this is d.w. news why. the fight to keep the media free of censorship on this world press freedom day when you ask a journalist why honest and accurate reporting is so crucial we take the pulse of the media around the globe also coming up a trunk turn around president trump did know about a payment to buy the silence of a porn star despite earlier denial we'll get the latest from washington on rudy giuliani's revelation and what it could mean for the special counsel's

investigation into trouble plus a germany's warm welcome to refugees reaches its limits police in the calvary to raid an asylum seekers hostel after clashes prevented them from deporting one man also coming up tonight a show of sporting solidarity teams from the two koreas stun crowds at the table tennis championships with a display rich in political symbolism. it's good to have you with us tonight we begin in a world that is growing growing more hostile towards people who do the work like those right here. reporters without borders says that hostility toward. the press

is growing worldwide often encouraged by political leaders even democratic countries on this world press freedom day we want to take a closer look now in its latest report the watchdog classifies the situation in seventy out of one hundred and eighty countries as bad or very bad you see the callers behind me they're china and iran they remain among the world's worst countries for journalists now in china all media is subject to strict censorship and foreign journalists they can be closely monitored it is estimated that at least fifteen journalists and around forty bloggers in china are currently in police custody iranian media are also strictly controlled by the state journalists can face harsh even violent reprisals if they dare to step out of line of one hundred eighty countries iran ranks one hundred sixty fourth on the press freedom list

and then there is turkey and while the state there does not completely control all media there are very few remaining independent outlets some thirty five journalists are reportedly jailed in turkey tonight that is more than almost anywhere else in the world now on that index the united states of america ranks forty fifth on the planet joining me now from washington d.c. is courtney wright she is the advocacy director with the committee to protect journalists accordions good to have you on the shows we've been looking at the the numbers and the rankings and the challenges that are facing journalists around the world let's start with the united states ranking forty fifth how difficult considering the way the u.s. president attacks the mainstream media how difficult is it for reporters to pursue

the truth in the world's richest country. well luckily journalists and the united states are not yet facing imprisonment and are not being murdered for their work so i'm of course where the committee to protect journalists we don't rank countries on the way that some groups mean work very closely with reporters about borders and ashley went on the first ever global press freedom mission to the united states this year and what we found are that media are under pressure journalists are under pressure but many of the reasons that they're under pressure started under previous administrations the rise in the use of peanuts to get journalist sources the economic decline in the media and the pressure that putting on journalists the inability to have a public officials what we found is that the antitrust rhetoric emanating from president trump and his administration has kind of sat tender box on fire and so it's become more difficult greater pressure especially during protests or political

rallies and we know what happens in the united states has a big influence around the world what the u.s. president says matters we know that the u.s. president dealt with trump he uses the term fake news a lot we've heard other heads of state co-op this term and apply it to justify shutting down media outlets are opposition groups in their countries i mean health harmful has this been for journalists who are working in countries such as turkey. yeah so you've hit the nail on the head what we're really saying is that they impact of president trumps anti-press rhetoric is being felt most strongly abroad in countries where there are not robust protections for press freedom such as turkey which is the world's leading journalist of jail with at least seventy three journalists and president according to our last census which is more than any other country and accounted for the majority of journalists present and last year.

fifty what we're seeing in terms of the fake news impact is that that's being used as an excuse to clamp down on legitimate reporting and to just you know to just you know not pay attention to actual factual issues on the ground of reporters so we saw this in myanmar where they're running a crisis which the u.n. has termed a case of are started textbook case of ethnic cleansing has been dismissed as fake news by me and me me and maher officials we've seen in syria the president dismissed allegations of torture in prisons there as they can use we've seen that cambodia used the excuse of fake news to push out radio free asia so around the world even in democratic countries like poland and hungary which you know there were at the baths in. the democratic movement area using a famed terminology to clamp down and and according. to europe with that what is the situation right now we've had two journalist we've had

a journalist in slovakia we've had a journalist the mole to both murdered because of their work how dangerous has it become in europe to be a journalist. you know i didn't it we are deeply concerned about what's happening in europe the fact that two journalists who were investigating corruption were murder and member states of that you're in the union the fact that maltese authorities have not made good faith efforts as far as her insurge to truly figure out who the masterminds behind the murder of japanese elites. corona gillet and. q.c.'s and his colleagues murder or murder or may not why are you know this is deeply disturbing and it should not be acceptable journalists are murdered for investigating corruption and e.u. member states rights courtney raunch the advocacy director for the committee to protect journalists joining us tonight from washington d.c.

