have been out in protest in iran's capital after another wave of mystery poisonings put hundreds more school girls in hospital. none of the victims are said to be in a serious condition, but hundreds of cases of respiratory issues in school girls have been reported over the past 3 months with at least 10 schools targeted last wednesday. president abraham racy is blame the attacks on iran's enemies and says he has ordered a top level investigation or in other development surrounding iran. the head of the you are nuclear watchdog is announced more inspections at the far down nuclear plant. raphael grossey made the announcement after a meeting with the president abraham racy to discuss iran's nuclear program. it is, it is, it came after inspectors in the international atomic energy agency found an iranian nucleus. i had particles of enriched uranium at close to weapons grade level. there was a detection of a certain level and then we asked for clarification, but what we have seen in our continues a continued observation of the facility is that there has not been production or accumulation of uranium at that level, which is a very high level of course sixty's already very high, but as i said, we come, we ways and means to inspected tens of thousands of anti government demonstrators of taking to the streets across israel. now for the night consecutive week, they've been protesting against the government's proposed judicial reforms or changes to reduce the power of the supreme court and against a wave of his writing res, in occupied territories. national security minister to my van de vere has told police to shop in their handling of the protest and ukrainian officials in battle. it say there is intense street fighting the besieged eastern city, but russia has not taken control. that's after russia's wagner mercenary group that had completely surrounded the city. the remaining $3000.00 civilians are living in shelters without access to gas electricity, or water. the listening post with richard gus, but as the program coming up next, looking at a recent wave of violence and raids that have been taking place in the occupied westbank to stay with us for that. i'll see you later. we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter how you take it out, 0 will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you count as 0 the normalization of israel's annexation of the west fact and the extremist elements behind it all. $1000.00 cases and counting post earthquake turkish courts are busy policing content online . and the precarious state of journalism in crisis written pakistan. ah, hello richard. yes, burton, you're at the new home of the listening post where we don't cover the news. we cover the way the news is covered. when hundreds of is ready, settlers rampaged on the occupied westbank last week, murdering a palestinian and burning large parts of a village to the ground. that story made headlights as did the killing of 2 israeli settlers just hours before that which triggered the revenge attack. what was absent from most international news coverage was a larger development 3 days earlier when the really government handed control of the west bank from the military over to a civilian, a right wing minister, a settler, that's a little smart, rich human rights activists, including israeli watts, say that amounts to a does your a annexation of the west back annexation of palestinian land has long been considered a red line. the israelis could not be allowed to cross yet in europe and the u. s. political leaders and news outlets have failed to react accordingly. 2 months into the most far right government in israel's history, palestinians are seeing their rights, evaporate, their homes taken from them. and they are left to wonder if anyone can cross. ah, nobody should not be ill who had had g. it's not either what happened was spoken in shopping for the senior job done in a shop in new been any in a shop before and nobody little lead. now the club men at no decided alina good shape, fitness for the alarm, and deli and emma in theater. mad. people asleep, movies, news audience is numbed by years of imagery of the israeli occupation. the secular violence, the theft of palestinian land should not mistake these images for more of the same . what they are seeing is unprecedented. a government that mixes the right wing policies of prime minister benjamin netanyahu with far right elements in his cabinet, whose rhetoric and policies can be laced with outright factors. we'll use the thing. footage of veterans coming off formed the hilltops to finish land and docking people attacking homes, throwing stones at farmers, and on them of the villages. what is the extent of which the army is an active participants? now we used to describe these phenomena as the soldiers standing id bye, but now we're trying to come up with a new name. because what we see is not sending id by essentially israeli soldiers and both police officers are confronting palestinians with little force in situations where there is no justification for the use of april. and then these really mechanisms that supposedly pretend to be examining these cases of palestinians cube a simply whitewash mechanism. they do not provide accountability on the contrary, they provide impunity. so how did we get here? but the, the current government is the most extreme in israel history and includes jewish supremacist groups like the power party and the religious zionist, the block elements that had been previously been considered to extreme, even for israeli right wingers. and they've now been normalized and brought into this ruling coalition elements like it's a mob been giving you the jewish power party and that's allow smart rich of the religious, the scientists party who was born on a settlement and still lives there. both are part of a netanyahu government that just last week, affectively annexed palestinian land by itself. it did so by transferring the authority over large sections of the west bank, from the israeli military, and occupying forth to the government civilian side and had put smart, rich in charge of that territory. all this in the family to what looks like a mere bureaucratic change is in fact much more than that. it creates a completely different legal realities for any palestinian on the west bank, who stands in israel's way was to take these authorities, formed a military commander lange them in the hands of an easily minister at this means unexplained to and so there was no longer nigger flame was operating, there was bank in kind of division between what is occupied and what