we can make a difference by choosing reforestation over deforestation recycling over disposable smarten solutions over steam set in our ways, or is truly unique. and we know that that uniqueness is what allows us to live and survive. google ideas, the environmental global 3000 on d, w, and online with this is the, the news asia coming up today. how the water you've crane is impacting talk is thought national politics. prime minister brown. com is facing growing cold to step down over his handling of the economy. and his response to the russian invasion of ukraine is fueling further head winds against him. can he survive this political storm? plus the pakistani women forced into matting the put on it to band

practice in the country, yet it keeps happening. we look at why a headboard and being heard from behind. the veil walk is done. first female rapper. things about choices and how women should be allowed to make their own. ah, i british manager, welcome to d, w. use asia. glad you could join us. the water ukraine is having an impact of pakistan's domestic politics. prime minister in bron con and facing opposition calls to step down, launched a tirade against european union envoys after they asked pakistan to condemn the russian invasion. listen to what han said. yada phil union k. a. m. bassett, as of the european union, have sent a letter to pakistan,

asking that we make his statement against russia by voting against them in the un general assembly. i ask the ambassadors of the european union, did you write the same letter to india? opt in boston could be a hot legato buck is done like india abstained from the you and vote against russia. earlier in the month, han was already facing criticism after deciding to go ahead with a planned visit to russia. in february, he was in moscow meeting, president putin, on the very day russia launched attacks against ukraine. han expressed regret that the conflict couldn't be averted. and even as con, dealt with the fall out of the optics of that visit opposition parties were uniting against his government, claiming his rule has failed to improve pakistan's economic situation. they have

demanded, he stepped down. it's a demand that is invited some choice words from con. this is how he referred to the 3 main opposition leaders. i'm competing against these 3 decoy pets. and i will take all 3 wickets with one in swing yorker. they tell me that they will topple my government if i don't close corruption cases against them. but i tell them that i will not close the cases even if i have to give my life for it. and just sort a bit of context, dakota and south asia refers to an armed robber. and the cricketing reference is not to him, ron cons time as of august on cricket, player and captain. but let's get more of this overall situation from i did lose shamela shams, shamella. the opposition has been criticizing him. ron cons policies for quite some time, but why this united demand for him to step down? now british,

i think the opposition sees a weak government. now the thing is that in ron han has become very unpopular over the years and about 3 and a half years, the unemployment is rising, inflation is with regard. hi. so they see that the cracks are also merging in the ruling coalition. the allied body that are lied with brian mr. ron hahn are not supporting him anymore. and they see that it is the dine that dick and i was to be him con. also the powerful army is seemingly unhappy with hands performances, foreign policies, his domestic policies. so all these issues combined, the opposition sees an opportunity now that this is the time that they can housed to be im hahn. and how much of this, or is approval shamela from the army, is down to how mankind has responded to the russian invasion of ukraine.

well, we all know that him wrong, con is a populous prime minister. he's a populist politician. and what happened recently that he went to moscow to have a meeting with russian president vladimir putin. and the same day when he was meeting booting russia, integrated ukraine instead of canceling his trip. instead of criticizing moscow or the dark on went on and held a meeting and he kind of can read a message to his water, the supporters and buckets on that he is. and the rest he is. and the american and the american sentiment is quite huge. and boxed on, so i understand, and i have this feeling that on knows that he could be ousted, then he's losing his supporter with his allies. and he can get it to his domestic audience as waters and presented him as an anti imperialist politician

. the army is not happy with this policy because the army has closely allied with the west over decades. and the army gets in finance is that the military aid, the equipment from, from america, they don't want to go against the rest of how widespread is the opposition to him. i'm, can you survive this opposition? it is very unlikely at the moment because the opposition parties of all joined hands. they are very big bodies are beloved, but those the b p b farmer brown, mister noel, should eve to be a mill. and there is a cleric girl for the raymond, who is hugely powerful and has the street power. so they have been holding mass rallies against brian, mr. han. and they know that the army at this moment has decided not to support to brian. mr. han and we have seen in the past 3 and

a half years that the army came for hands rescue this time. it's going to be different and that's why i have this feeling that but i'm mr. 100 days in power on numbered. sharman sharma, thank you very much for breaking that down for us. and on the same day as those opposition rallies, who just saw women in pakistan turned out to speak up for their rights. despite efforts to silence them, some 3000 women march for women's day in cities across the country. in la hor, official, the tempted to cancel the event and withdraw security. such rallies have drawn a backlash from conservative opponents since they began 4 years ago. activists abuse against women is endemic in pakistan. in many cases, control is the end goal. some families exert is controlled by forcing their daughters to court mattie the koran. the practice is banned in pakistan,

