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plus the afghan government and the taliban is not by choice, but by necessity find they must get along, at least on one major project and elephants on parade in china, where are they going and why? it's a mystery dumping wildlife experts was the news i melissa chant, thanks for joining us. china's announcement earlier this week about a change to its family planning policy to a maximum of 3 children per couple. grabbed a lot of attention, but it's not the only country in east asia facing a demographic crisis. south korea, for example, has spent billions of dollars trying to convince families to have more kids. japan crisis has gone on for decades with serious economic consequences and tie one as

well. faced is the same problem, dw, wendy lee reports from ty, pay. in taiwan, your babies are born each year. last year it had the fertility rate of less than one child per woman. if the change is not reversed, the negative population grows could have a huge impact on economy and society. family demography. again, she john stays much of the problem, comes from changes in lifestyle this year. say up to 80 to 90 percent of the 20. something group still haven't got married the 40 years ago, the group may already have have 2 to 3 children with sing delayed marriage and child bearing. john also thinks that traditional concepts in east asian americans have made women more cautious about deciding to get married hunker. taiwan probably has the best gender equality is asia,

but that is only reflected outside of the household like in education or workplace where women are more equal to men. ever and how, how's the workload mostly on women in terms of house for char, racing and elder care responsibilities? more than she listen shop. and still has been an obstetrician for 11 years and thinks that i want society, you should give more flexibility in their life choices. this may be actually a fisher about your master's degree. you can be pregnant and then go back to school for a ph. d. we don't necessarily have to follow certain life sequence from schools graduations to marriage and child bearing. she also supports the coupling of marriage and childbearing values. there are so many we may my clinic that don't want to marriage, that they are hoping they can have a child. that conscious the large official and simulation for a single women so they can have their own child. i filled that wish

a lot of the in terms of what the family should look like for you. well, the nation low fertility is cause for concern. it can also be an opportunity for taiwan to reconsider the tradition, a row of women in society. an opportunity for possibly a change for women now, as well as for future families. joining us as d w when you lee who filed that report when ye, the women, you know, why are they choosing not to have children? there's a lot of reasons. brazen cow i grew, is the expert that told me about there's a delay marriage in taiwan. so that, of course, if for people in my, in late twenty's like for example, friends around me, they are on there. most of them are married. and for my a close friend of mine who just marry last year,

just tell me that she does. she doesn't want to child because there's so many expenses. they have to take care of the child's education and maybe to find a babysitter. so there's just a lot of burden them then they have a lot of concerns on financial deviation. now declining birth rates, impact of countries, economic output, the fuel workers, you have, the less your economy will grow and that's the concern here. so what is the government of taiwan doing to convince people to have children so the government is trying to help couples to raise their children from age neuro to each stakes. i raised the child racing stuff, the be also increase the capacity of public childcare centers and preschools. it has also increased the special task deduction for those who have children h under h 5. so these or,

or to help ease the parents burden and also to ease their financial. jason has tie one, considered other options such as welcoming more immigrants of course, there's a lot of voices calling for a well coming more immigrants. but this is not a priority priority. for the government, however, the government housing trying to check highly skilled for intelligence and lutheran related regulations for these for him. professionals, which may also help improve taiwan population structure. but as i mentioned, to the government focus more on helping parents to raise children. and of course we've mentioned this is a challenge facing east asia in general. tell us a little bit more about some of the other countries. japan, for instance, face this problem, the very earliest yes, there has been a low history of total for to if you're re decline in japan as started. if there is

a force in 2000. and it happened to even earlier than its neighbors, like taiwan or south korea to pass low fertility rate has led to the aging population that even the population decline more than 25 percent of the population in japan or h. c. over $65.00. we have japan, we have japan as an example, the conscious like taiwan, the south korea and even china do need to prepare well when he lee. thank you so much for joining us. thank you. we mostly see the afghan government and the taliban in conflict, but sometimes cobble has no choice but to cooperate with the militants. one of the country's most important hydro electric dams is an example of this complicated relationship country. key dam provides power to more than $3000000.00 people in the country south, and it's run by government forces,

though it fits intel upon territory to the point that the insurgents even charge locals for the electricity generated by the dam is just another example of how the decades long conflict plays out in the most extraordinary ways. flying into a vital source of energy and income. ca, jackie dam on the hillman river is under siege. it's controlled by the can government, but surrounded by taliban rebels. the only way government forces can get here is by air. a perilous journey run about. the taliban has attacked this area with heavy weapons. sometimes they've shut down to military helicopter. that's close to the dam. make the hydro electric plant provides energy to millions of people. many of them live in areas beyond the government's control.

