Will vote on the measure in the coming hours military has been ordered to deploy troops. Taiwans president says shes willing to hold talks with china if theyre held on an equal basis speaking at National Day Celebrations when says shes open to meaningful dialogue with beijing and hopes regional tensions can be resolved peacefully a speech comes at a time of increased tensions with china which has ramped up force activity near the islands in the past few weeks aging has been angered by growing u. S. Support for the selfgoverned island. Yeah. But as long as the beijing authorities are willing to resolve an attack in isms and improve relations parity and dignity are maintained we are willing to Work Together to facilitate meaningful dialogue we are committed to upholding regional stability but this is not something taiwan can show to alone it is the joint responsibility of both sides. A 2nd u. S. President ial debate between donald trump and democratic rival joe biden has been canceled it was take place next week organizers wanted to hold it virtually but the president refused twitter as imposing tough new rules that will stop candidates in novembers u. S. Election from declaring premature victory on its platform social media firms as it is cracking down on misinformation and calls for Political Violence in the days surrounding the vote tweets that falsely claim a candidate has won will be labeled a more direct users to the official u. S. Election results page aurukun delta has been downgraded to a Tropical Storm as it moves further inland to southern parts of the u. S. It weakened after making landfall in the state of louisiana. Theres i had lines were back with more news after the listing. Is there a risk is the government not to take the necessary action to really address some of the structural issues we listen i still think that travel is the safest mode of travel and to spend that we meet with global newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter is there a. Fighting between a. Character by the spoiled. By every television. I. I. Find it. Ranks. Hello im richard just britain youre watching the listening post working from home here are some of the media stories were covering this week war zone journalism in the age of covert 19 we examine the coverage of the fighting over nagornokarabakh saudi arabia uses one of its news channels to send palestinians a message greetings from the racist past postcards from the colonial era that shaped perceptions of africa and its people plus the latest shots fired. In the uncivil war taking place within Donald Trumps Republican Party were now into the 3rd week of fighting between azerbaijan and armenia karabakh which threatens to morph into a wider conflict the Azerbaijani Military set the tone bombarding civilian areas in the long disputed territory which lies within azerbaijans borders but is mostly populated and controlled by Ethnic Armenians armenia has countered by bombing multiple azerbaijani towns both sides have their domestic Media Outlets on a war footing beaming video of their military exploits on the Television Screens social media and the streets there are major powers on the outside looking in turkey. Firmly on azerbaijan side and russia who support our media wants their Media Outlets are also worth monitoring on this story for journalists its a tough one to cover the primary battleground is remote and mountainous and the pandemic has added to the challenges and dangers on the ground those are some of the reasons that so much of the video that were seeing on this story is coming from the armys involved theyre drawn cameras are a starting point this week the skies above nagornokarabakh. Clashes erupted between azerbaijani and a ticket to old conflict flared up as a shot on me and say hes using some of these are images from the 1st military conflict to a started in the area of covert 19th and claimed the lives of civilians from drone videos of death and destruction captured from a safe distance black and white weapons in the propaganda. The initial fighting in the Borno Karabakh took place beyond the reach of news care and the pandemic has made getting to such a remote area a challenge for reporters so the adversary is azerbaijan and armenia had the story the 1st 2 days to themselves their primary targets were domestic audiences including street traffic in both capital back and hear of. The azerbaijanis have been releasing dozens of videos from these turkish drones Azerbaijani Ministry of defense has been putting out multiple videos every day showing strikes from these drones on to our media and artillery troops Different Military positions and this relates their technological superiority in this aspect and it definitely shows the scale of losses the casualties that azerbaijan has been able to inflict there is a lot of footage from the army inside as well the ultimate similarity between the 2 sides is that costing is extremely proud. Old and nationalistic in consonance reason good of a guide to them was the moment zuma suggest saturday miscarries. You have evocative videos being put to. Music. Of tanks being blown up of troops fleeing from the front line of both science and putting out these videos there are reports in both armenia and azerbaijan that large numbers of people volunteering to go to the front line to fight for what they see is the integrity of of their states. For the past week tens of thousands of people have been demonstrating in the soviet armenia. Global audiences 1st learned of nagornokarabakh in the late 1980 s. When the soviet union began to fray at the edges but this conflict goes way back. In the 1920 s. The soviets invaded the nature to reclaim parts of the fallen czarist empire our media and azerbaijan became soviet republics ruled by moscow and had their borders drawn up by Joseph Stalin he made nagornokarabakh part of azerbaijan despite its armenian majority leaving a problem for future generations to solve. When the u. S. S. R. Broke up the war broke