the white house, so this has been building and building and building the foreign ministry is going to keep getting questions on this and it can't keep saying, i don't know about this particular when its own media is tweeting and, and putting out posts on that very topic. government, her fellow players and her fans. and now waiting for answers for marriage, audrey algebra, ah, look at the main stories. look at the main stories for you now and thousands of people have been riling against vaccine mandates and krona virus restrictions in european cities. in vienna, thousands of protest is demonstrated against a national lockdown in the introduction of compulsory jobs to begin in february. people are also protesting dutch govt plans to restrict access to indoor venues, to people who can't show proof of vaccination or, and negative test. and tens of thousands of people have been marching in state

capital across australia as well. protesting vaccine mandates. they're the state government backed industries have made vaccines, compulsory, the people in certain jobs restrictions have also been brought in barring unvaccinated people from activities like dining out and concerts. in our other headlines, the usaa tree of states as washington is investing in africa without imposing unsustainable levels of debt. while in senegal, he's been in the country on the 3rd and final leg of his trip to the continent. been consigned $1000000000.00 tre deals while asking african leaders to bring in economic and social reforms when it comes to urgent global challenges, and also opportunities from ending public $900.00 pandemic to building a strong and inclusive global economy to combating the climate crisis or revitalizing democracy. and defending human rights. there is a simple reality. we will not succeed without the leadership of african governments

. institutions, and citizens. also news from yemen by the who the rebels and saudi led coalition fighting in the countries that they launched major military operations. goofy is a climbing to have hit bases oil installations and an airport in a number of saudi cities. while the coalition is saying that it's launched attacks on more than a dozen targets inside yemen. also falling developments into dawn in the capital har. touma police station has caught fire during the latest round of demonstrations that oh, people are demanding justice for those killed and a return to democratic transition of the army chief took control of the government last month. at least 40 people have been killed since the military takeover was the headlines this our, this listening post is coming up next. ah,

protest dot and security showing that another old teen and we are doing democracy demonstration being that it is 0 which has been covering the demonstration chief has been arrested. hello, i'm richard gilbert in europe. the listening posts 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 and 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 crew that triggered mass unrest, 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 spring when mass demonstrations lead to the downfall of long time dictator omar albert shear 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. oh, it 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 and change, and the traditional 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 of a day. we found ourselves in the military, clara since the action taken place was switched on t v dash b and seeing, you know, the sort of a miniature babich response crash and immediately then so that's and it's very well shift in the content. and also 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 shar msp. and more importantly, wasn't just a state controlled sudan t,

v showed the crew leader abdel, fata albert, hein refusing to call the coo accrued i what it'll say without a solo a lot o l m a lot of authority. you're on high blood, he branded the take over a corrective measure, instead, tried to justify it as a continuation of the 2019 and the 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 up turn in a in celine fortunes that disability had not been doing very well in government. or recently, you know, key economic indicators to start to turn around at the inflation had begun to full

balance of trade and improved for sudan. and i think those instances of success started to worry. a 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, an anti military protest. the message was clear, we do not want military rule. perhaps this alliance of who plotters just realized that maybe 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 tactics 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 back out. it's quite katy is to keep different resistance. huge look the back of the resistance movement from mobilizing beyond that, you know, businesses that have lost money because they're unable to contact their customers, adding precious regime to revise this internet back up. and the absence committees 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 home in order to demonstrate the 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 to demonstrate calling to that they have retained non violent posted. that non violent approach has absolutely confounded the military because they, they stand on the ends of streets with the tools about their hands. and it's very hard to respond. so no 3 are hyper aware of the optics and reality of violence can mean for their attempts to really maintain control over streets in another

tactics 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 blocked, to stop their versions of the story from getting to the outside world. we spoke with general albert hans, who would not comment on those measures or on the arrests of reporters columnists and editors, including alger zeros 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 a blue mega shop correspondent, manifold and her crew were arrested and 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 case. l. democrats is known to generally being favorable to what's the transition and few days after the key 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 won't carlo radio worst often. cartoon. when you've so pre lays, you're trying to st. talk international media from reflecting what they are seeing happening. saddam, so that saddam becomes a small closed box for the propaganda that 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 that state right down to the basics,

like the casualty figures resulting from social unrest. this past wednesday, the day the 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 journalist arrested all the intimidation taking place. we just do not know. because medium of expression in sudan has proved fleet, 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 are mobilizing that hope actually, what was cultivating their last year? not loft, instead actually could use it cannot undo

