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community's. rush to see the start of this museum. it's good to have you with us imagine you're walking in your computer and you see your files being moved before your very eyes all police telling you they know all of the private events you vulcanize on social media this is a reality of reality for many foreign journalists in china then surveillance and government interference on them once and in twenty it's part of a report published by the beijing based foreign correspondents club of china or f.c.c. see some chilling accounts from correspondents matthew carney of the australian

broadcasting corporation says in my phone i have actually seen them in my g. mail opening and closing files. deathy long from the b.b.c. says on two separate occasions my phone call was interrupted and i heard a recording of my call being played back down the line to me one hundred nine members of the two hundred four who responded to that survey but it isn't just china where journalists are facing dangers doing their work i mean much journalists why alone and jews are all have been imprisoned for a little over one year for allegedly violating the country's official secrets act they have been sentenced to seven years in prison their continued incarceration comes in the midst of what human rights watch has described as a climate of fear among journalists in me and mom in a report the rights group accuses the civilian government led by nobel laureate

aung san suu chief of failing to revise or oppressive laws the report says instead the government has used them against peaceful critics and protesters angry. foreigners not from young gone is phil robertson from human rights watch and he's deputy director of the asia division phil thank you very much for speaking to us can i just ask you at the outset is your own son suchi responsible for the deterioration of press freedom in myanmar. well she's certainly playing a role in this it's her political party that is overseeing the teary a sion a free expression and the diminishing respect for media freedom in this country she's done nothing to with to constrain her m.p.'s and other members of her party from bringing criminal defamation cases against the media or getting them for the under the telecommunications act the very infamous article sixty six d. of the telecommunications act we're seeing time and time again

a failure by the end of the to raise these issues a press freedom to defend journalists in fact they tend to take the other side that you know whoever is doing the journalist whoever is going after the journalist must have some sort of sufficient cause to do so we have seen time and time again also an allegation that somehow the journalists have offended some with dignity as if that's enough to proceed with a criminal prosecution but but what is the reason behind his wife is happening with own son so it's a once considered democracy i can well quite clearly she doesn't. appreciate any sort of criticism of her rule i think she has increasingly adopted a much more autocratic form of rule and you know she has encouraged her parliamentarians to be quite tough with the media. you know the problem is we're

seeing these actions spread like a virus almost you know there's more and more of these actions against journalists coming up not just by the military but also by the government and in some cases also by. various different individual actors what would you say the state of press freedom now in myanmar is that as bad as it was under the military dictatorship. well i don't think it could ever be that bad i mean let's recall that when we had this working s.b.c. governments people were afraid to talk in the shops and there was really no independent media whatsoever but what i would say is compared to where it was in two thousand and sixteen when the government here took over from that tense and government situation has gotten worse rather than better so it's in the modern era and democratic era we're looking at a decline in press freedom for robertson from human rights watch thank you very

much for speaking to us thank you for millions of people in southeast asia the mighty mikko river is the art tree of life over sixty million people depend on the mekong in some way it flows more than four thousand kilometers through six countries on its way to the south china sea in the mekong delta most communities live right on the river banks but their way of life is increasingly under threat from a manmade problem. tatty can and is free fielding her life in the dead of the night the entire front of her house collapsed into the mekong river and with it almost everything she owned. and i now live on that distance from my house to the river used to be more than ten meters. and then there was the bedroom a kitchen

a small yard. then came the water. everything collapsed into the river all of it is lost. experts say manmade erosion is causing the land in this part of the delta to sink about two centimeters per year. it's leading to dramatic scenes like this. roge and is rapid. and caused by two main factors the construction of upstream dams in laos cambodia and china and unregulated sand mining fueled by an insatiable regional demand for the construction resource both are draining the river of sediment that's needed to keep currents in check without sediment

riverbeds become deeper and currents become stronger currents that eat away at the banks of the me kong. authorities say their options are limited especially when it comes to damming in other countries. we cannot stop upstream countries from building those dams we can only try to cooperate with them to minimize the negative effect on us. brought it's a very difficult matter to solve internationally. or we can do is work locally here in the mekong delta. we also will have to save ourselves. one way to do that is to relocate but many people here are hesitant to move away from their source of livelihood their ancestors have lived here for millennia and at least for now they'll stay.

crampon deed says joins us from thailand but she's a conservationist with international rivers and is campaigning to save the mekong river is it is good to see you how serious is this problem and what is the impact it's having. no i was there that is when i wrote there are things like call me. emergency because since the birth that was built into nonprofit in time that around . nine hundred ninety six gradually more and more of them have been built on the after ames which is just like less than three hundred feet big you know meters us through a file border that's the in huge change in ecosystem particularly the water fluctuation you know in their medical river the water level depends largely on the winds and wishes like a grand fat but when the dam x. raying controls just a little that means the fish migration raptly who are up and security for security

and economic obviously downstream represent communities have to be lashed that's right and they're already facing the impact of erosion of the recon river has there been any support will either from the government all from private initiatives to support them move we haven't seen any political reels from the referee and government chair to acknowledge or to solve this problem but what is more it's about being more and more of the downsides of. being built in the downstream like tight companies in cambodia are by chinese companies for example so it's like. the south america allowing. faceted i think more and more last hydropower investment on base as you know we were three sheets from you know really where we need more time to rebrand bilaterally he was

a fifty million people more than produces from international river thank you very much for speaking to us interior. well out of the bonnie and into the limelight it's the year of the pig. and one museum in south korea is making hay of all sign popularity located in the city not far from the capitol hill the museum consists of variety of attractions including performances and fine inspired ought to feast your eyes on. may be on the rise this year that these potbelly polk is a no strangers to the limelight. the star attraction at the pig museum in south korea. popular with kids and adults alike. my family came here to visit the

pig museum and we hope to have good luck in the new year. as well as petting and feeding is also an art gallery displaying fountains of works the country and the world which. are considered to be a symbol of wealth and look the year of the pig is coming so people will pay much more attention to pigs the number of visitors this month is about thirty percent higher than the same period last year and is expected to exceed one hundred twenty thousand this year. and this is what they've come to say. i did i never thought pigs could be so small and quick there's so cute. prove pretty popular and in this year of the pig many more chances to celebrate them. that's a familiar can find online that made up a dot com all the slash issue and don't forget to check out the news on facebook as

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welcome to ditto your business asia i want to get jones good to have you with us german chancellor angela merkel is in the japanese capital tokyo meeting with the japanese prime minister should so in a joint press conference both stressed the importance of close trade ties in times of rising protectionism macas visit comes just three days after a sprawling trade pact between the e.u. and japan came into force. good friends are important especially in hard times that's why german chancellor angela merkel has been emphasizing during her visit to japan a major ally in her call for free trade but their relationship is about more than trade. i am in japan.