i laid out the words. and everyone with me to holding everything. are you ready to meet the 10 then join me right. this is deja vu 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 and organized crime and environmental degradation we'll speak to an advocacy group that says targeted killings for all the wrong. also coming up a voice of anger in the chinese city of homs we meet a man who lost his father to covert 19 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 a report says mexico's war is the most dangerous country for journalists to work in followed by iraq afghanistan pakistan and india group says most journalists who died were in countries not even in war instead they were targeted for trying to expose crime and corruption. let's take a closer look now at one of those most dangerous countries for journalists afghanistan where freedom of speech is far from guaranteed.

this is the 3rd funeral of a journalist in afghanistan in 2 months the t.v. and radio presenter malala my wife and her driver were killed by gunmen in early december. and then start of the what i would have been i don't know no real madrid common knowledge you know that 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 that we had to stop the show as well but how about an auto number to all of us and him good advice from that a bit 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 them and 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 threats. only 6 weeks we have lost 4 jobs and they have all. joked you know our. particular aches. so. and that's has created a sense if you know. just days after my one's death and almost 300 kilometers away another journalist nick sad was killed shot close to his home are

known gunmen the next head of the local journalists union and reporter for outlets like a.p. and al-jazeera according to his click here to see threats and inform the authorities about them but got little help. an attack on journalists is an act of oppression in our society no one is more pressed than journalists i have to say let's question ourselves and let's get united let's ask our leaders to explain why this cruelty happens and how long it's going to continue whether it is the taliban i-s. local strongman or government affiliates the question of who is behind these attacks often remains unanswered 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 mir 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 sense east generalists are journalist who has been investigating organized crime environmental pollution and people who are involved doing business out of i'm by mental pollution and so basically the profession of investigative journalism is it what makes it so dangerous and growingly dangerous your report also shows that $387.00 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 because reports about borders are global what store very nice asian our experience actually is said how the press are

so talking to me is like these talking in behind the heinz it seems in and walk us in meetings means that very often this could lead to a release and that's what we are working on and when has to remind that china actually is one of the biggest janus in these years and it's specially in this years when china has been really in head and got lots of attacks because of the current virus and lots of the journalists this year additionally 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 ok 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 the growing trend this actually exists year is actually to sirt of the kill generalists has been killed in an encounter east which officially are declared wasso as the cities are the countries mexico basically india pockets tani 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. so you look now at some of the other stories making headlines today u.s. lawmakers in the house of representatives have voted overwhelmingly to override

president veto of the defense policy bill they also voted to increase pandemic relief to struggling americans to $2000.02 pay to her to fence pandemic aid now moves to the republican controlled senate. bangladesh has started moving a 2nd group of muslim refugees to the low lying island of basilan char in the bay of bengal rights groups have voiced opposition citing the compound's vulnerability to floods the united nations has urged the government to only move refugees were willing to go there. and hundreds of pro-life activists have. had a congressional vote that could see argentina become the 1st latin american country to legalize abortion the senate on tuesday is due to debate a 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 emerged showing large crowds partying near is sydney beach popular with tourists the immigration minister asked local authorities to report violations to his officials. it's been about a year now since the 1st coronavirus cases were reported by officials in the chinese city of we call it the pandemic is now largely under control in china but stories are emerging of how people have paid the price for beijing's alleged lack of transparency overcovered $19.00. reports now on a chinese man who says he is 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 calls its war on the epidemic with tributes to soldiers and medics who work themselves to exhaustion 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 taking pictures is not allowed. to look like the country by means of 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 of shenzhen 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 it and later died. john high says his father would still be alive if the 03 g.'s in one han had not covered up the early stages of the outbreak he's trying to file a case in court against the government. i've been very upset since i came back to 100. years is that i'm sad and angry at the same time with no food that's my current state of mind body. on the floor that i can't stand all this propaganda about the achievements in the fight against covidien was

a joke but out of all the people who died the innocent people who left this world have never been paid proper respect. but few people still 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 i've seen. by many places in the woods to struggle with the pandemic the city where it all began is moving on. as the year comes to an end so to 2 events marking the 250th anniversary of composer learned think done by beethoven's birth many were concerts that the pandemic moved on line or cancel altogether but one illustrator found a way to celebrate the musical genius on paper with a comic book titled golden boy. larger

than life of a hero one of music's greats that's how we think of ludwig van beethoven today but berlin cartoonist mikhail ross has now taken the musical giant down off his pedestal and turned him into a comic hero. does in november so this is with frozen fingers since it's winter but what i find amazing is that all of the images we have of beethoven show him looking grumpy. to help people get an idea of beethoven ross turned to the composers childhood in bonn. the only person in the whole story whoever forbade beethoven from playing his own music it was his father thought it was their accounts that the boy liked to improvise on the piano but his father was against it and banned him from doing it and he said stick to the notes and did not improvise was this one for his ear. but

how do you to pitch the music of a brilliant composer. does it with just a few strokes. of a little fiddle i listen to the music to see what images with there but then i have the problem that when it comes to beethoven's music in 20 minutes there are just 5 images of music but 35 for the 1st bit of the story of a gifted child capable of creating whole worlds with sound but whose ears and digestion fail him a very human hero. worthy of applause. and just a quick reminder you can always get to the news on the go just download our from google player from the apple store we'll give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as pushed out of cations for any breaking. that if

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