this is news live from fighting to keep the media free of censorship on world press freedom day asks journalists why honest and accurate reporting is so crucial we take the pulse of the media around the globe. also coming up a white house legal aid confirms that president trump is now about any payment to buy the silence of the porn star despite an earlier just aisle we will hear from washington about the latest on rudy giuliani's revelation and what it could mean

for the special counsel investigation plus a powerful dust storm kills more than one hundred people in india extreme winds and smashing walls and tear up trees across the northeast and a milestone for g.w. as germany's international broadcaster turns sixty five from a short wave radio station to a worldwide multimedia network we will ask george chevelle as director general what's being done to deliver news that comes down on the side of facts and truth over political agendas. as the latest from republika a digital conference taking place right here in berlin on this year's agenda how to protect internet users from business. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program. today marks world press freedom day n d w

is taking a closer look at the seed of press freedom around the world the international watchdog reporters without borders says that hostility toward the press is on the rise worldwide often encouraged by political leaders even in democratic countries it classify the situation in seventy out of one hundred eighty countries as bad or very bad they are the colored regions of our map now we're going to drill down and have a closer look at china and iran now because they remain among the world's worst countries for journalists first to china where all media are subject to strict censorship and foreign journalists can be closely monitored it is estimated that at least fifteen journalists and around forty bloggers are currently in custody meantime in iran media are also strictly controlled by the states journalists can face harsh and even violent reprisals if they step out a line of one hundred eighty countries abroad ranks one hundred and sixty fourth on

the for us on the press freedom list and there's turkey as well while the state there doesn't completely control all media there are very few remaining independent outlets some thirty five journalists in the country are reported jailed more than almost anywhere else in the world now ranked one hundred twenty sixth on the reporters without borders index is in bottle and joining us now on the line from the capital we have from harare journalist journalist columbus. who is with us now in columbus we understand that you were actually reporting in the country when the military took over and put then president robert mugabe under house arrest the army called a press conference you attended a press conference with a colleague just walk us through what happened.

well as we can hear there or rather as we cannot hear there we cannot hear our guest who is joining us from harare unfortunately we are trying to get him back a little bit later in the show but in the meantime we want to tell you as part of world's press freedom day he asked journalists around the globe to explain what press freedom means to them. freedom of the press may seem like an abstract concept something very vague doesn't really mean it means that you have the information to make up your mind and to speak out but if we don't protect journalists like me that is true actually so much more than that because. if you are free let me tell you why freedom of expression is one of your fundamental human rights written down in the united nations the universal declaration of human

rights it says everyone has a right to freedom of opinion and expression this right includes freedom to whole opinions without interference and to seek receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. and let me tell you about my cancer in poland we have a limitation of press freedom governments to control the state media and shout broadcast pure propaganda and the private media and so birth political economical pressure by discover meant in two thousand eight hundred within a month six hundred forty eight people reject tamed over social media posts criticizing the government's policy and military operations in syria and they were not only journalists the constant harassment of nigerian journalists for doing. this and to subdue society and it limits the ability of society to order government

to account here in the united states the freedom of the press means that if you work for taxpayers chances are your work emails are public records. and that has enabled plenty of journalists to uncover areas of corruption in conflicts of interest that never would have otherwise been discovered here in kenya press freedom allows the citizens to make informed decisions especially during elections this march three indian journalists covering sound mining. were run over by a recall they were murdered and they were murdered because they were exposing the activity of illegal extraction of sand from which many people profited and those people did not want the public to know that the public's money was being stalled i didn't want all of the most dangerous countries to work as journalist around the world. and i have witnessed how self-censorship

and the lack of justice in our institutions have caused many grads and many of my colleagues to be exiled and given that challenging environment for a journalist as we just heard there today is recognizing a man who has chosen to speak out and challenge those in power risking his freedom to do sell said south of the law is the winner of this year's g w freedom of speech award he criticized the iranian government over protests there last year. at the end of december twenty seventeen iran's though its biggest anti-government demonstrations in almost a decade the protests quickly spread to dozens of cities and towns across the country. just days after going to arrest a rep did so dexie back alam gave an interview to d.w. far as the he characterized the demonstrators as young people disappointed with the

