Ive been a strategy welcome to news asia glad you could join us now this lunatic that you will see behind me in the him ali as is the scene of an unfolding military standoff between india and china troops from both countries stationed along the banks of the pango make have now accused each other of fighting shots if true it would be the 1st time in more than 4 decades that shots have been fired on the disputed border its a border that stretches for some 3500 kilometers and is under marketed since me troops from both countries have been amassing at various points after both sides accuse the other of violating each others claimed to tree ill be getting the view from india and china in a bit but 1st a quick primer on whats been happening since me. A remote Mountain Region for which soldiers have died and superpowers faced off. Tuesdays incident along indias led dark border with china risks a fresh standoff in one of the worlds most explosive border conflicts the red line marks the boundary around 3500 kilometers long between these Nuclear Armed rivals known as the line of actual control or l. A. See it is not a hard border china and india have never agreed on where it should lie tensions began soaring in may both sides assembled troops in the area amid reports that chinese soldiers had crossed the borders at various points and set up camps on territory claimed by india china ordered its military to prepare for quote worst Case Scenarios in the area on june 15th the 2 sides clashed on a steep mountainside 20 indian soldiers were killed with chinese casualties unknown firearms had been banned to prevent escalation but chinese troops allegedly used weapons like iron spiked rods in hand to hand combat an indian source passed this image to the b. B. C. The deadly clashes sparked protests across india demonstrators burned effigies of chinese leader xi jinping and demanded boycotts of chinese goods beijing said it was defending its territorial integrity accusing indian troops of crossing the border twice and provoking chinese soldiers. And tensions have not subsided since as indias army chief confirmed just a few days ago. The situation along the elysee is likely tense. Keeping in view of the situation yet undertaken some cautionary deployment on safety and security and these deployments to be under took along the lessee. Both sides traded blame for tuesdays incident each saying the other had fired the shots so what happens next a month krishnan is china correspondent for the hindu newspaper and author of the book india as china talent and victor hugo is Vice President of the center for china and mobilization and a man who knows the pinking in Chinas Communist Party welcome to your both gentlemen mr goh id like to begin with you 1st china has called indias image moves in the bang gong mic area a grave military provocation what does china expect to see happen next to ease tensions well we understand tensions are rising along the dispute is the line of actual control be jane china india in the western part of the border and this does not bode well from the chinese perspective china does not want to have a war with even dhea and china wants to do whatever it can to calm down the situation to the osheas all. Talk about a solution all coming down of the tases but it doesnt seem that the situation is going that way and it is learned that firing happened on the indian side which actually broke a record of almost 40 years this is very alarming i personally do not want to see any of flaring up of tension all military conflicts between china and india which ive called 2 super populations in the world they need to have peace and stability rather than war and conflicts to have peace and stability on them prefer an inch and i how can these instability be achieved. Well thats the question i think the later is events being seen in the last few days our inventories and the sauce is its a new front and weve already had for a variety of sunspots along the n. A. C. Where theres been hypertension or since me and of course we had a terrible loss of life and the world has changed in the one valley and i think this new sector and so tobacco only shows that all the talks about science has been happening havent really achieved much headway god and then diffuse the situation you know having immune from dramatic music scene you worry and as santa i think the fact that hes firing for the 1st science is 1975 if you can son i mean you know he said that the chinese side had fired 1st in trying to dislodge it go forward it was issued by the chinese a city of fire closer to. Said she said but i think looking for one can only hope that the talks that theres a shot of president yushchenko her and his other partner are to morrow in moscow hopefully they can be in the way for some kind of understanding to be the 2 sides but i have a little concern really because the guy talks at these levels of the embassy former minister of defense ministers since me so what is maybe the reason for optimism and. Lets see what victor gao has to say on the other to go as an on the mentioned lots of rounds of talks that have been Something Like 5 rounds of talks as far as ground commanders are concerned and he said i would talk some up and as a month mentioned what exactly is china expecting from these foreign minister level talks that are due to be hemmed in moscow. Well i think china wants to have as many talks as needed to avoid a war military conflict between china and india because china does not want to have a war but it doesnt mean that china is afraid of a war against for example we truly believe that neither india nor china should be involved in a war against each other the 2 largest populations in the world so i think china will be very very patient in talking to the near side to rationalize everything and to give out the pros and cons of peace versus wall for example and i hope india we also be rational and well be reasonable and we will not be pushed forward by another big power which may actually have its own geopolitical schemes try to run old a war between india rick to go you almost make it sound like the solutions are entirely with