i would have gone on the trip with you but i would not support myself and my parents in the dining room because it's a dream of the in a beautifully the world. mobile infantry because that would be but even though i have serious problems on a personal level and i was unable to live there wasn't going to. want to know their story. terrifying to marvel informing them are great. you're watching news asia coming up today what happens after years of drought across the continent we speak to an expert on the economy delta about that and how climate change makes droughts even harsher. plus crews in taiwan work to recover the final carriages from the tunnel where the country's worst train accident in decades occurred. and you'll meet a group of art is in this in india we've turned the prejudice they faced into

profit. i'm melissa chan thank you for joining us we take a closer look today at drought across the continent it's been a spring of extreme weather in asia where people from india to taiwan has been forced to adapt to record temperatures and the lack of much needed rainfall not just for this season but the fact is certain regions have faced several years of this crisis and it's all coming to a head. these thirsty lions try to beat the heat in india's gear forest where park officials have made hundreds of watering holes for wildlife as temperatures exceed 40 degrees. it's just one of many scenes from what has been a dramatic spring for weather across the asian continent. to the east

drought has forced the government to tap groundwater resources in order to keep crops irrigated like these watermelons in central thailand. my land it's awfully dry here the northeastern region is very drought prone with trees were widely cut down for timber so there are almost none left to hold water we dug wells with the water dries up by march or april every year. using ground water maybe a temporary solution but in the long term it can lower the water table and create sinkholes. the effects of drought mongolia have been felt as far away as tokyo which was enveloped in yellow desert sand for the 1st time in a decade in beijing we're living with injuries air quality is a way of life resigned residents took the sandstorm in stride. i think. just as much if they did exercise on a day like today it would be bad for your health but actually perhaps because i'm

used to it now it doesn't bother me that much. in taiwan reservoirs are dangerously low as the island faces its worst drought in 50 years the government has decided to ration water for more than a 1000000 households official say that the restrictions may become the new normal then by your and i said by usual at the by some people say this is a short term phenomenon if we look at the history and it's hard to deny that this is become a long term trend we just can't allow this to continue. well climate change affects the whole planet experts warn that asia is particularly prone to an increase in extreme weather events such as drought flooding and heat waves and the decades to come. we have and you know why it from the international union for conservation of nature with us he joins us from vietnam and you know we've just had a round up of the water shortages across the continent let's start with where you are in southeast asia there have been places that haven't seen much water in years

tell us about that you know didn't know me from delta in vietnam so in the south of where i'm based. we've just come through the worst drought in history. in the mekong delta and this follows often the heels of the 20152016 drought that was at that time the worst in history in 1000 year recorded history after me come delta in terms of water levels and and forced fresh water availability. businesses have. considerable. negative consequences both on. human populations says well as the agriculture which is the main focus of

people's livelihoods here in the mekong delta and it's a major export. area as well exporting rice sent through and lots of aquaculture talk products as well. one of one of the consequences of this drought. is that you need a lack of fresh water availability has forced. famines and households to seek. fresh water sources and that's meant that made have to. seek a. source of fresh water from groundwater that's the water wise below the surface and the reason for that is the course the with with the drowns the lift flows coming down me hungrier and we have greater intrusion of salinity into the rhythms so he has 2 consecutive serious droughts in the farmers are drilling deep

down to the aqua for us explain a bit more why the drilling of the aquifers is a problem. yes the major problem is that this then leads to a ground subsidy and. as soon as we draw more water. the irony of compaq's fouda and we have. substance in an already very low elevation landscape. the recent research suggests that this. loss of elevation of the substance as it's called in scientific terms is up to 2 and a half centimeters per year. now that that may be a conservative figure because the research is still ongoing. but that is

multiples on top of actual sea level her ice which amounts to 5 millimeters per year so in fact they subsidise the 2 and a half a centimeter compounds on that 5 millimeters of sea level rise so this is really leading to an existential threat for river deltas like the mekong delta which will face major flooding issues. as civil rise progress is subsequence progress is over time. now so i'd like to connect this to our global climate emergency so many experts talk about how that explains the more extreme weather events we're seeing and many say asia is particularly vulnerable why is that. yeah. because it's influenced by the el nino la nina cycles.

