change set out. yeah. and how many uh, for a time in history, it was also called gift your whole or red castle in english. it was built by the ottomans hundreds of years ago. but people have lived here for thousands of years. it's on the south eastern gate of for you, for old city of tripoli. this ancient city was established by the phoenicians, nearly 3000 years ago. it then came under roman control and flourished in the 2nd and 3rd centuries, a. d. it was conquered by the law. she's the one for the fate and was renamed tripoli in the 7th century. it's one of 5 unesco world heritage sites in libya that are on it's in danger list. instead of saying old city has a long and distinguished history, radius civilization. so what it like for omens, the spanish, the ottomans each made changes. for instance, montera squared has had several names. this quite in the front of the door. the grand square the odds of the to the and the green squared under conduct fee. for

generations. the city of tripoli has been nicknamed the pride of the mediterranean sea, but it was neglected for decades. a recent government campaign to renovate the city is changing that larger square and the surrounding area is getting a new look. libya has struggled with conflict and political instability for more than a decade, but has been relatively peaceful in recent years. that's allowed local officials to breeze new life into its historical sites, to the savannah last time. any of development was done to match a square with a 1917. it was pretty much just a roundabout. we're making it much bigger. why maintaining the historic landmarks like the castle, the fountain on the pillows? i'm sure people will likely change and to come visit from across the country. they are calling it martha or something. this is red castle lake. as near say after renovations are complete. it will be home to north africa's largest water

fountain. most of the facility is from us throughout the he's visiting ship. we with his 5 children sullivan. i some got the feeling. do you feel like you have a better future? and the more development may god give us these across our beautiful country, general people here hold stability can be achieved and the right of the mediterranean sea can return to its former glory and give libyans a renewed sense of pride in their culture and history. now, trina, which is 0 triply, thanks for watching. coming up. it's the listening post, bye for now. the on causing the cost to come. china on the us to avoid a trade war for will the economic sanctions escalates. president trump wants to shut down usaid america's main forum agency plus from pulse financial assistance to

south africa is a being with an iced counting the cost on al jazeera. what's with donald trump's fixation? on south africa. we looked at a geo political story with multiple angles to running from the cape of good help to the middle east. the occupied westbank, the tactics, the is really military as important from gauze. and the news outlets in israel acting like shared plus syria, the post outside 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 to extensively trump

a poses 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 and beyond. the other angle playing into this story south africa also happens to be the country that is taking israel to the international court of justice for genocide. 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, china makes sense. it gives it to mexico, denmark over green. and now, so far, the south african situations, very dangerous, is tremendously bad things going on and certainly including the confiscation of property with a stroke of a pen and an executive board. trump ended us for an aide to so fast and pay the way for offer connor's whites of africans to resettle in american to the order of accuses the and see lead governance of using a new law. the expropriation act to discriminate against white farmers and confiscate their land. it also alleges the government has fueled disproportionate black on white violence in that farmers landowners. taking to his platform of choice truth, social trump called 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 fixed 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 news and the south african constitution requires just and equitable compensation. so in the way of hyping, the sops, 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, and there were 49 murders related to people who worked on these problems, right. in total, south africa had almost 30000 murders in 2023. and you have a very, a 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, white like a base. they would probably identify with a mystical white drive being on the street in the master calendar, black government to politically. it also ties into a rising ripening populace discourse that draws on fields of black spheres 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 to partner 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 on auto a faster the in significant story. the media have all but ignored among them. tucker carlson and fox news in 2018. i could for him, i think recognizes that it operates in a very small space in south africa. and it has taken advantage of the rise of right, 3 elements in europe and in america, south africa does of baptism this lazy journalism from the main stream. so it was a strategic we saw them where they recognize that the world is changing

a little bit 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 never even stepped out of the states and they don't know what south africa is like aaron. so it's a, one of they need is, has a kid at c pack and hungry friends with me to open and other right we need is. so this would be an active campaign of this. now they are denying culpability acting. very surprised that this disclose of is, 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 jews. 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. you wanted to be here that's not even close to what's happening in so far. although more than 3 decades after the end of the parts are white still on 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 early school. he would have been indoctrinated into the whole of parted 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 center phobic populace disclose around a white genocide around the world. yes, it's political, but i think we should also be careful not to throughout the baby with the bathwater

or it's not like there is no such thing as a farmer. and so i doubt that it 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 deflate the anger, 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 throw them in a report to more aspects of that executive board, one of which was included and one that was not. it cited south africa's quote, aggressive position against israel at the i. c j accusing the national yahoo government but not from boss of janice. 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 a political organization. like some of the parts, the executive order left out of africa is a member of breaks the growing into

a government mental economic alliance that offers itself as an alternative to the g . 7 blocks led by the us with talk of trade wars in 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. but the bricks partners recognize that it was important to have it represented because the roof can be found on the african continent to saw that they 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 domestically, it might, it might be

