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i'm just thinking about that you court. thank you. let's make it. we did have a film which was was going to tell you about, jen, it's, i colleague met go what they going. yeah. and then just good publicize it to be quite low price in mexico. so i go, that's probably the wrong a right. and you don't like, i'm ok, i can talk about anything now a paper to have to talk about the process, the journalism and not just deliver the reporting that does that feel good? it's, it's something we used to talking about obviously, you know, we used to talking about, i would say the people we're doing theories on and the issues returning theories on . but then the process itself, you know, it's a hearing for them and very sometimes it's a happy process. sometimes the depressing process depending on the kind of 3rd they're getting shot. so yeah, it's very, yeah, we know,

we don't like as generally as john is to talk about ourselves and what we did, this was really tough, but we didn't eat the help 5 days and none of that know that makes the news, but i'm sure that people who love the news find that fascinating me now? because i've been one of the obvious basic tenants is, you know, you're never the story and you shouldn't become. so you're always focusing on stories of, of the people, you know, being the voice that, and. busy giving them sort of that, that platform so you don't really get to focus on, on the process of how you've got the behind the scenes. but it does sort of sometimes they're taking a backseat and maybe reflecting on that process because it's good to think about it as the reason john is in a car because he's on the way to new assignment, which is so appropriate for taking you behind the scenes of what some of our journey to doing this year. john,

one of the biggest stories that you covered was for audi 04 lines. and i am going to share just a little moment from that production. so people can hear the story and come off the back of it and tell us why it was important to you in 2022. as take a look. i live with mit screws. one of the most things wisconsin wo, via journalism. in 2022 will place little issue yet up a little bit over the past 2 defeats the concerns violence and corruption is meant to him. his face attacks from everywhere. no, no. so think a moment all there. i know i have mr. think a moment, those to leave it, the boy was hello. so john, i'm just thinking about why that's so important. i know that we've regularly talked

about johnny's under attack in mexico. john is on the way to an assignment, so we've just lost him for a moment. we're gonna call him back and bring him back in to that conversation. i'm gonna then skip across to me now because you had to be quite reflective when you were talking about sri lanka, i'm sorry, we cut just a moment. all right, john johnny's johnny's now back. me now hold tight at this is like doing live tv. this is live tv, so john, come back here and tell us really why that was one of the most critical stories that you reported on this year is done with us right quick. we're connect with john in just a moment. i am going to play for you a little piece that we do here at al jazeera and the, the story is and the, the thread is caught between us. and it's what often journalists do and tell you about what it was like to tell the story. this between us is from men now. and then

how will you pick up off the back of it because i really want to get out. it's to get a sense of how you covered a huge story for sri lanka this year. festival is between us. the things that have been happening in my country have been quite an emotional journey for me. i'm angry that it had to come to this. i feel let down because those who are in power in positions of authority, i haven't really done what they promised to do. bad management, corruption, nepotism, has brought the country to its knees. now if you had to sum up this year in a word, what word would that be for gay? critical, critical for sure lanka. as it stands at a crossroads and the stuff we saw unfolding a from the point that this country started sliding into its worst economic crisis.

it has ever known to seeing the impact it had on ordinary she lumpkins. you know, it basically led to queues for days on end shortages of basic essentials. and people really, really, really began to feel the pinch of that economic crisis. and there in the anger and the frustration actually led people to take to the streets like they had never had before. and i think for sure, lanka that led to a process of people taking a stand, making the voices heard you know, coming out in public protest, which ultimately led to a change in leadership, the exit of a prime minister, a president. and i think in that sense it's been critical for sher lanka, you know, can you take us through some of the shots that you share with us will literally take us behind the scenes of your reporting. we didn't see this on tv. what is

