have all the things they normally would have because of the global supply chain crunch that is being felt right now. there's also a shortage of retail industry workers as well. and 3rd, inflation in the united states is also becoming more of a problem as it's been rising. so, add all of that together and we're not sure we're going to see the same amount of buying and spending if you will. we would have seen in previous times before the pandemic. ah, how posse are these at the top stories are growing, number of countries around the world of decided to the ban or restrict travel from southern africa. botswana, zimbabwe, nam may be at lazoodo, s we're tany, mozambique, south africa, all affected by this other restrictions came as the world health organization declared a new coven, 19 variant to be of concerned naming it omicron,

we understand that people are concerned. the good thing is that we have monitoring systems around the world to detect these variance very quickly. this variant was detected a few weeks ago, and already scientists are sharing research with us information with us so that we can take action. what's really important as an individual is to lower your exposure . the measures these proven public health measures have never been more important distancing wearing of a mask, making sure that is over your nose and mouth with clean hands. making sure you avoid crowded spaces, have be in rooms where there's good ventilation and when it's your turn get vaccinated. concerns about the new variant are only adding to an already worrying situation in germany. the air force has been mobilized to move seriously ill. patients from overwhelmed hospitals on the south. this is the 1st time plains fitted with up to 6. i see you beds have been used. they caught him flying intensive care units. and while in australia, thousands of again protested against corona virus rules. crowds marched through melbourne city center for 3rd weekend,

protesting against the bill that would give the victorian state government more power. in the case of a new pandemic, covered vaccinations have been made compulsory for nearly one point. 25000000 of the state's work is the u. s, as it is greatly concerned about the escalating conflict and t o p and his court for urgent negotiation. the state department declaration follows a phone call between the secretary safe and tended president of his prime minister abby asset and also joined the army on the front line against the ground rebels from the north and the bodies of 3 people have been found in a burned out building in the solomon item capital streets of honey are classa attention remains high, protested to set fire and damaged property in the past 3 days on the south pacific islands. those are your headlines to the our on al jazeera, the listening post starts right now. graves of the unmade evidence that schools designed to strip indigenous people in the u. s. of their culture also claimed the

lives of their children abuse. proper punishment, forced to child labor loss of identity, loss of langley theme loneliness, the discipline was hm. if kids were killed, there isn't any native place in the mail today that hadn't had someone that went to boy's school in their family. very truth on a jesse euro. hey, hello, i'm richard gilbert. you're watching a special edition of the listening post. this week. we are focusing on hong kong, the city, and it's transformation. july 1st marked 24 years since the united kingdom handed it's colony, back to china. with that hand over came a set of promises. bay jang would stay out of hong kong. internal affairs keep its hands off its freedoms, including it's free press. but for many hong kong,

the question was not if, but when china's communist party leaders would break that promise. and the answer appears to be. now, over the past 2 years, bay ging has intensified the stamping out of political descent in hong kong through new laws drawn up in the name of security, the jailing of critics and the reigning in of the news media. in the 2nd half of this program, we speak to 3 hong congress whose work and lives have been severely affected by the cities, loss of autonomy. but 1st, johanna who's on how hong kong got here from a city of liberties to one that's under a songs ah. 2 don't, don't always enjoyed the most open, liberal press in the region. oh, well what we're seeing over the last year or 2 has been more like a death by a 1000 cuts. again. why you guy cheri's hog attack paul?

oh yeah. like at choice. hi gay, i would look giuliano. even the most optimistic, jo, this found it difficult to have reason for optimism. now, journalist may have to pay a price for the effort to seek the truth. home cone, a place once known for its openness and civil liberties. now a place of political persecution and a correct on free speech. a city that in the last 2 years alone has seen more than 10000 protesters and rested, and dozens of disciplines killed. the result of the transformation that's been 24 years in the making. since july, the 1st 1997 ah, it's to day the united kingdom, which had ruled him come from 150 years,

returned its colony to china. handing hong kong back to china was weird. construct you had this kind of free open capitalist city. this enclave, and so you're handing it back to a country that's controlled by a authoritarian communist party. and the way that the 2 sides, the british in the chinese side were able to make it work as they came up with this amazing formula, said we'll have one country. but it will be 2 systems. by the way, why co op o thinking something but beat i'm case a hung gotten away? i could they thought it alongside got up hate at one choice ain't going. is it for him? on 8 and somebody and john got yelled the been far all year. i've been built on hong kong, tom dollar, them case that i got a gang how years i merged my it's i so you why your legal that guy we are the man from china did not become like hong kong. if anything in the 24 year since to hand

