transformative figure he's not going to push ahead with these big changes to infrastructure i mean changes to the labor market the indignation needs now a lot of the put the problem with that within the nature of the problem with the policy mindset is if you think back kind of twenty years or so where indonesia was hit very hard by the asian financial crisis and what that is pretty is a deep distrust of foreign markets and also open markets and so they're likely to be very cautious in their approach to policy making really good to talk to you guys many thanks indeed for being with us ok thank you now around one in five of the philippines one hundred six million people live in extreme poverty getting by on less than two dollars a day many including children were blown out as a street vendors or laborers to make enough to feed themselves hunger occurs most in the agriculture and fishing sectors where seventy percent of workers a pool of zeroes gentle and dog and meet some of those struggling to earn a living in the capital manila when war broke out in malawi in the southern

philippines almost two years ago. and her children fled the violence they made their way here to downtown manila since then her eldest son to her man has been providing for the family but life in manila is also violence often like many others they are harassed because they are homeless and they're classified as illegal venters later it is hard when you see them hauled away in tire which is even more difficult is when the children are sick but what can i do. experts say iran to have a filipino children go to bed hungry and the young are most at risk of money meant more than twenty percent of them are under with the philippines ranks ninth in the world among countries with the highest number of children with stunted growth. how occurs the most in agriculture and fishing sectors where more than seventy percent

of workers are impoverished displacements brought about by natural disasters and continuing on conflict contributes to communities food insecurity the autonomy as a region in muslim mindanao has one of the highest tendency for underweight children and it may be attributed to the history of conflict in the region. aid groups have been feeding children in many public schools for years and the government is promised to expand that program nationwide and include kindergartens and elementary schools. it hopes to eradicate hunger and reduced on to the growth in children by twenty thirty on their it's sustainable development goal it's not being highlighted because. this is very abstract we only notice one nutrition if the child is skin and bones sometimes we call it be hidden hunger even we call it like. starvation of the soul because when we talk about

that it doesn't only affect the body with it affects the whole being of the child. shayne is twelve years old and for four years she's been helping her mother feed her other seven siblings they sell flowers outside churches and together make less than six u.s. dollars a day shane sleeps here on the pavement with her mother she says she dreams should become a doctor when day but for now she sells her flowers with hunger her constant companion . still to come on counting the cost community farms are springing up in venezuela as u.s. sanctions kick in. but first india's prime minister narendra modi declared the country a space power after the successful test of an empty satellite missile but opposition leaders complained that the prime minister used the test to score political points the election commission said if you'll pardon the pun but it would

launch a probe of its own this one into the prime minister's announcement which comes ahead of elections more than mine one hundred million indians will go to the polls in the world's biggest democratic process beginning april eleventh political parties are expected to spend seven billion dollars over the election cycle that ends on may twenty third but there are concerns new campaign laws introduced by modi are making it more difficult to find out who's financing the parties and their candidates anyone can walk into a bank and buy electoral bombs anonymously for the party of the choice. joining us now from new delhi is charlie a professor and dean at the general school of international affairs good to have you with us professor the government has defended these new campaign financing rules why is that if you don't know. before the finance. you once

released it was completely in the dark. so you know anymore really. donations and was not accounted for us a lot of it was off the books and after a car so the government does claiming that you know by introducing these bonds and other schemes a lot of we are in the back in early july we you know i will look for a school to me and you can actually tell who's receiving how much and before last week wouldn't even guess who this image finally receiving one amount of money and from two or so of course the do you factor is still here in the current law which means a lot of who's going what at least you know who's really feeling it in the box we will accompany black boxes so to the people next to me every car but do you need from the car laughter your appetite ration it does seem like it is also on the situation by two nuclear of the ruling party and in the hockey and the rest of the

