Those in the stands, she had by fans everywhere. Paul van with al jazeera, ah, this is our 0. These are the top stories. The 2nd day of our referendums underway on annexing for regions in ukraine that are held by moscow. Armed soldiers are reported, have been going door to door to get people to vote. And threatening those who dont. Mohammed val has more on the kremlin view on those referendums from moscow. What they are saying here is that this is a, the natural, of course, a thinks that the, the communities inside Eastern Ukraine and southern ukraine have always been part of russia. And thus the deep desire and their dream. And now the opportunity has come for them to vote to join russia. They talk about the initiative coming from not from russia itself, but from those communities saying got last year was the local communities in those 4 regions. Sent a request to or to that, to their higher authorities to do this, to organize the certified them. And at that has been granted. Moss has called up 300000 army reserve us to fight in ukraine. Some russians have been trying to flee the country in response to the announcement. It came after Ukrainian Forces pushed Russian Forces out of thousands of kilometers of territory in a counter offensive. Ukraines downgrading diplomatic ties with iran for allegedly providing russia with attack drones. President Vladimir Zalinski says a rainy and drones were used and strikes on odessa and elsewhere on friday. He says the militarys down to, for iranian, made kamikaze unmanned aerial vehicles, to crohns denied supply and the aircraft to russia. That have been protest in cities across iran over night after the death of a 22 year old woman in Police Custody masa. I mean, he died last week after being arrested by what are known as the Morality Police for allegedly violating the countries headscarf policy of families say she was beacon after her arrest, police have denied that that happened. Meanwhile, around state t. V. s reporting that at least 35 people have been killed during the unrest. Whites groups put the number higher. Those are the headlines. The news is going to continue here on all the 0 after the listing post. Bye for now. Anti semitism is of evil under a labor government. It will not be tolerated in any form. What so ever. Beneath the surface lies a darker side in british politics. The labour files hot, tim on al jazeera, a few enough and the conspiratorial games. People play political ones involving Donald Trumps mega republicans, plus Vladimir Putin threats go nuclear and iranian women defy the authorities and set fire to their hija. Ah, hello, im are to against burden your at the listening post where we dont cover the news. We cover the way the news is covered. We begin with donald trump and the queue and on conspiracy movement, a relationship that has gone from occasional flirtation on the ex president s part to more of an open embrace. Last week and a rally in ohio. Trumps people played a song that is associated with cue and honors. It was music to their ears. The groups members somehow believe that a secret cobol of the rich and powerful people they say are petty files, actually runs the u. S. Government and that trump is their only chance to stop them. The movement also happens to be home to some deeply toxic White Supremacists and anti semites. The f b i has warned about its linked to violence in the current. After being forced off mainstream social media, q and ons, followers of fled to the outer reaches of the internet. Since then, q and ons, gamification of reality has morphed into some more pragmatic goals, such as electing certain politicians and its beliefs have been absorbed into radicalized parts of trumps republican party. Our starting point this week is youngstown, ohio. Oh, until last weekend, the political love affair between donald trump and q and on was conducted for the most part with a wing and occasional non after years of flirting with the movements wild conspiracy theories. Stay tuned. Everybody say to trump took it a step further at a rally in ohio. The soundtrack playing beneath part of his speech is a song called where we go one, we go, all, there is no victory. We cannot hear, we will not. We will then read that phrase known by its acronym w, w, g one, w g, a serves as a mantra to q and ons followers, true to form, trump spokesman denied the obviously, but if it wasnt that song that was playing, why would so many in the crowd seem to recognized and raise one finger in response. In what many have concluded is some kind of she went on select trumps team has claim that the song used was a song called mirrors. We are in asia allowed russian to devastated country you yelling hundreds of thousands of people. We have checked and mirrors and w, w. G one to be ga. Are the say that the same sol . Ah, weve confirmed that or a program we used on their the same song after we reported the song is the same. Theyve continued to use it. People who were in that audience knew exactly what was going on, even if trump didnt. And thats what so scary here is that trump is reacting to things where he sees people praising him, which is really at the foundation of this mans cracked ego. Because they are almost religiously dedicated to him. And he doesnt recognize that hes getting deeper and deeper in to q and non at worst, he does recognize it and hes part of it. The downplaying of the song is almost besides the point, its over a 100 times now that trump and his team have re, truth, as they call it on their platform, host spike human on influencers, post that contain a q or the slogan where we go on. We go off, whoever runs his campaign, is very aware of the references and trump is very aware that this is a valuable part of his face. Its very possible that this is also part of the calculation for trump, if hes having financial difficulties, this cuen on group is a ready and dedicated crowd. So it could be reflecting either he wants to motivate as base, or he needs money or both. Because theres always a grift when