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the new reality for the region. i'm british manager. welcome to d.w. news asia. glad you could join us. over the weekend, the air over the indian capital delhi looked like this residence bursting firecrackers to celebrate the hindu festival of the bali ensured the city recorded its worst equality in 4 years. conditions though, won't have been so severe, had residents of the had to a government ban on fox. but for many that is the very essence of the rally. while the celebrations in daily firecrackers traditionally mount the start of the hindu new year. but this time, the fun was also an act of defiance. it's fears over soaring air pollution prompted

a city wide ban on fireworks. but across daily revelers refused to let the spoil the party. but a day off the diwali came the hangover. the festival of lights left a thick blanket of smoke hanging over northern india. residents of the bustling capital used to severe air pollution. but the weekend's fireworks frenzy has only added to the crisis. a little like the pollution was already there, but the fire crackers have made it worse. now we're having difficulty breathing and the children of coughing anything. and sometimes it is a different matter. i don't smoke, but it feels like i'm smoking 100 cigarettes every day. the scientists say every

lung full of the toxic it can cause long term damage to people's health. the small contains dangerous fine particles known to increase mortality rights. the world health organization has put safe levels at just 25 micrograms per cubic meter. after recording well over 900 more than 36 times the w.h.o. limit for some a health hazard that should have been avoided. i know stubble, burning is causing pollution, but we need to be more aware of the problem and doing more from our end. people and children sitting on fire crackers is harmful to us. yes. delis ban on fireworks is in place until the end of november. but as saturday night city, while the celebration showed without public support, it's a ban that's difficult to enforce. and it's not the 1st time that such a ban has been instituted in delhi, but almost every time they come to naught i asked on without or troll the ring from

the center for science and environment in delhi. why that is that, you know? because this decision said kagan just a few days before the reilly and there is a member, i got a long term strategy on how would you really want to deal with firecrackers, especially on these occasions as specially during the winter when we have great eusebio pollution and they're just not equal, as you can through 5 more pollution to get at it. so therefore, i'm being serious about i don't want you to understand that this is have christian beliefs you a concert unleash. so therefore you cannot interest to see sheep when you read come on to control your required public support for this kind of this. now, at one level we have seen public awareness growing to some extent. and then lot of people who are saying go to practice,

and yet there is also not section of people less still not to be willing to accept this idea. and then when you are bringing this guy don't come under control. it is enforced seeable because this is don't know how to, because they have or what it means is that you need to break the up while isee on productions. the licensing was firecrackers, months before the body. if you have an out of 5 crackers should be made to be sorted and it is why do you believe in this, which again burns something? and that's whether that's how we tap and work or less than a speeding considering how important firecrackers are. though the valley will any government of risk making a policy that bans the production of fire crack, crack crackers and the sailor firecrackers during the volley. i guess it's isn't very difficult question and i don't think there is any clear on the city that and government just right. not only bounds to have come a bit other district of policies they're trying to find out when you can bust

crackers his way to going bust crackles beige. you can not get dried or look at what you just sell on insulin. so we have to figure it out to what extent bad news is really possible, but it's on some allegations. we do have to understand that we don't know going, i think nationwide that globe and there are other possible gunshy where you have the pollution levels are not that c.b.s. and you have more favorable be too large. she may be districted, firecrackers is possible, might be, but in all of that means yes, especially to day to nancy out and what you have would just not a few days this be out in the how we are in this is window and want to do that in bush, in her setting, there is no range to lower the pollution a rate, and then you don't want j.t. in that seat has got to get to, you know, be, have to dig not what exists of action to control. this kind of shocked a man insistent bullying of practice celebrations of make an already existing

problem was that it was on a thought or it's rather a from the center for science and environment. and every day's off the cause of devastation and getting a feast. 67 people in the philippines, typhoon vanco has made landfall in vietnam from god already weakened when it hit, but still caused serious damage and injured several people picking up the pieces quite literally in the northern vietnamese city of who way. the storm destroyed many buildings there. blowing off roofs and up reaching trees. it lost friend since moving on from the philippines, but still caused significant damage. the authorities prepared people for the onslaught as the storm approached, evacuating nearly $650000.00 people in coastal areas to higher ground. is the

latest in a series of storms to cause destruction and misery in be it now at least 159 people have been killed in floods and landslides. in the last 6 weeks in the philippines, storm vanco has exacted a heavy toll with a high number of casualties. a specially in the north of the country. authorities are now assessing the scale of the damage. some communities are describing it as the worst flooding in 4 decades. many villages were swamped, crops, destroyed, and hundreds of thousands left without power. as in vietnam, the philippines has also been battered relentlessly by storms over the last 2 months. is the 8th to hit the country in the last 8 weeks and the 21st this year. that all the drama of the last week,

