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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 nagornokarabakh 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. The reason is that so much of the video that were seeing on this story is coming from the armys involved theyre drawn cameras are a starting point this week the skies above nagornokarabakh. Clashes erupted between azerbaijani and a decades old conflict flared up as a. Mania save is using. These are images from the 1st military conflict to a started in the era 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 its azerbaijan and armenia had the story the 1st 2 days ago to themselves their primary targets were domestic audiences including street traffic in both capital back and here of. The azerbaijanis have been 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 their technological superiority in this aspect and it definitely shows the scale of losses the casualties that azerbaijan has been able to inflict there is a lot of footage from the army inside as well the ultimate similarity between the 2 sides is that costing is extremely proud and nationalistic in consonance reason good of a guide to them was the moment chosen is jetsetter the best schedule me so. You have evocative videos being put to. Music. Of tanks being played out of troops. From the frontline of both science and putting out these videos there are reports in both armenia and azerbaijan that large numbers of people volunteering to coach 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 armenia. 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 the 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 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 out matches armenia to resume talks deliveries. Azerbaijan. 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 that the armenian perspective on it is your 3rd azerbaijanis backed by the turks especially conquered there will be mass at mccloud saying this is 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 ali have has kept the media under wraps censorship is right the internet is tightly controlled and crossing the line can land you in jail. Out of mudds on that is even before azerbaijan the clipboard there were announcement saying things like the dont go on line is right 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 side 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 the local media who are lucky enough to have enough information to congress the shoe and the conflict then 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 the more difficult situation when it comes to us are shown 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 azerbaijan and the kids will pluck them to get all the old and many stansell c. V. That is all the way through. 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 inflame this conflict but flat amir putin is clearly reluctant to take his side at least publicly which has led to some unusual terminology being used to describe the Russian Medias handling of a geo political story unfolding on their doorstep who is already out of mvp on. 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. Channels there from the state broadcaster t. R. T. To private t. V. Stations of talking about the gold has caught up on 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 an amplified through turkey about the land the armenians took in 1994 is not without merit more than half a 1000000 azerbaijanis were forced out to them no one apparently now armenian civilians are paying the price tens of thousands have already been displaced azerbaijan chose in this moment pandemic to write what it calls a historical wrong a time in which its easier to control access imagery in the narrative 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 that it was shifting on israel considering that the palestinian cause has been a defining issue not 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 more of the monologue really that 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. Of love but in the head with a little. In this a metal am lucky or. A lawful clear the hell for us the media and having a model him with 7. And a curtain. And so 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 global undersea helmets are the nothing was sad the producer ruled were not there when the sea. 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 a seminal issue for him so you could see a bit of stagecraft along with the state craft on a lot of the ok thanks mia 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 there 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 europe civilizing mission and the men behind wanted it to be seen the monuments and. 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 eroticized 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 a slit lock. And this was a very common type of showing sort of the barbarity of 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 person subjects and thats around. For those in the business of sending postcards 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