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a time to take it a serious largest community for displaced people to see what they're doing to survive. ah, hello everyone, special a half evolution for you today at this time as we wait to hear from the leaders of france and ukraine. but of course, american nature, russian, ukraine force is barrel in place and seemingly ready for conflict, even as this hunt for a diplomatic solution goes on. the french president, emanuel micron is in care of after a trip to moscow. holding tolts with the ukranian president of voldemort zalinski a day earlier in moscow, he had praised zalinski for showing great self control middle this tension with russia, as was after 5, our meeting with the russian leader vladimir putin, which both sides say was quite constructive. you could put, you don't put in multicast. sure, it's a dispute president who has assured me of his willingness to engage in logic and

have a desire to maintain these balances of an issue. and in particular with regard to stability and territorial integrity of ukraine. again, the next few days will be decisive, will obviously require deep discussions that we will pursue together. because people, you don't know, but you know what i hear president mac crohn considered it necessary to come to russia to exchange views about how to proceed from here. it's too early to speak about a number of his ideas. i consider it possible that they could serve as a basis for further steps. we will see how microns meetings will go. we agreed that after his visit to the ukrainian capital, we will have a call and exchange views on the matter. that was moscow yesterday, monday. this is kev today as we wait, the podiums are ready, as we wait to hear from the 2 presidents. in the meantime, hod bill, how may correspondent in kiev, keeping an eye on things in menu micron. first of all, we got to say how to really taking a lead role here. there's a lot of diplomacy going on. he's the one making both presidents

la manion, macro is a big proponent about europe standing on his own, 2 feet in europe pretty, taking matters in their own hands. and that's what he clearly said yesterday in moscow. this was a european issue. this was about the future of europe's security as so things have to be discussed had to that. and now i don't know his meetings today would unfold simply because, i mean, earlier in the day we heard from the a foreign minister here. he reiterated the red lines of ukraine. the 1st one being that did is it territorial integrity and sovereignty of the country needs to be respected, no dialogue whatsoever with the separatist in the east of the country. so those are already, it will show you already how difficult things could be and then to find miniatures at something. also very interesting. he said,

this is actually the 1st time i french president comes to ukraine since 1990 eights of 24 years ago. so these are not 2 leaders of 2 countries who have strong relations that are meeting president mcgraw is coming was a set of ideas. we still don't know exactly what are the details of that. who didn't himself said yesterday, it was too early to talk about them publicly. but he is coming with his own sets of ideas. we'll have to hear from both men. when behold a press conference in about an hour. okay, looking for to that when it happens, a lot of the, the whole idea of diplomacy at the moment, not just mr micron, but there is a lot of diplomacy going on. it's obviously i'm trying to stop any sort of invasion right now. but there's a much bigger picture at play. here is nearly all idea of russia's place within europe and, and working with russia rather than against. well,

certainly, and this is what you hear from the president zalinski nearly on a daily basis. that as long as diplomacy is ongoing, well, the threats of a military escalation is quite low. actually. a few days ago, i, the foreign minister was quite angry about the statements coming out of the state department where they were saying that russia could invade and take over the whole of ukraine in 2 days. and they'd be a large number of casualties. well, what came out of the presidency here and from the foreign minister is didn't ab telling ukrainians not to listen to this applica elliptic scenario not to his indies, epic elliptic threats. now, where i think with the frustration of ukraine, it is a comes, is that there is that big picture that is, that deeding going on at the moment, or where basically the new security arrangement in europe will come out of this

crisis. whether it is a military escalation or not as stake here is how further can need to expand towards the east of europe. and how much will russia accept of old that president putin was quite clear that he said it's not us going towards nater. it's nato coming towards us, so you will have something new emerging is very early days, and i think that the moment at least publicly, that doesn't seem to be any compromise between due to size but met. that's where president a monumental michael steps and he has indicated that may be russia had a point, it shouldn't be listened to because this at the end of the day is all unfolding in europe. and maybe those treaties that were signed at the end of the 2nd world war need to be updated to reflect a new reality on the ground in europe. so that is a much larger picture here. and i think ukraine is a bit frustrated and a bit worried that it is left out of the big g. we claim keeps on saying older dive

