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So then the u. S. Defense secretary has had to clarify there has been no decision to pull troops out of iraq casper and other military figures to set the record straight after a draft letter by a top general was in their words mistakingly circulated the confusion followed a vote in Iraqs Parliament pushing for all Foreign Forces to go after the assassination of top iranian come on a custom sort of money iraq is also urging the u. N. Security council to condemn the killing of sort of money and a shia militia leader who died alongside u. N. Chief tears hes worried about the growing fallout ive been following the recent rise in global tensions with great concern i mean Constant Contact with living officials around the worlds and my message is simple and clear stop escalation. Exercise maximum restraint restart dialogue new International Cooperation that does not suggests the terrible human suffering caused by walk but massive scenes of grief and rage have filled the streets of irans capital Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini. Led funeral president s more from iran shortly but 1st lets look at some of what the left has said about u. S. Troops in iraq in jew deference to the sovereignty of the republic of iraq the combined joint task force will be repositioning forces over the course of the coming days and weeks to prepare for on Wood Movement lets speak to john hendren who joins us live now from washington d. C. And john it was all a big mistake but we are going to see treat repositioning only. We are going to see true prepositioning but if its a clarification from the pentagon of what was really an embarrassing gaffe the pentagon is saying that the u. S. Troops are not leaving iraq theyre not leaving the region but because of this letter the defense secretary marc esper had to scramble in the pentagon to talk to reporters and explain to them that it was not u. S. Policy that troops would be leaving iraq the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mark milley said it was a mistake that letter was a draft it was unsigned it should not have been released they say what those troops are doing is relocating there about 5000 u. S. Troops in iraq and they are relocating to another area presumably one would would guess so that they could leave in a hurry if they have to if the iraqis move forward with these nonbinding parliamentary vote to get the u. S. Troops out but just to put that into perspective thats 5000 troops from what was 177000 Coalition Troops back in 2003 the u. S. Is actually moving troops into the region the latest announcement from the pentagon was that there would be 4500. 00 sailors and marines as part of an Amphibious Force going to that region and in the region in its entirety there are about 50000. 00 u. S. Troops and thats a build up because of this conflict with iran it would have been a serious embarrassment a more serious embarrassment if the u. S. Had planned to pull those troops entirely out following that vote because it was just a day earlier on sunday that president onil trump said the u. S. Is not withdrawing troops from iraq that if it did so it would require iraq to pay for the u. S. Air base and ballade billions of dollars worth of airbase there its already been turned over to the iraqis and he said if that happened that he would levy heavy sanctions on iraq even heavier he said than the sanctions against iran so this was one big embarrassing blunder u. S. Troops are relocating with the pentagon. Now tells us they have no intention at this time of leaving iraq and how does all this fitted to that vote in the Iraqi Parliament switch which where they agree to a nonbinding vote will be it but they agreed to push all foreign troops out of the country i think the u. S. Is putting a lot of faith in the word nonbinding they believe in the pentagon and here in the in the u. S. Administration that iraq despite the fact that they dont like u. S. Troops to fight the fact that foreign troops are not popular in iraq they believe that iraqi leaders understand that they need u. S. Troops there what those u. S. Troops are doing is training iraqi troops and also going on those missions against eisel fighters those are u. S. Special forces seal team groups elite troops that are working with the iraqi troops one interesting thing did come out of that briefing that was not entirely related to the troop numbers and that is just yesterday President Trump said that they would be attacking or rather a couple days ago President Trump said he had 52. 00 sites in mind and they included cultural sites in iran will ask for was asked about that today he was asked will you target cultural sites he said we will follow the laws of Armed Conflict he was asked again does that mean youre not going to attack those sites and he said well that is the law of Armed Conflict so he has contradicted the president on that and it looks like the a pentagons official policy will now be that they will not target cultural sites don excellent thanks very much they dont 100 reporting bath well lets get the view now from baghdad his on a binge of 8. Just outside of the green zone we started to hear helicopter traffic heavy helicopter traffic which we hadnt heard since the death of christ in chile money on friday night and that indicated something was happening and after that a letter was released by various Media Outlets and we confirmed with multiple iraqi sources in the government as well as in the military who said this letter was authentic now it to be is that this was a draft of a letter for coordination purposes and the Troop Movement which was which were signaled in that letter is only for coordination purposes the u. S. According to the department of defense is not pulling out of iraq it does show the kind of confusion that has existed here in iraq after the assassination of course insulin money every night has been eventful whether it was been rocket rocket attacks or some sort