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00:00:00into the shadows. Here are the headlines. ABC news,
00:00:04Australia
00:00:04of exposes Europe's energy crisis. The price of
00:00:08Trump and
00:00:09a Netanyaho's war on Iran. News 24 targets
00:00:13Palestine flags when media framing over shadows Europe's
00:00:16economic
00:00:17rage.
00:00:25of Across Europe, economic anxiety is spilling into the streets,
00:00:28but as the headline. focus on unrest, the deeper
00:00:32forces driving public anger and the political narrative
00:00:36surrounding it deserve closer scrutiny.
00:00:40welcome abroad, broadcast media, expert for
00:00:43analyst. hello and welcome. thank you, so today we're beginning
00:00:47with ABC News Australia's report, why Europe is grappling with
00:00:51of wave after wave of protest, so from France to Belgium, Italy to Spain,
00:00:55demonstrations are upting over lot of living uh issues, costs, public
00:00:59services, variating living conditions, beneath these domestic grievances,
00:01:03however lies another major trigger, trump and Netanyahu's
00:01:06a illegal war against the Islamic Republic, so this has sent shock waves
00:01:10through global energy markets
00:01:11of and has compounded Europe's economic crisis. Let's take a
00:01:14look. France,
00:01:17Albania, Italy, Portugal, Belgium,
00:01:21Spain. Viont demonstrations are sweeping
00:01:25Europe. So why are people protesting and how did we
00:01:28get here? the French protest kicked off first in late
00:01:32September around the same time Spaniords also took to the
00:01:36streets, but let's tackle France first. Students there
00:01:39in were upset over the state
00:01:41of their schools, teacher shortages and overcrowded
00:01:44classes. They've been growing in intensity over the past month,
00:01:48but on the weekend they turned really ugly. It's a
00:01:52sign of rage. We are tired, we are tired
00:01:56of being worried about our future. We fight because uh...
00:02:00conditions are too harsh because the cost of gas is too high,
00:02:04we're not being listened to, we we don't have enough money, they moved into
00:02:07a much bigger movement, anger at the cost of living and
00:02:11public sector cuts. more than half million people took
00:02:15to the streets a single day. the bottom line is that
00:02:19France is broke, it's got one
00:02:21of the highest budget deficits in the eurozone, and this year it'll
00:02:25spend more on servicing its debt than on either
00:02:28education or defense. and debt is high across
00:02:32the continent.
00:02:33of protests have since started in Italy, Portugal
00:02:36of and Belgium, and while they have similar grievances,
00:02:39they aren't thought to be coordinated, but they do have a common
00:02:43trigger. the US-Israel war in Iran, and the shock to
00:02:47global energy prices that unleached. there's increase
00:02:51eurozone uh inflation to
00:02:533.8%, and energy prices are up
00:02:57of 19% year-on-year. um... but I think what
00:03:01turns that Europe wide issue into a protest in
00:03:05one country or another is more of
00:03:08domestic compounding
00:03:10factor. I mean, um, the
00:03:14report itself identifies the connection, soaring energy prices,
00:03:18rising inflation, the mounting public frustration at on the other hand,
00:03:21mounting public frustration at on the other hand, Europeans are now paying
00:03:25economic price for a war they never voted for and launching
00:03:29of at the beginning. or even in the first split, exactly, and also the idea is that
00:03:33domestic problems don't emerge overnight or
00:03:37of in a vacuum, but an energy shock right, can actually turn any hardship that already exists
00:03:41into mass mobilization, because it's becomes accumulation, and then
00:03:45there's a trigger, so the danger is that coverage focuses on the
00:03:48spect, the spectacle, the image of protest, the aesthetic
00:03:52of it, while sidelining the real geopolitical decisions that are
00:03:56making everyday life more expensive, it becomes just about
00:04:00in whatever people are doing the street and not what's actually behind those
00:04:03a grievances exactly so our second report from news 24 is titled palestine
00:04:07flag being flown almost everywhere in the french riots uh
00:04:11watch how the presenter frames the demonstrations and what she chooses
00:04:14emphasize let's
00:04:17take a look well let's turn now to the catastrophic riots sweeping France and more
00:04:21than half million people took to the
00:04:23of streets 20 have been arrested and hundreds of
00:04:27police injured these are not
00:04:29of peaceful pr. protests, they're marked by violence, chaos,
00:04:33destruction and hatred. city storefronts have been
00:04:36smashed, barricades burnt, landmarks
00:04:40toppled, mean look here at the plus debastill
00:04:43overrun with protesters and the palestinian flag
00:04:47flying, and look at this burning building in lion on
00:04:51of saturday, the city hall in the town of also
00:04:55satellite and there were car jackings in bordeaux,
00:04:58this louiston.