yet it is still widespread, especially among us. so you're the community in seen the province did up the spoke to one bride of the koran. we've changed her name to protect her identity. the crown played an unusual role in the life of this woman. her father forced her to marry it. she explains how such a thing is possible and what it means to her. numbered out i. e. no, no, wedding possessions, no drums celebrations, no hannah ceremony, but even the mom was not present. now. the only thing that i got was a new dress to wear agile. then my father put the crown in my hand with onto it and he just said, we're marrying you with the crown. he said, you have to take an oath that you will not think about any one else and consider marrying again. uncle bobby. hardly you about him in a he such of you. it sounds like that could be a religious reason for forcing a woman to accept that the koran is her husband. yet it is all about property

rights. if mamma were to marry a human being her family, that's to say the men in her family could lose control of some of their land. g mail has it, are they mailed family members, either a brother or father? no, that is a daughter or sister gets married, they would have to give her a share of the property in land. therefore they say they tell them their marriage. the crown had been will always live with them at home. it's lee of the female victims accept that to say the honor of the father brothers and the family did the other, did they hear or put on bugs at mighty shoddy. got about a day, the price moved, moll, and others like after paper. this is a life of seclusion and misery. by it, hump dubey remained gay. we never go outside because we spend the whole day in per day that we don't even know what is happening outside. but we do housework. and even if women come to our home, we're not allowed to come out and see them just what mo most father has done to her, is illegal and carries a 7 year prison sentence in pakistan. yet he and thousands of others go unpunished

. summer urging the government to intervene. but you but a girl becomes the bride of the corral. when she gets married to the crown, the family mentally pressure, or brainwashed the girl so much that she doesn't want to admit that a crime has taken place to stop this, the government must take proactive measures. young mammals say she hopes no other woman will have to live as she does and that things will change in future. meanwhile, a completely different picture for another bark is the only woman who sees few limits for herself or her dreams. eva b is a rapper who emerged about 2 years ago from lady a rough karachi neighbourhood that was once ruled by the criminal underworld. everything about her from her lyrics to her veil. defies easy cliches, hamilton for. yep. and i mean, he goes by the name eva b and she is pakistan's 1st female rapper. her role model is m m, and since she was a teen,

she's been passionate about hip hop despite numerous obstacles to sympathy belin the mental wood for a long time. i hid from my family that i rapped, i always said i was going to university when actually i was going to the recording studio. i lied to my mom a lot. you're holding up. her mom wanted her to study, but eva b wanted to concentrate on her wrapping. and when she recently appeared in a prominent t v show, her career really got underway. her views on youtube are now in the millions, but many pakistan is, are critical of her as a woman in the music industry named malone, logan. hi. i often hear people talking negatively about me. it feels strange because i'm not doing anything wrong. and especially because i don't judge other people for what they do. i, i expect the people would do the same for me that i'm putting up ali khan is a music producer. he's happy. there's finally a pakistani woman who dares to wrap. he spotted her on facebook and has been helping her record her songs for some time. she has a video, mysterious spoke,

now that he and he would you want to know more about her when you see her glass, sir, she is excellent. and what she does, so i think she's, she's going to go places very bright future eva wraps about her everyday experiences. the role of women in pakistani society and that they often still face a lot of discrimination that i've been in public. she hides her identity by wearing a veil. she doesn't want to recognized and possibly confronted on the street. tornado is that i like wearing a veil though. i never leave the house without wearing one. when i spoke about wrapping with my brother, it became clear to me that sooner or later i was going to have to show my face. he suggested wearing the veil. i thought it was a good idea. bad, you know, made him any money with or better. with her songs eva hopes to inspire other pakistani women to write music and perform publicly. she says she will not be intimidated by others and will chase her dreams or and that's it for. today's is of

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economic sanctions are hitting russia hard. they're also affecting companies that exported to russia. we find out how one small german firm is adapting. welcome to the show i'm seeing basically, invalid could have you with us. germany has decided in principle to buy f 35 fighter jets from the us. that's according to new report, siding government sources. berlin plans to drastically beef up military spending. as a result of the russian invasion of ukraine. it's not alone. denmark and sweden say they're also raising their military spending over the coming years. now, traditionally, larger nations have spent more on defense in 2020 the us with a whopping $77080000000000.00 budgeted for defense. china only $252000000000.00 on its military, but that still georgia, germany with $53000000000.00 euros are dollars. i should say. that year russia had a military budget of $62000000000.00 and that's 10 times.