scragged as an app a collective landscape. take clouds of sand and yellows small get enveloping downtown beijing. the landmark headquarters of the state broadcaster c.c.t.v. trowed in the gloom. residence of the chinese capital were hoping that sandstorms were a thing of the past thanks to extensive planting of protective trees and bushes but atmospheric pollution from the biggest sand clouds in 10 years has now reached hazardous levels. granted it looks like the end of the world in this weather i don't really want to be outside. it feels like a science fiction movie. that this is nature in the face of nature human beings are truly tiny and powerless that we must do what we can to protect the environment. the sand has blown in from or merge areas of china's

neighbor mongolia where several people have been killed by the storm china has managed to cut some pollution levels and the government says it aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060 but greenpeace says an upsurge in industrial production as the pandemic subsides is adding to the fallout from the sandstorm. here watching the deadly news still ahead. well dislike of football unlike say here losing ground in the title race will show you just what went wrong. but 1st 10 years ago today the arab spring erupted in syria and our people took to the streets with high hopes for human rights and democracy but the regime of bashar al assad responded with a brutal crackdown triggering a war that has cost thousands of people their lives all today we remember one of

the most prominent figures of the pro-democracy movement in syria human rights activists resigned say today she was kidnapped by armed men in 2013 and her fate remains unresolved to this very day investigative unit retraces her steps my name is. you are from the us those. when protests erupted across syria on march 20th 11 rights activist residents say today was on the frontline she was key to revolutionary efforts across the country beside her also close friends miles and we shall. we meet the human rights lawyer in paris is . really. for me the most important aspect of president's personality is a rejection of injustice and willingness to do anything to fight injustice be listen how the possible. when the assad regime responded with

a bloody crackdown arresting thousands of activists reza make sure the world would know. she became a q swears she had this sort of softness almost frailty to her when you met her at the beginning and you like how is she doing this very dangerous job. and then as soon as you spoke to her you immediately discovered the sort of steely courage and principles. in 2013 resin sledge regime had to mask this for duma a town that would later be dominated by the hardline militant group jaish and islam . present launched women's initiatives forth for the rule of law and documented human rights abuses including those committed by armed rebels. all that made her and petted her for jaish al islam to its control to its ideology and its desire to establish an emirate or kelly thought. rather than was

targeted several times the bullet left at her doorstep and none of this letter by d.w. threatening her life the words i will kill you repeated 5 times a trusted confidant not him who are asked to leave tomorrow she responded the next day saying i am not going to move we did not do a revolution alou thousands of source so that such monstrous. and repeated the same in just history. these people need to be held to account just like the regime . on december 9th 20 search when armed men stormed her office they abducted rather than together with her husband and 2 fellow activists after years of investigation human rights lawyer wish and his team are confident that jaish al islam are responsible they gave us exclusive access to their findings. a little early dition

of the witness statements we collected in syria and turkey corroborate that reson was held by the islamists before the trail goes cold. we've confronted high ranking members of jazz but they strongly denied any involvement in the abduction however it's additional investigation is underway by the french war crimes unit here in paris and a former top official of the group has already been arrested in connection with the case martin the wish hopes that the investigation will finally bring clarity for him presence absence is reminiscent of the pro-democracy movement in syria. the fate of rozanne and her colleagues resembles that of the civil peaceful movement that tried to create a moral eternity for syria. they were crushed between the regime and these islamist groups in tibet in the end of terry and as well as. the.

8 years after iran and her colleagues disappeared their fate remains one of the great mysteries of the revolution but friends and relatives have not given up hope that one day they will know the truth. and that was very special report there and character is here with me in the studio now she is part of the w.'s investigative unit a very harrowing account there begin to spend more than 7 years since resigned zaytuna disappeared along with her colleagues. not to dampen any hopes that are out there. really realistically what are the chances that they will still be found alive. that is very tough to answer. i mean there are credible. indications suggesting that she will sell her life some years after the abduction of her her colleagues and her husband but part of all work now is to follow up on this leads because it is challenging there are

a lot of wrong leads out there so we're still investigating the case and we're trying to find witnesses because it's important in a way to shed light on the residency to misstate because this also explains a little bit what has happened to the democratic movement in syria they were in the end trap between the u.s. had regime and the rebel forces who in a way kitchenette the revolution and followed their own islamist agenda now you just reported as recent in that report that you did resign zaytuna was up against a group called. slam who are they tell us about them there are one of the most powerful armed opposition groups and they're mostly salafist leaders who are repeatedly part of international peace talks so they they are well known they fought against the assad regime they fought against isis but that they also forward against competing rebel groups and by doing this they reportedly committed

