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more just a war 15 members contract. on a remote island called to divide us get. welcome to do. that you could join us with japanese prime minister shinzo obvious set to design the future of japan's relations with countries in the region is suddenly and open question during his tenure all sought to build an alliance with the united states india and australia primarily with the aim of countering china's influence i'll be speaking to an expert about what the future of those ties is but 1st here's more on the strategic direction gave japan. steer to japan's defense strategy and a radical new deal. section he pledged she revised japan's pacifist post world war

2 constitution to counter change and security threats in the region. in his 1st speech to the nation he said the security of japan is not someone else's problem it is the crisis that exists right there and now those words set the tone for japan's defense over his years as prime minister as to ward off a newly assertive china making incursions into japanese waters and expanding its territorial claims in the south china sea. north korea has also posed a nuclear armed menace with frequent missile tests to demonstrate his muscular stance are they loosened a ban on arms exports and in 2015 his party pushed through controversial legislation for so-called collective self-defense. allowing japanese troops to

engage in overseas combat with allied forces. the law drew strong opposition domestically and a later push to revise the pacifist constitution failed. aves military reforms and containment diplomacy have upset china its largest trading partner. allies like u.s. president donald trump have confronted china with sanctions but obvious had to find the balance between competing and cooperating with china despite his radical security ambitions a needle his successor will likely also have to thread. so what happens next summer and then earth is the washington post bureau chief for japan on the careers are in joins me now from tokyo simon i'd like to look at japan's relations with charm our 1st where do you see them headed of arsons obvious steps

down. well there they call ups and downs in their relationship it seems at times honest started off really badly under up a stone yet he's worked quite hard to improve them actually in the last few years so you know it's clearly very interesting to see whether china tries to split this and push its territorial claims to the same karkare islands is already threatening to do that it's the more active around leasing kharkov the i.u. islands this of course as china calls them so so we may see china as it's done with india seeing an opportunity to push its territorial claims in the absence of our day and while this leadership transition is going on that's something to keep an eye on there was some talk of a so-called new era in ties between japan and china and it for the most and understands are buried in fact there's a china as well to try and it's more than a things over the you thing that is a thing of the past now i mean i don't think it's necessarily thing of the past i

think that whoever comes in after our day is like he's a continue to try to do this but you know japan china relations they're never going to be best friends they do have wars i'm issues they've seen them japan is now of america china and the united states are you know clearly not seeing eye to eye far from it so japan is kind of caught in the middle of a stunt quite a good job i think of patching things up and not less in that sort of not letting the china relationship gets here right but i don't think you know we're really talking about whether talking about a golden era we're talking about sort of both sides could in their differences aside and just getting on with things more than more than real friendship japan was also considered an important partner for the united states india and australia in the throat or in the pacific region do you see that their cooperation simon continuing. and broadly speaking yes i do i think that you know japan is very

committed to that they are now lots of democracies in asia and beyond civic reason as you say it's rearranging to see how the relationship with the united states develops so if trump if president trump does get another term in office i think that japan probably would have liked to have had some elections of a guess on very well which front is that prime minister. trump hasn't really taken a midget and that he's always kind of threatened to so it could be quite rocky for japan if you don't have are they that and if trump were to win another term obviously it is biden and whoever succeeds are they i think relations between japan and the u.s. will be pretty will be pretty smooth lots of ifs and buts there but plenty to watch out for but thanks so much for this conversation simon then here in tokyo thank you so much.

10 members of a remote indian tribe have tested positive for the coronavirus the victor and the minis tribe members numbered just around 50 and live on an island in the remote and the men's archipelago the island chain lies southeast of india and is closer to me in mars coursed than the indian mainland the greater and the mini's tribe lives on straight island one of the 37 inhabited islands in the archipelago. the defections amongst the privacy concerns internationally as well this is what survival international an organization that supports indigenous people worldwide have to say. then to be facing this devastating fire since it is just another tragedy in the long history of the problems that they've been facing because of. the contact with people outside. and we have been watching film some

time to know those think creasing in the andaman sea great alarm and have written to the u.s. and of course expressing our concern about it reaching the try so let's get more on this from my colleague from the money not sure 3 joining me now from demi money don't try that lives on a remote island how did 10 members contract the virus and how on top of these reacting well they should have been reported that some member of this tribe a group this particular try to really use to work well in jobs in the capital city . and there was some of the people also used to make frequent travels between the secluded island and between the city possibly that's where they got the drug the infection into the islands from and the authority of the force are on alert right now you know their own feedstock while taking their own precautions are with that in the area as the ice and the diving the people from the tribe a group about it they are asking them to take all precautions all the members of

