A whales tail the rotterdam tribe had no passengers on board its not know why it overshot the tracks. Hollywood star johnny depps lost hes libel battle with a british tabloid newspaper that said he was a wife beater after being caught in london a rule that the allegations were substantially true. To the publisher of the sun that he do so exwife. And imprisoned Saudi Arabian womens rights activist. Through has begun a new Hunger Strike to protest the conditions of detention according to family the 31 year old is one of at least a dozen womens rights sats of ists who were arrested in 2018 during a crackdown on dissent weeks before saudi arabia lift its ban on female drivers Rights Groups say shes been subjected to abuse during detention including electric shocks flunkie and sexual assault. We can speak with her sister lena local whos here in berlin welcome to t. W. Im your sisters been in detention for 2 years now what she charged with. Its almost 3 years now so there have been different periods at the beginning she was in prison for 10 months without any charges and only newspaper sensitive dissemination campaign saying that she was a Foreign Agent then after 10 months when she. Started again for the charges and then basically all that well to add to this and so its written on light that they accused her of the president speaking to International Conferences to talk about the human rights situation in saudi arabia of being incompetent story journalist with Amnesty International so really her official charges are her activism and they accused her of that. And people outside of saudi arabia that it sounds odd but you can be charged with what sounds like legal activity so in saudi arabia that sort of activity is again so low that the charges dont even state in the legal basis so they just actually heard it and its you know its that everything that has been done from the beginning is eagle no christians or has been respected jane was disappeared basically during the 1st months of her imprisonment she was put enough unofficial prison where she was being tortured by saudi official this one of them is that he was a crown prince and b. S. Is right and man and so everything from the beginning has been made with without any. Legal basis so even the charges basically dont state. Faces the accused of her activism well of course of the crown prince is not here to speak for himself so we dont know whether those on occasions of torture or not how did you hear that she had been tortured. So the 1st is its when my parents jane they clearly saw that she was being tortured but you didnt didnt tell them anything she would only say its because you know the air conditioning is too cold or that dish sometimes deprive this keep that because she was. Scared basically of telling them and then after the casualty case and that weve read reports on these unofficial prisons. Basically torture says its used by parents bake jane to. Tell them to eat and then visit after visit started telling them that she was being electrocuted sidelines that she was doing what your boy did logs and she sewed them precise and they were burnt with bruises because of it. Dont know why the no women in saudi arabia were granted the right to drive just off to your sister was to tight so devout mock a real change in womens rights just sort of table crossing window dressing. I think the only positive influence and the real one is. The rate today for women but this is only because women have fought for it for years and actually the period in which jayne was arrested last week when the campaign was at its highest everyone was asking for it and simplicity couldnt accept anymore that women are not able to drive but this ng is now saudi arabia is really becoming a police state there is no place for Civil Society whatsoever and they had to imprison any critique dementing voice and they just took all the merits of these women at have been fighting for for years well thank you so much for joining us. Thank you very much. On to mexico where the day of the dead festival is normally cause for National Celebration and remembrance but the countrys reeling from more than 90000. 00 coronavirus deaths so this year usually vibrant parades have been canceled or god virtual ceremonies and cemeteries a bag of have been told to close means that for many mexicans they usually common festive event has become a lonely experience. For maria del Rosario Martinez this day of the dead is especially poignant her husband a doctor who cared for some of mexicos poorest died at the height of the countrys pandemic falling victim himself. In keeping with tradition maria decorate with some of his favorite things. In your cup in secular 3 decades one i never thought that i would have to place an order to from my husband. So thats according to traditions and beliefs hes going to come and hes going to be here with us. Hes going to be happy. That. When president Lopez Obrador dedicated the festival to the victims of corporate 19 there was none of the lavish parades impact Public Events normally a short sheeted with a holiday. It set the tone for a nation grieving in isolation an acute gonzalez among them her family has been devastated by the virus. And you know this here in one look at me all this year i decided to get involved in making the altar of for 3 very special people. Very very good will my grandmother who was the one who taught us this tradition. My brother and lastly from my father. And there where some call me to celebrations in the capitals worst district performers danced under a fool moon well families paid tribute to their dead. And let 2300. 