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we listen to their stories. reporter every weekend on d. w. making the headlights and what's behind van d. w. news africa. the show that the issues shape in the continent. life is slowly getting back to normally well in the streets, to give you enough reports on the inside of our cars. funding was on the ground reporting from across the continent and all the trend stuff. the mazda u. t. w is africa every friday on the w. 950 dublin years, asia coming up to date sri lanka running on empty. i think i love to read the whole life again. they would say, i'm lucky. i get the fuel by tomorrow morning. and a huge shortage of federal them guys has made life a daily battle in sri lanka,

especially before from colombo, looking at the human cost of the fuel prices of democracy in cambodia and exiled opposition. leader tells us why upcoming local elections are so crucial in the country that doesn't tolerate descent. plus a cure for procrastinators. how these writers cafe in tokyo is forcing patrons to finish their work. ah. i british energy. welcome to the dublin news asia. glad you could join us. she lanka has sharply high fuel prices to a record high, causing further pain to the countries 22000000 people in it's was economic crisis since independence. she lanka has pretty much run out of fuel and that's been reported widely. but what we haven't seen so far is the desperation that

a common person is facing because of the drop in supply. how every single day in the country has become a battle for so many people. a battle for survival, d, w dot chaudry and shot again, but spent a day with auto richard driver, dylan simpson, in colombo. oh, since the fuels shorted us started in sri lanka, it's very difficult to find feel. so i have stayed with for 2 to 3 weeks and it's really hard to run my day to day life. even if i have to get feel, i have to stay the whole night to get, you know, better in the federal state. and so i have it on them, they're like, nope, it earlier. and because of the fuel, to be honest, i didn't get that in just i was like, staying in the queue for the whole week to get like if i get picked up today or tomorrow, tomorrow or the day and the after tomorrow to stay in the queue. again,

because of that reason, so i have to wait, we escaped monday to stay in the queue. i will be loosing passengers for the one. no, they don't get burned. and yeah, that's a big loss for me. if they only process going, i really said a bit. so it made me increase the vendors on the phone to price everything. and so you guys can go on, hey, the prices are normally they can be used to buy bid to have the tea in the evening. the price of the has been me doing t lake me you straight before you know, sometimes i stop at my 1st place. i think i was more said so he saw auto driver.

i have plenty of friends. so drive auto. yeah. they always have the i've been kept at their place because they couldn't find, feel right now at my house or you think i was annoyed. so costa. so this one really end up kiddos in medicine. we lost, they end up doing woods like came, haven't done engineering and it's hard to find a job and get my degree. it because i have a pending payment to be done. uh huh. so i thought they couldn't afford my money auto. and since this problem has been come up, it's very difficult for me to pay it, of course fees, some of my friends like $11.00, whatever the patrol station, like if they see in a process and bumping better, then quickly inform us. we all will get to get in and stay in the queue to get better. i have come here to bump it. my pen gave me some theory and that wouldn't

be enough for me to them the whole day. and i may have blocked my order there. i think i left away the whole night to get the safe. i'm lucky again, the fuel by tomorrow morning. i never thought that microphone cleveland up make me break nowadays. no. there will be a few things here, like i'd like to take some time for the country to recover that report by many, roger audrey and shot hammered to cambodia next, where citizens are set to head to the old early next month for local elections. the polls are being seen as a litmus test for the state of democracy in a country where the main opposition is band and the prime minister has held bar for 37 years. hutchinson is one of the longest serving heads of state in the world on his watch. the mean opposition, cambodia, national rescue party or c and r p was outlawed in 2017. just after local

elections. these government essentially unopposed. since then, while formal opposition members have been targeted by the ports and gentlemen are in the studio as sam raines is an exiled opposition leader and co founder of the cambodian national rescue party or c and r p. mr. izzy, welcome. cambodia is headed to local balls next month. yes. do you think they're going to be free and fair and democratic? unfortunately, no. because the standard of elections in cambodia is very low days. manipulation of all sought. and finally, the will of the people is never respected in cambodia. but there's also the question of the opposition. i mean, you go founded one of the largest opposition party that was banned in 2017. does anybody have an opposition? does the government have a challenge?

