people have arrived by sea since wednesday. a major rescue operation was launched for 3 boats struggling in ross seas off a southern region of calabria. on friday, 1300 people rescued. in that incident alone, italy's defense ministry says it's working on transferring people from a crowded migrant center on the island of land, producer to the mainland, up to 10000 people in the italian town of control who protested against a new migration policy at the move adopt if a prison sentences for human traffickers and renews a pledge to stop in eagle boat trips and the policy was adopted by prime minister georgia maloney on thursday. it expires is a spokesman for c watch international, a german organizations that operates rescue boats in the mediterranean. he says the italian authorities overwhelmed the current situation specially in the central mediterranean sea. ruder this, see what it's covering. it's absolutely caustic, especially in a couple of days of our song, the seo tool we for example, with this 90 and distress katie's on the 8th of march. another 41 on march in 6 yesterday. and we also witnessed to show one in front of me for the strong and another one. and number 2 is one woman as strong amount in criticism over racial attacks against subsaharan nationals in june is year. many people are wanting to leave the country fighting, physical and verbal abuse. last month, president case i had claimed there was a criminal plot to change the country's demographics through irregular migrations. thousands of people are intel of eve to protest against plans by the israeli government to restrict the powers of the supreme court severely placed in a series of math demonstrations against the bill. critics of the bill, which would significantly increase the powers of the government at the expense of the court date is anti democratic. listening post is up next where they look at media around the world out of extra for that, with another full run of them. of the nice season. thanks for watching bye. for now . i the dakota oil pipeline snaked through indigenous land but no without like a certain book right in front of the building and they were beaten, arrested, and so as protective. they all beat it and so proclaimed, would have protected the women of standing rock on out his era. reputational damage from murdock on down for fox news, the stolen election lie could prove expensive. car bombs court cases and word games, the hazards of journalism in russia. and china versus taiwan, a geopolitical mismatch. the comedians are playing for laugh, ah, hello arbiter, disparate during the listening post where we provide explanatory journalist about journalists. when a news organization presents claims it knows to be false, that is a breach of journalistic ethics. fox news is arguing otherwise, the american network that for years provided a platform for former president donald trump's lies about the 2020 election that the results were fraudulent. is calling its coverage of that story warranted. fox has being sued by dominion voting systems, whose tabulating machines trump insists were rigged against him. and the case has produced all kinds of evidence showing that key figures at the network, including its owner. rupert murdoch knew that trump's stolen election narrative was bogus, but chose to broadcast it anyway. bombshell emails and texts that take a picture of a news outlet who's lost for ratings and revenues one out over. it's journalism, a channel that now operates in fear of its own audience and will go to extraordinary links just to keep those people tuning in when it comes to scandal is rupert murdoch. and he's an old hat. his tabloids, whether they're coming out of new york, london, or sidney feast on their good for business. and the 91 year old astray had been at the center of a few scandals of his own as anyone in the u. k. and who has had their phone hacked by a news court reporter will tell you. but murdock's never been exposed quite like this . because it's fox news prepares to go to court next month, facing a $1600000000.00 locked launch to fight dominion voltage. over the networks coverage of the 2020 us election results, an abundance of evidence has already surfaced internal communications at fox damning material. that goes all the way to the tongue. for the 1st week or so, fox was calling the election the way it had gone the way that we all in earth. one had experience that putting him over the 270 electoral votes, he needs to become the 46th president of the united states. and about a week later, murdock, and you see the internal communications here back this up, discovered that the people in trump world would not watch reality. yeah. they're still in the like the who. they didn't want to watch. fox. the fox was telling them their guy hadn't one, and they found themselves losing market share. and so that is the moment you see a real pivot. in the way the fox decides to talk about the 2040 election. the 2020 presidential election was not fair. no honest person would claim that it was fair. what has been weighed, mer, the degree to which fox news made choices about what to put on the air for political and particularly for financial reasons. they ring the election in front of all of us and nobody did anything about it. but they were putting stuff affirmatively on the air that as we now know their producers, their hosts and their corporate bosses and fox corp. the murdock's new was false, new was in the words of one of the executives nuts we can see from internal memos. we can see from what we put says in a deposition to the court. we can see it from conversations with chief executives. they knew this claim of both forward against the dominion had been fiddled with was false, but because they were losing audiences, they decided to resurrect the emails and texts provided to the court reveal the conflict, the murdoch's and fox were facing in the aftermath of the election one, the pitted journalistic ethics up against the business is bottom line in which the bottom line one out. this is a big develop. fox, there's decision to ask is calling arizona for jo by