in france with my cardio and. more to go. it's where. my choice to describe it was given there were times troops. and i want. to talk. you're watching news asia coming up today it's the holiday season in india which means concerns the country will face another spike in kobe case the people practiced enough discipline to prevent another health crisis. and china commemorates its entry into the korean war the only time it ever came in direct conflict with the united states it's been yet another opportunity to whip up nationalism. plus thailand's protesters have been hitting the streets day after day

we take a closer look at what's been seen literally their result. i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us despite a rapid rise in cases in september india's daily case count is now plummeting and the government claims the country with the 2nd highest number of cases after the u.s. is now past its peak but the holiday season that leads up to devalue has now taken off and prime minister narendra modi has appealed to people to continue taking precautions during it but will they listen do you believe finds out in delhi. mob the. stooge forced watching her father perform and then joining him at the age of 14. every year for over

a decade marjorie has participated in this festive season production of the hindu epic of my and. many other shows have been canceled due to coronavirus restrictions. but pangs to extensive precautions taken by what he had to accompany the bar 3 o'clock in. marty's streak remains unbroken here's a thought made after spending almost 7 months on the lock down when an artist comes on stage again it's a different kind of joy we are thrilled that we are able to perform it's a really big deal to us that we can take to the stage again stage from him in that the artists here were tested 2 weeks before the show started and then again closer to the date they have been given the option of staying at the theater institute if they choose to isolate from their families during the run of the show. as for

audiences only a 3rd of the usual capacity is permitted. temperature checks i'm sanitization told the calls are being strictly followed. even on the smallest scale this production is that in mind of normalcy it has been a tradition in the down up to the valley for over 60 years but it's not yet time to celebrate. after recording close to $100000.00 cases every day in the middle of september india daily care found have come down significantly there are concerns however that gathering during the festive season will cause another spike. the discipline off the pier to is completely missing in the festive market crowds are strong here for the season's shopping and seals. social distancing and temperature checks seem a distant reality. for people here only the festive cheer seems to be infectious

and permissable to things are much better now many more customers are showing up because they do ali it feels like the old times in this market there's more to the mindset is all teens no goal weight is nothing like a hoarder know the scene is certainly simple everyone is going to what you can see it on this so much of actually but i got fed up with those. who don't and all those things that's why they are. frustrated and they are stepping out staying off the streets was frustrating for marjorie too and she is hopeful that there won't be any more long absences. the epochal from mine and speaks of the victory of good over evil. a valuable message she says joining. joining us is the mission guys on the mission in the u.s. part of the conversation is if you don't test for it well then the numbers would of course drop and i guess my question is what's driving the drop in covert cases in

india is inadequate testing part of it or did people really flatten the curve because as you show in your report many people have let their guard down. and that is that we have to know what india has not. all the last month it has large distant and this is not seen as we just backed up why it is and was a calm down. all the last government and has also said that india has crossed its peak in the way last september but it was just come to find out it is the festive season coming out and large gatherings are expected joining in the fray minister himself as one against doing this any dirtbag explained seeing that yes pass it speak from in september or is contingent on the fact that you should in addition there's also an expectation that some numbers new convinced him to leave after that might be an unseen rescue says west such high testing is not possible. so the

government is worried but is there a lot of chatter about the possibility of the case count climbing because of when or just among people talking amongst themselves there are some we have seen on the one hand but on the other hand there is an expectation of gatherings during the festive season and we have people wanting to gather because of the long lockdown but there are also people who are against it because there is the possibility of the continuing possibility of going in factions are going at these gatherings just a short while ago this was the festival of on on wednesday to fight was after this best of both and this is what the government is warning against in addition there is another fact attack of inter which is a phrase never been used in past years desperate to diseases how going up jordan biggs an execution i vented everyone is getting rather why do you think people have let their guard down. well google for deep that movie scene in general just so

because it has seen my street just lockdowns anywhere in the world and this gotten started almost 7 months ago so do i indians when i get complete lockdown this is gradually been eased my dopamine i want to be completely open now and be lenient on the street os if he isn't i'll hand you must know to look at the car as the government seems to agree that there's an economic imperative one wants to live on our us because the new g.d.p. has been the what ever going to want to be good works man now the man you look at the numbers that that has ever been so god is agreement to be but also insisting that the need to be taken on us by a new man and. we should as well thank you. president donald trump started his term with a warning from outgoing president barack obama that north korea would be his

biggest security challenge one that had potentially existential nuclear ramifications 4 years later where do things stand on thursday night's election debate the 2 candidates trump and former vice president joe biden had very different ideas what has he done he's legitimize north korea he's talked about his good buddy who's a folk a thug and he talks about how we're better off and they are have much more capable missiles able to reach us territory much more easily than ever to be flemmi for you know what north korea will not know or we have a good relationship you know people of us of having a good relationship with the eaters of our country have a lot of hugging and they left us a mess and obama would be i think the 1st to say it was the single biggest problem he thought that our country. whoever wins the white house will almost certainly look to china in america's decades long attempt to denuclearize north korea but aging and pyongyang have strong historical bonds underscored this week as both

