reporters without borders is an international organization monitoring media freedom. in twenty seventeen it published a breast freedom index a league table of different countries on the a treatment of the media and journalists and it tried to egypt number one hundred and sixty one out of a hundred and eighty and the black list of countries considered what they called prisons for journalists national might be how much. was that of the woman in ireland how many how much of a booklet given that the. as of the well if he. seen one thing but on why i think is enough for you i had. in the absence of any judicial process the diffs in media set to work on the case of mahmoud abbas saying . t.v. channels launched an intensive media campaign against a former colleague. mahmoud had once worked as chief correspondent for the government run now t.v. channel. one can barely in haiti for the valley. for what cause it back and. if you do you should consider a year but to see it unfold often. and i mean who am i. to say a false messiah how many. i am. damned thing going on here. thank

bureau direct to reporters without borders joining us from malta thank you for your time rebecca yes and stephanie died tell me about this past well it's been i guess ten months of two thousand and eighteen how bad has it been for journalists well this year actually is already set to be unfortunately one of the deadliest years for journalists on iraq as of today reporters without borders data showing that seventy one journalists citizen journalists and media workers have already been killed this year that means by the in the first nine months of two thousand and eighteen we had already passed here in figures from last year it's incredibly worrying what can be done for someone like death because trying to get an investigation for someone who was coming off to those in power i mean it's flawed from the outset. well we're here in malta in part to renew calls exact for exactly that for justice for duffy we have raised our concerns with the highest level of government here we met with prime minister joseph smith scott yesterday and in addition to pushing for a robust independent investiga

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i'm lending share of reporters without borders. —— i'm lending share.ing to be the right man. that perhaps a that everybody would like. i know what you're saying. the champion of free and independent critical journalists. champion of free and independent criticaljournalists. if you go to jail in turkey, apparently, you don't see anybody for five days. your lawyer comes in. they table to say to the lawyer and many journalists find that their tv station or newspaper are not allowed to pay their families. he is actually got rid of many outlets and all the rest of it. it'sjust horrific. let's hop about the telegraph, laura. this is an intriguing one, isn't it? is like something out of that bbc series, press. now, now! we not doing tv review! we will to papers. there is a serious point here. some of a lot of money is able to do this. the thing is, they always come out. that's the thing. this is not the front page. everyone is going to be asking, "who is this man? was quote —— who is this man" said mac a judge has ruled the telegraph cannot do this... newspap

and human rights watch and reporters without borders as well as the rajah's know what we're looking at there at the same time and actually some i've had a message from one of our facebook he was tina who said an international investigation would be better than expecting one country to be held accountable now do you take your request i mean you're making a public call like this do you go directly to who is it do you go straight to the u.n. secretary general and say this should be happening. how do you action this. the most practical way to move this forward would be to the turkish authorities and turkish government to request. that the un secretary general launch a un investigation the un secretary general himself also has the power to launch this and so we would urge all of the turkish government to do so but also the u.n. secretary general to pursue this option and it is the best guarantee against any medical cover up by the saudi arabian sea and furthermore we can't expect the saudi arabian authorities to look into this in a transparent way given their potential involvement into the

i talked to a representative of reporters without borders earlier and he told me if the allegations are indeed true that he was killed this might constituent grave example of what out to critics or dictatorial regimes are willing to do to. two critical voices actually and of course this case also might turn into a severe into the most severe diplomatic crisis between saudi arabia and turkey in recent years relations between the two countries are strained especially since the so-called qatar crisis saudi arabia issued a blockade over. turkey sent in troops off of that and aid so relations between the two countries are not exactly good and they might turn into a huge crisis. in istanbul thank you very much not at the feet of another journalist which is making news world wide looking media reports a bulgarian police have arrested a suspect in the rape and murder of t.v. presenter and journalists victoria money in nova the case has attracted intense international scrutiny with calls by the e.u. for a thorough investigation so far this is no evidence a lot is linked to reports on alleged mis

reporters without borders is an international organization monitoring media freedom. been twenty seven seen it but lived a press freedom index a league table of different countries on the a treatment of the media and journalists to get drunk to egypt number one hundred and sixty one out of one hundred eighty and the black list of countries considered what they called prisons for journalists national might be how much. was that the woman in ireland how wonderful book life given that the. as of the well of the. scene one thing i think is you have to throw your head. in the absence of any judicial process the d.p. media set to work on the case of the saying in. t.v. channels launched an intensive media campaign against the former colleague. mahmoud had once worked as chief correspondent for the government run now t.v. channel. one you can barely hear before you want. to see it unfold often but. how many. of them have seen on. what it was you know. it was. already three years. here again he had been worried. they would want to give you know around the. most of the second

actor of campaigns at amnesty international slammed the saudi story as untrustworthy all reporters without borders have called for constant and powerful pressure on riyadh to establish the truth and australia has now joined others and no longer attending an investment summit set for later this month in saudi arabia saying it wouldn't be appropriate given the circumstances even some u.s. lawmakers are making their skepticism of the report known in dissonance with the president stands now it's possible that without the massive international pressure campaign we've seen over the past two weeks the saudis would have stuck to their original story now riyadh it will be hoping that it's then admission will be enough to appease the world and we all move on not sending a representative to the conference in saudi arabia is one thing it's symbolic it sends a message but actually cutting off arms sales and actually imposing tough sanctions and cutting off regulations that takes it to a higher level and i don't think you're going to see that you know you'll see some sanctions against individuals from the unite

