and. with from around the world. this is the the other news issue coming up on the program. it has be choose the videos and quizzes about president xi jinping. visuals and. how to. look at the festival last.

well. it's good to have you with us we begin in china where for the next fourteen days thousands of communist party members will be in beijing for the two sessions that's the meeting of the country's parliament and its highest political advisory body the so-called national people's congress is essentially the country's parliament and the chinese people's political conference the c.p.p. c.c. is the country's highest political advisory body. to review the government's walk and decide on priorities for the coming year to give you an idea of why they lost their removed tom limits on president xi jinping meaning he can now rule china indefinitely but the head of the sessions app that promotes big speeches and i and

ideas has become hugely popular in the country but are people downloading it out of choice because they have to. in this beijing office getting ahead is all about easing the little red app called she ching what it means study to make china strong winning quizzes reposing propaganda all earn brownie points with the bosses. but it's not all fun and games time spent scanning communist party trivia is a job requirement. so you want. so we think the launch of new digital tools like this app will greatly improve the development of our company and in particular the political and ideological consciousness of our young employees. more than half a century ago communist china's founder mounted on build his cult of personality

with the little red book. a propaganda push that's gone high tech under president is easing ping there been more than forty million downloads since the apps january launch china's plugged in generation now has daily thoughts and videos right in their pockets. would you do it here i think this app is fantastic i really paid attention to these issues before the app ever since i started using it i can see the change a country is making i can see a lot of things that touch my hearts a lot of positive energy out there which encourages me to do what i can to help others. but critics say the colossi digital die just has a sinister aim. hong kong based democracy activist joshua long calls it a form of mind control. i think. implied to rise. in china and it shows how.

digital. it. and. some chinese professionals say off camera they feel pressure to download the app which tracks time spent browsing and now wherever they go the communist party can go with them. from. clifford in this studio here for thanks very much for coming in one reporter from china for a number of you have covered the so-called two sessions a number of times as well this app is meant to be for study purposes is that all data stored well i think there's always a bit of a link between study and propaganda and in this particular case we've been talking with xi jinping thought and how it's it's now the central ethos of the of the communist party and everyone is being encouraged to study it more so has

a very strong propaganda function very much like the report mentioned a bit like the little red book this is now the little red. in the sixty's you had people waving the literate book and now i think they'd be looking at the little red up in the standard looking up pose that people have so i think it's very much in the tradition i think the choice is technology i'm just not the first time such technology has been used what is behind using these kinds of methods i think it's a way of getting the message out to as many people as possible just as the little red book. in its own way it was a way of getting around i think the government is very keen now to shore up support for the party particularly ahead of the of the. way that the two meetings that are taking place this week in beijing's great hold of the people and it's very much in within that kind of mode this increased messaging that you're seeing about xi jinping repeatedly does that indicate some sort of novice ness in the communist

party of china. well i think what we've seen in the last couple of years we've seen she abolishing term limits for example we've seen things with him centering power on himself very much and emphasizing the role of the party in chinese in china's development i think there is certainly a certain amount of nervousness because the economy isn't growing at the double digit growth rate growth rates that it was for many years and there are pressures from external pressures from the u.s. because of the trade war so i think there's there's a few things that think they don't have it is easy as they used to and so they're very much trying to shore up support with a view to keeping to keeping things on even keel and making sure that the party retains its grip on power briefly that extent plus the thinking within the government is baltar with china why does this political thought need to be to be brought out amongst party called dozens and dozens well i think it's this is a very much a tradition of the congress party they've been doing it for a long time i think because the changing situation within china because the

increase globalisation there's a need to keep getting the message out there among the party faithful that the party is there that the party is the bedrock of support and the party is the way forward for china again in the face of these external pressures they need to keep they need to keep retain their grip on power and this year you think you'll see more will just messaging because it's an important year for china i think that we i think they will i mean the markets in china have been a little bit rattled by the fact that they seem to be moving much more toward state control and maybe a little bit away from the private sector and that's making people nervous so i think for this year we're going to see a lot a lot more stace clifford going on thank you so much for coming into the studio reporters covering the two assertions will have a new robotic keeping them in line shall do will and ought to present intelligence power group is making its debut its creators say it can answer questions and even predict the hot topics at the upcoming press conferences. well joe.

