i have also seen an overnight and that speculation will continue. as i said, as you said, a jo, are they? we had a situation arrive yesterday, a short notice has legal implications, and i know i hope you would appreciate. i'm not from the podium of a press conference, gonna comment on a, on a, on the legal case because it wouldn't be appropriate on the wider issue. you said a potential doping case and i think that's a complete speculation. ah, is out there. and these, the top stories, european leaders are making a diplomatic push to stop a military conflict between ukraine and russia, french president, man mac wrong, has met the country's leaders this week. the u. k. foreign secretary, less trust is visiting moscow for talks, while prime minister boris johnson is in warsaw and brussels. meanwhile,

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and she emerged as pressure on the chinese government built his later hong think, jazz showing her thoughts with us in november. i think that these propaganda pictures show that she is alive, but i hardly think that she is. well, we haven't heard directly from pung, try at all. i remember that she posted her lengthy accusation accusing a former vice premier, a john gali of sexually assaulting her. she posted very lengthy accusation on november 2nd and so that was a long time ago and then they scrubbed it instantly and we haven't heard from her at all. i have no doubt that chinese security agents have been working on her probably and interrogating her. probably i wouldn't be live least bit

surprised if they've been threatening her threatening members of her family. and so they've been working on her preparing her to make these appearances solely for propaganda. say, joining us now. yochi wang, a senior china research at human rights watch. you, it is good to have you back. we were talking about paying why with you a few months ago. and the conversation was more than what has happened to a tennis play, though, so many more things to talk about in the past few months. if you're looking at pangs, why situation, how would you unpack it? well, i think, i mean, recently she had, you know, participated interview with a french news media. and also she had a dinner waste. the i r c president thomas bock. but overall, i think it's the same story. i still agree with what don't let us said about, you know, her situation even now she's, you know,

talking to an independent media lead to saying that i think it, you know, to stay security still working on her or trying to prep her to say things that they want her to say, i've got miss tweet from how on my laptop and she knew that we were talking about pinch. why today? a cow says, do you expect her to tell the truth? she's in the grips of the c, c. p, like most chinese citizens, forced to retire. so they called the fact anyway, my view is just leave this story alone. you will make it was for her and her family, not you. i think i do think i generally agree with that because, you know, we all know that she isn't free to speak her mind. so before engaging with her, you have to think twice, you know, would you want to ask a person? how do you feel when you know that she can't speak freely about how she feels? what are the questions them? because the, for instance,

international olympic committee are using the interactions that they have had with pinch. why? as an example, to feel comfortable about doing business with china, having a beijing olympics in china. they are using these examples as she, she's fine. she told us this. what questions should they be asking if any, then yes to you. it's really, really shameful of what i owe see to keep participating in the chinese government orchestrated scheme of propaganda saying, and she's fine. nobody's controlling for luck. she's happy really. i mean, we all know what's going on, right, that she can speak her mind and for, in order for the olympic games to, you know, be held embracing in order for this whole thing to going on. this is the, you know, the activities, the i o. c, are still willing to engage. it's really shameful. i mean, the, i also need to ask of aging, you know, how about what's about the investigation?

you know, what, what about the censorship about the, her stories? well, if, if she is free, why are you still censoring her story off the chinese internet? why can't a chinese, you know, public discuss about her case? those are the questions that i also need to ask the chinese government on youtube. we have questions for ya to you and he's watching right now and he says, i am curious. if a chinese citizen is being harassed by another chinese citizen, will be at a very high profile one. what can the rest of the world do? well, i think it, you know, the media wearing this show discussing about this case. i think it's a, it's a, it's, it's a good saying that we need to keep the pressure on. gotcha, you know, did happen to chance got to scrub her off the internet and show her to the world. oh, she's doing fine. look, she's happy and the we're keeping ask the question, you know, why are you centering her? you know, what about the investigation? so this is something that we can can keep do doing and also, you know,

