slides, so we're done back at the training center here and i got to say it was sir tony. really. you want to know that, but it was on the label. it's hard to even describe it. i'm going to take a little bit to process it way. couldn't have gone better, get my hair. i got mad, we haines, and i could fly idea today. ah, main stories now, a devastating series of tornadoes is, are through 6 us midwest in southern states. and what presidential biden has called an unimaginable tragedy, he is rushing federal assistance in the west hep places like kentucky, where the governor says more than 70 people have died. dozens of the dead in a candle fighter in the town of mayfield fire and police stations have also been damaged, which is hampering the rescue efforts. this has been the most devastating tornado

of that in our state's history. and for those that have seen it, what it's done here and grace, county, and elsewhere, it is indescribable. the level of devastation is unlike anything i've ever seen. you see parts of industrial buildings, roofs, or sidings in trees. if trees are lucky enough to stand huge metal polls bent in half, if not broken, buildings that are no longer there, huge trucks that have been picked up and thrown. and sadly, for too many homes, the people were likely an entirely devastated top diplomats from g. 7 countries have been urged to show unity against global aggressors as they meet in the city of liber liverpool here in the u. k. russia particularly has been singled out by the u

. s. in burton, for massing troops on ukraine's order. they won't have serious consequences if there is an invasion present. abram, right, you see a saying iran is serious about the latest round of negotiations to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. and if well bows are willing to remove sanctions. he says an agreement can be reached. se tv reported his comments as negotiations continued for another day. in vienna, us officials of one of consequences. if iran does not return to the agreement, palestinians have been voting and municipal elections using representatives more than a 150 village and local councils across the occupied west bank. a mass which governs the gaza. strippers boycotted the vote though due to postponed national elections. lowes are the headlines this our the listening post is coming up next. i

called earlier last software charge of a 1000 here on tax commission, political figures around the world, military green my we are nation state government and we'd like crime and terrorism alarm to get rid of your the listening post where we dig into the coverage and look at how news is reported. here are the media stories were examining this week pegasus the israeli spyware tool exposed by journalists earlier this year is now in trouble with the american authorities and big kac. christmas comes early for the british news media, and they're feasting on the latest scandal plating for us. johnson,

the government, the messaging of oil companies has changed with the times, denying the reality of climate change is out on delay. what to do about it is in, and johnny cash fans, avert your eyes. now you expect more from amaco and you get it. i look back at the thing or side hospital promoting the oil industry. that will leave you a different feeling, hurt. israel with its booming technology sector, likes to brand itself, start up nation. now it's infamous, cyber surveillance export. the spyware tool that's known as pegasus looks like it's on its way to being shut down along with the company that built it. and i, so earlier this year, an international consortium of journalists to reveal that pegasus which was marketed by the israeli government as a means of fighting terrorism and crime has been used by client states to target the phones of journalists, activists, human rights groups, even politicians,

blacklisted by the u. s. government facing legal action and lawsuits coming out of silicon valley. and as so story has shed some light on an industry that does most of its work in the dark. but even if the company goes down, there are other surveillance firms out there, other spyware tools on the market. and some of their best customers are governments . the same ones that are in charge of regulating this industry and fixing this problem. our starting point this week is and as those offices in southern israel, ah, when en, eh, so the cyber surveillance firm, based in israel, developed the tool, it calls pegasus. it said the spyware was designed to be used against criminals and terrorists when the israeli government license of pegasus for export to other countries. it insisted on a custom made feature designed with its most important ally in mind. so pegasus

does not work when targeting any phone numbers, starting with plus one, the country code for the united states. but some american officials like diplomats work overseas, sometimes they buy local funds and use them. plus 256 is the country code for uganda. and as apple recently informed the u. s. state department, pegasus works there. there ethan, talking of 9 us diplomats, and shatter all claims by innocent group that it satisfy, wherein serena's technologies help governments at fight terrorism and crime. spyware is a threat to human rights, is a threat to diplomacy. it's a threat to international rules based order and world peace. and now that this threat is closer to home, we hope that it tips the biden administration, and they are opinion didn't sanction anissa group and banned the use of this technology. this just shows how little human rights matters to washington. we knew

