for more than 90 years, christ, the redeemer has stood tall, watching over rio de janeiro, changing colors to embrace various for many tarion causes, welcoming millions of visitors every year. many hoping to capture the perfect selfie with one of the 7 wonders of the modern world. but now the iconic monument is at the heart of a fierce battle over who should control it. the catholic church or the brazilian state owner of the land beneath its feet and the forest surrounding it. i go to your location, no one disputes, the government's rights to the land. a church simply seats ownership of the statue itself and the area both below us continue the. the church currently manages events and uses the proceeds to maintain the statute, but it's pushing for more ownership of the 2nd terrace, which houses shops and a restaurant. it's lawyer says that the federal government has failed to maintain basic infrastructure, like the bathrooms and elevators,

the stakes have only risen. it's 2 bills now under debate in congress supporting the churches claim. i think kit, facebook just if we hand over controls the church, we essentially be privatizing a cultural heritage that belongs to old brazilians, christian and non christian, a like it also send the wrong message, the national parks crace to preserve the environment, could be dismantled or partially privatized, chrysler, redeemer stands at the top, goes to the mountain in the heart of that usual can national park, the largest urban forest in the world. the sprawling green space covers an area of the size of $4000.00 football fields, with kilometers of trails and dozens of water falls, is preservation is a central to lower temperatures in the city, below, and provided with water, or is so far as if we lose control over the number of visitors and vehicles that come here daily. we risk damaging the fragile ecosystem of plants and animals that

live here. the parts maintenance also depends on millions of dollars generated by ticket sales to see cries, the redeemer, a small portion of that revenue goes to the church, which already holds the rights to royalties from the statutes, image, price, the redeemer has welcome this new year with the record number of taurus 20000 on january 1st. below the battle for control continues with each new visitor, the value of the statute and the stakes roll higher monica, you're not can. i'll just era. we addition arrow. that's it for me. my, the inside, stay with us here on out is there. the of the sun rises really up to the, the

history was written. the nature became a theory is here, the be students and a totally the timeless journey. what's with donald trump is fixation on south africa. we looked at a geo political story with multiple angles to running from the cape of good health to the middle east. the occupied westbank, the tactics, the israeli military as important from gauze. and the news outlets in israel acting like sheer plus syria, the post outside the era, fake news, and the dangers of this information. it is hard to keep up with all the executive orders coming out of the white house

these days. so we've decided to pick one of them and to dig into that story, donald trump has signed a directive, stopping on us for an aide to south africa, and offered refugee status to after congress, white south africans, many of whom were complicit in the system of apartheid ostensibly, trump opposes a new law, the expropriation act, which gives the a n c. led coalition government, the power to expropriate land, under certain scenarios, including land owned by after congress. the order also accuses the government of fueling violence against racially dest favored land owners trumps. talking about white people, farmers, the south african government disputes, those arguments says they're based on misinformation and propaganda will get that where that material comes from and how it is made it onto a news channels in the us, us, and be on the other angle playing into this story south africa also happens to be

the country that has taken israel to the international court of justice projects since taking power. once again, donald trump has been taking shots across the bows of so many countries counted. why should we be subsidizing mexico? is people from deals from through mexico, china makes the sense, it gives it to mexico, denmark over green. and now, so the south african situations, very dangerous, is tremendously bad things going on and certainly including the confiscation of property with a stroke of a parent and an executive board. trump ended us for an aide to so fast and pay the way for offer connor's white south africans to resettle in american to the order accuses the and see lead governance of using a new law. the expropriation act to discriminate against white farmers and

confiscate their life. it also alleges the government has fueled disproportionate black on white violence, deemed that farmers landowners taking to his platform of choice truth social trump call that a story that the radical left media does not want to cover the irony of it all. it's an executive order drawn up by the trump white house that is based on fake names. when trump talks about expropriation close at confiscation, confiscation is when something is taken away without any due process without any compensation, that doesn't happen in south africa. no. expropriation is quite a normal legal process, the governments around the world use and the south african constitution requires just and equitable compensation. so in the way of hyping this up, donald trump, is also other in south africa as if we do not have the kinds of legal frameworks that are equivalent to those both in north america and elsewhere around the world.