post case is just one, not the many cases happened to the chinese need to movement. there are many other people who are less high profile or keep speaking up, keep, you know, showing support despite the government, censorship of the whole movement, despite the government, harassment to surveillance of women who speak up. and i think we need to pay more attention, only broader mutual been in china. i think it speaks to, i don't want to say legacy of pension. why? because she's still around. she's still with us. all the accessories is quite limited, but it speaks to what she's achieved in the sport of tennis that people care so much about what she's doing right now. there was a border conversation to be had. this is what some of our border community share with us earlier. have a listen, have a look. got you and then respond immediately of the back of the video. the tiniest government and the air was see trying to convince people that come so i is free and

safe. i'd say it's not free and not safe. 2247 civilians. she was calling to say one to 10. he's gone. want her to say, this is not an individual case alone. this is also a part of a systematic campaign to ensure that nothing is ever said. that might challenge the state that could be perceived as criticism state where they could cast a negative light on state officials. and that's part of the reason that we need to see a more robust response from the international community. insisting on accountability and transparency from chinese authorities and calling out the entrenched systems of the abuse and silencing. i absolutely agree. i mean, this is emmy polish, right? because for some average status because you know the world cares about sports. you know, that is really the reason why the broad international communities discussing about her. but there are so many, you know, last are no human rights activists. human rights lawyers who have gone through this,

they have says something that to the government doesn't like it. they got disappear, then they reappear almost certain you know to you programs and oh, i confessed to my client, i feel so sorry, i do think the state then, you know, they have been under surveillance, the detain of their family a harassed. so this is just one of the many cases have been to so many people and i think of the intentional community shooting, you know, pay attention to the broader context of the issue that you thank you so much. you've helped us do that. pay attention to the border context of this issue. we appreciate you always feel pairing on the stream. so now we move from china to the pacific nation of paula for more than 2 years, it's isolation has helped keep corona virus mostly at bay. but a recent full kind of corruption and to nominate that the country desperate for 8 ad video commentator quinn now to clag shad the difficulty of the situation with us last month. this is

a really hot and challenging emergency in china. and when he and limited communications were really struggling to make contact with out on the ground, what we're hearing from the government is that more and few is critical. and the time government is also desperately trying to take it out of the country. so the best thing you can do right now is what you see ellen agencies through cash donations and when you get to the communities on the ground who are delivering that critical. and katie green light is back on the street with us. she's pacific head of delegation at the international federation of the red cross county . so good to have you have we were talking just quite recently out, january the 22nd. it was about so much work that needed to be done for tanya, where, where the nation was, what help they needed, how they were going to get it done. and then at the back of our mind was nice worry

about cove. it has no co, they don't, tanya right now, how do you keep that coverage free? and now the situation is there were about a dozen cases or so it is a bit of a nightmare. and unfortunately, like a number of pacific nations over the last month or so has succumbed to having cope . it reaches shaw's. actually in the last overnight we heard that the cases have risen. so there's now about $34.00 active cases. they internal, which does mean that it is spreading in the community, the governments doing a great job of keeping it, trying to keep it contained to the communities where it currently knows that it is . those communities are locked down. and that is also presenting, you know, a number of challenges, of course, for the i didn't really delivery that needs to happen as a result of the volcano and snobby. so if it's that, that are happening with red cross and others on the ground,

a slightly hampered just because of those protocols and the extra layer that needs to happen in terms of personal protective equipment. but it is still happening. so the government is working with aid agencies to make sure that happens what happened in terms of cobit arriving. i guess some people might say that it was an inevitability after 2 years of working so hard. sometimes you can find a little tiny chink in the arm of where i would, particularly when it becomes these more virulent strains actually is manages to get that done. everything that they possibly could contact was delivery of aid is just incredible in these times where people are working. so i quickly to get that relief in there. i can't. can you describe what contactless delivery of? ain't nunes on the ground? sure. i mean, it's kind of like getting your pizza delivered in a contactless way,

