lee shapes bob dole and made him a, a, an advocate for the underdog and doug, he also, you know, gave him a certain edge, he was a partisan politician, a, he was tough. he was a fighter. so that gives you an idea of what kind of a person he was, but he was definitely a towering figure. and someone ah, senator and a lawmaker with a rich, a history of passing legislation. and the kind of figure that we do not see today, frankly in washington, d. c, in the nation's law makers. ah, suffolk of the headlines here on al jazeera gamble, president adam, a baron has been declared the winner of saturdays election and what his supporters are celebrating as a landslide. ah, i think he had at least 3 barrels opponents,

rejected the results he was supposed to make them 2016. and in 22 years we'll talk massey on the yaya, jamie who fled into exile the following year. our committee dressed as more from bundle hope was a shimmy. this huffs rejected the outcome of this election a sighting, inordinate in quotes, inordinate delays in making the announcement. ah, they were insisting that the elections results should have come within 24 hours. and they're coming for i was late, so they believe that something was wrong and, and they are going to challenge this in court. so they have 30 days now to do that . and of course, ah, we are also hearing from election observers. several of them who said that the election process was free and clear. at least 29 soldiers had been killed during an attack on a military base in the chair on saturday, several 100 gunmen on motorcycles. targeted the base in the tilbury region. it's used by the sale g 5, joint force involving troops and mauritania, najia chad,

molly and bettina faso, almost 80 attackers, were killed. solomon islands by minister mona se sort of ari's facing a motion of no confidence in parliament. it's in response to anti government riots . a week ago, during which buildings were burned down and shops looted, locals have a list of grievances including poor government services, and a recent tilt towards china. belgian police, the sprayed water, cannon, and fire tear gas on the rioters with a protest in brussels against cobit 19 rules. the government sances being forced to act with his cases as searching and hospitals, or unrestrained far right french presidential candidate erickson moore, has been attacked by a protest during his 1st rally. there was scuffles between his supporters and those who came to denouncing some through chairs at each other. those are the headlines of these continues. you are now da 0 after the listing post state you events are watching bye for now. if america held up a mirror to itself, what would it see in a sense, race is the story of america what's working and what's not. a lot of people were

talking about that. it wasn't at the top of the agenda. it's america can handle multiple challenges on multiple fronts. we need to go back to school. the bottom line, when i was just there i'm there's likely compose a very high risk and some readers will face a severe consequence. typically discipline, quite good position. several countries would be wanting sure. everyone in the world . hello m richard gilbert and you're at the listening post where we don't cover the news. we cover the way the news is covered. here are the media stories we're examining this week. uncertainty makes her come back. what audience is need to know about the new coven? 1900 variant, and what they've been getting from their new sources. a rush and state funded news network threatens to sue an independent media outlet in a branding dispute over

a t shirt. it's called hell you the so korean soft power push that's producing one's blockbuster after another, and from east jerusalem to the united nations. i do not care home this terminology offense, a journalist on why terminology matters in the coverage of the middle east conflict . it has been 10 days now since the latest variant of covert 19 was 1st reported by scientists in south africa. the world health organization instantly labeled the strain it caused alma crohn a variant of concern due to questions over its transmits ability and whether it could render vaccines ineffective. the initial reporting had many scientist accusing journalists of jumping the gun, creating panic in audiences that required information. instead, there have also been complaints over the term knology. the early use of the term south african variant, implying that alma cron originated there. when there is simply no evidence of that

yet the south african angle has provided one useful side effect. it is turned attention to the issue of global vaccine in equity. a story that scientists say needs considerably more attention than news outlets have been giving it. our starting point this week is the covered 1900 variant, now known as obamacare, but very grown of ours is likely to pose a very high global risk news. consumers operate on a need to know basis. there's growing global alarm over the do corona virus very. that 1st emerged in south africa. sometimes news outlets tell them what they need to fear. instead who they need to fear. the new mutations were 1st discovered in south africa, prompting the us to announce rather restrictions that can read and 7 other. what audiences need to know about the variance. we now call alma crime,

