to put human rights and labor rights on the agenda and to advance legislation on that topic john curtin before i get into basically the nuts and bolts of g. 20 and the issues that are being talked about or even being missed i want to talk about that one of the comments you've made in the past and the whole point of originally of the g. 20 was to resist protectionism do you think this g. 20 summit will be able to follow that mandate. well i certainly am not predicting that they will repeat the tack traditional trays the anti protectionist leggett's known we will refrain from the new protectionist measures and then later they added in their redress which means reduce or removes the ones we've already taken but i am expecting similar language of pointing in the same direction affirming the value will open international law trade are recognizing that trade is a source of but you know my growth highlighting the importance of a rules based trade and indeed doesn't need to urgently reform the world trade organization which many see as being at the center of the global trade system so i think t

human rights resource center that's a non-governmental organization and on skype from osaka john curtin is the director of the g. 20 research group that's an independent that work of global scholars providing analysis on the g. 20 and in nairobi. economist and c.e.o. of rich management and investment advisory company in kenya welcome to all of you thank you very much for being on the program i want to start with john curtin yarn a sockeye you've been following the developments at the g. 20 very closely my question to you 1st is war he is the g. 20 summit so u.s. centric how come there's so much focus on america's dealings bilaterally with different countries has it always been so u.s. centric or is this a triumph factor. well certainly when the g. 20 summit 1st started it tyros as a consequence of the american turnout lobel financial crisis the day lehman brothers died in downtown new york city september up 215-2008 george bush's united states hosted the 1st rock obama as the united states hosted the 3rd g. 20 summit so much for that reason the united states loomed very large even when

to put human rights and labor rights on the agenda and to advance legislation on that topic john curtin before i get into basically the nuts and bolts of g. 20 and the issues that are being talked about or even being missed i want to talk about that one of the comments you've made in the past and the whole point of. originally you have to the g 20 was to resist protectionism do you think this t 20 summit will be able to follow that mandate well i certainly am not predicting that they will repeat not traditional trey's the anti protectionist leggett's known we will refrain from the new protectionist measures and then later they added in their redress which means reduce or removes the ones we've already taken but i am expecting similar language planning in the same direction affirming the value of open international law trade are recognizing that trade is a source of by economic growth highlighting the importance of a rules based trade and indeed the need to urgently reform the world trade organization which many see as being at the center of the global trade system so i think there's goi

the meetings that will bilateral there is no consensus amongst this group of 20 people ok but john curtin is not the whole point of the g 20 to give a platform and a chance for these world leaders to meet on the sidelines of even though it's not necessarily on the agenda isn't this the whole idea of the g 20 or should should this be our should should there be more of a focus. it's a convenient place to meet not every employer laterals i'm not a course has sideline meetings always has and it is a good thing but if we look at the collective meetings when they all sit down together the most powerful leaders and the most powerful countries in the world and the most intensely interconnect lines what we seeing the direction of travel like here on the 1st day at the soka summit ends number line at the beginning they've launched the process for a new trade trade deal not on the old economy of agriculture or the 20th century economy of autos and steel but the new 21st century economy of services digital services and a majority of the people in the world now are connected to the internet so it hits

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and joseph fernandez media law , academic at curtin university >>> hello.ery warm welcome to "nhk newsline." it's 9:00 a.m. on wednesday in tokyo. i'm miki yamamoto. as the one-year anniversary of the u.s./north korea summit approaches. donald trump and kim jong un have taken their relationship to a new level, pen pals. >> i just received a beautiful letter from kim jong un. i can't show you the letter obviously. but it was a personal, warm, nice letter. a

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especially when you're talking about 2 major superpowers so just a fernandes who is a media law expert at curtin university in perth in australia is a former newspaper editor in malaysia he told the times that countries who were looked up for moral authority looked up to for moral authority are the very ones who are now committing this sort of agree just assaults on the freedom of expression and democracy itself they have undermined their moral authority and that's something i think is like i guess we were just we were taught differently about what was important in the freedom of the press and that being an extension of our government a 4th state that oversees everything that's not connected directly to the government that's something that was very important you know and now we're seeing slowly chipped away yeah and you had time to really else when you're not you can't certain countries you can expect to tell countries like russia hey this is how you do a better this is how you can avoid these kinds of criticisms this is where this is coming from here's the optics you can't do that in a place li