happening in this chart here? you're on the phone, you're sitting on the floor. tell us more. so this was actually a goldsmith workshop. if you look at that sort of flat plank in front of that man, that's actually a piece of gold that he generally works with and close by the blue is a gas cylinder. and this was a story we did where we went to talk to people about shortages. and this guy was saying that the use sort of gasoline, the in their work to fashion jewelry. much of it done by hand. and he was telling us how cause had absolutely skyrocketed because of the shortage of guess. they were paying something $3.00 to $4.00 times as much to sort of security on the black market. this is a lady who make food and so that sort of living and she was talking about again how the high cost of living had impacted her. she has, you know,

number of grandchildren. she supports this on the road to the prime minister's office, where we see essentially a deployment of soldiers. we had been camped out there literally for about 2 or 3 hours with the protest that was sort of confronting the police and the military. again here near the goal is face of the presidential secretariat, sort of a standoff between military right police. as you can see them all up with gas mark a which for months on end we just had many, many times where the authorities use to get volleys of it as well as water cannons to push back protest and sort of break up protests which will very very common over do you me go back to john john as factory reconnecting. i wanted you to tell our audience why that particular report. the film that you did before i was so critical for this year in your report of notebook guide for

2022. yeah. definitely, i think it was the fact that their colleagues have been in mexico right now for 60 years. when we do stories about mit can reports isn't what the dangers of that facing the fact that they've been killed. and i suppose strike to cool because people that i've known people that have actually gone on deployments with and they've been killed or they've been associated and things have happened to the so i space from a personal point of view. good to see that film. but of course, like, it's all sorts of when you look at journalists like doing films about of agenda is i think maybe to the public. it can seem a little bit like why it's just because it's your profession. i think what we try to do, and i made the thing with could be pretty cool, wrote it, and have a month. i know if we did all of the beautiful images. well, at central think it was like mission journalists, voices are falling silent in parts of the country, thus has

a direct impact on democracy. know people because you hear less critical voices. you have an opportunity to make decisions that are informed in terms of who's going to be in charge appear in terms of governance against organized crime. you know, so it's really important that somebody is lived for a long time to do it for that reason, you know, it was quite like it was quite suited and it reminded you how disturbing it was the line here between international press and national and especially local press and the most violent areas of the country. and i tried to include that in the film and could be for that as well. the part that no international jo, this have been killed in the last decade. meanwhile for the national press, this is the most dangerous country in the world to report. ready off the ukraine, you know, so i don't know like just going to that the hinterland will be dangerous areas of

mexico talking to people about, well they going through like i colleagues and then telling some stories that just might get blood. so what do you, i don't know, you have that sent to your privilege, i suppose. and like i was going through that in that village with that proximity to a gang leader to put me on the threat. i think i would have like, you know, become an account or something. you know, so sort of the ration from my space as well. we all catching you as you are on your way to an assignment. can you tell us what the assignment is and, and perhaps does that gives a sense of what the big stories might be for you in 2023. yeah, i space booked a room, which is where i'm heading to you. hopefully no, because those protests, the around the country, the moment about president just was just been ousted. he was also trying to dissolve congress and things like that. it's one of the stories that we're talking about. the group of them is for everyone. the same is called everyone who's in this

conversation that have done this. when you get a message from your editor cook in the morning, we need your improve as soon as possible. 1 o'clock in the afternoon and the team, i'll tell you quickly is the camera that's me going with she's going to be spending her birthday now in, in period rather than in acapulco we go to best friends. so it's, it's not typical. so it's like you're running and i before the show is looking at and different media reports to try and read on the story. so hopefully in like this time i'm going to can very authoritative in front of the camera telling you exactly what's going on with my colleague buddy sanchez. but at this moment i'm sweating at the hour. we love to see the sweat. john, thank you so much. before we send you off, do you have like a to go back? are you ready at any moment for that call from joe hall like okay, cool. where we're going the app. yeah,