that journalists were having their phones sabotaged and tried that dissidence were being targeted, potentially even killed because of this software. this was a threat to everything we're supposed to stand for on the global stage. and we did nothing because they simply didn't care not when it compared to the value of having another surveillance asset. another way to hack into people's for lunch and to spread the surveillance network even further in this goes back to about 2060 when cyber security researchers at the university of toronto citizen lab started investigating packaging. then amnesty international got involved, and the journalists at the parish based forbidden stories gathered evidence on which governments were using the spyware and who they were targeting. it took until last month, however, for the u. s. department of commerce to officially blacklist and so, and another is really company can do. and i saw was also headed to court in the

works taken there by apple and facebook mega companies that are suing the israeli firm for devalue and products. the consumers can no longer trust, like apples i phones and the facebook owned what's on and a so in general is really cyber offensive. cyber industry has now put itself at odds with perhaps the strongest forces in the world, which is not white house, but big. the american big tech establishment views them as actually more russia like evil actor, like the fact that can euro had other clients to exploit. microsoft and so allowed people to exploit. apple put them at odds with 2 of the biggest tech companies in america. once big tech turns on you, the white house then you know, needs to pick it's battled. if the tech industry is our only safeguard against this sort of tracking, then we are in a very dangerous place. we've seen how apple has selectively protected its

customers privacy to enable government surveillance of our icloud accounts circumventing all of the hardware, protections on our iphones. and while they may be doing the right thing and standing up to n s o group, i worry that, you know, these sorts of efforts to push back could turn into nothing more. the public of these governments were not 10 years. if they were buying or not, the biggest spy were, we were adding a lot of victims can do basically nothing. and they were just notified that they were the victims. it's how to be a victim of hyper attack. it can change your life, it can destroy your life. the, all the secrets are now in the ends of people who are surveying you. so we are really at the beginning of a beacon for israel. cyber surveillance industry is an illegitimate officer of the occupation. the west bank and jobs that have been used

as elaborated by israeli military surveillance specialist who wants their army services complete and take that expertise into the private sector companies white. it's a similar story in other countries including china where some surveillance vantage the authorities developed through targeting muslims in the province of sion. janet are now used on the rest of the population, blacklisted lawyer up and so has been made into a pariah. but with so many other companies making spyware in so many places, this problem extends well beyond israel and chinese israel. of course phase one of the top traders of surveillance tech and the 80 percent of those companies are founded by a former idea of soldiers and intelligence officers. companies like i can do route and sell brides,

have been implicated in human rights violations from hong kong to india, to mexico to venezuela. but germany, france, and others also have been hosting companies that sold surveillance technologies implicated in human rights violations in countries like saudi arabia. in egypt and others. so it's not only about the anna so grew and in that sense i would be very scared of in a so to fall apart because it's all that all these people will now start, you know, volunteering, and you've tried to vendor ways all this talent will now find new home in companies whose names we don't know serving clients that we have yet to report anything about . i think it's the end for, for, and so in that that might actually have in the long term negative effect because we'll kind of disappear off or read radar. new companies will be formed, new clients will be found. the problem is not with an s o is about the market, the baby's offenders. so everywhere and not only in israel, but us. so in other countries, without regulation,

with strong decision natalie from the us. but from all the governments, i'm not sure that we will see some progress me, which is where the summit for democracy is supposed to come in. the gathering was called by the biden administration this past week on the challenges facing democratic governments, including the threat posed by cyber survey. it was a virtual some president biden screens were loaded with more than $100.00 leaders. many of these governments use surveillance technology on their own populations. the exercise also had a slightly cold war field. and since neither china nor russia, which have produced and exported some of the most sophisticated spyware out there, we're in fight. we've seen him change and just a pattern of grotesque human rights abuses. it has been the birthplace of so many surveillance techniques leader export it around the world. but i also don't think

