a good idea of a double cross cambridge and with an important trunk simply titled nelson london. apples. it was written by musicians. people hot stakes. i'm a boucher in support of the freedom fighter who had been imprisoned for 27 years. but it was just natural, as a musician you, you feel the importance, the contribution that one could make in writing a song like that. the song itself was a contribution, a reading called full, nelson mandela's release. this is one of dozens of songs linked to solve africa's fight for freedom, which a no performed by musicians locally and abroad. medusa worked with global stones

like maria mikaela and you must of kayla routine the bringing awareness to the struggle of millions of south africans quoting for into a part to south africa held its 1st and aquatic election in 1994 healthy god. oh, how does that go? magenta was elected president. the city is on civil presidents and administrations later. critics say south africa struggling with a poor economy and governance corruption and crime. it is important for us to see some of the good things that happened with them, of course, and of course, we have not dealt with poetry. we have not dealt with those who came up to us were homeless. we have no doubt with a, a, our have issues there, many challenges stick with it. the youth, the young people went on and unemployed, but it doesn't mean that nothing has been done. but booster says, despite the challenges, many young south africans today, one of them, his daughter,

a former opportunities and before music and arts played a significant role in south africa's fight for democracy. and so what so and other places, songs quoting for freedom pins decades ago. so son today, when people want to express and go discontent, and often people here have a lot to complain about. well, democracy both significant change and freedoms for many here, the government is not fulfilled. some of its promises while sold africa remains one of the most unequal societies in the world. so me to mila ultra 0. so way to, if i'm on use information analysis on our website, i'll just share with the com. i know your device and he's continues off to the listening post. these statements, the, the guns july 2014. as is where the force is bombarded. the

gaza strip for 50 days. resident of the coming to the death and devastation seems to the eyes of palestinian camera mancha lead, hama who films and strikes the 2 thousands of lives, including its own garza, the last picture on, on to 0. 1 year the end of the civil war ensued on what is it about this story? this humanitarian costs have been staggering. but the news coverage has been minimal silencing the voices of defense at the us universities over israel and the gods. and what that says about freedom of speech in america plus restoring the independence of state owned new so black skin, poland has not gone according to plan. the last week marked the 1st

anniversary of the war ensued on the death toll of areas and the 10s of thousands. but it is in the number of people displaced nearly 9000000 and in need of humanitarian aid, around 25000000. that this story really stands out, a conflict on this scale should top the news agenda, but it has been relegated to the back pages in part because of what is happening in gaza and ukraine. and it is increasingly difficult to deny that the lack of media interest in this war comes down to where it is being fought and how it is understood. then there's the framing. but this is a war between 2 generals, man and uniform, which office gates the role of global players in the fighting. and creates the perception that there are only 2 choices available. it is a binary that implicitly excludes a 3rd option, one that civil society in. so don, has been fighting for, for decades. democracy we are

really looking at human suffering on a scale that we can't really quantify. it is the west of monitoring crisis. the number of people displaced, the number of people hungry, or essentially looking at the costs of a society, an entire state in front of eyes. there's also the sense that this floor is not going to end of all that was once talented to me. take a few weeks now. looks like this will go on for the long term. how is it the one year into see don's civil war? the world's greatest humanitarian crisis, attracts so little news coverage. the suffering in gaza has been horrendous. ukraine is an ongoing tragedy. but neither of those conflict on the scale of what has on folded ensued on the number of people the front and the at the story goes largely on told on global news out, france, the lack of covers obviously and so down is tied to much larger questions of how

africa is represented. and so many of these conflicts are seen in such simplistic and actually deeply harmful ways that are tied to quote unquote, primordial grievances and are somehow just localized and detached from the rest of the world. is that these 2 generals and they are less for power of taking the country hostage that is patently untrue. unfortunately, we see your conflict ermina that is taking shape with a gulf countries, namely the u. e. in saudi with even wagner mercenaries on the ground from russia. and so what we really see is a deeply internationalized conflict that this time, what race as media narrative really doesn't capture people. he's got that as an excuse goes, what happened 6 months into the conflict. people use ukraine as an excuse, that's a completely different setup. so the typical excuses either cold war, so i think there's a sense of, let's just leave them to it. there's also a sense in the united states that one of the key allies in the region, the u, a. e might be doing things, it would feed this war and they don't want to put too much pressure on the weight

