The message that the government is sending is very clear style aint what youre next and that its in the extreme file its against journalists is all of it is a lesson america that appears in the news the International Community is sending just this message that state sufficient power it can get the wheat we smelled during the joint we how she come down the murder of the john of the Stephanie Cutter was an attack on free media. Feel safe. In europe. Also coming up at recruiting future neo nazis a report on the growing popularity of mixed martial arts here in germany and why its attracting hooligans and far right extremists. Full contact sport i think thats the thing which is the most appealing for them its a development with the right wing we see in not only in sports its we see in a whole society. To our viewers on p. B. S. Of the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with a sobering statistic for those of us who work and report. The news in 281949 journalists were killed doing their job and its yearly reports Reporters Without Borders says that most journalists who were killed were killed in just 5 countries they are syria mexico afghanistan pakistan and somalia the good news is that that number is a 16 year low but all over the world there is a disturbing trend journalists being detained and arrested arbitrarily and many end up in prison tonight 389 journalists are behind bars china tops the list again with a 120 journalists that have been imprisoned now we know that 120 thats a guess we have no way of knowing the exact number in china and thats followed by egypt Saudi Arabia Syria and turkey Reporters Without Borders says that homemade threats against journalists are growing they include politicians attacking the media from washington d. C. To manila and in iran journalists were recently arrested simply for trying to cover recent protests against a hike in gas prices the iranian government has also intensified its harassment of persian speaking journalists working abroad. Nutra book grotty knows what it means when press freedom is threatened the editor in chief of prague based radio farda the Persian Service of Radio Free EuropeRadio Liberty says harris may have exiled journalists by the Iranian Regime has escalated during the current protests. Intelligence officers have been. Operating in different accounts and different websites in order to inform the journalists protests against fuel price rises erupted in iran in november the state responded with violence and nationwide internet blackouts domestic media have faced increased censorship and broadcasters based abroad are among the only other sources of information that their reporting appears to have angered the Iranian Regime. Who normally what they do all day summoned their parents. To Iranian Intelligence ministry quarters. They force them to contact their loved ones and to tell them to resign immediately and if they dont resign we would bring them back to iran some overseas persian language media have had the assets confiscated and their journalists branded as terrorists but despite the risks the exiled reporters say they will continue their work in their words journalism is not a crime. Well joining me now on the big table is Christiane Mir hes director of Reporters Without Borders in germany its always good to see you christiane i want to pick up on what we just saw there concerning iran i mean what we see happening in iran and its not a big surprise is it because its a place that doesnt enjoy the press freedoms as we do with the west for example in the right yeah unfortunately you are right i would be happy to disagree on this but iran i mean for a long time is one of the biggest jailors well dwight of gins is not among the top 5 but its among the top 10. Just pretty prison and putting journalists in prison for doing that job the number of journalists killed in 2019 draw a 16 year low a major reason is that fewer reporters are going abroad to cover wars crisis regions are not getting reported on like they used to thats a Troubling Development isnt that a Troubling Development because its producing black holes in you sold basically and i mean thats where we see web journalism about its reporting about whats happening all over the word and more over this lead to another figure if you see look a bit more into details of this figure of 49 journalists having been killed 59 percent out of these 3049 journalists killed has been killed in countries which we call countries in peace like mexico pakistan and says this is much more troubling in your report makes clear that domestic threats are not decreasing and that includes wave after wave of misinformation that the public is being forced to confront with we hear about it all the time i want you to take a listen to what was said just last week at the u. N. Climate conference about this information the reason why here is because of a deep pockets of the power thats been exercised by fossil fuel companies and their allies around the world theyve been spreading misinformation about them about the science theyve you know strap. Think progress on Climate Action. But you know whats changing whats changing is the powerful of Diverse Movement for Climate Action that were building around the world there you have right there you have someone the Climate Conference saying you know part of the part of the battle we have is the misinformation thats out there so what does Reporters Without Borders advise journalists to do i mean were fighting you know battles and so many fronts it seems i mean it sounds so simple my answer maybe but in the end i think its you have to fact check and maybe see twice before sending out tweets before sharing misinformed piece and i mean thats i think one of the basic ways how we could and should fight misinformation which existed which could live pollute basically the news and why and then i think on a broader level we have to talk about this information pollution as well if we dont know how to regulate to actually sink but this is a long term discussion but we do have some initiatives on this what can be done would you think is thinking weve got the u. S. President ial election happening next year and theres a lot of talk about misinformation as well as election manipulation. Coming up what kin journalists do to ensure the a free press survives and that pursuit of the truth is not corrupted i mean we have to look on it on a twofold way 1st of all i think journalism as such and a journalist among themselves they have to be in solidarity if one of them is attacked and i think this is something which you shouldnt and the estee made comparing the us in germany with other countries but the obvious thing is really be accurate be consistent in filmation and as i said in advance be be be transparent maybe some some somehow a bit more about how you inform how you investigate and we know that users that audiences appreciate this very much. And this costs maybe a bit more but you have to engage more with the audience which is the out there on twitter and facebook but i think in order for not losing their credibility i think thats important because journalism is important fought zoo where its because