discover who. subscribe to documentary to. this. coming up the refugees who gave. those. hong kong 6 years back. on welcome in that city will store. ever have a home coming up. plastics to food another program in the philippines allows people to do just that but doesn't. produce a. welcome

. it's good to have you with us. now they've been called snowden's guardian angels and with good reason. because family that's the 2 people to my right immediate right over here they are among those who hid fugitive whistleblower edward snowden in their home in hong kong as he was on the run from u.s. authorities that was back in 2030 and since then edward snowden has been granted asylum in russia and today has released his autobiography prominent record it details the crisis of conscience that led the former n.s.a. contractor to leak classified documents revealing the extent of u.s. and u.k. government surveillance but that's material for superman and the data both refugees from finland their families asylum applications in hong kong have been rejected

they are now faced with deportation and an uncertain future. it's just a game for 3 year old enough but for his family hiding has become a way of life one they're desperate to leave behind a 7 year old said sunday was just a baby. and tina was not even born when their parents asylum seekers from sri lanka found themselves sheltering us intelligence contracted turned whistleblower edward snowden since their role in his story came to light they haven't felt safe for the supposed received threatening phone calls some quarrelsome pirate. in real way door to study for their trade rescaling so dog at home and really cared for my whole people importers was leaving. one really that horrible one we really have to be all risk. we have to be all. be safe it's very difficult

the family's lawyer says they've been followed and questioned by hong kong authorities due to their association with snowden but despite the pressure they're under now supposin and his wife nitty say they don't regret helping him he needed help that day. we we're here when he saw. someone he when you come to me you know i was he said to me i want to stay here somebody is someone i want to. kill me and this for me i will help you know major. hong kong has rejected the family's asylum claim but they have one hope they've applied for asylum in canada. earlier this year that country accepted one of the other families who helped edward snowden and hong kong filipino finasteride and her daughter kiana her father is supposed to both families a close and the separation has taken its whole. one of my kids know

they have. the free life here and independent. a lot to watch. the family always stick together when they leave that tiny apartment in downtown hong kong the parents face deportation back to sri lanka where they fled persecution and abuse canada is still processing their asylum claims they wait and they hope to be together and to be safe some damn. good yeah. that. freedom is that way but with no news from canada on that cases freedom feels a long way off. and on others dollars deal. he's the attorney for together support in the because asylum application forgot about good to have you on . if i can just ask of the outside how also for member because asylum applications

going. so the application are currently pending so we're waiting for results on these applications and we've added we'll discuss them sure but we've added a humanitarian component to it asking for immediate family reunification so at this time we're waiting for those decisions but i'm just wondering why it is thinking so long because it was our live in the you know that vanessa and kyung on the other refugees will give. them they were given asylum in kind of a wise approving so problematic for supporting the duke of. york and you are correct and this is something we've been asking the kenyan government for a couple of months now why was. so easy to treat her so quickly to treat and how is that the others are are taking so much time the only thing i thing i can think is that vanessa is from a different country of an a size a different background each and every stories are different superman has a story and has her story and they have different agents in

a different case officers as well so. still there's no reason why this is taking so much time but these are elements that allow us maybe to understand a bit more the context as to why is it it is that long for for the other to the fact that support. had books norden 6 years back do you think that has anything to do with him processing very. well vanessa went out and faced the same problem because the knesset did help as well all of the 7 snowden refugees did help so i'm not sure their rap lead this has an impact it could it's hard for us to absolutely know what's going on into the immigration case officers files but considering that this does not put did not respond vanessa's case i'm thinking it might be something else and again i'll relate to maybe a different case officer different countries different stories different issues but i am not sure it's only based on the student health one of your own let's just talk about want to rob a table who is the other lawyer who's working on the cares i know that you guys are