of statement from from armed groups it was monday a very busy day for the Iraqi Government the iraqi Prime Minister and i spoke to a number of World Leaders the qatari amir leaders from the u. K. Britain china and the United States ambassador and the essence of that was that he wanted the world to see that he wants iraqs sovereignty to be just wrecked and he wanted the world to see that he wants iraq what is standing behind what he called a quick draw of foreign troops all right lets hear now from glen cole who was Deputy National Intelligence Officer for transnational threats at the cia and he told us confusion created by the letter is symptomatic of the problems in the trunk administration. By this point everyone on earth should have the measure of the man he is utterly amoral self focused narcissistic and doesnt care about the law. Custom coordination or or consequence he thinks. In an emotional this or a way in response to what he perceives as slights or threats or opportunities and thats it always inclining to a position of apparent strength without much thought and thus we killed silly money we Knight States and now he doubles down as he will always do everything is in conflict with itself in iraq in the United States between iraq and United States between the United States and iran and most things there are in coherent and all of the leaders in the world you and i included as observers are trying to make sense of what cannot be made coherent because it is an incoherent step of this series of visceral steps taken by the man in the white house. Lets look no debate in divisions of the United Nations as iraq pushes members of the Security Council to condemn sort of money to soften nation my kind of. Iraq has sent a letter to the president of the Security Council and the secretary general asking for the Security Council to issue a statement condemning the United States for its action iraq says in the letter it stresses that any military operation on iraqi soil without the consent of the Iraqi Government and without prior coordination is considered as a provocative hostile act that violates the charter of the United Nations so iraq wanting at the very least a statement from the u. N. Security council but this isnt very likely the council on as on so many other issues deeply divided on this matter the Chinese Ambassador is saying that he is consulting with other members of the council when asked whether he will call for an urgent meeting the Russian Ambassador being even more blunt asked whether there was a likelihood of a joint statement from the Security Council he simply said no so clearly the issue of the Security Council and dealing with this crisis at the moment very very difficult where the council remains totally disappointed or sort of monies coffin has arrived in the iranian city of command his final resting place he was born and will be buried on tuesday on monday huge crowds were seen in the capital as the funeral procession came through from tehran has said big. A nation in mourning and tears from the Supreme Leader for irans top military general assassinated in the u. S. Drone strike in iraq many a friend of customs for the money lead the Funeral Service at the university outside the streets of the capital were packed with the iranians who considered for the money a hero a man who defended his country crowds like this have not been seen since the death of the founder of the republic Ayatollah Khomeini 30 years ago so the on his daughter addressed the crowds you know its hard to harness how you would see anwar photo ha ha today the philosophy and struggle of my father has made the resistance front into a principled and victorious philosophy. So the money and iran have long supported palestinian groups a senior hamas leader Ismail Haniya paid his respects. Were here to express our heartfelt condolences to the leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khomeini general solomonic family and the flag bearers of the resistance against the zionist regime and the us the crowds chanted sang and cried the feeling here that this is a moment of change not just for a run but for the entire region but here President Donald Trump hope that the fascination of boston for the money would result in people coming and celebration but coming out against the political establishment in iran well the number of mourners here i think is the one so that he was greatly mistaken there were a chance of death to america and an expectation that iran must respond with we should take revenge the feeling that i had to was in middle its unique i dont have this feeling towards anyone else in government hands thats not my heart theres no one is valuable as the general on some blood with blood residual and that whatever since i heard the news ive been crying and its a weird feeling but at the bottom of our hearts we want revenge revenge revenge but not everyone agrees on what action to take and their intended political struggles in parliament if roger arabic or you are the best response is to expel us forces from the middle east and make efforts to liberate palestine but the specific response of iran should be hasty and should be well considered an important body called the assembly of experts condemned the killing of said the money and said silence in the face of assassination would make iran weak they called upon young people to mobilize and prepared to as to American Forces from iraq as the world awaits irans response the government here will find it hard to ignore the calls for revenge and when its revenge for a man of course and so the money standing it would appear this Popular Support for whatever action may follow assad based aljazeera that run. At the. So the days news ahead protests against liberias football star turned president as the cost of living this is. A political cows in venezuela as 2 men claim to be the rights leader of a national standard. All dizzy right explores prominent figures of the 20th century and how why bill rees influenced