00:05:00a stormed and looted
00:05:02and the reason as random and arbitrary is the cost of
00:05:06of living and education and the public servants, but many
00:05:09activists were also seen waving the palestinian. flag,
00:05:13there's no clear logical reason, this is pure civil
00:05:17unrest, and french leadership are failing to contain the
00:05:20anger, politicians and police appear either powerless
00:05:24or
00:05:25gutless. the
00:05:29presenter describes the unrest as a
00:05:31catastrophic, at obviously dismisses the demonstrations as
00:05:35civil disorder and single out palestinian flags, as
00:05:39though their presence requires no further explanation. from anyone, yeah, the
00:05:43framing is very telling, it's very expected, the report is acknowledging
00:05:47grievances over living costs and education and public services,
00:05:51but it's of course quickly shifting towards condemnation, so the
00:05:55Palestinian flag here becomes visual symbol that just discredits the
00:05:59wider movement, rather than an opportunity, they could they could take it as
00:06:03an opportunity to examine why people may connect Palestine to
00:06:07their own political struggles, it's just coming from racism and
00:06:10islamophobia really, we have to distinguish, we
00:06:13have to distinguish between genuine reporting on violence and property destruction
00:06:17and from editorial framing that reduces diverse demonstrations to chaos, so showing
00:06:21a palestinian flag doesn't necessarily, you know, doesn't establish that a
00:06:25protest is violent, just as documenting violence doesn't erase legitimate
00:06:28grievances. yeah, and when the economic consequences
00:06:32of war were barely examined, audiences are left
00:06:36with images of disorder instead of a fuller explanation of its
00:06:40causes. that is how selector framing. and distort public understanding
00:06:43without necessarily inventing um every fact.
00:06:47thank you for joining, thank
00:06:49you.
00:06:56as Trump's war on Iran drives up fuel prices and deepens America's
00:07:00affordability crisis. half post and business insider
00:07:04exposes the widening gap between ordinary Americans paying the price of
00:07:08war and oil and giants cashing in on the chaos. here are the
00:07:11headlines. half post, Trump's Iran war
00:07:15sends oil giants profit soaring as Americans pay
00:07:19more. Business Insider, Iran war
00:07:23fuels inflation nightmare as Trump faces mounting
00:07:26mid-term
00:07:27pressure.
00:07:35As Trump's war on Iran drives up energy coasts and deepens America's
00:07:38affordability crisis. Major oil corporation.
00:07:42are reaping extraordinary profits while ordinary Americans struggle to keep
00:07:46up. Let's examine the coverage with digital media experts Simament
00:07:50analyst for welcome both sema. Thank you so much f so actually we're
00:07:54beginning today with health post and an article by Dave Jamieson's
00:07:58Dave Jamison. It's called the Trump's disastrous war has been
00:08:02great for big oil companies. The report actually examines how sooring oil
00:08:05profits are colliding with rising petrol and diesel prices, leaving working
00:08:09central message is captured in one striking central. message is captured in
00:08:13one striking statement, so the article explains president Donald Trump's
00:08:17war of choice in Iran has driven up crude oil prices and made life more
00:08:20expensive for working class people across the globe, but it has also ushered in a
00:08:24period of windfall profits for fossil fuel companies that can
00:08:28capitalize on higher fuel prices and juicier margins in their
00:08:31refining businesses. It is just one way that Trump's war is enriching a
00:08:35select few while making basic necessities less affordable for
00:08:39everyone else due to inflation, so sounds familiar. "It's a really good
00:08:43time to be in the oil business and in the refinery business if you're in the United
00:08:47States," said Severen Borensteen, director the Energy Institute
00:08:51at UC Berkeley has school of business. So the crisis has
00:08:54created huge opportunities for the biggest oil companies (Exon
00:08:58mobile) doubled its profits in the second quarter compared to year earlier
