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listening post where we provide explanatory journalism about journalism and the global news media. the way china's vice premier soon land put it, the country is entering a new stage in its fight against coven, 19 the underlying message from beijing to its people. is we are listening. the government has started lifting a lock downs in some major cities, including shanghai. soon disclosed the new policy a week after unrest broke out in multiple locations. protesters demanding a loosening of restrictions, and in some cases, calling for the downfall of president, she can ping it all began. when videos went viral of a fire at an apartment block in a room. chey, a city that is under locked down, 10 people confined to their flats, failed to make it out alive. social media got lit up by citizens tired of the impact. the pandemic continues to have on life in china. politically. the government's pretty come. it is the present and she has made the 0 covert strategy . his signature policy to criticize it, is to criticize the president, which puts journalists and the state control news outlets that they work for in a tough spot. our starting point this week is i don't you the, if this wave of demonstration in cities like shanghai, even b. j leads to meaningful lasting change to some of the toughest cobra restrictions . anyway, the city of a room will be remembered for the fire that lit the fuse room. she is in northwestern china. it was $100.00 days into its latest government enforced lockdown. when an apartment building there went up in flames. with coven barriers outside the structure, appearing to hamper rescue. keeping fire at a distance videos were posted online, showing how 10 people failed to make it out alive. the chinese citizens then to, to this, although this happened in a distant city, and the fire itself was actually not that big. a lot of chinese people watching this, many of them are locked in. there have been locked into their apartment as part of coven locked downs. and i think was a lot of people who are watching this fire happening and wondering if they might be next. and so that brought home to them just how serious the service covered policies can be. the video spread like wildfire, even, even though there is a firewall in china and they're censorship. lot of the young chinese people nowadays are tech savvy. they use vpn to go over the great firewalls on chinese twitter. now there's tons of videos of different protest type occurring in china. protests of 100 to 200 people may not be concerning. but when the, the video is spread across the internet goes viral, it has a multiplier. your fact blue shine a country of 1400000000 claims to have lost just over 5000 people to coach. while scientists outside the country doubt the official numbers are accurate. they are likely many times higher than the authorities admit. they do accept that the harsh measures extended lock downs, heavily policed, have been effective, but the patients of citizens has worn thin. they're tired of the q r code. they are still required to produce on their phones. in order to avoid taking another mandatory coven test, or to just get around spare. a thought. however, for journalists state controlled news that they've been lauding president, she, gen king and his approach to code one for a quick change to show them them, you can see it on the go cool man in that to father couldn't from the outset they have compared the pandemic numbers in china to more liberal countries like the us, where they have been exponentially higher in central china school, they probably stay former at the center of the current of iris outbreak. about 68000 cases have been reported because the beginning of the outbreak in america there about many cases in a single day. how do they tell the story of these demonstrations knowing that their editors and the sensors will only let them go so far? i feel bad 1st day workers because there's really no way to sugar coat dire bit ality that people are fed up with 0 cov it here basically pretending it's not happening and i think they are going to come up with a very sinister interpretation of what happened some hostile international for this must be at play. the protesters are actually puppets off the united states of ca. there's no evidence of that, but i think that's something we need to be. what the 1st ship does is decrease a digital divide and that age to buy for older generation people who are not tech savvy. if their main source of news is coming from the state, me, they might not even be aware. there's protests going on, all cross china, a by young people use western social media. they're able to see this happening live . so some people are very aware and some people are completely oblivious. john as absolute discretion in deciding how it wants to impulse censorship on things that they consider not constructive and they will throw good express day in the fall of the if you think they are good for chinese, the ability then you talk about it. if you don't think the good or the ability you do not want to talk about it. different countries have different ways of dealing with sensitive issues. and we refuse to be distracted by noises. the end of china's undistracted media outlets have beautiful killing into south in case you would have to go ignoring the problem and focusing on other stories such as the improvement china has made to its transport, along with president. she's numerous other accomplish. see g t n a news channel that broadcast in english took a similar approach when called out on twitter about that, the network hit those reply and just carried on as though there was no story worth reporting from the st. coverage in the international media comes up short run in other way and present it to that large people here. taking the story of nationwide protests which are rare in china and blowing it out of proportion. yeah . you wonder whether going to have another and square type of moment sometime around and drawing a blatantly false equivalent between 2022 and a few 1000 demonstrators with some of them calling for. she jin ping to go. and the existential threat communist rulers, faced in 1989, when a 1000000 people turned out to back the t hanniman square protests, demanding regime