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the stories on our website at al jazeera dot com is updated throughout the day. i'll be back with more news in half an hour, but next time i'll just say we're listening post to stay with us. a tough times the man tough question is, what exactly are you asking for you? what the troops on the ground, the rigorous debate we challenge, conventional wisdom racism is so deeply entrenched in the country that it's identify with america. so when you challenge racism, it looks as if you're challenging america and demand the truth. there is no serious discussion about this because it goes to the very root of who we are up front with me, mark lamond hill. what out there? ban the bbc documentaries that dig in to no render modi's past in a way. indian reporters cannot the russian oligarchy who owns a mercenary army and enlists sports overseas to keep the true contain. plus the working class versus the mass media makes me laugh at your level of journalism is descended so far that you can't think of any other question. the union leader who's exposing biased british journals hello, i'm richard. yes, burton, you're at the listening department where we dig into the coverage and analyze how news gets reported. we begin with a, b, b, c series about in a render remedy. the indian governments decision to ban the documentaries and the fallout. the 1st installment of the series takes viewers back 20 years to 2002 and communal rioting in the state of google. right. in which, more than a 1000 people, the vast majority of the muslim, were killed. the film features or british government investigation which concluded that mowdy who was in charge of go to rod at the time as its chief minister, was directly responsible for those murders. that the riots which police stood by and let happen bore the hallmarks of ethnic cleansing. india supreme court later cleared modi of wrong doing. and since his election as prime minister in 2014 journalists have treated this story as a red line, not to be crossed, the government's decision to ban the b b. c documentary, which extends to social media, has become its own story. it is also drawn global attention to modi's record in office and the subsequent decline of media freedom in the world's largest democracy . in this digital world, where brevity is king and short, punchy, new stories are designed for shrinking attention spans the bbc's series, india, the modem. question speaks to the impact that long form investigative journalism can still have not in the morning, but he'd like to do with all much episode. one of the series focuses on 2002 and the communal violence between hindus and muslims. that shook the western state of gujarat initial direction for broken leg if they do both trading links to the portfolio should be the documentary. iraq was led after time by the wrench for most who 12 years later was elected in the as prime minister. haven't tried and mostly succeed in putting allegations of complicity in the riots behind here. until now, the movie has spent a lot of time refurbishing his image on the international stage. this was a man who was once banned from entering the u. s. and the u. k. he's now really need his image as someone who is on the world stage and welcomed and looked up to. and this documentary brings back in very stark domes, what they have worked very hard to suppress and bury the supreme court has essentially dismissed all cases against prime minister movie in the context of the good jobs. so even domestic audiences don't talk about it very often. so why is the b b c bringing this up? what could be the motivation? that's the reaction from the indian government. we think this is a propaganda piece designed to push a particular discredited narrative. ah, the bias, the lack of object of a t and frankie, a continuing colonial mindset is politically visible. every possible litigation that had been leveled against the prime minister and how his government handled good rights. eyes had been repeated at nauseum. and the truth is that the nothing has really hurt the beard, the prime minister, the loss of so many, in fact, the good dr. thighs and the weight has been handled, has been the reason why the be debate keeps returning to power. the good your rock riots were set off when a train there was set on fire and 59 hindus were killed. members of the muslim minority were blamed, revenge was quickened. coming. for 3 days, muslims were target. nearly a 1000 of them were killed. journalists from various news outlets, not just the b. b. c reported that police mostly stood by and let it happen. it was assumed they were following orders from on high, just how high has always been the question. the b b c documentary revealed that because 3 of the muslims killed were british citizens. the u. k. government conducted its own investigation into what happened the report sent as a diplomatic cable and marked restricted has never been published before. investigators concluded that no render mowdy was directly responsible for the program, which they said met the definition of ethnic cleansing. will condon e n memorable oh model, yet? that me man don't learn the more needy man daddy. when preview clips of the film started circulating on social media, modi's b, j. p. government act preemptively banning the b b. c series and forbidding the sharing of it online. in this day and age, it is like a fools errand to try and stop the circulation of something like a documentary on entering the desire to control the doves of the debate has led to the bad, which in my view is indicting how to productive not just because bands never work, but who so it isn't quite damaging for india as international image as multicultural, liberal democracy. if you look at the print media, it has been rather critical of the way the gum and pastors hide it to clam down on the documentary. but the television media, trash, the bbc in every which way that babysit our is our me