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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 cann ....
in some parts of the world and the economist calculates that more than 39% of the world s population lives under authoritarian rule. well, across this edition of the media show, we re going to discuss how states are now major sources of disinformation, how technology is changing 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 informatio ....
of the world, and the economist calculates that more than 39% of the world s population lives under authoritarian rule. well, across this edition of the media show, we re going to discuss how states are now major sources of disinformation, how technology is changing 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 gettin ....
freedom is elusive. the reuters institute for the study ofjournalism talks of democratic backsliding in some parts of the world, and the economist calculates that more than 39% of the world s population lives under authoritarian rule. well, across this edition of the media show, we re going to discuss how states are now major sources of disinformation, how technology is changing 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 regula ....
two years ago. 0ur correspondent, henry zeffman, explained the difference between the schemes. it s not what we ve been talking about for the last couple of years. this is a rwanda scheme, but it s not the rwanda scheme. the government for two years, under three prime ministers and more home secretaries than i can count, has been committed to forcibly relocating people who arrive in the uk in small boats across the english channel to rwanda. what happened on monday was not that. it was a separate scheme, which we ve only known about for a couple of months, whereby they want to offer, and, crucially, that is the word offer people who ve applied for asylum here but been rejected the opportunity to move to rwanda should they wish and to do so, the government is willing to pay them up to £3,000. and, on monday, according to the sun newspaper, that happened for the first time. so, a man who had made an asylum application here, which had been rejected, was paid around £ ....