it's really frightening. why aren't people more consigned. to first w. this is d w news asia coming up on the program cycling funny barrels through eastern india is the strongest storm to hit the region in five years next in its path bangladesh plus. journalism is not a crime on this world press freedom day we look at several cases of reporters facing pressure in asia and. a royal fan goes the extra mile to show his devotion to the new type d w visits him during his epic journey.

i'm melissa chan and welcome to news asia it's good to have you with us we begin in south asia where cycling finally has slammed into india's eastern coast it made landfall close to the city of perri early on friday the cyclons up to two hundred kilometer an hour winds have already cut power and water in some areas but what really worries officials is any storm surge that could send ocean waves inland flooding parts of the coast ahead of the psych loan the indian government moved quickly evacuating more than a million people along vulnerable low lying areas here's more. they knew it was coming. india's coastal state of addition was braced for the worst.

more than a million people were evacuated ahead of the storm but the coastal resort of poori still suffered extensive damage. landfall as started at eight am. and some of the portion of the i already entered in land area and it takes time or more two hours it will take time to complete the landfall process and. and it's close to. the storm brought down trees and power lines as it moved inland in bhubaneswar odisha state capital the streets were deserted the storm left chaos behind it which is expected to weaken over the coming hours or storage he says still warning people to be careful along the coastline. just rent the people not to go inside the t.v. screen you don't know because if you do now you're high sensitive so you are just on to the police and you see a sign on the n.b.a. out of people that reading the all the local people and the viewers not to go

inside the c.v.s. and that is dangerous for now it seems that the evacuation plans have paid off but once the storm has died down people in addition will have to be ready for a lengthy cleanup operation. so india is in the thick of the storm right now but evacuations are already underway in neighboring bangladesh where the storm is expected to hit next heavy rain and strong winds have already started battering the country officials have started moving some five hundred thousand people from the coast but they may meet resistance a little earlier we spoke to one humanitarian worker who told us that many people are unwilling to leave their homes many of the people. not. there to wait for the last big don't want that to leave olds.

an e-mail or thought but that's if you're one of them had your. work with people. if you're in bangladesh please take the warning seriously evacuate if you've been asked we want you safe. next we at v.w. are marking world press freedom day and on this program we want to take the opportunity to highlight some of the cases in asia where journalism is under attack in myanmar the government has in prison droids journalists chose so and walk along following their investigation of the extrajudicial killings of range of men and boys by security forces their reporting has recently earned them a pulitzer and today they'll receive the unesco guillermo cano world press freedom prize in absentia in kyrgyzstan a journalist and sim john oscar office serving life in prison he spent nine years

in detention already his crime documenting human rights abuses in his hometown last year the committee to protect journalists asked to visit oscar off but the government would not even grant him that and in the philippines the reporters at rappler have captured a lot of global attention they faced a crackdown after their critical reporting on president do tear taze government is on a scientist's takes a closer look. like most journalists to start her day opening e-mails and social media messages are in boxes usually flooded with rape and death. because she writes about philippine president rodrigo to turkey came to a point when did there the himself would. bash me on camera there the kind of emboldened his own supporters to do you know bashing me online so. the death

threats and read threads increased exponentially it's almost as if he's saying it's better for you to not gain my attention because once i have i'd be attention to you you could be humiliated. so he was like making an example out of not as critical reporting of the administration angered the president's supporters and the president himself to tear it to batter not a from cover of presidential events and i mean you can hear news outlet rappler is threatened with closure their c.e.o. has been barraged with lawsuits arrested twice and has posted thousands of dollars in bail political harassment threats of rape detention and unresolved media killings this kind of oppressive environment makes the philippines one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists to work in recently a list of journalists and human rights lawyers at large applauding to overthrow the president was released the government has previously released similar lists of suspected drug lords some have already ended up dead now philippine journalists are

fighting back there asked the supreme court to lift the reporting ban on the president forty one other journalists a part of the petition. the fact that there are reporters who you know are are afraid are has you would doubt. themselves with the right order or you know that's all they did to the essence of the children that there are there would be precedent for every where as journalists will always be journalists as lost the stick to their craft as long as we are a small who are we will always be journalists and no one can take it away from us media and press freedom brands fragile for the patents for philip you know journalists every day is another day to fight and uphold the. joining us now from bangkok is sean crispin with the committee to protect journalists sean it's not just rappler and maria race that faces trouble in the philippines give us