the course of history beginning with the giants of the struggle for civil rights the america of nonviolent resistance to the evils over the variable loop of her speech look at me and continue to keep the negroes to be different that what you mean by that about malcolm x. And Martin Luther king face to face on 00. London is one of the most unfortunate cities in the world and decisions made here have an impact on fright or around the globe and so here it out as a right we will show you the true impact of those decisions on people then how it affects their everyday that. We are free to put them on air and to really engage those stories because we know there are audiences interested not just in the mainstream news but also the more hidden stories from parts of the world that often go under reported. One of the really special things about working proud is here is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much input in contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be for it as you know that it shouldnt be but it is particularly because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real stories are just mended is to deliver indepth journalism we dont feel in favor to the audience across the globe. Well again youre watching out there are a reminder of the top stories this hour u. S. Defense secretary marcus for says the u. S. Has no plans to pull out of iraq comes after a letter was leaked to iraqi media saying u. S. Forces will be repositioning over the course of the coming days and weeks the pentagon says the letter was a mistake. Iraq has called on the u. N. Security council to condemn the killing of a reigning general custom sort of money and the Iraqi Militia leader was killed side during the u. S. Drone strike last week check to general antonio terraces also calling for a strange. Sort of monies remains have arrived in his hometown of command its final resting place hell be buried there on tuesday early on monday huge crowds packed the streets in the capital tehran for the funeral procession there. By the nato chief has warned iran against further violence and provocations after an urgent meeting in brussels secretary general Jensen Stoltenberg says a new conflict is in no ones interest nato maintains a 500 strong Training Mission in iraq for the fight against high school but it suspended that after sort of money is death. Nato is prepared to continue our training and Capacity Building when the situation permits we remain strongly committed to the fight against international terrorism. After the meeting today the United States also briefed on the regional situation following recent attacks on Coalition Forces in iraq and the strike against generals for the money. For years all our allies have expressed concern about irans destabilizing activities in the why the middle east region. We agree iran must never require a Nuclear Weapon we shared concern about irans missile tests. Or as we want to other news now and forces loyal to the libyan warlord who have to have reached the center of such a coastal city east of the capital they also seized the nearby how to be a base which is one of the Largest Military installations so it is strategically important to have to months long offensive to seize tripoli where libyas u. N. Recognized government is based is a lie to a rival administration in Eastern Libya i think a lot about that. This strike which was planned for very efficiently and with great caution was under the direct supervision of the commander in chief the plan was executing great detail in spite of hours in no more than 3 hours approximately we were in the heart of the city of sirte the thin air from up and up the wellhead whos in tripoli and he says the situation in sirte is changing rapidly. Were getting news from military sources in this coastal city of sirte saying that have told us forces have taken control of several parts of the city including the poor and the city center thats also along with the military camps in Southern City fighting is still going on until now according to military sources and the area and they say that they take over what happened after a certain detachment inside the city that was belonging to the Government Forces that changed position just because the our affiliate to the. Tribe of the warlord have to now the city of sirte it is very strategic as it is very close to the oil fields and oil ports in central libya and specially close to the coast were getting also news from military sources in misrata that theyre sending troops. To repel have forces attack at least 5 soldiers have been killed in mali after a roadside bomb hit an army convoy near the town of turner mali his struggle to contain rebel groups who killed more than 140 soldiers since september thousands of french troops have been stationed in the whole region to try to help contain the Violence Police in uganda have again detained musician and political activist probably why he was prevented from holding a Campaign Rally for next years president ial Election Police fired tear gas to disperse his supporters outside the capital kampala probably one has been calling for a long time president Yoweri Museveni to step down all the while this very is marching through the jungle he wants to highlight the liberation struggle 3 decades ago led to him taking power back in 1960 critics have dismissed it as a stunt to rally support for a 6th term in office. Thousands of people have been out on the streets in liberia fed up with its crumbling economy fakirs president george where of sitting back while cost skyrocket and savings vanish i would address reports from monrovia. A tense standoff between protesters and Liberian Security forces after demonstrators try to march to the office of the president. The police have been asked to stop. So the demonstrators broke into a song and dance asking the president to quit office. Those also a small group of government supporters but the Police Quickly stepped in to disperse them because they had