the mediterranean, ah, it's waters connect people of many cultures. seen it almost rock and jaffar. abdul karim drift along with exploring modern lifestyles and mediterranean where has history left? its traces, meeting people, hearing their dreams ready to journey intended those sorts. august 14th on d. w. this is did other news asia coming up today? me and mars military consolidates its hold over the country. the hunter announces an extension of emergency rule putting a doubt when elections can actually be held. we asked what continued military rule means for the people of me in math and new social initiatives are bringing medical

facilities and doctors to millions of indians in the hinterland face despite the government program committed to doing the same. what has gone wrong? ah, i british energy, welcome to deed of the news asia, glad you could join us. mia mas, rolling hunter, has extended an ongoing state of emergency in the country by another 6 months on to a leader mean on key. ang also said elections could only be held once the country was stable and peaceful. the army seized far last year, alleging voter fraud in elections that gave a nobel laureate on thanks to cheese party, a majority. since then, master league for democracy, lawmakers including sushi herself, have been detained, and prosecuted an earlier promise by the hunter to hold elections by august next

year. looks tenuous as well. the head of members army made his comments in an address to the nation, saying his hand had been forced by the ongoing violence in the country that i wanted on their team. we made utmost efforts in discharging the state, cheated with might and main good, but internal and external terrorists, and that conspired to persons and organizations a committed to the utter devastation rather than the flourishing of democracy in myanmar. no hope you're doing. you've without woody teleaccount. joining me now for more is phil robinson from human rights watch fil, an extension of emergency room for another 6 months. what does this mean for the people of me and more? well, it means more violence. it means you're more human rights abuses. that means more suffering. i mean, there's no real surprise here that the state of emergency has been extended for another 6 months in myanmar. ah, the original structure of the qu, announcement back in february 2021,

was one year state of emergency with the possibility of to 6 month extensions. and we always thought that the generals would try to use that whole time period and quite clearly they're going to do that. and he's also talking about her talks with a rebel groups as well. does that mean that the army is perhaps on the back foot when it comes to dealing with these armed groups? well, there's been discussions by a senior gentleman online about various different cease fire discussions. even rolled that out when who and send went to visit back in january. or the reality is that there is no real cease fire talks of any sort of significance going on right now. ah, the, i think my armed organizations are all basically either fighting the military orse telling the military to stay out of their territory. and the pediatrics of course, are not backing off. so i think that we're seeing a, a deepening cycle of violence with probably increased human rights abuses, increased violence in the coming months,

no longer. and also talked about electoral reform or he wants to implement a proportional representation system. in addition to the 1st boss, the full system, why? well, i think what he really wants to do is he wants to have an election where on sanks, which he cannot run. and ultimately, the election commission is controlled by the military. you know, he's tinkering around the edges with various different mechanisms of how to, you know, count the votes of proportional representation. what have you, the reality is that none of this matters because no one is going to accept an election that is done under the auspices of the military junta as either free or fair, or even remotely legitimate. ah, we expect the heat, they may try to do that, but i think actually, what will happen is if they try to hold an election, given the current situation, myanmar, many of these are local militias. people's defense forces will probably end up

attacking the election machinery. now, given all that we have heard today, how confident are you that the military will step down at some point in the near term to make way for a democratically elected government? for instance. ah, my assessment of the likelihood of a transition from power of voluntarily by this military, the council is 0. ah, you know, the reality is that they want to continue to control power. min online was just quoted as saying that they want to quote, continue to strengthen the genuine in discipline multi party democratic system, which is the desired people. and in fact, that's not the desired, the people that desired the people as the restoration of the people that they voted for november 2020, which is on sans regina nationally for democracy were leave there for the time being filled robertson from human rights board. thank you so much for joining us today. and you ah,

some 60 percent of india has more than 1000000000 people live in rural areas, yet their access to health care remains poor. for instance, as of 2020, there were less than full beds for every 10000 people in rural india. and it's not just beds, shortages extend to health care centers and doctors. but as the, the blue nail jory reports new initiatives are beginning to change that the village of natal i and roger ton is home to about 1000 people for the passcode is the only doctor here. saker moved here from far away bank a loan, a metropolitan city. she wanted to serve people where it's needed the most. but this is a choice. few urban doctors make in india. i believe you need doctor that you don't understand until you come before me and i was reading human,

taking up medicine and i saw the doctor once i came in and it is very important when you were really teasing somebody like, you know, some even one iron out is like saving and i think i came to this hospital to an initiative called a hospital network which started in early 2022. the network is the brainchild of a dr. herself who was keen to fill a deficit that's depriving millions of people of medical help in india. specifically, it's very sad that 60 percent of our population is in durham, india, but only 30 percent of doctors. there's so there's definitely need to go to india, you know, not just for doctors, but for has get professionals what router hospital network has done is built a database which helps health care workers find replacements. the idea is to bring doctor's notice medical assistance to villagers like these that otherwise run the

