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nations between both nations. ibish welcome to news asia that you could join us china has hit back at western sanctions away ledged of rights abuses in. beijing on friday sanctioned 9 british lawmakers and several entities who have criticised its changing policy and china has launched a p.r. war against western brands critical of alleged forced labor in changing. chinese state t.v. called for a boycott of swedish retail chain over its statement of concern last year at least 1000000 people and other mostly muslim minorities have been detained at work camps and there are many of sexual abuse and torture has emerged but china rejects the accusations as foreign lies. and you're eating chinese people do you not allow some

foreigners to eat chinese rice while smashing china's bowl. and a warm body double to put a hunk on trim welcome how successful has this beer out of china being you can tell you it has been very successful but maybe let me tell you what's happened 1st so a couple of months ago released a statement saying that it was not going to use produced in not going to use cotton produced and she and john citing forced labor concerns and that was released last year actually it went largely unnoticed and just this week it got picked up by a group linked to the chinese communist party on chinese social media way bought and then all of a sudden it's spread like wildfire and in just a couple of hours not just an m but also other western brands like for example nike

also under attack and the reason why nike is also under attack is because it also released similar statements last year and now the cashback i love cotton has become one of the most popular ones on chinese social media wave war and on the web sites and that this has tech posts been shared billions times millions of times people have commented on it and the state media people staley has even created a meme saying i love sea in general i support she and john cotton and it has been shared by many other people including stasi and in fact stoss even those who are ethnic rica have also shared this and also saying that i support she cotton and we should support this home country sorry i love our hometown and many other stars who have had contract with action and have cut ties with it and. store online

is now off so it's not on the e-commerce platform anymore or it's a stall. and what are people saying i mean you mention these hashtags what are people saying in the nation to these well many people are buying into beijing's narrative that the west is spreading rumors about the situation in that there is no false labor and one you say for example says people outside of the country do not know the truth do only thing that these thoughts is a supporting discrimination so referring to those offices posting the hashtag and please focus on telling foreignness of truth and not on how to feel better about ourselves and other uses says boycott hurts us too if we cut our economic ties with these companies that's exactly what the west wants but if we pretend nothing happened and continue to buy these friends it's like agreeing with the insult they

have thrown at our country i feel so bad i feel like i can't protect my country so basically they agree that the claims about forced labor by the by the west. are false and many other saying that we avoid causing action and nike and they said and not going to use their products we have about 40 seconds left before 100 as you mentioned the statement from it's an ammonite you know from last year or is it causing a stall now i think we are under a time when u.s. and china ties are. getting voice and the divide between them are getting bigger and she of course is a 30 thorny issue and when the u.s. used the word genocide is a very strong word so china said the u.s. is spreading hatred and so i think we will really have to see how this goes on out and have another last word on this i'm sure about hunter and thanks so much for coming in and break this down for us.

indian prime minister narendra modi is visiting never to buy another shows the country marks 50 euros of its independence more this visit to india's biggest trade partner in south asia comes as both missions look to strengthen ties that have been under strain in recent years his visit to bangor there is also highly symbolic given the part indian forces played in securing the country's freedom. december 971 indian and pakistani troops are locked in a bitter battle to liberate a car. the vent capital of east pakistan when it would all but ensure an independent state for the bengalis. bangladesh at the time was known as east pakistan on the eastern flank of india it along with west pakistan from the nation of pakistan. but led by this man shaikh more than one is pakistan's been gollies

feeling alienated and abused revolted against their government. a brutal military crackdown ensued. soon india's hand was forced and it intervened militarily. pakistan lost the war and with it the state of bangladesh was born. with woman as its 1st president the end in a bloody conflict that cost an estimated $3000000.00 lives according to government figures. and displaced more than 10 times as many. since then has seen political assassinations and coups. throughout much of the eighty's the country was run by the military. by the 1990 s. democracy had returned. and in the 50 years since bangladesh gained its independence it's praise for turning its war torn beginnings into a hopeful future for its young population. shut up when it is

a research fellow of the bond of asians to do with of peace and security studies and he joins me now from talk with more welcome and happy independence day i know it's a big question to us but i'll ask it anyway on their 50th year of independence to most by now they're hopeful about their future in the country. thank you very much it's a pleasure to be here indeed this is not only feel beautiful but they feel very optimistic about the future we have traversed a lot of ground in the last half a century our economic indicators our social indicators are absolutely marvelous and how the last decade and a half has seen bottom of the on a very impressive economic growth trajectory of course we have also put a lot of challenges ahead of us as well and how we navigated the over 9000 pandemic