no permit to hold a counter protest. Organizers were hoping for a large and to government gathering but the Massive Police presence proved an effective deterrent if you say people should be having the right to protest not intimidate them the message has been sent to do that even if his few number like rwanda. Is send a message and what is the message. On the web is behind on. The crowds of this demonstration one nowhere near the number sitting in 229000 but their message remains the same they want an end to what corruption to stop economic decline and for the president to publicly declare his assets the constitution did not make it mandatory for him to do so. Many liberians are disappointed but their looked at representatives failed to stand up to the prospect to stop the excesses they are protesting against that opinion shared by some parliamentarians. Of the. President against. The people. The government for its part says it has resolved many of the grievances of the protestors and blames i just hate us for stirring up trouble. President george will have survived a 3rd major protest. Whats not clear is if protesters will once again take to the streets as promised if the government fails to meet their demands. To venezuela now where 2 men claiming to be leader of the National Assembly on sunday on troops physically blocked the Opposition Leader and his allies from taking part in a vote for the position but i know you had expected to be reelected instead was sworn in as later won a separate vote held away from the National Assembly. I mean. Its not just that they have prevented the lawmakers from entering the assembly they did not allow the president they violated the rights of venezuelans what you saw yesterday is what youve been saying for years persecution kidnappings and of takeover of the assembly. We want to tell you the truth about the change that our National Assembly is undergoing today the National Assembly elected its leadership in accordance with the constitution of venezuela in accordance with the constitutional mandate and the assemblies quorum regulations. In america until its in human is in caracas and she explains whats likely to happen next. There are 167. 00 deputies thats the maximum amount to in venezuelas congress or National Assembly on sunday about 123. 00 were inside the majority from what we understand belonged to the opposition but in order but another group the remaining supporters of one by the law and one by law himself were blocked from coming in we saw that ourselves this is not something that weve read about we saw him trying to get over the fence and get into the National Assembly he wasnt allowed in why is that important not only because of the fact that he has the right to be in there but also because as the president of the outgoing speaker of the house the constitution demands that he be the one to 2 open the session and if he doesnt open the session presumably that cant be done he wasnt allowed to go in there and instead there was a maneuver where the im a former supporter of why those who belong to an Opposition Party called for some justice and who was expelled from that party. Because of allegations of corruption took over and was named now supposedly he belongs to the opposition but he was elected with a vote of from the minority progovernment parties what was this a violation of the constitution if youre a stickler of the rules yes it was that afterwards why the went and held a parallel session which was also irregular but technically speaking still constitutional what we have now are 2 people who consider themselves or who call themselves president s of the National Assembly and in a few hours both of them there will there will be a confrontation because one by dog and his more than 100. 00 deputies are going to try to get it back into that National Assembly to hold a session and reclaim what he calls his rightful seat while the other man who supported by the government is going to clearly not allow him to do that and it will there will be a lot of confrontation i can almost assure you of that. Protests have been held across india condemning an attack that targeted students and teachers at a Prominent University in new delhi major rallies took place in the bank a little too chennai trying to gothe mumbai and new delhi protests to say students affiliated with the routing be j. P. Carried out the attack counter demonstrations have also been held in solidarity with the accused. More than 30 people who were inside the. University came under attack on sunday evening people with. Teachers and students despite multiple calls victims say the prescribed night police which is controlled by the Central Government is also accused of doing too little to stop. Far as the identification of people who are participating in the clashes all possible methods of identification are being invoked were also keeping an eye on the messages videos and pictures circulating on social media the investigation is going on in right earnest and they will be identified soon. About 10000 families are being offered money in the democratic republic of congo to move away from lucrative mines the government wants to help Foreign Companies move in explains why people are refusing to go. To work for themselves that was until the congolese government moved them and gave the mining contract to a company from china that means working for the chinese if they want to survive now they hear local authorities want to pay people to move even further out to make room for more Foreign Mining Companies i mean summated 10000. 