i love. to look at this way it's like me trying. to teach personal tips on berlin's very. early on t w. this is the. coming up on the southeast asian nations the world's dumbstruck after tons of garbage from wealthy nations. is it time for another look at the world trade waste plus. the fixed. cost look at the sometimes brutal training these gentle giant.

panda retired but still performing as drag queens the filipino senior citizens. are performing. well. it's good to have you with us it has become a garbage dump for the rest of the world environmental n.g.o.s say that is increasingly the case this after china stopped accepting what it calls foreign waste in 2018 until then china would accept up to 51 percent of the world's plastic scrap plastics that are classed as recyclable but are often contaminated china's refusal to accept we used to direct the trash to countries such as malaysia thailand indonesia. and the philippines countries which initially had lax

regulations to deal with the import of plastic and other waste but now these countries are fighting but militia is sending back 60 containers of waste imported illegally to where it came from and the philippines is shipping back $69.00 containers filled with waste back to canada this is the source of the diplomatic stink tons of rubbish shipped from canada labeled as recyclable but some fun turned out to be household waste for 5 years now it been rotting in philippine ports. environmental activists and government officials have long argued canada should take back its trash. but the canadian government. doesn't. draw diplomatic relations in the name of

the elizabeth is important problem but this earlier this month the road plunged the 2 countries into a diplomatic incident as monella recalled top diplomats from canada. that the recall shows that we are very serious and asking them to get back they're going to be otherwise. severe relations with them. that triggered the canadian prime minister to we enter the mess. this is an issue that we have been working very closely with the officials in the philippines on over the past months very hard over the past week so we're going to continue to work on this. the issue of on wanted waste has washed up in malaysia to the government says it's cracking down on the enforce of non-biodegradable trash like the c.d.'s not. sending

hundreds of tons of plastic back to the u.s. canada and other countries. whoever that send their ways to malaysia by the ways where those plastic ways or whatever ways we will send it back and we will fight back even though we are a small country we cannot be bullied by a developed countries. back in the philippines this vessel has come to return the trash to vancouver the comedians will shoulder the shipping costs $200000.00 us dollars the damage to diplomatic ties hard to quantify for more of this worst of all the problem i'm joined by lear guerrero she's the director of greenpeace philippines they're welcome to be there. if i can just ask of the outset how is it possible for developed countries to keep sending their wares to southeast asian nations when there appeared to be against the fear.

good afternoon and thanks for having me on your show developing countries are still receiving waste from developed countries even if they're against it mostly it has to do with weak regulations so and so in developing countries the checks are looser regulations for accepting things that go in our port. the capacity to check what actually comes in is what is reported is a lot weaker than in developed countries and governance is also weaker so you have problems related to corruption like you have under the table the shipments that are mislabeled declared but still good by developing nations but there is another factor that makes it possible for developing countries to accept the waste of mobile nuristan but because it is still permissible to accept waste

trade and waste. countries and keep sending waste to developing nations if it is labeled as. certainly but is a problem but then. we. have been exposed. as you call them are only the tip of the iceberg what can be done to regulate this trade. yeah it's a 3rd of the iceberg because a lot of which is probably undocumented mis declared etc as i said earlier the 1st thing that countries need to do is directly fight the battle ban amendment that this allows any trade in waste for any reason including recycling so in the past what we've seen was a lot of countries a lot of developed nations have been sending their waste to developing in the nations if they label it as recycling they don't need prior informed consent from that nation. and the 2nd thing that we're seeing is we have

a lot of plastic waste only one percent has been recycled ever since plastic weight waste as started the cumulating countries need to ensure that they minimize plastic production especially single use production so this is packaging straws etc because this is also what's being exported to developing nations what we really need to do is really reduce plastic production so that we can start shifting to a world where we don't have to deal with as much plastic waste right there tomato director of the philippines thank you very much for bringing the problem down for us thank you. to tyler america where elephant camps offering close encounters with the gentle animals are a major tourist draw but getting elephants to perform tricks requires training which isn't always kind of your animal in fact it can be downright cruel did

