planet in the 16th century, it meant being a captain and setting sail to discover a route a race linked to military interests. a race linked to political and military proceed, but also linked to man, financial with adventure, full of hardships, dangers, death. but jillions journey around the world starts january 19th. you're watching d. w. news, asia coming up and why rescuers at railway stations across india must race against time. the stakes are high to locate unaccompanied children before swimming traffickers do. it's a crime happening across the country. plus disturbing findings from a team of human rights investigators. international companies are part of the

supply chain used by me and mars military to make weapons against its own people. and the whole countries also have obligations under international law to provide their own home accompanies with guidelines. otherwise, the companies that are supplying the raw materials are complicit to the atrocities that are ongoing in my now. ah, i melissa chan, thanks for joining us. every 8 minutes in india, a child goes missing, some are runaways, while others become lost or are taken from their families. that's according to the organization railway children. the n g o has that name because so many

unaccompanied children show up at train stations where human traffickers kidnapped them into a life of professional begging, sexual exploitation or forced labor. d, w is ideal, but has more this is no daily railway station. every morning sodding ball and his rescue team goes out to search for lost and abandoned children. they search platforms and trains to find the children saw the keys with the daily beast, n g o salon bollet, trust him, it is or seeing the operation. often out of searching the sport, 2 year old in night, she's apparently lost or abandoned the beam approaches her and starts trying to find her family moving from one compartment to another. just wondering when me, who is your mother? is it anyone here? after searching for a while, they finally find ny this family. they were also frantically looking for didn't

missing daughter. the theme, make sure they are the parents and hand nights back and light adviser, let's say we rescued tito. fortune every day are full us, and most of the kids imputing girls are found in valuable situation in bank was learning team is on the moon because traffic goes are on the lookout for children bomb. lucretia is limited to one another, not all, not as fortunate as in 9th, thousands of indian children go missing forever and end up being forced into begging prostitution or child labor. the ones who are rescued or taken to the shelter, it provides refuge to dozens of missing children. they take losses and are allowed to watch television cordially the counselor at the shelter. he has hurt his share of traumatic stories from the children were the years to homeric was, are there,

most of the children we rescue or runaway children. leona, emotionally, they have been abused even tortured, both emotionally and physically. or we just thought that emotional trauma is so deep that these children do not eat trust any one baby i was at the number of muscular that harsh is one such example. now, 13 years old, he ran away from home. basketball would be made by me and ab, i didn't have a family minute, so i wondered how long can my uncle feed me other considering flying? that is why i ran away and came to delhi to earn a living. come on and again, i'll lie, cottage who has no one to return 200. some missing children have been taken back to the families by then. geo. sonny thought was recently the united with the missing son in a slum up not going daily homage used to frequently run away from home. he says he is now living happily with his mother. he's got his father is a drunkard and he doesn't care about his child at all. for an even one who runs

away. ah, a bell. can it be the same with loving? back at the railway station saw dick and his team are on to the next challenge to find another young person to see among the thousands of india's last greeted with children. ah, a new report says me and mars military is producing weapons that are being used against its own people, with components sourced from international companies. investigators from the special advisory council for myanmar say they traced the military supply chain to global firms based in asia, the middle east, the u. s. and europe. and they say this is likely just at the tip of the iceberg. according to the report, these home produced arms are being used to commit atrocities against those in myanmar who opposed the regime officially more than 2600 people have been killed in

the crackdown since the 2021 qu, that saw the return of the military, many victims were pro democracy protesters since then parts of the country has seen fighting between the military and anti coo rebels. joining us as young he li, former special repertoire on the situation of human rights in myanmar and one of the authors of the report. thanks for coming on the program. a young he can you start by telling us more about the european companies complicit in this and what exactly they are providing to the military of myanmar. well, it was really surprising to discover that many of the european countries are still providing raw materials to the d. d i which is the directorate defense industry of melma. i see there is no universal arms