grave human rights violations they are. we talk about forced disappearance are you talking about torture so it's important to see what these groups have been done who were in peace talks and it's important also to remember that these groups are still operational so it's not only the past they are still operating in the north east of syria and they are supported by nato. member turkey well that complicates matters a considerably it's been 10 years since the syrian revolution we were talking just iraq before we came on air a minute shocking just to think of all the things that has transpired since the arab spring. in terms of you know is there anything left from that pro-democracy movement that was so vibrant at the start of the arab spring in syria

there is something left and that is in a way hope despite of the brutal war despite of hundreds of thousands of victims despite all fold. millions of refugees not to one of the syrians we have been talking to over the last weeks said it was a failure or it was a mistake to start the revolution so they've still hope that there will be one day this democratic and. peaceful syria they have been fighting for even if it's in some years or even decades in the country of course severely broken out all right thank you so very much bigger for your insights and your reporting and as you just heard a deal is continuing to investigate the disappearance of resigns the tune and her colleagues if you know anything about their whereabouts or the circumstances of their abduction or if you have any other information you can contact us securely at

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british manager welcome to did. glad you could join us it's an important week in the pacific as the united states seeks to reinvigorate its alliances with bach nose in the region secretary of state antony blinken then defense secretary lloyd austin travelling to japan and south korea to meet their counterparts in the shadow of growing chinese influence in the region it's an outreach that began in earnest last week when president joe biden met his counterparts from india australia and japan the so-called quad grouping of nations the 1st ever meeting of leaders of the cord ended with a commitment to ensure a free and open in depressive fic and the pledge to produce $1000000000.00 of covert $1000.00 vaccines for the region the leaders also agreed to cooperate in the

field of emerging technologies and climate change. predicted that joe biden has already presided over a virtual summit of powers with a vested interest in the asia pacific region called the quad it's made up of the u.s. india japan and australia. the leaders agreed to ramp up covert 19 vaccine supplies in asia and to work more closely on security and climate change. and we've launched into a vicious new joint partnership that is going to boost vaccine manufacturing and for global benefit and strengthen vaccinations to benefit the entire indo-pacific were establishing a new mechanism to enhance our cooperation and raise our mutual ambitions as we address the accelerating climate change this is where we live this is where japan leaves this is where india lives and of course with the united states across the pacific has had

a long term presence and so this is about and i think if the peace and stability in the in diapers civic and that benefits all license have been deficit. but it's china that is the real target biden sees the quad as vital to countering beijing's growing might and influence on the asia pacific stage and that means also strengthening alliances beyond to the core of full. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken he's heading east this week with stops in south korea and japan both key allies and then on thursday he meets his chinese opposite number in alaska for the 1st time this is an important opportunity for us to lay out in very frank terms. the many concerns that we have with beijing's actions and behavior that are challenging the security prosperity the values of the united states and our partners and allies. washington has said it will not hold back on

taking a tough line with beijing on issues ranging from taiwan to hong kong and its treatment of the minority muslim weekers and for that the u.s. will need solid backing from its regional partners. and some of those partners are part of the quad grouping of nations which i would like to focus on 1st for more joining me from canberra is rory medcalf he's head of the national security college of the australian national university and author of the book contest for the indoor pacific why china want the future professor metcalf welcome they're given each of the quad nations is significant differences with china is this grouping mainly to ensure china are want to map the future in the into pacific thanks for having me on the program the grouping the cord is not purely some kind of end he china club but what it basically is is rallying strength in numbers to

ensure that china does not dominate the future of the indo-pacific but instead i hope to build a relationship of mutual respect with china but one which respects the boundaries of others now this grouping is actually more than 13 years all and it's only last week that we have the 1st summit level conference between the leaders what exactly is it offering to the indoor pacific region now. so the group the quote it's much more than talk we have to remember that it began as a disaster relief arrangement after the terrible tsunami in the indian ocean in 2004 these 4 countries are struggling india japan the united states mobilize the forces rapidly to assist the region and out of that grew the idea of building this unusual coalition of cooperation for very different democracies you know that they

many changes since then and of course the court was dormant for a while but what it's offering the region now really is i think 3 things the court ease a kind of an anchor for cooperation among a dog verse range of countries not just democracies the countries we've interests with respect for rules based order with capabilities a willingness to cooperate that's the 1st thing secondly the quartet is sending a signal to china that there is safety in numbers and that china cannot coerce individual countries alone they will be pushed back and combined the weight of the cord is actually stronger then china and thirdly the court does offer up i a great capability for partnership with with the region whether it was disaster relief 17 years ago whether it's pendent relief codex again roll out now those are the 3 i think characteristics of the core you speak of cooperation