in and its aftermath is one of those many challenges that we face but overall the people obama with this specially you feel a deep sense of optimism about the next 50 years that where does or india fit into that picture over the next 50 years given their historical connections between the 2 countries. your opinion but with this shared a very historic to be a very close relationship india was a very pivotal partner in bottom of this is independent struggle and the 2 countries share one of the longest land borders in the world they're also civilizational and historical and cultural ties. but all of this wants to grow and deepen its relationship with the india prime minister narendra modi as a arrived in town today for this event which also coincides with the 100 that he personally over the birth of the nation on the ship which when i'm up at the 50th anniversary obama this is independence there are many areas where you embark on

this work together the fact that people in the ship but there also needs to be a very realistic thing on the relationship in a dress of the challenges one of the hopes that we have from the visit is that there won't be. a fund the deepening of ties in terms of connectivity. given the economic and cultural each month and also realistic on addressing some of the challenges that. face the british. in the in the near term or given. the exchange of vaccines or rather the delivery of over 1000 vaccine for example from india to bangladesh does that provide some sort of a template of relations moving forward. the goal of 19 vaccine engagement is a need some quite encouraging our politicians giving the vaccines from india and we

hope that this will be have good template for taking the relationship forward and engagement in terms of combating the pandemic and other nontraditional security challenges as well. yes so we are hopeful about that we hope that the vaccine diplomacy i'm a player all in strengthening the relationship there are there any specific expectations of bangladesh has from not only more these visit this time around. what are those expectations it is as i said earlier a deepening of the connectivity and the economic ties and also. some resolution on some of the outstanding issues like the star water which has caused some friction in the relationship in the past but we are hopeful i mean like all neighbors and friends there are. sometimes challenges in the relationship but the 2 countries have. reached a stage where in

a very mature manner and through a bilateral in here and. other efforts they can dress all the challenges and move forward but we are going to go from the visit there in addition to strengthening the good will some tangible our councils are competent and all through that happens i will leave it there for the time being thank you so much for speaking to us just got money from the bangladesh institute of peace and security studies in taka thank you so much. thank you. i believe it today with images of celebrations across bond others as it marks 50 years of independence and 100 years since about the founding leadership of. iraq a member. of our. the

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anxiety and depression is higher. psychologists say the needs of teens are often overseen when it comes to covert restrictions. i've been physical and thanks for joining us the struggle continues covert hasn't gone away it's one way valve after the next and lock downs become part of life for many of us but that doesn't make it any easier teen mental health services are overwhelmed in countries like belgium. rosebuds had reports. long months of loctite have been a vassal for many young people. teenagers in acute mental distress come to them in hospital for psychiatric care often after traumatic events or suicide attempts among the residents is this 17 year old we're calling alexandra covert it was an

extra thing that just made me kind of it was the one thing too much to have my hires so i had to. kind of isolated from my from. most. of. my parents alexandra is not alone in struggling to cope with covert but she's one of those fortunate enough to access this hospital's help director sophie math says new admission requests for troubled teens have skyrocketed since january. mass thinks that's due to exhaustion exam stress and dashed hopes for a return to normality. although makeshift rooms were added there are no places left and no even the waiting list is closed. can you choose between a societal 15 year old and a suicidal 16 year old it's impossible with a doctor must believes authorities could save lives by prioritising teens as

society reopens this bus and read we need to create spaces for play for joy and for conversation and so all young people can once again be part of the social fabric of life something so crucial for teenagers. if not there's a real risk their mental health will keep deteriorating and i'm truly afraid to see suicide rates increase what it feels like we're at the edge of for the tsunami and be urgently need to build flood defenses. as the young people living here a build up their emotional defenses to reenter the outside world alexandra hopes sharing her story will give strength to other teens who are suffering. we're all struggling with this situation. the fact that we're all still here and we're all fighting against is something very positive and something that will make those who grow will be able to look after and say wow i've ones through these tough times

i made it. her priority is getting better as soon as she can which could open the door for another young person who needs help. because it's a really is an associate professor in psychology of the car alinsky institute and. one year into this pandemic you afraid the number of teens with mental health problems will keep rising. well yes i am our study was conducted over 80 in me last year and already then we could see quite severe effects on both children and their parents and i think it's important to notice that although we examine the effects of homeschooling i think that this was certainly not limited to just effects on the academics but also on mental health issues so how has home schooling affect the mental health of children and parents based on your studies. our study included about 7000