trump is involved in another sign of his tacit support, just 4 days before that rally trump re posted an image of himself wearing a q pin on his lapel along with language evocative of the movement for journalists summarizing the beliefs of q and long members without sounding pejorative can be a real challenge. But lets try. They insist that the Trump White House was engaged in a secret war with the deep state that his enemies were. Democrats, devil worshippers, led by Hillary Clinton and hollywood a leaks a cabal that a ducks children to sexually abuse and eat q and on 1st emerged in 2017. Unfortunately, when mainstream social Media Outlets banned them from their platforms to an on conspiracists took 2 more french sites like gap rumble and trumps own truth. Social leaving the sensors behind. The content has evolved q and on now provides one stop shopping online for a whole range of conspiracies. The visible aspects of the movement become more extreme when you push them to platforms that have less censorship because theyre reaching less of a large audience. And in that small pond, they feel more comfortable communicating in ways that are openly anti semitic, or openly embrace. You know, some of these more extreme white supremacist viewpoints. The same thing happens with any extremist organization, with the traditional social media platforms, banning q and on. They have been isolated into small corners. They isolate isolate isolate until finally theyre only talking to each other, self brainwashing, the queue and on adherence, havent gone away at all. And in fact, the number has appeared to have grown, but its become almost like a mass movement, according to the surveys that have been done by ai American Enterprises institute and the institute for the study of religion q and on could be 15 percent of the american adult population, which is 30000000. 00 people. And thats a lot of people who believe in this crazy Conspiracy Theory. So i think its important that we also understand its not just low information voters and its not necessarily stupid people. 30000000 adults potential voters in a politically divided country and the u. S. Midterm elections take place 6 weeks from now. The sabbath with puppets are the d. C. Swamp avoids the war against american success and independence q and on candidates, or at least republicans willing to cozy up to the movement or on more and more ballots, and estimated 78 candidates in 26 states. Its time to make america dominant again. This is not just trump on. There are numerous huron supporting candidates for office throughout the country for congress, for secretary of state, for governorship. Im teen of 40. Im a wife, mother, grandmother, and Small Business owner. Im one of for congress to challenge establishment and fight for you. Some have been elected already. Republican nominee for governor of arizona carry lake has gone on to a q and on show. So i appreciate that you had me on today. Its always a pleasure to be on with great ease figures. Ive used the q and on Community Whether they believe it or whether they see it for some type of political gain. If i were to describe the shift in the movement in q and on terms theyve gone from trust the plan to, we are the plan. You need to be involved in your local committees and you need to be involved in your local school boards. You need to be running for local office. That is the main difference that we see with this movement that it has both kind of merged with a republican push for local positions, but has also become more tangible and less of a arm chair movement. What will be interesting is that because they say that elections were stolen, that the Voting Machines were taken over by chavez and venezuela, even though hes dead, or that we cannot trust the outcome of the elections. There is a danger that the most loyal q and on supporters will not vote because they think the vote is wasted. Theyve been pushing a narrative that if they genuinely believe it, the republicans will lose this voting block. Instead of being able to rely on the voting block, they are a new fringe Conspiracy Theory group called q a non. Initially, americans failed to take q along with its talk of couples, pet files and the deep state. Seriously, that should have changed in 2021 on january 6th, when the group was at the heart of the insurrection on capitol hill. But some republicans simply cannot resist flirting with a conspiratorial movement that also appeals to White Supremacists and anti semites. There is an alignment, their votes to be hand, hence the nods the winks the musical sounds and that is as good a measure as any of americas moral decline. Its diminishing democracy. What Political Party in history has associated itself with an organization identified by the f b i as a terrorist threat. You just think about that for a minute. Now we already have q and our members who are in Congress State government. If donald trump becomes president , we are going to have q and our members of highest reaches government. And that is not the time to start asking questions about who these people are. Now, it is time now we are at a point in history. We have never been here before, and instead of confronting people are overlooking because of its absurdity. Its not absurd. Its dangerous to russia. Now Vladimir Putin threat this past week, thinly veiled that the kremlin has not ruled out using Nuclear Weapons to protect its people is still reverberating overseas and has also had consequences at home. Joanna, whos is here with the details. Richard to president putin used a television address to issue that threat after Russian Troops retreated following a successful counter offensive by Ukrainian Forces. If the new balloon put in announced mobilization of 300000 men from russias reserve, the 1st such move since world war 2. And he had to find a way to explain that which is doing your loans in pretty heated. But im a give away in the get the not just 6 months ago put in vow that reservists would not be called to fight. So this