entire political system. and sent more than two thirds of people are dissatisfied with the islamic republic those views didn't go down well with the a rainy and or thora sees they accuse the back of spreading false information and propaganda against the islamic republic. he was sentenced to eighteen months in prison and barred from social media for two years she is appealing the decision. what should be punished someone has expressed an opinion what she's not contactable which is starting line which is not in all of the answers because it got well meant open ian chillag quanties should i go eighteen months into prison. it's not the first time the academic has received a jail sentence for speaking his mind. he's become a well known figure in iran for challenging the government narrative on many

sensitive issues from the country's nuclear program to foreign policy. and he has a large audience online and telegram which was banned by the iranian authorities this week he has almost one hundred pages and followers. on instagram almost seven hundred pages and. has vowed to keep on expressing his opinions despite the official threats against him. i hope for for iran is genuine i really i sincerely or i am not a daydream it is just thinking because i believe that they want to see what will eventually prevail in iran. let's get a quick check now of some other stories that have been making news around the world britain's political burtons politicians have joined voters of casting their ballots

in local elections the vote is being seen as a crucial test for prime minister to resign means government less than a year before the u.k. is due to leave the european union more than four thousand seats on one hundred fifty local councils are at stake in towns and cities across england. are many as political crisis could be set to end the country's willing party has said that it is ready to back the opposition leader. caution john for the post of prime minister as he keeps his supporters off the streets the climb down comes after mass protests in support of him which brought parts of the country to a standstill. and police in southern germany have raided an asylum seekers' hostel to detain a totally is man for deportation authorities want to return him to italy the country where he should have applied for asylum fellow refugees have prevented a previous attempt to apprehend the man. a pornstar the president and his new

lawyer that have been more there have been more twists in the stormy daniels scandal surrounding the u.s. president and before we renew the latest we want to take a look at what we know so far because the porn actress stephanie clifford stage name stormy daniels alleges that she had sex with donald trump back in two thousand and six one year after he married his wife milan in two thousand and sixteen daniels was paid one hundred thirty thousand dollars by trump's lawyer michael cohen she says it was hush money to keep her quiet about the alleged sexual encounter the payment was made just days before the twenty six thousand presidential election raising questions of campaign financing violations trump has denied ever having sex with daniels he also previously denied knowledge of the payment to our. but truong. so you lawyer rudy giuliani says that the us president did repay his personal attorney the one hundred thirty thousand dollars the lawyer used to silence stormy daniels something the president has now confirmed

via twitter this directly contradicts trump's earlier statements about the alleged concerns about the payment now during an appearance on fox news channel hannity the former new york city mayor said that the money paid to daniels had been funneled through trump's personal attorneys law firm and that it did not come from election campaign funds have a listen having something to do with paying some stormy daniels woman hundred thirty thousand i mean which is going to turn out to be perfectly legal. that money was not campaign money sorry i'm giving you a fact now that you don't know it's not campaign money no campaign finance violation so they funneled through a law firm for move through over the president. and trump himself has since confirmed that he did reimburse michael cohen for the payment to stormy daniels of that of course contradiction as previous statements that he had no knowledge of the

payment and in a series of tweets today emphasize that the money did not come from campaign funds check this out saying that cohen was paid a retainer which had nothing to do with the campaign he then used his money to pay stormy daniels who signed in non-disclosure agreement this agreement trump said was used to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair trump said that it was a quote private agreement and that money from the campaign played no role in the transaction and you can see that text being highlighted there so a lot of words to sort through my own kirsten phenomena standing by now with the latest from washington so just to recap trump saying the payment was made through a retainer not from the campaign however he initially denied all knowledge of the payment to begin with now giuliani says he did know about it where does the truth