if you look at the data in 2023, there were a 49 murders related to people who work on these farms. right. in total, south africa had almost $30000.00 murders and 2023. and you have a very homicide rate, some of the people killed will be white, some of them will be farmers, but there's actually very little evidence that they're being targeted in that way. or the rates of ions are particularly high. actually dot to terms knows that much about so that frequently even kids that much about south africa, specifically the spacing chains, whites of i, q base, they would probably identify with a mythical white drive being on the street in the master calendar. black government to politically, it also ties into arising writing populous discourse that draws on fields of blacks . fields of muslims is of immigrants. and this is part of these agenda as to punish of africa for taking israel to the international court of justice. and also part of

south africa's riveting towards russia, china and the brakes. and its response to the trump administration's moves, the south african government said it was concerned by what seems to be a campaign of misinformation and propaganda are for, for them probably play the part and n g o launched in 2006 to defend the interests of offer, connors, it is led by a former politician, cali creek, who admits apartheid was wrong, but still denies. it was a crime against humanity. air for, for them started making inroads overseas during donald trump's 1st term and often having used social media to spread its message, planting the notion of a white genocide in south africa. it found some willing listeners in washington and be off to a faster the insignificant story. the media have all but ignored among them. tucker carlson and fox news in 2018 after 4. and i think recognizes that it operates in

a very small space in south africa. and it has taken advantage of the rise of right elements in europe. and in america, south africa does of baptism this lazy journalism from the main stream. so it was a strategic release from them where they recognize that the world is changing. it looks good so we can find some allies having the last yeah, 3. what about roughly 84 from that is and they started attending these global writing conferences coming to capitol hill to lot be people who's never even stepped out of the state and they don't know what solve that for you guys like aaron. so it's a wonder if they need is, has a piet at c packing hungry friends with me to open and other writing need is. so this would be an active campaign of this. now they are denying culpability. acting very surprised that this disclose of is, this demonology has been appropriated and taken over by trump. but when they were

doing all of this, they were bragging about this on social media. deal on mosque has been using his platform and presumably his growing proximity to donald trump to choose this story . yeah. he's been spreading statements online by opposition, figures like julie as malayna to make the dubious claim itself. africa is a white genocide in a way to the some of my name is views are indeed reprehensible. but his party is not even part of the coalition government. he is just the tool that must use is to drive the narrative of white victim. throughout the portion of this story, the spectre of neighboring zimbabwe has been written and the racially driven, sometimes violence land grabs. that took place there 25 years ago. you wanted to

be in the mall, that's not even close to what's happening in so far. although more than 3 decades after the end of apartheid, white still own more than 70 percent of the private farm land, despite making up just 7 percent of the population. if we just go back to the realities on the ground, the people in south africa could do face the real risks and reality of being rented homeless and lenses are black people who are being evicted from funds. black people who have no place to stay in the city, but all of this is ignored and it's good when somebody with the power of musk, with the power of trump, all of these groups managing to dominate the headlines, even musk was brought up in the process of africa as a white child in south africa went to white's only school. he would have been

indoctrinated into the whole apply to logic. the issue here i think, is also part of the, the way that the media is framing this. often the types of testing to that sort of a, as in a. busy big populace disclose around a white genocide around the world. yes, it's political, but i think we should also be careful not to throw the baby with the bathwater or it's not like there is no such thing as a fire. murder is a doctor that does exist as an issue. the main thing that we have to be worried about is politicizing these topics, right and exaggerating them in ways that are designed to help certain political factions, the media can help the plate, the anger and resentment paranoia around these issues by just covering them, covering them fairly right, so that demagogues can take advantage of these issues and kind of load them into reports to more aspects of that executive board, one of which was included, and one that was not. it's cited south africa's quote, aggressive position against israel at the i c j accusing them. definitely yahoo

government. but not from boss of genocide. that's not quite the fake news. it's just actually misleading. because that court only has jurisdiction over states. it has no power to issue rulings against the political organization. like some of the parts, the executive order left out of africa is a member of breaks to the growing inter governmental economic alliance that offers itself as an alternative to the g 7 blocks led by the us with talk of trade, war, skin and on the air the trump administration has chosen this moment to send a message to bricks, the smallest and economically weakest member state. just looking at the traditional parts of bricks, brazil, russia, india, china, from sides of close to me and, and all of that. so that, that doesn't really belong there, but the bricks partners recognize that it was important to have it represented

because growth can be found on the african continent to saw that it could be contained as strategic edition. but i think from the united states point of view, they recognize that saw that the guy is the smallest economy that and so that is what we went that took the style to the international or to of justice. what is also at stake? it is american stuff, power, domestic lead time might. it might be a short sighted short term game. but all of it is the recent studies show that that is a rising and to american, an interesting incentive. nothing in south africa, but african, more broadly, if we uh, saw the africans resilient people and we will not be bullied. and this moves and the demise of american softball is likely to play in the hands of those that want to see diminished. and so i think at stake here is very high risk. political do political cabinet. $5.00 is real self described counter insurgency in the occupied westbank escalates by the