in close touch on this mountain or he told my colleague who was ultimately you're not talking about this because he said and i quote that he believed there was a systematic dog getting of those who helped mr snowden could not offer some clues as to why this is taking so long is possible is what mr steve is saying is correct in a sense where we are trying to understand why there's a case that which should be a couple of months ago expedited and there's another case or been delaying and we're trying to understand why and we're trying to find reasons as to why it is despotic says it's is just targeting is this any other issue we're trying to find out what we don't have to salute answer at this time but what something sure is that there is no reason why a father should be separated from his daughter and that much long time in kiana now the daughter of sukhumi is in canada and she's waiting to see her daddy and her sister and her brother and there's no way that canada can continue to separate go

soundly quite longer there is just one other question it was cure. it was off to all of the storms from snowden was a news conference to 16 of the refugees went public with their careers do you think that was a mistake. i don't think it was a mistake i think the pressure was quite intense on every asylum seekers and on kong at the time and i think the story might have got it wrong and i think some people would have wanted to take credit or or change their real story about what happened so i think it was important that facts were set straight and it was important that those courageous people who did the courage of staying were able to come up front with this and today as they're seeking as i learned based on this held and today they did let's hope let's hope they all have a final very good ending for the courageous and brave thing did. thanks very much for speaking to us thank you very much thank you.

it's reliable cheap plastic is king when it comes to food packaging in the philippines but the country is now talking on plastic waste and i saw in its public spaces and on its coastlines one tone on the outskirts of manila has decided to address the problem and so on over to found a way to entice people to pick up lost a priest rather than leave it to pileup. one man's trash is this woman's treasure veronica de lauro co can soon turn these plastics into food the 49 year old is not a magician. this is how the transformation happens veronica collects and brings garbage to officials of the buy in until inch. for every 2 kilos of plastic she gets a kilo of rights through a program introduced by the local government in june. or.

was i weighed in at 14 kilos of waste so i got 7 kilos of rice. as this is a big help for us to let him to have one kilo of rice for the day and you know that . the waste will then be passed on to the country's national government either for proper disposal or recycling the villagers captain says the initiative has been effective in cleaning up by another. set a good many. destroyed system because some people just don't take the initiative when there's no incentive. this is what we saw during so they can have food and something to come in. the philippines is one of the biggest ocean polluters of plastic in the world the country uses around 48000000 shopping bags every day that's on top of millions of other types of one use plastic bags scenes like this are all too familiar to veronica it's an eyesore she says.

i think if. it's so dirty all this waste then if i could i would pick up all the plastic along the road where ever i see it when i go out for a walk i bring my bag and pick up garbage whenever possible. but even if the number of collectors like for is increasing the root of the problem still persists plastic is everywhere. this is really how products are best packaged today well that's why there is so much plastic and of that's why there is so much waste because every product we buy every day is in these things and not this battle haven't found anybody. but organizers say the plastic for rice program is already bringing positive change

opening an avenue for people to properly dispose of their waste. for on a because hard work has paid off and now it's time for a good meal. a dyno well that's a phone no other stories from the region and this show are available on our website www dot com forwards and you can find us on facebook and twitter as well. just trying to mention all that all the 10 river systems in the world that got it the most blaster breezed into the or sums it up really even now with a few pictures to remind you of the extent of the problem in the region. but.

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struggle to survive the terrible suffering in water on syria we have an exclusive report from the us. this is business. the other front of the trade war is there a deal in the the u.s. . president trump certainly thinks so he told congress he expects a deal in the coming weeks. to. get another battlefield as the train. gets ready to reveal its new smartphone the 1st one without google's android operating system. and from trade wars to real wars home small businesses struggle to survive the terrible suffering in war torn syria we have an exclusive report from the us. this is business. as well. a trade deal between the u.s. and japan is within reach at least according to u.s. president donald trump in a letter to the u.s. congress released by the white house trump said to enter into the agreement on

tariff barriers and digital trade in the coming weeks the letter does not mention tariffs on cars and parts for a while a major sticking point between the 2 countries. well if there is one thing president trump hates it is a trade deficit and the u.s. has a significant one with japan last year it was $58000000000.00 that was america's 4th largest behind china mexico and germany mostly because of the amount of japanese cars.