Tackles the big issues this is shaping the United States its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the world the bottom line only on aljazeera. A surprise announcement from the oval office and. Israel you know its hard to find that. Now just not. The same stuff somebody said tom and i know others call an election nearing for trump and ya. Know i mean sitting in for richard and youre watching the listening post working from home here are the media stories were covering this week. The Abraham Accords behind all the talk about peace between israel and the gulf states there is a lot of posturing and even more p. R. Surveillance in the United States an affiliate of the network 80 plus is ordered to register as a Foreign Agent weve reported on mounting crises a chronically corrupt government a collapsing state and then came the blast whats it like to be a journalist in lebanon today. And a saudi musician teams up with an israeli one to create one of the many more the videos that have come in the wake of the Abraham Accords. The talk in the middle east these days is of normalization between gulf states and israel just this past week the United Arab Emirates and the kingdom of bahrain formally signed what was being sold as historic peace deals with israel what these deals do is make official an open secret that for years theres been a growing alliance between certain arab gulf states and israel an alliance that has bypassed the issue of the occupation of palestine altogether normalization is a charge topic in the arab world rulers know that by pursuing it they risk the anger of a disapproving public which is why the media push in news discussions on twitter even in t. V. Dramas to normalize normalization started before the deals were signed and are likely to go on for a while beyond especially since there are further deals on the horizon our starting point this week is where the deals were signed washington d. C. Bahrain will fully normalize and diplomatic relations with israel this is a truly historic day. It was a signing ceremony laden with symbolism and spin the 3 countries israel the u. A. E. And committing to peace have never been at war any Sticking Point in their relationship prior to this could be no with israels occupation of palestine but there were no palestinian representatives at this event this day is a pivot of history. It heralds a new dawn of what was unfolding in washington d. C. In front of cameras from around the world was a triumph of political strategizing and messaging a normalization of regional relations that doesnt mean fully address the schisms and injustices faced by People Living in the region. The weather the u. A. E. Il was all they actually tried all of those things are good for the palestinians and so they get the whole show of this being a bolt stopping that obsessional the ones that i knew were actually supporting the cult in all of the out of the monarch and out of my shabbat for nothing any. Kind of 12 have any man but i dont mind that even now with the ongoing trend of trying to. Ignore the well its a something thats good for the people theyre trying to confuse the question of from being one of the occupation to being one of interfaith. And. And. The sort of artist was out on t. V. Shows and and sermons and stuff theyre trying to make back scepter of israel a matter of tolerance lets. Which of course we have a problem with its not a matter of our problem has never been with jews as being jews as our problem is with the colonization opposed to most israeli relationships they have or have havent got to be. Has not been any Major Political debate but ever since gaza started. And and and videos in the local media are nice well and the whole question of the relationship between israel and the gulf states surfaced many of the stories about the gulf states over the past couple of months and have focused on the hotels they got state and how israel is to eat and enjoy the exciting attractions in the gulf states the palestinian question was sidelined almost entirely. For all the players in this field the arab countries u. A. E. And between israel and the United States which is clean the rule of peace broker deals out of response to the pressures of politics an assortment of strategic and political concerns that have trumped what was once the attitude senses that normalization with israeli would be contingent on the creation of an independent palestinian state. But i think what has happened with. Her is that now normalization is front loaded and anything to do with the occupation comes after they have different sorts of places bahrain is focused on one period will be only bahrain regards your all of the existential threat with reiki there is iran then addition theres the whole matter of the u. A. E. Seeking to become a techno hub and who would be a partner with the region theres only one country that are operating technology in the same similar way and thats here lee israel has an interest in developing some kind of that. Economic financial relations with the gulf states and perhaps gratian fighting. Burstein it on yahoo and had a clear interest in distracting the Public Opinion in easier out from his own upcoming for auction child and together we have a crisis which is now i am in israel for him to really and National Achievement is very important and dearly for trump to distraction from calling it an unimportant achievement or the election. The fanfare across much of the arab media has been designed to cover all the bases that are the newspapers such as the us collegiate times which ran a cover page a greeting and a band and supposedly new israeli leaders in the days following the u. A. E. Deal of religious broadcasters in the gulf delivered sermons on t. V. And online emphasizing the duty of muslims to trust in the decisions made by their leaders who were to have been made of those new order for the 1st time you know you have your you know where the. Money is the t. V. Messages extended beyond the gulf. 3 channels the vital in the and the israeli channel 12 hosted a simultaneous live broadcast to mark the signing of the deals. The show me on a. On line however is where the stakes in the messaging batton have been the highest and twitter is ground 0. When the u. A. E. Deal was announced there will be eaves of a few similar attitudes the notion that it was all sincere and spontaneous was shattered by another set of tweets from progovernment verified accounts asking that the u. A. E. Security services monitor twitter for messages critical of the diem and punish those people. Keep in mind a lot of the cars that you see are basically theyre not horses. Because they dont have the horse these