Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us turnout continues to trump expectations in hong kong as hundreds of thousands of people showed up for a largely peaceful protest 6 months into the movement the past couple of weeks have been relatively quiet in the territory and some pro democrats themselves even wondered if momentum had slowed but the message those who took to the streets sent is that they are not going away now a lot of those out there on the front lines are young teenagers or College Students some have gone out week after week despite parental disapproval others have done so only to lose their jobs g. W. Shot shows until take a look at how these frontline ors receive support behind the scenes faces hidden location concealed only then with these hong kong entrepreneurs agreed to be filmed. They set up an Online Shopping service which supports the prodemocracy movement. It employs protesters whove been arrested or kicked out of their homes for their part in the demonstrations. We want to provide for the teenagers and everyone that is involved in this movement they should be proud of what they are doing we are proud of them and we will support them with their career despite being a world away from the front lines initiatives like this fear the founders who volunteers say being identified could jeopardize their careers perhaps even the safety starts with a new born son logistics manager caleb says getting caught up in violent protests isnt an option passionately i dont have the courage to go on the front lines and fight with them so i fell into this backup role and started this company and let them know that they are not left behind and the hong kong people are supporting them with this scheme calebs among the growing ranks of hong kong is finding inventive ways to support the prodemocracy cause. When you picture the hong kong protests warehouses like this one wont be the 1st thing that springs to mind but its far from the front lines behind the scenes initiatives like this one that are quietly and collectively sustaining this movement caleb says he hopes one day he and his team wont have to hide their identities and will feel safe to proudly admit the role theyve played. We have glacier kwang joining us in the studio shes a member of the hong kong activist a Group Keyboard frontline see a glacier with that do you report we just saw you have these volunteers not on the front lines because they feel like they cant necessarily participate in the protests all the time is there still a danger to the work theyre doing yes of course there are dangers for not being very involved in the front line as well because if they are found or their identities being revealed they will get themselves into trouble i have friends who do similar work in hong kong and he was targeted in his personal particulars of being put online and his shot was being harassed and people are saying that they were blocking him and really gave him a hard time so a so somebody you know got docks to central you know because of the work that hes trying to do on his shop to support the movement so if youre saying youre going to hire people from their front line then you actually exposing yourself to troubles in that sense i think its very interesting that you have people of different ages contributing in different ways and people with different skills whether some of the musicians performing music. Each person has a role tell me about your role and your organization my role because im now basing it at base in germany so i do a bit of lobbying trying to get the narrative about the hong kong move been out there for the ad theres and my group actually focuses on technology and internet related things so we try to give advice to activists on how do you encrypt your device how do you keep your Information Safe and terms of a digital sense and we are still trying to formulate a report talking about the surveillance the time of china and Hong Kong China and even the world do you think activists are improving in terms of their digital hygiene and protecting themselves is of course we see a improving trend in general when comparing like 5 years ago in them belo revolution people dont really know if they need to use and to encryption and they contact about sensitive things openly online but now we see that people are more aware of ok certain things we cannot say and open. Area on the internet but we can do it and to an encryption and sometimes people will come to ask how do i keep my Information Safe so see if we see an increase of awareness in this sense now i want to step back a little bit and talk about short term versus long term short term beijing strategy or rather the Hong Kong Police force a strategy is to lob as much tear gas as possible it doesnt seem to be working based on the a turnout this weekend for example but long term beijing has said that it wants to increase and roll out Patriotic Education in the School System and to also decrease teaching of Critical Thinking skills in classrooms and do you think they will prevail that the next generation is going to be more nationalistic i think actually it will work because we can see from the past experience in 2012 the government tried to launch a national and National Education in hong kong and they failed but then they separate the whole curriculum and the implemented part by part in hong kong but still the whole generation of youngsters are actually very against the rule of the chinese regime so we can see that doesnt work and i think as long as we keep talking about these kind of socalled Critical Thinking a criticism about the hong kong the Chinese Government i dont think they will succeed in terms of brainwashing the next generation because we have one solid generation that is so against the rule of china and Hong Kong Government in this sense and i think this is the question that everybody must ask you all the time but how do you think this is all going to end i have no idea to be honest i dont see the congo regime or the chinese regime going to fall in like a tip of the finger but i think in the long term dictatorship will eventually fall and were counting on that so even though we dont see any actual hope of succeeding at