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british manager. welcome to the news asia. glad you can join us. starting thursday, japan would begin releasing treated to redirect a water from a damaged nuclear power plant into the ocean. difficult, she might die to nuclear power plant was damaged in a deadly creek. and so now me back in 2011. since then, tons of water has been used to pull the nuclear fuel rods inside starting thursday, some 1300000 liters of this water will begin to be released into the pacific ocean . the water will be treated and radioactive substances abutting one. tim removed in japan soon as the water release is needed to decommission the power plant, the international atomic energy agency on the i a year green lighted the water

release plan last month. and this is how people in tokyo react to the announcement. the plan would now be implemented from thursday. yeah, i know. yeah. i'm glad to take was finally decided i know talks where i'm going to set the water release for summer prime minister cuz she to finally visited for christina to explain the situation to the locals. so this will be a big step towards fukushima, the commissioning process in the i e. m. many countries say that water relieves a safe so i believe it is nothing but fishermen are facing so many problems. the japanese government needs to do something to convince the room on the, on the i think the water relieves this. ok. if radiation levels are measured and meet the standardized neighboring countries like south korea and china are

protesting. but they are releasing contaminated water at the high level to so i don't think it's fair that they are protesting. but i left that modem this from done, this one, you have las go drug me from tokyo. sonya, how will this water be released? i mean, what is the process that's going to be followed that's, that's called a company that's runs the power plant has been trying to install a system that removes contaminated isotopes from the water. um its has, its, has had some success along the way. also some issues, some leakages, but it has managed to remove the majority of those contaminated isotopes and the plan is now to dilute that water further before it will be pumped into the ocean. how much opposition has, has there been to this plan within japan itself? someone could think that that could have been or sort of been maybe more of

a position, but i'm looking back. it's not anywhere near. you know, you can't really compare it to the situation. right. aust, as it is awesome, most people have moved on the people mainly affected and ceiling. this now obviously the fisherman and the region and also active as they are still campaigning against this release. but the majority of the population kind of notices the news, but that's about it. all right, and i do want to talk to you about the fisherman and the, and the, and the issues that they have, again about this plan. but that goes to the very heart of the problem that has been made clear, please by fishermen and activism. that is the issue of the safety of the water. is this water safe? well, the government says it is also the united nations watch talk the i a, a says it's safe, it's actually something that's being done around the world and other nuclear plants

and japan to stay below those levels. still that have been so many blunders. and. 8 i as in the past, so i think really the, the trust in what the government says has been eroded quite a bit. and also some scientists say that while it's not contaminated enough or low strong enough to, to penetrate a human being, skin isn't an injustice. there is some, some cancer risk they say. so yeah, it's a tricky one. so what are the japanese government been doing to lay people's fears and concerns. i mean, there's been doing information sessions, given explanations, made lots of appeals, but a s o, often they basically throw money at the problem so, so they've even mocked around 500000000 dollars to, to use for campaigns to reduce the reputational damage to the fisherman. and also

to support them in case there's something some issue, you know, in case they cannot sell the fish and so on. but that is already built possibility isn't that because hong kong has now announced import controls on japanese food products. and therefore, the question is, what does that, what does the impact of those import control is going to be on japanese c for the exports? yes, indeed, hong kong has already reacted in a, in a less than positive way. and china has done the same of both countries by a lot of sea food or in the past used to buy a lot of sea food from japan. in the past months, there's already been a reduction of about 30 percent. and a lot of the c for the japan produces is actually, it actually has its major market outside of japan, a certain things like c squared, for example, the amazing delicacies in other asian markets. so these could be very much effective. but to find the what have experience with this because the media payoff

of it is often in 2011. these were the same concerns that produced by japanese fishermen. however, the japanese officially industry didn't, but that all this fine they've been trying to make appeals. they've been trying to, to lobby on behalf of the fishermen for a long time. there's only been scientific fishing directly in the frequency my region. but i think now that the situation is sort of calm down there, opening the books again. and we might see or the system and actually might see some similar results compared to 12 years ago. squarely leave it there for the time being. but thank you so much for joining us for those updates from tokyo sonya of last year. thank you so much. you're welcome. hong kong is japan's the 2nd largest market off to china. so agricultural and fisheries exports. but it isn't just japanese fishermen who might seem to pinch off any import restrictions from

the country. restaurant owners in hong kong awarded that the government's decision to activate import cubs could leave them facing an uncertain future. at this hong kong restaurants, fish is the speciality. trouble is these menu main stays all, come from japan and with a band on some impulse leaving. that could mean cutbacks can go on then that will be all right. if the band covers the food products transiting via tokyo, 5, then we might have to source our supply from other places like a socket. come want to come directly to hong kong lightly. conversely, with the for, will put less c food on the menu lawyer. we'll still use meat and vegetables from japan for last month. so hong kong government said that any button would apply to aquatic products from tokyo and separate other japanese regions. not just focus

cima in passing input, supply refrigerated, unfrozen goods, as well as some dried products, including sea, salt and sea waves. and customers here seem pretty happy with the decision. uh, you know, all of that whole, i believe the hong kong government should have very strict control over the input to see food. so here is the worried about the food that will conduct a lot of these things and then the same problem. exactly. so those that are not bend i'm, i believe they're run through star testing and the government to show that they're not harmful to humans before the import. i believe japanese food and hong kong is not going to cause price issues at customer confidence may now be key to restaurants like this and home comb with the oven. if failing, the band could take a big slice out of his business and leave him facing significant losses.

indonesia has a big for the waste problem. one investigation found that in the period from 2000 to 2019, for instance, invitations threw away some $115.00 to a $184.00 chinos afford, per capita the yeah. and there are regulations in place now to reduce the spot enterprising solutions are already in the market to try and solve the problem. it's nothing good and one of the easiest and most popular these just i'm sorry, i money a sleep deep into a be a set by daily reality and restaurants throughout the country as much as 40 percent of the lease in the country, east foot from retailers for surfaces as well as households, according to research, from the battery, less than 3 or 4 foot and it's ration indonesia is the 3rd largest for the way sir into work. but change will not be easy. so we're not asking about regarding the

waste management and hotels. the most important thing is obviously that nothing is waste. i see the kind of thing, but sometimes it can be avoided. we know, using that done, you know, for all the surplus application which at least allows us to reduce foods, wasteland. yeah. when the log in and then you know what, ways i'm under exist restaurant now sales. it's offers folks to using the surplus f d f cells, excess fluid from restaurants, hotels, supermarkets and even farms at a minimum, 50 percent discount sellers, lease their surplus foot on the app about 3 hours before closing the foot is either pick up directly or send via career to the buyer to i'll see if this in indonesia have already installed use the app but, but this i'm wondering what i guess on the so 80 percent of potential food waste can be reduced and turned into revenue. but the goal is that those, we use

a rap to not lose the money due to overstock, but every year, millions of tons of foot still end up being thrown away in a country where many children, my know is the government has only just started to grapple with these you the, the, the legislation has just been drafted to regulate dispute waste with we seem to be once at that uh, we are committed to this will be completed by 2024 and then going to forward security issues should be a concern for the government absolutely. preventative independence and the regulation. you have somebody that nicholas and yes you for the one to in the meantime, the government plans to use leaders off and it is yes, 6 religions as messengers. and it's getting paid to a to use with ways. they have been asked to address ways to avoid the ways at neighborhood getaways and in their sermons a stop gap measure for the moment that the government hopes so half long, good. some solutions in place of it comes out does have such a day,

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