quiet melody resounds michael light of the. ready risen within it's. the mind and the music. open 1st 12019 from september 6th to september 29th. this indeed have been there is a shaft coming up on the program in the us new nomination on hold the country's space agency the countdown is messed around the launch what does it mean for india as a visions to become the 4th to mission on the moon hoax on the program. monsoon rains wreaked havoc in india and bangladesh flooding and landslides leave scores standing

and forced thousands from their homes we've heard about the emergency response. time protests in hong kong descended to violence once again chaotic scenes as police and demonstrators clashed inside a suburban shopping mall. welcome to news asia it's good to have you with us it was billed as a journey of a 1000000000 dreams but it didn't happen at least not on monday the launch of india's much anticipated moon mission chandrayaan 2 was called off in the last hour for technical reasons they did not have. this is i eat my food because it's nice. i have. they are are.

we were. and who they were. at stake was also the $140000000.00 u.s. dollars the indian government has so far spent on this mission even at that rate it is one of the cheapest ever more missions it aims to deploy a land on the moon to look for water the surface and analyze composition on board is a robotic volvo meant to probe the moon as yet unexplored something if successful india would become just the 4th country in the world to achieve a soft landing on the new no surface. so india's mission put on hold ri spoke to roger. a senior fellow and head of the nuclear and space policy initiative at the observer research foundation in delhi we asked about

this so-called technical snag that stopped the launch. i just part of the time this not much information available on the. technical problems that the chance that tool has run into. this or has just come out with a tweet and a statement do a very brief statement just to say that it's been a technical snag. one doesn't know that but i think the problem is possibly because she is so remarkably the geosynchronous launch of a good mark t. that has been used by chance they aren't true to how you salute to the new wiccan that's being used previously. we have been using the few so we the logical which is considered the tried and tested well cause of the indian space for such organization but the g.s.o. mean mark to me has just gone through to this flight so far in a sense that could be part of the problem in a sense and the maybe it may be a smaller problem it is the source said that it is due to the caution that they had

cancelling this moment out this john nonsense moment of course it is a setback but i think it may be a temporary setback because you don't actually operates at a very small budget that engine space program so you don't want to land in of trouble mission in a sense you don't want to shoot up something and then realize that it is slowing and it's not a soft landing them all and it happened out of my sleeve to state so that would be a huge piece of money and influence on us on what happened with these silly. private company is that so that's why it's good that it has happened at this stage but having said that i think this could also have it just probably needs to be taken care of right to me because just so being mom chill on this is among the same but the launch vehicle he's also proposed to be used for the going on mission are what is called the engine austerlitz mission to be undertaken in 2022. v. gotta get this right before before we proceed any further than the sets. and while

india remains to tom and to proceed with its more mission the eastern and northeastern parts of the country are battling floods heavy rains have battered india and neighboring countries in the past few days leading to the deaths of at least 85 people across this region. a deadly monsoon season in much of south asia in nepal be off the moth of mess floods and deadly landslides for the displaced there's more rain to come. by in bangladesh it's the same story dangerous flooding and mudslides. and for the a hinge of refugees from neighboring mine the rain and landslides have washed away thousands of hillside shelters leaving several dead. hundreds homeless or we're having problems during this rainy season getting food the kids are suffering from

disease the toilets and bathrooms are a problem the kids are not able to go to school and schools are falling into disrepair these are the problems we face. a huge swathe of south asia used to monsoons is affected by the floods in india erin shell pradesh west bengal and assam with well over a 1000000 people affected as well as lifestyle and crucially crops so. the biggest loss has been the crops the sudanese farmers began sowing irrigating the land with electric pumps and all then the rain began the rainfall has also been extreme 70 to 72 hours of continuous rain the water level kept increasing and slowly submerge the farmlands nearly all of the crops have been destroyed. excited about climate change means more extreme weather and many a concern about how that's affecting our food systems. this monsoon and

