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When former United States president Donal Trump posted news of his imminent indictment, it set off a wave of headlines. News coverage in the US was divided along standard partisan lines, and all of them were fodder for Trump’s 2024 campaign machine. Contributors: Ankush Khardori - Former federal prosecutor; contributing editor, New York Magazine Jon Allsop - Journalist John Nichols - Co-Author, The Death and Life of American Journalism; national affairs correspondent, The Nation Jennifer Stromer-Galley - Professor of Information Studies, Syracuse University On our radar: Within days of the International Criminal Court’s indictment of Vladimir Putin over alleged war crimes in Ukraine, the Kremlin orchestrated a photo op with the president of China. The message: that Russia does not stand alone. Producer Johanna Hoes has more. Nicaragua: Hell for journalists: What is life like for journalists in Nicaragua? In the 15 years President Daniel Ortega has been in power, the country has become a living hell for journalists. The Listening Post’s Tariq Nafi reports on how the one-time poster child of the international left turned into an enemy of the press and the journalists in Nicaragua who continue to show resistance. Contributors: Carlos Fernando Chamorro - Director, Esta Semana Journalist - Founder, Confidencial Bianca Jagger - Human rights advocate Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News

The suspension by the BBC of Gary Lineker, a well-known footballer-turned-broadcaster, over a tweet comparing the United Kingdom’s new immigration bill with 1930s' Nazi Germany, is exposing the double standards in British journalism and politics. Contributors: Myria Georgiou - Professor, LSE William Turvill - Media correspondent, New Statesman Ash Sarkar - Contributing editor, Novara Media Martin Bell - Former correspondent, BBC News On our radar: Afghan journalists are paying with their lives in the power struggle between the Taliban and ISIL (ISIS). Producer Flo Phillips looks into the targeted explosion that marked Afghanistan’s National Journalism Day. Generative AI and journalism: Are you OK with AI?  Artificial intelligence is not exactly new, but it is having a blockbuster few months with constantly developing software that can do much more than responding to instructions. Producer Ahmed Madi explains the potential of AI and how it might transform the media you consume. Contributors: Jon Christian - Managing editor, Futurism Melissa Heikkilä - Senior reporter, MIT Technology Review Pranav Dixit - Tech reporter, BuzzFeed News Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News

United States media giant Fox News is being sued by Dominion Voting Systems, whose tabulating machines former president Donald Trump insists were rigged against him. The case has produced several "smoking guns", showing that key figures at the network including its owner, Rupert Murdoch, knew Trump’s stolen election narrative was bogus, but chose to broadcast it anyway. Contributors: Peter Jukes - Author, The Fall of the House of Murdoch & co-founder, Byline Times Jay Rosen - Associate professor, New York University David Folkenflik - Media correspondent, NPR Molly Jong-Fast - Special correspondent, Vanity Fair & host, Fast Politics podcast On our radar: Russians have been seeing a flurry of Ukraine-related media activity involving figures on both the pro and anti-Kremlin side - with a Fox News angle served up on the side. Meenakshi Ravi reports. Parodying politics: Taiwan’s satirists: China versus Taiwan. A geopolitical mismatch that satirists are making the most of. Contributors: Chen Tzu-chien - Host & creator, EYECTV Kylie Wang - Co-host, Bailingguo News Yu-hui Tai - Associate professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News

Two months in to the most far-right government in Israel’s history, Palestinians are seeing their rights evaporate while the media - both Israeli and international - underplay the Palestinian plight. Contributors: Sarit Michaeli - International advocacy officer, B'Tselem Issa Amro - Hebron-based Palestinian activist Ziv Stahl - Executive director, Yesh Din; contributor, +974 magazine Khaled Elgindy - Palestinian-Israeli affairs programme, Middle East Institute; author, Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump On our radar: Nearly a month after the earthquake that killed more than 50,000 people across Turkey and Syria, the clampdown continues on critical reporting and anything else the Turkish government deems problematic. Producer Meenakshi Ravi reports on how extensive the crackdown has been. Pakistani journalism in crisis: The Pakistani government is facing trouble on multiple fronts - political, economic, and on security. For the country’s media, things have come to a state where the incentives not to do the journalistic job are often greater than the motivators to actually do it. Contributors: Farzana Ali - Peshawar bureau chief, Aaj TV Amber Shamsi - Director, The Centre for Excellence in Journalism Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News