lie here. yes donald trump only last month when he was a us directly about this by a reporter on force one on the presidential plane if he knew anything about those payments he said flat out no he didn't know who the giuliani was trying to argue with that was the president didn't know the details of this whole thing but this is payment was as you said through a month three retainer that was no direct connection there but of course that's not want the president said he said flat out you know i don't know about this and does another thing both the trump and giuliani claim that there was no connection to the complain but julian himself in another t.v. appearance this morning also said well you know there were the presidential debates going on it was shortly before the election and cohen was concerned about it and

and i quote he says he did his job cohen so clearly giuliani is contradicting himself and. cohen or trumbo both violated come pain regulations because it might have been contained money but it was money to influence the complaint and how about the president himself i mean are there any moral implications here has trump in lying to the american public to do they even care. bottom line yes on the trump law it's once again i mean to give you an idea of what we are dealing with here the washington post has made the efforts to document all folds and misleading statements donald trump has made since he became president and according to that column we are talking about on average five lies or five full salutes every day from dawn the trump now if those are really clearly lies or if they're just hype

a goal or if donald trump doesn't know the facts or he doesn't care about the facts or is making things up that might be. where the question of interpretation but the bottom line there is really that you can hardly believe anything coming from this president all the white house it's also true though that most or many americans at least don't count on the trump's approval ratings are quite stable actually they are much better now than they were a few months ago carsten phenomena in washington thank you. and now to a powerful dust storm that has left more than a hundred people dead in india extreme winds and rains brought down trees and destroyed temporary structures throughout the northwest causing many of those deaths officials confirm that more than one hundred other people have been injured and warn the death toll could rise as the storm rolled in

the dust and winds were only important of the violence to come. it wasn't until nightfall that the storm revealed its full fury. battering residents with rain hail in unusually fast winds. the storm caught many by surprise as indies and will months one season is still weeks away. as the winds begin to subside victims rushed to the hospitals in the states of rogers town and pradesh which bore the brunt of the storm's power. many were injured by falling debris as the winds up rooted trees and toppled buildings. in our district we have information of five deaths due to a high intensity thunderstorm at least twenty two people are critically injured and are being given treatment at a trauma center of the district hospital. it was only as daylight came that the extent of the damage began to become clear dozens have already been confirmed

killed and authorities say the number of dead and injured is likely to rise as they continue their search in the region's more remote villages. you're watching news still to come on the program germany demands better privacy features from facebook so users can safeguard their data while the backlash against the tech giant from our social media desk. but first volkswagen is promising to clean up its corporate culture and they do it helena a bit of an uphill battle one might say sara but anyway v.w. boss how that d.c. using his first general assembly to call for a more honest open truthful and ethical company culture insiders more often used the words fear and respect to describe the work of fox fog and on the all of its hierarchies while the german car maker is still trying to convince the world that it is cleaning up its act in the wake of the emissions cheating scandal. greenpeace

activists protest outside v.w. the annual general meeting they're calling for climate friendly vehicles clean up reach this banner and they need the corporate culture as well inside as ever high performance models are on show including hybrids and electric vehicles to diesel great prices is still not completely out of sight and some shareholders remain skeptical. concern leap from for the company needs its loyal customers if they go you may as well forget about the business altogether. you have to go for the call definitely yes that's true if sales are good the dividends will be as well we tried v w two when it comes to decision making at the company the portion piece families have their say as well as the b.w. workers can slam the state of lower saxony they all have high hopes for head back deals who they made false in april and he wants to change the corporate culture. in these parts that must become more honest more openness in

a word more truthful and so that we don't make ourselves more vulnerable again. he says putting his foot on the gas when it comes to restructuring and electric vehicles. imo get the money mr g.'s has brought the brand forward which his previous answers didn't do. that breath of fresh air. asia nonissue is not from the old b. w. school so hopefully she will not be tainted by the diesel issue of. the news from the diesel term arctic and that's a view most small investors seem to share the newly appointed v.w. boss started job with of those of confidence. so we asked our correspondent in frankfurt early bartz what the new v.w. bosses chances actually were of changing that company culture. there's six hundred forty thousand employees at the w.

