Existing prodemocracy dont make up a protest theme was attacked by an. Ive been a strategy welcome to news asia its good to have you with us thailands Prime Minister prayuth john has borne that the country could be consumed by flames if prodemocracy protests continue to take place since july protesters have been on the streets demanding changes to the constitution and free and Fair Elections this despite legal action and vests from the government. Heading for detention unbowed thai student activists holding up the 3 fingered salute that symbolizes their core demands stop harassment rewrite the constitution and. Free and Fair Elections emerging later from court they spoke to reporters. When you know its been 5 or 6 hours that we lost our freedom even though we are being released on bail we all know that we will not be far from jail what we will be in the jail that obstructs our freedom oppresses people who come out calling for democracy and our future that. The government is not giving ground either thailands Prime Minister issued a warning that growing polarization could destroy the country oh oh oh if each side insists on defeating the other politically our country will collapse if that happens just wait and see what everyone will live on a fiery land consumed by flames if that happens at a loss for what to do. Is a former army chief who let it cool in 2014 last year he was elected Prime Minister in an election critics said was rigged activists also want to reform thailands revered monarchy that would include overhauling a draconian royal defamation law which protects kingma longhorn anyone insulting the monarch can receive up to 15 years in prison. The protest Movement Organizers largely online and the government is cracking down there too its blocked facebook groups discussing the monarchy and vows to expand its dragnet. If they start a new group do anything illegal again or post anything that violates the computer crime act we all need to act again this is the system that we had here too under the same standard for everyone we dont just stop halfway well keep doing this no matter how many times it takes. Oh whatever. Activists vow theyll hold a major protest next month if their demands are not met. So what exactly are the options before the government for more im joined by thailands Education Minister not a whole team so on mr densher one good to have you on the program protesters for want the government to touch you on a bottle of to resign so that new elections can be held with the government resign. At the moment i think the economic problem is. If there is a resignation its going to be a long drawn process that would not move the country forward i think. Looking at the ways to move forward amid the call that endemic so i think its a. Better situation if were able to make it in what we have done during corbett and continue what we try to improve the. Economic situation but then youve been having near daily protests since july in thailand all those protests not something that the government needs to address i think once you recognize the intention of the protests and have the dialogues with to protest which i have. Last week last wednesday most of the concern on my view of the diminished the if occasion is about education reform the protests are talking about. The new we educating students and they want them to improve you know in our. Education system so i think its a positive sign that we have a dialogue with them so we understand their needs. But are you really having a dialogue of course the protests that youre referring to were protests by High School Students it must be made clear that these protests were within the wider context of the prodemocracy protesters themselves our student led you keep saying that you want to have a dialogue but then the government has charged Something Like 13 people for sedition and for being connected to the protests so im just wondering what the message should is for the protesters on the one hand the government arrest them and on the other you are saying that we want to have dialogue. I dont want to. Comment on even if it is in the video act. With. Respect to the law. Into consideration and i think they have. Act according to each situation differently but for me as me this is education. Been aware that number of students are. Short inside. Really d yes is that showing that this pleasure and i want to know whether he is pleasure. Education or politics and a half hour now that most of them if you know we want those educational reforms again minister within the wider context of the prodemocracy protests and let me just quote what you said around 8 days back you said that the right to protest is part of the democratic process and the government is willing and ready to listen to all its citizens it would appear you certainly want to talk to the protesters but the government doesnt because your Prime Minister probably is warning that the country will be consumed by flames if these protests carry on so why isnt the government listening to you. I think much of the of the protesters students and University Students and the Prime Minister have given directive to me as Education Minister and another minister we was in charge of High Education to listen to all concerned. That i merely from the from student both university and i school and i think we have taken that approach and we are combining all of their concerns and i have to admit on my end at the ministry of education majority. Education not politics so if youve taken their concerns on board why are student protesters threatening another massive protest in september have their demands are not met i think we have to understand that most of the demands cannot be solved within a week or month so i think we have to. Relay our message is that all their concerns well be. Taking into consideration but whether we can do all we can do will i like them to do students in terms of piracy what i did most well its an issue which things that we have taken action already because most of the things that theyre talk about have addressed in my plan to reform education. On monday. 