taipei city started sending doctors and nurses a year ago. local government is covering the cost. the city government issues a health handbook for each child. the handbook means they can get vaccinated just like other children in taiwan. part of handbook is translated into indonesian. it's a valuable resource for the mothers, but it hasn't solved all the health problems. >> translator: there is not enough space for all the children at harmony home. dishes have to be shared and that makes it easier for infections to develop. some children develop bronchitis or o other respiratory diseases. other children havave skin problems. these conditions require immediate attention from doctors, sometimes hospital treatment. wewe share inforormation with t home t to help improve hygiene therere. >> in order to improve this situation, the city government has made harmony home an offer. it can use a public building. the space is large and the rent is low. yang plans to move 30 of the youngest children here aged two or under. first renovations are neneeded. t

counter chinese efforts last find gold is an asia political risk analyst and a policy adviser to the taipei city government he says voters will have to choose between candidates different approaches to china. people here in taiwan they don't accept the one country 2 systems formula that china proposed for hong kong so when it comes to taiwan's relationship with china that's one thing we certainly know and whether it's the nationalist party candidate on go you are the incumbent president so i have one of the democratic progressive party or the 3rd candidate of the people 1st party that none of them support that concept so it's really what other formulas exist now congo u n n james song would return to the formula that was used by the previous president mining joe of the nationalist party which was a formular that china was comfortable with as well but in 2016 the voters elect its on one of the democratic progressive party and she doesn't agree with the previous formula and she prefers a formula that really separates taiwan. identity as its sovereignty excedrin from china so that's a significant c

the chinese efforts well russ feingold is asia political wiscon listen a policy adviser to the taipei city government he joins us on skype from taipei russ feingold very warm welcome to the program what's your feeling about what the likely toll of these debates are going to be what are what's going to be the main issues and the main toll. well it's popular for observers outside taiwan to assume that the election is only about relations with china or taiwan its place in the china hong kong situation and what does it mean for taiwan over the long term but a lot of the election is also about domestic issues just like any other democratic societies economic growth and child education elder care you know a lot of the typical issues that you would expect people to be concerned about as far as their daily lives are also significant part of the conversation so the election is not only about china or hong kong ross that was going to be my next question what is the breadth of public opinion what do the taiwanese people want from these elections. well clearly people here in taiwan they don't accept t

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the city's economy the government has already pledged $2700000000.00 to help the transport tourism and retail sectors cope with the ongoing upheaval. correspondents odong hun joins me now from taipei 0 it's good to see you as always is this. is this threat from the u.s. actually giving foreign business is there a scare as lambs or just. well not yet stephen i mean carolan said in the press conference that the most impact right now is on confidence it has created an unstable environment in the business now a warri about what kind of action washington might take the result of the assessment and she also pointed out that the new u.s. law might be a major blow to u.s. companies in hong kong and we know there are more than a $1300.00 company u.s. companies in hong kong and most them are regional headquarters so if the us changed hong kong special status these companies might consider to move by them with the a real serious impact on the city so it's just in there that this measure might actually backfire on u.s. companies now lamb promise here of more economic help for the city do we have any idea what she's talking about when she says that. she just said the government will launch a 4

around the world with major cities putting on fireworks shows to welcome sheers even to was one of the 1st to see it spread to 20 display in oakland. shortly after what's taipei's want to one tower out was listen up fronts of cheering clark crowds. on closely by babcock which bust into color at the stroke of midnight. tokyo's sure boy a district there were no 5 votes what kind of people crammed into the city's most famous across event over the 100000 people i went back to so. i was reminded of our top story of thousands of people have fled to beaches in southeast australians mistake the raging bushfires in the states of victoria and new south winds blazes killed at least 12 people and destroyed more than a 1000 homes. i'm next to be w. tomorrow today the science magazine i'll be back at the top of the out of it. the blueprint for every living thing on this planet my new commissioner coat d.n.a. . a brilliant natural it's the most effective way to see vast amounts of data scientists in syria now want to use this code for technology they're developing artificial d.n.a. to save digital information to our world today next on d w. getting into the top in opera is no

taipei's 101 tower was lit up in front of crowds. close by, bangkok burst into color at the stroke of midnight. tokyo's avoid district, there were no fireworks, but plenty of people crowded into the city's most famous crossing. here's a reminder of our top story. thousands of people have fled to beaches in southeast australia to escape reaching bushfires in the ststates of torah and d new south wales. the blazes have killed at least 12 people and destroyed about 1000 homes. up next, the science magazine. i will be back at the top of the hour. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] with the twenty seventh consecutive day of trump schools strikes france's president emmanuel macron vows to forge ahead with reforms the country's pension system. demonstrators i. goodbye uss strike staged violent protests outside the us embassy in baghdad president trump meanwhile has accused iran old straight to the unrest. and also coming up a completely cold by surprise at japanese lawyers the foreman assembles callers gun say they know why did how the multi millionaire