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a far regions after the t p. a left re took control of the great leaders of the world's top economies have agreed to introduce a global corporate tax for multinational companies. they're meeting in room for the g 20 summit, where they've also been discussing the climate crisis and coven 19. and the u. s. and the you have agreed to ease tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. the deal to resolve the trade dispute was announced that the g 20 so it under the agreement, the u. s. will allow certain metals from the e to enter duty free, full level has more on the deal from washington d. safe. it hasn't been officially announced. what we've had is a sort of an, an announcement of an announcement that's coming. so a lot of it is just speculation or to leaks at the moment the tariff is 25 percent on steel and it's 10 percent on alimentary. now what we think for me, indications is that it's going to move to a sort of sliding scale. so the higher the number of inputs, the high, the tax, it will be relative. there will be the sort of green zone at the bottom. this kind

of buffer zone where there is a certain amount that's allowed in without being taxed. we think that that will be around $3300000.00 tons. but again, the official announcement coming tomorrow from present biden, an actual of underlying polls of oakland in japan is general election as voters decide whether to keep the countries newly appointed prime minister, the governing liberal democrat party has been led by female cuz she does, since he won a vote just weeks ago, china has started rationing diesel. a nationwide energy shortage has led to a surge in demand for the fuel and a rise in prices. many truck drivers say they're not able to compete a complete long distance routes and deliver vital goods. and supportive band political party in party. so, and have been stalked from reaching the capitol. the protesters are demanding the release of their detained leader. those that headlines. the news continues, hey, on out is there after listening post. and a reminder, you can keep up to date with all the news on our website. out zerrick dotcom to

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examining this week. his name is carr. he's as big as they come in the indian film industry. we look at the drug bust that tells a story of the conflict between the authorities there and bollywood facebook and the continuing fall out from that whistleblower. a consortium of news outlets is now on the company's case. you're at say, alarm phone, the hotline in the mediterranean, that refugees are using to get their stories out. and just scroll, you scroll, we all school. what's it going to take to get us off our phone? on paper, it looked like a routine drug bust, a group of 20 somethings, partying on a cruise ship off the coast of ma'am, by charged with possession and trafficking. it was anything but routine among those . arrested was audience con, the son of one of india's and the world's. busy biggest movie stars shuttle con,

the circumstances suggest this case was never just about the sun or the narcotics allegedly involved. the authorities appear to be going after his father, who was muslim and belongs to a film industry bollywood who secular and liberal output conflicts with the ruling b, j. p. parties, hindu nationalist, ideology, known as hindus, fuck aware of the film industry sway on the masses. some say that the government has taken a 2 track approach on one hand prime minister neurons ramadi, makes nice with some of bollywood biggest stars on the other. his government's anti drug squads target the film industry, sending a message. our starting point this week is one by a drug bust, a legend on a cruise ship off the coast of moon, by among the 8 young people taken into custody. audion con, the son of one of india's and the world's biggest movie star, shot up connie,

who happens to be a most at nazi and eat up the lawn care. but duncan, on me is booted drugs. it gives me audio your body, but it is a salacious story, custom made for indian news channels that are selves addicted to bonding for labeled guides as dynamic proposal diagram. and the celebrity driven stories. it provides that dr. rains. the details are merck, and there's a larger pattern and playing the indian authorities or targeting volume. and what the film industry has come to represent these threats. didn't johnson that gave almost make it seem like, you know, a 3 not in rich, one new episode is unfolding every single day. one finds that there is more transparency in the way that case is being factored. that is why one is wondering whether there is more to it than meets the eye. many commentators of argued that its shadow con, who's the target of this case. but i would say that it's actually the hindi film

industry or bollywood that has been targeted over the last several years by b j. p. politicians and they're allied in the nationalist groups. so what i think the i and con case represents is a much broader assault on popular culture in india, ah, the drug bust would not have made news. if the accused did not have a famous font. shutter con is a muslim megastar, who calls himself an indian patron in 2010. he made a move on the demonize ation of muslims delivering a line that stuck with audiences in india and beyond. my name is kahn. i'm not a terrorist. con is married to a hint and is one of the faces of an industry that celebrates and exports. stories of secularism and liberalism and implicit rejection of the ruling b. j. p. parties. hindu nationalist ideology. charles con represents an older

