too far in a race against time, they are peers and rivals with one daring gold to help smart nature. the boy likes watching on youtube dw documentary the you're watching dw news asia coming up today. tension between the philippines and china, conflicting claims over ocean waters and southeast asia has led to tens shipping counters. we take a closer look plus an international award to a cambodia environmental rights group recognition for the hard work and successful campaigning. these activists have accomplished under tough circumstances. the

. my name is melissa chan. thanks for joining us. there's been a lot of activity on the high seas of south east asia with the philippines and china moving around an area known as the scarborough show. b gene claims it as chinese territory and has controlled it for the past decade. back to buy coast guard ships and fishing boats in the south china sea that most security experts consider proxies of the chinese navy. manila in turn has insisted it's fishermen have the right to continue to access those waters and in recent months have backed up it's warnings. with action. the philippine coast guard divers covered the underwater cables. no more at 300 meter floating barrier, the china place to prevent the philippine fishing vessels from accessing the scarborough show. a gesture that underscores manila is growing defiance. beijing's

claims to the prime fishing grounds. the tiny, mid ocean of crop seized by china in 2012 has become a global geopolitical flash point, trying to claim to lagoon as part of its sovereign territory. the philippines is stepping up efforts to protect its rights to fish and side it's exclusive economic zone. you malott scarberry show is closer to the philippines just around a 100 to a 150 miles on whether it's around 500 miles from china and so said, why are they stopping us from entering them by monday to the since ferdinand marcus junior became president last year, manila has restored secure. he ties at the us, raising beijing's hackles strong ties to the philippines. provide washington with a chain of asian alliances that stretch from side korean, japan in the north, to australia and the sides. scarborough sho figured prominently in a case the philippines took to the permanent courts of arbitration in the hague. it

ruled in 2016. the china is claimed to most of the side china sea had no basis under international law. china does not recognize the ruling in response to the philippines action, the foreign ministry, and beijing reaffirm john his claim over the sho, pointedly referring to it by its chinese name. oriental long island is china is inherent territory. people know what the philippines has done is nothing but a farce for its own amusement. the china will continue to safe guards and territorial sovereignty and maritime writes, which, right. i entre situated close to shipping lanes, the transport over 3 trillion dollars of annual commerce control of the show to strategic for beijing. china has backed its expansive claims by building mountain, made military islands, unable patrols, beijing's claims of strange relations with not just the fishers of the philippines, but with this other maritime neighbors like vietnam, taiwan, malaysia, china is costing it's net wide. joining us as aires i will die from the

university of the philippines, dillman and thanks for coming on the program aries, a, just to underscore, to viewers in other parts of the world. how much is up for debate? even the name south china sea, which is widely used internationally. but i understand it's not what people in the philippines call it. right. why is that as well? the buildings as not claiming the entirety of, of the south china sea, but what is only entitled to the nation by international law, primarily the united nations convention under log the c. so that's part of the south china sea that is uh where, where'd the philippines have solved during pm's top in rights? we call it the west philippine c. so we have this dispute on the high seas. why is china 500 miles away? claiming sea water is much closer to the philippines as well of china,

despite be a signatory to the main international law instrument. as far as married time boundaries are concerned, which is when clause has said that they, their claim is only a something that they inherited from the comments on the party that used to be the party and in power. or at least during the time when china was still up under the communist party. they also made historical claims that china has been fishing, or at least has jurisdiction over these islands, or at least that part of the maritime see called this outside the sea. for more than centuries, but these claims i believe, to be invalidated according to international law. when, when uh, china signs uh on costs as well as the deadline for the filing of any,

any of the claims had passed up you a couple of decades ago. so i think what china is attempting to do is really applying geo politics here. the south china sea is not only a crucial gateway to countries in south east and northeast asia. but if you would look at them, it's a critical married time zone for it. find that to be able to secure its national security. the particular need for feeds that the south time is east part of the series of waterways. that is surrounded by the allies of the united states, from south korea, to the philippines in the south to it's very fascinating that the international court case of the philippines brought to the united nations against china on this dispute. i wonder why is this new president of the philippines responding differently to china then deterred to because essentially it's been the same threat,