starts with 3 questions, the basics. what we need to know about a variance is if it's more transmissible, we're not even sure yet that it's more transmissible or the pieces are rising exponentially in south africa joined by, by doctor. and the 2nd is it more very south africa medical health officer doctor has been on the news now steadily for several days saying that she does not think that this is a very very but the majority of what to be presenting to primary health practitioners are extreme tomorrow, and then number 3 is easy vaccine, but there isn't evidence of that either. there won't be that bunch to stay for days and weeks because it just takes time to get really good answered. so i think news organizations are in the really different situation. yes, the expectation that if it is bo. busy transmissible it will spread globally,

but it's too early to say at this point at lesson. so for instance, i was on bytes of end of the last 4 days every day to find out how concerned exactly we should be really have to to wait. and every day i gave him the same answer, you're gonna have to wait the next days and weeks to find out don't. which of these tiers are actually going to be true? i've seen quite a lot of criticism, both from journalists and scientists, that dr. story has been, oh, the blue. oh john his scary. it really is. that is some scan of coverage is actually causing honey. you know, hard to imagine how, you know, media walks his will react in a couple of weeks. this was a scenario with this area is not nice as well. they'll probably be bringing about the, the sort of volume of the early of root south african scientists 1st reported the detection of the new variant to the world health organization on wednesday, november 24th. it took 2 days to 24 hour news cycles for the

w h o to label the very anti hallmark right. during that initial period news organizations had to decide what to call it. variant 1st detected in south africa would have been precise. but try fitting that into a headline, so some called it the south african very and then came the travel restrictions imposed on south africa and some of its sub saharan neighbors. by more than 50 countries, it was only after that that we learned that alma cron turned up in the netherlands in tests taken before the ones in south africa. samples that just took longer to process. so it could have been called the dutch ferry. it. it never was about recon this kim, it's no surprise because we've been through this is south africa very and it's very concerning right now with have billions to those close and labeled a south african variant journey is now to talk more about the south african variant

. if the south african strain and will land at a time haunted to spoken, pushing back against that kind of label. and then conscious in the trouble last that it detected this variance away and not be subjected to this bands. and the question was raised, why is it that they're not introduced and jumper bands, the coverage were so high that was so panicked was so all over the place and western scientists were hyping is that this is that most transmissible variant we've ever seen. this is exponential growth prior to an analytically looking at the situation on an south african scientists and leaders right now. so essentially they did their job, they did careful surveillance work, and what they got in return was an immediate traveler. it's been a huge backlash against south africa. the scientists, they have taken to heart the lessons of his pandemic, which is we need to act really early. i was talking to one of the researchers to pick this work. and he says that because the planes have been stopped,

he's having trouble now to get the re, agents that he needs to do the lab work that the whole world is waiting for. now to understand how dangerous this parent really is. so these travel bands have a really, really dangerous effect that accounts for over 70 percent of the emergence of alma crohn has put the issue of vaccine inequity where it belongs on the news agenda. this 60 percent of people across the european union are vaccinated. compare that to a mere 3.4 percent across the african continent. scientists have long warned low vaccination rates, create conditions in which new variance can develop and thrive. there was no evidence and there may never be that south africa's vaccination rate, just 24 percent at the time, alma chron was 1st reported, helped create the very it, but fear of unvaccinated south africans travelling will have factored into the restrictions. sub saharan africa is part of

a global south that has struggled to get enough doses outbid by richer countries that have also allowed pharmaceutical companies to keep their vaccines patent protected, preserving their profits, rather than waving those patents and allowing other companies to produce their vaccines during a world wide emergency hasn't been got a letter in march 2021 from major pharmaceutical companies saying don't do this. this is not helpful. our office. and then after that, the trade commissioner in united states said that they're interested in working on weight and patterns, and then nothing happened. i think the media has a huge role to play, to not just allow statements on the surface, but to keep on digging. and to ask world leaders, why they haven't substantially moved with the w t o to change the situation or are acting. the virus will mutate as long as it's got the opportunity to spread from