india what would you have india do. No i think both china and india need to con dom and withdrawal from the line of actual control which may actually cause more cases to rise and both sides need to have cool head rather then written next as we sometimes call to agitate the situation and to promote the getting out of the control get it out of our portion of the friction points only ground which is a very very dangerous if control of the situation is lost in the west a section of china india border i assume also be lost in the east a section more than 2000 kilometers long of call it between china and india maybe up in great conflict and this would crack down both and china for many yes right on most of the border still appears to be under market and under is all been heard about to come to you on and youve been a Foreign Correspondent in china for a number of heroes what according to you is the reason this border remains under zorn for so many decades. Like you say its left through or from history but i think the biggest problem has been that china has for many reasons a stall on the marketing land actually control so this is a different from settling the dispute was a horse is going to be very obligated you know that territory something that also d most as well countries but i think the most rational beings abodes ice to do is to sit in plows eireann the sea and the different perceptions of the m. D. C. Now didnt settle the boundary and right doing that you know why the kind of incidents weve seen since may and frankly speaking for many years that type of figure are right i have doesnt want to terrify the n. A. C. They seem to prefer abbey and i think that that really hasnt helped the situation and the one point to me since may i think the biggest problem has been a mismatch between what weve been hearing from chinese officials about wanting peace and the actions of the young on the ground this seems to be. The biggest i think evidence that this is media has lost access to about 1000 meters when you specialty this writing that really shows where the changes have been made on the ground who will actually do the bait that tense situation that we had previously and i think going back to what it was before me its something that india would be demanding the talks be had in the next few days rick to go last question to you is china playing a double game. No i dont think so i think as to what happened in the deep night of july the 15th evil Prime Minister modi of india said that the Chinese Military was not on the indian side of the line of actual control and if you are really looking to specific so you will know it was the india soldiers penetrating into the chinese side of the l a c. And. Resulting in a brawl resulting in about 20 soldiers love losing their life not we need to be very specific we need to be very pragmatic in terms of dealing with these very inflammatory situation along with china d n a c but that megatrend is that both china india need to embrace peace and stability rather than being agitated one way or another are 3 of very very destructive power of war and conflict we havent even there for the time being but thank you so much for joining us to everyone chrisman internet and victor go thank you so much for your time. Thats a finale be sure to check out the other stories on did up a dog gone forward slash shot on facebook and twitter today india can from the well be open in 2 weeks time the countrys top tourist attraction was shot in mid march as part of indias coronavirus looked on we leave you with that today have done us again tomorrow indeed up into the shop. Combating the corona pandemic. Where does research stand. What are scientists learning. Background information and news. Hour corona update. 19 special next on d w. Something nice when i ask him to others are dealing with a new unit and i killed many civilians i mean that i shall come including my father so when i was a student i wanted to build a life for myself at least a totally a sudden my life became alledge and saw. Providing insights global news that matters d. W. Me for mines. Pregnancy is a stressful time for any expectant mother was even more true now because of the pandemic pregnant women could be a greater risk of developing serious side effects from coverage 19 but theres still much experts dont know about how the virus affects mothers and how its transmitted to babies some women have been refused medical care or actively stayed away from hospitals fearing infection. Im suffering from cope at 19 i was just diagnosed in the parts hospital and they refused to treat me in. Birth control and Family Planning services have fallen down the list of Health Care Priorities during the pandemic thats meant to search an unplanned pregnancies and life altering decisions for many young women. Covered 19 pandemic is creating unexpected side effects around the world and malawi a huge spike in teen pregnancies is being blamed on virus related School Closures human rights organizations say the government isnt doing enough to protect the girls welfare. Reports. A group of mothers of been making regular home visits providing guidance to young girls like 17 year old exam. She leaves some alone in a village she feels for married man who promised a smart phone and food which turned out to be empty promise and now shes pregnant. You know when you when i was in school i used to have a lot of problems because my family is poor and i could not have so body lotion clothing or food and my mother failed to 10 for us children and so i was having sex and eventually got pregnant. Hes a saint she did not know but the man hes married and has 2 children unfortunately she never used birth control. And they knew i was aware of Family Planning methods but my schoolmates deceived me they said using contraceptives would make me unable to have children so when the man proposed to me we had sex and he got me pregnant. Are outraged parents sentara wayne her mother said she. And her baby them because theyre going to this was a big blow to my family my poor entire pregnancy is an added burden that i couldnt handle when coming here when i do im enjoying the district has stepped up its efforts to reduce teenage pregnancies it fears more teenage girls would get pregnant without proper messaging about Family Planning and a few schools are not open source. We are very far going with the increased number of thing pick my feet but we know that with their own that we have with different they are quite as we came in did a review. 