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ah. by british pound, you welcome to the dublin news asia. glad you could join us. the indian capital deli routinely ranks is one of the world's most polluted cities. it's a quality alternates routinely between hazardous and unhealthy. look at the weather up on your phone and you'll see what i mean. but it's especially bad in october, november each year, a seasonal mix of factors such as stubble, bonding by farmers for hitler, emissions, and weather patterns. literally cause people to choke. every winter at densmart descent on the indian capital, making the lives up with some don't be 1000000 residents miserable as in previous years, the toxic year falls is a major health risk to the skis children,

richie man, joe is really concerned about a 3 year old daughter annika one who suffers from shortness of breath and yet severe cough. we can pull medicines at times. a we have the visit to the doctor's already constraint these, these for children of this age group. so the situation is not at all good. the family was in forced to buy it purifiers to help the ear quality at home. the situation is also become critical in the capital schools. after a week up no classes. this deli primary school is open today despite the high level of pollution. but while classes have resumed, there is still a complete ban on outdoor activities. are you all rhythm or korea? a senior teacher says that toxic small in delhi, puts our students at great risk, is the majority of the children suffer from severe coughs and sometimes in fade out

. but the schools face a dilemma piazza teacher. the biggest challenge is the students health is very important, which we are trying to my me, i'm 2nd biggest thing is that we don't want the schools to be shot at this time again because the to will spend or make us actually did already added the education quality of the school on the students as well. guarding to the lead to support from state of global here. more than $100000.00 infants in india died within a month of birth. dorothea pollution. another study has shown that one in every 3 children in delhi has impute lung function. this hospital in new delhi is experiencing a surge, a patient because of the skis, toxic ear, pulmonologist, doctor nickle more. the has seen hundreds of patients, mostly children suffering from respiratory problems. he says that situation is alarming. and believes that daily is toxic, yet to get

a serious health crisis. children is a very, really wonderful group because their young lungs are still in the goal of memphis. so during the development, due to the exposure to so much of pollution, that long before getting developed can get damaged, that damage getting the problem and indian government is currently working on an ambitious linear program. it aims got it pollution, but what the person for the next 5 years, but that is a long wait, but you don't like a leica who's already suffering from breathing problems. let's get more of this from jumping from the lubbock, our issue. the journalist and author of breathing here is injurious to your health . a book about evolution in india was not going to your you have lived in delhi quite for quite some time which ranks as one of the world's most polluted cities.

what is it like to spend a day in daily's, polluted air? it's awful. it's actually like smoking involuntarily your eyes sting, your short just class and it starts hurting. you get sore throat. he gets sick. really often. i get a dull pollution headache pretty much every time i step out. it's really bad. it's actually a human rights violation. and it's quite a thing to say human rights violation, but this happens particularly every winter in delhi because it faces this take blanket of smog that virtually shut everything down. and it's caused by a stubble burning on farms, regular emissions, and construction dust. the question is, why does this keep happening every year and why is it not preventable? preventable actually, and then they make the lock down to the band. it showed us how it is indeed reversible as well. when we saw clear blue skies cleans clean air in the winter

of the quote with the 2 years everybody locked in for called it. but let me just quickly try and explain why this repeats itself. every single window, what happens is in north india there is the 1000000 range which sort of acts as a barrier to dissipate pollution. especially the most harmful particles as the tiny microscope it b, m 2.5 particles. what happens in the winter is when temperatures come down, there is something called inversion, where evolution gets trapped closer to the ground. so you're seeing more dense, a micro particulate matter which we then end up smoking because very, i really can't call it breathing, breathing, use an involuntary activity. and when you're constantly smoking, smoke and dust, then really it is a human rights. but you should be done. delita, and then most of nothing, you actually don't want to make this about daily in dire in, get it in and start smoking. and that's 510000000 people were pretty much in

a gas chamber for most of the winter, for the way to describe it. it sounds a lot like a climatic phenomenon. how do you prevent that? so it's not just, this is, this is i only, i touched upon the geographic and me to logical reasons. what happens in the winter is when thomas start start burning their cropped stubble. that releases a lot of smoke and the winds are turning around that time. so the smoke comes down, wind all the way to all the dense urban centers, all. so at that time, october in november is when india sees its largest festival, the festival of the valley, which is festival of lights, but seems to become the festival of firecrackers. so you have like about a 1000000000 people bursting firecrackers and even if everybody says, well, i'll just burst a few. you can imagine what sort of but there is in the air, not just micro particulate matter by now, because this has barium nitrate, all sorts of chemicals. and now you're smoking chemicals,