countries marked the 70th anniversary of china's entry into the korean war a conflict on the korean peninsula was the 1st and only time that u.s. and chinese troops have faced each other on the battlefield. china's last remaining veterans of the korean war celebrated as heroes. as it marks 70 years since entering the conflict china's resurgent nationalism is on full show in a week of ceremonies and commemorations. the war is a formative chapter in communist party history a story of resistance against u.s. aggression victory over superior followed with tensions mounting wants more between beijing and washington president xi jinping issued a sharp warning. source we will absolutely never sit by when our national sovereignty security and development interests are threatened. and we will never allow anyone or any forces to invade and split the

sacred territory of the motherland you've got to fight if ever such a situation occurs the chinese people will deliver a painful head on blood. north korea is also flexing its military might as nuclear negotiations with the u.s. remain deadlocked. at a parade earlier this month leader kim jong un failed a new intercontinental ballistic missile one of the world's largest one small raising the stakes for regional security. came up this week's korean war anniversary by paying tribute to the chinese warded. fanless another sign that pyongyang is courting favor with its powerful neighbor while preparing for new dealings with washington after the november 3rd election. protesting requires a lot of energy i can definitely confirm that having covered many of them as a reporter and in thailand pro-democracy activists have taken to the streets every

day for almost a week and have been out there throughout this summer that's a lot of energy and energy requires a lot of calories. street food in thailand is a way of life indispensable even in times of political unrest wherever there's protest there's food these of endorse can always smoke the best opportunities. business is good at the protest sites and managed to sell about $6000.00 baht each time. that's about 160 euros quite decent in an economy that's suffering from the coronavirus pandemic. to get the best sport they have to arrive earlier than anyone else even before protesters and police. the sellers urged the nickname see i 84 their collective intelligence gathering before staking out the territory. we don't come to the protests randomly

we planned beforehand and see if protests are happening or not if it's shit for much later than we anticipate then we don't go we followed protests news on every channel we read the comments and everything. the food vendors who exchanged information on their chat group cia mobile fishbowls full protests so they can all move in an instance once to test a nation is clear protest groups of an announcer really sides at the last minute to confound police. and their presence is a blessing for many demonstrators this is how it should be anywhere there's a protest the economy flourishes people need to eat so they'll have to strength to keep shouting i think it's a pleasant thing to see. you know how. many of the purchased is also willing to spend money on street food rewarding the vendors for being one of the most informed

groups of people in thailand. that's it for today there's always more on the w dot com for asia we leave you now with more festivals in india now getting under way and make concerns over the pandemic we'll see you next week. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and. our corona update. 19 special next on d w. in the. climate change.

the future of. the 6 major cities. to. love whether you're a skeptic or a true believer who cries during the vals weddings bring us together and celebration of family community and love but these days before the happy couple can even make it down the aisle coven 19 is changing our rituals from forcing cancel travel to trimming the guest list and even forcing us to make new rules to minimize

risk. in portugal new restrictions mean that only 50 guests are allowed a wedding and here in jerusalem a hospital even allowed a couple to get married on its grounds so that the groom's father a covert patient could watch the wedding from his room. ceremonies and parties that were months or years in the making are now changing significantly were being canceled altogether. what does that mean for how we celebrate the most important events in our lives. this is the $1000.00 special or welcome to the show i'm stephen there's a in berlin will be at a wedding or birthday everyone likes a good celebration but no one wants the virus as a guest and that's when many people are changing their event plans if some do move forward here's one community's take on a wedding and the time of corona. to

julie is infectious among these wedding guests but no one wants to spoil the occasion with a corona virus outbreak. precaution is now part of the production i thought is have put strict limits on gatherings and families are having to drastically trim their guest lists. we were expecting to have a gathering of more than 800 people but unfortunately due to do spend a mic due to discolored 19 our guest the guest list has been shot to make 25100 $150.00 only and. it will still take an army of cooks to assemble the west sun and elaborate kashmiri marriage feast of up to 30 courses but the wedding business and the rest of region is hurting after a double hit from the security clampdown and now the pandemic the wrath of god was there going to be we had hopes that we do good business this year we're going to

hurt them but i've suffered a loss of about 80 percent. and a pandemic era wedding means some other updates to old traditions waiters decked out in hazmat suits and individual servings. kind of wasn't there were food and everything went nicely but we could not enjoy your food traditionally eating on a copper platter for 4 which dates back 300 years we still enjoyed the feast but we missed the traditional way. but some things will never change the 2. the anticipation the excitement as 2 families join together to witness a new family begin. and i'm joined now by joe and avila she's