over, it's hong kong that's become more like mainland china. under british rule, the city didn't have a democracy, but it did have robust civil liberties. a well functioning justice system. and one of the free is media environments in the region. the one country to systems agreement was supposed to safeguard this, at least until 2047. and in the initial years after the handover, beijing held up its end of the bargain. that was at least partly because china was unwilling to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs. as the british colony on comb had grown into a global financial hub and its thriving port, air links, an access to foreign investment enabled china to generate about 20 percent of its g d p through the city. it made economic sense for beijing to be relatively hands off . however, as china grew into an economic superpower in the early 2 thousands,

beijing started to rethink. it's hong kong strategy. beginning perhaps from 20 all 3, when there's mark change of tactics on our page was to was hong kong mall control. more innovations and more presence in the way we govern the media isn't not immune to those change of strategy. so beginning from that, we've seen that media and gumble direct in direct oh pressure, or the hifi will. yup. through that pilot yancey, we hate to hang on. stop phones. i am my little was i will enjoy all holmes in cbl and conway bonds homes. either they jodi a topic o'gorman high up lay while you go homemaking allege. oh, my god, the high ed said the way, my, my, like in the ohio, the me me that being bama china's tougher approach to hong kong was solidified in 2012. when siege in ping was appointed,

general secretary of the communist party in 2014 see radically changed the election process for the cities. my senior political representative, the chief executive janaya, you will get out to what i've all great. you're going to um guy the sure sure. sure, we shank on the push it enable. sure, sure. don't good. and they don't that change? infuriated home congress and for 79 days mass protests called the umbrella movement, paralyzed to city. beijing responded by ratcheting up it's correct down on descent . more than a 1000 people were arrested for their ruined demonstrations and at least 127 were convicted. china also intensified its assault on hong kong media since 2014, at least 5 major mainstream media outlets got new pro beijing owners,

including hong kong, dominic broadcaster t v b, and it's leading english newspaper, the south china, more post for those outlets that managed to hold out against a pressure, beijing wielded it considerable commercial muscle boycotting advertisements and pro democracy tabloids like apple daily. regardless, hold and chow, the vice chairman of the largest pro beijing party in hong kong government, denies any crack down on the cities, media freedoms. iving is time for me to we've brought these i'm the crew and unwarranted accusations, the media enjoy all the freedom of press. nothing less than before is all vibrant and very diverse. people with smear are on gone by saying that all of the past few years is seems that there are some sort of crack down on the sand and stuff like that. of course they smearing. i think those us confluence of events here

that made this crack down kind of inevitable here in hong kong. she didn't think came into power with a very hard line attitude. and then you have people here start pushing for more democracy that really kind of shook them up in beijing and they realized that hong kong suddenly was a problem. and then along come the 2019 protests and that's where i think china lost its patience. those 2019 protests were the biggest in hong kong history. more than 2000000 people about a quarter of the population took to the streets risking arrest for 10 consecutive months. honecliff police tried hard to quell the protests at times with brutal force. beijing seized on the year long unrest to introduce legislation as strict new national security law. designed to curb dissent in hong kong once and for all implemented in june 2020.

the law outlaws, secession, subversion, and collusion with foreign forces. vaguely to find offences that carried maximum sentences of life imprisonment. a new law has proven effective at silence and critics. so for $54.00 people have been charged including jimmy ly, the owner of the apple daily newspaper. the paper has been repeatedly targeted by the authorities. the final straw came on june 17th when its officers were rated. the editor in chief was arrested and the company's assets are frozen. within a week of that rate, apple daily published its last and final edition. all right, so you'll see, i think they told me moby all got you boy call to me a lot for money. got thing. how could you call you when we want a thing?

