world. there are full power and boundless ambition of the middle east into a crisis. of the gold stocks nov 27th t w. this is. coming up. by pollution another day of choking smoke in the indian capital of how much can its residents take clubs. after being imprisoned in north korea now his parents are seeking justice right here in berlin. and we meet a 6 year old god whose parents believe that becoming a beauty queen is how best to escape poverty.

welcome to news asia it's good to have you with us. it burns the eyes and chokes the lungs and it did so again in india's capital delhi i think blanket of small hangs over the city and neighboring areas their quality wanted to use have recorded readings of b m 2.5 particular matter above 400 micrograms per cubic meter for reference the double actually says anything above 25 is unsafe here is what the people of that these national capital region think of the pollution. pollution is so bad i can't even breathe properly you can see it i left home at 5 in the morning it's so hard to breathe it's so bad you can't even see 100 meters because of the pollution what else. those who work out in the morning have breathing issues and that

ice irritates the situation is very bad the quality is really poor and it smells like gas it's now so poisonous that even getting out of the house is difficult. and the more we can go across the double correspondents. in delhi so the egg quality is the destroying us severe but out on the streets of the national capital region what does that mean. well some british since early this morning the city has really been and god loved by a blanket of smog and a good using visibility and i could feel the effects of this myself when i stepped out earlier today you know my eyes will walk rain and stinging might my thoughts felt a little bit like that people are so it's been it's been pretty bad but i have to see since there's only this or any conditions of improved slightly you know the kind of cloudy conditions i've lived a bit the sun has come out so things are

a bit better right now going to say that i am seeing many more people with masks out on the screen this year as opposed to preview we're also seeing reports of the spike in the seat of air purifiers i think a lot of people are also staying indoors there's been a noticeable drop in the number of you know joggers and cyclists and only one walkers and people doing your guard in daily many many parks and i've also had conversations with people and i get the feeling that many more people especially those with young children are seriously considering moving out of the city you know little good or during these winter months went blue shirts fights so in our pharmacare in delhi thank you very much for bringing us that up there. and in your bar has become the very definition of inspiration after a bit of success as in the sport of swimming but what makes our doc other story remarkable is that here starts milestones despite having no arms.

the water is after all cut here in dorry's happy place. swimming has helped a young boy overcome big obstacles and made him an inspiration for many in his native india. at the age of 7 abdul qadeer lost both of his arms after an accident but he refused to let its life be ruled by it. so. when he was 7 years old my son accidentally touched a high voltage electric wire. we took him to a hospital in mumbai and doctors treated him for almost a week but they said the infection was spreading fast and that they had to amputate both his arms were saving his life with the priority but he had to lose his arms. since the accident abdul qadeer has adjusted in all sorts of ways he does his homework using its feet and he is

a smartphone that way too but it's clear that where he truly excels is in the water . and he set his eyes on a big goal. there but for the odd tell over the mistake i lost my arms when i was in 2nd grade i had an infection that spread to both arms when i was in hospital. but i love to swim with it on the board and i want to win a gold medal for india in the olympics. it's more than just a daydream abdul qadeer is already a 3 time national swimming champion and she's got the medals to prove it but it required hard work and determination from everyone involved. in the beginning we were really at a loss about how to teach him to swim. we didn't know how to support him unlike other kids we couldn't hold him by his shoulders. we could drop him into the water

but taking him out was a challenge. but do it was determined and nothing could stop and. he started to swim in just 10 to 12 days and learned how to climb up the ladder on his own. with he used to fall and get hurt. but in just a month he became independent in the pool. of disease good positive negative will be part of the. uphill cadia is hoping to soon join an elite swimming institute and trying to qualify for the 2020 full summer paralympics. 2 years ago u.s. college student auto warm beer to dawn home from north korea. under sponsor of his parents moved north korea for torturing him while he was in prison serving time for attempting to pull down a propaganda poster in