are. No you know government operator government funded disapprobation network the fact is that since 20 London Twitter went from being the parliament of the arabs on the most important arabic speaking public sphere to being an engineer to offer oppression for these dictatorships. Big creates a kind of an alternative reality there because you dont know what the saudi people actually fits you dont know what the iraqi people actually think because they are unable to speak on the other than the behind it was quite the opposite whatever became the platform for people to focus we actually study the result of mostly people but you have people who are just especially when it comes. And thats why theres also ringback this difference between the reaction that weve been seeing in the United Arab Emirates versus reaction. Lenses that are. Being each month between at a countrys and israel and has been in reality for years israeli leads certainly the beaches if not the woman inspired it and Surveillance Technology and it has found willing and eager customers across the middle east. The saudis going to start to purchasing hacking tools for realistic mozzie from the israelis in 2017 book but all indications are that the iraqis have access to these long before that of course the selling point of this technology is it is kind of a surveillance super weapon so you know if youre in mahratti or if you live in the u. A. E. And they have the software. Its almost a foregone conclusion that they will be able to get into your phone not only israel providing Hacking Technology to these governments its also offering its own intelligence analysts to help them make sense out of the megabytes and gigabytes of all of that so this goes back to the point that this is more than simply a normalization agreement this is a Long Alliance israel is offering these governments everything that they need. For them to quiet internal dissent the target was and started one of the star getting the rest activist in return these governments of course are giving this gift of revelation and other diplomatic victories to the netanyahu government after the attack over. The deals with the u. A. E. And bahrain mark a new phase of normalization between israel and countries in the middle east oman and sudan are rumored to be signing up next there are some countries however for which the red line with israel is nonnegotiable kuwait for instance a couple of years ago you would be excused for thinking saudi arabia would also not consider formalizing its relations with israel it looks like that road isnt completely closed anymore. There is a sense in which most saudi commentator the reporters are keeping the space open for saudi arabia to maybe do it theyre not foundering against any saudi who reads between the lines would realize that their country is being helpful to bahrain and especially to the u. A. E. And so that means that saudi arabias are closed to this by any history was made of going house to israel normalization has taken up a lot of their time the celebration of the deals done the anticipation of the deals to come and the speculation of what saudi arabia might or might not do. For all the talk of peace deal the notion of a breakthrough in the region the people whove been awaiting peace and a resolution the palestinians leader mean unconsulted and been heard from. The other major story were looking at this week relates to this Network Al Jazeera specifically a social media affiliate of al jazeera based in the United States plus. This past week egypt plus was told by the u. S. Justice department to formally register as a Foreign Agent of the country one of our producers nick new head has been looking into this nick can you start by explaining how has this move been justified and what does it mean for egypt us. As you know i mean the plaster is funded by the states of. The u. S. Department of justice is that it therefore must be under the direction in control of the government that its using a law or called the Foreign Agent registration act fara to make plus register as a Foreign Agent aljazeera released a statement saying we are deeply disappointed by the departments decision which runs counter to the extensive factual record we provided demonstrating that far of the destruction is not applicable to a. J. Plus the legal structure editorial structure the editorial policies budgeting prices and content of a. J. Pass demonstrates its independence what does this registration mean for. News organizations that this has happened to in the past theyve seen their stuff numbers kept employees you on u. S. Citizens have been denied working visas theyve been denied press accreditation so it really can be a hinderance for a News Organization so that our other foreign Media Outlets against which fattah has been used can you tell us a bit about that so thats mostly being invoked by the trumpet ministrations starting in 2017 with r t which is the russian no News Organization then in 2019 chinas c g t n. T r t which is owned by turkey had to register far and plus the d. O. J. Says that all of these channels are engaged in what it calls Political Activities for their respective governments so it would seem as though the trump government is targeting foreign Media Outlets ought not actually some foreign Media Outlets because the b. B. C. Germanys deutsche avella canada c. B. C. Amongst many other foreign Media Outlets that all working in the United States without this designation right sided that doesnt like this law is being applied selectively but in the case of a. J. Plus there is a bit of a back story and it has to do with so. Recent political history in the gulf in 2017 saudi arabia the u. A. E. Basra and egypt all sever ties with qatar the differences are largely to do with regional geopolitics but one of their major gripes was with qatars funding of aljazeera and how the network covers the region in fact they even demanded that the entire network be shut down which clearly didnt happen but its been widely documented that the u. A. E. Has been aggressively lobbying in washington for us members of congress to force others are artists based in the us to register under fire why agent placers being targeted is unclear ok nick so this looks like a story that we develop a bit so we keep our eye on it one of the fundamentals of journalism is objectivity to be able to take an unsentimental approach to never get too close to a story but there are times in places where journalistic detachment is a luxury whats it like to report on a crisis when youre living right in the middle of it thats the situation facing journalists today in lebanon just over a month ago an explosion of nearly 3000. 