but it seems like the philippines middle is pushing back harder now. right. well, i think if something is clear, is that the past 6 years since the arbitrary award with was had the, the how uh, favorably to the philippines to be. so it'd be china is that sinus behavior and aggression towards filipino fish for man coast guard and other entities that are in our surgery and maritime borders are the same. it's the continued bullying despite the very program the accommodation is and even you may call the deepest policy up or her president predict the parity. so i think the new administration realized that whether it would be be brandy or not, even if we take china to court, chinese behavior has been constant. so why continue to be friendly? why continue the tree outside as

a brand when scientists behavior is nothing uh, compared to the friendliness that the philippine government under disparity has extend it. so i think what changed really is that the realization that whatever we do in chinese aggression in our part of the south china sea, we'll continue. so at the end, the building government just decided to be back at or a for what these hours by international law. and our board policy should be less about how the china will react to anything that we do to protect our national interests. our is our a guy. thank you so much for joining us. thank you. the the right livelihood award, often referred to as the alternative nobel prize, has been conferred to 3 groups this year, one of which is an activist group fighting environmental harm in cambodia. they are

called mother nature, cambodia, and have successfully stopped major projects, including the construction of adapt and the export of sand, from coastal as to where they operate in a tough political climate in what is essentially in other words here in state this work has come at a cost with $11.00 of their activist jailed and dozens arrested over the years. and it's founder forced to leave the country. and we have man, lisa from mother nature can bodya joining us a 1st off. congratulations on the recognition. um, 1st off, um, can you tell us about your jailed colleagues? how long are the sentences they're serving and have they since been released? yes they, they spin really just with the conspiracy n o a and the court ordered the with, like, the conspiracy and also been like,

i choose as a for a fucking cache. yes. the 3 more bits like okay, can you tell us more about your campaigns? for example, there was a campaign against the construction of this hydro electric dam. what forced officials to stop? how can a small and g o force the government to stop such a massive project? just yes, as you know the, the you have been like, encourage people to come. you are used to know more about the rise to know more about how it's ken aspect. who did, they only live there my lease mode, so uh and done because um are you select again bit off how benefits from you know, hydro electric can affect to didn't fit very nice. so, um, it's just about the information in a bathroom the uh, yeah,

like i mean the older generation but the now we have, i do like campaign. it's also incorrect. you know, the bus to get out with the economy, raise to, to make it like to know more about how it defies through an attractive down can affect to their logical. so then they really got, oh, going to like, got to kind of like to understand more about oh, the affections of the dispatcher electric down. so they think that it's not spanish that at all of those things. all of those uh, manufacturers have gone this uh the l 3. and the primary call when you, i mean kind is found to me how are you able to continue your work given that can body is subject controls, closed society. and i was like motivated saying i was in high school because of today's just irish that those kinds of

environmental activation or so you know they, i don't like y'all and they are there what in the university, but they were arrested just to protect the environment or to a post, what happened? oh, but the environment of corruption. so i was encouraged by that and i knew because of this, that girl 5, i'm here because of their her reasons. they have been to jail. oh, for like some of our actor we have to like south the, you know, spend there at the university, right? because they have been in jail and now also on the test according as well. so it's, it's just, it's simply, you know, advocacy. why the government just, you know, i wrote it down without any reasonable things just about because it's possible that correction keeps them simple. yeah. hey, an lisa. thank you so much for joining us. so that's it for

the program. as always, you can catch us on social media and on our website, e w dot com, forward slash asia. my name is melissa chan. thanks for watching and have a good weekend the not just another day. so much is happening all at once. we take time to understand this is the day i'm in, that's look at current use events, analyzed by experts and critical thinking is weekdays on dw, say what the

auto workers in the us are set to widen their strike against the big 3 car makers. can they car about more of the industries, recent big profits for themselves? and how long can automakers take the pain? also on our show air b and b. c. 's as listings dive in new york on stricter rental rules. we'll hear from the companies co founder and chief strategy officer about what went wrong. hello and welcome to our show. i'm stephen beardsley. in berlin. we begin in the us were auto workers were set to expand their strike 2 additional production lines

across the country. a walk out which began 2 weeks ago is hitting the detroit 3 automakers. jim ford and so lenses are corresponded. abraham is at one of those walk out sites, a ford production center near detroit in wayne, michigan. that's right, steven, where i'm standing right now. you see ford workers entering, there's 3rd week of a strike against the 3 big auto mer to cesar ford workers. but as you mentioned, there are strikes for gm lantus as well. i've spent a couple of days here at the picket line, and really trying to understand what motivates the workers here and why they're determined to continue with their strikes. let's take a look at what they have to say in the support. for almost half of jeff do all these life more.