To storm the roms consulate in the city of qom but. Also ahead well look at how rising inflation and corruption in zimbabwe mean health care is now a luxury only few can afford. In sports i dont know why im surprised to fail the world words of a new formula one a World ChampionLewis Hamilton for the reaction to world title number 6 coming up later in the program. Ok lets get going its being called new delhis pocalypse the air is so toxic in the indian capital a city of 18000000 people that now a Public Health emergency has been declared schools are shut all construction work has been ordered to stop and flights have been diverted or delayed on sunday the air quality index hit its worst level for the year at 494 thats nearly 10 times the same. Level 50 and the level is well above 400. 00 as of today how do they keep the child out of the lead why there is smoke everywhere and people including youngsters kids the elderly theyre all finding it difficult to breathe the eyes are burning the pollution is that bad private cars with number plates ending in an old number have been temporarily banned from the roads thats taken away a big chunk of the more than 10000000 registered vehicles on the roads of new delhi a government study says the transport sector is the biggest contributor to the citys pollution also being blamed farmers from neighboring states who burn the stubble after october to clear the fields for the winter crop and has more now from new delhi thats the iconic Rashtrapati Bhavan or president s house in new delhi its a tall massive building and a spot but today one can barely see it it is engulfed in small as is the rest of the city ive been standing up for barely 20 minutes my eyes are burning on the back of my throat is itching and it isnt just me doctors in the city have many more patients i was sitting there with a ehrmans that can be attributed to air pollution. No theres a lot im off ive been using this mosque for a couple of days its a bit inconvenient for sure but when im traveling on the road then with this pollution my eyes start to water the Delhi Government has taken the step to reduce the number of us down we close the border. And hence we do you speak to that but you said the border to you doesnt mean deployed on this its black tell us that the people actually are following you the government has also given these mosques but the people are reading it it is from a community and is known as promising neighboring states do not stop burning the stubble police said in the last the capital is expected to continue to remain very sylvia. Ok to understand just how damaging the air in new delhi actually is lets remind you how it rates on the quality index now that measures the Health Risks Associated with pollution under 50 is considered good 40 to 100 is moderates above that there are Serious Health risks with everyone everything above 400 considered hazardous for comparison berlin a city of around 3 and a half 1000000 people sits around 21 on the index you know delhi on the other hand is sitting between 40700 in some parts of the city that far exceeds the limit that anyone should be breathing lets talk to karthik hes a Research Fellow at the council on Energy Environment and water he joins us from new delhi karthik nation welcome to the new horse of the biggest issues that the government needs to address here. The problem of air pollution in delhi is a multipronged one its not just one item what were hearing today is of course that farmers in punjab are burning crop residue and as a result equality in delhi has deteriorated but for much of the more than 300 days out of the 365 dailies actually breathing really bad quality air it never really gets the news the way it does in the winter months so clearly the problem is much beyond just the issue of another crop burning that happens you know for about 4 weeks or so in the winters theres a host of problems that need to be addressed really if you have to get this straight any time soon ok how do they turn that around then because if you incentivize farmers to behave in a particular way in rural areas the debate occurs to me is delhi centric understandably but there are other problems in other areas. Absolutely i mean i think blaming the farmer is sort of like not exactly the best thing that one can be do at this point in time but the fact is that they have been incentivise by the cheap availability of basically feel like to city and the water the did able to pump with it and then grow a crop thats technically not sustainable in the part of the country where it has been grown which is race and as a result whats really happened is that you know its lead to its led to depletion of the water table and probably they will be able to cultivate rice to the extent that they are in another decade or so because the water table would have gone to really look and its because of the fact that theres this rice wheat crop cycle that theyre doing that were seeing the problem currently and the solution really lies in sort of going back to i think. Multi cropping and diversifying what you actually produce through the year and not to lange just in one crop and again thats not easy because the government basically has incentive ways farmers to cultivate rice and wheat which have a dedicated price which is called the minimum support praise that the government pays to buy that off the farm and at the end of it the farmer feels comfort in knowing that the government will procure it now from maize as well has a minimum support price but the problem is that the mondays are the place where they actually actually buy the maize is not functional through punjab so effectively farmers feel that in order let me just cultivate the one crop that i know the government will take off