00 families could be affected. Only Big Companies are allowed here but we will not leave until we know where they want us to go better we also dont know how much money they are offering us to move. More than half of the worlds cobalt is produced in democratic republic of congo its a vital component in batteries used in goods ranging from electric cars to phones and laptops but some here in the south. In the province say they are not benefiting they want fair compensation before they move. Their work to previous 3 locations before to their. They were led to a boat compensation the government must 1st build proper hows this for us before we move. 2 years ago around 600 families were relocated to this place come to kenai village about 25 kilometers away from castle but starting over hasnt been easy for everyone some families say there are a great moving. We still dont have proper sanitation facilities theres no Running Water or electricity we havent heard any politicians come and explain to us whats going on Civil Society groups a past relocations have expose corruption and human rights abuses in the mining sector. The previous relocations did not work in some cases people were forced to move the government cant make people leave an area without providing adequate housing and other facilities including fair compensation in a statement the provincial governor richard we age says with a drop in price of cobalt on the world market the relocation of people from is no longer on the agenda because no company is ready to finance its relocation process it is now up to the National Government through the ministry of mines for years locals have been told by the government that Foreign Investment creates jobs but at this foreign owned mine these men say they earn barely enough to survive. Aljazeera. Talked of a check on the headlines here on aljazeera and u. S. Defense secretary marcus 1st says the u. S. Has no plans to pull out of iraq this comes after a letter was leaked to iraqi media saying u. S. Forces will be repositioning over the course of the coming days weeks. Does not reflect current policy. As the latest from baghdad. A letter was d released by various Media Outlets and we confirmed with multiple iraqi sources in the government as well in the military who said this letter was authentic now it appears that this was a draft of a letter for coordination purposes and the Troop Movement which was which was signaled in that letter is only for coordination purposes the u. S. According to the department of defense is not pulling out of iraq it does show that kind of confusion that has existed here in iraq after the assassination. When iraq has called on the u. N. Security council to condemn the killing of iranian general because some sort of money and the Iraqi Militia leader who was killed alongside him during a u. S. Airstrike last week secretary general and tony could terraces also calling for restraint. So they want his coffin has now arrived in the iranian city of come on his final resting place he was born in the city and we buried on tuesday on monday a huge crowds packed the streets in tehran for the funeral procession as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and president Hassan Rouhani help pres in his honor the head of nato has warned iran against further violence and provocations after an urgent meeting in brussels nato maintains a 500 strong Training Mission in iraq for the fight against myself but is suspended that after saddam on his death forces loyal to libyan warlord hell even have to have reached the center of the strategic coastal city of sirte trying to wrest control from the un recognized government as part of have to as wider offensive to take capital tripoli if thousands of protesters have gathered in liberias capital to run against the countrys worsening economic crisis theyve been doing that to president george where to take action against corruption and the rising cost of living demonstrations against that footballer turned president started last year. Are you up to date with the news say on aljazeera got more news coming up after listening post. 3. Alarm richard gives birth youre watching a special edition of the listening post on a new kind of reporting open source journalism citizen journalism allows anybody with a mobile phone to document a news story to produce content that is now routinely used by news organizations open source journalists often start with that kind of material and then they apply some of the same investigative techniques that are used by police and intelligence agencies this is a growth industry partly because of declining press freedom in some hostile place. In china for instance open Source Researchers have proven the existence and the location of socalled reeducation camps for muslims in the province of sion jack and they broke those stories long before mainstream Media Outlets to open source reporters have also proved valuable on the story in syria where the least 10 media workers were killed in 2018 and they did so without having to go there and take the risks that come with that assigned weve had 2 producers working on the story of open source journalism and daniel tory daniel youve looked at how open Source Research has shed light on the camps in sindh chang will see that report a bit later on. Briefly what if you learnt well for a long time richard chinese officials were actually flat out denying that these camps even existed and at the same time the government was doing its best to make sure that journalists on the ground and i didnt find that and thats where open Source Research has made their mark it was the evidence that they are uncovered which ultimately gave the lie to those denials that have been coming out of beijing tarik your report on syria will be coming up 1st that war has been described as the worlds 1st you tube conflict and its produced a goldmine of material for these kinds of research absolutely because so many people have been documenting that war or at least trying to consider this its estimated that there are more hours of footage of this war than there are actual hours of the war in real life and only as images and information weve been thought trace it with is wrong in syria for open Source Research is but to understand whats really going on in syria all of that media needs to be analyzed interpreted and authenticated and thats what the 2 investigators i interviewed for this