and climate projection have already projected we know cycles will get more frequent become more frequent and we see that for example in this very. close following after 20192020 drought shortly after the 20152016 drought. they also make the. you know driven events more intense and more extreme. so we see this. very recent drought 2920 drought being even more extreme than the 201516 drought got it and you know why it thank you so much for joining us you're very welcome. it's been taiwan's deadliest rail disaster in decades with 50 people killed and

some 200 injured when the high speed train usually a point of pride for many tiling derailed as it entered a tunnel and initial report on the investigation into the crash has just come out with people asking whether this could have been prevented and demanding accountability. after days of clearing rescue is in time one remove another piece of wreckage from friday's fatal crash. as the cleanup nears the final stages questions are being asked how this could have happened and who is responsible. investigators are trying to determine exactly how a runaway truck managed to slip on to the track the most likely explanation its driver failed to engage the brake he's been remanded in custody without bail but in india i've posed a serious accident to the time one railway during the 2 sweeping holidays this year

. this caused people to be wounded and dead. i deeply regret this and i also express my most sincere apologies so it. charity i will do all i can to cooperate with investigators and take on the responsibilities i have with. the terracotta express train was packed with people at the start of a long weekend holiday when it collided with a vehicle and derailed in a tunnel or thora he say the driver of the train had just seconds to react he and 49 others died in the accident it's the island's worst train disaster in decades prosecutors are appealing to the public for any photos they may have taken to assist them in their inquiries. in mumbai the work of one group of what the country calls lower caste indians faces an end because of prime minister narendra

modi's campaign against consumption that has caused a domino effect on the leather industry industry they work in so these workers have had to innovate and pivot to using a new material for their products yet they still face all an entrenched prejudices . another day at the office for sudhir raj bar here in india's largest slum the office is a tiny studio where artisans who once worked with leather are plying their trade now in recycled rubber leather workers in a mostly hindu nation that reveres cows have been called chum our's a rather serious slur based on the sense crit word for skin so what's the name of the studio producing high end rubber bags called. white chum our studio of course. either by turning from our into a brand a luxury item people will see tomorrow as

a brand not as something backward or beneath them not. the product is high end but still chum ours the skilled craftsman are seen by many in india as unclean. bag when you buy a bag you only think in terms of its quality or its brand. no one thinks about the craftsman who made it or wonders who is he or does he live. perhaps it's time for a luxury shoppers to think about the people making these shoulder bags totes and clutches wrapped in pink and white boxes their cost to the high end consumer up to 39000 rupees or 5 $100.00 the payoff for the worker the tomorrow artisans immeasurable. that's it for today we leave you with pictures of drought across the asian continent thank you for watching we'll see you tomorrow and the by.

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future disease scientists warn that it warming planet will provide fertile ground for viruses and other pathogens and introduce disease carriers to new habitats. a german climate activist and author david ellis has been mapping out some of those dangers he spoke with us earlier take a listen here one example is the type mosquito which spreads the danger fever that you could go in your vitamins and the possible if just south asian regions but because of climate change warmer you have sort of you know came out of europe and there for reasons to be affected because if you if you're in germany organized. german climate activists and author david nellis there for more on this let's talk with he's dean of the party school of global affairs boston university freshman are something you so much for joining us this connection between changes and wildlife habitat and disease has the pen to make help make this clearer to normal people and

perhaps added some urgency to climate change. i hope it will i'm not sure it has secured the beginning of the pandemic until a bit of fear mongering about how it can be but also concerned about it about you know how did it get here and because you know places that it had transmitted from sort of the zoological system or into the human system there was this concern that maybe even genes were stuck looking at meijers the enemies that i hope for will happen and is happening not as much as i would like but i hope the great messages that we have to live in coexistence with nature that nature has a huge think that nature it is we're not issues knots and if we restrict the space of nature to future strip the space of biodiversity then nature will hit back in the vs for example that your guest was talking about we don't get all in the view that we have seemed cruel about us that in some ways the big lesson is there is no

human held doubt because people help to come together and say what the management of climate change managing the pen demick has required an incredible lot of collective action and sacrifice which climate change will also require based on what you've seen so far from the pandemic should we be optimistic or pessimistic about the fight against climate change. at this point and i did but i do do hope it really should be varied a flip of about what has happened we should try to think part of their work or just happened we're going to learn about ourselves about our own behavior and we should have a concern in some ways this pandemic give you an early warning if you will of what it truly order to matter because you've heard it before what are truly global crisis looks like you know you've talked about climate as as as it as a crisis possibly in the future having this in your face meek's you pain can should make you think there are good lessons and there are some disturbing this is the