the hope in the philippines is that the worst is over, at least for now, until the next storm hits. and joining me now is dr. or merrill pollack don from the university of oxford are part of dr. paul gans research includes climb richer and its impact on communities dr. paul, welcome. what is causing these increasingly devastating storms in the region? yeah, thank you very much for having me here today. so a, i think there is a connection with climate change. why their direct again link has not been get a quantifying. i think that we've got to have it clear. it's a lot of that as well. a temperature increase, so divorcement temperatures, so yet, and then warmer oceans are expected to aggravate the thanks jenny, but so far because of storms as we are seeing now. well, i would also like to make it clear that unfortunately the connection between

climate change and frequency of a storms is not very strong yet. so when you say that the ocean or times of warming, want to essentially say news that stallman's in the future are going to get more powerful. yeah, indeed that, that's it. and that's what climate science he's telling us at present. so we have a yeah, we're expected to see that in the coming years. storms and more intense, but it's also important to, to see to it. we would also expect to see changes in the global water cycle due to climate change or basically their way that it rains. so climate models and climate science for their region mean generally agree that the region we expect that the sea more plots for morning things precipitation events not just from, from, from tropical storms. so, well, i think this has been there yet. it ends, i mean these 9 months where we have seen where we have seen

a very tense or unusually strong monsoon season. and so yeah, i would also like to express that claim. and equally, even though we're expected to see more flooding, people shouldn't be surprised if in the next years anything the next year. we just see among some see somebody relatively weak or rainfall comes late. in general, i would say to climate change, he needs a more viable and a more or more unexpected climate buttons. right down to these unexpected climate patterns and storms getting more powerful. what does this mean for people is they need preparation that the governments and communities can do more to avoid the devastation from these storms. yeah, definitely. so in general a, there should be all there all to what the strategies that they look at should look

at in a secret and the receiving end of not just the infrastructure. you just search your systems. that's where the queen infrastructure see in among girls for its etc. but also this is the look that they received as a community. so people sort of means that people should get a, you sort of that the moral beast and expect again, what are climate patterns and then at them at the greater risk. and i would say that an institution say at the government level, they're all color and that's my labels should be more prepared to face the cycle of challenges when even there at the time being dr. paul donnelly. you know, mr. fox, thank you. and that's it for today. there's more on our website, a video of the dot com follow up. and you can follow us on twitter news. as we said earlier, a bit of the volley of the 1st event of flights over the weekend really even now with images of celebrations from across the country for more of the same time

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to go beyond the obvious that as we take all the stories that matter to you, what ever it says running out the front lines greetings from but in which is home. so many artistic people who have been exiled from that country more about that in a minute, also coming up known as the queen of soul, here in germany, joy don't own any status is now confirmed. as motown records of signed on

crossfire and as a go is a book about escape from a concentration camp, which was actually written at the beginning of the war. but 1st, all this week we will be featuring people who've been exiled from their home country and their lives. here in germany, the chinese writer and filmmaker jo ching was imprisoned after being involved in the democracy movement in china, back in 99. now he lives in exile here in berlin, watching his home country from a distance for the last 8 years has lived here on the outskirts of i enjoy being in the outdoors, it calms me. there's nowhere that i feel at home. i don't feel closely connected to any one place. i've lived in moscow in america and in beijing. now i'm here. i live

everywhere and nowhere. i think it has something to do with my time in prison. since then, deep down, i've been restless. turns out of the square beijing, 989 tens of thousands of people peacefully demonstrate for more freedom. the chinese government brutally crushed the nascent democratic movement. judging, helped organize the demonstrations in his home city of she on. he was imprisoned for 2 years, including $51.00 days in solitary, in a dark hole in the ground. the experience has scarred him, but chilled ching is strong. in china, he was a respected author and publisher and even in exile, reading and writing. well, essentially he had been, collects, german city, can't yet grade cooking up

a great passion, what he learned as a single father. today, his hosting, his translator and good friend, susanna becker both spent a lot of time in the chinese exile community. he's close to the artist, ai weiwei, but unlike him, joe doesn't describe himself as a dissident. i'm just an author and a witness to history. that should be enough. china and its history of the subjects of his books and films, a history that few did to address. like in joe's documentary, i don't quite recall it's about the mass lynchings during the cultural revolution. fanatical students killed 2 of their teachers georgian questioned the witnesses so that she would take your day to day

and she goes on for no one has ever been charged with the killings. in 2004, children shocked the world with his investigation into china's food industry. before chinese baby started dying from contaminated milk powder, he uncovered how dangerous poisons were being added to food staples. the book was a bestseller. translated into several languages. 15 years ago i said, chinese food was not safe to be under. the way food is introduced there can result in epidemics such as songs. nobody listened should obliging. that's a mistake in european policy. and the food industry is in danger in itself with these imports. your children is working on

a new documentary about china, even in exile. he will continue to bear witness to his country's history. joining me is my colleague, scott rush from scott has been in exile for some considerable time, but as we see that he's, he's carrying out his work, which is after all about china. but does he actually get to go to the country? he does travel there sort of under the radar because obviously it's incredibly dangerous. he could be arrested. he's even been assaulted on the street because of his criticism of the chinese government. but even here in berlin, these are completely away from the censorship of, of beijing. i mean, his film, i don't really recall which we saw a bit of in the piece there that was supposed to screen at the berlin film festival last year. but it didn't take a poll, the, as the chinese government refused to give it official certification, which received card to screen the film festival like that. and didn't even bother submitting it because they knew it would be rejected. why did he choose germany?