many of the messages related to arizona state that fox news is election task concluded joe biden had won over donald trump. the trump campaign claimed baseless li, according to a judge in numerous investigations that the election had been stolen. that dominion had the scales by rigging its computerized tabulated no responsible american new. so glad gave the stolen election narrative much credence fox was an exception. and those internal coms have come back to bite, since they prove the network new better. the dominion lawsuit is showing that they are extremely aware that these false claims about dominion are being circulated. they know that the audience wants and more of the conspiracy mat last and they're kind of deliberating about what to do. but the one factor that never seems to make a difference to anybody at fox is. it's untrue. it never happened. and this shows that murdock was very much in charge of the company during this period. it's impossible for him to say he didn't know what's going on, give them what's come out from the dominion lawsuit. it's pretty clear that fox news operated, 1st and foremost, as a business providing desired political content to a big audience and that journalistic imperatives were far behind. and then there's the lawsuit with the various legal aspects and implications which may or may not play out against fox box could prevail in this case. but what we've learned about fox has affirmed some of the accounts that, that i and other reporters have gleaned over the years, the degree to which the business. and then the political imperatives have really driven this supposed news out. ah, there was still a chance this case could be settled out of court before it gets to trial next month . if it does go ahead and fox loses, even if it has to shell out $1600000000.00 in damages, that will not put it out of business. it can afford to take the hit. and bear in mind, rupert murdoch's corporate obituary has been written before and proved premature. a decade ago. the phone hacking scandal in the u. k. cost his company, hundreds of millions dollars in losses and landed news corp in front of a commission of inquiry that judge called for tougher regulation of british newspapers. a recommendation the conservative government, which news corp, backed, chose to ignore. but the british inquiry did not have the kind of evidence. the u. s. court does. back then murdock could deny he knew of the wrong building. this time he can on the, on some legal powers and the public inquiry parliament. but it's not like an american locate that is in black and white admissions and muddled step position that he knew is unfolded in the muse of a life. that was something could be inferred by the extent of 20 years with eagle or system newspaper gathering techniques of the u. k. but out of the in here we have it not just a smoking gun, the gun itself. if the trial goes forward, you're going to have these fox news anchors i, you know, on the stand under oh, with, and we've seen emails. so we know what the truth is, right. and now they're going to have to decide whether they're going to perjure themselves or tell the truth. and if they tell the truth or their viewers going to see it. so i do think ultimately this is just a really bad situation for them. but at every point they had the opportunity to do the right thing and every point they double down, right? so i don't have a ton of sympathy for them in all kinds of reputations are on the line. some of you have been asking why i'm not covering the dominion voting machines, lawsuit against box the company has decided as part of the organization being sued . i can't talk about it or write about it at least for now. i strongly disagree with that decision, but as an employee, i have fox anchor, howard kurtz, for one felt compelled to explain his silence to his viewers. the official company line on the case is that foxes coverage is constitutionally protected under the 1st amendment that donald trump's claims of election from it while false were nonetheless newsworthy. but the network is clearly where it is no longer giving air . time to guests accusing dominion of election interfere still this past week tucker carlson was spinning the january 6th insurrection carried out by americans who believed the stolen election story. infiltrators, carlson insisted were more like tourists. they were peaceful, they were orderly and meek. these were not insurrection. they were sightseers, they take cheerful selfies and they smile. fox is still pandering to that audio because like the republican party, which has grown dependent on trump, voters for electoral reasons, fox needs those viewers for commercial ones. oh, guard the capital, what the party and the network both helped to create. you know, they have come to fear not going to have the party might want to move on. but this is hard core. trump supporters has no intention of moving and the party can't change that. and fox is in a similar situation. it can't get rid of these viewers, and they've been talking that they can have the stories they want to have regardless if they're true or not. and so in both cases, they created this kind of cor, that is detached from reality and wants what it wants. so the chances of the company changing scene almost 0 kinds of like frankenstein's monks. don't the frankenstein was pregnant slide, crated, this human being out of spot and then is terrorized why even loop it is not in control of his credit. so much energy, so much heat rosalyn life folks may well double die. they may think they've got nothing to lose. what is democracy word to the american people? i mean, you have a significant part of the population that does not believe this 2020 election was free and fair despite all evidence the contrary. and of you can look at a, at sort of one thing to blame. it's fox news and this conservative media, you could sit down when russians have seen a flurry of media activity. ukraine related involving figures on both the pro and anti kremlin side and there's a fox news angle thrown in for good measure. it actually, robbie is here with