To live with have blindness and live without a job to put at risk of Sexual Harassment. Im british welcome to do. That you could join us the people of indian controlled kashmir have faced a double whammy of lockdowns the fast security lockdown imposed by delhi after it scrapped the regions special autonomy and then a lockdown brought on by the could on a lot of spondaic both affected the economy and also peoples daily lives simple things like waiting Senate Versions have to be cancelled but now weddings are back all beat under the shadow of an ongoing pandemic. The joy is infectious among these wedding guests but no one wants to spoil the occasion with a corona virus outbreak. Precaution is now part of the production and authorities have put strict limits on gatherings and families are having to drastically trim their guest lists. We were expecting to have a gathering of more than 800 people but unfortunately due to the spending we do to discourage 19 our guest the guest list has been shot to make 1510250 only. It will still take an army of cooks to assemble the west sun and elaborate kashmiri marriage feast of up to 30 courses but the wedding business and the rest of region is hurting after a double hit from the security clampdown and now the pandemic oh well the thought was because we had hopes that we do Good Business this year were here but ive suffered a loss of about 80 percent. Here. And a pandemic era wedding means some other updates to old traditions waiters decked out in hazmat suits and individual servings trying to wasnt the word for do everything went nicely but we could not enjoy your food traditionally eating on a copper platter for 4 which dates back 300 years we still enjoyed the feast but we missed the traditional way. But some things will never change the 2 law the anticipation the excitement as 2 families join together to witness a new family begin. So what is the situation in indian controlled kashmir now for more we can speak to our correspondents allowed the in zen who joins us from near the coverage will. Allow them our people are able to meet each other freely no. Yes yes but they are fairly theres no logged on days you know noticed sections and people in all the markets are open people are really moving they can go to to each of those families innovating though there are statistics hands on Political Activities and very few you know theres not really nothing happening no political activity where people are free you know but in the winter it is here in kashmir and people are harvesting you know the upper crop at the same time 30 kong and they are now preparing for the event then you know when the 6 months its very tough for them and you know most of the time because of this snowfall a you know cut of it from the country cut off from the country so that is what they are preparing and very cool in calmly everybodys busy in their harvest and their business because they have suffered huge whose losses in the past you know its almost the air now everything is open because because initially it was you know locked on imposed by the Indian Government erin crush we are now then grown so its really not almost a life right now he had right so from what youre describing it would appear. The problems of the people who are financing because of the double knocked on the to mention the security lockdown in the coronavirus locked on are a thing of the past and things are completely back to normal now. I would say apparently back to normal because people are doing their daily activities routinely very peace peacefully very calm but i would also say that there are security restrictions across the state across that region almost every is street every a calm has the you know Security Forces for presence that whenever i go in the evening morning or you know you will see Security Forces guarding on the roads so i think this this people are going their daily routine work but it is also. Important to say that securitys always style at every corner and every well its a very stupid i would say that Security Forces in question where i can. Leave it there for the timing to thank you so much for joining us allow the ins and. Ticktock the video sharing app is under fire in many parts of the world over National Security and data privacy concerns in the u. S. Is in the courts and india banned it back in june to start. Over even more of content but is there more to this than meets the eye nice job with from. Before more british welcome what has the branding to talk. Tick tock i have to say is one of them with a widely used more by absent pakistan it has been downloaded more than 43000000 times that has more than 20000000 active users and therefore this ban by pakistan on ticktock is deeply felt by large segments of pakistan if i can back it found a Telecommunication Authority say is that it has banned kicked out because its publishing in model and obscene content on tick tock but we also have to understand that the docket folks have inbuilt mechanism which doesnt allow their content to be published and ticktock was already working with pakistani government and it had. Did quite a 1000000 a few do it from there so this argument by pakistan that its a ban ticked off because something might ality immortality doesnt go down well with Digital Experts in pakistan like osama he tweeted. This isnt supposed to be a nanny for morality especially when apps have built in reporting mechanism. So its not on the grounds of immortality what is behind this ban but. Is this element of policing the internet ostensibly for morality and also pandering to the right wing conservatives i mean pakistan we also saw recently that there were some dating apps including tinder that were banned in pakistan but more Digital Experts in pakistan believe that its the state that wants to control critical words on social media we have to understand that pakistan is in a state largely controlled broadcast media its the social media thats difficult to control and we saw during that on our way to spend the make and also didnt log down there was an increase in dock users and pakistan and there was increased to dog videos criticizing the pakistani government and maybe our viewers can see a video of one of their ticktock user and they make up as not only idea her dog