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escalate those ways we already have hit the local area is yes. so as you mentioned, japan is obviously no storage. it is quite sense. so not amazing as well. i mean, they obviously have plans in place to, to deal with things when, when the warnings go out, what will residence ends that will tardies be doing right now? well, as you say, they say they are good as quite bills, injury funds, schofield, and a told what to do. now when people felt the shake immediately i will as opposed to the guns and they said the table. no, no, not saw the building cause that puts you at risk of damage of the things folding on . you get the tables found in the dual frame white. so the shaking finishes you on the coast and the shaking goes on a long time. you know, you're close to a lot, you a quite so bad. you need to guess up as little guess of hail as quickly as you can . people should be self evacuating browser way thing. so a warning use, of course,
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we've also heard someone else already said there is at this stage know abnormalities in nuclear plants in the so not in the area that must obviously be a huge relief considering what has happened in the past. namely in 2011. well yeah, but at the, the, the focus shave upfront was the one that was who died about shouldn't i both shouldn't always, that was a very high, she's the only way to kind of emergency generators. and so this is upset is, is, is a small, uh, could i add full bush, generally, much less damaging and sitting on the waves coming and show. and they're on you clicked on to the area which i don't know, they will, i'm sure, but i will be adequately protected. and as we've seen with, without the, it's quite a large click of this magnitude is often followed by smaller ones, but also potentially of a laundry ones. how much of a risk is they? are that happening to get bad has been bought off the shock. so ready, a grace me magnitude size. so any buildings that would damage bobby,
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and it should be good. cookies that mode, that motion and stuff. people trapped in the rubble to shop for a risk. i wouldn't roll like a big a rough clay company and i did 2011. am with somebody who's 7 as good. i can pay for the full. that was the big one. i think this might be to 9 was the half of the daylights estimate could happen. hey, i've done much that to the snow, so it's, it's slightly different setting. so probably the price will get golden and small us and david will have still a good day. we really do appreciate your time this david roth ray professors plan to treat geosciences. thank you. well that is all for me, tell me cry, for now, we'll be back at the top of the with much more coverage, the on counting the cost. what lies ahead for the global economy is inflation of
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interest rates remain high. the china is facing deflation is price is full power flooding growth, the effect to wells foss. how is rails war on gaza is impacting energy and shipping, counting the cost on how to 0, the content creators, instruments. they have multiple types. but these are the people who power from algorithms and have millions following the trends initially seen as printed as in lifestyle. and then the payment influence is the increasingly playing a significant role in shaping public opinion. the ability to reach millions of followers in a short time, give them a unique platform to disseminate information is advantage. sometimes even cheap, the narrative of the media platforms, the
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majority of your social media is dramatically transformed how we receive and perceive information about wards in conflicts with real time, unfiltered updates becoming norm. this has been particularly evident since the spring and the freezing moves that this evolution will be televised. but tweeted, it marked the pivotal change on the how conflicts are reported and followed trunk. social media is no longer the tools only for communications, but also one for mobilization. social media has it will be joined by platforms like snapshot, instagram, and pick talk, adding new dimensions to have words and perceive documented and shit. even us presidential hopefuls are paying heat on even blanket bands and up such a stick talk. we really do need the band tick tock wants and for all the warden garza is a clear example of this use social media dynamic one,
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which we'll explore with the next half hour hospital. okay, now tell them there's an escape route south to egypt, attention, palestinians, itself, the egypt. okay, now from the escape route. nicole and rough on talked about the they're the same for the hard of hearing. you have to show the loudest and from the people who are unable to see, you have to draw big figures. what you do is taking war and misery and turning it into something funny. let's start with the rough one. why do you do it? well uh, i think 1st of all i have a spine and i understand basic moral principles. and i think that it's a pretty cut and dry issue. pretty, pretty obvious thing that's happening in gaza. and i want to use, you know,
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my knowledge, my, whatever skills or talents i might possess to call attention to what's happening because it's awful. because you've been doing this for a while. you do political satire. why have you taken a really focus on what is happening and doesn't matter? isn't as simple and i'm going to start by saying comedy is taking seriously when politics are joke. i'm saying this because when we do comedy and we're called, i'm sensitive as a big and very large group of people that they don't know what's happening. so set fire and comedy makes them understand somebody better about what we're trying to say. that's very good point that you touched upon in sensitivity. that's something that people think and especially when you talk about something, a conflict which is so steeped in controversy where they're very uh, you know, uh, opinionated sides on both ends. how do you configure that?
