Anniversary is a fearful warning not a cause for celebration as to Pompei aloft office a gesture in from the French president to Manuel McCraw that NATO was brain dead but he said it needed to change in order to confront today's challenges police in India have detained hundreds of people the head of the Supreme Court's ruling on a disputed religious site in the city of Ayodhya Hindus and Muslims have for decades been bitterly divided over the 16th century Babri Mosque in Ayodhya built on what Hindus believe was the birthplace of the God Ram the decision on the future of the site is expected next week. Well good news from the b.b.c. The army in the Democratic Republic of Congo's says it's killed $25.00 rebel fighters since it launched an offensive against militia groups in the east of the country at the end of last month 7 government soldiers are also said to have been killed. To hand combat is reported in areas northeast of the city of Beni in North Kivu Province the Congolese military launched the operation from Beni an area targeted by the Ugandan rebel group the Ugandan group the Allied democratic forces which has killed hundreds of people the Russian military says it's deployed helicopters to patrol an area near Syria's northern border with Turkey to help protect Russian military police working on the ground there one of the pilots explained the mission for the way you were born alibi is going to patrol was conducted at a low level by 2 helicopters we were tossed with ensuring the security of military please ground patrols in the northern provinces Turkish and Russian forces are holding joint patrols to monitor an agreement between Moscow and Ankara Turkey launched an operation against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria last month. The Iranian military is reported to have shot down an unmanned and identified drone on the Gulf Coast reports in Iranian media say that the drone was brought down over the southern port city of Mashad with a surface to air missile made in Iran the political parties in Spain are embarking on their final day of campaigning ahead of Sunday's elections with the issue of Catalan separatism looming large it follows an inconclusive election in April in which the socialists of the prime minister pederast Sanchez emerged as the largest party but short of a majority opinion polls suggest it could be a similarly inconclusive result this time the socialists are facing resurgent center right People's Party the far right Vox party which is poses a hardline stance against Catalan separatism is also tipped to do well the a.b.c. News. You know even in David I am unaware how Jan and 5th rotated focus on about b.b.c. 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Russian journalist investigates rumors of a Chinese land grab did under is a corrupt get a scoop a come back empty handed Stay with us to him or I'm David a man or when British India was partitioned in 19471 of the most holy shrines in the Sikh religion ended up in Pakistan while the majority of Sikhs live inside India today unable to visit the temple that's set to change this weekend with the opening of the new visa free corridor between India and Pakistan it's a rare side of cooperation between the 2 countries who have closed virtually all trade routes in recent months because of territorial disputes the temple in Qatar poor is called the god era da best Sahib b.b.c. Or do reporter or Madras one Ghana knows it well displays scored God Poor It was named by Allah Guru Nanak who was the founder of sic religion and the word means the place of God. Or in the 1504 he created a sort of an establishment where people from every religion were living in peace he stayed there for almost 80 years after travelling for 20 years he finally came to his plays and he settled down so when he died there was a kind of a dispute among the Muslims and Hindus about a dead one and dying who both claimed that the Baba guru Nanuk was from the religion so there was a dispute who would take his body who would do the last ritual just leaped over it and then they said Ok we'll meet in the morning again and we'll decide what to do so the legend is that when they woke up in the morning and they've been to check the body do phone only flawed lying there was nobody in there so they decided on now dividing the floods of one part was given to the who demanded it and the other half was given to the Muslims who bet it so at this present temple which is. Durable it's his grave and the commission plays very was committed or ashes were kept so being the founder of Sikhism after he died of course Sikhism then grew exactly with so why did it become inaccessible for Indian Sikhs. So partition happened in 1907 as you know and after the partition the international Bartow was closed for the 6 August on your photo Did you don't allow them doing all cross or a goal and do a bigger message to that place. What they used to do was this practice of seeing or looking at the temple from across the border on the you decide whether Indian authorities had established a kind of a long range bin or clues was there and people would go to that double video of those binoculars day would you look at the temple and do it all worship and do their prayers and then go back so. Wait a minute so you're saying it's like bees to be pilgrimage by binoculars exactly it was a day used to call this dog pushed over the. People would come and they would look at Denver which is 4 kilometer from the international border between India and Pakistan so that folks gap between Indian stakes and this holy temple on the other side that's now been bridge both Leena physically and politically by the 2 governments how did they come to this agreement to make a corrido it took them 72 years yeah so the unique thing about disclosing is they had people crossing over into Pakistan would not need reasons for it so they could come into Pakistan for a kilometer and do their worship and go back with requiring any visas deposit on the government has said that it is