tv DW News - Asia Deutsche Welle February 12, 2019 2:30pm-2:45pm CET
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good to have you with us we begin in northern india where many farmers have a beef with strict was the reason they're eating their crops. which are themselves seven years old india has two million stray cause i'm getting to hindu sensitivities prime minister narendra modi's a hindu nationalist b j p party has offered greater protection than before this means they're seen for meat and hide has been severely restricted the result. and
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free for them cause. trouble to the state of. from all. chad tom joyner is no stranger to the hardships of farming in india. but he's now confronting a new menace which has been causing havoc across the brutal economy. street cause there you see there they're coming together chad tom says the animals have gobbled up his crops twice causing huge financial loss. so seeds and lay down fertilizer the one the crops grow the cattle destroying the look of all our hard work time and money goes down the drain there's a big garden many farmers have been forced to patrol the fields and trees the way the animals with little success. i will. chase the cattle off my field
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but the neighboring farmer will do the same and they'll come back here all run after them again if this goes on all day every ten minutes. others are trying to keep a constant vigil over their crops should they because god says wheat fields from straight from six thirty in the morning until dusk at night his younger brother takes over. their cattle come at night sometimes entire herds of them someone has to be here all night with a stick and a torch. frustration is boiling over among farmers here recently they took matters into their own hands they rounded up around eighty stray cows and locked them up here in this public school to protect their fields only to have the police come and free them a few hours later. alone is estimated to have more than one million street cattle two years ago the state's hindu nationalist government imposed strict laws banning
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slaughter and killing to protect the cows many hindus consider holy but it's had the opposite effect. this is a big problem across the countryside here. tough restrictions on the cattle trade that mean that villagers can no longer sell the old unproductive because for me to offer heights villagers here say many farmers are forced to abandon their all cows leading to a spike in the stray cats of population. the government has pledged funds for districts to deal with the problem and set up temporary shelters to take in strays . but the facilities like this one in the nearby town of gathering ill equipped there's little hope of things changing. the government has built this shelter but you can see for yourself there's no one to maintain it every two weeks or so at least one count is here the government's doing nothing. that
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doesn't the price political scientists g twenty he says protection is largely a symbolic issue for the hindu nationalists. protection movement historically has been protection of the cause as a symbolic figure and need an embodiment or an incarnation off know both the mother and the nation it's never a. sound cattle economics policy so it's not so much about protecting the cow but it's a book killing it. as he's taking no more chances he's now securing this field with. the prices of sword because of high demand. the hope is that peace we keep stray calls out at least until the harvest next month. not for the international outrage over a disturbing video out of indonesia's west province it shows police
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a life sneak around the neck of a vest up one man during an interrogation he was being questioned about stolen mobile homes and police were apparently trying to force a confession officers ahead threatening to put the supper in the man's mouth and. into the said police have since apologized and promised to take disciplinary action a police spokesman for the region said the incident was being investigated by internal affairs he described the interrogation as unprofessional and inhuman but he also noted that the snake wasn't poisonous and officers had refrained from beating the man. but on a common is a human rights lawyer in the region speaking to our social media team she said the video was indicative of a pattern of rights abuses by produce i think this is just the tip off the iceberg and this snake. using snake s. torture method is not new in our west papuan when they've been us first are so
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faced so many of my own west papuan friends who have been are in and out of jail for political reasons said that although they have long known net snakes being in news by police and initial military and. just last months in the cell and then he was beaten slapped kicked and her his head was pushed towards the snake to force him to act with that he had stolen what about this is fresh air motivated because given the context of the prosecution as well the discrimination and now and from the video or are all of what the police were saying in that venue how they mocked that popcorn man this past three years our police have been massa arresting westpark once like the more significant number two thousand in two thousand and sixteen alone there were five thousand and
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three hundred something arrest i thing there even just apology already rare you see i say it's totally i would be very surprised i mean i mean it's good if police give some punishment to give some sense of justice other reactions also point to human rights abuses in respire poor where there's now a growing movement for an independence referendum this from news of benedict a researcher with civic freedom wanted to see because this incident he says highlights once again the ongoing climate of impunity mess and the failure of president you're going to be to hold the perpetrators to account. and this from award winning australian journalist peter crowe no indication security using snakes for torture and twenty nineteen after napalm in the seventy's draws my version since the eighty's aids in the ninety's islamised at essence to thousands phosphorous bombs in twenty eighteen disease all of neglect theft so when does the world cry and off. to china now which is aging fast
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by twenty fifteen about a third of the country's population will be over sixty that's nearly five hundred million people well over the population of the entire united states and there's growing group together with the rising incomes means more purchasing power so of course one industry has picked up on that trend. strutting her stuff on the catwalk ma in hong has a style and swagger that's been my hey years fifty six year old is one of china's growing number of older models. she made her modeling debut just two years ago but for me being stylish is nothing new. i've always had requirements when it comes to beauty i'm not the same as other antti used to casually go out dressed in old people's clothes i wouldn't allow myself to dress as a grandmother. with an aging
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population in the country so called silver spenders mean big business and for many models it's a way to stay engaged outside the home. people our age are all retired and stay at home right i think it's boring because if you retire and do nothing every day it means that you need to think about how to spend so much spare time are you going to spend your days thinking about cleaning and cooking every day i think i would be bored or do you know when you. talk to me for money there's been no shortage of work and with mature hunted to extinction but the right crowd crane is now off the menu and it used to hokkaido its numbers have bounced back so much so that locals flock around pretending to be the bird. the best bird in all the land. the red crowned crane range in these marshes.
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but some humans are also giving it a try. out of the village of zero eight is one of the birds wintering grounds each year locals hold a crane mimicking contest. judges are on hand to watch the contestants give their peak performance. that means like the beloved time show as it's known in japanese balancing on one foot in ice was showing off one's elegance black and white plumage. such as some here just can't win it. but in the end the real birdbrain when this was a ice sheet i feel like i have become
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a red cross crane's. that may be a fallacy but the local slope for the red crown crater is real your book i don't know it will always be the richest. and feel free to fly across to our website. isha and don't forget to check our database news on facebook as well. leaving all with images of the two middle festival in sin the province in pakistan celebrating pakistani music since you don't start. over. oh. the league.
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once upon a time there was a young girl. with a burning ambition. to become a conductor. every very curious child and very excited and in love with music and i would go to concerts with my parents and always. near him for being on stage with musicians and being part of that magic it was difficult for the first one. real. world famous conductor. longer than i.
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love my stuff. that you're eating on t w. soldier magically has the japanese comic slowing demand and fallout from the arrest of its former c.e.o. carlos gold. also coming up china lashes out at what it calls protectionism after other countries warn the telecoms networks not to use chinese equipment. turning away from industrial farming we'll see how some in india see pramod culture as the way to feed the country. this is business as. this on has released its twenty eighteen results and it's a worrying picture for the japanese comic blames
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a forty five percent drop in bottom line profit for the first nine months of its fiscal year on weakening global demand yet there's a bigger question looming over the company the future of its alliance with french carmaker randall the relationship between the two has never been easy but it was put together by former chairman and c.e.o. carlos gold a man who now sits in a tokyo jail. the relationship between the two car makers has never been easy and with gone out of the picture it stands to get worse nissan c.e.o. who rode to a psychologist said tuesday that maintaining the alliance is his priority but he suggested nissan wants more parity in the relationship once complement are coming on or you could.
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