is demanding further clarification from the saudis over what happened press freedom group reporters without borders is also calling for sustained international pressure to establish. the incident played out the explanation provided by riyadh was swiftly dismissed as improbable and sparked an intense backlash from journalists and politicians as well it also contradicts earlier he claims that khashoggi left the consulate shortly after arriving there there are calls now for the gulf monarchy to bear full responsibility for what happened u.s. president donald trump says he is satisfied with the latest account the discussions that took place with the citizen jamal khashoggi during his presence in the consulates of the kingdom in this stumble by the suspects did not go as required and developed in a negative way led to a fight in the coral between some of them and the citizen jamal khashoggi yet liberal aggravated to lead to his death and their attempt to conceal and cover what happened. i do i do i mean it's again it's early we haven't really sure we view or investigation. i think it's a very important

reporters without orders rate bulgaria among the worst in europe for press freedom, and there are fears and otherjournalist has lost her life for doing herjob —— reporters without bordersrom the bbc sports centre. hello, i'm chris mitchell, and welcome to your tuesday sport briefing, where australia have it all to do against pakistan. and there are shocks aplenty in the first round of the shanghai masters. not sure australia will be looking forward to tuesday. they have it all to do in their first test match against pakistan. they resume 30 without loss on day three, just 452 runs behind. haris sohail was pakistan's star on monday, scoring his maiden test century. his 110 helped pakistan reach a82 before he eventually fell to nathan lyon. asad shafiq also had a great day at the crease, with 80. now, the aussie batsmen must do the same. novak djokovic gets his shanghai masters off and running againstjeremy chardy on tuesday. down and seemingly out not that long ago, he can now end the year as the world number one. he has already won wimbledon and the us open this season, and he is favourite for this. stefanos tsitsipas of greece has made his way through to the second ro

actor of campaigns at amnesty international slammed the saudi story as untrustworthy all reporters without borders have called for constant and powerful pressure on riyadh to establish the truth and australia has now joined others and no longer attending an investment summit set for later this month and saudi arabia saying it wouldn't be appropriate given the circumstances even some u.s. lawmakers are making their skepticism of the report known in dissonance with the president's stance i feel certain that the crown prince was involved and he directed this and that's why i think we cannot continue to have relations with him would cut off arms sales as the only thing the saudis will listen to he's now crossed the line and there has to be a punishment and a price paid for that and we've got to suspend military sales we have to suspend certain security assistance and we ought to impose sanctions on any of those that were directly involved in this murder possible that without the massive international pressure campaign we've seen over the past two weeks the saudis would have stuck to their original sto

to senior officials and arrested eighteen others linked to the case press freedom group reporters without borders though now calling for strong sustained international pressure on the saudis to establish more about what exactly happened the explanation provided by riyadh was swiftly dismissed as improbable and sparked an intense backlash from journalists and politicians it also contradicts earlier saudi claims that had left that consulate shortly after arriving there are calls now for the gulf war the key to bear full responsibility for what happened as for u.s. president donald trump vers far he says he's satisfied with the latest account. the discussions that took place with the citizen jamal khashoggi during his presence in the consulate of the kingdom in istanbul by the suspects did not go as required and developed in a negative way led to a fight and a quarrel between some of them and the citizen jamal khashoggi yet the brawl aggravated to lead to his death and their attempt to conceal and cover what happened in the river. i do i do i mean it's again it's early we haven't traditionally view

what you would think of as the so—called usual suspect is, groups like freedom house or reporters without bordershe american chamber of commerce raised concerns and made a statement. foreign governments have made statements, so when you see this happening to a publication like the financial times, which is obviously a financial publication, but it really gets the attention perhaps of audiences that were not necessarily attuned to what groups like freedom house are seeing is an ongoing deterioration of press freedom in hong kong the last five to ten yea rs. hong kong the last five to ten years. you talk about the ongoing deterioration. what do you see as evidence of that? well, you see a combination of very often increasing outright and blatant examples, for example and is one. in some cases violent attacks against media owners, media editors, journalists, chinese journalists in hong owners, media editors, journalists, chinesejournalists in hong kong. you see chinesejournalists in hong kong. you see concerns over a chinesejournalists in hong kong. you see concerns over a trend of increasing self—c

so far this year fifty seven journalists have been killed around the world according to reporters without borders the middle east is the most dangerous region in the world for journalists the world press freedom index ranks several countries in the region as having some of the worst human rights violations when it comes to censoring journalism this includes saudi arabia syria turkey iraq iran and egypt and there are at least one hundred fifty nine journalists in prison around the world a majority of them in the middle east. well let's bring in our guests now to talk more about this joining us via skype from london is dr saad a saudi dissident who heads up the opposition group movement for islamic reform in arabia in vienna we have a director of advocacy with the international press institute and in london also on skype david hurst editor in chief of middle east i could to have you all with us david hurst if i could start with you as far as the latest we're hearing on the investigation in as much as. there is any sort of information because the turks are certainly keeping their cards close to the