what schools here in the philippines have been taking measures to cope with the heat. the education department has decided to take a more concrete step. it's ordered public schools to gradually return to the old academic calendar where students take a break during the hottest months of march to me by 2028 instead of june to july when type ones and once in rains are frequent. education isn't the only sector effected. on monday, 19 cars parked many of us, the airport were destroyed. what's believe to be a gas fired power plants are going offline, and water reservoirs are drain up, and the damage to agriculture, exacerbated by drought caused by the new weather pattern, is estimated at nearly $70000000.00. finally, below al jazeera, many of the people living in athens have seen the sky to an orange. it was caused by clouds of dust from the higher deposit which blew in from northern africa. so in your geico reports apocalyptic scenes over the acropolis as dust from the

heart, accumulated india, it cost a shroud of athens, turning the skies an orange hue, reducing visibility and prompting. we'll socrates to sound the alarm. we have to be careful to not a breeze. so that's right, and we have to stay home. basically, there are a guidance is from the doctors that should be followed in such cases because we observe presentations about the 10 times with 20 times higher. the mean then the average for the region. many took the advice to stay indoors, it was time to come to these 40 a. i felt a discomfort. i tried to deal with it by staying in the house so that it didn't affect my health for the others mobile at the spectacle. 8 on the all of everything was orange. it really felt like we were in the so hara of this cloudy orange tinted haze is a frequent phenomenon did usually happens in spring and autumn. low mutual logical

systems and strong winds transferred dusk loads from the hard. does it sending the skies, bringing with it the risk of coming wildfire as seasonal. so this time of the year, but a devastating has it in a country that experience has major blazes every year. but there was one positive outcome of this dusty display. the clouds backed as a new tree into the oceans, feeding tonton and fueling the growth of lorene micro organisms forming the basis of an intricate, essential food web. sonya jago, which is era who us or from the, tell him a cry for the moments. the news does continue here on out because they are off to the listening posts, which is the indonesia is building a new capital city. deep in the jungles of borneo,

this is for the original open across the nation. but not everyone supports the idea any i get that someone would definitely have. we see this as an authoritarian decision who's on the 101 east where deals indonesia moving a mega city on out to 0. it wasn't a ronnie and military attack that was made for tv. so was the, is there any response? but what will all this lead to, apart from taking the fives of the world off of goss terminology matters, the new york times knows. and the language is using on gaza is a story onto itself. plus believers in can lead to their graves by a television where, where the regular, the, it's been a week now since more than $300.00 iranian missiles and drones were launched israel's way. but despite the initial alarm, the rush to the bomb shelters,

the doomsday scenarios. and all the original war this failed to materialize. instead, israel conducted a limited counter attack on friday, on military targets in is for hon, which was similar to a runs strategic approach. the vast majority of those are ronnie and projectiles were shot down by israel or its allies. as the damage was minimal, 0 is ready, fatalities, and outcome that military experts concluded was by design. israel's response also have more to do with spectacle than substance because the nothing yahoo government had the optics to consider don't act and risk losing face or retaliate when it's primary back or the us had called for a strength at least publicly. whatever happens next or runs attack, and the way it has been characterized in the western media may have gone or is real, some more support abroad. which could prove crucial in this battle of perceptions

as is where the forces continue to slaughter palestinians in any kind of a battle between your own and as well as not only a battle between 2 armed militaries or 2 sets of government officials issuing competing or conflicting statements, it's also the bottle of nerves, the bottle for information superiority for international support and sympathy. when our news feeds on that night with images of military fireworks in the skies over if there was reason to fear the worst. depending on who's in front of the story, ron's airborne, a saw, was either a reckless act of aggression that risk triggering a wider war, firing a 100 percent ballistic. nissan is a dangerous escalation for a deliberate act of restraint. but it only might have to