disturbing lesson is that this was not a very global moment our immediate reaction especially in the beginning was closing up. it was getting tribal was building walls was trying to blame the other was trying to put more workings are ok i have too many too many problems myself i can shoot my ventilators i can't really give you my mosque if you go back to march of last year the good lesson if you want is the lesson of vaccine development for example the lesson of science coming in to help the lesson off listening to knowledge and intervene and the choice that we will make really to do in the future in somebody is the sad part is and this is what is very much like climate change you know some to act surprised there's been damage happen but there was no surprise in the pandemic we knew about it he talked about but never actually prepared or he said we prepared for print comics and yet we didn't kim we had ignored it so often

that vivid found dorky unprepared that is exactly the story with climate change at the same time i wouldn't you happens no one has the right to free surprised when we look at climate change versus the pandemic the pen demick has very specific in that as we all get to a certain number of vaccines we reach herd immunity with climate change there's no solid there there perhaps does that make it more difficult for someone to imagine tackling climate change versus the pen demick. it might it might make it more difficult but it also makes it more urgent your exact time to change does not have access whether it is pfizer or know our astronauts go or whatever they are not to come up with a vaccine or build that you're going to walk in and climate change will be solved yes that obvious that what's going to duck dish and we will have to adapt and adapt issue will not be comfortable in adult patients will not be the be cheap and give you learn that in the pendant in the brain like you know what is it that bishop means something bad happens and you adapt to it you learn to live it so you build

your buildings higher if seeds healable it's right that. i be a distributor because of discord i'm adapting where that is exactly depend about what we did with the pandemic we had that are we learned how to build a mosque we don't how to lock ourselves up we learned how to not meet friends we learned how to not hug people we love how much that is what are not dictionaries and the list is a definition is not comfortable how much harder will that shift be will those adaptations be especially as we're going from the end of the pen to make the climate change i get the feeling that not many people are in the mood to talk about personal sacrifice right now but they'd rather be rewarded for a period in which they feel like they've already sacrificed a lot so maybe taking more trips things like that. yeah i think i think you're right i get into every i don't want to begrudge them sort of going out and sort of you know after having me locked up for a year but on the other hand this is why this should be a moment different flexion this should be a moment of learning because you've also got so many things right we live in good

lessons we have learned the lesson that if you spend a dollar in advance to overt a crisis you will see of millions of dollars when if the crisis hits so i think those are the lessons that come not in terms of climate in bend any can predict here in the beginning there was a little sort of target ok we were driving as much and we won't be using energy as much and because action will go down i'm sure not sure that has exactly happened maybe it's happened in a few cases to the extent it has happened you know strategy should not be locking people up in their hopes. and on the other hand we found there you know we have a consumptive species we find new ways to consume wheat be other people who go and travel in our behalf and emit carbon on our behalf and develop and drop food at our doorsteps black the r e v p r e smart species we should learn from this i hope the biggest lesson we learned is

not that we will all become sort of self-sacrifice that's that i don't think that's our job or the question is not some sacrifice this question is smart behavior we do not get pleasure out of emitting carbon via pleasure out of quality of life and i hope for the been then it also teaches us is that what you know of life means more than just getting into your car and getting stuck in traffic or i will have to leave it there for now professor. with asa university thank you so much for joining us. let's check in now with our science correspondent eric williams for another question related to climate change. demand for meat is growing and that has consequences for human health in the environment how science trying to address this problem our hunger for meat contributes in a major way to climate change and environmental degradation and the conditions in

which billions of animals are kept also poses a direct health threat to humanity since experts say intensive animal agriculture provides a nearly perfect breeding ground for pathogens to evolve so what's science doing to help improve the paradigm well 2 things jump instantly to mind one is all that research behind plant based meat alternatives that look and taste like the real thing but are mostly made from the ingredients like soy or or peeves or mushrooms discoveries in a range of scientific theory it's especially those that involve how we process taste and texture are improving the experience of eating those products which is reflected by a recent big boom in demand. the other science driven approach to the meat problem

involves the cutting edge field of cultivated or cultured meat it's based on the fact that animals themselves are actually pretty inefficient meat factories lots of what you put in comes back out again as as problematic waste or it goes towards creating unwanted by products like like skin or bone so so why not just grow only what you want the me directly from the right types of cells replicated in giant bio reactors the science behind doing that in a commercially viable way has actually proven pretty finnicky maybe you remember the hype around the 1st lab grown burger back in 2013 which cost 250000 euros to make but the technology has come a long way since then and production costs are coming down fast and the big

question of course is how willing people will be to buy it. our own sons of birds eric williams there that's it for us today thanks for watching stay safe and we'll see you again soon.