30 years of repression. people are finding ways around them, 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 industry ah. turning to me and mara, now it's been 9 months since that military coup, the one that ousted the democratically elected on songs to cheat. nick moore has been following developments. nick, the journalist arrested there. the news outlets band, where to 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 journalist men,

y'all from the democratic force of burma. he got sentenced to 3 years in prison for quote, criminal mutiny and char d b reporter, and those are a freelancer for museum on use. they both got 2 years in prison. and then there's 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 the legal group, the unlawful association charge. 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 fence 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 does. 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 hunter is not wanting to make new enemies of outside governments . right now it's feeling isolated. last month's, the association of south east asian nations, adrian, pardon me and me off from attending it's by and your summit because the country had failed to implement a peace plan that had been agreed at home. it looks like the hunter is trying to consolidate power. unsung to cheese now up on charges of election, ford and lowest actions in a trial that the media will not be allowed to attend. and then of course, you've got the $47.00 janda 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. france's 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 mackerel. 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 france's 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, i do need a tom. i think the bt effect,

you lay on do it in mid. yes. it was. have de saw as a boss, could you just say news bus got busted? who cannot brucell? general sheila, he did these awful some the go to the captain reviews of the judge. it seems you will have to do stupid. that when you pull off us for both one of us to do this biology and one to do this feel to me. he may not be an official candidate with her exam rules playing on to the height. his nationwide looks and sounds like the campaign run. so does his toward tv studios where he's debated. presidential contenders. it took a 3 or zilkey bud, but i thought the music more tubes and the movie of fins visual my pregnant. i also felt a printer for the more media counseling she 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 get. so he's been invited as well on by his shows, and the more he's not even a politician yet, he's not even running a little 3. similar problem 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 raises question is that any provocation he makes any racist sexist or homophobic comment? 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 rides. he made his name in the 1990 s, as a political journalist with the right wing daily lithia 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 could be seen, isn't exactly like any other channel in france's media regulation. there is a strong principle of internal pluralism, whereby different editorial perspective are represented within a single news outlet. clarity of fee is that it's a more politically slanted channel, slanted to the right way. both greece,

lemme just mentioned the i really have done the puzzle that it's created and it has an editorial line. they didn't really vis before in french television. and that's what has made c news and more, you know, you get finished getting lots of get that on a call to me. and they designed to show specifically cater ethics and others nally . it was called very long for facing the news where a host and several panelists comment on the news of the day. in truth, it couldn't be named fashioned, you know, was that the application process here in do kill gate. goldman dash camera pita was at the popular key, mac had been african prepared movement set up, and i hope that someone else. so no one could see it will show. in reality, he was the main attraction. and the show was based around the topics that he

decided to, ah, with their move on board. see news. his ratings took off as of last year, the channel began challenging and commercial rival b. f. m tv from told position among frances news networks, potassium news created more and more control bassy broadcast regulator. se began to take notice. in march issued its 1st ever find to a 24 hour news channels. more had called migrant children, thieves were rapists and murderers. on a run that costs 200000 jurors. as frances election season began with more sounding more and more like a candidate, the regulator decided to treat him like one on the french law. in september, the c. a say quoted here in paris for seniors to drop them or to pay the $100.00. 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 host to the far right to with the inviting him to exclaim, his influential conspiracy theory. notice that great replacement for the budget shows it brought up. he claims that immigration make up less than 10 percent of his population on track. replaced is white christian. the theory is a central theme. with a more spite, his jewish algerian heritage village going on the channel has also been giving them plenty of bad times a get like this exchange with a french women of north african descent support. i don't want to give us a call back later on. it's probably 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 the apple. you have a new bookcase with mr. 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 her own accord, we know free well that they all not just kind of his article because 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's calling very well supported by your tv channel. doing this as well. see news and its parent company cannot produce declined our request for an interview. however, said, whoops, appeal is not the work of one channel or even the french medium and look forward to 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 mercury la pen reached 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 who only becomes to see new sector with an even bigger platform. demography esco rosmer, a credit devout, he'd be sweating, fit the boss from the 4th it this week. except the mosque was already, like i said,

if you knew who says 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 from 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 he stayed out of, you know, but johnny sized best friend because we've been rate of bows 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 say, well, we don't talk about climate change. and that's, i think, a big issue here because of course, we should talk about the whole, 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 its side 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 pos. hey, and welcome to connect. today we're going to talk about the met averse. today. i

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