. there is no decision about ukraine without ukraine wanting to make sure that it remains the center of the conversation, which is not always the case because you also have to remember that ukraine and rush, i don't speak face to face. the only format where they speak is it no my d format. that's a quite a low level. so you have all the shuttle diplomacy carrying and taking messages. but ukraine really wants to make sure it remains at the center of all of that and is not always the case during those conversations. thanks auto. we'll talk to you again soon. hopefully once we hear from those 2 leaders, dosage a bari in moscow. now let's actually rewind to what was yesterday. monday. i'm 5 hours of talks between a president him on you, my cronin and a president person. what was the feeling of what was actually achieved out of that?

well, i think according to as the kremlin this or the meeting was under extraordinary circumstances. so that's why it took, took the 2 presidents over 5 hours a to finish the meeting. and i think vladimir putin going in was very much looking forward to speaking to the french president emanuel macro. once the french president arrived at the kremlin, they sat at this very long table that is their due to covert restrictions. and the russian president was clearly very happy to see his french counterpart. he said that he was glad to see him face to face because they haven't seen each other since the summer of 2019. and i think vladimir putin had very much high expectations out of this meeting. and i think once it wrapped up in the, came out and had that press conference, it was very much a different sense. we got from the russian president. he was very clear about his position and about russia stance, and he even said at one point to an answer,

do you want us to go to war with france saying that nato, including ukraine as part of its alliance, would mean that they could possibly be conflict because russia would not allow an crimea to be taken back by force to go back to ukraine, and that is something that is very much not acceptable by the russian president. of course, at russia antics crimea in 2014. he said, that reminded also the world that russia is a nuclear power hinting that if there was conflict. russia is not. there are military's not, of course, comparable to the nato military. but of course, russia is a nuclear power. i think the sense was that vladimir putin got some more clarification about where the europeans are coming from. but i think for him it was much more important to clarify his position. and i think the french president really lended the listening ear that put him was looking for and lacking from the mom, because he has said over and over again that the security guarantees they're

looking for have been completely ignored by the americans. and it's clearly has had an impact on his demeanor. and his rhetoric, since the united states responded in a written response about what they think about the security guarantees that russia wants, they basically just dismissed them altogether. so i think vladimir putin said that there is really no point in discussing those things in discussing anything else until we can get to the hearts of what, where this conflict begins and for them, for russia, it is about nato and it's expansion. the french president said that the next few days will of course be very important in the as seeing whether or not he is the right man for the job, trying to de escalate the sand off. that is ongoing. i think it will be very telling the giant task that micron has undertaken playing the role of very much a peacemaker in the middle of all this. of course, he has elections or presidential elections are coming up in france in april. so he

does have also something to prove to his domestic audience, but he said that he will speak to vladimir putin on the phone after his meetings in key half. so we'll have to wait and see how those go later tonight. talk to soon then, dawson, jabari in moscow. meanwhile, in here, if we wait to hear from the french and ukrainian presidents has been a bit of movement, the, i think we saw some folders being booked on the podium. so hopefully that news conference will begin shortly. and will bring it to you when it dogs. meanwhile, you as president joe biden is wanting rusher of tough economic measures if it invades ukraine, including blocking a crucial gas pipeline to germany. he made the comments during a visit by the german chancellor to washington over my what his correspondence. kimberly alcott were u. s. president joe biden and german chancellor. olive shoals sat down in the oval office for their 1st white house meeting, attempting to put on a united front to state the germany is one of america's closest allies,

working a walk step further deter russian aggression. your biden statement follows weeks of criticism. the germany has been vague in its support of nato allies. schultz is also fighting accusations. he's been soft on russia, as it's a mass, tens of thousands of troops along its border with ukraine. but the biggest concern might be the issue of nord stream to a contentious $11000000000.00 natural gas pipeline between germany and russia. germany relies on russia for natural gas. and even though nordstrom too is not yet operational, if russia invades ukraine, the u. s. insist nordstrom too, must stay dormant, but germany has been non committal until monday, if russia invades that means tanks and troops crossing the on the border of ukraine. again, there are no. there will be we, there will be no longer

a norse tube to we will bring it in. will you commit today to turning off and pulling the plug on north string through. as i already said, we are acting together. we are absolutely united and we will not taking different steps that answer may not be enough for republicans and democrats in the u. s. congress who railed against shorts for failing to increase troops to nato, or send lethal weapons to ukraine. biden pushed back on the criticism of his german counterpart. there is no need to win back trust. he has a complete trust of the united states. germany is our one of our most important allies in the world. there is no doubt about germany's partnership with united states. none. the german chancellor is expected to travel to ukraine and russia next week to build on white house discussions if diplomacy aimed at averting