and most of the top echelon some of them he's jettisoned but most of them are still along for the ride and when you look at the supervisory board the ownership structure of the province of lower saxony the ph in the ports for families and the huge influence of the workers' council he's opposed against quite some opposition and he's instigated a new whistleblower program or put some more force behind that integration for intake of integrity and the question is he will at some point have to produce results to show people that he really has some bite whether he can really do that in that environment they question mark it's a really tough job. send a big question and there from about in frankfurt now we all know that conference calls can sometimes be a little bit all quiet but what about when they go disastrously wrong well at the moment electric cars make a tesla continues to burn three will cash that it's going in c.e.o. you know musk has done little to ease investors fees during

a cold with shareholders well instead he refused to aunt's analysts questions calling them so dry and so not cool test the share price plunge the company and losing over two billion dollars in market capitalization in just one phone call you have to say shouldn't but it denton sales though that all over four hundred fifty thousand people on a waiting list for a test up. when it's just eight years old but chinese company show me is already the world's fourth biggest small phone producer and now expanding its next milestone an initial public offering at the hong kong stock exchange this year according to reports the company twenty fourteen in the first quarter of this year's show me sold twenty eight million small phones worldwide eight point four percent all the markets. back to sarah now in the growing worldwide backlash against facebook. thank you so much

helena we're going to turn now to some efforts in fact from the german government which has demanded that facebook clean up its act and fast in fact in a letter to c.e.o. mark zuckerberg the german justice minister of barly called the social media giants behavior quote unacceptable she said that facebook must do more to protect users privacy the letter comes as berg is working hard to win back the trust of his over two billion users and as you can see elizabeth's show is standing by our social media. little bit more about how he plans to do that so i mean it has been two months since the facebook came which analytical scandal broke of course under a lot of intense pressure as we've heard he has to prove that he's serious about privacy what is the plan. the plan is to introduce a number of features that will allow users to take control of their data that they're sharing on facebook one of those features is called clear history and mark

zuckerberg has explained on facebook just how this feature will work so he writes in a post once we roll out of this update you'll be able to see information about the apps and websites you've interacted with this is information that facebook will track and store and you'll also be able to clear this information from your account you even be able to turn off having this information stored with your account but then sarah he goes on to warn users saying facebook want to be as good while it's really learns your preferences if you decide to use that feature and in fact this is something that lots of users and also politicians and activists had been calling for for years in the meantime liz we have news also that zuckerberg is looking to get into the dating game tell us more about that. yeah that's true and this is something else that he has announced and fact many believe that facebook will

actually be good in the matchmaking business because research has shown that facebook knows more about you than your parents than your siblings than your spouse even so they believe that this thing can actually work and mark zuckerberg has also explained what we can expect from this service this is what he said let's listen and. this is going to be going for building real long term relationships not just hook ups. it's going to be in the facebook app it's totally optional so often if you want you can make a dating profile and i know a lot of you have questions about this so i want to be clear that we've designed this with privacy and safety in mind from the beginning your friends are going to see a profile you're only going to suggest to people who are not your friends who have opted into dating for your preferences although i can't promise that you're going to be made. so we don't know yet when this new service will

be rolled out but of course there are a lot of people worried about how facebook will protect the kind of sensitive and personal data that they would share on such a service if they are looking for a potential partner or and so many questions a day at elizabeth show our social media task thank you. sports now and a remarkable demonstration of how rapidly the relations between north and south korea are changing that's after recent diplomatic efforts to end the korean peninsula as nuclear standoff teams for the two countries were set to face off at the world table tennis championships in sweden but what transpired instead was something really special. people time to is to separate korean teams each vying for a price in the world championship semifinals this is a special time for north south relations and after the purse for peace from that

leaders last week it was time for politics to meet ping pong very very. thoroughly very. very. pretty little review. you know. we prefer not to be. i. told. her. a historic moment and perhaps a first in the history of international sports amidst stronger together there and with that you're up to date on news we have more coming up after a short break i'm sara kelley in berlin at the scene.

