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But at what cost . Inflation reduction is a big economy when its enough. Tech Companies Wont flyers. Now invest ditching technology stocks. Counting the costs on al jazeera, the one of the things that really struck me, you could feel not just that people were fearless, but that there were joy and that was the way in which they brandished time. The ways in which they screamed political slogans that made you feel that these people had no constraints. These people did not worry about what may happen to them tomorrow. Because what they felt they had at stake was much more important and much less scary than what they could lose if they did not walk on the street. Or more about more than one level. There have been so many times since 2011 when i have tried to describe to people and friends of what that feeling was like in the square. And there really are no words. I mean, you werent allowed to say anything against a lot of not a whole lot in the street. So just suppose that walking into the square in 2011 and having pictures of the me, a lot of with the words need go with people laughing pictures of his face with their shoes. This was the feeling and the square. Those are the slogans you heard and it was the crack. Hello. Until now, it feels like a dream. I remember the 1st shot from the master from the people were jumping which is people what do humiliated to have the chance or the hope for the free press for some kind of freedom expression. That was a dream. And thats the uniqueness of that moment. The moment of possibility, the moment of rapture, where the systems of authority, where hierarchy begins to fall apart. Same chance that starting to basically know about go from tunisia to syria as continue to grow worth. It stands in stark contrast to Everything Else that subsequently unfolded. But at least during those moments touch, what a glorious future for me. Ah ah, the wave of revolution that came to be known as the arab spring, began a decade ago in december of 2000. It was a time in which anything arab mobilize in their millions in collective cause for democracy, justice, freedom of expression, government auto craft, james white with foreign adopting than ali. Went with him the special edition of the listening post. Were taking a retrospective look at what happens the subsequent crushing of democratic move the clamp downs on freedom of the press that remain in place that weve chosen to focus on the stories of 3 countries to nicea where the movement got a star from egypt, where it appeared to be and serious work hit a brick wall. The arab springs, a starting point, came on december 17th of 2010 in the small, central tennessee and city of cities. Luthey were a straight vector named mohammed. Was this fed up with local official corruption, unable to make a living, to set himself to fine. It was one individual act of protests that would cost boys to seek his life and ultimately set off shockwave that would travel from north africa to the arabian. Dont leave him to the nadia of if, if the regime of president banana created a kind of Political Police and the whole network to getting to people with heads. So that no matter where you are, no matter who you are. We felt that the walls have ear and we are being listened to all righty on the quote to talk even families inside their own home did not that to speak about banana. And obviously people did not dare to post on social networks or disgust what was happening in the media did not dare to criticize the regime except to minority within them. And that completely changed. This feeling of fear was completely over 10 said birth compared mom, but really what was bubbling in indonesia, of course, was a movement that until the uprising had been underground of bloggers of citizen journalists, of people who use the new emerging Digital Information fear to begin exchanging information to create networks. Once the uprising started in tunisia, that whole network came above ground. Once tunisia became this magnet for news for images, for stories about that could be a different tomorrow, then it emerge as a note in that big network. Theres so many glorious moments that are, that have now become iconic. A personal favorite. There was short video of the man and these are so walking up and down, gave a st. Tunisia shortly after the following. Been highly real. And he is calling people in their homes in empty street telling them theres nothing to be afraid of. You are now free. In his voices you empty avenue. That was just absolutely mesmerized. And as it travelled around the arab world, it, it ended up inspiring so many others to do the same money. And one of the more remarkable things that happened in 2011 and certainly in the square was this sort of outburst of language and terminology. Words like democracy, freedom just thats right. The protesters in the square frame their minds and articulate them using a right framework. One huge moment was when one of the who is a very famous presenter, Egyptian Television interviewed waiting on him who had just been released from prison. And that into view which it felt like the entire 100000000, the population of egypt watched, was a real turning point once to the media because it was the most honest thing wed ever seen. And to because it just showed real pain of the activist who didnt realize what he had unleashed when so taken aback by what was happening and from what i can and then im sure both of them but you want the one they wanted and there hadnt been really a symbol of the egyptian uprising, up until that moment and suddenly weighed him, took me egypt present host nemo barrak was forced from power on february 11th. 4 days later, the 1st demonstrations broke out in libya. Another leader would fall there from morocco in the west to yemen and buck rain in the east autocratic arab leaders faced existential challenges of varying degrees. Some met, their citizens demand halfway. Others, like serious bashar assad, confronted protectors with the government implemented a media blackout banning foreign journalists from entering arrest and local reporters who tried to get the story. The general want on money like to miss the unrest in syria exploded. Far from a capital graffiti written by a student on the school wall in the border city of a message for the president , your turn at the beginning of this year and uprising, weve heard so many spoken, saying and gather which is period 9. There were this sense that you are with missing and they are being manipulated and presented in a completely opposite way on the state media. That encouraged many people who were students who wear and the christians carpenters and different