we can simply treat china as an outlier here in the us. many of the same techniques, facial recognition, augmented reality, policing, social media, monitoring, protective analytics. these same tools are being used in our communities. and yet we treated as if it's different simply because it's a different government. it's a threat no matter where it happens, the us and democracy summit should not be used for a political scoring. it offers an opportunity for world leaders to finally come together and tackle this global problem evidenced by the recent scandals of venice or group. and the use of its pegasus spyware. just the fact that and there is this intention of forming a coalition of human rights respecting countries, is a good signal to the surveillance companies that it's no longer business as usual, that there might be accountability coming. it is a global problem. manage requires global solutions.

turning to the u. okay. now we're coven. 19. the ghost of christmas parties passed and a practice session for a news conference. have all landed prime minister boards, johnson's government in the headlines monoxide. robbie is here with the details. the should, this is a story all about government spin. it's lies actually. and how borders johnson and those around him have repeatedly broken. the coven lockdown rules that they have imposed. the left leaning tabloid. the mirror broke. the news that at this point last year, when court cases were spiking across the u. k, and the country was in lockdown, prime minister boris johnson, reportedly hosted a party, a christmas party for about 50 people at his residence, number 10 downing street. now the prime minister's office immediately denied that such a party had taken place, but more than more details has since come out exposing what one commentator calls the carelessness and contempt of johnson government. then this leak video shows up

on itv new showing johnson spokes person rehearsing for a press conference. and that video richard takes the government spin and shattered that electron stratton who was den johnson's press. secretary can be seen taking questions about the christmas party from her colleagues. she's hurting her answers, and it's all one big joke. dissing, what was interesting, there was a downstream person trying to recognize it. well, she's more recorded is fictional policy with the business needs. so she just started design the day after the video was leaked, the prime minister said he was sickened by what he saw. and yet he still denied that a party ever took place. johnson's adept though, talking his way out of difficulty. yes. but this looks and feels differentiated the day after the video was leak, not a single conservative m. p was willing to come on to the media to answer questions or to defend their boss, bbc on its morning show me to point of this by leaving an empty chair on send. and

here's what i tv on because had to say, we are still waiting for somebody from the government to turn up today. we. we certainly are the lot is available. yeah. if any conservative m, p, anybody connected to the government is watching. and you would like to take your dooce an answer to those people, the 140000 people who lost family members walls. people parted in downing street, if you light to come and address those constituents, we would love to have you and it's never a good sign for a government when unsavory news shows up on entertainment shows as it did on the reality tv show called i'm a celebrity there categorically, deny any suggestions that they have the policy on this fix your party definitely didn't involve jesus. why you all are a secret santa evenin prime minister duty media all over the stony richard. okay, thanks. mm. to the aftermath now of the cop $26.00 climates summit last month,

nearly $200.00 countries signed the final agreement, the glasgow climate tact, and for the 1st time and comp history. that agreement mentioned slashing fossil fuel emissions. but the shortcomings are in the details. early drafts of that agreement called for a fossil fuel phase out a phrase that was subsequently diluted to a phase down. and that is language that has the fingerprints of the oil and gas industry all over it. after years of outright climate denial fossil fuel companies are now out to delay downplaying, the urgency slowing efforts to curve emissions and their advertising continues to take the true nature of their business and misrepresent, are tucked away somewhere in their playbook of p. our strategies is a tactic called green washing, designed to protect their interests. listening posts, talking often now on the evolution and the impact of propaganda emitted by the oil

