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. well i'm terry barton good to have you with us. russia's president vladimir putin has declared victory in syria and announced a partial withdrawal of russian troops during a surprise visit to syria putin said the task of fighting what he called quote armed bandits was now mostly complete he said a significant part of the russian forces could now return home and he praised the russian military for doing a spectacular job. russian soldiers and said they are welcoming their commander in chief to him a base and on his first visit to the country vladimir putin and i'm sure that the bulk of troops stationed here can go home. last week the russian military

declared victory in syria over quote terrorist groups including the so-called islamic state and al qaeda for president putin it's now mission accomplished what all of that unity with the terrorist threat in the whole world is still very high. however the task of fighting bandits here in syria a task that was essential to solve with the extensive use of force has for the most part been solved and it's been solved spectacularly. but. russia entered the syrian conflict in september twenty fifth it was moscow's biggest intervention in the middle east in decades since then russian forces have battled more moderate rebel groups opposed to the syrian president bashar al assad russian airstrikes helped turn the tide in assad's favor. well what about not only is president vladimir putin proud of you but i am also proud of you and i

thank you. no sooner had putin had the tarmac and he was off again this time getting to grips with russian interests in egypt he put pen to paper on a deal to build a nuclear reactor there but he disappointed his hosts by delaying a plan to resume russian civilian flights to the country two years after a passenger plane was shot down. he still had a spring in his step by the time he reached his final destination getting together with chuckie's president brought the day's diplomacy full circle the pair hunkered down to discuss the sale of a russian missile defense system and of course their long running bed to broker a solution in the syrian war. let's bring in d.-w. is julia chapman in moscow so julia president putin on a whirlwind diplomatic tour there let's start with syria has russia really

accomplished all it set out to achieve there. well when russia intervened in the syrian conflict in twenty fifteen it certainly changed the course of that conflict at the time president putin said that the stated aim of russian military intervention was to combat terror groups in the region as time went on as the two and a bit years went by and it became increasingly clear that one of his other priorities was also to bolster his ally. the president of syria and he's certainly gone some way to accomplishing that there's been a market shift in the balance of power in syria since the russians got involved with air strikes which were intended to support syrian ground troops as well as iranian backed shia militias there but there has been some progress on the terrorism front as well islamic state has lost a lot of the territory that it gained in syria in twenty fourteen including the strategic city of raka and putin said yesterday in his speech that if islamic state

was to rear its head again russian troops would be ready to jump back in and it's not the first time that putin has made a withdrawal announcement there have been at least two similar ones neither of which resulted in any significant withdrawal of troops from the country but there is certainly enough evidence to suggest that there this time might be different because situations on the ground have changed so much for syria of putin's next stop on his trip as egypt its relations with moscow have been rocky in the past couple years is putin ready to touch things that are. well it's certainly true that there's been a strain in relations between egypt and russia since the downing of a russian passenger plane over the sinai peninsula two years ago that resulted in the deaths of all two hundred twenty four people on board most of which were russian tourists on their way back to peaces burg from holidays in egypt egypt has

historically been a very important tourist destination for russians they've been it's been very popular with them and therefore russian tourists have been very important to egypt's tourism economy so they're very keen to see the return of russian tourists to the region it's often said that. wait staff in egypt speak better russian than they do english reflecting the picture of tourism there generally but yesterday's meeting between president putin and egyptian president. certainly suggested that improve improving relations was on the table there was a nuclear deal signed between them to the tune of twenty one billion u.s. dollars and they did discuss the resumption of commercial flights between the two countries which have been suspended since the incident over the sinai two years ago although no concrete date for the resumption of flights has been set yet thanks julio did always julia chapman there in moscow well u.s. president donald trump has seized on an attempted terror attack in new york city to

call for tougher immigration rules a twenty seven year old man is in custody after detonating an explosive device in new york's port authority bus terminal officials say he was inspired by the so-called islamic state and learned to make the crude pipe bomb on the internet. many new yorkers worst nightmare this is the moment a bomb exploded in a subway in the world's busiest bus station. and then panic broke out at the pool authority bus terminal hit by the explosion right in the middle of rush hour there . i see that look like to be running. like. women. and nobody. because the plan to work. here with. police and other fast responders rushed to the