open to anyone who believes in different laws of he or Baba good are non-negotiable like family loves them would be allowed to do with this is also come at a time when there's a will there's been a lot of tension between India and Pakistan what's the motive the Pakistan thought that the Pakistani government to do this now so this is a question that has been noticed by the Indians as well of the Indian Punjab as chief minister has also spoken about it recently but he's cautioned as people are to be have to be really careful because on the one side bar just on is opening up an opportunity for us and on the a to say did also creating trouble there could be a good image and there Pakistani government is pursuing and we have to be careful or and there will be books of August on supporting and this Calista on movement that has been in India for some dame it was basically a demand of a separate state forward 6 which the Indian government has been trying to suppress and then some elements within the Indian government as accused by August on off with this initiative and other such initiatives trying to you know farm and such moments and try to gain sympathies from certain community within India but on record buggiest on it say's dead. Only wants to open up to India maybe disc would be another opportunity to establish a long standing peace between the 2 countries when it comes to bridging these divides of course there are physical bridges involved here because there is this river Ravi which meanders between the border of the 2 countries Pakistan I understand had said the Indian government or the Indian authorities were dragging their feet over the building of us that in bridge can extend that so basically the bugs on the site is already built one kilometer long bridge over Ravi but there is a part of Ravi which is sort of a stream and it is right through the international border in a way to one side of it is on India on the other side flows inside Pakistan the dispute was on this part of it over the Indian government said Did we even only better the British to the point where our limits and and from there on Pakistan will have to carry forward and bear do a part of the bridge and just only say day insisted that since the major part of your falls into Indian territory and the Indian government was constructing this measure which did have already constructed they are part difficult to complete the bridge they should bear the entire bridge and not just one part of it and this disagreement Stern's Even today they couldn't really come to a conclusion in due final agreement which it is signed on. And we have to see what happens to it because for now Dave made a temporary arrangement difficult alternate road which will be the debate dreams from India to do good and bad stuff so as things stand at this particular crossing India's bill half a bridge and is waiting for Pakistan to build the other half Pakistan is saying that's ridiculous just finish the bridge and we'll talk about it yeah exactly and once the bridge is bare then it would be a straight road trip to the good of our own back and to be toll free is that right yeah it is already 2 or 3 Pakistani government is charging. $20.00 but pretty grim and they say it's not a fee it's a so is charge charging as a journalist doesn't it make you smile though when you hear people say it's not a fee it's a $7.00 it's not a tags it's a it's not a fine it's a penalty. We did smile when he was talking about it because we know it's all this there for the pilgrims crossing it doesn't matter what you call it it's still money at the pockets right exactly and somebody was living in the village very next to the border wouldn't necessarily have 1400 union rupees to pay for it especially when he can see to go to borrow from the roof off as a house and you would want to go there but he does now 14 or to be that would be a beauty of any age could make the journey the good lad at the temple have you been there yourself. I have in fact our year before the construction on the can record it was started I was there it is a beautiful building it is standing in the middle of green feeders from a distance if you look at or to looks like a swan standing it looks like a drop do. The building is beautiful it is all white green windowpanes constructed beautifully and watches and when you go do it and you and. It has this beauty. Feel to it you can feel the blaze you can actually see how much of hard work is an important to constructing it and you've spoken to the people who look after the temple Yeah how do they feel about a possibility of a big influx of a visit as or delivered they were really excited so did this caretaker he's been living there with his family for many years now and he's a very well respected figure in the local community and he was really really excited on seeing this expanding buried in front of his eyes just a year ago it was just a small please would just small go to our and a few guest rooms build their own for a very small number of Belgium's but now. When he saw this expanding to 42 actors right in front of his eyes and he could see did 5000 people who would be visiting you to every day from India he was really excited about the prospect and because he's a cutie you could read that religious man and displease importance to him and he was all praise for debuggers Ani and didn't go more into a day game disagreement and a bit of discord or 4 people from the sick religion but the building itself you say I think you just said that it's like a pearl Yes So it's better to seem right up close Yeah from a distance as well I had my camera in my admin taking pictures nonstop even from a distance and from up close if you're looking for good pictures was a dream that Sumatra has an angle of b.b.c. Or do speaking about the good you are at the Sikh temple in Qatar poor Pakistan and that's our lead story of course you can find that story online it's the heading is the piece corrido cut that pour this is the 5th floor last week police in on his city in