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Lockdown. And men in black how one academy in china after pays these guys for a career serving the rich and famous. Welcome to news asia its good to have you with us imagine for a moment being locked up in chains in a small room eating and sleeping theyre unable to leave for years only because you have a Mental Illness it sounds medieval but its happening in modern times in as many as 60 countries across the world according to a report by the end you Human Rights Watch in asia india china and indonesia are just some of the countries where the practice called shackling still exists here man rights watch report in indonesia alone for example some 57000 people with Mental Health conditions have been shackled at least once in their lives people like this man on the island of bali locked up in a small cell for 2 years for having a Mental Health condition he comes from a poor family and his 94 year old father still works the land. Poverty a lack of access to Mental Health facilities stigma o
Book at a christmas not one not for taylor dayne hook tells me from now on its survival of the fittest and he desperately that he will be among them to the wife of. One of nobel prize season again and todays an ounce meant was for the winners of the award for physics its been shared by 3 scientists this time who all carried out a pioneering work on black holes half the 1100000. 00 prize will go to britains Roger Penrose who provided mathematical proof of black holes existed back in the 1960 s. The other half of the prize is shared by german astrophysicist ryan huggin so an american astronomer andre gets his work proved the existence of a super massive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way Galaxy gets is only the 4th went woman to be awarded the physics prize. And they all rushed from the to the science is here to tell us more but 1st lets hear from one of the winners we just mentioned on dragons. I think black holes because theyre so hard to understand is what makes them so app
Broken cars meet the women collecting and restoring vintage vehicles in south africa. Christine would rates gets half your company a report out today by Human Rights Watch says hundreds of thousands of people suffering from Mental Illness are being kept shackled in chains many of these cases have been reported in countries across africa researchers found evidence of this happening in look enough gonna in kenya live variables and be done sierra leone somaliland and nigeria according to this 9 study social stigma attached to Mental Health often plays a big pot but also a lack of support or awareness about intell illness now here are a few testimonies from some victims that Human Rights Watch has spoken to. Im glad they were hurt in that regard the one would have. To to your record about the big race to smooth through that how could you listen. To me but if you mind me what needs to. Give you my niece after 2 and for more on this weve invited on to the program elsie is africa director for