A military alliance with the u. S. And u. K. Its Record Ambassador says that his country has been duped and betrayed by allies. We would deliberately kept in the black. We where better woodley you can go once and you can realize our deep we feel about such a thing. Is it possible that you ignore . You dont even mention you, dont you even refuse to discuss with a trusted partner like france and for you know about such an issue. Oh, could it be possible . China has flown its military jets across ty, ones as space on the same day that a us Battle Ship sailed through the taiwan straits for the 9th time this year. China cooled to move provoke as if it comes to taiwan, announced plans to boost its Defense Spending by 9000000000. 00. U. S. Media reports say the Bypass Administration is planning the Mass Deportation of thousands of patients. Migrants from a Border Town in texas. Most of the migrants are staying at a makeshift camp on the bridge in del rio. An Expert Panel in the u. S. Is rejected government plans to roll out cobit 19 booster shots to all americans, age 16 and older thought it endorsed extra 5 Bio Intake shots for people above the age of 65. 00. Of those at high risk of severe disease and peruse, congress has decided to remain the body of rebel group. Shutting paths found the following days of heated debate. Little concerns of a male guzman, this Grave Site could become a rallying point. Others, the headline for these continues here on our 0 after this weeks listening posts coming up next on counting cost. To do this, the end of time is experiments with capitalism. President s using ping launches, reaping socialist reform, to address inequality in the worlds 2nd biggest economy. Thought was sick and had watches a selling fall, counting the cost on there who can take advantage of new cars. You mentioned. Well, you just go with you go to the crack downs worth playing into an obvious restructuring of both social and home life. Hello. I mean, actually that the and your, the listening post, this is where we, the sect the way the media work. What gets covered and why its covered that way. Here to the story is were looking at the speaker wants to control what it calls badly behave, superstars out of control, super fans and monopolistic big tech. Indigenous colombians have been toppling statues of european colonizers, challenging how the Countrys History is. Remembered Media Shut downs and misinformation, a month of Talib Bundle is leaving, its mark on kind of stands news industry. And thats all about has been dictating terms on what ive con women can, where triggering some serious pushback online do not touch my clothes shows off countrymen in their true color. The indications have been there for months in speeches, policy, proposals, and party propaganda. But in the past week or so, its become clear that season Things China has embarked on a campaign that could transform the countrys tech, Entertainment And Media industries. Much of the parties current focus has been on regulating Chinas Tech giants that have grown at warp speed. Establishing monopolies and abusing consumer data. Officials are also asserting control over the rocket and often toxic world of Celebrity And Pop culture. The communist party has advocated for stars who quote, uphold political literacy, modern conduct, and artistic standards. It has criticized a feminine men on screen and has sought to curve an obsessive fan culture. All these decrees have been presented as being aimed at the moral well being of citizens. Critics are calling them an overreach of a paternalistic state. I starting point this week is the cult of celebrity in china the thinking like he did, you know, you took him to william to sounds like hes a good evening. She couldnt do without him. It took it. Weve actually weighed out. Hopefully the show was this story almost reads like the screenplay for the t. V. Drama. Except that it is in fact very soon, and its playing out across china. On one side, you have some of the countries most popular young celebrity actors, musicians, online influences with fan followings in the hundreds of millions on the other side, a serious sect of policy make good men in sooth looking to instill some Discipline And Propriety on an industry that many would have thought too frivolous to attract much of age in detention for the chinese communist party. And for the chinese government, it has always been crucial to occupy what they call the Commanding Height of ideological background. So in that regard, the regulation targeting celebrities, our church and, and payment media, im not exactly frivolous because there are political implications and payments media and celebrity dowager. Were starting to see more specific guidelines. And in some cases like training resources. Being released for these celebrities and influencers, not just in terms of like political correctness, but also in terms of how they dress, how they sort of conduct themselves. Its interesting, its not just the conduct of celebrity themselves and craft down on, but also the conduct of their fans as well. My goal is to ensure that can be very active. Even raven scene is developed into a subculture that is very vivid, very lively. You look at some of these websites and chat groups, its in a language and media and that frightens people who like Order And Control like the chinese chrome, his tidy 2021 had been a momentous. Here for the chinese communist party. The ccp in july, it marked its intensity at the home of the 500 m. The country is president feagins being in his 9 years in office. He has not been shy about his desire to stay longer in his post. Even orchestrating the removal of term limits on the presidency so that he can remake