change in beijing. reporting that we seen the western media on versus what chinese people's real concerns are. there is a real disconnect us annually. us allies media has try always try to pain china in worst possible light and all they're going for is for the reaching change and my eyes around the world. people are looking well, maybe that western system, not american system, that democratic system is better. right now there's very little chance of regina changing china in the foreseeable future. the western media or international media should have told a better story, a farrah and more objective story. because when we looked at this and dan meek, the fact that the united states has lost more than 1000000 people. that number is shocking. this is purely the responsibility of the u. s. government mm. voices of dissent in china. the protestors who forced the authorities to loosen the lock downs, at least temporarily assume they are being watched online and on the streets. no government is better equipped with surveillance technology sensors take down content. the authorities would disapprove of although they struggled to keep up when the protests broke out with hundreds of millions of cameras. keep an eye on public spaces using facial recognition software that can even identify citizens wearing protective maps. so it's watch what say, post or dare to put on a protest on the, which is why demonstrators have been carrying blanks on when it comes to freedom of expression in china. that's and that all, that's really the ultimate rebellion against china's censorship, which has been much more dramatic and all encompassing under his teaching teens for 10 years. so if you take all my words away from me, i literally have nothing to say to. she blinked, cooper, extremely creative and smart way to show people with chinese censorship policy. china has, by far the world's most comprehensive and sophisticated state surveillance system. there are more than 400000000 cameras in the country. the government is able to centrally access almost any of the more than 1000000000 smartphones. there are fact, the protesters still went out, i think as a testament, both to the levels of frustration, people feel. and also, of course, that there's a bravery in expressing it. there are new developments in the u. s. extradition case against julian assange of wiki leaks, 5 major international news outlets have sent an open letter to washington, calling for the case to be closed. flor phillips is here with the latest richard. it was 12 years ago. this week that julian collaborated with 5 european and american newspapers to publish so called cable gate material leaked to wiki leaks by the then american soldier. chelsea manning that expose the inner workings of us diplomacy around the world. now those same media outlets have sent a message to the u. s. government written by the guardian, the new york times lamar spiegel and pi east, the open letter says sanchez, indictment under an archaic law. the espionage act of 1917 sets a quote dangerous precedent and threatened to undermine freedom of the press. for those who've been tracking this case, the coordinated message from the papers could seem like too little too late. some of these same outlet gave scant coverage to the prior stages of a sanchez legal battle. the biden white house, his reaction to the latter stuck to the line laid down by previous us administration to doze leaks. those revelations in the public sphere were damaging to us national security. the other government for watching this story is in the land of the sandwiches. australia now led by prime minister anthony albany. the i have rises personally with representatives of the united states government. and it is time that this meta be brought to a close albany. they have said that kind of thing before, but only as opposition leader. it was his 1st mention of the case and taking power about 6 months ago between a sanchez time claiming asylum. the ecuadorian embassy in london, and more than 3 years behind bars and the british maximum security prison. this legal case has lasted more than a decade. if extradited to the us, he faces a maximum sentence of a 175 years. thank slow. it has been nearly 5 months now since protests in sri lanka, forest president, go by a roger boxer out of office with him. when many members of his family, all of whom were in government, the political unrest featured means viral video song, dances, cartoons, and characters. all mocking the roger boxes, there was a history of art playing a role during turbulent times, entry longer. and that is persisted through nearly 3 decades of civil war. the easter bombings of 2019, and the demonstrations that began this past april. the art conveyed what the mainstream media could not or would not say by openly taking on the ruling family and reinforced the message coming from the streets. that lightens, were done with the roger boxes and the corruption that came with them. the listening post me knock, she robbie, now on protest, art that is still doing the rounds in sri lanka. ah, this was a charged amendment. sheila may 2022 and hundreds of thousands of people protesting a system. they said was rotten denouncing a government, be accused of bleeding. the country drive, ah, the heart of the brutus politically on with the unique signature block as you park music cylinder had witnessed protest form, but these were nationwide and there was no stopping them until the departure in july of president court alberta, japan. and with him, an entire please to people. i have been part of she duncan for this for some time now. and this was the 1st time in which i created so many space for people to come and interact in vending, spacious, in a way it was becoming a community expression, you know, the collective expression of a group of people, a lot of the odd, really promoted a critique of the politics of the country and in ways that people were please understand very few of what this was a president who was nicknamed, terminate about his own family. this was a president who has allegations on all crimes against humanity and wall cry. so this was of much feared family, and the protest provided an opportunity for artists, warship, sizes, and colors from all over the country to articulate the critique of this family and the militarization through artistic production. 