digs deep into german culture looking at areas where if you're thinking of the country i. needed to be picked it's grown up there. it's all about. new i'm rachel join me for me to. post. this is. coming up on the program access to education it's especially tough when you live in a refugee camp children in bangladesh may be eager to learn so why won't the adults in government left and. eighty turgeon out for a holy star in a hindu girl and a muslim boy provokes and do nationalist backlash. plus we go behind the scenes of the world's biggest film studio for the foot soldiers movie

making is more great than glamour. i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia good to have you with us more than seven hundred thousand muslims fled a military crackdown in myanmar two years ago and ended up in refugee camps in bangladesh they lack access to a lot of things adequate shelter basic supplies health care and for the kids they need to find a way to continue their education but bangladesh has not made it easy for them from the government's perspective setting up schools confers a state of permanence one that would encourage your hand gets to settle down something the host country does not want and so we think the children struggle for what is a universal right. his life may have been turned upside down but morning

routine endures he should be getting ready to go to his school he should be walking through his front door. instead it's a stroll through the sprawling sea of shelters that's been home for two years for everyone here life is on hold but with almost no education provision the teenagers have it washed dreams of graduating from school have to wait. at makeshift study groups like these. they refuse to give up the fight for education. because if. i can do everything for. everyone. outside the camp local bangladeshi schools like this one once opened their doors to re-inject children. but fresh attempts to send the refugees back saw the government puts an end to that the headmaster says his hands are tied.

the government thinks that the road. involved in militancy and crimes. can be more radicalized and get involved with crime if they have access to education to be removed. after they were kicked out of the classroom the students took to protest education for all why not for this girl asked for something the expulsion was crushing but has hardened their resolve. when i was kicked out of school i cried loudly and when i went home my parents are also very upset and. i want to be a journalist because i want our voices to be heard i want to help my community by highlighting our suffering many in this present time that they don't look. back in the makeshift classroom the boys are learning english and the student has

become the teacher. playing his part to inspire. them that you know. they also. can also teach and other student and generation and also they can also. add that. there may be little cause for optimism here but it hasn't stopped fearing the hopes of a lost generation of children on their shoulders. joining me now from london should see of amnesty international now kate you visited bangladesh just last month tell us a little bit more about what you saw. yes so we went to several of the refugee camps and talked to a number of people at the forefront of them minds with the need for education even speaking to young people there's very few options for them to get a meaningful or

a quality education within the caps there are child friendly learning spaces at the minute but they only cater for young children and they are more about playing and connections into is about formal learning so there's this concern now that it's eighteen months on from the crisis that first resulted in these people playing to bangladesh and if something's not done soon around education that we lose a generation in terms of development and reaching their full capacity one thing that i don't really understand hopefully you can explain is why doesn't international organization or the united nations just provide that schooling in these camps why can't they just move forward and do that. yes i mean absolutely there are organizations working in this space right now in trying to develop curriculums to ensure that that schooling is provided to excuse the block that we're hearing at the moment is the bangladesh government is still very heavily focused on returns to many myanmar they want that to happen soon and there seems to

be this fear that if they are now any kind of medium to long term development plans that invest in doing up the community making stronger shelters for them providing education for these kids that these people are going to stay in bangladesh longer and say bangladesh has a real fear that this is counterproductive to what they're trying to achieve with sending people back but the reality is that things haven't changed in me in my view the past eighteen months they are unlikely to change overnight and we need to look at the realities and the rights for people within the camps right now now one thing is did the bangladeshi government receive loans and money to provide education for the children in these camps so isn't the government breaking their promise when they are preventing children from accessing education. yes so essentially what happens is that a number of governments have committed funding through

a un process to various issues within the country just supporting your refugees one of those categories where funding commitments have been made is under the banner of education but obviously the bangladesh government has a very strong say in how that's provided to bring your refugees within the country and that seems to be where the roadblock is happening right now so in principle. the ability and the funding available to provide education rights says to these kids the question is how to provide quality education and make sure that bangladesh government isn't doing that process and making sure that education is quality and meaningful at the same time. thank you. today people in india are celebrating the hindu holiday of holy it's known as the festival of colors and marks the start of spring friends and family through