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be peace. playing the germans started make thirteenth call on t.w. . welcome back to news i'm sorry kelly in berlin. top stories on. media around the world have marked world press freedom day according to a new report by reporters without borders hostility to the press is growing with countries such as china turkey and iran among the worst offenders. legal aid has changed the story over allegations that the president came to hush money porn stars drawn the daniel story the twenty six thousand election campaign. told fox news hannity that trunk didn't know of the payments contradicting an earlier denial trump also says that the money did not come from campaign funds and

. it has been more than seven months since the syrian city of rocco was liberated from the so-called islamic state the militants had captured in two thousand and thirteen and made it their defacto capital but last october a coalition of kurdish and arab fighters backed by u.s. special forces ousted i-s. after a four month see the liberation of iraq marked a turning point in the war against the islamic state today only a few patches of land in syria are still under the group's control they no longer rule an extensive territory but rock remains in ruins we have this report now from the former i ask capital. was once the capital city of the so-called islamic state. now it's a waste. seventy percent of the buildings are in ruin so severely damaged despite the united nations says one hundred thousand people live returns to live in the

city. this resident fled the fighting she's lost everything she had. all the money but i don't know what happened when i came back everything i owned was burnt there's nothing left it. was subject to the full force of the so-called islamic state which ruled an area the size of britain from the city. in october islamist fighters were ousted afternoon intense aerial bombing campaign by an international coalition and a ground assault by kurdish and arab militias and now there's the constant danger of booby traps there are signs to warn the residents but the un ses as many as one hundred twenty people a month are killed by the bombs most of the victims are women and children there's no international help in clearing the threat and everywhere reminders of resigning state rule locals say is a misuse this church is a cause and as

a base for the religious police. on tiffin of money at this place is full of forms but there are also police charge sheets and written court judgments. in theory these documents shouldn't be here western and kurdish intelligence agencies claim they seized all the evidence they could to find out who joined us like this report here. a member of the religious police called abu abdullah caught a man with eight packets of cigarettes another man was arrested for using evil words it's unclear what happened to the i.a.s. and forces and the people they targeted and then this square in central rocca the ultimate symbol of islamic state power and the place of execution abu ahmed said he stays joining i ass rule you know there were no squares called nine square paradise square but everyone called it the square of hell. the i.s.

people were always hear about they hung around in restaurants drinking for jews or they went to the internet. you know. and over there they stuck heads on spikes and crucified people. the world watched as rockefeller now half a year later the city seems forgotten there's no running water and the electricity supply is ready on but there are places of hope i guess tortured people in this stadium now people are playing soccer here again and there's music being played deafening loud. everyone can hear it after it was banned for so long i. went out to a story of some justice for south africa's miners helena has won thank you sara yes that's right justice for some of them thousands of south africa minus of being compensated for lung disease now the settlement is the results of years of campaigning and is worth around four hundred million dollars it covers workers from

several big mining companies employed between nine hundred sixty five and today now many of them contracted tuberculosis often hating silica dust while drilling for gold among other metals now the families of those who died will receive compensation as part of the settlement. and with me now in the studio is the chef and mode who's normally in johannesburg he's going to be back there very shortly thank you for stopping off to come and speak to us here in but a now we're talking about the largest class action settlement in south africa historic day sadly some of the claimants are no longer alive tell us about the conditions that they were working in i think you know especially in the south african case you have to realize that the silicosis is not just a normal epidemic it's a racist demick because it used to be the case black mineworkers were intentionally more exposed to the dust that basically courses you know the epidemic of silicosis

