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🗓️ 18 June 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
0:05.0 | Good morning. |
0:06.2 | Today, Spain is tiptoeing back to a kind of normality |
0:10.3 | as questions are raised about the number of coronavirus victims who are health care workers. |
0:16.0 | Ethnic tensions in Kyrgyzstan, a correspondent whose Uzbek reflects on the violence 10 years ago between the Kyrgyz and the Uzbek minority. |
0:25.8 | The island of Boganville in Papua New Guinea contemplates independence |
0:31.6 | with a former gold and copper mine vital to the economic future. |
0:36.5 | And a murder case which changed a country, Ullov Palma's death in Stockholm nearly 40 years ago. This week case officially closed, but does |
0:46.8 | everyone accept the verdict? First, the freedom of the press is at stake, say many in the Philippines. |
0:55.0 | Two journalists have been sentenced to prison for what's called cyber libel, |
1:00.0 | defamation on the electronic media such as the internet. |
1:03.9 | Maria Ressa heads an investigative news website called Rappler |
1:08.1 | and Rinaldo Santos Jr. is one of their former writers. |
1:11.9 | It's a high-profile case and Howard Johnson was one of only three |
1:16.0 | journalists allowed to attend court to hear the verdict. |
1:20.2 | As I walked with Maria Ressa towards the courtroom, we skirted past missing floor tiles, |
1:25.2 | rusty filing cabinets and a pile of broken printers. The courthouses decrepit corridors and low ceilings |
1:32.3 | must be unnerving for those about to face justice. |
1:35.8 | How do you feel? I asked Miss Ressa as we maintained a brisk pace. |
1:40.4 | Good, she said resolutely. It's been a very fast trial and this verdict has an impact on |
1:46.1 | press freedom, not just in the Philippines, but everywhere in the world. |
1:50.8 | Press freedom and the speed of the trial get to the heart of why this case has such a high profile. |
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