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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 trying to beat the heat in india's clear 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.

i learned that 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 but the water dries up by march or april every year. using ground water may be 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 enveloping yellow desert sand for the 1st time in a decade in beijing we're living with dangerous air quality is a way of life resigned residents took the sand storm in stride. just to see if you could 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 you know by your eyes of my usual at the landfill 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 in 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. yes certainly in the mekong delta

in vietnam so in the south of where i'm based. we just come through the worst drought in history. in the mekong delta and this follows on from the heels of the 20152060 in el nino driven drought that was at that time the worst in history in the 19 year recorded history of the me come delta in terms of water levels sand and forced fresh water availability. and this is had considerable. negative consequences both on. human populations says well it's the agriculture which is the main focus off people's livelihoods here in the mekong delta and it's a major export. area as well exporting rice to send troops

and lots of agriculture type products as well. one of the one of the consequences of this drought. is that the the lack of fresh water availability has forced. farmers and households to seek. fresh water sources and that's meant that they'd have to. seek. out a source of fresh water from groundwater that's the water that lies below the surface and the reason for that is of course the with with the droughts the list flows coming down the meat from river. and we have greater intrusion of salinity into ribbons. so you have 2 consecutive serious droughts and the farmers are drilling deep down to the aco for us explain a bit more why the drilling of the aquifers is

a problem. 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. such a dense in an already very low elevation landscape. the recent research suggests that this. loss of her 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 the actual sea level her eyes 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 see that will rise progress is substance 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 where 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. cycles will get more frequent become more frequent and we see for example in this

very. close following after 20192020 drought shortly after the 20152016 drought. they also make the. events more intense and more extreme. so we see this. listener a 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 taiwanese do railed 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 and other piece of wreckage from friday's fateful crash. as the clean up me is 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 team sweeping holidays this year. this caused people to be wounded and dead. i deeply regret this and i also express my most sincere apologies song so it.

charity i will do all i can to cooperate with investigators and take on the responsibilities i have with. the toronto 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. both already 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 and 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 ours is a rather serious slur based on the sense great word for skin so what's the name of the studio producing high end rubber bags called. white chum our studio of course. get out of there 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 mars 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 where does he live. when is this perhaps its time for luxury shoppers to think about the people making these shoulder bags totes and clutches wrapped in pink and white boxes their costs to the high end consumer up to 39000 rupees or $500.00 the payoff for the worker the tomorrow artisans in measurable. that's it for today we need view with pictures of drought across the asian continent thank you for watching we'll see you tomorrow and the body.

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builders and architects come cheap with each other. this is how massive churches are created. contest of the feel good. story. on t.w. . coming up on arts and culture what is dressing up even mean these days the whole year and so they're kind of in my team crisis wives of paris for the answers from fashion insiders and see how designers are even embracing some pandemic chic. but 1st one of the most eccentric artists of the 20th century and one of the most daring there was a boy's made art that was hard to categorize he sold corners of museums with animals that covered himself in honey and gold leaf and even spent

a few days living with a coyote and in new york city gallery always fascinating often difficult to understand the german artists legacy lives on a century after boyce's birth germany's staats gallery museum and stuttgart is paying tribute with a new exhibition. got a good. design i didn't want to cause it to go through if i was going to push to do you know. use of poise wanted to be more than just an artist and he ended up becoming one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. the shots god of the stock is honoring the centenary of his birth with an exhibition one that asks what boys still has to say to us today in the lessons how far north of the legacy of us of boys is incredibly multifaceted there's the political voice who was concerned with ecological issues

and grassroots democracy very early on but the most interesting thing about boys is that he changed the way we think about art nothing quince to endow tatts. can art start a revolution that's when you'll see of course wanted to know the shots kind of the owns one of the last rooms the artist set up himself in 1904. since then nothing about it has been changed at its center or boyce is typical materials of beeswax found metal and powder. for him energy flowed here representing his personal philosophy. when i was kid it presumes. that there is a spiritual world and he was always very concerned with bringing spirituality back into our daily lives he always believed in the immortality of the soul.

it was potency to be honest going with a dimension of i believe you saw me also not of the the audibility says it was soon . in 1902 boys provoked west german society by melting down a replica of the crown worn by tsar ivan the terrible and creating his peace hair out of it it was a scam to the hair as a symbol of resurrection and alongside it was his crucifixion with 2 containers of blood. work such as these made him the best known artist in west germany but also the most controversial. for his room and stuttgart from 1904 boys hung a work by andy warhol despite the obvious differences between the 2 world famous artists voice and warhol shared a mutual fascination for each other. 100 years after use of course is perth how much is there to discover about him it's really new for one thing he's

under increased scrutiny for his life during the nazi era and for all the mythologizing of himself he did read writing his own biography and for the way he presented himself as a savior and prophet still voice doesn't leave people cold perhaps he's just the sort of artist the world needs right now. police are those off the b.b.c. will also come to be on plastic even if. the. artist joseph boys is being celebrated this year a 100 years after his birth and events and exhibitions across germany antidoping reporter michael kruger has more mike a serb or is clearly wasn't a modest guy did he really think that he could change the world with his art well at least he wanted to change a lot of things and he didn't. did he change the will of art he created the idea that everybody is an artists he believed in the creative powers of the mind to something we all have and he saw himself as the person who was just giving us the

