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year's nobel peace prize have told the bbc that assaults on the free press around the world are getting "exponentially worse". maria ressa and dmitry muratov were recognised by the committee for defending freedom of expression in the philippines and russia respectively. they're both in oslo where they will be officially presented with their awards later. in a moment, we'll hear from our correspondentjon donnison who is in moscow, but first here's howard johnson in manila. maria ressa is a veteran correspondent, she used to work for cnn. but the authoritarian leader of this company accused it of being american owned. many people saw that as a backlash to their hard—hitting reporting on his war on drugs in which thousands of drug addicts and suspected drug dealers were being killed here in manila, and that led to a lot of trolling on social media, she was threatened with rape

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