still not known who ordered her killing the press watchdog reporters without borders says journalists and threatened by politicians businesses and the justice system this country dropped eight hundred places to rank sixty five in the press freedom and x. reporters without borders evaluates the level of freedom available to the press and hundred ninety countries worldwide this year the organization says the biggest setback has been in europe journalists and poland the czech republic slovakia hungary and serbia are increasingly facing hostility. topping the freedom and norway sweden and the netherlands. germany rose one place to rank fifteenth. many countries ranked far lower than even multi in terms of press freedom in bangladesh
some depressing reading it paints a picture of a world in which attacks on the media physical and verbal have become more commonplace europe remains the safest place for reporters but it has also slips consider the murder of a maltese reporter who dared to dig and write about corruption in politics. on october sixteenth two thousand and seventeen the multiuse journalist. was killed by a car bomb the reporter had worked tirelessly to expose corruption in the island nation including allegations against prime minister josef most scots family it s still not known who ordered her killing the press watchdog reporters without borders says journalists and threatened by politicians businesses and the justice system this year saw the country drop eighteen places to rank sixty five in the press freedom
african nation the gambia has made the most progress when you johm as dictatorship ended in two thousand and sixteen the country rose twenty one places to rank hundred twenty two in the press freedom and x. the media has been flourishing and a more open environment where criticism is no longer forbidden. well i m joined now by paul farhi reports on the media for the washington post he joins me from washington d.c. paul it s good to see you again when you read this report it is very clear that reporters without borders considers a main source of this increasing hostility to be the words in the messages coming out of the mouth of the u.s. president how culpable if you guys do a lot of the of the attacks there at the washington post how culpable is the u.s. president when you look at this latest index entirely is the
year saw the country drop eighteen places to ranks sixty five in the press freedom and x. reporters without borders evaluates the level of freedom available to the press and hundred ninety countries worldwide this year the organization says the biggest setback has been in europe journalists and poland the czech republic slovakia hungary and serbia are increasingly facing hostility. topping the freedom and a norway sweden and the netherlands. germany rose one place to rank fifteenth. many countries ranked follow up an even multi in terms of press freedom in bangladesh new terror laws give police the power to jail journalists just for conducting research bangladesh ranks hundred forty six in the global index. b. the west
first started may thirteenth on g.w. . this is. from. multiple journalists on terrorism charges they all worked for the newspaper one of the country s few papers that has been critical of turkey s president we ll get the latest from. the press freedom has sparked international outrage also coming up france s president highlights the very