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press. managing jakarta, infamous traffic jams will be demand home will become disability to direct traffic in one of the wells busiest cities. building homes for birds, daily's nest man. as pioneered the practice and not use teaching others to protect the cities, fred, their friends, and reciting the quote on with your hands. how deaf students in indonesia finally have a way to study islam holy book. ah, i'm british minded, you're welcome to the special edition of d, w. news asia that you could join us this past year has seen beijing cement control over hong kong and impose ever type thing restrictions on the territories media

landscape. after the cities of high profile arrests and newsroom closures, most independent outlets have folded to day various vickie press. freedom left in hong kong. but journalists can be stubborn. people did have those. phoebe cong met one who refuses to be silent. risky business. jackie is a journalist and is out reporting at the anniversary of the chinaman square massacre, beatings, brutal, crack done on student protests in 1989 hollow law. oh hello. can i ask you a few questions? i show you some news pictures and see if you know what they are. yeah, well, it, jackie shows them photos from the day of the massacre. images like these are censored in china video. how do you know where these images were taken? victoria park. but jackie's reporting is soon cut short, a rare occurrence in his experience. oh, excuse me, under teacher. what are you doing here monday? oh, how do i send you a, a telephone interview in the mail?

louisa homeowner didn't sorry you should speak to the school 1st. we too, are asked to stop filming the teachers that the sensitive interview could put the school under pressure from an hong high, the room for news reporting and shrinking. it's not only because of the authorities, but also because of society. the effect is chilling and there's a sense of terror, which is making it harder to find people willing to speak up a well her goal. yale jackie runs his own news platform and tell a few months ago he worked for citizen news and award winning media outlet. it shut down due to political pressure. journalism is not well paid in hong kong, but jackie publishes his reports for free. he wants them to reach as many people as possible, especially as censorship grows, got a whole st dot nowadays in hong kong, journalists face arrest and then detention once we cross the red line, there's no more gray area. that's also why i choose to work alone. so i won't

implicate others to of the high side. it is hot and all since the introduction of the beijing imposed national security law, hong kong ranking in the world press freedom index has plummeted from number 68 to 148. the likes of apple daily, the cities leading opposition newspaper shut down with its executives and chief editors detained. at least a dozen media platforms collapsed in the following year. putting hundreds of reporters out of work. jackie's report on the tian him in square massacre anniversary has achieved the highest numbers since he launched his platform. but it is a double edged sword. one commenter said he had reported the video to the national security police. oh, shall. we're as ingle quarterly, a whole independent journalist to compensate by filling in the blanks higher. we have to try because if you don't try that space will disappear from the little yes,

we take a lot of risks and stress and that makes the future look doomed. like ha, but hong kong journalist, a resilient the what i can still see are vibrancy. yo, yo side old. maybe we just need to transform the industry the well hi, go hold. how you should. it should be in all an uphill battle perhaps as more media regulations are pending. but for now, jackie won't give up reporting the traffic in indonesia, capital jakarta is notorious for being among the worst in the world. and all the vacant club in the city streets take more than stoplights enrolled signs to manage . so many busy crossings come with dedicated directors to keep the traffic flowing . we met one who had to overcome more challenges than most to do this demanding job . yes, managing this intersection in jakarta, next courage and experience tonight, he has plenty of both. for all,

for 2 decades tonight, also known as daddy has been helping reduced traffic jams in this mega city despite his disability. because his hearing impaired and can't speak, he relies on his wife to communicate thank god, he has work. he's got the trust of the police to he was even given a uniform because of his enthusiasm. they were very happy with daddy because he works alone as a disabled person and didn't get an education. he could only be a topic director. what matters is that he has an income jack out about one of the most fun just a series in the world. and now that coffee restrictions happening relax, traffic is back to normal. and official traffic directors help prevent a total collapse, assisting cars and trucks, particularly at crossing speed out. traffic lights,