a russian invasion of ukraine. kimberly, how can al jazeera, the white house will move on to some other news just for now. the corruption trial of israel's former prime minister, which has been delayed after allegations of illegal spyware use by police on monday and israeli newspaper reported officers, hacked the phones of benjamin at to now his son and his associates. protesters, business leaders, cabinet ministers, they're all said to have been targeted using the israeli made pegasus spyware. prime minister, naphtali bennett, has promised an inquiry. binion nipple, shut the pegasus. these cyber tools are intended to fight terror, intended to fight crime, severe crime. there were knight attempted to be used against citizens. we will assure to check the matter in a thrust baron profound and swift to way. because all of us, the citizens of the state of israel, as the ministers of the government, to all the system. we all deserve answers, and a witness in benjamin netanyahu. corruption, charles,

believe to be among those targeted by the spyware williams hall, and without the flu. this is a black day for the state of israel without referring to my issue, which of course has wide implications. i think this case concerns all citizens of the country. not right, not left. all citizens of the country without exception or something inconceivable has happened here. got up entirely false in west to wrestler, explaining how the allegations could affect netanyahu's corruption trial. as far as his lawyer is concerned, this is something that they are very much trying to use to their advantage already before these latest revelations came out. there was this one very significant witness against this and you know who the former director general of the communications ministry. i form a very close associate of netanyahu. there were questions as to whether the allegations that his phone had been drained in this way could affect his testimony, which was originally scheduled for next week. now we have yahoo son and other very

close associates, also being drawn in school. this prosecutors so far have been saying that any use of the software is separate from the investigation that the allegations against the charges against that being based upon. but certainly they will have to try to prove that. and so his li lawyers are saying that this has to be probably investigated and it does potentially pose a threat to the, to the validity of the trial going forward. but also the fact already legation that the police weren't as they had been saying, seeking propositional approval for each use of such technology. that essentially they were going on expeditions, trying to see what they could find on phones, and then building cases around them. the police have been denying at least that part of it, saying that they were only acting in proper criminal investigations. however, the, the broadness of these allegations are extremely serious. and that is what this

inquiry will have to try to sort out. still waiting on that news conference from a t as a bed in the meantime, more news, a wide open field campaigning beginning in the philippines. candidates advised to become the next president. ah, i'm putting the brakes on protests canadian truck drivers, a band from sounding their horns of demonstrations against vaccine mandates ramp. ah, regal griffin. again, the number that's in the club. i am at the so long a short it also has i was out with sure, documentaries, from around the world about those who won't give up their fight for justice out. is

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are you with al jazeera and these are the top stories, the french president, emmanuel, my crohn, is holding tulsa with ukraine's president of ultimate zalinski, part of the efforts to find a diplomatic solution over the crisis at ukraine's border. this is a day after he met the russian lead about him, a putin and both side side that was constructed. there was president joe biden threatened to shut down a russian gas pipeline to germany if moscow invades ukraine. he made those comments during a visit by the german chancellor schultz to washington, and in all the news, the corruption front of his rails, former prime minister, has been delayed off to allegations police use a controversial spyware. it's where the newspaper reports office is hacked. the phones of benjamin netanyahu son and his associates. now campaigning, officially be on in the philippines presidential election coming up in may candidates a vine to succeed president, rodrigo de tirty. as his 6 year term comes to an end. the contenders include the mayor of manila, the son of a former leader and a retired boxing champion,

jamilla allen, dog, and reports from manila. on the 2022 presidential campaign is one of the most contentious in recent philippine history. opinion polls suggest bobo marcus junior . the son of former president for dan marcus is the head. his father was overthrown by a popular revolt in the 1980s. for years, his family has been using social media to rewrite history. he's facing disqualification cases before the commission gun on election grizzle gun vice president. lenny roberto is leading to fight for the opposition. before joining politics, roberto was a human rights lawyer and a development worker whose campaign theme radical love has garnered widespread support. but her biggest challenge is how to counter the large scale disinformation attacks against her sen, pine to relax on has the longest experience in government. out of all the presidential candidate thought he was the chief of police and is served more than

