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being damaged or are under water aid. well, cars are also worried about the risk of a disease is what i've got enough to this level. so delta dental of this flow was sucked in. what has been to 90 phase, his students will not be able to use this classroom for awhile. when it came, it was not easy to get into the office because most with us, why all of you came and opened. vivian does have the, the moved out a beat, but i'm going to get us pre. so that's it. uh tim doesn't have not affected so much because this is larry this, um, i live in area. yes. this area is not new to flooding. then yandell river and lake with toria, often overflow into neighborhoods. when it rains by residency, this has been the west in recent years. this is a nice or a school and it's clear, no children can study in such an environment that teachers are looking for
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a safe alternative. but it's difficult affected students are temporarily moving to nearby schools, some of which are hosting displaced people. like rosa bill, appeal, house is unbelievable crops. and most of my belongings i really stressed out. and most people asking themselves, well, we're going to leave with that. she lives in the cleanings and that's less yes, i don't know where i'm going to be right now. she says things will return to normal in due time, but only until the next, the greens. it's a cycle the same time and again. catherine, sorry to soon county west and can you the heavy rains of triggered, slashed floods, of land slides, and the engineers and province of west sumatra. at least 37 people have died,
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including children. dozens are missing one major road was personally washed away, making rescue operations more difficult. and the volcano has arrested an eastern indonesia mount issue on the remote island of holman era is the 2nd most active volcano in the country interrupted earlier this morning, spewing ashes as high as 5 kilometers in the air authorities had raised its alert level to the 2nd highest just last week. thanks for watching. were back at the top of the hour with more news up next. it's listening to us by the over 27000 hurling photographs as mutually can do that to us. the evidence in this case is frankly even stronger than that that we had against the nazis at nuremberg. and these crimes continued in the fast of
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a 2 part series out to 0 photos, powerful cases of all crimes against civilians allegedly killed by the syrian government. with photographic evidence from the seas of files, the lost souls of syria on al jazeera. we are the ones traveling the extra mile there are the media, don't go, we go there and we give them a chance to tell their story. band algebra get shut down in history, just as is where the forces move into roughly is equally as prime minister georgie and maloney out of turn stayed on television in the states controlled television. and halfway through in the a 6 week long election process, we examined the narratives, both in the mainstream media and on the sofa. the this past week offered a brief moment of hope for the approximately 1500000 palestinians tracked in rafa.
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supposedly the last safe space for civilians in garza from us had accept the terms of a ceasefire. our agreement it looked like lives would be safe. but on tuesday, prime minister benjamin netanyahu said the proposal fell short of israel's key demands. and now and assault on rough or is underway, coinciding with all of this has been the closure of allergies. here is news operation in israel. our news coverage, tv, broadcast and website are all blocked there. that measure may shield his release, at least temporarily, from the fours that are being inflicted on rough, but it will not stop this network from covering the story. what it does signal to the world go and the nothing yahoo governments allies abroad is that is real. so called democracy is not what it's cracked up. this really is a try to uh ser,
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portray this kind of like an end game. this is sort of the last bastion city and the god strip where they are claiming that the military operations is not complete until the army goes in with the troops to what they describe, the dismantling masses, remaining, and destructive their reality. and practice of this is that the broadwell file is right now, the only home for palestinian life and society and refuge for people have been displaced for the past 7 months from the northern strip all the way down to the south. rafa was supposed to be the red line that is real, would not cross its forces, have carouse around $1500000.00 palestinians say more than half the surviving population after 7 months of punishing civilians with bombs and bullets. you can add another betrayal to the mix. having advised those civilians to take refuge that the nothing. yeah. who government now cause rough or the last stronghold of a moss. and within a day of rejecting a ceasefire that her most had agreed to,