me and as a result everybody goes towards race for some form of use to do cotton but then cotton came up with some challenges in 2015 as a result farmers and did a massive exodus to rice in 2016 which resulted in the worst fires of its kind in the last 4 or 5 years ok what you seem to be saying is that the government needs to bring in some sort of root and Branch Reform of the modeling of this point number one is sustainable in point number 2 the European Countries some of them were at this stage a generation ago so what did they do to get to a situation where the air was better. Ok i think i mean im but it crops but its a new burning is not something that is unique to india that as you said European Countries were there in fact in much of in many parts of usa and in europe as well farmers do continue to do it but i think if you have a mature market for anything thats produced and has a value at the end of the day to it you will find that alternative uses end up actually coming up so even in the case of india there are of course ordinate of ways and i think the most important were going to views is incorporating what youve actually cut which is the crop residue and the stubble that stands back into the soil because ultimately that nutrients of the soil can actually use it came from the soil it ends up going back to it but the problem is that it entails a slightly sort of different way of producing the next crop as opposed to what the farmer has been doing for the last lets say a decade or 2 and as it is farmers are in engaged in what is that what i would term is the riskiest profession on the planet given Climate Change so asking them to sort of take on more risks which could impact the unit for the next season because his revenue and salary if you will at the end of the 6 months of growing wheat is effectively coming from what hes getting from the field if you ask him to change the pattern of cropping of the year drops how does he repays debtors and how does he end up and show that he actually is able to feed his family the end of the day so if you have safety nets that ensure that the some sort of insurance against the crop failure and that what youre actually promoting is a tried and tested method its going to be very difficult to convince the farmer to get off it theyve been hooked to it because of feel extra city and the basically the free water that comes along with it and i think now its time for everybody to sort of go out there and support them in making the transition to a more sustainable cultivation practice and i think this is basically what maybe your god late but at the end of the day i think india needs to go one step further because the end of the day you know heavily into heavily chemical intensive mechanized farming is something that we nor is also Carbon Dioxide intensive. And india has already sort of sort of started going into the 0 budget natural Farming Practice you know many states across the country of sort of taken it up organic farming is coming up in a big way but then there are questions around the yields that surround these technologies and these interventions so we need to do a lot of ground studies that actually prove that these alternative approaches work ok mr goh thank you so much. At least one person has been killed and 10 injured in a grenade attack an indian as minister of kashmir no one has so far claimed responsibility for the assault in the city of st anger. Protests are being held for a 19th day across lebanon as demonstrate to step up pressure on the government protesters had been blocking roads but most have been reopened by a Security Forces since monday morning the protesters continue to call for the removal of the ruling elite and complete overhaul of the political system theres also anger president Michelle Obamas delay in and seeing a date for parliamentary consultations required for naming the next Prime Minister live to beirut and our correspondents is this an escalation now were talking about. It is an escalation in the sense that the protesters try to close more of the roads today this is now one of the last ones lets just take a walk this is the ring road this is really a focal point that has been. Going on for the last 3 weeks its one of the main highways through beirut not many people as you can see now peter but its symbolic certainly that they are here again the last couple of days had you seen this road open and seen all the roads open across the country really but as you mentioned they basically want to see progress when it comes to the Political Developments the Prime Minister did resign but again as you said there everyone waiting for the president to announce what they call binding called siltation what does that mean that means a Prime Minister needs to be appointed and then he needs to decide on a cabinet and the question will be whether the people accept that. So what are they doing or what have they been doing not the demonstrators but what weve been calling the political elites in the intervening what 6 or 7 days since that was the last Major Development in this when when the Prime Minister said ok im going to go. We have all they basically been talking amongst themselves because all the Political Parties need to give and name of the Prime Minister to the president once thats agreed upon the Prime Minister then needs to appoint a cabinet is now what the people want is that they want that cabinets be made up of non political actors what were hearing at the moment is that potentially it could be a mix of technocrats and of politicians but again we need to hear when this is going to happen some news report saying that we could expect the president to announce those consultations with the next 24 hours it could be made up of a cabinet of 24 