An electric election campaign has come to an end in Nigeria as voting gets under way for a new president. With a new generation of politically engaged voters, widespread disillusionment with the status quo and a surprise candidate polling strongly, could this election be the inflection point many Nigerians talk about? Contributors: Ayisha Osori - Director of the Executive Vice President’s Office, Open Society Foundations Joachim MacEbong - Senior analyst, Stears Bukola Adebayo - Correspondent, Context Newsroom On our radar: In Tunisia, there has been a sudden and sharp tightening of screws on critics of President Kais Saied. Producer Johanna Hoes has been tracking the string of high-profile arrests. What has war meant for Ukraine’s media? A year after Russia's invasion of their country, Ukrainian journalists speak about the toll of war on them and their profession. Contributors: Marichka Padalko - TV anchor, 1+1 Lina Kushch - Secretary general, Union of Journalists of Ukraine Evgeniy Maloletka - Photojournalist Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News

For the past three months, Peru has been in a state of political turmoil. With one impeached president – Pedro Castillo – in prison and his successor Dina Boluarte managing a tense nation, non-stop protests have rocked the nation. In the midst of this, establishment media – news outlets mostly owned and controlled by Peru’s elite – are at odds with many of the protesters, adding fuel to a raging fire of discontent. Contributors: Simeon Tegel - Peru-based journalist Jonathan Castro - editor, La Encerrona Jacqueline Fowks - Peru specialist, Reporters Without Borders Cecilia Valenzuela - news editor, Caretas On our radar: For the rescuers still trying to find survivors under the earthquake rubble in Turkey and Syria, social media – through messages posted by victims on Youtube, Twitter and Instagram – has helped save lives. But the Turkish government has been riled by some of the online content. A lot of this is criticism of the state’s response to the earthquake, some of which is genuinely false information. Producer Meenakshi Ravi looks into the details of the story. Belarus: Dissidents in exile: For nearly 30 years, Belarus has been ruled by Alexander Lukashenko. Criticism of his autocratic government and its close relationship with the Kremlin comes at a high cost, although some Belarusians in exile still speak out. Producer Johanna Hoes reports on those outside the country who are still getting stories of corruption, repression and forced Russification out. Contributors: Margarita Levchuk - opera singer and political satirist Jan Rudzik - blogger, Post+ Rudzik Yuliana Shemetovets -hacktivist, Cyber Partisans Collective Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News

Under a new, ultra-nationalist Israeli government, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, violence in the occupied Palestinian territories has been escalating at an alarming rate. But the continuing human rights abuses, including the theft of Palestinian land to pave the way for Jewish settlers, are not portrayed as such in the Israeli news media. They either ignore the brutality of the occupation or present a military-friendly version of the story - and neither option is good enough for the Israeli government, which has voices of dissent in its crosshairs. Contributors: Oren Zviv - Journalist, +972 Mag Gideon Levy - Columnist, Haaretz Diana Buttu - Lawyer and analyst Omar Baddar - Political analyst On our radar: The death of one of Rwanda's most prolific investigative journalists - John Williams Ntwali - has sparked suspicion because of how murky the official narrative on his death is. Producer Nic Muirhead reports on the case. Lost in translation: How texts change as they travel: The translation of literature, from one language to another, is tricky business - it’s much more subtle than journalism, less direct. When it comes to Arabic and Persian, literature from the Middle East, translations have been known to come up short, leading to cultural misunderstandings. The kind of misunderstandings that reading the books of the “other” is supposed to correct. Producer Tariq Nafi looks at what gets lost in translation. Contributors: Layla AlAmmar - Author, Silence is a Sense; academic, University of Lancaster Susan Bassnet- Translation theorist and emeritus professor, University of Warwick Muhammad Ali Mojaradi - Translator; founder of @persianpoetics Leri Price - Literary translator Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News

