Combat the virus is working and that americans are following the guidelines its been incredible what theyve done even saw in new york has passed another grim milestone registering more than 10000 coronavirus related deaths and States Government says there are signs the worst is over ill just there as christensen to me has more. As all but essential businesses remain closed in new york or stay home there are signs that strict social distancing measures are working the governor says the state is seeing fewer hospitalizations for the coronavirus we can control the spread feel good about that. The worst is over here if we continue to be smart Going Forward but even as President Trump expresses his hope to get americans back to work in may the governor warned against lifting restrictions too soon new yorks governor said hell be listening to experts in Public Health in the economy not politicians as to when it will be safe for new yorkers like me to leave home and return to work but hell do so in consideration with governors from neighboring states. That includes one to reopen schools the mayor of new york city thinks they should stay closed through june but i need to do to protect kids and parents and families and educators theres not going to be a context to reopen schools with so much were going to have to deal with on the health front to get to a better place and a more stable place but the governor says ultimately that will be his decision one he has yet to make christian salumi aljazeera new york in europe italy and spain are easing restrictions letting some nonessential employees return to work however france is extending its not dolman till may 11th. Well. In course in other countries the thing there are restrictions too soon the w. H. O. Chief says now is the time for countries to be vigilant their way down is march slower than the way up that demeans control measures must be lifted slowly and weve gone through. It cannot happen all at once controlled measures can only be lifted if the right public and the measures are in place including significant capacity for contact tracy. Turkeys president says there will be another 48 hour lockdown imposed next weekend to contain the outbreak there all major cities were put under an initial 2 day lockdown for the 1st time on friday but a last minute announcement caused panic buying the government says its putting additional measures in place to make sure theres no chaos again. In other news u. S. Senator Bernie Sanders has endorsed former rival joe biden for president in a joint live stream the backing comes less than a week after sanders dropped out of the race to become the democratic nominee today i am asking all americans im asking every Democrat American every independent im asking a lot of republicans to come together in this campaign to support your candidacy indorse who make certain that we defeat somebody who i believe from speaking just for myself though is the most dangerous president in the modern history of this country forces loyal to libyan warlord holy father thought have fired rockets at residential areas in the capital tripoli the attack comes after the internationally recognized government recaptured 3 cities in the past 24 hours. The news continues here on aljazeera to balad catch truce in a post truth worlds. National election after playing. Crashed. With russia. Finally without problems. And american journalist has been beheaded by isis terrorists a video showing the whole risk a killing was released on the internet a short while ago along with a message to the United States. Of america went activists green very powerful. Or you have data getting out who didnt want to get about 38 out and eat and kill but you dont want to let you take that hot you know aircraft you know getting ready and you know crying over the literary very. You know this is nonsense there are no Russian Armed forces anyway in the east of ukraine and fortunately the russian backed separatists who control the area continue to block the investigation the separatists are removing evidence from the crash site all of which begs the question what exactly are they trying to hide. We have to make sure that the truth is out. Before any official investigation into the tragedy of flight m h 17 is complete the website of one citizen journalist claims to have connected the dots now in captains run by Elliott Higgins a 36 year old leader of Office Worker among boeing can see were tools or you tube and google earth something higgins used to back his claim that russian big satellite images to play in the green army for the mh 7000 crash. But i was younger i was super super show i was in verse i just couldnt leave the house or show shy. Terribly nerdy as this out i was really into if your game and i was very i was drawn as well so its computers and those kind of people think. I used to play these games a lot and i would like join a group and inevitably object to being the leader of the group because i was really good stuff ive always been out of ive had this conversation to see where if i do Something Like ill really get into it. Ive just been looking at twitter and i know says there was a you know i suspect and someone said of this james foley all of this is the art for a number of concerts isnt popular culture. I just felt like i need to see do something so thats why for it see if i can actually figure out where this taking place. The 1st i notice is it was in this kind of very dry and arid area but in the distance you can actually see a very green and fertile area and if you are familiar with the train around raca. City is a state stronghold of that point you could see this valley with this river running for a cream but the foothills around there were very dry and arid these are very dusty heavy area we can see in the distance on these individual trees so when you look at rocca this is exactly what youre seeing you seen this green valley with these hills i basically just went through and followed this line looking for similar terrain and you can see here its very very rough indeed so awful that was the likely location and then i started looking up a little background details