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welcome to. join us continue to underestimate is forcing countries to take notice some members of. the know southeast asian missions are now looking at ways in which they could calm the situation. as a member of the grouping and other countries such as indonesia and singapore on now making their voices. in the grip of an wrist the military coup on february 1st unleashed a wave of protest across the country and a chorus of international condemnation now there's a growing expectation. myanmar be reined in by its neighbors. united

kingdom supports the role of regional organizations in particular. in resolving the crisis the of this is a view shared by washington and beijing but just how much leverage does ozzy and have the association of southeast asian nations over its $54.00 you history has kept each other's politics off limits well. very often you would see us and countries sort of very carefully imagining it. not really interfering if each other a mistake affairs. but there are signs the coup and the crackdown on protesters is shaking vet tradition. and ozzy and meeting just this month heard blunt criticism of me a muslim military most notably from indonesia there's no doubt see democracy we must pursue the restoration of democracy. that rose. indonesia

underlines that the will of the interest and the voices of the people of myanmar must be respected. or. indonesia's taken a leading role in the regional response foreign minister written i must sooty was the 1st to hold face to face talks with the junta top diplomat in a meeting at bangkok's airport but beyond calling for restraint and members have shown little appetite for sanctions against the military. question is what can make a difference to them and if you do impose sanctions who will hurt and it will not be the military or the generals who will hurt. it would be the myanmar population who were hurt. myanmar is proving a test for as young as regional diplomacy and any peaceful solution comes with a dilemma how do we gauge meum us generals without condoning the coup.

and for more i'm joined by michael vick take your vote to kyoto is he should the director of the center for humanitarian dialogue and is based in singapore welcome mr irvine to hear what is does a regional grouping like ossie on hold the key to a peaceful resolution of the situation in myanmar i doubt it holds the key but i think that it should keep looking for the key and i being i mean by that that i think it's very much the responsibility of the neighboring states of the 10 member association of southeast asian nations. to remain engaged to sustain that engagement to continue to send messages. the use of non-lethal force and restraint. making sure that people are not being shot and also calling for dialogue i think that's the role that asin is playing for now

in other words it's not the key but they have to remain engaged and they have to keep trying to look for a way to prevent further violence and bloodshed and how would you judge that in gauge when so far mean we know that the austrian foreign minister has for example have met and the issued a statement that statement was the most of nearly as strong enough as perhaps expected how do you think this a good man has progress so far. well i think the public statement that was made is not necessary reflection of what was said in the meeting and i think unusually i think some member states not meeting sent very direct messages to the representative of the military that came to the meeting or you know it was a virtual meeting that attended the meeting and i think that's quite unusual as well that very direct messages were sent now i do know also that there was no real response from the myanmar side to those messages restrains urging dialogue

expressing concern so i think the public statement was very much meant to sort of preserve. a sort of sense of calm but inside that meeting i think they were very direct messages sent and that was the right thing to do the problem is that not all the countries were doing that so that the 10 member grouping is now fairly divided . amongst those who feel that it's the internal of fats of now monch they shouldn't interfere and those that feel that they owe it to their citizens to back constituency and also to the myanmar people to say something more direct why is there this division and that's something that i want to sort of get out why oh why is there a division like on these 10 nations speak with one voice on something that is clearly a violation of democratic principles. well i think they short answer is that not all the countries of a firmly wedded and committed to democracy. you know in the same way so in thailand

you have a military government for all intents and purposes vietnam is a communist state cambodia is run by a fairly undemocratic strongman laos is a communist state and so the you know you immediately rule out some of those countries and i think for the rest of them lazy internees singapore i think also feel that because of that semi all mostly democratic systems they do there is a responsibility and more importantly i think there's a sense in which this time around there's a sense in which there's a feeling that you should really adhere to a set of norms that are a captured in a in a charter that was frightened some years ago particularly with respect to human rights and preservation of life how do you see response shaping up in the coming weeks given this division and given the role that key players as you pointed out might have to play or fly think that those countries that feel that they should

remain engaged and actively engaged will continue to do so either together as a smaller grouping or as individual countries and leave seeing indonesia very much take the lead and i think that's very much for historical reasons and uneasy has always been active on important regional issues conducting shuttle diplomacy as the biggest country and now of course as the as the one country but the more or less firmly democratic i feel that there is also a moral obligation on the part of indonesia to push for a peaceful outcome right we'll leave it there for the time of thank you so much for joining us michael of articulate his asia director of the center for humanitarian dialogue in singapore thank you sam. there with millions are unable to travel due to the pandemic the tourism sector has been below par around the world but some countries are having a swing. by thailand offering golf i could just during mandatory quarantine to