00:09:02hitting 14.5 billion while Chevron more than quadrupled its
00:09:06own, reaching 12.1 billion (Exonmobile) said Friday that it expects
00:09:09higher refining margins to give it a 4.4 5
00:09:13billion profit boost when the third quarter earnings are announced
00:09:16later this month, so and then people are surprised why the war may go on, exactly,
00:09:20this is the political economy of war and play sight, the public absorbs the inflation,
00:09:24workers pay much more to commute, to travel, families
00:09:28sacrifice spending on essentials, energy, giants exploit the very
00:09:32instability that makes life harder, and the question is who
00:09:36benefits from this war uh, this war which its costs are
00:09:39extending far beyond the battlefield, yeah, but also American taxpayers
00:09:43must also consider the public cost of any military operations, I mean when
00:09:47enormous resources um are committed to an
00:09:50unnecessary war, while energy companies enjoy
00:09:54exceptional gains, as we have seen, who is prioritarizing the
00:09:57interest of ordinary Americans over those powerful, at
00:10:01one point powerful corporate beneficiaries? yeah, that's the golden question,
00:10:05farah, and we have second report actually that comes from business inside of
00:10:09Juliana, actually that comes from business inside of Juliana Caplan. Jake
00:10:13Ebstein examined this growing domestic crisis in their article,
00:10:16which is for Trump ahead the midterms, gas prices
00:10:20have remained $4 a gallon for more days this year
00:10:24than... the other year and inflation uh is
00:10:28eroding the value of workers earnings in as the conflict shows
00:10:32no sign of cooling off, so the article warns it's recipe for a
00:10:36challenging mid-term cycle for Trump who faces an affordability
00:10:39crisis at home that does not going away and a faraway ward that's only
00:10:43making costs go up and then it continues, diesel prices have hit
00:10:47record breaking highs in recent weeks, that paints a dreery picture for
00:10:50Americans struggling with high costs who likely won't feel any relief at
00:10:54the... pump in the near future, especially as more potential military
00:10:58action looms. high gas prices are even tamping down
00:11:02spending among higher income consumers, and soaring costs have led to arise in
00:11:06hypermilers, drivers who try to optimize and gameify their habits to
00:11:10get the best value per gallon. well, it's where political consequences have
00:11:14become unavoidable, rising fuel cost, speed into transport, food
00:11:18distribution and the wider cost of living in general, foreign war becomes domestic
00:11:21liability, basically when households feel its consequences. every time they fill
00:11:25their gas tanks or they buy their groceries or
00:11:29actually from um record breaking corporate profits
00:11:33to families struggling at the petrol pump the price of war
00:11:37is being paid far beyond Iran's
00:11:40borders thank you seam for art for joining us
00:11:43thank
00:11:50you as Saudi Arabia finds itself confronting mounting
00:11:54military politic. and reputational challenges over its war on
00:11:57Yemen, social media is exposing the cracks in Riyard's carefully
00:12:01managed image and highlighting the resilience of nation that
00:12:05refuses to surrender. Here are the headlines, Saudi Arabia's
00:12:09Yemen, Quagmier set backs and the kingdom under pressure.
00:12:12Yemen stands firm, resistance, arms, profit
00:12:16and western
00:12:17hypocrisy.
00:12:25On social media, the war on Yemen is exposing a growing Saudi
00:12:29dilemma, a military campaign that continues to face
00:12:32resistance, a battlefield where claims of a
00:12:36battlefield where claims of territorial gains are being
00:12:40contested difficult to control. Let's examine the post shaping this
00:12:43debate with our social media expertsim and
00:12:46analyst food. Welcome back both. Thanks for
00:12:50so we're beginning by a post by Ibrahim Najid which is highlighting civilian
00:12:54casualties in. Stays governor and accusing international media
00:12:57of of course turning a blind eye to Saudi Arabia's
00:13:00actions. So Brahim posted everyday
00:13:04Saudi Arabia commits a new massacre in Yemen killing women and children.
