part documentary about the. story. don't go away stay with us for all time. the sound. starts 7. w. . this is the day after news coming up an abundance of caution on their feet pakistani students in china are asked to be evacuated from. their government. to see what he thinks. plastic bags. dangerous for the environment but has a company in bangladesh come up with

a natural alternative. welcome to do. it's good to have you with us more than $17000.00 cases worldwide and at least $360.00 deaths the virus continues to spread with many fearing the peak is yet to arrive but the situation so far has been enough to prompt some countries into evacuating their citizens from china among them south korea japan the united kingdom france germany india and the united states many others are planning evacuations at least one that isn't is pakistan the government says this is in the quote larger interests of the region to comfort particularly for the pockets. money

students stuck in. some $800.00 of them according to the pakistani embassy in china that have been growing cold in pakistan itself for the government to bring these students back many have been sending social media and video messages asking to be evacuated here is a message from some in the city of genes or and all those drive from. private that you know more than 300 pakistanis ahead with us we're appealing to the pakistani government through this our ambani trust to please get us out of paris soon as possible. because we're under mental torture and constant. please please please rescue us from hand in every accident. similar pleas are being made by other students in china as well such as this one demanding that the pakistani government step in and help evacuate these students others are criticizing the pakistani government for leaving them in the lurch for the 1st time

in our life very embarrassed to say we are from pakistan for free and the pakistan government has responded to these please hear us what it had to say. which though. some people may perhaps ask this question because many things have appeared on videos on social media in which people are asking for evacuation. i can show you similar messages to us from wu han in which students have written to us that we are being looked after very well we are being provided with everything and the chinese government is doing so much for us in this regard. a lot of the books that it is slow. it is our thinking that it would be better for our loved ones those who are in china and in the larger interests of the region our country and the world not to evacuate them at the moment. but since monday regular

commercial flights with baucus time students on board have started arriving in pakistan for more on the situation in china i'm joined by baucus i'm a student has now interesting from shamming just south of his name thanks for joining us on the 1st odd by asking way you are right now and what is your situation there. yeah i'm his name just see from shani channing as just 40 menasha. from maine the epic center will harm sell me our and very bad condition we are to have and our own and no one from our government is taking responsibility and taking care for us and then in my city more than $600.00 cases are conformed and more than 2000 cases are is that are are to be suspected so so there is no sport

our suit is totally lost on north koreans no airports we are just jammed in our grooms or no one is here to help us. but despite that no commercial flights from china have begun landing in pakistan do you think that now you would be able to lead foot pakistan know that that statement from our health minister is totally wrong because just no i have talked all pakistan and bessie that can we leave shannon leave china there that their response was that your current leader who beveled us because who live for us is totally locked down there's nor transport patients nortons no flights hawk and would you believe from here we are just stabbed here and it wasn't our journey was to gas our. our

cold with current leave it one car leave our city even our university and university is getting is asking us to get permission from gohmert and government is asking you current leave from china because you are in an epicenter and our our our blame is that just we are to have an epicenter and we've gone. from here yeah stenger's the thank you very much for speaking to us and monitoring the situation is true as it jilani from the show he joins me on the line now shows a view hust nan the clearly unsatisfied with the response from the pakistani government what really is the real reason that pakistan doesn't want to evacuate its citizens from china. well as we were just hearing earlier on the official stance is that pakistan does not want the disease to spread it is acting under the

w.h.o. guidelines. and the chinese have assured them that we will take care of the situation but that is reason we all know is the special relationship between china and pakistan this situation is a real test for the chinese leadership on how it deals with this crisis it wants pakistan to play ball and pakistan is saying the trust the chinese dave that our people will be better taken care of there than in pakistan because frankly pakistan's health system is in complete shambles and there's a fear if people start arriving then pakistanis will not be able to contain it what has the response been in pakistan itself to their government's unwillingness to actually evacuated citizens. the government has been deeply criticised deals have been written commentators on social media have questioned that you know how can you leave your people in this situation we were just heading from has not just the helpless and standard. but boxed on is saying we have to look at

a bigger picture now imagine if your brother or your son was standard that village you pay attention to the government's official point of view not really so many families are perturbed and they are asking the government to have a beating i think we also need to point out here shows of that commercial flights where he's a regular commercial flights have begun landing into pakistan from china some by way of doha and it would appear he's from the tweets of the special advisor to the pakistan prime minister on health that that appears to be something the pakistan government is publicizing and saying that look pakistani students are coming home is that really what the pakistan government is trying to do. yeah i mean earlier on monday then these flights arrived the government. minister was the chinese ambassador was there and later both of them addressed a new conference news conference and the chinese ambassador really appreciated

pakistan's standing shoulder to shoulder with china so the 2 governments are clearly trying to put a united stance $300.00 front saying they are in this together and they're appreciating each other meanwhile these students are are standard and their families are deeply rooted in pakistan what precautions is pakistan taking to prevent the spread of the virus well the. gill get both a star in government which is the northern region which borders china it was just dual to reopen last week the government has decided to no keep it closed until april so they want to restrict. people coming in and going out this is the gateway for the project to join up pakistan corridor which the 2 countries have spent billions and so the government is saying they are taking those kind of precautions they've also alerted health facilities and doctors but clearly if china and other

countries can deal with distant pakistan has to be vetted about how to tackle this problem so they thank you very much for the. binder the cities are drowning in plastic by some estimates as much as 64 percent of the plastic waste generated in areas and either in landfill or in the bay of bengal it's an issue the government is aware of and way back in 2002 it banned the use of plastic and polythene bags the ban has had little impact prompting the search for time that it was. a typical weekend at one of jackets food markets the fish stores there is busy as usual. and the prochoice wrapped and sold in plastic also as usual. the 2nd half i guess these bags are available everywhere that's why we use them if we get different ones we'll

use those. customers should bring their own bags or baskets but they don't. sell. such attitudes to slow to change even though the problems posed by plastic packaging a clear for all to see with rivers and lakes bearing the brunt of pollution authorities here have struggled to eradicate the use of plastic bags but now a viable alternative could be emerging made from jute and natural plant based fiber . is completely biodegradable compostable and water soluble after some time and we can produce eggs that last as long as anyone could want. to get the bag ready for sale it's had to undergo a series of trials testing things like water resistance and how it reacts to fire.

the bags policy might finish comes from cellulose taken from the jute fibers. ok about 1st we bleach what raj you tell it's white then we extract cellulose from it we process the cellulose to make it water soluble then we use a chemical with it as a binder which produces a solution this is the solution from which we finally produce the bag. at the moment the bag is only being made on a trial basis the next step will be to scale up production levels and seek out foreign investment. that's the way to do it dissolving plastic problems that's a phenomenon over to our website beat up a dot com for what's there to really show online and for other stories from the region. that's a phenomenal even now with images from our city of 11000000000 in lockdown since

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