scene near times square and evacuation followed. it was an attempt to terror attack the suspect is a twenty seven year old man. who is now in custody he allegedly had a crude pipe bomb strapped to his body the blast injured him and three others it's unclear if the device went off by accident or less home as in brooklyn and after the attack investigators combed the area for clues. officials saying he was inspired by so-called islamic state. this is new york. we all get. who would like to make a statement against democracy and freedom. of the statue of liberty you know. it could have been west's weeks ago eight people died after a man rammed

a truck and to cyclists and pedestrians that was the city's worst attack since nine eleven. so you look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today amnesty international has blamed european union countries for being complicit in the abuse of migrants in a group. court the u.n. or rather the human rights group accuses the e.u. of turning a blind eye to alleged brutality by the libyan coast guard and dangerous detention facilities there the e.u. has been working with libya to curb migration across the mediterranean after a brief slowdown the wildfire in southern california has flared up again thousands of people are under evacuation orders in the foothills about one hundred twenty kilometers northwest of los angeles so-called tallness fire is the fifth largest in california's history president trump has declared a state of emergency. president from has also launched a new space program ordering nasa to send more american astronauts to the moon and

on words to more or is eventually it's been forty five years since apollo seventeen landed on the moon and the last time humans travel beyond low earth orbit. in norway singers sarah larson and john legend headlined the nobel peace prize concert. the performers paid tribute to the winners of this year's prize the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons also on earth were victims and survivors of past nuclear attacks for the united nations security council is to meet later today to discuss ongoing violations against row hinge of muslims in myanmar the news agency associated press says it has evidence that myanmar armed forces are systematically using break as a tool of terror against the rue hinge of minority a.p.

reporters interviewed twenty nine women and girls from different places in myanmar and their accounts are very similar the news agency says the evidence supports the un's claim that the myanmar military is using systematic rape. yes she say but devastated. runnier i can't bear this pain anymore i'm unable to take my pain to the doctor i'm disturbed in my mind i cried all night last night no one knows that except. i can't even bend to pray that's what's really troubling me. this woman is one of those who have spoken out about what men in myanmar have been doing. she's also one of many who have ended up pregnant her baby is all she has left in the whole world with that when the baby was conceived i knew i wasn't going to get rid of it because i don't have anyone in this world no mother no father no brother no sister only allah not really. all the others fear they'll

lose what they do have. i was very worried crying a lot and my husband said had abandoned me a non muslim right she he said. those trying to help say they're seeing the tip of an iceberg of pain and shame the stories that they're telling us and that not only the victims themselves but that other people are telling us about witnessing acts of sexual violence in myanmar make us feel that we're only capturing a very small proportion of the victims but there have been that fifty people from the military fifty men came into the village surrounded it and stood in front of people's doors in groups of three. then they entered into the homes and started pulling out young girls from their homes and they began raping them and some came towards me and started beating me up when they attacked me with knives covered my

mouth and my eyes and then pin me down and drink me i thought i had died and. i didn't think i want to live in this world for another day. for now her world is here a tent in a refugee camp there will be many more women behind these makeshift walls under these temporary roofs he will so have such terrible stories to tell. you're watching the news still to come drumming up business the german president gets a warm welcome in ghana he was there to talk investment jobs and migration with one of germany's key allies in the region. well efforts to crack down on top dog or on the agenda in brussels today helena first right terry european will make a set to discuss a final report on the paradise of papers today those revelations of course exposing the many ways that the wealthy including global leaders have exploited offshore tax

