plane with other teams who are about to compete, we climb for several minutes until we reach 3000 meters. as we climb up, the teams mentally prepare for their jump. i try to do the same then minutes later, once the earth is just a blurb below, it's time to free fall. mm hm. ah, this is al jazeera and these are the headlines. tens of thousands of people in australia are protesting against coven, 19 vaccine orders. and pandemic laws rallies are being held in each state capitol

civilian journalist stain, a more says more from melbourne. there are a range of things that are being protested about around the country. to die is certainly the biggest day that we've seen for protesters around australia. and we had protesting almost every state and territory home today. the largest of which was here in melbourne. melbourne has endured the longest lockdown in the world. and now there are concerns among parts of the community about some pandemic management legislation that the state government is currently trying to pass through the upper house of parliament. at least 7 people have been injured and dozens arrested during protests against cone of iris restrictions in the dumped city of rotterdam. restrictions in the netherlands are being re imposed to combating wave of infections the united states as calling on china to prove that tennis player punch . why is ok she hasn't been seen since accusing a high ranking politician of sexually assaulting her holland,

says hundreds of asylum seekers have tried to branch into border despite sneer by camps been cleared on friday or to police. arrested $45.00 people for throwing rocks and tear gas canisters. a jury in the united states has phones co written house, not guilty of murdering to men and wounds in another. it happened during racial justice process in wisconsin. last year. lebanon has removed some cities on some drugs needing to treat chronic diseases. that means some people are paying as much as 80 percent more. and the u. s. is condemned to what it says, the detention of year, many star from its embassy in santa, by who the fighters, the he thieves, deny this charge. and those are the headlines to keep it here on al jazeera, they use continues after the listening post. talk to algae 0. i want you to tell me about relationship with the us. we listen. 900 is not over. coffee. 19 has been

terrible demonstration of the failure of human knowledge. we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that imagine on how to protest dot security for showing that another teen and we are doing democracy. demonstration all being that without which is 0, which has been covering the demonstration chief has been arrested. 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 to dance flirtation with democracy ends in a coup d'etat. how far will the hunter go to control what we know about the story? the journalist arrested in the aftermath of the qu in me and mar finally get their day in court. the jury is still out on the justice system that

a far right journalist turn presidential contender, frances eric moore, and the tv news channel behind his rival. and the met averse is the next frontier, the mash up that exposes the fine line between facebook's attempts at p r. it's completely immersive and parody. this past wednesday, november 17th was supposed to be the day that sudan, after more than 30 years under various forms of dictatorship, returned to civilian rule. that never happened just 3 weeks before the country's military was due to return to its barracks, handing over its share of power to civilians. the generals deposed the transitional government. they had been a part of and conducted a that triggered mass on rest, reminiscent of sudan revolution. in 2019 that deposed the long time dictator, omar alba, sheer since then, it's been about controlling the streets and the narrative,

through tactics to dan has seen before. protest or shot, the state broadcast or taken over journalists, arrested the internet blocked out. but in a country that came so close to democracy, it could taste it. the population hasn't rolled over. activists are still finding ways, including some low tech ones to organize. journalists are doing the same to get the story out. our starting point, this week is cartoon nearly 2 and a half years after the sudanese spread when mass demonstrations led to the downfall of long time dictator omar albert ship citizens are back on the streets. ah, less than a month ago. a country that has spent 52 of the last 65 years under military rule was on the verge of restoring something. it hasn't had since 1989. it's democracy. i fell just 3 weeks.

ah, bishop was ousted by the military in april 2019. and then a power sharing agreement was put together between the civilian s f c. the forces for freedom in change and the transitional military council, the t m. c. now this sovereignty council, this transitionary body, was only meant to be around for 3 years in 3 months, and then meant to hand over power to a civilian leader this week, but only 3 weeks ahead of this hand. every day we found ourselves in the military kid, clara, people that actually take place by switching on t v dash b and seeing, you know, the sort of a military back in the military songs play and immediately then. so that's and it's more it'll shift in the content and so that sort of aesthetics of s at and t v shifting back to more islam is signaling by presenting. also the content which was being shown on t v. and more importantly, wasn't just

