be done. make up your mind. this is the wus a show coming up today the cost of suffering from a mental illness. thousands across asia are shackled in chains by their families unable to cope with their mental illness we ask what needs to happen to end this practice plus. the slums that beat back the coronavirus but at what cost where are we in india to see how the country's largest slums through months of lockdown. and men in black how one academy in china prepares these

guys for a career serving the rich and famous and. welcome to news asia it's good to have you with us imagine for a moment being locked up in chains in a small room eating and sleeping there unable to leave for years only because you have a mental illness it sounds medieval but it's happening in modern times in as many as 60 countries across the world according to a report by the end you human rights watch in asia india china and indonesia are just some of the countries where the practice called shackling still exists here rights watch report in indonesia alone for example some 57000 people with mental health conditions have been shackled at least once in their lives people like this

man on the island of bali locked up in a small cell for 2 years for having a mental health condition he comes from a poor family and his 94 year old father still works the land. poverty a lack of access to mental health facilities stigma over mental health have something to do with it but in the end it increases the suffering of those already dealing with this trauma this is what the 48 year old you saw in the video said to researchers when they met him i feel sad locked in the room i want to look around outside go to work plant rice in the paddy fields please open the door please open the door. let's get more from professor hans falls he teaches of the university of sydney and is an authority on mental health in indonesia i welcome professor polls

now when it comes to shackling in indonesia is it by and large the only choice most poor families have as a means of dealing with mental health issues or are there other reasons as well. that's a good question only choice of course a bit of a flexible conception one major problem in the many other countries in southeast asia and actually elsewhere in the world is to lack off of a tip it's availability of mental health services and it's often also a problem that that can be quite far away to praying someone to a community health center or a mental hospital especially in rural and remote areas in eastern indonesia it can be quite a distance away some just more than a day travelling and that obviously is a problem many poor people do not know that the link with mental illness day only note at the english on who can be quite believed your and sometimes on islands

without provocation unexpectedly someone who. cooked a house on fire killed life stock so in damage it's this whole thing a problem especially if someone is attacking neighbors or destroying neighbor's property delhi they going to be liable for that that much so in their mind that doing something about it but indonesia did banish acting way back in 10077 and since then it must be said indonesia has introduced a number of programs including a community based abroad to tackling the problem do you think that these initiatives are sufficient. they are moving very much in the right direction things are changing in a way to section all mental health of the ministry of health picked. playing as a central problem because then to solve it they need to solve it me to create a much better mental health care system but also

a much better general health care system and one of the things that has been introduced about 3 years ago is the minimal standards for the community health centers and this is a major innovation in innovation health care that are over 7000 in the whole country to every where the accessible for everybody now in the minimal standards to have to meet and this is assessed on an annual basis is to have to visit at home every individual with severe psychosis or schizophrenia to see how they're doing that often have health on ts people from the community that trained them in mental health the symptoms to recognise them and then to report if they find someone who is shackled or. in the mental health care dept has brought down the number off people in check that over the past 678 years with this hof that it's down. to about what this a tree is a 1000 people hope is

a bit more at this is a very effective measure you know i'm not sure professor balls what would you say it needs to change in indonesia to prevent shuttling from occurring. a couple of things that happens often at very rural and remote areas is poor people poverty everywhere in this world is bad for mental health and bad for mental health a family member so if you offer to go help secondly the expenditure on mental health is quite low or about one percent of the health budget and if that spending could be increased. very vile come through it what is happening and it's making quite a difference is a voluntary association like the indonesian community for the support of people with schizophrenia because definitely not enough doctors it takes quite some time

to educate psychiatrists stepped in and providing support to individuals for schizophrenia and care are not that often better in the cities spezza represented at the half are very important role at a las thing is what they're already mentioned is that the community health centers are tasked to take care of individuals for severe mental illness and that is how relieving them of thank you so much for joining us professor paul's thank you. the film slumdog millionaire made it was famous pottery india's largest slum located in the heart of mumbai at the start of the call nobody's been demick authorities what he called it conditions would make stopping the spread of covert $1000.00 impossible but the to be managed to flatten the gov through an intense public health campaign containing covert came with

a price though shuttered businesses and lost jobs luck as another danger to people already living on the edge. about a 1000000 people live in this crawling part of the norm what it's multicultural and entrepreneurial spirit. with this large migrant working class population he was expecting a massive public 19 outbreak. instead it effectively contain the spread of the wider drawing global attention. to control the ball with situation here the authority of the author to measures like aggressive testing and cleaning all the nice things regular out of an account and quarantine thank defining containment and a hard will get flagged down. the shut down of all work back in march due to the nationwide lockdown hits the heart of the heart the cows in the small businesses and workshops that had been tried and that came to