southeast China announced a ban on Mahjong policy leading to widespread outrage among Mahjong players it's a tile based game looks a little like dominoes and has been played in China for centuries police said they wanted to curb illegal gambling and purify social conduct did they bite off more than they could chew Let's find that why my junk is so popular. My name is Howard and I'm the editor of b.b.c. Chinee it's Mahjong is normally a 4 person game played with bunch of colorful plastic or ivory tiles they actually look quite like Domino Talos at the outset but the designs are all different Mahjong game is similar to poker in many ways it's quite strategic but everybody's for themselves as well. You can form occasional alliances overall the aim of the game is to win prizes I'm soo paying for the Chinese service and I am I x Maggio holic let me explain that when I was living in China I used to play Mahjong a lot and that was in the late eighty's early ninety's Remodulin is a game that everybody can play people think that margins the game but it isn't although everybody plays to play Sisley is a man's game I used to play a lot as a young girl I used to play a man as well that was quite unusual and I remember when I was planning to leave China for Britain life friend used to joke you'd never make it in Britain because you would never find anybody to play Mahjong with you so I am the living living proof going cold turkey I'm still here 20 years on. For myself I guess when I was in my 3rd or 4th year of secondary school for a few semesters or for a few terms I did play time more seen as a rebellious action because you normally play behind the back of your parents your parents would never allow you to play that because consume so much time each game normally last half an hour to an hour so you magine if you have homework to do and you get a few roommates to play macho for an afternoon it's guaranteed no harm done so normally you hide out in somebodies backroom or your pocket money on the table but there's a chance if you play really really well you may get a few quid at the end I still play occasionally when I go back to to visit my family and friends in China but in Britain we have find enough people to play with us because you absolutely need 4 persons to play a game you also need a big table a marriage an english. So he doesn't play I remember what he said interesting was that when his parents found out he was dating a Johnnie's guy and he was going to bring this Chinese girl back home for Christmas they won touts and they bought bamboo steamers chopsticks and bless them a set of Mahjong so I spent the whole Christmas trying to teach 3 English people to play Mahjong So bless them they did learn and my mother in law my father in law and my husband but what a struggle that was. A had a quick check on the history books March I had a history of few 1000 years stretching all the way back to the legendary yellow and pro se so it was a courtly game before the nobles play it over a drink for money I eventually eventually the game started to become a more everybody's game. Days for the retirees in many of Chinese cities this is a must have past time on a daily basis almost in the afternoon this is the thing you do over a cup of tea with your mates you just do Marjon and win a few pennies here and there that's what it is now. There's also quite a popular belief in China that if you want to see a person's 2 color just sit down play a few games of Mahjong you'll soon find out what his attitude towards risk taking team building whether he place defensive play or offensively whether he can remain calm under pressure he's attitude. And winning and so on 30 see him as to color play a few games. 2 2 2 2 insights on the game of imagining from a b.b.c. Chinese colleague souping. And Howard John thank you very much this is the 5th floor let's take you inside Eritrea not an easy place to report from one media rights organization says only North Korea has less press freedom but every trade is slowly emerging from isolation there is peace with neighboring Ethiopia after decades of hostilities and the lifting of u.n. Sanctions last year now recently there was a regional football tournament being hosted in the capital Asmara So who wouldn't want the chance to cover that event Well Jay Batt Democrat of b.b.c. America got a permit to report along with 2 b.b.c. To green your colleagues to get in here and language widely spoken in Eritrea is what happened when they arrived the government people they accompanied us like wherever we go so it was very difficult for us to interview to do different stories we want you to give in mind this yes the moment we have arrived at the airport this guy comes he didn't introduce himself and he said you are 3 of the Join I was coming from b.c. He said we tried to get a taxi but another guy came he told us like a card has been prepared for us so we have to wait at the airport and this guy comes he speaks of it it would on the heartache many people don't speak of it it would I'm Audie Collins out of it all but this driver is young and he speaks a good Ahmadi did that suggest this taxi driver is more than just a taxi driver I think so he's not just a taxi driver in the car he drives is not the one they use in Somalia so he drives this big land across our car so you've arrived at the hotel your bags and you want to get out and do some stories how did that go the 1st time yes I was very excited to get on to us Mara but like this guy who brought us from the airport dropped us in another guy came and he was the one who was accompanying us the whole time it was very difficult to interview anyone people are afraid to speak to journalists when you tell them like you are a journalist they are very suspicious and they don't want to talk to you and the other thing is the people see there is someone we handle so they don't speak to you and also they don't take us anywhere we want they were only taking us to the state . And also in us and there was a festival going on where the