ideal of india as a secular, multi ethnic and pluralist nation. he's a muslim who grew up in delhi and really modest economic circumstances. he goes to bombay to make his mark in the entertainment industry and succeeds wildly. and i think the very existence of a successful, popular, well respected muslin man challenges or threatens the hindu nationalist ideologies that have been prevailing over the last several years, which are trying to portray muslims as the ultimate other outsider or villain. i don't want to believe that that is why he's being dogged it, but it is a driving sentiment of islam, a phobia in the country, and it is possible, shouted con what he says, travellers all over the world. it is hard all over the world. if given the option of controlling that as you many would, he would want to i don't know why people are focusing only on this party and this

government. since i was born in this gundy, i have seen every single government as intimidated. ah, anybody who was against them since independence in india, politics and bonnie would have had a very strange relationship. politicians have used. our film stars are during elections to get votes. intern bollywood star stake fevers from politicians for such dirty game? you know, and everybody is bod, offered shutter con, is far from the only bollywood figure caught up in an anti drugs crackdown, conducted by the narcotics control board, the ncp. he's just the most famous name on a list. but over the last few years has grown to include multiple actors, writers and directors. not all of them muslim. in fact, most of those arrested or hindered. the 1st big drug related keith happened last year when an actor called everybody was arrested and he spent time in

prison. and then there were people also called in for questioning by the n, c. b for drug related matters. they had different modality. is the country's biggest soft power in terms of dissemination of ideas and thoughts and messages. it to me feels like an attempt to gain more power. there were other actors like shut down a pool, sada lee con, and this is, will start the pick up on the call and also called in for questioning. a top entities from the body would, are very much part of a massive drug. got 10. that's the bottom line. bollywood was being vilified, left to right and centered as though it were some hot bed of oil kinds of times and a place which was a hiding all kinds of criminals. ah,

when the render modi's b. j. p. first came to power in 2014, the party was more focused on the news landscape than the film industry. india has more than 424 hour television news channels. the vast majority of them are now securely in the government's camp. some for ideological reasons, others for commercializing or just to avoid anger in the authorities in new delhi. in 2019 when running for reelection, mowdy sent out this selfie with a group of actors like many prime ministers before him. he was trying to cozy up to film celebrities. and there are huge followings of potential voters. but the b j piece pro hindu conservative policies are not an easy sell in bollywood with its secular liberal reputation. those policies are far more popular with indian news chunks, which once again, have the government's back. the dock and the rotting underbelly of the

bollywood elite is falling apart and i can tell you it stinks. if you take out the media offered several media doesn't highlight this, then nobody cares. if both it young boys and girls were caught minus i didn't con, nobody would have kid, non media sensationalized it if and i want to talk bollywood kitchen nickel up a set of mess with about a started so much dictates indian delusion. news media is our embarrassment. one humanity, the biggest destructive force today is indian television, news media, this theme and shout and destroy lives. this, if they have made it so big that i'm sure that even judges must be thinking in their mind. if i take this decision, what will happen if i take that decision? what's gonna happen? let's call out clean up and why got the bollywood bird? what do you say? why do you look at how media has over the past few years been completely

compromised? i see paddlers because media and cinema i to very strong mediums, you know, one is bringing used to you either escaping to your fantasy. sometimes when it comes to public figures, what doesn't get said is as revealing as what does indian actors have among the biggest social media followings on the planet numbers that routinely run into the 10s of millions. but if shuttle con went online, searching for messages of support from within his own industry, he would find very few people willing to back, at least publicly, that silence tells its own story about the hazards of free speech in the range remedies. indeed, many indians criticized bollywood celebrities for not being as politically outspoken as their hollywood counterparts. after the election of donald trump. many people were paring how local hollywood stars were in there,

criticism of trump as compared to how bollywood stars can never be as outspoken. but i think there's real consequences for being outspoken in india, celebrities could get told incessantly, their movies can be boycotted, and finally they or their families could be in physical danger. even if political powers or government agencies don't come to you, there's also targeted online attacks twitter attack instagram attacks that lead to lots of well, not everybody wants to be that prey. majority of them are not speaking. what that is harbinger of when find out. it just feels like another nail in the coffin. free speech. hardly a week goes by. it seems without facebook turning up in your news feeds for all the wrong reasons. this time, a consortium of news outlets has been publishing stories about the company. nick

moore had been following these stories. nick beyond what we looked at just a few weeks ago that whistleblower story wise facebook back in the news that whistleblowers form a facebook employee francis. how going initially took his story to the wall street journal wish lead thousands of internal documents to the paper. how going is now made those documents available to a consortium of more than a dozen news outlets including the new york times and washington post in the us and european outlets like lamond in france and torch. as i turn in germany and what kind of stories are we seeing as a result? well, much more detail, pretty damning detail that facebook is well aware of its problems with misinformation and hate speech in the us, but even more so outside of the us in non english speaking countries and it's doing very little to prevent it going back to india in 2001, 900, just before the general election. the documents show that facebook employees set up a dummy account to test user experience that,