this particular tribe a group what death did a couple of be the one that is how they figured out that 10 people of this group are infected by now so the party that the moment op langland conducts even more testing to make sure because a number of people who are still not recovered from this particular group are being treated right now couple of them are in the hospital and a couple of them are being put in the isolation of all the guests and to to ensure that they don't they don't come in touch with the other people of the group right and the andaman themselves are home to other tribes as well other remote tribes i must say what's being done to protect them from the coronavirus. well yes the administration is on full alert as i mentioned and the andaman islands are actually home to 5 such tribes a classified as species your difficult only one notable tribal group nala these tribal groups the aga view has officials are obviously manned that their immunity cannot be trusted upon they do have some of these types of the do have a few seals and already suffering from some long tom and bad diseases so that

immunity to the call would 19 might even be less so at the moment what they're doing is the planning must just think that the i'm moving some of the stratigraphy even farther islands to make sure that that is no outside of president or outside entry only the path to winning stuff is the thing these areas to sensitise them about the virus and that's about it that even once a thing the other tribal groups to ensure that then lots of going into other areas where they can come in contact with anybody who's outside from the tribal community they don't across on one of the children in delhi thank you very much for that. myanmar is preparing for national elections due early in november but members of the country's rohingya muslims minority are being barred from running and even voting in the poll activists say it's part of me and must systematic persecution of the group which reached its pinnacle in a military crackdown that forced hundreds of thousands to flee the country we spoke

to one group trying to get his name on the ballot. rejection that hurts after rashid is excluded from me a mosque election in november officials accuse him of having foreign roots although he was born here he's one of the few members of the range a muslim minority to hafnium our citizenship. and so do his parents. but we've got to know. this is a pension that of my father. and this is the updated idea of my mother yet to be election commission rejected me even though i have submitted the candidacy form and all required documents i don't know what the problem is the child of the. november's election would take place with at least it doesn't run into muslims trying to become candidates but 6 have been barred college leave because they failed to prove their parents were citizens at the time of the birth just like

rashid. but 10 years ago some ranges did enter parliament then in 2015 the government stripped me a mass range of muslims of identity documents the right to run and to vote generally it always as if you had believed that the election commission founded by own sons to cheer the democratic government would follow the democratic norms and the human rights standards and protect citizenship rights that's why we nominated our candidates who also qualified in 2010. we can understand the previous situation when the former government backed by the military did not follow these norms but it is difficult to understand why all sounds hoochie and her democratic government would do the same. after she eats pile of documents for now it's worth nothing. meanwhile as the november election approaches many revenge of muslims are hoping to at least be able to vote to secure that if. that's

a finale there's mall on our website you know a dot com for what slash asia japanese prime minister shinzo abi has decided to bow out of the country's top job we leave you with a look back at i'll be on the wall stage and also his political career back on monday you know that. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and news. hour corona update. 19 special next on d w. is for me. is for.

beethoven is for. beethoven is for. beethoven is for. beethoven 2020. the 50th anniversary here on d w. you could see it from space shown in raid china's air pollution cleared up dramatically during the great lock down. less traffic and closed factories so thick smog keep way to blue skies. air travel is responsible for 7 percent of greenhouse gases long haul flights were down 90 percent it.

could be a roadmap to a green a future. we've seen with the drastic measures that china has taken with regard to corona that emissions have gone down seriously so people are working from home and manufacturing a slowdown so these are the kinds of drastic measures that we will have to take for climate change no one wants a 2nd lockdown but we've caught a glimpse of a less polluting world the challenge is aiming for that while avoiding the damage to our livelihoods and the economy. the blue economy is thriving thanks to the global quarantine disruptions to industrial fishing as seen some fish stocks explode that's brought back these guys to places like portugal but i mean here to stay when everything returns to normal the fish could run out again i will bring you that report in a moment 1st german chancellor angela merkel says the world is not doing enough to combat climate change she's pledged to accelerate efforts. looks quite see

he is from the most at all research institute on global commons and climate change felix how do you balance the planet's needs and ours does it doesn't mean changing our consumption habits. it may mean that you're macomber 95. who all of us need luck and holidays and who and equally nice to have our options and to learn that that was not possible to do though but hold him up you cannot. appease that need like a structured support of opposed to many. who have this master plan to change it. and at a political level europe's largest greenhouse gas a major is germany and germany would have missed its 2020 climate targets happened

for the pandemic if it slashed emissions basically for us i'm going to have a once a carbon pricing mechanism for the e use industry and transport sectors is is that an answer in your opinion yes definitely like economists consciousness is a complex thing one of the best places and likely you have to come in. as a model of the huge already we can remove the constant just a matter of that but i don't want to promise it's like the one who can. read the basing on a muffin and he and for all the. profits off the coffee monster it's just going to. that's the biggest concern i guess is jobs because if you start getting industry or all these companies trying to foot the bill i'm sure they're going to say well we're going to have to lay off stuff. we're going to have