people share their culture their dance their food so they only take us to these places tourist attraction areas where there are very nice beautiful really things not to the slum areas where the low income people live a feeling that you're being constrained somewhat but despite this you did publish an online story which gave us a real insight into life in every trip in a take us through some of the things you found out there so what we have done is we just invite people to that we have made for dinner so at least we'll get a moment with people to find out about themselves too fond about how they live aboard their story that's how I found aboard the Seemed about the different things I wanted to erode that sim cards are like gold dust Yes that's right so getting sim card nudity days like this is very difficult the people have to do some kind of application then when your application is approved you have to take that later to edited the only edited entity condition operate and the country's government owned so they would give it does seem God If you are a tourist there's no way that you can get it even for ourselves we were given what you've got for a group of 3 people one sim card with 3 reporters I mean how you cope we have to take turns to call and the we have to also use public pay phones and that's not a common sight anywhere in the world anymore is it even in our days that the forms of service but seniority that doesn't mean a way of people communicate you also spoke about cash cash is difficult to get hold of people cannot withdraw more than 5000 not fun not 5 $88.00 and Callen see so $5300.00 even if you have a millions of not in a bank you can only withdraw $5000.00 Emmons there was this guy telling me stories that he wants to buy a car so people want to encourage So he have to wait for 11 months withdrawing $5000.00 everyman's to get at least half of them and he wants to buy the. Then he did the half with the bank transfers so some say big government is doing this because they want to curb the inflation they also say the government was the people to develop the habit of saving but others say the government doesn't want people to make business that's why they are limiting the circulation of money and the other thing there is no a.t.m. In a theater so the only place you can always draw money is over a bank account arse hole they suggest that every trade has really slipped behind in economic development compared to the rest of Africa is that the overall feeling you got from being there yes I can say that because in Eritrea there is no a very active business movement in the city there is no movement at all like there you don't even see young people the only thing you see is like all the people sitting in a coffee sleeping a very nice smile on my cattle and when he's asked Mataram accurate is a very famous thing is a mix of coffee and milk is very known you took some yourself Yes I did and that's very taste and very nice it's my 1st time to since it's kind of like it's a very nice one Well speaking of beverages What about the because you say in your article that you can only buy 2 glasses when you visit a bag is that because they're itching government wants everyone to be healthy there's only one beer in the country it's called the us mob it also called tomato to be here so there's a shortage of beer so people can only have to be of a same time so what people used to do is they take someone with them who doesn't drink then they doing that a quota or what they do is they come they drink the tubular then they change places then they haven't as a tool but now that I think the factory has got some kind of expansion and that they able to provide more beer people always find creative ways to get around the system don't they. And you did cover the football tournament didn't you in the end yes we did how did every trade that isn't performing very well I think they were eliminated on the part of financial standing there and had to do the same Mr Forte papers. And drove it with In fact it was Uganda in Kenya that came at Tapia 2nd what do you think would be a lasting impression of this visit to Eritrea edited as it's very sad to say that but still a good estimate of country but still like there is a possibility of like to go they have a very nice port cities they have a very nice beach which fantasised a lot of tourists the people out of 800 camp so there are such kind of advantages for the country but still the young people are leaving the country and most of them they love their country some of them we're like at the shows saying elevated Prada late at the end says kind of things but they feel trapped because the young people cannot get passports one of the guy I have spoken to told me to gets a passport he has to go through the national service which includes some military training these are national service indefinite so we don't know when it ends he might get 40 or 45 years old when he is able to get spa support saw Same them they feel trapped but they still love their country would you like to go back to that yes I love to go but might be risky you know sure they'll let you back in here the worst thing they could do you know we can't let you know them I say these but I don't think the speech means jail time and that of America one of our language services for the Horn of Africa this is the 5th will stay with us we'll do that back in a moment distribution of the b.b.c. 