a ruined harvest will be felt well beyond the end of the rainy season. and more rains are predicted in the coming days either because one of them you should just fall is in delhi and we should do all total to these have a plan to deal with this crisis vibration apart it is in india it can these have definitely picked up the pace the national disaster response force in india is one of the biggest in the voice and they have have a history of addressing problems with national disasters this year as well as they have been deployed across flooded states in the country and they have rescued many people paulsen to have them be located to train these camps there's a 247 helpline to respond to any of any disasters any and calls for help and has been there's been meetings at the top level of the ministries to figure out how exactly to help people however there have been deaths again this is an annual

affair but the challenge is in these mountainous areas a different from what they are built upon cities like mumbai and chennai and over here because of the because of climate change impacts is actually been worse than was extreme climate situations that have been that studies have shown odd increasing with time you mention climate change surely this is something that as you mention has been studied so the government would be aware what measures have governments in the region taken to try and address. well british again the group the prime of the security forces seems to be the main effort of the governments in the region have tried to make both as well as in india there have been a massive deployment of security forces and of the locational people the question being raised is that why aren't there more long term georgia bill solutions being undertaken why aren't these people in low lying areas. moved bowman and clear and

white on them or infrastructure actions taken a good deal of this but of course when you're talking about extreme climate change conditions extreme weather events because of climate change it's also a long term plan there's been a massachusetts institute of technology study that says that by the end of the century 80 percent of india's massive population would be exposed to extreme weather conditions that are not natural for human beings unless by mature and action a stick now to have long term repercussions this could be become the norm so in absence of long term funding there but what about in the short term what sort of example is available for these flood victims well the primary source of help has the security forces and places like bunk that there's also an international presence to help refugees in places like fox is bizarre these are unique challenge of being a law like country and 80 percent of it is it is full of planes which is why the even more prone to flooding because of this and of course the helpline set up there

are security forces that are released council on the other hand the challenge is that many of the next few forces are not able to reach people in nepal for example communication dots have fallen down key highways have been got off so the plan for now may well be for these security forces to wait for the monsoons to recede for the water to recede to be able to reach out to because people in help with rescue and we have an addition to the record as board member should just go in delhi thank you very much. gender 1st now and to hong kong next where the storm of protest over the now suspended extradition bill continues on sunday police and protesters fought running battles in a shopping mall in sharpton district of the city the government described protesters who attacked police as rioters and said more than 10 officers were injured in the while and. was the latest phase in a deepening political crisis an uprising that has no shifted away from the

financial heart and into the suburbs and away from anger over extradition laws to the balance of power between hong kong and china protesters here we've u.s. flags unlikely to go unnoticed in beijing. we are fighting for democracy is killing right and so on and freedom yes we cannot assert any more hold of political will not for $400.00 more people any more down to earth or to china no we cannot cannot cannot fact that in its european neighborhood think ill of the organizers say more than 100000 tarn doubt there was music. but an underlying tension one man show or in a place and dog biscuits not everyone was amused. i just walked in the case the protests culminated in a row the standoff between riot police and enthusiastic demonstrators this small

played host to the washed clashes with both sites trading blows running pitch battles amid the names of luxury brands. protesters stamped on police it was an imploring them of violence i several were injured including one officer who lost a part of his finger in a bra. was it was not. more than 40 people were detained in the carnage but the arrests and the cleanup to follow need you let's want to quell the anger building in hong kong. i know it's a continuing story in hong kong be sure to find out more about that on our web site deed of the dot com forward slash asia and feel free to check out our facebook and twitter pages as well. really even now we do the images from the protests on the

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friday. let's do business china's economy keeps cooling. demand at home and abroad continues to falter the latest quarterly results are in line with expectations they show state support is finally kicking in but that most stimulus will be needed as china's trade conflict with the united states rages on. in the past 3 decades the chinese economy has undergone an extraordinary transformation developing from an inward looking agrarian based society to a major industrial powerhouse growth has been rapid for years double digits were the norm now the pace of expansion is slowing down in the last quarter g.d.p. rose by 6.2 percent followed by many standards but for china the worst performance since the early 1990 s. the government's been keen to offer reassurance but doesn't deny there are problems

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