danger of becoming medical. does this hospital have the come in? always has saker in the notes to see if they are able to resolve 3 quarters of the community's medical problems. right. he'll summer as the weight patients file in and out of the hospital all day. now there was no one else with a new doctor. he thinks a lot better. yeah. but the so that they treat his no matter what time of the night or day we come, they never closed the door on us as an inkling they say every week, 2nd on her team was at nearby villages to check children for fines of malnutrition . and they have to measure their weight and height keep record of their growth as well as advised the mothers on how to reduce the kids addiction to chips and crackers. we're not focusing on just thought, you know, how many people,

when they share what you really want to see the outcome you want to actually, you know, if you want to see the children grow up and they are growing, the hope is that the number of workers will to so that the future of food will health care media no longer hangs in the balance and journeymen are from or they pour in northern india is dr. permits are more hon. he's go founder and director of basic health care services and initiative that provides primary health care facilities in rural areas. a doctor more in your experience. what would you say is the main challenge rural india faces when it comes to accessing health care? so you know, in rural areas, the health facilities, the government health facilities are often very far and are often under job and have a quick provision of services there will be but have to really travel far and get

very little on the other hand, the private sector doesn't reach these areas because there's not much money to be made and the reserve that people are often left to think for themselves. and that is our to either traditionally those unqualified private providers with a pretty large number. i'm wondering why that is because india has had a national rural health mission in force since 2005 and this government program is meant to provide health care in rural areas. has that been a failure? no, i would not say that. what has happened is that there has been an expansion of infrastructure . there is also been an expansion of availability of drugs and supplies. in many places. there has been more people who have been engaged in the system, but there are a couple of problems. one is a design problem, one is an implementation problem. the design problem being backed in, especially in the more rural areas, people have to really walk a long distance is to reach the nearest facility. so they're looking for often,

far from where the border communities live. so that's kind of on to the claim of the job of the mountain across the river to region. facilities like this is a really bad because in general in india, and that is supposed to be at a population of 35000, not in 825000, maybe like mines. and people would not be able to reach the nearest functional facility. the other is more of an implementation problem and that problem is largely because often health providers, especially doctors, would not want to live in remote rural areas, particularly. but infrastructure is water and educational and professional opportunities are limited and that needs to get in accessible even if i think there is available to the doctor on, or someone who's been working with for to was providing healthcare in rural areas. what would you like to see happen to improve health care coverage? so i think of an important thing is to have,

so this is generally people. it's anchored, it cannot be one size fits all of saying that this is the design of a premier agent with the doctor and not to publish. and it has to be closer to where people live and the health services have to be responsive to what the communities need. in some media, for example, it's nick bites a really common problem. then you have to address that. if people are finding it, doctors are finding a difficult living book and remote areas, and you have to have a nurses, non physicians, and what we call as often as mid level it providers being trained to provide services, introduce technology to ensure that the quality services reach the lost mine, i think in india, one of the biggest problem is that the last minute people do not want to live in book and get out there for neglect, votes and the policy level and on the ground. you know, the example that i gave you that, you know, there may be no facility for 20 kilometers and you might have to blame them on your duty. there you find very little people. so i think if, unless the services are more decentralized, more responsive to people's needs,

the healthcare really and yet would remain far from from being adequate. dr. bertram on a pleasure talking to will have to leave it there for the time being unfortunate. thank you so much for joining us today. and that's it for today is of course more from the regional now website d, w dot com, forward slash asia. i'm as ever you can follow us on facebook and twitter as well. we're back tomorrow. at the same time, we'll see you then, bye. ah ah, what people have to say matters to us. but me, that's why we listen to their stories. reporter every weekend on

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but hungry is especially hot it. and it's not because of the war. and as tensions rise over time, one that you ways to take steps to isolate it's economy from china and taiwan. i've been phys, woolen, let's do business. a 1st shipment of ukrainian grain has set off from the port of odessa, even as the war with russia rages. it's sailing under an internationally broken deal designed to release large stores of ukrainian crops to foreign markets. the ship and ships to come a being monitored from a control center in turkey along safe shipping lines. it's hub, ukrainian grain can ease a growing global crisis. as far as hunger goes to wrestle is carrying $26000.00 tons of corn, and we'll head 1st to turkey for inspections, then on to lebanon, ukrainian official, se unlocking ports will provide at least $1000000000.00 annually, and foreign exchange revenues for the economy.