dispose of japan as they are known, work in exchange for tips from drivers. there are thousands of them across down even a train crossing. here in south jakarta, solar and a team of 2 off workers have been managing the barrier for years. snellville back down the pit where he thought 24 hours. we share the job of the crossing. some managed traffic and others help push carts. we're ben as the sunsets we change teams, but i'm still here for 24 hours. i give them the language and all my them and it even in recent years, traffic jam in indonesia as capital, have decrease some se, thanks in part due to policy japan. but others disagree with the like, i can't get them and there are times when they're helpful, but sometimes they prioritize the people, giving them money and hold up those who don't dunden that causes the traffic tobacco monumental. and my did that if that the more bit though, when we don't have any small change in the car,

we automatically won't give them any money. and then they won't stop the traffic for us by younger. i'm back though, i don't think that we are not working at the intersection is the call of duty for denied. and like some people who quickly lost their nerves in traffic essays, he likes being in the midst of chaos. and it gives him a good feeling to change things a little bit for the batter. ah, now to a story about building homes, birds as homes to be precise. and when he moved to india's capital daily, the man in our next report says he noticed something was wrong. he didn't hear any birds chirping. so to bring back his favorite sounds, a rakish country took up a hobby that became his life's work. and as owned him, the nickname nest, ma'am. these house sparrows have returned to the city after many years. thanks to

one man who has been making homes for thousands of birds. his name is rob cash country. and i used to get worried and think a lot about why we don't get to see any nests anymore. where have they gone? so i used to feel sad. there were new terms introduced like global warming climate change. birds like peacocks and cuckoos were disappearing. people used to talk a lot about these things from the comfort of their air condition rooms. i used to think that these people talk so much about these big issues, but why don't even think about where the nes have gone? so the delhi resident and his wife started to build nests for the birds with plastics and tetra pack. then they switched to eco friendly materials such as bamboos, 6 after a lot of trial and error, that eureka moment came. when we made over 20 next like this, and we sat down with our cameras. we waited for 3 days and people used to laugh at us, they would say, why will the birds go to your net?

they make their nest by themselves. on the 4th day, i was sitting with my camera. people were passing by and laughing, but soon a male sparrow sat on one nest. i have a photograph of that sparrow on the nest on my website. he inspected it and flew away. then it came back after 5 minutes with a female spare, and the 2 had straws in their mind. it sounds like a story from a movie, but it's the reality of my life. so when i saw this, i stood up and started clapping. the bird started coming to my net country himself has built nests for hundreds of thousands of house sparrows and has won several awards for his work. but nobody, fig organizations in the country and people abroad. i also realized that they can do this. if my husband can do it, then others can also do this kind of work. not only for sparrows, but for other animals to talk to a all the animals that was delicate. now country teachers, school children,

to make nests, passing the idea of conservation on to the next generation boyer on this journey that i started in 2008 is currently at 250000. now, i've taught this to more than a 1000000 students, teachers, and corporations. and i think this journey is never ending, as long as i have the strength in my body. and i hope i will continue this work is my passion and my profession. and islamic school near the city of dr. carter in indonesia is now teaching derfin hearing impaired children and young adults to reside the koran using sign language. from many it is the 1st time they had such an opportunity. until recently, students such as these with hearing impairments had almost no access to religious education in indonesia. now, with the help of this is la mic boarding school. they're learning to memorize and recite the koran in sign language. it has given many,

a new perspective on life through an interpreter, this 20 year old student say, i decided to learn the koran and his boarding school so that in the after life i can live in heaven, bringing along my parents with me. i'm a former 17 year old zara stays the school has also given her a chance to get to know new people. and she hopes one day to become a teacher herself. mama, i was 1st invited by my mother here, she said, i'm really happy to be able to learn to read. and to memorize together with my hearing impaired friends. the school was founded in 2019 by religious teacher. i will coffee. he says he took the step because children with special needs, after not helped by public schools. when i just teaching the crown to the school

age children, i think when they grow up it will be much easier because as children, they have had a foundation at the moment, some hearing impaired adults in the school belly, no religion because they did not have a foundation when they were young in learning to find the koran is challenging. students need to memorize every single character of the holy book in arabic. for most it takes around 5 years, but they say it's worth it as it gives them joy and pride. and that does it for today. there's of course more on our website. thanks so much for watching. goodbye . oh, rearing to read. ah, everyone who loves books has to go and same with

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