we appreciate your insights tonight thank you very much right pleasure thank you. hewers of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world a powerful dust storm has left more than one hundred people dead in northern india in extreme winds and rains brought down trees and destroyed temporary structures throughout the region causing many of the defense officials have warned that the death toll could rise hopes are growing in washington that north korea could imminently release three americans held as prisoners as a goodwill gesture kim dong was arrested in two thousand and fifteen for allegedly spying for south korea the other two men tony kim and kim song were detained last spring and accused of quote hostile acts. or the film director roman polanski has been expelled from the academy of motion picture arts and

sciences more than forty years after he admitted having unlawful sex with a thirteen year old girl the organization that awards the oscars also voted on thursday to oust comedian bill cosby convicted on three counts of aggravated indecent assault a week ago. a porn star a president and his lawyer there have been more twists in the stormy daniels scandal surrounding the u.s. president today now before we bring you the latest let's take a look at what we know so far now the porn actress stephanie clifford her stage name a story danno she alleges that she had sex with donald trump in two thousand and six a year after he married his wife milan yet in twenty sixteen dangles was paid one hundred thirty thousand dollars by trump's lawyer michael cohen you see him there she says that it was hush money to keep her quiet about the alleged sexual encounter the payment was made just days before the twenty sixteen presidential election raising questions of campaign financing violations trump has denied ever

having sex with daniels he also previously denied knowledge of the payment made to her. but trump's lawyer his new lawyer rudy giuliani says that the us president did repay his personal attorney the one hundred thirty thousand dollars that was used to silence stormy daniels something that president trump has now confirmed via twitter this directly contradicts trump's earlier statements about the allegations concerning a payment he said he didn't know anything about it during an appearance on fox news last night the former new york city mayor mr giuliani said that the money paid to day knows had been funneled through trump's personal attorneys law firm and that it did not come from election campaign fund having something to do with paying some stormy daniels woman one 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 from or through over the president repaid or jump in self has since confirmed that he did reimburse my who go in for that payment to stormy daniels this contradicts his previous statements of not having any knowledge about the payment in a series of tweets today trucks emphasize that the money did not come from campaign funds from says that cohen was paid a retainer which had nothing to do with the campaign he didn't use this money to pay stormy daniels who signed a nondisclosure agreement this agreement from says was used to stop the faults and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair says that it was a private agreement and that money from the campaign played no role in this transaction. all right we've tried to get our heads around this let's go to washington our correspondent carsten phenomena is on the story for us good evening

to you karsten all right the latest in this story now is that u.s. federal investigators reportedly wiretapped the phone lines of trump's personal attorney michael cohen the move was part of an ongoing probe into russian meddling in the twenty sixteen election it's a what to digest and yet trump is still standing tall in the midst of all of this how do you explain this it is very hard to explain but it is a fact that actually the approval ratings for the from have gone up over the last few months in spite of all the scandals in spite of all the controversy around him yeah clearly hard core of his supporters they stand by their president no matter what and we we know that trump says the payment was made through a retainer not from the campaign but you know he initially denied that there had been any payment at all until mr giuliani said on television last night that he did

know about it so what does that mean. so it was a question clearly on the trump when asked about this just a few weeks ago so after the story broke and was widely discussed he was asked by a journalist on board of. force one if he knew anything about those payments and he said flat out no that doesn't seem to be correct now and another thing that is also interesting is that yes giuliani and trump both said this was no compay money but giuliani himself in another t.v. appearance this morning said that of course this was connected to the election because the presidential debates were going on and mr cohen apparently was concerned this could damage mr trump's chances and so he did pay the porn actress stormy daniels did his job by this mr giuliani said so even though this might have income pay money it could still be a violation of campaign regulations our correspondent host of

