our rights are not only for discussion. they are women for change a good morning i'm ready. to take. charge march b. d w. this is d w news asia coming up on the program running out of beds the philippines is in the middle of a measles outbreak and children are dying plus. one country two systems that's what china promised hong kong but residents of the territory say beijing has not kept its word. i'm melissa chan great to have you with us nice little 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 killed 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 rubeus two month old baby caught 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 was. there 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 attain the herd immunity herd immunity means

that you have enough people or box of a third so that those that are able to transmit their survival and in fact others. in the philippines have been dropping in the last few years a recent scare involving a dengue vaccine caused immunization rates to plummet even further. this our. resources. we have a vaccine coverage where the. even what about the forty percent. efforts to tip the scales haven't been fast enough charmaine abut 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. firstly. i'm scared about what will happen to my baby but i'm trying to be

strong. little us i couldn't believe in what my doctors said the condition shouldn't affect the baby because i'm at thirty two weeks already. but i'm scared to major my life in the. local authorities are working with the red cross to increase hospital beds for those affected and immunizes many people as possible to try and contain the outbreak mothers like angela are not taking any more chances. you have to say what i'm going out but 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 spread very fast now is certain several leaders of the country are doing really good to reduce immediately close a measurement of that we care and it was really good and now we have about. fourteen i want to feed thousand people what it doesn't is affected by the measles so about. two hundred thirty people dead you consider the fact that last year there were one hundred dead in a row that lou just finished a rarity we saw only too much we're already over shot to death a past year 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 center of the. was a product upon the food a piece without a lot of. violence and death it turned out that there are some questions about the drug that other people died outdoors there some for a very serious funnelled understandably but of course they're still. there stole decision yet on whether it's fact they were killed by subtlety and nonetheless a lot of people were 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 showed part of the conversation good job oh we're helping them. telling them that this is. these are these all shocks are shocked that there are that in this state for that are so many years

it's why dish i didn't lose it if i did the administration on late danger i'd like to be there but actually just a force experiment show and only when i know for certain because the shit out of people have died and they're not led by. somebody and part of the red cross we have a full court press now sons in occupations are going on as well as the department of health and the other government oh is it any different right. you know in the shape of actually well actually they should well you know when we they won't probably through the national government their own government. is slow on the uptake show they have to write 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 and done 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 new delhi blamed on pakistan . now hong kong is one of the few places in the chinese speaking world with certain freedoms 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 wash 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 there are also be. administrative structure. that they will. extend into call. for. china the 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 and is growing. on the surface everything looks the same but many here. wants to turn free reeling 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 fourteen 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 destructing public order. is he being is the president of the country and he is now pushing the country to a more of oratory and our directions are naturally hong kong will be affected it unless our governments are used to building to a different existing institution and very or but i don't see it is. the very it is june next month as convicted chanche in man and his fellow defendants face up

to seven years in jail the umbrella 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 work 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 spot hong kong and orange dought mocking limited press freedom 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

a 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 car with the hope that the beatings i should do is to is to get people through and to stick to it i the one country two system keeping keeping their promise is the best way to gain back the cotton and trust of people. beijing and hong kong as the mainland tuns up the pressure the sense of freedom and hong kong is gradually being eroded. there's more on our website

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want to talk to church. music channels available to inspire people to turn connection and more determined to build something human for the next generation. is the environment series of global three thousand on d w. trade war just to weigh in on factory activity in most of asia in china manufacturing takes a hit amid slowing the box but analysts say there is a silver lining on the horizon. also on the show how to turn trash into a fruitful business opportunity to go to india where new waste management systems create jobs and clear the streets. ellen

welcome to d.w. business asia i'm going to get germs in berlin thanks for joining us so the truce between one and beijing has been extended but the fallout from the still and results of the u.s. china trade conflict as nevertheless taken a toll on factory output across asia activity in china's vast a manufacturing sector contracted for the third straight month raising questions about beijing's ability to stabilize an already cooling economy japan's factory gauge fell at the shoppers 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 a year. now that's a lot of data of course let's bring in our market correspondent buson to fill all the data.