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this is the dabney is coming to you live from berlin a highly chance to in hong kong between police and protesters dissolves into chaos after a night of violence demonstrators leave a university under lockdown police use force to arrest those trying to escape we go live to our correspondent on the ground. also coming up here on imposes a media and internet blackout and after a violent demonstrations against a massive fuel price rise state officials say 3 people have been killed but
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independent reports put that figure much higher. and with resistant bacteria killing more than half a 1000000 people globally a year are we losing the battle against the superbug. also on the program max 1st stop and brings his max speed to. the dash one holds off a stiff challenge from champion and lewis hamilton to claim victory in a thrilling brazilian grand prix. hello and welcome. good to have your company. police in hong kong battled with protesters into the evening as attempted to escape a university where they had barricaded themselves close by another group of protesters carrying their trademark umbrellas brace themselves against the
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advancing riot control police fired tear gas to clear them from the area violent kalash clashes escalated over the weekend and carried on to monday trying to get international court for restraint on both sides. our correspondent sean bell is keeping track of those developments and joins me now from there charlotte you've been up and about all day tell us where you are standing right on what's happening around you. and rita as we've entered into the evening more and more protesters have come onto the streets where i'm standing at the moment is a few 100 meters away from the university just behind me where that standoff is ongoing several 100 protesters are said to still be inside many of tried to flee to a skate throughout the day some of been caught and arrested have been images that have gone viral here of social media of protesters being dragged across the floor
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by police also behind me are relatives friends family members all of the young students who were trapped inside the university at the moment many of them trying to talk to police and calling for calm but all these people are coming out onto the streets tonight they tell me that they're here to support the young people who are inside the university at the moment also to cause a diversion to try and break up police resources to give those students a chance to to leave university we spoke to a couple of young protestors a short time ago one of whom told me that he knew several people still trapped inside the university take a listen can you explain to me why you've come here tonight because many friends of mine yes now into politics or city and they're stuck over there with many police are around them and they cannot lift a place and if they're there they're me arrested they're going to face about 10 years jail so i think that as a honk or as a friend of them and as
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a student it's of a must for me to stand up we're so worried about our stones i'm poly university because they're in for extreme danger we're like to do something pear to save them we're here to support them we're here trying to work out a solution to. like any way to say if the patients are. beaten for. a pipe by the police. this is what most of us see on life 3 and we think it is not just because they do not deserve such. punishment. so as we heard from the people who spoke to a shot of the protesters are still very determined and defiant but we did hear international calls for restraint on both sides is it any sign of that all things getting just worse. and rita it certainly doesn't feel that way at the
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moment the streets right now are extremely on edge as we lead into the later hours of this this evening we've already seen take hours to prorate around this area there are huge numbers of riot police on the streets there really has been an extreme escalation on both sides over the last over the last week we've seen protests is inside the university using more advanced methods they using an hour is often set on fire during projectiles at the police police with that hot using more and more tear gas to try and contain these protests this is extremely volatile we know as well that in the last week there have been a couple of fatalities a number of people have been critically injured this is becoming very very dangerous here on the streets of hong kong. drive seana chills and pain on the streets of hong kong covering those protests for us thank you very much for your reporting. turning now to iran retired to say at least 3 people are
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dead after a violent protest against a dramatic increase in fear prices other reports indicate that the figure could be much higher iran's supreme leader has given his backing to the price hike saying it's for financing social programs and the iranian foreign ministry has strongly condemned u.s. support for the demonstrators calling it interventionist. from causing gridlock on the streets. to taking out their anger on cars petrol stations and even. protesters in iran leaving little doubt how they feel about the hike in petrol prices demonstrations that began late last week have taken on a violent age or storage fees a reported some deaths many fear the real number there was likely to be higher iran's supreme leader is unmoved standing by the few rice branding the protesters.