amongst a diverse range of nations but then each of these nations not just in the core of them if you look for that a film like ossie on for example there have individual trade ties were trying and china has a huge presence in the region i'm just wondering if it comes down to. the countries picking sides either you or china or you over the quarter another initiative like for example. you know look i think nobody in the region wants to pick sides and if they're being pushed to pick sides now it's china that's doing the pushing maybe donald trump was pushing but that's changed now the biden administration is taking a much smarter approach and importantly when you scratch the surface when you do opinion polling for example on the elites in southeast asia in the s. and countries you find that most of them want a stronger american engagement in the region and most of them want a wide range of partners japan india australia the european union in the region to

create a context which chinese power is absorbed and is not dominant i think most of the circumstances in the region are going to fall short of all out war and in those circumstances in that gray zone of constant competition that's with the chord and its coalition building its creative coalition building can have an effect but at the end of the day the core demands are very much a grouping do you see this progress to the status of an alliance for example along the lines of nato for instance no i don't and i think that's part of the point because not planning to be some kind of alliance that gives china and all tonight and it's about offering alternatives to other countries in the region sure individual chord countries do have their own alliance relationships a stranger in the united states japan and the united states india is nobody's

formal ally so i think we're going to see a really more like complex subtle approach our security than we sort of europe during the cold war our quick comment from your professor meke of on their visits to south korea and japan by secretary of state antony blinken and defense secretary lloyd austin what are they hoping to achieve in these visits. well it's very clear that the boyden administration is reengaging in a very constructive way with the whole indo-pacific region not only east asian countries like japan and south korea but also with india australia indonesia and many others but the japan and korea relationships are an important start because they are america's key treaty allies along with a stranger and so there's a reassurance the that america is not going to put transactional costs on japan or korea in the way that donald trump did there's also commitment be that america will

support them in protecting their interests whether it's against china or north korea and frankly i think that there's a commitment to dialogue to listening which i think was missing in trying to be discretion so i think gotten is off to a strong start here in the window pacific here in asia right america from the australian national university pleasure talking to him thank you for joining us. thank you indeed. and that's professor metcalf was saying the u.s. dialogue in the region will be in evidence all through this week between the 15th and 18th of march. if blinken and defense secretary lloyd austin will be in tokyo and still to meet their counterparts on the 18th and to me blinken the national security advisor jake sullivan me to train as foreign minister one year and top diplomat young g g in alaska and lloyd austin is in new delhi talking to senior officials there. coverage of all of that all this week on the

news asia. in the did capital delhi a street kitchen run by a former i.t. professional has become a lifesaver for the poor and the needy for just one cent people can eat a full media. it's lunchtime every day former i.t. expert praveen going al works in his street kitchen in delhi over 1000 people in need come here every day to eat the special thing about this kitchen is that a full lunch costs just one cent. coming up a group of friends and i wanted to do something to combat hunger in delhi and founded this street kitchen we can proudly say that our food tastes as good as that it weddings i felt like the former but i'm going to go. over 1500 kilos of food stuffs are cooked up here every day the kitchen is mostly funded by donations it

means that many people in need like 9 year old sone can now afford lunch. my father can barely walk he works but his salary is very low if it weren't for this street kitchen we probably wouldn't be able to survive. praveen going all as currently expanding the street kitchen with the donations he is now purchasing rickshaws and using them to bring his food to schools or charities in the area. and others over and over giving the poor something to eat is orange although there's no point in just hoarding money in the end what counts isn't wealth but what you do for others. one thing is certain for praveen he'd like to run the street kitchen for the rest of his life. that's it for today there's more on did up to dot com forward slash asia believe you know with images of the last sandstorm to hit beijing in 10 years and events those grounded flights and shrug of the city in your

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pandemic has widened the gulf between the haves and the have nots and few groups have borne witness to that like the roma. imagine trying to live through a pandemic without the basics you need to keep safe no running water no electricity well that's the reality for many of your millions of roma the continent's biggest ethnic minority is also perhaps its most marginalised and the coronavirus pandemic has only further exposed how vulnerable their. crossing the road to a life no one wants to live a social worker takes us inside this roma settlement it's in the middle of a forest people here a left to fend for themselves they are poor. and trying to live for their. life and they are angry that various politicians have been here they say but nothing has changed me my you they're in them they keep back

it to my good luck to you they only come when the elections are coming up the they give us some flour sugar or oil and macaroni and they think that we will live from this gift all year 9 minute. they ought to be sure that this settlement started out as a makeshift camp for refugees fleeing the war in kosovo who then 2 decades ago that's when sampson arrived back then a teenager now a father of 7 children yes he welcomes us into his house made of scrap material his youngest child is only a couple of months old probably the most of the. lot because i don't want them to live in the same life through them or not i've been struggling for so many years i most sorry for my wife and she has to do laundry by hand i would buy a washing machine but i have nowhere to turn it on.

