good guide to this question from germany. where. the last car culture history of. travel extremely. this is. coming up today of him on the standoff between regional powers that looks set to continue. china of violating past border agreements even as both ministries continue to reinforce the troops is this going to get worse before it gets better plus the. pandemic is finding up in the philippines so while. keeping pandemic the stock those are the monk the wild animals rescued from

poachers fueling the trade in illegal wildlife during the coronavirus crisis. welcome to. glad you could join us india has accused china of violating border agreements as the armies of both countries engage in a tense standoff along a disputed border speaking in front of an indian defense minister thoughts nothing said china had union left to me or to the status quo along the border he also showed members of the army was well prepared for any eventuality and contingency plans in place to ensure. you know. we have been foremost china through diplomatic and military channels that such activities are an effort to change the status quo you know laterally and it has

been made clear that these efforts are not acceptable to us under any conditions. and this year's recent incidents of violent conduct of chinese forces are a complete violation of all mutually agreed norms are according to the current situation the chinese side has mobilized its armed forces and sent ammunition on the l a c and internal areas. china has been returning to that a recent agreement between top officials of both sides should form the basis for the easing of tensions went down during their meeting in moscow the foreign ministers of china and india reached a positive consensus on jointly easing and cooling the border situation. and we will continue to maintain close communication through military and diplomatic channels to resolve issues on the ground we hope that india will earnestly

implement the consensus reached by the foreign ministers of the 2 sides china halfway and make concrete efforts to ease the situation. is a journalist and strategic affairs analyst who's been reporting on the india china border standoff since it began months ago was. the foreign ministers of both sides agreed last week in moscow the chinese and indian troops would court disengage from their current standoff points is that not already dead given that both sides are actually reinforcing their positions as we speak. well this is been all since the start of this crisis to see one thing and do another in the chinese from the time the entered indian territory which was the early part of me i had been firstly seeing that they have not transcripts the line i've been through here in china instead of 3 and 2nd greek secondly calling for disengagement and. not

actually doing it on the ground now the indian side is that the time to build up. the border along the line actually control and the same thing is happening there is one set of rhetoric that is going on and the other is a far more aggressive and of tom of barring deployment and counter deployment that is going on on the ground there is bringing the troops into peace with each other and setting the stage for violence so that's a winding proposition you spoke about indian territory and the elysee or the line of actual control now in defense minister of arj nothing said in parliament to the court defining perceptions of the line of actual control which is of course the line across which the standoff is taking place the opposition congress is saying that the phrase defining perceptions of the elysee legitimizes china does it. well yes in a way because a government in a country has to be quite clear where its borders lie and if the other country that

a country with who were it has a disputed border says that the border does not lie in place x. but lies in place why then this country cannot start seeing differing perceptions and so on and so forth each country has to be killed it's what i'd like. you know we if you are if you're rationalizing this this issue of deferring perceptions you also rationalizing aggressive action by the other side to capture the border up to where that country believes its border lights so i think that there's a there's a bit of the sort of excuse making that is going on over here when they're talking about deploying perceptions the fact is that the chinese have entered into a territory that lines on the indian side of the indian perceptions and strong india's viewpoint there can be only one set of perceptions so to that extent this is a bit of an excuse making sort of statement sort of seeks to justify china coming into

territory that india teams and that india has always had and that india has patrolled for you know if i'm not wrong there are a forts that some 1000 square kilometers of dirt a tree that india claims as its form is now in excess of 4 to indian troops is this something that the government is to be concerned about. yes the government is very concerned about this a lot of territory specially in the south asian context is a very emotive subject so this figure itself this 1000 square kilometer has been arrived at by joining several points of incursion so to that extent it's a it's not really valid figure but the fact is that china has entered at least 4 or 5 different points along the line of actual control in grants to do indian claim

