The threats to freedom of speech, and how major Media Organisations, such as the bbc, see their role in responding to this. Its a lot to get through and were going to start by understanding how restrictions on the press affect the information that people are able to access, and well begin with the situation in three countries that have a long history of muzzling the media russia, china and iran. And with us, weve got three experts from Bbc Monitoring. It, as the name suggests, monitors Media Activity Around The World. Kia atri follows the iranian media and, kia, just describe first a regular a normal person, if you can say that in iran what is their media diet . What sorts of information are they getting, and where from . Their first exposure would be the mainstream media, the state media. Now, its a very nuanced picture because, yes, there is some kind of free debate, except that there are quite a lot of red lines that the state imposes on the media you cannot criticise islam, you can
Also coming up through the course of the next hour, we will be looking at european markets which has taken a sharp tumble. Paris has lost more than 3 , the german dax too. We will find out why with our business editor. We will take a train trip to get away the from it all, a trip that could be the next big trouble destination iran. The talks have been planned and cancel before, but the chief executive of hong kong says he is now ready to speak with protesters as early as next week. The breakthrough comes as the protests of the streets in hong kong in its third week. Here is what the chief executive had to say this morning. The most constructive thing that the Hong Kong Government can offer the students is to sit down and listen to the students what we can do together, within the framework position of the National Peoples congress. The Hong Kong Special Administration Region cannot make something that is not in the basic law possible. The announcement comes after two days of scuffles on
THE court yesterday declared that the State failed to provide support and resources for police to investigate the cases of child pornography victims whose images are being circulated within hundreds of local online groups.