The Indian government’s decision to ban a BBC documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s role in the 2002 Gujarat riots, which left more than a thousand people dead, has become its own story. It has drawn global attention to Modi’s record in office and the subsequent decline of media freedom in the world’s largest democracy. Contributors: Maya Mirchandani - Journalist, The Wire Mitali Saran - Writer and columnist Shruti Kapila - Professor of Indian history and global political thought, University of Cambridge Sanjay Kapoor - Editor, HardNews Magazine On our radar: Investigations by Open Democracy and the Financial Times have uncovered how libel lawyers in London helped Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group and one of Vladimir Putin’s key allies, to go after his critics, including journalists, in the British courts. Producer Tariq Nafi talks us through the findings. Striking Back: United Kingdom's unions vs the media: With the United Kingdom in a state of political disarray, a wave of work stoppages has put trade unions, and the media’s treatment of them, into the spotlight. One particular union leader, Mick Lynch, has flipped the script, putting journalists on the defensive for their habitual anti-union approach. Daniel Turi reports on the coverage of labour issues in the British media. Contributors: Aditya Chakrabortty - Senior economics commentator, The Guardian Julia Langdon - Former political editor, The Sunday Telegraph; former political editor, The Daily Mirror; chairwoman, British Journalism Review Nicholas Jones - Former industrial correspondent, BBC Mick Lynch - General secretary, RMT Union Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News

The stories that have come out of the Twitter Files have touched on much more than institutional bias - revealing that, for years, Twitter has been pressured by some very powerful institutions to suppress, moderate and in some cases amplify its content. But given that Elon Musk was also selective with what he chose to hand over to reporters – what are we not seeing in the Twitter Files? Contributors: Ben Wallace-Wells - Staff writer, The New Yorker Eli Clifton - Senior adviser, Quincy Institute Evan Greer - Director, Fight for the Future Angelo Carusone - President, Media Matters for America On our radar: The killing of yet another Palestinian by Israeli soldiers has led to more misinformation from the army – that Israeli news outlets then dutifully report. Flo Phillips reports on how these shifting narratives keep playing out. The Menace of SLAPPs: A SLAPP - a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation - is a type of legal case deployed against journalists, academics and public interest activists. Meenakshi Ravi explains how SLAPPs have become a regular tool to try and silence journalistic work. Contributors: Caroline Kean - Media litigation specialist and partner, Wiggin LLP Paul Radu - Investigative journalist and co-founder, Organized Crime & Corruption Reporting Project Annelie Östlund - Investigative journalist, Realtid Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News

The recent invasion of Brazil’s democratic institutions, days after President Lula da Silva was sworn in, looks like a carbon copy of the January 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol in the United States. Like MAGA Americans, many of Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters have been radicalised online and, as the Trump-Bolsonaro effect hits Brazil, the country’s issues with misinformation are exposed. Contributors: David Nemer - Assistant professor, University of Virginia Charlotte Peet - Journalist Gustavo Ribeiro - Founder, The Brazilian Report Rose Marie Santini - Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Director, NetLab On our radar: In Belarus this week, reporters from what was once the country’s top independent news outlet went on trial. Meenakshi Ravi reports on Alexander Lukashenko’s crackdown on journalists that looks Putin-esque. The Mafia’s TikTok takeover: Elements of the Italian underworld are surfacing online. Flo Phillips reports from Rome on the Mafia’s new stomping ground - TikTok. Contributors: Alessandra Dolci - Deputy prosecutor, Milan Anti-Mafia Directorate Nico Falco - Journalist, Fanpage Marcello Ravveduto - Professor of digital public history, University of Salerno Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News