easiest. sovereign is one thing to say without any rights to the policy and who lives in the west bank. but someone is a decision maker for it is going. now we're talking about an exception and the goal, it's about a fashion when who, where much rich openly calls himself a fascist. and he wants real demographic change on the ground by spelling palestinians from palestine. not just from the west bank. either you surrender to the occupation and live without rights in the home that we have not yet taken from you. or if you ask for basic civil rights, then we will expel you from palestine. well, at the luck, min philistines, the way that these extremist elements in these railey government are being covered in these rarely press, spans the entire gamut. there are a handful on the left in these railey media like our it's, we're not afraid to call them out for what they are as insiders or even as terrorist. but the general trend ranges anywhere from mild discomfort level she was actually from o been, you know, but you go to tolerance, to openly embracing some of their views up a 3 or 2 call call. that's just part of the, the process of, of normalizing them in, in israeli politics. we contacted numerous israeli government departments on the growing extremism there. none agreed to be interviewed. and this past week that's allow smart rich, gave the media more to talk about. when he said this about our westbank village, that 7000 palestinians call home when these comments were irresponsible, they were repugnance. they were disgusting. and then the us state department spokesman did what he does far too often. and just as we condemn palestinian incitement to violence, he fed journalists and equipped a false one on the occupier and the occupant. as though the israeli crossing of a red line, it's defacto annexation of palestinian land isn't what is driving this story. international news coverage has also failed to give these developments which are historic, the coverage they deserve. typically news outlets take their cues from government and suffer from the same shortcomings succumbing to the same interests, the powerful pro. israel lat, fearing that more accurate, critical coverage will open their journalists up to charges of anti semitism. israeli exceptionalism is the rule that too many of those outlets follow. in the language they use and the terminology, they carefully evolve. why aren't us and western media more comfortable using terms like fascist and apartheid in relation to israel's treatment of, of palestinians. and there are lots of reasons they're not accustomed to thinking of, of israel in those terms. they are much more accustomed to thinking of israel in terms that israelis view is out. there is like a fault toward these rarely perspective in european and in american media in particular. so it's not surprising that certain things will get filtered out fee. it sometimes seems as though it, israel, there is more press freedom than even in places like europe. for example, the bdc interviewed me about the terrorizing or palestinians and the current fascist government. the present to told me clearly that i cannot call them a fascist, even though smart, rich calls himself a fascist, and the media in israel cause him fascist. the international media senses and filters and you determine knowledge is shaped by those who lobby them. i usually tell them just cover the truth as it is, whether it is for us or against us. oh, the best that we should it ask yourself in what other conflict is the word of the occupier and the terminology accepted over those of the occupies certainly not ukraine, where russia's version of the story gets the scrutiny. it deserves from the reporters covering the war for israel, the journalistic focus on ukraine and the implicit nuclear threat there offers a welcome distraction. the kind is really forces have taken advantage of before. during the pandemic, entire international community, we're looking down and israeli settlers, we using that opportunity to expand their reach. true a use more and more violence against their palestinian neighbor. so clearly, israeli policy makers, he's really army, is really status or very much aware of the relevance of media and of the focus of all the, the importance of media reporting of the situation on the ground to the ability of palestinians to resist the violation of their rights oh, it's been nearly a month now since the earthquake that killed more than $50000.00 people across turkey and syria, and the clamp down continues on critical reporting. and anything else the turkish government deems problematic. mean oxy robbie is here with more. richard, the aggressiveness of the crackdown on unfavorable narrative. since the quick has resulted in some i popping numbers, but took a cyber crime department has sent more than a 1000 people to court as a result of their social media posts with more than 600 facing charges. allegations include spreading fake news to cause alarm and panic, and inciting hatred to cause enmity among people. one of the accused admit, or john is a professor of size knology with a sizable following. a tweet of his seeing women in the craig zone were at risk of sexual assault, led to his arrest. media outlets have also been targeted last week. how can fox tv antelli be that will always find by the countries? broadcast regulator and tele beat was taken off the air for 3 days. those channels have focused on the shortage of emergency supplies, critiquing. president, ado i'm ambling up party in the process. charlotte added us because because of a and off a judge or benevolence or the madison because the lights, you just kept pos yet. now it's clear that misinformation has been a problem fixed or using to reports that the creek had caused a dam to burst. and that african and city and migrants. what on looting and crime sprees? however, analysts say the government is silencing its critics by abusing a disinformation law passed late last year, which was already contentious. the upcoming presidential election in may was always going to be a challenge for president odon, and the restrictions on what can get said are set to grow tighter. thanks me. the pakistani government is facing trouble on multiple fronts. prime minister, shabazz sharif, is taking up pounding from an opposition led by his predecessor, enron, caught the economy, is in a perilous state. the security challenge is now include a resurgent pakistani taliban, carrying out attacks across the country. for decades, the media have endured periods of military rule, intimidation from both malicious and the security