the law, or are they watching their worth? it sounds like it's come out and belie. he works for a website called the independent singapore. he told al jazeera that whether intentional or not the government is getting a barriers to entry in the media landscape in singapore, which speaks to the larger problems. for decades, the media in singapore has been

a virtual dropping singapore press holdings that dominates the print side and over in broadcast. it's a company called media court. both companies claim to have a total independence, but they have very close ties to the government. so it is unlikely that they will follow follow fica, but the same cannot be said for the genesis and use organizations in singapore. okay. actually anyone familiar with the term? the military entertainment complex knows, it was coined for hollywood and the symbiotic relationship that movie studios have long had with the pentagon. the blockbuster films that glorify american soldiers subsidized by us taxpayers who all the military hardware that the pentagon makes available at no cost. as long as the producers make them look at, however, the military entertainment complex encompasses more than just film and television. video games now re can far more money than the film industry to us. and the

pandemic has given the gaming industry a boost. all those people stuck at home with idle thoughts, given the demographics that play the legions of young players at the controls, the us military is in on that action as well. the gaming world is now a prime recruiting ground. it's a trend that many americans from the gaming community to the halls of congress or to stop. but listening posts, daniel touring now on the military gaming complex. and the messages it is beaming into american home. the. we cannot wait for a military service with this kind of team of 5 format, and with that july 2020 the u. s. congress of $800.00 annual military spending. the issue in question. the pentagon deployment into competitive online gaming sport in

order to recruit young american right now. currently children on platforms such as twitch, are boarded with banner ads, bang, link to recruitment, find a form that can be submitted by children as young as 12 years old. they began back in 2018. after spending the better part, the 2 decades meyer in iraq and afghanistan, the army missed this recruitment target by a distance. brought them rely on the methods of old, the american airways tv ads. the pentagon tend to a platform called twitch, estimated number of data uses 15000000, which is like a digital version of hanging out on the couch with your friends watching them play video games. so there's one person that's kind of in control of the stream. they're playing a video game, there's a chat room running on the side and talk to them does new social media that's really taken over the last few years. so in order to get into that space and talk

to kids, the army, the navy and the air force and the national guard have all started e sports teams. the sports people might be really surprised to realize is one of the fast growing sectors in the world, in terms of and time. young people watching the sports course in the area of the electronic battlefield. the idea of having technologically literal and technologically savvy recreate is obviously really, really important. so that's exactly why you would go that the idea that this is all about recruitment has been met with military denials like this one from a member of the navy sport that we're not here to recruit. that's not the point of this. that's not what the navy official twitch manual. it states that quote, everything gun social media should be aimed at making connections between prospects and recruiters. while a pentagon was new to e sports and twitch in 2018, it was already a video game veteran. in 2002,

one year into the bush administration, so called war on terror, and advanced recruitment, dr. the military, really the game of its own, america's army. now in its full addition, they spend $7000000.00 in its setup and they produce that game as a strategic communication. so with a very high quality development team now in terms of its reach estimation of about 18000000 people about an account, the u. s. military itself have gone evaluations of the guy regarded as quote from one of the my success, recruitment to ne, themselves of ever devised. most importantly, america's army is free. so in an arrow where, you know, video games cost $50.00 and $60.00, you can get something like america's army. that's comparable to the best shooters out there for free. then you're going to get it. especially if you're 16 and you don't have a whole lot of disposable income. ah,

america's army is an anomaly in the gaming world. most games that produced independently, and they have never been more popular. in terms of revenue, the video is industry is now larger than the movie and music sexes, combined with 2 and a half 1000000000 players around the world. that includes 2 in every 3 americans and franchises, where you play a u. s. soul joe spied like call of duty or battlefield regularly total charge. i know you won't fail us a hard night, which leads game developers to work closely with military consultants who also contribute to the story lines. and it's here that the u. s. military and intelligence agencies score and now the win depictions of american history. that air brush their action now and demonized their enemies. this is call of duty black