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and exacting a bank on fire is done not done by the people this is what dogs do. the movie is in part a response to the failing economy as a result of u.s. sanctions iran says the money raised will be used to help the poor those on the street see it differently. the government has made this decision because it doesn't have any money now it's taking money out of our pockets to plug the gaps everything in iran is connected to petrol prices go up so to food prices simply everything the u.s. has also waded in signaling support for the protesters criticizing a shutdown of the internet as authorities in iran try to wrest back control of a volatile situation. i'm joined now like i'm dan lothian from the university of sussex he focuses on international relations little do you know we see very angry demonstrations over the weekend how significant is this protest action. yes
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i would like to start by just saying that the number of actually killed in this protest at the moment stands at 3922 of which is confirmed with names and details this is based on reports from this network of journalists independent journalists inside and outside iran so the number you are journalists gave i suppose it's based on state iranian state media but it's really much higher and the number of killed and injured are particularly high in kurdish regions of iran where the crackdown has been particularly severe police using snipers from rooftops obvious to sions and police stations shooting at people so. in terms of the significance well i mean it comes this latest wave comes roughly one year after similar protests last around a year ago in winter as well and it's particular widespread it's seems to be spontaneous there is no. organization behind it which makes
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it a bit more difficult for the authorities to suppress it given that people basically take initiative of their own and this time around they seem to have learned from what's going on in lebanon and iraq and elsewhere they barricade streets basically turn off their cars in the middle of streets set up barriers and so on to prevent security forces to come to attack them so in some of these protests just a month you know given the scale of these filters that you seem to suggest a much bigger than what the official state media is saying. can we expect some kind of a crackdown because the supreme leader ayatollah come in a has condemned these protests and even the president has some hotly warned that the country cannot allow this kind of insecure teacher crack to carry on. well i mean this is the this is typical approach by the state throughout these recent years from the 2001 remove and i mean even before that until now the response of
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the government is really crackdown immediate crackdown and the suppression and crackdown did begin from the very early on it wasn't following the harmony's intervention but following his intervention now the political office of the. islamic revolution guard corps i.r.g.c. has issued a statement yesterday saying that they will actually intensify and take a harsher approach following what he said so i think. the government's stance is that you know that it has to be stopped at any cost because their experience from what happened in syria and elsewhere is that the moment the protesters gain some sort of victory then it has a kind of domino effect and it it will be difficult to stop it so i'm afraid the while and will only increase from the from security authorities come down martin thank you very much fear and this is you at the university of sussex thank you very
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much. thank you. you're watching the news coming up ahead corruption mismanagement and. cruise ships how these issues that help make. recover. but 1st a look at some other stories making news around the world russia has handed back 3 navy ships it captured last year from your cream is the latest move to ease tensions between the 2 countries before the summit next month the handover took place off the coast of crimea. the opposition did not win any seats in. the free north where the country's authoritarian leader president alexander look as schenkel has rejected the allegations many prominent opposition figures were declared ineligible candidates at least one person has died after
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a bridge fell into the town near the town of in france local rescue services are at the scene where a car and a truck into the water 9 thought to have been involved in the accident. a bright spot for the hard pressed italian city of venice floodwaters to recede after a record tide of flooding shops and museums on the city's famous in mosques again on sunday the 3rd time in a week the crisis is expected to cost italy. has been selling souvenirs in venice for decades he witnessed the catastrophic flooding of the city in 1986 but last week's floods he says are far worse. we won't be able to salvage any of this we will try and wash it off with water but we are ruined. all of it is ruined it's
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a disaster to. the water house once again turned on the famous lagoon city. of san marco a tourist favorite has been flooded for days the few people still out i don't want hip waders. on sunday water level streets one meter 50 submerging more and more of these to work city center shops and hotels were flooded half of the city's structures are damaged the crypt of the sun marco basilica is totally underwater. and the famous nuffin each opera house also flooded. i'm really sorry the person. that built this is you know the sea level is rising and venice is sinking into the ocean and. if we continue to dredge the lagoon for the big cruise ships that obviously the water going to flow into it faster in my. second else it happened to allow cruise ships to dock in the harbor 8 times deeper than the lagoon