the electricity of this power project is distributed to all of the key district like today. and it's clear, there is a threat from the taliban and other challenges. so the government cannot collect the electricity fees. they're going to be the number it's the taliban. the tax is electricity in areas of controls which use about a 5th of the plants capacity, the blurred boundary between combat and cooperation. something workers here experience every day to reach the facility. they need to permits a government id and papers issued by the rebels louis phil polarity to be, we think the danger on the way home and back to the data. we are crossing the front line between the government and the taliban. and several times when we were crossing the fighting started and we were caught in the conflict in the area. we

were like you to pull out. the taliban may tolerate the hydro electric plants staffers, but they give no respite to the government forces, guarding it from there, often lonely and exposed outposts. thing was that much were surrounded. if we don't have a way out by land we have to fly. first to kandahar, then some of the soldiers go to alaska, got couple czar and other areas that are kind of like, i'm kind of a conflict with compromises. as foreign troops prepared to leave afghanistan, perhaps the country will see more sharing of not just electrical power. it's being called the longest distance migration of wild elephants recorded in china. a herd of 15 wandering elephants have embarked on a 500 kilometer journey after string from

a nature reserve in china's south west. they're now on the outskirts of the major city of kooning, where authorities are rushing to try to keep them out of populated areas. an epic truck through southwest in china. destination unknown now uncertain why this heard of 15 wild asian elephant strayed from a peaceful, national nature of the united province. one theory is that their leader lacks experience and lead the group astray. other experts say the journey is the result of human development. and the elephants of searching for new habitats, whatever the reason their track has become the longest distance migration of wild elephants ever recorded in china. this is an, this is the 1st time in history that we've seen anything like this. it's never happened before. so everyone is trying to figure out why it's happening. we need to

observe the elephant further and study them. movements that one have. the group set out is 16 animals that 2 turned around and went home and the baby was born during the track. the herd has moved through villages, broken into bonds, trampled crops, and caused more than a $1000000.00 of losses. but now the elephants are approaching couldn't ming? a city of 7000000 people and wild chinese social media is full of posts and videos of sightings. a task force of 360 people and 9 drones is busy tracking the heard, desperately trying to keep them away from the most populated areas. that's it for now. be sure to check out or other stories on d, w dot com, forward slash asia, or on facebook and twitter. and we'll leave you with more pictures of the wandering elephant lumbering around china. thanks for watching and see you tomorrow.

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now the climate change, if any, call the story. this is much less the way to one week how much was can really get we still have time to go. i'm doing all this to subscribe for more videos like me, faxing made in pakistan with chinese know how this factory in islam about aims to produce 3000000 doses among the across the border in india, infections and death spiking due to a new mutation. practiced on health ministry has detected at least one case

of the new very end from india known as a delta variant. experts warn it's likely more contagious. will pakistan's vaccine push be enough to stem the tide with welcome talk over 900 special. i want to get some berlin, thanks for joining us. now, the good news 1st, the number of new infections is seemingly going down in pakistan though the accuracy of the data is in question. and how sustainable is this downward trend given that neighboring india is grappling with an aggressive variant. it may all depend on pakistan's ability to ramp vaccination across the country. and there's a lot of catching up to do. the, it's a busy day at the rabo pin d vaccination center. every resident over the age of 19 can now register to get their job with vaccines bought and donated from china and allocations from the u.

in back to callback scheme, pakistan has now secured more than 18000000 vaccine doses and it came to get them out into the population. initially, there was quite a bit of vaccination hesitancy here. but many have seen what happened in india, and they're worried. they came to the edge of the, the next wave that coming could potentially be the worst yet when we watch videos about what's happening in india, in the people scrambling for oxygen and ventilators, and we get scared that it could be like that here. so it's important everyone gets vaccinated, familiar, go home. okay. i would say that every pakistani should get the corona vaccine. otherwise we'll have a similar situation as we see in our neighboring country of india. we need to avoid what's happening there. they'll find me where they need to wait till it says people were very scared. they were unsure about the side effects and all. but now there's awareness. people are coming to get back in a touch of pakistan desperately needs to increase its vaccination rate. so far,

only about 2 percent of the population has had a shot. infection rates have been declining over the last few weeks, but the country has only just come out of locked down. since he'd, there's been a loosening of restrictions. markets and marks are once again busy. but in some places miss about the corona virus persist with them on when it cannot be. and i believe that while the corona virus exists, it doesn't harm us inside the mouth. when we come here to pray, 100 is can, did put on the wrong again. come inside the mom, this is got home and i believe that corona can't come inside. it was just going to call even, you know, what in many mosques masks are worn and social distancing. rules followed all. busy if the curry highest people to take care and follow what the doctor say so that we can avoid what's happening in india in the ok. yes. how about the home which sick

