a extreme rough getting 200 people around the world, more than 300000000 people are seeking refuge. yes. why? because no one should have to flee. make up your own mind. d. w. made for mines. this is did after years aisha coming up to date, back to school in the philippines. some 28000000 students have returned to interesting classes in the country after 2 years. a go with closures. but they're all sort of talking to huge challenges including infrastructure issues and none in

gaps. we're in manila for more plus time on the government wants people to know where the nearest every child is in the event of a chinese attack. the problem is not everyone thinks those shelters are adequate. and as part of china, a severe drought, we look at one plan to make it brain. ah, i'm british manager, welcome to the w news. asia ledger could join us school students in the philippines have returned to plaza for the 1st time in 2 years. schools had been shot so far due to the coven pandemic. stim, not all schools have reopened. only about 46 percent of public schools have been able to resume operations. the rest will follow a mix of in person, an online classes till the 2nd of november. when old schools are required to bring

students back into the classroom. it's the 1st time in 2 years, they have set food in a classroom. when the cove at 19 pandemic hit schools who shut their dolls and switch to remote lessons on zoom. now students are returning for face to face lessons and they're eager to learn. here and actually enjoy learning and actually the person c, c, n, zill, glasses and the when you're learning online, it's just it's just, it doesn't feel like fun. but as lessons resume old problems a re emerging large class sizes like of infrastructure and poverty are all contributing to an alarming illiteracy rate among children. now teaches fair classroom closures have made the education crisis. even worse. i had

a bonus included in the 2 years they were studying online. they had very limited time to study since it's just 30 minutes per subject. okay. 30 minutes lang, birth object. let my body in a face to face class. there's a longer time for studying where they can learn different skills and competencies if scares and compet than fees at my from a high bank, i the lack of ada despite the clear advantages of in person classes, less than a half of the country schools have fully reopened some like classrooms. others are affected by natural disasters. teachers at this school. i'm glad they're among the lucky ones. i need them. i was so happy when i saw them. yeah. i think especially when i saw the joy on their faces. yes. a mom behind the la tampa. this is our chance to give them our best as teachers and focus on teaching them. because we know how difficult it was for them. and for us during the pandemic and any,

let me like the island i made no by no, no by name. yeah. adjusting to life in the classroom won't be easy for everyone. but the teachers at this school hope do soon limber up to learn a lot. this year the kids are certainly happy, but there are a number of concerns here as well. let's get more from journalist alex, uncle in manila, alex schools have been shot for 2 years, but still only about 46 percent of them have reopened. why is that? aside from the slow vaccine rollouts and it needs anything to elections, i mean there are some schools that are damaged by the calamities that are happening in the philippines, like the facial incentive recent earthquakes. so these schools are transitioned to either blended learning or are still continuing their distance learning. that's just a moment. allison, in the midst of all of this, the units are philippines is wanting of learning poverty amongst her children

essentially were due to school clothes, as many children aren't able to read and understand simple text to the age of 10 years. how does the philippines government plan to tackle this or vice president also, our secretary for education has mandated that all schools private and public must go back to in person learning by november to they are. they have also mentioned to the senate that they are studying the possibility of institutionalizing blended learning as a permanent mode of instruction in the basic education. and her has the covert pandemic in general. also, given the government pause to actually consider the priority it gives to education or the department of education is given parity in the annual budget. but because of the pandemic, it has exposed gaps a wither access the internet, our technology,

and even i am structure. and we still are facing problems, lake lack of classrooms. i teachers, and our school model still needs to be updated as well. and these are decades old problems that are still currently being addressed. we'll leave it there. thank you so much for joining us today on this subject. alex on carl, speaking to us from manila, thank you so much. and just to show how difficult the situation can be for school kids in the philippines just a day after classes restarted, many of them were cancelled again because of a ferocious tropical storm. the strong wind and rain haunted the government to shut down schools and public offices in the capital manila, an outlying provinces. yes, hoping the school closures won't continue. as long as the last one ah, to taiwan now an island living under the constant threat of invision. china claims