piece had weissman are doing in different ways in Different Countries on the same story. It is the most documented war in history producing millions of images and videos that shape how we see the carnage inflicted on syria the conflict that has been open season on civilians humanitarian work with and reporters. Even atrocities open to subjective interpretation and control of information is used as a weapon where the age old photo of war is not just the byproduct but arrived at by design. When an incident occurred today immediately smartphones are switching on sometimes dozens even hundreds of videos around a single incident where are those people tell me what can we see in their images and how can we. Make sense of all this material that otherwise seems completely chaotic when it comes to syria there is more tendency on depending on. He was exonerated contents videos photos because of the in accessibility and the security situation that journalist him unless organizations and news agency face what opensource lee says give his information that could be verified in order to understand more incidence of human lives the nations. From a Compact Office in suburban but how the city is building an archive of syrias revolution and subsequent well. Has 30 an archive of the huge database more than truman in videos more than 5000 sources utilizing open source tools like google earth qatif team pinpoint the exact facts of an attack using geographical landmarks a practice known as geo location location if thing corroborated with satellite imagery you documented more than 200 different chemical weapons how does that work so weve collected 816 videos about the use of illegal emissions chemical and those were collected from 190 sources photos and videos that were published by either human attending groups that are working in syria or risk your groups or just normal citizens that where document thing the incidence and publishing that on social media and we placed it on a market like this here we can see this has been used to drop in this additional areas and it contains clothing we are able to see also like the impact sites of where this incident happened and this case it happened. In a hospital called the Surgical Hospital of. The syrian archive takes the role material produced from syrias war the millions of hours of footage and tries to get to the truth behind some of the most contentious episodes in this conflict however just one location where open source is being used to try and understand whats happening inside syria in london a group of research is easing some of the same technique for personal testimony Investigative Journalism and theyve combined it with one of spatial modeling to reconstruct the stories behind some of the atrocities that have been committed in syria. So imagine you find online 56 videos of an incident. All of them a shaky you dont know exactly where theyre filming from and what is being captured in the videos and weve figured out of it by building architectural models we can actually locate each one of those video sources and see the relationship between them as you can see they are wiseman is an architect by trade hes also the founding director for in the caucus section for us the architectural model is like an optical device and we can navigate from one point of view to the other and understand what it is that we see and understand also very importantly what cannot be seen in those videos. There are some places cameras cannot go. For the carcass textures used a different kind of open source human to reconstruct and the tourists are in prison said. Thousands of syrians have been imprisoned and killed there. I missed the International Call that an architectural instrument of torture of evidence. By tapping into the experiences into the memories of the few who escaped from the carcass texture has been able to build a model of a prison that with portals is impenetrable. Is like a black hole there is no photographs there are no videos the only evidence that you have for what happened inside now is the memory of those detainees and they have endured the worst kinds of torture deprivation hunger and conditions that are inhumane with extreme together with amnesty we met 5 survivors of the supply a prison we built a model of the prison starting from what was in front of them starting from the floor tiles has a little below. Was done some good fat and under come out and this is a moment and really be on its own and measuring the floor tiles we figured out how big the room was in out off the floor tile the room in the corridor or we figured out the architecture of the building and for the 1st time we have recreated the model of how this place looks like how it operates how torture was an acted there. One of the unique things they used is acoustic. New kind of little background on it and now find out from the prison so effectively prisoners where the lead in blindfolded and they could remember the building for the sound for its acoustic correct arresting a filibuster in the southern. For well number of doors opening and closing. Footsteps in the corridor coming in to take out those condemned to death to the place of execution. So this is a sophisticated sound software that allows the building not only as to what youd see but to what you would hear in. April 28th seen one of the most contentious stories of the conflict the chemical weapons attack on do my. Thing you. Want to. Produce as many narratives as this. I know joining us now to. Spread around. Russian news channels took the lead casting atrocity of the false flag attack staged by the theory in Civil Defense of the white house. From. Philly. There are accusations that activists may have tampered with the scene of the attack for dramatic effect however internet detectives also revealed that Russian Media interviews with this boy with evidence that the attack was staged was actually filmed at a syrian army facility in damascus in the presence of Russian Military advisers. The story with