could make you. Feel. Guilty because we feel that the dog users are using various and comical ways to express their criticism on the government but this criticism doesnt go down well. In manhunts government and we also saw that recently these videos are getting a lot of hits on the app there were millions and millions of views are off of these videos and somehow addict talk good at them for pushing these videos on the dying line and so theres definitely theres this satisfaction in government so does this set a precedent for other sorts of Media Companies about to start. So pakistan has a very ambitious digital plans you know it wants to. I have to it wants to promote budget of to do diversion but theres a contradiction because at on the other side the pakistani government wants to go a bit italy but at the same time they are banning websites like ticktock and its also sets a very bad precedent for Companies Like facebook you to instagram. Because theres this underlying message that you have to comply with the states regulations regarding its new offer modality and if he was on what kind of content should go on social media im not going social media and i have long as our social Media Companies comply with the state they can enjoy the business and baucus on here versus the binnys jervas from b. W. Isha thanks so much for coming in. To try to exploit it took 2018 for lawmakers to draft a nationwide bill defining what constitutes Sexual Harassment but overwhelmingly adopted in june this year a patriarchal system victim blaming and conservative attitudes mean that merely reporting sex crimes can be a how doing expedience and for women with physical disabilities the problem is even worse. When showed lost her sight as a teenager she was told her best career choice would be becoming a massage therapist. In china the visually impaired often work in massage parlors its believed there are extra sensitive to touch she also gives Online Makeup and yoga tutorials for other people like her. The reality she found was terrifying she had to endure sexual abuse from male customers on a routine basis just. This whole some customers touched my face was saying all your messages great. Others touch my bottom and pretended to accidentally touch my breast with us while i was messaging them legs. Activists 40 percent of women in china have experienced Sexual Harassment in the workplace it was only in june this year that a law defining Sexual Harassment was adopted despite the threats she endured showed never went to the police. The way oh just an experienced message their post told me that if i can accept this i cant do the job. If i decide to do the job i have to accept it. She did not accept it and left the profession today she works in an ngo supporting disabled people including women facing the same dangers she has one reward is experiencing other peoples reactions when they find out what she does. What he upon how it will go higher i really like how at the beginning people seem to be amazed because if they feel a kind of amazement then at least ive broken this stereotype of blind people. Thats a for today this morning did of a dot com forward slash a shower back to more of the same time about. Combating the corona pandemic. Where does research stand. What are scientists learning. Background information and. Our corona update. 19 special next on d w. Ws crime fighters are back africas most successful in radio drama series continues this season the stories focus on hate speech prevention and sustainable production. All of it so its are Available Online and of course you can share and discuss on africas Facebook Page and other social media platforms. Crime fighters to news now. Get. Keeping your distance is almost impossible in an overcrowded slum. The World Bank Says over a 1000000000 people face a heightened risk of the coronavirus due to substandard Living Conditions in slums and other informal settlements like in brazil. This is their concerts the population here most in years very high its believed according to our weekly experience that the contamination index in the positive index are high. The United Nations says urban slums a highly susceptible to covet 19 due to a shortage or an availability of clean water sanitation housing and other basic necessities. Welcome to the show im ben facility in berlin for the 1st time in history more people now live in urban areas than Rural Communities and population growth is expected to take place almost exclusively in the world cities and towns the fast pace of asian is leading to a growing number of slums poor hygiene and conditions and overcrowding make them much more vulnerable to the spread of the disease. Ages home to the Worlds Largest slum town in karate pakistan some 2400000 residents have to contend with the scarcity of water and Gang Violence its followed by. East of mexico city and to rob the in mumbai both with around a 1000000 residents rounding out the top 5 or 2 large slums on the african continent in Nairobi Kenya and cape town south africa. People were expecting the virus would wipe out entire slums but it hasnt happened like that the indian slum of dharavi is being hailed as a model for containing the spread of covert 19 it was widely reported to have flattened the curve despite the lack of physical distancing and Contact Tracing officials admit not all deaths are probably registered but Health Experts argue it could be greater immunity in india due to the high incidence of Infectious Diseases like tuberculosis still if its not a virus or viruses that are making life even harder for the poorest of the poor lockdown made things even worse. About a 1000000 people who live in this chronic part of the known what its multicultural and entrepreneurial spirit. With its knowledge of migrants working class. Was expected to see the Massive Public 1903 earlier this year. Instead it effectively contained the spread of the waiters drawing global attention. To control of the forward situation here the authority of this order to measure like a breath of death thing in cleaning all the nice things regular of bennett and 14th and then defining containment and a heart well if. The shutdown of all work back in march due to the nationwide lockdown hits the heart of the heart housing the Small