starts a trade war then hong kong explodes and pro-democracy candidates are elected to the city council now the united states has given itself the power to review beijing's actions in the chinese territory and sanction chinese officials and have abused human rights there so what will beijing's threatened firm countermeasures look like i'm phil gale in berlin and this is the day. this act of the us government is completely wrong they are attempting to interfere with hong kong affairs through this act and this plot will not work. to do as president. right and. that's the remarkable achievement of all the whole. with the courage and determination of. freedom and democracy to start a program of. china's hong kong and hong kong affairs purely china's internal

affairs no foreign governments or power has the right to intervene. also coming up phage is doctors concerned about antibiotic resistance are increasingly turning to viruses that kill bacteria untreatable by other drugs a thing that fitch therapy is getting more and more important because. thinks or more and more fearing. people are actually dying because their infection can be treated. and china has reacted angrily after u.s. president donald trump signed bills back in hong kong pro-democracy activists beijing says it will take firm countermeasures against the u.s. for meddling in its domestic affairs the new legislation means there'll be an annual review of the favorable trade status that washington grants. the territory.

pro-democracy demonstrators thanking u.s. president donald trump for signing legislation that ensures the u.s. backed democracy in hong kong. there was music in india including the star-spangled banner. trump the hero. that u.s. president signed on to hong kong you are right and democracy act that's the remarkable achievement of all the hong kong it with the courage and determination of hong kong as to fight for freedom and democracy it's all because of this trump signed into law an act that says the u.s. will check whether hong kong remains democratic as a prerequisite for keeping hong kong's special trade status the government in beijing is really angry. sure. is

china's hong kong and hong kong affairs up your chinese internal affairs which i'm going no foreign government or power has the right so in something more than a go. to. beijing says it will use countermeasures if the u.s. continues quote down the wrong path. so let's talk about how this might well play out with a double journalist if it couldn't who spent a 15 years covering china and chinese politics welcome to this place let's start with a fact this human rights and democracy act what will be its effect how it works well i think the primary effect seems to have been to make china very angry indeed but in technical terms what it will do is it requires washington to keep an eye on hong kong which has special status since the handover in 1907 and to see how do move towards democracy in hong kong is continuing and how hong kong special. freedoms

are being protective and if hong kong doesn't seem to be doing that. then they can review hong kong special status where it would just become like another chinese city all right so it's no it's so it's not as though the u.s. is sort of swooping in and saying what solace it was hong kong was already enjoying some sort of favorable treatment from the u.s. and this is the u.s. saying well you know we can give all we can take it away that's right yeah it's quite symbolic in a way because it's got this massive impact but it is just sort of say that they are backing the democracy movement on the democracy protests in hong kong so it's quite a big symbol but it was in existence before the special stages but this actually kind of adds to the pressure on china china's talking about firm countermeasures if the u.s. continues in this direction what are those likely to be well we don't really know yet what they could be but i allot of this will do with the b. to do with the trade war intends to basically maybe stand its ground on the trade

war make it more difficult and also that it wants to maybe take a backward it'll set us chinese relations back a step maybe china will start talking will be looking at russia more will be looking at other regional leaders it will be reassessing how its relationship with america work so i think there is there are various measures they could do they could introduce. more measures that could harm trade but we're waiting to see you know how these come out and i'm interested as well and how this affects president who has who has solidified his position within the communist party there but he's got a bad run recently with the trade war with the us riots in hong kong resulting victory of pro-democracy candidates in hong kong and now this does he have to keep an eye on people with it is own party who might be looking at him and thinking well there's a man right for the picking. list you could also you know the in a lot of leaks about the camps and. jiang for the week or as he does he's got the

strong man image and he needs to protect up and he needs to push it through and he needs to be effective he's managed so far to keep this by getting rid of term limits he's said to be very strong within the party and he's very good at controlling the different factions in the party but things can spiral very quickly like as you say he's had a terrible week and he's trying to juggle a lot of things at the moment so it's going to be very interesting to see how he manages that you know because they like to keep you know everything in china is about the politics the communist party is all about staying in power so it's going to be a question now to see how the political will transfer as quick final question of the trade dispute between john and i mean u.s. how much is this new libya u.s. legislation about human rights and democracy and how much is it about sort of applying extra pressure and it's all good ongoing trade war i think i think the human rights and democracy element is definitely

a strong one but it is another aspect to this that definitely it will it will complicate the talks for china it's also reminded that of american power. the u.s. is also showing others has has quite a good hand in these trade talks now there are things that it's maybe affecting the u.s. economy in the heartlands of about but still i think the u.s. feels that it holds a lot of the cards in this in these trade talks so that the act is another another reminder of this cliff and thank you so much for joining us. the fog of tear gas has become a defining picture of a hong kong of the last 6 months or than 10000 rounds have been fired by police against pro-democracy protesters but is well into now on the larger on the effects of large amounts of tear gas when kathy jew and patricia levy rented their dream room apartment in hong kong suburb of 2 months the 2 roommates felt it was a good deal price was reasonable and the building in good shape but now they wish

they had never moved here come along my nose off an itch is in my skin feels dry i feel very uncomfortable and i have diarrhea that usually lasts for a few days. and he'd go to the toilet a few times every night i would hold hold hold out come out of kathy things that it is a consequence of the ga ga's to none has become one of the hotspots of hong kong's protests often clashes occur just below their window the light also that usually protesters would set up roadblocks here police would then come to remove them and they fire tear gas to try to catch the protesters so they could be similarly going to get. you to that tense atmosphere in the city they do not want to show their face and ask us not to reveal their area names or say they have not joined any protests since the peaceful marches in june but that does not save them from the

