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i'm melissa chan great to have you with us nice outbreak words public health officials and parents never want to hear but the highly infectious disease is on the rise around the world the latest figures from two thousand and seventeen show missiles chilled one hundred thirty six thousand people globally as a significant spike in deaths compared to the year before the measles vaccination has saved over twenty million people since the start of the millennium making it one of the best buys in global public health but discredited claims linking vaccines to health problems have meant some parents are choosing not to vaccinate their children including in the philippines the country has seen one of the largest year on year increases in new infections on a santos sent this report from manila. tents have been erected to deal with

the overflow inside the sickly in wait worried parents watching on the philippines has been gripped by a measles outbreak. early in rubio's two month old baby the highly infectious virus before he was old enough to be vaccinated. my baby had a lot of rations i thought it was because he was taking antibiotics for his cough and colds but it turned out to be measles. it's already painful to see your baby sick what more when you hear that many have died from the disease but you don't want that to happen to your baby imo. there have been more than eight thousand cases of measles in the philippines since the start of the year more than one hundred people have died mostly very young children who are unvaccinated the health department has declared a measles outbreak and says that it is now struggling to contain it. really

a need to do a d v d's because the challenge is to herd immunity herd immunity means that you have a lot of people who are vaccinated so that those who are not vaccinate that are able to transmit their. vitals and in fact others. in the philippines have been dropping in the last few years a recent scare involving a dandy vaccine caused immunization rates to plummet even further. this our. resources. we have a vaccine coverage in the. it even what the forty percent. efforts to tip the scales haven't been fast enough charmaine abad such she'd been immunized but picked up the virus at a health center for a prenatal checkup measles can be extremely dangerous for pregnant women.

i'm scared about what will happen to my baby but i'm trying to be strong. but you never let us i couldn't believe in though my doctor said the condition shouldn't affect the baby because i'm at thirty two weeks already. but i'm scared this image of my laughing as though. the local authorities are working with the red cross to increase hospital beds for those affected and immunize as many people as possible to try and contain the outbreak mothers like angela are not taking any more chances i'm going to say that i'm going out in the news about kids dying from the dengue fever vaccination scared me so i was scared to have my children vaccinated. but now i know it's for their own safety.

immunization rates are steadily rising again health authorities hope that the continued confidence in vaccines will help stem this measles outbreak. joining me to talk more about this is richard gordon chairman of the philippine red cross in manila richard give us some context how bad is this outbreak well the outbreak that spreads very fast now that search separate regions of the country particularly eager to reach us immediately close to maximally that which are really populated. only have about. forty one which a few thousand people what it doesn't change is the fact that babies will sit about . two hundred thirty people get you to share the fact that last year there were one hundred dead and the road just finished a rarity which is only too much they're already overshot their fate by sheer the numbers keep going higher and higher now our correspondent in the report talks

about the dengue fever vaccine and fears over that is that one reason that's driving a lot of parents from vaccinating their children in general in the philippines. yes that's one major reason a sign of the. was a product upon the fruit of peace without a lot of. violence and death if it turned out that there are some questions about the drug that other people died outdoors and some foreigner syria followed understandably but of course they're still. there stole decision yet on whether it's fact they were killed by southey and then innocent other people are turned off by that now what does the filipino government need to do to reverse this trend and to convince people to get their children vaccinated and to solve the current problem well the elite should part of the conversation good job oh we're helping

them. telling them that this is. legal shots are shot at that with that in the state for that are so many years it's why dish i didn't is it a friend of the administration plans and laid down and i'd like to be there but actually just a force experiment upon arch show and i don't mean what are not for starting to go to shit out of people have died and they're not going back and company and part of the red cross we have a full court press constanza in occupations are going on as well as the department of health and another government i was in a different line. you know in the shape of actually less evasion well you know when we leave wall power through the national guard at the local government there is slow on the uptake so we have to rush for that ok well richard gordon thank you very much welcome. we have an update on our story from

yesterday pakistan has freed the indian pilot captured when his plane was shot down over kashmir these are images of the convoy carrying wing commander towards the indian border the move to release him meant to bring down the temperature between the two countries things have been tense ever since a deadly bomb attack on indian troops in kashmir which blamed on pakistan. now hong kong is one of the few places in the chinese speaking world with certain sri domes freedom of the press freedom of expression values beijing does not share mainland china which controls the territory had once to pledged a hands off approach but residents there say promises made have been promises broken. professor eric chung is worried about his beloved hong kong he's been teaching so she ology at the city's technical university for nearly

thirty years but the city is changing he says in his view for the watts so this is he points out the station severing the high speed rail link to the chinese mainland it's a huge investment by beijing cutting the journey time from hong kong to its mainland neighbor. to just forty five minutes. station. but of course also. administrative structure. that they were. extending call. this station is controversial effectively this is chinese territory mainland police carry out passport checks and forcing authoritarian chinese rule and supposedly free hong kong and beijing's influence is growing. on the

surface everything looks the same but many here. wants to turn free wheeling hong kong into just another chinese city. part of the drama is playing out at the courthouse and west kowloon where leaders of the twenty four thousand umbrella protests have been on trial. the umbrella protests four years ago saw tens of thousands take to the streets for weeks on end demanding free elections beijing was outraged now the organizers are facing charges of disrupting public order. it seems being is the president of the country and here is no pushing the country to a more of her ends are directions are naturally home called will be affect by it unless our governments are used to building to the friends existing institution and

very or but i don't see this. the verdict is june next month as convicted chan can man and his fellow defendants face up to seven years in jail young brother protest trial is not the only example last year the hong kong foreign correspondents club was the venue for an event featuring the leader of a party campaigning for independence from china it was hosted by victor mallett seen here on the right after the event mallets one permit was not renewed supposedly because he did not cancel the event despite pressure from beijing it's the documented expulsion of a foreign journalist keith richburg professor of journalism at hong kong university has been following the case this map on the wall highlights areas of press freedom china is a media black spot hong kong and orange dought mocking limited press freedom really so this was always

a place that journalists would come to when they got kicked out of china or kicked out of indonesia or kicked out of anywhere in southeast asia hong kong was always this kind of free home and if hong kong was now starting to kick out of foreign journalist to me that was a real turning point. professor chung takes us out of the city he wants to shores the new bridge to true high and macau for chung it's another symbol of beijing's power and influence the longest sea crossing on earth linking three major cities on the pale river delta built with chinese money and might one thing in the crowd to hold the buildings i should do is to is to get people and to and to stick to the idea of one country two system keeping keeping their promise is the best way to gain the confidence and trust of our people. beijing and hong kong as the mainland tuns up the pressure the sense of freedom in hong kong is

gradually being eroded. there's more on our website w dot com for slash asia and you can check us out on facebook as well we'll leave you with pictures from south korea which is commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of its independence movement against japanese colonial rule will see you next time. if you ever have to cover up a murder the best way is to make an exit. raring to. read a book like this. list your streets.

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create jobs i'm clear the streets. alone welcome to d.w. business asia i want to get jones in berlin thanks for joining us so the truce between one and beijing has been extended but the fallout from the still on results u.s. china trade conflict as nevertheless taken a toll on factory output across asia activity in china's pasta manufacturing sector contracted for the third straight month raising questions about beijing's ability to stabilise an already cooling economy japan's factory gauge fell at the shop this pace in two and a half years amid a slump in orders and data from south korea shows its exports plummeted only india is bucking the trend with the expanding of the fastest pace in over india.