tan spewing landfill of lies, fraud and select therapy, and every now and then the me pan says combust and the beauty of smell is on permissive. and the b, b, c, because it is not just western, but also british part of the empire. ah, you know what? colonial mindset is that? um, i find it disappointing as an indian and a young indian who do seo ordered along a little look still by under dublin. this can be, is it a disproportionate response? of course it is, but when things are banned, when you block access to certain things, public curiosity rises. so indians are relying on pirates science, surreptitiously sharing links. when students in new delhi set up a screaming at their university, the authorities cut off the electricity. we contacted multiple government officials as well as pro b j. p, voices in the media, requesting interviews. none of them agree something a b, b. c series also explores the approach. prime minister modi has taken with the indian news media starting with what he said about that in 2002. do you think this anything that you should have done differently? yes. one video that i was a buddy big and that was how to handle the video. since becoming prime minister in 2014 modi has made up for lost time. his b j. p. government has been heavy handed with the indian media and voices of dissent. most of the countries, hundreds of news channels do not need policing. many eco modi's brand of hindu nationalism usually at the expense of muslims print and online journalists who are more balanced, have a tougher, routinely facing harassment, intimidation, and sometimes legal charges and jail terms. reporters are mindful of the red lines, and many news outlets have grown dependent on government ad revenues for survival. under modi's prime minister ship, india has fallen to 150th out of the 180 countries on the reporters without borders, world press freedom index. according to the n g o, there are talk receipts that have better freedom of the press than no rentro modi's, india, which calls itself the world's largest democracy. everybody is not held a single best conference since he has been by minister, but he doesn't know geisha sit down with chosen gentlemen. that's more about his personality rather than about politics. um and then you had the. ringback story of the indian media it says in media have undergone a tremendous shift in the last 10 years or so. ah, where will that a good debate on the media seems very one sided. the indian media depends very heavily on government advertising. you pick up a newspaper in the capital and a fuss full pages will be government ads. either the prime minister or a state chief minister, beaming down at you from what should be the front page. and this obviously puts pressure on editorial positions. the government has used all kinds of methods, including enforcement director drains, including intimidation of critics activists, academics, including imprisonment of journalists. this is across the board method and it resulted in a kind of video climate in which they don't have to do all that much before people will back down themselves. but when they don't back down, they, the government does not shy away from coming down very hot. and the government is making legal changes to allow for more effect through one of the laws. it's using to force social media companies to take down links to the b b. c series. the information technology rules that the changes will borrow those platforms from hosting any information. the authorities identify as false. the editors guild of india, which presumably doesn't have a colonial mindset, says the amended law will stifle legitimate criticism and the ability of the press to hold governments to account. and that was how to handle the middle. 2 decades ago, no range ramadi provided a strong hint of what his approach to the indian media would be. and now he has all those news channels, helping him and the b. j. p. divide the country pitting him dues against muslims. indians have seen this before in 2002, but not on a national scale with so many more media outlets involved. leadership is em all. this is what they do. this is their way of winning elections. is to go to rise the country on along religious lines, the whole minister i'm it shaw, said in an election rally and go gerad law still that those who were taught a lesson in 2002 will never do it again or what to that effect on data beer, my war parked c quad. oh, get quarterly yacht beds. i bet the bobby so big nodded. that is an admission of what happened in 2002, that there was a deliberate intent to teach a lesson to muslims. and it works electricity for the b b because many uh, many people who want to see this happen when rally behind it. ah, to the united kingdom now were 2 investigations have pulled back the curtain on libel, lawyers in london and how they have helped one of vladimir putin's key allies to go after his critics including journalists in the british courts. torak nava has been following the story. you've guinea progression runs a mercenary group called wagner, that's fighting alongside russian forces in ukraine and wherever wagner forces go allegations of war crimes follow in november last year when a video therapist appearing to show a wagner deserted in ukraine, being killed with a sledge hammer provision called it excellent directorial work, that's watchable in one fitting. until quite recently, the oligarch denied any links to wagner back in 2020, when investigative organizations like belin cats began to reveal those length provision faced international sanctions. as a consequence, according to investigations by open democracy and the financial times, that's when provision hired a london firm discreet law. to pursue a libel case against spelling cast director elliot higgins, discreet law with licensed approved by the u. k. government to do that work. the libel case was dropped off to russia, invaded ukraine provision eventually admitted he was the man behind