our consumerism is causing a radical depletion. for 25. years. or has it. forests and money. tragic reality behind. the exploitation starts july 24th. this is did up good news asia coming up on the program taking the fight over small of course fed up with the dogs choking their city activists in chicago are suing the government when it forced all talk to use to act also coming up. imran khan promised a new pakistan when he took over as prime minister last job but recent attacks on press freedom i from the dry to groups to want to total tendencies in the country

how did it get to this plus. the wall between a man and a monkey in the indian capital delhi i it's at the tail end of their patients. i'm british manager welcome to news asia it's good to have you with us. it's one of the world's most crowded cities and now increasingly one with the worst quality they division capital jakarta has been classed as the world's most polluted city several times in june itself this in addition to already being ranked the most polluted in southeast asia last year based on a study greenpeace contributed to the air pollution is due to pm $2.00 particular

matter particles less than $2.00 micro metres in diameter that can cause serious respiratory problems these air quality issues have now pushed campaigners to file a civil lawsuit against the indonesian government their contention being that the government has been unable to maintain the quality we'll speak to one of those involved with the lawsuit in a bit but 1st this report. the disappearing skyline of to the new normal. these hazy skies are coolest by a toxic cocktail of pollutants in recent weeks at pollution levels have dramatically risen to almost 5 times the recommended levels. suffocating on. to its heavy traffic and coal plants. researchers say add pollution can shorten life expectancy and cause disease and people here are worried face mosques have the

common all too common sight in indonesia's capital. that there were numerous changes personally i experienced breathing problems when going outside without wearing a mask like i thought that was how i tell them i guess i didn't see this as a personally i get very short of breath. i'm also concerned about the long term health effects is that when you're on the bottom of that very bad if there's no action taken to reduce the air pollution it will certainly. get to the bottom of that i mean with the. action is being taken now by environment activists who are fed up with the filthy air in the city and the threat that it poses. for you under that much are got. today the representatives of all people who care about their health and the environment and also the health rights for humans and jakarta

citizens took the initiative to file a lawsuit against the government. one of the high profile defendants named in the suit president vetoed oh so far he's made no comment in the case. but this group hopes the historic lawsuit will attract attention to the plight of the 10000000 people stuck in a cloud of poison i don't ask for more is beyond done under iago now he's a researcher i'm with greenpeace in jakarta more than welcome to the program what do you expect this lawsuit that has been filed to achieve. yes lots of the experts there the government defies that aggression that we consider to be art and art of that we still using the regulation scene and in and this happened in 1990 we need to revise the regulation and we hope in the

government to use more baseline that to make sure the best success story to take bigger better question what do we might be slammed into here. because of the you know yesterday betting the meeting about the sources of that will set itself we're hoping that. we are using. it in filtering that from year to year or 2 may sure to be successful story of a government that bring them to the what this not only government object but also government to west point and went on to at least sitting down together and measure what is the source of where it's coming from your area it just seems extraordinary you mentioned that this is from has been continuing since 19971990 did the governments aren't clear as to what the sources of pollution are how does that happen yeah we are really the only record when we're less a book sources are the atlas and it's our we just found. we said back

in 2012 that mentioned the sources of adiposity sport 47 percent this competition and again we jumped to not 2000 and went did they release the dead now the sources of airbus and they separately by persepolis competition this mean we don't really have the sequence that what is the source of that was and it's probably years 3 years is that in the in the government's interest to try and rectify the problem trying to pleased appear to be trying to tackle it from what you're saying it appears that the government is not doing anything at all. they are doing something that they can then evolution but only focusing the many so far $47.00. s. we know that the debt is there in 2012 many sources of person it's our investments that sets up an whisperingly and protests etc so regarding do

a day that they're going down that a question we need to refer to those sources are at was at its right so we know the successful governments of pickling down from the start of a solution and then and there are no speaking to us from jakarta thank you very much for that. thank you turning now to pakistan where a high profile. was shot dead in karachi police say he was killed in a drive by shooting and that the motive was still. this follows a series of incidents targeting journalists and muzzling of press freedom and by just just over 3 weeks ago blogger and anti military activist muhammad was stabbed to death in islamabad he was 22 years old last week geo t.v. abruptly cut an interview made broadcast between me the media and former president asif ali zardari he's under investigation for money laundering and his pakistan

