. >> at the bottom of the table are turkmenistan and north korea. reporters without borders classify the lack of press freedom in those countries is very serious. sudan i is also in that catateg. last year's mass protests that led to the ousting of president omar al-bashir resulted in stronger democratic structures and reduced restrictions for journalists. as a result, the country ranks 16 points higher on the index the last year. countries that made similar improvements include malaysia and ethiopia. while poor ratings are given to the west african state that fell 17 places. and haiti, down 21. the caribbean nation is struggling with an ongoing political crisis and violent protests. in the past year, journalists there were repeatedly attacked. one was killed. the united states ranks at 40 fifth place this year after two years of decline -- 45th place this year after two years of decline. but reporters without borders cites the u.s. as worrying with hate against journalists from elected politicians, with physical and verbal attacks against reporters

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at the bottom of the table eritrea turkmenistan and north korea reporters without borders classified the lack of press freedom in those countries as very serious sudan is also in that category but last year's mass protests that led to the ousting of president omar al bashir have resulted in stronger democratic structures and reduced restrictions for journalists as a result the country ranks 16 points higher on the index than last year countries that made similar improvements include malaysia any theo pia. while poor ratings and given to the west african states have been enough which fell 17 places and haiti down 21. the caribbean nation is struggling with an ongoing political crisis and violent protests in the past year journalists there were repeatedly attacked one was killed. the united states ranks at 45th place this year after 2 years of decline the situation has slightly improved over the last year but reporters without borders cite the u.s. as a warrior example of hatred incited against journalists by elected politicians with verbal and physical attacks against reporters alarmi

and to all the stands like turkmenistan and as pakistan and some of them the polish jews and that is to be evacuated to iran and palestine, lebanon, syria, palestine, lebanon, syria, and then they evacuated through palestine. and then founded the israelis. >> and with your investigations. >> not at all i only knew the last leg, the leg in which they came from iran to israel. but didn't think of them living in tehran are those places. and with those refugees and then going from point a to point b. it wasn't like that. it was arbitrary. so they stay wherever they can. they stayed in iran. people were released from siberia and the amnesty and then they said okay. so no,. >> and then i keep fixing this because it keeps falling. >> what is the horror of the deportation? and the conditions were atrocious. and then the division between the catholic polls and the polish jews. and that the tensions between poland and polish nationalism in the jews that were patriotic in the polish army , who has a treatment that we belong to. >> so the story is so these are the unknowns in washington. but the

publishing and indeed sharing any information that isn't officially government approved and in turkmenistan and i think this might be one of the most bizarre moves that i've seen they've actually banned the use of the word coronavirus the. in the media is if that somehow going to help and the question that people must be asking themselves in these countries flow is how long do these laws are made in effect because we know that measures that are passed during a time of an emergency have a way of staying on the books they do and that has europeans looking at a country like hungary and the increasingly authoritarian tendencies of the prime minister there victor or ban now oban had already declared a state of emergency back at the beginning of march this past week his party managed to push through legislation which now means that he is ruling the country by decree again the wording is very vague and the penalties are stiff anyone dean to have spread information that hinders the government's response to the epidemic could end up with up to 5 years in jail and just one last thing there are no end

translate and in a way transferred you into these communities in the sun, when you first went to turkmenistan, did you go? in the beginning your relationship with him informed a lot of the book and then something happened. tell us a little bit about that. >> there is a lot of research on the holocaust second-generation, the person that mediates between you and the traumatic past, when we started working on this after that initial meeting he was interested, i'm not going to write a book about my father and delve into this horrible history. >> his family was expelled after the iranian revolution. a lot of parallels in terms of the notion of what it meant to be expelled from your homeland. >> he himself was a refugee separated from his parents so there were parallels. i was happy to give the story to him as a writer and then said maybe we will work on this together and write alternating chapters but two writers can't really work together so that didn't go very well but also as you work on your own history and delve deeper and deeper you become more possessive of it in the parallel is flawed. he

and they're going to trundle their way further east with as we go through friday so pushing into turkmenistan maybe into his back is down as well still a few showers there into iran across regulation should be last you try and find temperatures here in doha getting up to around 30 celsius now in the other side of the red sea we have got some lively showers in place across much of the ethiopian highlands some wetter weather there too just around the horn of africa so this little clutch of storms here want to draw your attention to there on the shore breeze fading in some very heavy downpours into the coastal fringes of kenya and this will push up into a good part of somalia as you go on through the next couple of days with the risk of some flooding elsewhere the showers extend all the way to the gulf of gay. but. desperate for a better life millions of people have sought refuge in europe sometimes their dreams of sanctuary are realized but sometimes disenchantment and hostility drive them home. in the 2nd of 2 films on these contrasting experiences people and power meets the returning migrants

