3 princes. dream of the arab world. there are full power and countless ambition to the middle east to a great crisis. like princes of the cold starts nov 27th on t w. this is the doctor and here's a shot coming up and. shaped by its media. headed to the polls on saturday but the head of the elections they're facing a total different formations on media platforms a lot of truth in colombo where the oscars could determine the windows plus. one i used in hong kong meets mainland chinese who've joined the protest times and

others will say the city has nothing to fear from beijing. welcome to news asia it's good to have you with us wonderful now should be at the polls to elect their 7th president and they have a choice of 35 candidates this time around a record for the island nation of around 22000000 people it's an election that comes months after more than 200 people were killed in cedar bombings on easter sunday the campaigning has been vigorous but its tone has oftentimes been decided by video media platforms. the presidential election is here and particular social media timeline is flooded with political content most of which she says is negative nor online campaigning is permitted in the beaded before

the vote and election day but proxy just about patika still does not ping but the government should monitor let alone shut down foolishly media. then when the web sites are restored after a shutdown all the content and accounts are available again not everything can be reported or taken down so what's the point people need to be discerning enough on their own but to be safe she has already downloaded an app that to let her access the websites even if they're blocked. she doesn't cause election commission is aware of the challenges. the votes come in the shadow of this deadly easter sunday blast but it isn't just focusing on the physical security or borders the commission is also keeping a close eye on provocative social media content. we find and complain about hateful or fake content to facebook and google we've told them to immediately take it down . but its reach and other limited. social media is far

from the only source of mis information here prominent newspaper has an channels in sri lanka how big science and i'm willing to go to shocking lengths to backpack and to do this is media analyst not going about than the has plenty of dangerous examples of this people declared that a prominent almost politician was asking the ethnic minority to back subject premadasa one of the 2 frontrunners major t.v. john has picked this up but the politician never said that in another incident a major to reach on the show with a muslim balakrishnan seeing the good parts the other top candidate should be killed he said his soundbite had been doctored the politician had said rajapaksa should be defeated both politicians filed defamation cases but neither news outlet apologized the government's hands were tied since that contract relayed private

media. if something goes out on television and radio then it covers practically the entire population broadcasts never actually respects the right of reply deniers are very often completely ignored or deniers are carried with strong rebuttal from the station which makes it worse. she lankans face a sea of propaganda and 4th report. navigating their way to the 4th with the correct information certainly won't be easy. so i'm going to have to tell lies from the center for policy alternatives in colombo and i've been looking at the media coverage around the election some do not welcome now we're talking out of our of about 16000000 people who are eligible to vote but they are faced with a tsunami of misinformation on their well they're faced with a tsunami of information and can't get

a lot of it actually is misinformation but not all of it in the elections that we have seen in the past and the region relevance of social media this election 18 to the election day on the 16th of november is kind of to rise by me beans but it's kind of the you know what you need and influence of social media on public perceptions of all the candidates. in this election you don't want the public perception based on what is there on a source of media has there been any intent by authorities maybe the election commission to try and step in and try and ensure that correct information is disseminated. well. as commission is the mind of bishop korea has repeatedly warned social media users and facebook page administrators and all those on social

media to be very mindful of the guidelines that have been put out by the elections commission and elections department which explicitly state that social media should not play a role in disseminating or producing misinformation the issue is that social media reflects in large part the content that is broadcast on television in the country so cost on. google trends and are engaged with in due to the do not millions of times and millions of years of use accumulated over a period of time but its content which you know in previous years would have only been seen at the time of the broadcast and subsequently maybe even forgotten but right now they have an added life in a sense a longer shelf life on social media and that is very problematic because the chief . one of the problems for decades in this country is not facebook is not social

