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oh, come to tech, told me about hackers. i was between your systems, computers that were you and government go crazy for your data. we explain how these technologies work out with how they can also terribly watch. you know, you're watching d. w news, asia coming up today, a political march on pakistan's capital has turned violent with former prime minister in wrong hon. shock and injured will have the latest and will also explain what this march has been all about. and deadly drugs. the case
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of dangerous cough syrup. manufactured in india scars, the country's reputation as a top pharmaceuticals producer. ah, i'm melissa chad. thanks for joining us. pakistan's former prime minister in ron con is in the hospital recovering from minor surgery after what his aids are calling in assassination attempt. the suspected gunman was arrested immediately and please say he was acting alone. con was shot while leading a day's long march from the city of wazir. a bud to the capital is all my bod. it's to demand a snap. elections. con was removed from office in a no competence boat earlier this year. a warning our report contains some graphic images. ah, there is
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a party atmosphere is emron. cons convoy rolls into town. ah, good then out of nowhere, a series of gunshots. fill the air. and pakistan's, former prime minister, goes down, his quickly carried away and taken to a place of safety. clearly in pain, he separated gunshot wound, scans, late revealing bullet fragments in his leg. and he's not the only one injured of the iran. connie's safe and being golden. one friend has died. some others are seriously injured. why a little while later, the 70 year old appears again outside waving to supporters before being moved into a car and driven to hospital for treatments. lou, this was the 7th day of an anti government protest. march led by the former cricket at turn. politician, he's demanding new snap elections after being ousted as prime minister in a conference vote in april. speaking earlier this week,
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he insisted the rallies would be peaceful. i don't see any vitamin because we've run to 6 years. we've never been, doesn't violent realities login to supreme court. we're not going to break any laws of the law in mankind has been accused of creating a political crisis in pakistan, a divided country, which is no stranger to political violence. and this attack only seems to have found the flames with his supporters taking to the streets in anger. and he, believing this was an assassination attempts for more, we have dw spanish java joining us in the studio. and 1st off, i kind of want to back up here at what is this march cons been on? is it kind of a revolution to take that power or something? yes, melissa and non hon faith that his scamp been aimed to bring at evolution in pakistan . and it all started this year when he was outfit to a no confidence what he faced,
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the ministry establishment conspired with his political of open ends under the influence of the us. and so he believed that his removal was illegitimate. and since then, he has demanded, he has been demanding an early election because he believes that he asked the political momentum. he has a blick support and through this demand, which i think is his last big assault on the state. he is demanding an early election. he believes that right now, if an election is announced, he has that power and support of from the public to which he can become a bach offense. next leader, next prime minister, this is such a populist play. now how are people responding to this assassination attempt? what are you hearing? people are shocked. they're also sympathizing with him, but they're also very ready charge. and his dad is a bit, an assassination attempt to think compared to the assassination of fox and former
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prime minister, being as the put door, which was a get which had to get us traffic development buckets on. and the country was and goes into death or diaz. and we've seen after this attempt it into print, attempted assassination to have been caused for country wide protests by indian hans political party, a. which means that there is a possibility of violence or one condition, why and of course the convention increasing in the country. and do you think that's what's going to happen next to what will the impact of this incident b i thing and wrong hahn is not going to back it down. he has made the state which he calls an illegitimate, an important government. and also the military establishment i think is not going to back down. he has made these really big enemies. and it seems like when he feels better and he recovers yes. going to join the march and his going to lead the march to the capital where he's going to protest demand for an early lead. and it seems,
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if the and so far, the government is also not doing any flexibility, which means is a stalemate. and in this kind of situation and with so many people coming to the capital did is going to be really a bit as this is a high chance that there could be violence, confrontation, and a political chaos in the country. i mean, this sounds like a serious crisis and how would you rate this in terms of recent political history the last few decades? what's happening right now? so im going han and his senior members of his political party directly accusing the prime minister of the country. the indeed and minister of the country, and they have also named the high senior, a security official of belonging to pakistan's intelligence agency. these are seated acquisitions. so they are saying that they are behind this attack and are all doors, the government, and also the military has condemned this attack. but it seems like their rhetoric,
