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well. it's good to have you with us for the first time. people across. so use like the one behind me. of the brutal civil war these came alive on the island nation suicide attacks on churches and hotels on easter sunday have left at these two hundred ninety dead nearly double that figure . some though have narrow escapes for themselves and their families. because. they were. looking. for. took the children and ran out the back door but when i arrived at the hospital

i saw my brother in law and son on the ground. b.s. really said you know. it's going to be if. it's not just me it's a very. close to something. and if you turn your brain you know innocent people would be version. of peace or the species case. they won't. mean anything to. this innocent people. but these innocent people died on an island right with communal religious and political. just next month in fact for a long covered ten years since the end of a civil war between tom rebels and the government a wall that left more than one hundred thousand dead but in the u.s. since then she lanka has also witnessed increased religious strife last year of

violence against muslims in central bank i was blamed on an increase in bull deuced nationalism christians too have been targets of hatred the national christian evangelical alliance a few lanka that represents more than two hundred churches reported eighty six incidents of violence and harassment against christians last year for reference christians make up less than eight percent of the population in sri lanka seventy percent blood tests for more i'm joined by rocky fernando a human rights activist in colombo looking you've written about the increasing harassment of the christian community has been facing in recent months and years what is the cause of. really i mean not i'm thinking it's on the wall street to work evangelical christian and some other good feeling for me i just realized god i was going to leave because they had been. going to

church or that we were trying to come but. i'd never heard of traditions into their own. religion. as being one of the shells or actually the constitutional right to get to the fact that all of us should be and being that would be the greatest and that violent violent like stoning to damaging property on being going to be standing by for some kind of beginning intimidating and not the object by shouting gatherings outside churches basically to be struck that sort of either then you see in project opening . in the last. last eleven sundays but also through all that awesome idea. but it's not just christians or big dog it it's also muslims. facing harassment. being on our backs on the moon so what these are minority communities in sri lanka

by going to. seeing that i love destruction of property. or using it happening rather be able to the needy and all the way to the. back around and like i cannot where they are suffering i don't really have a sketch number of small area of all the things i mean happening and i think. that undeniable. but the question for the last twenty years right now what is the one reserve are going to describe. as having been conducted by religious extremists do you think of the garden for religious communal divide as you describe them i think distance along who'd be exploited to create further division. seems like that to me because i think there isn't a first place to blame the muslim community for what has happened and in fact there

has been and we have one of the churches or they're. being attacked from muslims we went from. people who are perceived to be muslims who are refugees from pakistan because they the general perception that they are responsible for these incidents and i think that's a very dangerous thing that any particular killing be responsible to careen sri lanka recent history is that the muslim community has been targeted by the reverse but also from. these groups and they have suffered immensely at the hands of the family that wasn't being used. and they have been very patient and there's been no violent uprising from the movement fighting is very unfair and also very dangerous tremblay and all of those in communities and i think we have to make it strive but to protect the most in coming to the right now thanks very much for speaking to us with the phone and our human rights activists speaking to us from colombo thank you . next to india where the image you see behind me is

a snapshot of its most sacred river the ganges called the ganga in india but the river is also polluted heavily of that the indian government's national mission which implements its gun got clean the plan estimates that roughly three billion liters of sewage and those that have every day of this only about one billion liters is treated this is in addition to a report from last year that says the ganders cut is the sixth highest amount of plastic debris in the world into the oceans dyess it to stick for a river that supports eleven states and india and about forty three percent of the country's population as it meanders its way from the him in the north to the bay of bengal in the east today on a global day of action on the environment the earth day network is spearheading an initiative to clean up the iconic river beginning high up in the himalayas before moving downstream to towns and cities that lie in the ganders. for movie i joined

now by very high in delhi he's the founder of the indian environmental group. raymond good to have you with us now you founded switch back in two thousand to work on the river yes which is a tribute to three of the ganja is what has been the experience with trying to clean up the. t.v. experiences being of course very very overwhelming because when we actually started out work and years ago there was very little conversation not going to get out of rivers or for that matter about and civil society and the city action. around river bodies or on issues of environment so the support has been a lot of the impact is a weed and not a deal has been overwhelming but their lives unfortunately remains asked what you did as it was or perhaps is more than it was in two thousand so a better narrative but they realized it very very unfortunate speaking about the

dentist now the national green tribe you know india's environment of course has repeatedly criticized the government saying that not much has been done and the dentist of a continues to be polluted why do you think that is. the thing is that the total length of their voice almost two thousand five hundred kilometer almost imagine five hundred million people who depend on this one river for their drinking water as well as for every other form of water of that sense given that guy no bad or relevance that gun got has not wait for you because the relevance or going to go relevance that that that should ideally be we've seen since one thousand nine hundred three the post that there was going to actually have been several separate public interest litigation steps been there in the course of my country but respective governments all easy. you know none of them have actually been absolutely municipalities don't understand that the state governments don't understand their duty and this federal government also does not understand the

desperation in terms of white guys important lack of critical bill and a lack of governance is the trying to reason i would say of going is so polluted if you want to offer a way forward what needs to be done to improve the situation. i think we need to have be centralized solution to this problem of pollution big. haven't worked in not going to see the need to have decent lives like a management we also we need to look at how do we eat i'm because almost fifty percent of the water is used what he should and that's not really. i mean if i'm even there for the time being but thank you very much for speaking to us and not mentalist remember just getting to us from delhi thank you. were taken out of thailand and the battle against encroaching see a combination of climate change industrial farming and rapid urbanize are from has vors the country's fragile coastline and the mangrove forests that protected the

result a quarter of thailand's trolls are voting away i think coastal communities and cultural landmarks. history thirty years ago the buddhist temple stood in the middle of a village today it's surrounded by sea the villages fled years ago rebuilding their homes on higher ground but one man refuses to budge that. if the temple were moved people would know they used to be one here that was destroyed. but if we stay and we gradually develop. we can go on but i believe. that i want. to have it and he's floating temple have become symbols in the fight to restore thailand's foster writing coast . vast mangrove forests used to hold the shows together but they've been decimated to make way for shrimp and salt farms. there's now

a rush to restore the fragile ecosystem these volunteers have come from bangkok to help replant the coastal forests and hold the rosen which also threatens the thai capital. bangkok mangroves also disappearing. and some of the city remarks are now submerged just two kilometers from where people live. coastal communities have built bamboo barriers and cement hard to hold back the advancing sea some even reporting success but for abbot some nerk there's little hope peace floating temple ever see dry land again. that story and more now. on facebook as well. that's a bit of a river with images of mourning from around the walls of the victims of the easter sunday attacks along two hundred ninety people have been killed and more than

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business and this is the monday i'm god as in bergen welcome first to japan where local media reports a foeman nissen boss scholars go on has been indicted again by tokyo prosecutors this time for aggravated breach of trust it would be the fourth charge against him since he was. fine and misconduct has denied all allegations against him go on briefly one is freedom on bail in march but was arrested and jailed again on the allegations of sending millions of dollars from this on to accounts controls. let's bring in southeast asia financial correspondent. what's behind this have these reports been confirmed and what exactly are the new charges against gone. look at how these reports is that confirmed congo's gone is now being charges funding some five million dollars he said to be called gillis.