why do you come to germany? yeah, i mean, he initially came here as part of a writer in exile program. he was brought, brought over and was in munich. and then he came here to berlin because there's a large chinese dissident community here that can support them. and of course, you knew i was a way what the time was here. he's known, i way, way for, for decades. germany sees of come become a safe haven for many cynics. so why do you think that is? yeah, you know, i think it has something to do with the, the history. i mean germany has been very, very supportive of political distance really for decades now. and i think particularly now in the last number of years, maybe it's politically more welcoming than say, trump, america, or maybe britain. and i've thinking of this, it's almost that was sort of what new york was in the cold war for distant artists from eastern european europe. berlin is sort of become for just an artist from, from asia, from, from the middle east, from, from africa. what i was going to say, particularly when they all seem to sort of, he was in munich, i think that,

you know, i know of other distance who've ended up in germany, but they comes about. yeah, you know, i mean, obviously here, these crews have been built up now. so now you have a real community of iranian, just an artist of syrian, just an artist of chinese. that's in there. it's here in the city and they all support each other and they also feed off of each of the different communities feed off each other. so i think for an artist being in berlin is a really a great change experience. but of course not everyone loves it. here, i mean, i way, way one of the most famous just in there is to come to bill and he left the city. he now you moved to england and said that german society was too racist for him so . so he obviously didn't like about much, but most artists really love it in the city and i think it's a place where they can be free to express themselves. ok, i wonder whether i way to get on with the sort of the blood. well, you can take a group that's just got rocks for, as always. thank you. long, richie, diana ross, stevie wonder they were all signed to the legendary american music label,

motown records. now a job, a musician is joining the joy dental lanie. she's a trooper later but musically hot is in detroit by chance motown songs from her new album and immediately signed her up. you think it's like traveling back in time to an era when music was made by hand and with a whole lot of soul motown guarantee for center, city and diva. the idea was to make a solo album, not a solo album in the classical sense. one that comes as close as possible to the original sound by the value of anatoly. warmth was of course, also very important. i wanted a particular also intensity, but i couldn't put into words as a child, joy gentle,

and he was influenced by her father's sold and funk records. she listened to aretha franklin and marvin gaye the new album is not overly political. she's concerned with saul's identity, defining aspect of music that contains the power and praising of the civil rights movement. and she traces her own childhood feelings even on things. it says when i 1st started listening to music, that was around the civil rights movement, time or just a after my father is from south africa from johannesburg, the stronghold of apartheid mine and my white german mother was never allowed to go to south africa with my father and visit the family because they were simply not

legally allowed to be together at all. so there was a lot of friction in the politics of the time. that meant my parents were a political issue and we were a political issue. political was made in southern germany and i'm, he was honest and i think it's particularly nice that this record what i always say to beat cook was produced in interfering yes. and then ended up on motown. i think that's a very interesting, quite funny and remarkable leap to loni's german record company took the recordings to los angeles and played them to the motown passes. the rest is history. joy did a lot. he has become the 1st german motown artist, an album with a lot of passion, that yourself beloved stuff.

the german writer is a guy who was jewish and also have left wing views,, not unsurprisingly fled 930, s., germany. and then she ending up in mexico. it was here, she completed her novel, the southern cross about 7 people escaping from a concentration camp, which was made into a movie join the war, starring spencer tracy, david levitz, as will see no evil hear no evil after world war 2. a lot of people here in germany claimed they had no idea what the nazis were up to. really the 7th cross is one of the books that shows us how much people in nazi germany could have known early on author and as he goes was jewish and a communist and fleeing for her life. when she started writing the book in 1938,, the book came out during world war 2, 1st in the u.s.,

then in mexico, where she was living in exile after the war and lived in this building in east berlin. like her biography, the 7th cross is an escape story. it's about 7 concentration camp inmates who break free. the commander of the camp. that was to capture them. he puts up 7, crosses for their 7 bodies, one by 16 of the crosses are for we won't have to wait much longer for the subject, for he is on his way to. the national socialist state relentlessly prosecutes. anyone who commits an offense against the national community, it protects that which is worth protecting. it punishes those who deserve punishment. it destroys that which should be destroyed. there is no asylum in our country anymore for fugitive criminals. our people are healthy, it shakes off the diseased, it kills the insane. but the 7th, as a young communist names georg appears to make it to safety with the help of his friends

and comrades. the 7th cross stays empty. message is that together, people could prevail against the nazis. the 7th cross is a novel against dictatorship in every form. and it's also a thrilling read. that's just one of the books in all series 100 german must read. so you can find the web site to d, w dot com as well as lots of culture stores. the full meaning

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