serve, allowing mr assange to return to australia, his home country. i mjoined by return to australia, his home country. i m joined by our north american correspondence. looks like this long running saga could be coming to conclusion. us more. we received conclusion. us more. we received the conclusion. us more. - received the breaking news in the last couple of hours and there are so many layers to the julian assange story. to recap what you said there, it looks like he will be a free man at some point this week, striking a plea deal with the us. he spent the last five years in a high security prison, belmarsh prison, in the uk. remember, he has been long accused by the us of exposing sensitive secrets about the war in iraq and afghanistan through the wikileaks website, the whistleblowing website. and they claim it put american operatives in danger. and almost all the charges he faced, by the way, 18 charges, were under the 1917 espionage act. but he, now, this plea deal
first place in the press freedom index, it has fallen down dramatically to 165 out of 180 countries. 0n the freedom on the net, we can also see a significant drop in terms of turkish people s access to information. these are all horrible significant eyes signifies and sadly when the 95% immediately send a direct or indirect control of the government, the remaining independent media, however strong it might stand creates a very fragile country in terms of access to information because informed decisions must rely on free information. you because informed decisions must rely on free information. on free information. you mentioned about the impact on free information. you mentioned about the impact on on free information. you mentioned about the impact on state on free information. you mentioned about the impact on state media. i on free information. you mentioned| about the impact on state media. to give viewers an idea of the difference during the course of this election, in a
and it s created a chilling effect where it s become harder to do free and actually rigorous journalism that speaks truth to power. and then on top of that, the government s brought this draconian instrument of the information technology rules that are being used with in a rather opaque manner, as raman just explained. and those those it guidelines you re referencing are the same guidelines that rishi was saying, at the beginning, have been used to have certain clips of this documentary removed from twitter and from facebook, according to one government adviser. just to pick up on what you were saying about the experience of being a journalist in india in the 2022 edition, 2022 edition of the press freedom index, published by reporters without borders, india fell to the 150th position, its lowest ever. that s out of 180 countries.
a minister in the modi government famously coined the term presstitutes to give an example of how people in high offices have essentially fanned attacks on journalists. and it s created a chilling effect where it s become harder to do free and actually rigorous journalism that speaks truth to power. and then on top of that, the government s brought this draconian instrument of the information technology rules that are being used with in a rather opaque manner, as raman just explained. and those those it guidelines you re referencing are the same guidelines that rishi was saying, at the beginning, have been used to have certain clips of this documentary removed from twitter and from facebook, according to one government adviser. just to pick up on what you were saying about the experience of being a journalist in india in the 2022 edition, 2022 edition of the press freedom index, published by reporters without borders, india fell to the 150th
it s happening in other parts of the world as well. what we re seeing here is that the ruling party and the government have labelled any adverse reporting as agenda driven and fake. a minister in the modi government famously coined the term retstitutes to give an example of how people in high offices have essentially fanned attacks on journalists. and it s created a chilling effect where it s become harder to do free and actually rigorous journalism that speaks truth to power. and then on top of that, the government s brought this rules that are being used with in a rather opaque manner, as raman just explained. and those those it guidelines you re referencing are the same guidelines that rishi was saying, at the beginning, have been used to have certain clips of this documentary removed from twitter and from facebook, according to one government adviser. just to pick up on what you were saying about the experience of being a journalist in india in the 2022 edition, 2022 edition of t