whereas white mineworkers would be rather put into a of a c. function and this happened over the kates and obviously. you have to acknowledge that if you speak about the conditions the monarch as you know used to use to work an absolutely shocking case of racial discrimination that as well could we end up seeing more class action suits now thousands of people currently being compensated but of course we're talking about a big industry. you know in fact i talked today with some of the community leaders of the nine communities who are basically also involved in lawsuits against the big business and they told me you know it is a big victory for us it is a big victory for the communities and it's a big victory for the mine workers but you know now we have to see you know what is going to happen with we don't know what's going to happen with the families of what's going to happen really with the mine workers so and as i understand it is

not yet completely clear so the future will show this and i believe that this is going to be you know the stepping stone for further actions to happen i know it's a very important point that you make because we've had intense you know media spotlight on this case for the past couple of years the campaigning has been going on as i understand for the past six years has anything ready started to change within the industry or are people still working in one all perilous conditions. what you also have to see is that the mining industry in south africa is in a big crisis at the moment hundreds of thousands of jobs on the line and many were already fired and this obviously has a big impact on the communities you know surrounding the mines basically living from the mines and living from the salaries the mine workers bring home the conditions in these. communities did not improve the conditions are

still dire and really really harsh there may have been improvements you know in terms of. you know safety regulations health regulations but. the general conditions of the people living there i don't really think it improved durable we will keep an eye on what happens of course a new president as well he's promised economic reforms but stephan most thank you very much for coming in and sharing your insights and safe trip back to johannesburg. now anyone who has paid attention in geography class will know that the gobi desert is huge it's straw and freezing cold but it's also considered the most fertile part of mung mongolia with china's community of wine of is growing every year why not make wine that. a vineyard on the edge of the gobi desert in the spring time the great finds are cleared off after spending that cold dry winter covered in protective soil it takes

several weeks to resurrect the vineyard which is or deficient you're a gated but no one funky isn't at all put off by the challenges the wife will look at even though it's expensive and complicated we said let's do this we want to be able to make our own high quality chinese wine since setting up the con and winery in the name john province seven years ago one fund has been granted a number of accolades she discovered her love of wine in germany where she lived for a decade the vintner and her staff are always experimenting to get tastes just right she doesn't have a professional qualification but you don't necessarily need one to be able to identify the perfect flavor so what's her secret. my wine palate. i love wine. drinking it is my hobby and. if you really love wine you need to be able to rely on your palate need to be able to say

no that's not right. something still missing. one funks father has a winery of his own right across the way one fang you was the first person to cultivate grapes in the region that was fifteen years ago despite the less than ideal climate he was confident that the soil was suitable the retired agricultural engineer and a colleague thanks to the authorities to lease them a piece of land. back then they said nothing would come of this old folks wanting to grow wine here. but one thing you stuck to his guns and these days investing in wine has become fashionable even the regional government has and on the game it's invested some eight hundred million euros in this sector today authorities are inspecting a prospective wine growing site investing here means joining a state cooperative group that the funding for one day

a premium brand of chinese wines will be produced here so far small wine growers are the only ones to have really found success here one fun produces eighty thousand bottles a year she's introduced to reasoning who have a great from germany she often gets visits from abroad her wines cost between twenty and one hundred fifty euros a bottle. but. it's a higher price than what you would pay for a similar quality in other countries that have a history of wine growing people but i think it'll settle and it's certainly high quality. they're hoping that one day they go be desert it will be familiar to wine lovers the world over. well cheers to that back to sarah now in a very special birthday to say. the organization that we work for the the the station of course that all of you viewers are watching at the moment to

a developed turning sixty five years old today and over the years germany's international broadcaster has become a worldwide multimedia network reaching more than one hundred fifty seven million people weekly we'll take a look back at how far it's come and the challenges ahead as d.w. looks to press on with free and fair reporting. are you. for your borders or what i was you know side of the law but the tens of thousands of people on the justice macho thousands have gathered for the opposition rally their ground is shaking as hungary sealed off its border to croatia. for joy that they can learn how to drive. from the deserts of saudi arabia to the streets of the south indian it is our politics and power struggles are delaying the development of the entire country. and the corridors of power that minneapolis each he or she went out to buy a house across t.v.