apparatus, as well as financial uncertainty. the way power is structured there, the incentives not to do the journalistic job can be greater than actually doing it . we conducted a survey of journalists in pakistan on the most pressing issues they now face, topping the list, extreme political polarization, the financial squeeze, and censorship. we hear from 2 of those journalists now who paint a picture of a news industry that is in part, paralyzed a booty. i continue to war, protest against the ouster of enron cars administration in the countries facing sort, inflation dangerously low foreign exchange reserves. and with the spotlight squarely on the, to, to reasoning security situation with journalism and focus on ease of struggle. you could lose your job, you're going to be asked to send so many of the story that you did. and you could lose your life as well. ah, prices you have which i political, hey, you know, financially will argue medically, a guttural, ha, ha, ha, mighty media by be habitable soon. the journalist gornick and not they miss them, i don't get subsidy. i expect. hum, what a me i choose every time there's been a political crisis in which 2 political parties have not been able to come together . there's been some kind of resolution or a common enemy and focus on keeps the moment. there's a dysfunctional parliament in which neither side to still do each other, whether they're in a position or in government. media polarization, all which lead shondae me is madge, but born here, get our money a divided by the what did get they think it was in the video. the video is the middle. you have war to all plus i, joanne will do is i'm going to cut out my nominator contact and contact them is gone. got they can, i will cuz i don't want to like honey up, you know, eat such an idea. hey, just going to son kill while you're he pull that edition for hope, but the hopper need age. you feet a few channels that cash in on the popularity of one leader or the other leader. there's been an interesting sort of media study that said that a lot of the viewership so, especially those that lean towards the pockets on derek and soft, had lost interest in news channels during his regime post april. when a man han was also from power reading skyrocketed because people were interested in watching on a day to day basis. what's going to happen next? what was in my hands, the next they took a big look which are cissy up was green, but he also knows that already. yeah, that's it. but when i hear jake you bye yup. bye lean binding. no, no you thought he should be carmen. me come on, we'll just get some get my sheet. i says that will bit of godaddy already taken my screen in here. looks like the piece of the policy has been that many story bought out. the don't want to thank you you story to get the beginning of the big job, but that i had a bad mitchell. i mean, are you good? good, good, good, good. good. good, bye bye. jack allen flores on audio roger pier bought good pickering jargon. lucky art, bungee jump. good. sorry for the it was not be at home already stored. you enjoy have what? the her in the news media industry has been in financial dire straight for a few years now. those are not new when it's party because of the buckets on the economy. it went to negative growth rate in 2019 about $3000.00 media workers were laid off. can many salary 4 cartons? well, you also saw a phone, an advertising revenue, most of the advertising and concentrated the big 5 channels. and that means that other media organizations that are not getting enough of the money have to really compete for attention. job optimal for financial crunch. i got bought some family up. would you like a god? can you do logan peter to we're abo school, your dining cautious, good fella. corona that i had was me home daycare or she's year. we try to push our bureau from card that they have thought of journals. i took them bloated on me to get me to where they can job a chair to make or do so much fun to read or get away or put it. habitable are meter like where to camp or become all get although just suddenly upon chain again, where the mileage nika, how can, would you guys get juice committee, they're doing any audio. peter. good job can. would you advertisement from joan galle. i will kick as their ratings are really determined by 3 or 4 cities within pockets on that means that rural areas, smaller communities, don't get as much coverage to the last 6 months. they've been massive both as well in savannah for instance, which saw a lot of terrorism. and these massive protests got not as much coverage as the protest that a focus on teddy came off in iran 100 held over the last 6 months as well. the other example, it's actually tragic, which is how the floods were covered in buckets on in august 2022. it took about 2 weeks of the focus on media to actually pick up on the story and how dire the situation was. and the origin of the story were a few social media posts where many people who are living in those flood effected communities, posted about what they were going through. and from to the focus on the news media to suddenly wake up. so the buckets on the news media is business models. the financial crunch has meant that it's interesting. take interest. journalism has really steadily followed me. i mean, what control can i get up new july, a lot more, jacob up kid, good, dismal guard. these are saying a really good and good wrong good. i had money, but for good the censorship has come in the form of asking certain anchors or journalists to be laid off the goals to suppress certain interviews. and also actually a kind of financial censorship as well. which is media organization. they are so police and husband restricted because they made certain people unhappy. i'll just have a phone call about them. so you'll be. com, couldn't they? well, it's all physical crazy. some people say a family, numbered by a subsidy fellow must lead to. yeah, get mighty is indeed the butler do we or war? is leah get it cause yes, you tomorrow to fill out the question he gets up must be the has to be call you call. but he lives there. such taking care must be religious pressure group at the new harvey. all they had was the john list. they had, these are the bug, you know what the heck it up today she got the hang up and dial bon was created for sunday. abdul beloved curry was killed. they had opposite a the, the, the bad queued up with me all day. you've seen a lot of censorship for many journalists who found that they couldn't tell their stories on mainstream media. 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