of citizens' privacy all while not making an outright denial we have dr siraj gary from the university of delhi he was one of the targets of surveillance via what's app dr how do you feel about these revelations well it's one little very unnerving bought at another level why expect it and why it why do you say that it's expected is it because of the work you were doing year one because of the kind of work i'm doing and the kind of things that's happening around me you know with my other friends with other activists and not just friends and activists but also laura ordinary people you know. we have a pretty pretty nasty regime regular it doesn't sound like you have any confidence in terms of accountability that the government will investigate and prosecute those who are involved with this breach yet they will not also because they themselves are part of a great and actually you know most people are using that don't go to government but i think that don't we want we want to use you as the deep state you know it's there in diligence in c.s. within the steve who are responsible for this do you thin

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university until vora has a report. thousands of students gathered in the heart of new delhi and demanded their right to affordable education they have been protesting for weeks since the university decided to increase the fee for their accommodation their leaders say as many as 40 percent of the students come from families who struggle to make a living i see. is a ph d. student who says he is the 1st in his family to get a university education he credits the no competition piece for his success if genuine was not better if public funded as a person i would not have been here with no walkthrough prabakaran from the national guard because. there was a large police presence during the protest a few days ago during a similar demonstration several students were beaten by police and detained for hours david was one of them she says the police broke her arm in the scuffle but she's not deterred and will continue to protest their fight and women might want to write that i wanted to get in and do it and one year the light was there right it's just that i did it not at all martin. many of the current and former professors also came

of measures to combat the toxic smog causing a public health emergency in delhi. a major investigation in canada has found high levels of lead in drinking water. hundreds of journalists and universityhe country. they found that a third of those samples exceeded the national safety guidelines. so conclusive was this investigation? bruce lanphear is a leading canadian water safety researcher. no, they are pretty solid. one of the challenges is that the way samples are collected is not consistent. different cities measure it differently, but when you put it all together it still sells a shocking story. why is lead in drinking water such a problem, and where do you think it is coming from? it is mostly coming from the lead surface lines, the lead solder, some brass fixtures, collectively it comes from all those, but mostly lead surface lines. we have just taken our eyes off it. we have dismissed it, we haven't funded public health as we should, haven't paid to the infrastructure. lots of people might be thinking of flint, michigan. how does the problem compare? there are a number of cities that look at least as bad as flint. it is a little hard to compare directly because of the way sa

delhi there in venice. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today students from mainland china are leaving hong kong university is as violent protests affect campuses many courses have already been canceled protesters have continued to build barricades and disrupt public life to press to mans for more autonomy from mainland china. australia is raging bush fires have claimed another life bringing the death toll to 4 firefighters are struggling to contain dozens of blazes burning across the country's east coast a separate emergency warning has now been issued for a fire threatening a city in western australia. new zealand lawmakers have voted in favor of legalizing euthanasia the final decision will now be put to the public in a referendum during the country's general election next year the bill allows for terminally ill patients to request a medically assisted death israel and the palestinian group islamic jihad have reached a cease fire to the heaviest fighting in months along the gaza border at least $34.00 palestinians including a family of 6 have been killed israel says it will answer quiet with quiet but w

politics and international relations at the university of westminster shazia ilmi is a spokesperson for india's ruling but i'm not a party b j p she is in new delhi. and i josh is a writer at business standards an indian english language daily he joins us from canoe or in the southern indian state of hello everybody 'd good to have you here i want to say hello i want to start with prime minister narendra modi on the very day that kashmir law that became officially part of the federal part of india and administered from new delhi he was both buoyant and then also quite fierce about what this meant for india have a listen. new highways new railway lines new schools new colleges new hospitals will all take the people of jammu and kashmir to new heights of development because. being born in iran we will defeat every attack on the unity of our nation we will give it a job breaking response any attempts to break the country's unity will never be able to withstand big democratic values and strong public sentiments. that speech really felt a little bit like the carrot and the stick and the stick fell stiff there i'm just wondering from the beach a.p. per

delhi. what they're saying is that most of the students of the university as. many of them 40 percent of them they've told us are you know coming from families which are under the 1490 right on age so a lot of students from very poor families study in this university and they just cannot afford any sort of hike if the accommodation there in the university goes up then that something many students would not be able to afford we also see a lot of female students a lot of women and they're saying 2 things they're saying that a fee hike any sort of be hiked is going to impact them even more than the male students they're also saying that they're against more to it they describe as a. dress school the university now wants to bring about in the hostel which is where the students of the university state. social media especially facebook twitter knew to have been called the greatest propaganda machine in history actor and comedian baron cohen made those comments that anti-defamation defamation league gathering in the u.s. for in force this point he said if facebook had

delhi. woodruff: fred's reporting is a partnership with the under- told stories project at the university ofst. thomas in minnesota. >> woodruff: finally tonight, jane fonda has been a household name for decades due to her prolific work on-screen and activism as well.nduring her cause now: taking on clite change. >> you obviously know what this is like, but i've fover felt it . >> the winner is jane fonda. >> woodruff: two academy awards, seven golden globes, a prime time emmy. the list goes on. from her start in 1960, on stage and then on screen, jane fonda quickly won recognition and stardom. movirom barefoot in the park and ba reel la barballa to shea shoot horse don't they, clute and coming home, she became a household name. so happy. >> woodruff: followed by the hein chyna syndrome, on golden pond and nine to five. after a break in the '90s, he relaunched her career on film, on stage and tv. >> we made a hell of an act, >> we did. woodruff: as grace hansen in her current netflix comedy series grace and frankie with lilly tom lynn. all the while, activism has been threaded through phonta

is universal health coverage needs health coverage and taking care of people all over the board this is not the case at the present time absolutely not emma for example we were just looking out in delhi that the schools were closed because of high small how important is local action to protect children from the effects of climate change where no connection is important enough cause children these are toxic gases it's you know they hurt the whole body it's name of had tickets they go everywhere in the body and has a long term consequences for a child. but. they come from somewhere they may come from d.d. but they come you know with a wince they come all over the world so it's not just one region it's the planet it's planet earth which we have to protect and this is genuine development voice actually you know decided by the united nations going from know how much you know how much education and partnership for the goal is i think putting together in governments but world wide that's what's required at the present time so a lot of work still to be done professor and deathless gunton thank you very much for sharing your expertise with us and. he was in the news coming up ahead chilling a

of november nothing would have happened before then an expose your. lunch break in delhi. west berlin medical student benedict ziegler my are headed to the university canteen. but fish was informing himself about the situation in the country all the news was about one topic only the tense congress of the east german communist party central committee the highest party organ. they wanted to do something new would create trust they got in crane's who actually was a protege of hanukkah's. that didn't give anyone hope that there would be improvement because the ideology remained nothing changed change could only come about if something old broke to make room for the new year old cup would you like a bag of call. in the central committee building top party officials were discussing the future of east germany as always behind closed doors. just one person wasn't inside the party's new spokesman contest. too often for the street in going for the media i was responsible for dealing with the media i'm choosing my words carefully because the expression guiding and instructing the media had been replaced i was in touch with the media on that day to tell them w