people's party has a tense relationship with the military and on tuesday night 3 pakistani t.v. news channels were suspended after broadcasting a news conference by opposition leader miriam she's the daughter of former prime minister novellas sharif who's now in jail on corruption charges and in the past twice ousted by the military so what's going on for more you have with us jilani from asia. will check with you in a bit but 1st i'd just like to bring up what reporters without borders said about the t.v. channels being taken of they said this latest case of brazen censorship is indicative of disturbing dictatorial tendencies that was reporters without borders shows good to have you with us is this what is really happening in prime minister brown khan's ny up artist on new pakistan as you promised when you took over last. that's

something i have seen over the last year or so increasing control of the media and journalists there is a media crisis in pakistan some of it has to do with the business model because they relied heavily on government advertisement but what is happening behind the scenes is more insidious it's the government and the army together working to silence critics so they switch off the advertising revenue and they tell multinational corporations not to place ads with certain newspapers but more and more columns are being censored and this is something we haven't seen under civilian government that's why a lot of my colleagues feel that this is probably one of the worst times for media in pakistan not as if you yourself had to leave pakistan because you were facing these kinds of pressures what other things that you saw fast and so in this kind of environment when your journalists being taken off air without any reason

journalists are being targeted everybody becomes cautious and what i saw was a lot of self-censorship i was increasingly told not to touch certain subjects which was considered the critical of the military or the government and eventually basically did they went after me they pressured my news general to sack me this has happened with a lot of other colleagues and this kind of pressure essentially is very dangerous for a country because if you can't. hold your government accountable you can't criticize their policies it takes us down a very authoritarian path and that's what a lot of people are worried about shows there gentlemen thank you so much for breaking that down for us. to neighboring india's capital delhi now where in addition to the traffic congestion and other sort of problems then it's one having to contend with the new one monkeys the primates that hang about the city can make life hell for its humans he has

a look at the front lines of what's become a daily battle over who will be the top banana monkey all men. laxman cooma isn't monkeying around this is his job. these rhesus monkeys are terrorizing new delhi's residents no one knows exactly how many there are people here are calling them a plague and it's up to him to chase them away. so that's i've been driving the monkeys into this neighborhood for 7 or 8 years and i use this special cool. as soon as they hear my voice they get home from the trees and run away. new delhi city government has hired 25 monkey scares in this district where lawmakers and cabinet ministers live residents here say the number of monkeys just keeps growing . but if i do think the problem is the monkeys break into houses and steal clothes

and food by the children they climb on to roof terraces annoyance and get into the houses from the earth or to the next in the order that many people in the indian capital feed the monkeys for hindus their sacred animals the monkey god handelman is believed to bring strength and fortune but the well fed simians have been making their presence felt in government buildings they tear up documents and destroy equipment but the government has a plan to end the monkey business and a lot and then the government is providing 800000 euros to sterilize the monk is on you del is city administration and has put out a call for tenders but no one has signed up for the job yet so if you pay peanuts you get monkeys and friends now laxman kumar and his colleagues remain the 1st line of defense against the pesky primates. the fight against monkeys in demi that's a fun all be sure to check out our other stories on beat up the dot com for what's left on facebook and

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our japanese food is changing their minds over whale meat. is business. as welcome the us and china are talking again representatives of the 2 countries spoke on the phone tuesday night that's according to chinese news agency shin watch it's about time because weak industrial numbers out of china have renewed fears that demand for chinese goods is beginning to fall off thanks to the trade conflict with us the producer prices index an important of the industrial sector a sector that measures the cost of goods at the factory gate came in at 0 in june that's hard for 4 point drop from the previous month the weakest result in the last 3 years and that's also bad news from the car industry sales have been falling for 12 consecutive months. that's business correspondent

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