a professor of clinical psychology at stony brook university in new york city join us good to have you on the show how important are rituals like weddings and birthdays for our lives. they're extremely important they really provide us with ways to come together and get support from the people we care about they support our relationships they're fun things to do that take us away from the sort of monotony of every day life so they can be really really important for us in our lives through these are opportunities for family wider family to gather around are there opportunities in what we're seeing now are some creativity for couples trying to have these rituals are trying to have something in place of these rituals yeah absolutely i mean we see people doing this kind of stuff already we see people to things like drive by birthdays or you know soon get togethers all of which are really important and really helpful for people and i think we have to work really

hard to appreciate what we can get from these kinds of rituals and if we get really stuck with the idea that there's only one way to celebrate and things won't be good unless we do it that way then we're going to be disappointed in this this pandemic time so we do have to be creative and i don't mean creative in the sense of like you know come up with entirely new ideas about how we do things but just really thinking about what it is that we need and what we want to get and finding ways to get that in smaller ways than we're used to and appreciating what we can get from those smaller ways. to get the sense that some people are waiting until this is all over you know one of the phrases you constantly hear until they have some of these rituals again these big birthdays are weddings. yeah absolutely i think everybody's waiting for those kinds of things you know the wedding industry is booking weddings out 234 years in advance people are sort of putting off the kinds of

things that they might normally do in terms of parties and events and of course that makes sense there are many things that people see a special events that they want to celebrate in big ways when they can and the healthy part of that is it gives us something to look forward to the potential problem with that is if people sort of put off their lives can't live their lives can't feel so satisfied in the present with what they have then they're really going to be struggling even more during this pandemic time a time when we're already you know really our emotions are on edge and we're not feeling like i'm getting what we need so. so it's gets us in the for it too but we also want to be present in our lives now and you know celebrate in the way we can celebrate when we talk about relationships in general and how they're fairing during a time of corona this seems like an amazing stress test for so many relationships

are imagine it absolutely is it absolutely is for some people they're spending so much more time together they have so many more responsibilities in terms of childcare for example or 2 people are working at home or even if one person is working at home that didn't used to work at home they have to make accommodations and this is particularly hard for people who don't have the kind of living environment where this is easily done so there's so many more challenges that couples face these days that make it really hard for them. to. you know continue on in the way that they were before. i have to ask do you think it's more difficult for maybe younger couples who are just beginning that relationship together or for older couples who maybe sort of have an established routine yeah i think it's i don't think it's one of the other necessarily i think both kinds of couples can have advantages and have some risks as well so you know older couples

have the benefit of some stability a level of commitment they know each other well they kind of know what to expect they may have. maybe more tolerance in certain kinds of ways on the other hand they don't have access to the kinds of other things that they're usually engaging in to sort of get away from the relationship they need to so that can be problematic younger couples might be in a stage of you know kind of early relationship bliss where this is a time to really just be together and bonds them at the same time if they don't know each other that well and suddenly they're thrown together in this kind of way they may start learning stuff about one another that they don't necessarily like and then what do you do with that now that you're you know kind of stuck together in the stuck together way so yeah or i joined the view from sunnybrook university in new york thanks so much you're very welcome my pleasure thanks for having me.

and now it's time for your questions it's the part of the show where our science correspondent derek williams as the questions you've posted are you tube channel or did there. just covert 19 transmission change depending on whether it's you know that or fatah try one of the great hopes last winter here in the northern hemisphere back in february and march that covert 1000 would prove to be seasonal hasn't hasn't really panned out and in the last months a lot of researchers have come out with with often conflicting messages about about where and how environmental factors are influencing the spread of the disease any direct links between al gore temperatures and transmission of the virus seem to still be pretty pretty tenuous to me but increasingly researchers are coming to a more united conclusion that the humidity the amount of moisture in the air

could be playing a pretty big role in the spread of sars co 2 both indoors and out in the evidence is mounting that dry air makes the virus spread more rapidly one new study out of australia claims that when relative humidity falls just one percent in 1000 cases could rise by 7 to 8 percent and the explanation on offer is this moisture air causes the aerosols and droplets that an infected person coughs out to grow larger as they absorb water vapor which makes them sink to the ground flounced or but when the air is dry the opposite happens then the virus containing droplets shrink as their moisture is absorbed by the surrounding air that makes them lighter and more likely to drift around it. head level and be

inhaled by someone else another factor that could well be playing a role when the air is dry is that it also dries out your nasal passages and they're your 1st line of defense and against airborne pathogens like sars co 2 when they dry up it also makes it easier for those pathogens to gain a foothold. science correspondent williams there and now we take our weekly look at how the new crop of cases are developing around the world. the numbers show new cases doubling in 35 nations. and increasing in another 91 countries. and they've stayed the same in 7 country is. 58 nations have seen their new positive coated 1000 cases decline while another 13 are down by at least half.

and 6 countries have reported no new cases. here's the bar graph showing the statistics so far this year the fight against the corona virus will be over when that whole chart turns blue so there's still a way to go 'd. but that's it for us today for more on these and other stories related to the pandemic to go to d.w. dot com and click coronavirus i'm stephen beardsley in berlin thanks for watching.

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