a short sighted short term game. but all the recent studies show that that is a rising and to american. an interesting sentiment not turned in south africa, but african, more broadly, if we, uh, it's called 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, but one to see diminished. and so i think at stake here is very high risk. political do political cabinet. $5.00 is the 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, being 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 really 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. so i'll smoke church, that's still not enough. he's calling for the guys, if a cation of the westbank, the guy yelled, would you buy the address? okay. yeah, sure. the old one of, yeah, 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 israeli soldiers firing bullets and sound bar. iron wall 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 such a call. i sold the total thump of sold the view. come up as i'll be with the official ones for months is rarely officials and pundits have argued that the war on gaza was a response to the october 7 attacks. but now that they are calling for similar tactics in the west bank in 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 settler. there, thanks right or 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 ready these are distressing images desperate families in city. as jim said, now a ministry prison, a name, a place that was shorthand for the industrial scale brutality of the authoritative of family visa, distressing images. and even provided last year of to city and read those to open prisons across the country as a broken and also distributed these distressing images. and one of them is not from

said now 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 denial for so many syrians was this dark topic that we don't know much about. and then this very dark, secretive space 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 that last to the right up until december, 2024. the dictatorship of general, and then president tough is the other side. so the transformation of syria into 2 talented in please state. in the 3 decades of his all city. and so the imposition of must surveillance repeating of the countries various communities sunni muslim 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 were disappearances, 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 some of the forms. however, scooped by the mobilization of city and political and civil society, but shot on a sub crack down with the philosophy that resulted in italy because 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 pushback 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 see that sean and the commander in chief on my bed shadow mounted a push that moved at incredible speed and led to the shadow sides of the disintegrating in december. since then, the country has been in

a state of height and devotion, exhilaration, trepidation, really anxiety and confusion. information is flowing like never before, and much of it is underline. it's kept osmond, fremont, the founder of a group called verify city are incredibly busy or that i've, even if there are numerous misinformation campaigns that took off off to the full of the serial machine. one campaign for instance, portray siri as having deteriorated so much that things were actually better during the shorter sense route. i've had other campaigns, target minorities in syria spreading fault information that otherwise most things 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 part 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, on 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 us as regina and is alternatives in storms. these concerns also the history of the age to us, which is largely sunday and was born out of a group created by me is long state and then event. i see cavities its own back. in

the days off to the phone of us had a video zipped around the country. it showed the burning of an ally, china by each diaz fighters. the video was months old, 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 see lots of this happened recently. a lot of these examples are being resurfaced from the pulse 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 to ensure that they, they cover 5 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 so nice. did the same and then attempt to confront

and suppress them at this kind of chaos seemed to have been the aim behind sharing this video and other video verify. cdo was amongst the 1st outsets to fact check the boat and try and video. the group is one of the most active and credible sources of information on the country to get the funding from american and european sources, both governmental and corporate, the names they key donors and sponsors when be off 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. bid 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 to russia flooded media. the plug it into cd a in december was cnn. and its chase international correspondent, clueless award. the story of assets, prisoners was a global interest and would find it afford cleaning to witness the scene of the

detaining. the implication 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 seem like journalism, verify city around the report to it's fact checking process and revealed that the stock added to in what space was a former intelligence officials who worked with the center sheet and the side of the with that cnn 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 fact checked with him and we analyzed the video and by analyze, i mean we watched it frame by frame your friend life, but it 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 present is. all we did was ask additional questions. is clarissa award, someone who has just started out in journalism? nope. she's covered many wars as clarissa 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 large wasn't shock. syria, today is such a pen things topic and everyone wants to write on syria on jail is on the country on the minorities. i would really hope that journalist, before they publish anything to truly goes to 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 choose to keep. 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 gulf 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 the more thought we would,

that then the president put into the term gulf of america connecting communities. what would you like to see happen for a new syria to emerge? is no way we could live in the country again. where is i see it is for displacement is part of our presence. opening up the conversation representation methods. we haven't had the best representation of africans. so for us it's about so being that put it to representation for our kids with fresh perspectives from less are heard. voices the stream, explores the key issues of our time on algebra. but my boss year s came in, strikes, gone fire, and enjoyed a dangerous journey from my home. for late in the dawn, now disease is catching up with her. mother is worried. the pain back home came and dropped. it killed my mabel with school. how children,

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a toyota, airway. the of the clock. this is the new life coming up for the next 60 minutes. russia and the us are set to discussing ukraine rule, but president landscape says he will not recognize any deal made without key. perhaps as you are being leaders, a meeting for emergency talks on ukraine will be live in paris. is really the go ca, just had to cairo to discuss the gallons of these fine. it's rather still blocking shelters from entering the strip condition of the deal and 23 levels. expand that controlling is some.