a state control. the sudan tv showed the crew leader, abdel fatah, albert, hein refusing to call the coop. cooper, i will, it will sit without a solo a lot o l m, a lot of authority. you have the, he branded the take over a corrective measure, instead, try to justify it as a continuation of the 2019 anti alba, sheer revolution. and argued that the civilian military transitional government somehow posed a threat to peace and security. because it was unstable. having just di, stabilized that government by overthrowing the ugliest of all perhaps was the timing coincides with clear, ob, turn in a in spleen fortunes that this millions had not been doing very well in government or recently, you know, he economic indicators had started to turn around at the inflation had begun to

full pounds of trade in a group for sudan, and i think those instances of success started to worry, and military who had banked on civilians failing, and that failure being iraq back to power. 4 days before the qu, sudanese took to the streets in their millions, across the country to deliver one particular message. it wasn't pro government protests, but it was pro democracy and anton military protest. the message was clear, we do not want military rule. perhaps this alliance of who plotters just realized that may be now was the right moment to see suppose that they can take a showdown between them and the sudanese people attempting to control the masses. and the narrative, the military has borrowed tactic, straight out of omar alba shares media and repression playbook. the takeover of the state broadcast. and a communications blackout landline internet is still function. but the vast

majority of student, these rely on mobile data 3, g, and fortune. and both have been shut down. that has left reporters cut off from their sources, their means of distributing information. and as the night activists, the digital tools, they rely on to organize the internet. that is quite katy to keep different with each blow the back of the resistance movement from mobilizing beyond that, you know, of businesses that have lost money because they're unable to contact their customers, adding precious regime to revise this internet back up. and the assistant had previous experience with mobilizing people during internet blackouts in 2019 it's not as effective as to achieve might wanted to be in every area. there is

a local resistance, lee, and they have been able to disseminate information, an old school ways in your house to house. they send out why is the let people know people choosing to not go to work to grind the country to a holes in order to demonstrate that anger and their refusal to accept this military rule. so even though the military is trying to completely isolate the sudanese people and disconnect them from the world and each other, i have been completely awed and impressed by what they've been able to do despite all of the obstacles. it is really to the credit of protesters demonstrate calling to that they have retained and nonviolent posted. and that nonviolent approach, as absolute confounded literature because they, they stand on the ends of streets with, with the tools in their hands. and it's very hard to respond. so those are your hyper aware of the optics and reality of violence can be for their attempts to really maintain control over st. in another tactic,

straight out of the 2 plotters playbook, news organizations, both domestic and international have been target journalists, organized a protest of their own. this past week assignment, symbolizing the authorities efforts to restrain their reporter, they've had their offices rate. some of their transmissions flocked to stop their versions of the story from getting to the outside world. we spoke with general albert hans present folks who would not comment on those measures or on the arrests of reporters columnists and editors, including al jazeera bureau chief in cartoon. all of them have spent time behind bars since october 25th and the day the military music started playing on sudan tv . ah, you had bloomberg, i, i shop correspondence. mad bold and her crew were arrested, held for a couple of allison in another quite prominent columnist of the newspaper and

democrats. he is a silly was arrested after giving an interview for as yet is heard of them here in which he criticized the key l. democracy is known for generally being favorable to what's the transition and few days after the t security forces rated its headquarters and went to the home of its editor in order to arrest him as well. another thing it's worth to note, the fm relays for b, b, c, arabic and mold carlo, radio, worst soft and her tune. when you've so pre lays, you're trying to st. talk international media from reflecting what they are seeing competing against them. so the saddam becomes a small closed box for the propaganda, the regime or the home to here wants to spread. so the safety of journalists, it is at stake. news, and the verification of what's happening in sudan is at stake. right

down to the basics, like the casualty figures resulting from social unrest. this past wednesday, the day that transition to democracy was supposed to take place. 15 more protesters were killed that we know about. is that the whole story with most of the internet closed for business, all those journalists arrested, all the intimidation taking place. we just do not know. because freedom of expression in sudan has proved fleeting. the country is back to square one. or is it my rational response was, well, this was never when you go get this coverage of demonstrations to account on social media. how people mobilizing that hope is actually what was cultivated last year, not lost. and instead actually we didn't put it under the law. it cannot undo 30 years of repression. people are finding ways around and