a standstill. mom was good has lived in the heart of the for 30 years working as an art isn't doing very well tread book on fabric. after months of sitting idle up there has just assumed to work in his workshop. earlier i used to get orders from clients but now i have to go out and look for them. and i still don't get much work there's been a lot of lost. i have to pay the room rent and the electricity bill. would have been. he says he has never seen a slowdown like this. 6 months on with economic activity limping back to life most people like up there are still struggling to on a living. example brotherhood of all work has been severely affected the economy was already in bad shape now because of coronavirus people have lost whatever

savings they had moving. authorities in mumbai bracing themselves as tara lee has begun to see infections rising again as restrictions are eased and migrant workers are down and we. are going to. know. where their member. we moderns he we. testing them. their regular house and buses is returning to the streets to the changing situation we still require a major overhaul is nothing to even strategy. if there is if you think teams will pick up a bit one says craftsman back to their villages. but he is still expecting it to be hard to make a good living for quite some time to come. now what do you

do if you've left the people's liberation army in china and its soldiers can turn to any number of new careers but for those still wanting to maintain their action here. there is the new creative option to be a bodyguard for the rich. ok this isn't over letter ak. and this gun is fake but the stakes are still high these young men are practicing how to protect china's richest people in your part of china's economy is developing at a high speed in the process a lot of billionaires have encouraged their families as well as the companies shareholders all need such a bodyguard for your job however the 1st requirement of this position is not security which is usual but of business i was. going to security academy intention is a school dedicated to training bodyguards and it looks for the very best in one exercise students have to told

a client behind them and take out their guns in the same moves those who fail to do it within 2 seconds must be with 50 push ups. i think this profession is very cool tool i had mild this kind of killer like to look cool cool. today in china hackers are a bigger threat than attacks by armed men knowing how to keep the hackers out and destroying files in an instant are highly valued skills and open of jobs to those without much education. i'm from the rural area and usually i don't have any skills or academy qualifications i was a veteran and went to martial arts school for several years. what attracts many is the tremendous salary bodyguards on up to 70000 dollars each year far more than any typical job in china. that's a bit of a there's more on did up a dot com for us flush. with pictures of chandra fung the 60 year old grandmother

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superfood. lifestyle. headsails a soaring as people stay home during the coronavirus pandemic. and turning to man's best friend is one way of coping with chronic loneliness. as i think i made a good choice the dog kept me busy i walked him a lot i think he also loved the attention when i was at home so much of why things . studies show that physical contact is helping

people cope with a crisis. but just how effective is it when your liaison can't talk back. well it's the same case with a 6 stall business is booming plus the technology has advanced you still can't have a conversation with these next robotic sex aides but people do take them on road trips as you'll see in a moment a little warning some of the sounds in this report may get your pulse racing. now that she's got a head say hello to lucy for 5 years she's been learning to speak but his circuits still require a bit of tinkering. and. because it can connect to the net if you. lucy will one day be able to hold

a simple conversations because these dolls are meant to offer more than just sex re sing about this. we don't want. something you. make human upset so. something posted up your all your other best or something like this. for now let it loose dollars are limited to little more than a moan making them good enough for their primary purpose. and the microchips in their heads mean they can groan in english japanese and chinese apparently. a good market for the dolls is germany but leonard says their lack of german hasn't proven a problem so far. when i see. reviews from customers when they get their dogs they're very happy they try to

share with was a friend's oh i got nice stuff from iran. oh i feel so happy oh my life change is with. can come into my life. so well when i see it is it bad emails all of it bad reviews on the internet i fear on the and i am. more prepared for the further movements in this business for those this is a like many sex doll factories demand for the products here has doubled during the coronavirus pandemic learned lou has received countless photos from happy customers after all dolls are exempt from rules around face coverings and you can take them anywhere with you regardless of physical distancing rules. during lockdowns they help their owners forget how alone they actually are leonard lou thanks he's doing

a service to humanity. as a mom and create indoors for man. and they do have a request they have needs and the it have it has big market. and my mother said ok well you have others who can do that since it is not illegal you can do that if you can help others. but with his vast array of fabricated friends he could help just about anyone. else bringing in psychiatry as their own john biology of india's national institute of mental health and your sciences 1st of all is a 6 stolen effective treatment for chronic loneliness. you know. it's very individual my beeper some it may not be post some rather it depends