u turn provokes thousands of russians to come out in protest. One of the issues protestors have been angered by is that pro war criminal elite members of their families are being drafted. That inspired a prank call. Life streamed on youtube by supporters of jailed opposition. Politician elect sign of volney to the son of one of put into top Officials Press secretary dimitry pest golf at the way in the city of civil. So im going to go in which is more to go. Why wouldnt a bullet problem by the storm just goes to florida. If you do not mind, youre not going pretty good. You will show up a value to tumble because im moving up because it doesnt it because what it is after just to throw it away in the city of this school. So she could, she were going to be able to more than say go to school. So it was some point, it was an offer on well, some will put in stones on mobilization has changed. What happened is how the kremlin and its propaganda on the airwaves justify rushes action and swim plenty in the yes about National Store by you and we saw him cry. You can reach us down and then other set up that we need to work. But i see theyre still blaming the west and nato for the war and ukraine. But russia recent military setbacks have made it challenging for those pro war tv hosts sticking to the official line, for example, that this is not a war, just a special military operation. One which russia is threatening to take nuclear is a tough one to sell, even on russia, state controlled airwaves. Thanks joe. Back to q and on now, and the conspiratorial mindset. Journalists have spent a lot of time trying to understand how so Many Americans have come to believe in conspiracy theories. One of the more interesting takes weve come across is from a game designer. Read burke away in q and on burka, which sees a world similar to the ones he creates in a r g s, alternate reality gains his analysis. And as a we asked him to adapt for television, explains a lot about the way our flawed minds work. And how easily we can be dragged down conspiratorial rabbit hall. I am a game designer with experience and very small news. I create and Research Games designed to be played in reality. Fictions designed to feel as real as possible. Puzzles where the deeper you dig, the more you find games with rabbit holes that invite you into wonderland and entice you through the looking glass. When i saw a q and i knew exactly what it was and what it was doing. I had seen it before. Id almost built it before. It was gaming evil, twin a game that plays trip me or to not use the form and techniques of alternate reality. Gaming a r g the q and on universe has a game like field to it. That is evident to anyone who has ever played an energy or an online role play. However, q is not a game q and on is like the reflection of a game in a mirror. It looks just like one, but it is inverted. In one of the very 1st experience fictions i ever designed, the players had to explore a creepy basement looking for clues. The object they were looking for was barely headed, and the clue as easy as a participant started searching for the object i had hidden. The spotted little random scraps of wood on the floor that happened to make the shape of a perfect arrow pointing right at a blank wall. It had to be a clue. Then it got worse. Since obviously was no clue there. The group decided to clue they were looking for was in the wall. The collection of ordinary tools they found, conveniently laying around, seemed to enforce their conclusion that this was the right direction. Is all random chance. But i could see the connections that had been made were all completely logical. Is were normal people and there are some options, were normal and logical and just completely wrong. They had not found a clue. They had created one psychologist, have a name for this kind of syndrome. They call it up a female. Appa feeney is the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful patterns between unrelated or random things and q and on. Thats the point. It isnt about finding the clues and solving the puzzles. Its about confusing people, and tearing down walls. If youre a designer and have puzzles and have a plot than appa, fini is a wild card. You always have to be concerned about q and on is the mirror reflection of this dynamic here, app, affiliate to the point of everything. There are no scripted plots, there are no puzzles to solve created by game designers. There are no solution. Theyre constantly getting the player loss, but pointing out unrelated random events and creating a meaning for them that fits the propaganda message. He was delivering every thought, you know, particularly you ask you, is it . Oh, okay. It says think for yourself. It doesnt tell you to follow one read of. You can think about what you want with you. You is a fictional character in a fictional game, a real whistle blower with Important Information would get it out as fast as possible for the most reliable source possible. There are people that daniel ellsberg, Edward Snowden and chelsea manning. They dont drop clues and make you solve puzzles to look at the information. Q does though. He does this because he is not a whistle blower. Q is a fictional character and acts exactly like a fictional character. This is because the purpose of cue is not to divulge actual information, but create fiction. But to take a look at how this works, to create up a failure 1st you need random data, the more the better. Then you need to interpret that data in a way that leads you to a full solution that fits the narrative. And several que drops q tells followers that there is a shadowy cult out there in which the members are required to reveal their status, their symbol, that like owls, horned animal heads, q, ask them to look out for these symbols and jewelry tattoos or hand gestures of public figures and celebrities, of course q knows what theyll find to clintons throwing the rock, them all hand horn, j. Z flashing the illuminati the rothschilds wearing horned heads, fancy dres