a novel on the story for us tonight from washington a story with more twists and turns today carson thank you so police in southern germany have raided an asylum seekers' hostile to detain a total ease man for deportation authorities want to return him to italy the first european country that he entered in the one in which he should have applied for asylum fellow refugees prevented a previous attempt to detain the man so the police came back in force the operation has highlighted germany's struggles with the high number of recent arrivals the town of elbowing in at dawn never before have there been scenes like these at a refugee center in germany hundreds of police special forces were on hand to arista twenty three year old man from togo and attempt to pick him up on monday was met with violent resistance infuriating the german interior minister.

what happened there was a slap in the face of law abiding people. it's a slap in the face of law abiding people because our hospitality must not be abused . and monday's attempt to arrest the men failed due to massive resistance by asylum seekers the officer in charge described how the situation escalated. for officers in two patrol cars were supposed to take a twenty three year old togolese back to italy in the early hours of learning where you are poor they were supposed to pick them up here. but they were severely impeded violently prevented from doing so by about one hundred fifty to two hundred african refugees who live here in l.a. and you're going to have to the told police men has now been arrested and other

refugees have been led away in handcuffs a few asylum seekers were injured after jumping out of a window charges have been made against twelve people for trespassing drug offenses and deft. the authorities say they'll take a tougher approach in the future. developing upci women for it will carry on deportations and do what is necessary to achieve this we will not allow illegal vacuums to arise as has emerged here we will look against this sort of behavior in the strongest way we can. this to me of a live not. a firm approach like that has the support of most german politicians. are pulling our political correspondent thomas barrow he is on the story for us tonight good evening to you thomas i mean it is interesting looking at these events politicians they've supported this deployment but these events they they show us how tense the situation is in many of these refugee shelters in germany doesn't it

. or authorities have tried to describe this situation as unprecedented or unusual in other words more an exception than a rule saying that other deportations have been carried out without violent incidents but what this particular incident brant does reveal is this debate going on in germany about the situation that many asylum seekers face in these same doesn't the fact that these conditions that in many cases are very difficult and the fact that not many opportunities are given to them could be a cause for these increased tensions and what authorities can and maybe even should do to prevent these conditions from turning into a situation that we saw for example in. we know that the country's interior minister has floated the idea of stablish in what are called anchor centers which would be used to streamline the asylum application process do we know will that

help to avoid these types of clashes and maybe improve the situation in refugee shelters well brant these uncut centers as they're being described would be large scale facilities where an asylum seeker would be from day one from the day he arrives until the day he's asylum status is resolved until it's possible the fourth asian although those who are in favor of the sentence say it would be more efficient it would be more organized the way johnny deals with asylum seekers there are also a lot of critics of that there's also skepticism in particular because of these issues that we're talking people say that having these people in these large centers could not only make integration more difficult but it could also create these tensions like the ones that we saw in this particular case our correspondent thomas ferrer on the story for us tonight here in berlin from us as always thank you very much for. are those things over now to hell now we've got new storage is

being filed in that dirty diesel scandal in the us charges the highest level in fact this just in the form of e.w. c.e.o. martin vinta cohen has been charged by u.s. prosecutors in the diesel gate scandal for conspiring to mislead regulators and violate the u.s. clean air act now into court you may remember stepped down just days after the diesel bay scandal came to light in september twenty fifteen the company admitting to fitting about eleven million diesel cars with devices to pass emissions test the company later or so admitting to using a false statements to import cars into the united states into corners the highest ranking person to be charged in the case and questions remain as to who knew what way as well as when regulators were actually informed meanwhile talk about timely today the new v.w. boss this man held but d.c. used his first and general assembly to call for more honest open truthful and

ethical company culture. greenpeace activists protest outside v.w. the annual general meeting they're calling for climate friendly vehicles clean up reach their spanner and they need a corporate culture as well inside as ever high performance models are on show including hybrids and electric vehicles the diesel great crisis 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 porsche and piece families have their say as well as the v.w. workers can slam the state of lower saxony they all have high hopes for hairpin d's who they make boss in april and he wants to change the corporate culture. in these