because, well, they don't wanna lose that very key allies. it has been 5 years to the months since the sleeping these people were given cause for help. with the downfall of that dictator, omar alba, she who ruled over them for 30 years. the civilians who rose up against our sheer then saw their dream of a democracy dashed by a military to which morphed into a civil war last year. when an insurgent army from western c. r s. s. tried to take power from the generals in car to the suit and these armed forces for an s a s. this power struggle is being fueled by players on the outside backing the sa, egypt and more recently in wrong in the are assess corner is rush through it's mercenary force wagner. and the united arab emirates. although the i'm a rockies have tried to obscure their own agenda last year m a ra. he's state media

claimed that this was humanitarian a, destined for the student, these people. but according to investigations by the new york times and the wall street journal, it was all a guys to smuggle in arms to the our assets, accusations that the u. a. e has repeatedly denied. of course, some of what has gone to certain types it on has been here monitoring assistance, but as a is also well known that there are lots of other things such as armored cars, laser guided missiles and drones, which i've also been going to the region. so this idea that they're purely through monetary and while sending nitro weapons is clearly not exactly, it's such a neat and tidy story. and i don't think they're full in too many people. least of all student needs on the ground in terms of what the weight is after and so the on the goal trade, which is incredibly important for various reasons. one of them is section evasion. the united arab emirates corporates with the africa quotes for many barksdale, which has direct projection off rushes interest. and for russia,

gold is incredibly important to finance the one ukraine and to make its own economy less dependent on the dollar. so it means resources that are more resistant towards the sections and that's what gold comes in. what the u. e has become of a sudden the, the past decade is the banking hub of the region. countries that have either desk politic, old projects of entities will invariably do some business in the united members, particularly in the gulf, a sector. and it just so happens that the they are as if is one of the biggest clients of, of the you. it was, of course, has one of the world's biggest gold markets. kenzie early stages of the information was the r s f capture the national state broad tv channel in your car to last month . the so you took it back. but when the r s f was in control, it didn't really do much with the child. partly because even in a country dealing with large scale intern at blackouts,

we're just 30 percent of the population consistently get online. social media is still where it's at the u a. e is also involved. in fact, side of things, some of the companies behind pro, our social media channels like g s k, are based in the amortize, they portray the militia groups leader general mohammed, home done dr. low known as have mfc as the legitimate president in weight. they have their work cut in 2014, connect these forces fighting in the war in dar for committed mass murders and rapes of civilian atrocities. they are continuing to carry out sometimes posting the evidence on line other insiders trying to rehabilitate from that these image and metal with the news narrative can see don range from operatives working out of russia in the east canada, in the west. what we have now on the information space is,

i guess the combination of use of investments by the r s f in different p office across the world, not just in the united app average, but also famously the canadian is really from run it by the former is really uh intelligence agent already been manase, which had been providing the all help to the r as f for several years before the war accidental. the idea is to sort of wash and clean the reputation of the hours up to position and met as somebody who can be taken seriously as the head of state. because ultimately the prize here is the nation of so then, so that's what the hope again, has been about internally, it's about trying to so division it's about trying to get more support for the rapid support forces of the cities and forces. whenever there was an abstract by the sedona forces that had civilian casualties, you would have someone from the, our south filming it into crying denouncing the. so dawn on forces

the out of the what we've also been seeing lately, these defections, lynch defections foot from the sit down on forces on local men to show that have joined them. still you haven't done it outside the lay of water damage. they would come down, they're gonna, we can't, of course say, and how far they have staged, whether or not these have been taken on the dress, one of the 2 off and the coverage. this war does get falls into the foreigner retreat, which makes it easier for the international community to just look away that this is essentially a war between 2 generals, between a matter of the r s s versus the c s out the front, the output high r redemptive characterization of what is happening. the following thing is taking place between all the units, loyal to the 2 generals, you can see, but so don's story is far bigger than the student is resistance given grass roots,

neighborhood networks of ordinary citizens who coordinated on lines were crucial. and bringing about the downfall of omar alba share in 2019 and have been working to save civilian lives. since the worth again, they have every right to demand a democratic say in what comes next to the force of dog. more of the news cameras should be pointed their way. following the story around these 2 generals who are fighting falls into a number of traps and tropes about the region. firstly, this idea that these african countries are somehow recklessly ruled and all about these warlords goes into this narrative, which i really problematic and really short sighted because they failed to really think about the international has dimensions that are related to all of this. and more than anything they take away the agency of those who've been on the ground, the civic activists who lead this revolution and overthrown the amount of this year . this is deeply accept her credit cream. the thing that gives me is that the very