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this is insensitive and this is not because we're not referring, i'm not referring to public that already knows what's happening. and for example, we had the large conversation today by saying when something very sensitive is happening, you cannot post comedy, but i'm not talking to a public that's already knows the public already know supports my content. but i'm having these kind of, i'm calling them like snowflakes that they don't know what's happening outside. and we have the generation that's simply in western world. they have no idea the leaving a bubble. so for them to understand any kind of very sensitive subject, i have to comment them with the, with the way to make them understand the least, the humor or the jokes. and eventually they would understand the issue itself. because i received a lot of support from our countries, but they know and they helped my videos to have visibility, but doesn't. it's not by targeted because i'm, i'm speaking numbers. in fact, for example, spain, the country that i know very well. it's divided into 20 percent people that know 20
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percent people that they're afraid of speaking and 60 percent that they don't know how to put published on the map. right. so you connecting them at least to your, a rough when you bring it to north america, you've come here from new york and i see that you actually did a did a skit on this walking in the street. tell me how, how it did that idea came about. and why did you do it? i yeah, i come from the united states. it's the global superpower. i see it. what's happening in gaza is sort of sort of an outgrowth of us imperialism. and, and there's just a cartoonish sort of image of the middle east in america and like nicole, you know, i'm satirizing that. and so i think you're referring to me walking around in doha and sort of making it as if i'm seeing a mouse everywhere. but that's sort of the image that you get from the as rarely
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propaganda system. so i'm just sort of showcasing how silly that is and how in the arctic it is. it's not insensitive what we're doing. what's insensitive is the atrocity that's happening. we're merely calling attention to what's happening and we're trying to do it in a way like nicole saying, we're trying to communicate these ideas or trying to spread the message we want to be effective. we're going up against the, you know, a trillion dollar pr industry where, you know, and we're trying to do that with, with tick tock, videos. and i don't always do satirical stuff. i mean, even in this, even in my satirical sketches there, i like, i, i research them, you know, i try to, and you know, in part a lot of education and history and of the conflict that i don't think you're going to get from corporate media. you know, from western media, especially, especially in the united states, what was the response that because you're reaching a demographic like nicole said,
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which doesn't know what's going on. so how did people react to it? because you, you seem to somebody who, who does things that are funny and now you're changing gear and you're bringing something very serious in to the question. say i don't see myself is like a comedian or, or funny necessarily. i think there's some sort of humor in my per personality and what i do. but i, i'm more so there's a seriousness behind it and it's meant to be educational. you know, i'm trying. we're trying to combat propaganda. uh, so, yeah, i received uh, a mixed. uh, i mean, any, any time you create something that's, i guess a video that's sort of controversial, you're gonna get mixed reviews about it. you know, people want me to stop or they want and they, they issue death threats or, or because a lot of people do get the message. they do see what, what i'm trying to do and, and understand the truth in it. and so i'm just sharing the message as best as i
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can, and the people that's gonna, it's gonna affect, or that's how it's going to affect them. i mean, i can't really say anything more about that about how it's going to be received. i think a lot of people don't realize that doing a video on tick tock or youtube or facebook or try to get you the death threats you . you alluded to that it you. is that a real issue? are you seeing death threats? it doesn't affect you. it doesn't affect me in the sense that i'm going to stop or uh, you know, anything like that. but uh, yeah, i mean i, i get a lot of messages your emails, uh or comments. and i understand that, you know, if, if people are indoctrinated by, you know, the us propaganda system for many years that they're going to not i hear my message and think well of it. so uh, but i think it's just part of it. i mean,
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so i just, i don't, i don't think it's, i don't take it too seriously or to personally, i guess i should say, right. and you'd been receiving same things, right? scripts, abuse and a lot of it. why do you think that it is important for you to accept it and carry on and why is that your work? the work that you do is important. if i don't have a passion for what i'm doing, i cannot last in a trend by doing 2 or 3 videos and just to feel good with myself. if you have a question, you have to have a consistent and you cannot see so many videos with which your kids and so much blog is so much being and not just go crazy. so you need to have a passion in order to do this kind of content, and you need to understand that after may be crying because you see so much thank you. have to go with your purpose and with your permission to make people understand. and i'm not making only comedy, it's a, it's a political satire because when we're talking about palestine and everything is
