Point the Security Forces the boys here gas to push them back in the protesters subsequently weave through were were not hearing at this point of any. Any any relief or violence that its actually claimed the lives of a protester so far only fear of gas well those have been used to repel a protesters who have tried to penetrate the fortified green zone home protestors have also been out in the thai capital bangkok after their demand for the Prime Minister to resign by saturday was not that Prime Minister prior says he will not quit demonstrators say his hold on power is illegitimate off to last years disputed elections they have had mass protests for weeks now calling for the reform of the government and the monarchy and protesters and ballerinas say time is up for president Alexander Lukashenko to resign dozens of people were arrested in the western town of lida opposition need to spend on a to kind of sky a must step down by midnight or face a crippling general strike. The United Nations and the African Union have condemned an attack on School Children and southwest cameroon at least 8 children have been killed 13 others seriously injured and no group has yet claimed responsibility an International Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons has got in the final russification it needs to come into force in 1000 days on saturday one dearest became the 50th country to ratify that u. N. Treaty the move has been strongly opposed by the u. S. And the opposition candidate in seychelles has won the president ial election there in an upset weve all wrong color ones when as the fast for the opposition and more than 40 is well those are the headlines finally well have more news for you here after the deafening post. Protests and valorous continue calling for the resignation of president bush. Some of the women who have become the driving force of the protests. Talk to aljazeera. The big winner take all. Spring break getting a bit. Strong but i think right. Now we are just promised. Hello im Richard Burton youre watching the listening post working from home here are some of the media stories were covering this week. A brutal murder on the streets of france and Charlie Hebdo is back in the news freedom of expression gets put to the test once again the Nigerian Army says it did not shoot at protesters theres a problem with that story though the evidence is all over the internet malta and the journalistic legacy of the late daphne cata want to believe that her story is far from complete plus sweaty topless men posing for the most powerful man in the land the. Egyptian police put on a show for the president clear protesters tens of thousands of them are back on the streets of france defending freedom of expression its been almost 6 years since gunmen attacked journalists at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo killing 8 of them its taken that long for the case to go to trial and that has coincided with the shocking killing of a School Teacher beheaded last week after showing caricature of the Prophet Muhammad to his students when these kinds of stories make news in france one term keeps coming up like. A strict form of secularism thats in trying in french law ensuring the separation of church and state that law was drawn up back in 1905 with the Catholic Church in mind over the decades though and i. C. T. Has been transformed into a tool thats been used to justify bigotry and paint people of all faiths but especially muslims as threats to the republic and the coverage of this topic in the french news media has left plenty to be desired our starting point this week is paris. What is the political because it will it. Will be released reaching its just going to do the same. As gruesome as the details of the murder were the decapitation of a french teacher on a street just by this high school the context isnt into. Aspect of this story the killing took place a month into the Charlie Hebdo trial 14 suspects in the dog. Alleged accomplices in the murders of 8 journalists at the magazine in 2050. An atrocity that brought millions of protesters onto the streets. The teacher samuel well patty was beheaded by an 18 year old chechen refugee for showing his students patterns from Charlie Hebdo including caricature is of the Prophet Muhammad in a lesson about free speech. Suddenly on the streets of paris its 2015 all over again. Its a horrible. Horrible crime there is no word i can use to explain how. It is but it falls into account flag which is being an absolute necessity to protect free speech which is a constitutional principle as well as the respect of french citizens of different backgrounds and thats something that has been and result for the cave and unfortunately we are seeing the results of it no one will condone such such crimes you cant find anyone. What has changed is that he has been of course the laws of debate around those count to this is it acceptable to mock religions and beyond the prophet and religion what it means is it fair now to to ostracize and mark sometimes very cruel and crude times the worship person and self. You know much its a mistake to say france is islamophobia the muslim culture is respected especially because of our colonial past however what could be mistaken for islamophobia is the fact that we can critique religions we. The same way that we do catholicism of course isnt is that we can discuss every religion and ideology rationally. Shouldnt. This debate over religion and its place in French Society goes back to the early 1901 the role of the Catholic Church was the issue to short the post revolutionary republic mindful of the influence the church wielded over its young democracy took legal steps to keep it in 1005 the past the e. C. 10 which