people, the full, so the revolution, they have the same people on the ground will living the very that they for the emergency response rooms, the resistance committees, the infrastructure that they are building, complaint, the very democracy that they're talking about is happening right now in the most intense physical condition. fail making it happen. that is the real story in the united states nationwide student protests against israel's genocidal assault on garza, i have set off police violence and a toxic media debate product and alpha is here with me for weeks now. students have been staging citizens across the us campuses, universities like columbia brown on an mit on this spreading. however, if you've been watching the extensive news coverage, all those demonstrations,

you could be forgiven for not knowing what the students are actually the month. that the universities divest all 7 legs with companies and academic institutions that process from new drugs, occupation, underpass, side college campuses in several parts of the country are struggling tonight with just where to draw the line between the allowing pro tests and free speech and preventing anti semitism and intimidation, the focus of the coverage has been on the alleged anti semitism on the safety of your students. we've also seen politicians in the media team in iving protest, as with baseless clients like this one. some of these students apparently are unaware of the atrocities of october 7. they deny that women and children are brutally raped and murdered, that incense were placed in the ovens and cooked a live. there were a narrative that has even been debunked by his writing, move out that one of the irony that play when examining the coverage, columbia university, which is spearheaded, this movement has one of the world oldest jonathan schools. it's administered the

public surprise for excellence in the field faculty that staged a woke out over the universities. heavy handed security response, 54 law professor, had sent a letter to columbia of leadership, judging it to respect the rule of law values that we teach in church. and how did the extraordinary involvement of the police threatens the universities legitimacy within its own community. beyond escape the videos on account of peaceful fittings being met with pennies, 5 of students being arrested off the university lead of co security forces in to deal with the have exposed power. plus, if the debate of gov has become in the us and it's about freedom of speech and with the us, academic institutions will stand up for the values they teach. i'm with american politicians pre thank start off for more than 4 months now. poland is new

government led by prime minister donald to ask, has been out to reverse the wholesale changes made to the countries media by the previous government, which had held power for 8 years. during that time when the law and justice party wasn't office media legislation was passed, the dramatically altered the journalistic landscape and enhanced the ruling parties control over publicly owned news outlets, most notably at the state on television network cvp. but the 2 governments goal to sterilize public broadcasting of partisan politics has not been fully embraced by polish society tv p's. ratings are down and it has lost viewers to a relatively new right wing channel tv republic. the listening post, ron cole is now on donald to 6 media overall and how, what's on folding components? it was december 2023,

just one week since the government power enforced. and then state broadcast or tv. which side of new taken off the air? yes, a fox casey story had been a while. so finally i propose to hook me up. so yeah, and that's both skit menu, the just what happened that night. it depends on who's narrating the tale and which side of poland political reality. they're on. delivery, zip o scott cvp was on know for the shut down in an instant, it doesn't even hundreds of employee passes stopped working. you're going to the doctor for one of the tours. besides that, that the presenter showed him sam viewers that the cvt is being low for the taking over at the moment. he only minutes to say a few sentences on before the signal was cut off for the assessing. those are so just thought it was a big release for many people in poland because property can be the needs to be

partial. and for 8 years probably need out was everything bought in partial for the walk through this far too low. and just as was slicing democracy, kept by kat tools, decided to stop it immediately. so obviously for anybody it tastes like a shock tyra, the new prime minister donald, to was the man administering this shock therapy to the state media is i don't even think we should, but the initially is the new to the my last check your stucky limits. i'm able to provide you the truth about the new government came into power december last year and reforming the media was at the top. it's agend the coalition and center left and pro you replacing the right wing government headed by the law and justice, part known in poland by its acronym piece for 8 years from 2015 until