amplifying what's coming out from the ground. the saying, we are going to have our own narrative. we are not going to compromise. we're not going to negotiate. we're not going to ship our this time around. we're going to fly in the narrative, as well as in the street, ah, turning to me and mar, now it's been 9 months since that military coup, the one that ousted the democratically elected on the song sue cheese. nick moore has been following developments. nick, the journalist arrested there the news outlets band, where those legal cases stand. that media cracked on was to via at least 5 news outlets were banned. more than 125 journalists arrested, 47 of whom are still behind bars. now those cases are making their way through the courts military courts and the sentencing has been cause for alarm. starting with janice minyard from the democratic force of burma. he got sentenced to 3 years in

prison for quote, criminal mutiny and char d b reports. and those are a freelancer for mizzi minute. they both got 2 years in prison and then is the american journalist danny fence the who works for frontier me. and 5 months ago he was arrested while trying to leave the country. last week he was sentenced to 11 years in prison for supposedly punishing fake news and an unlawful association with an illegal group. the unlawful association charged that would be based on the work that fenster did for me and mar. now i news outlet that the one to his back, right, but the thing is mean more now, says that friends to stop working for them in july 2020. so 7 months before the arctic was banned. in other words, when fenced it was associated with that news outlet. it was perfectly legal. now, earlier this week, after an intervention, probably a better way to put it is pressure from the us through a former ambassador. the authorities dropped the charges against france. so why

would the authorities go to all vac trouble if they're just going to release the guy? it's hard to say the who is not wanting to make new enemies of outside governments . right now it's feeling isolated. last month, the association of south east asian nations. and pardon me and me off from attending it's by and your summit because the country it failed to implement a peace plan that had been agreed at home. it looks like the hunter is trying to consolidate power. unsung suit, she is now up on charges of election food and lawless actions in a trial that the media will not be allowed to attend. and then of course you've got the $47.00, janice, still in prison and the thousands of activists to took part in the anti cru demonstrations. many of them are still awaiting trial, and they probably isn't an ambassador coming to negotiate barriers ok, thanks. frances presidential election is still 5 months away and one prospective candidate, a high profile journalist is shaping up. as a big part of the story,

eric, the more is a veteran polemicist. his hostility towards islam and ethnic minorities has already earned him 2 convictions for hate speech. he is yet to declare himself a candidate, but multiple poles halves, the more in 2nd place, right behind president emanuel macro. he owes much of his popularity to see news. a right wing channel that has long provided him with a platform for his poetry. see news is now frances 2nd most watched news channel and despite having broadcast regulators on its case, seems to be having an agenda setting impact on politics. there. the listening posts, daniel tory now on the rise of eric some more, and the main streaming of the far right in french media. ah, a tom, i think the bt is actually on do it in media. some type of as well. sub desa is

a boss. could you just say news bus got a bus, it'll open up for you. so just so sheila, he got these also the got you know, really gotten with zooms. you will have to do to get that when you pull off us for but one of us to do this about allusions and what she did is feel to me he may not be an official candidate with her exam rules playing on to the height. his nationwide looked, looks and sounds like the campaign run. so does his toward t v studios where he's debated. presidential contenders are free or sulky. put up on the museum will toys and the movie of fins. visual my printer. i also for a printer for the more media coverage he seems to. yeah, we saw him on the front page of that image. he was swimming in the mediterranean sea with his young assistant. we kind of glamorize disease image and something that

there with partitions in france would would get so he's been invited as well on by his shows. and the more is not even a politician yet. he's not even running a program with all 3 signals that romal at the moment is not only that all the media outlets are talking about and using his rise as the justification which is understandable. but what raised this question is that any provocation he makes any racist sexist or homophobic comments? becomes a national debate then sussex under. and i think that he is the one setting the political debate in france that he did. i believe there was public profile has been decades in the making. the french media have been central to his rise. he made his name in the 1990 s. as a political journalist with the right wing daily defeat, whole then became a television pond. it. it was in that role in 2011 north was 1st convicted to find

for haiti. caught the he claimed on air that most drug dealers were black. arab in 2018. he was convicted again. this time for saying that france had been, quote, quite faded by muslims, a. despite those offenses, the 2019 move landed his most prominent platform at sea use. a channel that had recently undergone radical may koga, under its own conservative millionaire fossil away sinews, and the poultry exact dimension companies see news isn't exactly like any other channel in france's media regulation. there is a strong principle of internal pluralism, whereby different editorial perspectives are represented within a single news outlet. see clarity of c williams is that it's a more politically slanted channel, slanted to the right. you know,