de one minister in the nation. yahoo government is demanding the occupied territory . be given the cause of treatment and he's being helped along the way by some leading is really news outlets. ryan coles is here with more as bad as the most recent is rarely offensive in the west bank has been with our strikes, killing at least 25 palestinians ground forces destroying entire neighborhoods. according to finance minister bet ssl smoke church. that's still not enough. he's calling for the gods, if a cation of the westbank you got to do is, you know, would you buy the shit the 4 weeks ago is really forces launch operation. iron wall targeting was, they describe this terrorism this past week. they storm part of the newer shaun's refugee camp warning residents over the loudspeakers to leave with his rarely soldiers firing bullets and sound. bar. firewall represents a significant escalation in both scale and intensity,

destroying the central services, reading homes, and preventing a central medical assistance. roads have been destroyed, including one to janine government hospital, the west banks only public health care facility. tactics routinely normalized in and encouraged by israeli media outlets as much. it may not be sense to call us sold the total thumbs to told the view. come up as i'll be with the visual ones for months is rarely officials and pundits have argued that the war on gaza was the response to the october 7 attacks. but now that they are calling for similar tactics in the west bank in the area that had no direct involvement in october 7, that argument falls apart and smoke church. one of the leading messengers and this offensive knows the west bank. well, he's in his really set. what are there? thanks right. it's less than 3 months ago with rebel forces closing in on him and the capital damascus, siri, and president bush shot. i said,

fled for moscow. since then, our transitional government has been installed, a new president appointed coming out of more than half a century of totalitarian rule under the asset family. this is a momentous time for serious the authorities. they are had crushed political discourse. a culture of secrecy and suspicion permeated society and the legacy of distrust can be difficult to get past. move on from information is now ricocheting around the country that had been under the grip of a dictator. misinformation and this information are ramped as well. and anyone looking for accuracy in reporting does not have it easy. but listening posts mean actually robbie. now on one of the challenges facing serious transitional authorities, how in a country still taking its 1st steps into a new era? do you tackle fake news. ready ready ready ready these are distressing images desperate families in city as green said, now i'm in

a tree prison, a name, a place that was shorthand for the industrial scale brutality of the authoritative of family visa, distressing images, and doing provided last year of to city and read those to open prisons across the country as the broken end of this truly, these are distressing images, and one of them is not from said naya, it's not even from city. we have seen a lot of a i generated images and fake images and even images that were from the vietnam museum of 4 that were published online as images from a said lawyer. you know, before december said lawyer for so many syrians was this dark topic that we don't know much about. and then this very dark, secretive space. it became open to the public. there was lots of confusion around, you know, what people were seeing. and this was particularly the case in the early days, just off the assets have sled,

and these revel groups had entered into the most because there was a stream of this on misinformation. it seems a particularly valuable to bad information and considering what the country and its people have endured since independence from central and 1946. it's not surprising. after the declaration of the city and republic, there was more than 15 years of political up even close ministry easily. and then a hot done in the early 19 sixty's when the bought by the lead by members of city as minority. all white muslim community established a political monopoly. the last to the right up until december, 2024. the defeats ship of general, and then president tough is the side. so the transformation of syria into 2 talented in please states. in the 3 decades of his royal city and sold the in position of most surveillance, repeating of the countries, various communities, sending with sim, christine drew's, she on the scene and the codes against one another. the state dominated all

communication and media, the intelligence agencies known as the macabre standardized citizens, especially critics. they would disappear and says, torture extrajudicial kings of political opponents, lawyers join, use human rights campaigners even just ordinary people. when bush auto left side succeeded his father, the reviews of hope that they might be somebody for him. however, scooped by the mobilization of city and political and civil society, but shot on a sub crackdown with a philosophy that resulted in italy, which was even more despotic than his fathers. when the out of uprisings of 2010 and 11 spread like why 5 in the region, city and stage, some of the most impassioned demonstrations, the push back from the team was booted and the country descended into a bit of civil information welfare was rampant made was by the involvement of numerous foreign players, it on russia, the united states and its allies to key and various side of nations,

got to 2024. and having consolidated bid with northwest city a, a group of heavy factions, led by i se that sean and the commander in chief, that shadow mounted to put it moved at incredible speed and led to the shadow sides of the we disintegrating in december. since then, the country has been in a state of heightened devotion, exhilaration, trepidation, really anxiety and confusion. information is flowing like never before, and much of it is underline. it's kept, i'm a female. the founder of a group called verify syria, incredibly busy me or not. i'd be there on numerous misinformation campaigns that took off after the fall of the serial machine. one campaign for instance, portray siri as having deteriorated so much that things were actually better during, but sean sent through the other campaigns, target minorities and syria spreading false information that otherwise most names are being targeted and killed solely because they are other whites or the christian

