different on the islands of. women who are in charge. archipelago has a patriarchal system for centuries. of society to live differently. what do they do with their power. structure or are you. here watching d.w. news asia coming up today she jean king declares the end of extreme poverty in china but just because he says so doesn't necessarily make it true especially when we take a closer look at life in a rural china. plus india expands its covert 19 vaccine rollout massive undertaking is now even more urgent with case counts on the rise. and the south

korean foyer on a mission to win big on the start market will heat gain or lose his seat. i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia china's biggest political meeting of the year is set to begin on thursday it's an important opportunity for the rubber stamp legislature the national people's congress turnouts both new laws and to tout the country's achievements expect the leadership including xi jinping to celebrate the eradication of all poverty in the country this has been a major talking point of beijing's but things are not always as they seem. another bumper crop for me geology has 4 inch business has blossomed and with the

past few years so much that he can now afford a brick house a sign of wealth in bulging a rural county in central china. he says all of this was made possible by government assistance. war from the evil religion of socialists and the government were very helpful in poverty alleviation where they helped to develop the orchards a country woman or child as our main source of income here and they supported it well i can earn up to 5000 euros a year right now we're here for. me is the shining example of china's go to eradicate extreme poverty by 2021. in 2014 president xi jinping announced relief strategies to the poor government officials went door to door to assess whole income and provided aid. now beijing says it's achieved its target. almost 100000000 rural impoverished population have been lifted out of poverty.

with finishing the hazardous task of medicating absolute poverty trunks all are you creating another incredible. surrogate. but some critics say she's official version isn't the full story they say his government set the poverty threshold too low here in biology some farmers who have officially excreta part of the still struggle. says his harvest has not improved despite government aid to diversify his crops. i have 2 sons who go outside to work with others when they're free they can earn some money to sustain a living i'm nearly 70 and my wife is over 65 we cannot work like this living in such a push even. leo and his family of 5 wish to move to

a better home like others they know but for now they have to stay in this wooden house which does little to keep them warm the 67 year old still hopes that one day his farm will bring them the wealth he has long wished for. joining us is john donaldson of singapore management university john when beijing says it has eradicated poverty what does that mean and is it an accurate statement. well there were 2 important words that she said when when he when he made the announcement recently declaring victory one was rural so it's has nothing to do with urban poverty and the other one was absolute poverty so what they're claiming is that you know in terms of a relatively low poverty line that that is what the entire population is under now is it true i don't know any serious scholar who thinks that china has even in terms

of absolute rural poverty has a radically to poverty has china made a humongous leap forward has it made a contribution that is very very likely to be true and so what more does the country need to do in its fight against you mentioned rule of versus urban i don't know if you want to focus on one over the other and of course the growing inequality divide there. and those are 3 very very important issues all 3 of them are very difficult to tackle and you have to tackle them differently in terms of rural poverty china should not be letting their foot off the gas the fear it is that by declaring victory over poverty people including many chinese people will think oh that means that we've we've eliminated poverty what they really have done is if their claims are true eliminated the most severe point of forms of poverty they there are still poor people in rural china today and so they need to keep their foot on the pedal urban poverty is very different because you're talking

about layoffs and other kinds of things that working class working people into poverty standards of living and so very very different kinds of tools that you would need to attack. urban poverty as opposed to rural and of course they're linked because meant much of the urban poverty are folks who are coming in from the countryside looking for work and other things like that and so by reducing rural poverty some ways what you're doing is shifting it from the rural areas into the cities now we've danced around this a little bit but how much of this is driven by propaganda and the need to sort of spread certain messages well i take it on 2 different levels i do think she jean pinas taking poverty seriously i think she really should be applauded for taking poverty seriously nobody is suggesting that this is pure propaganda in the sense that they're just cooking the books down in the local china and rural china

when i have a chance to visit you know which i do basically every year that there's not a pandemic around i can see that local government officials are taking it very seriously on the other side she had to bring it down to 0 as soon as he made the pledge in 2015 i knew that they were going to success. and just to put this in context how are other countries in the region doing compared to china based on metrics you go by well the truth is every country struggles with you know struggles with poverty you know from singapore to you know to germany to to america and so poverty is something that you know really humanity cannot let its its you know cannot stop paying attention to we will always have to be dealing with poverty at least for the for forseeable future in terms of countries nearby countries like cambodia laos and vietnam you know all are struggling with poverty fortunately

the worldwide poverty rate is going down but much of that is actually generated by china john donaldson thank you so much for your time thank you around 10000000 people in india have registered to get vaccinated since the country expanded its not to drive this week after front line workers now older people and those with serious illnesses are eligible to get a shot but with case counts on the rise things aren't quite going according to plan . hospitals and vaccination centers in india are busy places right now they're trying to get 300000000 people vaccinated by the summer and although vaccine hesitancy is a concern people do seem ready and willing. to have been looking forward to this movie will be that it's a bust. not at all that we have been waiting that there are reports that we want

people to go out every group of their every being a. very very resolute thousands. yet india's ambitious plans are looking a little wobbly right now of the $10000000.00 health care workers that the government planned to immunize only 6 and a half 1000000 have gotten the 1st shot and only 2 and a half 1000000 have received both. and then there are the technical problems a glitch in an online booking system means thousands have been turned away from hospitals across the country have lost count of how many times they say god let's say that there are forces out there that by law down the road. from me. how did interfere and give me a lot of difficulty india has recorded more than 11000000 cases of covert 19 that's the 2nd highest number in the world behind the u.s.

