used. the first. interactive contact teaching the next generation. using channels of. people. and returning to some thinking for the next generation. the environment series of global three thousand. and online. this is the govern use a show coming up on the program the little red china by storm it has speech use the videos and quizzes mostly about president xi jinping an educational tool. deadly flash floods hit southern afghanistan officials in kandahar say. that after a winter of heavy snow could there be more to come. out of your missing loved

ones among the millions. we look at the festivals is unique lost and found services . 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 there for me to review the government's walk and decide on priorities for the coming year to give you an idea of why they're out there. last year they removed term limits on president xi

jinping meaning he could not china indefinitely but the head of the social up the. ideas has become hugely popular. but are people dog out of choice or 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 stronger 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 what. 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 stander mounted on built his cult of personality with the little red book. propaganda push that's gone high tech under president seizing 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. even 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 our country is making i can see a lot of things that touch my heart a lot of positive energy out there which encourages me to do what i can to help others. but critics say the classy digital die just has a sinister aim. hong kong based democracy activist joshua long calls it

a form of mind control. i think this implied the rise off digital. in china and it shows. the fruits of their digital. advocation. it propaganda or. ideology. 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. for more we're joined by cliff in this studio clifford thanks very much for coming in one reported from china for a number of. the so-called two sessions a number of times as well this 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

about 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 up in the sixty's you had people waving the literal book and now i think they'd be looking at the little red up in the standard looking at pose that people have so i think it's very much in the tradition i think the choice of 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 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 the kind of mode this increased messaging that you're seeing about xi jinping repeatedly does that indicate some sort of novice nests in the communist party of china. well i think what we've seen in the last couple of years we've seen 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 in the us because of the trade war so i think there's there's a few things that i think they don't have it is easy as they used to 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 for counterfeit extent cross the thinking within the communist party of china why does this political thought need to be to be out

there amongst party called dozens and dozens well i think it's this is a very much a tradition of the communist party they've been doing it for a long time i think because the changing situation within china because the increase globalisation there is 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 we'll see more of this message in because it's an important year of a china i think that we i think they will i mean did markets in china have been a little bit rattled by the fact that they seem to be moving much more towards 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 states clifford going on thank you so much for coming into the studio to reporters covering the two assertions we'll have a new robotic handler keeping them in line shall dual and off to push an intelligence powered robot is making its debut its creators say it can answer

questions and even predict the hot topics at the upcoming press conferences. you know john thank you john 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 when embrace this new technology we just have to wait and see. to have a son know a devastating flash floods or hit the southern province of the u.n. series of these twenty people have been killed by the floodwaters at least ten others including children are still missing the city and the surrounding districts received almost one hundred millimeters of rain in just thirty that's more than half of the region's annual rainfall in a single day the heavy rains swept away homes and they called them 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 bethlem 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. or outside your program i'm

a poor mad i wonder where the water has damaged my house my two children injured i ask the government to help me by providing some tents or try 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 will dip of the confluence of all it ever has 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 earth 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 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 to reckon with the life they've been given a lot of their doubts 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. for forty years organizers have relied on good old fashioned methods to help set up where unions are and now beautiful world news laid out over a tunnel system and an endless roll call of the last. but

a new digital ice center is aiming to improve the system. no fingerprints unfortunates are being used to connect separated families. all up in 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. will be the nikki. she is my aunt he says for some new police escort is necessary. for. the moment a reunion overwhelming. but for the other lost pogroms of the. they can do little but wait keep the faith and hope to spot a familiar face. is more our website i did. and you can check us out

as well. as all for another year or for two days a record breaking two hundred thirty million pilgrims. images from there will. come to the news. channel. five stories. with exclusive. the must see concerning. to be curious minds. do it yourself networkers.

subscribe don't miss out. it's not easy to go to another country you know nothing about i don't do this because we can't stay here and it's we are. closely global is that matters d.w. made for mines. is there a breakthrough on the cards in u.s. china trade relations reports suggest a deal could soon be reached and whose will certainly lift the mood for the upcoming national people's congress in beijing. controversially on europe but all the range in indonesia our woman internet entrepreneur is bringing homemade he jobs

to a new generation of muslim women. this is the business asia. chief financial officer men one jew is suing committing canadian authorities over a detention in december in a few days she's scheduled to appear in court to face extradition proceedings to the united states is accused of misleading banks about her company's business dealings in iran but she claims she was detained searched them to target it before being informed that she was under arrest. meanwhile the reports the u.s. and china could be close to a deal that would roll back u.s. tire 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. .