in addition to the carbon particles that you're in, healing, and these lead to episodic highs, which actually hospital admissions in the winter had shown to have risk due to rise sharply every single winter. and despite that, i don't think this is getting the kind of public attention or government attention that it needs. you know, i did want to talk to you about the governmental attention. but just to where you describe it, it almost sounds like people themselves don't care enough to stop doing the things that they are doing that are contributing to this kind of pollution. would you agree? so i think there isn't of much awareness. and you know, if i want to give an example when it 1st started, not many people were aware of what this diseases and how that comes up and all of that. but the government is very good. it's very quickly spread this information through phone calls. you couldn't make a phone call without getting the pre recorded message on what it is and how it homes you and help protect us. nothing like this has happened for it,

but use which actually kills many more people. evolution is killing almost $2000000.00 people every year in india, and that's many more than cobra. and yet it isn't treated as a public health emergency, which it undoubtedly is. evolution actually is the most home for it goes is mom been disease and it's already been war or you know, any kind of even smoking it's way up. there is the most harmful public health emergency and yet it is not given that attention by the government. all right, so one is the awareness part of it. what about other solutions? you're also co founder of an injury or care for in your line of work. are you seeing enough solutions that people are working on? yes, there are people who are coming up with innovative solutions, but you know, you really need in a situation like this. you can't have a small number of people working in silos with innovative solutions. you really

need the entire force of the government and the corporate sector. there is a lot of industrial usage. there is a lot of big europe a use and we have prompts double bonding, which is completely avoidable and which contributes almost 44 percent of winter air pollution to the north of parts of the country. and that is completely avoidable. you also have things like firecrackers, which in fact my group, a supreme court lawyer was one of the co founders in my group edition to the supreme court and had banned from 20171819. but despite that, of course, enforcement is not strong enough. so you have people, despite it being unlawful, any legal, reversed firecrackers, going ahead and doing that because they are not aware of how, how badly it's affecting them, their young ones, and their previous generation relieve over the timing. thank you so much for joining us today. dorothy ponder level cutter from wearable newsome to land degradation. it is a serious concern in indian agriculture, which use

a significant amount of chemical fertilizers to grow food crops. excessive chemical use ultimately strips to land of its nutrients, leaving it non arable. but a new initiative in the southern indian state of entrepreneurs is helping reverse that trend. farmer e p mano, who has recently changed the way he farms he has started using naturally for to lighter and best to fight that a free of chemical death, which has not just boosted his crop yield. it has improved the quality of his land devoted soon as i had only growing body under grown, not only that, oh, the only cut. so after that though, well when i come or do nigel for me, i will say i am going all types of tables in india, chemical fertilizers are often houston farmed land, the fields or were tilt, and usually a single crop with planted each year, distract

a 5th cause loss of nutrients from thawing and increase the risk of death certificate in a process of once for it. they land turning into dust. climate change. if worsening the problem, then pictures are rising and rainfall is becoming more if a killer. the most important thing to keep in mind is that land is finite, right? and 70 percent or more of land has been converted from its natural state for human use. that doesn't leave us a lot of land to convert going forward when we consider the food gap and, and other needs natural farming from yesterday stored, unproductive land. it use if materials made from cow dung go, eugene brown, sugar extracted from sugar canes and at their natural ingredients. my lady has her thousands of families meek, potentially. there was any kind of her natural farming that we are booking the book

. it is very inexpensive and lawyer external input i'll input side made from the local materials that are available most of the day on the form what they are, they're really so dead weight cost less that is it some in st. before them that is also encouraging. but skinning up natural farming will be a real challenge and that's it for today, there's a forced more stories from the region on our website, delta dot com, forward slash asia, back again, tomorrow. at the same time, you then people in trucks injured when trying to flee the city center. more and more refugees are being turned to way warner families, planes on the reason for these correct only with people seeing extreme dreams.

rough getting 200 people in june 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. ah, ah, a cold winter is underway for big tech retail joined. amazon has started mass layoffs. meanwhile, tech workers in india are fighting back against job. cox was more from our correspondence. also coming up. egypt is building a brand new capitol right in the desert. maybe that's the reason hardly anybody

wants to move there. i'm chris kolber. walton for the program. online retailer, amazon has confirmed a coming round of mass layoffs, making it the latest tech joined to slash jobs. a mid slowing global growth. the company announced the cuts after tuesday. it filed a notice to california regulators that it would scrap jobs and the state company is expected to shed as many as 10000 positions in the coming days following similar measures by competing companies, mehta and twitter, amazon employees, 1500000 workers around the world now these tech titans are pointing to overhead costs as a reason for the layoffs and analysts say, a lot of this has to do with lessons learned from the last recession. a lot of these companies spend like 90 rockstars, the last few years.