Businesses and look shops that had been thriving there keen to a standstill. Good has lived in the heart of the put 20 years working as an artist and doing thread work on fabric. After months of sitting idle heads just assumed to work in his workshop. Earlier i used to get orders from clients but now i have to go out and look for them. And i still dont get much work. Theres been a lot of loss i have to pay the room rent and the electricity bill. He says he has never seen a slowdown like this. 6 months on with Economic Activity limping back to life most people like up there are still struggling to a living. Example bob of one of the work has been severely affected by the economy was already in bad shape now because of coronavirus people have lost whatever savings they had moving. Authorities in mumbai bracing themselves as harvey has begun to see infections rising again as restrictions are eased and Migrant Workers are done nothing like we have had to do were going to. Know. Where their members. Will be more than see we want this thing them. Their regular hospital is returning to the streets to the changing situation still require a Major Overhaul in part of the School Nothing to him in strategy. There is if you think hes really picked up a bit one says craftsman back to their villages. But he is still expecting it to be hard to make a good living for quite some time to come. John friesan is a trained engineer and is doing his ph d. On the scale of slums within cities he says determining their exact size is vital in working out their infrastructure and Health Care Needs especially in a pandemic so john what do we know about covert nineteens effect on slops. I bent. Reason crosssectional studies different slums than Kenya Nigeria and india showed that with covered 9000. 00 we see a reduction in access to Health Care Services on all sides including preventive so this and we also see that the cost of health care increased by the Household Income of the slum dwellers are reduced which was also confirmed by the latest report of the published yesterday so basically it sounds like things are going from bad to worse youve studied slums what are your key findings that make this fight against corona even more challenging. I think the greatest challenge is the lack of information and i spect so 1st of all we when we think about covered 9000 we know. That people with cardiovascular diseases. Are at higher risk for severe courses of covered 9000 but we dont know how many people in slums have cardiovascular diseases and the findings we have sometimes contradictory and 2nd we have to say what we know about the health of a slum dwellers often limited to very specific areas for example. And i will be ordered to be in mumbai and a study of ours like you mentioned showed that the majority of. Us now live in this huge settlements and very small settlements most of them have but the size of nearly a soccer field and. A 3rd we have to say that. We dont know exactly how many people live in these kind of settlements when we look at the population figures vary between 200001 1000000 persons. Or 5 and so we simply dont know how many talking persons were talking about. Certainly we could find out these things i mean what do we need to find out about these slums to come up with the right solutions i know youre talking about a huge amount of people in very small areas but what do we need to know or knew about i think i have to repeat i think. The most important formation is to know how many persons are living there because if you want to provide infrastructure for basic needs such as sanitation or health care we have to know how many persons are living there and another fake i would mentioned i would mention would be that. We have to be aware of the regional differences to take adequate Counter Measure as a mensa like so we have to know what the similarities are the differences between a slum in bangladesh and a slum in kenya for example will the pandemic bring the situation of people in slums and to Greater Public focus i mean an outbreak in a slum can threaten the rest of the city and very quickly. I hope so i mean this interview shows that that we are concerned about these people about these underprivileged people but what i think is important to mention is that we often call slum dwellers the invisible or the poor and in my opinion it is especially important to perceive them not as as the others but to perceive them as part of our Global Community which we are jointly responsible for so its awareness thats so important but slums here to stay are they part of a reality that just wont change. That think thats a very very tricky question. Since the enormous number of people currently moving into cities worldwide cannot be observed by which we caught plant or famine settlements and i think these slums are an informant type of settlements are necessary part of ive been ization. But after all people do not live there without reason and i think the goal of. Us as a Global Community should be to provide them with basic infrastructure on the one hand and on the other and give them the opportunity to move on and leave the settlements if they want to phrase and thank you very much for being on the show today thank you. And time to look into your questions about the coronavirus is the w. Science correspondent derrick williams. What about long term complications when we seek over 1000 disability in the future. Doctors are especially worried about the impact of heart damage in patients tissue death and storing there is permanence and poses Lifelong Health issues well obviously only know the long term effects of coated 99 survivors when much more time has passed but there are already indicators that those effects will be significant the doctor who treated british Prime MinisterBoris Johnson last spring paul the disease this generations polio its a sobering prediction that implies that he at least expects Long Term Disability related to cope at 19 to grow common and lots of other experts agree with them. And youll know how badly the corona virus has affected impacted the Tourism Industry but many travelers as did and still find themselves stranded far from home when that pandemic hit earlier this year including a japanese tourist in peru back in march Jesse