systems to make it will then vote on recommendations for action and this comes after the e.u. published its first ever blacklist of seventeen tax havens last week sparking some criticism that no e.u. countries themselves have been named and shamed. the great. britain's queen elizabeth the second is among those named. and bono of rock band u two along with hundreds of famous names listed in the so-called paradise papers a catalogue of shell companies and offshore accounts used to camouflage the tax avoidance strategies of the ultra rich while usually legally watertight the strategies are frequently morally dubious transactions carried out through so-called tax havens with no or low tax regimes publishing a black list of seventeen countries deemed to be tax havens is seen as an important step by the e.u. towards curtailing the practices. critics like international aid organization oxfam

have been making their voices heard in brussels for them it's no more than a first step in particular since the e.u. wasn't even prepared to take responsibility for the tax codes of its own members we also found out that for you member states are not fully compliant with the criterion for taxation meaning they are tracked a lot of the profits that did not seem to be made there that's problematic and thus far countries are marked out let's invert the netherlands and ireland yet not one of those countries is included in the e.u. blacklist and none of those which are need fear sanctions for the moment either the e.u. hopes that simply being listed will bring countries like panama or barbados or the u.a.e. around to reforming their tax codes. let's bring in a modest mind to now an analyst and director of the tax justice network and marcus a lot of people see this european blacklist as a rather blunt instrument as that you have further means to enforce anything play

a global taxation systems. yes it definitely has i think this always all has been in the past the kates been found out to be their blunt and also weak and ineffective instrument to calm that scorched off tax havens so i'm not surprised that we ended up with namibia in tunisia on that least while it's for instance a meeting and then moved on that list. the potential for reform of the tax hike in the offshore system and to bring transparency into it. are embodied in that the recommendations that are being voted on tomorrow in european parliament and this is a very promising new potential game changer that we are witnessing here in that report it's really a very ambitious in its proposals and the potential to really transform the world that they say is just a report i mean what all concrete actions that can be taken. there's a risk that these actions will be in the end watered down and vetoed that there's

also some hope in the report in article one hundred sixteen of the european treaties there is an option to change from united mis voting to majority voting if there is a distortion of market competition to be discerned and determined and this is out of question the case with the tax havens who poacher profits from other nation states so we see that there is even a potential to overturn that each oh by those most at rest if he poaching the profits from other countries and in terms of concrete measures for instance we see the a.b.c. off track spends ferentz he spelled out very clearly a fence for automatic information exchange between tax administration and that b. is beneficial only to real owners of companies trusts and foundations which should be called put on public record and then to see stands for country by country reporting by multinational companies somebody we can discern whether operations declared it profits without actually having a comic activity or if there is

a me that i am and and therefore property shifting going on ok as a thing is european lawmakers going to vote on these sanctions when we know for example that member states like multi and luxembourg probably won't want to that in the future face these you know measures themselves so are they likely to pass. i expect that with this new majority voting trade. that is provided for in the lisbon treaty there is an option to actually overturn and by majority voting to make progress in on that agenda why did it say sorry to interrupt that why don't they just put countries like mulcher noxon that on a blacklist. it's even more difficult to agree on a blacklist and on the on the on finding political of a backing for pointing fingers at some it's also less effective because in the end you put it that the weakest politically weakest countries which cannot defend themselves properly and for instance germany who is also not innocent in the

european union in terms of poaching investments fall for money laundering and for tax evasion is elsewhere at the peace would be left off the hook so we do not have a reason why we should expect the black police either to be more likely to be a chief agreement upon nor that it is going to be more effective than the measures that we have being that we have been seeing in that in these recommendations there's lots more than what i just mentioned in terms of the a.b.c.'s which is very promising but just a thought i mean this this comes at a time when u.s. president donald trump for example is lowering the corporate corporate tax rate is that you then not doing itself out of business potentially. well this is the myth that we have not yet come to to. unpack and counter because it is really only a myth we do not have empirical evidence that would back the notion that lower lowering your corporate tax rate would increase your your growth in any meaningful