the chinese state in accordance with his vision. Over many months, she has been reiterating his blueprint for the next phase of chinas development. In the Chem Shantee there mean . Hopefully, she does conway me, jim. Ah, the flu of new regulations on the Tech Industry and on the Entertainment Sector are part of what she calls the common prosperity plan. Policies to narrow the growing Wealth Gap in the country, the furtive move, but the party, im the president seem confident now is there time she didnt pin has banks a lot of not just regime supports, but political capital that is in part of the result of chinas relatively good handling of the Crew Virus up demick. He believes that he is now able to do some pretty bold things to really fundamentally reshape, becoming decades through technology and through the communist parties. Hold on culture through, you know, its increasing involvement in the economy of the state. We have seen for some time that shes being wants to instill a new sense of Purpose And Discipline and orthodoxy on chinese culture. But i think it really began with chinese canadian Singer Actor general celebrity called chris, ah, who has been accused of sexually assaulting some of his fans. Rate accusations against a Pop Star has pushed chinas me to movement back into the spotlight. I think that particular scandal perhaps escalated attention to this issue in chinese society, but also the chinese Policy Making and leadership as well. Ah, can be broke in july, this year, unleashing a torrent of vicious online attacks from his followers against some of his alleged victims. It wasnt the 1st time overzealous times had created headlines in china with you. I thought you would should have gotten to the challenging was a competitive Fandom Drive online Engagement And Revenue for many of the agencies and studios that back china top celebrities. However, it led to newness instances of obsessive stocking, persistent trolling, as well as uncheck spending by young fans on products dad. Idols endorse the Keyboard Shop until blank, down to the door, yakking Dash Bunk champs and how to keep so again, g to junk bunk him back back at the same time as all this. That have been a dizzying idea of new regulations, but chinas online space. They affect thousands of businesses from Taxi Healing companies like dd to multimedia and kick conglomerates like 10 cent and social media behemoths, like bite dance, that only app picked up on the regulators radar. Our data privacy, tech monopolies, and predictive algorithms. Ah, so they are actually issues that western government and the regulators wrapping with facing the astronomical growth digital platforms. These are companies that are really abusing their please take our because they have a 2. Ready such giant digital platforms and they often almost as the structure of many other daily public studies in china, users are being more and more concerned with how corporations are able to access and use their data. Especially tense. Alibaba, which, you know, given the portfolio of companies within these 2 friends, they can make quite detailed profiles of, you know, people shopping spending, health data, so on and so forth. So its a thing that a lot of people in china say its long overdue, hard apart from a concern to customers, which i dont think was entirely fine by any means. I think theres also plenty wedge, their sense that these companies that are getting away with this because they think theyre getting a bit to politically after the as well. And therefore, we need to put them in line and remind them that as they go low making profit, they will have to remember what the political Bottom Line is in china. The chinese government regulators pre has stood debate amongst citizens, investors and international media. Some are calling it a new cultural revolution. The 2nd, the cultural revolution, comparisons with mouth cultural revolution back in the late 1900 sixties and seventies have abounded. But theres been off the mark. So i think a lot of people make comparisons between whats happening to the cultural revolution, just out of abject ignorance than the appeal of using such a comparison is because that is the only sort of political that doesnt, you know, mass campaign that they are aware of. The cultural revolution actually was an effort by Mouth Kind of do an end run around of the party itself. And to attack the party using sort of, you know, the mobile is ation of young people from its flags. The main victim of the cultural revolution was the communist party itself. And so that is clearly not what is happening right now. This is the party itself being more assertive. It is something that she has kind of articulated all along the vision of powered prosperity for a china led by the chinese communist party. Mm. This Week Mark a month of taliban rule and have kind of time. And its becoming increasingly clear what the takeover means for the countries media to hannah, who have been following developments jewel. Whats the latest . Well, earlier this week, colo news, which is of kind of stands most widely watched Television News Network reports that at least 153 of gun media organizations have seized operation since august 15th, which is the day that the former government fell to the taliban. These outlets include newspapers, radio stations, television channels, and at least 20 provinces and media workers at these organizations have cited new restrictions under the taliban as well as economic hardship and the main reasons for terminating their activities. Not a taliban has repeatedly claimed that is committed to providing a safe environment for journalists to operate in. But these new numbers of these now defunct media organizations really