an amplified in some. Western journalism and left to fester in the conspiratorial corners of the internet. Was a case study in confusion the manufactured kind and open Source Research is working from a distance. Of closer to the truth. Immediately after the yellow canisters hit about in the room. Images of those canisters appearing online the next day the syrian. Military is there and the only news channels that are being brought in are russian news channels who start filming that area and claiming that the entire attack has been staged so the forensic problem was rather simple did those canisters come from the air we know that the air was exclusively controlled by the Syrian Air Force and the russians or from the ground did the rebels place it were working here like archaeologists but archaeologists that have no access to material ity only to the media and from the Media Building the closest possible proximity to the object of the canister so we could measure all its the formation that pointed to us to the fact that a canister is actually being dropped from the air because only a force of a drop could actually create such bombs at the front part of the canister and untangling all this twisted metal that we saw at the background of the images helpfully provided to us by the Russian Media who didnt know that in that mess there is actually quite useful information. Taking a skeptical approach toward porting is not only healthy but necessary history has taught us that and while much skepticism is directed primarily governments with their agenda the track record of producing propaganda the work of reports of an open Source Research of mike wiseman who could see it also comes them to critic. They being questioned on their qualification their methods and their motives think we need to be always tune to criticism of our work however there is a difference between criticism and denial and especially in the field of syria there are people whose work is more to obs for k. And infect. Politically motivated attacks on the very fact and possibility of verification much. Activists are trying to. Write back to protect the public and i think the white house in this is part of the truth environment and i think the answer to this need to be in the meticulous systematic way which we work in showing how it is that we arrive at our conclusions are in fact most or far analysis is showing how we know what we know if you look at the videos its mainly methodology as long as people risk their lives to post videos online we will be there to look at what we doing is writing the history of that conflict and at some point in the future not now well be able also to call to justice and accountability those responsible then to National Courts have used for the 1st time in history the social media material is published on on facebook in order to assure wanted to 1st against or come in and for us in syria this is a huge milestone our work is focused on making sure that this material is preserved for the next 30 years and more i. Mean a tedious shows lots of things in some cases it shows the perpetrator and where it is possible for the shows buildings and hospitals and schools and big trees that were targeted. In order to force people to want to migrate thats why this archive is really important for the future of syria this is why we keep doing this work. And as we are covering the war the revolution is about so much more than just telling syria story. Right now its about collecting the evidence upon which this conflicts history will be written ok thanks to our daniel your report on open Source Research of the story in china how does the work there compared to what weve just seen on syria the main difference is in the method in the case of research as a relied mostly on official documents as opposed to video as investigators in syria have before the reeducation camps became the global story they are now chinese officials have been putting government tenders online were talking here about potential contracts for private companies to build and staff the camps a couple of researches adrian zens a german academic who i interviewed in stuttgart sean john was a Chinese Student based in canada they found the documents and before long they were using google earth to actually locate photograph and provide evidence for hundreds of scams. In the most heavily surveilled probably of one of the most surveilled countries on earth. Most every movement is monitored whether you are a local or a journalist on assignment. The 1st thing you notice is the extreme level of Police Presence on every intersection on every block there is often a multistory building there are security checks everywhere and if you know that there are also surveillance cameras on every Street Corner kitted out with facial Recognition Technology then you very quickly get a feel the sense of being surveilled of being watched. According to a report published by the Foreign Correspondents Club of china last year 9 in every 10 foreign journalists working in she spoke of interference from the or thirtys some would attain by Police Others forced to delete data remember. Owens and other devices almost all are reporters 96 percent say they were visibly followed we are better off because then there were the far graver dangers that face local sources in 2018 journalist james palmer formerly based in china spoke about his personal experience trying to cover shin jack all of my weaker sources of. Cash i dont talk to people because. I cannot reach them when we look at the lists of reasons theyve been given for people to be sent to concentration camps having had contact with foreigners is the single most dominant reason. I have certainty of one of my sources being sent to a camp with the others i dont know whether they. Just cut off contact for their own safety or whether theyre actually imprisoned i stopped trying to reach weaker sources in the middle of last year because the risk to them was much greater than any possible benefit of