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welcome to the. it's good to have you with us the great big indian wedding is being slipped by a poorly performing economy voters consumer spending in india is dropping among other factors is having an impact on how much couples are willing to shell out for their big day with the result that those who would have wanted celebrations last at least a week now manage with just a couple of days it's heartbreaking i know but when the past strings are tight the budgeting has to begin. thought she'd already picked. but after taking a close look at that budget can have decided to make some savings meaning another trip to the clothes rack. the markets and i don't right now

a days are. defined. by if it. indian weddings are renowned for being lavish glitzy affairs with hundreds or even thousands of guests partying for days on end but despite being seen as recession proof the industry has also fallen victim to india's slumping economy oh yeah it used to be the old week long weddings has now been conquered it was just one no one in our view over the years in the entire families being dreaming about the one day when my mate taylor would get married and they've been saving things for the b. this sector has had the major setback the betting favorite you'll still be 2000 people out when the deal still no 70800 scaling back on the big day can impact friendships and social standing people who normally make the guest list now find

themselves left off it for another bride to be mandvi to kuranda it's a real worry. if all the business is you look away and look and even in india i don't saw you knowing that it really affects each and every family it doesn't only affect the bride in the room it also affects not siblings at around that a little is it down because then what happens we start you know putting the cars down the picture perfect wedding maybe getting a slim down but it still sure to be full of all the color and emotion that's the whole mark of any marriage in india. let's bring in 3 shantha said vonnie who directed it dreams crafter weddings i was based in mumbai to shrug a gadget to join us now due to the slowdown in the indian economy couples having to cut back on their wedding expenses how exactly are they going about doing this. there and i call me is on a little bit of a slowdown and i think it all ends up getting into the reading industry not

directly but a little and if you saw indians in general are used to you know saving money for their children's matters i think it's sort of in their blood to save money from the to the from the dyna child was born for the land celebrations of their kids reading these but what happens is that this money is actually not liquid always i mean it's always but in stocks and in real estate or whatever else they might bump that money but then the but the prices are everything going down and that that sort of money becomes non-liquid have a lot of point so the funds that are deployed towards the writing tend to go down and we're seeing that happening in the in the wedding industry as well so white people are are you know taking their time to. sort of invest. you know they're digging that angle of money and see if i started and you know complain to keep the status and that the other services within the readings and to get

affected so they would spend a little less money on say the decor aspect of it they would probably reduce the amount of money that they spend on i'll call it probably you know take the lot and brands that. and and and then they probably go from an artist when to a list ought to be to be listed as a form of their at least that's that someplace we're seeing the major impact coming in what does that mean for companies such as yours clearly readings are very important to end their lives are you able to do never the extravagance that people are demanding off you but at the truth. no i don't think that is really possible because war cost money it costs money so we have seen a cutback in terms of budget of every individual plant from india. did what how do we have as a company is that we've done sort of focused on doing a lot more bodies in quantity and also focused on getting the readings from the

overseas market into india so we focusing a lot on an already who are looking to come back to the roots to get mattered you spoke about quantity or to start a sort of talk about that just so our viewers can get a clearer picture of what is the biggest wedding with the biggest number of people you know all of every organized so we've organized already for 25000 people as well so i mean that's just one to most people so it's it's really not about how much how many people are actually part of the event it's about how extravagant you can go to really create that experience for even $200.00 people so we've had weddings where we've had only 200 people attending but the scale of the wedding is it's massive like i mean when the art is the performing it's like it's like the kind of art as a performer writing these days and other kind would you who would buy a ticket and go and watch a concert so that the scale of which the readings grew in india quite