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happening, we have to fetch subjects like democracy and my democracy means and how cost them i customize easy according to the skin color to the rights to the country to the religion about the fixed freedom. i mean, i'm european, they say i'm free. but if i put this for palestine in paris, i get the rest it. if i speak against this really because they are committing genocide, i'm, i'm, i'm speaking of a tank against the jews and this narrative, you cannot even imagine. they say that democratic, they have freedom to have the freedom to choose their own cost divided dictators. because how can we think about the politics like diapers, and you have to change them and for the same reason. so if you have the right and that power to choose your ability, sions, why don't you use the same thing? are to be careful. we are choosing the politics outside your the borders of your country. so this is what they don't like. they like to king calling their chest as
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we're free. we have democracy in our award people. they don't understand, they don't know. they don't know that old education. the 1st i've had that came from cdn, the oldest capital for example. they don't like countries being 800 years of a big donation of mia. they lift the culture behind and europe when they went to other countries, the left destruction. and that's the difference. so the 2 things that i wanted to touch on is that the words that you use, you repeatedly call it genocide, one. how did you reach that conclusion? and to both of you talk about frustration from corporate media. is that frustration only in the people of your age group off your background, or are you seeing that in a wider audience, which might be a lot young the and who's using the social media a lot more then then then the older generation, my reference to corporate media is just the fact that they are completely invested in serving their constituents and those constituents are not the people of
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countries. they're not working class people there, you know, leads wherever you want to call them. and they have a separate agenda and so we're, we're battling that. i mean they, they don't want people to know the truth. it's the israel, tomas for it's not the genocide of the gaza strip, or it's not the illegal occupation of perpetrated by israel. you'll never hear these phrases in western media as far as i can tell. i haven't seen that. but that's what it is. i mean these people are being ethnically cleanse from their own land. and yes, they are being genocide. and as you know, it's and we feel hopelessly feel helpless, but what can we do? so i'm a teacher, i'm like, you know, i feel like my skill set is to communicate and articulate ideas and spread messages
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. and so that's what i'm, that's what i'm doing. it, what about the audience i want i'm more interested in to see where do you think your message is reverberate? oh, right. yeah. you know, as i was listening to it is watching it tune up, liking it, and spending it and very you're getting feedback from. so ideally, i mean, for anybody who is in the business of getting the message across, you'd want to hear back on, well, whether that message was received. i don't really pay attention to those things. i'm on, you know, i'm using a social media platform that is very popular. this is what we have now. and you know, decades ago, you didn't have content creators didn't have singular influencers. it was more important for media corporations to set the agenda, but like they were saying earlier today, it's like the influencers, the content creators are now becoming more and more powerful in this age and social media, where you can pick up your phone and you can become the media itself,
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and i think that's a powerful tool and i want to use that to, you know, promote working class values and principles and to call out, you know, injustices, social injustices. i mean, how many people in the world know that israel didn't under international law, israel has no right to defend itself. how many people know that, you know, a mouse is an armed resistance group struggling for human rights? you know, there's 2 social groups in question here. one has human rights and one does not have human rights. mazda is cat classified as a terrace group by the are being you. yes, because it hasn't states israel, right? because it's terrorism. when poor vulnerable defense was, people try to fight back against a milton police state. but when that when that rich, milton police, state bombs, a defense was population, that's called democracy promotion. you know,
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is this is a double standard at all times. i don't know what to do except for saturday, you know, because that's, that's what we can do. i mean, so nickel, double standards and hypocrisy is, is something that keeps coming up in these conversations. we were sitting with the white a group earlier as well. why do you think it is important to highlight it and paint it to the world as such? and why does it exist? because people, they don't want to see their own defects. so nobody wants to hear when i'm telling them that they have double standards or that they're cruel, they don't have a hard to, they don't have community, nobody wants to hear it. nobody wants to hear the fact that i'm going to give you exam every time i go to a c number. have this publicity before donate for people to somebody or any other country they need for. at the end of the movie, nobody donated anything because people,
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they don't like to feel gift. and that's why i'm the country from hendrick. i really like to study my public because we're leaving a world where everybody wants to feel a victim. nobody wants to be the villain, and they cost and click cost and you need, i mean, we live in a world where i cannot say i have to believe that god is known by now. or i cannot say merry christmas because people feel offended when they are going on the streets with those things. a very vulnerable and very sensitive community. so if not, they know they're not marching for the penguins and non factory for not having gluten free bread. and i have to teach those people, so they need a villain. i don't have a problem in giving them a really, i don't i targeting them actually, because if i go with the motions, i'm going to feed. that's kind of an eagle that they have. everybody's emotional, everybody to victim. when you give them a villain who's telling them what's the issue in the world that going to study what
