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allows people to do just that but doesn't tackle the root causes of plastic for use of the food. i'm going to welcome to news asia 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 a fugitive whistleblower edward snowden in their home in hong kong as he was on the run from u.s. authorities that was back in 2013 since then edward snowden has been granted asylum in russia and today has released his autobiography permanent 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 suporn and medica both refugees from. 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 that desperate to leave behind a 7 year old said to me he was just a baby. and tina was not even born when their parents asylum seekers from sri lanka found themselves sheltering us intelligence contractor tunde 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 quarters. that are in real way door to study for their trade rescaling so we brought it home and we did from

my home depot importers mislabeling. one really that hard and one we really have to be always be appropriate we have to be always with safety a well said well 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 know dk say they don't regret helping him he needed help and i. we we're here when he saw. someone he when you come over you know as he said to me i want to stay here somebody is someone i want to. kill me you know this for me i will help you know move to. hong kong has rejected the family's asylum claims 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 in hong kong filipino finasteride

and her daughter kiana her father is superman both families are close and the separation has taken its toll. 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 from them. next week and good. freedom is that way but with no news from canada on that cases freedom feels a long way off. and joining us dollars. he's the attorney for

together support in the because asylum officers and forgot about good to have you on. the factor just asked of the outset 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 the sticking so long because it was our live in the you know the vanessa and kyung on the other refugees who gave. they were given asylum in kind of a wise approving so problematic for. your and you are correct and this is something we've been asking the kenyan government for a couple of months now why was it because they're so easy to treat her so quickly to treat and how is that the others are are taking so much time the only thing thing i can think is that the next from a different country of undecided

a different background each and every stories are different superman has a story and has her story and they have different agent 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. edward snowden 6 years back do you think that has anything to do with him processing applications. well vanessa went out and faced the same problem because the knesset didn't 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 talk about want to rob a tubal who is the other lawyer who's working on the case i know that you guys are in close touch on this mountain are he told my colleague who is ultimately you're not talking about this case 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 the sense where we are trying to understand why there's a case that was 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 in his despotic says did is just targeting is this any other issue we're trying to find out what we don't have to be absolute answer at this time but what some things sure is that there's no reason why a father should be separated from his darter and that much long time in kiana now

the daughter of sukhumi is in canada and she's waiting to see your daddy and her sister and her brother and there's no way that canada can continue to separate go soundly quite longer but it's with one other question it draws cure or is there to revive it was off to all of those storms from snowden was a news conference to 16 the refugees went public with their tears 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 a 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 town on the outskirts of manila has decided to address the problem hands on over to found a way to entice people to pick up lost appraised rather than leave it to pileup. one man's trash is this woman's treasure for on a good deal or a 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 rice 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. this is a big help for us oh don't let him to have one kilo of rice for the day and. the waste will then be passed on to the country's national government either for proper disposal or recycling the villages captain says the initiative has been effective in cleaning up by and. he said again maybe. it's the right 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 call you guys 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. it's so dirty all this waste that 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 i done it. 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. of the know well that's it for no other stories from the region and this show are available on our website you double dot com forwards and you can find us on facebook and twitter as well. just aren't enough to know that the 10 river systems in the wall that carry the most plastic braised into the oceans ain't flowing freely even all with a few pictures to remind you of the extent of the problems in the region about.

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