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that would have freed every remaining is really hostage. nothing yahoo sent in the troops for reasons that may be far more political than strategic. and so his desire to continue this genocide is both because he's genocide all but also because he is a survivalist and he wants to make sure that he remains in office. the bigger issue is that it seems to me that there are no red line back in march. we heard president biden say there's red lines that if you cross isn't that get, you cannot have $30000.00 more cost indians. and then we very quickly back track from that, they've made a mockery out of the international legal system as we know it, they've made a mockery out of out of the genocide convention and the fact that nothing. yeah. who continues to be able to do whatever he wants to do, just shows you how to sidle he is and how to have a side of the united states as well. of the 4 interviews in this piece,
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you will notice that only one of them is via webcam. the one we did in israel, we have no choice given that on the eve of going into rough and netanyahu government band alger 0 from the is really airwaves. and from reporting from there in announcing the police raids on al, just it was officers, israel's communications minister called the network, a threat to israeli security because it broadcast statements issued by from us what alger 0 really is. is it clear and ever present danger to the is really narrative. it has the journal is on the ground in gaza, documenting the story. the way most international news outlets cannot, since they have been locked out by israel wester, news outlets forced to cover gaza at a distance have reported on the is really track down on al jazeera. but in an industry that usually stands up for its own. there has been
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a noticeable lack of solidarity there. i'll just say era, i think many people, if, if they do what you would see it as some kind propaganda, they would see the news media outside of it is real. use the captive in a way to this pro israel narrative, and they don't consider i'll just 0 as one of their own. so i'll just 0 is other to because it is funded by kata. netanyahu was attacked. potter, even though it's instrumental in mediating for a cease fire. so that's why there is hardly a ripple left descent among foreign media. but those of us who need that diverse view of what's happening in the middle east and know that that is false. the notion that by broadcasting the statements of come us, we're interviewing people that the israelis or designating as terrorist is supporting terrorism,
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means that you don't actually believe in real journalism. and that's how it is. i don't want somebody's to half a day or something. i'm done, that's good. if you, how much did you say on and put, you know, i follow the telegram feeds of the all custom brigades, the, the armed waiting a from us. and because i follow that feed, in addition to as rarely government feeds, i have a much more nuanced picture of what has happened on the ground. the fact is that what they don't like about alj a 0 is coverage, is that it has the audacity to contradict these really narrative or to simply do the job of journalism. well, me is really military and politicians on like have been making these claims for some time. they have not been providing the evidence needed to support them. it's not that al jazeera is advocating colossus position is that al jazeera is allowing people to make up their own mind. including benjamin netanyahu, whose own minister of justice, who according to reports into,
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is really newspapers relies on alger 0, his coverage of gas. and the is really, authorities would do better to focus on their own airways. the same ever met the just shut down a news networks for quote, endangering is really soldiers has no issues when a senior official in the ruling, the crude party goes into an is really new studio, talks about palestinian civilians in gaza and comes out with this model and some of the been people have been some of the goodness. how old will i will, but i will have to visit when you live here. seen those types of clips is actually a daily occurrence. this, this is not an operation. we see almost daily politicians make these making these genocidal statements on television. we hear them on radio in print, it happens all the time. we hear not just commentators, but sometimes the journalist themselves making these exact same statements. how
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much? thank you. and as that team, how can we push on it? but it wasn't helping pressure kim to pull them 1st of all, to leave, to learn about the home in israel is a country that is in genocide or fever. and the reason that they don't want networks, lakeesha theater here is because they don't want anybody covering the genocidal fever that has taken shape inside his room and feel like it is really media from the beginning of the war. it's fixing being a company in support of the war. there is this kind of popular consent for creating this kind of singular hedge, a monic narrative for everyone to believe in, to allow the government and the army to do whatever it needs to. and the coverage is obviously not showing as early as what is happening to postings on the ground, the number of people who were being killed any testimonies of how that was being waged when that is your media environments. but then you having a scattering society that is not able to confront the realities of what their
