create interactive content teaching next generation. protection. channels available for people. and returning something here for the next generation. the environment series of global three thousand. this is. coming up on the program. last. only. forty five percent. but why does the. accidental island. has become a symbol of the fight to save the metro forests protecting the country's coastline

. well. it's good to have you with us for the first time in ten years people across. seems like the one behind me. of the of a 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 had narrow escapes for themselves and their families. because. they were sitting outside. looking. i heard the explosion and then the roof fell on. we 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. yes really said. it's going to be. not just. it's a pretty gross to something on here many. times when you know innocent people would be version. of peace or species case that this is just. they won't. mean anything to. innocent people. but these innocent people died on an island right with communal religious and political tensions just next month in fact one covered ten years since the end of a civil war between temple rebels and the government a wall that left more than one hundred thousand dead but in the us since then sri lanka has also witnessed increased religious strife last year of violence against

muslims in sentences like i was blamed on an increase in bull deuced nationalism christians too have been targets of hatred the national christian evangelical alliance of sri 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 rookie fernando a human rights activist in colombo looking you've written about the increasing harassment of the christian community has been featured in recent months and years what is the cause of. really i mean not a lot i'm thinking is on wall street to work eventually. and some other groups in the media just relax by you think maybe. they have been showing that some of these. churches are being trying to come but. others are trying to jump into their

own. religion and also. as being one of the shells or actually there is a constitutional right to get the fact that on the ship beyond being that if i were king and that the violent because i don't like stoning to damaging property assaulting you going to be standing by for some kind of threatening intimidating another project by shouting gatherings i was like churches basically to be struck me then you'd be in project opening. in the last. three on sundays but also through all of the loss of life. but it's not just the christians who are being targeted it's also a minority are muslims. being on our backs on the moon so what these on on the coming community in sri lanka by

going to. eugene i love destruction of property. using it happening in the. background and like i cannot when you're suffering violence to really have a stretch of small area all these things are happening and i'm going. back to the gandhi never. going to be facing but again for the last twenty years right now. a vision of i'm going to describe these cottons attacks as having been conducted by religious extremists do you think of the religious divide as you describe them and i think this. would be exploited to create further division. seems like that to me because our particular thing there isn't a first section to blame the muslim community for what has happened and infact

there has been one of the two. days being attacks on muslims even from. people who are perceived to be muslims who are refugees from pakistan because it is the general perception that they are responsible for these events and i think that's a very dangerous thing that any particular coming to responsible careen sri lanka recent history is that the muslim community has been targeted by the i mean reversed but also from. these groups and they have suffered immensely at the hands of the family thing with. these groups 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 extra effort to protect the most in coming to do right now thank you very much for speaking to us with your hand or human rights activists speaking to us 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 the indian government's national vision which implements its gun got clean the plan estimates that roughly three billion liters of sewage and every day all 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 in 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. from over 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 found its way back in two thousand to work on the river yes which is a tribute really of the ganders what has been the experience with trying to clean up the yoda. judy experiences being of course very very overwhelming because then we actually started out work and years ago there was very little conversation not gunshy it out rivers or for that matter about cancer 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 there are a lot unfortunately remains asked what you did as it was or perhaps is what will you do then it was in two thousand so a better narrative but they realized two very very unfortunate speaking about the

dentist now the national green tribe you know it doesn't bottom until court has repeatedly criticized the government saying that not much has been done and the ganges river continues to be polluted why do you think that is. the thing is that the door to the length of that it was almost two thousand five hundred kilometers 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 that sense given the guy not in back or relevance that gun that has not wait for you because the relevance or political relevance that the that that should ideally be we've seen since one thousand nine hundred three the false time that there was going to actually land they've 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 doesn't

understand the desperation in terms of why 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 briefly for. 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 b. also we need to look at how do we eat i'm feeding because almost fifty percent of the water is used forty to be sure and that's not really healthy. 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 beaten to us from delhi thank you redican out of thailand and the battle against the encroaching see a combination of climate change industrial farming and rapid urbanization has the country's fragile coastline and the mangrove forests the protective the result

a quarter of thailand's voiding away i think coastal communities and cultural landmarks some more history thirty years ago the buddhist temple stood in the middle of a village today it's surrounded by sea the villagers 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. about. the habit 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. some of the remarks are now submerged just two kilometers from where people live. or. coastal communities have built bamboo barriers and cement hard lawns to hold back the advancing see me some even reporting success but for abbott's there's little hope peace floating temple who ever see dry land again. that story and more now. and you can check us out on facebook as well. morning from the victims of. a more

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this is the monday i was in berlin welcome first to japan where local media reports a foeman nissen boss scholars go and 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.