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preventing the water from receding properly flood barriers are supposed to be protecting the city the so-called most a project was designed to stop flooding at 3 lagoon entry points. construction began in 2003 but the barriers still haven't been completed. corruption and mismanagement have plagued the project costing the taxpayer over $5000000000.00 euros the nations are furious at the delay this is all it's all lies the project is pointless it's one of the billions they divided the money up among themselves. 70 percent of the city is flooded the city's mayor estimates that the water has cost a $1000000000.00 euros and damages. the water has destroyed the city but the nation's fall to their knees only when they go to pray planets will rise again. the waters recede venice is still waiting for the tide to
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turn. for his obvious such as have been sounding the alarm about superbugs that's the name given to bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics these simple bugs are getting better and better shrugging off the effects of medication as the was his organization kicks off its annual antibiotic awareness week we take a look at a problem with scientists say poses a huge threat to global health and development. before the mid 20th century contracting a bacterial infection could easily kill you the age of antibiotics was ushered in by alexander fleming who discovered penicillin back in the late 1920 s. and was later awarded the nobel prize for his work antibiotics at the scene for a paradigm shift in medicine they've saved countless lives but bacteria evolve
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and a few of them always survive the encounter with the medicine pathogens eventually acquired resistance 1st to one then to more and more antibiotics then they multiply and pass it on they can even share their resistance with other microbes some multi resistant super bugs are no impervious to practically the entire arsenal of antibiotics at our disposal. and research on antibiotics hasn't advanced nearly as much as in other fields of medical research big pharma is interest and them evaporated around 20 new major classes of anti-microbial were discovered between the 1940 s. and sixty's but over the last 60 years just 2 new classes of the drugs have been approved. meanwhile the problem of multi resistance has grown increasingly acute experts estimate multi resistant pathogens killed around $700000.00 people worldwide last year but there's still no comprehensive global plan for dealing with
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them. and that a 4th id science correspond derek williams who now joins me in the studio welcome derek that's a huge gamble almost 3 quarters of a 1000000 people are killed by jones resistance to antibiotics last have alone what's driving this increase well there are a couple of different things as we saw all germs will eventually become resistant to antibiotics that's the nature of evolution but where we're accelerating this evolution in a couple of different ways 1st of all one of the big problems is overpriced. question of the antibiotics that we have we've been prescribing some of these drugs for 60 years now and often were prescribing them in situations where they're not medically necessary all of us have taken courses of antibiotics particularly in the seventy's eighty's ninety's before this became a big problem that weren't really necessary the doctor you would go to the doctor with an infection in your throat the doctor would say we don't know if it's a virus which isn't affected by an antibiotic we're bacteria we're going to go ahead and give you antibiotics anyway it's estimated that about
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a 3rd of all prescriptions are completely unnecessary and they are accelerating the evolution of these bugs the other aspect of it is in intensive animal farming now often the only way to really create a sustainable added miss fear within these massive farms that they have with within the livestock industry is is to preempt any possible medical problems by feeding the animals prophylactic plague and of course by doing that you're also speeding up the evolution of the bugs that cause these diseases because you're putting them in the sort of hothouse environment where they're forced to evolve ok so you're giving actually antibiotics to animals as well as what you're saying which is getting into the food chain now another issue that you mentioned in your report was that in the boss 60 years the pharmaceutical industry is hardly come up with any major new drugs in terms of this what lies behind that slowdown well this is actually one of the most interesting aspects of this debate for me i mean you would think that it
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would be kind of a no brainer something that's so vital to our actual in the to medicine that you would think that it would be actually very profitable as well but unfortunately antibiotics are drugs that that in a best case scenario you're only going to be taking for 10 days to 2 weeks and then you're done the core of the problem is that it's incredibly expensive to develop new drugs the the industry says it cost $2500000000.00 per drug just to develop a new drug so they want to wreak that investment and if with antibiotics because it's a short term treatment. it's not going to give them the chance to recoup that investment in development now the the the thing is is that this is such a vital aspect that governments have gotten involved separately governments have gotten involved with public and private partnerships trying to kick started but the business model actually in the pharmaceutical industry is broken when it comes to antibiotics and we really need to fix it because this is a very very pressing problem and given it is such