the island as part of instead a tree and has vowed to seize it one day by force. if necessary, this month, join i made of that thread clearer than ever staging its log stover comrades. rules in the sea and a space around taiwan that show of military might was in direct retaliation to what b jing sees as stepped up. you are support for taiwan following a high profile visit by us. how speaker nancy pelosi. i since then more us lawmakers and officials have made their way to to be after receiving the governor of indiana on monday to day time when he's president saying when welcomed another u. s. delegation and she had defiant words for them. taiwan has fought off china before and we'll do it again. destiny changed at 64 years ago, our sued uses civilians made sure we have our democratic taiwan today. hey, why? why we value that battle. show the blow that no threat should shake the taiwanese people resolved to defend themselves. not now and not in the future if she was

referring there to china's shelling of ty, ones, kenman and matt. so islands in 1958 of those battles. and the recent civil rattling from b jing have made preparing air lead shelters, a key part of tie one civil defense strategy. but as did up lose, jerry chan reports. not everyone thinks those shelters are adequate. these yellow signs everywhere across taipei. they showed the locations and the capacity of thousands of airy shelters where people can hide in case of an attack. now, a smartphone app has been launched that shows a real time map. so users can quickly find a nearest shelter of his so swan to residence, to get familiar with these spots in subway stations, car parks, and the ground shopping malls, and even basements of private properties. this is one of the many carpets in the

city that can also serve as an error, a shelter. however, we cannot see any signs of water or emergency supplies and that is a problem advocacy group say many of these shelters are very poorly equipped. fiona hill. mendoza. taiwan is hot and humid and car parks don't have any air conditioning in their own sanitary facilities. it's not suitable to serve as a long term shelter. it's been a ways and so b, o k t, at least to super defense efficacy group militia, taiwan association, his organization regularly hose, 1st aid and self defense classes for the pup lake go. apart from the lack of facility saucier is worried about the reliable s as to these shelters of on that you all know about the how many basements in these residential buildings are occupied. there might be use the storage space, and the not properly maintained. val could even be blocked away and some lessons. this is of a form that on top of what will happen in the worst case scenario. if china attacks

and analyst at a government fund, institute of national defense and security research told us these shelters at different from what many people expect her to says, i do think the conveyor supposed to provide temporary protection when an air strike occurs, you're looking funky, says that the hall county of missile attacks are usually over a very short time is 3 to 4 minutes among jolla is they might also go on for a couple of hours. so for the so, so, so, so facility such as ventilation or drinking water supplies are usually not part of the shelter designs. she says, the bosses i will move unquote, be nose for the waco anemia. the most important thing is that people know where the shelters are. chen set, that's many talent. these people have grown. none to be changed, repeated shows or force over the years. so now the government not only has to

maintain security facilities. it also faces the challenge of keeping up post vigilance. china says it's been trying to protect its green harvest from intense drought by using chemicals to generate rain, the country suffering a severe water shortage after its hottest and dry st. saba since the government began keeping room full records 61 years ago. but can china or any one really changed the weather, firing rockets into the clouds and hoping for rain these meteorology workers in china's hu bay province, or participating in a 3 month project now. sure, hoping to save this year's grain harvest people around the world have been trying to seed clouds for decades. but it's not clear whether it really works. what is clear is that southern china's farms need water badly. hello, are you home made

a situation is like this every year with them, but we will have to find new solutions to a guy that they along that for example, we will build up, natalie to block the sun one guy pendleton, and irrigate every day with him without, and we will install automatic spray systems to reduce our loss of excellent, loosely, clearly against our level. since the mach one way to get water to the fields is to divert rivers and reservoirs using heavy duty pumps. rice paddies require a huge amount of water and are especially sensitive to drought any met without timely irrigation. the rice would buckle, which would lead to crop failure longer, but reservoirs are already depleted by the hot, dry summer. oh yeah, that's why authorities are trying everything to save the harvest, whether the technology is proven or not. and before we go more effect of the drought in china, the giant lashaun but dust i true of the conflicts of the mean and da da rivers can

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