this is news coming to you live from berlin killed for doing their job dozens of journalists around the world died this year working to expose corruption organized crime and environmental degradation we'll speak to an advocacy group that says targeted killing or on the rock is also coming up a moister banker in the chinese city a blue hun we meet a man who lost his father to cope with telling tina and blames the government's lack of transparency for his death.

hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us at least 50 journalists and media employees were killed in connection with their work in the past year that's according to an annual report compiled by reporters without borders the group says most died in countries that are not even at war and instead of journalists are targeted for trying to expose crime and corruption one of the most dangerous countries is a canister current this is the 3rd of a journalist in afghanistan in 2 months with a t.v. and radio. my wife and her driver were killed by gunmen and. and then somehow they would have put out 810000000000000001 group coming down which she was on her way to work and we had planned to do a show together i was on air when i got the news we had stopped the show. that's

true but how about american or i don't i'm sure that's no good advice from the word of a journalist and a woman in the spotlight 25 year old with a symbol of the new afghanistan a threat to fundamentalists and those she criticized that i have 10 more daughters like milo who could give their lives for a cause but i want the killers apprehended back in the know what it was not targeted killings of journalists like my one by gunmen or car bombs have become all too common in afghanistan despite the ongoing peace talks between the government and the taliban the country is still rated as one of the world 5 most dangerous places for journalists and with weekly reports of new attacks threats and intimidation local journalist groups are raising the alarm in november the afghan journalist safety committee wrote a letter to the un security council urging it to help reduce the violence. i don't think it's ever been as. scary as it is right now. because it seems that

all journalists are under threats. well in only 6 weeks we have lost jobs for jobs some have all. jobs you know are. targeted killings. so on. and that has created that sense if you're an american journalist all over the country. just days after my one's death and almost 300 kilometers away another journalist from the to learn next hour was killed. shop close to his home but i'm not gunmen next that head of the local journalists union and reported for outlets like a.p. and al-jazeera according to his colleagues has received threats and inform the authorities about them but got little help. to an attack on john with an act of oppression in our society no one is more press than journalists i have to say let's question i thought of them and that gets united at them to explain why this cruelty

has happened and how long it's going to continue and whether if i if the local strongman or government affiliates the question of who is behind these attacks often remains an oncet yet for those who continue to do their work as journalists one thing is clear they should not have to risk their lives to do their jobs let's bring in christian mir here he's director of reporters without borders in germany mr mayor your organization has just released a report showing that 50 journalists were killed this year most of them in countries that are not classified as war zones what makes being a journalist so dangerous i mean what all of the cases that we kill journalists have in common. is that cease journalists are journalist who has been investigating organized crime environmental pollution and people who are involved doing business others i'm buying pollution and so basically the profession

of investigative journalism is it what makes it so dangerous and growing a dangerous your report also shows that 387 journalists are currently in detention in connection with their work what are the prospects what are their prospects of being released. i mean. first of all it's very sick we keep on talking about it because we're part of what part is a global what sterger ease asia now experience actually is said how the press are so talking to me is like these talking in behind the heinz is see and work is in meetings means that very often this could lead to release and that's what we're working on and when has to remind that china actually is one of the biggest janus in these years and especially in this years when china has been really in head and got lots of attention because of the current outliers and lots of the

journalists this year edition all the imprisoned has been journalists who have been critically reporting about about the corona endemic and as a chinese politics how do you find secret of endemic came just mentioned china we just saw a report on afghanistan where it's particularly dangerous what are the most difficult countries to work and as a journalist today. i mean 1st of all it's important to mention and this is actually a growing trend set actually there's a most difficult countries amazed dangerous countries ozzie countries which are not at war because traditionally you see about war countries where people and where general is get killed by a growing trend this actually exists year is actually to sirt of the kill chit who list has been killed in an encounter east which officially are declared wasso as the cities are the countries mexico basically india pockets tahn and syria where

in all of these countries actually we have internal wars we do political interests to some extent maybe different compared to mexico where it's basically just organized crime committing most of the crimes against journalists and emeritus mr mayor thank you very much for talking with us that was christian meir director of reporters without borders here in germany and you. say look at some of the other stories making headlines today u.s. lawmakers in the house of representatives have voted overwhelmingly to override president trump's veto of a defense policy bill they also voted to increase pandemic relief to struggling americans to $2000.00 the debate over defense and pandemic aid now moves to the republican controlled senate. hundreds of activists. head of a congressional budget that could see argentina become the 1st latin american