10 days ago right right where you would have the time being thank you so much for joining us not to hold on thailands Education Minister. Ok appreciate it out thank you. Local councillors of accuse police in hong kong of altering history and it raising facts after their arrest of 2 prodemocracy lawmakers for alleged involvement in Anti Government protests last year you remember we deported yesterday about the arrest of lawmakers ted and. This is lamb confronting Police Officers as they came to arrest him at his home yesterday lamb has been accused of life streaming a protest on july the 21st at the un long train station that later turned violent this is what the police had to say. During that confrontation in your long both sides were evenly matched and 4 with a similar degree of force. This does not mean you are free of responsibility if youre doing a live stream you go either people who have committed such crimes in the ways i mentioned they will be arrested as well. It is the comment about the old sides being evenly matched that is drawing particular reference this is what happened on the 21st of july last year hundreds of men reading my shots attacked for democracy protesters at the un long train station was among those protesters and was hospitalized after being hit in the face as he lifestream the incident on his Facebook Page police were accused of arriving late to control the situation and allowing the man to leave the. Land belongs to the Opposition Democratic Party and this is what its leader had to say about the arrest. So you neednt heikal it is legislators responsibility to mediate disputes like i have the arrest was rigged right and wrong but within the july 21st attack and im choked was injured he is a victim. I was so i have gotten calls. Did have a correspondent phoebe kong has been following the producers actions in hong kong are you know i asked what negative the produce was trying to propagate by arresting anomic on writing charges when he himself had been assaulted at a protest that he was light streaming well i guess youre right slate the limit of the whole attack incidents was licensed by the lawmakers. And also other journalists on the site that night and so. 7 if not thousands of hits of thousands are homeless citizens but what you know my stream of these like attacks like incidents so. Far from many d protests this and many like critics in tell they i can hardly believe that police can actually they change the narratives which they presented to the public previously they they say they now say they only took 80 minister arrived on scene but in fact that they sat is not is 39 minutes so a lot of these things are not polls and that actually called for help so its not come things over many. Thats an obvious need to check out other stories on did up to dot com focused on facebook and twitter protest among a group of democracy and changes in thailand have been gathering steam and a fast becoming a headache for the government leader now with images from these demonstrations which are for the most part. Protesters are back tomorrow at the same time i. Was full of surprises. Coming down. From some point in the footsteps of the great. Concerns. Count the fleet street. For a time i wanted. To marry my fellow. Good guy just. Where exactly. I am are no loss karst culture history and. Travel. Extremely worth a visit. A Nobel Prize Winner is called in for questioning in belarus as the authoritarian regime continues its crackdown on protests challenging the reelection of alexandre crush the countrys long serving ruler will talk about literary voices as a moral authority and also coming up. 5 years after germanys welcome of over 1000000 refugees the syrian pianist is making a life for himself and his family. And ahead of the virtual ceremony for the 2020 good to medal awards we profile the 2nd of 3 laureates british novelist and mcewen. Back in 2015th Fadlallah Alexei of it won the nobel prize for literature for work that as the jury remarked was a monument to suffering and courage in our time the writer is famous for chronicling her countrys troubled history through carefully constructed 1st hand accounts well today shes one of the most outspoken voices of the Coordination Council thats a group that seeks new elections and talks with europes last dictator. A Nobel Laureate in literature on her way to questioning the famous author took the opportunity to warn against a split in the nation pitting the system against peaceful demonstrators. But. This year if we are separated in this way become divided in this way we will surely slide into a civil war that is very dangerous our goal is to unite society and help overcome a political crisis not to initiate any overthrow. But it could attack is precisely what the members of the newly founded Coordination Council are accused of the council insists it only wants to facilitate a peaceful transfer of power and valorous. What we saw in the 1st 3 days of the confrontation when people were treated like that me was like something from the last century we have to talk to each other argue with each other my ideal is the red green flag in one hand the white red white in the other. But. The goal is to unite the demonstrators in white red white and then look at shankar faithful in red and green. But look at shank oh is still determined to put the demonstrations down using brutal force. Many here welcome interventions from artists like alex a it. This is actually no good backs writers can Say Something in a way that goes straight to the heart can be very rational so that one forgets humanism and so on she reminds us of these general human values. My knees an idea and then the poem get them to settle on a look see if it says if she were younger or not you know she might consider a role as a mediator but look at chicago has no interest in mediation you rests in minsk and other cities continue. Like they have it speaks people do listen and joining me to speak about the voice of artists and intellectuals in dollars is my colleague Adrian Kennedy welcome adrian now we saw alex david on her way there to her appointment with this Investigative Committee do we know what happened there was she didnt spend much time at the Investigative Committees headquarters she left quite quickly saying that she had invoked her right not to testify against the south not to answer questions and reiterating that the councils only goal was to unite society now other members of this Coordination Council thats really seeking dialogue have also been targeted have they not thats right former culture minister pavel left. Was questioned by investigators on choose day he was forced out of his job as director of the state young. Fear after calling for new elections and complaining about the brutal suppression of the demonstrations hes one of the highest profile Civil Servants to come out publicly against the regime and many actors at the theatre he ran have resigned in solidarity its striking and perhaps also encouraging that literary voices are actually being heard in this debacle d. W. Has also spoken to the young novelist martino that whos a critic of the regime yes a colleague to be in a few. About spoke to him via video link hes one of the few people who are still in belarus in minsk who will speak to International Media and we asked him about the role of intellectuals and about the dangers of speaking out for a look at that we have almost everybody silenced right now all dissidents who used to be in a position and who used to be imprisoned for many years there are silenced because theyre very much afraid of course i am afraid and of course i realize what. Are they can put me in prison and so on but at the same time what what use of me if not saying to fright now or what showing what what is the meaning of my life being if i am silent in the moment when Everybody Needs the truth theres so much an image i was saying that he feared that many in the west see below us as part of russia but its been an independent state for around 30 years largely invisible to us he says there are problems there now and its time for the world to Pay Attention to them ok well attention is what we are attempting certainly a courageous voice from martine of its there in minsk and just