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country is. waging a society that likes to describe itself as a democracy, the only one in the middle east, israel's the only true democracy in this region. that is a narrative, israel's government constantly puts out there and it resonates with its media allies abroad who venerate israel's democracy regardless of the crimes against humanity. but it commits that you're not homeless. israel is a democracy and a as a jewish state, as supports and, and believes in every life matter against. but since when have a part, hard states been considered to democracies just because they hold elections and what kind of democracy locks the global media out of a war zone that has become a slaughter house for civilians kills journalists, they're at an unprecedented rate. and then bands, one of the only news channels that has its own reporters in gaza,
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survivors risking their lives to get the story. yeah, we need to talk about that term. democracy is real calls itself a democracy. it's citizens think of itself as a democracy, but it isn't a democracy at all. you could call it f knock or c with superior rights to is really jews. you could call it a secrecy because it's captive to the religious elements and religious leaders. and also the ministers that bring a, a far right, jewish interpretation of a jewish law into the thing is really secular context. so this is not a democracy that we're talking about. perhaps nothing unmasks that in a more powerful way. then that state which is supposedly the only democracy in the
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middle east waging a genocidal war of extermination against the palestinians while simultaneously trying to shut down the single most important network that is broadcasting the other side of the barrel of the israeli gun. that is being pointed at the people of palestine and fired non stop for 7 straight months to the tune of almost 35000 and confirm that it serves as a very powerful symbol of a narrative based entirely on lies that somehow there's some justifiable aspect to any of the journalists at least public broadcast or right have gone on. stripe, salaries and working conditions are part of it. the bigger issue is political interference. and the politician they accuse of that is prime minister georgia.
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maloney tara from alpha is here with which on this right stage woke out of what they use in cold, suffocates, and control by george, i'm a nineties administration, and the time it's the time the network into quite a mouthpiece for the government to join this union says it wants to stop political appointments, and key editorial roles is what is the censoring of voices and stories that do not fit with the routing code additions fall, right. agenda. it's common for governments and it's the to a point loyalist to talk jobs, right. but since she took office in 2022, my knowing these perceived interference in the broad costa has led some high profile preventive manages to quits, the slightest show down between rife stuff and the government goes back to april 25th. it's an eve liberation day when a permanent olsa, antonio square dotsie, wish federal to deliver an anti fascist monologue. but just hours before the show was meant to add, scratchy, was informed by right,
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that his appearance had been cancelled for the newspaper. louder appropriate lights revealed what quote, editorial reasons. scratchings words were eventually read out by a host at the right setting. i bought toner and an act of sort of diety, nobody's insignificant, feel quando close to the from 5 little they didn't even the studies story cheap yet because she didn't have to hold up. i really need to do it all g. got the, let's walk on the mail for, she's the prevenient. so the operators or to dispense say that they said i did seem to think that they thought that a gene that could stick with sending to you, but a send some i me put the out and it's showing. see, i'm it, let's put in stuff a she stuff full, screwed out to and many other than the, to the, the whole effect was the plates an art of censorship. one that fits into why the pots in for maloney of government, which is trying to re make the media as well as the cultural institutions in its own political image. john, this, the public broadcast, speaking off the record,
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say that for this government, right, the symbol of the circled dictatorship of the left. they think if they control the media, they will change the cultural narrative intensity. thank start. india is halfway through an election process of voting. marathon the last 6 weeks calling an election historic is a bit of a cliche, but this one really does qualify, should the ruling b, j. p and prime minister and arrange remote e when it would be the 1st indian government to win elections back to back to back with 3 terms in office. so the b j. p is throwing all it can at this campaign. modi's face is everywhere. there's been an avalanche of b, j. p advertising and then there are in the, as mainstream media outlets, the over whelming majority of which are pro modi for potential spanner in the works is the messaging from a collection of youtube is putting out, explain, or is critiques and interviews. or questioning the b j piece, otherwise,