we'll go and then come via for me that you believe so he thomas, i'm going to have more seattle game. we'll give you both both eager thought. go ahead and double click on the account number for her casey john, i'll like why i think as long as you are bader law, you don't coco against national security. i see nothing that they need to feel very let me take an example. apple daily is not only a pap lloyd, but it's also a prop, again, the done against the central government. so if you are running a media with an agenda to sort of and thing during our countries national security, there's something wrong, isn't it? the social altogether change or the top odl on. you'll want to see how our portal her to be at your conference. you can leave it on her phone. you

want to go home, see him, how you want you to use it on the c or they can hold all on paper and you're saying, i'm such all today you dial i got up and got on call. now you hold on the way tom some to go with john. charm with bow truly speaks from experience as a freelance producer for hong kong public broadcast, her radio television, hong kong or r t h k. she's become a target for her reporting. for this last year, she was arrested for her investigation into white police didn't intervene in a violent mob attack on pro democracy protest. her new 2019 reco sticks. she looked through publicly available vehicle registration databases to track down the attackers, the practice that the prosecution seized on, alleging that by failing to declare that her search was for journalistic purposes.

join knowingly made a false statement. she was find nearly $800.00 us dollars. and cov, oh gosh, how, how do you not ega obligation lies on much sions, hot and so couple more that on gay eldon's, at ease i going to have a more and i my shot from c, r o t o was always a high, gay, and they towel was alcohol, a hard at on both alkaline gum and the what's your thought of her? hi deutsch. him were gay call was a man's he out. it's no longer just beijing that come in for hong kong media. the city's chief executive carry lamp and will many of called her pro china rubber stamp governments are cracking down to take bow choice employer, artie hage. k, the public broadcaster that used to have a reputation for its critical journalism. following its coverage of the 2019 protests including police violence, the hong kong government conducted

a far reaching review of our th case, management and editorial direction. it has since replaced its director with a pro beijing bureaucrats and ext various of its programs. or they saw the call that i love to be seen. yeah. when they come down he said, hey, things will up sure how things holmes. i see her home. you know the thing we got to ingle, hey hope full moving full height. height on the jack on the head of a simple to be gumball. second go for we go to your knees. he told us it seems to riot back in 2019 d h k. have told you some program reporting for suits being very much bias. the government, if they see something wrong done by all th k they, they're simply crossing the red line going against the charge of they must have been is their responsibility to regulate a mature that our th gay will be back on the right track. ah, going by,

it's new as political show, a program hosted by the chief executive herself. so there is little doubt as to which direction r t h k is headed in but even with so much of home comes media and a strangle hold and the political position silenced beijing was done in march this year, the communist party rewrote the rules of hong kong electoral system, ensuring only patriots can now run for government. i could well through the final nail in the coffin of the one country to systems agreement. trial what i'm and i'm going to take one last thing not to see how you hung on the hey leo. on to compensate, go on. i'm so you will go the order. yes. you have to go by her. so she'll

come back to holidays or you hire, go say whole. megan call state awesome. and they phone height would be half full function. which direction was he's among java, 60 white over the phone, have a mix. all uncomfortable with joe, you're report documents the way china's crack down on hong kong effects journalism there. but the impact these changes have on freedom of expression. they go way beyond news organizations will absolutely take, for example, hong kong publishing industry. and the chinese government owns nearly at 30 publishing houses in the city, and it also controls the majority of the booksellers. there. they only print and sell books that so the official line, they've also made changes to school books, which now teach that at hong kong legislature and this year, every ultimately answer to beijing. then there's of course,

the new national security law, which could be used to target anyone that expresses undesirable views. for example, filmmakers in june this year, the hong kong government announced that it was going to block the distribution of any movie that is deemed to undermine national security. they're also going to vet art exhibitions and galleries and to really cement their control over hong kong narrative. china is reportedly setting up what they call propaganda departments in the city tasked with controlling media organizations, but also public opinion. so we'll keep an eye on these attempts to control what people read, right? say what they teach. how are citizens, people who have opinions dealing with that? are they going silent? finance, 3 home congress. that exact question, and none of them turn list in the traditional sense, but all people who fallen victim to these new restrictions on freedom of speech, the 1st is leach young. he is the founder of the june 4th museum,

which is an exhibition in hong kong, which is dedicated entirely to telling the truth about the $19809.00 chinaman square massacre. a topic that is completely off limits in china has become a target for his work. just weeks after we interviewed him, he was arrested and sentenced to 20 months in prison for what the authorities call organizing an authorized protest. then there is a one chi quan better known under his pen name, lindsey he is a long time political cartoonist who has been forced to navigate these new edits, royal red lines in his drawings. and then also, i also spoke to nathan law, a former protest leader and democracy activist who was forced to flee hong kong going tax out in london because the authorities back home were going out of their way to sign in sam. all i thought to the idea of this for museum during the 20th anniversary of the 10 square mascot.