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so we had a video call right. for padmavati family is the most important thing in life she play scrabble with her grandchildren. and to make sure they will benefit from her labor. day in the money i earn stays in the bank all of it will go to my grandchildren. and i never thought i was leaving the. very short i. like things the way they are and has no plans to stop working or any time soon showers popping up. that's it for the event is more on dot com for. now monday was international rooms there and then many women like their counterparts elsewhere took out marchers from the mines. and rights leader with images of some of those marchers.

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are not of a little. you want to become citizens. in for migrants your platform for reliable information. that. disney embraces diversity and an attempt to tackle its racist past well have a look at the studio's latest here on arts and culture and made in bangladesh a bangladeshi filmmaker takes on x. . ploy taishan in her country's garment industry. and we'll meet a young brazilian dancer who soars beyond her supposedly imitation it's. just how offensive our old cartoons where warner brothers has now announced that

pepe le pew the amorous skunk who 1st appeared in 1905 has been canceled from the new space jam sequel critics nowadays say the character promotes rape culture well and over a disney they're going further and addressing old offenses for months now disney plus has been putting warnings on some of disney's most famous movies saying that they contain racist stereotypes that the company admits are wrong dozens focusing now on getting it right here's a look at their new movie right and the last dragon. brave warrior ry assets off to save the world the fact that she's a woman is no hindrance it's not even anything special it's simply not an issue. you were in school with oh. well the film has its share of disney style women's eat raw is a cartoon heroine for

a new generation. everyone is really beginning to have a vision for this movie definitely different from everything that we started to start we thought up and see when we only think of the words just the prince as we begin to specific genre of film so yeah i think everyone was really calm is that it's not just wanting it to be. a film that authentically represented us a very specific special part of the world but we also wanted it to be different my girl ryan are going to fix the world bringing everyone back the team behind the film was inspired by various asian countries that's also represented in the casting part of the reason why this production has given its actors hope for better representation as a. american performers we just want there to be more because the landscape has changed so much from when we were kids and there were literally you count on your hand how many asian american actresses or actors were in the mainstream media and so to now they're being. just so much more inclusive maybe in front of the camera

and behind the camera in movies like this. are. taking the 1st step does mean am going toward more diversity better more respectful representation of nonwhite characters with movies like right in the last dragon one of our d w reporters michael krueger is following disney's efforts michael go and start with this new movie what are people saying about it well the reviews quite positive and it was absolutely why the highest so many asian americans for this project but they are still voices was a bit upset about the mix of different cultures in this movie a bit from taiwan a bit from malaysia a bit from china so this still something going on right ok and to put that in context disney didn't even used to try to get it right or if you look back at the

representation from from past decades particularly when it comes to asian stereotypes and this is one of the reasons that disney plus now on its platform has these warnings are saying look these movies contain racial stereotyping because let's see what the disney company in the past had in mind when it comes to asian inspired clips of movies these sayings can be very offensive to a lot of people so here's the warning this is from the movie lady and the tramp depicted with n.t. agents to a type the premiere was 1955 and those days asian americans were also confronted with exclusion in society here we are with the risk to cats from 1920 and today we have to. all the attacks against asian americans so the discrimination is still relevant and while we grew up with all those old movies one of my favorite ones i don't know which one is us is the jungle book and you can see the