this mall when we know when were doing to right thing were going to continue. Thank you. China has responded to investigations by the New York Times and the International Consortium of investigative journalists on its mass detention of weekers a muslim Ethnic Minority Group in its far west media organizations had obtained elite government documents confirming a system of detention camps which the u. N. Has estimated impacts some 1000000 people heres what chinese officials and she had to say. And there are nurse socalled detention camps and she junk lists of all the socalled reports issued by foreign media and organizations such as the New York Times and the International Union of interests of journalists of all militias and distorted to me as soon jones education and Training Centers as well as its Anti Terrorism anti reticuli zation work on. China says these centers provide Work Training to improve Employment Opportunities among other things the few whove been held and managed to escape the country say torture death and the forced sterilization of women are just some of the Human Rights Violations taking place in the camps. Indias legislature introduces a controversial bill today called the citizenship Amendment Bill it would allow religious minorities facing persecution in neighboring muslim countries to apply for citizenship it explicitly excludes muslims and some say the anybody but muslims application of the bill is discriminatory lets bring in our delhi correspondent misha gys well michelle what triggered this bill have persecuted people applied for asylum in india. Well melissa this bill was actually a part of the partys election manifesto back in 2014 been Prime Minister now remember more of the forest scheme to bar the election manifesto had state of the prosecuted minorities in neighboring countries would be supported and would be given citizenship in india and this is exactly what this bill sets out to do and of course there is migration from countries like afghanistan and pakistan into india however the spend has been criticized that if this was truly about supporting religious persecuted minorities what about the farmers in sri lanka what about the Rohingya Muslims and myanmar also neighboring countries this is why the focus on only muslim countries and only non muslim minorities from those countries is seen as being detrimental to indias secular fabric and this isnt the 1st citizenship related taal see this administration has ruled out this year correct and thats correct melissa we have the National Register for citizens which was pulled out which was drawn out earlier this this was explicitly implemented in the state of assam where the locals from that state have demanded the doors who had migrated in from bangladesh should be left out as it affects the demography of that state how this relates to the current bill is that this bill is being heavily criticized in assam because the assamese are seeing that those hindus you may have left off because they came in from bangladesh will now be included and will continue to affect the demography of a sahm and this is also why the n. R. C. Exercise in conjunction with this bill is seen as once again targeting muslims. Now to be sure to put this in more context how does this fit into your Prime Minister Narendra Modis hindu nationalist agenda. Well melissa just spoke about the National Register for citizens which is seen as muslims but this as well as the citizenship are not the only things that support the b j p s hindu nationalist agenda just earlier this year and all good just the special status of the state of was shot down and that is the only muslim majority state in this country also the b. G. P. Has strongly pushed the construction of a massive raman there in the city of you with this is actually something thats been a big Election Agenda for the b. G. P. And is and has actually been a big flashpoint between hindus and muslims in the country over the term of crime scene evidence movie they have also seen a rise in lynchings related to beef consumption which are raising more and more concerns that muslims and minorities in this country are increasingly being targeted and india is having more and more trouble as each of these new policies implemented to continue claiming that its a secular country mishi chance well thank you. Thats it for now head over to our website d. W. Dot com forward slash asia to view this show online and for other stories from the region and you can check us out on facebook and twitter as well we leave you with pictures from this weekends big march in hong kong organizers said 800000 people turned out although officials provided a lower number regardless it was significant because of its largely peaceful nature thank you for watching see you next time and goodbye. Because in germany to learn german other than the. Why not learn with him. You learn course because freak. Show flings distance new balls peeking welcome to the show with the ding dong. Concerts with his guests. Welcome to night. Week w. Logon 40 workers died in a fire in indias capital delhi a tragedy occurred factory shining a spotlight on lax oversight and low Safety Standards in the indian textile industry. And china Government Agencies to get rid of all foreign made computers beijing is more reliant on its own technology now retaliating for west village and towards its was. Illegal logging the fight against the destruction of romania. This is business. As welcome of these 43 people were killed in indias capital new delhi on sunday when a fire swept through a 6 story factory where laborers were sleeping the factory was making. Raw materials were stored inside the building which helped the fire spread quickly deadly. All too common in the safety regulations in factories and residential buildings are routinely ignored. Thick smoke billows from the 6 Story Building in indias capital delhi the fire which killed 43 people on sunday has flared up again waiting outside the hospital friends and relatives struggle to comprehend what happened the building houses the factory making handbags school rucksacks and the victims died in this sleep neighbors to a horrifying
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