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you see the guessing push back even from the families i can be, they told me that was the weekend on monday to use it a lot more. now i will ask you on the, on the, on the slicing social moons seeking your self determined life. let's go from drudgery and abuse stuff oldest on dw, the you're watching d, w news, asia coming up to date trouble in thailand, weeks ago the voters made their wishes clear, but the politicians have yet to comply is the democratic process failing there. and in india,
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the government calls in the troops after days of clashes between hindus and muslims . is it just the latest incident and what has become a dangerous pattern? we take a closer look at why this is happening. the . my name is melissa chant, thanks for joining us. thailand is in a political crisis, and unlike the doesn't cruise since the country became a constitutional monarchy, this time the fight is happening in parliament with the military putting it's found on the scales as always. 2 months ago young voters over whelming leap fact the progressive move forward party. but the country has yet to form a government with the conservative establishment in conjunction with the military and the monarchy, maneuvering to prevent the selection of
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a prime minister in me, made me believe pilot might finally have a truly vindictive government. that top vanished quickly and months of political deadlock took its place to move forward, but the one the most seats imagined elections like but the dot limbs over to him dot type supported him as they had drawn really close the ticket on the back to the monarchy the porters beat the wanted to change that, but when his body tried diploma coordination, he fee to get the backing of the military appointed senate. now to move forward, body has been kicked out of the coronation, crushing the hopes of young people to us all keep wanting to know and i am disappointed because i voted for him, but if they but he couldn't make it, i left. so do i know about me having to come out to protest because of reality doesn't reflect the result of the election now. so i've been with them. he was on
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this for now be done. has been back from being nominated again as prime minister. he's finding a good again, fit parliament to dissolution. see the court. we decide in mid august. if any prime minister candidate can stand for to vote more than once. with the the side line, w type r t is nominating real state icon setup. probably send for prime minister many see this as a move by to contribute to the establishment. the truth is more doors for be. joining us as dw is geared mathus who is in tongue bori thailand a day or a. i remember the energy of those young voters during the election. what are people telling you now? what is the mood? or what really meant is that there is some desperation here on the part of all those young people in particular who have voted for the move forward party. and who now see that's uh, their candid a piece of internal law is not very likely to end up in the seat of power
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a. but having said that, it is not only young people be that are in mind that thailand is one of the top 3 leading economies in southeast asia. and so a lot of businesses here are really concerned about the kind of political instability, the country is facing. now, so they hope that a fast solution can be found. what does this all say about the state of thailand's democracy? well, of course, you know, any democratic system is not just about the majority, otherwise we would have to start renew of the masses. if you want, so any system has, um, for instance, their liberal checks and balances, there's read about the press. there are some particularities where, let's say, for instance, the chancellor is not directly voted, but there is a representative vote. but one has to say that and to put it mildly to acknowledge that in the case of a tie system, it's really the legacy of the past of almost a decade of pro military really in this country. that has been slowing things down
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because technically move forward together with the 2nd largest opposition party. the po type party would have a majority in parliament, but it is the senate, the upper house, with some 250 non elected military appointed senators. that is dragging things down and has stopped the move forward party from getting into power. now about this return from exile of the former populist prime minister to extension and watch out any sense of what the younger generation many uh, who might not have strong memories of him. how do they feel about him? that's really, that's right. and that's the problem. many older type people would tell you that the younger generation here has no memory off if you want. uh, the good initiatives at that a text and you know, was inactive when he was prime minister. what the young people here see in particular is that the po type party that he found that his daughter has been running as the prime ministerial candidates in the peer type party,
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the 2nd largest opposition party in the country. that is, that this party has quits. the coalition with move forwards and has come out the in favor of, of the did in opposition to the reforms that the move forward party would like to see it in the time on our key. and many upsets the hope there seems to be at that they could thereby get a royal pardon for tax inch in a walk. because the moment he will land and thailand you will be arrested coming out of the plane geared. mathis, thank you so much for joining us. in india violent clashes between hindus and muslims this week killed at least 7, an injured more than 70 people. among the dead include in a mom who died during an attack on and torching of a mosque. this happened in good at problem in the state of har. yana mobs. also
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vandalized and looted businesses in response to officials called a curfew shut down the internet and sent thousands of paramilitary police in it to stop the fighting. religious clashes had become more frequent across india ever since prime minister and random, moody assumed office almost a decade ago, and his bar tmj into party, the b j. p. took control nationally and in many states. it's a hand do 1st party and attacks against muslims. a minority in the country have grown. many believe this recent wave of violence began with an incident earlier this year. in february, when to muslim men were found dead in a burnt vehicle. in another incident, an indian railway worker shot and killed 4 people and hailed the prime minister after doing so. evidence, critics say, of extremist and do nationalism. joining us as our side kind of share bonnie