On this special edition of our programme - a timeline of our reports through 2022 on the media dimension of this conflict - from the build-up to the invasion, right through the messaging war and the global media’s news coverage. Contributors: Max Seddon - Moscow bureau chief, Financial Times Ekaterina Kotrikadze - News director and anchor, TV Rain Terrell Starr - Host, Black Diplomats podcast Alexey Kovalyov - Investigative editor, Meduza Branko Marcetic - Writer, Jacobin Natalia Antelava - Editor-in-chief, Coda Story Vera Tolz - Professor of Russian Studies, University of Manchester Maria Avdeeva - Disinformation researcher Melinda Haring - Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council James Rodgers - Author, Assignment Moscow Aglaya Snetkov - Associate professor, International Politics of Russia, University College London Mikhail Fishman - Anchor, TV Rain Jade McGlynn - Department of War Studies, King’s College London Katrina vanden Heuvel - Editorial director, The Nation George Beebe - Former director of Russia Analysis, CIA Leonid Ragozin - Journalist and author

Gautam Adani - India’s richest man with close ties to Prime Minister Narendra Modi - is in the midst of a takeover of NDTV, a news network considered one of the last bastions of critical journalism on the Indian airwaves. If the sale does go through - what are the chances that Adani will prioritise his relationship with power over the channel’s independence? Contributors: Ravi Nair - Journalist & commentator Raksha Kumar - Mumbai-based journalist Atul Chaurasia - Executive editor, Newslaundry Kapil Komireddi - Author, Malevolent Republic On our radar: Meta - the company that owns Facebook - is being sued for nearly $2bn for allegedly not adequately monitoring violent and hateful posts from Ethiopia on its platform. Producer Meenakshi Ravi has the details of the case. Changing the Face(book) of Italy’s media landscape: In the decade since its birth, Fanpage has grown from a Facebook page to an award-winning investigative news website, gradually reshaping the staid Italian media landscape. Producer Flo Phillips reports, from Naples, on how the Facebook page-turned-news source symbolises a shift in the country’s media. Contributors: Gaia Martignetti - Video reporter, Fanpage Francesco Cancellato - Editor-in-chief, Fanpage Alessio Cornia - Research associate, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News

Israel’s incoming government, elected six weeks ago, is shaping up as the most extreme in the country’s history - waging war on media workers, then trying to cover up its crimes. But evidence of those crimes frequently ends up online thanks to citizen journalism and satellite imagery - and that is making an impact, often bigger abroad than at home. Contributors: Yara Hawari - Senior policy analyst, al-Shabaka Diana Buttu - Human rights lawyer & former adviser to the PLO Joshua Leifer - Contributing editor, Jewish Currents Daniel Levy - President, US/Middle East Project On our radar: Just five months after fleeing Moscow and setting up shop in the Latvian capital, Riga, independent Russian broadcaster, TV Rain, or Dozhd, has had its broadcasting licence revoked, once again. Producer Meenakshi Ravi outlines the NATO country’s reasoning. The Middle East’s first World Cup: Ever since Qatar won its bid to host the World Cup 12 years ago, football journalists have been reporting on issues that go well beyond the pitch. Producer Johanna Hoes reports, from Doha, on the news coverage of the World Cup and what the tournament's legacy could be for Brand Qatar. Contributors: Abdullah al-Arian - Author, Football in the Middle East Zahra Babar - Georgetown University in Qatar Craig LaMay - Northwestern University in Qatar Sam Cunningham - Chief football correspondent, The iPaper Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News