out resulting in armenia taking control of newborn apparel and then something that war ended in 1994 with a cease fire no peace treaty. A quarter of a century later azerbaijan which has been building up its military and now outmatch is army and resume talks stillings. Azerbaijan. This conflict was frozen to 70 years without ever being sold by the side. A 3rd power of the soviet union came in and imposed its will by occupying both countries when it flared up again the armenians took control of the court to cut it back they also buy the districts around it and force the azerbaijanis living there to leave the hose according to the azerbaijani president at least as a by john couldnt accept this and thats why theyve launched this operation harbach its all such a huge issue for armenians and the armenian perspective on it is your 3rd azerbaijanis backed by the turks especially conquered there will be mass at mccloud saying listen one of the big problems with the conflict the levels of hatred on both sides are so high because essentially azerbaijani and Armenian Society each have different conflicting mutually exclusive maximalist versions of how the comp would need to be resolved. There are marked differences in the respective media landscapes the assets at each governments disposal and the way they used to armenia is a democracy journalists have experienced more freedom there since the 2000 between change in government as a by jack has been ruled by one family. Since 1993 like you father before him president gill had ali have has kept the media under wraps censorship is right the internet is tightly controlled and crossing the line can land you in jail. Azerbaijan that is even before azerbaijan the clipboard there were announcement saying things like dont go online and write about sensitive things like the ministry of communications has imposed restrictions on the internet so local journalists have trouble reporting the latest news to foreign media they use v. P. N. But those are not fully secure so communicating with the outside world remains a real problem if asked by the media. From the onion side the Media Coverage is treaty. Similar to the government we have cited so so far we have been free we had no censorship or whatever even so its the government over nina and the government of the republic of not good enough got up out helped us provides permissions to show was where its a girl and give us as much as information possible sorry we are only in local media were lucky enough to have enough information to congress the shoe and the conflict and the wired and tired and as a result of that kind of information which to best pick at its National Audience is are able to get from armenia it is really quite comprehensive its all together a little difficult situation when it comes to us on chum and the information flows we have coming out who are really very closely defined by the government so citizen late social media style journalism which so many of us now dont get all information about particular conflicts in the world bush going to the 2 sides have taken their case to the International Court of Public Opinion focusing on 2 media spaces in particular russias and turkeys back coups turkic ties to her are evident in the turkish medias portrayal of armenia as the aggressor in this conflict despite the fact that azerbaijan was the 1st to bomb civilian areas in azerbaijan in the kettle black then we get all the old and many styles of c. B. That is all the way through. The turkish narrative focuses on the history as a by chance right to reclaim lost territory both president and arminius Prime Minister nicole question ian have been on the russian airwaves trying to get moscow on song Joseph Stalin may have created the borders that inflamed this conflict but flat amir putin is clearly reluctant to take his side at least publicly which has led to some unusual terminology being used to describe the Russian Medias handling of a geo political story unfolding on their doorstep mvp on. Looks like fair and balanced. And Russian Media has actually been extremely careful to take this neutral stance on the conflict despite the fact that you know armenia is there really ally there is a Russian Military base in armenia itself Russian Media although you might expect them to be more. Biased and really hasnt been there which fits with russian rule conflicts so far as well. The major Media Outlets in russia are reporting this is merely one story among hundreds however thats not the case in turkey. Channels there from the state broadcaster t. R. T. To private t. V. Stations of talking about the gold. Apart from very minor exceptions i havent seen any turkish news outlet that does not support azerbaijan. The turkish media. Reports about i mean yeah as being the aggressor as being the bad guy as being the one who wants the end of the azerbaijanis so whatever is happening in this war according to the tracheostomy yeah the responsible are in the news and that word got out people. Was the point made in the azerbaijani media and unamplified through turkey about the land the armenians took in 994. 