kind of backgrounds that just hold their mobile any cameras that they can get, hold on and document things many seriously. So that might awards what is happening in their home country. Something will change and they believed in the power of media because they saw what it did in egypt. And the, i think thats basically when a lot of us again, prematurely, now, usually or not, felt that this is a historic turning point and syria will soon become a free and democratic country where there is going to be free and independent press. And i think thats basically the moment when a lot of people became invested or interested in not just going to demonstrations, but also in creating institutions that embody this sort of democratic moment of hope. So thats basically the moment when you start to have a lot of newspapers, a lot of radio stations, a lot of online magazines. Also a lot of people study organizations and obviously, you know, i mean now in hindsight realize this was completely naive because journalism in this, in the sense or bearing witness in the sense that not actually make a huge difference. The health of the era spring algae 0 was a key punch for the month of beaming across the region and around the world has gone. Lets go live to cairo. Me say that hes been in egypt. Things when algebra was perceived for the 1st government elected after the fall ended by Mohammed Morrison and the muslim brothers resulted in the networks reputation. One that had been seen years in the making, being al jazeera, played a substantial role from its inception. Really in 1906 in shifting the news agenda in such a way to allow those who are not in government to critique those who are in before you know, and ill just here as cameras were in the right place at the right time, raining down be seen cnn, all the major sort of broadcast was around world. Were picking up our exclusive footage. So al jazeera was able to, to really bring the narrative of social mobilization and protest from the arab world to the world at large and to elevate the discussion in such a way that made the aspirations of the protestors and the region. The only story worth exploring the Muslim Brotherhood who was perhaps the most well organized political for the one the election. The rules that lasted barely one year was not what people had hoped for. Corruption continued authoritarianism, continued one of the reasons that people stop following as united egypt for example, is because a lot of them felt that if this is the voice of a political formation that has failed and that has now been displaced from power, then that news outlet is no longer an important source of new ah, by 2013, the morsey government had been deposed in the authorities, then tried to take al jazeera and egyptian journalism. Down with the new government was led by military man turned president. Abdulla fought out, cease 3 al jazeera employees were among the dozens of media workers arrested on stacys watch. The court case was a show trial. The governments evidence against al jazeera was feeble, but reputations suffered all around me. That same year on august 21st, the Assad Government showed its citizens and the world how far syria was prepared to go to suppress the kind of descent that had toppled other arab leaders, the raucous, lets slammed into the outskirts of damascus that day. Carried chemical weapons and it was one of the biggest massacre is more than 1500. 00 people were killed at that one. So it is supposed to, to shake something on the, in for some kind of action or reaction. And so when it didnt them nothing we can do is going to be changing. Our reality is nothing we can do or document or film or be killed for that word. To stop this massacres and this horror then its useless. And thats when weve seen many citizen journalists shopping this and going back to their shops, to their workshops. And im just giving, ah, i think that was a turning point. Not only for syrians in the sense that you know, the world is not going to do anything to stop the same routine from perpetrating war crimes. It was also a moment of despair for journalists around the world in the sense that it completely blunted the emancipatory and incisive razor of journalism at journalism did not matter anymore. It did not make a difference anymore. Doctors, lawyers and now journalists are all to mortgage on the government. That was the case, crossed the middle east and north africa, the globe back against descent. And the coverage of it just grew worse back. And i, egypt right now, in 2000 people has been arrested. Im been that those governments have also diversified, their dissemination of propaganda. Outsourcing what was once the responsibility of state own channel, to privately owned outlets, some newly taken over by the state. Others just eager to please egypt media have proven night after night that more voices do not add up to a plurality of opinion. Journalism such a critical component at the outset of the arab spring has become one of its long term casualties. Egyptian state under c, c is not a practitioner of the old style of propaganda where you have, you know, the one news anchor of the state television child that everybody watches who says what the leaders want you to hear for the very 1st time a lot of the Main Television channels in egypt are directly on by the egyptian military. Right . This is new. This did not used to be the case. Thats dynamic number one. Dynamic number 2 is the unleashing of these larger than life insufferable personalities on talk. Sure, ill have a what. What do the more go ahead, larry. Aka lynn. The law was in these personalities. Tend to turn the faith narrative into an irresistible drama. Yeah. Theres one kid i love fog. Im going to love that Conspiracy Theory by theater, of the absurd by propaganda and part political talk show that the people find irresistible. Wow. Yeah. And so in combination, i think these to create sort of a very toxic media here on a warning. And i know the region and large has some of the worst ratings. As far as the treatment of journalist, detained journalist, prosecutor, journalists, journalists, who are either exiled or sent to live abroad. One of the greatest losses in this process is the ability to tell reality as it is the ability to relay truth to audiences and public at large. So thats a very, very hefty cost to pay. And unfortunately, it has major repercussions across the board in the sense that you only need to target a handful of journalists before the rest of them are in line. Not in some countries, it wasnt just governance journals. So did the other act, proxy players, rivals for power together manage to turn the middle east into one of the worlds most dangerous