5 men, all of them are large boxes, including president godaddy, baxa and his brother by hinder the prime minister. all of them in government when the protests began, all accused of corruption, members of a family notorious for clamping down on freedom of the press, caricatured by artists, dijon. fernando, as mythical demons. scenes from the protests rendered in the style of renaissance paintings. i multi media artist move into benoit a photo of an unknown sri lankan woman with her baby during the protest. this was an image that went viral. the name of the photographer is still not known. and then this muted located at what became the heart of the protest in the city of colombo, a space for activism and art called cortical gamma, which translates into the catch phase. and hashtag of the uprisings, gotta go home. yeah, it was, it was so wonderful a few days actually overcome that mural. we all came together to say, well, we want to see and who we want our leaders to be and who we want to represent the voices of the people going forward. right. and the voices of, you know, modernized, communities coming 1st, give then something of themselves to remember, as well as game society, something to remember. so the whole idea is in create beauty giving times of strife . and that's quite extraordinary for a number of reasons, in terms of the identity of the producers, the band in which the mural depicted of the men and, and, and, and, and feminism, a central and, or to the protest that elements of justice of equality or equity of of, of a feminist agenda of a might be ethnic perspective. so there's a lot of things happening in that mural. you don't find the depiction or that kind of into religious identity. ah, in a mural in the middle of colombo, at the time when you thought that the large boxes weighing 5 ah, the protests and the, the center of the dawn, put news outlets on the spot. the country's media has long been intimidated and largely tamed by the state. a silly war that lasted nearly 30 years has left scars on trial and can journals. and then when godaddy packs up came into office in 2019, his reputation for controlling through methods that would often brewton made a media industry on id, in a crouch. how a further now journalist carefully read the question, was it safe to deviate from the officially approved line fanatics, that cost the protesters as the villains of the piece, the typical watch box i hated the borough, the head of the conservative establishment. the guys will support isis. foothill says argued their way into the studios of the state owned group of a honey corporation and went on to see this doctor. why. why are you that can fema biology under the as more and more demonstrate as flooded this cheese, putting their livelihoods and sometimes their lives on the line means she media was painted or rather animated as part of an enemy establish ah, the man who created the art in this music video is randy chriss, but it, it kind of help to really tell what's, what was actually going on. because a lot of people do depend on only the mainstream media at that time. but a lot of suppression and a lot of media institutions. they would kind of twist the things and been tossing a very derogatory, ah, so we've of getting at that from all angles to. that's what i mostly depicting are there, these types of otts and video clips which are easily shattered. but on what sad that you can post on facebook and twitter, et cetera. they have all kinds of painting ones that you are not. sometimes it a little walk allies your set. so sometimes art can even give voice to things that you nor that are inside you, but are unable to express the protest. allow the space, physically offline, but also fundamentally online on social media, for the democratization of artistic production, anarchistic procedures that was unprecedented in terms of the volume of the output, the piece of the output and the engagement with the output. in any way you want to measure. i've never seen anything like it. so that's quite unique. but what's not unique is art being part of a pretty good struggle in the country. ah, one of sheila has most prominent political artists jungle that the new era has created a genre of work called vandalism. he uses steal battles, the crime scene at army checkpoints, to depict the normalization of an increasingly militarized society. painted an archaeologist juggle, lead singer is motivated by the fractures in sri lankan society. his work grapples with notions of nationhood identity, religion, and confrontation. and a normal video about the now has dwelt on matters relating to the environment in hot politically conscious art. the sheila can tradition of art in times of turmoil was unmissable on the streets during the protest. possibly the shortest indication of the impact of the art was the fact that so much of it got torn down by the authorities. we have no idea now where the mural really vent oh dismantle is. i mean, i has the power to change people's minds lives. and this not a thing of us time in their lives probably. and people who think god control. so it's pretty obvious to know why he was targeted so much. the oper cuts worse nightmare ease the loss of the control over how he's depicted. because here was a right board cruises open, chris and obviously the authorities went after the protest and the protest as in the main, but also the odd because it was so powerful. it captivated the imagination, it communicated the politics. it will be lies to community, not just to specific locations, but then the oddity of the country and even beyond, like myself in the dice bought up. so does looking, it was global and was everything. everything that the government wanted to clamp down on what's happening in sri lanka had the moment, is the oil on that is dying, ah, and the new is yet to be born. and i think in that phase of transition, we need a lot of creativity, meaning a lot of reflection. and the rule that artist can play, that actually by creating those spaces, is the messages loosely books that could give people the space to ask that question . so that they can find some solutions for the systemic problems. they are trying to get a grappling 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