Takayama order ticket to see the world renowned ruins of much picchu ive wanted to go there for ages but have to put off those plans myself well he got there he hadnt got to see the site yet but while strand he made a special request to the government to visit the citadel and now the government has actually granted his which after a 7 month wait jesse has become the very 1st visitor getting a special tour by the head of the World Heritage site i think i had to wait a long time because i have you along today for another of alcove in special. Keep. In. Touch. With. The i am. Fine a lot of communism was played engine a teenager. Said to be a funny guy. It was a good way homage to the funniest issue from punishment a and it seemed to be a manager. To. Lose all. Of the moral. Cannot sleep because your war zone loves a war. In those wars smaller. Players all the. As well see. Theres no use no love. For the world which. Doesnt. Work for. The. Bugs cant sleep. Or couldnt sleep. During school. Its. A long long long. Journey respect. This is. A hopeful signals for germany as governments around the world step up the fight against the 2nd. Infection. Says he expects within the next few months there should be plenty to go around also on the program. People often. Cite only. Through it now they say im like this we are so proud of. Yourself. Its just 3 weeks until polling day he hits the battleground state of florida boasting about now testing positive for crawford the 9 are the best in that attempt to cover his 19 democratic challenger joe biden is also on the attack. And so girl welcome to the program a corona virus vaccine in germany by the spring and lots of it thats a promise from the German Health minister jens shan here in berlin one of the countrys many new infection hot spots as the countrys infection rate rises and tighter coverage restrictions are introduced germany is backing a number of efforts to develop a vaccine but the span says vaccinations might begin as soon as the 1st quarter of next year initially to Health Care Workers the elderly and people with preexisting conditions is more of what the Health Minister had to say. Yes to the e. U. We have contracts with several manufacturers if all the horses reach the finish line we will have far too many vaccines but i cant just rely on one manufacturer. If we have too much im sure well be able to use it globally i assure well be able to begin in the 1st quarter of next year. Or for europe wide perspective on access to vaccines said d w spoke with petter got from that University Hospital or 2 of being he said the european timeline is similar to germanys and here and for scientists that safety and effectiveness has to take precedence over the speed at which a vaccine is made widely available. Im pretty sure that even and orders are in the European Union. Axioms you wouldnt even period youre going to 1st seems license in china and the other one in russia already now actually i feel that the next 4 will get a license in the United States but its just a short excerpt but i trust to get a good one in the European Union inventor we have to see much more they tend certain did it regulatory agencies have to look at many more theyd better care for it and then make their decisions until at least 5000 if not better 10 or 20 or 30000. People have been vaccinated you have not enough. To security your such a 1000000000 t. V. And safety net if you cant even license that accessing and in addition to the safety and tolerability questions we have to address all of us would be if it is a christians and to the best of my knowledge not to send one of the vaccines so far has reached levels of good if you can see it but the data lacking or maybe they are hidden thinks ongoing. Well some a is on the way to the Southern Hemisphere raising hopes that countries in south america will be able to bring their corona virus outbreaks under control as europe did during its summer the daily caseload in the regions now fall in but its been hard hit with well over 10000000 confirmed infections and more than 5000000 in brazil alone colombia argentina peru and chile are all amongst the worlds worst affected countries the outbreak is also causing severe Economic Hardship making it even harder to control the doubly visited a deprived a quarter of a point as areas where poverty has been worsened by the pandemic. Staff at the department of health in buenos aires get a final briefing before they set off for a deprived part of town called california this will be the 1st time theyve been there since the beginning of the pandemic. Its hard to even survive there people have basically occupied the site of a closed down factory that was called california sold very precarious. They call california a term for islam in argentina doctors assume there are many cases of coronavirus here theres been a surge in infections across the country since the lockdown was eased flu shots are offered here to anyone who wants them its probably the 1st contact these people have had with Health Workers since the beginning of the pandemic. I have never been tested even though i had typical covert 900 symptoms the Emergency Call Center told me i should stay at home. I was looked after for 3 days over the 1st one. Afterwards so i recovered. During the pandemic poverty has dramatically increased nearly half the population so about 18 and a half 1000000 people are classed as poor in this licia many are unemployed german aid worker corrina future from pharmacists without borders is shocked at the conditions here. The problem we have is that 60 percent of tests positive which means we have a lot of infected people here. Apparently most of the people have already come into contact with the virus many reports typical symptoms of covert 19. I had a fever and a headache and my back hurt a lot so i went to a doctor. A Health Care Workers have made many such visits in the city but the numbers of those infected continue to rise is going to Health Care Workers. Tired stressed out they have their own problems and i must say theyre paid a miserable amount from a common coronavirus has a strong hold over one of argentina making it difficult for the financially strapped country to function at all some analysts are predicting a social crisis which will only add to