know how does it prove to be a highly performative exercise onto the wrong spot that resulted in no, is rarely fatalities have more to do with messaging than anything else and have to leave warmongers disappointed or what do you want in perspective, it was a chance to put on a spectacle to really get the headlines and show that they engaging unprecedented direct action against you as well. but it was mainly a message because we didn't have the mass casualty on israel's park. it was an opportunity to put out the message that he was able to defend itself. 99 percent of missiles were shot down so from both sides that could claim victory. not only they, ronnie and strike was well telegraphed in advance. it was clearly coordinated in a fashion that israel and its allies could defend effectively. so the point was not destruction. the point was

a political message that they ron ends were sending to try to re establish concerns against this or israel's response to a ron's attack. took 6 days to get to was limit, largely symbolic targeting and air base near is not the city itself, nor the nuclear plants nearby that failed to satisfy his really hard lines like security minister due to him, our band who fried, i'd called in wait while the as rios cheerleaders, like the british prime minister, offered their approval. and we have condemned your wrongs reckless and dangerous biologists. missiles against it's right on saturday and is wrong. so it'd be, has the wrong to self defense, which was consistent with what had come out of the white house and the many western governments in the aftermath of a runs initial attack, that the as law mac republic was the address. busy so let's be straight. given the scale of this attack, ron's intent was clearly to cause significant disruption and casualties. the us

called the ron's actions unprecedented. even though they had been preceded by israel's bombing of an iranian consumer building in the syrian capital damascus on april. first, the killed to iranian generals, among others, it was a position the u. k. also to that wench, lynched, proved to be a hard sell black and white, but what britain to the hostile nation, something and one of our comes to us we would take, we would take the survey stroll actually and around would say that that's what that is. but even those well aware iran has influence beyond its borders and uses it's embassies and consulates cover. when arming it's regional hours have said the is really strike in damascus was dangerous. we prevent here, i must be very, very critically about this, right? it was one of those adventures that these are in these committing only because it

is possible. there was hardly pay debate about the consequences of the prize about the day after. i mean it explained it. we said damaging the military capability of a rod officer by law whole i'm us, i'm not new port leim beholden mccomb before the over to that even though i think that's what should always been should on what is this rubbish by the end of the day it's about showing cool the is very much are the, is really james ball and the parents. we'd never be a chief through us as a nation's and they capabilities are not damaged by those us as a nation. so we are left only with the need to show to ron is often portrayed in western media as a malign actor. there is a very rarely a recognition that, like most other states, iran has legitimate security concerns and at times has responded with restraint.

over the past few months, israel had killed multiple senior iranian ministry officials in syria. israel has conducted corporate operations against iranian nuclear facilities against iranian infrastructure, kills iranian sciences, iranian commanders on iranian sword. so this is not a one sided fights, and you rarely see the western media trying to strike a balance in distribution or allocating a blame for the current situation. so what was really behind the ron's theatricals, but ultimately the limiting factor via ronnie and military could have launched more of its drones and miss files through one of its proxy such as has bala in 11 all right, next door to is instead did not only send almost all of them from iran, the broadcast that some of those launches,

given me is released and they're american and british allies, 3 hours to prepare for them and ultimately take most of the missiles down. but the lights in that and yahoo government, in israel, the leaders of the islamic republic had been playing to a domestic audience, the drones and miss silas, most of which the iranians knew would never land. where the vehicles for the iran at the moment is in a quite fragile state. internally, there has been for the last 2 or 3 years, quite a lot of protest against the, for a terry and actions of the same as the regime. and iran is very aware of the ways in which it's getting a broiled and then other war with actually in danger it's on stability. so there is a very major calculation about its own, a longer abilities in the ways in which iran has respond that there are 2 narratives that going on a new one, right. the one is that this was a historic strike. and parts of the on human population appeared receptive to,

