cash to pay providers. for now though no one is showing up at his shop, he hopes at the borders will soon open, so he can begin exporting again. but until then, said has no option but to continue admiring his art works. and the many stories to tell about the old and young man and women who toiled for months and years to make them hush about. but i'd as either missouri ah, and let's take you through some of the headlines he and al jazeera, china's economic growth has slowed down more than expected. the economy grew by 4.9 percent in the 3rd quarter of this year. that's a drop of 3 percent from the previous quarter. katrina, you has more from bay jing on one of the reasons behind the slow down. i think in a way, you can say that part of this performance,

none that this lower result is because that china has inflicted these certain curds on part of its industry. so firstly, you can look at the curves on d, energy industry. china is really trying to reach quite strict climate change targets. they've been very tight curds on energy use across china. and as result, we've seen these power outages affect very major provinces here in china. and that had a huge and impact on the manufacturing industry. and on productivities are police in haiti say a notorious gang is behind the abduction of foreign christian missionaries and their families, their kidnaps as they left an orphanage near the capital puerto prince, the un special envoy. so syria says the government and opposition will begin drafting constitutional reforms from monday, talks over the countries political future have been stalled since january the serious 10 years civil war is killed over 350000 people and displaced millions

from new zealand prime minister descended the and says the country's largest city will remain locked down for another 2 weeks. oakland has already been in power for about 2 months, but deals its dealing with an outbreak of a highly contagious delta variant. new zealand had been virus free for nearly 6 months. flood van landslides have killed at least 24 people in india. southern careless state officials say thousands have been evacuated and at least 100 leaf camps have been set up. hundreds of salvatore ins have protested against the government's decision to adopt bitcoin. his legal, tender crypto currency can now be used as a form of payment. those headlines. the news continues here. now just 0 off the, the listening post. the how many nukes there's too many new america has in many ways driven the arms rate parties are much more like the british parties down to

the there are, you will regulation to own a tiger than there are to own a dog. how can this be happening? you know, we take on us politics and society and that's the bottom line. the nobel peace prize husband maria rest. no journalist a long time without a world without and trust. no, the committee says press freedoms unnecessary for the democracy and peace. hello, i'm a true good burden. 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 were 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 raise 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 my, and that is one of the i've been to help us avoid 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 a promising one. the 2 winners were both journalists, filipino american, maria, russia, and russian. dmitri more act 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 decision to recognise reza, and we're act off amounts to a wakeup call over the state of global journalism reference new site rattler. and

what i talk 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 laureate, it around 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 week in manila and moscow, ah, 2 journalists covering different countries defying different forms of authority. both of them now nobel laureates. marie arrest 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 moran, the editor of the moscow based no via because yeah. 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 it was in the face for government focused on committing crime against sure. that the importance of price, freedom in iraq. the fact that the nobel committee wanted to acknowledge that importance and the role that the media plays in iraq. and you know, that is confronting unprecedented challenges over the exist, then sure least nature price freedom. nissan, to attach it to the impact of the unprecedented attack. the new has been a weapon is to, to curtail the freedom of the legion. and it is freedom to, to report all of these while lead last night to dog b. booth and melinda more,

the bullets in our some to see. so i got from seen and dish, no one that while they're trying to hold it. since i wasn't serv, wonders to say the while noticed on monday august. well, why she wasn't the philippines and didn't work. why he wasn't russia? because the nobel prize is a huge, huge achievement and an update as not as of what a what put journalists who are under 5 with the nobel prizes, put the spotlight squarely on 2 precedents who go after their journalistic critics . in contrasting ways, rodrigo do, charity is openly contemptuous of reporters. he galvanized as his base by attacking the news media and pursues journalists like russia through the courts when they refuse to stay silent. vladimir putin's 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, it's congratulations before the president reminded him that laws written in moscow take precedence over awards and handed out in awesome islam. would it be creditable? excuse me? she told me that i was to put you with the military address, his uncle, my chickens. i didn't know the salesman and the official filipino response was more brazen. the government tried to take credit for rest as a warm recipe that is alive. and the proof is even the noble price at white, even the money in it. if there was a nobel prize. as for hypocrisy, rodrigo, do territory would be among the nominee. a couple of years ago, i saw a press conference the when he was talking about the media and the shortest finger

. this is a match, it keep trying to call this award for my rep. 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 film pain. but the same time as this is happening, she still facing decades in jail, she could potentially spend the rest of her life in a manila prison. if she found guilty on all of the charges, she currently has a rate 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 for it on the very same day. and not a bunch of journalists were called for matt jones as a sky, the 3 media we praise, the journalists will give 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 blow to their image. so they're trying to p off their way out of the perry ball. this would be a slap going to be is it something that the government can certainly not get the snap a slap in the government? if you really care about him till national recognition that they need to prove it, they need to prove 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 vex issues or loss against maria. the reporters working under maria, russia, and dmitri muran tough are up against online forces that align with the authorities

and are sometimes paid to by the state to discredit independent journalism rest. this is a case study in the kind of harassment reserved for female journalists. it's massage in istic and medicine. she's faced death threats, seen her home address, posted online, and deep faith, pornographic images of herself, circulated on social media. it's a tactic designed to intimidate and it knows no borders. the online violence campaigns being waged against women general font, maria rissa really all price. at the intersection of miss sultani and disinformation, we examined over 500000 social media posts from twitter and facebook directed at her 60 percent of those abusive pies were designed to try to erode credibility and trust in her journalism. so they called her elia,