i do. it's in my office like and it will record and it's actually trying to show it to someone on the last trip that was on. i think it was quite proud of it. i put it together this year and it quite complete. it was just bag. it's free by the club is still in there. if we, if anyone from organized crime doesn't want to speak, i restarted their work because like 3 black balla clovis is suspicious thing in the road if you're crossing to a border. so i'm not, i'm not sure if i plan through custom, they won't big, but i'm still being professional terrorist who's going into the country for some sort of virus. ready purpose john hopkins. thank you so much for sharing your big story off this year. we will, if you wish you every success as you go off on assignment to peru where you will be very authoritative. i showed you and i was just there english. i'm going let john drive off to the airport to come here via this instagram,

which is john's instagram here. he says, we have thing what to say in the cemetery, where out to 0 correspondence shrink. abu k was laid to rest. this may have presences loomed large of the visit progressive bite into the region. really nice photos from ricardo lopez. so at that moment, this is the point where i want to bring in new to abraham, who really talked about and shared with us this year. her big story of this year have a listen. have a look. this has been the toughest year in my professional career, not only because it has been the deadliest in 16 years, according to you and figures, but also because we lost the beloved colleague, someone who was passionate and dedicated to telling the palestinian story. sharina, well, claire was killed by israeli for his fire and genius. 7 months ago, we had to continue telling the story we had to keep deporting despite the pain,

the grief and the trauma. and we're still trying to keep the story alive. and we knew that pain that we're feeling is that no one has been held accountable. yet if you all knew chief right now, you can talk to him. morgan l fernandez to out there. we english correspondence has had big stories this year. navy's, we got a good question in from our online audience, not is how do you separate yourself from the story if it hits close to home. sharing clay is one of those stories, but there are other stories that you report on from your region that must feel very past. no. how do you separate yourself? can you separate yourself about well, i think not always, no, because i mean, at least for me, i live in sudan and it's home, right?

i'm put in these and i know the people here, they're part of my everyday life. and whether the story is happening here and how to me, or whether it's happening in tomorrow or and therefore you really can always separate yourself. but i think ultimately you have to remember that you're trying to pass on a message and you being somebody else's voice. and if you don't do it professionally and you get to emerge then, and then you kind of distort the message. and i think that that's what keeps the trait while we're doing our job, that that's how i feel like it is now. yeah, i agree with the hippa, because it is civility. and that something that i think will take quite seriously because the nature of stories sometimes, particularly in cases where it is your country, it is your people. you are not somebody who is sort of parachute in your living

it with, with the people that sort of different see ation or that line is something that you have to sort of religiously mark and likely. so during the protest in felucca it, there were times when you needed to be really, really careful not to get caught up in the sort of holes of things. i mean, there were from, during those months of protest there were marches, for example, by certain pocket group, sometimes the gentleness of media who were also joining this kind of protest to take a stand again, the government to sort of devote man the government to resign. and those things kind of start off a slippery slope because once you start echoing and start taking up activism, then you know, being able to sort of claim that you are credible and not biased or slanting

towards one side. it becomes difficult. so i think that is something of a responsibility that you really need to be very, very conscious of and not lose sight of i watching on youtube. we have to dope media odyssey or english. i'm following you from somalia, where you have covered somali for a very long time. i really appreciate your valuable work. i am sharing that with a morgan. he knows the region very, very well in his cover stories from that area. it's undeniable that we work for a very serious network in the world of international networks. we are probably brussel sprouts and vegetables. okay. we're not flopping data and ice cream where we're pretty hard call. so when a story comes along, that's a little different audience notice, and i correspondence notice as well, if i say poor sudan to you, however, what are you going to tell us that will make these next reports are about to play? make sense? what is the preamble? what do we need to know?

