look in, but if it's possible they'll be a mass die off if this isn't completed over the next few weeks or even months, due to a combination of low water levels and poor water quality in this section of the anya river on the heat wave is expected to peak on friday, unless it for now don't go away. coming up next, d, w. news asia with melissa chan. she looks at the new us pledge to south korea and the face of north korean nuclear developers. in berlin, out of an update for the top off the out for me on the news team. extra time for a brain update because this orchestra called the brain continuously adapts itself. and so we ask

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being un representative for bangladesh about the ongoing crisis. we're, we're hanging refugees and the latest push to send them home. ah, i melissa chant, thanks for joining us. the united states will strengthen military cooperation with south korea and has guaranteed to expand its nuclear commitment to the country, giving soul a central role in the strategic planning for the use of nuclear weapons in the event of war with north korea. president biden also pledged that any nuclear attack by pyongyang would be the end of kim jung on regime. these very serious discussions and decisions were announced during president human secured 6 day state visit to the u. s. remarking 70 years of friendship between the 2 countries and this alliance could not have been better. underscored then by the lavish dinner,

the white house, through for the visiting delegation with president young, taking the stage and surprising guests with a performance of the classic hit song. american pie. yes, when i was in going to school, it was one of my favorite song. oh, we weren't here. you sing it? oh, good news. a for one. suzy movie. oh.

well to see how that moment and, and use have been received in south korea, we have do young kim joining us from sole she is an adjunct senior fellow at the center for a new american security. do young president young's ratings back home? haven't been great, but he seems to have one over the americans. oh, clearly he's one over the americans. i think that song, especially the choice of that song, reportedly being one of his favorite. i think that many koreans would scratch their heads and wonder why, even though i personally think is a great song. well pivoting to the more serious matter of nuclear deterrence, when i was based an asian reporting from sole, one of the issues that always came up was that many south koreans struggled to trust that the u. s. whatever risk, say, san francisco, or los angeles getting newt in order to save sol. so is this what this new extended

to terrence is about? yeah, i think that's a big part of it to try to reassure the south koreans that the united states really has south cris back and it will come to south korea to fence at critical moments, especially in light of the north korean nuclear threat. so i, i really think that this washington declaration is a big win for the alliance. but especially for south korea, looks like president, you've got everything and he wanted this time and perhaps even more so, you know, fundamentally it's the 1st time that south korea, the united states, are discussing nuclear deterrence, which sol has not been able to discuss with washington until now for decades, the topic, you know, for example, when and how would america use nuclear weapons against north korea. this was concerned by washington to be to classified and, you know,

it's believed it. washington thinks of this as an american, an american decision, not a joint decision in american operation and an american execution plan. that's been the long traditional i'm thinking in washington, but they've really made significant progress. the allies, in terms of, you know, giving south korea more of a rule in a say, in relaying some of its preferences on when, how and how the united states might have to use nuclear weapons to support that decision at that time comes. and to also learn more about american decision making and how that whole, the whole nuclear enterprise works. so it sounds like this is a big deal. will this commitment be enough for ordinary south koreans? we've seen polling, and i'm sure ukraine giving up its nukes, years ago, played into a lot of this thinking. but citizens in south korea seem to prefer that the country

go nuclear on its own. yes, so you know, i think this declaration will reassure south korean government officials and the military. but for those conservative south koreans outside of governments, i know they're criticizing the declaration already for their call. they're criticizing it as falling to shorts. that soul was not able to persuade america to base american. you go up ins on the crib peninsula for example, or certain types of nuclear capable. you know what we call strategic assets on the korean peninsula. and so, you know, i think that this washington declaration actually will not quiet those voices. and fundamentally, those voices are driven by 2 basic factors. and they are south koreans watching north korea. continue to test weapons continue to advance it's nuclear weapons, capability and sour cream perceptions that washington is not doing enough to solve