but imagine that, you know, the time is right. yeah. so that is that the people who have come with the ships and the containers delivering, they get it to a certain point. and then people in that they move back and then people in town who are unloading nice containers, move forward. those goods are actually quarantined for a period of time. so around 72 hours those, those groups have been quarantined for just to make sure that any surface residual contact with it is and is gone by then, and then disinfected as well. so a lot has been done to try and keep this a way that is actually there currently investigating that don't specifically know the source of where it came in. that would be how little that would be helpful, but, but once it's out, it's just i how to really then stop it from spreading a question from how nice he's watching right now. that's when you have an infrastructure for me. 18, storage i. so everything that's coming in is there

a way to store it, like how is it being distributed? if you're doing it without people who would normally be on the ground to help you get it around who certainly are using people on the ground to get it around. some people have gotten passes that has been issue in order to keep, you know, the maintaining the flow. i distribution, that is a good question. there are warehouses, they are in to the government and others have a combined warehouse for i. that is a huge volume coming in. so i was reading just this morning about, you know, i 51 i contain is that have come in from new zealand. stopped with goods also from community groups who are wanting to help at church groups and others in the community. and that's good. but sometimes that flow when you only have the capacity to unload about 2 of those containers per week, that's a huge amount coming into the country. and yes,

more if that is going to be required to get that out and distributed as quickly as possible. i'm going to add another voice to our conversation, katie, not suggesting again. and also i was looking at this as an international development challenge. this is what she told us a few hours ago. the civic are extremely resilient, and thomas a no exception. luckily we haven't had too many fatalities, but the devastation is extreme. this is going to be a long term recovery. people are still concerned about access to clean water. ash has ruined many of the crops. luckily it rained it over weekend. so the tanks wash some of the ash off, but this will be going on for a long time and now on top of everything cause it has arrived in the country. so a lot of people are nice and other 80 percent. the health system is extremely fragile and it cannot afford to have a cousin outbreak. this is, can i head that?

yeah, i mean, it is, it is a concern. and as i said, a number of pacific countries are facing these concerns about the vaccination rights in tongue. i. one of the things that will protect that sort of more fragile health system that is there the vaccination, right? to quite good up around 80 percent of people have had a 1st dose, a fully vaccinated. yeah, so that is a one level of protection, but we know that it's not the full answer. so it's a range of measures. ready that are required and when you are trying to recover from a disaster, those range of measures are really difficult. so social distance saying on socialist lation, personal protective equipment, which sometimes can be hard to come by, people in the lock down, you know, all of those sorts of factors just make it incredibly difficult and those short medium, longer term plans that we're talking about for recovery now absolutely must plan

for code response in amongst all of that work is, well it's just an another layout to that response. as a headline on my laptop, i see i never thought of sharing with you, but it says here space x star link to provide internet access to tanya. so this is earl must saying, hey guys, i can help you out with your internet because since the, the recent sonoma, the volcanic eruption down to what a volcanic eruption, they said that the big cable that basically provided internet bandwidth service to you and to tanya and that has to be repaired and that's a long job. so all of this recovery is happening without a great internet connection without internet connectivity. that is challenging. how's that working out? i've never struggled in 20 years of doing disaster response work. i've never struggled to make contact as much as we had with our colleagues in tawna. i'm under

many different circumstances, so we still are now with out with the national society of red cross in tawna. we are maintaining some phone calls, daily, fine calls, but that's like speaking i radio, so it's very short shar, information, having long, deep conversations about the context and what's happening and highly vulnerable people and how you address those things is very, very challenging. and so one of the most critical things that we can do as we respond is also to prepare for the future. i am so proud of the red cross team on the ground for the preparedness work they've done because they don't have the kind of support that you would usually access during a major disaster. what is of being able to pull on technical support from outside the preparedness and the pre positioning of relief items. the work that we've done