ah, that it has fascinating, fascinating images. and when you eat, when i think of course that and now i, you know, you don't think of the usual sudan and yes, i mean, i think you should show the fears or what i'm talking about because i just, yeah, i can talk about, i think that but i see it even more than reporting from port sedan board to dance coastal waters have long been a source of escape and pleasure for the people who live in the city. many come to its shows during the summer months, but to accompany say, very few dived to explore below its waters. and how little i know it in as in nevada, we try to show people that the sea has many types of activities, not just fishing. there's diving, there are islands to explore, they can camp on the coast. there are many activities that can promote tourism in the red sea. and we want to show people that play with us and part of the, well,

the african continent being one of them where people have an image about what it's like. and the stories that often come out of the african continent and diving an underwater imagery is not one of them. tell us how you got that story through the newsroom. so we were import sedan we deploy to do a story about best buy. so that song, just a few days back before we would deploy that is and about $15000.00 she had drowned and we were looking more at the environmental impact and we were there, we want to do something different. you know, we've always, we visited them in some theories about the course and about you know, the general economy and the 4th and significant and ecologically and politically. but while we were filming the stand up, you know, we're looking to rise and there's the service center. and we were a bit surprised to we go in and we meet who we just saw in the,

in the package. and we asked her about diving and what we would be. and she started showing as the main thing, amazing collection of pictures of the coral reef you know, and all $570.00 which is basically, you know, the size of the protective pipe. and very few people know that. so we sat down with her for about like 20 minutes and she was just so passionate about talking about diving about tourism and then 30 minutes. and we were told a story that there's something different that we could talk about. and we did the 3 after talking to her and telling them that you know, we have something different. it's like a postcard problem with them and they were excited about it. well yeah, i had my you being out to fix that one because whenever jenny stan on the beach, nobody believes that they're doing proper stories. okay. so there's one more thing i would like you to do and not just to think about the new year,

a future planning. what are the stories that you feel that you're going to be telling our audience? our view is about in the new year. but 1st, i'm going to stop off with stephanie vox and again and another out english correspondent with the story that was very memorable for her this year. and that takes us to ukraine. we met fairly traumatized people escaping boucher and ben at a time where russian russian soldiers were on a killing spree. so they came and they were barely capable of sharing their stories with us. you could see the fear in their eyes, but it's one story that really has stuck in my mind. that's a story of 95 year old and a half each and i, she was in an apartment block maybe on the 7th or 8th floor. and one of the volunteers and we were filming, she was trying to convince the old woman to leave. but she said, no, i'm not leaving, i'm, i'm refusing, i'm too old. and i would rather die in my bed. and amid all the bravery of the ukrainians that i saw at the time, this story also showed the helplessness,

the feeling that we just simply couldn't do anything for her and had to leave her behind. of course we're going to be covering ukraine as a network in 2023. have from your region. what would you suggest that we'd be looking at very closely? what's going to be news in 2023? i mean, of course the damage. obviously the political developments and the the possibility of a deal between the political parties and, and the protest that we think things called the year. but i think something that we will be looking more into in the coming year is the impact of climate change in the region and how it fueling so many things you know, like where the economy crisis that we're having. and whether it's the conflict and inter continental conflicts that we're having. so i think that the something that we've been looking into. so for the well, me now in one minute to the end of the show, what do you predict will be

a big story from your region that you are going to be reporting on. in 2023 shall anchors attempt to try and get back on its seat again and recover in terms of economic sort of, you know, pulled back from an adverse that literally this country has fallen into. the government is waiting for approval of a bailout package from the international monetary fund, which is taking quite a bit of time. but in the process, the seeing sky high prices, people really, really struggling to make ends meet. and while the government has sort of looked at fiscal policy changes and a whole bunch of other reform measures, the impact this is having on people is, is really something to watch and seek out up and turns it around. and i'll fernandez heaven morgan, john harmon on the way to the airport to cover a story. this show proof that not only do we have the best correspondence in the

world, we have the best few as as well. i my biased no. thank you so much for watching, really appreciate you. i'll see you next time. take a ah i oh, so the next gilbert julian dawn today. i know people are just coming. you have met people who are not. i think it will be here. spatial. close to the moral good. right. what do you guys think of the result i ah, ah ah

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