media but the deeply partisan bias nature of traditional media and that traditional media content print and broadcast now on the likes of platforms like facebook is creating an even bigger headache for board elections commission and for civil society and for those of us concerned with electoral integrity right now that all of these elections come in the shadow of the easter sunday attacks in this how crucial for the role of media being in determining the winner. extremely of course in any election the media is crucial so this is this election is no exception to it whether or not they. need to in this country have any and every single election. and throughout history to determine. a fundamentally important role in determining who will be nobody be and it is also

long before when i keep saying before the advent of the introduction of social media the point about social. media is engaging in ways that are very different to the kind of models and the kinds of engagement that we just print screen or television as broadcast and that's that's an added complexity does it change we have to leave it there for the time being but thank you so much for joining us on how to talk. it's been more than 5 months since hong kong became unrecognizable for the cultural melting pot it actually is it's changed so much that if you're from mainland china or overtly appear connected to it you fear for your safety chinese banks and businesses tied to the mainland have been vandalized and some people have even been abused for speaking mandarin on the streets this in a city that is officially a part of china and where around 1500000 mainland chinese have moved since 1970

and since the violence began mainlanders living in hong kong suddenly find themselves on the forcing sides of the debate the neighborhood forum on homes political crisis one of many such events that hong kong's vibrant civil society has organized so she all a g. lecture a mini leader is happy to speak out publicly something she would have never considered 11 years ago when she 1st moved to hong kong from the chinese mainland. 2 runs into israel how doubletalk i suddenly heard so many different opinions when i arrived yes and some of them felt completely unacceptable even just talking about on this team much this is i had a feeling of danger which i felt they were foreign forces trying to change me or even brainwash me. but then i became curious even the edge of the house today minutely ardently supports free speech when the pro-democracy movement took

to the streets in june she joined them and when the government ignored the demands she even went on a hunger strike. since then the protests have escalated massively with police using tear gas and rubber bullets and protesters hurling petrol bombs and ricks almost daily and things just keep getting worse many people in hong kong are shocked by the violence. victim is one of them he also arrived in hong kong more than a decade ago he works in the financial sector and proudly identifies as a hong kong. boley all hong kong people must condemn the violence and the illegal acts no matter where we are from a killing our friends from germany the us japan. we only to stand up and say no to this so this must stop. true but he's not

concerned about the city's freedoms to those who say they fear that hong kong might become more and more like the mainland he responds so what question ending the 90 or so when i'm from lunging but i know now i'm doing very well and you often go to shanghai and to beijing and. i don't know hong kong very well so much a joke i think there's nothing to fear. i think the source of this fear is that people don't understand the mainland. we nearly however is afraid of losing her freedom videos she publicly defends the democracy movement are circulating online when her father recently texted her from the mainland warning that what she said was inappropriate she knew who was behind it or biological foot by my car doesn't know how to bypass the great firewall there's no way he came

across my speeches on the sense of chinese internet i didn't tell him. so the only way he could have known is that state security told him so i asked him whether agents had visited him he didn't reply that way or. mili hasn't been intimidated by the threats so far she's do speaking out hoping to preserve the hard won freedoms. and you can of course follow more of our correspondence coverage of the hong kong protests on our website www dot com or what sash asia and that is also where you can get this show on demand and of course check us out of facebook and twitter as well. that's our show for today we leave you knowledge with pictures from the lead up to the should lankan presidential election set for this saturday and don't forget you can watch up to the minute coverage about steve actions on

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a double sunrise test flight from london to sydney. i want to cajones and this is d.w. business asia well it is official of now hong kong has entered its 1st recession in a decade the economy shrank 3.2 percent in the 3rd quarter as months of violent clashes between pro-democracy protesters and police are taking their toll on the financial and trading hop tourists are canceling bookings retailers are reeling from a sharp drop in sales on the stock market just faltering it's hong kong's worst crisis since it reverted from british to chinese rule in 1997 and here's what hong kong government economist said at a press conference today. as if in terms of foreign violence in the past few months after which it has already taken

a heavy toll on consumption demand. investment so too much. the latest surveys also the sentiment.