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It doesnt want to be one of the many young girls malarky who get married before the age of 20 and she has learnt rb to listen and hopes to bring her dreams back to life. Well lets speak to a need to make in this from the International Federation of obstetricians and gynecologists thanks for joining us what do we know about the impact of 19 is having on unwanted pregnancies. So then i mean this is a very serious situation that predation is that about Something Like 48000000 women wont have access to contraceptive methods and this could lead to something between 7 and 15000000 unintended pregnancies load lived so you can imagine this will create huge. Health systems. Across the world and an increasing number of unsafe abortions that show this isnt unprecedented there is it to mean youve been researching the effect of the better outbreak in parts of africa or on Family Planning one of you learned from looking at that outbreak that we can apply now so when we look at what happened in west africa during the every african during the every academic. People start accessing health so this isnt what they considered to be nonessential and say the name still kind of compartments went down for example in guinea by about 2000 and its taken found economy methods also went down by about 2 thirds are in the epidemic and then similarly and in nigeria by how off by 50 percent. Have been stereo by about a quarter and so the impact of that in the long run was then very very serious and what about in the case of coronavirus looking beyond africa where there are already problems but what about in higher Income Countries of the lower Income Countries around the world. Yes similarly our expectations of what has been happening what weve been hearing on the great fire really is that. Women are trying not to access to Health Services that they can i consider not essential and so take a contraceptive methods this has gone down the other thing that happened in high Income Countries is that there was for example in the u. K. A shift staffan closing down services and active service is all services that were considered not essential like special house so special Health Clinics placed as the best office go work on the cope it was and g. P. s not seeing people face to face doing 10 minutes in consultations limited really womens access to contraception and so we will be seeing the fallout of that no doubt 9 months from now and were talking about millions potentially of extra births as a result of this a noticeable increase in the global population. Yes so so the estimation is between 7 to 15000000 and 10 extra unintended pregnancies both wind and obviously Different Countries to different proportions but in in countries with Health Systems that struggle to cope with the work that they have at the moment that is very serious and it will set his back in thames at the progress that has been made and we look at Sustainable Development goals and the improvements in health pettit that have been seen in Womens Health and enjoying the millennium Development Goals who are going back in time with that so really really worrying is there anything being done to avoid that or at least to mitigate. Yeah so so you feel guilt and i wish and i work full weve been working very hard weve put together a conception committee put together a statement looking at specific things that could be done to try to mitigate this. One of the ideas for example this is that were going to continue to use for example women coming to give birth generally will continue to come to hospital to give birth although thats not true all over the globe assenting and many countries that will continue to happen said that these women should then be able to Access Services that they wouldnt be able to wouldnt want to use that as a contraception they may think that actually we should be printing contraception contraception says this into Maternal Health consider lady comes to have a baby people told her about what contraceptive method she she would want and she gets that method therefore she leaves hospital and if you use a lot of acting like the post in true you trying to vice if you coil or in plan then youre looking at having contraception for 3 to 5 to even 10 years and so there isnt any to keep coming back to Hospital Clinics so in that sense you know really safe and a golden opportunity to offer this health is that otherwise theyre finding hard to access and i suppose its to some extent about making the most of those encounters with these women when they do encounter Health Care Workers need to make ins from the International Federation of obstetricians and gynecologists thanks a lot for joining us thank you. And now its time for one of your questions to ask science correspondent Derek Williams this one comes from a you tube user calling themselves martian lido one presumably watching us from afar. When will not ask to no longer be needed. This largely theoretical question i think is worth thinking about even though theres no end in sight to the pandemic the issue of Wearing Masks has polarized people in some countries at least partly due to the fact that despite a huge amount of study in the field nobody has been able to pin down a concrete number on just how much they actually held and and how could studies reflect the real world anyway i mean were all wearing different kinds of masks often haphazardly either up biding by or not abiding by a lot of Different National rules there does however now seem to be a general acceptance by the majority in most places that masks help at least some if theyre worn properly and in societies like here in germany where widescale mask wearing was was unthinkable just 6 months ago theyre now just a part of daily life when you go to the store or when you get on public transport the thing is after working so hard to get people to accept them i think that governments will be slow to say that masks are no longer needed at some point in other words theres no way to tell how long well need to wear them theres theres just predicting what has to happen before governments are willing to relax guidelines and my hunch is that at this point most governments wont be willing to do that until safe and effective vaccine start keeping infection rates under control i personally predicts that well still be Wearing Masks. 