To. Its good to have you with us the great big indian wedding is being slimmed down by a poorly performing economy that has Consumer Spending in india is dropping and that among other factors is having an impact on how much couples are willing to shell out for their big day with good results that those who would have wanted celebrations last at least a week now manage with just a couple of days its heartbreaking i know but when the past strings are tight the budgeting has to begin. Bride to be pallid puncher meyer thought shed already picked her dream dress but after taking a closer look at their budgets pollack and her fiance decided to make some savings meaning another trip to the clothes rack. Bunch of being the month its a matter of right now and it is a little recession any guys re going on so im sending this starting. Gift punches here try to cut down on the cost by effectively going to go to buy say. Indian weddings are renowned for being lavish glitzy affairs with hundreds or even thousands of guests partying for days on end but despite being seen as recession proof the industry has also a foreign victim to indias slumping economy all you have used to be the old weeklong weddings has not been conquered it was just one or one in our view over the years in the entire families being dreaming about. When they when my and my would get married and theyve been saving things for the be the 2nd to have the major setback the weddings over truth to be 2000 people who love wind and beautiful no 70800 scaling back on the big day can impact friendships and social standing people who normally make the guest list now find themselves left off it for another bride to be monday to kuranda its a real worry. If all the businesses you look forward to look at an event in india i now saw you know and that really affects each and every family it doesnt only effect the bride in the room it also affects the siblings and around it a little of that around because then what happens we start you know putting the cars down the picture perfect wedding maybe getting a slim down but its still sure to be full of all the color and emotion thats the whole mark of any marriage in india. Lets bring in a 3 shonda said vonnie he directed at dreams crofter right exact his company best buy the shot dragica join us now due to the slowdown in the Indian Economy couples having to cut back on their wedding expenses how exactly are they going about doing this. Economy is on a little bit of a slowdown and i think it all ends up getting into the right industry not directly but a little and if you saw indians in general are used to you know saving money for their childrens manager i think its sort of in their blood to save money from the from the time of child was born for the grand celebrations of the kids reading this but what happens is that this money is actually not liquid always i mean its always but in stocks and in real estate or whatever else they might find that money but then the but the prices of everything going down and that that sort of money becomes nonliquid of a larger point so the funds that are deployed towards the wedding tend to go down and were seeing that happening. In the wedding industry as well so white people are you know taking their time to. Sort of invest. You know their digging the time to put money in. And you know complain to keep the status intact the other Services Within the readings and to get affected so they would spend a little less money on say the decor aspect of it they would probably reduce the amount of money that they spend on ill call it probably you know take the lot and brands that. And then they probably go from an a plus artist to and a list of b. To b. List artist pick a form of their at least thats thats some place were seeing the major impact coming in what does that mean for companies such as yours clearly weddings are very important to end their lives are you able to deliver the extravagance that people demand off you but at a to put it. No i dont think that is really possible because work cost money it costs money so we have seen a cut back in terms of budget of every individual client from india. Did what how we have as a company is that weve done sort of focused on doing a lot more readings in quantity and also focused on getting readings from the overseas market into india so were focusing a lot on an already who are looking to come back to the roots to get mattered you spoke about quantity you have to start sort of talk about that just sort of us can get a clearer picture of what is the biggest wedding with the biggest number of people you know all of ever organized so weve organized a writing for 25000 people as well so i mean thats just one of those people so its its really not about how much money people are actually part of the event its about how extravagant you can go to really create that experience for everyone to be able to leave high readings where weve had only 200 people attending but the scale of the writing is its massive like i mean when the art is the performing its like its like the kind of art as a performer writing these days and other kind would you who would buy a ticket and go and watch a concert so thats the scale at which the ratings grow in india quite a scare surviving thanks so much for laying it out for us. From weddings to ones that dont know that the increasing numbers of child marriages operating the health and future of many young women at risk despite a legal matter of 21 3rd of weddings are between teenagers the government wants to end such matters by 2030 but tackling its root causes is a serious challenge. How young is too