territory to a distance of 15 to 16 kilometers of the deepest and 2 or 3 kilometers of the shadow points so all these things add up to the city loss of a significant amount of territory and that's a very emotive subject and something that the government is very careful in and final question do you think china and india are now in this for the long haul. that's hard to see and i would see that both countries aboard not like to get into a winter deployment in an area where temperatures being legal are down to minus 20 and minus 30 degrees centigrade where there's a wind chill factor where high over to you causes very serious limitations to how much a human body can do so getting on a window deployment which is something that would not appeal to the chinese or the indian side so bored have

a very strong reason to deescalate and we have to wait and see if they do that over the next 2 months. the timing to thank you so much for joining us either. the growers crisis is creating a tidal wave of plastic waste across asia yet we speak those are limiting the business shutdowns or the pandemic mean they're having an even harder time making a living we followed one man on his daily rounds in the philippines. cortical nanny is a problem is giving a livelihood to vidual e s 2 s. their waste every day he comes the streets of manila to collect and sell it for 4 decades already. but since the corona crisis things for him have to change to drastically. the pandemic caused a lot of problems my son lost his job and for me the junk shops were closed for one

thing even if i go out and there are barely any junk shops to sell to. only the ones in the. normally s. to a store would earn up to 80 euros a day selling plastics and metals now his income is cut by half he's had to sell his bicycle to get by even when the amount of waste has risen due to corona especially plastics demand is low a problem also for the philippines which produces around $40000.00 tons of waste as a. country is largely relying on informal waste pickers like us to esther to deal with the problem. the pandemic is really increased drastically you sharon. in the philippines and also another guy greece just because there's a lot more people using disposables now jew do misconceptions and fears around

transmitting the right areas and then of course there's things like i disposable being used environmentalist so that by informing people that will change meanwhile 60 year old for julius to esther is desperate for business to bounce back at us i know we hope things get better soon and it's been really hard for us made up that again. coronavirus restrictions in the philippines have recently been east despite high infection numbers sometimes earning money involves risks. but the pandemic is feeling business for another informal sector the illegal trade in endangered animals like these sea turtles is on the rise waters have exploited at 5 in market online driven by people stuck at home conservationists in indonesia recently returned a bunch of rescued turtles back to the wild but activists say more needs to be done

to stop the trade by a social media. it's a slow walk to freedom these endangered marine turtles are back on the beach after narrowly escaping the clutches of tortures police imbali rescued 37 of them in a raid on an illegal profiteering in july. you know all about the advantage that that happen and if you want to release the torture was there are 2 stages that we need to ensure the 1st is to make sure that the animals are healthy and the 2nd is to ensure that the animals are ready to be released because for example if he cannot adapt to the environment we cannot let them go after passing these 2 stages they will be released today i think that you need to look up the. international wildlife charity see torching consumption and trading is rife across the region but especially prevalent in indonesia. much of the illegal trade is now done online

from tuttle's and macaques to asian brian bears campaigners say the current pandemic has driven demand increasing its teaching because 1900 wishing that people usually stay at home and they usually you know have time to go on lie and some people may want to buy some eco i like products so you can just go to facebook with anything for them for its part facebook says it's cracking down on adverts on its platforms. we prohibit the trade of live animals and. or their pride. and also remove the contents become aware we're very committed to working with wildlife and one for our teams around the world to any type. of illegal. anyone involved in trading choctaws faces a potential 5 year prison sentence in indonesia but campaigners say the laws must

be enforced until poachers ahd to tear down these reptiles will be heading back into dangerous waters. that's a good issue to check out all those stories on the. show on facebook and the top back more of the same time about. in the art of climate change. comes from a person who's. seen people. today have a father future. d.w. dot com for megacities the 18th gives his candidature.