ratings from parents on the effects of that on their own life and on their children's and data was collected in 7 different european countries and about 25 to 35 percent of the parents reported negative effects severe negative effects i would say on their child's life and as many as 35 to 55 of the parents supported negative effect on themselves. and with the guard to their effects on the children i think that a lot of. children had really large problems carrying out home schooling they were really large demands on them and doing a lot of studies and they bats increase their you know mental health problems and parents also reported a lot of worrying and a lot of stress because they had to carry out most of the home schooling where the children yeah well apart from the extra what the extra the added stress what about

positives from your studies i know i had a bit of a hard time at school when of mind skipping the buses and long walk to school as well. well that is true and actually that the transportation issue is is something that a lot of parents are actually talking about that it saves time that they don't have to travel to school especially for the older children which they might have a longer time to get to school and back and that's time can of course we set spent on for example exercise and family time so a lot of the pay or not a lot but some of the other families are reporting you know more family time they do things together and they have lunch together but that's of course dependent on if the parents are also at home working where as we do have also a sub study on or a subgroup of children with mental health problems who are actually bullied in school and don't have a good social relationships with their peers and they are of course also happy to

be at home so some of those kinds of positive effects can also be seen but i should be careful and say that this is really a subgroup of people reporting the positive effects you said you talked to thousands of families what were the most significant differences between countries . well i think the largest differences between countries were actually in how homeschooling was carried out. and that of course also had effects on the negative and positive effects so in general we saw that a lot of the home schooling was carried out studies or in contact with the parent and very little homeschooling was carried out as online teaching but this really vary between countries and in the u.k. and germany for example about 5 percent of the time was spent online teaching whereas the corresponding numbers were about 25 to 30 percent in sweden and italy

so this was really had a huge effect of course on the these families. this also resulted in large differences differences with regard to how much schooling that the children actually did in u.k. for example quite a lot of the children only got about one or 2 hours of schooling each day and this was of course you know of huge difference compared to the children in for example sweden and they had a lot of online teaching so briefly lisa what's the best way to educate kids in a pandemic. well i think that we do need to do more online teaching especially i mean even for younger children i think it's doable we have seen that some schools have been managing on my teaching for for young children as well and i think it's it's really not possible for parents to do

to take such a large responsibility in the home schooling if we should have funded well functioning system. i also think it's important to take into account the new technologies that we have that we can use to make the school teaching more adaptable and actually be adapted to the needs of the individual students but this of course requires that we have you know each student needs to have their own computer they need to have a good internet connection and they need to have a quite place to sit and do their home schooling and this is of course lots of reality for a lot of children in europe today not always a given these are tyrrell thank you very much for being on the show today thank you . and for the last time this week kid is derek williams with another about fuel questions. have we seen any impact on babies born from covert positive mothers. i was really surprised just how complex this answer

turned out to be and just how many issues are involved the 1st is the breakdown of access in many places during the pandemic to 2 routine prenatal care for expecting mothers now that's definitely having a big impact on child health though the one that's hard to quantify the good news the experts say is that babies born to mothers infected with sars code to actually very rarely get severely ill themselves and studies show that in general the virus appears not to cross the placenta however they also show that pregnant women who catch covert 19 are at more risk of developing severe forms of the disease and and this is key that an infection during pregnancy likely contributes to a higher risk of giving birth pre-term one estimate says who had 19 in the mother

mix pre-term delivery that's 3 times more likely and that's something that unquestionably has a negative impact on newborns on previous face a whole range of unique medical and development issues many of which can be mitigated by a simple yet vital measure which is skin to skin contact with parents that's also known as as kangaroo mother care the problem is because of the pandemic babies are being separated from their infected mothers at alarming rate. as of late to protect the child tells but according to the w.h.o. that's doing actually a lot more damage than good in a report published last week it said the practice was putting newborn lives at risk and in a big way and encouraged hospitals to allow mothers and babies to share rooms

even if the mother has an active covert 19 infection because although it seems counter-intuitive kangaroo mother care will generally help the end fund much more than a coping $1000.00 infection would hurt it. thank you derek thank you for watching and stay safe as you can see the place.

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