public awareness is at least on the rise thanks also in part to been dishwasher patrick his ngo co financed a toilet museum in delhi here visitors learn for example that long ago things in india used to be better people what do you think twilight. in india for power than 500 years ago from to be people are going in opposite of the 19th you know there are a whole many related for many who are in villages that are not why did. over the years been dishwasher patek has also constructed 9000 public toilets across india. these are popular because they're clean and free of charge and the special thing about them is that they're hooked up to bio gas pumps. here homeless. good. by gideon. it become boy you. ready all the plug you. and there to hope to. get the toilets can also operate off grid thanks to the bio gas plant many sanitary facilities are now being built according to this principle across asia and africa. meanwhile back in the damned poor the villages say that they're all looking forward to getting toilets of their own. body a sonic if they build a toilet for me also it will be a great co

joining me is alexia peppa to care is she's a foremost off member of save the children and co-founder of the ngo see it space welcome mr kerry's 100 years of save the children today is this a day for you to celebrate. thank you for having me on today's episode children i think a good hard look at stuff has become a multi-national enormous charity around the world with over 2 and a half 1000000000 dollars worth of funding coming through and while it's very laudable to grow an organization of that size on the back of a good jobs work we really need to look at how other examine how it impacts the people who come up close to charity because we don't to receive the full picture in the gloss that is portrayed to the outside world organization has done from agreed to work but more and more children are exposed to risk of conflict why hasn't the ngo been able to prevent that. preventing children from being at risk of conflict is actually a much more political solution than the charitable world would have you got to stand. children are coming to conflict we are living in a time where more and more dishar

anniversary like this one alexia peppa did carries a former member of save the children and co-founder of the ngo save space thank you for talking to us and the w thank you and we pick up on the story again later in the day even we talk to one of the directors of save the children as the organization marks its 100th anniversary now let me vignetted that some other stories making news around the world and strikes by the saudi led coalition have killed at least 6 civilians in yemen's capital sanaa that's according to health officials links to who 3 militants the strikes reportedly targeted 9 minute besides in and around the city they come 2 days after insurgents claimed to sponsibility from drone attacks on to solve the oil pumping stations. but just as have clashed with police in rio de janeiro and. demonstrations against the government budget cuts the administration of the far right president. has announced cuts of one and a half 1000000000 euros to the country's public education system in the effect universities. a sculpture by the u.s. pop artist jeff koons has fetched over $91000000.00 at an a

carries a former member of a save the children and co-founder of the ngo save space thank you for talking to us in the w. thank you. and later in the day we also get a directive from a save the children come and talk to us about this issue that may not bring you remind you that we have lots more coming up including. this extremist far right group is campaigning for the european parliament which marches invoking germany knots the nazis boss and why have attempts to ban it. but 1st u.s. president donald trump has signed an executive order declaring a national emergency giving is administration offensive files to ban the activities of foreign telecoms the white house says the measure is not directed at any specific country or company but the move is vive be seen as targeting the chinese telecom giant while. the us government has long viewed the chinese company as an espionage threat and has sought to keep walk away from playing a major role on the u.s. telecommunications infrastructure market. this new move is likely to prevent it from supplying the equipment being used to set up cutting edg

anniversary like this one alexia peppa de carries a former member of save the children and co-founder of the ngo save space thank you for talking to us of the. thank you and we pick up on the story again later in the day when we talk to one of the directors of save the children as the organization mocks 100 since its founding. now china has slammed an executive order signed by u.s. president honored chopra's place a strict regulations on business with foreign telecoms the white house says the measure is not directed at any specific country or company but the move is widely seen as targeting the chinese telecom giant flyway beijing says it will protect the company. the u.s. government has long viewed the chinese company as an espionage threat and has sought to keep while way from playing a major role on the u.s. telecommunications infrastructure market. this new move is likely to prevent it from supplying the equipment being used to set up cutting edge 5 g. networks donald trump's decision has come at a key moment in negotiations with the chinese government about future trade relations between th

anchorage, alaska, where we're joined by pam miller, co-chair of the international pollutants elimination network, or ipen. it''s a global network o of ngosicated to a toxics-free future. miller is also the executive director of alaska community action on toxics. welcome to democracy now! it is great to have you in from alaska. can you talk about what the u.s. and theing to do significance of the problem? >> yes, it was appalling to see the u.s. government behave in the way that they did at thebasal convention, specially knowing they are not a party to the convention and yet they try to thwart efforts to establish plastics ways at the basel convention because they have a vested interest. the u.s. is the world's largest exporter of plastics, mostly to developing nations. and this has created a global crisis of waste in countries in south and central asia as well as south america a and africa. nermeen: explain how this entire process works. is it possible for these developing countries to refuse to accept thisis plastic waste? amendment tonew the basel convention, which has been proposed by norway in 2018, yes, developing countries will now