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don't. be mean to the. documentary. you're watching news asia coming up today india's gender income gap crisis has only gotten worse during the pandemic how has women coped has there been much of a government social safety net and just how much has the past year set them back. plus flash floods in eastern indonesia killed dozens volume urgency crews find roads and bridges blocked or damaged from the tropical cyclone. and we followed one
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environmentalist on a mission to protect his island's coast from rising ocean waters one sapling at a time. i'm melissa chan thank you for joining us in india at new data shows that unemployment hit women the hardest during the pandemic according to the study conducted by the center for monitoring indian economy only 9 percent of women of working age are employed that's a massive gender gap that will only get worse as the country faces yet another spike in covert cases he. takes a closer look. sure bomb it through has been out of work for more than a year. the 55 year old domestic worker used to cook at several homes in an
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upmarket neighborhood but the pandemic pressed on her life upside down. the lockdown was really bad for a. challenge that we survived on rations that were donated to us high as. my employees told us not because they were worried we might bring the wires into their homes we couldn't do much after that any. one of many women who lost their livelihoods overnight when the government imposed a log down last year according to multiple study them with conducted recently women work over 30 of those who work in the informal or the on off and i think to have taken a much harder hit by the call than 1000 logged on that was implemented compared to men a large number of the women have either lost out on work entirely or have seen a shop fall in their income. is a social worker who helps women working informally she says that while the men can travel to find work family responsibilities mean women have to stay closer to home
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. in the unorganized women lost all her. world as domestic help into construction labor treatment the cases of us are still rising it does not look like they will get their word about. women's participation in the workforce was already declining but the sudden shutdown caused by call that 19 was . india's economy shrank by nearly a quarter in the 1st few months of the pandemic. economists and trust says the impact of the downturn has been distribution it who suffered the women they are the more vulnerable in the labor force they have a border educated comparatively dared the poor of delude comparatively because i don't think the government has done enough skilled india actually provide for drugs both from them those who who who have jobs they're working less hours so if they're working with thousands or almost inevitable that the men are going to have whatever
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work there is going to be and not women this is an extra financial burden for sure on top of caring for the sick husband and daughter her own health is deteriorating further limiting her options. and it's going to be difficult to get work. but i have a family to look after i have been trying to get work we keep doing so so buffy's she cannot even go back to her village as there's nothing there for her now life has become a daily struggle for survival. joining us this patch a lake a charity in delhi she's a journalist and columnist working on health and social issues such as the pandemic has impacted women around the world we just saw the story of one woman who worked in the informal sector and i wonder do these workers in india have a social safety net and do even white collar workers have a good social safety net there. hietala so. great to be here with you
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on your show you know that's that's the unfortunate fact that the vast majority of workers in india almost 90 percent are actually part of what we call the informal economy and. of course there's degrees are pretty carroty of vulnerability the vast majority including that women don't really have any they don't have formal job contracts as a salary you know it's not a salary at the end of the month so that's that's where the problem comes in i've been over the last year i've actually literally walking 2 lanes and bylines of delhi visiting many of these slums and talking to women and men but a lot of women who are children fall into the cracks who are at risk and the key reason is that even when they have work they snow real written contract
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again very little bargaining power so you know if you're talking about social protection in practice in practice very very little now in some countries the pandemic has set one in back decades they say to the 19 eighties and i wonder is that the case for india is that what you think. yes i don't think we have the study as yet you know not much but i read recently a study it was a pew research that forget about the poorest of the poor even the middle class that's people like me and you know a lot of people i know even though we would actually be sitting back a man. you know to be able to i mean forget about getting you jobs and bonuses and things like that a lot of us including the 2 class women have dipped into their savings right so you can imagine people living in slums and you know who don't have you know a regular pay what's happening there all of that debt is the face of the pandemic