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I'm David am I know in this half myth buster Andres actor of goes to Russia's Far East to find out if there's any truth behind rumors of a Chinese land grab and he gets a whole lot of cultural stuff along the way stay here to find that more now one of the big talking points this week was the thick smog that enveloped Delhi The combination of smoke dust and fumes was so bad people could hardly breathe outside and one report that got a lot of attention was a video selfie taken from the dashboard of they can span days because is one of our reporters in Delhi. Today. I'm going to keep recording and I'm going to keep talking as we drive through Delhi to reach my office and along the way I'm going to tell you what I see or rather what I don't see because of the small so when I sat in the car in turn a corner I could not see anything it was like a blind spot the visibility was just about 3 to 4 meters at Max and I thought maybe just maybe I'll get out of there it will be fine but it did not and when I came out on the Main Street what was really shocking that it has a lot of skyscrapers and monuments and other tall buildings and none of them move as a ball so that was in terms of visibility and if you rolled down your car window it almost felt like tasting ash and in terms of breathing it almost felt like you know you had smoked like 20 cigarettes in a span of 2 minutes so it was really horrible there's no other word to describe it on Monday this week the pollution I think reached a peak so I'll just give you in terms of numbers say is that the air quality index f it's 50 or 60 or below that is good anything above 100 is be worried what we had were 900 in most areas of Delhi and that to a lot of people said that were $900.00 because the measuring units that were installed in different areas could only measure up to $900.00 not beyond that is so off the scale basically Absolutely and then from past 2 days we have seen that number come down 1st to 402358 has come to 250 today the large factor is because rains and this tend to wind down and also another factor that the local government here it has come up with a plan called already win which means rationing off your car so if today is an odd date you can only drive your car if its number plate ends with an odd number and same goes with an even number so the number of cars have also hopped on the streets of Delhi so these 3 factors together have made the air a bit more breathable we actually tried to do an interview with you earlier this week because. Because the smog actually stopped you from making it into the office so tell us how is it affecting day to day life I mean it was a conscious decision that within the team we decided that we'll take turns to come to work so to minimize the impact Delhi has a sizeable number of people who are on their living on a daily basis or construction workers because the court had banned all construction activity they can find work and you have been to Delhi you know it's full of street talk and street food stalls they didn't have any business malls were empty so it did affect the local economy so to say but not many people disgusted because the entire focus was on health and we heard from a lot of hospitals in and around Delhi and each hospital reported increasing number of patients coming with respiratory illnesses do you worry about your long term health or with and then that of your family well everyone does so I had my family my mother and my sister and I have 3 year old nephew they live in another town about 500 kilometers away from Delhi and they were all for the festival of devalued and my nephew you know how children are they like to go out and play but I haven't been able to take him out at all he has been just endorsed and living with air purifiers pretty annoyed with that but having said that a sizeable number of people don't have any option that he has a huge population of homeless people who are just on the street or example as they don't have any of these options but just to be on the street and breed this horrible there see is it does have an impact I know friends who have little toddlers who need to be nebulized basically given assistance with predicting what about they did the Hindu festival the festivities you know is there fireworks for that festival so did that go ahead or not I mean it's a beautiful festival but a lot of people set on fire crackers to celebrate the festival but in past few years there have been a lot of campaigns run by N.G.O.s and schools urging people not to set off firecrackers because that contributes a lot to evolution Elaine where I live little school going children went around house to house urging people not to do so but there is still quite a handful of number of people who. Actually set off firecrackers and I could see standing in my balcony smoke coming out from each corner and as far as the eye could see and that was the time I realized it's going to be really bad the next morning so those kids going out to tell people not to use firecrackers they going out of their own volition No there's been a lot of talk in schools so I think that's where they're getting and learning about the ill effects of setting off I crackers and a lot of young people are quite aware these days because of the Internet and spot phones they have been all watching greater than Bergen what she has been doing better firecrackers would only be adding to an existing problem so what is causing this terrible Epperly Sheehan in Delhi and why did it feel particularly bad this year it is the time when farmers in neighboring states go on to the next crop cycle and to clear the field they set the crop stubble on fire and this more from those fields comes to Delhi and the wind speed also becomes lower because for enter as winter is just setting in so all that smoke mix with all the local factors just hangs low in the air making they're really really toxic almost like a gas chamber Do the authorities do anything to try and mitigate the pollution this year there hasn't been any serious effort on the ground to either educate farmers or help them you know the thing is farmers don't have enough resources to go and buy machinery to clear their crops so burning is the easiest and the cheapest option for them and they want to move on to the next crop cycle as soon as possible to make profits now there's been a lot of talk but unless they are given subsidies or they're given free machinery this problem is not going to go away because farmers have to grow their crops and make money so it's a deep seated problem has there been any solution even