and they're going to trundle their way further east with as we go through friday so pushing into turkmenistan maybe into his back is down as well still a few showers there into iran across regulation should be last you try and find temperatures here in doha getting up to around 30 celsius now in the other side of the red say we have got some lively showers in place across much of the ethiopian highlands some wetter weather there too just around the horn of africa this little clutch of storms here want to draw your attention to there on the shore breeze fading in some very heavy downpours into the coastal fringes of kenya and these will push up into a good part of somalia as you go on through the next couple of days with the risk of some flooding elsewhere the showers extend all the way to the gulf of. the oppression of an ethnic minority and man mine goes back many decades the intention was to make sure that rangers were no longer entitled to either basic rights or citizenship rights in a new documentary al-jazeera explores the history and motives behind the systematic persecution of the him

the president of turkmenistan has banned the word "coronavirus".say the c-word, you go to jail. why didn't we think of that? what could be the thinking behind that? does he think if you don't show the name it won't show up? this is a virus. not volgamo this guy even dressed up like a giant coronavirus nasal swab. this is the guy's name, i don't know, whatever it is, it's 900 points in scrabble. here's another shot. he looks like if dean cain was stung by a swarm of wasps, this is exactly what he would look like. meanwhile, in north korea, they are claiming they don't have any coronavirus. none, which seems unlikely, considering their neighbor, south korea, had thousands of cases and their other neighbor is china, which obviously had the virus, although to be fair, they've basically been in quarantine since the '40s, even their leader, kim jong un, cuts his own hair. i hope what they believe is true. it's believed that a coronavirus outbreak would quickly overwhelm the north korean health care system. the only doctor in north korea is a dog wearing

and they're going to trundle their way further east with as we go through friday so pushing into turkmenistan maybe into his back is down as well still a few showers there into iran across regulation should be last you try and find temperatures here in doha getting up to around 30 celsius now in the other side of the red sea a we have got some lively showers in place across much of the ethiopian highlands some western weather there too just around the horn of africa so this little clutch of storms here want to draw your attention to the all the shore breeze fading in some very heavy downpours into the coastal fringes of kenya and these will push up into a good part of somalia as we go on through the next couple of days with the risk of some flooding elsewhere the showers extend all the way to the gulf of good. when covert 901st struck china and began to spread the cost asia. some in the west criticized countermeasures a stew harsh or too weak. but have the different experiences before asian nations in fact not shown the world to root out of this global pandemic. coronavirus lessons from asia

why don't the media use coronavirus in turkmenistan?out there. and what the government probably sees as undermining the authority. this is not unique to turkmenistan, we have seen it in china, you probably remember the case of the brave doctor treating coronavirus patients who try to... he first tried to alert the world to this virus. exactly. alert the world to this virus. exa ctly. h e alert the world to this virus. exactly. he was reprimanded by police for doing so. he u nfortu nately, police for doing so. he unfortunately, he passed away from the disease. is itfairto the disease. is it fair to say countries that do not have a great human rights record are the ones that are broadly speaking trying to project an image everything is fine? i think that is correct, to a certain degree. we are seeing countries such as venezuela arresting journalists, russia arresting journalists, russia arresting medics raising concerns about ppe, tanzania also closing down newspapers and removing licences from journalists. there is definitely, these gove

turkmenistan has gone to great lengths to suppress this.lists, because it makes particular governments look bad, but it will not help them in terms of overcoming the virus, will it? no, absolutely not. one lesson that is clearly already being drunk this out vital reporting is no more than ever. this is really a question of public health. this is demonstrating real—life consequences of these policies to suppress information. democratic governments are not exempt either. we are seeing issues of lack of transparency sometimes even within europe. and we're having to engage to hold governments to account everywhere. sure, absolutely. in terms of the statistics in ecuador, where journalists questioning the official death figures, which as you say were 333 ? death figures, which as you say were 333? or did people start to question the figures once those images emerged of bodies being buried?” think both. journalist started to question the official figures. journalists started to question the way the authorities inform about the figures, sometimes