but with the launch of the world's largest inoculation dr prime minister narendra modi insists more than 1300000000 people will be vaccinated got his 1st dose this week and is now appealing to all those who are eligible to get their job and make india coded 19 free i mean this is the. norm for everybody. because that would be. good or that your views are normal or. earlier isms recorded the reason. india is currently seeing a surge in new cases about $15000.00 a day now so a willingness to step up and get vaccinated will be key in battling the daunting statistics. many of us has picked up new hobbies since the start of the pandemic in south korea

one boy decided to become an investment whiz and he's seen some good returns. be item of this 12 year old's morning routine check into business news as south korea's new retail trading staff being up to date is a must. as we are low i'm corn june rather than going to good schools like the sol national university i'd rather become a big investor like target warren buffett he's my role model. so he paged through books most of the children his age would point boring and his hard work has paid off. when the benchmark coffee in tax began to recover from its biggest steve in a decade last april 1 june invested in samsung electronics with his quite substantial piggy bank savings. i started to earn money by selling toy cars when i was 7 and i saved about 800000 euros

a seat money. his parents 1st opposed then they changed their minds and was stunned by his passion and 40 percent return yet and they will live in a different world now it could be better to become a one of a kind type of person by developing their own talent and having time to improve it rather than just study hard and getting into good companies. think that with. a number of south korean families share similar thoughts under 18 investors are behind more than 2 thirds of the total value traded in the nation's share. as a value investor my dream is making long term profits so that i can help neighbors in need and that would be my real joy. and to do good if 1 june has decided starting dung is the best way to get ahead. we

leave you with pictures from across china of people who are among those still waiting for a promised progress against poverty it's a big week as the communist party needs to roll out its new economic policy among other things thanks for watching and goodbye. to. change is possible that's why visual art is you throw is losing her art to challenge a barrier. for men to be able to dream big and gene feel lives and to imagine their lives they'd be torn choose to believe. more freedom more determination

more right. women speaking out today on arts and culture on d w o. what secrets lie behind. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. world heritage 360 getting up now. hello and a warm welcome to arts and culture documentaries are having a heyday partly fueled by streaming services like netflix but also because directors are looking for new ways of storytelling and will look at this year's crop of documentary films after the berlin film festival and also coming up. in our

series on activist women artists we meet illustrator and comics artists. using graphic narratives to challenge conventional forms of patriarchy. arlin's international film festival typically gives a lot of scope to documentaries which thanks largely to streaming services have moved from more a more niche offering right into the mainstream and this year is no exception and it's particularly interesting to see the vastly different narrative devices that directors are using to examples ranging from the experimental to the conventional back and equally powerful punch. long before me to a woman in showbiz showed how to deal with harassment and violence from men in 1978 tina turner divorced her husband ike and started a solo career bigger and even more successful than before. describing her marriage to ike turner she said i was living

a life of death but the divorce brought her liberation and she triumphantly rose to the heights of pop music fame. in some ways we are telling that story to a new generation. but we are also hopefully exploring it through point of view and what it means for her to be kind of. so associated with some of the worst crimes like. the documentary tina gives a chronological overview of all the ups and downs in the life of the woman who was born as and then made public while it offers few new insights it is thrilling to watch. this next film could not be more different in anime says 2 filmmakers meet stefan who is in prison for having murdered a woman in order to interview him. true story.

he wanted to. know his responses his story are retold by 2 puppet tears. doesn't challenge i'm starting a company i fight for next time and have to stay and we want to. look sometimes looks really threatening sometimes also really child larg but you know what time is a performance you know it's always an interpretation of the way that we see on the way to be profiteers react to what they're performing. the directors try to avoid a supposedly objective point of view because their film gradually reveals that there are at least 2 truths but the justice system requires an unambiguous account of events because only then can it declare the accused guilty or innocent this is an

exceptionally intelligent film but also an uncomfortable one raising more questions than it can or wants to answer. multiple questions indeed and to answer them joining me from bonn is our film expert scott roxboro a scot's 2 very different documentaries 15 there obviously with different subjects but also very different approaches is the documentary as a form being taken apart or deconstructed in a way. yeah definitely with one of these films something tina is a fairly conventional music documentary albeit about a very unconventional music star but the crime doc am a nice this is really doing something different i mean typically in a true crime documentary you expect the filmmakers to find out the truth and tell it to you but the way the filmmakers here in am nice is where the way they construct the movie by using these puppets by putting themselves into the film and showing you exactly how they are building the film they really undermine that and

