our rights are not a problem for discussion. women are changing good morning already. digital. starts march for you. to double. you. and this is 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 territories say beijing has not kept its word. 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 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 sick lay 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 maize and. 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. 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 and need to do a d.v.d.'s because the challenge is to attain the herd immunity herd immunity means

that you have a lot of people who are vaccinated so that those who are not vaccinated are able to transmit their. vitals and in fact others. rates 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. of these are. the songs. we have a vaccine coverage in the eighty even what about the forty percent. efforts to tip the scales haven't been fast enough charmaine 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. because he. i'm scared about what will happen to my baby but i'm trying to be

strong. leader lots of commitment we don't know what my doctors said the condition shouldn't affect the baby because i'm at thirty two weeks already. but i'm scared this image of my life in the shape. of 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. you have to see 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 need 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 they spread very fast now it is certain several leaders of the country are doing really good to reduce immediately close to maximally that we care about it might be late and now we have about. fourteen but i want to go to a few thousand people or to dozen cases affected by the measles and about. two hundred thirty people dead you consider the fact that last year there were one hundred thirty dead and it rode it lou just really february which is only too much we're already overshot the death rate 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 and sound of the. was a product up on the food a piece without a lot of. violence and death it turned out that there are some questions about the drug and that other people died outdoors there some forest syria funnelled understandably but of course they're still. there stole decision yet on whether it's fact they were killed by southey and then us and other people who 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 ilesha part of the conversation good job oh we're helping them. telling them that this is. diesel shocks are shocked that there are that in the state for that are so many years it's why dish tried to do is it

a friend of the administration on late danger i'd like to be there but actually just a force experiment on arch show and i don't mean what i know for certain because the shit out of people have died and they're not led by. a company and part of the red cross we have a full court press now sounds in occupations are going on as well as the department of health and another government oh is it any different right. you know in the shape there of actually who actually they should well you know when we leave won't power through the national government the older man. is slow on the uptake show we 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 i've been on done towards the indian border and moved to release him and 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 this 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. but of course also. some. structure. that they will. extend into call. for further. try and. this station is controversial effectively this is chinese territory mainland police carry out passport checks enforcing authoritarian chinese rule and supposedly free hong kong and beijing's influence is growing. on the surface everything looks the same but many here are worried that beijing 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 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 government building to the friends our existing institution and video but i don't see this. the verdict is june next month if convicted chan

can man and his fellow defendants face up to seven years in jail young béla 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 consul the event despite pressure from beijing it's the first documented expulsion of a foreign journalist keith richburg professor of journalism at hong kong university has been following the case this mark on the wall highlights areas of press freedom china is a media block spot hong kong and orange dot marking limited press freedom so this was always the 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 car with the hope that the the beijing's 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 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

w dot com for 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 we'll see you next time . to tell. hijacking the news. we're arguing from the news is being hijacked journalism it still has become the script is reality show it's not just good versus evil ghosts versus the wacky one. in countries like russia china churchy people or childhoods or something and if you're a journalist figure and you try to get beyond it you are facing scare tactics intimidation. and i wonder is that where we're headed newsworld. my

responsibility as a journalist is to give beyond the smoke and mirrors it's not just the bell be clear balance were removed it's about being true. money was poured golf and i want you know. ten million u.s. dollars to insure money tarion eight forces where it is only a fraction of what is needed as a prolonged economic crisis center drought it demands an urgent response least harvest it. also on the show you know fossil goes nuts about cashews fostering a fantastic export opportunity the state now wants to expand the area of conservation to took hundreds of thousands picked up just. island welcome to do

business africa jones in berlin good to have you with us. diamond rich botswana has offered to lend to neighboring sim bob webb ninety five million dollars in private sector loans to help ease the country's economic crisis and the united nations' central emergency response fund has announced it will allocate ten million u.s. dollars for humanitarian assistance as millions of people in zimbabwe are on the brink of starvation the once prosperous southern african country is struggling with a currency crisis massive unemployment and drought. the situation in zimbabwe grows increasingly desperate each day the government has already been knocking on the neighbors' doors begging bowl in hand and even further afield but the country is regarded as too high risk as a borrower that's no consolation for ordinary citizens who are struggling to make ends meet.