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a pressing problem the debt it vault the implications for humankind if we don't take urgent action on this well you don't even want to think about a post antibiotic world i mean if as as i said in my piece if you look at the pre and i by attic world used to be that you could get harmed infections that we would think of nowadays as harmless and they would kill you that's happening more and more with these multi resistant bugs 700000 people killed last year now by these these diseases these conditions that couldn't be treated that a few decades ago would have been easily treated with with antibiotics so it is a very very major problem the thing is though that i don't want to end and say on it on a dark note there are drugs in the pipelines we are doing something but we need to desperately raise awareness and this is and make people aware of the urgency of this global problem derek williams thank you very much for all that information on that they pressing issue as you described it. in other news this hour at least one
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gunman killed 4 people and wounded several others after opening fire at a backyard party in california people were watching a football game outside a house in the city of fest no when the mass shooting took place. she learned as new president performed the controversial swearing in ceremony that could threaten to further divide the country goes a biologic boxer held his inauguration in a buddhist trying which is a very by his single buddhist followers he credited his victory to his buddhist voter base but he said he would work for sri lankans. dysphoria let's go to formula one where mark fished up and to victory at the brazilian grand prix in sao paolo his 3rd win of the season came in what the most incident back traces of the year with the ferrari's crashing into each other and world champion lose howlett and also saw his podium place removed after the race. max pushed
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up and let the race from the starting grid with new recrown champion lewis hamilton on his heels from the get go and the englishman made it nearly double for lead after 21 laps changing tires on a pizza pushed up in under pressure. it looked to have paid off too after the red bull driver was held up by williams drive a robot could pick on his way out of the pits minutes later. but how will things leave wouldn't last forever as for stepping out fix them a sadie's man on the 60th lap to regain the number one spot. by killers in between shows like click and sebastian fitz on the 66 lap puts an end to ferrari's ambitions adding to already frosty relations between the teammates. despite a late charge hamilton could only finish 3rd as total rushers pyrgos lee held on to 2nd out in front for stepan sealed his 3rd wing of the season. i mean it was very
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hard so i was pushing flat out in my i'll have to try me close him it was my only shot so of course because of that i was close into the directors and we knew that we had great top speed to hold the whole weekend already so yeah that still goes against but it was very happy. and we stayed with most of a sing the german a racing driver sofia 1st has gone back to compete in macau just a year after she suffered a horrific crash on the streets in a formula 3 vase the 18 year old some are escaping just 2 fractured vertebra after her car smashed into the fencing the last time around. sofia flourish at the start of the race at the fateful track in macau. she didn't make any mistakes in this year's race but just 6 laps from the end to a technical problem forced her to withdraw our. walk out macau $2900.00 sal
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unfortunately oh but it was really awesome how it's such a special event and it was a bit unfortunate not with a technical defect but last year i didn't finish not this year 2 times padlocks on next year i'll be very lucky. this weekend she was once again face to face with the corner where her accident happened. there last year it was a little bit different. because of safety reasons they changed the track so there's like the fan the kind of fans or the building where question. those ones actually occurred so it's maybe fly. that was 1st sliding on the ground and touching the wall right side and then because of those sausage curves in the corner i started flying it happened so fast no think it's before it sort of video i didn't know that i was fighting for me it didn't feel that bad i meant the pain started kicking in doctors repaired 2 broken cervical vertebrae in an 11 hour operation just one month
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after the accident flourish began to fight her way back to racing i couldn't imagine by for the just but so is kind of. if i would be going back to my call this year i would be happy really happy kid is the track is so super cool. shover track. this was an extraordinary dream come true for. me. but i think. that you're exactly right that change is. flourish had a queasy feeling before qualifying as she drove her 1st laps in macau since the crash the mechanics held their breath as she drove into the fateful corner but this time it all went well. i could work out what i did so. it was ok i didn't struggle. it was fun.
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and saffir flairs has set herself the goal of making the headlines in the future only with victories on the race track. good luck to such great. you're watching did of the news here's a recap of the top stories that we're following for you know democracy activists are trying to leave a hong kong university campus after an overnight standoff with police students had occupied the polytechnic university in protest at beijing's influence in hong kong police have surrounded the building students' fear addressed it to try and leave. and authorities in iran say 3 people are dead after violent protests against a huge increase in fuel prices other reports indicate the figure could be much higher than supreme leader has backed the price hike and condemned the protesters as going against. the law coming up next on
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