latest developments. now. with comprehensive package. for zong and political and social topics considered from different perspectives. we cover the issues that move turkey. for information. plus ninety connect to an unbiased agenda subscribe now or new to. this. coming up on the program is the multi-verse on the way back to democracy can a new parliament of presidents. push the country to the brink of international sanctions and exclusive interview with the country's secretary. there was.

a report on the deadly attacks on vaccination teams. and it. doesn't give prime minister. too much politics stifle free speech online. welcome to news asia it's good to have you with us we begin in the mall the new parliament just last month the elections marked out of top international politics for exiled former president. who's even democratic party or n.d.p. won a majority of votes the parliamentary election in. eight months after the landmark presidential election which saw him. also from the n.d.p. . from the tops. in his five years as president of the maldives up to ny i

mean established a new relationship with china imprisoned supreme court judges stifled opposition and nearly brought sanctions from western nations onto the country so is all that a thing of the past as the maldives return to the democratic fold i put that to the foreign secretary of the maldives abdullah the food a moment. i think the maldives has shown to the world that we will always come back to democracy that via a naturally democratic country and that our people will always reject dictatorships and unjust rule the september twenty eight hundred election jordan although many gyptian of prison here means gone which because it has been as you mentioned riddled with alleviations of corruption allegations of misuse of call much resources and also very unjust and unacceptable.

behavior towards the opposition parties mom of the street the former president who made a comeback ahead of the parliamentary elections in april and he also had them all different democratic party which is coming up with the two thirds majority of the parliamentary elections he says he wants the maldives to transition from a presidential style of democracy to a palm tree democracy what does he mean by that and why is this transition as well i think what he had said over this was that he preferred prime minister cheerio type government of just mr model but the more libyan people had had a referendum and chosen a presidential system and presidency it has said time and again that if there were to be a change in the style of governance that it would have to be a people's choice and that it for them that was held in two thousand and seven i

believe the the choice was made and if there has to be a change it once again the people would have to make the choice what of the other significant challenges that you do you see or do you see the maldives faces you had the question of the impartiality of judges the judiciary and how free that is in the maldives is that one of the things that the new mold even government will be looking at. yes that is a major issue we have the independence of the judiciary and the judiciary that he's accepted and in which people have full confidence there has been a little disappointment with how the judiciary has functioned over the past is and in fact when the new goal much the political system changed to a democracy full democracy in two thousand and eight was the government and the legislature changed the judiciary has remained the same and there is

a long way to go before we can have an independent and the credible delusionary that will deliver justice to the people and in and in one in which people have has confidence we certainly hope that's going to be the case. thank you so much for speaking to the doctor knows thank you thank you very much and i appreciate the opportunity thank you all the foreign secretary of the moment that to pakistan next for the government has suspended on a drive following renewed attacks against foreigner workers in the past three weeks at least three people involved in vaccination drives have been killed by gunmen the attacks have been blamed on fake videos and rumors about your vaccination issues that have taken the lives of nearly one hundred people in attacks on vaccine teams since two thousand and twelve phase that is there are reports from some of. roger they left his job as a bully of a but last month the father of two was gunned down in northwestern pakistan while

trying to convince them baden to fixing their children his family is still reeling . and those think he was my friend a brother a father and the guardian of our family we have lost everything people who kill like this are the biggest terrorists in the world they threaten and murder people like my brother only want to protect children from this crippling disease you know me when. you workers are often targets in pakistan due to cost it is the theories that vaccines out a ploy to sterilize muslim children and the program is a cover for best and spice it was a particularly deadly but did one female vaccinated and two policeman moderate in just one. so you'd let the if knows the dangers of being a. he nearly died after being shot in karachi while immunizing children in twenty

two of despite the wrist slit they've still goes into communities and speaks to religious leaders so they can help counter misinformation about the virus. we need connected to live and who understand local sensitivities this is essential for people to trust them and accept the fact. you don't try to have been made in reducing the number of cases here from over three hundred in two hundred fourteen to just twelve but it is one of the three countries in the world where boy remains in damage and rumors spread via social media are inflaming already existing distrust of the nation. that. this man was arrested after posting a video online telling boys to finda after apparently being immunized it contributed to mass hysteria in the show over and thousands of children would rushed to hospital by panicked parents who believed they were being poisoned the government's

spokesman on. this type of scaremongering will not be tolerated and promised new ways to reassure parents will be introduced soon i'm going. to. continue with the negotiations of facebook. facebook management we are working on a bottom up approach to which we are now we have you focusing on. because it is the face of the program. and i'm going to start a ball feeling for all parents any questions that anyone may have regarding bono vaccine the government would want to question. it's unclear how effective these latest strategies will be but they are too late for vide students who grew up without a father the only comfort from his death that the family can now hope for is that one day pakistan will be declared your feet. singapore has

introduced a controversial anti fake law which gives the government sweeping powers to block content and issue take down or does offend us can now face up to ten years in jail and a hefty fine the protection from online false goods and manipulation been was passed by an overwhelming majority in the single popal of and critics of the new annoying to john lists rights groups as well as tech giants like google and facebook they fear the clampdown on fake news will stifle free speech and innovation for more on this i'm joined by one of the law's critics civil rights activist joe lovano ram from singapore donovan good to see you not just two weeks ago you go find five thousand singapore dollars that's about three thousand euros for refusing to take down a facebook post would you be in jail right now under these new laws. yes because the new law is that the

a law will hold the government prosecute anyone for publishing online salsas so in the case that you just mentioned i was fined for scandalising the judiciary analysis audit of pay seven thousand all this in costs to the prosecutor do you think that this new law that has just been lost targets people such as yourselves. yes definitely because in the last few years there has been a crackdown by the government on on critics and activists who have been to critical of the government and the ruling party but you also have a situation in which feat news for example is making dens in democracies are on the wall so when the government wants to pass a law that wants to regulate what is wrong with the. well we have to understand that singapore's not a democracy it is

a one party authoritarian state so singapore insead never head another political party take over the government fall and the ruling party is interested in only perpetuating one narrative and entrenched in its power so the law has just been passed upon them and yesterday did the government in any minister singapore arbitrary policy to decide what is true and what is faults so the decision to do that is not decided by an independent panel it's not decided by an independent council it is the government ministers themselves who can decide and all the takedowns so this is what worrying about this new law what about oversight in respect of the. decision about what is fair and what is not use they need oversight. built into this role. the only oversight is that the

person who's been ordered to take down can make an appeal to the high court but this is a very onerous process you need to hire a lawyer and it will take you expend a great deal of resources in order for anybody to do that and this is out of reach to the ordinary singaporean and the grounds for the appeal are also very narrow. the judge can only decide if the takedown is necessary if there is if what is published is a statement of truth or whether it is a false statement so other considerations such as whether the minister over reacting all whether it is in the interests of the public to take these things to take down the whole suit is something which the court is not allowed to decide a broad range of which were. moved. you can draw from singapore thank you very much for your analysis. that's

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