Im melissa chan youre watching d. W. News asia thank you for joining us we take a look at Southeast Asia and its fight against diseases such as malaria and dengue fever along with its efforts to be polio free consider the mosquito its probably the deadliest animal for humans not the tiger or shark 1600000000 people in the region are at risk and the w. H. O. Says there were 1240000 cases of malaria in 2017 the latest figures but new drug resistant versions have emerged in cambodia laos thailand and vietnam Southeast Asia has also been hit with a dengue fever outbreak this year the cilla penes saw the biggest spike 3. 160000 cases but neighboring countries has celt the impact now the region has largely been polio free the last 5 years but not anymore for the 1st time in 1000 years the philippines confirmed a case and none more had bad news as well for more d. W. Had the chance to speak to me on mars Health Minister mitt twee he was in berlin this week for the World Health Summit and i started out by asking him about the work to eradicate polio in his country and the recent me in me prince 2nd repeated. That the conflict of professors the poor child in one of the. States which is parents treat you know we immediately take action and be clear who free countries who. Work for my country you know and we immediately take it because our service in system is very good. Immediately report to us and we examine this and it is. Fiction derived live virus that one and 2 further confirm it we sent to bombay and the i dont know if i have ever said Nuclear Attack changes and it pattern changes and this virus exactly came out from the vaccine the vaccine that we use i live attenuated at any point in time the book i give you no but even if the book im right there is the coverage is high we do not need to worry about you but in that particular area where the child portfolio. Is less than 40 percent of the children will be infected which knitted why because the People Living there he didnt know the value of fixing the protective value of fiction that is why although we have you know people over there the are not dummies and the most i thing issue is you cannot go there this is somewhat like an insecurity area i have stuff going on inside so i want to talk a little bit more about this the fact that military conflicts complicate your ability to provide Public Health for people in the country. That is issued not necessary for my country but any countries all of the world if there is undress stuff going to go you know and all the help a given piece will be done and all the money that are invested could be down the drain for if we have a very peaceful nation has to do this will be dramatically improved expression population living in remote under soft hard to reach the other people who are suffering and on top of that to go ahead literally level of the population living in these areas very low they do not even know the the benefits of vaccination you know eating salt can lead to you know hypertension and did not know for that is why i want to see one thing you know i deem we have destroyed we are going to be 29000 dead before 8 inch tablet from the b. C. Because of his work a midwife public assistant won because in 2 helices indeed he has visited us in these debates for all the s. O. B. s and guidelines issued by the ministry of insight your mention of the tablets is very interesting and i really want to pick up on that because essentially youre talking about Preventive Health now myanmar doesnt have a universal Health Care System a people have to pay out of pocket and essentially there isnt much support what are you doing what is your ministry doing to try to improve Public Health and also try to get people to be better with Preventive Health generally speaking our Public Health care system is very good we have a very good infrastructure very good that is what i would like to see i strongly you know. Im quite satisfied with the way we have different strategies to take a different diseases we have a Different Program manager of 43 programs dealing with all the head issues and occurring in my country your country has actually been quite a standout in terms of its ability to combat malaria what lessons do you think you have to offer to other countries in the region. Malaria we are doing very well we are on the road map road to Malaria Elimination very soon because we have many web training malaria work with us and we will very closely with the private general practitioners once they have malaria the refer the case and we give straightaway treatment almost the number of dead trust ikey reduced to a few people only you know very much browed of the expression of malaria tb and hiv programme going on very well but you know as you know there are still room for improvement in any program no we are going all out for the improve the situation is minister thank you very much thank you maam thank you very much for this. In recent years religions has increasingly taken up the case of Climate Change and conservation connecting the act of protecting the planet as a way to honor its creator this discussion is happening in hinduism christianity and also islam known as eco islam and. I was in jakarta to find out more so we had this event eco islam this is a conference which was supported by the Foreign Office from germany the whole basic idea is that to search for on says on Climate Change in islam and i was very surprised to know that there are 23 verses in poor on which actually talks about to how to prevent. Change and how to actually unify water and this was amazing session with these and koran and they were taking statement from all of that and you know of course the traditional hindu ism even have values and talks about conservation also environment when we started this project you know we wanted to not talk about. The negative side of islam. Our islamization in this muslim countries and indonesia is one of the i mean the largest Muslim Country in the world so whats good want is that they want to engage the youth and i see that there are many youth there are. Objects which are made by Sustainable Energy and Sustainable Production it will be sessions that will be explaining how important is to actually save our planet because its you know it is high time you have to start separating our garbage with germanys actually an example and take always bottles not plastic bottles do not take short distance flights and so on. The red the world cup wraps this weekend in japan so we thought wed have a look at why. One amateur league in japan for those players who cant let go and dont want to leave the pitch it serves those over 40 and some much older than that these men have done the math this is the way for them to stay fit even at the cost of broken bones. The. Protein for the bones cant hurt the old timers from the talky watch to president s rugby team point out that theyre no longer in their twentys the Veterans Team trains 2 or 3 times a week tackle and mall for anyone over the age of 40 can join there are 150 senior teams across japan. Going to chickie 3 hours north of tokyo a couple of temples rice paddies hunter engine factory. Not much else is going on but right now the turf has to be tightened up Tropical Storm best flooded the entire Playing Field and parts of the clubhouse. Have lots of injuries on my knee. That of the moment i broke a rib. And could go on 53 teeth got knocked out and the skin on my jaw was ripped open. The oldest player here today is cut to toshiko bari hes 81 which is why he wears purple. The players pants were below their age yellow for the 70 somethings and red for those in their sixtys who would screw up though i do 20 need bens. 20 pushups. 30 minutes of high bar exercises. Oh you have to thank goodness i mean when i run every day. Is also important. 3 eggs a day meat cheese told food not all or fermented beings by just other. Things are getting started. On of what. Were. Looking forward to but sometimes aches and pains force the seniors to leave the Playing Field never. Otherwise no mercy. Youre only as old as you feel is the prevailing belief here. Oh. My god. Im not in the end the other team wins by how many points exactly no one knows it doesnt matter they all celebrate together at the nomi chi a japanese Drinking Party the 101. There are few women here many of the men are single another reason why they play rugby to combat loneliness. Was a good portion of what it was. There and that there. Though. Now they are looking forward to the rugby World Championship final here in japan their National Team has been shut out but for the tokyo walker president s the show must go on they will play rugby until their bodies give up. Thats our show for today you can find more on our website www dot com or at slash asia and on facebook and twitter as well please tell us what you think about what we cover and what you like to see we leave you with pictures from german chancellor Angela Merkels trip to india shes there mostly to discuss trade have a good weekend until next time and good bye. Its time to take a step. Toward europe just search the. Fund for the troops. To overcome. And to connecticut. Its time for. The ws coming up ahead. Parts. Of the famous naturalist and explorer. Too soon to bring to the public some dough from the books for 250. Dollars for you tube discovery. Expedition boys. Germany and the india pledge to join forces on the take front medical and most the ones who cooperate on digitization an Artificial Intelligence a field in which neighboring china leads. Because it takes over at the e. C. B. The banks 1st quarter promises to listen to the markets and to the people. 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