like these trees on the road and comparing them to imagery that was visible from a line of sight once i had a possible location i published it just to see if i could generate a discussion around where this could have happened and then several months later thats when i start to think. I really was going to come here and talk to you about revolution but with the discussion of the post truth world it feels like a counterrevolution now and its been a very peaceful and quiet revolution. Smartphones thanks to social media and facts of the vast amount of information now Available Online to anyone and this revolution is allowed to new fields to grow a mile its called this field online open source investigation can use their influence the powerful with use it to challenge the powerful and we can bring them to accountability as well it used to be that the tools of Media Production were in the hands of the media. And with the rise of the internet that is no longer true. With blogging starting in 2000 and social media starting 2004 and you tube which i think started in 2005. The tools for Media Production have been given to the people formerly known as the audience. Betting cat doesnt have Institutional Support they dont have a big building at the hague. Where they do their work they actually publish very Detailed Analysis and many of them a volunteer is living at home they dont have security and so what they do is really risk a great deal to find out the truth in very complex situations that include major global play is. Essential to the regime of the people. Someone used to be telling the. Truth. On. The scenes. In the mistress an. Exhaust and. Nothing should would have been a problem even if. All this you really look at the. Scene you know all my dance school so not base also my you kid. If you thousands of them are little more lies you just put a lot of thought of who. How i got involved ellicott it was that i had been following the ukrainian conflict so pretty much since the beginning and then when i made 17 was shot down i got curious because passenger planes fly very hard they fly that cruise at altitudes of 1010 kilometers i hadnt seen a weapon systems that could reach the high so previously what its seen is these stroller launched missiles that can only reach a couple of kilometers but nothing that could down on passenger airliner. If there were these pictures of all the parts of the aircraft that were starting to appear on social media and what at once it understand was that could we actually see any damage on the Aircraft Parts itself that could indicate what brought it down and thats how i got talking to that other people it was eliot there was arak and then that to me came along as well and we sort of naturally start i suppose talking to each other that at some point that elliott reached out to all of us and said hey do you want to actually do something in a more coordinated fashion and thats how we sort of ended up as the sort of core villain cuts. I was at work here in charlotte at a bank and my job was to monitor events that were going on and try to see if theres any danger or risk to the bankers employees or travelers or whatever i focus a lot on Ukraine Russia at work because i started russian literature and graduate school so i knew russian and i did a lot of monitoring of things to do with russia and ukraine and i remembered seeing some news that a plane shot down over ukraine. That i 1st i thought oh its not the deal you know but another point to shut down. But soon obviously as everyone knows realize it wasnt a ukrainian plane and then i like everybody else was wondering what was going on them or i was watching social media and i was watching a few different feeds of news and a member i had. Which is like the main russian state news channel and life news and the life news channel members stream specifically was her if they were showing the bodies it was awful should people rifling through it was just horrible horrible scene and of course you want to know who did this and why did it happen and how can you bring some relief and you know justice to it. We know the trajectory we know where it came from we know the timing and it was exactly at the time that this aircraft disappeared from the radar we also know from voice identification that the separatists were bragging about shooting it down afterwards so theres a stocking here but i really want to 1st understand what was a shutdown with because that that would lead to the who did it. A couple weeks before i was 17 was shut down there was a report on voice of russia that the rebels in east ukraine had taken over this book missile base in donetsk what i 1st thought that ok its conceivable since ukraine does also have books on the rebels if they had access to the books they could have access to people as well who could operate those systems but there was only then after. After a little while 1st learning that the same missile launcher had been actually seen in russia thats really when things started like the together and sort of the russian role started becoming apparent. The way citizen journalism investigations are trusted is different than professional journalism in professional journalism you have the reputation of the b. B. C. Behind you right. And the standards of institution are the basis for trust in citizen journalism works differently trust is generated not by the brand name or the glory of the institution its generated through transparency. And so in the citizen journalism investigations what what the journalist says is not trust me im with the b. B. C. Its dont believe me heres the evidence. Syrias deadly steve is now even more dangerous with both the u. S. And russia launching airstrikes but supporting different sides. This is the markets one month before that. More than 60 people who were killed its just a market i mean there is no military airbase its not near the frontline it was a strike why would you attack civilians i mean what is the reason. The core of what i have been doing with its human rights activism with some of my colleagues we started a Facebook Group called the uprising Information Center just in the beginning 