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i'm talking about just to come with me and then your room. so actually i'm doing the same thing. that was the media this, so i'm making them very outraged because honestly, i thought the phones got smarter and the people the other way around. so the, all those devices are really smart and we need to understand that those devices are made by a human brain. it cannot be smarter than us, but you are lazy and everybody likes to complain and everybody wants to have the syndrome of. i'm a victim. don't worry. i can give you a villain. but the vin post will tell you the truth. i'm going to make it so a great deal going to come with me and you're going to study what i'm talking about . just to contradict me, what you're going to find out in the process. that's what i was telling was true. so this is actually the same thing that they were feeding us, but the only difference that i'm not using fake news. so it's good that i'm actually proud of that they're giving me good examples. and when they try to band
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to, to shut us up to center as i feel proud if they don't do this, that means i'm not doing anything. right. we're not trying to shut down visa, football and no, we're just laughing. it's, it's rich to point to be funny. we're not trying to show them. i'm not come at the show us what, what, what's more you can do. so when they're trying to censor me, that me something something great. i'm not going to go being a victim. no, because i started, i don't mind being the villain just for them to understand. so yeah, i study one of the quite let's talk about the tools that you use. a social media is ever expanding their new apps, new avenues of, of getting your message across. but you are using one particular application which seems to be getting through also making a lot of people angry, including the united states government, which is talking about binding this particular app. why is it and why is that particularly your choice of medium? it's a good question. i think what i've learned is that take talk is
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a very powerful editing software and it's highly engaging and, you know, i don't know, it's just it's, it's the thing that people are using now. and there's never been something kind of like that. but yeah, i find that a, i don't how tick tock is just it's not like i was i was banned on tick tock. i was releasing music videos and i was already of that. they was making like, you know, political songs and they banned me and then i didn't like to talk for, for a while, but then i just figured i'd start talking about it because that's sort of how the, the app works. you know, it works better when you're, you know, looking at a cameron speaking and i had no idea that it was gonna catch on. and i mean, this is a bit now the, the page that i started only a few months old, you know,
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but it's somehow, you know, my message was, you know, that became popular. and i'm just kind of going with it. and why do you think that to that particular address, if medium is important for you, or do you think that it is, you have to use all of those platforms to get your message across. i'm using one of them. i don't know if they talk, i mean, what has some political thing behind to support? i mean it's supported a lot, but the band also a lot. so it just the funny to see for the patients like nikki haley being so outraged and saying that the one hour of talk is turning on teenagers. 17 percent more radicals acquire. so scared. i mean, you have all the media, you can fact check everything. we can get the band because we don't have the fact i just eat, i can fact take some something and they can prove is true. i just nicole, i is so afraid of me. and the masses are important since the 1st time in
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a long time. that's a massive group of people, especially how we call it agenda. the generation, the, the new generation that they're speaking in the imagine the frustration of paid proof. i'm going to be taken down by so many teenagers, because we know that the bank medians in billions, who have single building in youtube. and actually, i don't mind the territory. if it's histogram or facebook or treat that i don't care. i just do the same. what i need to saying, because my soul is burning and they can translate on contrast, making all the language is i know and just wants to listen when listen what i'm doing my job before i know exactly what i'm talking to and i know exactly who's going to get the card and they will have to understand that when they talk about this a warranty situation, it's not only only about the conflict itself. we cannot even call it the conflict. i mean, the, i've talked to seen europe. oh, russia and ukraine. i,
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i hate any type of virus, but that to armies hiking. we don't see to armies here. we saw almost all the movies are the very strong. the best are me, nuclear weapons against who the gays to. they have left kids with rocks and, and they, they have how most of them don't have the same weaponry. so we cannot talk about the conflict. so when you see all these, oh, all the, the if they have blue eyes and they're blown, come to, you look good. okay too, but not least we got out of care. and, and that's the thing. it doesn't matter how you send the message. if you know exactly how this and you have to study the other side as well because they did a good job for a very long time. my last question to you was, is not just the content creators, but serious buck us is, has been the warden god that has gone on for weeks. it's not because of the death of information is because of the actions that are the leading taking. are you making a difference? and if you're not, what's driving you, what's driving me?