00 is not without merit more than half a 1000000 azerbaijanis were forced out to them no one apparently now armenian civilians are paying the price tens of thousands have already been displaced as a by shot this chosen this moment pandemic to write what it calls a historical wrong a time in which its easier to control access imagery in the narrow and timing is everything just ask the reporters trying to cover the fighting with the people trying to survive. Were going to take another look now with me not sure of it a development that. We reported on a few weeks back the spin and the messaging surrounding whats been called the historic peace deal signed by the United Arab Emirates and bahrain with israel meaning that the media lens has since one toward saudi arabia the question people are asking is whether it will do the same as the gulf states what have you been seeing coming out of their military even before the u. A. E. And behave and signed those agreements with other media that it was shifting on israel considering that the palestinian cause has been a defining issue not of politics for decades what ive been significant on the saudi airwaves is the open and sustained finger pointing at the palestinian leadership the saudi owned pan out of channel out appear around the 3 part interview more of the monologue really prince bandar bin sultan he is a former director of saudi intelligence and its about to go to the United States a very prominent member of the royal family he came on air with a message some of the muppets in the head with a little. And hes a metal am lucky or. A lot more full care the whole follows the media and having a model im with 7. And a curtain. And so what the and is he referring to the criticism from palestinians and others in the arab world of these normalization deals exactly teacher and police found the spent 2 hours of air time laying out in great detail what saudi arabia has done for the palestinians on the world stage dating all the way back to world war 2 and he said according to him that the palestinian leadership were incompetent selfish and ungrateful you played wonderfully helmets are the nothing was sad the producer ruled were not there. You have your own lunar when you dont have a number 3 many palestinians would likely agree with prince bandar bin sultan catheterization of the leadership he was however the peace to make a difference between the Palestinian People and their leadership he said however that the palestinian leadership had lost all goodwill and it was time for saudi arabia to look out for itself a very clear hint to its possible normalization but as you said mean this is the access and bastard to the u. S. Who no longer holds a formal position so how do we know that this is saudi policy that were hearing from here and not just the opinion of a Single Member of the family but because of the optics and because members of the saudi royal family tend not to speak out of line certainly not for 2 hours on the air on and channel owned by them their broadcast to the arab world there was one thing we spotted throughout this interview in the same frame was a portrait of the 1st king of saudi arabia of the lizzies the palestinian cause was a seminal issue for him so you could see a bit of stagecraft along with the stagecraft on a lot of the ok thanks mia in the late 19th century there was a form of mass media a visual one that predated television by about 50 years and he guesses as to what that medium was postcards. Post cards were a european media phenomenon the photos let people see the World Without leaving their home and like many modern forms of media there were visual cheap and relatively easy to distribute but it was the era of colonialism and postcards were also a means of asserting racial superiority photographers were sent with call the nizer is to take pictures of what they saw sometimes of what they wanted to see from the most monday in aspects of life to some disturbing images of colonial brutality the european powers went home long ago but the stereotypes in those images continue to shape perceptions of africa today the listening post from now on the legacy of postcards from days gone by. Its very easy for us now to think of a postcard as a kind of happy snap from holidays sort of wish you were here to family and friends but they were in their own. New media craze they were produced specifically to construct a particular image of africa and africans the scramble for africa you know occurred 884 where european powers basically carved up different parts of africa to colonize part of that process was. Somehow justify colonise ation why one nation would take over another nation they sent missionaries they sent politicians and they sent photographers the people with the cameras and get to dictate how we see who we think were seeing what we think were seeing and so i think thats part of what makes those images so dangerous. Images that show europe civilizing mission and the men behind wanted it to be seen the monuments and. Empire courthouse churches and train stations. And the locals those in need of civilizing. Photography was a major component of european colonialism in the late 19th and early 20th century was the golden age of postcards an early form of mass media. The images taken by an assortment of commercial photographer has. Ethnography has been coming to an administrator who printed and posted back home and billions of times show you can your view of africa and the orient. They come under 3 very loose themes the kind of highly sexualized to write a song i. Woman you know arab woman or african woman you know bare chest. Often in the suggestive way the other theme would be africans as servers you know always in a kind of domesticated state servants to colonial administrator or missionaries or military personnel and then the 3rd african as you know african warriors as savage as uncivilized not to be trusted. This is nigeria and its titled evil hunters with a flintlock i mean this was a very common type of showing sort of the barbarity or the savagery of africans and particularly as hunters and so this particular image is basically just showing them in their everyday clothing and you can see that its actually been staged to some extent because you have 2 individuals on either side who are kneeling and sort of looking directly at the camera so there is a understanding of cooperation and collaboration in this image. Photographers carefully selected because the subjects and the surroundings for those in the business of sending purrs come out so there was a commercial interest in making images for the town to live or in some way fit into a preexisting but. You can see that clearly in images from Francis Clooney an encounter with north africa. Faced with women who did not conform with their son to come to see photography simply made up for the choices that. They