for our viewers you can find the whole of that interview with Victor Martine of its on our you tube channel d w books and will certainly continue to follow that story thanks very much for bringing us up to date on that Adrian Kennedy thank you. Well the end of this month will mark 5 years since chancellor Angela Merkel made her famous assertion us we can do this a statement that made was made at the height of the migration crisis that saw germany take an unprecedented 1100000 immigrants in 2015 while many of those refugees had fled the civil war in syria and the air how much was one of them. Has songs tell of pain and a lost homeland but also a hope 5 years ago pianist fled syria specifically the yarmouk refugee camp for palestinians. Back there he played music to counter the nightmare scene of bomb craters and ruined buildings and created beauty to fight despair. It was hungry or so and i dont can feed my family but i was keeping playing piano we die anyway we will die from hunger in 56 days volume when i dont die play piano at least its held me i dont think of music its feed people or help people really its held the mentality to see at least some of the why its quite a place in the end all this got us to off in the. Yarmulkes a neighborhood of damascus it was under constant sea trim i asked troops for years people there had no electricity no food or medicine and played music. The images of him playing with fire when they have fled to germany in 2015 he was already a minor celebrity and was quickly offered a public stage but he felt uncomfortable with the attention. I am here famous playing. And you still feel moved but we are a group of people i thought i took a break in connection with him its not easy and when somebody is still dying from hunger and you tell him look we speak about you hear what its done for me there you know this is this is not the easy here he is performing at a refugee shelter in berlin at a celebration marking 5 years since chancellor Angela Merkels we can do it statement in the meantime ahabs wife and sons have joined him and he can work play in concert people listen to him. I am not star in the liver liver feel i am a star i feel responsible to tell of this blah blah blah what i tell it no maybe its important maybe its not so important for people to hear it but at least i feel responsible to tell it and i use every mike every camera to tell that for people they ham songs deal with what hes experience and hes also written his autobiography which was published in germany last year in it he tells of his father who built Musical Instruments and of his own childhood in a still peaceful syria he tells of the children he watched die and of the moment when i asked fighters burned his piano but constantly retelling his story takes its toll. When i go in on with this is story under the mumbai cream im buying the war its really too heavy here and this is why i will list of the music because when i go on i just well will still the pianist and the trombone or that this image but the horrible images from us mads past wont stop so easily hopefully he wont give up music it helped him during his darkest times and it helps him now allowing him to make a living and a new life in germany. This week were celebrating the winners of the good in that all for 2023 leading lights whos we. Work in literature and the arts has built bridges for cultural understanding and our 2nd laureate is britains ian mckeown an incredible novelist whose mind works much like a latin messed this thing the 4 bills of human nature with an ever painful precision. And make human has published 20 novels and collections of short stories in 2019 he published 2 books. In machines like me he tells the story of an android and asks are robots perhaps better than human. Cockroaches a biting satire about mckeown imagines an insect transformed into the british Prime Minister its the most of 1st any political novel hes ever written in mcewen is a vocal and passionate remainer describing brecks it as the most pointless masochistic ambition ever dreamed up in the history of these islands we lost that battle we were out we knew. We were divided among ourselves in many ways. We dont just have to poke the. We can get away with that it works out. You know were now in a paradox who position hoping that breaks it somehow works. You know theres nothing else we can. Even make un has garnered numerous awards in the course of his career but he partly grew up in germany and has a sentimental attachment to the country so they got a medal has a special significance to be honored in the name of johan fun quarter is an honor indeed. Sometimes we took what information we should send. Us an unmanned space ship that was in the boss solar system we sent. We had to send a representative a manager and i think girls who would come pretty close to the top of my list because his interests were not in literature in drama in writing a book in the nature of life. Public administration and politics and music. And there are similarities in mcewen is also a serious thinker with a vast range of interests in the tradition of the great polymaths. Well worth picking up one of his books if you havent already had the pleasure of all that does bring us to the end of this edition so until next time stay safe and stay tuned. Hauser virus spread. Why do parents and when were. Trying to do through the topics covered and we couldnt read your book is called spectrum if you would like any information on the crown of virus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast so you can get it wherever you go your podcast can also find us at. Science. I was issued when i arrived here i slept with 6 people in a room for joy in the cinema it was hard i was fair. I even got white hair is that going for. The german language head me out not just keeps me and cradle but uniquely to entrap lets say you want to their story the muslims are fighting and reliable information for margaret. Education is not only fought im glad im an education has fought and fallen im saw that in coming times with genius the one of the think about how true in colcord the values of tolerance lose or understanding these things cannot be ignored for have a because the fundamentalist forces and the fanatic courses are also acting very deeply and intensely and they cannot undermine their followers the power of communication their power off technology ordinary people must not modernise support them must not socially support them the International Community has to invest more on the education which can prevent young people to enter into that type of fossella the closers. The book. The book the book. This is deja vu news live from Berlin Germany typing unscarred lines to contain an increase in corona virus feasts transamerica announces the travelers returning from high risk areas will be required to quarantine for 14 days and the large public gatherings will remain banned until at least the end of the year also coming up on our show. The new zealand mosque attacker will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole outside the courthouse the victims role has so
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