10 years in the senate. but many question is human rights record and is push for a controversial anti terror law. manila mayor is calmer and his story is quintessentially filipino as a boy scavenged for food before becoming an actor. his position as manila mayor has made him a formidable candidate, but many think he may not be ready for the presidency, just like renown boxer my knee. buck out, the witness says, well, like in his boxing career, it will be god once again. who will help him be the way to become the next president? this year's election will be in no different patronage. politics remain rooted in the country is electoral system. most candidates are using their popularity, family connections and money to get elected. but to fight for the highest post in the land is also seen as a test for the kind of values the voters will the important democracy benefits and

right from this kind of paper sheet. and that kind of polarity, sean will be reflected in the way the presidential campaigns through their messages . the online world is the public sphere and that online world is easily manipulated . election day is on mainline. and although it is just a few months away, presidential elections here have historically been quite difficult to predict. but whoever wins will have a huge jump ahead of them. issues including the pandemic, unemployment, regional relations and drug violence will all lead their undivided attention to my lean dog and al jazeera manila covered news and tougher restrictions have been brought back in hong kong. as it battles record cove, at 19 cases,

chief executive carry lamb announced the new measures including the closure of religious venues. public gatherings will also be limited to 2 people. and a convoy protesting against pandemic restrictions is caused disruption in new zealand capital. wellington, hundreds of people, mostly mosque. las demonstrate has called the streets around the country's parliament. as politicians returned from this, i'm a break. angry about mosque mandates and requirements for workers in some industries to be vaccinated. and canada's prime minister justin trudeau is calling for an end to a protest there by hundreds of truck drivers against the vaccine mandates. the truck is in the supporters of shut down parts of the capital also, where the mayor is asking for additional forces. moving priyanka group to canada, see the power ottawa occupied by truckers and this supporters for more than a week now protested, call it a freedom con boy. the police say it's a siege on the capital. in the depths of winter cockers from across canada are off

road, adamant that covey 19 vaccine mandates for cross border drivers must end, or the prime minister should resign. on monday, just intruder accused them of trying to do a democracy. it has to stop. the people with auto don't deserve to be harassed in their own neighborhoods. they deserve to be confronted with the inherit violence of a swastika flying on a street corner, or a confederate flag. are the insults and jeers just because they're wearing a mask. the police are turning off supplies, the fuel ant funds to put a break on the porters. a court has also put a injunction on the loud sound of horns disrupting the life. we went after the

funding. our efforts combined with the cities efforts eliminated to go fund me. $10000000.00 are no longer accessible to the demonstrators. but the battle is far from one. the truckers are showing no signs of leaving. i would die on the streets for my kids, and my grandkids has been here in a personal personal and like we saw people on the side of the street with their sorrows at o'clock at night, 40 below in the weather, standing there with their signs and telling us that were the only hope a bunch of truckers with their hawkish dixon, flags that come on. how did we get here? hundreds of kilometers away from ottawa at the main crossing between the us and canada. there's heavy traffic as the poultice pour in from south of the border, prominent republicans including former preston, donald trump, tesla founder, ellen musk, and far right, i'm anti vaccine groups have shown their support for the truckers, but in canada,

most people are vaccinated, including many of the protest as why it is not because canadians love getting needles. is because canadians trust science, canadians trust each other. but these demonstrations show trust in the government. i'm a thruth, maybe when for some brianca group there, i'll sera, a bomb has killed 3 soldiers in western iraq. one civilian was also injured in that blasted hampton anbar province. local official says the explosive device was left behind by i. so the soldiers were accompanying hunters from kuwait who were unharmed. now, people displaced by 10 years of war in syria and struggling to survive in the north western province of it. lip unemployment is widespread and prices are on the rise. said him conceal you as some of those stories. now, from the town of acme,

these women in the town of ottoman in northwest and syria, hope every stage might bring them some income. there among at least a 1000000 people the place by the war for living in 10 city in what is considered the largest community of this place, people in the country. maria opened the workshop for women in her community 2 months ago with a few resources mom and her friends make traditional dresses from fabric that's been donated their seeking supports from n t o. so more women can join them, especially those who lost their husband. full of we launched this project because there are many which was around here, we only to work to provide for our families. but we don't have the opportunities here except for knitting at home and selling our work. and that's why we try to include as many women as we can. variance husband died in an accident 5 years ago. that left or depending on whether we're health, she could get and raising her 3 children alone. others are grateful for the hope