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at the moment you know even the economic recovery we are right now in the green shoots so you know recovery just because the places open doesn't mean everybody's getting up there full wage you know i know many people like places for instance beauty parlors where they're getting just a fraction sometimes one 3rd or what they still get before sometimes not even that it's a one 3rd or a percentage of the business they generate so you know it it can be deceptive just because you see buzzy marketplaces doesn't mean everybody has you know enough money to make both ends meet yes i think we're definitely going to be set back i can't tell you exactly how much because i don't think we have a study as yet but if the middle class is having that such a tough time the super rich but not i can imagine what the us majority of indians are going to and women of course have been hit in many many ways not just economic
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could. thank you so much for joining us. flash floods and landslides have hit islands in southeast indonesia as well as east timor this weekend with rescuers struggling to reach places due to damaged bridges and roads as of monday evening in asia more than 90 people have been killed another 40 or so missing with officials warning the death toll is expected to climb. a human chain to escape the raging waters rain storms have triggered landslides and overflowing dams leaving small communities inundated. rescue workers use whatever resources are available to bring survivors to safety. but it is the water has risen up to my head and it's still not stopping we need help right away. your village is cut off yes the waters reach the 2nd floor the military police and disaster
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agencies are helping coordinate the emergency response indonesia's president has offered his condolences for the dead and called for vigilance. but does i urge everyone to follow the directions of local authorities regarding the danger of floods and landslides due to extreme rainfall but did it. in neighboring east timor government offices were beset by the storms affects what i. asked for the moment we are cleaning the mud because of the flood that happened in the vicinity of the presidential palace the. rescue efforts in both countries have been slowed by damaged bridges and roads and a lack of heavy equipment the remoteness of some affected areas is also complicating operations to fully assess the damage. staying in indonesia here's a longer term water challenge for the country it's coastlines face erosion
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something conservationists have struggled with for decades they say one way to reverse course is to plant mangrove forests is particularly important for low lying areas threatened by the climate emergency and the ocean flooding of arable soil. every east of jakarta maybe located on the world's most densely populated island job but this agricultural region is tranquil most of it is below sea level making its rust fields especially vulnerable to surging waves and rising tides local pharmacy the problem is getting worse and it's draining their livelihoods. they should be a dad made of stone. so what effectively the why is because the say he has a right going out. but there's a simple way to protect people's land from the rising seas today environmentalist informative some sudanese showing the villages children what they can do to fight
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the effects of climate china. it looks like playing in the mud but it has a purpose these young environmentalist supplanting mangrove separately to protect the series future. mangroves connect is a barrier to the strong winds from the ocean as it increases in size so why this would not destroy the land so they could be a lot of damage to the land which is caused by those big why is that a. pseudonym its many villages think he's message is crazy and he septa is a nuisance to their crops some people even remove them once he's done. to change people's minds this fairy tales to reach out to locals dressing up as an endangered javanese rhino. and delivering his conservationist message to some of the stands at
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the site when i decided to make this travelling fairytale i hope the children i met could become heroes for their environment and here i say indignation read animals in the. well i'm preserving mangroves on our country so about plus that in a long while for my dad the i got a paper. censored and it meets even his family questions his devotion to the mangroves sometimes. produce activism has a point oh. mangroves could be the key to maintaining villages why of life and the culture too. that's it for today there's more in the w. dot com ford slash asia will leave you with pictures of female military police cadets in india they're training for 61 weeks and are due to graduate next month the 1st women in that division of the armed forces there thank you for watching
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we'll see you tomorrow and good bye. to. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context around a virus update. on d w. it with current is the thing that's
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a good bunch of the queen because i want to see a germany with me the last few years have been quite over the only and we've. all heard of the moment when it comes to be as and of course always look at me as very much it is perhaps a bigger guns a new hobby of mine i'm going on the recruit i love to be in the news there are pros in their account but when you feed them all the giving to realize it because of the another way of never say are you ready to meet the 7th and 3rd me right just do it. the problem in society we have at the moment is everyone is afraid of making a mistake what may happen if we don't do. depend demick has changed life as we know it. but what comes next. will our fast paced lives pick up again.