embargo by the security council. and so different countries have had bilateral arms embargoes arms, sanctions. but i think this us raw material supply chain has not been in the re done or people have missed it. it's been, it's been the biggest gap. and this is why we at sam decided to do a research on this. we have to remember that me i'm, i never produced that i'm to export they, i don't have any foreign invasion. however, and the defense industry, of course, it in all countries, defense industries are part of the national economy. but in the case of me,

i'm on it's run by the military and all of that it's been doing with all the productions. it's been able to evade many of the sanctions on me and my for decades . and then military has been making its own small light arms and munitions with the assistance of foreign companies to provide them with raw material and european. some of the european countries are still doing this. can you describe to us the kind of investigative work it took to arrive at your conclusions and findings in your report? well, we looked at our budget related documents that were leaked from me and my military . d. d, i and we, we've done intensive open source investigations. we've spoken to many people who are involved with the military and recently detected or in the past to been

involved with my military. we've looked at shipment records from subscription based in point and export data's. and we've also interviewed extensively with weapon manufacturing industries, officials from in manufacturing, industries in southeast asia and in mind particular. and this is how we came to a conclusion. we couldn't figure out why was all the arms and bar goes from different countries. they were still using that materials and light arms and i'm emissions and land mines that were produced in them not to commit atrocities against its own people and say that this happened before that. and since the coo now ty, wine, a quite

a well like democratic state these days and it's david and goliath, face off against china, also plays a role to talk about that. well, it was a little surprising for us to, but it seems like taiwan functions as an important transit point for d d. i purchase of high precision of the c n. c. computing america machineries now including from european manufacturers for the couple i'm spending factoring with the, the assistance for crony companies. what time are holdings, the d. d. i also regularly sens r. c. and c. miss machines from couple factories to taiwan, where there are service by technicians associated with the european manufacturers of the machines. after which bishops back to me and my, and to the d. d. i. it appears as though the absence of taiwanese sanctions on

mamma facilitates these types of transactions and shipments to and from emma and for the per performance of critical maintenance. and the report identifies a taiwanese companies who c, n c. machines are in the current use currently at couple. so happens factory, right. so what is in the tool box, so to speak, to stop components made in germany from showing up in mars military arsenal and other countries. companies being involved in this supply chain problem essentially . well, the 2 factors, the companies themselves, they under the international law are obliged by you and guidelines on human rights and business to do do do jill due diligence and they have to do and risk

assessments. and the whole countries also have obligations under international law to provide their own home accompanies with guidelines. otherwise, the companies that are supplying the raw materials are complicit to the atrocities that are ongoing in your mind. now, as well as the countries that has not done anything to prevent its home companies from selling materials to mamma or killing its own people. young healey, thank you so much for joining us. for german manufacturers were named in the report for supplying components that could be used for weapons by me and mars military. we reached out to them before going to air and received e mailed statements back from 3 of them. d. m g more. he said it respects human rights along its entire supply chain and takes pains to ensure no misappropriation

of their machines takes place, fits varner and siemens deny any current business activity with the myanmar military. but the authors of the report say they relied on leaked military documents, interviews with former members of the military satellite photos and a variety of other sources to reach their findings, which they say our current. and that's it for today. thanks for watching g w. news . asia, to see you tomorrow with ah, linda, i would, people have to say matters to us. mm hm. that's why we listen to their stories. sh reporter. every

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argentina's worth drought and 20 years is drying up the countries harvests. and we take you to europe biggest floating so large part in sunny portugal. this is the w business. i'm to now dumas unwelcome us treasury secretary janet yellen met with chinese vice premier lu, hey, and zurich to day, a high stakes interaction at a time where us china relations are increasingly tense. it's the 1st in person meeting for the 2 with yellen telling lou there was a pressing need for leaders in the u. s. and china to co ordinate on macro economic and financial conditions, and keep their competition from spilling over into conflict. lou for his part said he was willing to maintain dialogue. now yesterday vice premier lu was in davos at the world economic forums. annual me.