the rebel army and did the going to be fortress it wasn't really full in nov it wasn't really close to the. need to reinforce a controversial success is beyond question you. want to trust the store to be fair on w. . this is the news coming up on the program india is in election mode the country is undergoing massive economic transformation so what kind of leader do indians want at the helm we talk to the former governor of india central bank rugland rajan about the country stude sure there'll always be possibilities to your story more toward character. and we follow a taiwanese you to embark on an epic journey this time one answer to china to my

plus. a wrapped boot camp in cambodia this road interesting training to take human lives. i'm melissa chant welcome to news asia it's great to have you with us in just a few weeks the biggest exercise in democracy in the world will begin in india about nine hundred million indians are eligible to vote in elections that take place over several weeks now one of the top issues is the economy unemployment is up growth is slowing down today we speak to one man who knows the indian economy better than most professor rugger on rajon from two thousand and thirteen to two thousand and sixteen he was governor of india central bank in his new book the third pillar how markets and the state leave the community behind russian warns

about the crisis of global inequality and the anger it is feeling let's hear the author explain. so the three pillars are really the pillars that hold up society one hand there's the political will and there is the konami. and then there is the societal of logical communities people democracy and together these pillars essentially me car society what it is. what happens when one or two pillars get overly strong is that it creates an imbalance and that imbalance has to be rectified either by strengthening some of the pillow by weakening the existing pillars and drag around rajon joins me now from chicago to discuss this and more professor rajan so you talk about the three pillars and suggest the third pillar of civil society of communities has been weekend what's

your top remedy for that well i think we need to push far back to the community over time as markets and strengthen government has also expanded but it's point power away from the community to the national level and from the national level to the international level so as to govern international markets i think what we see with the weakening community is partly the community itself needs to be strengthened through direct measures but also more empowerment of the community will give a greater sense of engagement and allow people to work towards the better health of the community that means pushing power from the international to the national national to regional regional to the community level professor rajan i want to talk about india what are the lessons in the book for india well in beer is if lot of democracy that's to its strength it has the preconditions for becoming

a liberal market society it has two problems one it has to relativity weak government in the sense of. capabilities india needs to do far more in becoming a middle income countries such as building up the infrastructure and that requires a stronger government it also has a relatively weak private sector which is often dependent on the government for favors so india always has the possibility of turning more authoritarian coming to the elections i think the elections that frees india really about making choices in these directions do we want a stronger economy a more liberal economy which can also in some ways make india much more of a flourishing democracy or do we want more authoritarian structure and how do you think it will play out in the ballot box just looking at the conversation nationally going on there of the last few months well i think. the conversation was

the bout the economics of indian growth the lack of jobs for example was a big issue of a few weeks back since then there's been a cross border skirmish with pakistan and issues of national security have also come on the plate and my sense is as we go into the elections all these issues jobs national security but also how much respect government has for the various institutions we have such as the reserve bank the central bureau of investigation all these issues will be debated and the attitude of the government in bar as well as the attitude of the opposition would become big factors in how the voting goes. well once the election is over and once. the new politicians are in power what do they really need to do what do you think they need to do and that they can do well

i think india like many other countries including the countries of the duster west need to really think about the distribution of bar within the country in the west we see a great dissatisfaction with far having migrated outside the country into the international arena but even within country as for example in the u.k. there's a lot of concern in the north of england that too much power is there in london i think germany is different because right from world war two there's been more decentralization but you hear some some momos even in germany i think you have a similar issue in india that there is a sense that the states want more freedom from the center more freedom to determine policy and within the states the look at these the municipalities the villages they want in a sense more autonomy but also more funding they want more of the tax from the revenues to devolve down to them so that people have more of a sense of participation in democracy to my mind this is the biggest issue facing

