the threats to freedom of speech, and how major media organisations, such as the bbc, see their role in responding to this. it s a lot to get through and we re going to start by understanding how restrictions on the press affect the information that people are able to access, and we ll begin with the situation in three countries that have a long history of muzzling the media russia, china and iran. and with us, we ve 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, it s 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 cri
hundreds of thousands of palestinians living in the sand against the egyptian border. or next to the sea. i don t know where to stay, ahmed says. people are fleeing from rafah and i have my children with me. gazans have been on the move since yesterday morning, heeding israel s latest warnings, not knowing if the coming days will bring relief or despair. translation: after what we ve witnessed, they ve said - multiple times that there will be a ceasefire. but we re frustrated and we have no hope. there s no big hope. only a small one. for aid agencies already struggling to cope, the prospect of a full scale israeli operation in rafah is alarming. as the operation will progress, we will lose progressively more areas to the fighting. and i m afraid that this will also affect our warehouses, health facilities, hospitals. and there are very, very few sites where we have the ability to give medical support. for the families of israeli hostages, these are also moments of acute
hundreds of thousands of palestinians living in the sand against the egyptian border. or next to the sea. i don t know where to stay, ahmed says. people are fleeing from rafah and i have my children with me. gazans have been on the move since yesterday morning, heeding israel s latest warnings, not knowing if the coming days will bring relief or despair. translation: after what we ve witnessed, they ve said - multiple times that there will be a ceasefire. but we re frustrated and we have no hope. there s no big hope. only a small one. for aid agencies already struggling to cope, the prospect of a full scale israeli operation in rafah is alarming. as the operation will progress, we will lose progressively more areas to the fighting. and i m afraid that this will also affect our warehouses, health facilities, hospitals. and there are very, very few sites where we have the ability to give medical support. for the families of israeli hostages, these are also moments of acute
mr trump, is this true? did you sleep with stormy? today in court, he had to watch a woman who claims she had sex with him openly testify about it. stormy daniels was paid $130,000 by mr trump to stop her going public with claims of a sexual encounter shortly before the 2016 presidential election. just outside the court room, he insisted he shouldn t be on trial at all. and the trial is a very unfair trial. it s a very, very unfair trial. the good news is they have nothing. thank you. the court was shown this photograph of mr trump with stormy daniels, as she described first meeting him at a golf tournament in 2006, the day she says they later had sex. it was at this golf course, she says, that donald trump sent his bodyguard to invite her to dinner. when she got to his hotel suite, she laughed at him for wearing black silk pyjamas while he dangled the possibility of her appearing on his tv show, the apprentice. when she asked about his wife, melania, he told her they slept i