extremely, we're in a minute. mm hm . with ah, 50 to avenues asia coming up today. government critics under attack in india. when he's arrest a prominent fact checker, put a tweet posted 4 years ago and he's not the only one facing the government's roth. he's india at ball with members of its civil society and get out of it. floods have

forced millions from their homes in india as a sam state, a years worth of rain has arrived in just weeks. scientists say the extreme mother is linked to climate change. ah, i'm british manager, you're welcome to d w. news asia. glad you could join us when he's in india, have arrested one of the country's most prominent and respected fact checkers for a court highly provocative tweet. mama deborah is co founder of fact checking website. old news, he and his colleagues are at the forefront of fighting fake news on social media with facts. he was arrested on monday evening for a tweet from march 2018, a tweet that was sitting around on twitter for 4 years before someone complained, and ponies thought to take action. and joining me now from always political

commentator shoak swaying his also professor of peace and conflict research at satellite universe. d in sweden, shock a moment's banner, was the one who initially highlighted a ruling b, j. b spokespersons derogatory comments on the private mama and it eventually led to wide diplomatic condemnation from the muslim world. is a barrier to the rest payback? yes, it's a side, but it was, it's predictable because the present indian government has this way off flaw targeting it's great big stones will decide it's a policy, it's a politics or corruption or whatever is going on. if anyone is a critic, they don't take it lightly, so they usually try to put up so fall, wait for silence it. and i think this is a part of it. so that's why i say it's not surprising. but i think we need to

realize that though, when, but critics also come from the minority community actions of the reactions of the pay back become extremely severe. because that in one sense it walks towards silencing all those stories that a voice and all the ways that also it helps store it dims on supporters. happy talk to us a bit about the work that bad and his colleagues are doing at all the news and the place that all the news has in india today. you know, the oh, the last 78 d e a t o that i have been india. i mean that have been some news always. but for the last 80 years that it has been not a strict some on even the top leadership of the country. it's giving statements which do not really i mean there are lots of fake news out all around in the world

. and india has been really badly affected. and this all new which came in after, you know, this started in india, this kind of trick, new storage as it is, it is a kind of number or a couple of people starting this. i'm trying to find, i mean, they want to think about not only collecting or they are bringing, checking the engine or the rolling party, but then also fact sticking opposition leaders to. but of course, the, the most of the new address coming from the ruling party and it's really party supporters. and they were doing the fact checking. and that was really brought, i mean, that was also been covered by the indian. some of the indian journalists, i think, and i would say and that made them quite a target of the present government. i'd like to get your perspective on the why the attacks that civil society in india is facing. but 1st, i'd like to offer our view as a few examples from just the past 4 days,

beginning with what happened on sunday. read a tweet by prominent journalist or not, or you was withheld by twitter after the request to do so over the indian government. and she treated about an ongoing dispute to do with a mosque that hindu nationalist claim was a temple are you routinely faces online harassment and death threats from right being trolls due to her investigative work. and then a day before on saturday police arrested well known activist d stuff set up in room by for allegedly committing forgery and fabricating evidence . her arrest spock protests and moved by and deli. hipaa has campaigned for 2 decades for justice, for the victims of the 2002 hindu muslim rides in goods rod, state indian prime minister them during the movie who led the state of the time was implicated in the killings. several of the rest came off of the supreme court, rejected her petition, challenging the clean, chit, given 2 more the i sure would like to come back to you on this. now,

is the indian state essentially at war with civil rights activists? yes, i think it has been of course, it is not new. it has been put on the indian civil society, which was the pride of her indian democracy for the last 3 decades. have been watley silenced, partly being accommodated within the rolling party made that day on the structure. but i think most of the people will have been from us even society. how is that they have been put into, you know, in all kinds of problems or problem solve social cases. i've been taken place. most of the students will be leaders. they can't even come out of the country. they don't even possible to get the funding from outside. we just did their web reagan. so that had been a number of accents have been taken against us even society. we've been in india and the trips dodge kind of an online traits are quite common. it has been

for some time, i mean they did a long time, but the question is it's more they did the online trips when it comes from the particularly the government. it makes it too much more problematic because many of this, well, it's offices in different parts of the country, directly threatening dog. kind of people don't watch even so sorry. active is to trying to bring out the route or what they were getting the good to the the free speech. it's being called, being in all sorts of manner in the country. and in germany, only the g 7. yesterday, the pan mr. net in the movie signed onto a statement on god guarding the freedom independence and diversity of civil society active. does this pledge ring hollow with everything we have seen in the past 4 days and everything you have just told me?