young to marry 16 2 if you ask ashley thats the age at which she ran off to wed her boyfriend remus had been making the rounds and have an asset to a wedding as a way to legitimise have relationship soon after she quit school and fell pregnant ending up with a painful Health Condition and regrets. When the cave in to us i wasnt sure and i couldnt think about the consequences of my actions but this is this it. Isnt a line an increasing number of nepalese girls are choosing to get married young to escape poverty or conflict at home because theyre pregnant to avoid a potential forced marriage or simply for love one 3rd one 3rd of child marriages are cases of girls and boys liking each other and the loping. But voluntary doesnt mean say. Advocacy groups say underage love marriages pose the same risks as forced unions dropping out of School Health problems and domestic violence. Are down i got married to a boy she barely knew who turned out to be a violent drug addict. She enjoyed beating some months before she managed to escape. To my marriage when i was 13. I was studying in 5th grade. But now ive left that house and ive gone back to school helped by the sisters of my philip. Through. One of those socalled sisters who helped our diana is. Since leaving her own marriage works with a charity to prevent other girls from marrying young and encourages them to get an education instead. As prodemocracy protests grandaunt in hong kong the territories educators have become a target for probating hard line i was there to use teachers of help to start up the arm rest effectively taught in schools in to incubate terms of civil disobedience correspondent petunias berlingo to boards. A few days before the end of 2. Looks like business as usual in hong kong schools but joining us fire and other teachers have been in emergency mode for most of the semester. We are always worrying whether the students stay in their. Cars or. When it changes the in the come out street. History its to try to find their students and see whether they can given the guardian sorts of laws. More than 900 miners have been arrested since the start of the protests and thats put schools under the scrutiny of the pro government count Chinese State media have accused teachers of agitating mr john you would find the Teachers Union representative was even singled out in chinas largest newspaper peoples daily and sent to be poisoning students minds john is a teacher of liberal studies a compulsory civics class it covers the political system both of Mainland China and hong kong and tackles controversial issues like chinas human rights record he denies the claims of probe a gene hardliners that liberal studies has radicalized its. Called call to try to let students to see different perspectives so that they can be up to. The indians. But some politicians point to a growing number of complaints about biased teachers and School Materials horace german vice chairman of hong kongs largest bro Establishment Party season need for action hes helped form a committee to review the curriculum the charter of pitches in hong kong they are still but fabric our focus shape. Interesting how a case in the school but it would need to appear rather like that about a patient a confidence being babbage by my doc just like my daughter lumber off to just sit home cough. The government has made clear that teaches arrested at demonstrations will be banned from the classroom. It has also issued warnings to teachers who voiced strong Anti Government opinions on social media although none have been suspended so far the Teachers Union aligned to the prodemocracy camp has organized protests against what it calls white tara i think its just a face to pressure i know but i guess it shows up. That i was that guy i. The fight for the hearts and minds of the next generation of hong kong as is on the way out. Thats it for today relieve it all with fireworks to the actual Lunar New Year these are from china didnt open for chinese didnt know yeah were back on monday after what we can of our. Day up today dont miss our highlights w. Program on line w. Dot com highlights. Here i am getting. Sick closest place to hail just. In skinny kid. And gangsters a camp. All net change. Keamy. You will hear. Nice cheese and keeping. Too near you. Allan sloan story. Must. Start january 27th on d w. Have a look back. And read. The scars of a trade war china weakest economic expansion in decades how much cooling can the worlds 2nd largest economy take. As a tackle the worlds on 36 ended hunger crisis we talk about the human right to food with a Food Security expert. And the key to a croatian colorations like highlights at the worlds biggest agricultural fair in berlin. And then fizzle and lets your business chinas Gross Domestic Product grew at its slowest pace in almost 3 decades last year we can exports and sluggish consumer demand weighed on the worlds 2nd biggest economy so when growth to 6 point one percent well that was within the governments lodges so in what targets or rather it was lower than economists of full cost. The Chinese Government aims to accentuate the positive as its announced the countrys worst g. D. P. Growth since 1990. Recently turned up in 29000. 00 the economy grew by 6 point one percent on the Previous Year that meets the projected target of 6 to 6. 5 percent. But those latest figures are an unwanted sign that beijing has failed to improve conditions the way it would have liked. Chinas expansion has been slowing for much of the last decade edging ever closer to the 6 percent mark some analysts say it needs to stay above that point to continue generating jobs