a colored powder at each other ending up with rainbow stains on their clothing that's a perfect premise for a detergent ad right the indian brand served excel so in came up with this commercial take a look. so you see this little girl right through her neighborhood. and she draws the fire of all of her friends until all the color is used up. then she picks up a muslim boy and drive over to the mosque. all the other children watch respectfully as they write. and here rise for his namaz prayers spotlessly clean her muslim custom you've been given with unlimited olive journey. well since its debut the ads racked up nearly eleven million views on you tube and a ton of heated reactions on social media most of the critical comments have come from the hindu right wing and it appears to be in orchestrated campaign tweets like

this quote boycott surf excel that ad is humiliating hinduism and promoting love jihad holy color as staying is not acceptable by hindus and quote to a lesser degree came tweets like this criticizing the ads treatment of muslims quote it's deeply regressive an anti muslim it shows that muslim boys shouldn't enjoy secular festivals and muslim girls are invisible and quote but some tweet celebrated the ad quote the surf excel ad was so pure and joyous i cried what is wrong with you people hating on this. deli correspondent sonja sally carr tells us more about the social media storm the ad has triggered. it seems incredible that a seemingly harmless advertisement for a washing powder brand promoting hindu muslim unity can spark controversy but these are called rising times of india where the mere presence of

a muslim boy and hindu girl together in an ad but even though they just children in this case can lead to allegations of love jihad a term coined by rightwing hindus implying that muslim men want to persuade him the women to marry them and convert them to islam in no way are these divisions more pronounced than on social media or organize a tax by so-called crawl armies essentially followers off the ruling hindu nationalist b j p party target anyone perceived to be critical of the hindu majority. such organize online campaigns on news journalist writers and even activists critical of prime minister nouri and his administration are dubbed anti national and have been at the receiving end of vicious hate speech and even death and replace it with the indian general elections just a few weeks away that i feel as a touch online campaigns might be stepped up. the biggest names in chinese cinema have walked the lots of hung film studios but none of that stillness and

t.v. series would be possible without the extras the anonymous cast of thousands who provide the bustling backdrop for an eager pay and little hope of stardom. they come from across china drawn by the thrill of film and the lure of the limelight china's and some say the world's largest film studio the hollywood of the east has become a haven for the out of luck and out of ideas. you know. most people who come to hong don't have any education skills connections and can't do business here they're just escaping from reality escaping from the competition outside because there's not much competition here. hyundai end claims to have a hand in seventy percent of china's t.v. and film productions. for the six thousand strong army of extras on hand

it means grueling schedules and a life tensed with disappointment. not many people respect us it doesn't matter how well you perform in their eyes you will always be unqualified. to many film crews are just terrible i'd say sixty to seventy percent of them they're cursing people and all sorts of things. behind the scenes a rather different picture of life emerges of dreams of stardom clashing with reality. that story and more on our website that dot com forward slash asia and you can check us out on facebook as well we'll leave you now with pictures from india where people are celebrating holi as we covered earlier it's the festival of colors that marks the arrival of spring you next time

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the last. ethiopia's abbey ahmed has brought peace and economic reform one year into his premiership we take stock and look at both his in chief months and the challenges ahead. also on the show a fuel shortage in one of africa's leading oil producing countries angola is causing major problems for those who drive for a living we ask what has all the gasoline gone. alone welcome to g.w. business africa i want to get. good to have you with us if he has seen

a wave of economic reform since prime minister ahmed came to office nearly a year ago in this time he's free to political prisoners on stack of corruption today the ethiopian economy is growing firmly and while there still are challenges ahead a lot has been achieved in one year including peace with neighboring eritrea . it was almost like old friends meeting eritrea's president. visiting the aftermath in ethiopia in the summer of twenty eighteen boston neighbors had just reestablished relations after twenty years of war because thousands of lives a major cause for celebration the peace agreement signed between the two a few weeks later was just one item on the to do list made her presented at his inauguration in april that year.