talking to them. There is no such thing as. Growing body of evidence suggests otherwise with reporting inside changing stunted by surveillance and intimidation news outlets have relied heavily on outside help to cover the camps. Now i cant find it. Much of the media reporting is the result of investigations done from a distance independent research is using the simplest of open source methods for instance the chinese Search Engine by do had struck digital gold a trove of official documents detailing chinas mass incarceration program. Making sense of these documents requires a specific skill set for start you need to be fluent not just in mandarin but in the jargon of chinese officials you also need to know what to look for adrian zens is a german academic and hes one of the pioneers of open Source Research about the camps. In early 2018 he began annotating the documents and we publishing them online so youre one of the 1st researches to use open source methods to investigate these counts and changing what made you think you would succeed using these tools where conventional journalists had failed the big advantage of this open Source Research that you can uncover. Its that speak of systematic policy where the government itself says were doing this and every local government under us is also supposed to be doing to us and often times i was able to find this kind of document. Was this particular dog so this is the main suppose it Legal Foundation for reeducation so when the chinese say we have established the extremist cation centers based on the law this is the document you refer to. Another document that i found talks about the goals of transformation through education and even very blatantly says transformation through education and chinese joey trying to cleanse us to brain from evil thoughts from the thoughts of religion thats a piece of evidence that speaks as much or more than 100. 00 newspaper articles because it basically proves that this is a systematic policy. The document that sends uncovered evidence of state policy but proving the camps had actually been built enough of them to hold hundreds of thousands of people required another open source tools satellite imagery. Thats where sean jang a Chinese Student based in vancouver came into the picture. Was. Started by searching a few keywords online and found lots of information such as government tender notices for the camps to be built these documents contain the addresses of nearly 100. 00 camps so i searched on google earth and found the satellite images. They look very different from civilian facilities for example there were barbed wire fences the watchtowers structures that youd expect in prisons i found more and more information and so published it on my blog. Satellite imagery for mission collected by a researcher. Has recently undergone construction documents found by. Psychological counseling the children of parents taking to the camps a lot of mainstream medias coverage has built upon adrian or from work you see in the paper is using government documents and hiring information to show the extent to which the Security State has grown and changed. And sean has used satellite imagery to show the compass being built almost in real time. Financial times weve also used satellite imagery to look at the location and size of the canvas weve also used research by interns and on the contracts that governments are using to buy new materials for the camps and i think the really important thing about these kinds of Research Collaborations is that because the data is open the journalist can also check what the research is looking at and if needed you know challenge whether the data theyre seeing is representative of the region or how the data was chosen. Communist Party Officials not usually known for their transparency gave open Source Research as a helping hand by leaving the evidence in plain sight now beijing is in damage limitation mode trying to delete documents before investigators in stuttgart bank and elsewhere in repose that an online game of cat and mouse over one of the worlds biggest stories. The set of documents that disappeared basically described the details of the camps the security features were watched how big they are and what they cost a lot of that disappeared and so on we were a few versions starting to archive websites and spent almost entire days archiving hundreds of links but i think in some sense they put it too late we already had the information. By staying one step ahead of beijing open Source Research on earth the evidence about the camps that journalists on the ground and she injuring could not. But going up against a superpower magnifying scrutiny of an already notorious human rights record comes with consequences. Although im also in this case if you are chinese citizen. Slowly and since i started my research i felt a lot of pressure from the Chinese Government for example theyve contacted my family in china so in the near future. I think ill avoid going back home despite all this i think doing this work is worth it because there are so many we get people to thank theyve lost contact with their families. At least my research can raise awareness of this problem and help pressure the Chinese Government into finding a peaceful solution for counseling. And even if the chinese authorities are successful in shutting down an individual like sean jang there are more open Source Researchers like him out there and thats beijings challenge on this story as it is for the Assad Government in damascus its not the reporters doing this kind of work its the technology that makes this kind of work possible and thats a much more difficult if not impossible thing to suppress youve been watching a special edition of our program on open source journalism well see you next time here at the listening post. Capturing a moment in time. Snapshots of how the lives. Of the stories. Providing tips into someone elses well they need. 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