Theres every reason to celebrate plus lockdown boredom in the philippines grows, demand for house plans, creating a new cash crop for vendors. Im melissa chan. Welcome to news asia. Thank you for joining us. A hot new Television Series filmed in pakistan has upset conservatives sensitive topics like forced marriage abuse and homosexuality feature prominently into the plot lines. Well talk to our correspondent about how producers bypassed censors to get their Creative Vision to audiences. But 1st, heres a look at the show. You wont see on pakistani airwaves for women and an underground Detective Agency that catches cheating husbands. This new feminist drama has sparked outrage in conservative pakistan means which is in a male dominated society. Not every woman would dare to be one, says some watching lanny who played the main role in the series. As it is in our society woman. Another main actress took her role in the series because the story is in line with her beliefs. In addition to i
There this morning, nothing active in blocking right now, but we had a crash that was lingering at the pay gates for over an hour. Weve had several stalls on the bay bridge and the skyway and traffic has not recovered the drive time looks a little better because it was 30 minutes. Now were down to 60 minutes, but its still crawling from west grand all the way up to the suspension span so get out there early and be prepared for that we had a crash here at the san mateo bridge that cleared we caught a traffic break in my last check. Now we have a stall westbound mid span. So the 14 minute trip may get a little better in the next hour from hayward off to the peninsula and one more all lanes blocked here leaving sunnyvale into Mountain View north what i wanted to 37 multicar crash still active so take to 80 instead of one oh one well check more problems coming up back to you. All right, thank you very much robin at 9 oh one we are now less than 15 days away from the november election today
Absolutely. I understand that most workers are also categorized as essential workers, but at the moment, a lot of our buildings are still closed. How has your staff been redeployed to help out during the pandemic . There are 100 people assigned as Emergency Operations centres. They have worked on everything ranging from finance and logistics to accounting, to a communications. We have also had some of our staff been reassigned where we had people who were working within the bureau and we had them redeployed within the street cleaning groups. We are trying to solve problems as best we can. Some city interior painters would normally be working inside city buildings and have been repurposed to work outside and remove graffiti. Yeah, and that really and that is also a good example of trying to find ways that we can use those same individuals, those same skill sets but use them in a way that is safe. The one thing we have learned throughout this process with covid and shelter in place is th
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Welcome to you cough into the weekly environment so im now its a way in Lagos Nigeria has a look at what we have coming up on the show today. Well find out how people use anecdotes that might be because theyll be roasted. How women can be out of cycling blasted weight. And why volunteers and they call it was a lot. To begin the show in senegal a country that is home to some 15000000 people about 4 decades ago a forest in the northwest of the country to combat the problem of coastal erosion changed the lives of farmers there but now yes lisa population growth and other factors are putting a strain on this for us lets go see. A down to fall harvest of. Plans thats not something that former money so takes for granted his one of over 20000 farmers living in the near his region of Northwestern Center go many live clues to the clues and still potentially faces facts of the rose and sand storms thats a belt of trees is helping to protect them. Almost 200 kilometers long its 500 metres wide at