Supreme Court Nominee has faced questions from senators on the 2nd day of confirmation hearing in washington d. C. Amy county barrett was grilled on the Health Care Abortion and the upcoming president ial election but she declined to say whether she would recuse herself from any cases relating to next months but. My colleagues have asked you today whether you would recuse yourself from cases on the Affordable Care act you did not directly answer their questions and instead you described the process by which that would work or happen and so my question is isnt it true then at the end of that process regardless of that process that it would be for ultimately would make the decision about whether or not you would recuse yourself. That is true and i cant have you a list that a commitment from me about how i would make that decision in advance that would be wrong cyprus has abolished a citizenship for Investment Program following an undercover investigation by al jazeera it shows senior politicians agreement to help a criminal by a supreme passport the parliamentary speaker in the report is abstaining from duty until an investigation is completed saudi arabias failed to win reelection to the United NationsHuman Rights Council the attempt had faced criticism due to allegations of state involvement in the murder of the saudi journalist. China and russia did win seats in the body despite widespread criticism and congress towns parliament will be asked to vote for a 2nd time on whether to approve saudi are ya was the new Prime Minister the president made the decision after politicians not to this challenge the legitimacy of saturdays 1st vote in parliament. So those were the headlines the news continues here now jazeera after the listing so watching. It was a war that united egypt and syria had against israel but in the heat of the battle that different agendas soon became a i suppose it. Was to then to see to my 67 business so that came to be told us just give me 10 centimeters of land in the east the 2nd of a 3 part series israeli population were told that their troops were on the west bank of the su is going to expose the 2nd week of the war in october on aljazeera. Fighting between us march on their territory by this point. Should 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 TrumpsRepublican Party were now into the 3rd week of fighting between azerbaijan and armenia in the gorno 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 armies involved theyre drawn cameras our starting point this week the skies above nagornokarabakh. Clashes erupted between azerbaijani and a decades old conflict flared up as a shot on me and say is hes sort of these are images from the 1st military conflict to us started in the area of covert 19 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 here of. The azerbaijanis in 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 to. No logical superiority in this aspect and it definitely shows the scale of losses casualties that azerbaijan has been able to inflict there is a lot of footage from the armenian side as well the ultimate similarity between the 2 sides is that costing is extremely proud and nationalistic in consonance reason good about the guy the bulk of them was the moment. The press get in the school room you have evocative videos being put to. Music. Of tanks being blown up of troops fleeing from the frontline and both sides are 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 army or. 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 their 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 the foreigner paradigm and then saw 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 still it is. Azerbaijan that in 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 aliyev azerbaijan 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 firm azerbaijanis backed by the turks especially conquered harbach 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 congo needs 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 and government as are by shaq has been ruled by one family. Since 1903 like you father before him president gill had ali have has kept the media under wraps censorship is right for the internet is tightly controlled and crossing the line can land you in jail. Is not about some good it 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 azerbaijani media. From the onion said the Media Coverage is treating the. Similar to the government we have tightened up so so far we have been free we had no censorship or whatever even so its the government a very mean and the government of the republic of not good enough got up out helped us all sorts of provides permissions to show is 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 cover is the shoe in the conflict and the war and tired and as a result of that kind of information which both domestic and International Audiences are able to get from armenia 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 down to 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 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 and the kids will pluck them to get all the old and many stansell c. V. That has all the ways of. 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 usual which has led to some unusual terminology being used to describe the Russian Media is handling of a geo political story unfolding on their doorstep who is already out of mvp. 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 or who channels there from the state broadcaster t. R. T. To private t. V. Stations of talking about a 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 traditional yeah the responsible are in the news and that word got out people. Was the point made in the azerbaijani media and amplified through turkey about the land the armenians took in 994. 00 is not without merit more than half a 1000000 azerbaijanis were forced out in the corner apparently now armenian civilians are paying the price tens of thousands have already been displaced azerbaijan 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 ravi had 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 land 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 the saudi media narrative was shifting on israel considering that the palestinian cause has been a defining issue a lot of politics for decades what have 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 randi 3 part interview most of the monologue really prince bandar bin sultan he is a former director of saudi intelligence and its a bastard 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. In these a metal am lucky or. A lawful clear the healthfulness the media and having a model him with 7. And a curtain. And so what 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 plus your glib 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 of 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 meaning this is the access bastard to the u. S. He 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 essentially issue for him so you could see a bit of stagecraft along with the stagecraft on a lot of the ok thanks media 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. Postcards were a european media phenomenon the photos let people see the World Without leaving their home and like many modern forms of media they 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 often 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 the 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 colonization 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 europes civilizing mission and the men behind it 12. 00 to be seen the monuments are. Empire courthouse churches and train stations. And the locals those in need of civilizing. D 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. Images taken by an assortment of commercial photographer was. Ethnographies becoming an administrator 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 the african as you know african warriors as savage as uncivilized not to be trusted. This is nigeria and its titled evil hunters with flintlock guns 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 theres a understanding of cooperation and collaboration between this image. Photographers carefully selected by the subjects and the surrounding for those in the business of sending purrs cards there was a commercial interest in making images for the town to live 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 about jerry and 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 the way that the colonizers had imagined those people and 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 curve personally 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 cheaply 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 postconcert belong since one their independence but the Cultural Impact 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 starving destitute 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 so 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 tunnels a lot about the can i know mine. And its gone before for the transit of the newspaper its also served as a photojournalist but too many of these images stripped the subjects of the humanity they are 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 have photoshop or video manipulation has introduced the possibility that images can be doctored or falsified but what these colonia photographs show is that theyve always been doctored and falsified. Political use and its our job to become viewers who are marketable and better able to see what they actually show which is the violence of the colonial vision. Viewers. Looking past the margin and rescuing the information that that is there that we are trained. And finally last week we looked at the Lincoln Project a group of republican operatives in the u. S. 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 ad musical theater reworked by republicans on the trip administrations epic mismanagement of the covert outbreak at the White House Well see you next time here at the listening. To loan to cool it to me you believe how still looms as the truth leave. It to you all through. Mind that exist. Ive grown from leave. Home to leave my stupid since. I only see too much never mind the photos of loans i have told to you. As for winning masks and acting say that this is nothing that is how i really. Do. Listen to her. Mother i still love. My. Moms night. Frank assessments look at any way the protest is going anyway even. And indepth analysis of the dates global headlines its really now. Inside story on aljazeera. Is of defiance it really touched my heart deeply when she started to see you all the. d aljazeera world remembers a palestinian singer who reached audiences beyond middle east born into a creative family and friends she sang out a powerful and Emotional Message the story of. The voice of palestine on aljazeera. Hello im daryn jordan and with a quick reminder the top stories here aljazeera tens of thousands of people have been displaced in the afghan province of helmand after a weekend of intense fighting. The Afghan Government says theyve been locked in battles with the taliban and forcing 35000 people to flee hospitals and their oh say theyve been overwhelmed with the wounded talks to end the countrys conflict are still underway between the taliban and the Afghan Government the Israeli Army Says 2 soldiers have been injured when an explosive device was thrown at them during an arrest raid in