particularly in the aftermath of the serial bombing. at the same time, most of you, all new ones, are not in favor of war. there focuses on their daily lives, economic conditions. and there's been a renewed crack down on the islamic, had scar from you on the mandatory nature of it. and that's because very much undermine any funding around the flag effect from a new conflict with his or 3 days after ron launched, it's quasi attack on the history of this story of performative warfare and shadow diplomacy descended into the observed when reports surfaced that the us had contacted the, as long as the republican, asking it to allow israel to conduct a symbolic count, to return to quote unquote, save face. 72 hours later, israel kit the base near discipline israel's interceptors protected yours from the secret is equally absurd. was this youtube i posted online by

the next in yahoo government trumpeting re intersection of a ron's missiles and declaring that is real, which has spent 6 months old with her reading gossip. and some muslim population acted to protect some of these loans, fully assigns. it is so ridiculous. i mean, really probably gotten that can go as far as it wishes, but is relative not to take the holy places and he run visit the target they holy place. this is what it is violating severely for decades. the freedom of full force cheap, the most of them's mainly palestinians to get there when it's needed time it's about the. busy may take a one, a little sympathy backs to is res, north 20th and you know so much money is right and the permanent visit is what he's going to lose. or the simple see, is there any way to go for, for an estate k,

as it seems now, as it eventually did, 6 days later, a greater value to is reopen any sympathy or runs attacks may have produced, is the distraction. it creates away from the horrific stories and still coming out of cost of so many more palestinian bodies getting on air, including from the hospital. now shift corpses found with high b, 2 still attached images of 7 school children slaughtered on a playground. we'll cross that would have got far more coverage than they did. if news outlets were not trans fixed by this new were on it. but telegenic story, the for all of the fireworks, is not what it appeared to be. for the past 6 months, the new york times as coverage of israel's post october 7th, the salt on garza has taken a pummeling from critics both inside and outside the paper. mean actually,

robbie is here with the latest example of to report this post beat by the investigative new side, the intercept levine, the memo that editor's at the times sent the stuff back in november and which has been regularly updated since the memo is effectively a style guide for the coverage of israel's post october 7th assault on gaza. there's nothing unusual about such style guides. it's standard practice across news organizations. what makes this memo controversial is some of the domain ology. it was the papers journalist against using tons of photos should the guidance says avoid using the phrase ok by tennessee when describing palestinian land, which is where as ministry is according to international, no occupying as one time source interviewed by being deceptive or good. that amounts to quote, taking the occupation out of the coverage when it is in fact, the actual quote of the conflict. the memo also instruct stuff to steal, cleared of the, to them. but if you jacobs for pots of gaza that are home to palestinians displaced

during previous wars. these are people who are refugees. these terms occupied territories and rescue jacobs artificial language used by the united nations and international and deals. it's unusually for news organizations to restrict the use of this terminology in this response to being does that support a times books? but some said that issue in guidance like this is to ensure accuracy consistency. a nuance in how we call the news back in february, another intercept investigation into a widely discredited time support about the quote webinar ization of leave by home, us on october 7th, to be considerably to send in the times as newsroom over the papers guys have coverage clearly that discontent is stay brewing and still leaking out to the intercept. thanks man. of last year we aired a disturbing story out of 10 year about the dangers of religious broadcasting tele vangelis. and how difficult that content can be to regulate. we are re broadcasting

it now because the tele vangelis at the heart of the story. busy mackenzie has been formally charged with the murder of $191.00 people, mackenzie allegedly led those victims his followers to their dest. by telling them the world was coming to an end. among the questions being asked in the aftermath, should the authorities can use media or regulators have done more to stop mackenzie's doomsday preachings from being broadcast. and if so, how would that square with the right constitutionally protected in can you do freedom of speech and religion? those are questions that require urgent answer is because tell evangelism is on the rise in kenya, where 85 percent of the population is christian. but let's me post nick me. we're head now from the canyon post on the tragedy that has come to be known as the shack . a hold of a mass of with just