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dominant narrative, many are journalists who gave up mainstream news rooms for places in the online ecosystem are cash banner g is one of them. he has 4000000 followers and his videos are racking up to the stage, the sort of the headquarters. what the heck is reaction of the novel monday on and finding out that what's an example of big about demand deluxe. i'll be pulled, i pulled up. i've had all week of the search got to get points, and they go to see about how many people would've been out there are cash buy energy joins us now from new delhi, mr. banner g. on the surface, the selection looks like a done deal. give us a sense of what no rent remote is appeal to the indian electric is built on where to begin with. i wouldn't say that it's all done invested in getting addictions that tend to be remarkably unpredictably. white movie is definitely a far ahead. these change very rapidly in politics, you'll see the prime minister a lot less confident. you'll see him going back to his board tricks. so therefore,
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i wouldn't say it's done and dusted a lot of movies. tom good is my appeal comes from the fact is that people are really buying themselves attracted to this man who seems to be in control with i don't know what to use, whether the data suggest that it's a separate issue. this is politics. so that is the job which unfortunately for the opposition, no one comes even close to. so those people who are not very happy with that in the body at this point of time, they're not happy. maybe what has happened 10 years after his daughter spying? he's the only guy that owns the work for among the people unhappy with motives rule is the country's largest minority. it's muslim population over the years mostly has left some of the ugly talk to his proxies on that. but recently in this campaign, he's been a little bit more vocal and some of the things he's come out with like this next, that sound
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a little bit dangerous little. so now the number 9 jobs, one of the boards. yeah. so how do use explain this change of attack by mode, even the fact he's a little more direct these days? that is the question. if there was one question to be honest with regardless of who wins photos as this election. the one question to ask is, what really happened? remember, as you pointed out, that in the movie himself doesn't know the dog whistling he has enough and more people to do that. obviously, some brazen goal is to balance some hints off genocide being dropped to you. and then suddenly, after the 1st phase of collection, you'll see this man come back into his board rooms and gray is getting a socket that did these do some, but the plot my la hot a minority ma my job, most of the minor somewhere down the line the pgp has understood that the campaign
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off progress the india is on the right track. india has developed. people have more money, is not really going to work. and therefore hawking back to the fios psychosis of the people. the majority of us has minority, 80 percent of us as 20 percent of these 20 percent. i'm going to expand, they're going to take over your space, you'll put it into the space. they will become a, the prime minister, etc, etc. the side, the truth here is that this, that because they will feeling that in the movie, it has all the is you did him good, elect odors out so, so what he's doing, he's doing fully aware of what he's doing and it may just work also for him, we cannot discuss politics in india without talking about the mainstream media you used to work in that's spear. you've since gone independent. talk to us about how media in india has been transformed in the period of no render modi's rule. when i
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joined television media in 2004, 2005, and there was a total of new television channels that were coming in database and was on a high, it was the aspiration a job to be in. and i think my styles that i put in 2012 because what has happened, dr. 2014, is that the gradual decal, but of mainstream media has happened uh by the b j. b. and that is a terminology also that is used for the mainstream media in india, which is called go. the media is basically a media that's 6 in the lapse of those in power. and what has happened is that that media has really allowed the body to take on a force which is much larger than him. so you can imagine him as a see me off of a family where his decision should not be criticized. so no idea that he can come up with can be a bad idea the if the idea is a good idea and if it feels it's it's, it's the implementation. so the media is really has allowed for the dumbing down of
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the political discourse and questioning of the opposition rather than the questioning of the government in power. or you flag the mainstream media space you've succeeded, you know, have one of the country's most popular youtube channels as a youtube or does pressure still land on you in some ways walk us through that world. so there are 2 levels of pressure. i think the easier level of pressure is the direct level of pressure. so for example, trolling in india is an industry where you have people literally sitting on rules and rolls of computer and doing work for a particular party. and of course, the be just be really have the largest online social presence and it's saying anything against the establishment will really result in volume and us and really toxic abuse. then comes the soft pressure in terms of people reaching out to you, telling you separately, what are your doing?