she's given them. i have 7 children and my husband doesn't have a job. we learn how to so hear from marian. now hoping to make a life of our own at the province's last revel health area and syria with a population of nearly 4000000 people. and unemployment is right. the turkish theory is used as the main currency, but a collapse in its valley is making daily life harder for the cost of living. rising fat. the people who live here tell us their lives have been calmer for the past 2 years with bob and rockets attack. but the latest battle they phase is the rising food prices in the market. 2 years ago, the local authorities switch from using the syrian pound to the turkish, clear up to avoid any collapse in the war torn regions, fragile economy. everybody on the exchange rate, you ask for a bunch of parsley. say, let me check the dollar price. the people don't have mercy on each other as the

wholesalers raise the prices. so july i make little profit because many people can barely buy a packet of bread. some displaced people here have been uprooted several times and starting over has become routine and many say they need international support. now, if they are to cope with a di conditions, they live in seen m castillo al jazeera asthma. it left north as syria. ah, it's half past the hour, and these are the headlines, the french presidency monument, kronos holding talks with ukraine's president followed mid zalinski, part of the efforts to find a diplomatic solution over the crisis at ukraine's border. this is a day after he met the russian leda vladimir putin. both sides say those talks were constructive mo, from hot bill hamid in kiff prison. michael will be briefing for president

zelinski on that 55 hour long meeting he had in moscow and what was discussed with president putin now when he arrived, he had some very short comment, which would indicate that a rush hour president booted would have agreed not to have any further escalation, we don't know much more about that, but certainly that is one point they would discuss during their meeting. still waiting to hear from the 2 presidents, micron and zalinski, a live shot of the podiums in kia. as soon as that happens, we'll bring it to you live here on al jazeera. meanwhile, you as president joe biden threatened to shut down a russian gas pipeline to germany if moscow invades ukraine. made those comments during a visit by the german chancellor left schultz to washington. in other news, the corruption trial of israel's former prime minister has been delayed after allegations police used controversial spyware,

and israeli newspaper reports officers hacked the phones of benjamin netanyahu. son and his associates campaigns officially begun on the philippines for presidential election in may candidates, a vine to succeed president rodrigo to 30. as is 60, a turn comes to an end. contenders include the mayor of manila, the son of a former leader, the retired boxing champion and tougher restructure restrictions are being brought in in hong kong. as it battles, record, covey cases, public gatherings will be limited to people, and fines for those failing to comply will be doubled. to more than a $1000.00 on kong has been following the approach taken in mainland china. of trying to eliminate cov, it outbreaks as soon as they emerge. ok, as we say, that news conference with president micron and zelinski is coming up. in the meantime on al jazeera, the listening post with richard gifts, bits ah, unprompted and uninterrupted discussions. from

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mainstream media or traditional news. media outlet programs that include fact checkers producers, editors, anchors, joe rogan, really views his programming as an ordinary person. just having conversations with all kinds of people, kind of conversations, you may end up hearing i or a local diner at the water cooler. or maybe even in your living room or to our dining table with your family, joe rogan has a responsibility to not just allow stream of consciousness or, you know, anything to be said unchecked, to copy out it and say, hey, this is, you know, a controversial view this is outside of scientific consensus. this has been proven to be false if it is false. to not do that, i believe is irresponsible. this really comes down to a question of what is a podcast is a podcast the news or is a podcast the conversation. if it's the news, then you have arguably restrictions on what can be said. if this is just a conversation, then we really have to consider the implications of saying to adults can't release

that conversation to a wider audience without some babysitter entity stepping in to make sure that they don't say the wrong thing. ah, rogan made his name on television in the 19 ninety's, a committee and turned actor turned commentator for mixed martial arts fighting. he launched the joe rogan experience in 2000. no, excuse me. it is among the most popular podcasts in the world around $11000000.00 listeners per episode. in 2020, the music streaming platform spot, a fine looking to diversify its content, made a $100000000.00 deal with rogan for exclusive rights natural expert. the podcasts range of guests is one of its strengths. it also exposes rogan's weaknesses as a host. he lacks expertise. so when