because in china, everyone is being told to lie about $989.00 is a complete black out of $89.00 history. so we want the truth to come out. the april 15th $989.00, the previous general secretary of the congress body. we all die. and he was a very popular reformers. and so i problem a lot of food in my to go and more has them. and then the morning begins to turn into a demand for anti corruption reform. christine and susan began to come out on law to occupy the attendance way on the audio

regime con, them demonstrates the student as and to revolutionary. and then what do they decide standing mean and frank donald do today. no official rec, call in the article. how many people are di, 90? 89 months ago. no one knows me. and the congress money is, of course, trying to suppress all information about what happened. so the idea was since there, so many chinese people coming to hong kong, it would be very, very important to have a physical museum in the future. all the museum

is pipe, uncertain, and reach because the, the congress party use in the nation see the law. they are using it in a very arbitrary way. the red line can always ship and they can always tranquil soul before and the nations little was enacted. we started the process of trying to plan for i'm use the 1st, we have the july, everything that we have. and so that you know that i'll be in the way. if anything happened to this museum in a way, what happened in 89 fort oh, after thing, after 42 years is the same regime and they won't tolerate descent and democracy. and so this is very much relevant today because the fight is due on ah, tapping drawing for content for almost 40 years. for such

a long time, i could see what has been life a phone call before the hand over and afterwards. so i think, to some extent, my, my cartoon has recorded the history of transition. ah, this one is drawn and nearly 40 years ago. but it transition about the hong kong, moving back to china actually is just like from one case going back to the other case is a colony of china. from colony, a few came back cartoon has always been very powerful that been given. the chinese government knows that to some extent they're quite afraid of. it was quite a little bit of lucky for me. i'm currently working from daddy and danny. i think this is the only 2 newspaper that allowed me to throw a cartoon. but there are

a lot of farther young cotton news where it's not the job and they were quite afraid of the new national security law. they don't want to draw the national flag or the hong kong stack, and they won't play with the national anthem. they used to make fun of seeing thing. so right right now they are afraid of doing as turn the cotton up there. right? lines everywhere. and we won't know where the red line moved on one side from rock direction. and it's actually the case. and right now in hong kong, so it's important for us to, to keep on touring a cartoon and to one day this is a, b, e, if the thing that they're not going to, to do something i'm asked. but to me as a content is because we have to use this opportunity to, to,

to continue to express ourselves instead of laying down our pen and surrender in 20, 20 june sites to leave the hong kong. now secondly, worried about my personal safety. i had been left at one of the largest national enemy by the state media both very long time with when you go, i couldn't have imagined here doing interviewing the ok to be wanted under the national security law and to become an ex out activist knew if you know that either in should be shunting vancouver the funds all be we've our funds if we have come to the gentile, we 25 people. so a p hope to vote country on the phone. we be good if you

question keep and are in your way by you the junk build on that far. and in hong kong, you just can't talk genuinely about your thoughts towards the beijing government to what the state has a phone call of human rights activist. not only themselves being intimidated, cultured out their loved ones, including the wife, tutor, and not be intimidated valence or even also child. so for me, when i realized that i would be leaving hong kong issue complex statement about differing my ties with my families. so i think i did a very difficult choice, but that choice was for the safety and well being of my family of all allow me to say that mister nathan, allow in front of you is most appro democracy activist is

a fugitive from the law of hong kong that beijing government has always been trying to mammy troublemaker fallen in fact or anything that they could 100 my reputation of course being your individual. but they're also trying to describe the whole month with even in london. i still do read the caution about my safety. we all understand how extensive trying to reach could be so i've been living, it's craig live and tried to be protecting myself. but official phone costs like the shop. my fisher is definitely great, but a long term future for me episode. title to lose hope my duty to and how people choose, contains all of our fellows not to give up. after

almost 25 years of shipping and then hacking away at hong kong freedoms and autonomy, beijing has left the hands off approach behind the pandemic proved a useful pretext to clear demonstrators from the streets. the new national security law has made it much harder for them to return. but the fight for hong kong is not over. as lea truck yacht from the june 4th museum put it to the court before getting locked up to live in the truth. that's the path of democracy i choose. you've been watching a special edition of our program on hong kong. how it's changed and where it's go. we'll see you next time here with alyssa. ah, on can seeing the coast count japan's new prime minister taco income inequality

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