everything what we know about the world we know but journalism credibility is a big factor for us where in the world before we let you go where in the world is it best to be a journalist now what does Reporters Without Borders think i mean its a very good question because we talk so much about negative things but you look to the scandinavian countries look to no way finland say we have a high diversity for of media high pluralism we have almost no attacks we have a very good freedom of information act and i think scandinavia norway finland r. Z. Stream countries that you just have to like the snow if you want to work there christiane be a director of reporter without borders sure because that is always good to see if they can you know. The question is now a valid one will the boeing 737 max ever leave the ground again yesterday the u. S. Plane manufacturer boeing announced that it is suspending production of its 737 max airliner beginning in january the entire fleet was grounded less march following 232 crashes in the span of just 5 months boeing has not delivered any new 737 matches since then and that is key to this story the 737. 00 maxes but wings best selling plane boeing is also the largest industrial employer in the United States this is a bench and will have knock on effects for parts suppliers thousands and thousands of jobs are now in jeopardy. There are 400 brand new 737 max aircraft parked in boeings holding area theyve been grounded since april this year some are even parked in the employee parking lot the production stop slated for this coming january is a drastic measure and its bad for boeings 12000. 00 employees i think hauling production has a pretty major downside that disrupts the whole supply chain that puts labor and terrible spot it causes. A real loss of the economies of scale that this airplane has if you keep that Assembly Line go on because of all the efficiencies in october 28th seen as 737 max crashed in indonesia then another one went down in ethiopia last march 346 passengers were killed in those 2 plane crashes with the 737 max is faulty Steering Software playing a decisive role in both incidents so far boeing has been unable to deliver a software correction that can be approved by the Us Federal Aviation Administration there are 737 is boeings best selling aircraft airlines of place thousands of orders so u. S. Airlines end european air carriers have had to cancel flights due to lack of aircraft the airlines themselves are in just a terrible spot because theyre selling spring break theyre selling summer without knowledge of what their fleet is and all parties need to have complete transparency here so we can come up with some reasonable plan you know to get this crisis get things back on track the loss of production at boeing might have a Ripple Effect that could burden the entire u. S. Economy. Well for more on boeings misfortune im joined tonight by julian bray hes an expert in Asian Security he joins me tonight from cambridge in the u. K. Its good to see you again you have been tweeting throughout the day this suspension will become permanent why do you think so. Its quite good eating but its quite simple theres a whole supply chain behind this production this means a component to leave the just in time thawing doesnt carry any stock and all these components programmed into the production so if they go into Council Production it means that everybody in the supply chain and out thousands of manufacturers are building various components for this aircraft they will be very seriously. Disadvantage shall we say some may go to the wall some businesses mike may close and some component may not be made again i mean well what youre predicting is catastrophic for boeing these 737 max is its best selling airplane is there an aircraft that could suddenly come in and take the place of the 737 minutes hang on a minute max might be the best selling aircraft but if it cant fly what have you got so you got a pile of junk really needs to be needs to be safe and the problem theyve got is a try to rush this through now ive said all along and weve talked about it before you know and i said theres no way that aircraft is going to get back in the air any time soon and of course what has happened now is they have a new paulson. And the f. A. A. Which is the american regulator was accused of being in bed with boeing if you like its like a school child marking his own homework most of the regulate tree tests they had to go through were carried out by boeing on behalf of the f. A. A. So theyre playing really hopeful now and saying theres no way this aircraft is going back until we all started side not buying is satisfied so what do you see happening down because im just thinking about of the impact of this on the entire u. S. Economy is going to be tremendous is there anything that boeing can do to try to mitigate this impact. Well for a start youve got to remember that this aircraft the 737 its got a very old airframe and they did not cheat build this plane from scratch they actually adapted an old airframe and put 2 very large engines slung forward of the wings so that caused all the problems with the with the leveling device not working so the plane went down and finally crashed and so what you got here is theyve got to decide whether theyre going to scrap this completely and this is the doomsday scenario if you like and say right we start again we realize its this is a bad aircraft from the marking point of view from everybodys point of view there have been 2 serious crashes we can get these things right and i understand there are stress problems with the existing airframe because its never built to carry these huge engines is carried is built to carry smaller engines initially not so fuel efficient but that was the aircraft and its very very successful ryanair for example has a whole fleet of them now and theyve been very happy with them but obviously theyve ordered new ones everybodys old and new and British Airways of struck a deal with boeing as well but if you cant fly the aircraft then you have a problem so what is happening now is that theres also a boeing plant in china and china got about 129 of these aircraft sitting there my prophecy if you like a bit of crystal ball gazing that i think theyre going to close down that production line and it isnt going to open again because once you just drop the supply chain you cannot get all the components back again they will have to find new suppliers to retro fit retro to make these components and want to bring it back on straight what about i think in a lifetime. Yeah youre going to try. I think yeah i think theyll move the whole lot to china say look guys were going to try Something Else now see if you can get it working. That is the only logical way to go they cannot go on with this this well its its a sick aircraft and theres no other word for it yeah whatever they try to do theyve tried revamping the software the angle of attack senses were full say they too are. Putting stress the stress fracture fractures on the original last frame which that all string up to retro design to cope with the new. Stresses that on this aircraft and really when they fix it