small solutions personal solutions in the meantime And so one of the scientists who is known as the father of green revolution in India has come up with an idea that if all this crop stubble can be collected and then be stored as cattle fodder and that can be used throughout the year others have suggested that stubble can be used to generate ethanol that can be mixed with petrol. So these are sort of bigger solution that people have come up with but at the local level a lot of people become aware especially during this season they start carpooling they start taking public transport like the Metro or trying to work from home and some people who have little children who can afford simply just leave the town and go and live somewhere else for a month but that's the problem is all these things and all these solutions are only talked about during this month or next month maximum for 2 months and then everyone forgets about it as the circus leaves the town everyone says it's Ok and that's been the problem what we need is a sustained campaign throughout the year that we're not going to let this happen next year so there is a lot of dog that happens every year but it doesn't show on the ground the A.B.C.'s make us Panday breathing some relief today as the smog in Delhi clears away it's a big talking point by the way still on b.b.c. Asia's web pages you can see lots of related stories to that story there this is the 3rd Floyd's the place where we travel the world in the company of the B.B.C.'s 41 language services and catch up on the stories that connect with their audiences like this one from the b.b.c. Russian if you heard our program from Moscow in September you might remember Andres a car of part of the investigations team well he was recently in the Far East region of Russia it's a place which is seen the growth of Chinese owned companies and farms but that's also led to rumors of a Chinese land grab and if this one thing Andrei intro enjoys tackling its rumors with cold hard data let's start with one word that kept on coming up on his journey . That's family that's really the have the real Daniel and good guides if you text that's good then let you get your guides and it sounds to me like I see what are they saying that Chinese because there are huge investments from China into Russia the Russian government the Kremlin they want their journeys to a small want to know what is the anxiety that some Russians. Having over the Chinese presence in the fire east very thing that the Chinese do not only want to divest they want to invade the territory and there is a myth in the Far East that in China you can buy a map where Russian fire used as a part of China and nobody called find such my purse but people are able to believe that you can find such maps and there was you on the subject of maps explain the geography of the Far East Far East is a huge part of Russia which has borders with North Korea the biggest border as was China since the Soviet Union failed Chinese companies started to settle in in Russia in the Far East because there are a lot of went there but the population goes down and people move from the fires to the Europe you know Russia it's very interesting they call the European Russia the west when we came in there they called us the Western people for us it would take me the same to travel to South Africa and 2 were divorced took it would take you 5 days to travel by train so you didn't take the 5 day journey from it all were told in the boy if you know my plane and part of the way there just a matter of 5 days by train so what were you hoping to get out of this visit and what did you meet when you got there so there is such a myth that the Chinese one to invade Russia we just wanted to see whether there is something behind these Seoul for 2 month we 2 for sure reports from one to register to understand. Many a group called Show land is rent or own by Chinese or Russian Chinese companies so you are looking at big data when you speak about meth it's very important to use big data I think because we could take 3 places where there are Chinese companies but everybody would say Ok but what another don't want 100 years but here we see the whole picture and nobody can change the big data and we saw that in some districts chain. Nice rent about 50 percent of all land but in some districts from 5 or 10 percent so we saw using these big data that this idea of the Chinese already invaded the Far East that's not true but we wanted to see whether it's true when we went there so we chose 3 regions and we went there to find Chinese farmers to speak to them to speak to Russians and to understand how that if together who did you speak to and on the way in making his report so we found a lot of Chinese farms Chaney's too not to like and everybody says that they do not try to hire Russians they like to hire Chinese so they hired Chinese for a season and then go back they don't speak Russian and most of them don't speak Russian they have one transfer I don't want farm with a Russian name because it's very funny because they all take Russian names and the basic attention all the locals to them is Chinese don't touch us we don't touch the Chinese like 2 worlds you know sometimes Chinese companies hire Russians for easy work and they say that one of the reasons they don't hire Russians is that there are no good workers in the Russian rewards to hire and when you're rushing yourself is any truth to that the Russian pharma say the same there are sometimes the Russian from us also because a local Russians say that only old people or people who drink every day live there and one Chinese farmers said to me that he base they were it to Russians every month before he used to play every week how do you think why it pays every month but not every week I guess because he's afraid they're going to spend it all on drink before they come up for the 2nd we quick yeah and the Russian from a say the same so there's a lack of vibrant labor force Sunday I was looking at a report who's the man on the