00:13:08Unfortunately Arab, western and European media ignore these
00:13:11crimes because Saudi Arabia has bought their consciences with
00:13:15money, so no one speaks about Saudi Arabia's crimes in Yemen. The crime occurred
00:13:19today in the Maaf district in Thai's governor. So here is a video the
00:13:23horrific massacre viewer discretion.
00:13:29طيران العدوان
00:13:30السعودي.
00:13:56This is heartbreaking really, I mean accusations raise a
00:13:59fundamental question, whose suffering receives international attention
00:14:03and who's suffering disappears behind political
00:14:07alliances or even financial interests? yeah, and we saw this with with
00:14:10everything that that is continuing to take place in Palestine, it is the same here
00:14:14with Saudi interest taking priority, and the second pole shifts our
00:14:18attention from the humanitarian front to the battlefield itself. Sprinter
00:14:22press reports videos allegedly showing back troops
00:14:25surrendering, alongside claims of yemeny advances and repelled counter
00:14:29offensive supported by Saudi Airpower, so Sprinter Press
00:14:33writes, more and more videos are emerging showing Saudiback troops surrendering to the
00:14:37Yemani army. This week, the Yemen Army have taken control of over 1,ous
00:14:41square kilometers of Yemeni territory, including more than 50 populated
00:14:45areas (three cities), a counter offensive attempt by forces the
00:14:48presidential council with active support from Saudi Arabian air force was
00:14:52also repelled. So here's the video their.
00:15:25military superiority and air power don't automatically give you the upper
00:15:29hand or translate into control on the ground and we've seen that in many wars
00:15:33and uh confrontations particularly when confronting forces capable
00:15:37of sustaining like unsar allah, exactly, yeah, and that is the
00:15:41conondrem, Saudi Arabia can escalate its military involvement whenever
00:15:45it want, but escalation alone at one point cannot guarantee um to the
00:15:49political outcome, it actually seeks, the longer the conflict
00:15:53persists, I mean, the harder it becomes to present
00:15:55military um pressure to resolve any solution
00:15:59or to submit any solution, especially when like Fuad said, if the Yemenes are able to
00:16:03sustain something consistently, no matter what it is, even if it's...
00:16:08this this is not good for Saudi Arabia, actually our third post takes a wider view
00:16:12now, connecting Saudi's conduct in Yemen with western armed sales and the
00:16:16contradictions between western security rhetoric and commercial
00:16:19interests, so Sony writes, Saudi
00:16:23Arabia has been executing dissidents, jailing journalists and conducting a
00:16:27war on Yemen that has produced one the worst humanitarian crisis on
00:16:31earth. Britain, France and America have sold it weapons throughout, not
00:16:34reluctantly, not with conditions. enthusiastically with trade
00:16:38delegations and arms faires and billions in contracts and the same
00:16:42governments that speak about Muslim extremism as an existential threat
00:16:46to western values are the primary supplies the regime that
00:16:49funds the specific theological tradition, wahabism, most
00:16:53associated with the extremism that they claim to be fighting and trying to keep away from the
00:16:57west, so this is
00:16:58not a paradox,
00:16:59it is a policy, the extremism is useful, the weapon sales are
00:17:02profitable, the humanitarian crisis in Yemen is not a television
00:17:06story in most western countries, if you want to understand
00:17:10Islamophobia, not as a cultural accident, but as a political function, start here,
00:17:14start with who benefits from a population that fears Islam in the abstract
00:17:18and cannot see the arms deal in the specific, so the central
00:17:22argument is about interests, not simply rhetoric, western governments can
00:17:25condemn extremism while maintaining lucrative ties and deep security
00:17:29partnerships with Saudi Arabia, which is the global sponsor of extremism, yeah, I mean
00:17:33it's like what the west did with Syria, and finally uh
00:17:37have a post that examined speculation uh circulating online about
00:17:41Saudi Elites potentially leaving the kingdom amid Ansarlah strike so
00:17:45it's also referencing alleged restrictions on information and reports
00:17:49concerning Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's security
00:17:52arrangement so brain Mijatovik writes are
00:17:56Saudi princes and millionaires trapped in the kingdom ameid strikes social
00:18:00media is buzzing with unverified claims that members of Saudi's royal family
00:18:04which is a massive group including 500 to 700 princes plus their
00:18:07relatives are fleeing for safer clims abroad as Yemen ramps up
00:18:11strikes and threatens to collapse key sectors the kingdom's economy.