all and all the the say it gets back in the do you really want to fly and its a craft knowing the history it does except for its a good its a good question mr mr bray and i mean i do wonder though how boeing would be able to justify you know sending production out of the country especially in this era of american 1st and u. S. President donald trump we will see julian bret you know they already were unfortunate were already they already sent it out yes thats true thats true were unfortunate were out of time mr julian british an expert its always good talking with you mr gray we will see what happens with this airplane thank you. Mixed martial arts or m. M. A. Has exploded in popularity here in germany however its not yet a mainstream sport and its not one that everyone watches or talks about such as football with soccer and then as what some observers say makes it a breeding ground for hooligans and far right extremists we have this report on a sport that some are using to recruit neo nazis. Mixed martial artists nico sands and he is one of germanys most talented young fighters also a social worker he knows m. N. A. Has a dark side. Its a platform for hooligans and members of the far right its a full contact sport saw. For sure if youre viewing this from the perspective that its also useful good or could be useful using this in the street i think thats the thing which is the most appealing for them. Countless promotional videos shared online demonstrate hooligans and right wing extremists are using the sport to prepare themselves for violence and as a means to recruit new members. Its common to see m. M. A. Trained hooligans working out in football uniforms of clubs with known far right elements in their fanbase. To the games and far right fighters have their own spaces for training and events this is possible because mixed martial arts is not officially recognised as a sport in germany and lacks a single overriding governing body all this means its nearly impossible to regulate sampson its a steers clear of hooligans but knows right wing recruitment is a problem. The scene may in germany should be aware of and should talk about it because its a developed one with the right wing we see in not only in sports its we see in our whole society hes trained in jim zwerg fighters were kicked out for their extreme far right views but he believes preventative work and education should be the 1st option. If you will ride one person you just organizing yourself which is also dangerous because then you dont have an inside in what is happening there and maybe these people start to recruit. All the people which is also a Dangerous Development expert says steps have to be taken to solve the issue because it has lost control. There are more opportunities for them to to organize things and to to be in control be sickly i think rick ignition and great the regulation of the sports will will will benefit it and will help to fight off the far right influence these changes could go a long way to ensuring the far right and hooligans dont have a fighting chance to recruit through mixed martial arts. And for more on that now im joined here the big table by julia tornadoes she is one of the authors of the report you just saw and she also happens to be and a World Champion its good to have you on this show. To talk to me about this sport why do you think mixed martial arts is is the place where its easy or more easily. Able to recruit people for the far right to be one of neo nazis attracted to the sport that you love thats a good question but i guess from like experience and i also know from experience that its the closest to the street you know its like its like easy your clothes have the physical ability to hit someone easily it can kick you can punch and ive know you have to like judo so more and kicking and so i think its pretty attractive plus the hooligans nowadays as we know from the studies are physically very strong and theyre not to be a belly people anymore they train for the day eggs so its called and that is what the day when when things happen with the end of the world as we know it comes right and then they need to fight back they need to fight back what is it there were mixed martial arts that makes it better to recruit compared to soccer for example theres basketball soccer ice hockey what is it about. Do you think that makes it better to recruit. While they see is violent like they say m m as the violent way like you can actually express yourself and i mean im an athlete you know im a World Champion myself maybe you do not look like you who look good no no im not i mean i hate my political convictions another thing but i mean i love the sport because i love it and its so much for me its judo and its like you know the very idea is of martial arts and i dont know i dont understand actually why they love it what have you experienced youre World Champion so youve been around all types of people who were directed to this board have you witnessed recruitment going on. Not myself but i know from experience like there were some fight because there were some events like. For example where people were on the side of known for their fall right background and for violence so there they have been banned. And then the other events are still like underground stuff i mean we we on the global stage you know its growing its a fast growing sport and then we have to make sure that this is not going to happen and how do you do that how does someone like you work a nother person in the sport who is there secretly to recruit neo nazis. We see. As a big issue because we all athletes and we i mean we can do the prevention stuff like tell them its not good to do that but to like kick them out or exclude them from the happening its dangerous because then they start their yeah theyre on the outside and they start doing their own group and their own stuff and their own business do you need regulation with more regulation the media need something i mean for example football soccer has Something Like you know way for thieves do you need something that struck structured like that so you know we have discussed it and its yes yes its not a secret we need this one governing body for like for example. If we have become make sure that its actually governmental founded we have the money to do the pressure of work and yeah i may not to be misused. Its fascinating the development and its just one that you wouldnt expect to happen but we appreciate you bringing it to us julia dorney from our sports desk thank you were 2020 will mark the 250th birthday for one of germanys biggest music stars in the big on beethoven will leave you now with sights and sounds of a timeless composer and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day well see that everybody. The book. Climate change the listing of the above environmental. Biodiversity Species Conservation exploitation the politics. Displacement. Of the global and current of local action on. Global 3290 minutes on w. L. Sensitive guy you dont need to keep a day about of the bones both for the over rich and home the 4th and for the most recently that looking about. 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