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i mean, like i say i is just having a spine and having basic moral understandings, having critical thinking. and i guess you could say just a commitment to a principles, a basic principles. what about you and i have to say that western world really phase ballast, i and i want to represent here the western world by saying that i'm really sorry. and i have to watch the scenes by saying that if we didn't do it until today, or until 7th of october, and we start doing this, we have to apologize 1st. and we have to, we have to understand that's it. is if you don't have a heart, if it takes just the heart, don't need anything else. you don't need religion. the need politics use, you don't need anything but hard to understand those things. so what drives me. it's has rage and not have passion. because i think most of the
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countries of the world they were ruled by his friends. but by this time, we think we're free and found his family by this time freed us and showed us what human values we lack. this is what's happened actually. they're suffering and dying, but they liberated the entire world. and that for me is the most important thing. and it's not enough anymore for me. it's not enough to hop on a trend and feel good. and it's not enough. not saying that there are big voice using this world, and they're saying we're not obliged to talk. yes, you are watching your movies whereby your music, we're calling you influencers. we trust you. so yes, people are obliged to talk about those things because it's only think so hard. so this is my message. if i have to condense something today and then people are site, and i'm really sorry from western world that we sent them for such
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a long time. russell and nicole, thank you very much for talking to out. the . the latest news, as it breaks, echo is, is not only concerned about the possibility of more cause. and the reason it's worried, it could approximate with detailed coverage less than 2 weeks. central office being criticized, behaving more like a number of precedent from around the world since the start of the war. a vast number of small a voluntary groups have sprung, get to big. they don't have the result of fig organize station it is a tenant of turn to produce objectives these coverage. many parts of is really media are effectively engaging in propaganda or genocide. what these really military was telling us does not fit in with what evidence they have so far. and
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yet, on the fringes of this way, the public discourse and seeing more voices persist sale, calling the traitors. the listening close covers how the news is come to watch this space for where the story goes next, and then finish journey. that has the less than broken gay involved. they thought they could make it to europe, traveling from senegal, through the sahara to the edge of the mediterranean. in this year, the traffic has sold us on trips in dippy. i like slaves piled in a dark cage, only a meter high out of the 120 people that were with us. only 17 survived. the stop, what your opinions perceive as an unstoppable flow of africans, the pressure you share it to making the traffic of migrants illegal. but now the low criminalizing of legal migration is being revoked. the you now for years, a new wave of margaret's. this will cost that in the desk such about that would
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also mean more people coming to the you. despite the humiliation, abuse and suffering all day and isa are willing to attempt the journey to europe again in search for what they hope will be a dignified life. the a scramble to say the injured and garza is ready. prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the will will continue for many more months. the until mccrae. this is aaron line from also coming up 5th street battles between mazda sizes and just ready forces in the center of this trip. the israeli military says it is expanding its ground operations southwards. is there any forces sponsors, palestinians as they carry out more roads across the occupied west bank and east
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jerusalem and people being evacuated as to 90 waves with wisdom? japan triggered by a series of.

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