that account was quickly flooded with no competing, quickly flooded with pro moody propaganda and anti muslim hate speech. as you know, richard india is seeing an alarming rise in islamic phobic attacks in ethiopia. employees repeatedly warned that facebook was failing to curve the spread of post inciting, communal violence in that country. if you happy and assets on the brink of civil war. and despite all of that, the consortium is also revealed that facebook dedicates 84 percent of its efforts to combat misinformation, to the us market alone. that just leaves 16 percent to the rest of the world. and the u. s. market only makes up 10 percent of facebook's business. how was facebook responded to these stories because they had to know that they were coming. they did the actually tweeted before the newspapers released their investigations and they said that many of these dr. and so being mischaracterized and that it's all part of a gotcha campaign that's on the back of news that france has. how good is getting a lot of backing from some heavy hitters,

including appear on the other founder of the bay area as well, learn an outspoken critic of the expanding powers of big tech. so yes, there are elements of a gotcha campaign, but that does not mean that the consortium hasn't exposed bad practices more bad practices at facebook. ok, thanks me. cast your mind back to 2015. the height of europe's refugee in flux, when more than a 1000000 migrants tried to reach the continent by c, the global news media were positioned around the mediterranean filing stories from various borders, sometimes from boats. when the numbers dropped, most of the journalists moved on. the story then faded from view, even though tens of thousands attempted that same trip in 2020, and more than a 1000 of them died try one n g o that refuses to let this story go, is alarm for the organization was set up back in 2014, as an emergency hotline, staffed by volunteers to aid refugees in distress, not by sending boats,

but by reporting on the situation at sea, by pressuring the relevant authorities to come to the rescue. but some of the governments that alarm phone is dealing with overseas, the border control forces that can be part of the problem. the listening post joanna, who's now on alarm phone and it's efforts to shine a light on what is still happening on europe's borders. ah, my friend, this is a long time if how hold on hold your. let's see. you're in trouble. can you hear me? ok. good. sympathetic, fully? yeah. on the other line. move coming one who weighs picks up the phone. 247. you are. you are okay. i need to come come down, come up. okay. okay. i'm going to need your position can. can you get me your gps

position? an emergency hotline that doesn't just offer a lifeline, but the documents are both quite both the reality of what happens at the world. destiny is the quote from your engine stuff. okay. and then what me, people are being left being left to drown in order to write in because of the indifference with the european authorities by being a hotline at an extra actor in the mediterranean fight, you're doing something that's practically useful to people. one of the functions of the long time is precisely so have a vision of the world where black lives matter where everybody counts where what's happening in the midst, right? it is not invisible. it's very difficult indeed to report from, from the theme is not only the parent and geography that makes it hard. but increasingly, sol states themselves for trying to obstruct such investigations. and that's why is

the role of and the also allows for and others. it's crucial that they have a crucial role to play, to tell the story of refugees and help establish patterns, help families, what is going on? very often, the only weakness the only ice over the material and the gmc what really goes on it see is something, some european governments want to stay in the influx in 2015 of more than a 1000000 migrants mark the height of europe's refugee crisis. it affected politics and fam, populous movements across the european union. tougher often less humane. border policies are the result. their supporters argue that those policies of work sent a message. the number of attempt crossings is dropped by about 90 percent of the last 5 years. still around 90000 people tried it. in 2020 greece, which has borne the brunt of the migrant crisis has taken

a particularly uncompromising stones on refugee. prime minister carry a customer to talking and his right wing new democracy party came to power in 2019 . and jose media and human rights organizations have since accused the greek coast guard, protecting migraine, pushing their boats, and bring it back up to speed. that practice is called pushback. and under international look, it's illegal. the, when we re stuff fact with the greek minister of migration, he judged the question and tried to turn our attention on to neighboring turkey instead known. did we begin in the 30 course? got the need to prevent people leaving turkey soil reaching the greek territorial waters. and let's also be clear with something else. turkey, he's a safe country and people fling that he are not feeling a was wrong. and therefore, he's not be an excuse to allow people to go into and see where he's being use,