tractor we were near field which the water system is owned by Korean company but is run by a Chinese company and we would there. Making some stand up and then we saw a tractor where far from us and when it came closer to us I saw that it was Chinese so I could symbol for the system where you are on the Russian away and near a field to the water system is owned by Korean companies always Chinese structure is so neat but it's symbolic visually your film is quite interesting I mean for someone like me who is an on Russian speaker I see a lot through the images I mean does you of course you make quite a visual impact what were you doing with your dad glasses in that piece to camera near the beginning it's quite well as illustrated there's a point in the film where I see there's an event is a man playing an accordion and there's these women and they're dressed in sort of this most blue flowery dresses with beaded headgear now are they Russians Yeah they're more region you know one which with a big Chinese company and ask where all the people I said are there in the neurosis which would she said to braise I think 150 years from its stablish meant all the people there and by the way these celebration was sponsored by these Chinese companies by the way. So we went to that sort abrasion where they already finished and they were going to take a bus and go produce the rum to them and ask them to dance for us again. Happily obliged Sure sure. Are you school. That's. Another part of the video you're actually trying to speak to an official and I notice that he clearly doesn't want to talk to you what's going on there that's the minister all Far East and of a divorce talk for one day where there was a certain economical forum which you know was their prime minister of Japan was there I think Prime Minister of India was there follies minister there and 3 times . Asking the same question Do you know how much land is owned by Chinese companies and if I used and every time he awarded the answer or put it in the video because in the end his press secretary sure was but he's not spent it and he answered This is not all responsibility to go and alone but sure that's their responsibility because he's been just all of the fun. And in some ways pieces cleared up one myth which is that you know Chinese people are invading in taking over but in another way it's also sitting on a political hot potato which is that actually more land is actually being rented to Chinese companies than officials would admit yeah and they want Chinese companies to come there is an urgency for developing over the Far East the state agency and the head of this as c.e.o. Fisher said to us that they're going to give to the Chinese companies about 10 times more than is run by the Chinese companies now 10 times small That's a lot of land but 100 just so much in this report how did you manage to put it all together I mean was it strenuous Was it stressful or was it even fun it was emotional sometimes we find some funny things like connection is a very bad there arose a word a bad there but never a shop unable to village with 100 people you can pay with contactless on the other hand most of just ticks What was it to tell were deprived in poor villages without people I mean a very few people leave their they don't have money in the picture was worried but from this point of view what has been the response to your report then though of Commons on You Tube Now I think the boat is 7 or 800 comments with different opinions some people say thank you very much you showed some objective picture some people said why are you wait so funny we do you know it's serious issues shouldn't be so fun but you know for me the most important thing was that people said thank you for your impartial position. That you just showed there is such opinions such opinions such opinions such data such data such data and people can choose or to think and that's investigative journalists Andre Zakharova b.b.c. Russia and one of the many language services that make up the b.b.c. World Service You've been listening to the 5th floor I'm David a man on our witness history and this weekend it's 30 years since the fall of the bell in wall which divided east and west Germany Louisa Dago has been looking back at a music concert headlined by David Bowie in Berlin in 1972 years before the wall came down the concert is said to have helped create the atmosphere that led to the change you're fired fatwah live from I thought as of audios David Bowie. The 3 day concert was held to celebrate 750 years of. Playing some of the biggest names in pop music theory is makes Genesis as well of course as David Bowie performing beside the Reichstag building and the 10 foot move that by then had divided and Germany physically and politically between east and west communist and capitalist for more than a quarter of a sentry rock and pop music has an incredible power and the concert for Berlin this may be one of the very outstanding examples for how strong the power of music can be we're talking about freedom here treated of expression journalist Christophe Lentz works for the only radio station allowed to beam the concert life across the barbed wire and watch towers of the Berlin wall into communist Bunny's Germany. The concert was big for spotless even it was big and the place was packed with people so if I would have been an East Berlin youngster I would if maybe try to get close to the wall and the 1st evening we didn't hear anything when David Bowie played but. During the Genesis concert somebody said there were riots and East Berlin and friend of mine told me in East Germany that it was the 1st time young people got so sick off their circumstances of living and dictatorship in East Germany that they started to shout the war must go. Home at one point during his concert David Bowie actually addressed the people of East but he didn't he said in German greetings to our friends on the other side of the world is if he he wanted them to because I think you want to go back so that it