less millions, a coastal town in east, and can you and are heading inland to the shuck, ahold of 1st. in much news broke that a woman had killed her children here in order to please god when the story book joseph jerry was one of the 1st journalists of c. we will 1st quote here by the police, were informed that the 2 bodies, 2 bodies of children about it and decided to instead to the phone bodies all over, must lives all over today to more than 350 bodies and counting have been exempt. that will lead to the 1st by 10 evangelists name pul mckinsey, useful to have told them that the bill was in, and that's in order to reach card. they would have to starve themselves to fish children, then women, then men. mackenzie said he would follow it. but he never did. so tell me about for

mackenzie, what do we know about him initially? was the taxi dividing money, andy? and did he from these own minister? no called good news international ministries that touch, according to the advisor who 1st went in, was just a good charged middle course happen until 2015. the. now when it became attentive engine is to have a pass, the message started changing. he started introducing they showed the new with the prophecies and all these prophecies robert tested live on television. now not that one, michael pulled up on my danish, tell me about mackenzie's follows those that followed him into this 1st. it came from fun. why? because again, they had to follow as oliver. so presumably many of those people would never have heard of poor mackenzie written, not for his tv channel. correct? there's still an estimated $600.00 of poor mackenzie's for those who are still

missing and check on the 1st. one of them is a woman named pamela nicholas. single. she's from bung, gomez, it's accounting northwest. can you the opposite end of the country in india? 1000 kilometers. from yeah, we've managed to find his son, he's living in that ruby, so i'm off to the capital to meet him. in evangelism is the use of media to communicate christianity. the 10 evangelists in kenya often claimed that they can perform miracles by was deliver spiritual, communing and guaranteed prosperity. typically, in exchange for the nations, which it made some till event was very well and influential. for some viewers, often the most valuable. so the promise being directly into the homes of divine intervention, 5 is cost is previously resistible for mackenzie is what we would refer to as

a carrier. is magic the sovereignty to the no, no, no problem is the good problem when i, pennsylvania. because in order to be a tv event, this order to hold the attention of a audience no matter how big or small you have to have a particular kind of criticism. comparing to other african, tell evangelists, you can tell that the rest of the frequently bundle is tend to go with the prosperity way and pull them. mckenzie goes the mystical way. why not? so now when mystery kicks in, then you know somebody is believed to have inflammation or news or power that other people don't top. and so that's the whole county of mystical element is what really endeared him to a lot of people coming in to kind of sing his son, which is she boost. it says that she would spend her days watching mackenzie's

times t v channel, and was captivated by the simmons that promised spiritual meaning. she thought he could help her daughter who was suffering from mental health issues this time last year. she bruce is mother his sister, and her 3 year old daughter left time to join the 10 evangelist, or mostly to do the final might be the main reason my mother followed mackenzie's preaching was my older sisters illness. and during his tv sermons, mackenzie would often use the bible and a specific oil to heal people. so my mother thought he might be able to help my sister. so that was her main motivation. if it wasn't for his tv station, my mother never would have heard of someone like mckenzie, by the side of my mind when we're done to mackenzie. when religion comes under the agency of media, then media transforms, that's religion. and so perhaps for people like couple of mckenzie media tended to give them some kind of reputation and trade. credit ability to for like cause the

1000000 delay a little tongue who didn't know what to pull. mccain sees message. well, the 1st started out as what we would consider an instance of really just diversity, right, because it doesn't just start off as an end of time. we then see it moving into a space of tv. is it new kitchen is evil? and then later on we see it moving into a space of danger. shit, kindly. i'm it. oh yeah. ok. as the site the hollinger. yeah. now it's difficult to predict what the vacation will be, because not all diverse innovations of a main steam village and will become deviant and not old deviant innovations of a mainstream. religion will become deigned to this, but sometimes they do. the question now is, at what point should the kenyan authorities have intervene and could they have done