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scientists linked to the shop link the shots to blood clots. european union leaders for to turkey to talk to the president to come to church because the look at what the french stuck to relations with the block after years of trying. time for the program. indian state leaders are calling for a wider vaccination rollout as the country faces of record in corona virus infections nearly 97000 new cases reported on tuesday close to monday's record the senior health official says india's fight against 19 over the next 4 weeks will be very very critical hospitals across india are seeing an influx of patients with covert 1000 and they're turning up in record numbers the rising he says is leading

medical experts to warn that this wave could be stronger than the 1st with new variants reported from south africa brazil and the u.k. big enough and. positive before we have this enough but now this is not the single person in the family families because of. the majority of cases are in the state of mind russia home to india's financial capital mumbai nearly 60 percent of all of india's new cases were found here in just over the last 2 weeks curfew is now in place with tightened lockdown restrictions and it's being welcomed by some. on the phone lockdown is imposed that had least people will stay home safe and the coronavirus will be under control. the government has issued almost 80000000 vaccines it hopes to inoculate 300000000 people by the end

of july and last week it opened its vaccine drive to those over 45 years old. but the coronavirus hasn't stopped politicians running for regional elections knowledge gatherings continue in several states talk to say not enough is being done to contain that risk and warned that cases may be loosened in the coming weeks it's our hoovered in that group. which is the one for this right so i think the whole country needs to understand and start practicing it from today don't go out of the house and the necessary avoid. people collecting and cloth rooms maintain social distancing and never never step out of your house without a mosque many him may have thought the pandemic was the hind but now india may have to prepare for another deadly few months. as take

a closer look at the situation in india with dr joshi joshie who is south asia head of the center for disease dynamics economics and policy she joins us from delhi welcome to the w. why is this latest surge in covert infections in india so worried. i think it kind of you for having me when this comes after that leadership. and. since last week prompted many people to believe that the have been good to go tonight is at least accomplice is seen behavior so this behavior for being together with a change in the season leading out having lots of social and good to do things different magazines and any kind of late to link action and justice that didn't last of kingston's right. here in europe there's been much has been made of the emergence of these new strains of coronavirus how much is

a problem in there when they go to know why this isn't why this will continue because that's how it survives and we have to understand and make sure people follow the golden rule create if you do it you'll make so willing to something that is being stressed by the government now to track the situation but so far nobody instead of being found in the media are the ones that have been found all over the world that you keep it secret dominated and the south african one next they are a bunch of garbage is coming in but there's not going to be changing it to show that they did the change in the kind of the key thing that what i needed if you would get so that we continue what i think is the goal that it will create behavior which is critical to control this so much as the knowledge so let's talk more than about the. appropriate behavior you talk about the the wedding season i'm being

a cause of a greater social mixing but when you look at the figures india is in the top 4 countries for covert deaths and infection so are people not seeing people around them dying is this about complacency or perhaps they just not to be able to maintain the social distancing and hygiene measures. well 1st of all it is about because. the beat has shifted over the past one an hour you're literally one year in a few months rather has deeply and the contract anything and this thing you know was not adequate and that should be the states that are going to the state of national for example i do wonder if you're doing a good job of saying so long numbers you know who's you team that will buy this is gone and it is really where it is when you start intermingling forget meeting that must come out for social gatherings this surge comes up and surprises you so even

if i does it is your. read be it work at it and in. amongst the tools and the vote but health authorities needs to deploy not only vaccines but more and better contact tracing is that right yes a mix of boards on that tracing will help you know where the pieces are rising and that. prove it and giving it a speedy a sense of your. and how is the health system cope with this record certain cases at the moment. well it isn't what is in situations just going to be happy if i'm to go god that is just by dying and you don't create those bad and capacity that was required to face the still and this dying down you must remember that norm goal weight has really did no good treatments it was doctored in being occupied but that the system was limping back to you know kind of

a regular situation and it is the stacks are no i'm going to be treatments will have to be again to grease down the whole bit patient and that's again gays are consistent with is that this is the need for more beds but public private partnership the government is getting up to say that all of those. facilities if you are lying. down and mido down issues are also being discussed and it's very clear dr thank you so much for joining us dr judge me joshi from the center for disease dynamics economics and policy thank you you know i had a fast food strategy at the european had since agency has said that there is a link between the astra zeneca kovac 19 vaccine and blood clots from germany suspended routine use of the vaccine in people under 60 after 9 people died from red blood clotting after receiving it the air may has consistently said the benefits of the job outweigh the risks it's expected to release