00 candles one for each of covert nineteens victims. Only coronavirus pandemic has forced many sporting events to be held up behind closed doors or to be postponed 2020 tokyo and im picks japan is now carrying out a high tech studies to see how they can make it safe across to return a large scale sporting events a baseball stadium in yokohama was turned into a testing ground for 3 days with 28000 people in attendance. The Yokohama Base stars have 2 goals to win games and to try to get the upper hand on coronavirus the fact that their stadium was on one day almost 90 percent full is the result of a technological home run and also thanks to almost 28000. 00 test subjects. Motueka. Feel a bit uneasy about it however having a lot of fans certainly helps the players on this and its pretty those who take part in the testing get a 35 Percent Discount on their tickets as well as having 2 apps kick in the National Corona app is mandatory as is a 2nd one from a private provider which inquires about your health 10 days prior to the game and 14 days after. We stay in contact with the olympic organizers theyre very interested in the data we send it to them without names were doing everything to ensure that the games will take place next year when because it will make up the. Monitoring devices are placed in the stands to measure a lot of people a lot of cheering and a lot of Carbon Dioxide add to that wind intensity and velocity and experts can already figure out where fan density is too high making the dangerous spread of the virus possible and at the stadium crowding is also an issue for washrooms but a Digital Guide post will show you the way sending you a chat function via infrared waves radio and t. V. All in real time. So its a delicate thing and i mean weve installed the guideposts at 39 locations at toilets kiosks and shops so if you have to do something then just look at the map to see where theres a line up and then maybe go to another location the japanese are very conscientious about wearing face masks however those who may be potential visitors to the Olympic Games and think they dont have to take part in such measures may still be reminded thanks to our High Performance facial recognition system. Of the news in all of our software doesnt. Visitors it also sees how long you stay somewhere and whether youre wearing a face mask and if youre not security personnel could be alerted all the status serves to lower the risk of the spread of coronavirus or thought youd see that. They say the technology is reliable that just might make the olympics doable despite the pandemic at this stadium medals will also be up for grabs and baseball and softball and just thinking of that really inspires the fans. Well before i go through rio minutes world famous city much of picchu on sunday after 7 months of closure because of the pandemic reopening of the inca stone citadel was celebrated with a slight ceremony following strict social distancing batches of course and in front of only 30 percent of its normal visitor. 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Em those wars swallow or. Lose lol birds lose. For the word. For. Our appearance. Youre watching t w news asia coming up today the worlds strongest typhoon this year hits the philippines when people have barely recovered from the big storm last week we take a closer look at typhoon go news path of destruction. Plus protest in bangladesh pakistan and other muslim majority countries continue why so many governments have spoken out against france. Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us at least 16 people are dead and thousands of homes destroyed as of monday evening local time in the philippines officials continue to assess the damage typhoon goni is one of the strongest storms to make landfall there in years bringing winds of up to 200 kilometers an hour to parts of the country it mostly missed to the capital of manila but still hundreds of thousands of people have had to evacuate not just from the storm but from subsequent mudslides and floods. For a country hit on average 20 times each year by typhoons goni was the most powerful to strike the philippines this year. Rooftops were torn away debris flying everywhere as water rushed in one from the sea or downhill from mountainsides. Wind gusts reached above 300 Kilometers Per Hour and in some towns the red cross said up to 80 percent of the homes were destroyed. Goni rival typhoon haiyan which in 2013 killed more than 6000 people. But this time there were warnings and preparation. And mass evacuations. We have that in a way that you know evacuated because its better to be safe since i cant walk id have to crawl to get out but if i could walk i prefer to stay in our place alone. Even my own im afraid because my mothers house is already weak and was about to get crushed. The early warnings and preparations put coast guard and other emergency rescuers in position to help residents stranded by rising floodwaters. The storm at one point was one of the most powerful ever recorded but its strength dissipated as it moved across the island of luzon home to more than 2000000 people accounting for 2 thirds of the filipino economy 50000. 00 homes here were without power as goni moved out to the South China Sea. Direction vietnam still packing heavy rains. Ahead of goldies landfall the country was still reeling from typhoon which killed 22. 