After two years of some of the most stringent COVID restrictions in the world, many in China are fed up and are demanding a loosening of the controls - in some cases, even calling out President Xi Jinping. They are running the gauntlet of a surveillance state that comes down hard on dissent. Contributors: Victor Gao - vice president, Center for China and Globalization Carl Zha - host, Silk & Steel podcast Lizzi Lee - journalist, Wall St TV & Host, Live with Lizzi Lee Josh Chin - deputy China bureau chief, Wall Street Journal On our radar: An open letter to Washington from five international newspapers says that the United States's demand for Wikileaks founder and whistleblower Julian Assange's extradition sets a “dangerous precedent” for freedom of the press. Art in times of turmoil in Sri Lanka: The Sri Lankan protests which forced former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa out of office featured memes, viral videos, songs, dances, cartoons and caricatures. The protest art conveyed what mainstream media could not - or would not: Sri Lankans were done with the Rajapaksas and their corruption. Contributors: Hasini Haputhanthri - cultural sociologist Sanjana Hattotuwa - research fellow, The Disinfo Project Randy Chriz Perera - artist and animator Vasi Samudra Devi - artist and activist Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News

As the war in Ukraine hits nine months, the news output is becoming harder, not easier, to navigate. Much of the coverage is misleading at best and dangerous at worst - and with the war showing no signs of stopping, even the term diplomacy has somehow become a dirty word. Contributors: Branko Marcetic - writer, Jacobin magazine Leonid Ragozin - journalist George Beebe - director of grand strategy, Quincy Institute think tank On our radar: One week down, three weeks to go for World Cup 2022 and some Western news outlets are still doubting Qatar’s suitability as a host country. Others are pointing out the double standards at play. Producer Johanna Hoes reports from Doha on the competing narratives off the pitch. Destination Damascus: Social media tourism arrives in Syria: As travel content out of Syria draws millions of hits online, some Syrians raise concerns about its potential PR benefits. Producer Ahmed Madi explores the curious world of travel vlogging and what looks like a victory lap for Bashar al-Assad's regime. Contributors: Paul Nabil Matthis - Syrian-American author and TikTok content creator Sarah Hunaidi - exiled Syrian writer and communications and advocacy consultant Davud Akhundzada - travel content creator Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News

It has been less than a month since Elon Musk took over Twitter - and things do not seem to be going well for "social media’s public square". With thousands of employees laid off and advertisers pulling money from the platform, many wonder what will be left of Twitter by the time Musk is done? Contributors: Lia Holland - Campaigns and communications director, Fight for the Future Chris Stokel-Walker - Technology journalist  and author, TikTok Boom Jenna Golden - Founder, Golden Strategies and former Twitter employee Marwa Fatafta - MENA policy director, Access Now On our radar: Football fans everywhere are turning their attention to Qatar as the 2022 World Cup officially kicks off. Producer Johanna Hoes reports from Doha on the - at times unwanted - media attention Qatar is receiving, and how organisers are attempting to manage the messaging, a PR legacy that will live well beyond December 18th. As the world overheats, what’s it like to be a climate journalist? Another COP summit has come and gone and whether approaching climate change from the Global South or North - it is a challenging story to cover. The Listening Post speaks with two journalists who share the relentless effort it takes to report on the world’s most complex issue. Contributors: Leo Hickman - Director, Carbon Brief Elaíze Farias - Journalist, Amazônia Real

With world leaders gathered in Egypt for the latest UN climate summit, the agenda could not be clearer. Experts say the policies governments put in place at last year’s conference in Scotland will still leave large parts of the planet uninhabitable. The lack of progress has many questioning the COP process. Contributors: Bahar Dutt - Environmental journalist; associate professor, Shiv Nadar University Asad Rehman - Executive director, War on Want; lead spokesperson, Climate Justice Coalition Katharine Hayhoe - Chief scientist, The Nature Conservancy Joanna Depledge - Former programme officer, UN Climate Secretariat; research fellow, Climate Strategies On our radar: Egypt is under fire over the case of activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, whose imprisonment has threatened to overshadow proceedings for COP27. Tariq Nafi looks into the case. Prigozhin: the man doing Putin's dirty work Yevgeny Prigozhin is the Russian oligarch best known as the man behind Wagner - a private military company - mercenaries notorious for doing the Kremlin’s bidding overseas. He’s also the creator of a media network which has produced propaganda and misinformation in Russia and abroad. Contributor: Ilya Barabanov - Journalist, BBC Credit: 'All Eyes On Wagner' - a project by OpenFacto dedicated to tracking Wagner mercenaries’ activities around the world and their alleged abuses. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News