a sense of what it's like to be a reporter in that country. ok well the rappler story has really had a ripple on or a chilling effect across the entire media you know when you have an example like that it sends a signal that the government is willing to go after just about any media group that reports critically on its policies and we found that reporters that have covered president robbery go to terror days controversial drug war have come under particular pressure right and this can take a number of different ways but in particular they really come under vicious sometimes vile highly threatening social media campaigns which have all the hallmarks of of government management orchestration so it's not just rappler right you're having this if you like trickle down effect across the entire philippine media corps where if you are seen as an enemy of the government they're going to

strike back moving on to another country that we mentioned earlier man maher how do you think the reuters journalists case will play out will they stay in prison for those seven years and what it's it like to be a reporter there well i mean they've just run out of legal remedies right with the most recent supreme court verdict denying their appeal so at this point the last possible avenue the reuters reporters have would be a presidential pardon and it's been so far there's no signal whatsoever that that is forthcoming and here too when me and maher you know it's a situation that's gone from you know from from bad to worse to dire and you see now a military a very autonomous military i mean mars contacts seems to be digging in and going after other local media groups that report critically on various armed conflicts

across the country that it shan't kristin thank you thank you very much. to thailand next where hundreds of thousands of people are expected to attend tycoon my what year long corns coronation starting tomorrow it will be a three day affair ending on monday many thais are cleaning up bangkok in anticipation of his crowning moment and one thai subject has really gone the extra mile to show his devotion. to chen through every step is agonizing his body aching his feet rule. him down as he enters the final stretch of his epic six hundred kilometer journey. around with yes i'm tired but what i'm doing here it doesn't compare the dedication and effort the monarchy has put into carrying on acting out every nation for centuries right now what you

know. is watch for morning until night for over a week to make it to bangkok in time for the coronation helped along the way by constant police escort. i can tell you that it is absolutely sweltering here the midday sun is blazing down on us i can only imagine just hell punishing this is twelve hours a day. contacts johnnie's become a spectacle in itself. with enthusiastic welcome committee standing by to offer a helping hand in each province he passes it's a chance for officials to put on a public display of support for the monarchy with police keen for us to film pictures of the king at every opportunity. i'm so happy to see him doing this if someone does a good deed like this we should commend and support him as much as he can. the

forty eight years old this will be the first royal coronation impulse that's lifetime out of the. just about being there on the day he'd have found another way to travel instead he walks every kilometer his own private times if he chooses and . i'm just proud of myself i'm proud that i can read present type people this way and do my duty to promote our nation religion and i. promise that. the poems like this is not only about the destination it's about the journey. that's it from us today don't forget to head to our website for more stories that stayed on the dot com for slash asia and tweet us your thoughts that's our show will leave you now with pictures from the photo book with least by reporters without borders published every year on world press freedom day some tosser material from some awesome photojournalists see you next time.

where i come from we have to fight for a free press i was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t.v. shadow and a few newspapers with official information as a journalist i have worked on the streets of many characters and their problems are always the same or do social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press. go up should we can afford to stay silent when

it comes to the fans of the humans on the scene or my the fools who have decided to put their trust in us. this one paris and i were in. europe and the u.s. remain at loggerheads over chinese telecom giant huawei the us is now pressing its case against the firm which it calls a trojan horse at a crucial meeting in prague will give you the details. and fans of hit t.v. series game of thrones flock to croatia to visit some of the shooting locations while tourism thrives many locals feel overwhelmed by the attention. this is deja vu business asia i'm seeing from beardsley thanks for joining us the czech republic

made headlines last december when it cyber watchdog warned about the potential dangers of network technology from two chinese firms while way and. with that prague suddenly found itself in the middle of a larger transatlantic debate over chinese tech firms and the rollout of critical five g. mobile networks about debate has returned to prague this week where the u.s. in particular hopes to convince european allies that huawei is a threat. super fast four k. television the internet of things artificial intelligence a fast transfer of massive amounts of data over five g. networks is key to all the coming tech trends but fast is not all that counts more important than speed is security and the question who handles our data and how.