imposed religious neutrality on all state institutions and the Civil Service decades past demographics shift france now has the largest Muslim Population in europe a legacy of its colonial past and after. The lights attained on the secular approach francis taking has led to the passage of other laws including one passed in 2000 feet that banned students from wearing any religious symbols in school written in the post 911 era that law was widely perceived to be aimed at Muslim Students and the headscarf the head japs they will and i did it best to express through it when they wanted to take. It out of it. These days when the french media cover news stories where secularism and free speech intersect and i see today is a constant contextual fact. Lacey used long lines and he almost won the french or he or she. Is not seen the all of us and coalition between the state and we just have a new nation its a whole culture. Branch people will accept and if you remain in the home. Which isnt very street implementation of this you know all that doesnt exist in your x. Word lice. Its become a kind of buzzword people try to use it to. Push forward political agenda so of course it has come forward again following this nation last week for some it is yet another saw no evidence some people cant and dont want to integrate. A curse to it is how another way to end a stupid. Seems in my teens the notion has been weaponized to target muslims and to remove them from the public visibility and studied with the famous headscarf affairs which led to the adoption of the law of 24 and to prohibit in a religious sense in Public Schools targeting the job its not only normalized but its also mainstream especially those 247 on the news channel basically we do have now a fringe fox news which display this kind of narrative. That would be seen news a news channel that seems to be tilting further to the right by the day its most outspoken contributor is eriksson more bundling big immigration debate with flagrant islamophobia he recently said this of unaccompanied minors migrating to france. Sure. For you. Francis television watchdog the c. S. A. Launched an investigation which is unlikely to troubles him hes already been convicted of hate speech 3 times and every week night see news provides him with a platform elsewhere in the french media anti muslim sentiment cloaked under a veil of secularism is common its visible in the kind of interviewees and analysts they favor sometimes in the journalists they hire such as to. As wayne try a print reporter at le figaro who showed her true colors recently when she saw a young muslim female blogger online the blogger wasnt even talking about politics she was sharing budget friendly recipes with university students. So shes wearing a headscarf and a french journalist rich 911 as sophie ending her job with this horrific terrorist attack. Like. This joins was invited in every single news network to discuss the case. Today so clearly women had to shut down her twitter account because of the threats she received if you want to spin paul into a typical french culture war you just concentrate on i. C. T. He did and he slammed the false boma. Youve got on the one hand those who are now using nice say against a community in a religion are you slime i did it to me just to get my cheesy. Whereas all those clearly are do not accept this and dictation of those you so when i. Saw me and again in a minority day to express some song the my criticism of ostracizing you know category of the population is very very hard because you have a lot of people in the social media i would be arousing you. That is the ultimate contradiction in the discourse surrounding the murder of the schoolteacher and the Charlie Hebdo story. Critics of the magazine who argue that free speech has its limits find themselves accused of sympathizing with murderous as charlie have those lawyer put it in court those critics are intellectuals with blood on. In their hands. And the magazine has always described itself as an equal opportunity offender. Best demos and. It would be wrong to say that Charlie Hebdo is against islam i can show you a series of cartoons that demonstrate that catholicism protestantism and judaism are all equally critique its a satirical newspaper i cant say its cartoons always make me laugh but its become a symbol for freedom of speech so i have to defend it somebodys got to express it were issued your vessel in order to look good even argue that it would be fine to make fun of your religion and you can say your honesty that they do too but im seriously that neediness theres an. Econo a very central carkeek in not the discourse of the general not only of the region but also. Also or in terms of freedom of speech and and freedom of expression. It has become virtually impossible to criticize shall you do and thats the problem because i think you for sure you can mock everything why cant we be free in a name of freedom of speech that we dont actually go. As for the Charlie Hebdo legal case the trial continues as does the National Debate over what can or cannot be said what images should or should not be shown and whether a law are written in the year 1905 is still fit for purpose in the france of 2000. Nigerians have been protesting against Police Brutality and this past week demonstrators were shot at live rounds this time by the Nigerian Army were not sure robbies been following the story for us made up with video of the shootings all over social media how has the military defended its tactics in this case outright denial which it is quite stunning actually given that the Video Evidence online is overwhelming that have now come out. This past tuesday and i didnt soldiers moved into a suburb of lagos where