absolutely not only last for days, if you look at it the last 8 years, this is the, this doesn't make sense. india is the leader in the war to silence the internet. i mean, if you look at that, i mean, then that have been many of the people don't get trips. i live in law suite and i also get every day and not only me my, anyone who is connected to me, my colleagues, my so 40 years they also get to because of mine when i raised surprises most against what went on in india. so i think it is, it is somehow the look at you, you mentioned the oddest of the stuff up of the day before, but the, i've been, people will have been, will know that there was an anti muslim variety, took place in goods out in 2002, when mister moby was, the 2 finished our state and the people,

those 3 people. but why really brought this issue up on trying to get adjusted to the victims sunjay party senior. i appreciate the sequel mater and other students on new port has been jim for a long time. now sickle, modern people subtle bob, both habits besides the social activist who has been a forefront of bringing justice to people that have been all lasted. so that i think the number of people will have been out yesterday because of bringing. but i mean it's not only it might have are the bus and called span swami. 8 year old person who we was even at s w, died in the gym. so get our number of active in the water really being suffering in the handle the bridge and because they are trying to bring proof to the people will leave it there. thank you so much for joining us today or shock. swain from obsolete invest in sweden. thank you so much i it's my pleasure. i stuck into wrist

. ah, a quick look now at some other stories in the region that we are currently watching . thoughts of central and southern china have been swamped by record floods this month. more than half a 1000000 people have been evacuated by rescue teams. heavy rains, forget landslides, cut off roads and swept away homes. scientists say some of floods are common in china, but warned. this year's forecast was said to be extreme and is more evidence of climate change. safe drinking water is the big concern in bangladesh. off the record, flash flooding swamped the country's ne, the un sees the 3 point. 5000000 children are in need. nearly 4000 people so far have contracted water bone diseases. authorities and age groups are rushing to distribute relief supplies, if the worst flooding to hit the ceiling region in more than a 100 years. catastrophic flooding in india, northeastern, as sam state as well,

around 5 and a half 1000000 people here have been displaced. those who can have found sheltered camps set up by the government and humanitarian groups. authorities say they are treating thousands of people for waterborne diseases. relief teams are also trying to reach communities that are completely cut off without food or clean water victims and rescuers, all in the same boat people marooned in what's being called a sams, worst flooding in years ferried to safety. officials say hundreds of camps have been set up and that victims are getting the essential. so one of the older one i was, i don't recall monday we went to villages in the worst hit areas. people had earlier received 3 days of aid. now we've given them 5 days worth of help. this is an inaccessible area. they'll also get rice and wheat away. many areas are completely under water. temples inundated and of course homes

abandoned millions in some have been effected. this is the city of sil char, in southern us. um the place has been waterlogged for over a week. and along with days of stagnant water, everywhere comes the threat of waterborne disease. it makes shift medical facilities like this one. people have been reporting symptoms by man will. i will put it back on any of them at one 0, john and p like the locals have fever and coughing up blood, blah, in some areas where people are suffering from diarrhea to a diety. ivy, what i, the highest number of health conditions are turning out to be skin diseases. scientists say climate change is

a factor behind this season's erotic and early rains. though the area is no stranger to flooding, it typically takes place later in the year. when monsoon reins are well underway, this year's torrential rainfall hit the region as early as march and that's it, thought it is, and use asia as ever. there's more from the region on our website, the w dot gov, forward slash is sure and you can as our follow us on twitter and facebook as well . we're back again tomorrow. at the same time. we'll see you then or by ah, did meet tina a saxophone operator who wrote her master's thesis on put potato raring to read and not turn on. well,

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