in training, in simulated exercises. i think that's what people don't necessarily say all the time we, we concentrate on this bit of response when it happens. not all the months, all the years of preparedness work, which makes people on the local level. absolutely able to respond from their community base. i title, thank you so much. it is a challenge in time, the tanya and the people bringing out a tongue out, but really appreciate the update. thank you very much. now we've got from tanya to sierra leone in 2019, the president declared the rape. my says, a national emergency here is the 1st lady speaking about her husband's reactions to her. if it case had a major impact on his move to enact policy. a note for you, this next segment or discuss gender based violence and abuse of children. and it might not be suitable for all of us. there was a morning one. do you think he was going to work in den on to read your he had

about a 3 month old kid that was penetrated and the child passed away. and that was a very, very hectic day for him. he was, he was basically upset there all day. he came home, he was really, really angry. and they had to like, force him to tell me what's going on. and then he explained that a 3 month old child was astro lupo looted, and the child died. i said, was, uh, through mont, all, whoever did that, did not do it just to have sex. that. so it's more, do you kill your kill somebody's baby? so vicky remote jones asked, now she is a producer, the vicky remo show vicky, thank you so much for for being on the show. a couple of years ago, her national rape crisis in cilia and caught our attention because you told us about it and a particular about a little girl who you found in

a hospital. will you re tell that story because that little girl passed away. recently? i don't, yeah. so in 2018 while in sierra leone to produce an episode of my show, i went to a clinic to visit the philanthropists, who funded a women's clinic called the aberdeen women center. and they provide free health care and health care services for children under 16, but most importantly, they repair 50 and i was waiting around getting a tour of the facility. when i went to assist you award and saw the little girl really seen and threw in a wheelchair. and my 1st assumption was that she was there because she was visiting her mom because you know, usually 15 or something but happens from obstructed labor. and so it did not occur

to me that she was still a patient, but she was because she had been a victim of rape. that had left a golf sized hole on the bottom of her vertebrae. and it had made her paralyzed. and it's a story that completely tore my soul and broke my heart, and i went home and wrote about it. and that the story went viral in sierra leone. and a lot of people were angry. and the thing that was infuriating was that at the time that i've been there, the child i've been in the facility for about 2 to 3 months and the police report had not been filed. so the case hadn't been reported. but then after, you know, the story broke the women's organization called legal access to women, yearning for equal rights and just to sincerely own. and they took up the case. and then a lot of other people who are in on the front lines, you know, safeguarding women and fighting for women's rights and sierra leone including the

asthma, james foundation, the rainbow center, which has been providing services for victims of rape across fairly own for a decade. everybody basically came together to you know, raise the alarm that this is unacceptable. and the a campaign started called last tuesday and you know, the public was, was 1st for the 1st time in my life at least run it from my adult life. having a conversation about gender based violence, sexual gender based violence in sierra leone. and 4 months after that story breaks apart, the president called a national emergency for rape. also, the 1st time in, within a year, legislation had changed in sierra leone, where the parliament passed strengthen the laws and increased penalties for people who riley children. so to vacate it, like a minimum of so it's okay. i'm just going to pause just for a moment because we,

i love the trajectory that you're sharing with me about a conversation that had to be had about child rape, a rape coaching civilly on, and in the process to enshrining protection in the law. i'm going to phosphor to where we all right now, and we spoke to the un in sibley and about what impact making legislation has made they take might be very different from your take. let's have a listen. this is 2019 in terms of being sexual gender race by the government is very committed to make positive changes. we see this is collaboration with civil society, another development partners, and how we can see increased investment in services such as long sub center, special i believe, is strengthening our social workers and case management. you and many other

advocates have done, has changed the way syria looks at. right. and legislates about right. but as a journalist and a broad costa, if you've been very frank, what's changed yet so. so yes, i think it strengthens legislation is great not has happened. however, nothing has happened in prevention and nothing has happened in safeguarding. so the conversations that need to happen within our communities and our societies with boys and men to help them understand the value. ready of a girl's life issues of consent to valuable women's life women's rights. women's rights to autonomy. girls rights to autonomy. that's not happening. and in terms of safeguarding. yeah. i think in terms of safeguarding this is where we're going to end at our program because you see that there is so much more to be done. but i really appreciate you coming back and reminded us of that and getting us up to date

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