a new assessment on wednesday or thursday now the same time the u.k.'s madsen's regulator is also considering whether to limit access to the astra zeneca vaccine we spoke to virologist to julian. in the u.k. and he told us about the cases of rare blood clots that have been recorded that. yes so this generally is 30 cases of which 7 have died in the younger population and they're not trying to proposing to restrict the others and get to those who are older. the thirty's for example part of the problem is that you can actually the so many people up to the age of 50 over the age of 50 now because streets of the vaccine see much older people than 50 so it's slightly different from the scandinavian and european approach so you know that in germany and in sweden and even canada if we stick to the vaccine to those who are over 65. and that's to

protect the younger population that seems to be more vulnerable to this so the effect of the actors on the that see dr julian tack but take a look now at some more voices developments in the pandemic starting in new zealand which has announced that it will open a travel bubble with australia from the one thing for april and having quarantine free travel between the 2 countries singapore says that from next month it will accept visitors who use a mobile travel pass containing digitals the tickets for covert 19 tests and vaccines is one of the 1st countries to adopt such an initiative and new data from israel suggests that vaccinated people are unlikely to pass the virus on to people who have not been vaccinated study indicates that as the number of vaccinated adults increases infection rates among staff unvaccinated people in the same community decreases especially amongst children. as people around the world ask how their governments could have been better prepared for a pandemic chile might provide some answers for latin american country established

ties with the chinese by a pharmaceutical company a sign of long before the covered 90 pound them it began chileans are still facing coronavirus restrictions the country's bureaucratic a vaccination campaign has got off to encouraging stuff. father christian castellan is leading the lord's prayer in the side aisle of his church san fernando rey the rest of the building has been reserved for a more urgent matter under the eyes of st francis chileans are being vaccinated against the corona virus an injection in the house of god. we have agreed to serve as a vaccination center after all we are currently in a state of war so we also have to help our country and the people of. chile as health department is making use of churches across the country to roll out

the vaccine this small nation is one of the fastest in the world and getting it done but it's not just the church's stadiums and parks are also part of chile's vaccination campaign there are solutions that aren't hindered by bureaucracy and that's one reason why chile is vaccination program is such a success another reason is this man alexis color the university biochemist made the crucial contact with china so that chile could get hold of millions of vaccine doses early on. our scientific contacts were instrumental in getting a contract in place early on that committed sign of act to supply chile in a timely and prioritized manner reporter the product. as well as the contract it was also important that chile's researchers could demonstrate the vaccines efficacy. his involvement has helped to build confidence here in the chinese vaccine while germany still had reservations about it the university's

rector explains before the study only 50 percent of chileans trust in the active ingredient from china now things are different because we were able to credibly show that it works today more than 80 percent trust the vaccine. but despite the vaccine success the infection rate in chile is rising sharply so a strict lockdown has been imposed again anyone out on the streets needs a permit. but why are infection rates rising despite progress in the vaccination campaign apparently many chileans became careless. we're coming out of the chilly in summer and people wanted to relax. they did always protect themselves the beaches were full many people went back to having parties even though they were forbidden. so for now people in chile will just

have to be patient before they get their freedom back. and take a look at some more stories making headlines around the world north korea has become the 1st country to drop out of issues tokyo olympics authorities say they made the decision to protect athletes from coverage 19 south korea has expressed regrets over the decision saying it had hoped the games would provide an opportunity to improve relations. mozambique's military says this is regained full control over the coastal town of hama jihad is from a group linked through these long mixtape militant group attacked it last month at the town's near natural gas projects worth about around $60000000000.00 aid groups say tens of thousands fled the fighting. israel's president has asked the prime minister benjamin netanyahu to try and form a new coalition after a 4th inconclusive election mr netanyahu now has $28.00 days to break an

unprecedented political stalemate and create a governing majority talks held by president ruben rivlin on monday is that new on who received the most indorsements from parliamentary factions. top european union officials have been meeting with president roger type in ankara today to see how serious the president is about repairing relations with a role that the blue carpet for his counterparts saying he wants to turn a new page in relations with the bloc european leaders have criticized his record on human rights and increasingly assertive foreign policy over recent years officials have the red means he will lead to a new chapter in relations after a period of unprecedented tension. thousands of istanbul citizens protesting turkey suisun decision to leave the convention named after their cities a treaty aimed at fighting violence against women it's one of many points of

dispute between turkey and a state of the european union but since the end of last year relations seem to have improved.