so well, upholding mackenzie's constitutional right to freedom of thoughts and religion. the communications authority is the party responsible for regulating full costs media in the country. this past april, it's suspended mackenzie's tv channel, but only off to the check. a whole other story had broke. and even then it was mostly for administrative non compliance, little of the content it with you broke the rules. i asked the director general how his organization monitors this kind of content. we use a system that handles the information. but when you have 322 visitations for you to make sense of that content knowledge we have, we, the, somebody has to sit down and listen to or watch to be able to conclude the natural that particular content. that's why the complain mechanism is much better if somebody to see something unbecoming been able to report. then we can now go

specifically to track down that specific book custom problem. i see with that mechanism is that you are relying on view of feedback, but often the view as of these channels are the people that are being radicalized and you not see that as an issue in the system. it's really a problem, but then i would responsibility is enough to regulate content, or if you're lucky to electrical nature, alexis or, or get them to facilitate content that we looked at. we did not see a direct link with them. i do not think that yes, they may not be a direct link to check a whole lot, but that that problem method content needs and miracles and the prosperity preaching. yes. do not think that needs to be regulated. you know, the trouble with the issues of religion and faith is exactly that faith. and that's why when you allow freedom of religion is to just allow people to make sense of life and the way they see best. so the risk of going ahead for to that to end up being a policeman that we people's crunches. but that balance has to be struck,

wasn't really big southern for us pull mackenzie is now in jail and faces multiple charges. but the media environment in which he thrived and the constitutional rights that protected him remains the same. kenya is 85 percent christian, and 10 evangelists wheeled enormous influence. the politicians wanting to stay in power, unlikely to challenge the hedge, and many of these to the positives and the armies of faithful followers. even if that leaves an untold number of valuable people at risk. so him was, i talked to him to go to copper, it'll be the pin number lead. i left nairobi from a wendy to search for my mother. when i got there, i found one of mackenzie's followers who had been rescued and they told me they had seen my mother and my sister. my sister and a child had been tied up until they died and were buried. having seen all this, my mother ran deep into the forest. i've been trying to find her ever since. but to

this day, nothing the and finally of this past week, the world's most elaborate election process got underway. indians and there are more than 950000000 eligible voters with the casting ballots over the next 6 weeks . prime minister, no rend remote, he and his party, the b j. p are considered a lock to win and historic 3rd term. t opposition. leaders are in jail, many others have been forced into the b, j, p by threats of legal cases or lowered and by the prospect of getting senior positions in the party. and that there is the undeniable domination of the indian

media space by moti. from anchors on mainstream news channels to influencers on social media, even the bollywood elite, the b j. p is either convinced or co worst people into echoing the message that there is no alternative to moti even worth debating. let alone voting for will be keeping our eyes on this story and the central role that the indian media are playing in it. and we'll see you next time here at the listening post. the latest news as a boeing a military response for situation remain fund nationwide with detailed coverage. it's only taking a few hours to turn the city streets into canals, rooms and isolated from around the world, showing by russian full series of lead man and the surrounding countryside. causing

fires like this in the forests virtually every day. and these are the mythologies on the drum is they used to march 3 d o t before dawn box with an increase. it's really been a cheap presence. it's too dangerous. as daylight arrives, costing begins instead of traditional decorations, the streets of cods, images of young palestinians killed by his ready forces. it's not just a lot of decorations, usually during ramadan, thousands of policies and towards will or is the city often defies the seasonal. we use the law on the street right now. look, it's easy to move around. the law could be different. and warren go to change the situation. and now we have 70 percent more business people here say the higher the

month is even more significant this year. a false and besides with those hungry and suffering in, gone to the the us joins the you and demanding ounces from his right. a lot. the hundreds of bodies were uncovered in mass graves and cancer. the on top of the credit, this is l g 0. live from doha, also coming up, multiple electronics on the southern gauze, or at least one person has been killed in this, trying to find the job in the can. pressuring netanyahu of protests and west jerusalem off to him, us release is a video of the end is ready captive.