they sort of question. whether or not they can ever find the truth and that this is really just their interpretation of events and by doing so they also question the basis of the criminal justice system which claims to be able to find out a motive that is to say why a killer murdered someone they say in this film that's ultimately unknowable. interesting now another film from germany is this have a man and his class why did you like this one so much. yeah this is also a different style of documentary it's the fly in the wall dog and this follows mr buck was a teacher of elementary school and with his class but this is a small village in germany with around 70 percent migrant or market children or children of immigrants and it's very simple documentary basically we just spent time in the classroom watching the kids watching the teacher very very simple story but i found it incredibly moving and very very emotional so what did we learn from

this film actually that's seem so interesting. yeah i mean what i found so interesting is we hear a lot about these kids kids like this i should say we hear a lot about them in the german news there is off they're often talked about in very hysterical manner that these are kids not learning german that they're not integrating that they might be dangerous political extremists but we almost never get to hear the kids themselves to hear them talk about their own lives their dreams and their hopes and i know anyone who or who thinks they have an opinion about children like this i would recommend they watch this movie because i think it could really change your mind. ok so that's that's certainly an interesting viewpoint documentaries are booming right now scott what do you suppose this year's crop at the bally nala tells us about where nonfiction film is actually going in the future. i mean berlin i mean this year the the the documentaries and berlin i mean they span the entire spectrum from very conventional to completely experimental but what i think they all show is that documentary filmmakers right

now despite the success or maybe because of the success of documentary films are struggling and they're struggling not only with what stories they want to tell but also how they want to tell them and and even what role documentary film should play i think chris wright the one of the directors and he said it best he said a lot of people may watch a documentary they think they're watching reality but we should remind them that documentaries are a film form and that this is made by subjective filmmakers with a subjective view of the world and they should even try to be depicting the truth ok that's very interesting and we have a tiny little bit more time scott so i'm going to sneak in another question what would be from what you've seen so far your favorite thus far as that as a tip for our audience. well back when i thought was great as a documentary that would be my pick if you want something on the fiction side memory box which is a lebanese film but sort of mixes based on

a real story sort of mixes documentary and fiction that's my favorite pick of the things i've seen so far thanks very much for those couple of tips insightful as always documentary films taking taking the cake in many instances at the banal and thanks very much scott ross perot for that analysis we'll see you again tomorrow. all this week in the lead up to international women's day on monday march 8th we're meeting artists who speak out for women's rights through their work and today we'll meet illustrator and comic artist each time a hot tub and my colleague a retouch ema met up with her in delhi. i'm a. correspondent in danny using comics and graphic novel to empowerment that's what the thumb hero thread does challenging convention forms of patriarchy let's meet this remarkable visual artist who's breaking barriers in india. i think we if we need to ask those often stop us this show although she being beat

and being furious imagining what we could be or i think this is your do you feel conversations that need to be had in an r.v. park in this country this still in the woods fits the expectations o'grady examining for actually a good social structure. if you're on who are owed to the city or maybe a board you're looking at you are 2 piece of it to be revealed to you without continuously happy to tap insanity requires for the results he. sees working with art allows it to best expresses ideas and her perspective on life . she's inspired by feminist leaders and people's movements this is reflected in her drawings and the issues on which she's chosen to focus.

it has had to challenge gender stereotypes and attempts to stifle her voice even at art school out of court t.v. record these local professors hawking who feel that we can really you know show you down taking this dog down to you and forgave the language has meant on camera saying all these issues that are happening but you know everybody wants this ludicrous added 65 you're going to have to sit in creeping being afraid of our court is just seen. not in early twenty's either was captivated but something entirely new what she called the magic of bringing text and images together to create powerful narratives like this book on an eagle feminist who led a movement against deforestation in india. engages with women from marginalized communities. she's traveled to remote regions to work with so-called luke asked

dunnit girls. day she saw the transformer to have potential of art. before sanity said no no as theory has the room live. in speedy sing it all faculty of the managers in their communities to see if they can create the life there we be won. over there to see you know you need to you can fix this for your abs your dreams are just to do that is a 4 stage or is g.-d. important day for you to be able to have that chance to go on and think this through e.c. that we came together to look after what it means to taint of assets is as is a gene watts as people who are defying i did these last eat i was drawn to a mass movement led by been in delhi. the shaheen bank sit in protest at a major public highway was against the government citizenship amendment act critics

said the legislation was discriminatory against muslims. it was absolutely unbelievable to be on a new public high read blocking that species is close by having really speaks so strong be honesty yes and so clearly of all who are democratic they are and what citizenship meat eaters post is and drawings on this piece for protests have now been compiled into a book. a powerful graphic narrative of women at the forefront of the mass movement . we've seen these 2. men being at the forefront of people's movement and steve that status what did she take anything to be saying it is a moment that i would think we can achieve. these what we want.

and we'll close the show with some thoughts for reggae pioneer bunny wailer the last surviving original member of the whalers who died on tuesday at 73 and so he was a classic of jamaican music cool runnings a bunny wailer and. coming . up.

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