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as an astronaut he took part in the greatest adventure in history. a legend or simply a human being who was neil armstrong. the moon was his destiny starts july 20th on t.w. . this is the. coming up on the program children no one is leaving behind a new u.n. report says more than $250000000.00 kids around the world in school that's way off from a star that's for 2030 feet up who is in pakistan a country where millions of kids find it hard to stay in the classroom coming up. 4 years after the chinese government crackdown how want human rights lawyers and
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activists in the country coping and why is that own country turned against them plus. india and gently beasts of the northeast that's fighting extinction and monsoon floods we look at the one honda right now in its home in cars you don't go national park. welcome to the show it's good to have you with us. been 4 years since the united nations adopted its sustainable development goals meant to improve the lives of billions of people by 2031 of those goals is to ensure education and learning opportunities for all this requires all children to be in school but 2030 but at present rates 14 percent we'd be left out by that. the problem is worse in some
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countries in pakistan for instance just at the primary level a quarter of the children won't be completing school. was in karachi to see how one school's trying to keep kids in the classroom despite the many factors pushing them to give up. you know it's easy to clock in the morning and muhammad should be getting ready for school but the 12 year to stop growing a few years ago in order to work and support his family. i come here early in the morning and stay till late which is very tiring when i get home i have a bath and go to the mosque. we don't have money which is why i can no longer study . sound the situation is the norm for millions of children across pakistan a new report from unesco estimates some 5300000 are out of the school and the primary level and goes north of the most going to van posing
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a man who has children and afterwards going to school pakistan spending doing education crisis is mainly down to decades of under-investment and mismanagement of the entire system and fear than politicians to finally improve things is so low that many people are taking matters into their own hands. this school was established by volunteers in karachi offering feel lessons to the nearby fishing community the classes offered an escape groups you post and hope for a back a future. yes. we were forced to open the school as there are no functioning government ones in the area. many of our children are getting into trouble especially with drugs. but we tried to get support from the government and press them to help us but heard nothing back this is why we such as help ourselves. or
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we play games and really enjoy ourselves they teach as well so we like coming here . i want to study and become a pilot when i grow up. they teach us in english and her day i want to learn here and then become a teacher myself prime minister in iran han has vowed to prioritise and invest in education but the government continues to spend less than is recommended by international standards education should be the priority of government so even if they have that is what i post. implementing it. in the same direction i don't think so we'll be able to achieve this.
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we would love to be come up with. but don't leave me in who he and millions like him have is if pakistan or. education system but also lives families like out of the to send their children to. them and it's. according to the latest un food cost $1.00 in 4 children will not complete their education by doing. 4 years ago today beijing lawyer was kidnapped from her bed at 4 in the morning i could not pose have driven through her front door handcuffed placed to hold over her head and dragged her into of a tin van i could not pose with the police and the day to fight kidnapping july the nine's 2015 marks the start of what's come to be known as the 709 crackdown the chinese government's crackdown on activists and human rights lawyer as lawyers like wong truong jang whose fate was unknown for 3 years after his arrest in 2015 is now
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serving a 4 and a half year prison for so-called subversion of state. today is the 4th anniversary of the 709 crackdown since july the 9th 2015 more than 300 lawyers and activists have either been detained or tried on old man out of charges in china so what's the situation today in the country we can put that question to chinese human rights activist and lawyer. who joins us now from taipei mr tong good to see you what would you say do lawyers and human rights activists in china still live in fear. yes many many humorous malia's have been put into a crease in o. culture and disappeared and many have how being a spark since last year and these faulty human as long ready as have been taken
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over it they're not your spices. and so do. rights were is my hiring it's all. but but sunken rice gnarliest in china last year they're continuing their human rights accurately its rights crackdown has been mostly beer then peaceful. and down and i will surely it's. we'll be mall lawyers being at the start you didn't get tanked in the coming years that's important for all of us and almost a tone that you yourself have been arrested and you claim you've been tortured by the police a befall what is life like for a lawyer or human rights activist in china off though they have been targeted by the state. if you cause if my human rights
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work i was. the start and there are. banished from teaching and kidnapped disappeared and tortured. so it's is very very deep cuts to be rational are you in china before the. punishment now or there it's. just isn't going to cause all seeds express your attitude if you said it would not cry. the chinese who mass in our years are facing most if kurt. and so humor as lawyers and defendants in internet. yes it is a. secret tangos and the. laws and regulations
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to defense fundamental freedom and the rights of tens of people rights. this has come as far she. doesn't want to tolerate. mass work and the see that us lawyers and has threat to the one party system let them live for the time being but thank you so much for speaking to us during bill speaking to us from taipei thank you for turning now to india where the monsoon survived in the country's north east that means a new season of danger for 100 rhinos living in the closet on the national once common across the region then numbers have dwindled to 2400 live on this project a bizarre of even hear of though they are sitting ducks once the waters start to
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rise. a rare spot on earth where the one horned rhino still roams today they mingle with other majestic beasts feasting upon the lush grass. unaware of the dangers drawing near with months in season. flooding forces these animals to higher ground along the park's southern edge and closer to humans. it is this. we have many other human activities the search for. so we have a little started though everybody who activities. these markers show just how high the waters can rise with the overflow from the nearby brahmaputra river. some years it's total submersion. but there's another danger these rangers
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guard against as they patrol the reserve an area nearly the same size as hong kong . tried to escape the flood and they come out of the jungle areas. for. their prime targets for poachers. during monsoon season the grass can grow head high perfect cover for poachers seeking the ultimate prize rhino horns that fight up 213-0000 euros apiece on the black market such a windfall often pushes the poor into poaching 5 years ago poachers called more than 2 dozen rhinos but that number fell to just 6 last year authorities credit a sharp boost in the number of rangers on patrol now 700 strong. and this year
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a new special rhino protection force is being deployed recruited from nearby communities. their mission to stand watch over one of india's most vulnerable national treasures it's. that's a fun obvious show to check out other stories on did up with. facebook and twitter pages. pictures from the talk on the festival in thailand. the traditional celebration is sometimes known as the ghost festival. that breeds of the dead.
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country. of the northeast that's fighting extinction. it's good to have you with us. 4 years since the united nations adopted its sustainable development goals meant to improve the lives of billions of people by 2031 of those goals is to ensure education and learning opportunities for all this requires all children to be in school but 2030 but at present rates 14 percent we'd be left out by then the problem is worse in some countries in pakistan for them
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since just at the primary level a quarter of the children won't be completing school.

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