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senior editor at the wire in india. thank you so much for coming on the program. i want to start with this latest incident in google graham. can you help us understand who these people are? i assume they are groups of men. are they unemployed? are they super religious? right. i think it's a very interesting question. um the who really these men are, are these political workers and what do they really want? see what is happening in good gone right now, because remember how, but almost half a dozen people have already died. but the widens take continues in one form or the other. what, whether it is uh, you know, people from these right wing groups going to look entities and qualities and asking the residential registered associations to throw out most lens listening. presidents of evidence, even those who have warehouse or knows that even from that to the page label to
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screen, those of these people being asked to go away from there. so there is a massive, you know, a situation of looking displacements, that displacement, that, that is going on in google, and in the end just sent the, your districts in. how do i know right now? so it's difficult to say, you know, who's responsible for this winds, but and joining this, we can desperately say that we've like documenting the baby doctor this thing. we definitely saw it coming. so if you'll see this whole thing, the root cause of this is the mother of 2 men, nasir antoinette in the month of february. these people were abducted and they will bunk the lives in the car because they will suspect it to be, you know, uh, cause smugglers. and some people who are says, proclaimed vaults or tech does. they have been killed, them unbundled these people, gordon mono minus so who actually is the key accused is the mean of shoes. he's
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been a s for the police. he's been up squandering since february. so the police up to speed, hardy on know, and i just punch, gone, find him, but she's 3 to make provocative violent videos which an outright li, insulting to muslims in general and listening. goodman in particular. and he told his videos, challenge brooklyn men, that she is going to come to the village and he will see what really get they can do. so i would say, you know, from both sides, if you see, even if, if this was pro cation from one side and the retaliation from the other side, it is a desperate, you know, helplessness from the community of how do you all know who been witnessing and the muslim political rallies, calling for the complete removal for complete, you know, a solution for their general side literally that you know, the building also i can do, dosh will not be possible unless muslim general site takes place. so this has been
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continuing to sub brother, yours know, right. i thought that this could be, could clearly see the big doctor this. now i, on social media, you said, and i quote, as a muslim and a journalist, it feels like we are documenting our own. and that is a super intense comment. please tell us more. yeah, you know, i talked to several times before really posting that because i didn't want the you know, some kind of a very pessimistic environment. i am i'm, i'm a diehard optimist. but there comes a day when you really see what you're doing is so. so chocolate, so uh, you know, um, sometimes it is expensive with disappointment. um that you as journalists, for example, i will give you my example. if someone like me who does a video show every day. if i want to go to blue brom today and, you know, do a video report from there, it is nearly impossible for me. i would be literally jeopardizing my safety. it
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would be very foolish of me to go there because i'm a mocked person. people know me, the no, ma'am my face, but the same the, you know, there are dozens of muslim reporters, young muslim support. those were literally putting bed knives on line to document these incidents of hips. and why know several days somebody like me was literally kind of diminished every day on social media. people give me the tracts and rapes threats and it's, it's becoming so difficult these days to just to be able to exist, who just do your day to day work and, you know, seeing people like me like my, i tried my unity uh, getting really nice. uh, getting demonized, getting killed being abused every day with thoughtful impunity. politically people do you ask me the 1st question. all these might not be mine, have complete political impunity from the fall. was that the be? and that is why they are able to brandish, you know, weapons, automatic rifles, all kinds of dangerous weapons bed the bed. they've been doing craft using joining
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this 5 minutes and stood. you know, it looks like as if in today's india, if you, if you commit to crime against muslims, if it's not considered crime anymore. or for a condom shavani. thank you so much for joining us. it and that's it for the program. as always, you can head to our website dw, dot com, forward slash agent for more or check us out on social media, including on x, formerly known as twitter. i melissa can, thanks for watching and have a good weekend the shipping outdoor don't take mommy. under your mommy's not coming back over february 2020 to
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russian troops and fated the ukrainian city of coupons. it was recaptured. 6 months later the occupation was hard drive under russian occupations resisted who collaborated? how can life go on after all the terror? not everyone can endure the fear, weeks out every day. when rush start to august 25th on dw the rough weekends on your opinion. markets pleasure index is across the continent. down after setting gloomy economic updates. we'll ask what's going on at all we
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paying to little rock food, we visit a supermarket. this height, this price is to reflect what it says, the true cost state of your business on robots input and welcome to the program. can your russell itself out of its kind of make funk data this week? indicates a business activity in the your a zone to find as an even faster rate in july, done in june expo that goes from gemini. that's because i suggest it's straining to escape. it's economic down to the bank of england or so hiking interest rates yet again on thursday, problems across the continent to appear to be assisting so let's discuss the situation in your with your kramer chief economist comments bank. thanks so much for coming on to give us your expertise on this at the end of a week. but if at all kinds of data floating around it, we thought anything of a better idea of both situations. european economies ended and i
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