way it would it will post profits pay for profits. an illusionary well but it would not create jobs and a queen for the investments that everybody's looking after ok so no i don't think that it's in danger to growth in your opinion we have to leave it there marcus mindset analyst and director at the tax justice net what thank you. thank you for all his no lawman fact illustrating the extent of china's air pollution problem people living in the north of the country where the toxic small because it is worst or expect to die three years earlier than those living in the south and the smoke becomes even worse in the winter now the government is implementing some drastic measures to try to get to grips with the issue. normally trucks are lined up here to be loaded but times are normal at the holy ming construction materials plant and i thought both of them we had to shut down production completely. china is implementing drastic measures to combat winter smog forcing

hallie ming to close down until the end of march next year. we've been forced vacation for ten days all we can do now is a bit of maintenance that was planned mixers powered rock without filed is grinding mills have had to stop work in the past when smog was especially bad but they've never been halted for an entire four months. we've still got some reserves from recent months but it's enough for maintenance and to get us through the winter . almost all companies around here have been forced to shut down from the small plant that makes concrete pipes and cobble stones to the local cement works the region's biggest employer. the workers who come from the surrounding villages were sent home without pay. my husband sits around blink guards now.

try to stay afloat with casual labor if someone needs their heating unit repairing things like that. for years china put growth ahead of environment but now construction sites are idle still production throttled shijiazhuang three hundred kilometers south of beijing has the reputation of being one of the filthiest cities in china. you know you often see blue skies and white clouds you never had that before. you know what last year i never left the house without a protective mask this year i can simply go for a walk under a blue sky. i hope there's less smog this year. has rented out some of his compound to a trucking company he gets no state support nor do any of the workers he's had to sack. i didn't shadowing under the circumstances the best thing to do

is to resettle i'm looking for new business opportunities there's no future in this i don't want to do it any longer and i. quote doesn't know what he will be doing in future. so long as it doesn't involve getting dusty. when economic collaboration is up for discussion between germany and west african nations today terry is exactly right helen a big day indeed german president fine published timeline has arrived in ghana at the start of a four day trip to west africa dima is in the capital with around twenty german business leaders the focus of the visit is on strengthening economic ties and tackling the culls as of mass migration from africa. we'll visit gambia later this week. for more let's cross over now to the guinea and capital across our correspondent

young philip schultz is standing by horace tell us more about what the german president hopes to achieve with his trip and why is he starting his tour there in ghana. i think he picked a guy now because it's considered to be a role model and africa when it comes to democracy and human rights we've seen several peaceful changes of governments year in the past twenty years something that is still quite unusual on the african continent where a lot of presidents either try to cling onto power for ever have to be forced. out of power violently as we've seen in many cases in the last years so i think what he wants to achieve here is quite clear and it's very easy to summarize he wants to boost foreign investment and to create new jobs here because economically guy has gone through a hard time in the last years with very high unemployment rates and

a lot of young people that try to leave the country to look for green up pastures somewhere else now earlier this year germany introduced what was dubbed at that time a marshall plan for africa as part of efforts to persuade young africans to stay put and tell us what exactly is that plan and how's it going down in africa. if you ask one hundred africans i assume ninety nine f. ricans will tell you that they have never heard a marshall plan with africa. but i think the idea that is behind it goes very well received in africa the idea is basically true boost economic growth through foreign investment the label marshall plan was just given to it at the very initial phase of this initiative mainly because it has such a positive image in germany at least the historic marshall plan but i think more

and more africans want exactly what this idea stands for they want foreign investments instead of charity they won investments to help them grow their economies now the president is traveling with a large number of business leaders understand in his delegation optimistic are they about business prospects in countries like ghana. i think just the fact that we are talking about such a large and high ranking group of business leaders here that several n.g.o.s and several c.e.o.'s from from leading german companies just this effect shows you that there's a lot of optimism when it comes to the potential for investment and economic growth of course you can't generalize more than fifty african countries but especially in a country like gun where there's

a high level of stability where the functioning government in something like an emerging middle class and a lot of young people business leaders are increasingly aware of the potential traditionally german business leaders are. quite careful with investments to africa but this attitude is definitely changing young philip schultz across thank you very much. you're watching the news still to come we look ahead to a round of bonus league matches tonight ten wins new balls kick off of the big three and and the club's winless streak. that's and plenty more news coming up in just a couple of minutes. i . pick up. the phone does legal highlights. the coach has been