one prison to the next, which is why it's critical that we get vaccines across the world. because in those regions, we are creating approaching teeth for the virus to continue to spray. the story is not complete when you just looking at on the kron without putting it in the context of vaccine and quit the job as usual. conversations is to put global vaccine equity on said the agenda river. politicians tend to really respond to the stories that rise to the top of the new cycle. ready up of the contrast and a kind of become unavoidable stories and you ask politicians about and to interrogate states of not doing something about it. that's. that's the role that use organizations complaining his her alma crohn has also re introduced elements of uncertainty into the coverage of a pandemic. that reporters appeared to be getting a handle on news outlets did not make their reputations by telling audiences what

they do not know. it still does not come naturally to and the variant has provided another opening for conspiracy theories. many of them made in america now making the rounds in south africa. they are theories that travel and they have proved to be much harder to ban than people. the thing that shocked me the most is how mainstream media and has become an outlet for conspiracy theories from really wild and inaccurate statements in a way that i hadn't perceived before. they created a problem that can never actually be sold so they can justify whatever it is they want to do. i wonder whether i can stay, being an infectious disease reporter without also becoming a misinformation report a report on the information ecosystem. in the past. this information needs these to be localized nadia of nova potion, a lot of people that are driving this information in some of the i using fios and

recordings of people from all sorts of places in the world. i will not be reduced to a mere guinea pig by getting vaccinated with an experimental drug. people who drives dislike gender. some campaigns. i actually cook in the house. and some people need to pay a price for it. as long as there's no accountability smuggling stokeland who continued to coast hom and lives would be lost the course of looking at other media stories on our radar this week with flow phillips returning to russia, where the news network funded by the kremlin russia today is threatening to sue another news organization over a t shirt. not just any t shirt, richard the stories all about who made it and what they put on it. it's a collaboration between the russian language online newspaper, medusa, based in latvia, and moscow based clothing brand. you'll see that they've printed the phrase in

again, and that's for an agent in russian. it's basically, and i want to reference to medusa official status in russia. foreign agent imposed on them by the government 6 months ago. there were lots of headlines in the run up to the september elections about president putin, his close allies and corruption allegations. medusa reporting on those stories resulted in it being slapped with the foreign agent label. they've left it much more open to prosecution by the state, limiting the way that it can publish and advertise. and of course, scaring off potential sources. it's really hurt that revenues, so they've been looking for other ways to keep afloat, transportation. but how do we get from there to our t threatening to sue? it's about branding richard on the flag, back in 2017 r t, the russian state a news channel with forced by the trump administration to register the foreign agent in the us. that's when they came up with their own line of much t shirt hudy's caps,

all saying foreign agent. but when medusa did the same thing all t somehow failed to find it. very funny. it's hit medusa on the clothing company with cease and desist letters demanded that they be fined and threatened to sue over trademark infringement. so where does the story go from here into the hands of the lawyers. while medusa was already under a lot of pressure from the russian state, the 4 r t started piling on. that's why they're not feel safe, a working conditions. so they stopped selling the t shirt. but the clothing company, they're not backing down, but still selling the shut and they're promising a 30 percent cut to medusa. and it's proving popular on russians christmas lists. the company says it's struggling to keep up with demand. ok, thanks. go back a few years. how do you asked a typical millennial, what they knew about south korea? the answer would have been not much that has changed, not through news coverage or geo politics through entertainment. start with k drama series that you can stream, like squid game and hell bound,

benjamin formats flick production techniques, romantic story lines, whatever the secret formula is south korea is now producing some of the world's most watched content. and k drama is just one sector within the k entertainment industry. it also takes the music and turns out cape hot baths and teen idols with huge followings overseas. about 20 years ago, coming out of life under military rule, the south korean government placed a bet on the entertainment industry pumping money into it as a means of improving the country's global image and boosting its economy. the plot twist that no one saw coming, that a soft power push would transform. so korea into a cultural superpower. the listening post joanna, who's now from soul on what they call the korean wave. i have been spotted in moscow, tokyo abu dhabi. but if you've never watch squid game,

