Euronews ups its coverage of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2017 with daily news coverage and live broadcasts of two panel discussions featuring global leaders, moderated by Isabelle Kumar
News daily coverage
in the News bulletins every 30 minutes from 17th to 20th January
Throughout the week, Euronews special correspondents in Davos, Isabelle Kumar (Davos’ media leader) and Sarah Chappell, report on this major event where global leaders gather to share their views on this year’s designated topics: Responsive and Responsible Leadership, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Global Collaboration, Building Positive Identities, Fixing Market Capitalism, and Restoring Economic Growth.
LIVE on Wednesday 18th at 09:15am CET – Duration: 45 minutes
then on Saturday 21st at 11:15 CET and 23:15 CET, Sunday 22nd at 12:15 CET.
Isabelle Kumar leads the discussion on a crucial topic: Integration policies based on multiculturalism or assimilation are being challenged in this era of cultural divisiveness. How can we build a new social contract that ensures trust between people of varied backgrounds?
The panel brings together Lonnie Bunch, Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture; Brendan Cox, international campaigner and activist, and husband of the late UK Labour MP, Jo Cox, murdered as she campaigned for Britain to stay part of the European Union; Alexander de Croo, Belgian Deputy Prime Minister, and novelist and political commentator ElifShafak, the most widely-read female author in Turkey.
The Global Conversation LIVE from Davos
> Russia’s role in the world
LIVE on Thursday 19th at 15:00 CET – Duration: 45 minutes
then on Saturday 21st at 16:15 CET, Sunday 22nd at 01:15 CET and 14:15 CET
Russia is the focus of our second panel discussion “How are national politics and a new economic and geopolitical context reshaping Russia’s role in the world?”
Isabelle Kumar puts the question to First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Igor Shuvalov, Chairman of the Board of Ulmart, Russia’s leading E-commerce site Dmitry Kostygin, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund Kirill Dmitriev, Founder, Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Bridgewater Associates Ray Dalio, and the Minister of Foreign & European affairs of Slovakia Miroslav Lajcak.
Davos Special Edition
Monday 23rd January at 21:45 CET
In a 10-minute wrap-up of the World Economic Forum, Euronews’ team looks back at the event’s highlights: interviews of leading figures, and new initiatives and common resolutions reached at the meeting.
About Isabelle Kumar
@isabelle_kumar
Isabelle Kumar is a British journalist.
She joined Euronews in 2003 and is now one of the channel’s leading reporters.
She has presented various programmes on Euronews and currently hosts the flagship interview programme “The Global Conversation”.
Isabelle has interviewed many world leaders and covers politics and international current affairs.
RFE/RL serves a measured audience of 27 million people a week in 23 nations and territories by video, social networks, mobile apps, websites, podcasts and radio – whatever media they use most. From its Prague headquarters and 18 news bureaus, it provides local news and information in 26 languages to the nations of the former Soviet Union, the Balkans, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, including a round-the-clock Russian-language television channel.
Through last September, RFE/RL recorded one billion page views on its websites, 300 million views on YouTube and 225 million engaged users on Facebook, plus many more visits and views on other social networks and apps.
“RFE/RL’s audience is highly loyal, making their way to us despite efforts by some governments to jam us on the internet and over the air, and even to directly intimidate viewers and listeners,” said Thomas Kent, president and CEO of RFE/RL (pictured). “They find us an indispensable source of news and investigative journalism, constantly adapting to the most modern platforms to reach them.”
CCTV has disappeared as a brand from China’s consumer-facing international TV channels, replaced by a new name: China Global Television Network (CGTN). Overnight on 30 December, CCTV’s English, Arabic, Spanish, Russian and French channels were rebranded under the CGTN umbrella, while new mobile apps were launched.
According to the South China Morning Post, CCTV carried out the rebranding to “integrate resources and to adapt to the trend of media convergence”, with foreign language channels, video content and digital media falling under the new group.