tell quite different story. The taliban has also been accused of body Media Access to the punchy valley. Thats the area in the northeast of the country, which was the sight of an armed rebellion, which supposedly fell to the taliban just last week. There are also reports of taliban killing civilians in the area, but its very difficult to corroborate whats happening on the ground there. Right. Yes. And that is because the taliban has imposed a complete Communications Blackout jamming both Phone And Internet connections. Now they have also close the main axes, wrote into this region, meaning that is extremely difficult to verify any reports of the killing of civilians. But even the tolerance claim that has taken full control over the region. Now thats how it is justified this Communications Blackout by saying that it was needed to dissuade quote, those who wanted to turn punchier into a bit of sedition. Ok, so it might not be a habit of sedition, but its definitely a hot bed of misinformation. Now. Absolutely take, for example, this a grainy video that circulated on twitter was posted by a pro resistance movement account. And it showings heavy fighting and a mountainous area, allegedly, from recent battles in punch here. But it later emerged that that video was actually shot years ago. Most likely in yemen and the dissemination of these kind of fake videos definitely makes it a lot easier for the taliban to discredit any report than to make it out of the region, including those of the killings of civilians. Now the taliban has told the international community to quote, take a closer look at the area to find out for themselves. That would be difficult because thats the idea. Theyve closed off, right . Exactly. Okay, thanks Joe Statues are among the oldest forms of visual media for millennia. Theyve been used to send implicit messages about the kinds of people and values we should look up to quite literally. When people ted icons down. Its most often in rejection of what they stand for. And in the 2020s, its a tactic that the on trend since the killing of the african american George Floyd in may last year. Im Te Basis on both sides of the atlantic have toppled hundreds of historical monuments from slave traders to european monarchs. But few protest groups have made as much of a tangible impact as columbia, as indigenous nice, a community at core players in anti government protests. Over the past year, Nissan Leaders and their allies have toppled numerous statues of european colonizers. In doing so. They have ignited a debate about the Countrys History and the place of indigenous communities in it. The listening posts, daniel tutti now, on colombia, fallen statues, and the legacy theyre leaving behind much of the well deserted cities have been defining images of the pandemic era. But not in columbia. Millions have filled the streets in successive waves, that strikes and protests. What began as a movement against you can make reforms as mushrooms into a matter pricing. Again, inequality corruption, and police brutality. Protesters had targeted the Status Quo itself, and some of its most foundational, i call it, but i wanted to follow up on the document at bottom that stopped last at 10 demonstrators from the digital, Nissan Community began knocking conquistadores spanish colonizers, off their pedestals. They handle stuff for young y o. So the 1st of all was beyond the cows in the city. He founded papa. Yeah. Then the assumed it was someone who dispossessed and annihilated our people. And we see him as a rapist in Mass Murderer and the land. The community decided to carry out this was done most of the colonization, nobody met. Okay. First thing they did when i saw the start, youre falling was to Run And Hug a guy, another Community Leader because there was a feeling of the register. Why dont we remember the struggle of our ancestors and felt the conviction of being part of a historical jonathan law. He did a Study Guy what Columbia Government called an act as vandalism, was merely a Warning Shot in april, protested in the city of cali, hold down the last remaining monument of dela cars a month later in the capital baton. Me sak demonstrators performed a traditional burial for another Conquistador Gonzalo humanistic. As the 2 men were among the mercenaries who lead the Spanish Conquest of the americans, they landed in the 16th century, conquered much of what is now columbia, and the slave dont massacred. Indigenous people who stood in their way off the columbia became independent in the 1900 century descendants of European Settlers remained in charge and they told their version of columbia as history in the statues they built. A visual medium that all colombians, literate or not, could understand so young as i have in columbia at the time this touches will me, were trying to build a nation. And we build that nation on the shoulders of the conquistadores and also our independence here. So the statues were about reaffirming us and his roots were reaffirming that the conquest was valuable and praiseworthy and Devil Stop by the o sir, and be hourly municipal, monumental musket. These monuments also create an image of power because theyre made of bronze and so imply authority. But theyre controversial because they symbolize the conquest and the genocide and the imposition of religion and the new political structures that came with it. So the statues represent severe oppression for many social groups by the group associate. Indigenous people have been at the forefront to columbia as protest movement, demanding the return of ancestral lands and justice for the killing of Community Leaders. According to the un, 69 indigenous human rights defenders have been murdered in the past 