churches are being burnt down solely because they follow a religion other than a slam. there also campaigns aimed at the majority, suddenly population saying that the new leader for the shuttle has pods and all those who participated in killing sundays, including senior members of the said the machine for me, syria. and today i asked myself who's survival? depends on pro, i'm getting the conflict with survival depends on prologue during the war. and the answer here is for us to have the syrian government officials who are terrified open accountability process. and then you have the businessman and the warlords, who have benefit financially from this conflict. people tend to not only believe but the circle needs information that aligns with fair pre existing anxieties and fears. one of those ceo's has been how transitioning presidents shut out and the h d. s, which is needing the current government in syria. we deal with the countries many

minorities decades of sick data and suspicion. much of it fed by the s of the machine and is often diseases in storms. these concerns also the history of the h t s, which is largely sunday and was born out of a group created by the islamic state and then event ice. it carries its own bag in the days off to the phone, as i said, a video zipped around the country. it showed the burning of an allied shrine by each diaz fighters. the video was months only, but it was being shed, as of the incident, had just a good sense of tremulous through the country. what was really interesting about the example of the shrine is that the incident was taken out of context. and again, we've seen lots of this happen recently. a lot of these examples of being resurfaced from the past i'm being attributed to hate to yeah, so other smaller groups in syria, it became so prolific that the new ministry of interior felt the need to put out

a statement and ensure that they, they cover fly to hundreds, by the video of the attack on the shrine, inflamed sectarian tensions in syria, as it spread online. we so many protests take place. we saw other words take up arms and other sex particularly sundays, did the same in an attempt to confront and suppress them. at this kind of chaos seem to have been the aim behind sharing this video and other video verify. cdo was amongst the 1st outsets to fact check the button and try and video. the group is one of the most active and credible sources of information on the country. they get the funding from american and european sources, both governmental corporate, the name, the key donors and sponsors when the us and said they will be publishing the list on their website soon. a city is one of the most complicated places on the planet right now. navigating it is hot, little militias act us out to create trouble. there is the confusion in head and in this moment, which tons of room into news into consequences,

very fast. and little even journalist who can do serious damage. it's through russia flooded media that flooded into syria in december was cnn, and it's cheese. international correspondent, clueless award. the story of us as prisoners was a global interest and would find it afford cleaning to witness the fee of attaining the institution. was that he was a prisoner of conscience as much as my are both hands within hours of going on beautiful, which was getting time. what people were seeing didn't see like children as a verify city around the report to it's fact checking process and revealed the discount at the in what space was a former intelligence officials who worked with the center sheet and the side of the with that see and then report, it was very clear, there was something wrong with it when we had verify,

watched it 1st and foremost the syrians. and secondly, as far as the check for human with the flu. we analyzed the video and by analyze, i mean we watched it the frame by frame you for them by. we sent out the link to the report along with key questions to our colleagues in syria. we wanted to know who this person is, why they were arrest, where the video was taken, and what prison is. all we did was ask additional questions. is clarissa award, someone was just started out in journalism? know she's covered many wards as clear as award or cnn has any prior incidents where there's been a sense that there's been a bit of a settlement. i will not answer these questions. i'll let the audience answer that cnn should have admitted. they will admit that they contributed to misleading the audience and people lodge was a shop syria today as such, shifts and things topic and everyone wants to ride on syria on jail is on the country on the minorities. i would really hope that during this,

before they publish anything to truly go through effect, check in process and understand that there is a lot of this information happening within the country. and the future of syria will depend and will be shaped by the information we choose to believe and she was 13. and finally, back to washington, we're caroline elaborate. donald trump's new press. secretary made a point this past week of telling journalists their access to the president was a privilege, and by no means assured that nobody has the right to go into the oval office and ask the president of the united states questions. that's an invitation that is given love. it said that just after the white house blocked an associated press reporter from attending an event. because be still referred to the gulf of mexico. and it's reporting rather than using trumps new term for that body of water. one that he recently made up golf of america. now donald trump likes to play favorites, flexes political muscle,

and he is not the 1st president to do that. what is unprecedented, however, is this 0 tolerance policy? the white house now has when it comes to terminology, the president does not like news outlets have style guides for what we call things the terminology that we use. and there is a lot of thinking that goes into them. more thought we would that then the president put into the term gulf of america. the folks is in europe. lots of the economy are heading to the poles with the far right . expected to make is the biggest gain since the 19 thirty's. the german election could restrain your state without is there for the latest updates on things that phenomena of the german federal election. the shaker model was for translation and

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