opposition and therefore there's a lot of concern about whether it will do the balance in favor of the what the donors expect for their money in india can elections in the country border and politicians perhaps more concerned about their sponsors than that constituents well you know are going to get along is a problem with most democracies there are influential gatlin who are trying to curry favor with the government and to get policies enacted in their favor i'm not so sure the current situation means that a lot of. businesses will add one additional hours because one of the interesting aspects of this law is that even foreign companies not just in newcastle aspiring ones with indian brands can also need parties i'm honestly so odd to me is that you

know it's leveling the playing field but i want to get i mean this is about loan on cash for ok people obviously kind of are getting. but only if it was obvious changed the hearts of any muslims so it's about exchanging all that with the thought of the last all that solutions to the decisions what investments and also the possibly could be a fortune. in this fashion all are showing in a company with a modesty at the end of the and elections cannot be bought fixed i mean. because you really for example understand why the party gets most of the funding that the gotta be truly you not only an idiot election of the party that are already under have also won because they're all using stubbornness regarding identity play that. can be the start of the whole country what's not to be the leader of caste and religion odyssey ok so who are the big donors and what about foreign political

donors the concern all over the world about us foreign political funding what about in india well these those of the most interesting aspects of it i mean it's all in the business houses the big family owned business houses like barney's and the talk of them you know the beloved land and so on have the enlarging campaign financing and some open secret but for now all i open the door for indian subsidies of foreign companies and that makes it interesting because over the last decade india went up. in a big way and one of the more attractive definition of foreign investment saw the need of throttle international money national population now looking for market access and the better governance florida to be higher recently done in india and the inability to probably make

a mocking this election unlike in the office when fatah donations were back at the start of this election a lot of changes over done by the supreme court it does look like fun but in the middle professor really good to talk to and counting the cost many thanks indeed for being with us. now getting enough food just to survive continues to be a big problem in venezuela the oil rich nation produces only twenty percent of its own food and with the latest us all sanctions now beginning to bite some hope the community farms will get them through tough times now to zero stories about reports from caracas. difficulties are everywhere in venezuela these days the economy crisis has millions struggling but people say they are ready to fight back by producing their own food they have turned this small farming back us into an agricole logical project where they can grow fruits vegetables and even fish.

he says the situation will likely deteriorate in the country when the new us sanctions take effect. that there is an economic war against us and we try to supply our families in the hospital in the area with displays we can feed seventy people every day. there are three families living here and with what they produce they're helping a local hospital people here say that they need to be ready for what's coming. on the people say that in this place they can produce almost everything to survive . on a linux is there over twenty thousand projects like this one in venezuela but that they need more government support. we need to teach people that they need to learn how to produce their own food this needs to be public policy and we need to tell the government the budget that is invested in food production must be the same as

the one invested in the armed forces. venezuela imports most of the food it consumes the us has impose new sanctions that will make it tougher for the government to sell oil and get much needed cash. and we send the says there are real sanctions begin now. the sentence we saw by the united states in the past were affecting individuals but they were not against the state against p.d.s.a. it was against people related to the government the sanctions were light we're going to see now is an embargo and this is going to be tough demolishing. the n.b.s. has been breeding rabbits in the farm he says people see them as pets but they could be a crucial source of protein. there also needs to be self-criticism the government doesn't know how to plan how to get organized the enormous corruption because the state continues to operate like all agog what we want to eradicate is still and

it's up to our social movements to make change in this production as a way to protest. most analysts say the situation will deteriorate in the next few months becoming self-sufficient is the only way many venezuelans will have to deal with their every day life mexico's leftist president under as manuel lopez obrador swept to power promising more help for the country's poorest now though soup kitchens that feed the hungry a shutting down as he takes the axe to government social programs john holdren explains why from mexico city. mix can community kitchens where some of the country's most vulnerable you get a cheap meal there were never notices here because lou pape there are a life saver in feeding her family of six with his gaze wally i know it's really helped with our finances even with the gas for the stove and now i go to work rather than just worrying about cooking and until now we've never gotten

