you. know what. the 77 percent. this. 77 percent this weekend on d w. this is. coming up on the program. the world's dumbstruck. tons of garbage from well the emissions. is it time for another look at the world. class. look at the sometimes. these gentle giant. but still performing as drag queens the filipino senior citizens. performing.

well. it's good to have you with us has become the garbage dump for the rest of the world environmental n.g.o.s that is increasingly the case this after china stopped accepting what it calls foreign waste. 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 direct of 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 ways. but now these countries are fighting back militia sending back 60 containers

of west imported illegally to where it came from and the philippines is shipping back 69 containers filled with waste back to canada this is the source of the diplomatic stink tons of rubbish shipped from canada labeled as was cyclable some fun turned out to be household waste for 5 years now it's been rotting in philippine ports. environmental activists and government officials have long argued canada should take back its trash. but the canadian government. it doesn't. draw 5 5 diplomatic relations name it this is a big. 5 problem but this. earlier this month the row

plunged the 2 countries into a long incident as monella recalled top diplomats from canada. that the recall. shows that we are very serious and asking them to get back their garbage otherwise. severe relations with them that good the canadian prime minister to we enter the mess. this is an issue that we have been working very closely with the pit officials in the philippines on over the past months very hard over the past weeks and we're going to continue to work on this. the issue of unwanted waste has washed up in malaysia to the government says it's cracking down on the enforce of non-biodegradable crush like the c.d.'s not. sending hundreds of tonnes of plastic back to the us you can see canada and other countries

in the me whoever that send their ways to malaysia 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 canadians will shoulder the shipping costs $200000.00 us dollars the damage to diplomatic ties hard to quantify for more of this west or the problem i'm joined by larry she is the director of greenpeace philippines they're welcome. 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 appear to be against the. 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 deals shipments that are mislabeled declared but still get there by developing nations but there is another factor that makes it possible for developing countries to accept the waste of the global nervous and because it is still permissible to accept waste trade and waste. countries keep sending waste to developing nations if it is labeled as. such but is

a problem but then. we. have been exposed. as you call them only the tip of the iceberg what can be done to regulate this trade. yeah it's a bit of the iceberg because a lot of wit 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 your juice 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 to do it to use for the thank you very much for britain problem 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 going to be your animal in fact it can be downright cruel do double report off for your north resisted an elephant outside chiang mai in

northern thailand for some months of. 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 campaign injures. if you would like to let your children know english you should talk english to them things that were young same thing that i love if you would like to lead them obey you are lifted on you easy to teach them seen there were young if for 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 is lightly regulated. nina ortman

brass is a biologist she advises camps on how to ensure that entertaining tourists isn't detrimental to elephant wellbeing. and good welfare can easily be done in a writing camp if you provide the elephant with a enough food enough water enough rest and and otherwise we find 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 for have with us their views the us and he. 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 clothes a darker picture starts to emerge. from many members of the interview to community

all over the world growing old can pose particular challengers minimus goldblum gaze that a group of flamboyant 60 something gay men and drag queens rejected by wider society and limited to low paid jobs their 1st homelessness and poverty in their old age they don't lose are some tough reports. there are days when river fog was a dazzling beauty queen glittery make up sparkling jewellery and sequinned gallants days when relives out her inner diva as beyond say. remains 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 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 and. the golden gate are looking for a home where we can all get together. so in a gun up. during all this difficult for senior citizens in the philippines the usual social safety nets like pensions and health care are often limited in scope and the problem is worse for aging. who do not have children to look after them or may have been abandoned by families 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 take on odd jobs re works as a makeup artist and cleaner she also takes care of some of the older grandmas.

to take care of me the way i've looked after the other school. for the golden gates has made a bit easier because they have each other. and that's it for this episode. to be back. with. them he greets the sex phone operator who works her master's thesis on the potato. to free. not to turn on the road it's more words it was from a. british woman. every journey begins with the 1st step and every language the 1st word in the

coaxing germany. why not with him. it's simple. and free. german made easy. stock markets are plummeting from asia to europe as the trade war between the u.s. and china is escalating we come global trade survive the current turmoil also coming up the indian tiger is running out to steve to go to mumbai to find out what's hampering growth in asia as number 2 powerhouse. and the reason why the promise helping to fuel china's extraordinary coffee boom are so happy. i want to

get jones and this is d w 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 is 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 110 $1000000000.00 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 keeps up the pressure threatening to raise.