As the curfew came into force more than 30 cities across the country are affected. China has recorded an uptick in imported infections of coronavirus now africans living there say theyre being a victim and harassed on the streets as chinese officials accuse them of spreading the virus. Im Claire Richardson welcome to the show we begin here in germany where the federal president will shortly speak to the german people in a rare televised address Frank Walter Steinmeier will urge the country to show solidarity against the coronavirus pandemic and while many germans are off work for the long easter weekend he will ask them to do their part and stay at home we can now listen it to an excerpt of that prerecorded speech. Now it is a pond immuno this pandemic is not a war. Nations do not stand against other nations soldiers against soldiers rather this is a test of our humanity it is bringing out both the best and the worst in people and let us show each other the best in us and let us show t
But. With no official restrictions in place in iraq whens are being urged to celebrate easter as usual the president Daniel Ortega is accused of risking an epidemic in Central America. And china has reported an uptick in imported infections of coronavirus now africans living there say theyre being a victim and harassed on the street as chinese officials accuse them of spreading the virus. M k richardson welcome to the show we began here in germany where the federal president has urged the german people to show solidarity during the coronavirus pandemic in a rare televised address friend valter steinmeyer asked the germans to do their part by staying home over the long easter weekend his speech also looks beyond germany to the Global Response to the pandemic. And will we search worldwide for a joint way out of the crisis is will we fall back into isolation and unilateralism tiled in view to let us pool all of our knowledge and all of our research so that we can find vaccines and treatme
Could see hundreds of thousands of deaths if lockdowns are relaxed after a month plus. China has recorded an uptick in imported infections of coronavirus now africans living there say theyre being a victim and harassed on the streets as chinese officials accuse them of spreading the virus. We began here in germany where the federal president has urged the german people to show solidarity during the coronavirus pandemic in a rare televised address a friend vulture steinmeyer asked of germans to do their part by staying at home over the long easter weekend his speech also looked beyond germany to the Global Response to the pandemic. And will we search worldwide for a joint way out of the crisis is will we fall back into isolation and unilateralism tiled in view to let us pool all of our knowledge and all of our research so that we can find vaccines and treatments more quickly. And live this ensure within the Global Alliance that the poorest and most Vulnerable Countries also have access.
Of media we settled on west africa and a documentary exposing Sexual Harassment on University Campuses hong kong 1st person videos capturing Police Brutality on the front lines of the protests there brazil a tale of corruption at the heart of the both are not a government as well as the United States Investigative Journalism on the sex trafficking of children that has had International Ramifications journalists take a lot of heat some of them deserve it will be back on their case next week but for now for examples of the 4th estate making news for the right reasons. Its been viewed by more than 2 and a half 1000000 people and been trending its way to the top of twitter feeds in both nigeria and ghana africa or i has been watching. Sex for grades is a film produced by africa the investigative arm of b. B. C. Africa it follows a radio presenter and investigative journalist kiki mordy as she exposes Sexual Harassment in West African University. Morty says that she herself was a victim of
The future and the globalization of populist sense of. Counting the cost on aljazeera. Hello im Richard Gaisford and youre at the listening post on this program we track the global news media examined dominant narratives and spend more time critiquing journalism and celebrating it were not an award show but to mark the end of 2019 we wanted to examine a few cases where quality reporting the kind that speaks truth to power exposes wrongdoing and helps rectify it has made an impact taking just 4 examples was not easy we wanted to get across geographies different kinds of stories various forms of media we settled on west africa and a documentary exposing Sexual Harassment on University Campuses hong kong 1st person videos capturing Police Brutality on the front lines of the protests there brazil a tale of corruption at the heart of the both are not a government as well as the United States Investigative Journalism on the sex trafficking of children that has had International Ramifications