in the homeless right now also improvement in their class are actually right right and this is steve killelea have founder of the institute for economic and peace thank you very much for sharing insights from your report which has just been released. thank you very much. now to something quite different and there's been a new arrival at a zoo in belgium an adorable baby asian elephant one believes as she tries to stand just moments after she was born she's the floor the elephant to be born at the zoo in the past it says asian elephants are an endangered species with fewer than 40000 left in the wild zoo officials say both the mother and the baby doing just fine and . here's a recap of the top stories appear following for you hong kong lawmakers have postponed a debate on a controversial extradition go and meet new protests tens of thousands of demonstrators have brought parts of the city to a standstill many businesses have joined in opposition to the plan legislation which would allow extradition to mainland china. russia investigative journalist even going on has been released from police d

steve killelea is the founder and executive chairman of the institute for economics and peace.rove its ranking in this year's report. what has happened with syria basically is isis has been defeated. now, it's still got elements, pockets of the fighters left in different parts of the country, but the overall number of people killed in battlefield deaths has dropped 13% in the last year. whereas for afghanistan, it really has not changed. so syria has become slightly more peaceful but still the second—least peaceful country in the world, and so it's still mired in conflict. has any country, has anything particularly stood out for you in these latest findings? well, it's a number of things which actually stood out. i think the first thing is the actual headline that the world has become slightly more peaceful, and that is the first improvement in five years and, and that's since 2014. some thing for europe — it's actually become more peaceful, with 22 countries improving this year, out of the 36 countries in europe. now, what happen in 2014, that is when isis first started to gai

steve killelea is the founder and executive chairman of the institute for economics and peace.t. what has happened with syria is basically isis has been defeated. there are pockets of the fighters left in the country but the overall number of people killed in battle field death has dropped 13% in the last year whereas with afghanistan, it has not changed. syria has become slightly more peaceful but still mired in conflict. has anything stood out in these latest findings? a number of things stood out. the first thing, the world has become slightly more peaceful and that is the first improvement in five years and, since 2013. europe has become more peaceful. now, what happen in 2014, that is when isis first started to gain territory in iraqi which flowed into syria so what we're seeing is a sense of isis and paco haram in nigeria, it has improved the situation in many countries. —— boko haram. improved the situation in many countries. -- boko haram. how does a country like myanmar figure? myanmar has dropped tremendously the last two years but it had been improving for the five y