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it is linked to climate change. ah, i'm british manager, 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 go founder of fact checking website. old news. he and his colleagues are at the forefront of fighting fake news and 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 police thought to take action. and gentlemen, are from always political commentator shook swain. he's also a professor of peace and conflict research at upside university in sweden. shock moment zubair was the one who initially highlighted

a ruling bgp spokespersons deducted comments on the private mama and it eventually led to wide diplomatic condemnation from the muslim world. is the bears arrest payback? yes, it's a site, but it was, it is predictable because the present indian government has this way of getting it could be exposed to 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 wage for silence it. and i think this is part of so that's why i say it's not surprising. but i think we need to realize that though, when the critics also come from the well minority community actions are the reactions of the pay back become extremely severe. because that

in one sense it walks towards silencing all those students that are voice and all the ways that also it help store. it seems on supporters. happy talk to us a bit about the work that's 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 e p o, that i have been india. i mean, that have been some news always, but for the last 80 years that it has been no restriction 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 this

started in india, this kind of trick new storage. so it, it is, it is a kind of number, a couple of people starting this, i'm trying to find, i mean, they were think about not only collecting or they are bringing pets, checking the agent or the ruling party, or the 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 broad. 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 are you was withheld by twitter after a 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 . arrest spot protests and moved by and deli civil lab has campaigned for 2 decades for justice, for the victims of the 2002 hindu muslim rides in goods, rob state, indian prime minister, them during the movie who led the state of the time was indicated 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 go private over india. democracy for the last 3 decades have been widely silenced, partly being accommodated. we didn't, the ruling party made that day on the structure, but i think most of the people will have been from us even society is that they have been put into, you know, in all kinds of problems or problem solve such a case. 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 do their web reagan. so that had been a number of accidents have been taken against us even society. we've been in india and approached those kind of 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,

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 doc. kind of the 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 pretty speech. it's being called, being in all sorts of manner in the country. it was here in germany, only the g 7 yesterday. the pan mr. no ends are more the 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 4 days. if you look at the last 80 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 meet my, anyone who is connected to me, my colleagues, my so they also get to try to because of my, when i raised surprises, my us against stopped working on in india. so i think it is, it is somehow the look at you, you mentioned the oddest of possible bog they before, but the been people will have been would know that there was an anti muslim variety placed in goods out in 2002 when mister moby was the chief finished our state and the people, those 3 people. but why really brought this issue up on tried to give the justice 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 habit, besides the social activist who has been a poor front of bringing justice, the people that have been all lasted so that i think the number of people will have been out is good because of bringing both. i mean, it's not only it might have on the bus and called spam swami. 8 year old person who we was even at s w, died in the gym. so there are number of active 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. sharks way in from obsolete invest in sweden. thank you so much. i it's my pleasure. nice talking to wish 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 countries northeast the u. n. c's there. 3.5000000 children are in need . nearly 4000 people so far have contracted water bone diseases. authorities and 8 groups are rushing to distribute relief supplies. it's 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 shelter at 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 we're wanting to hold on a lot. i don't, we don't want to go, 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, harness abandoned millions in some have been effected.

this is the city of sil char, in southern awesome. the place has been water logged for over a week. and along with days of stagnant water, everywhere comes the threat of waterborne disease at makeshift medical facilities like this one, people have been reporting symptoms by man will. i will order the back. i am at one 0 john and p like the locals have fever and coughing, blah, blah, in some areas where people are suffering from diarrhea to the diary. ivy hold i the highest number of health conditions are turning out to be skin diseases. scientists say climate change is a factor behind dis, seasons erratic 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,

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