a scare version surviving thanks so much for laying it out for us. from weddings to ones that don't know the. increasing numbers of child marriages operating the health and future of many young women at risk despite a legal matter age of 21 3rd of weddings are between teenagers the government wants to end such matters by 2030 but tackling its root causes is a serious challenge. how young is too young to marry 16 2 if you ask ashley that's the age at which she ran off to wed her boyfriend remus had been making the rounds and have village and access to a wedding as a way to legitimize having relationship soon after she quit school and fell pregnant ending up with a painful health condition and regrets. they love it when i gave in to this i wasn't mature and i couldn't think about the consequences of my actions but this is

this it. isn't a line an increasing number of nepalese girls are choosing to get married young to escape poverty or conflict at home because they're pregnant to avoid a potential forced marriage or simply for love one 3rd one 3rd of child marriages are cases of girls and boys liking each other and the loping ragged government. but voluntary doesn't mean say. advocacy groups say underage love marriages pose the same risks as forced unions dropping out of school health problems and domestic violence. are down i got married to a boy she barely knew who turned out to be a violent drug addict. she enjoyed beating some months before she managed to escape . to my marriage when i was 13. i was studying in 5th grade. but now i've left that house and i've gone back to school helped by

the sisters of my fair lady. through. one of those so-called sisters who helped our donna. since leaving her own marriage works with a charity to prevent other girls from marrying young and encourages them to get an education instead. pro-democracy protests grandaunt in hong kong the territories educators have become a target for probating hardline as their cues teachers of helping to start up the rest effectively taught in schools in to incubate terms of civil disobedience correspondent petunias berlingo reports. a few days before the end of 2. looks like business as usual in hong kong schools but i and other teachers have

been in emergency mode for most of the semester. we're always worrying whether the students stay in their. cars or. when it changes day in the colostrum. history it's to try to find their students and see whether taking the offending ideas off of was. more than $900.00 miners have been arrested since the start of the protests and that's put schools under the scrutiny of the pro government account chinese state media have accused teachers of agitating missed units genuine fire teachers union representative was even singled out in china's largest newspaper people's daily and sent to be poisoning students my. journalism teacher of liberal studies a compulsory civics class that covers the political system both of mainland china

and hong kong and tackles controversial issues like china's human rights record he denies the claims of probate hardliners that liberal studies has radicalized you it's. called call which try to let students to see different perspectives so that they can do up to. the indians. but some politicians point to a growing number of complaints about bias teachers and school materials horace german vice chairman of hong kong's largest pro establishment party season need for action he's helped form a committee to review the curriculum that shortage of pitches in hong kong they are still but fabric could carrot focus shape. in to shake out kiss in the school but it would need to appear rather like that about the patient

a confidence being savaged by the mind up just like it my daughter lumber off to just sit home call. the government has made clear that teaches the rest of the demonstrations will be banned from the classroom. that has also issued warnings to teachers who voiced strong anti government opinions on social media although none have been suspended so far the teacher's union aligned to the pro-democracy com has organized protests against what it calls might terror i think it's just a face to present i. guess shows up positive i think so i think that that's. i. the fight for the hearts and minds of the next generation of hong kong as is on the way out. that's it today believe it all with i watched

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culture. stereotype but if you're thinking future countries. needed to repeat. them do you know. who. i'm rachel joined me from the. post. the scars of a trade war china. expansion in decades how much cooling the world's 2nd largest economy. how to tackle the world's on 3 says. we talk about the human right to food with a food security expert. and the. highlights at the world's biggest agricultural fair in building. your business china's gross domestic product grew at its slowest pace in almost 3 decades last year we export

and sluggish consumer demand weighed on the world's 2nd biggest economy growth to 6 point one percent well that was within the government's lodges or targets or rather it was lower than economists had full cost. the chinese government aims to accentuate the positive as it announced the country's worst g.d.p. growth since 1990. easily end up in $29000.00 the economy grew by 6 point one percent on the previous year that meets the projected target of 6 to 6.5 percent. but those latest figures are none wanted sign that beijing has failed to improve conditions the way it would have liked. china's expansion has been slowing for much of the last decade edging ever closer to the 6 percent mark some analysts say needs to stay above that point to continue generating jobs.