more. this past week has made it clear that within russia, more than a yard into the ukraine war, the media are still a key battleground, starting with what rushes intelligence serve as the f s b says was an attempted assassination. of this man, constant in malo fears, money. he's the founder of sa grad tv approved put in russian orthodox tv channel. that got it start in 2015 with the help of some form of fox news staffers. milofa says his channel is russia's answer to fox news. this past week, the f s b to list a video which basically shows some one planting a bomb under melody of scott, noting that the same method was used to assassinate another prominent russian media figure. last year that he had to geena who once hosted the show on side grad tv. well, this is very good. but then we, we put our russian authorities blamed ukrainian special forces for the attempt analogy of life. and said, the un should stand up for the safety of journalists, no matter their nationality and their politics. also last week of moscow court sentence, a 22 year old russian blogger to 8 and a half years in prison for posting false information about the army limits even of ran a popular group on the telegram messaging up and for the past year has been trading posts critical of russia's war on ukraine. in fact, just calling it a ward was one of the crimes the judge cited since the kremlin still insists is especially military operation. yvonne of seemed unfazed and caught calling the charges of 3rd and seeing that russia is not put in thanks me. taiwan political status is unique, beijing maintains the island, is chinese threatening to take it by force. were to declare independence. conversely, tie one's constitution still, lays claim to the entire chinese mainland territory. its leaders lost control of more than half a century ago, all of which has proven difficult for politicians to navigate and for journalists to cover. but for some taiwanese comedians, this stand off provides a non stop stream of material to ridicule try it's communist party. and the tense relationship between beijing and ty pay. the political satirists are popular with taiwanese audiences. the youtube videos of groups like i c t, v can generate millions of views. and satire has proven to be a useful tool to educate audiences about a geopolitical stalemate that many people, including taiwanese lost interest in and checked out of a long time ago. the listening posts johanna who's now on the taiwanese political satirists cracking jokes at china's, and sometimes tie wants expense on it. hot out while we're in bush, from the moment tune delivery to the outfits and flags on stage. it's exactly like watching a curriculum friends from china's ministry of foreign affairs. except this one is pretty in taiwan. i comedian, for a satirical shell on you q call, i quit out and he knows his our own internet healthy when we establish the channel . we wanted to use a less serious way to explore politics. we imitate cctv, china's state tv channel and how they reported. our most popular segment is the press conference is held by chinese ministry of foreign affairs. i play the part of a chinese official player, a knee dole, uncle mall. yes, you of our, all the, of all the questions a very sincerely, for example, about china is internet restriction, water. well, having managed to pandemic, and that the irony, not only makes people realize that certain things, china sales are nonsense, it also makes them examine in question it with questions down session child joy, young. i ctv to flex taiwanese, people's dissatisfaction with china's involvement in taiwan over the past few years . i think this style is mockumentary news. we pretend to be an official state media news broadcast. so i didn't have to find in those in been when you were, but in addition to comedy, i think tv actually provides a lot of news shelf. how many young taiwanese don't know much about china politics, even though it's significantly impacts tiwana. so the show can be at least some kind of information about the current political climate to young audiences across i ctv does not just take aim at chinese officials or china, the communist party. some of it's that tire targets, politicians and politics closer to home. in particular problems, opposite party diploma and tongue or kmc in the bizarre knew of the country's political status quo way dro, hummingbird funds in welsh that haven't the detroit nitrogen who tuition seemed on a job though? do you know who would change the shop to do in the countries constitution, which was written more than 75 years ago. i want to still called the republic of china, which lays claim to the chinese territory, including the mainland. it's a legacy of the pre 949 era when the k m. t rule china before the civil war. seldom defeated by the communist party and forced into exile in taiwan. for decades became empty, and communist party both claimed control over each other's territory. and argued that theirs was the only legitimate china. it's a strange reality like one that beijing still a 3rd time remains reflected in, ty, one's constitution. and it's at the heart of, i think she least comedy enjo. john did it. i would, if i'm being don't, i mean go without the treat home policy show don't, don't wash this out to don't shoot eyes and you and seen down why cell did john woman see go with we pretend to be the state media in taiwan, which aims to brainwash every wanted to believe in tai ones. republic of china is the only real china we ridicule the political states as quote, most young taiwanese find the situation of bizarre, really funny to face. but there are older people from different generations who feel sad about it. i'd have other views on the republic of china. so vincent, i will say that before i ctp become really popular. a lot of the young people didn't know that in our constitution, we still tried to claim back the territory. it wasn't aware because people just don't talk about it. and now, because the power of comedy people noise like come on can't you? you probably need to fix your constitution, or we need to face our