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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 but reality for many foreign journalists in china then surveillance and government interference on them wasn't in twenty it's part of a report published by the beijing based foreign correspondents club of china or f c c c yeah 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. cathy 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 meet one hundred nine members of the two hundred full who responded to that survey but it isn't just china where journalists are facing dangers doing their work in mud journalists while known and juicer all have been in prison 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 ma in a report the rights group accuses the civilian government led by nobel laureate aung san suu kyi of failing to revise old oppressive laws the report says instead the government has used them against peaceful critics and protesters and. joining

us now 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 jury 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 this happening with own saying so achieve 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 is 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 the sorkin 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 the ten cent government the 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 arc for your life over sixty million people who depend on the mekong in some way it flows more than four thousand kilometers through six countries on its way to the so 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 in the distance from my house to the river used to be more than ten meters. and that 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 over asian 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. a rotation is rapid and caused by two main factors. the construction of upstream dams and 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. don't know if. 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 ourselves 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. kampong deet is 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. i would say that it's been very there are things like call me. emergency because since the first that was filled in you non-profitable time that around. nine to ninety six gradually more and more of them has been viewed on the after ames which is just like less than three hundred fifty big you know meters us through a file border that's the in seems to change an ecosystem particularly the wattle slap to a nation you know in their medical river the water level depends largely on the winds which is like a grand fact but when the dam x. raying controls the funnel that means the fish migration the hoofs up and security sticking out in the corner make up the bounce we represent communities are to be

lashed the excess right and they're already facing the impact erosion of the beacon 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 governmental share to acknowledge or to solve this problem but what is more is the dow being more and more downside. being built in the down three flights type companies in tumbleweeds there are by chinese companies for example so it's like. the top american allowing. faceted i think more in march last year old hydropower it messman on this as you know we were three shifts knowing where it got more time regarding blacklisting was about sixty million people more than produces from international river thank you very much for speaking to us and europe yeah. well out of the bonnie and into the limelight

it's the year of the pig this lunar new year and one museum in south korea is making hay of all sign popularity located in the city not far from the capital so all the museum consists for variety of attractions including big performances and fine inspired ought to feast your eyes on. may be on the rise this year but these pop a no strangers to the limelight. they're the star attraction at the pig museum in south korea. and the popular 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 thousands of works on the country and the

world. 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 the country. i did i never thought pigs could be so small and quick there's so cute. proof pretty popular and in this year of the pig many more chances to celebrate them. that's a familiar confide bow online a bit of a dot com for the slash issue and don't forget the good news on facebook as well. of this market like a few of the falls behind me but it's actually what's known as incense village

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between japan and the european union took effect berlin and tokyo explored deeper corp. welcome to d w business africa i want to get jones in berlin good to have you with us and the race is on who's going to be the biggest investor in africa now china has certainly increased its market share over the past seven years with beijing channeling billions of dollars into expanding its trade relations with the african continent but another major power is also showing growing interest and that is russia in twenty seven thousand russian trade with african countries shot up by twenty six percent reaching seventeen point four billion u s dollars and the list of russian companies operating in africa is long rosneft russia's largest oil company is developing oil and gas fields in egypt muslim big.