People risking their lives to help to decide which one afghanistan on aljazeera. Im going to announce that. If im going to get more hours to walk out here to work with me on air travel. Probably because theres people much smarter and more african it. Hello im richard yes britain youre watching the listening post here are some of the coronavirus stories the media angles that were tracking from home this week india and the pandemic much of the coverage is defined by politics and driven by religion reporters must choose their words carefully europe remains under lockdown and e. U. Countries are in a standoff with big tech over how to use data to track the outbreak 3 photographers from 3 countries and the still images they are capturing to tell the covert 1000 story and finally past self meet present self lets talk about the coronavirus do you want be good or bad india is now one month into the worlds biggest lockdown just hours before it was announced Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with media owners and editors he told them he wanted them to quote serve as a link between the government and people to produce positive news stories simple request or tacit warning in 5 years of working under modis b j p government many Media Outlets have already been brought to heel the coronavirus has also turbo charged a toxic preexisting condition in the indian news media rampant islamophobia on the airwaves some even accuse muslims of creating the virus and then spreading it as nonsensical as that narrative is as unhelpful as it is for the hundreds of millions of indians tuning in looking for actual news and information it plays well with the b j p s nationalist base our starting point this week is the cap. New delhi when all of india would be shot from today at total dog ideas is the worlds biggest lockdown with more than 1300000000. 00 citizens affected no other country comes close and nowhere has the virus generated such a Mass Movement of. Millions of Migrant Workers trapped in cities far from home with no way to get back countless numbers of homeless with nowhere to isolate half a 1000000000 already living below the poverty line. But theres a march 24th in new delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi issues the lockdown order some order logged on wanted out more than 3 months after the outbreak in china 7 weeks after the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic and modi was giving indians a grand total of 4 hours notice. But it may be that. There are 2 particular emergencies that india is dealing with at the moment the disease spreading and its not mentioned and the poorest who are look at the Informal Sector the Economic Situation is in dire straits and as is risk of the should. The government has been saying that the. Us got a job and are prepared to meet with emergencies and the reality on the ground doesnt quite match up early on in the knock down i was good by the. Big Corporate Media Television Time as in taking those talked about on my 1st question is to you how bad if it were not going out of the studios to tell the story most of the programming was focused on talking heads on doctors and academics and economists also and maybe the cost of the studios to a wide panic of the people who were hardest hit. Were the poorest indian citizens. Were not getting the force of the story and its heartbreaking to see little children and women walking like this hundreds of kilometers so my focus became just simply. I think on the story. We did not have a voice to tell their own stories. Just hours before imposing the lockdown Prime Minister modi met with the news media not with reporters he hasnt granted them a press conference in 5 years modi met with their bosses the owners of Media Outlets the senior editors you wont hear a word that modi said the video the government released was silent he reportedly said that he wanted to see positive News Coverage and that the indian mass media should be the link between his government and the peoples well i dont think its the medias job to act as between the be bland the government but drive it to him and question government time in a way that that equipment watch. Any interaction with. Considering how rare they are especially at a time they should be an opportunity to ask tough questions this was march 24th there were a lot of issues to talk about oppression about Migrant Workers for instance would have been useful at that point on the t. V. s and to those who were invited to this month and we do. They they did not the same be questioned it was some kind of spectacle that as mr wood is known to do he just wanted to dissolve by saying that hes that if you want this is going to end it does and if you go to those generals you must find 99. 