a pyongyang hotel now his parents have made it their mission to ensure any and all pressure is brought on to the guy. want off came jong and they were headed by lynn of the north korean embassy to do just that. it was a world premier of sorts the 1st direct line between a victim's family and the north korean regime. hello it's fred and cindy warm beer bottles parents we'd like to meet with the ambassador. what you never know before that his parents shared photos of their son with us. and that's out of playing football and he loved that 3 years ago auto warm beer was arrested as a tourist in north korea allegedly for stealing a poster of the entire day please i made the worst mistake of my life

a show trial and sued warm beer grovelled and spoken of an alleged covert mission for the u.s. more than a year later north korea admitted he was in a coma with brain damage and approved his repatriation back in cincinnati within a week his hospital bed had become his death bed his parents accused pealing young of torturing him pointing out a new scar on his foot that doesn't just happen and he didn't have any scars on his body but u.s. court ordered north korea to pay $500000000.00 in damages the regime says a faulty dosage of tranquilizer caused the coma. since the regime refuses to recognize the ruling those parents want north korean assets seized wherever they violate u.n. sanctions that's how they found out about a controversial hostel on north korea's embassy grounds in berlin. society this is a clear violation of e.u.

and international law. yet since the grounds are also guarded germany's foreign office says it's a difficult situation it says the hostile business is the object of an ongoing legal dispute and declined further comment. if you don't hold them responsible for their actions there that empowers them to continue this horrible behavior that's also why the warm beers recently distanced themselves from the u.s. president they call donald trump's close relationship with kim jong il an intolerable i refuse to accept any recent compliment this this monster. and they pledged to continue speaking their minds everywhere. we just want to know what happened to our son there must be records on it were caring parents but on the intercom with the embassy would it be possible for us to make an appointment with

the ambassador. they were told to send an e-mail they said thank you knowing full well they'll never get a reply. one in 5 people in the philippines lives in poverty a widespread problem from which there are few exits many families invest all they can in their children's futures and sometimes instead of stressing on education they're paid to train their goals to read beauty pageants it's become a serious industry in the country. capital city of manila where the dream of becoming a beauty queen pushes young women into training. and. go right. pageant boot camps like this teach women step by high heeled step what it takes to win the crown exercises to strengthen the core

develop pussies of all smiling through the pain. many of the women grow up in poor neighborhoods like this in the philippines around 20 percent of the population live on less than 2 euro a day. so dreams of escape from poverty start young. 6 year old c.e.o. is determined to become a beauty queen. when i'm modeling when i'm on the catwalk i feel really beautiful the most beautiful girl in the world. her mother christina is placing all her hopes in seo and sees the pageant world as an investment. what's on the floor and changing our lives winning the miss universe title would allow us to pay off our debts my husband and i can keep on working but it would be nice if our daughter

could save some money for her future i wanted to have everything she needs her own home and all the things we could never provide her only son by gun was. just sorry is also from a poor family she had to start working at the age of 11 but that's all history now she hasn't won any titles yet but she has sponsors who are betting on her success. and other people are showing support for her because they see the potential in her becoming a national beauty queen and because a great story they don't just come from a simple family you know everywhere the believes in this in their other story. but for every victor there are many evangelist and a dream they must walk away from. that's our show for today just enough time to tell you that today marks the 550th birth anniversary of the founders of this information go to another reader with

a few images of celebrations from around the world but these ones particularly from the. letter we were. when we were now 80 percent of americans at some point in our lives will experience hardship.

you. we move in time. travel now amazing tiger woods. china is losing its appeal the country's economic slowdown and trades tensions between the world's top 2 economies have clampett german business spirit. also coming up saving the planet on a voluntary basis india has shelved its plan to ban on single use plastic and instead appeals to the public to be more environmentally aware. and many farmers in the west rely on giant tractors and threshers for mass production but there are

much smaller helpers that can call their way in the fields. hello i'm going to get jones welcome to do me a business asia good to have you with us now the rising costs trade conflicts and regulatory barriers a crippling the confidence of german companies in china a survey by the german chambers of commerce has found that only a quarter of firms operating there believe they'll reach their targets in 2019 and that's the lowest level in the u.s. a huge 83 percent of companies say that they've been directly or indirectly affected by china's trade conflict with the united states and one in 10 german firms are planning to move some of their operations out of the country now they have.