00:18:15US embassy in Riyadh has travel advisory in place since last week which
00:18:19hints that something may be a missed listing exit bans and local
00:18:23laws regarding social media activities as two reasons US nationals should
00:18:26reconsider travel to the kingdom. yeah, I
00:18:30mean, yeah, exit bands can target both foreigners and Saudi
00:18:34citizens, while local social media laws threaten hefty finds. up to
00:18:37$8000 or up to five years in prison for
00:18:41posting footage of houti attacks or sharing claims about elites
00:18:45leaving the country classified as spreading rumors and misinformation so
00:18:48this means that even if some censorship also yes and it means that if
00:18:52some royals or Saudi Arabia
00:18:55348,00 millionaires around that number are
00:18:59quietly trying to leave finding out about it would require a critical
00:19:02mass to build up outside the country before it's officially reported here is
00:19:06one the lot direct hits in inside Saudi, so let's
00:19:10take,
00:19:11yes,
00:19:17ya
00:19:17Allah,
00:19:30so ladies and gentlemen, from contested battlefields to contested
00:19:34narratives, yemen reminds us that military power does not
00:19:37always deliver strategic victory. Thank you, Simon for joining
00:19:41us. Thank
00:19:42you.
00:19:49Trump's war of choice against Iran is exacting
00:19:52devastating price on the American public, draining
00:19:56billions and tax payer dollars, driving up fuel prices and fueling
00:19:59inflation. While the president follows Netanyahus escalation at the
00:20:03expenses of American households. Here are the headlines.
00:20:08Billions burned, families squeezed. Trump's war on
00:20:11Iran, hits American taxpayers. America
00:20:14pays, Netanyahu gains. War spending sores
00:20:18as inflation devours household
00:20:21budgets.
00:20:29Welcome back to Expose to examine how this war is draining public
00:20:32funds and squeezing American households. We welcome senior
00:20:36researcher.
00:20:42let's begin with the military
00:20:44Thank you, bill, by early september, the pentagon's estimate had
00:20:48climbed to at least 43. 6 billion dollars
00:20:51including 28 billion to replace expended munitions and more
00:20:55than 4.3 billion dollars in lost or damaged equipment.
00:20:59okay now the congressional budget office had estimated
00:21:03$38 billion dollars through August 1 warning
00:21:07that the conflict could cost another two to the billion dollars every
00:21:10month and uh that is before fully
00:21:14accounting for damage to American facilities across the region.
00:21:18yeah while billions are being spent. a war of
00:21:21choice, the hypocrisy is that American families are told
00:21:25to tighten their belts and the longer Trump follows
00:21:29Netanyahu's escalation, I think the larger the bills will become,
00:21:32yes, and now consider the cost that the you now the petrol
00:21:36pump, before the war began on February 28,
00:21:39regular gasoline averaged under $3 per gallon,
00:21:43yes, by late September it was already approaching
00:21:46$4.50, uh, diesel climbed up of
00:21:50$6.50 raising the cost of transporting goods across the
00:21:54country, you know, so basically yeah, and these costs,
00:21:57this is the thing, they don't stop just at the fuel station, it's basically like a whole domino
00:22:01effect, because they travel through the supply chains, which raises expenses for
00:22:05businesses, and ultimately consumers, and then families are paying more to
00:22:09commute, goods cost more to deliver, and every dollar
00:22:13buys less, yes,
00:22:14very true, and according to sources, the official figures confirm the wider
00:22:18damage, annual... as inflation reached
00:22:213.7% in September up from
00:22:243.4% in August, gasoline prices
00:22:27rose uh 9.1% a single month while energy
00:22:31prices increased 20.4% over the
00:22:35year, so the congressional budget office also predicts
00:22:39that the war will push inflation half a percentage
00:22:42point higher early 2027 than previously
00:22:46forecast and that is the price of political subservience, and
00:22:50president pursuing a war alongside Netanyahu as we highlighted,
00:22:54while ordinary Americans at one point absorb the consequences of
00:22:58all this wall and the opportunity cost matters too, it's crazy
00:23:01because these billions could have supported health care, they could have
00:23:04support much of need - yeah, they could have supported
00:23:08education, infrastructure, struggling households, yeah,
00:23:11instead, instead, what do we have, we have
00:23:14you know the US facing mounting military expenses and
00:23:18inflationary pressure, and uncertainty over basically how much
00:23:22more the war will demand them exactly ultimately and uh
00:23:26tax payers here are paying twice uh through the public
00:23:29money spent on military operations and
00:23:33also through higher prices in their daily lives and you know the final bill
00:23:37remains uncertain okay so Trump may promise uh
00:23:41victory abroad but at home Americans are confronting a far
00:23:45more immediate uh reality a costly war shrinking
00:23:49purchasing power. and bill that keeps growing. thank
00:23:52you.