posts about must become more honest more openness in a word more truthful and so that we don't make ourselves more vulnerable again. jesus putting his foot on the gas when it comes to restructuring and electric vehicles. imo get to the moment mr d's has brought the brand forward with his previous answers didn't do. a breath of fresh air. is not from the old v.w. school so hopefully she will not be tempted by the diesel issue. from the diesel to martinique and that's a view most small investors seem to share the newly appointed b.w. boss start his job with a vote of confidence. all right well for more we can switch to our financial correspondent yes quarter on wall street yes i've got to ask you about that breaking news the charges against the former c.e.o. of the w what further details do we know at this stage about martin of into cone's

charge in the united states. well what the u.s. authorities probably did is what they usually do is that they're working their rings up in the past couple of months we already had two v.w. managers a sentence to prison terms and they might have helped with some information to now file charges against martin winter call and i would not suggest that he plans his next summer vacation here in florida so we have to wait and see what it means and i would guess that it's rather unlikely that the german government will extradite martin into court but to a certain degree it's not surprising that this happens because that's usually the way it started was lowering it and then work your way up and now actually u.s. authorities have reached the top our will to stay with us yes we'll be coming back to you ada just

a short wave of firsts we all know conference schools can sometimes be a little bit awkward that when sometimes they can go disastrously wrong he's a cautionary tale currently electric cars make a tesla continues to burn through more cash than it's earning and c.e.o. it all must has done little to ease investors fears instead cheer in the core which shareholders he refused to answer analyst questions calling them quote so dry and so not cool well test the share price plunge the company losing over two billion dollars in market capitalization in just one phone call three episodes shouldn't put a dent in sales that are over four hundred fifty thousand people waiting for a tesla. thank you to your ends then and ends did you know mosques brusk manna backfire on the company. it certainly did backfire on the stock price it was down at some point by a good eight percent by the end of the day the tesla share lost the good to five

percent and a lot of the analysts said they've never experienced anything like that and it's probably not a wise idea to ignore wall street to ignore analyst specially when they're actually asking questions that a lot of people are having what's happening with the cash flow in the near future and even if musk is hoping that things will turn around in the second half of the year but so far one quarter after another we have one record loss after another so the company depends on foreign money and it's not a good idea to anger investors on wall street or anywhere else. financial correspondent james course in new york thank you for that. plays back a bit of bread now and brant from war games to another kind of game altogether an incredible story it's part of this diplomatic thawing between the koreas that's happening at the speed of sound helen and now a remarkable demonstration of how rapidly relations between north and south korea

are changing as a result of the thaw and hostility between the two countries teams from both nations were due to face off at the world table tennis championships in sweden what transpired was well something special. they will count as two separate korean teens each vying for a place in the world championship semifinals this is a special time for north south relations and after the post for peace from that leaders last week it was time for politics to meet ping pong very very. very very. very. real. media. if you are going to be.

i think. you are. a historic moment and perhaps a first in the history of international sports and makes tournament's much asked. for and i wondered if we could make a joint team and whether i could join the team now it has really happened and i feel very proud i did not want to go. there it's a great honor and the tie can be part of a joint team which will become part of history that all. tournament organizers heretick the move even if it wasn't quite in keeping with the rulebook so we installed all the teams and they agree it so if they do another korea we would not do it. so we we all feel i think very happy that we have a small side in the process for doing real near north korea chips off of korea as balls countries. two fingers for peace pacts even a v.

for victory in one nine hundred ninety one a unified korean team played in this tournament from the start and they won it shocking defending champions china in the final history has a message. and we have it stays that way. after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day to see it. more

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a disadvantage is. sometimes benefiting from each. close to the media. join the discussion and help you on things. digest less liberal media form twenty one to the plate speech tonight. reporting the facts the battle for and against that right is fiercer than ever on this world press freedom day a show of solidarity from all of us to our fellow journalist punished for pursuing the truth and recognition of those who will not be silenced this year's d.w. press freedom award goes to a professor in iran sentenced to prison for simply talking to us i'm bring golf in berlin this is the day.