This rebranding – and the new apps – are part of a continuing effort by China to project its soft power internationally. It is widely reported that billions of dollars are spent each year on China’s international television channels and on its cultural initiatives in markets globally.
In 2017, a new top level domain (TLD) will be launched on the Internet for the global radio industry.
.radio is a Community TLD, led by a community of interest for the benefit of the entire radio community. The Association for International Broadcasting joined with other organisations around the world to support the .radio application to the Internet’s controlling body.
ICANN accepted .radio as a TLD to be administered by the world’s radio industry, administered by the EBU and supported by an advisory board. The board will convene at the end of January at which time its membership will be confirmed and the chair and deputy chair will be elected.
“The Association for International Broadcasting is delighted to be closely involved with the radio industry’s new top level domain,” says Simon Spanswick, AIB chief executive. “The Association will be working closely with the EBU and other partners involved in this exciting project that will offer radio broadcasters, web radio stations, radio amateurs and radio equipment manufacturers the ability to demonstrate their commitment to radio through their web address.”
More information for the AIB’s Members will be published over the coming weeks.
If you attended the AIBs in November 2016, you might like to watch a short video with highlights from the event. And if you weren’t there, but want to know what the annual awards for factual TV, radio and online productions are like, here’s your chance!
Watch our highlights video here
We would love you to get involved in the AIBs 2017. Entries open in April, judging takes place in September, and the awards will be presented at our gala awards night on 1 November 2017 in London.
You can also sponsor the AIBs 2017. Full information in our partnership document, available here.
(WASHINGTON — December 5, 2016) Turkmen authorities have arrested contributor Khudayberdy Allashov on charges of possessing chewing tobacco only days after one RFE/RL correspondent was threatened with arrest and another was physically injured in a series of violent attacks.
“We believe these charges are part of a targeted campaign intended to silence our Turkmen Service and intimidate the Turkmen people,” said RFE/RL President Thomas Kent. “Over the last 18 months our reporters have been arrested, held incommunicado, beaten, interrogated, threatened and arbitrarily jailed, and we hold the Turkmen government responsible.”
Allashov was apprehended in Turkmenistan’s northern Dashoguz province on December 3, whena group of policemen carrying weapons and video cameras entered his house, beat him, and rounded up his family, including his mother and wife. Both he and his mother were charged with possessing chewing tobacco, which, while illegal in Turkmenistan, is commonly consumed and not known to have led to arrests. Allashov’s wife was told that he had confessed to possessing 11 kilograms of the product, an outrageous claim she says was coerced, and could expect to be sentenced to seven years in prison. Both he and his mother were scheduled to appear before a court on December 5.
The dealer who sold Allashov the tobacco was also briefly detained and questioned, and later told RFE/RL that she had seen him at the police station severely bruised and unable to hold his head up or speak.
Allashov, began contributing to RFE/RL’s Turkmen Service in October this year, reporting local stories about food shortages, wage delays, salaries, and cotton-picking under the pen name Mekan Tashliyev.
While Turkmenistan has long been intolerant of any independent media, the government has escalated its repression of RFE/RL journalists recently. Correspondent Soltan Achilova was subject to three separate physical attacks in connection with her journalism in November. Correspondent Rovshen Yazmuhamedov was also threatened in November with enforcement of a suspended jail term he received in 2013. Video journalist Saparmamed Nepeskuliev is serving a three-year prison sentence on narcotics charges that rights advocates believe were fabricated and brought in retaliation for his reporting, and no fewer than six contributors quit their jobs in response to pressure during 2015.
About RFE/RL RFE/RL is a private, independent international news organization whose programs — radio, Internet, television, and mobile — reach influential audiences in 23 countries, including Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the republics of Central Asia and the Caucasus. It is funded by the U.S. Congress through the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG).
Through last September, RFE/RL recorded one billion page views on its websites, 300 million views on YouTube and 225 million engaged users on Facebook, plus many more visits and views on other social networks and apps. 
In 2017, a new top level domain (TLD) will be launched on the Internet for the global radio industry.