Now on bbc news, the media show. Hello. This might sound like the plot of a hollywood spy movie, and indeed in the future it might get made into one, but this week, something called the pegasus project is news. A group of news outlets from ten countries has banded together to expose the alleged use of phone hacking to spy on leading journalists, politicians and human rights activists across the world. Among them are heads of state emmanuel macron s phone number appears on the list of alleged targets. The spyware used is called pegasus and it is made by an israeli surveillance firm. The revelations have been dropping all week, so how do you pull off a series of global scoops like this? we are joined by some of thejournalists behind it. Also today, the role that specialist fact checkers play in journalism. In the last 18 months, this has been a story of what is and is not true. Some stories of course are easy to disprove. The vaccine does not contain a microchip from bill gates, but ho
Among them are heads of state emmanuel macron s phone number appears on the list of alleged targets. The spyware used is called pegasus and it is made by an israeli surveillance firm. The revelations have been dropping all week, so how do you pull off a series of global scoops like this? we are joined by some of thejournalists behind it. Also today, the role that specialist fact checkers play in journalism. In the last 18 months, this has been a story of what is and is not true. Some stories of course are easy to disprove. The vaccine does not contain a microchip from bill gates, but how do we navigate the grey areas? donald trump s claim for example that covid 19 could come from a chinese laboratory was widely branded as a conspiracy theory by the media and you could not share it on some social media platforms, but that changed a few weeks ago when president biden said that it was a possibility. We are going to be talking about that and more a bit later with claire milne who is the
Hello. This might sound like the plot of a hollywood spy movie, and indeed in the future it might get made into one, but this week, something called the pegasus project is news. A group of news outlets from ten countries has banded together to expose the alleged use of phone hacking to spy on leading journalists, politicians and human rights activists across the world. Among them are heads of state emmanuel macron s phone number appears on the list of alleged targets. The spyware used is called pegasus and it is made by an israeli surveillance firm. The revelations have been dropping all week, so how do you pull off a series of global scoops like this? we are joined by some of thejournalists behind it. Also today, the role that specialist fact checkers play in journalism. In the last 18 months, this has been a story of what is and is not true. Some stories, of course, are easy to disprove. The vaccine does not contain a microchip from bill gates, but how do we navigate the grey areas
Elsewhere. Remember, this the same council that the trump administration left in part because their membership accused human rights abusers like china and cuba. A short time ago,etoo pressed the white house on this. Watch. Why is the secretary of state blinken trying to address human rights in the u. S. By inviting experts from cuban and china here? he s believes responsible nations must not shrink from scrutiny of human rights records. They should acknowledge it with improve it and push and lift up and shine a light on other countries that need to do better. That s the role that we re playing from the united states. Martha: here now, morgan ortega, tomi lahren, fox nation host and david tufori. Welcome to you. Great to have you here. Morgan, what went through your mind? the goals of the biden administration laying out saying we don t want to shrink awhy from our human rights record from racism, from other things we re trying to fix as a society, i agree with that. That s why we have f
Morning. As we ve been saying the lawmakers are hunkering down in washington while trying to run out the clock on a 30day special session that they do not want to be part of and that s why they hightailed it out of the state of texas and urging congress to pass a sweeping bill that would federalize elections. That has a lot of constitutional watchers wondering whether or not it s legal under the constitution. That legislation they re hoping would overrule anything that might get passed in the state of texas in their efforts to secure the ballot box. Bill: vice president kamala harris calling them modernday heroes of the civil rights movement. And that wasn t all. Republicans say it s all about optics. Have a look. They took bold, courageous action in line with the legacy of everyone from frederic douglas to the legacy for women s right to vote for all folks who shed their blood at the edmund pettis bridge to make sure we passed the voting rights act. It is ridiculous. Last i checked th