stem bridges have reached racquel ties and the capital is bonnet below reports. philippines is a tropical country, so it is hot here all throughout the year. but you're right. the months of march, april in may are the hottest. but it's unusually hot these months this year, and i should know because i grew up here and when i was growing up temperatures from the low thirty's to mid thirty's, that's normal for these months. but during the last few weeks, so we've been experiencing here our temperatures in the high thirty's. and as you mentioned yesterday, record sheets at 38.8 degrees celsius, here in the philippine capital manila. and that's just the surface temperature. or we should also be talking about the heat index, because this is actually the heat that we are feeling in our body. so yesterday, when it was 38.8 degrees celsius, the heat index was actually at 45 degrees celsius. i mean, the town north of manila, the heat index actually peaked at 53 degrees celsius. so you can just imagine how

hot that is and just to for the illustrate, there's a dam over there in the northern philippines that has dried up so much that a, some bridge town has resurfaced. this heat wave has really affected all walks of life here in the philippines, but the most dramatic impact has been on the age education sector. so right now i'm standing in the middle of a public school ground and you can see right behind me the school ground is empty, the classrooms are empty because it's just the heat is just too unbearable for students. so each classroom is about $35.00 to $40.00 students on a normal day with no air conditioning and just a few electric fans. and they say the desk just unbearable where the students are being switched to the online mode of learning. but it's not just the education sector, millions of filipino labor, or workers employees who have to commute every day to work. they're also affected. now the government has issued guidelines for employers to follow. these are just

guidelines and not, not the enforceable by law, but the government is encouraging employers to implement flexible hours a work from home setup and also to let their employees out where protective gear and temperature adaptable. so that that's it for me myself. that's because there's always a website which is very talk on the news continues in about 25 minutes, so i won't be back with you off to the listening post as the program coming up next . the humanity has opened the gates of hell or in those seats. is that mean orlando's effects? as the world discusses how to reduce emissions. supposing an existential threat to humanity, a new oil rush is displacing. you've got the people empower,

investigates, the relationship between the mikey oil giants of the global notes and the developing nations of the global south crude mistake. talk to one of 2 on just one 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 dissent after 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 that 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 monitoring crisis,

the number of people displaced, the number of people hungry. we're essentially looking at the costs of a society, an entire state in front of our eyes. there's also the sense that this 4 is not going to end of all that was one's tao to only take a few weeks now looks like this will go on for the long term. how is it the one year induced 2 dogs, 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 conflicts are on the scale of what has on folded into down the number of people the front. and the, at the story goes largely on told on global news that was right. the lack of covers everything and so don 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. 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 has taken shape with a gulf countries, namely the u. e and 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 use golf 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 i don't think cold water. 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 ladies might be doing things, it would save 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. case has been 5 years to the months since the street and these people were given cause for help,

with the downfall of the different tater omar, our bushy, who ruled over them. for 30 years. the civilians who rose up against our share then saw their dream of a democracy dashed by a military coup 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 at this power struggle is being fueled by players on the outside backing, the se, f is egypt, and more recently wrong in the recess corner is rushed through its mercenary force wagner, and the united arab emirates. although b m a rockies have tried to obscure their own agenda. last year, m a raw 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 r s. f. 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 literal weapons, it's 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 way it is after incident nicole trade, which is incredibly important for various reasons. one of them is section evasion, the united air emma risk corporate swift, b africa corpse for many box nouns, which has direct projection of 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 do you, what has become, of a sudden the, of the past decade is the banking hub of the region. countries that have either dest political, autocratic entities will invariably do some business in the united m, as 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 u e, which of course has one of the world's biggest gold market. kenzie early stages of the information was the r s f capture the national state broad tv channel and your car to last month. the so you took it back, but when they 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 internet blackouts were 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 effects. 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 doctor lo notice 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 for it is 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 years of investments by the r s f in different p office

across the world. not just in the united app. i mean it's, 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 all help to the r as a for several years before the war. external, the idea is to sort of war and clean the reputation of the hours have to position commitment 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 5, you sit down on forces that had civilian casualties. you would have someone from the, our south filming it into crime denouncing the. so dawn on forces the out. the what we've also been seeing lately is defections,

electric defections, foot from the so don on forces on local men to show that have joined them. still. yeah. but then maybe that by the way, of water damage that it would come down, they're gonna, we can 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 final retreat, which makes it easier for the international community to just look away. but this is essentially a war between 2 generals, between a many of the right versus the sci fi to output hon. a redemptive characterization of what is happening. the following thing is taking place between all the units known we'll to the, to general. as you can see, let's to don. story is far bigger than the student is resistance given the grass roots neighborhood. networks of ordinary citizens who coordinated online were

crucial in bringing about the downfall of omar, eldest year in 2019 and had been working to save civilian lives since the war began . they have every right to demand a democratic say in what comes next for saddam. more of the news cameras should be pointed their way. funding the story around these 2 generals who are fighting falls into a number of traps and tropes about the region. firstly, this idea that the african countries are somehow reckless the world and all about this warlords. it goes into this narrative which i really problematic and really short sighted because they failed to really think about the international as dimensions that are related to all of this. and more than anything they take away, the agency of those have been on the ground, the civic activists who led this revolution and an over thrown around to share this this deeply except your credit, crushing this thing that keeps me, is it the very people the full so the revolution, they have the same people on the ground leaving the very values that stay for the