2023 places in power. and in that time and had a transformative effect on the countries media, it politicized pollings, media regulators turn the national broadcast or into what the council of europe called a propaganda channel for the ruling party. private media outlets rather bought out by local governments or state corporations, or private conglomerates, allied to peace, regulations and laws came into effect that made the survival of critical media outlets incredibly challenging. so when the full man government, the lower injustice government, left office and public media in particular had been competing corrupted. the main public tv channels was used to promote the government's agenda attack opponents, the main able to use every day with generally involved promotion. the government's

narrative shows up some money at the for the key to load your gear, but the gender of code you to scroll forward, you to physical or for giving us so much. we're not gonna use a credit check issue and the cut color of a good because some of the physical evidence of defense, the bottom of the china was attacking the position. i am usually in a very uncertain way. don't know, it's still still substantial, was instruct for the skate cuz there's no support. so for anybody else to get up to the other thing is the that me little home, you know, the from, to put it, there's a button. this post isn't going though to have what happens to the sounds like a story from some strange place that knows no democracy in this way of 6 stomachs. however, the laws regarding how management teams are chosen for public tv had been changed by peace. back in 2015 when they came to power. and those are the laws to made use of before the changes, there was regulation to ensure the selection of management personnel wasn't purely political. it was all done according to the standard. when piece change,

the law enabled politicians to directly appoint and dismiss the managers of public media outlets. look to them. so should they actively pointed to us could come to power promising to de politicize public media. but many argue he's really just re politicized that to be paid. for example, under the new administration receive criticism. couple of months ago when it published and advocates and celebrating its freedom under the new management issue . i spoke with a firm firm for each, every single politician that was shown in the ads that speaking on the china was from the new building competition. so there were no opposition. voices on that. michael, because of a shift on the ups. yeah. they want to have a single narratives. nowadays, the immigration crisis is rarely spoken about. no one wants to discuss the risks of moving our currency from disloyalty to the euro,

or issues like rising energy coverage. i'll send you up to the destruction of cvp means of if people are not being informed of the, let me draw your attention to tvs, blue or sheet, which is collapsing dramatically. let you not web messing. that is not an exaggeration. according to a survey conducted by the media analytics firm, nielsen tv piece viewership in february 2024 had dropped by 72 percent compared with the audience numbers. in february 2023, one of the biggest media beneficiaries of td piece knows diving numbers is a right wing populace channel tv recruitment aligned with emulates the style of fox news in the u. s. or c. news print from the 6 people just now. getting in trouble with these kinds of the thoughts and i asked

them what's on the answer for them. so he just by g is the company that single. so many piece of pointed employees who are posted from state media upon to survival, migrated to tv republicans. and according to the nielsen's survey, the numbers of viewers in february this year was 30 times the audience just one year ago. also in february, the channels the advertising revenue, quadruple. we contacted to have your approval to speak with them about the streak of success there and join. they didn't respond. when we asked the current director of the tv, the man appointed by twos, government did a very specific perspective on the following numbers of his network. and the jump tv recruitment guy's seats, the viewer of public media for 8 years, which was very specific viewers. and to the people that were victims of population . so that was obvious that they will move to, to tv republica,

which is private property, the state for some people, probably current public television is small ball, right. because that i know made up sensational things that there was no language or hatred. basically it became more flocked. so obviously, i can understand that for some people is less excite spent. but we, i'm not here to excite people. we are here to the, to deliver the news. the facts don't feel it's a concern about the new model. but for, for $100.00 to few words should not be abandoned. after all, the idea of public media is to represent all voices in society. of course, those who enjoy the emotions and aggression to each should feel a band of since that language and tone has no place here. however, if t v p ignores conservatives,

it doesn't mean that those people will just disappear and we can manage just liberal media. this is really the challenge for the new government to allow public media to be professional and independent and not simply using as a mouthpiece dirty, but on the golf chicago. and that is the challenge for donald to but the strip certificates of, of the both of us of and with that and the promise of poland, new government made, was to quote, restore access to reliable information on public media. but it's really liable ends up meaning everything that's pro government, then the opportunity to restore balance and credibility to degrade and media landscape will be squandered. and the deep polarization colon will remain. and finally, for more than 6 months now, we have reported on the countless crimes being committed by his ready forces. in garza this past week,

more horror stories emerged. the discovery of new mass graves at least 392 bodies on earth next to nicer hospital in hong eunice. some were found stripped naked, their hands tied. others showed signs of having been buried alive. the execution of civilians is a war crime for which the it's really military denies responsibility. and it's not as though the un human rights of office or the european union, both of which have called for independent investigations are going to get one any time soon. because israel continues to deny the un and human rights organizations access to godsa, locking them out along with scores of journalists, the palestinian reporters and 1st responders inside the world zone, continued to do their work despite being targeted. and it is worth remembering that they have been the ones who have brought the stories of mass graves to light. we'll

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