sick but many of mexico's almost six thousand federal food kitchens have already shut as part of budget cuts to social services it's not just the soup kitchens closing their doors funds have also been slashed for child daycare centers and the government plan to shut down shelters for women fleeing domestic violence and give the money instead until a backlash made it change its mind and this is all come from a president who's long championed the poor and vulnerable at school some surprise and indignation. he says the measures necessary to stamp out corruption sit didn't mean it's finished around thirty years of these programs which were just used to win elections and get media attention. programs which encourage corruption using the name of the humble the poor to do it was that's all finished the c.f.l. on the base something in the government social ministry was recently implicated in

a monumental corruption scandal but civil society groups say the wholesale scrapping of programs for the pool is not the answer and some worry there are other motivations well my concern is that is really an attempt to concentrate power to have all the social problems in their hands to be a political platform and in that says if you really committed to transparency and avoid the corruption will be transparency precisely in the sense of the oven you carry of the of the new of the new programs and you're putting together none of that so far in place the new programs he's talking about include expanded help for students the old and those with disabilities the president it seems those weren't social programs just ones bill so his own design. and that's for this week if you'd like to comment on anything that you've seen get in touch with us you can tweet me a finnigan on twitter use the hash tag c.t.c. way true or drop us

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british m.p.'s rejected the government's breck's it deal for a third time the prime minister had promised to resign if it was passed spots the withdrawal agreement failed to win enough crucial support falling short by fifty eight votes to resume a now hasn't so april twelfth to come up with a new plan or face the prospect of crashing out with don't a deal leave barker reports. the our eyes to the right two hundred eighty six the nose to the left three hundred forty four. the breaks it breaks through the pritish prime minister had staked her political career on has been defeated the country remains in confusion the speaker i think it should be a matter of profound regret to every member of this house that once again we have been unable to support leaving the european. the

implications of the house's decision. britain has only two weeks to find an alternative way forward otherwise it will crash out of the e.u. without a deal without a plan. gerry called the opposition labor leader said the defeat paved the way for a general election this is big the house has been clear this deal now has to change the has to be an alternative found and if the prime minister can't accept that then she must go not at an indeterminate date in the future but now so that we can decide the future of this country through a general election treason may have promised to resign if a deal was passed but the gamble failed to win support from northern ireland's democratic unionist party the man's government remember this brics it breaks it and this we are very clear we will be leaving the e.u. on the twenty ninth of march two thousand and nineteen is eleven pm what. the

regional deadline date is hugely symbolic for the prime minister and for seventeen million people who voted for breaks it. to leave the european union all those. breaks it is they've gathered outside parliament on the day which the u.k. was meant to be leaving the you asked where is that money do you think the division inside parliament was echoed on the streets around it the countries that olds with itself. these are hard line breaks the tears of this is what they think of the e.u. . so how can britain move forward from here but it may have missed the opportunity for an orderly exit or may the twenty second but to resume a could still give her deal another go possibly even next week meanwhile in pisa hunting for a majority for an alternative to teresa mayes plan they fail to rally around a single idea so far they'll try again on monday a second referendum

a general election another breaks of extension anything now seems possible but british politics remains powerlines to leave barca al-jazeera westminster. last we heard the u.k. prime minister warning of grave consequences for when that rejection of the withdrawal agreements and the hayward reports from the british parliament where there is screwing frustration among people who voted to leave the e.u. . many of them told us there are more than five thousand people at this protest they got a tear right under the noses of and inside the house of commons ready to press the case the bricks bricks to read them i promise to the breakfast on the twenty ninth of march not quite simply out how to not just left many people feeling very frustrated indeed rudi trying to press the case that when they went to vote back in june trying to sixteen they were given a choice yes or no stay in or leave the european union not this this impasse which