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And coronavirus fatigue around the world is fuelling skepticism and outright denial we need a man who protested in berlin and talk to an expert about the spread of conspiracy theories. Im sleepy so misconducts good to have you with us we start with a mystery about what has happened to a leading opposition figure in ballarat us officials there say maria called us niko about was detained trying to cross the border into ukraine but a Ukrainian News Agency says she resisted attempts to deport her about the racine authorities released these pictures of a car at the border supposedly caring kolesnik of the Ukrainian News Agency says she ripped up her passport so that she could not be expelled and you creates interior minister said on facebook that she had successfully prevented a sneak of us forcible expulsion. Us. Lets get more on the story now we can go to moscow and speak with political analyst constantine egret had constant thing so as we have we are getting of conflicting narratives so what do we actually know about where she is and what has happened to her i think that its a fair assumption that this is kalashnikov is no in belarus and mr lucas shango Alexander Lukashenko said in an interview with the Russian Media today that basically he approves of her detention. I think that its very possible that shes inside belarus and i think shes also in trouble because the scene youre saying shes likely in trouble she is a major figure in the protest movement and also within the opposition how significant is this. It is because a few days ago mrs calista go said that she is ready to assume overall korda nation leadership of opposition inside bellews while the the they contend in the president ial expect elections sit lot of seats on the step is now in lithuania and sensually having been expelled by ukraine go from their own country so a kalashnikov a was a potential magnet that the potential quarter the nadir an organ the set of abilities his Opposition Forces and that of course made turning could use a well known figure she is very active on social media she is one of the faces of this. Russian anjelica schenkel peaceful uprising so the definitely she is in the focus of attention of the regime as you said shes a leading figure what reaction do you think that we might see from this protest movement could we see more demonstrations for example this weekend. Well it seems that this movement thats been going on now for nearly and months. Is not subsiding people are angry people do want Chinese People do want Alexander Lukashenko to leave and i think that the dont russian regime sees it as a potential danger because probably they thought things are going to peter out in a couple weeks as so cliff because its definitely very important and i think that she was that the did that minsk the Division Indians to try to keep her out to ukraine is very very probably become crude but its very probable if you look at what happened to saddam lets see how lets get the idea behind it as far as i understand ruby to make the protests completely leaderless to make it faceless in terms of public figures and that without leaders without ordinator is that this will end i suppose that this is a strategy that mr erlich shank will stick to in the forseeable future political analyst constantine egret with tracking the latest feldmans for us there thank you so much. On the latest protest in the belarus and capital minsk over the weekend around 600 people were arrested alleged Police Brutality has been a feature of the crackdown 2 victims have been speaking about their experiences. Yes. Peaceful protesters call on the police to join the riot officers react with the torrent of violence. Scenes that have played out almost nightly in bella russias fiery summer of revolt. Whos above the author coming who has seen and experienced the washed of it too graphic for us to show. Them. Vehicle it was what they know. They saw the belarus quarter man im not blows rained on me from all of them they started to beat me right here. The coat of arms has become a potent symbol of the uprising that has seen those and summarily are breast. Hundreds kicked punched and tortured. And. Even threats of rape. Only at the go the policeman turn my head so i could see them and he began with theatrically putting a condom on about oh. Im well doing it he told me that i have about 5 seconds to see my password for my phone. Records go that far but all of whats in the former human Rights Groups say there are at least 500 active complaints of Police Torture among them a lot of Computer Program of law dimia retained. The optical of the accompanist i asked to call my lawyer and another policeman suddenly kicked me in the belly with this me i was standing in half bent position so i felt in my belly very well but then i got another 5 kicks in you know where to which you could a focus lore. To. Justice for the victims is unlikely throughout these protests president Alexander Lukashenko has Police State Security forces. Moscow has summoned the german ambassador over statements that the German Government has made about the poisoning of russian Opposition Leader election of only berlin has warned that it could end its support of the 10000000000. 