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
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Every street, every building has been damaged. And, japan marks 75 years since the us bombing of hiroshima. We look at the lingering impact of the attack, and hear from some of the last survivors. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. In beirut, a desperate search is continuing for more than a hundred people still missing after a huge explosion devastated the port. 300,000 people have been displaced. Its thought the explosion was caused by a fire that ignited piles of Ammonium Nitrate stored unsafely. Quentin sommerville has the latest. In a country long battered by shock, a fresh, unnatural disaster has seized lebanon. The fires burned long here at the port. The cause, a powder keg of unstable chemicals, left to rot in the very heart of beirut. The shock could be felt in cyprus, syria and israel. The 2500 tonnes of Ammonium Nitrate fertiliser was the equivalent of a one kiloto
Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. All eyes are on the impeachment process in the United States after Vice President , mike pence confirmed he will not invoke the 25th amendment. In a letter to speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, mr pence said i do not believe that such a course of action is in the best interest of our nation or consistent with our constitution. Calling on ms pelosi and members of congress to avoid actions that would further divide and inflame the passions of the moment and adding a plea work with us to lower the temperature and unite our country as we prepare to inaugurate president elect joe biden as the next president of the United States. We can now speak to our washington correspondent Barbara Plett usher, who is on capitol hill. Just who is on capitol hill. To be clear, all eyes are now just to be clear, all eyes are now on the impeachment process because mr pence has put an end to any moves to declare the president unfit for office. H