and gas industry. me, fossil fuel companies have never had trouble getting a seat at the table. a climate smith like carp this year with different companies like bpn show, were told they weren't welcome a cars 26 despite months of intense lobbying, but that didn't stop hundreds of operatives from the world of oil and gas swarming glasgow unofficially with a delegation larger than any country there were $503.00, tell fossil fuel industry, which made them the largest delegation of any cop. and i don't think that we should be surprised because they've been involved in the process from jump this cop and glasgow was the very 1st one that they said. fossil fuel can't sponsor anything, hit the cup, but it didn't amount of the process they're, they're,

they're in force. so when you got to cobb, it's not like you walked in and it was like sponsored by shell, right? screw. like sponsoring cob, if you can get people in the room that's even better, right? this is the 1st time that we've even mentioned fossil fuels at all in the text. and so while that's a historic moment, it also really shows the scope of this industry's influence on this entire process . and that's not really, that's surprising if you know anything about how oil and gas companies are able to market themselves in the 19 seventy's fossil fuel executives were advised by their own, find the bonding that product would lead to catastrophic global warner. the continued funding climate and all anyway in june of year, a senior lobbyist, excellent. michael was secretly recorded during a i activist at green. this is how he described decade long campaign disinformation. did we aggressively fight against

some of the science? yes. did me jolene some of these shadow groups to work against some of the really efforts? yes, that's true, but the climate to non of the past doesn't wash anymore. instead the industry of now pushing the delay. they're really not trying to say then climate change isn't happening or even that and fossil fuels to contribute to that. so they've really embraced instead this tactic of trying to delay action as long as possible. and there's pushing non transformative solutions, carbon capture, and storage can remove with a 90 percent of c o. 2 emissions, the exxon is very, very big on carbon capture. it's almost all they're advertising right now. it's one of the ways exxonmobil is advancing kind of solution. you would think if you just watched their ads, that all they do is carbon capture. but in fact, they invest less than one per se of their capital in anything other than fossil

fuels, oil companies have become very good at recognizing ways to phrase what they want you to hear, which is that they're acting on climate, was continuing to produce oil and gas, one across the p, we changing a great example of this that i've seen pop up more and more is the freight low carbon we creating new and improved low carbon products. the phrase low carbon doesn't mean anything though. i mean, it's very easy to be lower carbon than a barrel of oil or a pile of coal. over the last few years, we've exhaustively studied the climate communications by x on mobile. what we found was systematic discrepancies between on the one hand, what x on the next mobile scientists said in academic circles and behind closed doors, versus on the other. what the company told the general public on the open page of the new york times and elsewhere. we found that they publicly fixates on consumer energy demand and on the role of energy efficiency rather than on the fossil fuels

that they actually supply. this has the overall effect of shifting responsibility for the climate crisis away from companies and onto their customers. on exxon mobil told us that public statements about climate change and have been truthful, fact based, transparent, and consistent with the views of the broader mainstream scientific community. at the time, but fossil fuel companies can see the writing on the wall. so they're no longer selling a product. the selling an idea. they want consumers to know that they are indispensable partners in a green new future. and platforms like facebook and instagram, where they're targeting audiences with ads that detoxify or green wash their image . facebook ad library is a window into how these companies position themselves as part of the solution like this one which features some of the brightest minds that show,

i say i work in renewable energy, and they gave me a moment for that. i talk about solar panels, people's rooms, the big wind turbines. i help the energy that those things produce. getting to people's, these campaigns subtle and increasing the aspirational, playing and desire to travel and explore. all you have to do is follow the rules. phillips, 60 things live to the full shall and conical phillips topped different types of influences for the different types of audience that they wanted to reach. i found this one influencer who took the shelf sponsored trip to joshua tree and had this really beautiful sepia video of her wandering around joshua tree. what i also saw was shell starting to use social media to green wash, their products show. there's a way to both explore nature and to reduce carbon footprint. they told customers

that they could buy oil, that then shell would purchase what's known as an ox that and the people they taught for this campaign were environment photographers, wildlife photographers. now more than ever, it's important we protect these beautiful place. it was very clearly, we care about the environment you do to, you should buy our oil. i show spokes person told of, we're letting our customers know through advertising more social media. what? lower comp and solutions we offer, so they can switch when the time is right for them. the public relations industry emerged 100 years ago as a response to rising public distrust of big business, an early adopter. these doc us with an american called ivy league. lea pine and p r . techniques like press releases and corporate philanthropy while working for standard oil company sid and reviled in equal measure. in the