00 euro nord stream 2 pipeline which is set to double russian gas deliveries to europe if russia fails to investigate enough on the case now on monday nov only awoke from a medically induced coma in a berlin hospital german doctors say there is unequivocal evidence he was poisoned with a soviet era nerve agent in the case trust parallels to another russian opposition figure who was poisoned 2 years ago he says the use of nova chuck indicates that all these poisoning goes all the way to the top. Correspondent very rich chateau reports. Is fighting fit but 2 years ago the activist was left fighting for his life struck down by a poison his situation was similar to that of alexina volley but unlike nevaeh there were no signs of the never agent norby chalk. My poisoning wasnt as bad as his i was able to recover more quickly i was already able to speak in the 2nd week of recovery but normally talk is an extremely strong point and we were there doesnt make a difference i want to hurt someone or kill them. Before committing murder or. Like. Was treated the Charity Hospital no one could confidently identify the substance that had been given to him. Prompted doctors to suspect poisoning but with novell name says there is no. The fact that not because bush used clearly points to the russian president up there with the sort of being at this or one thing. Only secret agents have access to this specific poison but then were you in the theater and yet your call this operation could only have been carried out will be approval of law to me a pretty stupid. When you put all. Other opposition figures have been targeted with less deadly means among them is the independent politician dimitri good cop one year ago he was barred from standing in the more school City Council Elections and jailed for 36. 00 days. When he was. Another. An independent local politician and a prominent figure in the mass protests in moscow one year ago she still faces charges for participating in demonstrations. Of the length of live in an authoritarian country in a dictatorship began when Vladimir Putin was routed into office with thousands. Of strength in your human rights arent part of the equation here freedom and justice dont exist here you can be jailed every time you call for people to join a protest. In the face of intimidation. Refuses to stay silent since his recovery has become politically active again and not despite the fact he has a young daughter. Still with me. I want my friends my family and my daughter to live in a wonderful country without putin and his disgusting system that beautiful building war im sure we can achieve this goal. Until then p. R. Wouldnt let his daughter go out alone at night and every morning hes by her side on the walk to school. Lets check in now on some other stories making news around the world firefighters are tackling a. Second blaze on an oil tanker off that sri lankan coast days after the 1st with extinguished the vessel is carrying nearly 2000000. 00 barrels of crude Oil Officials have warned of potentially massive environmental damage if there is a leak or the ship explodes. Tension is escalating tween india and china over the disputed border in the himalayas beijing has accused indian soldiers of illegally crossing the frontier and firing warning shots violating an agreement barring the use of firearms n. D. S. Said chinese guards fired into the air a border clash in june left 20 indian soldiers dead. Japans olympics minister cycle has she says the tokyo games will happen next year at any cost the olympics were postponed until july 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic says organizers will focus all efforts on developing steps to counter the virus so that the games can take place. To australian journalists have returned home from china after being caught in a 5 day diplomatic standoff between the 2 countries Michael Smith of the Australian Financial review and bill birtles from public broadcaster the a. B. C. Were forced to take shelter in Australian Diplomatic Missions after their homes were raided there before they left china there were questioned by chinese authorities about an australian t. V. Anchor working for Chinese State t. V. And it was feared they could be arrested smith and birtles for the last 2 representatives of australian Mainstream Media in china. Earlier we spoke to bill birtles one of the 2 australian journalists who left china we asked him to outline to us the events that led to him returning to australia. This was a pre fun expected situation just as i was preparing to break the story of the other of the time to stray and chung like last monday my bosses here in sydney received a call from a stranger as our Affairs Department sighing we have good reason to think that i and another journalist in shanghai need to get out quickly and for the 1st couple of days its pretty hard to get slots with code so while arrangements were being my we were also questioning where those of us was coming from you know being journalists were pretty cynical and we want some day tiles but on wednesday night it became clear it meet nice when 6 state Security Police plus a translator turned up on my doorstep the most curious thing was they werent there to detain me they were there to tell me that im involved in a National Security case and therefore im not allowed to leave the country but they said you still have freedom of movement you still free to go around and do your duty or whatever your business. Said we will call you the next day and we need to chasse and this sort of. Diplomatic situation where of course i went to the strain embassy and so whats your advice what our rights are and i said we think you should stay here for your safety for more on the story we can speak to Stephen Butler from the committee to protect Journalists Program and since joining us from washington when we actually know about why these 2 journalists stopped their homes raided we heard the battle there say they werent sure what was happening and ultimately they had to leave for their own safety even what happened here. Well unfortunately we dont know a whole lot we do know that the journalist and he just mentioned chung who is the broadcaster with chinas state t. V. Organization was arrested under this kind of residence i call it residential detention they can keep or for up to 6 months an interrogator do whatever they want without charging her but today we learned that