protesters were defying a curfew witnesses the c. C. T. V. Was disabled the street lamps were cut out and the n. T. Was bad catered before the fighting began as a result so many of the videos you see online are pitch black or you can hear is the fighting now the day after this incident the Nigerian Army tweeted screenshots of articles from a number of news outlets including the New York Times and reuters with the words feak news in fact right across them they said that they wouldnt even in the area so didnt help therefore when the state governor of lagos some will only went on social media to see that he had visited those who were injured and that soldiers had indeed been in the area so much of the documentation of this story the reporting of it has been on social media as opposed to the mainstream news media why is that. Well these protests actually got their start online about the weeks ago a video had been circulating on twitter and facebook showing him nigerian man being shot dead by the specially and he told the squad size now just like the video of the Police Killing of george floyd in the United States earlier this year this is the video that triggered all those black flies not to protest this nigerian video had a similar galvanizing effect and size has been adopted at the hash tag even though this movement has gone way beyond that now besides unit was disbanded on october 11th and its been replaced by a new squad called swat now the Nigerian Government should have probably worked out that simply changing the acronym from sars to swat was not going to stop the protesters and i didnt have been pressing right on there demanding widespread reform across no enforcement and theyve actually even changed their hash tag its now what so this looks like a story that will continue for the lying ok thanks mina last week marked the 3rd anniversary of the death of death from a cut i want to see a multi use journalist described as a one woman wiki leaks for decades her reporting exposed organized crime and corruption on the small island state until october of 2017 when she was killed by a bomb planted in her car late last year we learned that powerful figures may have been involved in the killing those revelations led to the resignation of the Prime Minister among others not much else though has changed 2 men have been convicted for committing the murder whats missing are the convictions of the people who ordered it and the investigation into that has been marred by a lack of transparency and political interference the listening posts flow phillips now on a reporter killed for the work she did and how the late deaths make her want to see as journalism continues to make news. October 16th 2017 there are crooks everywhere you look at the situation that. These were the last words ever written by daphne caro won a pulitzer she was under no illusions she knew journalism had made her some serious and for decades shed been a thorn in the side of the rich and powerful here in calling out corruption and organized crime at the highest level. She paid the ultimate price. That day my mother and i sitting sitting on the big dining table. Desk it was just before 3 pm my mother needed to go to the bank for a meeting about how Bank Accounts are charged been frozen by the economy minister. The last time i saw. The sound of the blast in fact again very soon i remember because i was singing to music on my lap top when my mother left the house when i heard the sound of the explosion the same song was that. I knew with was up almost straight away i dont know its just the solemn its called to be anything goes. Down because i want to believe she was no stranger to play came big stories by 27 team news of reporting on financial corruption and amounted to something extraordinary embezzle meant own a massive scale involving some of multis most senior political figures its including then Prime Minister joseph mackoff to understand the story here are some of the names you need to know keiths cambridge scots chief of staff conrad met seat his Energy Minister and youre going fenech a businessman one of malta richest men more discrimination of staff. And most more those Energy Minister the true st that they came to power in march those and 30. Got their accountant to set up for them 6 companies of panama involved with this these 2 people each cumbrian on the. Clothes they deal with and Energy Company to provide a new thats forestation and the energy from the get go a little was piecing together a picture where. The owners and the promoters of this project took enormous brights 5000. 00 a day corrupted the which they start to cover not. Revealing whats become known as the electric gas deal wasnt the work of a National Newspaper or a t. V. Station it all came from a single journalist reporting on an island of less than half a 1000000 people carol want to get his blog regularly attracted upwards of 400000 readers a day. And since its inception in 2008 the story she broke reshaped the Political Landscape take pill artists a Secretive Bank she discovered was laundering the money of senior officials for the passport the cash scheme lining the pockets of politicians but when carolina glitziest started to uncover the level of corruption behind the electric gas deal some multis found it hard to believe this was netflix material. And because of because it was like that we didnt even think it was possible for it to be real because it was so surreal bindings we thought this may have been all too big to be through me but thats where some of us were wrong when we didnt read to really believe everything she said. Mark learns to meet hosted share a bank at the time not as most popular t. V. Show on the public broadcaster as he says the