Hello im Richard Gaisford and youre at the listening post on this program we track the global news media examine dominant narratives and spend more time critiquing journalism and celebrating it were not an award show but to mark the end of 2019 we wanted to examine a few cases where quality reporting the kind that speaks truth to power exposes wrongdoing and helps rectify it has made an impact taking just 4 examples was not easy we wanted to get across geographies different kinds of stories various forms of media we settled on west africa and a documentary exposing Sexual Harassment on University Campuses hong kong 1st person videos capturing Police Brutality on the front lines of the protests there brazil a tale of corruption at the heart of the balsa not a government as well as the United States Investigative Journalism on the sex trafficking of children that has had International Ramifications journalists take a lot of heat some of them deserve it will be back on their case next wee
Hello im Richard Gaisford and youre at the listening post on this program we track the global news media examine dominant narratives and spend more time critiquing journalism and celebrating it were not an award show but to mark the end of 2019 we wanted to examine a few cases where quality reporting the kind of it speaks truth to power exposes wrongdoing and helps rectify it has made an impact taking just 4 examples was not easy we wanted to get across geographies different kinds of stories various forms of media we settled on west africa and a documentary exposing Sexual Harassment on University Campuses hong kong 1st person videos capturing Police Brutality on the front lines of the protests there brazil a tale of corruption at the heart of the both are not on government as well as the United States Investigative Journalism on the sex trafficking of children that has had International Ramifications journalists take a lot of heat some of them deserve it will be back on their case nex
Republic of congo for oil fields anger against u. N. Peacekeepers accused of failing to provide protection and a grim task for flood survivors in kenya digging to find the remains of missing loved ones. I am. Thank you very much for joining us u. S. President donald trump assigned to bills into law that back hong kongs for Democracy Movement american sanctions can now be imposed on chinese and hong kong officials deemed responsible for human rights abuses and on kong special trade status will be reviewed every year the territorys leaders say it will damage relations with the u. S. While china has expressed extreme regret on the move saying it will respond with firm count and measures will get more reaction from beijing with Andrew Thomas very shortly for a sabbatical hane in washington d. C. Patty president toms team had voiced reservations about these bills why did he sign them. Because he had no choice congress forced his hand this vote was near unanimous there was just one voting no
I think one of the last bits of research showed that about one percent of males had been victims of Sexual Assault within the past year in the military that equals to about 20000 you get labeled as a body and thats the nice term to be related to so its one of the things that you just dont you dont talk about it or you dont bring in it what is your sense you just kind of keep yourself really really hard there for you. You know. They live in my head you know i can hear them. I can see their faces i can sue but theyre doing me. So i felt scared. And i was scared to tell my friends the people that really knew me the truth about what happened the shame as bad as it is for women is even worse for men because its all tied in with him a phobia the people who are doing the raping are not gay thats not the problem theyre worried about gays in the military the gays are not the rapists theyre heterosexual man for the most part this is not an issue of Sexual Orientation this is simply an issue powe
East and west berlin and heralding the beginning of the end of the cold war security is high with major celebrations being held today across the country in the thousands have been taking part in new roosevelts including exhibitions on the walls. With a quick look at the holes for. The berlin wall a symbol of the cold war and division a mine that separated the city families friends and changed berlin for the remainder of the 20th century 40 kilometers long at slice of the city and was erected on the night of august 13th 1961 1st it was just a barbed wire and concrete france with 12 checkpoints but it swiftly grew into the fortified version most know it today the checkpoints were reduced to 3 and crossing became all but impossible. Imagine this a concrete wall 3. 6 meters high and 1. 2 meters wide a smooth still nerve running along the top to prevent anyone climbing over watchtowers every 200 meters by 962 a 2nd wall was built around why. 100 meters in the east berlin territory this buff