on the need for social dutch as you were mentioning the need for physical proximity which has decreased to doing to knock down times saw are it's one of the reasons looking at it but then again. it depends it depends in societies cultures about it's acceptable to and whether it can be a replacement for the human touch our human proximity what about. pets have actually been studied of over the last 6 months there's been a lot of studies especially with cats dogs fish. and they have classically been seen to improve the human connection it's seen to relieve depression anxiety loneliness and specially when you're not able to meet others to help you to stay connected the feeling of human the feeling of being

a human is retained so pretty useful measures and have been studied quite much indeed so how else would you advise someone who's feeling lonely and forced into isolation. i think virtue of the d.m. have really taken up. the speaking virtually here and staying connected to at least 4 by keepers and it's a means to keep one thing that we keep telling people who are isolated are in quarantined that that make sure that at least to talk to one person beat a stranger and one person's ability and whatever hobbies you have i think the lockdown and all that situation have given us plenty of opportunities to knowledge of that and that's a real real way to stay positive so text being given a very spirited a british survey shows one in 10 people experienced loneliness before the great low

down 2 weeks in that rose to one in 4 young people with 3 times more likely to feel those feelings why is that i mean i thought young people spend most of their time in for their mobile phones. yeah i think as you rightly said corbett has brought to us the real difference between a digital interface connectivity and human connectivity we have been doing some work on the concept of touch hunger like we feel hungry for food to people water we also have that hunger that can become chronic and especially in this unprecedented situation when we are not able to physically need people no matter how much virtual it is and that affects specially people who are in you know that a dollar since we were young because human touch social touch affectionate touch are very important in stages of human development and mostly that will be affecting

the young and also the older people those who are of up at the pipe it's the i like the core and the season starts i just want to point out a point you used in one of your papers you you said all of humanity's problems stem from our inability to sit in a room alone what's wrong with us. yeah i think that's something which really made me reflect when i wrote the code that you're mentioning from my paper on social that lesion and the internet. i also mentioned that we need to confront the loneliness into saudi chewed basis you know the reliance a quite subtle so i believe that this break some part of this break was needed and it's a critical balance between knowing how to ski a spend time with oneself versus socializing and if either of it is not enough then that's the problem so one thing that the lockdown at the core of crisis has also helped us and is trying and understanding how can we spend time with ourselves you

know having a saudi chuka having enjoying our hobbies reflecting on us and that's one b. which really we can use to deal with this chronic loneliness not only in the pandemic but even after that really briefly after the pandemic what happens then when people ditched their dog or that sexto woman's mental health speech such an issue. of course i think this is just the tip of the iceberg and the beginning we're looking at next 6 months to one year mental health issues are going to race. i as a mental health professional my person take will be that people will try to at least you know they will learn to spend more time with themselves virtually medium could be a medium of communication and of course things like beth you know as you're mentioning exalts or even robotics they're even butchers about it artificial intelligence

these will come up gradually in mitigating the lonely they will have to leave it i don't think. thank you very much for being on the show. thank you. now if you've got any questions on the coronavirus write to us are now you tube channel is al science correspondent there. are many countries that seem to have achieved had immunity. the answer to this is a result in doing now but it's still worth talking about herd immunity again at at this point in the pandemic just a reminder herd immunity is what we all want it's the tipping point when enough of the population is immune to the virus that an infected person on average infects less than one other person so the number of new infections falls on immunity can come either from having had the disease or receiving

a vaccine it doesn't matter which most estimates say herd immunity will only be reached with cove at 19 when between 60 and 70 percent of the population acquires immune status and that could prove hard to reach especially if i'm unity to source code to proves to not be a very long term and those who've had it or in those who've been max unaided which brings me to the country that i want to talk about i'm sweet which last spring swam against the lockdown tide by largely leaving society open there and it was hit pretty hard by the virus and return although reaching herd immunity it was never explicitly part of its government's coronavirus strategy it's logical to expect that we would possibly see an effect in a place that had such high infection rates for early on so are we seeing one well interestingly maybe despite its looser restrictions the average daily number of new

cases in sweden remained quite low throughout the summer even when they began rising again and many other european countries were. tighter restrictions that's not direct evidence that the beginnings of herd immunity could be playing a role there but it's a tantalizing hand that it might be but it's no more than a hand.

