every thursday on d w i n p k a here in iowa, sexual assault survivor stem to stay with the 2 women in asia. it peaceable. nothing can stop me. that is out with this week. with this is did up the news asia coming up today. heavy rain turns deadly in sold at least 8 people around the south korean capital in some of the heaviest downpours in decades. how our policy is responding and why wasn't the city bed and the shortage of essential, empty ha,

the medication is putting lives at risk in india. an activist explains how the price is, could have been avoided. ah, i'm british manager, welcome to the w news asia. glad you could join us. at least 8 people are dead and others missing after heavy rain swamp cyril's metropolitan region. the rain began on monday morning and had intensified by evening. in one part of the city. it was the most amount of rain fall in 80. yes, the weather office has predicted maureen fall in the coming days. like fountains along the streets, the cereal sea all filled up with water turning rose into rivers. it even drowned the upscale district of gun them, known for its design outlets and high and cars. people thought they would be safe

hill now humble. plenty is all. i couldn't believe that i was trapped in a building with 40 other people in the middle of gang of district due to floods. it reminds me of the titanic. i was so scared my 2 little sons were waiting at home. so i wanted to go back home, which was only 10 minutes away, but i couldn't possibly move. and that situation was unbelievable. today i finally began to feel the impact of climate change. all these things are caused by it. climate change is believed to be making rains, heavier and more erratic. this was south korea's worst rainfall in decades. the consequent flooding toned deadly and brought buses and some waste to a halt. road and hundreds of buildings had been damaged. theodore high and shocked by the damage. the same thing happened around 11 years ago, and it is sad that the government has not taken any measures. put the latter south

. korea's president had been criticized for handling the disaster remotely. from home, but only tuesday, he was in flood affected areas to see how bad the situation is jumbled on july, the government should review the current disaster management system from scratch. we need to account for these abnormal weather conditions caused by climate change. check on tor hamner. and that happens, people are picking up the pieces, building things back up. but the rain hasn't stopped and is expected to continue for days to come. but get more of the story from frank smith her in there, sir. all frank, how bad is it and is more to come? it's really bad. $141.00 milliliters in one hour. that's an 80 year old record that stood since 1942. now, tuesday morning, this morning, people were told to,

to go back to work. it had dried up a little bit to emergency crews were repairing things pumping out some of the water . but then it started to rain again. at my location. i was looking over a sort of small stream that has a, a walkway of stones or across it. and i was going to go for a bike, right. it was drying up and then it started raining again. the stones across the street stream have been submerged at and 2 meters above that. the entire walkways and bite paths on either side of the stream are now submerged to the tops of trees. there is a bridge for traffic going across the stream and people are stopping down and looking at the water just streaming down would had been a stream which, which is now river and you can see debris and trees and tree stumps and,

and logs also flowing down this river. busy as this unprecedented, you know, a rain storm has, has struck the south green capital, sol and the current surrounding young, the province here, brush. incredible stuff that you're saying, a franca power product is responding. well, they've been taking a lot of heat. emergency crews have been out there have been reports actually of, of one emergency crew member actually dying being electrocuted while trying to, to do some work. busy busy but most of, i think the criticism is, is political, at least some of it. if you look, you'll is, is the president, he moved the presidential office to a different location in that new presidential office is being remodeled and, and refurbished for him. so he's still living at home and community he left for home last night on monday night sort of when this intense storm,

this monsoon struck the the capitol region and he didn't get back to his office in the morning. so he's under a lot of criticism for working from home during this critical period. he did get out to one of the locations that was seriously a flag effected by this flooding. many homes in south korea are sometimes part way underground. there are semi basements in, so you visited one of those to sort of try to reassure people, the government's doing the best they can brush frank smith in soil. thanks so much for bringing that up. did ah, a group of h. i. we and aids patients in india's capital city, delia protesting and acute shortage of anti retroviral drugs facing the government agency that distributes the medicines, has asked them to switch their regimen due to the shortage. and that's putting

their lives in danger. these protests have gone on for 3 weeks. patients waiting in wayne for free h i v medication. the thought some have found the drugs, but they say it's not enough. instead of giving us drugs for one month, they're giving us drugs for $10.00 to $15.00 days, sometimes just by dis, they keep postponing it. and beth did not start recently. it's been going on for 6 months. patients must then keep coming back and that costs time that many don't have tv with him. the only other option mr. buy from pharmacies that still have ample supplies. but prices are too high for most family. me 15, some families, 3 to 4 people are h i v positive oral care through the week. so how will they be able to buy

medicines? many people have no choice but to go without them or the without the medication. all of these patients are at risk of developing resistance to the drugs, timing and consistency ocoee. yet, despite what these protest healthy india's health ministry said, there is no shortage at all. and gentlemen, are from delhi, is warner bologna and h, i v rights activist, and part of the national coalition of people living with h, i v in india, visible on it, what is causing the shortage of anti retroviral medicines. ah, so this short stage when you do not attend by the nationalist organization and it was being delayed. so the gap for the time being happens like there are some medicine shots and the status and was just trying

to locate the medicines. so this is the, basically the reason for that. but, but why does something like this happened? this is, i mean, india had an age program for quite some time under which every positive people receive medicines for free. one would imagine that this would have been streamlined by now. why does this problem keep happening? that back on. so neck also can do, but being the community activist, i can see like there are some your main gaps. so i would say like there is some lack of monitoring from the national and so site and the estimation for the before the star was not timely. put up. so that is the main reason, but that can be streamlined by mac and ministry of has by keeping the system in place before the same. and i would say like there should be some spin

processes in supply chain management. we are being a community. we can also watch dog and we can get the got into stations for the supply chain of the medicines. the issue was the gaps gets in the procurement from the center site. so that is the basic reason and you do that some of the medicine which was going on for long for the community which was shifted on the other a gym and that's why it's happened. so does that mean that the government is not actually serious about procuring medicines for every positive people? some extent i can say that, but they do that is the, this issue of the monitoring toward the monitoring of the, the stocks at the state level as well as at the gone level which was lacking from the macro site and being a community. we also what efforts to facilitate that relocation process from

a state to state and just stick to districts. but yes, there are lacking of the mechanism to ensure the supply chain management. so we also boys and try as requested to mac or nbc is committed to of, to be online, to be transparent and be a big with the communities or the systems from this month or so. last month we had a meeting and we get assurance on that like this problem will not receiving next financial yet. so we are hopeful, but it's still the problem isn't we don't. yeah, i'm going to, it's unfortunate that you as a member of the community and the entire community has to take such pains to try and get the medicines that it needs to help us understand what is the impact on individual living with h i v. if they can't get the medicines that they need said they're out

of it in the i guess lake where the medicine, they are not able to get there getting the medicine but the, the supplement with them. and so there are some kind of they were following the actually zimmerman since so many years, but new to the short of what we've this shifted on the other medicine. so these are the challenges facing by the community members. and i would say like we did, i mean, the biggest issue for us. so we did take medicine are not given on time to the susan. so that is the biggest issue and again and again like this kind of short, this should not be happen for the children. so that is the main concern for us and for i don't know. so there are some fitness was lacking. the fitness in those when we are transiting both system to the state and local procurement, then most of preparedness should be done by the national level. so being a community with which we are facing that lacking from the macro site. so

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