Not content with manufacturing cars, generating energy, getting into space travel - Elon Musk is in the midst of a $44bn takeover of Twitter. Now he has also been involved in foreign policy conflicts - from Russia-Ukraine to China and Taiwan. Musk clearly considers himself a geopolitical player, but he is entering a world in which he has no expertise, just interests. Contributors: Chris Stokel-Walker - Technology journalist & author, TikTokBoom Peter Micek - General counsel, Access Now Jason Jay Smart - Special correspondent, Kyiv Post Siva Vaidhyanathan - Professor of media studies, University of Virginia; author, Anti-social Media On our radar: Rupert Murdoch is on the verge of yet another business move, wanting to combine the two halves of his media empire: the TV side - Fox Corp - with the online news business - News Corp. Producer Meenakshi Ravi explores how the merger is much more an exercise in succession planning than a business deal in itself. Striking Back: UK’s Unions vs the Media: With the United Kingdom in a state of political disarray, a rare wave of work stoppages has put trade unions – and the media’s treatment of them – into the spotlight. Following successive rail strikes, right-wing newspapers have blamed the unions for travel disruptions, but one union leader - Mick Lynch - has flipped the script – putting journalists on the defensive over their habitual anti-union approach. Daniel Turi reports on the coverage of labour issues in the British media. Contributors: Aditya Chakrabortty - Senior economics commentator, The Guardian Julia Langdon - Former political editor, The Sunday Telegraph; former political editor, The Daily Mirror; chairwoman, British Journalism Review Nicholas Jones - Former industrial correspondent, BBC Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News

Inside Russia, the narrative around the "war" is changing. The pro-war Putin-faithful are grappling with defeats they never expected and generals are taking the flak from public figures, loyalists on state TV channels, and even military bloggers. Contributors: Jade McGlynn - Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies Maxim Alyukov - King’s Russia Institute, King’s College London Mikhail Fishman - Anchor, Dozhd TV Katrina vanden Heuvel - Editorial director, The Nation On our radar: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei finally broke his silence on the protests that have shaken the country for weeks. Producer Flo Phillips analyses Khamenei’s speech - key parts of which he also tweeted - and the repercussions it has had at home and abroad. Russia: National myths and rewriting history: Last year, the Kremlin published an essay - in Vladimir Putin’s name - arguing that Russians and Ukrainians are of the same Slavic nation. This new historical discourse has been key in the narrative built around the invasion of Ukraine. Producer Tariq Nafi looks into the battle over historical memory in Russia. Contributors: Nikita Petrov - Historian and member, Memorial Yevgenia Albats - Journalist and editor-in-chief, The New Times Mikhail Myagkov - Scientific director, Russian Military-Historical Society Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News

After being forced off mainstream social media, QAnon followers fled to the outer reaches of the internet and, since then, QAnon’s gamification of reality has morphed into more pragmatic goals - like electing certain politicians. Chief among them is Donald Trump, whose occasional flirtation with the movement has moved to more of an open embrace. Contributors: Mia Bloom - Professor of communication, Georgia State University Alex Kaplan - Senior researcher, Media Matters for America Kurt Eichenwald - Author and journalist Julian Feeld - Host and producer, QAnon Anonymous podcast On our radar: In a televised speech this past week, President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia is not ruling out the use of nuclear weapons to protect its people. Producer Johanna Hoes reports on how this threat is still reverberating overseas - and how it’s had consequences for the people and the pundits at home. A Game Designer’s Analysis Of QAnon: Game designer Reed Berkowitz explores how the world of QAnon is similar to the ones he creates - in alternate reality games. His analysis explains how our flawed minds work, and how easily we can be dragged down the conspiratorial rabbit hole. Contributor: Reed Berkowitz - Game designer Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News