was not a good day I was sad because I was. 2 years and 3 months after that concept the Boleyn wall did finally full on the embers the nights $989.00 pause of the wave of revolutions that led to communism collapsing in East and Central Europe and when David Bowie died in 2016 the German government actually sang to him did it for the pos he played Yeah yeah that was a treat from the foreign ministry admiring his role he played it and then passed to the German reunification and I think that's why this. Was back in 1087 however because of lances there was little sign that the mentors to change was coming in the Soviet Union East Germany's main backa there was a new leader Mikhail Gorbachev talking for the 1st time about modernizing the economy and politics and they're going up to the West but in east but listen the old guard was still very much in power he thought maybe that we would cooperate more that there would be more exchanges but none of us thought that. What happened on the 9th of November 89 what happened you used to cross quite regularly into East Berlin Didn't you to meet musicians you had friends there how did it differ from the West East Berlin still looked like a black and white picture there were not much colors in the streets so it was grey dark and almost every building still had the impact of the bullets from the 2nd World War and there was not many buildings that were in good shape and west put in was this sort of island inside East Germany was it what was that like wherever you drove to there was suddenly a wall right in front of you there was the end of the street that's at and when you wanted to get out of the city you either had the money to take a plane or when you took the car you had to go through and very fortified places where the East Germans were checking your car once when I returned from East Germany and friend of mine gave me it was shot before Christmas and he gave me a cake that his mom has picked as a gift so going across the border back these tremendous x. Rays that cake what you eat a cake that went through a Russian x. Ray machine but the hassle and small injustices that West Germans and counted crossing from west to east pales compared to the barriers that East Germans faced the Berlin Wall you know the figure maybe hundreds of people die trying to cross and I don't know how many got caught it was just a real fortified chance the radio station that Christophe lens would full Reus been set up by the Americans at the stars of the Cold War by the 1980 s. The station was broadcasting maybe pulp music the target audience was young East Germans and even though it was dangerous to listen listen they did it we didn't know that during the time when we broadcast a true Berlin and do you know how enormous our Writings where how could you after the fall of the wall we understood that almost everybody listened to all the stiction. And also listening to that concert you know the station was determined that East but it should be able to hear the concept life just like West Berlin is could 1st day they had to get permission from the band's Genesis agreed at the 48 hours before the concert but Christoph says David Bowie understood immediately and David Bowie was one of the strongest props on the rock stars not allowing any concerts to be broadcast to come radio but in this case he knew that made sense he'd spent 3 years in Berlin in the seventy's he recorded 3 albums while he was living there too it is studio at she looking out onto the wall the title song of the album Heroes talks about a couple kissing by the wall Yeah so you know he knew what it meant to. Do the city and he knew how it was I mean having written that song Heroes and playing that's right in the center of Berlin actually when I recall that moment it's still hits me and David Bowie by the way and says that on going to learn I think the day before that. The concept of took place on the north side the Reichstag building one of the ins most important monuments next to it was the Berlin Wall and immediately across the wall the Brandenburg Gate which East Germans would famously preach 2 years later the day off to the Bowie concert you crossed into East Berlin to visit a friend didn't you yes it was his birthday and it was right on the day Genesis play and when you celebrated to spur stay in the afternoon and I had a cup of coffee and some birthday cake but then that maybe 5 o'clock in the afternoon I had to say that I have to go over to West Berlin in order to emcee. 2nd day often concert I said to him I wish you could come with me and he said well I have to listen to the radio that's was so absurd that I can cross easily the border and can enjoy things that he can't enjoy that night a 1000 East Berlin is tried to get near the wall to listen to the concert there were clashes with the police trying to stop them and arrests Crystal's friend talked about trying to escape which he didn't do because actually he was so afraid that he would get caught and would end up in jail but then in November $989.00 the wall came down what do you remember. What happened as the wall felt in the evening of the 9th the morning of the 10th early in the morning it was like 630 my door bell rang and. My friend was standing in the draw and. Now we can meet. Yeah yeah a year after that East and West Germany were united that he is this Saturday since the fall of the wall Louise he reporting for witness history and closing the fateful hour on that b.b.c. Stay with us for the news today. Support for the b.b.c. World Service has been provided by Le Plata electric Association celebrating 80 years LP a as a long term strategic goal to reduce its carbon footprint by 50 percent by 2030 well keeping the cost of electricity lower than most rural electric co-ops details or at L.P.'s go up at 970-247-5786 this is so the new tribe or radio and 4 Corners Public Radio. You Katie and you Durango a u.t. Farmington us to be you Flora Vista and k p g.s. Because this brings n.p.r. 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