the problems. as long as the south koreans perceive it that way than voices, south korean voices for the government to develop its own nuclear bins. will naturally grow d and cam. thank you so much for joining us. ah. turning now to southern bangladesh and a desperate situation in the world's largest refugee camp, around a 1000000 were hangup. muslims have been sheltering here after fleeing at state sponsored campaign. a violence in myanmar and conditions are bad in the camp surround cox's bizarre with over crowding, hunger and disease, and high crime. for most people, there's also no immediate possibility of getting out. so it's a grim picture and for some perspective on the situation, we have your hottest founder cloud. joining us in the studio, he's the representative of the un high commissioner for refugees in bangladesh. thank you for coming on d, w, and use asia. can you give us

a snapshot of the situation right now? yes, thank you. the deal here is a population of 960000 refugees who are living in 33 camps to gather clusters, which is the largest refugees resettlement in the world. highly congested and the large majority of these 9 160000 came in one week in august 2017. and, and this population has been until today, entirely dependent on unit and age. and this is no longer sustainable because simply there is no longer the funding from the international community because they have other new emerging crisis to address. and also we are now 6 years into the latest largest influx. so this is so called protracted situation in which

the support we have to decrease because their records are expected to become as we call it more self reliant, need to be an able to access some of their daily subsistence themselves. i mean, i remember on the welfare program saying that they had to cut deliveries because um, they were short of, of money and they were not enough donations from organizations from people. so how do you keep that money flowing again? this is the big issue today that, that our colleagues from the world food program had to cut the so called monthly foot ration from what used to be 12 $1.00 to $10.00. well, you know, for a family of 56 that's, that's a big cut. and worse, they might go for other cuts because simply do of food problem does no longer have the money. so what they are trying out to do is to what we call widen the base of donors. because the dorothy is very much dependent on some traditional donors and at all adonis is both step up, but also so logical,

the more non traditional ones from the gulf countries from the asian cars is of course a very much leverage population in asia. and you know, the european comes, they have the promise that ukrainians is the middle east in there for g. so asia, also known as originally to take modest possibility. but the other thing here is that, and this is no longer a situation which can only be dependent on human 10 external support. the revenues themselves, they don't want is they want to become, as we call it more income generating self reliant. they don't want to stay dependent the, an essential, very young population. half of them are under 18. they need to have perspective in the life purpose in their life to want to just generate on came. so did they can access to a daily subsist themself in food, in health, in protection, in water, sanitation. now, in terms of looking to the future, i understand that there was a team from myanmar a few weeks ago looking at the possibility, a trial sort of repatriation process. to what extent is this possible realistic and

what is the u. n. position on there? indeed to has been a lot of talk. first of all, the situation be march and particularly in ra, kind state. it says the area from which c ringo originate, has not improved at all. as he said, conditions in that part of myanmar and nowhere in miramar would say is what he call conducive to reach us. there is no proper peaceful life. a vendor, a vendor ringer left the last time 270. many of the villages are erased, very traumatized. population ringer are stripped of their rights since 40 years. they're not considered citizens of mountain miramar, so they are so called sticklers. so and nothing of this in jamar has shown any improvement in crew on the country since the military take over 1st of february 2021. the situation is only been worse and we have seen ourselves for em, are fighting violence, et cetera. so the situation in your, my has not changed for the better at all. now that being said,

if individual references wants to was record exercise the right of return. and if they vote to have do this, this is a choice for them to make free and based on sufficient and corporate formation then be can hopes that we cannot presented. however, the problem is demille my defacto muma authorities. indra kind state has an agreement also this fung destiny. if such returns would be to happen that they have to certain commitments to adhere to so they need to improve their life. if, if they're over ringo, we'll go back there to find a ride back. they would have access to services to livelihood. they would have freedom of movement. do have a document, does nothing of this yet. so if any small pilot of return would to happen these commitments and these guarantees need to be put in place and this is not. and also we as you and sharon or the international actors,

must be able to monitor that such event to return would be as we call it sustainable, that the people have the rights back and everything then they find and your peaceful life. and it's very important, difficult for us to work in your mom because our access to potential villages for return is not there yet. and the have difficult ourselves to, to move around. so it's still a lot has to be happened before. any of spiders of return might be a salad. johan assigned a class. thank you so much for joining us. that does it for today's program. thank you for watching and see tomorrow with using high tech to combat water shortage. california has one of the world's largest waste water treatment plant. near los angeles, a stinking sludge is turned into clean drinking water in less than 2 days. the

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