the world going forward how much do we allow people a sense that they have command over their futures in the fields of tremendous technological change that they have to essentially adapt to professor john in chicago thank you for your time just seventeen nations recognize taiwan over mainland china most of those countries as you can see from the flags here belong to small countries in far flung corners of the globe a stark picture of taiwan's increasing isolation as china exercises its diplomatic clout but one man has made it his quest to woo taiwan's remaining friends around the world it's a diplomatic mission that requires an adventurous spirit. witchell healing in s. what teeny. sacred skull shrines and battling storms in the solomon islands it is a diplomatic mission made for social media. taiwan's

you tube sensation ben wu is in search of friends both for himself and for his increasingly isolated country the answer and adventure to their last remaining allies yet to be cowed by chinese power. most taiwanese only know about our allies when diplomatic relations are terminated and i don't think this is good but the younger population and also for our country. it's a journey taking his brand of youthful exuberance to the south pacific far flung places where taiwan still maintains diplomatic ties the hope is to strengthen those links and project taiwan on to the world armed with a selfish stick and a camera for some an expensive video diary band calls it people diplomacy with.

these diplomatic allies are very important to us we need the help from these countries if we want to have a voice in international organizations and for the younger generation needs to know our allies. come in and holding the voyage to cannes the tiny african nation of s. what's traditional law and cloth and tribal dunces a chance to confront mutual misconceptions. how. many foreigners will say you are chinese i feel i am a taiwanese. it is a bit ideological. with china flexing its muscles a list of allies may yet get shorter before his adventure is complete until then the selfie a generation's on such a the hunch shake. almost two decades since the

end of civil conflict under the camaro rouge in cambodia the country is still littered with an estimated two million landmines according to the u.n. the work of clearing them is expensive exhaustive and can be deadly now a nonprofit group is recruiting rats to stiff out the unexploded bombs it's a rat race like no other they may look like vermin but these rodents are lifesavers. to try and power traps are searching for land mines in cambodia. millions are still buried across the country the legacy of decades of war. the rats have a powerful sense of smell and they have an ability to learn. here at rat boot camp where they are trained to detect explosives. rats can sense the slightest whiff of t.n.t. . and when they do they're given

a treat. but it takes around one year before the rodents are ready. what is good it was actually trained to use many darrick you did. so they go straight to the target straight. to find out. so that's why you know this is faster and cheaper you know so it's easy to to move to carry everything the. food. efficiency. the rats go to work clearing this area of land mines ten of them at a time sniff out the explosives every half hour different rats take over so their concentration doesn't slip for humans one wrong step could mean death the rats though are safe. then you need to be more than.

just down the road the rights of free this village of landmines but that's after four decades in which the mines killed more than sixty thousand people in the country thousands more were disfigured farmer was one of them. our village lived in fear for many years wondering who might be next i have five sons and worried constantly. now that the mines are gone we feel great relief. and the rats are fast this area would have taken people for days to clear with great danger but the rats did it in under an hour. that story and war on our website that com for slash asia and you can check us out on facebook as well and twitter and instagram we'll leave you now with pictures of an ice cap thing in the foothills of the himalayas in lake india open until it melts we'll see you next

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no end in sight for south african power cuts state utility eskom continues to suffer capacity constraints following the massive cyclon which hit south africa's electricity imports from mozambique. also on the show as more and more people leave rural regions can rooftop gardens help feed south africa's booming cities. africa want to get jones good to have you with us and was starting with

a fallout from the powerful side clone that hit mozambique killing hundreds of people and leaving a trail of destruction across ways of south east africa the damage to mozambique and infrastructure including pylons that carry power to neighboring countries may take weeks this has exacerbated rolling power outages in south africa where state owned utility eskom is struggling to bring forty generating units back on line. cold beer sorry you're out of luck there's been no electricity for hours. thankfully the kitchen has gas burners and there's still some daylight. but this small johannesburg restaurant it's a matter of life and death some days there are numerous power cuts they've already thrown away five hundred euros worth of meat and bags of ice can only function so long as a stopgap measure of. our brains.