the existing medical emergency. We can take a closer look at is really unfair extracts from the sherry take institute of iran here in lynn has a particular interest in south america welcome to the w. Do you think summer will help stop the spread of the virus in south america. I feel not sure just in there from bolivia. Had several missions to latin american countries to cancel government spoke with 19 and. All. Experiences is quite mixed. On the one hence its true that summer and warm a relatively draw weather conditions are likely to affect the worst stability in transmissibility on the other hand it will lead to more effectively more peace and most people which rule in turn increase transmission so low we cannot just simply assume that the conditions will. Decrease worse for she reads why is south americas so hard hit by the night or is that is there more to these catastrophic figures than just poverty. The main thing is poverty the main thing is poverty. Level america itself is a very heterogeneous continent all issues issues region but they do. The big thing which is the position of 60 to 80 percent of people in most countries in the informal market so those are people that are poor d they have no friction in their homes so they have the kind of stock for a week or a month as you would in europe if you wished. The people cannot afford this and. So they have to somebody has to go out of the work and raise money to buy food for the family on a daily basis and this is really the big uncontrollable problem in the region. And so are we likely to see vaccinations and rolled out across south america especially given this this poverty will people even be able to afford it. Access to vaccines is a global issue but it is definitely also a regional issue particularly so in the hospital latin america we know that there is at least one commercial supplier starting production in argentina and mexico and we can assume that this will increase availability of us into Latin Americans we also know that most of those countries if not all i do like the detail have joined the kovacs initiative which will also guarantee access to vaccines the big problem as in all regions is how much vaccine will be deployed when and and by who do have to do globally but including out in america as a discourse the public transport discourse and who gets back sedated 1st of and for prioritize ation and this is so far not been undertaken but we do have to be aware that the vaccine will 1st be for a few percent of each given population in the 1st place so that were looking at a long process this is not going to be fast especially at america rich in addition to poverty is related to poverty is affected by a rather weak infrastructure in addition to the very complex geography so rolling out of that scene in england if you wish or in germany is one thing which is already complex role in all of that in the country like peru where you have 27. Or in bolivia from what i have just last week is a completely different piece of cake its very challenging you have to maintain the culture of the stockpile the vaccine somewhere so it doesnt end with getting vaccine into the country. Talking to us very clarifying for so much our young fit extracts from michelle to take instead of virology and but it. Takes. China meanwhile is testing more than 9000000. 00 residents in the city of qingdao for corona virus after detecting a small cluster of infections wealth or to say more than 3000000. 00 samples have been collected so far on that out of a 1000000 results theyve received only 12 a positive china says its been largely coronavirus free since mid august with all reported new cases coming from outside the country this latest outbreak has been linked to a hospital treating imported covered cases. Lets go to beijing where we join correspondent mathias welcome mathias so china aims to test the whole city of 9000000 in 5 days how will they do that. You know they have done similar things before they have tested those city of one which has 11000000 and how to tune in more than 5 days but still in a few days around 10 and they have tested millions of citizens in beijing in june when there was an outbreak here what they do is that they pool the samples so they take a batch of samples and they process them in the laboratory to gether and then if the bet is negative then all of them will be negative and if there is a positive. Outcome then they will have to retest those batches so that saves them a lot of time and. Makes it possible for them to. Test a lot of people in a short time and they also have impressive testing capacities laboratories all over the country and when theres something when there is one big case like this one in single they will of course use all the capacities or some of the capacities all over the country and this handful of cases that these of showing up just days after chinas big golden week holiday when people travel all over the country are chinese authorities keeping track of them all. They are trying to there are a lot of apps in use here in china where that you need to you need to scan a code to register in certain places so theoretically they should be able to track down who was in the same location if somebodys voice die been diagnosed positive at the same time however this is not always enforced at the same level and these apps can not do everything they might be able to track of all of the people who have traveled to qingdao in that period because all the data all the travel data tickets at train tickets plane tickets and also hotels are registered with the police so china says its got its infection levels down to a low level even though the pandemic is still raging elsewhere how concerned is very jarring about another wave that well beijing is very concerned about imported cases there have been imported cases all over the all over the past few months they were usually isolated as they were in this hospital where we have now we are now seeing this cluster and their strategy is really to crack down with mass tests on any outbreak that happens inside the country and of course the other part to this strategy is to keep the country shut down mandatory quarantine of 2 weeks in a designated hotel is the rule for everybody you have just a country. In beijing