99 percent that is absolutely no criticism of mr moore politics on these rather i would call them maybe an extension of the Propaganda Machine off the shelf. That is what most of the india. Media space has become since no renter modis b j p came to power in 2014. Modi and the news outlets that pander to his hindu nationalist base routinely do so at the expense of the countrys more than 200000000 muslims and Islamic Missionary Movement known as tbilisi jamaat played right into their hands on the coronavirus story in mid march its members gathered in the thousands in new delhi some had travelled in from east asia india as a lockdown order would not be issued for another week but the Modi Government was preaching social isolation at the time the tbilisi jamaat chose to ignore that guidance. On this around 13 march in indias capital and an estimated 30 percent of all cases. Have be traced back to this. Now i happen to interview lawyers or some sort of legion mock your market of the company we have got the market up there well you had only said about it about. He literally did not express any remorse in need that is needed d and it needs someone like myself who considers this as it was just a 2nd of zen in that he added anybody might have a listen in earnest needs leadership this is not on some. Docs say that the each in law cannot become a card text. And nothing to do with the gong to get this but themselves across mosques in india all these foreign delegates then go back to their going to spread themselves across india this is a mistake in too many streams in india and used for missions and then again and appalling giant Community Spread a goddamn will be made vocal gotta watch you have double you have this just the one i jog with trending that. End and the rule was for just unbelievable saying as it was a form of war against india they can add would you like that i will at this get i get value body months ago that was not just the koran up bump this but me that the g. O. P. Leaders and m. B. Used were quick to label the sterilization and had huge impact in terms of muslim patients being denied entry into hospitals muslim vendors not being able to live there even if they were under essential services muslim born and just beaten up the fact that this a kind of language is permissible on television and this is part of the islamic fulvia which has been growing since 2014 maybe there was prejudice which was you know expressed in private drawing rooms but now its very very open you do not have to. Be are in india anymore yesterday the Prime Minister of finally made a statement saying that the virus does not discriminate on the basis of race religion except. Bought my mind. On the covert 19 story of the Modi Government has tried some heavy handed information control it asked the Supreme Court to prevent the publication of any coronavirus news that was not officially approved the court rejected that then there are the state governments also trying to pull the strings the one in tahrir pradesh permitted sizeable religious gatherings hindu ones after the tbilisi jamaat met in delhi when the wire an independent news site reported that its editor was summoned to court the basis for the charge one quote had been misspent tribute to the states chief minister instead of the priest who actually said the wire quickly published a correction which news organizations often do as crimes against journalism go this one wasnt even a misdemeanor. Kind of action and this is not just read to me to the wire but needed to diet. And intimidation so journalists dont do their duties because majority of the journalists dont want to be managed by. So now that youve given this 11 of. Them this is an affront to silence not that it is going to. Redress the actions of the government at this point the actions of the government are you going to me the listing doesnt have to go too far to justify being journalists and identity all what it also deeply concerning is not just the name but sections of the media are also becoming numb to this kind of state excess. Where never get his travel to the coronavirus has exposed him. Institutional failings and societal divides in indias case it starts with. Protected by governments ignored by Corporate Media the treatment of muslims has been a gradual slide from discrimination to flat out demonization again led by politicians reinforced on the airwaves sometimes it takes a big news event to remind the country of what it has become what it really is a news events dont come any bigger than covered. Were discussing other media stories now related to the coronavirus with one of our producers rafi made a Contact Tracing this tech driven tool thats being used to track and prevent the spread of the virus weve seen privacy issues come up on this in multiple countries tell me about the showdown on their states now shaping up in europe between e. U. Governments and big tech well they shouldnt d specifically between some e. U. Governments and google and apple now contact using simply means tracking where the person has been and who theyve come into contact with many using mobile phone data now google apple have worked closely to enable contact anything however theyre not willing to simply hand over the private data of millions of users to governments nobody does how they meet their money has to at least appear to be a semblance of them protecting it so what the french government has asked is for google and apple to lift technical hurdles they want them to basically like their privacy protocols the fact that france is part of the you within an open borders oh and how does that complicate matters when it means that if contact has to work in europe it has to be e. U. Right now there are some states ireland denmark and pull in that have created their own contact racing apps however others have signed up to it why didnt you should have called you ready for this the paneuropean privacy preserving. Proximity tracing initiative so far only germany italy