ah, she's digging the country's soil to find out the truth. they want to kill me and they try many times. facing with change, your life wants to know what is happening there. gordon, the truth starts me 3rd on d w. ah, this is did of the news asia coming up to date suffering into longer. the collapse of the country's economy is threatening the lives and the livelihoods of millions of people. we hear from one fishing community that is being devastated by the crisis and id cards without photos. that's what this group of bunger, they should women want. what are the chances the courts will agree? ah,

i british manager, welcome to d, w. news asia get your could join us. international rights groups are urging the sri lankan government to investigate the shooting dead by police of a protest her earlier this week. human rights watch in new york sees the 42 year old man was killed after police used what they called excessive force, including live ammunition, to disperse an anti government demonstration in the town of rumble, khana, at least 30 others were injured. lisa, the protest as ignored warnings to move on, tens of thousands of she lumpkins have been taken to the streets across the nation in the last 2 weeks to protest against the government handling of the west downturn in 70 years. acute shortages are food and fuel and other basics are causing white spreads suffering and anger. ms. lisa and also payment

is a also a member so bottom and please step down and to stop this wireless. dont disturb boss nor mr. be but because beat by last operate with because to make ends meet we have no electricity. we don't have gas for price of rice has skyrocketed yet, so we have no choice but to go out on to the streets, trying 3, this governmental a lot in the way we parked in that element. we won't fuel at a reasonable price. we can't live with these prices. those who drive took took tax is comp make a living that will be earned is not enough for 3 meals a day. i will up under my dad. and the lack of fear will is also impacting sri lanka, as fishing communities, fear will, shortages means a few or fishing boats head out to see which means rich rather means fishermen are losing access to income. did her book correspond, manila jewelry reports every day for the last 40 years, jude has headed out to sea to fish too, on money,

and to feed his family of 7 duties. not so long ago. the fish business here in the gumble known as the fishing down of she lanka was good. people were making a decent living, but the industry has been hit hard by the konami crisis. and most of all the fuel shortage. there is not enough fuel any more for every one to put out to see regularly hard i'm i see that we've lost about 80 percent of our income when you have al, in this village we have around 2000 both ashley, which used to had at regularly economy, but now only 500 boats are able to go to see on any given day to fish, a boat, right because of a lack of fuel that was jamari, that a may again and gum line up of the fishing. and as she plays an important drawing and she'll anchors economy, and many communities depend on it, their boards need anywhere from 20 to 60 liter the fuel a deep. since the crisis hit fishermen have to wait 4 hours every day for fuel.

when dick could be spending that time at sea fishing, what you see behind me right now is a long queue of people, many of whom are fishermen who have been standing here outside a fuel shop for over 4 hours now, rating to get kerosene. this is the situation in all the fuel shops across the country right now. the gamble has a tight knit fishing community. there are those who go out to fish doors who clean and cut the fish and those who sell them all have been impacted by the food shortage. random anesha. fernando has been a fishmonger for nearly 4 decades. she says her business has never been this bad monument fisher also expensive now got on and it's hard to sell them if we didn't have this crisis. hm. all our boats could go out to fish and get enough to meet the demand. prices would go down. business would be smoother and we'd have food back home. they go out on a thunderbolt that the, the crisis is having

a knock on effect. lendy pockets mean fishermen and not getting enough ice to keep that suppression. and a lack of fuel also means because transport, big catch on time to the markets. jude says the fisherman took to the streets, demanding a solution to the fuel crisis from the government. it has yet to respond. we long obrigone under luxury and i'm ashamed to admit that sometimes we're able to afford only one decent meal italian, some of the new to me and it's not just me and my family are, are going through this is going to be there are many families in the fishing community in that room who are in the same boat trickery law to give you the mother . and i mean, is it do does not see a solution any time soon, but he still motors out to see that he can after all fishing is all he knows. he has spent the entire life doing just that. a group of muslim women and bung another shot,

demanding national id cards without their photos on them. the women affiliated to order just school to say islam forbids them from showing their faces to anyone outside of their family. the matter is now the harcourt and the government, a national election body have been asked for their responses to the demand a meeting of the muslim women's organization, michaela undermine. the group is demanding that women not be forced to use their pictures for bangladesh as national id cards. they say that violates their religious values to me, what i want id cards without pictures so that we don't send, we want to follow the koran. stephanie, should the activists say that fingerprints can be used as an alternative moment? if noted almost not that it's hard to identify someone beyond a doubt if they are twins or look similar, i need like with finger printing, they never change. he from childhood to old ichi day,