scene with king louis without thinking though of the accusations just big thing people black people as lazy from africa. i was just blind to that i have to admit when i was a child very interesting how they changed king louis in the movie from 2016 he reminds me more of a mixture of a mafia boss and a monster just like king kong for so if you ask me if this was a good decision to put warnings in front of the movies i have to admit absolutely because it forces everybody in town to think about how we use syria types and how we're using them now absolutely and of course there's even talk that disney himself may have been a racist mckee mouse himself is based on recent stereotypes we've come a long way disney has come a long way absolutely michael krueger thank you so much and writing in the last

dragon comes out this week on disney plus well made in bangladesh you may have read those words those 3 words that appear on clothing sold around the world often made in harrowing working conditions made in bangladesh is also the name of a film by one of bangladesh few women directors hussain she tells a story of women daring to fight back against oppression. by yet believes in a feminist intervention in cinema. the film made in bangladesh looks at the lives of the young women behind the label. that it's remarkable that is living or slowly arm and they're carrying that on a whore economy. made in bangladesh tells the story of shiva

a seamstress working in a factory. an accident occurs. i colleague dies and she realizes how to fenceless the workers are only the women can help themselves you know quite a bit of good and i got all the. political stuff and i better call in the rue dubbing they said i want to acma shin with this thought provoking statement by the activists sinks in and fuels she must anger she decides to form a union all of this goes back to a true story that of seamstresses dalia while researching the textile industry hussain met the young woman glared at her she immediately expressed your interest and i also felt that her life story was also. that leaving all in year 12 and coming to the city already said something that was young woman that she wanted you know she will play. this you know what you want.

you know never going to be a. way when things got difficult people started losing their jobs last finding out. that when most of the legality is that her friends turn it in are enemies because then they're like no i don't want to lose my job because after people are granted my children it's really important to have. the same spend 2 he's researching the fulfillment in bangladesh the director also spends time in the u.s. but he would focus on hunt can train she works with n.g.o.s leads workshops for women and trains female directors she's also creating an initiative to prevent domestic violence since film premiered at the toronto film festival and was shot in

the. one about that i want to i don't know but if ever i wanted that i was as i got it. thanks to a young woman's courage the 1st garment workers union was founded and registered against the odds. so i'm happy you know they have. a happy. face. activists in the. next hussein continues to put the rights of women in front and center if you see. more culture news now and do your designer might be as good as the acuity has been putting a feminist stamp on the parisian fashion house to your unveiled its new collection and a catwalk video staged at vast palace the show was inspired by fairy tales but q what

he says she's not obsessed with princesses and that women she has in mind aren't waiting for any prince. well he's been called the billy elliot of egypt now luka abdel nur is also the 1st dancer from his country to win a prize at the prestigious competition the 17 year old says other kids at school bullied him for dancing ballet now he hopes his success can encourage more people in the middle east to embrace the art form. the tony blair has had very different different obstacles to overcome the brazilian ballet dancer was born with no arms now she's showing the world that a disability won't stop her not only can she dance her determination as made her a social media celebrity. 16 year old victoria bueno is a student at the ballet academy and sometimes. in brazil the fact that she doesn't

have arms hasn't stopped her. out of the bathroom for me my arms are just a detail i dance and i follow with my eyes as if i had her arms but there's no difficulty without i don't feel like i need them at all. they all their own phone telling off how. the taria was born without arms yet she's been able to realize her dream of becoming a ballerina. her mother says that the only difficulties she's had have come from people in her small town in the state of minas share ice who treated victoria like a curiosity. also i thought she would go for a walk and people would pull up her sleeves to see that hurt me her disability scared me but it didn't hurt as much as people's attitudes especially or was. it was victoria's physical therapist who encouraged her to take up dance the strength balance and flexibility the young dancer has gained from ballet have given her

crucial physical skills that allow her to have a great deal of independence. after thought on the phone for people with disabilities seeing me dance helps a lot they see their disabilities are just a detail we're much bigger than our disability so we have to chase our dreams. it seems many people are inspired by victorious attitude she's already got 160000 followers on instagram. that's amazing balance maybe a few more followers well that is almost for this arts and culture but i'm going to leave you now with a work at canadian rapper drake's new video shot and an aquarium in toronto star. plans so that there was rest ok in the straits ok. thanks ok will see was about 6 ok ok ok. 6 ok ok ok 6 about.

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