they're both greedy, sluggish, just mentioned that 83. i'd really rather than the puzzle that exclusive and it's handsome editorial line that didn't really exist before in french television. and that's what has made c news. the professor can more said that you get finished upsets and use them not to get out of that on a course. you know, they designed to show specifically catered to ethnic simone personality. it was called fast along for facing the nukes, where a host and several panels have comment on the news of the day. in truth, it could have been named faster. you know, was that the application key process or the brush, okay, t n a duplicate corman e at us. carol taquita was at the input lesson key. meg had been african authority bout michigan. so what is has happened a hopeless model. someone else was host it so no one could say was no show. but in reality, he was the main attraction. and the show was based around the topics that he

decided mexico to disconnect me with the move on board. see news. his ratings took off. as of last year, the channel began challenging its commercial rival, b. f, mtv for poll position among frances news networks. potassium news created more and more controversy. the broadcast regulates of the c essay, began to take notice. in march, it issued its 1st ever find to a 24 hour news channels. a more had called migrant children, thieves were rapists and murderers. and on a grant that costs the news. 200000 jurors as francis election season began, am with a more sounding more and more like a candidate. the regulator decided to treat him like one on the french law. in september, the sir say, posted here in paris for seniors to drop them off at the paid a 100. however,

since then, the channel seems to have doubled down on its fall right formula with them or, or without that me seen use recently played hosts to the far right to with the inviting him to exclaim, his influential conspiracy theory known as the great replacement for the shows that it brought up, he claims that immigration, you make up less than 10 percent of the population on track. replaced is white christian. the theory is a central theme with a more spite his jewish, algerian heritage village here. so many going on. the channel has also been giving them plenty of bad times a get like this exchange with the french women of north african descent anesthesia porter. i don't want to give us a call back later on. it's the most common one,

but you'll sits in i have to say, i was stunned when i saw the clip. i've never seen something like that. some french television. it felt like something new was happening. i did not know. i think that will show up why don't we want to be with the scene didn't really make sense to me and it turns out that was an element of theater to it. it seems that this woman wasn't there by chance. she lives 40 kilometers away and the production team brought her up. when you have a new focus that i thought this she didn't, she didn't really cross the line because this is not just about one woman removing her. he job out, of course we knew for well that they all not just kind of his and when we got taxing france already and lots of we men are being are being a thank for wearing that he job. and now you see

a potential presidential candidate who is calling very well supported by your tv channel. doing this as well. see news and its parent company cannot please declined our request for an interview. however, said, whoops, appeal is not the work of one channel or even the french medium. low folks ideas have flourished. the citizens of great disillusion with mainstream parties and their failure to grapple with issues ranging from unemployment to terrorism. that helped the far right politician market. look penn reach the 2nd round of the last presidential election in 2017. the media also played a role piping her rise and boosting her visibility with the moor. it looks like deja through only one class to see news with an even bigger platform. demography esco rosmer. a credit would be very big. sweat from said the boss from before this

week. except the mosque was already like i did. i did. it didn't process it today. if you watch french tv and who are muslim, black, you were a job, you are a woman or homosexual. it is extremely violent. because we are being constantly insulted by people like them and others without anyone telling them what they do is consistently hurtful. and i think these debates create a state of tension in french society and tensions are the source of violence suspects will say what i want, i sort of generals, and that's why you, instead of, you know, but johnny size best friend, because then rate a buzz around him and while we talk about the more we don't talk about an employment, when we talk about the more we don't talk about any qualities, while we talk about seeing what we don't talk about climate change. and that's, i think, a big, big issue here because of course, we should talk about the more, but we can't be absorbed by his ideas either. and the problem in france at the, just anyone about what's happening in the campaign. and

finally, facebook spin dealing with a succession of negative news reports on how the company has done so little to stop, hate speech and abuse on site time for a re brand mark zuckerberg trying to reshape the narrative. so the sites parent company is now called meta, and there are plans for met averse using virtual reality to transform things like online video calls into 3 d experiences. but v r cannot possibly compensate for zocker bergs problem with p r. his presentation style is robotics. he's a mean waiting to happen, and the parody videos now include one produced by a tourism organization in iceland out to sell the real world. we're leaving you now with a mash shop meta verse versus iceland verse. where would you rather spend your day? was the next time here at the listening hey, and welcome to connect. today we're going to talk about the met averse day. i want

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