with the ongoing pandemic the children had to drop out of school without internet no access and then there is the key legal hurdle to improving their lives so. one of the problems we have encountered a lot of problems because i did not have any documentation when i came here we did not have the time when we left kosovo. he story is that of so many here one of their biggest obstacles to proper housing and health care documents without i.d.'s people who live here have become illegally invisible in serbia. there are hundreds of informal roma settlements but this camp is one of the worst people here are living in inhumane conditions with no electricity no running water they feel ignored and overlooked by the government and the local government in belgrade did not want to answer all questions about the living conditions here mark of us yet

each is not surprised he's been advocating for the rights of the romans to be for years living without access to the very basics is a serious health risk at any time but especially during the current pandemic he says is that going to happen or to turn a mental and physical that are there their health is extremely affected both physically and mentally and this may at some point ask an audio post or they are sporadic housing programs for people living in informal settlements but there's no systematic approach to all informal settlements systems to police to the problem vicini just he believes this is due to discrimination of a community already marginalized in so many parts of the world. they are already various action plans and national policies in subiaco to improve the living conditions of froma together they are one of drew quiet to join the european union one day but such plants and police require a stronger political will to implement them so settlements like this one cease to

exist well let's discuss the problems facing roma during the pandemic with v.m. brush from the your opinion roma rights center thanks a lot for joining us and just explain to us the specific challenges facing roma during the pandemic. thank you so. the european or american center. received reports also and then there are many people and facing gap lack of access to adequate housing conditions or lack off axis 2 mortar and x. ray city or had to carry on saw hair the route situation men and women and announce refuse to enter and major drama neighborhood most of these economy an e.t.s. facing serious backlash on social security support as they are

in many cases where in informal settings they are employed in core murray soul even in the financial end of the ation packages and really they are not included so these are these these issues are adding to the already the beds and maginot situation off from many people and when it comes to the pandemic cannot marginalize a city then you talk about whether we say sort of the the the tangible effects for example are governments failing to take into account or right now when it comes to public health checks and bashes for example. i would say that we haven't heard yet of our serious out of the breaks and in many communities but we see that for example when many communities are treated

differently ronnie comes to a number of cases. $1000.00 infection cases for example. in will need area and tire remaining a very rare karen to be needed to matter how many people were actually infected by the fires and neighborhoods where there were canteen the military checkpoints military forty's before forces taking care not entering or or leaving those remaining neighborhoods and also for example a good culture or planes they create these neighborhoods in the disinfectant which you can i believe. in you know by rebel cress. need that hold so these these this is just a man of the examples that that draw many people faced during the cold in 19 and

also another part of these. met many a many people have because of the exclusion and poverty. and there's had corn the shans so all they are more one marital money comes to the writers because it's as just studies and throughout europe shows. on every down 15 years many people are really less down down. down down then the meijer this a site a lot of the problems you talked about they relate to social exclusion ultimately what can be done to improve the situation forever. i think one of the movie to overcome the system of segregation and oppression by racists system is that there are many people that are being included in decision making

progress dresses and police and also meeting share that these be really packages and financial and i be sure measures do not exclude money communities and that that mean the means that their activity to f.e.m.a. these actions to ensure that the many people equally enjoy their rights. brush oil from the european roma rights center thank you for joining us thank you for growing number of countries also spending there are lots of the astra zeneca covered 19 vaccine have a safety concerns among them now the netherlands bulgaria island and the democratic republic of congo they stopped giving the shot following reports of an increased risk of blood clots but astra zeneca insists there is no evidence to support that

the world health organization is also urging countries to continue using the vaccine. you know and i was put the pos the program where we put one of your questions to ask science correspondent is derek where. 1000 is transmitted by iris house so why have all that protective clothing. personal protective equipment or more precisely shortages of it has been an ongoing issue for for many countries since the start of this pandemic p p e for health care workers includes a wide range of gear from 6 to phase shields to gloves to gallo notes and the point behind all of those products is to provide a barrier between what you want to keep out which in this case is a respiratory pathogen transmitted primarily the aerosols through the air and the person wearing the p.p. even however c.d.c.

recommendations for people taking care of recovering kovac 1000 patients at home don't include ones to wear head to foot protective clothing but only to wear effective masks and at times to put on single use gloves health care professionals in hospital wards however are regularly exposed to much higher levels of the virus than a caregiver at home sars could be to can't enter the body directly through the skin which provides a very effective protective barrier but it can settle on it and and remain capable of infecting someone for a while and experts now believe that for the average person the chances of infecting yourself by transferring the virus from a surface where it settled to your face via your hands but that chance is actually quite low but that danger is multiplied for someone who spends their days in

a ward full of coughing coated 19 patients so donning items like gowns and other protective clothing is an important way to shield yourself if you work with those people on a daily basis. and that's all from us until next time take up. on.

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