pakistan recently detected the variant responsible for the recent rapid spread of new infections in india. but even if infection rates go up again, doctors are confident that a crisis like the one in their neighboring country can be avoided. we have arranged almost 2 to 3 times of our routine services. in this hospital we have extended our ice used from 18 birds to 50 birds in recent days. and similarly, the number of oxygen port number of autism birds have been increased to 23 foot. meanwhile, everyone here is hoping that these new resources won't be put to the test of a more i'm joined by a hash on actor he is associate professor at use right, institute of pharmaceutical sciences and national infectious disease specialist at terminix, international in pakistan. so very good to have you with us, and we have

a case number's going down there. hospitals also seem to be well prepared for new cases. just all of that mean that pakistan has the corona, virus pandemic, under control. oh well you still did the counter go it 900 his it has been including all over the world including pockets on and every day like 1st we've taken we've been 30, we have learned a lot. hospitals are very big and yes, you can see that if they're under control now. but if you look toward the stairs it's still on the alarming site. ok explore. a the alarming because certainly we hear from the world health organization when it comes to the number of new cases, there seems to be a discrepancy between those that are confirmed and those that may not have been

reported. how worrying is that? well, there's a, there's a good question i guess in august on many, many patients they go to the local clinics, many are not conquered. many like there's a huge difference between d and. and so the count and the stared the number they are not included as if you, if you talk about them, but still did issue of him to medic, people, they said no medications is also high. so we assume that the suspect is they are much higher than the child border. ok. and especially a symptomatic infections of people with that don't, don't show any symptoms that obviously also keeps spreading virus which is dangerous. how big a role would you say just to cope with mutations play in pakistan right now.

this little impressively august on has been voting the for you non sequencing from the start of the damage and a tanks to the national institute of health august on which was led by media doctor on medic. um, we reported the the, you'll get it in the reported, the brazilian variant reported the saw that the convenient and this, these millions do have role in, in the spread of covered in buckets. on last week we heard around 10, you know, sequencing in august and 7 out of 10 word south convenient. one out of 10 was the indian 1000000000. and in last 36 hours, we have around for more any of the. and so it is, it is the don't fall off deterred them, but still be very and question him. ok, so vaccination is key probably to keep all of those in check in the the vaccination

rate. however, it's still very slow. is the reason for that that people basically refused to get vaccinated all the other problems supply perhaps if you, if you talk about the lease, you'll see that on 3 percent debt bucks done is that it now but, but the population in august, the news huge. it's around, over $200000000.00 people, and definition in pocket on now today is around more than 300000 per day. so we are doing all of this, and it has also been commercially available now. so we hope that in the near future we will be able to go back now. right. commercially available means it costs money to get vaccinated. yeah, mostly in a more than 90 percent is free. but still, if, actually the woman has divided it between the age groups and professional life.

so the healthcare workers and the, the other professionals, they were a candidate 1st. but who cannot be done? he can go and, but she has it. right. the professor actor reporting here about the situation in pakistan right now. thank you so much for your time. thank you. thank you so much. now, one thing is certain vaccines. the key the pandemic has for science to react quickly and develop vaccines. that can stop sized cove too, but can they do? even wasn't that time for your questions though? over to our science correspondent derek williams. oh, you could 19 except for some pretty to for the types of corona viruses all depend on nick has turbocharged research into corona viruses. we've learned a huge amount about them in the last 15 frantic months,

including in an area called a cross reactivity, which involves how the immune system can react to similar structures on the surfaces of different types of viruses. in other words, how your body might not have to learn everything from scratch about a pathogen if that pathogen reminds it of a bug. it encountered in the past, say, because it has similar spite proteins. all corona viruses have spikes. theoretically, at least, that means that teaching your immune system to recognise, sorry cubby to spy proteins, could maybe also help it recognise and prevent infection with other corona viruses . yet the spikes are similar enough. among others. a study published last month by researchers at johns hopkins university in the us shows that the idea isn't far

fetched. the researchers looked at the response of what are called t saddles, which, which play an important defensive role in immune system response. and the study reported that after people were given a vaccine against over 19, their t cells also responded powerfully to a related corona, virus that causes colds. the assumption is that cross reactivity was providing some protection. there are still much to learn, but a lot of experts thing to work, being done in the fight against stars covey to will lead to a real revolution and how we address future corona, virus threats. some even believe we're not far from developing one shot vaccines that will work against a wide range of corona viruses. lots of attempts to make one are already in animal

testing me. now who says bank holidays are a waste of time in the united kingdom. anyone over 18 could get a shot on monday, waiting in the some 1000 spent this bank holiday to get vaccinated against co with 19. well, not much distance keeping, but a new trend. perhaps. that's all for this edition of our koby. $900.00 special. thanks for watching the news. the news, the news,

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