2011 we were just looking at thing where the peaceful protests were coming from. But that turned into in pointing him and as of earlier and work led eventually working on doing open source analysis weve been in combat. So if we go from the beginning so you see its like the 1st moment of the dark you see 4 rockets going into the market and we are trying to see if its a fake video may be from a different country maybe in syria but in a different time and we have seen this has happened a lot. More. If you remember the directors who filmed a boy that has been killed. It was just a film that they were doing and a different country even but it got a lot of traction when people use that look at whats happening in syria right but actually it wasnt happening in syria. So we need to make sure that whatever were looking its really verified its not just propaganda. So you can see the sky and then impacting 3 of them in a pretty much the same place for the further out. So there we see the bigger impact here and then theres one further down here. Its hard to say what exactly it is but i wouldnt exclude either the syrians or russians from this one but in addition to this it would be really good to see the actual remnants of the bombs themselves because that then gives you more data what exactly the bombs were and that that can tell you who to strike the work that heidi and belling had been doing is critical theyre grabbing obviously large quantities of information much of which can disappear quite quickly from the internet and preserving it so that we have it for future accountability mechanisms one of the things that hadi and the syrian archive have been doing and weve been really trying to support them in that process is figuring out how do you code and label and tag all of these videos so that if for example a legal investigator later says we want to investigate this particular crime on a particular date and particular place that they can pull up that information quickly they can explain how. They got it so that its transparent for a court of law and can then actually send it on to the investigators in a way that makes sense. And fun but you. Know im i know its. Tough thats his arm but not i not seen me to talk. This being. Is assume it. Was obvious and i would also have the phone so i was its a mom or on our way to hope so shes you folks always who wouldnt i would offer you know its very true but he talked. To me is helping to understand better what happened in the impact sites so what im asking to me is if he can create a city destruction of this location so then we can go in detail and see what happened its building these are software but they should not always d. M. V. Do you also einstein and bill dont just read us i mean pride the mood it uses more come undone. In a book to end of the only kid those issues the fake argues a lot more to it would be more does id through the. Going up to from them to me and hardly a publication of the bombing. The big challenge for a journalist is just if you think about workability as doing that the mount of time that it takes to go through this so we have people on their free time in the evenings you know theyre spending hours and hours going through this see the pressure with many traditional journalist alfords is that theres getting so tight all resources and time these days that its hard for them to actually spend enough time to sort of goal for all of us and adelines in the way that some of the volunteer groups can. In the case of syria itself there is more hours of the conflict online now than the hours of the conflict itself its the most documented conflict in history and i dont see big News Agencies doing any work like this. The delegations dating unfounded allegations against my country are depending on. Bloggers and videos and among one of them is a very famous british citizen called ilya tegans who was online imports about the situation in syria are intensively yet mistakenly adopted by many Media Outlets as well as governments according to wikipedia and i quote eliot haggans in 2012 when he began blogging the syrian situation was an unemployed finance and admin worker who spends his days taking care of his child at home. Hagans analysis of syrian weapons began as a hobby out of his home in his spare time haggans has no background or training in weapons and is entirely selftaught and he said before the arab spring i knew no more about weapons than the average x. Box owner i had no Knowledge Beyond what i had learned from and which was a nigger and ramble never been to syria doesnt speak a word as arab there and he conducts its present reset from the concept of his. And his home. When i 1st saw the idea for the website of the star 2000. Are something of a club and. I base it fails just like i was still open source investigation a lot of crap. And all taking anyway so in a way frank got. They were picked one so i was stuck and i confess my friend hes a playwright you know so ill ask him and quite quickly he said what about the cat. A mouse town was recently visited by a cat since then all of the mice havent got any peace so the monks decided to be rid of this guy. That you. Have an idea about picking up. How about do you bell the cat as you seem to be the one with the great idea to me oh no. We were in the greatest ideas are nothing when they cant be done. So this is a photograph of the book i shot i make 17 this is take about 4 hours before the shoot down. And we look at this we can see a few things that are pretty obvious like we have the book right here which is in the back of a white valvo with a red loader trailer rounded and also we have here that cheap. If we look at other videos of this convoy we can find the same vehicles in each one so for example right here this is the white valvo carrying the book. And here you see. The same sheep that we saw in that photograph along with a video taken 2 days prior accompanying a number of russian and separatist tanks 3 Eastern Ukraine today this video was taken on the day of their make 17 shoot down 5 hours before the shoot down and you can see them one of the most important details. Is on this book we can see 12