1970s, the successor started boy mobile, which later became excellent, launched a campaign that continues to this day using pate content disguise of editorial, unfair tools that were printed on the opinion page of the new york times. this is one of the largest and most systematic efforts to influence public opinion in the history of old and america mobile. and then exxon mobil took out as latoria was starting in 1972 every thursday for 29 years on the open page of the new york times . and then every other thursday, for another decade after that, in the eighty's mobile, she concluded that there had materials had affected what they called the collective unconscious of america. they had got into the minds of opinion leaders, who and this is a quote molded general public opinion, a, let's call it by its proper name, the propaganda industry. it is, you know, using informations and stories to change people's minds at a, at a group level,

at sort of a mass society level. and they are very good at john w. hill, who's like the guy who created the tobacco industry's science denial campaign. he was working for the american petroleum institute and texaco at the same time. you see these techniques show up later and you're like, well, yeah, because they're all working for multiple industries at the same time. and they definitely share information. oil and gas companies helped invent a lot of modern advertising. they've always been so good at best. they're really good at this. i never really saw myself working for an energy company that the more learned the more motivated i came to make a difference. and i think that white people really need to start doing is really questioning what's behind the messaging. we know we really need to stop using fuel

as soon as possible and any solutions that don't get us closer to that. and they are not real climate solutions. it doesn't matter how many buzzwords you put on it . if you're putting emissions into the planet, it's not a climate solution. mm. and finally, one last example of messaging from the fossil fuel industry from a half century ago. back then oil and gas companies were still getting a relatively free ride from critics. some of their tv commercials were fronted by the kinds of celebrities who wouldn't touch oil money today for fear of the stigma . johnny cash, for instance, was a legendary country singer, a voice of the working man. cash was also the face of some of america's biggest polluters at the time. companies like amaco and standard gasoline. he was an influencer long before instagram came along. we'll leave you now with johnny cash walk on the line. on behalf of big oil cnx time here at the listening post. hello,

i'm johnny cash. when we were kids, we all dreamed of owning a car of our own someday. well, for most of the dream came true, even if it isn't brand new, you still want to take the care of standard gasoline, skill, pulse, it always goes to dutch standard quality. amaco oil is doing all they can to get more energy to us. but until a short a jesus, it's up to all of us to make what there is go further. there's a shortage of energy, but not of the american spirit. keep your spirit up, the spirit of conservation for the sake of america. oh, this excalibur is a muddy fancy set of wheels is something different. and this amaco super premium is different to it's high octane is lead free, and they tell me it's even heavier than other gasoline. and it's not just different

to be different. it's different to be better, you expect more from amaco and you get it. ah, i this week, so thrice a new method of cremation is helping him to tradition become more and mine mentally friendly. and we visit a danish community into a taken sustainability to new heights just over. ready there on the horizon is some so island where they are officially 100 percent renewable. give that. and so this is it, that's the energy that generated weeds of change on al jazeera. mm

. holding the powerful to account as we examined the ulysses role in the world on al jazeera, ah, allow, i'm marianne, to missouri and london, our main story. this, our a devastating series of tornadoes has ripped through 6 us midwestern and southern states. and what president joe biden has called an unimaginable tragedy. he's rushing federal assistance to the worst hit places like kentucky, where the governor saying at least 70 people have died. dozens are fear dead in a candle factory in the town of mayfield fire and police stations of also been damaged and that's hampering the rescue efforts. party call hain reports now.