homes, one of the best selling games of all time. i'm playing as a cia officer during the bay of pigs invasion, the real life attempt by the us to overthrow the cuban government in the 960. my mission is to kill fidel castro, just as the real see i tried and failed to do. but the game adds a fictional motive to the mud. here, the virtual castro is involved in a plot to ship a chemical weapon to the vietnamese, which conveniently gives the u. s. a pretext for the next thing you do in the game . invade vietnam, a new cold duty comes out every year in 2019 we've got modern warfare. and in this game, there is a mission called the highway of death, where you are in a fictional, middle eastern country in the universe of the video game. russia had invaded this country. psychiatrist go to the mouth. it is

a wonderful weekend. the highway of death. the russians bomb did during the invasion, cleaned people trying to escape. now that happened in real life. but america did it during the 1st gulf war. after saddam's army was defeated, it was retreating out of kuwait, the american military, that bombs the army. as it's retreating. they were hit where they stood birth by u. s. bond then by tank. but because this is a call of duty game, and because america can't do any wrong, that atrocity has to be pulled out and re attributed to russia. i grew up dutch that she gyptian. and that meant that at some point in my life, i started realizing that in most of these games i was playing as people that looked like my dutch friends. and with we know you speak that i was always shooting people that looked like my arm friends and over time of kind of come to realize that the

only way you can trace something like the u. s. military as an absolute good is if you slaton everything else into an absolute evil. so the arabs, the russians, the south american sort of get flattened into this nest of evil with terrorism. but the u. s. military goes and, and straightens out margin came with the have been exceptions. spec ops, the line released in 2012 highlight the human cost of wool. it even shows us soldiers using the deadly chemical white phosphorus as they did in the real iraq through the game. the player is by figuratively on psychologically destroyed by the violence that i commit. you don't mind me asking what was it like at you survivor? who said, i did that, what is really interesting as well to me that this is

a game made by german developer. so it raises some quite interesting issues about about perspectives there, about whether it took a germ developer to make that gain. and it also is interesting because not very many games like gov be made since it's important to realize that video games are obviously this mix of art and technology and commerce and that in the end, a lot of these games cost tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars to make so for every game that gets to play a little bit more risky with their narrative, the rules to be a number of games that tell the same old story that gamers recognise and that they have come to be comfortable in over the past. 2 decades since a good is proven itself to be more adept at public relations than it has been fighting wars. despite the calamities failures in iraq and afghanistan support for the military has stated consistently, hi. there is no way to quantify how much video games have to do with the

before the money. the pentagon clearly thinks that what the best it hasn't you game and production america's army 5 as the east for this amendment is specifically to block recruitment practices and funding for recruitment practices on platforms such as twitch, dance. to mean when you're in congress, voted that amendment down, leaving the military free to continue its virtual offensive. but now at the military gaming complex is here to stay. and finally, iraq is just held a general election where one of the issues was apathy, low voter turnout, just 41 percent of those eligible to cast a ballot. did so for many iraqis, a popular source of information on the elections was the alba share show. it's a satirical program that goes out on the arabic language service of the german

public broadcaster deutsch avella created in 2014 by iraqi journalist, turned comedian on, had alba, sheer, the show racks up millions of views, primarily on youtube, which is where most iraqis catch it, we're closing with a clip of alba shears election commentary on iraq's female candidates. some of the bazaar campaigned videos that they put out was the next time here at the listening post. whether you bought a georgia, carla at the command fucking over the tobacco at oak up and i helped them in office it and house that i just oscar, feel i dub as to tore them on here for them. smile in body and within the trenton. i say allow me, i got the bill so happy it. i am a sama, a little of shemika, the soft fiancee. i told him the hobbit a subpoena in following the conflict in wiley need. and i said miss via i'm with the bar code. that would you guys perform buckhead? i would give up my book about the law with one to said the court has he was i don't

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