Always free and open to the public. You come here and you buy your look and you buy your stock and greeting cards and we really appreciate it. Our guests will be speaking tonight. The event will be recorded icy spam, sell an extra special reminder to silence your cell phones. After our guest is done speaking about the book there will be an opportunity to ask questions and people have mics available so that your questions can be picked up as well. If you would like to stick around afterwards and get a book signed we can accommodate that. We just ask that you first purchased the book downstairs. They are available right when you walk into the store. Tonight we are very excited to welcome back to the store hw brands. He is a professor here at uc and he holds the senior chair in history. He is the news york times bestselling author of 30 books. If you can keep history that interesting to write 30 books that tells you something about how fantastic his work is pretty to does books were final
Has pledged 15000000. 00 to developing countries who want to improve their independent media and theyve earmarked that for bangladesh sierra leone and ethiopia to start with theyve also him up 3700000. 00 for the middle east to support Media Freedom there and the intervention side weve seen foreign secretary jeremy hunt make 5 pledges hes going to be creating a Global Media Defense Fund administered by the by the knesset hes going to be creating an International Taskforce to help governments meet their targets move that ranking system of the World Press Freedom index and thats going to be reviewed by the United Nations hes going to be helping to advise countries on how to strengthen the Legal Protection for journalists and that will be headed up by a human rights lawyer and now to me the most interesting link hes going to be forming a group of governments who will act as a Rapid Response unit when crimes are committed against the Media Freedoms and lastly hes going to be getting the co
Protestors this movement has gone beyond the extradition bill itself it is more about hong kongs fundamental role within china the same issue that 5 years ago drove the socalled down bro movement pushing for greater autonomy and that remains unresolved today. The problem seems to be one of inherent dysfunction freedom of expression where you can air your grievances combined with a political system that ensures a pro beijing government seems to guarantee a high degree of unhappiness especially among young people a situation that the prodemocracy groups say can only be resolved by beijing altimeters solution would be for china to seriously open up and then look at hong kong as a positive a window case a positive example for chinese democratic the fact that me the probe aging camp says the more hong kong people push for change the more futile this movement becomes as chinas leaders wont be seen to be giving way most hong kong people believe that there must be some kind of instructions. Fr
Lawyer m l to me the most interesting link hes going to be forming a group of governments who will act as a Rapid Response unit when crimes are committed against the Media Freedoms and lastly hes going to be getting the countries youve attended here to sign a declaration promoting freedom of expression but i think the most interesting point thats been made today was one from a gone in journalist and an ass and backed up by that human rights were saying at the moment the west is being incredibly contradictory giving aid to promote democracy with one hand while with the other hand taking that money back and putting it in banks and private accounts often from the very people who are in charge of those initial countries so lots of thorny issues to unpick here and also calls from journalists to really make sure these measures have some teeth to consider sanctions in the future. A mash of emergency has been declared in chad. For an outbreak of measles other african countries are also struggl
Through this without being with each other without talking about how communal how Community Problems then youre not going to get anywhere people know this deep in their heart the Getting Started is where we need to work hard on the bell instead when chief executive kerry lamb announced on tuesday that the proposed extradition law which has caused so much controversy would not be debated further she also announced measures to try to open dialogue especially with the young but for many protestors this movement has gone beyond the extradition bill itself it is more about hong kongs fundamental role within china the same issue that 5 years ago drove the socalled down bro movement pushing for greater autonomy and that remains unresolved today the problem seems to be one of inherent dysfunction freedom of expression where you can and your grievances combined with a political system that ensures a pro beijing government seems to guarantee a high degree of unhappiness especially among young pe