emergency response rooms, the resistance committees, the infrastructure, the tail building, complaints, very democracy that they're talking about is happening right now. in the most intense physical condition. they are 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. an offer is here with me for weeks now. students have been staging citizens across the us campuses, universities like columbia brown and 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, the companies and academic institutions that practice for me throughout occupation

and the pos 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 demonizing protest as with baseless claims like this one. some of these students apparently are unaware of the atrocities of october 7th. they denied that women and children were brutally raped and murdered the 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 honor and a play. when examining the coverage, columbia university which is spearheaded, this movement has one of the world oldest jonathan schools. it's administered as the public surprise for excellence in the field faculty that staged a woke out of the universities. heavy handed security response,

$54.00 law professor, had sent a letter to columbia of leadership, judging it to respect the rule of law of values that we change and change, and added the extraordinary involvement of the police. for instance, the university's legitimacy within its own community. beyond escape, the videos is an account of peaceful settings being met with police 5 of students being arrested off the university lead of cool security forces in to deal with the have exposed power. plus, if the debate of a guy has become in the us and it's about freedom of speech and where the us academic institutions will stand up for the value they teach. i'm which american politicians preach. psych star 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 injustice 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. peas 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 in poland? it was december 2023, just one week. government power enforcement. and then state broadcast or t p was suddenly taken off the air. yes, the fox case is, story had been, it was

a follow up a postal code about saying that both matthew just what happened at 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 these shut down in an instant to me, it doesn't even hundreds. this employee past has stopped working. you're gonna turn it off. so one of the editors decided that the presenter showed him sort of viewers that the cvt is being low for the taking over at the moment. he only minutes to send a few sentences off before the signal was cut off for the assessing and also so just thought it was a big really for many people in poland because public media needs to be partial. and for 8 years probably media was everything bought in partials 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 shopping tyrant. the new prime minister donald, to was the man administering this shock therapy to the state media is i don't even think i should put the latest types of i knew it was a little my last check. your stucky limit the body, which is like the new government came into power december last year and reforming the media was at the top. it's agend the coalition in the center left and pro you replacing the right wing government headed by the law and justice, part known in poland, bias 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 colin's media regulators turn the national broadcaster into what the council of europe called, or propaganda channel for the ruling party. private media outlets rather bought out by local governments for 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 completely 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 and they are the key to load your gear. but the dentist would have called you to forward you to physical or not so much. we're not going to use

a credit issue and the cut cut off and connect to some of the cisco of a subsistence the bottom of the china was attacking the position. i'm usually in a very unsuccessful way. don't know, it's still still substantial works. it's not for the skate, cuz there's also something you might also get exponentials, democrat, this thing is that with our, me, little home, you know, the from, to put it. there's a boy in the 4th step, isn't going though to have what happens to cvp sounds like a story from some strange place that knows no democracy near 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 asked if he pointed to us could come to power promising to de politicize the public media, but many argue he's really just re politicized that tv. for example, under the new administration receive criticism of the months ago when it published and advocates and celebrating it freedoms under the new management issue. a lot of them just sort of products for each. but every single politician that we're showing in the ads that speaking on the china was from the new building competition . so there were no opposition. voices on that. my old book is about shipping them about yeah, they want to have a single narratives. nowadays, the migration crisis, these rarely spoken about no one wants to discuss the risks of moving the currency from disloyalty to the euro, or issues like rising energy, conversely, to attend you up to the destruction of cvp means that the people are not being informed of the let me draw your attention to tvs, blue or sheets,

which is collapsing dramatically. let you not web and that's it. 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 tons of the 6 people just now. it has some of these kinds of the thoughts and i asked them what's on the inventory sheet just by doing the several parties, the company that single so many piece of pointed employees who are different 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 advertising revenue quadruple. we contacted chevy republica to speak with them about the streak of success there and join. they didn't respond when we asked the current director of tv demand appointed by twos, government get a very specific perspective on the following numbers of his network and the jump tv recruitment guy seats, the viewer of public media for 8 years, which was a very specific viewer and to the people that were victims of population. so that was obvious that they will move to, to tv republica, which is a private property. the state for some people, probably current public television is small. but 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 are not here to excite people. we are here to the, to deliver the news. the facts still to be able to consider about the new model, but for, for 10 years it is, yours 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 tell them has no place here. however, if t v p ignores conservative, 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 sellers and not simply using as a mouthpiece for anybody but on the go chicago. and that is the challenge for donald to but the strip certificates of, of the name of the promise pollings 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 in the oppertunity 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 gosh, this past week, more horror stories are merged, 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 these randy 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 u. n. n. human rights organizations access to gaza, locking them out along with scores of journalists, the palestinian reporters and 1st responders inside the world zone, continue to do their work despite being targeted. and it is worth remembering that they have been the ones who have brought these stories of mass graves to light. we'll see you next time. here at the listening post.

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