a couple of doctors come off and promote conspiracy theories about post 19 and vaccines that have long been disproved. do you think there's any reason for someone who's already on coven, maxine and noticed there's 3 studies well characterized that could be more than grade in showing harm for when jordan peterson, a psychologist, spouts, something nonsensical on climate change. climate. weird. so i won't answer because there's no such thing as climate climate and everything are the same word, rogan, a graduate of that tough guy, world of mixed martial arts. here just rolls over is not an expert on what the guests are talking about. in this case, you heard, and peterson came on and said that climate change isn't real because it's everything mean, how much does it actually doesn't mean anything to to joe rogan? i mean, he's, he, guy, he's like, well that sounds good. and then they just sort of move on. yeah. jordan peterson. it seems like a

a stone college student up all night studying for his midterms. that's what it sounds like. think twice about giving these jabs to your kids. doctor peter mcculla and doctor robert malone were problematic for variety of reasons. they repeated lots of claims about the covert 19 vaccine in particular, claims that has been widely refuted. a lot of people who are vaccinated were feeling kind of disoriented and confused by these podcast. i've spent a large part of my time during the pandemic explaining the science and explaining the data. and i found that this was essentially doing the opposite of that. it was breaking trust and causing confusion. jessica malice, rivera is one of 270 scientists and health care specialists who signed a lesser calling out rocha demanding spotify take steps to stop the spread of cove . at 1900 misinformation musicians. neil young and johnny mitchell, among others,

ordered spotify to remove their music, saying they did not want to share a platform with roku. spotify countered by saying it will add a content advisory label to any podcast related to colbert 19. the white house waited in welcoming the advisories, urging spotify to not just limit mis information, but to fight it. got broken, appeared to take it on the chin, going on instagram disputing, some of the criticism, but acknowledging that he has to do better. so my pledge to you is that i will do my best to try to balance out these more controversial viewpoints. but that is the same job. who since getting into bed with spotify, boasted with he can say, whatever he wants, or the same whenever you want over, i'm not going to pull it. let me try something else bonafide,

and they're the ones spotify never said a goddamn thing to make their amazing. rogan did not want to talk to us. however, neither he nor spotify responded to our interview requests. social media platforms like facebook and twitter have been under this kind of scrutiny for years for spotify and podcast in general. it's something that the part of that is just logistical. it's very easy to crawl through the content of twitter or facebook, instagram, even youtube, because it has captioning and to flag various has a content where there be misinformation are seen as offensive when it comes to podcasts. there are so many of them, and you basically have to go through audio bit by bit to really catch and flag content. it's great that we looked at each other. we welcome joe rogan acknowledged in this video apology. comcast has started as a way for him to kind of have these 3 willing conversations with people who like people he found interesting. and he felt acknowledge that it's basically gotten

completely out of control if he is going to start venting his guests or starts during the conversations in a less controversial direction. that may satisfy some critics. but i think it may also alienate his audience, modify released the new platform policy, and put a covert 19 audio warning label on any future episodes that mentioned cobra. 1900. if they're saying your, your content doesn't matter as long as people know that it's objectionable, then we're cover. but i seems extremely unlikely that they'll kill the golden goose of podcasting. joe rogan for co misinformation, as long as the shareholders are happy. the subscribers aren't going anywhere. my think nothing's going to have the joe rogan's checks are a mixed bag. he describes himself as a socially liberal, libertarian,

who supports universal health here, along with gunner on covert though, he has a pension for the scepter just one day after his instagram promised to do better, and do my best to make sure that i've researched these topics. rogan tweeted, an inaccurate royce, or story on either mexico and anti parasitic drug, a treatment for coven scientist say, there is no evidence that it works. reuters had already corrected that story. rogan later deleted his tweet without explaining why. as one analyst put it, joe rogan is in over his head, and he knows. but there's more to it than that. we're supposed to be protective of l. b, g g. people local, provokes his online. it is by hiding his beliefs and curiosity shouting them in question. was his choice of some questionable yes. and he keeps going. i don't want to like 0 rogue response. i choose to believe him. i choose to also believe that he

doesn't know what he's talking about half the time. the larger issue is that the user is now the media. people aren't relying on television news to get all their news. they get it from a guy like joe rogan, and everybody can build a platform and get to where he is. so the genie is out of the bottle and everybody's the media. it's been a year now since the military took back control of me and mar, the subsequent unrest has left at least 1500 people dead. and much of the countries media silenced joanna who's is here with more. well, richard, as we reported back then, ever since the hotel overthrew mia mars fledgling civilian government last february, it has been cracking down on journalism. in the immediate aftermath, 5 news organizations, including medina and democratic voice of perma for rated and had licenses revoked reporters like nathan mon from coming media and danny fenster and editor at