history together. how one should taiwan situation is just very surreal. while our constitution claims that our territory covers the whole of china, every one knows that taiwan is being bullied by beijing and could never govern mainland china. ah, the same goes for the other side of the communist party has always claimed that taiwan is a part of the people's republic of china, which is equally ridiculous. it's all so stupid, but also very sad. how can i see t v are very effective at losing sharp black humor to address these territorial matters. it's a funny and satirical way of addressing the troop crew torso. i see t v 's huge you page has more than a 1000000 subscribers, and they are not the only comedians ratcheting up views, political satire, with its irreverent take on ty, one's identity and constitution has struck a chord with young audiences to take. brian sang, who launched high ones for satirical talk show in 22. he used much of his air time to joke about his favorite topic to china. so david thought it was invaluable. got it. i, you know, is the housing hurley, them there are the new kids on the block podcast house like kylie wang, who uses her show to read chinese speaking audiences in taiwan. and leon. just hope we tried to reach out all the manders speaking people around the world. i singapore, malaysia, not to mention that hong kong in china or potash o has a lot of chinese listeners who secretly support why we say by rep they can really said the reason why we know is because some of them send us emails anonymously and tell us how lonely they are, cuz they can't really share what they really think in your own country. unlike china, taiwan has one of the freest media scenes in asia. it's been that way since the 1919, after the country emerged from decades of cloning tongue dictatorship. for the information space is very polarized, and a significant share of news outlets are indirectly controlled by beijing with an economy that greatly depends on china, taiwanese media organizations that criticized the communist party to face commercial pressures. platforms like youtube and spotify offer comedians a space to say and produce what they want without having to take any of that into account. what are the houses fail? fails, toyota. youtube is a platform is very important to us using youtube and to a lesser degree. facebook means that we can criticize china without facing threats or commercial pressures. that's felt to say that mainstream news outlets in taiwan don't take a stance. some of them do address chinese propaganda and politics. there is pushback. all selling point is that we turn china's propaganda into a joke to blunt the power of propaganda. hutchins lethal. say a show of hi wanda. julian may t, much of the mainstream media that was resisting china's communist government, has either been bought or disappeared long itself. if you want to establish a political satire program like i ctv on a teeny station, you fees, funding, and personnel issues. so these shoes rely on youtube as well, but the still need to be careful because china is also infiltrating this space. it's just another tactic of there's, there's a how many wild that sanction, despite all the jokes not oh, i see tv content is a laughing matter which stories like hong kong protest or the war in ukraine. the show takes a less comedic more journalistic approach. with correspondence even flying out to report the situation from the ground, pretend search and it's about the balance between satire and solemnity. to albany i, we have one principal when we make the show. if we're going to talk about the sensitive story or one that involves a lot of casualties, we're going to approach it in a serious, more cautious way. for example, the war in ukraine, where we have sent a report of the coverage. i don't think our channel will become an official serious news channel. after all, our audiences watch us for fun and for satire. but we might, at some point, develop another channel, or if that has a different mission called for younger cent me. what's really interesting is that one tiny comedians to try to do comedy or political st. tire people would tend to think that, okay, you guys are antique china, but we're not a lot of people. they just haven't understood that yet. so we are child best to reach more people to make them understand what we are doing. and we are just protecting our society in our country and i'm sure that this is something that they will appreciate as well. oh wow. and finally, it's been more than a month now since that earthquake hit turkey, a new south latch there already have their eyes on another upcoming story. the presidential elections in may. it's not as though the quake coverage this past month could really get it. some of the more complex issues behind the disaster they are to one governments in tolerance of criticism, has landed journalists and online voices in trouble. so turks have been seeing less and less reporting on dodgy construction standards, or the politicization or belief efforts. instead, the media have overdosed on some melodramatic rescue stories that put the government in a far better light. we're leaving you now with a recap of some of the more fawning pro government coverage. the turks have been seeing and we'll see a next time at the listening post. i guys aren't that they come up with all much, all the smaller mucus, the half or mcfadden check it a little a jolene. it's michelle. just, it's just very easy to use. so each other, you just said i'm gonna jump on the show. no history shows a couple. i did say that he saw of year old look if any of them a couple of young, you know, a zillow. they're missing is me, cynthia. some other chill. she could it email me again as she missed dirt again, i want you to my mom, she's a ah a a, a powerful to account. as we examine the u. s. role in the world on al jazeera hello. lauren taylor in london. the top stories on al jazeera, the italian coast guard says it's dealing with an influx of people trying to cross the mediterranean in small boats. almost 5000 people have arrived by sea since wednesday.