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president vladimir putin has declared victory in syria and announced a partial withdrawal of russian troops but instead the task of fighting what he called armed bandits was mostly complete. and u.s. president double trump has seized on an attempted terror attack in new york called for tougher immigration rules the twenty seven year old migrant detonated an explosive device in new york's port authority bus terminal. while staying in the united states all eyes will be on the state of alabama later today a special election is taking place there to fill one of the state's seats in the u.s. senate the republican candidate is royce moore who's at the center of a political and cultural war that reaches all the way to the oval office more has been accused of in a pro. we had sexual relationships with under-age girls decades ago many republicans have distanced themselves from him as a result but the message from president trump appears to be roy moore no matter

what he may have done is a republican and that makes him better than any democrat trump indorsed more an audio message let's have a listen. this is president donald trump and i need alabama to go vote for roy moore it is so important roy moore is the guy we need to pass our make america great again agenda roy is a conservative who helped me steer this country back on track after eight years of the obama disaster get out and vote for roy moore his vote is our republican senate and it's needed. well joining us in the studio now is tyson barker from the aspen institute here in berlin good morning tyson morning tell us what's at stake in this alabama senate race well it's there's several things at stake one the republicans have a very razor thin majority in the senate fifty two to forty eight so if the

republicans were to lose this ruby red senate seat to a democrat that would make their their majority even slimmer and you can see more defections coming second it would be a new enormous blow to the white house and to donald trump himself because basically it would say even in a state that you won two to one people are willing to vote for a democrat and that would really slow the mit momentum on his agenda including taxes now roy moore the republican candidate there he's an outspoken event jackal christian is that an important group for president trial i would say it's one of the biggest portions of his base probably by numbers it's the biggest portion of his base and the intensity of the enthusiasm in that in that community is enormous both for president trump and for roy bore who delivered more the victory in the primary over several other candidates including one indorsed by president trump now both roy moore and president trump accused of sexual misconduct more denies the

allegations against him and trump has even boasted about grabbing women he of course denies the allegations as to well now women are accusing trump of misconduct those that are accusing him of misconduct or calling for an investigation let's listen in to one of them. as americans we can put aside our political inclinations and admit that some things in fact transcend politics that we will hold mr trump to the same standard as harvey weinstein and the other man who are held accountable for their reprehensible behavior. rachel crooks they're comparing trump with harvey weinstein the hollywood mogul of course whose career has been sunk by sexual misconduct claims tyson how dangerous does this look for trump i think it's going to be more problematic than he realizes i mean this me too movement is really catching fire in the united states and even. taking down the careers of many

prominent men mainly men i think all men political figures the medical records they were sort of the entertainment people from the tech industry wall street is under new scrutiny so this is really taking down the titans of a lot of different industries but politics is one of the most interesting and a lot of these accusations are coming back to haunt people from what they've done in the past including people like bill clinton and it's not really a partisan issue clearly there are people on the democratic side too who have resigned so far john conyers and you mentioned al franken but there are several publicans and more than any one of course is president trump and self who has been caught on tape making these kind of allegations so the heat is on trump he's defending more the candidate. but where are the democrats in all of this are they capable of asserting themselves in this climate i mean this is going to be one of the things that's decided today the alabama voters really red state very conservative state have a real problem with roy moore they think he's

a little bit of an embarrassment he you know wants to roll back the constitution to the first ten minutes he says that the antebellum period is when america was great you know he accuses the l g b t community of being behind these accusations i mean the list goes on and on but if it's a policy question in alabama they're still going to vote they're going to hold their nose and their. are we going to vote for more if it's a personality question like with roy moore and with donald trump they're probably going to go with the democrat with the democrats have to do is capitalize on that personality likability deficit that some of these prominent republicans have now trump's former advisor steve bannon he's also come out in support of more he's been very very vocal of late he says he's going to challenge every single republican candidate who you know put up someone against a republican candidates who share his views of a populist national agenda in next year's election or we're looking at a hostile takeover in