00:24:01from gaza stage to the war on yemen, questions are mounting
00:24:05over Ankara and Cairons are mounting over Ankara and Cairo's
00:24:09regional priorities and their tire a political analyst and university
00:24:13of Tahran Professor Dr. Mohammed Marandi, a prominent voice on
00:24:17West Asian affairs with substantial. international social media
00:24:21foles in these conflicts, let's watch roles in these
00:24:25conflicts, let's watch as he examines the contradictions
00:24:29between their public rhetoric and political
00:24:32actions. the government in
00:24:35turkey,
00:24:36one has to be realistic, has no animosity towards the Israeli
00:24:39regime, they are willing
00:24:43to help the saudis kill the besieg
00:24:47people of Yemen, but they're not willing to help the people of... Gaza, the same is true
00:24:51with Egypt, they they control the border of Gaza
00:24:55and they allowed the CC president he
00:24:59allowed the Israelies to impose
00:25:03a starvation siege on Gaza for so long, and people across
00:25:07the world were begging the Egyptian government
00:25:10to open the gates to gaza, and
00:25:14they and he refused, yet he's willing
00:25:17to help with the... war against the people of Yemen,
00:25:21a war that he and Erdogan and and
00:25:24others assisted from the very
00:25:27beginning with the Saudi genocidal attack
00:25:31on that country in
00:25:332015, these countries were all on
00:25:37board with the assault on Yemen and they were
00:25:40supportive the genocide in that
00:25:44country, of course after Saudi Arabia
00:25:48imposed the blockade. or siege on Qatar,
00:25:52Turkia and Qatar tilted away, but until then there was
00:25:56a a universal consensus,
00:25:59so one shouldn't be naive them the...
00:26:02empires - has its representatives and the
00:26:06burden the empire is on the shoulders of those
00:26:10allies, we saw trump say that he would like to
00:26:13see Erdogan help with Saudi Arabia,
00:26:17and there's no doubt that in the case of Egypt
00:26:21there is a direct communication with the United States
00:26:25and of course there is nothing that any these entities will do for
00:26:29Gaza, we recall how these countries.
00:26:32all forced uh Hamas
00:26:36to accept an unfair cease fire and then they
00:26:40went to Egypt their leaders and praised
00:26:43Trump for that fake cease
00:26:45fire.
00:26:50Ladies and gentlemen, with that we conclude our expose for tonight right here on Press TV
00:26:54until next week question the headline trace the swords and never st under your
00:26:58judgment.
00:27:19This is for Palestine. In today's show, we'll
00:27:23be considering the impact of motion that was adopted by the Green Party of England
00:27:26and Wales at their recent conference in Brighton which clearly stated that
00:27:30Zionism is racism. colonialism is evil,
00:27:34slavery is evil, settler colonialism is evil,
00:27:38racism is evil, and therefore this
00:27:41isinism as it's materialized in Israel
00:27:45is racism, and therefore must be
00:27:49conduct as an ideology. it's a very significant step, but of
00:27:53course we need to build on it, we need to build on it, most obviously by this
00:27:57mantal axinism as an ideology and as movement in this
00:28:00country.
00:29:46ranking representatives from Iran, Oman and China are discussing West
00:29:49Asia security and stability in
00:29:52Beijing.
00:29:57Latest figures show that this year's midterm elections have set a new
00:30:01record for campaign. spending a US election
00:30:04cycle
00:30:09and French students resume blocking schools throughout the country after
00:30:13their return from two-week
00:30:14holiday.