it up about who that. is the lady who was. on the roof of opportunities digitization. so it's really about i get into the mood and not just be on the board. or also want to post a level lot i can't believe the amount of discarded mosques i've seen on the streets people just don't seem to get it i mean it's hard enough to get them to wear a mask in the 1st place but they can't even throw to tobin afterwards how do you get the health of our planet through to people. i want to miss the. need to act together because of the pandemic and i didn't do that. because but. the mom and if you don't know who are supposed to or who is the infection anything and you can go home connect a few. say for who they have and hear see that potentially effective i'm optimistic

because i mean you you do see that people are very worried very scared about the health all of a sudden. and it's a disconnect almost because the health of our planet i mean a healthy planet would mean a lot healthier lifestyles for us than that's interesting things like eating less meat off the mark but i think you also have your boss on the planet and you have. that on the on the on the same but. they're not. ready to go who is this one. and it's obviously a 2 way street. from the medical research institute on global commons and climate change thanks very much for being on the show today and you. well on the state of our oceans the last time a global crisis hit the fishing industry was the 2nd world war the closure of the

north sea and not caught and haddock to thrive there were big catches throughout the 1950s something similar is happening in portugal. for the people of lisbon this is nothing short of a small miracle dolphins have returned to the river takashi estrie as a biologist inish claro often went dolphin watching in the azores today she works as a sailing instructor because of the pandemic and finding work is tough especially because there are no tourists. but initially her boss say this is a silver lining is the end thing of you know me this year there are more sardines and macro in the ocean that's what the dolphins like feeding on free wish to express in specific. view is there a massive 50 kilo stone bass as well huge sea about us and we've never seen this

many sardines worth of principle. they say the water quality of river tog has improved a lot due to the lockdown that on the decline in industrial fishing as encourage the dolphins to return and the fact that no noisy crew ships are harboring in the portuguese capital helps too as dolphins are very sensitive to noise. but i think a large ships are very invasive dolphins are disturbed by them and avoid swimming up the river. or all. the vessels are not docking here right now due to the pandemic the authorities in lisbon a using this time to make the city more environmentally friendly they've pledged that by 2022 docked crew ships must stop their motors to reduce emissions. you could eventually every cruise ship docked in lisbon will have to be connected

to the electricity grid to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions or cut pollution in the city of the at the. initial hopes that the expected and. prove mentum water quality and decline and noise pollution will keep the fish and the dolphins near the beach that way lisbon could live up to its nickname of europe's green capital long after the pandemic is over. and what better time to ask if the global battle against the coronavirus is actually working let's take a little look at the most up to date data that's come through from over 200 countries and territories new cases have doubled in 29 countries and increased in 70 countries in all new case numbers stayed at the same level in 10 nations 73 countries have seen new positive cases for cope with 19 go down. the reported case numbers have been 16 countries and 11 have reported no new cases

for 4 weeks in a row he is the bug graph stacked up against the statistics of the last weeks remember the battle is won when that entire chart is blue there is a long way to go another part of the show when there williams takes over the helm our science correspondent has been looking into your questions on the coronavirus. once dangerous is the pneumonia why not find a cure or treatment for the pneumonia instead of the virus. pneumonia is a blanket term that's generally defined as a more or less serious inflammation of tissue in your air passages and or your lungs it can be caused by a number of different pathogens both both viral and bacterial pneumonia that coven $1000.00 can cause is generally initiated by the virus and can't be treated for example with antibiotics which only kill bacteria when they're infected with source

code to the cells in the small sacs in their lungs where where gas exchange occurs what are called the alveoli begin to die and clog the lungs up and that can eventually lead to what's called acute respiratory distress syndrome as the pneumonia progresses the situation can be exacerbated by the immune system causing massive inflammation which is which is supposed to help get infection under control but which can actually make things worse so so treating or curing coronavirus pneumonia means either addressing the problem at its root which is the sars code to infection itself or somehow toning down the body's immune response to it when it goes over the top.

in other news e.u. trade commissioner phil hogan is resigning amid allegations he breached lockdown restrictions in island a week ago hogan attended a govt dinner with over 80 people sparking a national outcry the irish government says his actions undermined public confidence. now what do you miss from pretty locked down days i've certainly got a long list if live concerts is one of them well this next story might be one for you tell near los angeles is now holding rooftop gigs and give everyone the best seat in the house with balcony views of the action. california it's called of thousands of concerts tours and music festivals because of social distancing rules . because it's a nice chance to is a good music and get some fresh air the same time. lot

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to pounce prime minister shinzo aba is stepping down because of poor health denouncement coming just days after he became the country's longest.