hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories we're covering this week the protests in lebanon a multi-faceted story that many of the country's news outlets want no part of in ethiopia a showdown between a media mogul and the winner of the nobel peace prize prime minister. post-colonial residue governments in sub-saharan africa are still using the laws that the colonists left behind to silence journalists and never mind the tear gas it is lebannon after all and the beats must go on for a week and a half now the streets of lebanon have been jammed with protesters the biggest anti-government demonstrations there for 15 years among the aspects of this story that stand out although it has since grown into a nationwide movement against a government corruption and economic mismanagement these protests were triggered by talk of a new tax on whatsapp and other internet cull services like facebook messenger and face time secondly while so much of lebanese politics is sectarian there is nothing factional about these demonstrations the issues are economic

hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post here are some of the stories that we're covering this week turkey launches a military offensive against kurds in syria. and a media offensive designed to justify it 2 years after the birth of the me too movement the stories keep coming in the us the suits at n.b.c. news have a lot of explaining to the media and the troubling depiction of skin color black face is a racist entertainment device still used across the middle east and in india dark faces are few and far between on the air or on the silver screen. cease fire or no cease fire turkey's decision to change the military equation in syria to send fresh troops in to take on kurdish forces there just as the kurds american allies and protectors pull out is a geo political game changer but it's an extraordinarily complex story for journalists to unpick the talk in the western media outlets like n.b.c. your own news the washington post has been of americans double crossing the kurds kurdish fears of a possible ethnic cleansing even a looming genocide the narrative that the heir to on

hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're covering this week donald trump and fox news there are signs that the president's biggest supporter on the american airwaves is having some serious 2nd thoughts he draws crowds that will put bollywood superstars and indian cricketers to shame india's no rent remote and the art of the overseas mega rally one year after the killing of jamal khashoggi the saudi crown prince gets a grilling on american television and comes up short and gratitude and berg's climate speech as a swedish death metal song somehow. strikes the right now. as the impeachment inquiry in the u.s. congress gathers steam president trump tweets about a crew and talk of a looming civil war there are signs of an in-house civil war at the biggest most influential news network in the country fox news the complaint at the center of the impeachment story filed by an anonymous whistleblower alleges that trump abused his powers by asking the government of ukraine to dig up dirt on joe biden a possible opponent in next year's president

just a little bit of a pause there as the translation stops we're hearing from turkish president richard burton one both outlining once again the rationale for his offensive into northern syria and also commenting now about his plans to try to establish what he calls a safe zone and then return refugees to the area and of course a cease fire now in place in that part we have we have translation once again will return to the turkish president countries has changed if you remember especially united states issued about 20 miles this is this statement wasn't within a week said they were not expecting such success from operation the operation of turkey. when they realize that their operation will succeed and their reactions were actually beyond reason but we continued with determination up until now we have cleared 1603 kilometers and we have cleared tele. and we have secured a $65.00 towns and we secure it. 4 of our soldiers and 74 of us syrian free army soldiers lost their lives we have neutralized 750 terrorists and attacks we had 1081 mortal shall attacks over our border in our country and we lo

hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post here are some of the stories that we're covering this week turkey launches a military offensive against kurds in syria. and a media offensive designed to justify it 2 years after the birth of the me too movement the stories keep coming in the us the suits at n.b.c. news have a lot of explaining to the media and the troubling depiction of skin color black face is a racist entertainment device still used across the middle east and in india dark faces are few and far between on the air or on the silver screen in the. cease fire or no cease fire turkey's decision to change the military equation in syria to send fresh troops in to take on kurdish forces there just as the kurds american allies and protectors pull out is a geo political game changer but it's an extraordinarily complex story for journalists to unpick the talk in the western media outlets like n.b.c. your own news the washington post has been of americans double crossing the kurds kurdish fears of a possible ethnic cleansing even a looming genocide the narrative that the hei

hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories we're covering this week the protests in lebanon are a multi-faceted story that many of the countries news outlets want no part of in ethiopia a showdown between a media mogul and the winner of the nobel peace prize prime minister. post colonial residue governments in sub-saharan africa are still using laws that the colonists left behind to silence journalists and never mind the tear gas it is 11 on after all and the beats must go on for a week and a half now the streets of lebanon have been jammed with protesters the biggest anti-government demonstrations there for 15 years among the aspects of this story that stand out although it has since grown into a nationwide movement against a government corruption and economic mismanagement these protests were triggered by talk of a new tax on whatsapp and other internet cull services like facebook messenger and face time secondly while so much of lebanese politics is sectarian there is nothing factional about these demonstrations the issues are economic th

hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories we're covering this week the protests in lebanon are a multi-faceted story that many of the countries news outlets want no part of in ethiopia a showdown between a media mogul and the winner of the nobel peace prize prime minister. post colonial residue governments in sub-saharan africa are still using laws that the colonists left behind to silence journalists and never mind the tear gas it is 11 on after all and the beats must go on for a week and a half now the streets of lebanon have been jammed with protesters the biggest anti-government demonstrations there for 15 years among the aspects of this story that stand out although it has since grown into a nationwide movement against a government corruption and economic mismanagement these protests were triggered by talk of a new tax on whatsapp and other internet cull services like facebook messenger and face time secondly. while so much of lebanese politics is sectarian there is nothing factional about these demonstrations the issues are economic t

hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're covering this week donald trump and fox news there are signs that the president's biggest supporter on the american airwaves is having some serious 2nd thoughts he draws crowds that will put bollywood superstars and indian cricketers to shame india's no rent remote and the art of the overseas mega rally one year after the killing of jamal khashoggi the saudi crown prince gets a grilling on american television and comes up short and gretta to him berg's climate speech as a swedish death metal song somehow. strikes the right now. as the impeachment inquiry in the u.s. congress gathers steam president trump tweets about a crew and talk of a looming civil war there are signs of an in-house civil war at the biggest most influential news network in the country fox news the complaint at the center of the impeachment story filed by an anonymous whistleblower alleges that trump abused his powers by asking the government of ukraine to dig up dirt on joe biden a possible opponent in next year's president

hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're covering this week donald trump and fox news there are signs that the president's biggest supporter on the american airwaves is having some serious 2nd thoughts he draws crowds that would put bollywood superstars and indian cricketers to shame india's no rent remote and the art of the overseas mega rally one year after the killing of jamal khashoggi the saudi crown prince gets a grilling on american television and comes up short and gratitude in berg's climate speech as a swedish death metal song somehow that strikes the right now. as the impeachment inquiry in the u.s. congress gathers steam president trump tweets about a crew and talk of a looming civil war there are signs of an in-house civil war at the biggest most influential news network in the country fox news the complaint at the center of the impeachment story filed by an anonymous whistleblower alleges that trump abused his powers by asking the government of ukraine to dig up dirt on joe biden a possible opponent in next year's presi

hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post here are some of the stories that we're covering this week turkey launches a military offensive against kurds in syria. and a media offensive designed to justify it 2 years after the birth of the me too movement the stories keep coming in the us the suits at n.b.c. news have a lot of explaining to the media and the troubling depiction of skin color black face is a racist entertainment device still used across the middle east and in india dark faces are few and far between on the air or on the silver screen. ceasefire or no ceasefire turkey's decision to change the military equation in syria to send fresh troops in to take on kurdish forces there just as the kurds american allies and protectors pull out is a geo political game changer but it's an extraordinarily complex story for journalists to unpick the talk in the western media outlets like n.b.c. your own news the washington post has been of americans double crossing the kurds kurdish fears of a possible ethnic cleansing even a looming genocide the narrative that the heir to one

hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're covering this week donald trump and fox news there are signs that the president's biggest supporter on the american airwaves is having some serious 2nd thoughts he draws crowds that will put bollywood superstars and indian cricketers to shame india's no rent remoting and the art of the overseas mega rally one year after the killing of jamal khashoggi the saudi crown prince gets a grilling on american television and comes up short and gretta to him berg's climate speech as a swedish death metal song somehow. strikes the right now. as the impeachment inquiry in the u.s. congress gathers steam president trump tweets about a crew and talk of a looming civil war there are signs of an in-house civil war at the biggest most influential news network in the country fox news the complaint at the center of the impeachment story filed by an anonymous whistleblower alleges the trump abused his powers by asking the government of ukraine to dig up dirt on joe biden a possible opponent in next year's presiden

only richard burton could get away with a line like that.w. miners we re down on people from below. miners were often actual victims of disease, but they never saw themselves as victims. they carried themselves as victims. they carried themselves with the eternal swagger of someone who knows they have the power to move mountains. so lets all of us find our inner miner. that is nothing in wales that is wrong, but nothing in wales that is wrong, but nothing that we cannot put right. we have less than 1% of rail investment. the british government has invented more in love which they will never build than they have invested in capital products in wales in the last decade. it is time to end that injustice. if we were independent, we would and we will have other means available. if we we re have other means available. if we were a eu member state in our own right we would get £2 billion more, just as ireland did when it was poorer than wales, to look at them now. 50% figure by population, 500% richer in gdp. as an independent country, we could iss