had this mythology of algerian this kind of over sexualized they had the image of the hair and their mind but when they arrived the algerians looked nothing like the french had imagined them many of the women were veiled or am covered and so they were inaccessible to the photographers gaze they ended up hiring people to act as models they set up studios they asked the women to pose in a way that the colonizers had imagined those people then they produced postcards and sent them back to france to say this is what these people are like and they need our help this is a very much a curbishley driven business and it was for photographers people running for the graphic studios that were looking for cards that they could sell they could sell cheaper all these posts are producers and photographers were copying each other they were ruthless and stealing other peoples ideas and images so this is the way in which she john was kind of reproduce themselves over time. The lands of those depicted in the postcard so belong since one their independence but the cultural impacts the stain of the imagery lives on. You can trace the link between depictions of black and brown bodies today and the often degrading and orientals depictions of the colonial period. Then like now the bodies of those deemed in some way form a more likely to show up in the media stop being best to change naked. The only bodies that we see in the media are usually brown and black bodies from other countries that end up producing and vision of the world where violence is something that happens elsewhere to nameless i used to think that something about being an american was the reason that we didnt see americans bodies in the media but then i saw Michael Browns body on the front page of the New York Times and hes an american it seems to me that theres Something Different operating that should force us to ask questions about whose bodies are made visible whose bodies are hidden and why and what work those images do the continuing visions or images of kind of black death and trauma has definitely continued from the past those images are enduring if you have no association with the person as a human being when that humanity is removed its easier to think about that person as as as an object almost as it like a scientific you know object there is no agency there is no humanity. There are layers to these postcards very tunnels along about the can i know mines and its wonderful for the trees appeared in newspapers they also served as a form of photojournalism but too many of these images stripped the subjects of the humanity the visual expression of a racial hierarchy today pictures like these forces to come from those who call themselves superior constructed an image of lawrence di dio. Reexamining in critiquing these postcards really helps us understand the nuances of history the post cars themselves moved through so many different facets of life at the time whether its. Post office over or through colonial offices right through the hands of you know everyday citizens these were artifacts that really made it into every niche of life and so we really should understand them as artifacts of our histories tangible objects that have come through history with us. People have talked a lot about how photoshop or video manipulation has introduced the possibility that images can be doctored or falsified but what these colonial photographs show is that theyve always been doctored and falsified have always been put to political use and its our job to become viewers who are more critical and better able to see what they actually show which is the violence of the colonial vision to become viewers capable looking past the margin and our rescuing the information that that is there that we are trained not to look at. And finally last week we looked at the Lincoln Project a group of republican operatives in the us thats been flooding social media with ads in support of the democratic president ial candidate joe biden these are republicans who are openly and forcefully working against dong trumps reelection their ads have been criticized on all sides for sensationalizing and fear mongering still the Trump Administration doesnt make it easy for them ever since the president s case of covert 19 was made public the messaging from officials on trumps condition has been at best confused and at worst flat out lies so in the spirit of the year 2020 heres one more rad musical theater reworked by republicans on the trumpet ministrations epic mismanagement of the covert outbreak at the White House Well see you next time here at the listening. To. The most of. Us the truth. Is. Wolf through you. Might say. I. Will not be. Seen. By you we seem to look never mind the. Tool to you. Winning. This thing that i really. Do. The river nile is a vital source of sourced to the countries that flows through this no single who can lay claim it would be different good given the resources we found both agreed but with this comes a destabilizing rivalry the country suspicious of each others intentions in the battle for control of the river transporting food and consultation it was not up to me to do hunters because of some unknown fear struck a little bit on aljazeera. When a few pins rose and forced them all to cross a cruise unit from power the new administration aimed for unity through an Ambitious Program of political reform. But 2 years on. People in power are asked whether the countrys diverse ethnic interests will ever be reconciled. The battle for the field on. Her war. A pause in the deadly fight for to go on a car back a cease fire between azerbaijan and armenia comes into effect. Hello there nora cottle this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up taiwans president calls for dialogue with china and National Day Speech but he warns it should be on equal to its. Second u. S. President ial debate is cancelled off the donald trump refuses a virtual certainty
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