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is deja vu news live from berlin a political crisis unfolds in kurdistan protests. and scenes government buildings prompting officials to cancel the results of a disputed election the pro russian president insists the situation is under control also coming up don't let it dominate please don't be afraid of her going to be the u.s. president don't trump is back at the white house up to hospital treatment but he's still infected with covert 19 as are

a growing number of his staff. plus 3 scientists take the nobel prize for physics for their research on black holes same clued andrea gets who becomes only the 4th women woman to win the prestigious award. and sweet revenge from an overlooked fame out painter italian renaissance art is art amaziah gentle let's get over due recognition in a new exhibition at london's national gallery. i'm rebecca richards welcome to the program kurdistan is in political crisis after the country's electoral commission and the results of last weekend's parliamentary election the poll handed big gains to production presidents who are run by and 2 establishment parties violence erupted overnight on the streets of beijing the capital of the central asian state and made accusations of mass vote buying

campaigns at least one person died in the clashes with security forces as protesters stormed their way into government buildings. outside protesters scaled the offensive kick it stuns presidential office building . inside portraits of the president unceremoniously destroyed. large items are removed from rooms. someone here keen to leave their mark. in the chaos high profile politicians including a former president are free from custody. an opposition leader declares himself the new interior minister kyrgyzstan's president maintains he is still in control while all but it meeting he's lost control well that we can lose that and i call on

everyone to keep the peace not to succumb to provocations and not to break the law peace in the country in the security of the people are more important than anything i call on all sides to put their country above any political ambitions and to a bay the law. by morning light the cleanup begins but anger is still burning over sunday's parliamentary elections with claims of vote buying. preliminary results declared to pro-government parties the winners. but it seems the country's electoral commission has had enough on choose day it canceled the results altogether it's unclear what happens next but having toppled its president twice before kick a stone is no stranger to political chaos. following

this developing story for us as moscow bureau chief. yuri why these protests happening now. well it's all about actually about alleged manipulation on the one hand and corruption on the other hand in this very poor pulse of your country and it's also about a power struggle between the old president at a time by it and the new president jeenbekov who has been leading the country since 2 and 2019 the former president at time by was put in prison for 11 years after the new one the current president. was elected relations with his successor just back up and with the coldest parliament every simply been tense and is those are the tensions that are bubbling to this sort of face after the recent parliamentary elections 16 parties but dissipated only a small number of parties the received seats in the parliament one of the main parties has close ties with the family of president didn't back off and the 2nd one

is this is he added with a nother influential clan a clan is the opposition sees the election as an obvious for old and is demanding a new vault writes a quite complex situation there what does this mean for the wider region well just like all countries in central asia rebecca kurdistan is a poor country which can cause its instability and unrest in bishkek may have a domino effect to duty and resolve problems of that of the country has with the neighbors recently in may of this year for example on the border of kurdistan and had done there was a shoot out because of a disputed territory on the border last year in the fall there were also armed clashes clashes with the job is done and of course the poverty interest and also makes it in a breeding ground for the so-called islamic state like other countries in central asia. what do we know about what's happening on the ground now and what's expected in the coming hours. well it's quite difficult to say what is exactly going on in

the streets of bishkek i would say it's summarized in the one word callous after a night of protests the lido off one of the losing parties south of that a people's government would be convened in kurdistan instead of the current government and a new prime minister would be appointed at the same time government representatives in 3 other regions of kyrgyzstan have reportedly also resigned the opposition to this has appointed inhumane for the capital bishkek as well as if they had all these states committee for national security and finally one of the former members of parliament has declared that he's now the new prosecutor general and promised to arrest everyone involved in the large scale fraud which is what he calls of elections the opposition however intends to remove from office president jim beck of budge and back off for his part call to the whole thing a coup attempt and called an opposition parties to remove remove their support us from the streets theory were shattered speaking to us from moscow thanks very much

but u.s. president donald trump is facing a backlash in the wake of his hospitalized patients recovered 19 in an elaborately staged return to the white house he made a show of appearing without a mask and address the american public in a video with defiant comments that have angered medical experts it was a determined donald trump wearing a mask who emerged on to the steps of the hospital. 4 days after he shocked the world by announcing he and 1st lady melania had tested positive for covert 19 trump was back. after the short helicopter flight to washington from across the white house lawn and strode up the stick case he made a point of removing his mask over in a salute to the departing a crew. and that was encourage meant for the other 7 and