a way of the republican party from from ben and his he's putting a gun to the head of all the republicans the most that it needs are to gotten frankly two victories preemptive victories in the retirements of jeff flake in arizona and bob corker in tennessee both of whom feared the challenge from steve benen both who saw what happened in alabama with luther strange when roy moore defeated luther strange so he is in effect reshaping the republican party in his and trump's image but the question is and what he's trying to do is really capitalize on this intensity gap in the in the election in alabama turnout is projected to be under thirty percent so what really matters is intensity who gets their people to the polls and if you make everything about the culture war if you make everything about this nationalist us versus them kind of divide intense friction then you drive up turnout in your camp and that's what banned in this trying to capitalize on tyson thank you so much tyson barker from the aspen aspen

institute here in berlin thank you for. staying in the u.s. where increasing numbers of african-american women are signing up for firearms training courses they say they're worried about growing racism in america and feel they now need weapons to defend themselves. you know. these women are learning tissues they're housewives single mothers and pensioners smartly turned decks and middle class very few of them have held a gun before so. my name is mark. marcel washington learned to shoes in the army today it's her business she specializes in teaching african-american women to choose her workshops across america set out and days. working or various working at around for their less than one safety training with tell me guns it may look like fun but these women take it

very seriously never shot a gun before but with the way things are going now is really necessary that we all learn how to protect their sales certainly by hitting them after the incident or a few weeks ago in charlottesville it just occurred to me they can't totally depend on law enforcement to protect us to be there for us the demonstration by white supremacists in virginia confirmed for many that racism is widespread that's what brings these women to the shooting range where martial can teach women in their sixty's to low to go on. the. next step life firing it's not as easy as marcel makes it look. right. in hero.

and it's a good start her first go and already the paying target figure is riddled with holes. we everyone gets ten shots and encouragement as well if needed. these aren't vigilantes they're frightened women. oh. no getting back up from the. that's right here in this burg all right here now you alone are collapse. so hard as a field training for an emergency. serious only so. i'm fired. i'm coming. but it's. read. them all smiles for the souvenir

photo none of the women here are great yes but they feel more confident no longer like easy targets like the trainer marcel belongs to the national african-american going to sociate the first national firearms organization for african-americans the atlanta branch alone has grown from five hundred to one thousand members within two years six hundred of those are women. and the gun industry is happy to supply them in the rocks of weapons on sale at the gun shop there are plenty specially designed for women pensioner marcia once advice on a hunt gone which she can bring to the next firearms course but can the ever growing number of weapons really help on the fight against racism was. especially minorities we can be easy targets because a lot of us don't have firearms education so i think with firearms education we can have a legally defined ourselves and we won't be targets of hate crimes like we are now marshal lives in rural georgia the women learning to shoot say that in the southern

states racism has never really gone away it's just less visible they fear the. trumpet ministration is empowering the wrong people that in america racism is even becoming acceptable again. marsha has experienced the racial divide herself as a child she wasn't allowed to cross these train tracks because the white people lived on the other side now at the age of sixty five she feels she needs it gone. but that warm and then assesses calla escaped a large portion of their. jets game with the culture changing we can't say that that's going to remain status quo. marsha meets up with her sister is none of them have been subjected to actual brutality their friends but they feel threatened by unpleasant remarks. the past has left a deep legacy of fear that marsha is booking on to the next going course and

bringing her friends with her. oh yes i'm taking it to my cherish i'm gonna put on a. couple of tar and women that we meet often so i'm on a crusade. these women are seeking reassurance in guns because they no longer trust the government to protect them and their families. moving on to india now where in recent months the capital delhi has been rocked by reports of the deaths of more than ten sanitation workers while cleaning septic tanks and sewers is true in the spotlight on manual scavenging the practice of cleaning human waste by low cost communities it's banned by law in india but it's still rampant our india correspondent sonja fall on the coast sent us this report from delhi. every morning shows up for a trial that few anywhere would want to do. as a manual scavenger he cleans block drains and gotten in dentist suniel has been