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or did anger towards him is not going to, it's not mailing down. and which means that the attention is just going to rise right now there's such a bad stalemate that i don't know what will happen. hopefully maybe there is some negotiation or some understanding some flexibility shawn from both side or which can measure down the situation. it. hm. you've talked about this before, but i'm, can you tell me a little bit about the kind of disinformation misinformation that's going on given this incident, i can totally imagine people imagining that this person who tried to kill him. it's part of some kind of plot or it's a conspiracy theory. online. you've talked about this before to can you give me a sense of what kind of situation we have online? so the political propaganda from all sides is in dense and high. and when
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to see a suspect was taken into custody, it's ready. strange that immediately a we do off him was released in which his thing that no one is behind me. it was, i did it single handedly and i only wanted to assassinate him, long hon. because i believe that he is misleading the nation and whistling through the country. so these are very suspicious acts and local government. they have suspended oil. the police officers that how come this need to was released and, and on internet, on social media we see a really bad fight going on between all a parties involved in a chava. thank you so much for joining us. ah, india has one of the largest pharmaceutical industries in the world, producing drugs for many global south countries. but quality control and safety are
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in issue. the death recently of almost 70 children in the west african country of gambia is one such scandal. the kids experienced kidney failure and investigators eventually tracked it down to indian made cough syrup. the w h o also stepped in and discovered they contained high levels of toxins. gambia ended up launching urgent door to door campaign to remove all suspect medicines. and it wasn't the 1st tragedy blamed on indian drug companies in 2019 children began falling seriously ill in india's jama region. 11 people died before the cause was identified, and again, the source was contaminated cough. syrup, the victims, parents are demanding accountability from india's farm industry. as d, w, a deal bought and shriek ahmad report. 2 years ago is small village in the himalayan region of german was distraught with li, live,
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and children had died there. deathly 2 or 3 did cough syrup for this family. news of a similar tragedy in the gambia has brought back dark memories of their own loss. the parents had given their son an officer. ready bought from a local chemist, elated discolored. it contained box chemicals. a chuck tomorrow. a local teacher is still fighting for justice. for his son. he sees he has lost faith in the system. how many, but took angel. but the culprits responsible for our children's deaths are still free, was like there was no action taken against them. not over there. we've all been crying for a long time to seek family. there are many other families who are also grieving for their children. and if the government had taken timely action, they could have avoided this tragedy. a sudden he with us, of what dick gates india's for my industry,
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has been heal for bringing affordable drugs for the masses. but it's been rocked by the death of 70 gambia and children. linked to cough syrup, produced by indian drug company made and far more with the incident has once again raise questions about the quality of drugs produced by india. a field kilometers away from delhi. this research laboratory collect sent analyzes samples for form with companies. one each runjun had the testing lab, he sais, molly beach, export drugs, or white dhl or the safety of consumers. it would definitely testing little, improved our situation and event regulators and there are 20 must have door re check regarding the authenticity of the product. look, good, possibly jaw has long been concerned about the dangers of sub standard drugs. his
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company far more secure, now checks the safety and authenticity of pharmaceuticals. and the situation is alarming. he says lex regulations in india's, while my industry hall hasn't had a huge rise in substandard and falsified medicines, incident such as the one that happened in the gambia. and even if you are, we talk about incidence domestically, ledger monkish me have a doll potential do these question marks that can cause reputation or damage if not properly addressed in a puddle. m transparent manner. back in july, i shook commodities, meeting with other families who lost children due to toxic, off pseudo electric dear childrens yet certificates. it discussed the future course of action in the struggle for justice. just the might be by him out
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of the company that killed our children is still operational. it should be immediately shut down and those responsible should be punished even leave the scandal, gambia just on the set back for indiana, 42000000000 udall drug making industries. one that could dod nisha, it's rapidly ation as the pharmacy up the world. yeah, that's all for this friday. be sure to check out our website that it'll be dot com, forward slash asia and on twitter, where at e. w. news. i. melissa chan, thanks for watching and have a good weekend. ah, what people have to say matters to us. i am. that's why we listen to their stories. reporter every weekend on
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