wagner and belin cast journalism, was proven accurate. which raises serious questions. why was a sanctioned warlord given the u. k. government's approval to abuse the court system and a legal attack on a janice, what higgins called an act of revenge by provision one m. p. proposed his own piece of legislation this week aimed at the slaps culture in london. what he called a form of legal gangster rhythm. thanks dark. staying with the united kingdom now, which is in a state of political disarray, haven't gone through 3 prime ministers in the past 6 months and counting with citizens dealing with a cost of living crunch. that has fueled a wave of work stoppages. that is put trade unions and the news media is treatment of them into the spotlight. as successive strikes have hit rail networks, influential right wing newspapers, including those owned by rupert murdoch, have cited with the pay masters, the government vilifying the union for travel disruptions. then came a series of hostile interviews with the unions leader nick lynch. but lynch has turned the tables, putting journalists on the defensive over their habitual anti union approach. combative exchanges have gone viral, boosting public support for striking workers, and exposing the kind of journalistic animosity that has undermined the case working classes for decades. the listening post, daniel tory now on the coverage of labor issues in the british news media. more than 100000 roll mail. postal workers have gone on strike in a dispute over pay when i'm president moment politics to the 1st time in 40 years. we're having a significant inflation workers at the country's largest container shipping port felix to have joined the list of those on strike price. the rifle by something like $1012.13 a year. viruses have been taking action red month, escalating now with a vote or out action. and we've been through 15 years of repeated squeezes on people's wages. the biggest train strike 3 decade in this moment, trade unions and huge central significance at the forefront of stripes sweeping across britain is the rail, maritime, and transport. the r and t in jude its members walked out for the sick time. it has many months of pay and travel job for $3.00 days. much of the country's metro and rail network was at a standstill. and in the news coverage, d r and t was feeling the heat for about you is you are the face of the stress, the disruption that they get to face. but when the unions leader miss lynch hit the tv studios tables began. lynch is someone who is prepared to take on the media in a way that we don't often see how ever much the journalist try to attack it. he can stand up to it all. you all, you're not a marxist because if you are a marxist, then your into revolution and into bringing down capitalism to richard, you to come up with of us, your multiple choice. sometimes his technique is very much to question the question ah, well, you know his legs lantus that i am just to clarify often i'm a, well i real, it's very rare for a trade union leader and to be able to stand up till media pressure the way a t been t use ago with a trading leader is a trading leader will turn up in the studio and would be to be bullied by a t. v presenter. you see the marginalized roles, trade unions in many areas of life. you are a dinosaur. oh, and then the die ah, there was a raffle on while you watch mc leach, directv and you a t. v presenter might have one or 2 facts. a mic lynch knows the book on, on, on his own dispute. but interestingly, what he's doing, he's talking directly past the interviewer to the public because people can't take it anymore. we've got people who are doing full time jobs, who are having to take state benefits and use food banks. that is a national disgrace. he's making clear that the dispute has got something to do with every one, sat at home watching this interview news, a sort of message that really has struck a chord. because because of inflation, there are a lot of frightened people in this country. and they see at last, here's a union leader who can stand up for them in the media, and they like it. by the time the rail strike was ending and mc lynch was done. sparring with the media. something highly unusual had happened. public opinion at swan behind the are emptying, but it wasn't enough to force the gunman and the rail companies it owns to offer a deal. industrial disputes take time and in the past, hostile news coverage has helped break, strives much larger than the guarantees. really critical week for the miners strike. would it flare up into an all out war between the unions on the government or what it says allows us in the 1980s, the conservative prime minister, margaret thatcher, privatized british industries, and took on trade unions that stood in her way. the co mind as union led by author scogel was among the largest and most military. and when they went on strike, thatcher made an example of in the year long nation wide dispute that followed. the media would play a pivotal role starting with thatcher's allies in the press. the treaties were operating in the 1980s against to patches of an unsympathetic press. and that's putting it mildly, the interests of the owners of the newspapers was themselves to limit the power of the trans unions before the 1980s. the, the print in years decided whether or not the newspapers came eyes. and the proprietors resented that. the miners strike was defined by battles outside co was between strike is trying to shut down production and the police police officers committed the worst of the violence sometimes unprovoked. but it was the violence of scoggins strikers that dominated the headlines, producing a powerful media narrative of the miners as an angry mob, astorga as a public enemy. what was so exceptional about the miners strike was that we had a government that understood how to use the media. if you can use a, the newspapers to set up the agenda. this will also be reflected in what appears on