doing this the sexiest he owns anywhere between four hundred to eight hundred rupees a day that's about five to ten euros. and we had there were almost threw up the first day here until then i've never cleaned the toilet in my own home the stench was disgusting i nearly quit. but i had to feed my two children since i'd lost another job so i carried on in the middle of. the work is extremely dangerous there's no machinery and. sometimes to undress and squeeze into the sun was talked out he says he's developed skin attitudes his eyes burn from the toxic gases. the laborers belong to the balmiki community. that sits at the bottom of india's class system their work opens them to

prejudice and discrimination which. some people treat us as if we're not human and we're human too now you're sitting here it's very dirty but people cover their noses when they walk past why is that. and i knew it was outlawed in india more than two decades ago. the law prescribes fine and even jail time for those employing workers to manually clean toilets so with the systems and fecht of tanks without protective gear but the roads are routinely flouted with devastating consequences. this settlement on the outskirts of debby is home to dallas formerly known as untouched but. two months ago three of its residents choked to death in a septic tank in a car parts factory on three were cleaners none had safety equipment. one of them was money. his wife poonam is still waiting for compensation from the company.

my children don't understand that their father is not coming back our world has come crashing down i have had to borrow a lot of money since i lost my husband and i don't know how i'm going to pay it back. the issue has sparked an outcry reports in the indian media say more than ten switch workers have died in delhi alone in recent months the city government has since banned its agencies from outsourcing sanitation work to contractors who hire manual scavengers. who done a spokesman for the delhi government says manual scavenging has no place in modern india but he admits the rot runs much deeper it's absolutely in human it's me do you will there is a problem of lack of awareness this problem or the insensitivity and just callous attitude of on the part of not just the police but i am afraid of

what large sections of our society because they don't see it as a as wrong as as a moral wrong as a legal wrong. that means little to suniel and his friends. to finished here. they're already off to the next job. regardless of the know it will always be enough demand particularly. to do the city's dirty work. and your son your found the car who filed that report joins us now from delhi sunny of just how widespread is this problem of manual scavenging how many people are involved in it well you know official data suggests that that are just all the cocaine pozen manual scavengers in the country but activists here in delhi say that's totally appalled with india's own census

numbers now these numbers say that an estimated two point one million dry electrician's of toilets a stone used across the country and these toilets are clean but many and scavengers in the militias usually women from the bible they're the lowest among the balance that's india's former untouchables the other ones carry out this work in small town cities it's years usually men who manually clean septic tanks and so was as we saw in that report and they often contracted to do the work by state governments by greenways by municipal authorities so the practice is really rampant there are some groups here that suggest that anywhere between two hundred thousand to three hundred thousand families still work as mannion scavengers in the country and certainly you mention in your report there that there's a law in place that bans manual scavenging why are people still doing it. that's why there is a law in place and it actually describes a prison term of one year or a hefty fine thought for engaging magic scavengers but you know it's simply not

enforced no one complains some people are not aware of the law some people really don't care about hiring cheap labor to to clean their dreams many when he often the police does not intervene there's one activist i spoke to who said that the police does not even register cases under the and to manual scavenging act between the debts off sanitation workers it's accidental it's rather than criminal cases and you know across the country many many state governments including davies deny the practice even exists because if you see it that official records there's not a single official case of manual scavenging existing in the cities of it which is now i understand that more than ten sewage workers in the indian capital have died this year alone in your report we saw the widow of one of those who died what is the delhi government doing about it. when since the day it's a got a lot of coverage in the local media since those deaths the delhi government has

banned or that's departments from from hiring magnet workers. but the question remains you know how that would be monitored because denny's through its systems and strains are managed by multiple applauded teazle often outsource this kind of work to third party contractors the dead government has also said that is is in henceforth only you know machinery would be used to conceal as in the future activists here remain skeptical because they say the government really hasn't invested enough in technology in such suction machines injecting the genes and so these proposals will only remain on paper there's another problem here that is quite unique to them you know about thirty percent of data is not provided with sewage lines by the government and this is largely in illegal on what the rise residential called means where owners often you know hire manual scavengers to cleave privately run sewage lines and that is also one reason why it was relatively easy for me to fill in that report in such an area and then now this story also includes the a class component india's caste system you mentioned that in your