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not a visitor not that yes you want to become sitting. in for migrants your platform for reliable information. in. the world of literature as undergoing a massive shift the authors on this year's booker prize shortlist a more diverse and fresher than ever will meet one of the shortlisted authors tzitzit done in her home zimbabwe where she's awaiting trial later this week and also on the show what looks like spaghetti turns out to be a different food entirely some aspects of life in germany that are guaranteed to surprise you and our series meet the germans. welcome to arts and

culture this year's booker prize shortlist is the most diverse ever and another 1st most of the nominees are debut authors rather doesn't include sit see she's nominated for her 3rd novel this more noble body it's about a woman's descent into poverty and post colonial zimbabwe zimbabwe an author talked to us about her recent arrest for protesting government corruption. award winning novelist and now booker prize shortlists nominated at her home on failed in zimbabwe. is jew in court on september the 18th the author was detained after staging a small protest part of the planned day of action on july 31st holding up a placard saying we want better reform our institutions he went. down the road at night with their friends and then we stopped at an intersection so

that the cars coming from all sides could see us and that when. we saw a riot truck coming. they stopped and told us to get to the demonstration was against corruption and the worsening situation in the country with zimbabwe facing a spiralling economic and political crisis down kuranda is accused of attending a meeting with the intention to cause to incite public breach of peace and. i am also accused of. regulation through necessary. criticism of the government whether on the streets or even on social media has been widely suppressed under the rule of zimbabwean president and mrs clarke duncan says that an already bad situation is

likely to get worse and this government can find a different way of playing with criticism. i do believe that the situation could while escalates cause citizens have their backs against the war. the playwright a novelist is also a filmmaker whose works of won awards in europe and africa. but it's her latest book this movement to build body and a place on the booker prize shortlist the novel links the breakdown of its central character with turmoil in post-colonial zimbabwe are now done grampa's our future remains uncertain. i'm hoping and praying for the best there. will not be convicted of these charges. i haven't looked to see what the sentences are certainly for inciting public i don't.

know the sentences can be jail. wow my colleague scott roxboro is following this story scott let's talk a little bit about. and this year's booker prize shortlist this is a very diverse group of authors and yet she still really stands out doesn't she yet definitely not just because of her political activism in the situation that she sent but she's also by far the most experienced writer on this list she's 61 she's been writing for 30 years before getting this recognition i also find her work really interesting particularly knowledge she is nominated for this more of a body because it's a sequel to her 1st novel and it features the same character the character back then was a young girl growing up in pre-independence zimbabwe and this carries on the story many decades later and she becomes a very disillusioned middle aged woman and it's sort of tells the story of zimbabwe

from its sort of the hope after independence to sort of the decline in corruption that of course the author itself knows far too well absolutely now what is your take on this year's booker prize shortlist on a whole yeah it's really interesting it's kind of surprising i mean the big names hillary mantell and they're not there instead we have this much younger much more diverse group and i think the jury's deliberately trying to make a statement with this to to choose much more diverse group i mean we have 4 women writers on the list be got 4 nonwhite writers for the 6 nominees our 1st time a novelist but what i really find interesting is well is the broad range of stories and themes that are represented in this year's short list i mean you've got huge sweeping historical dramas like the mazda there's the shadow king which is set in ethiopia in the 1930 s. and then all the way to sort of meet near future economic disaster in cook's new wilderness you've got political books like real life. but also very personal family

stories like douglass through its chuckie payne and bert sugar. so you can really see that the jury here is is trying to say we're not just looking to the past and what used to be gray. literature in last decades but maybe these nominees were having a signpost to what literature could be like in the future hang in with me for a moment because there's another big headline in the world of publishing i want to talk to you about the controversy over j.k. rowling rowling of course best known for the harry potter books but the outrage currently circulating online is about her new detective novel troubled blood what can you tell us about this yeah 1st you have to have a little backstory here j.k. rowling has become a bit notorious online with certain communities particularly trans rights communities because of statements she's made essentially. saying that trans women are not real women that's been very very controversial in this new book of hers there's a character who is a man he's