align bitch often because what they wanted to do was to weaponized the such nay, as well as these anti journalism, anti free press narratives that they panel i 1st met money i read about 6 years ago. i got time, i got one time i was on breaks clean pressure from the indian government. my life had been made miserable, especially with multiple tactics of intimidation. my image was small, done up form video, and so they did all over the country and you feel like they've gotten in touch with you out there in front of you a little and i spoke to maria and she said, i feel you, i've been dead. mm. one cannot take the measure of the 2021 nobel peace prize story without, during the time the last journalist to win the award was a newspaper editor. it was 1936, and carl von aussie etzky was germany and got the news while locked up in

a nazi concentration camp. we need to recall climate innovation. and i was given you the german journalist was actually investigated in that the military activities given the fact that she brave journalist madison and she received that price in 2021 means that we are in that kind of difficult world in terms of the freedom of speech it must feel to many june and that they are all parenting in an incredibly difficult denture was an toxic environment. so the nobel prize 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 government that are using the law all x tried to go mean to silence. read the board professional reporting together. we can stand up for price freedom. and i think that's what the noble community inviting us to do. i think this is a very strategic decision by the nobel peace prize committee. signaling something very significant here that there has never been such convergence of threat. the freedom of expression and independent journalist them to critical journalism and to the safety of journalists, defense world war 2. to think about that i turning to singapore. now, where do you forties 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,

newer heads been following the story. nick, what a journalist seeing in this new law, what's the concern? and you know, it's called fica, the foreign interference counter measures act and it has gender 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 user information from internet companies can ban 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 governor nautilus that you want your 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 we continue to protection and that is by design. the country is minister

of home affairs. that foreign metal is often hide behind, seemingly legitimate, france. 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 face fines of up to $75000.00 us dollars. and for organizations it's $750000.00. so what a journalist 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 independence 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 codes. the media in singapore has been a virtual drop. singapore press holdings that dominates reprint, 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 other genesis and use organizations in singapore. ok, 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 tax payers, through 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 listening post daniel touring now on the military gaming complex. and the messages it is beaming into american home. the. we cannot wait war and military service with this kind of team of 5 format. and with that july 2020. the u. s. congress is debating annual military spending issue in question. repentance 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 ad link to recruitment sign

a form that can be submitted by children as young as 12 years old. if again, back in 2018 off the spending, the better part, the 2 decades meyer in iraq and afghanistan, the army missed its recruitment target by a distance. brought them rely on the methods of old, selecting the american airways. the tv adds 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 this new social media that's really taken over in the last few years. so in order to get into that space and talk to kids, the army, the navy, 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 fastest growing sectors in the world, in terms of and to time younger people watching a sports course in the area of the electronic battlefield. the idea of having technological literacy 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. i think that's that is not the point of this. that's not what the navy official twitch manual. it states that quote, everything done, social media should be aimed at making connections between prospects and recruiters . while the 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 americans army. now when it's full of 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 rich estimation is all about 18000000 people about an account. the u. s. military itself have gone evaluations of the guy and regarded as, quote from one of the my success, recruitment to themselves as ever devised. most importantly, america's army is free. so in an era 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 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. america's army is an anomaly in the gaming world . most games have produced independently, and they have never been more popular. in terms of revenue,

the video games 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 cool of duty or battlefield regularly total charge. i know you won't fail us with harmony, 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 airbrush they ranch it now and demonized their enemies. this is call of duty black or 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 attempts by the us to overthrow the cuban government. 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. pretext for the next thing you do in the game. invade vietnam. a new coal 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, they tried to go to the end of the one room, the highway dennison's bomb did during the invasion, killing the people trying to escape. no, 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 time. 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 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 americans sort of get flattened into this nest of evil with terrorism. but the u. s. military goes in and straightens out with the have been exceptions. spec ops, the line released in 2012 highlights 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 bike, figuratively and psychologically destroyed by the violence that i commit. you don't mind me asking what was it like at you survival? this who said i did that? what is really interesting as well as that this is a guy might by german developer. so it raises some quite interesting issues about, about perspective there, about whether it took a job developer to make that gain. and it also is interesting because not very many

games like that have been 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, there were also 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 tend to goodness proven itself to be more decked at public relations than it has been fighting wars. despite the calamitous 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 was the best. it hasn't you game and production, america's army 5. as the sport. 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 with 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 here 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 ahmed 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 campaign videos that they put out. what's the next time here at the listening post. what they applauded. you're the highlighted the command fucking over the tub. i'd be glad to look up and help them with office it and house it out . i just oscar feel i dub. i sit for them and he has an smile and a body. and within a 20 i say allow me got, he missed a half he it, i and i her sammy, a little shemika the scifi academically. i told him that i'm with a subpoena in following the habit in my lineage, and i said, messiah, i'm with the bar code that we'll go from, from you guys to from buckhead. i'm good mob talked about that with one to said the court has he was i don't fuse. yeah, i don't. i look on a beer. just heard on at the most misuse your mom got them. well then i learned the whole dinner and i'm glad he did. did with harvard mobile music. maybe i let the

said the whole into her better, better live and he had to the a, would he literate in sandy to really work a medina to him up. it's a guy. oh, oh, oh, did you? oh, it was a bit more. hm. hm. it had been harder, most diagnostic, maybe shit huddled that you're for either lisa willard, monitor my shamela. yeah. or my love it. and we'll, we'll get a block, let what i mean, it would make it one is in my al, called like with one our toilets would, or bits would on to admin. a thruster had bought it wasn't the could not give me my and that is one of the i've been, it took about a boy examining the impact of today's headlines. let's move to cope it. 19 terrible demonstration of the failure to view monsalud of it. setting the agenda for tomorrow's discussions, what i think, what i saw, what i witnessed and pre, and nobody sees it in their own country,

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