00 tons of Ammonium Nitrate stored at beiruts port shocked the world and devastated the entire city the stories and images that have come out of beirut since then record of the magnitude of the disaster and the result of the journalists that reported it. As lebanon deals with the off to mark we speak with 3 journalists. About life after the blast and what it means to be a journalist in lebanon today. The act of maha play out on. The hot. Bed of. Music. On the set of mistletoe in a good man to invent a new. Album out of my house up. This up in filth as it becomes so what im going to do when im not of. Week to a bishop and then back to the bible going to get where i get ive got a bit of a fish on the b. B. C. You must have. Buffy so any on the missoni was good. You. Just. Gave a good out. And good how. Can you how did was is the how to be by jolly good the sadness of a lot of being. Chip. Had been lost the most at me on this sort of. Gives the message out. How tough he would be thought of as soon as. He had also me and how. Sort of thing is often either been to. Be. Honest how do you know i want to. Bust the capital because you dont. Tell me to my. Theory then as a man much harder to make it most rude on a bad luck get good one ive. Got a one meanness or. Be sold another nick. Mckim. Trying to animal boy i had this oh i care about how young is about because of this and how linda. Telephone it. In the. Loss of. Job and what im a so whats a how to get how do. I shine a good visit like that if you sort of thing this is under swarthy we. Was so she looked 30 and this was. Going to be the procedure. Im still making sense of what happened. I keep meeting people and telling them how the last element. I mean journalisms my decision i lived in a civil war i survived bombings i covered several Israeli Aggression against lebanon on i covered in iraq are a couple of them. I have to say about the bogus border was something unprecedented that unexpected you are working and you are thinking on 2 mentions 1st check the people make sure that they are safe taking care of 2nd we are a newsman that. We have to respond to what happened we have to start functioning. Immediately i met with the team told them what we need to work on just to introduce them how we would be working under these and. Were picked that from that so i started covering the stories with my phone immediately i went to the scene i found an old lady who survived a video went viral with the no 9 coming on the head. I mean. A shot of that but. Then. You have mixed feelings you get emotional youre captain angry and you need to respond so why did a sponsor was to work we all decided that this is the way to respond to the explosion we need to tell the stories of the people we need to tell our story i would have a hoot what happened in it we dont want to rely on the authority and its media if we consider ourselves ourselves as an upturn at the media then we have to play this role. We have an active Civil Society and prominent journalists i focus on journalists not Media Outlets because you have really good individuals but they are stuck with the Mainstream Media which is polarized yet you have a tentative media you have a tentative voice voices so these are the ones who will help face and put people in power into accountability since the end of civil war we did not have proper accountability in lebanon we cannot have this after august 4th. This is posing as a different terms for june is definitely because of its magnitude. Maybe its the 1st time that. It was quite hard to just this associate yourself from the event and you have to just be just as. He was in the car. It was it was our government our incompetence. So you have a sense of bearing some responsibility as a juvenile and as a citizen and now you see the struction and blood everywhere and you have to just try to get some information with all of the chaos the political chaos the blaming pointing fingers. At the time we were being hammered by videos about corpses on the flu vaccine. That was maybe the hardest moment trying to balance between your journalistic. Duty and you have an italian side that you cannot escape. Knowing what the journalists are being paid and. Knowing the economic crisis 11 knowing the physical. Feeling of threat not to get bribes not to get stuck by the system not to serve any political interest is the biggest. Ringback you make your own path as a free journalist with all of the struggles that come with it. You can yes you can maybe accept some bribes. Have a better personal life. But you would be stepped on for the rest of your life. At a certain point one has to make a decision to stick and try to fight the fight or. This is an ongoing level and that one cannot affect positively or negatively so why be here. Maybe one should leave i dont have this. I would hope that all people would stick here because if people had hope then change is possible. Should work on. Hope just giving birth to hope because without hope. If it is inevitable. And finally the normalisation in the middle east have brought together all manner of unlikely partnerships not just in politics but in Popular Culture 2 of the many social media collaboration we saw there was one tweeted from the Israeli Government arabic account that caught our eye its a song by the ad based blogger mohammed sold and is releasing that on the run to beat the lyrics are a line from a jewish prayer the tune is pretty basic but the video has had 45000 views on twitter alone and it captures even if in a sort of awkward way just how far the media has moved on the idea of normalization even in saudi arabia. Were leaving you with a clip from the song and well see you next time he added the missing. Looks like. The song sung. Lets get closer to. Let. Me. Be. Deported from the u. K. Indoctrinated by somali i was unsure about how kind of a young man disillusioned by my rebuild his life was a mixed race going to make it a mistake to kill and reunite his family after the case no not call me at all for my kid last warrior a witness documentary on a just. A. Play. This is all just there im dating obligato with a check on your world headlines the number of people who died from corona virus in the u. S. Has now reached 200000 and on the day that milestone was reached President Trump again put the blame on china in response china called for unity in the fight against covert 1000 heres our diplomatic editor james space like all the other World Leaders speaking at the u. N. President trump speech was prerecorded his words were as controversial as ever we have waged a fierce battle against the invisible enemy the china virus which has
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