places to come . Scores of journalists killed, exiled were now languish, and among them now just as much has been held without charge in cairo for 4 years. The egyptian photo journalist shop spent 6 years in prison for taking pictures of a protein in syria and was killed in a rush and air strike on the city of its camera was rolling as he gone in. And you can add the name of another syrian to the list of journalists taken before that time. His killing thought to be at the hands of militants, formerly affiliated without pride. I left a whole difficult hundreds of people as well. No serious radio host reputation could bring change to syria. I decided he was not just a journalist. He was one of the reasons why pro uprisings were able to say that it is not regime against your head, is that they are people who are fighting both parties for their own dignity for their basic. He was threatened by their jam, his house was destroyed, and he kept refusing to stop. He kept resisting all of the facts, but he was facing, establish your fresh show last year. The 1st year which was completely based, syria with tens of south poplar women. So he was that exceptional, and i think that was too much for any dictator for any criminal to, to handle so many tried to kill him before and sadly they succeeded. Ah, against those challenges. There are some like hideous r judy that have proven independent journalism. Can survive even flourish after the spring. Mother, musser, and inky father into nicea have done the same under different circumstances. They all offer quality reporting expertly presenting that audiences have come to value given the restrictions and in some cases the dangers the reporters face. Their work is over, more noted as your audio was established on a, in march, 2012. When we realized that something unprecedented was happening in the country. And it was very important for syrians to not only be ab citizen journalists simply reporting to basically provide International Journalists with the footage and the raw data for others to come and sort of edits and analyze. We need to have our own place where it wasnt just citizen journalism. It was also in depth report for the syrian conflict in a way, not to be reduced to just the daily death, all of its heroes, and its martyrs and its victims. But also for syrians to take a step back and to be able to come together to reflect and to think of not only about the present, but also about a future event. Tommy john dip on the old as a to ease into fred eyes in independent media outlets, basting tunis, which was established in 2014 by janice developers and graphic designers. Although i dont know who we are partners and friends with outlets like madam ashley neeagins, adam, real young, syria and many other media with the same out killed mold. And the want to be independent of the influence of big powers. And hes going to produce stories that are not picked up by Mainstream Media and to show what they do, not necessarily run 3 more quick corner of the puffy mom or play. And as we are part of this movement of a tentative, ive read the media that are trying to challenge bella and to informing the best way without being captive to specific interests. Do they point to, i did not get it done. It. The bars was set really high by tenicia of the outcomes of which have not been reached, essentially anywhere else. But at the very least, denisia capture the imagination. Theres a funny sort of figure of speech in egypt that comes from like a reality competition shop where one of the contestants says in the gap between us, meaning that the answers is tenicia. And so the answer to every problem is authentication. And that, thats now become a figure of speech around the arab world. Anytime youre wondering how things should be done, right . The answer is always tunisia. Anthony has effectively demonstrated that the revolutionary potential can materialize in a positive way will conclude with an observations on what came at the beginning. The News Coverage of early 2011 when examined. In retrospect, some of the reporting was caught up in the exuberance. This network and this program included, that is not an admission of error or even though even millions of people in one country after another, were tasting freedom of expression. For the very 1st time, the boys finally telling their own stories, driving their own revolution. The journalism was a reflection, it focused on what was happening at the time, and it remains undiminished by what was. When youre standing in the moment of defeat, you are inclined to look back on the beginnings and to just completely dismiss them as childish or naive or premature. I think one of the Main Responsibilities that we have as journalists, is to be able to retrieve and reflect on that moment. And its very, very important for us to be cognizant to acknowledge the historic and revolutionary nature of what happened in 2011. I think another point of view is that if you are to look at it in the long term revolutions and real transformations take decades. And this is just one of the growing pains, this period is a growing pain on the path towards real democracy. I dont know if i believe that i want to believe that, but i can tell you this, that history is littered with examples of leaders and regimes that have curtailed human rights that have told their population that they have no agency in the country that they live in and it has not gone well, but those leaders and a day of reckoning has come home. I dont, no one knew the famous syrian playwright would always say, you know, we are condemned to hope. What else do you have . Right, so i wouldnt call it now youve okay, as much as i, i would call it a dash hope that josh folks of a generation then yours is a long time then years you have a new generation thats angry. That does not have jobs. Thats highly educated. Fluent and social media, but thus cannot, cannot see a future for itself cannot see its potential blossoming. This is the next revolution. This is the next movement, this, these are the next groups of people who are going to go down on the street. Smash things, challenger existing regime, and maybe next time it will work ah. Across the globe, breathtaking efforts to clean up the planets are under way in milan. Companies are turning to a radical solution, a bio dynamic cement, toxic pollutants. So this really is a living building thats constantly interacting with its environment. Earth rise visits the frontiers of the battle for the environment. Scientists here in the iceland pioneering a new technique to reduce emissions. Earth rise looked at new ways of preventing air pollution on al jazeera. 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