and france have signed up to this it would seem that the e. U. Countries arent quite seeing eye to eye on Contact Tracing between themselves and big Big Tech Companies south korea managed to contain its outbreak it used card tac tracing that was a while ago why has it taken the europeans so long to get to this stage well the south koreans had both the technological tools and the laws and together it meant that the authorities were much Less Beholden to Tech Companies for access to data now back in 2015 south korea had a violent break it was the mers virus and at that time a law was passed giving the authorities access to c. C. T. V. Recordings credit Card Transactions g. P. S. Tracking and mobile phone data in addition they would also allow to make this private data public now many societies would be uncomfortable with that and especially the e. U. Has been really aggressive about protecting personal privacy rights however with the pandemic it would seem that this could be something about to change ok thanks me. You may have noticed that some of the stories that weve been producing from home during this lockdown have contained more still imagery and less video than usual were just working with whats available and its much easier under these conditions of imposed isolation for a solo photo journalist to do their job than a conventional video crew photographers dont necessarily have to interact with their subjects in order to capture the images that tell a story yet the spaces in which they are working have changed forcing them to refocus their lenses on the fly the listening post flo philip spoke with 3 photographers from Different Countries with 3 very different experiences of life work and the spaces in which they normally operate under lockdown you know me john motson ya know my name is matthew. I am 35 years old and i am a Primary School teacher i live in some of your as more city 60 kilometers from milan on the 21st of february are quite an teen began. Youre a teacher not a professional photographer why did you feel the need to pick up your camera and capture this experience. You didnt have 1st 2 weeks jordan at least 2 at allowed in the area where i live so they couldnt show the world what was going on here. Lead to streets everyone Wearing Masks thats when i saw an opportunity but i said ok if you want to come back i went out onto the street there was no fish a lockdown at that stage all we had been told was to stay away from others and so i decided to photograph this. Distance they had been created between people like the current. Lined up outside the pharmacy that were keeping their distance from one another they almost seem to have been put there like extras you know for since then my approach has undoubtedly become more personal since i dont your best some are its not just more personal youve chosen to show the world a very intimate portrait of your family life why did you decide to documents such private moments. I wanted to focus on the normality of. What was going on i told him day in day out not just me but my wife my daughter and my elderly grandparent so many images come to my mind mostly of my wife with my daughter i like the idea of pausing to look at a single image because its not just a snapshot it doesnt capture that 2nd but so much more of what was going on in that moment. On there on my grandparents my grandfather a senile dementia so there is a problem within a problem and this created a very particular dynamic which i wanted to photograph so i think everyone can identify in some way with my family situation. Millions of people are now in some form of lockdown all over the world do you see your photos as some sort of shared experience. Seriously look coming yes absolutely for those who hadnt yet experienced the lockdown and were preparing for it no pictures that were showing because they were all scenes of panic or sadness or anxiety many of them showed things as absolutely normal and positive i think for talking with us have to many people still helping people right now in the end there is a bond that unites us in old days and this thing is very very beautiful. Its like being part of a gone huge community. My name is phil penman im a photographer based in new york city ive been here for about 20 years now originally from the United Kingdom primarily a news photographer and street photographer and weve been in lockdown here for about 3 to 4 weeks now. Tell me whats it like to walk around the streets of new york city right now streets that as we know normally never sleep its interesting just saying like. Very empty streets and then youll see maybe. Its very weird because you go out there and there are no photographers so i wanted to try to capture. That emptiness of the city i was Walking Around broadway it used to just seeing tens of thousands of people all over the place you know have the shot of chicago the sign for the broadway shows and just alone will not being on them if it were for a mask on another shock that to me was kind of very telling was you know im on 42nd street right by Grand Central station all the sudden i just see this lone rat running through this corridor all these once busy and Bustling Spaces now deserted seemed so eerie almost apocalyptic you know definitely you know before we go around looking for personalities on the street now its like youre looking for anybody youve