country to legalize abortion the senate on tuesday is due to debated bill that was passed by the lower house earlier this month it would decriminalize abortion in almost all circumstances. the australian government warns it may cancel the visas of visitors who breach coronavirus restrictions on public gatherings that's after footage showed large crowds partying near a sydney beach popular with tourists the immigration minister asked local authorities to report violations to his official. it's been around a year now since the 1st coronavirus cases were reported by officials in the chinese city of call on the pandemic is now largely under control in china but stories are emerging of how people have paid the price for beijing's allegedly lack of transparency over $19.00. reports now on a chinese man who says he's angry with the government for not releasing more

information at the time the 1st cases were recorded. it is almost as if nothing had ever happened here life is back to normal in the city where the corona virus 1st emerged china has brought infection rates down to almost 0 in an exuberant exhibition the communist party celebrates victory in what it cause its war on the epidemic with tributes to soldiers and medics who were themselves weeks or so during the outbreak but 1st and foremost the party celebrates self and the general secretary xi jinping was hailed as the man who led the country to victory. this is hala china wants people to see its reaction to the disease and how many people do see it indeed but there are other voices in this city. john high is one of them he is on his way to the municipal government.

isn't this the people's government and taking pictures is not allowed. to look like a country by music i think they should change their name from the people's government of one hand to the bureaucrats government of on one hand. john hi normally lives in the southern city option but returned home to one hand in january when his father broke his hip the elderly man received free treatment at a military hospital this was where he caught cold and later died. john rice says his father would still be alive if the authorities in one hand had not covered up the early stages of the outbreak he is trying to file a case in court against the government. i've been very upset since i came back to work. i'm sad and angry at the same time.

that's my current state of mind. i can't stand all this propaganda about the achievements in the fight against cove it was just opened out of all the people who died the innocent people who live this would have never been paid proper respect. but few people speak publicly about their grievances many others appear to have put the experience behind them night life is back on the streets especially young people enjoy their newly returned free this is. why many places in the woods do struggle with the pen dam in the city where it all 'd began is moving on. joining us for nor for more from beijing is journalist fabienne cresc fabia china appears to have done fairly well in combating covert 19 but today 27 new cases have been reported how is

this being handled. well i mean international comparison those numbers are low but for china they are really concerning and even more so since the infection plus the spread mostly through beijing and that's the capital where the government has put extra efforts to keep it cool but 3 and how they. react it is quite fast and efficient so the districts that are affected. the residents are getting must tested the residents in the compounds where infections have been resistant really locked down shut down but on the other hand the rest of the city life goes on pretty much as normal even the boss are still open theatres are running at 70 percent capacity and that's quite surprising and it shows that the authorities are quite confident that this infection cluster will not spread and lead to a 2nd wave. next month and

a stand 10 international experts will finally travel to china as part of a study on how and where covert 19 month begun or quake specked from that mission. well i think the expectations should not be too high i mean the goal is basically to find from which animal the virus transmitted to a human being 1st and that's a very tricky task and also largely depends on the access that the chinese government is providing to the scientists and we know that the chinese government for many many months. was against the idea of an investigation about the origin of the corona virus for example and spring australia's prime minister he called for an investigation and china reacted with economic retaliation and now they change their mind but i don't think that the excess will be very very high also in this 1st in one hand and secret market for example all the virus probes and they've been

destroyed already the samples so i think it will be quite difficult. i seems almost impossible to find out in the short mission by the w.h.o. where the origin began probably and can you tell us just quickly how people in china in general feel about the government's response to the virus and i have the feeling that most people are quite proud of the government response because the numbers are quite low many feel that this is a sign that the system his superior when it comes to handling a pandemic but of course the rate of us not to be controlled very strictly controlled and people don't read stories in china about for example the citizen journalist yesterday that has been jailed too for yes critical voices are basically muted that's why people really don't know the information then those that have been given to them by the state media i mean thank you very much that was journalist probably encroachment in beijing. i'm sorry martin you're

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