radio online and social media. to india like most feel they didn't use on facebook like deutsche of their lives multinational teams of journalists bring reliable information to millions of people across the world in thirty languages. the station launched on the third of may nine hundred fifty three in the west german city of cologne. is to dodge a bullet the shortwave radio programs in german women to provide a source of information for germans living abroad but its reach soon expanded to include programming in other languages. in the last sweater jeremiah you see love what manama in one nine hundred sixty one the first bricks of the berlin wall laid the foundations for the w.'s current role as a voice for western democracy listeners behind the iron curtain used was

a source of unbiased news you mentioned ron is that people were isolated and weren't allowed to travel they lived in permanent fear and stress they listens to all foreign war cost is not just torture vella the other form stations to the north georgia vella had an excellent reputation for the. referred to. the fall of the berlin wall and german reunification heralded a new era for deutsche vella in one nine hundred ninety two t.w. launched its satellite television station. point ok choppy. initially d.w. t.v. broadcast six hours of daily news programs in german in english the european view is devoted. and it was political turmoil at the turn of the century brought even more changes to the broadcaster after the war in afghanistan t w helped rebuild the media there to strengthen dialogue with the arab world it launched t.v.

programs in arabic and no we'll you know they call him a so long to work related though he is a little clip of the today show chabad talk has become one of the most successful programs in the region. around three thousand people from more than sixty countries now work for door to bella from the german cities of bonn and berlin to go from there and across the world. as d.w. expands further it holds fast to the values of democracy it was built on covering the stories that matter most and championing free and fair reporting into the future. and our chief political editor mahela spoke with g.w.'s director general peter lever. so missile invoked when dot civility w was founded in one nine hundred fifty three sixty five years ago it was

a very different world from today how has changed. i think we once were the voice for the germans abroad we are here for informing people around the world and this means that we stand for freedom of press we stand for freedom of speech and the most important thing is to bring information to those who don't have access to information in the proper own countries now press freedom is increasingly coming under pressure once again particular also in europe why is that the case. i think there are many reasons probably also that autocrats rediscovered the power of media and there are a lot of international broadcasters who don't do journalism the do propaganda p.r. and the internet with all its benefits also doesn't help always because it is a great platform for disinformation and so autocrats dictators have discovered this and so it is getting more and more difficult to bring through the real news but on

the other hand we have a quite strong brand here with. ninety six percent of our users think that we are reliable so i think if you have a strong brand you have to have two you have the chance to get through to the audience and the other question is how to. show that people must learn how to get access to media how to work with media i think this is very important literacy of media so that all this together can maybe bring on a bit more power in this struggle against this information deutsche about is also taking a stance it has just awarded its freedom of speech award to the reigne and political scientists. want to. can such an award really do to help those who are in the spouse lies and is this kind of spotlight or was

a helpful sometimes a hindrance even yes i think we have to have to see that these kind of awards can support people and highlight this situation and is very important for people who live in countries where there's no freedom of expression to touche show them that there is an outside world watching and there are people who take care of them and try to to support them in the struggle for freedom of press and freedom of information yes in some cases it is maybe. even more dangerous for for for for these people getting an award so so we normally ask the people whether they want to the water or not so this ensures that we're not giving somebody in the water who then would probably say this this is even contra predicted for for my work.

they were the public at conference in europe's largest conference on digital culture and it came tumbling yesterday here in berlin organizers are expecting over nine thousand visitors from seventy countries over the next three days of talks and workshops and the mood is upbeat but also very critical and karen holmes shot is joining us now from our culture desk to tell us a little bit more about what is going on so tell us about the conference because you know we heard there that it's also been critical as well and banks started off with a real baguette and they did here with it with an opening keynote from danah boyd who is a tech and social media scholar and she's also the principal researcher for microsoft and she kind of focuses her research on sort of the intersection between technology and society so very thought provoking there and let's just have a quick look at a snippet of what she had to say. fear insecurity are on the rise both here and in the us and technology is not the cause technology is the amplifier it's mirroring