frontier me a mar spent months behind bars on fairies trumped up charges. 57 others that we know of remaining prison making me more. the world's 2nd worst jailer of journalists. others have paid for their work with their life. soon i, a freelance photo journalist is believed to have been beaten to death in military detention after covering a silent strike against the regime pre t, dim of berman news, international wit, published allegations of abuse is carried out by the security forces. was reportedly abducted by the authorities and executed. reporting is especially challenging india mars, more remote regions where the military often acts with impunity. many news outlets have gone into exile or now do their work underground, increasingly reliant and citizen journalists to gather information. then there are the internet blackouts him banned from social media. the military has blocked facebook, twitter, and instagram, or primary sources of news in me a mar,

and it reportedly has a new cybersecurity low in the work that will criminalize the use of the vpn. people currently rely on to circumvent such bands in too many ways, the media environment in me, a mar, is back to where it was before it embarked on the rocky road to democracy. yet many reporters there remain determined to get the story out. thanks joe. going back to a story now that's proven exceptionally difficult to cover the conflict. anything between rebel forces led by the key gr, people's liberation front, the t t. l. f and federal troops under prime minister. i'll be off net, just over a year ago when the fighting broke out into the ry. are these governments shut down the internet? cut, telecommunications bird journalists from the conflict zone and your total blackout that is still mostly in place? news like nature abhors a vacuum and one byproduct of the blackout is that online activists on both sides

have been filling the gaps, sometimes shaping the news coverage. but activists are not journalists, many of them have agendas, but can solely the information that they provide. the listening posts nick, me, your head now on the conflict into gray. and the activism that for better or worse is driving the coverage of the story and the terminology. me, it's october 2021 months before the fighting began in ethiopia. and facebook is the country's dominant social media platform. then the t p less attack the federal forces, northern command and to cry. and media blackout is imposed on the region. and something curious happens. internet usage patterns of online behavior in the rest of the country begin to change. facebook share of internet traffic dropped from 66 percent to 40 percent. twitter, clams from less than 6 percent. to 44 percent. it was no accident,

no mere market driven shift. it was activism almost immediately within a week we saw a massive uptick in the number of new twitter accounts that were registered and that were tweeting almost exclusively about the conflict in t cried a lot of these were sort of co last thing around different hash tag campaigns that were established by very young to grow and activists. and i asked when you look back the hush docks, and old mobilizations on a global scale, one can certainly deduce that there was pre planning in starting a global campaign against the federal government and an effort to control the narrative. we knew why was looming because we have seen and heard the rhetoric that was being pushed by data and government, but we didn't know that it was going to be this. bruton is a good day, give them a dean is to guy and activists living in the diaspora amplifying hash tags about

the conflict. helping those issues make the jump from social media into the mainstream. like the government's involvement of every train troops in the conflict . the 1st one would like to see if they'd like to win the air tran, trucks and i had a malicious are supposed to withdraw from me. from grading the an edge use of mass, rape is a weapon of more whereby women are also been gone. great by military men from base have been national army as well as i'm had a militia. and how in sanitary news coverage in the country is fueling ethnic cleansing. it is this kind of reckless comments and returning that are actually resulting in the my soccer in the days of our people. given him a dean doesn't work alone. she and fellow activists sets up an organization called, i'm not to guy which uses what given him a dean calls, an educated form of advocacy to get the world to pay attention to what is happening into grad what that means is we prepare premier to it. we prepare paneled discussions,

we will write articles and monthly or regular reports. that's how we try to push the issue of that to graduate, to say, to the international community so that they don't continue to be confused by the propaganda that comes from the government and its allies that were give them a didn't used genocide. it's a loaded term one that can have implications both politically and militarily. according to the 948 genocide convention, once the you indicated that genocide and member states are required to intervene, which hasn't happened in this case. the union has said that the conflict has been marked by extreme brutality on both sides, but it's stopped short at the carrying a genocide that hasn't prevented the term from being used on social media. and if you scroll down, give them a dean's twitter feed. you will see the hash tag to create genocide being used repeatedly and all the way back to november 9th, 2020, starting just 4 days of the t p. a less launch to attack. yes, i am one of the people who used the hash tag grad genocide early on. and that's