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will we continue to innovate regardless of the cost. live lives profit driven. and globally connected. or has this pandemic sparked irreparable change. how will we live in the future after the pandemic. hello and welcome to detail his covert 900. 11 this week we're peeking ahead imagining life after the coven 1000 pandemic our guest today is richard sennett he's a british american sociologist and one of the world's most important theorists of urban studies or the architecture and social life of cities said it is currently
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a member of the council of urban initiatives for united nations habitat and since the beginning of the outbreak he's written about his concerns for city life amid growing pandemic restrictions. professor senate welcome to the show you've described the city as a settlement in which strangers are likely to meet one another there hasn't been a whole lot of that lately given the pandemic as vaccines come online and more people are vaccinated are you optimistic that the city will come back. yeah indeed i think it has to come back because. in the long term we need. places where people can interact face to face we need economically we need dense cities for the sake of climate change and merely ration is not an option for people to live long term socially distance lives professor we talk about cities of course we talk about the architecture of
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a city as one thing and we also talk about social interactions or look 1st at the architecture what could this mean for how cities are planned in terms of i think of open spaces for example elevators that are probably being avoided now more than ever when you see well i think long term this argues just as climate change for much more flexible ways of building cities. to not make spaces which can only be used in one way it might be that the age of the skyscraper is over. or they were going to have to rethink public transport but it say about both the issue is is how to think about adaptable spaces not to transform these spaces in the places which are stricken by sheer. in which see. in
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which the extremes of social isolation. to which the talent is. are going to lead to permanently socially isolated spaces it's a question of experiment. spacing people out in public transportation. figuring different ways to use elevators and so on it's trivial the horrible thing would be to freeze the environment and talk about the social interactions that make up a city as well you mention as well that face to face interaction do you think a pandemic has always made us more aware of our social connections the social capital that we have in their life. you knew america a life spent on. what kind of kind of human experience that would be. you know this is the nurse it's what it when i'm
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saying you know the danger in this is that you natural as the extreme. that is to zoom or even working from home in isolation full time is a norm can't do that it's a very to me very. evocative. where we are today of what happens in new york 20 years ago you have to was hit by 911 almost immediately well the planning because in new york were rewritten as though every week another airplane would fly to new york skyscraper didn't happen but it decade the city was paralyzed and building these fortress like structures that's what we have to boyd. that that kind of paralysis and yet at the same time there is a real danger as we know from the virus so how do we find the right way of
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measuring the importance of our social lives with the real devastation that the virus can cause well. this is just my. pretty little opinion but there it's a really great letter virus was going to radically transform our lives look that way you're going there no vaccine there are very few. drugs that could could treat people who are sick now or very different place. and i hope you in germany soon will be in their places as well. where people who are vaccinated have a big weapon to use against us. because you're coming onstream mean that if you even if you fall sick you're not doomed to
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die and so we're we need to change our consciousness. you know we have to take on board that this narrative has changed what we think of when we use the term the virus is not a death sentence against very. redolent of the aids crisis in new york and eighty's when the beginning of it people thought this was our make it up and. gradually you know it became a chronic disease but many of the current practices that people were recommending in the 1980 s. to deal with aids. were the notion that anybody who was touched by it was going to die and that became very very counterproductive over the long term and it's sort of odd that i'm saying this to you know
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a very old 100 people supposed to be noted risk from this virus but it just seems to me that i think being paralyzed with fear is a horrible way to live and now that we don't need to be. paralyzed with fear we've got to move on mentally and. and think about ways to. live with it. rather than feel overwhelmed by. in britain i don't know how this is in germany but in britain you sell newspapers or social media. byard flaming the sense of fear even very very afraid it's overwhelming. that's good for generalism but it's not good for human beings. so i really see this is a moment where you got to say it's going to be over for you i think it's i hope we
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will be over. it could i say one more thing about this for you. because threaded to. race in europe is that we. are in the last year of the crisis could lead to the breakup of the european union it would be a terrible long term. where nations think that you know the because the union largely failed failed you that it should be abandoned for really essential things go back to the nation state. would be a terrible way to as it were naturalized is state of emergency present future free of. it you know so i just think it's very important to look forward rather than learning lessons
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from about how going because the crisis is. there for now richard thank you so much for joining us ok thank you. and now it's time for your questions over to our science correspondent there. what impact has the pandemic had on the public perception of science this is the perfect question to start off this week's look at visions of the post coded world because one of the things the pandemic has done is radically change the way that many of you out there in the public view science and scientists some have turned into really famous figures who are no really well known not just in their home countries but all over the world germany also of course gained
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a few new science of leverage these in 2020 the most prominent of the viral a just in chief christiane dalston millions of germans tuned in for his regular pandemic podcasts he's even been turned into a traditional christmas ornament so one wake up at 19 has certainly changed public perception of science is by dragging researchers and science experts out of the shadows they've mostly worked and up until now and arresting them and their fields into center stage i mean i'm sure there are lots of kids here in germany now saying i want to grow up to be the next christian dalston and if you ask me that's a great thing. derek williams there and around the world christians are celebrating easter one of the most important festivals on the christian calendar we'll leave you now with
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a look at how the faithful celebrated during the global pandemic thanks for watching stay safe and we'll see you soon again. odd.
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