and magnifying the good bad and ugly of every aspect of this and just as bureaucracy was manipulated to malicious purposes we're watching technology be a tool for both good and evil what we're fundamentally seeing is a new form of us social vulnerability security vulnerability social technical vulnerability. some pretty ominous stuff there technology is the amplifier of our fears and she went on to to talk about a lot of examples but also express a lot of thoughts that we should be thinking about what kind of digital future we want to create for ourselves there was also a really intimate and at times very emotional interview with whistleblower an activist chelsea manning who got a rock star's welcome really it was her first trip across the across the seas since being jailed for crossing secret. secret u.s. government files to wiki leaks and she was highly critical of how governments and big companies are collecting and using people's data you know the spectrum of this

conference is incredibly broad i mean the topics range from media and culture over politics and technology all the way to mobility and entertainment. but despite that spread what i think we're seeing is definitely that it's becoming more and more political every year it's also becoming more critical of the technology and of the way it's being employed in the fact that it's quite often being accepted by the public without a proper critical analysis so let's talk a little bit i was just going to show us a couple more things of what some of the other speakers said and then we can talk more. there's a lot of fun to be had. but with more and more problems surrounding digital culture coming to life participants of republican twenty eighteen also discussed some of the most pressing issues about time like ways to improve digital culture for everyone. why does it get us to all my posts to end because i think we need to develop a type of digital ecology you could call it in the one hundred seventy s.

because of the increasing pollution and threats to our environment and ecological awareness developed. and in the same way today we can change our digital economy i name its place will create a digital ecology know we can we get about going on to be good to be philosopher and also recount dov of praise to says right surrounding online services should be reexamined all because india given no even once it has a moment the winners are those who invest in big online corporations and i wonder this is these are things that in the future will be basic services that search engine social media why do these things have to be controlled by a private company that's dependent on investors with you give you a license that's cannot you describe what if it is has to be part of our basic services like with electricity or the roads would all miss whatever is the one for

which cost and if dr sophy bill whose work looks at algorithms and oppression would also like to see a shift away from purely financial interests google's a great advertising platform it does well to optimize content for people who pay it but that's not the same as a public interest noncommercial search space for example that is supported by taxpayers or the state that is curated maybe by librarians or professors or teachers or subject matter experts who understand the complexities of representation and what's at stake when people have misinformation. information quite frankly circulate about what started. has turned into a huge international conference republican twenty eighteen to make internet culture and politics more tangible. so you can see there it's kind of hard to sum it all up democratization of online services obviously and many people

feeling that ethics is a field that has been really sorely neglected and speaking of ethics because a lot of the conversation has really focused on algorithms you know not only gaining insights into how we behave they're actually determining how we. sort of spoke about yesterday is a futuristic scenario that's right and it's not really new it's actually just the way it's being it's these algorithms are being combined with some of the machine learning systems that are making them so all powerful now and this hasn't of course been properly understood until. for a lot for a long time especially by the public this is something of course that we saw with the bricks that vote and with the us election that algorithms were effectively tailoring campaign content based on what people's online habits were revealing about them so you've got this curated picture of a world that doesn't reflect reality and yet it very much can influence someone's behavior. algorithms encourage us to live in bubbles essentially and that was

brought up a number of times the rise of junk news very dangerous stuff obviously threat to democracy and not to mention that policymakers are behind that they're constantly playing catch up with the technology but just briefly safe to say awareness is increasing absolutely conferences like this are helping it's and many of the speakers here are basically saying that now is the time to apply pressure for these changes following the latest debates from the republican conference here in berlin and so much pleasure. you're watching news a quick reminder of the top stories that we have been following for you media around the world have marked the world press freedom day according to a new report by reporters without borders hostility to the press is growing around the world worldwide with countries such as china turkey and iran among the worst offenders. and legal team has changed its story over allegations that the president paid hush money to porn star stormy daniels during the twenty six thousand election campaign rudy giuliani told fox news this hannity that trump did

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