my and both of them when we booked, the hub in the group is now going to court their argument. women who refused to be photographed and do not receive id cards are deprived of their rights by not being able to access government services. the government argues that photo ideas are needed for public security. available them. what if the woman commits a crime has a well then she has to be arrested or and put on trial of what are the, how are we supposed to identify, huh. i don't for them, it's just not practical. behavioral, if you have the high them bangladesh, a government issued id cards, use a mix of photos, fingerprints, and i recognition technology. some experts say that while biometrics are easily processed by machines, human beings still rely on facial recognition. well back it fingerprints are enough to detect or identify any one. 0 good. he did it for you can't gets around the fact

that pitches are an important biometric for identification in many situations. you know, it will now be up to the court to decide whether the id card rules are changed to accommodate the objections. by some muslim women. and jeremy for more from talker is sarah who's saying she, the supreme court lawyer and the human rights activist. this was an, a legally speaking, are there any precedents and bunger others that allow for an exemption on religious ground, from having photographs on a government id? is there nonsense exemptions available at the moment? and i'm not aware that right to this particular case and the mainland humans demand that anyone who's actually requested that. and speaking of the my la undermined itself, i mean, how much influence to their wheeled in bangladesh society my learned affiliated to a religious body or grocery verses,

but it doesn't. it's not one that i ross in terms of our activism and we have a very vibrant to women's movement environment. very diverse, one women active from different religious groups, groups across language and cost and so on. but we haven't really seen this group being active in those particular spaces around women's rights. i mean women's rights and also human rights are things that you are actively yourself involved with. i wonder how you view this demand from my laundromat do demands like these. i mean, impact the place of women in bangladesh, a society i mean, i think there are genuine issues and concerns around the right to privacy and so on . but i think that in, in, in the whole bung with issue women over the last 50 years, as i said across community class cost has to have been really fighting for ins,

ensuring the quality and whether it's to do away with regressive practices and customer practices. what is to do away with the discrimination that is inherent in many customary laws and also religious laws. the, the plight has been to move towards quality and not to move away from it. and the point is also been to move towards greater space in public and in private for women, for greater participation. so i think this demand is, seems to me somewhat down to, to all of that. and he was on the issue of, you know, whether women can veil or not, that has not been as much of her overcome controversy in buying the should factor port. so high court has previously ruled that women can choose what to where they can choose whether they wish to rain or whether they wish not to be. and in the past where women have been penalized for not feeling, the court has been very clear that no one can be forced to reveal. so i think we, we have that position on the right to choose the right to freedom of expression, the right to person, liberty regarding what women, where and where they,

where it. so i think we don't have a position to women aren't where the feel. and by the, just not with the question of seeing that the right to really should extend to not allowing your photograph to be taken for who are national id to say to me does not seem like the logical argument. and i think there are clear clearly issues there around security, around verification of identity, even beyond security in terms of access to government services, use the id card. this is used for us. i think that one text doesn't seem to me logical to mind, but or does this in somewhere catered, or at least palm section of society or, or at least reflective or for potentially we're thinking in a certain section of society, abuse, things that is dangerous. i think it's a, it's, you see me, a very small section that i'm making this door and we do have many women in bolivar . we are out of country where the majority of the population on was slims and many people do where is certain can many women do where certain thank build somewhere

a full only job but many, some he where as you can see, you know, i had coverage like this i'm and they don't, they don't require their faces to be covered and the majority, women were, are, you know, from low income backgrounds were out in the streets, working don't to avail their full face ever. that's not been our tradition. so i think in that sense, there isn't really an argument or tradition either. i think the argument in terms of law is, is problematic, that there is a right to privacy. but i think in this case there's also other, other counter issues in terms of, as i said, security and also our issue getting access to ours to state services. so on where i think it is full face feeling is not, is not a clue here in demand and that wanted her house and relieve a bird for the time when thank you so much for joining us today and sharing your insights with us. thank you very much and that's it for today. be sure to check out the other stories on did up dot com, forward slash aisha, or on facebook and twitter believe, you know, with images of ramadan celebrations from bangladesh and we'll see you back here on

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