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why do you just asking questions to the government? why don't you ask questions to the opposition and, and, and some of the headings would be dropped. you'll be, is that don't watch out. you may have trouble coming your week. so that's a feel that one lives in. i mean somebody asks me, what's your business plan? i jokingly tell them. it's to stay out of prison. that's the plan. on the was off the pressure in the attic, but i showed that's going to come in very soon, but kind of the regulations that are being brought into effect already. you have the new i t degradations, which basically didn't allow the government to put it on any youtube channel to handle based on national security interest. on top of that, you have a new broadcast bill, which would basically give the government a lot more bibles over even youtube channels if the government or any of the citizens that aren't happy with any to board that we do big and right to us. and we are duty bound to alonzo within 24 hours. so technically they can betty us and people worked with 500 complaints on a date. it's using the law against the people were trying to maintain the
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constitution, trying to speak out for laws and values. and using that by the same law against them. when we discuss politics and india, we do tend to let audiences off the hook. we don't really hold audiences accountable for the material that they seem so ready and eager to consume. what has the success of moti and the b j p revealed about how gullible or perhaps ideologically right, when indian news audiences really are due by that. so um that's one of the saddest spots actually. um i, i come from a generation of television that was dejan. anything. then i come from this last 10 years of watching television and i always had seen um, uh, the silent uh spect data view. uh, well, uh, no use to say what is going on in june television. oh, this noise is this heat that is going on in the new television. i had an
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opportunity of watching something else. i would have the prime minister has some cleats and remarkable clarity on issues. it's only often blue, independent journalism. dwayne youtube channel, is off to so many as one gets to understand as those logistics uses. nobody wants to watch, send somebody new mazda. nobody wants to watch just the fact that the fact is that while the government is specializing, mainstream media owning mainstream media, people also love watching this kind of viral bigoted content. otherwise, these channels would have gone out of business. what the mainstream media of what the government has been able to do is to tap into that the people could be good to be that people have within them exploited enable it any more than people to go ahead and then speak out what was inside them that hot, so the fuel cycle is this is being played phone on and this election bids show us just how much fuel you can inject and to be. but our cash bonner,
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to thank you so much for taking the time and walk us through the politics and the coverage of the indian election. thank you for speaking to us today. here at the listening part. thanks for having the old. and finally, last week, we reported on the campus protest movement in the us, including at columbia university in new york, where students and faculty were demonstrating against israel's were on gossip. that same school hands out pulitzer prizes, one of the most prestigious awards in american journalism. and when it announced its list of winners this past week, one organization stuck out the award for international reporting went to the new york times for its quote, wide ranging and regulatory coverage of mazda is the tax on october 7th. and israel's devastating response. the paper one, despite multiple issues, the audiences have raised over the times as coverage of gaza. questions over terminology, emphasis and an institutional pro israel bias, typified by
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a now in the tory s investigation, but accused a mazda of using systemic rape on october 7th, co written by a former is really intelligence officer with 0 journalistic experience. that article was thoroughly debunked and got all kinds of pushed back in the times is own news room. but that's the award winning journalism in america these days. we'll see you next time. here at the was me post a 106 kilometers, stretched, remote and powerless jungle. only land route to south america for migrants. city, the size of the united states. a voyage, but for some loss none the less for accomplice families, it's a risk they are willing to take full blinds and box on this unforgiving journey to
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tell the story of one of the children of the dairy and go on up josie to hundreds of officers closing in on the area where the students have been protesting against s rails for them guys for almost 2 weeks. they also want the university to stop investing in companies. they say profit from east wales war. some of the students tried to prevent the police from entering the university, one by one, they were arrested. the police then rated hamilton hall and their objective to detain. the students who had barricaded themselves inside. they broke a window and entered view of the 1st floor, candles broke out on the capital. the students were evicted from the holy. dozens were arrested. even the students that were detained, nobody is resting, and we will not stop until columbia. it's our demand. columbia university, it's a place that inspired a movement across the united states to demand an end to the world. got how many of the students would have spoken to are saying that whatever happens next,
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the students of columbia university have already made history. the heavy bombardment on air strikes and northern gossip is really forces move deeper into the shop by the refugee come the you're watching out to 0 light from headquarters in delphi and jerry, you navigate also coming off thousands, protests outside georgia holloman. so headed for crucial votes on a controversial proposed law. russell as president warner contend replaces who's defense minister in a surprise cabinet, re shuffle and millions of votes in the 4th phase of india. general election were prime minister and a remote is seeking a 3rd term.

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