idea so boys now is considered one of the great artists of the 20th century was that clear from the start or was it clear that we were still going to be talking about him today in that side of the obscene absolutely he was right from the beginning a rising star but outside the world of art it was a bit different because the people just didn't know what to do with a strange guy with a had nots painting or creating sculptures just do weird things and there are a few stories about cleanest destroying his art installations because they didn't realize it was art and half of germany was laughing about that because a lot of people at those days were asking this question is this really odd but you know it was just impossible to really understand everything he did. that was maybe part of his miss the mystery so at least here all the attention where and of course

if you make sculptures out of fat you risk someone coming along and you trying to clean them what exactly was his obsession with that why did that play such a huge role in so many of his works fats and felt by the way and there are several elections in his life he repeatedly told us i guess none of them really happened like that in world war 2 he sat he was hit by a russian into crossfire and he crashed in crimea a clan of nomadic tas found him covered his body in fat wrapped in belts and they saved his life so the story goes and as an artist he worked again and again it was and felt speaking about story a lot of people now accuse him of glorifying his past as a soldier for nazi germany. this is a very fascinating question that hasn't really been discussed so much until today. but you know it was this generation where most everybody was really involved

somehow in the wall but this will be discussed very intensively and this year there's a voice was born 100 years ago he died 34 years ago just briefly why are we still talking about you as a boy is it because he was a visionary a brilliant storyteller and this is he created a still vivid today like this one. he was very popular in united states because of this story he stayed 3 days in a cage with a co u.t. his idea was to make peace with my nature and at least he made peace with this with a guy mike a group guy thanks so much thank you well and in the united states former hollywood producer harvey weinstein says he didn't get a fair trial weinstein's lawyers have filed an appeal in new york against his conviction last year for rape and sexual assaults they say the judge didn't ensure an impartial jury and should not have admitted testimony about misconduct that

didn't directly relate to the charges and since conviction last february was seen as a watershed moment for the meet to movement after scores of women accused him of sexual harassment or assault he's now served one year out of his 23 year sentence and is still awaiting trial on other sexual assault and rape charges in los angeles. for a lot of us the covert night pandemic has been a time to finally clean out our closets and why you can shop for new clothes when you have no place to wear them anyway the fashion industry has taken a huge hit but believe it or not designers are still putting out new collections of clothing they say reflects the times is more from paris. an outfit like this turns heads even in the fashion capital characters oh hold on he is right on trend with her metallic kimono style but. when she should know she works as

a stylist for various fashion magazines and has already dressed big names like french actress catherine deneuve it's. sad but. it's shiny it's a little oversized shimmers it's just what you need right now you simply want to look good and the sleeves are white and i think this outfit perfectly represents a woman in spring summer 2021. contacted if you want to designers are going for sparkles and silver of the season whether from head to toe with glittery accents like a pair of shoes or a handbag fashion journalists say this trend reflects a longing for a pre-con demick special occasion dressing. basically disco clothes to go out and how far or spark. you know things that are for the evening when nobody's going anywhere the evening but you know you could always get dressed the whole take

a selfie. pink you know all its nuances it's also a trend this season bringing a cheerful pop of color to the runway. german designers fusing the striking color with the next trend also inspired by lockdown. this is the sort with him on the phone and how to this is the 1st look i started with. and the 1st one that came to mind it's just pajamas. this sort of thing was what i lived in during the 1st weeks. and i wondered what i could make out of it and thought why not pink pajamas. but i think it's great you can go shopping in there too you can leave the shirt open or button it up so depending on who you run into at the supermarket. the comfortable oversized look is also one of the overall donkey's face hands fashion editors view this trend as a reaction to the long hours spent at home. because it so used to.

be relaxed about things where. volume is considered a game but it has to be done in a sculpted way. and ideally it should be made into recycled regenerate from brick. in this current season a bit of extra volume for the upper arms is trendy too. puffy sleeves are very fashionable with them. up the sleeves are definitely back i think the shoulders are much bigger so we're not really in the eighty's but there was a slight once that we had the big shoulders and much with the smooth sleeves are very important lots of work up the sleeves they can be can be embroidered they can be chiffon and transparent but. voluminous and here's another eye catcher crop tops are back in

a number of different styles their midriffs are trendy. but there's good news for those who want to come for up to a minimalist cheek. minimalism every term to people like. in the eighty's and ninety's. so fashion followers take no casual outfits without a lot of frills but made from premium fabrics and with a special element or sporty touch will be a hot demand this summer. time to put on that tracksuit maybe with some policy sleeves well whatever you're wearing it's been a treat to have you with us and if you want more arts and lifestyle news check us out any time i d w dot com slash culture alchemy and the whole crew here in berlin and thanks for

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