thank you joe but that's not all it can do shabu can also provide directions and take photos with its facial recognition powers but how many reporters will embrace this new technology we just have to wait and see. to have a son know a devastating flash floods are hit the southern province of the usa is a piece twenty people have been killed by the floodwaters at least ten others including children are still missing a city and the surrounding districts received almost one hundred millimeters of rain in just thirty yards that's more than half of the region's annual rainfall in a single day the heavy rains swept away homes of a cold and damaged thousands of houses rescuers struggled to reach the remote mountain areas. afghan army helicopters combing the disaster area. locals say this flooding is the worst they've seen in years.

on the ground cold and exhausted flood victims battling to reach evacuation points . the risk you operations have been hampered by persistent rain and snow. the waters came with little warning flimsy tents of nomadic herders giving no protection to entire families camping out in the open. around four hundred families were airlifted to safety. as the floods recede stun communities are taking stock of their losses. as well as the human toll the floods left at least two thousand homes destroyed or damaged. but on your program i'm a poor man i wonder where the water has damaged my house my two children injured i ask the government to help me by providing some tents like you are trying to

actually work for microsoft to work at. kandahar's governor has ordered immediate assistance to flood affected areas. after years of devastating drought heavy snowfall across afghanistan now has the country bracing for more destructive floods in the spring. over in india over seven week long comes to an end on monday millions of taken the rich warmed up of the confluence of all it ever was but it's not all been smooth sailing in such a vast sea of humanity people getting separated from each other is inevitable. it is the largest religious gathering on out millions of souls descend on one of hindu isms most sacred sites but for some the pilgrimage is not the experience they had prayed for than what if your family will come here to find you you can sit here they will find you there's nothing to worry about. it is that this is

a lost and found like no other stuff you are dealing not in possessions button people mostly old mostly poor mostly illiterate separated from their family in the chaos of the crowds some spend days waiting to be fired and to reckon with the life they've been given a lot of their doubt whether they have sons or daughters it's very important to educate daughters my aunt used to tell me come study i should have studied instead of working in the field i got married at the age of twelve or fourteen there were no photos taken back then i'm just sitting here today thinking about it. you know for forty years organizers have relied on good old fashioned methods to help set up where unions are. now part of the world news lead out over a tunnel system in an endless roll call of the last. but a new digital ice center is aiming to improve the system. no fingerprints and four

tours are being used to connect separated families. i call upon it but the elderly and the children sometimes don't remember phone numbers or addresses of their families such quite a challenge for me to find their families we contact the police station in their district get the head of the villages contact information and arrange for a police escort to take them back to their families to get a guild will begin the. she is my aunt he says for some new police escort is necessary. the moment of reunion overwhelming. but for the other last pogroms of the camilla we can do little but wait keep the faith and hope to spot a familiar face. this morning a website that did a bit out of asia and you can check us out facebook as well. as all for another

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your story you are trying always to understand this new culture. you are not even and yet you want to become city. into migrants your platform for reliable information. is there a breakthrough on the cards in u.s. china trade relations reports suggest a deal could soon be reached the news would certainly lift the mood of the upcoming national people's congress in beijing. controversially or in europe for all the rage in indonesia our woman internet entrepreneur is bringing the homemade he jobs to a new generation of muslim women. this is the business a lot of us welcome who always chief financial officer main ones who is suing

committing canadian authorities over a detention in december in a few days she's scheduled to appear in course to face extradition proceedings to the united states queues of misleading banks about her company's business dealings in iran but she claims she was detained searched and interrogated before being informed that she was under arrest. meanwhile reports the u.s. and china could be close to a deal that would roll back u.s. terror of some of these two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods and at the annual national people's congress kicking off in beijing tomorrow china's leadership is expected to move quickly to find an agreement with the u.s. .