one thing. checking how long will they be able to play and who will win this we believe that renewable energy play an important role in the future. of. the geopolitical. story g t. w. this is. coming up on the program a region on tenterhooks people try to return to normality to india and pakistan. also coming up. dissolve the party that wanted a princess as a candidate how would supporters react with the elections differing more than two weeks away. in thailand when. the fashion craze that's creeping into.

what. it's good to have you with us up until last week india and pakistan were on the brink of a full blown wall an attack on indian troops in indian administered kashmir prompted an indian air strike inside pakistan the pakistani response came a day later but since then tensions have cooled some walk across border trade by road has reopened road transport has also resumed. to remain. at the receiving end have been civilian populations on both sides of the border. correspondents travel to the capital of indian administered kashmir to see how people are coping with the situation. cushnie if

the bad guys could cause this it is from all over the world. but ever since a major terror attack and strikes by india pakistan they've stayed away crippling the region's key to his ministry. moment shafi has been fending people across should never be in a chicago a typical meal bought since he was a young boy. the recent oh boy has scared away his clients and decimated his own eggs. for a second we have it there are about four thousand by the time is here five all lost their business is a terrible situation. shafi misprints have seen the income wax and wane over the years. in line with the militant attacks protests and crackdowns that really article will inflame tensions in the indian held parts of the region. i don't know

what the problems are between india and pakistan kashmir is passed between them like a football is just used politically. resultor. it's a sentiment shared by many on the streets of srinagar indian administered kashmir soldiers are everywhere the recent war games between india and pakistan have added to the sense of unease no one was willing to speak out on camera. why tensions between india and pakistan are winding down after last week's aerial strikes a climate of fear in the heavily militarized. here in downtown. business in the open today after day of intermittent strikes and. causing major disruptions to public life. rears bonnie's first thought was to stock up on rice if you will when tensions erupted over kashmir last week was the case. he's been through decades of shutdowns and go fuse.

and even started his own kitchen garden in his backyard to prepare for an emergency . the father of two was terrified for his family when india and pakistan engaged in retaliatory aerial strikes last week just a few hundred kilometers from here but in the entire region an age of the very first days were very scary for as jets funded overhead we had the news that one or two jets were brought down and people got killed maybe you can talk now that we are better for everyone in. the conflict in kashmir has dragged on for decades. for people here remains elusive in this beautiful coast. and. to thailand next for the country's constitutional court has dissolved a political party that has tried to front a royal as

a prime minister candidate for the upcoming general election. party had last month nominated princess. as its candidate for the polls on march the twenty fourth to move up into decades of tradition in thailand but the royal family doesn't get involved in politics the princess's nomination was cancelled after the royal. king long. other leader of the thai rock such as. he had this to say after the constitutional court. the party's executive members and i deeply sad for the dissolving of our party. it is sure to have an impact on basic political rights. our reporting in thailand is complicated by the country's. laws protecting the monarchy. is following the story in bangkok and explains why this ruling is important verdict did not come as

a surprise after all. it's already the third party affiliated with ousted former prime minister taksin shinawatra that gets by thailand's constitutional court many party supporters view the ban as politically motivated they argue. had been down to roll tide long ago and was therefore eligible to run but when the king voiced his dismay there was little room left for maneuver with today's sentence more than two hundred fifty m.p. candidates have moved from the race reducing chances of the tocsin camp to when less than three weeks before thailand's long awaited general elections the country's political future is up in the air. reporting from bangkok and reacting to the verdict of a coster from court. called it sad and depressing we stay in thailand where an unlikely set of symbols is making a splash in popular culture not the iconic. images are freely available.

representative of a regime that six million jews during the second world war these become a designer dictator here in the markets of bangkok nazi symbols are in vogue and hitler is the rock star of fascist fashion. it's a trend that's creeping into pop culture like this swastika t. shirt worn by a member of the thai girl band b m k forty eight a recent fashion folk that when viral was the lot of the both of i was shocked i felt it's my fault i wasn't aware even though i should have known. this response from the israeli embassy presenting nazi symbols by the band singer hurt the feelings of millions around the world whose relatives were murdered by the nazis but this type of fan calls for forgiveness saying not everyone may know that nazi symbol please let her learn from the mistake. here at chulalongkorn university

students say her claim of ignorance rings true and that growing up they learned little about the full scale of nazi atrocities. in thailand high school she taught about that life even myself. i'm studying german since my high school but we get all a little knowledge about and i think germany in the you tube all social media like facebook or twitter i think the type you are talking about hitler you know a quite a lot like they see hitler as like the strong dictator. the leader of that. bringing the nation to its. to a thumping betha a twisted fascination that despite the recent outcry shows no sign of disappearing

. let's cross over now to tula is wrong we're on are you he's an extra bangkok's long kanye university mr tall i suppose with us being based here in europe it's very hard for us to get our heads around the fact that they're not just symbols are so popular in thailand what do people associate not the symbols with in thailand well i think there are two groups of people wanted to rerent nazi symbols on st well those group of people they are cheap leaders and you do do not see textile because so you already stick don't know the history and to do it is just simply because i think it's chic but that too rare it and the second group of people is someone who you do who associate nazi symbols we manliness drawing lines choosing to take carraige and power and to feel something like they

are empowered we've not seen simple we didn't bear it well i think the attributes of people in terms of these two groups of people want does that boil down to is that is it ignorance about the atrocities and the crimes of the not these committed in the second world war or a lack of education what is it. well actually they don't know about a history of nazi richie because in thailand not the gene it's not nazi germany how i have been tortured in time high schools and entire universities just as part all of the history of the secret who war in terms of really treat history i'm diplomatic history but not in the on part of the story not in other perspectives same for example in general we tend to study nazi regime especially harsh to as halt nazi regime destroyed the idea of both western

civilization no c o is associated with the collapse of this that civilization only general or nazi regime is a crime against humanity so these true concepts are totally missing the entire educational system and finally i think nazi regime used to stew to entice society not interim so how how nazi rejean how much destroyed your idea over what did germans say mentions kuyt so enormously asked a clear line of self means he's tried and the enlightenment idea so this is completely unknown in tight history in thailand is that a particular reason that happened in thailand considering that in the second world war you had. the japanese following a virtual scorched earth policy in large parts of southeast asia so there are power

holds some water well. i think basically in asian coat shall we as soon as she ate so juice political on me as still as that new rate of you or and or here is as sauce of peace set to a man so in so here's we always travel in street it's only live it's really ok you for you for thai people in for any shooting people because we rule for you and order not for people early to cool participation thanks very much for breaking that down for us tour is from going on are you tara from bangkok's to our own corner of us thank you very much to us. that story and more on our website. don't forget to check us out on facebook as well. even though with stephen troll on the beaches of all the it's to go to find the universe for today's people simon's

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