counting in papua new guinea's general election has been delayed in one province following accusationsaland international, recounts have been ordered in two constituencies in the country's east sepik province because more than one candidate has alleged that witchcraft has been used to remove their votes from ballot boxes. johnny blades has been following the election for radio new zealand and says the accusations aren't unusual for png. regarding the sorcery allegations, that is not unusual in papua new guinea because a lot of people believe in the use of black magic for good and for bad, and what happened up in the east sepik electorate is that a number of ballot papers have gone missing during the count and some of the candidates up there believed that was a result of some malevolent use of the sorcery, or ‘sanguma,’ as they call it. they approached election officials about having the count redone. since then, the papers have been discovered again but it's not unusual in a papua new guinea election — one, for ballot papers to go missing, but for people to make these which might seem

counting in papua new guinea's general election has been delayed in one province following accusationsrnational recounts have been ordered in two constituencies in the country's east sepik province because more than one candidate has alleged that witchcraft has been used to remove their votes from ballot boxes. johnny blades has been following the election for radio new zealand and says the accusations aren't unusual for png. regarding the source we all gay she is, that is not unusual in papua new because a lot of people believe in it. in the east sepik east sepik region, a number of ballot papers had gone missing and some of the candidates up their believed that was as a result of a malevolent use of sorcery. they approached the election officials are bound having the count rebound, or at least a petition filed. since the papers have been discovered again. but it is not unusual in the papua new guinea election, one for ballot papers to go missing and also the people to make these claims which seem quite outlandish but in png people believe in a black magic, at least a lot of people an

papua new guinea, which saw drastic declines in new infections, is now starting to see increases again vigilance and improve their prevention programmes. new innovations, self—testing, community—based testing, pre—exposure prophylaxis, which is showing 90% reductions in infection in other countries, need to be introduced into the populations here in our region. you are highlighting what they need to do. have you had any indication from any of these countries in asia that they are willing to have an open dialogue about how they can move things forward, and progress? definitely. the ministry of health in the philippines, i am going there in two weeks‘ time, we are working with them. there are countries that are showing innovation. cambodia is a great example of achieving these interim, fast—track targets. other countries, like myanmar, have seen a 60% increase in treatment over the last five years. so there are countries that are showing the way. what we need is to make sure that the countries that have had success previously do not slow down, and maintain their effort. and increased res

this for the development but tom gruber is still there and you talk to him on a phone outside papua new guinea so tells the apple's take on a eye with tom gruber. >> guest: it's easy to kind of forget now with the age of alexa and the google assistance of you talking about, that apple was kind of first to this arena. siri was the first sort of mainstream ai digital assistant. and the emphasis was always kind of on that service, the service element. the interesting to me about that interview and about hearing about their approach was sort of the effort more to make siri sort of relatable and to be a character come someone that you want to interact with and apple's criticized the private is functionality fall behind the rest. for a long time it was relegated to this novelty status where it was not always giving you the right answers to stuff. they've really tried to beat it up in recent years and do things like, the approach we are doing this huge amounts of machine learning, that wasn't what siri originally was. it was a really sort of basically a really complex database full of, you would voic