a half 1000000 americans who have been infected by the virus don't let it dominate you don't be afraid of it you're going to beat it we have the best medical equipment we have the best medicines all developed recently and you going to beat it i went i didn't feel so good and 2 days ago i could have left 2 days ago today is going felt great like better than i have in a long time i said just recently better than 20 years ago don't let it dominate don't let it take over your lives but doctors are not convinced. that the president may be in a honeymoon phase as i call it of course in $1000.00 disease in the 1st it's me me the viral thing for the inflammatory phase we look for warning sign around the 708 and when people can actually do a lot worse require a lot more oxygen and you may get better or at that point may get

a lot worse and i'll be around the weekend those words will not be enough to deter the president in one of his many tweets on a day of high drama chum pledge to be back on the campaign trail suit. dahlia is an expert in infection he's not out of the woods yet what what do you make of the assessment of his situation. i think he's improved and responded to treatment but we know when somebody that it's elderly somebody that's obese and it's just been released from the hospital that you do have to watch them and monitor them for several days after that discharge because people can worsen so the next couple of days it's going to be important to make sure that the president doesn't have any recurrence of his symptoms that he's not becoming short of breath that he can progress through his activities of daily living without any major problems so we will be watching closely to see how he does it is recovery. of course the president has also come out and said that people shouldn't be afraid of

covert 9 tain is that setting the right message do you think you know it's sending the absolute wrong message $1000.00 is killed over 200000 americans it's it is something that we still have to really be vigilant about because if we start to let the guard down if we don't do the correct actions in order to control this we will continue to have more people dead and we are already seeing surges in parts of the midwest where hospitals again are in trouble so we have to just take the commonsense precautions to keep this level of the level of the virus to a manageable pace and that's where it masks face coverings not going to mass gathering social distancing all of that it's really important in developing a system to test trace and isolate which we sadly still cannot do very well in the united states the president made a point of taking off his mask when he was saying after leaving the hospital what did what message does that send as the commander in chief and the president of the u.s. . it just shows that he's willing to put other people at risk there was

a photographer there on the on the on the patio with him that likely got exposed we've seen him take a drive around the walter reed hospital with secret service agents who me exposed so this clearly is the wrong message the president is contagious for at least several more days he needs to be wearing a mask and time he's in the vicinity of anybody else to protect them from being infected by him. the president has also indicated that he wants to return to the campaign trail for more live events he's still infectious do you think that's advisable he's not going to be able to go anywhere for probably 4 or 5 more days because it takes about 10 days from symptoms to render yourself non-contagious so i don't expect to see him how i don't think anybody would actually permit that to happen in their state but i do think it probably will return to the campaign trail after that it will be interesting to see if he has the energy ability to do to do it but to do it and hopefully he'll learn from the fact that he it was an

event at the white house a calm supreme court announcement that led to a lot of these cases and he'll modify his political rallies in the future so that people aren't getting infected after rallies i think this is something that hopefully he's learned of this is this is a virus you have to take seriously and put mitigation efforts in place if you're going to have people gathering. dr on a shutdown here from johns john hopkins university thanks very much for that insight and. well let's turn now to some of the other stories making news around the world germany's foreign minister heiko maas has visited burden's holocaust memorial with his counterparts from israel and the united arab emirates the visit is part of what's been called a 1st historic meeting between the u.s. and the israeli foreign minister as the 2 middle east countries continue to normalize their relations with. russian opposition leader alexei valley has made his 1st video appearance since his poisoning with

a band of nerve agent the kremlin critic told a russian blogger that he believed he was attacked because russian authorities viewed him as a threat to head of parliamentary elections he said his recovery in germany could take 2 more months. to. the european court of justice has struck down changes to hungary's higher education laws the court called the rules incompatible with critics said they targeted a budapest university founded by george soros the u.s. philanthropist is a vocal critic of prime minister viktor bands right wing government. calls for a cease fire between armenia and azerbaijan a growing louder as the conflict continues to escalate scores of people have been killed after the decades old conflict over the disputed territory of nagorno-karabakh erupted 9 days ago the region lies inside as a vision but is under the control of ethnic armenian forces. the

u.k.'s service sector has been hit hard by the corona virus and as winter approaches prime minister virus johnson has warned of tough months ahead but it's not only restaurants and bars that are suffering london's financial hub the city has been left deserted as people work from home. pots has. this is the latest fashion trend for bankers and london city accessorizing suits with them that she must make this one this shop has been around for over 100 years. said always being great until the pandemic hit and for 6 months he didn't make a single suit and the people come back into the city. so we can get back to some normality now though boris johnson has said everyone who can shoot he's working from home over the winter olympics halo's policy is a disaster and swims so easy to try to finish off the high street all the independent shop you couldn't the big big. out there like whether it was

a stores all over about where. one shop i threw my best to.