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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 ActivityAround 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 mai ....
Freedom is elusive. The Reuters Institute for the study Ofjournalism Talks of democratic backsliding in some parts of the world, and The Economist calculates that more than 39 of the worlds population lives under authoritarian rule. Well, across this edition of the media show, were going to discuss how states are now major sources of disinformation, how technology is changing 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, chin ....
Two years ago. 0ur correspondent, henry zeffman, explained the difference between the schemes. Its not what weve been talking about for the last couple of years. This is a rwanda scheme, but its not the rwanda scheme. The government for two years, under three Prime Ministers and more Home Secretaries than i can count, has been committed to forcibly relocating people who arrive in the uk in small boats across the English Channel to rwanda. What happened on monday was not that. It was a separate scheme, which weve only known about for a couple of months, whereby they want to offer, and, crucially, that is the word offer people whove applied for asylum here but been rejected the opportunity to move to rwanda should they wish and to do so, the government is willing to pay them up to £3,000. And, on monday, according to t ....