primarily because genocide is a crime of intent before november. first, we know what kind of frederick was being pushed by they to been government and it's affiliated media outlets. we know they to been, government was actively working towards dehumanizing, that people have to go towards other than was in day to been community. so the genocide, that maintenance is right there, they had to grow genocide. hash tag was used by many campaigns to raise awareness about their interpretation of events. and now how she has been really controversial because the government says that the existence of this hash tag is evidence of disinformation campaign, because they don't agree that there is a genocide going on. the attention on a global scale the, the bailiff activities were able to to, to gate at the time. hob, help them control the narrative on with the media. u. s. congress and rad shannon recently tweeted, what's unfolding and ethiopia has all the makings of a genocide. because you, you can see that, especially the 2 grand generals,

high done high stocks like that. i've attracted wider western media attention. done anything, but a concert campaign was on the way in november 2021, a new hash tag called no more started trending. the organizes of this campaign say that they are out to set the record straight in november, we say hash tag no more than no more false narratives that support killers versus victims. no more media lines clear much as it is situated with the london school of economics and has been tracking the various hash tags associated with this conflict . movement says that the data pattern of the no more campaign represents a significant departure from what we've seen before. what we see now is a much more professional and much more centralized effort to promote the hash tag. i think it was in early november, the highest number of tweets, but the no more campaign produced on a single day surpassed 500000. the highest number that we have tracks from the

growing campaigns as have been about 200000. so it's a significant change in terms of this kind of campaign. this are paid activist is paid professionals are some of them are self proclaimed journalist. they're trying to create false equivalence between those at the receiving of the genocide and those sort, perpetrating the genocide. the no more campaign was lost by galway and pin and simon to somebody and they are trained both the fema, based in the us. we gave them the opportunity to respond to the allegation that they are back by the government. we even booked an interview with a gully, but on the day, assuming she cancelled, we then made several attempts to reschedule that interview. but oregon, we stopped replying to our messages. we did however, speak with babich law. and if you can, janice 2 went into eggs out in the us when the t p l f. lead the national government in addis ababa a rain last thing,

nearly 3 decades. that was marred with oppression, mass incarceration, and censorship was low says that he is not affiliated with the naval campaign. he does use the hash tag and puts its popularity down to genuine support among ethiopians at home and in the diaspora who have grown tired of what they call the mis reporting of this story. we need to see a more truthful approach, a more balanced approach. rather than echoing the propaganda by one side, the visually the live site and the other kids have been pushing out. we must have twitter campaigns. where does the information come about genocide and things like that? highly, but i don't need my social. you can not report a story. highly sensitive a story like inside based on bass. so that's why i also support a movement we. we take no more propaganda normal life. oh,

how about no more media black out? in the 15 months since the fighting began, the government is only granted the international media. 13 mental window of access to to cry when federal forces were in control of the regions capital mckelly. that ended 8 months ago removing mainstream news sources from the conflict has left the information space up for grabs, resulting in a social media, wove words and terminology. it's crucial that the government allows for more voices to be weighing and they've tried so hard to constrain access and it's, it's not worked in anyone's favor including their own, because they're basically asking people to just accept them at their word. ordinary global citizens do not really know who to believe and who to address, so it's very critical that jonas's are allowed to access a to cry one in order to, to make sure that this jumps at a war is documented properly to,

to make sure that perpetrators of the crime matter are held accountable to this day, no one can say for certain if what is taking place in the region of to crime amounts to a genocide. but the red flags are there, the growing evidence that shows that the real victims of the school of an innocent civilians caught in the middle. and journalists must find a way to tell their stories, whether the authorities get them in or not. and finally, back to me in march, the 1st anniversary of the military coup has put the country back on the news agenda. but over these past 12 months, for reasons ranging from the political to the geographical, me and mars power struggle has gone under reported. so we're leaving you this week with a list of recommendations where to go online if you want to stay on the story. for english readers, me and mar, now and democratic voice of burma are good places to start. then there was me and mar, witness a nonprofit organization that document states violence by getting the public to

upload the evidence, videos and photos of human rights abuses, outlets like media, the chin when and development media group, all, stay mostly local and focus on coverage of me and morris after the minority states which are under reported outside me and mar, there is burma campaign u. k. it relies on funding from the general public to push for the release of political prisoners and keep me in mar, in the news. finally, some of the people we follow on twitter way away knew the founder of the women's piece. network activist akins are mom and many mom of human rights watch. they're all sticking with this story even at times when the international media are looking away. we'll see you next time. here at the listening post. news

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