this a new opposition that has been a re establish our re emerging and at least there is an alternative for the people you talk about the candlelight party. can the lead party of what are the to what are it's john says going back to what you just said, there is manipulation and the government to get it pulls out all the stops to ensure that it gets the results it wants. what are the chances of the scandal i potty? dear possibilities that the candlelight party will recover some of the seats that belong to the sienna bee, and that have been confiscated by the ruling party. so it is better than nothing that days and other opposition a party, a trying to get positions at the local, local level to defend the interest of the people at the grassroots level. do you

think the dirt democratic change in cambodia will come from within from parties like the candlelight party or does it need to be forced on to can border by the international commute? it is a start. of course, we need the support of the international community in terms of monitoring to ensure that the coming elections in cambodia are not to manipulate it, that it will reflect at least a portion of ford the will of the people. do you see the possibility of burke and board in government would allow international observers to observe how this election closer to some extent. but my concern is that the government will dissolve the candlelight party as they have these over the sienna b, wendy. any opposition party gets stronger and stronger and able to

challenge the government than the government with these over that opposition party again. so the government reading and watching to see how the gambler party performs and these electrons. yes. and they are seeking any pretext, sir, to stop the momentum of the cadillac party. okay, let me just try not privy to like to prove it to another issue that the computer is involved with. the situation in miramar and i bring this up because cambodia is currently chair of the r c on grouping of nations. and in january earlier this year, prime minister one sam of cambodia became the 1st leader this off a country to meet the whole entire chief men on here. and there was criticism the this in many ways legitimized the hunters rule in me and mark is that what prime minister on said was actually trying to do. yes, sadly. and it is difficult for her to sign to give listen

to the military who didn't die in my, in math. because her couldn't sign. has these old, the opposition party has a jail opposition? leaders has i'll get a fake elections without the party station of the, at each. and this is exactly what the ability hunter should not knew, but couldn't st. cannot tell ability. who does not to do things that he has done himself in cambodia already. which breaks the question is, can border being sincere in trying to resolve the me and mark rises as chair of asi on, i think he just a solidarity among dictators will have to leave their sam ramsey, exile the opposition leader of the cambodian national rescue party. thank you so much. her. thank you for coming in and talk to us. ah, next for something we all struggle with. deadlines are generally hated but

necessary part of life. midweek, as we assess how much we have been able to complete and how much is still left to do, we thought of sharing a novel idea from japan on how to tackle deadlines. yes, more. ever try to rushing to meet a deadline and hating yourself. doing so. now here's the solution for procrastinators authors, illustrators, or anyone else with the to do list come pay or leave until their work is done. it's giving those haunted by unfinished business a much needed push. so my goal is to write 3 blog articles to day and i'll do my best to achieve that. i'm 3 hours later she made it. i had to write a good i. i finished about 80 percent of the work. i think it's good to be able to

concentrate on writing the articles without doing other unnecessary things. here's the concept. as soon as they entered a cafe customers must write down their work goals. the cafe staff would then check in on their progress. sometimes their presence alone is pressure enough to do either. it went viral on social media and people are seeing that at the goose or scary or that it feels like you're being watched from behind it. but actually instead of monitoring customers, i'm here to support that. you'll see the cafe was meant to be an entertainment venue, but a pandemic driven alcohol band forced the owner to rethink everything. now he says, beating procrastination has become his new purpose. why i'm a go care of the cost on which customers have written their work goals. i don't know what kind of work might be born here, but i'm proud that i was able to offer my support. so that scripts that were

written here could be published to the world upon completion, customers get a stand on their goal caught. that's when they can walk on the streets again with a sense of achievement and a stamp of approval as well. that's it for to birth is more than the region on our website did ever dot gov forward slash asia. and as ever you can follow us on facebook and twitter. it's you back here tomorrow. good bye. new south eases reservoirs. the himalayan glacier is their melting at breakneck speed. and pakistan in particular is on the brink of trout, agriculture. human lives, security are all under threat. mm. pakistan's battle for water.

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