00 people next up though filipinos already know another storm that sunny is gaining strength in the Pacific Ocean as it approaches their country. Those who are put into shelters to keep them safe from the last storm wonder if there is even cause to return home before the next. This is election week in the United States indeed only news asia will be taking a closer look at the impact of developments there and how it be changed relations in the asia region sticking with the philippines president has praised philippine president rod rico to tara his controversial drug war in the past a fight that human rights activists say includes extrajudicial killings now to terror tape has not always responded in kind and has often played the u. S. Against china for example hes opted not to challenge beijings encroachments in the South China Sea i spoke to aries a rude guy from the university of the philippines and i asked him how differently abiding administration might respond to tara his drug war and whether it matters if america speaks out about human rights. It would matter i think for the Turkey Administration because it has somehow been protected from a lot of the criticisms about its war on drugs i do think that there will be some. Crunch that the administration of the tear it will feel i think that some of the opposition its senators for example would get more an audience from a by an administration then would be Trump Administration and that would in a way undermine. The tear gas ministrations existing legitimacy as far as the war on drugs is concerned. Now detect he has walked this interesting line between the u. S. And china why do you think that is well the this supposed edging approach of the to tara the administration is in order to benefit from both superpowers as they intensify competition in the region and with the philippines as a key state in this ongoing rivalry between the 2 major powers however that the terror the administration doesnt seem to be consistent in its hedging approach as it has not only skew would be leaning off the country towards more of china but in fact has made certain measures or certain who has completely undermined one of the longest standing alliances of the United States in the asia pacific. Yeah it is a very Important Alliance the philippines is the only u. S. Treaty ally in the Southeast Asia that means they would support each other in war but earlier this year even considered withdrawing permission for the u. S. To hold war games in the philippines and conduct joint exercises how much has this military relationship in weekend. The the military relationship between the philippines in the us have not been i would say radically affected however the deterrent administration did initiate the process of the abrogation of the visiting forces agreement but that was before depend demick we we now know that the this process is being suspended and i do think that. The prospects of pushing through are very little given the recognition of the tear it administration on the importance of the us and its all in response in dealing with the pandemic. Last question how closely are filipinos watching the u. S. Election. Theres always a a fascination cold war say the former colonizer of the philippine stay United States terms of the elections is also something to do with the big Filipino Community in the United States with a lot of their relatives still in the filipino hold but we do know that a lot of filipinos do register to vote and i do think that theyve theyve voted traditionally as republican. Ever just like other asian. Groups but i do think there might be a change in this particular election cycle. Thank you. At least 50000 people have rallied in bangladeshs capital of dhaka against french president emanuel microns defense of freedom of speech in his country including the right to criticize islam a list of demands from protesters included calling for a boycott of french products is the latest in a series of anti france demonstrations across the muslim world over the past 2 weeks ever since the beheading of a french teacher in paris for showing cartoons of the prophet mohammed in a lesson about freedom of expression rallies have also taken place in lebannon turkey and over the weekend in pakistan here are some opinions from the streets of karachi but were here today to protest this number 4 there are marks by the president by the Prime Minister of france. Is absolutely unacceptable to hurt the sentiments of millions of muslims across the world in the name of freedom of speech especially when you dont grant the same leniency on discussions on other topics like the whole of us and other despicable things. We ask our government to move ahead with the expulsion of the french ambassador and to announce a boycott of all french products. France will realize and regret after all this what it has done and what it has achieved we will not tolerate the bashing of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him. This is the message of the entire muslim nation which asks the french Prime Minister to apologize for his insolence. And to take firm action against those who denigrate our Prophet Muhammad. Peace be upon him to shun it. For more we have t. W. Shammal sham sham all youve weighed in on this with an opinion piece on our website tell us more. Well melissa there is a sensitive bush is a sensitive issue or a majority of muslims around the world in france and else so i argue that the french government needs to take it very carefully and the same guy i said i wrote that leaders like go on and by the stance current. It sounds weird when the lecture marker all