britain seems to have preached at the moment a lot of people have been trying to say this is really about democracy the people decided we sent a message twenty sixty take us out of the european union it's those people that are messing up it's not a messy process they've messed up i voted a because i want a sovereign nation i want to be able to trade freely in a big wide open. i want for my grandchildren to be able to be out there not tied to a box we don't have any problem with the european people it's just the organization the respect to this country is on the outer banks it just needs to happen we waited long enough and i think all of this got to be a today is reinforced that point that leave means the suddenly a cross-section of people taking part in this rally in terms of age and where they've come from the prosecutor the different parties organized by different

groups some with the right kind of a lot of people i've spoken to say that they don't want. message being tainted by the far right they don't want to be seen as racist it's very clear. yes thousands of people here but they're not the hundreds of thousands. at the through remain marked. well the european council president donald to schools called for an emergency leaders' summit on april tenth to discuss cracks it. is monitoring you your reactions from brussels. well the leaders are increasingly talking about the possibility of a no deal scenario of britain's leaving the european union without a deal is something that's been mentioned by many top e.u. officials including the use cheap exit negotiator michel barnier there's certainly a growing sense of frustration amongst officials that this bridge that process is

taking so long that it is deadlocked and that sense of frustration has been fuelled by the events in the british parliament today in which u.k. m.p.'s decided not to support the withdrawal agreement well that decision was met by great disappointment amongst the u. officials we heard from the e.u. commission spokesperson saying it was with deep regret that the e.u. saw what was happening in terms of what happens next of course we have very good tense as the next day to look out for because that is the day that the e.u. council president donald tusk has set for an e.u. summit to resume a the british prime minister has been invited to that summit she's been told that she must come with some sort of plan for britain to move forward if there is no plan e.u. officials have made it very clear that on april the twelfth the britain will leave the european union without a deal that's something that you leaders and officials have always said they would like to avoid they would prefer the person left in an orderly fashion but as the

days pass that is looking more and more difficult so what happens next and where does the u.k. go from here to find out some joined from london by jonathan this actually director of the cross party think tank british influence john a third time unlucky for me today is the prime minister's deal no date. well look we've said it was dead on a number of occasions and treats them a choice to bring it back to life and then parliament kills it again so you can say beyond all doubt that it is dead but i can't see how it survives i can't see how it can be brought to parliament since current form because the speaker wouldn't allow it to be brought in repeat form and i can't see how it would vote for it even if it did because what you've done now is he peeled off all the people in the center he would conceivably have voted for this deal so all the bricks says he just wants some kind of breaks it and they're prepared to settle the maze deal so what you saw

today was that the people who are very sick and start deal of the labor party were the hard core main hard core leaders who will not settle for anything other than no deal effectively and the hard core remain is if you like if you are not prepared to accept may steal because they think it's a bad deal and they want to people's vote a second referendum and i can see how any of those people come around supporting may still in the near future so in that case what options are then left for the u.k. parliament sneakin the whole. well in all in effect what's happened now is parliament has taken back control of this process so the e.u. gave the british gave the government kind of a week to get its deal three it has now failed to do that and so parliament now has two weeks to come up with something different so on monday will have so-called indictive votes where m.p.'s will be able to vote on their chosen options one of

those will be a referendum another might be a customs union for example both of which teresa mayes rules out and parliamentarians will begin to see if they can coalesce around one particular option but it's not inconceivable that they weren't and if they don't that might be the time when theresa may brings back her deal and say that this all the abyss you mentioned their problem at nih has two weeks to coalesce around a solution that works for the british parliament but we've just seen the british parliament remains incredibly divisive is there a danger that the new deal scenario which is the legal de fault that becomes more likely the option for the option going forward. the one thing that we can say about no deal is is the least popular option in parliament so the last week in the or this weekend indicative it's only one hundred sixty m.p.'s but that even that was

an astonishingly high number so it has no support in parliament and that means that if we are getting to that no deal scenario parliament will do anything m.p.'s will consider things that were previously thought on thinkable in order to stop that no deals and that really i think is the only way the trees that they can bring by deal but i do think is that if we get.