5 years alone. To see these injustices as legacies of european domination, legacies embodied by colonial statues. But it was a black Lives Matter Movement to the united states. Protesters are tearing down and damaging memorial that 1st demonstrated the power of toppling monuments as an active protest. Millennial by last seen that they love the nation of the african american, George Floyd, and all the reactions to it was a very important for us struggling up in america. Tell you america latino. They include him in the morning. Important things because digital movement in columbia is about to hang up or struggle for territory. He struggled over demolishing the statues, symbols that re victory money. But the fight for memory. Its a form of colonial education. Now florida must be paid. I will hear on the colonial team and its a continent wide movement, but in this country its also part of the new awakening among the social excluded. Its about questioning symbols that represent the power of certain social, which isnt a shag. Toppling the symbols is powerful because it shows that there isnt just one version of history. There are many that been altered. Silence can feel that we can still see those yet loss. This indian things look, premier agent is colombians. A resentful defeat in the conquest and the fact that the dominant ideology going to cover towns, squares across colombia and the world. Thats what dominant ideology is due. The conquistadores where people acting according to the ethical standard of their time. And we Cant Judge what they did, even though in some cases it was horrible based on the standards of to day of the euro centric version of the colonial past. The one that still dominate colombia public spaces from statues to School Text books to st. Names. Dissenting perspectives have long been confined to the fringes, among indigenous colombians and on the political left. But the protest of the past year have amplified those voices and the spectacle of falling monuments as for the mainstream to pay attention. As media outlet cover, the pros and cons of the conquest, the doors indigenous leaders to use the exposure to explain their motive. Ways Study Gum in the in my get on their much, i dont even know because the government has also changed consulting with me. Sack leaders pledging to review the presence of monuments. But the protesters, whether indigenous or not, fema bits in june demonstrates in the city of baron kia, told down a statue of christopher columbus. The stunt could scarcely have been most symbolic or provocative. This is the figure because the very name of the country stems from his name and his involvement in the discovery of america. Even though we know that they were actually early a European Settlers on the american continent. But for digital people, he represents the conquest and colonization. And thats why weve seen columbus stat. Shes knocked down all over the world over the last few years on in the 1500 for us. But you run like come tonight as he was a great minor who discovered the new word and thats why such a thing were built just from a nautical standpoint to deserve the monument. The economy does sympathize with the mesa protests, but we believe that no one has the right to knock down whats already there because theyre part of our history. Part of who we are. Its that simple as he hasnt seen her, then. If we hadnt taken me, the government would not be doing any of that, whether it be reviewing the presence of statues or something, we citizens only about the government. Were asking all institutions to recent how they operate and allow indigenous people to participate can just be instruments. Of doors and seems all that we are leaving people, the people who are Demand Territory demanding democracy. Historically for lima glass eli memorial, the toppling of colonial statues has triggered a debate about Columbia History and identity that is now playing out in the country, public spaces. The Culture Ministry says it plans to replace the fallen monuments, however, its latest move has been to take down other nice act targets in the capitol. In the meantime, protest is in cali, have puts up a statue of their own, the monument to the resistance. Colombians and watching these spaces to see where the story of what columbia is goes from here. Were going back to a story from a canister. Now, for many off con women, especially those in the big cities, the return of taliban rule has meant adrian position of stringent limits on personal freedoms, restrictions on what professions women can pursue, whether they can study and what the, where the full Body Vail known as the cha, doors, often blue or black in color, is what the taliban have mandated claiming it to be islamic dress. It has spurred protests by african women across the Country And Theyve been joined online by a campaign with the hash tag. Do not touch my clothes. It was started by Doctor Behavior lolly, an african historian, and it is true good, a flood of images from professional women, academics, journalists, both inside and outside the country. Reading a range of colorful off concludes. Here are some of those images and tweet. Well see you next time here to the listening post. Ah, ah, ah. Government support, swindling russias parliamentary elections take place in september. But as a Position Leader elect, Siena Valley remains in prison. And just as a band from taking part could the door to the kremlin be wide open for another clean sweep. In supporting the personal coverage on al jazeera, meteor ice, small natural rocks from outer space that survive the journey down to us and have high Market Value for rock and minimal collectors. 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