captured new york at its most desolate not just now but in the aftermath of 911 if you could show future generations one image to give a sense of what new yorkers are going through right now which one would it be if i had one image is that just the one image of lady liberty looking for the n. C. Seats. On the Staten Island ferry i got this one shot where its just a woman with her head back and shes just leaning up against the seat where theres no one else around her and she just sat there with her mask it was just me a very powerful moment experiencing it when to shut it and i hope that that comes across to people from a historical standpoint as well lockdowns have forced us to reconsider what the space around us mean its the open spaces we want gathered in the parks the playgrounds the square now lie empty confinement too has changed the nature of our spaces my home is now my office my studio my daughters classroom. But ultimately any form of space reimagined or not is a privilege a luxury that many cannot afford not it. My name is in every charge and i live in delhi and im a photo journalist working with the press trust of india lockdown in our city started on march 25th and has continued ever since the geneva. Ravi high weve seen the images capturing quarantine around the world cracked apartments empty streets but in india thats not the whole story what is it about Indian Society that makes it so hard for people to abide by the lockdown. Announce what when the lockdown was 1st announced there was a brief period of chaos daily wage earners and workers live in very crowded wellings with barely any space to stretch their legs. Because one of them contracts the cone of a this its inevitable others will get infected too because they cannot quarantine themselves. Affording more space is beyond their means so they believed it was better to return to their native villages i saw people leaving in their thousands they were endless streams of them walking down the road we have heard of such scenes of the time of indias partition millions of people could make their trip in a similar fashion leaving behind their homes and villages 70 years later we are seeing similar scenes of mass migration only this time to goodbye an epidemic he witnessed and the such a powerful theme here at a time when the government is ordering people to stay in their homes for the people in your photographs home has never seemed father away. Were going to see that theres a total with homeschooling written on a billboard an advert on the highway for a house in a company that builds high rise apartment blocks. That message in large letters Home Sweet Home contrasted sharply with the reality of the dispute laborers in the foreground heading back to their films hundreds of kilometers away not sure whether they would make it but i mean look watching. Capturing these scenes must have had an impact on me which one of your images do you think best encapsulates this experience and would stand the test of time. I followed this little girl who was carrying a large bag on her head of the spot being heard in the crowd and i asked her where she was headed. Her village was about 400 kilometers away and i talk to myself how is this little girl with such a heavy burden going to make it all the way back to her village if you look closely at the photos you can see the being in her eyes sometimes all you need is one single photo to understand the whole story. Finally a lot of our news feeds are getting clogged up these days by various celebrities putting out videos one gets the feeling they miss the attention theyre not to be mistaken though for an essential service but some lesser known artists thespians filmmakers musicians have been producing some noteworthy material julie gnocchi for instance a canadian actor and screenwriter she plays 2 roles in the video youre about to see her past self from just 4 months ago and her current self providing her past self with an update of whats to come how her world is about to change 2800000 views and counting but what we could use right now is a sequel her current self getting the lowdown from her future self of whats still the calm that would be news the world could use was the next time here at the listening post oh who are you im julie from 4 months in the future actually. Are you here to tell me yeah d yeah i mean because of the butterfly fact i can only really give you. Some loose details but i will go through the basics you know her way cool so do you want the good news or the bad news oh. Good good news great choice yeah. So now things have never been better for Climate Change though thats crazy dolphins in the venice canals river ive known i know well id say i mean ive thought of peace but i dont know if its the real thing i mean thats incredible you know especially given these truly wild fires that. Oh yeah because i mean those are pretty like i think those are going to be the defining feature of 2020 year youd think oh no not even a little bit ok so what is the bad news then if we hobbies you know just some keep you busy. Now not really going to dog i want to you know i want to dog i just there there really are a lot of work and youve got to walk youve got to go with them right the walks are going to be clutch right but i mean i have to leave them because i saw it coming. Oh. 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