but even by people with no experience, etc. and this people sometimes with the support of the target cause god and up crossing illegally and some of them. unfortunately, she lots of live in the region. the minister of migration avoided the issue of pushback and his government's involvement in it, which is where alarm phone comes in. what can you see? you can see the show. you will really, really need to let you write that the information, volunteers like jacob burkes and connect over the phone to news outlets that no longer devote the resources to the repartee stories they want. how many are on the bike? okay. 23. how many women? 12, are there any children? some major media players have from reliant, at least partly on alarm phone for their own reporting. outlets like the new york

times in germany, is there speak of the prox nines. we have published a series of very well documented reports concerning flashbacks and violence and violations of human rights. i believe very little of this, or maybe none of this would be possible to document to produce if it weren't for organizations including alarm phone, their role is to collect all evidence and testimonies from, from my friends, our role as media gatekeepers to collaborate with them, establish the veracity of what they say and then publish the documentation from necessity. when you 3 people on the move with people that of course, you're documented cotton you, you, you write that tragedy if it's, if the bare minimum that you can take. why do we kind of document all this information so that when this race a system is over?

no one can say we didn't know what kind of work these activists are doing, has landed them in trouble with the law. this past june, the greek police launched a criminal investigation into alarm phone and several other n g o s. organizations like jazz or, and a gym. boat reports the charges, espionage revealing state secrets. joining criminal organizations and facilitating the illegal entry of migrants into europe. the prosecution is not holding back, it tapped the 8 workers phones, put them under surveillance, and it even went as far as recruiting undercover migrants, putting them back on boats bound for greece, who in an effort to prove the videos, involvement in crimes, etc. to date, not a single person has been called in for questioning. and the evidence just doesn't seem to stack up. we asked notice meet iraqi in this case against the angie o's is more about silencing those exposing government wrongdoing than it is about fighting

crime. the government doesn't press charges, it is the judicial and the police that investigate crimes were not against any and yours. the villains, here are the smugglers and in one corporate him with a smuggler. i haven't named specifically, emmy endures. but there was a number of testimonies from asylum seekers that themselves identified the names of organizations that either helped them to fly to turkey or would help them in the journey from the 36 course to good. this is deemed as a crime and is the police and the court that will decide i find it very, very, very hard to believe that this will ever end up in a guilty sentence based at least on what i have seen in the police file. but i don't think the greek government, or authorities purpose is a conviction down the road. it is to say,

the people who are getting our way this people need to, to learn the lesson, to lend their place. and also to preemptively discredit their reporting. because any future reporting is based on alarm phone data, watch easier for the government to dismiss as propaganda by n g o. we're already under criminal investigation. when you're on the field and reporting of these kinds of violations abuses, there's always going to be pressure abuses. we never want to be under scrutiny. there is no doubt, but allegations of smuggling must be investigated thoroughly. but one must make a distinction between those who profit for misery and those for there to help states have a duty to protect human rights defenders and not prosecute them. i'm going to call the green coast guard and hopefully they can. they've gotta come according to alarms on the real crime aren't the ones,

the greek authorities are investigating. it's the ones, the state is committee trunk, get you. i will try the by what keep, keep everybody come keep come. ok. despite the greed governments attempt to intimidate a learn phone is still there at the receiving end of phone calls. that may be the start of refugees, new life for the last school day ever made. so that no one journalist and politicians included can ever say we did not know. okay, i'll call you in 10 minutes. okay, thank you, sweetheart. bye. and finally, for all the scholars out there and there are billions of you constantly scrolling on your phone, whether you're walking down the street, taking a bath or trying to fall asleep, hears a viral video by mac, fly, and car lito, a couple of french internet personalities a reminder of just how dependent people have become on their phones. mclaren,

carly, those videos are so popular in france that earlier this year, president emmanuel macro challenge, the pair to produce something about coven safety guidelines. it got more than $15000000.00 views. there are just scroll video was at 1500000 views scholars included and counting was the next time here at the listen post. she they did. i don't really, i just got a, a little bit with

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decades of talk, but little action is all about distract, create confusion to create smoke and mirrors. the shocking truth about how the climate debate has been systematically refer to the oil industry was a main bank roller for opposition to clock back to campaign against the climate. do you think that's a bad thing more to, to a business? here's the thing. absolutely. on. on jesse ah, g 20 leaders gather in rome to tackle a series of issues including climate change and economic recovery. ah, hello, i money inside. this is out there, live from doha. was coming up. the u. s. and e, you agree to end a dispute over steel? and alimony in tariffs imposed by the former president. donald trump

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