a serial killer and occasionally he dresses up as a woman to entice victims that character is being seen as an example of rowling's transphobia by her critics now. obviously really didn't invent the trope of a man dressing up as a woman to kill people i mean that's not really that has been so it's been a while so she didn't invent it but because of the comments that she's made this is being seen through the works being seen through this through this lens has been seen as example of her trance so-called transfer. i mean i think the what's interesting here is that this is the world we live in right now i mean artists are not being judged just for the work they do but also for what they say and what they do outside of there are particularly nowadays of course on social media and she's lost a lot of support and a lot of support that scott roxboro thanks for coming on the show. and now every society it has to be said has its oddities and germany has got plenty for our

latest installment of the series meet the germans our brave reporter rachel stewart explores the unique toilet habits of german men a german ice cream delicacy that baffles tourists and also windows to the non german i kind of well unhinged. funded pretty amazing but you know. whenever you go to another. never. this experience is something going to be completely different so here's my list of 7 things that made me go. what an excellent thing here in germany for the narry. stop an odd looking vegetable that's a staple in both kashmiri and german cooking. it's name comes from the woods the cabbage until it but actually belongs to the cabbage family so how do we call gabi in germany. but don't forget didn't start it's also.

the 1st time i did this window in germany i thought the can. turn the handle like this completely but all the way in the window will tilt in with this practical double digit win this style seems to have originated here in germany and is now spread to many other countries. tourists in london often get excited about trip red double decker bus but for me it's all about the double decker train. in fact these kind of double decker trains can be found in many countries all over the world but i 1st got my eyes of one in germany on the novelty still hasn't worn off. something or rather someone i had never seen before i came to germany a gynecologist that's now out of the ordinary in the u.k. but here in germany women tend to go at least once a year for a full check up at the phone art store women dr it took me

a while to pluck up the courage but don't worry it's really no big deal. twice a year the germans take that cost of the carriage and change the tires from winter to summer and back again i've never actually heard of the concept of winter tires before and to be honest it seemed a time table top i mean yeah sure it can snoop but it's not canada so what exactly are the rules even thought so. so you can get told you all because. you've been the. people not to have been double but this is your brain calling. steven to spell at the moment. next up this sign. when you're in a good standing upright not necessarily 'd many men in germany prefer to take a seat at least in the right home it's such an important cultural habit that it's proponents of a specific night is it all sitting. this month that means no minutes from

splashback will pull away and one study even suggested it cannot. be. sometimes you don't realize that something's missing in your life until it comes along a good example of that is ice cream that looks like spaghetti bowl and that you get the ice is a hot favorite gemini's ice cream. it was invented in mannheim 15 years ago. i scream throughout the house to make the contraption. door where you are right but it's not a soul and great white chocolate from the palm of the. right now if you'll excuse me i'm about to get cultured integrated with about this because the ice cream. might take some getting used to now when hip hop 1st came on the scene in new york it was a subculture a lot of people in the mainstream associated with poverty and crime oh how the times have changed so the bees in new york held the 1st major hip hop memorabilia

auction in the world fetching impressive prices including $600000.00 for this iconic plastic crown worn by rapper notorious b.i.g. at his last photo shoot days before his murder in 1997 high school love letters written by biggies rival. sold for $75000.00. one letter that wasn't in that option was to parks break up a letter he wrote to madonna that already got auctioned off last year after madonna tried to stop it well speaking of madonna the queen of pop has just revealed she'll be directing a movie about her own life co-writing the script with oscar winner diablo cody but some will charge for rise to global stardom from her early days in the new york club scene. well she's never directed

a movie that got good reviews but will be watching either way that's it for this edition of arts and culture see you again next time.

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is the w.'s live from for our lead police in western germany drives on their fellow officers 29 kos to spend the whole of the sharing of me of nazi images in chat groups 11 now face criminal investigations also on the program. we need to go fast and we need to do things better european commission president joseph on the line that sets out her vision for the future of the e.u. and the 1st state of the union address.