report the manual scavengers come from the traditional lower castes in his constitution bans discrimination based on the caste system but it's deeply ingrained in the cultural tradition obviously still persists how much progress has been made in addressing the worst abuses in the caste system. that's that's very difficult to say but in discussing it right was abolished decades ago the indian constitution also bans on untouchability you know this is a practice in which cost indians do not touch anything that is in physical contact with them it's that's the lowest cost there are a host of laws that protect the myths that are a number of affirmative action programs but i have to say despite all the said just that of many that it's who traditionally have done the dirtiest manually vote and they asked in force to clean human waste in urban and go to india many would try to quit often to use physical violence there sometimes even excluded from public life

and these workers going to suffer or have to deal with pretty horrific discrimination on a daily member i mean i can give you a few examples many dunnit sanitation workers i'm not allowed into holes many women up will still walk for hours to fetch water because they're not allowed to use public taps and so i think discrimination still persists on and if you do so on your thanks d.-w. sun you found a car there in delhi. and we've got some builders leaders soccer action rb leipzig can both sport are kicking off the bonus league is midweek action tonight full of sport the hosts are only three points clear of relegation while our be safe with a victory could close their gap with table leaders by in munich recent form could give the slight edge to home side both sport lives they haven't won on the road since october while the walls are running a two game winning streak at arena. the wolves have only last month since martin

smith took over in mid september their last outing at home was a convincing three mill victory over gladbach stopping their momentum in its tracks but a league high of nine draws had the main table purgatory currently eleventh in closer to relegation than they'd like to be the head coach addressed the drawing issues in the press conference ahead of the match clumped us with obviously the nets and in the last five or six games i think we're closer to getting away from that statistic that being the king of draws after a long time doesn't take you anywhere. so our goal is to turn that around and also to change our mentality moving forward go. on to a button that. i've despite being second on the table rb life sick last to leave last time out against monks the bulls were even give a questionable penalty in the match that ultimately ended even. i've.

definitely conceded more goals than last season and that could be why we don't have as many points as we did at this time last year but we just have to deal with them . this is what. if defeated the newest club on the block would extend their winless away streak to four games it wouldn't be the best way to celebrate our b.'s fiftieth but its league fixture. more on the midweek bonus league action i'm joined here in the studio by a lima hotel key from d.w. sports. leipsic could narrow by on munich's lead at the top of the table five points if they managed to beat both borg and tonight's early game is it too late for them to make a serious challenge for the title and it's not even about lights acknowledging a serious challenge of course they do i think most wouldn't it's in the d.n.a. to want to dethrone by and munich they've had

a monopoly for the past five seasons and when they win they don't just when they have a tendency to really run away with the title yes partly because you know they are a really good team that's just too good a reason people call them a super cop they would dominate most leaks but for the first time this season back in september it looked like this could be the year when the season went by and nick might fall flat on their face and what happens is comes in coaching change by and get their mojo back and so i'm calling it out right now the title is a foregone conclusion ok. well later tonight we've got another important game dortmund face mines on the road what do you think of the prospect of dortmund getting back on track now that they've hired peter as their new coach tricky but very doable and i think we saw that when a guy has quality at his service there's a lot that can happen and i see a lot of good things can happen and unfortunately this season at coach he had

a long list of injuries he no longer had the service of and put him on desk but that won't be the case i thought meant because he will have all my on here we have and have plenty of other quality and creative players so i think it's it's curious to see exactly the sort of football that will produce with such a different set of playoffs alina thank you so much to the tukey from the sports. and you are watching. we have more news for you at the top of the hour and don't forget you can get all the latest news and information. back in just a couple minutes with more news thanks for. greg. greg's.

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