people which would be a mix of politicians and technocrats whether thats going to appease the st peter were going to have to wait and see but certainly the message is the same of the people who are still protesting they say that they dont want any political affiliations they want technocrats they want the system to change and they want a new elections but these are going to be difficult times stephanie many thanks. A lot more still to come for you here on the news hour including opposition leaders in pakistan weigh up their next move for a deadline for the Prime Minister imran khan to step aside comes and goes. Protests to see chiles economic problems the decades in the making well look at whats behind the weeks of demonstrations there and the lakers are looking like the team to beat the n. B. A. The season basketball action coming up with in the sports news in about 35 minutes. Asian leaders meeting in bangkok are discussing what could become the worlds biggest trade deal thailand says the next steps in the proposal backed by china will be made in the coming hours there were last minute doubts about the deal after india raise concerns over chinese involvement the us President Donald Trump didnt attend the meeting but hes invited surf east asian leaders to a special summit early next year lets speak to scott whos at that summit for us in bangkok scott hey there so on again off again do you think it will actually happened. Bina right now indications are that things are moving forward the negotiations for its called are step is moving forward are moving forward and we heard a little bit of mixed messages today and monday this is the last day of the aussie on the summit there are 10 aussie on members there working with 6 other nations in what could be the Worlds LargestFree Trade Agreement now what we heard earlier in the day was from the. Commerce minister he said that there will be some conclusive announcements out of a meeting they have a meeting again today actually going to be in the next hour on the negotiations for this Free Trade Agreement he said that we conclusive and that a conclusive announcement that obviously led a lot of people to speculate hey that the deal could be done but its not sounding like thats whats going to be the case the australian trade minister came out later and said negotiations are moving forward things are going ahead as planned but theres probably not going to be an announcement this is a big difference what we heard over the weekend where we heard that probably early next year possibly february is when theyre going to be the signatures on the page so right now peter the best analysis we can give on this is that the negotiations are moving forward and seems like things are moving in the correct direction but theres still a lot of work to be done no donald trump no Vice President mr pence to bet raise eyebrows the. Absolutely have raised eyebrows now from the very beginning of this summit this is a 3 day summit now part of the reason that for that obviously is that you have these Leaders National leaders from these 10 nations here in aussie on but also from regional neighbors in South East Asia you have the japanese Prime Minister you had the could chang the premier from china you had the heads of state from other nations who are participating in the negotiation for that trade deal but also who do a lot of trade and have are engaged in political actions with the members of our donald trump didnt come mike pence didnt come the Vice President he came last year so there were a lot of noses bent out of shape if you will it was very interesting there was a bit of a reaction to that part of these meetings these series of meetings dossier on members have one on one meetings with certain with different nations and they had the u. S. One today and what was interesting of those 10 nation members of aa only 3 sent heads of state the others sent lower level officials obviously a bit of a snub to the United States but when you look at it diplomatically most of the time when there are meetings diplomatic meetings you have like the like meeting same levels so thats what probably 7 of these nations did they downgraded it because again the highest member the highest Ranking Member of the american delegation here is the commerce secretary ok scott many thanks protest leaders in pakistan are considering the next move up to the Prime Minister declared he will not resign tens of thousands of demonstrators of moscona some about giving imran khan until midnight on sunday to step down they say the government is illegitimate and propped up by the military the protests are led by the Prime Ministers longtime rival conservative cleric. Come hide his life in islamabad come all the deadlines paul whats the latest. Well as you mentioned that deadline was for midnight tonight however the leader of the protests modified the ramon made a statement yesterday addressing it said that they will not be entering enter that race jones that result so the red line as you can see behind made a red dawn of god has been scored over and all however today we dont see that security personnel that weve seen for the last few days and although the government is not taking any chances are they watching and waiting to see what happened as the all parties conference right now we are told that conference that conference ended under way and that decision is likely but did but not be announced because it appeared that the opposition it all started there was a date the focus on Muslim League now was in the papers Party Leadership but our border and chop are sure to evolve not at that all the parties gone for and so it will be important to see what them all are not stated there but definitely some easing of tensions the Prime Minis