you may of all yourself. what are those foods and those guards that keep popping up and walked with a mask. the giant character sprinkled around the world, reflect the global reach of netflix as big. it's more than a $110000000.00 it's a story that full of contestants playing a game for money with deadly consequences. and it's the latest south korean creation to find a huge international audience. they call it k drama and it's part of an export industry success story that even korean didn't know how to want to. she didn't have one other one and there is a time sheet. is it a cool market? and this is trina pens tree and was wondering how this will go through it. okay. and killed one time and was much you don't know how you owns it because

it is a search and we'll get to mine. as a studio dragon is south korea's largest production house and the force behind many of k drama's biggest global hit target cut on one of the reasons that k drama became so popular worldwide as its diversity of genres like thrillers, action and comedy. so i think the biggest factor is our attention to storytelling. there is an elements of korean emotive nurse embedded and stories on this. my appealed audience is abroad. for example, and our drama crashed landing on you. south korean woman accidentally lance, her parachute to north korea and then falls in love. their story portrayed korea's uniqueness and became a global success story. traumatic thanks. she hasn't given me on hunger. if you look at korean productions over the years, the content is always very distinctly korean. it reflects our society and history

ah no matter what it is. for example, squid game combines game shows, honor that is familiar to a global audience with a mix of authentic korean elements. thought even more. fascinating is a drama, like hometown cha cha cha. this series has all the cliches of a korean drama and wasn't intended to be distributed globally. nevertheless, it's not only loved in asia, but all over the world i gazes hang of how quizzing. whether it's the emotive clot lines, slick production style or formats tailor made for binge watching. k drama has audiences around the globe in the millions shows like stranger crush lending on you, or descendants of the sun, a foot south korea on the entertainment map. and their success is rubbing off on other industry homes like parasites which one the 2020 academy award for

best picture and the music sector. boy, bens, like b t. s. are all part of the so called hull you phenomenon. the spread of korean pop culture from asia to the rest of the world. it's hum how you emerge in the chinese press in 1997. to describe this search of korean pop music and key t v dramas in china. the tongue literally means the korean wave in chinese. and of course more recently, the higher you has been increasingly adopted and used by rasp media. to refer to the rise of tape pub in 10 drama. ah no coincidence that the hell you 1st had china assures in the 1990 in the decade, following nearly 25 years of military rule and hit hard by the age of financial

crisis. a democratizing south korea will set and reinventing its global image and diversifying its economy the government into sold, recognize the potential of entertain. it's crept censorship laws that have been in place for decades. instead, it's sites on developing the culture sector that will turn into an export industry . i'll go was a military dictatorship from 961 to 1987 during which people were oppressed and there was a thirst for freedom of speech. so when the democratic government replaced the military regime and censorship laws were removed, audiences flocked to the cinema to watch grooms from america like drastic park. the president at the time famously said that one spectacular film like jurassic park can be more profitable than selling 1500000 sion day cars. let us also cultivate,

this was either negative handling and there are the ministrations since the $900.00 ninety's offered several measures to develop culture industries, subsidies, tax benefits, the regulation for private kept her to invest. so it is undeniable that government played an important role in the battle of the countries coaching those trees, you know where to really short period of time. however, hiring is far more than a top down process inspect the initial rise of how you use very much on predictive even korean government. well, very surprised. surprised or not. since the 1990s, the south korean authorities have capitalized on the popularity of its booming entertainment sector. over the past 2 decades tell you has grown into one of

