they invade our private lives through surveillance, secretive what's true. it doesn't matter. the only criteria is worked will who people will ship light on the opaque world who's behind the benefits. and why are they a threat to us all? take worlds this week on d, w. you're watching d. w. news, asia coming up today. angry young men protest across india. unhappy with the new military recruitment process. will the moody government back down or push ahead with the changes despite the violent disruptions also in the show,

monsoon range hit both india and bangladesh. causing dozens of deaths and impacting millions of people, plus the debate to make hindi, the national language of india. the modi government wants it, but millions of indians do not speak the language. ah, i melissa chan, thanks for joining us. tens of thousands of mostly young men across india are protesting. a new military recruitment plan called agnes path. it establishes a 4 year employment term after which just 25 percent of soldiers would be retained . that effectively reduces the chances for many people of a multi decade military career with a nice pension. protests have turned violent with many gathering at transit points

and sitting rail coaches on fire. the government has said the reforms are necessary in order to modernize the military. more than half the defense budget currently goes to salaries and benefits with $1400000.00 members. the military is one of the country's largest employers. joining us is a jazz shook like he's a journalist and a retired colonel of the indian army. welcome to the program. thank you. so good idea or bad idea. what do you think about this new hiring and retention plan where lou, it's like this. of the indian army which ever bloated way beyond what would be or rationally possible to sustain or have to be controlled somehow. and this is a scheme that is directed squarely at controlling personnel costs. currently,

the indian army spencer, from its budget, about 75 percent on personnel costs, which include salaries and benches. and that leaves just 10 to 15 percent for equipment for modernization, for weaponry or the navy and the air force are somewhat better. they spend 25 to 30 percent on personnel cost, so they have more left for weapons and equipment. but the bottom line is man bark oss have to be got in the scheme as directed towards doing that. it, sir, also directed towards making a more youthful young profile for the indian army ha. torps to lower the average age from 32. 0, years to about 20 in 6 years. and so what you will be left with at the end of the sort of recruitment plan that's been bought is a sort of stiff, central core of people who have served longer and or

a more youthful soldiers who come and go for 4 years at a time and it also results in reserves, being there for emergencies and a, you know, you, you have more people going out at a younger age into the civilian world. what needs modernizing in the indian military, that this is necessary? where love it, sir, it's of military that it has a, an equipment, profile of former soviet union weaponry and russian weaponry up it, there, there is, there is very little indigenous weaponry, a repertory that is built in india. so to that extent, so it's, it's sort of oriented towards a, an eastern block of grouping profile. now, the personnel costs we've already talked about are too high, and there's less money left for buying weaponry. so that means that the sort

of weaponry profile is generally obsolescent. and you know, you have a situation where you need more modern weaponry, and somehow you've got to find the money in the budgeting process. how would you rate india's military compared to others in the region? i imagine the concerns are china. i look at pakistan, is that what the government is looking at when they are looking at changing the budget around her? yes, absolutely. it's a 2 front situation of we've got to do face the chinese on the north and the pakistan is on the west of the 2 of them are generally acting sort of continents with each other. so you've got a 2 front profile or from the external viewpoint, and you have a half front profile as the strategic plan, as like to call it, of,

from the insurgency in kashmir. so the indian army with it, with about one point for 1500000 soldiers, sailors, airmen have to deal with the spoof frank situation. oh, it's also got apart from a 15000 kilometer land border with these 2 countries. it's got a 7500 kilometer maritime border with the indian ocean as well. so you've got to have a strong navy, the indian navy styles itself as the gatekeepers to the indian ocean. they control and that sort of exercise order in the international shipping lanes to the, to the south, which gary practically 85 percent of the world's creed to and from china. oh, so all in all it, sir. it's a very heavily dusk military. it's got its job, got out for it, and it's trying to make the best use of what are generally limited resources,

india as a poor country, as i shall. i thank you so much for joining us. my pleasure. sticking to south asia monsoon rains had hit both bangladesh and india triggering flash. 7 floods and impacting millions of people doesn't have died and darker calls in the countries worst flooding. in almost 20 years. the eastern indian stayed at a sandwich borders bangladesh has also been hit with the government sending in the military to help with rescue efforts. help finally arrives to the relief of beleaguered villagers. soldiers pull this army raft, rescuing people, stranded by days of flooding in some state. and not just people more and more arrive for assistance to them until there is no more room

and all on board are brought to safety. survivors describe the dangers they faced. amaya betty database in our village got flooded 5 days ago, but i believe my name is and yeah, and in the last 3 days the water rose further ever monet level. our house got flooded with waste level water, m. o m. i said, there's no way we can stay in our house and, and we don't have drinking water and there are no sanitary facilities. we're asking the government for relief and help. the brom petra, one of asia's largest rivers breached its bud embankments, submerging much of a som state millions are in need of help. the situation had been a little rim because there had been heavy, involves, abbas food is, and the whole of us army in under and the quantum depends. oh,

it varies from place to place. down stream, much of bangladesh, likewise under water it. and here 2 millions are still believe stranded hostile high districts near the indian border or the worst effected quality for bangladesh is a low lying country, vulnerable to flooding and the effects of climate change. in recent years, both it and india have experienced increasing extreme weather. and both researchers and activists say, climate change will probably lead to more disasters. language is key to any groups identity, which means attempts to standardize language or pick one as the national language becomes controversial. in india, prime minister nor render modi is keen to make hindi, the national language. there are dozens of different languages spoken by millions of people across the subcontinent. that proponents say having one main language

would help with communication and unity. i the 2nd whose students are learning conjunctions in hindi. see the language is spoken widely in india and now it's at the center of a follicle debate. prime minister nadine, the more these government wants to make him thee india's national language. jeremiah is that got to get that up and the indian governments proposal to make hindi, the national language. jessica mother got a hello ma'am. offices me officially. it is been used. it has not expanded to the to different states in the country. i've had a lot to look at our deal me in the back up real estate attorney holder, but it is, it should become the national language. so its importance increases is comma and like younger generation feels attached to it. the matchbook also must be the scheduling. but some experts worry that giving him the more prominence has

a political agenda died to. he knew nationalism. there are many in these. there are many i ended. however, in the course of the, in the movement of the 20th century, the food avp has been thought to be raised in the name, all kind of reversion. real good, which is good i heard from from this is pure cultural broad. and this cultural fraud is repeated in class room room and has been for the last 2 years, according to india as 2011 sensors. hindi is the 1st language of a 44 percent of indians. it's spoken mostly in the north of the country, but by no means everywhere it look like your belly and it has a name on the feed, in poor languages was of him, the english and darby. and although m b that lambert bitter languages of india,

a bag mentally b the linguistic i was thinking of this when you move on maybe uh, depending on building with big demography. india has over 120 major languages, but no single nation language in denison must have it. so there's no harm in having a one. great. it in issue better, but then people are more, you know, he, him to learn in b because i've thrown in days one lesson but many people from india as non, hindi. speaking state view, this plan as an imposition on their own unique culture. i don't believe he needs to be a 4 is done anyway, and i don't think that you know, opposing the 2nd language doesn't match. the language would be beneficial to either

the north of the south because then it wouldn't be a guy was going to be as it is to do whether that diversity remains in place is now a question of politics and father. that's it for now we leave you with some more pictures of the flooding that's head eastern india and bangladesh with sh, her, i'm just kinda, i think that's hard and in the end is a me, you are not a lot as to you anymore. we will send you back. are you familiar with this

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