a report off florio nor was it an elephant outside of chiang mai in northern thailand for some answers. show time at mesa elephant camp twice a day the elephants entertain visitors with this skills everything looks playful but tricks like this are only possible after long training explains one of the camp managers. if you would like to let your children know english you should talk english to them things they were young same thing that i love eve you would like to lead them obey you are lifted on you easy to teach them thing there were young 1st centuries elephants in southeast asia we used for transport in the timber industry until logging was banned in the region 30 years ago. with thousands of captive elephants out of work their owners turn to tourism. elephant tourism is now

a lucrative business but one that's lightly regulated. nina ortman is a biologist she advises camps on how to ensure that entertaining tourists isn't detrimental to elephant well being. good welfare can easily be done in a writing camp if you provide the elephant with. enough food enough water enough rest and and otherwise free from discomfort also. the biologist is pleased with the camp's general conditions the elephants seem to be in good shape she says but she admits that she often runs into secrecy just like today when asked about the specific methods of training young elephants the camp veterinarian becomes rather tight lipped. and often cannot call it us livia's the us and called wherever it has. on the internet it's possible to find

videos of a torturous ritual designed to break an elephant spirit the method has been used for centuries it's a brutal training process that can go on for weeks only when the elephant stops resisting is it released from its agony. animal rights groups are calling for a boycott of elephant camps they convinced interactions like these are only possible once an elephant has been broken many western travel companies have stopped offering this kind of tourism but with growing numbers of chinese visitors business is thriving. brusk thinks an effective boycott would do more harm than good. if there is no revenue coming into the camp the elephant will still be here but it will just have very very poor conditions ellison

tourism is sold as cute harmless fun but once you look at its close a darker picture starts to emerge. from many members of the algebra to community all over the world growing old and post particular challengers minimus gordon gave that a group of flamboyant 60 something gay men and drag queens rejected by wider society and limited to roper jobs their 1st homelessness and poverty in their old age and i sometimes reports. there are days when river of fog was a dazzling beauty queen decked in glittery make up sparkling jewellery and sequinned gallants days when ray lives out her inner diva as beyond say. it's a member of the golden gate a group of jolly flamboyant gay senior citizens who call themselves grandmas they perform as drag queens to make ends meet. grandmas are amazing we can sashay down

a ramp in 6 inch heels at 92 years old but because we need help and some are frail they just become strong when there are parties we needed an organization where sponsors who want to help senior citizens can donate to our group. the golden gate you're looking for a home we can all get together so in a gun up early and. growing all this difficult for senior citizens in the philippines the usual social safety nets like pensions and health care often limited in scope and the problem is worse for aging l g b t's who do not have children to look after them or may have been abandoned by families or the golden gate is regularly hold pageants to supplement their income private and corporate donors sponsor these pageants by providing lunch and a few days' worth of groceries for contestants many of the golden gates take on odd

jobs rework says i'm a soused makeup artist and cleaner she also takes care. some of the older grandmas oh yeah i sometimes wonder to be someone to teach me the way i've looked after the other school. for the golden gates growing old is made a bit easier because they have each other. that's it for this episode of all of these other news a show review back on monday with more clues here about. rock n roll. sinful ribs time to buy the church. i know the evil feeling that you feel when you fight. your past to. stop it

no one is more popular than jesus the. rock and religion clash that brings many polls too late. for the to really soak your reconcilable card devilry i'm sure. june 17th t.w. . stock markets are plummeting from asia to europe as the trade war between the us and china is escalating we ask. the current turmoil also coming up the indian tiger is running out to steve and we go to mumbai to find out what's hampering growth in asia as number 2 powerhouse. and the reason why the

farmers helping to fuel china's extraordinary coffee boom are so happy. i want to go jones and this is due. business asia welcome to the u.s. china trade war is taking its toll on global stock market shares are heading south from asia to europe this as beijing gets ready to ramp up retaliation to u.s. measures blacklisting some quote unreliable foreign firms and hiking tariffs on a range of u.s. goods starting on june the 1st u.s. time so where are we up to in this conflict now so far the u.s. has imposed tariffs on chinese goods worth $250000000000.00 that's almost half of the goods china sold to the u.s. in 2018 now beijing retaliated by imposing tariffs on $110000000000.00 worth of u.s. goods entering china and that's almost as much as all the u.s. exports to china in 2018 hours washington.