south korea's most notable exports and very productive parts of the country's economy. with the entertainment sector is paying political dividends to the government here. and so has recognized the potential of how you as a diplomatic tool, part of a soft power push to increase south korea influence in south east asia and beyond. hungary, ticket or south korea has never had any hard power with which to threaten the world . what we do have is a certain cultural charm for a long time, south korea. it was mostly just about war, poverty or confrontation between north and south korea. however, now that south korea is being acknowledged for its popular culture, it is quite natural for the korean government to utilize it as a soft power tool. and the other country would want to do the same pin, but new get up early and celebrities have been invited to government diplomatic events. one of the latest examples, the members of

a pop group company, the korean president to a session of the united nations general assembly in new york on other exam for fake be to to china in 2017. when k drama, the past, who had your health counseling is the president, edder, korea, china events, the government. and it's a pity that the appearance of song who is exceptionally popular in china, can contribute to reducing the political tension between the 2 countries. it has been carts of national branding and cultural diplomacy that brand korea would not be where it is today, without a helping hand from the entertainment industry. new players streaming services like netflix and hulu, audiences around the world of turn you from a regional phenomenon to global and to turn in trigger global radio. in the

beginning, we have studio drug and did not aim for our content to go global. in fact, for a long time, most production houses were based in house, merely creating content for local korean broadcast is, however, streaming platforms like netflix allowed us to prevents our theory to the world and to become well known. and a quick game show is there is clearly quite the craves the korean content until he set the lesson. and the korean entertainment industry is riding that wave of popularity would be eligible to be series award winning film. and blockbuster move quit game is just the latest off power conquest for korea. k drama fans around the world are staying tuned for what comes next. and finally, from making your name by reporting over instagram, to telling it like it is at the united nations mohammed, al quoted is

a palestinian whose journalism we featured before on our program. his instagram was one of the must follow feeds during israel's ethnic cleansing, about quote its neighborhood in jerusalem, shut off earlier this year. having used social media to tell stories, many other reporters failed to tell, using terminology others shy away from l cord broke. some unwritten rules. he has since been made, the palestine correspondent for the nation, the american magazine that focuses on politics and culture. and he's done it all by h 23. this week, the un brought of coolant to new york to speak part of the ceremonies, marking the us international day of solidarity with the palestinian people from the podium. he touched on the issue of terminology and why it matters in the reporting of what is happening in palestine. was the next time here, the listening post. hello international community. thank you for these groundbreaking speed. says i'm sure the occupation authorities are really concerned

right now. my name's from out of card i am here to deliver speeds. i am tired of reporting on the same brutality every day. of thinking of new ways to describe the obvious. the situation in my neighborhood cells are, has not hard to understand. it is a perfect microcosm of settler colonialism. you know, when we reflect on history is most horrible, most and humane atrocities. today we think of them with so much moral clarity so much moral clarity that we tend to forget that when these atrocities were happening they were perfectly legal. not only perfectly legal, but at the time that they were happening, they were all once controversial contested to complex people talked with neutral language like we do today. we all think that had been us there back then at that point of time,

we would have been at the right side of history and we have the opportunity today to be on the right side of history. frank assessments, this crisis is continued to weaken luca shanker, even though perhaps he believes in the beginning they're able to be informed opinions. i think politicians will now be under incredible pressure from their young people. that is one of the most helpful things to come out of this critical debate. do you think it should be facilitated? not sure. okay, it's a great, it's a really simple question. let's give samuel a child. once the inside story on al jazeera, it's the political debate show that's challenging the way you think. have agencies fail hated the situation is, was that it was before the digital sound bites and digging into the issue is a military advancement. going to stop the family to guy is under complete surveys.

now people are buried. how will climate migration differ for those who have and those who don't have lots of countries say we will pay poor countries to keep refugees there. a park with me. markham on hill on al jazeera ah. ready dan been president out of barrow support to celebrate his re election, but rivals are crying. ah, darn jordan, this is officer alive from dough. also coming up. the leader position is a clacking and his group are taking my current. the prime minister of the solomon islands defends himself as parliament prepares for no confidence vote following last month's father's.