fact. the mood is up then your when they fire tear gas i close all the windows in the doors but i can still smell it and feel uncomfortable the whole sheeple. since june the police have fired more than $10000.00 canisters of tear gas chemical irritant that mainly affects the ali's lungs and the skin it's use is prohibited as a chemical weapon in warfare with allowed in riot control although its effects are meant to be temporary there have been case reports of chronic id's easiest course by the can. they were also some cases that they know as much to begin with but after exposure to tear gas some of the protesters actually developed a spray like symptoms for 2 to 3 years and there they were also cases that people develop chronic eczema because skin problems going to tartus for a number of years. while the highest risk lies with frontline protesters and join

a list of residents have little chance to escape the consequences of tear gas as many protests happening in densely populated areas some logic in college i saw a doctor he asked me where i live and then he said i should consider moving away if i could show you some star uganda. both of them plan to stay with relatives for some time but moving home is out of question the landlord would not let them cancel the contract. the forces have shot dead at least $35.00 people in protests much of the violence took place in the city in the jaffa after a crowd set fire to the iranian culture that their outrage over perceived iranian influence has been fueling the widespread but under arrest these protesters have a reason to celebrate the iranian embassy in a joffe is in flames last night demonstrators stormed the building and set it on

fire their protests are a statement against the influence of their mighty neighbor on iraq a spokesperson for the iranian foreign ministry sharply criticized the attack demanding that the suspects be punished now an iraqi military crisis security team has been dispatched so of course when the consulate special not just police forces far. as if we had set fire to all of iraq. since the beginning of october tens of thousands have been demonstrating in baghdad and other cities against the country's ruling elite police used tear gas grenades and live ammunition against the demonstrators so far more than 350 people have been killed. many suspected tehran and its allied militias in iraq are behind these harsh police methods they consider their own rulers to be puppets of the iranian government and demand their resignation as well as an end to corruption and nepotism. billions

from the oil business are going into governmental pockets local infrastructure is decaying there are power outages and the water is contaminated. with demand the removal of all criminal politicians from power. people have been living in chaos for 16 years 16 years of destruction and war corruption and self enrichment. their anger is greater than their fear and clearly the government's promises of reform haven't convinced them yet. we have more on this from iraqi journalist imam hassan we welcome i mean obviously international has described scenes in nasiriya and baghdad as resembling a war zone what people been telling you while we talked with many protesters they just went to the street because they could not find any solution for their problems

corruption and so on and then the beginning of the beginning of 1st of the court october they've been just a civilian without any violence just for testing against the government but it's what the government's response well the violence or the bullets with tear gas and so on it will end with we are now counting about $350.00 casualties people young people just calling for democracy calling for jobs and their rights but you know what you make of the government response because there have been definitions say it's has been a violent reaction is this just the way that iraq deals with demonstrations or is this getting out of control in fact it is getting all of the control exactly because the government's back from iranian influence tries to come in this image of this scenario what's we didn't happen in iran weeks ago just cut

off the internet. and use the harsh cumber of violence and control of the military and in the end of the day we did we would like to see the end of the light in the ended of the tunnel and the end of the tunnel there is no light and that's why the bad people. forgot any trust of the government even when the government tried to come on the streets calling them there is some and you're a formation in the me i'm in many cases the protesters do not believe that corrupt governments ok so does the government will if we have time we'll come back to the corruption in the government but does the government have a plan to deal with it is it just going to sort of shoot its warehouse or are they going to try and negotiate there's still circling in that problem because since more than 40 days. they give

a promise is over promises of our promises but there is no plan even there is no security plan how to deal with that protesters not the shooting of them we just face today yesterday. 17 at least 17 be a young people killed just in nasiriyah which is it's. it's is a massacre to be honest that's what if we talking about the political side there is no solution even in the military and security and intelligence there is no soft solution and it's hard in the circumstance to do you what you want what what will satisfy protesters you can't magic jobs out of nowhere you can't change the whole political system overnight while exactly about at least resigning the government brink another faces bring a lot of governments trying to find a solution for the next election i think this will would be the 1st step just to

calm. making the street calm come down and lets the protester go back home and giving the responsibility for other governments which is try to rebuild that's trust between the street and the government at least but that's government still sick in the in the chair of the government they do not want to go away from their responsibilities and that is the influence of iranian of course play a big huge role. iraqi journalist i mean i'm sorry thank you so much for joining us you're welcome. resistance or antibiotics poses a major threat to public health killing tens of thousands of people around the world every year but there is hope scientists say a cluster of powerful tiny viruses called bacteria phages might be able to reverse the trend that area freyja's are plentiful in the environment and kill bacteria by penetrating the outside of their cells getting inside and making them explode they

have long been cultivated in eastern europe as an alternative to antibiotics tyria phage cocktails can be bought today in pharmacies in countries like a ga in the caucasus elsewhere belgium has started to offer a face treatment so they're not widely available in the e.u. which me some patients have to travel abroad for treatment can you do you ever cannot remember when she was last pain free antibiotics stopped working against her skin disease which she contract it 30 years ago so she found a different treatment bacteriophages but because they're only allowed in special cases in the netherlands she had to travel to to police see georgia and spend thousands of euros of her savings to buy them. and i started going to georgia i was extremely nervous but also i was very exciting and also very disappointed in the treatment in holland because holland does not allow the faders

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can ask mikhail skurnick us professor of bacteriology at helsinki university i welcome to day don't you what do you think does this phage treatment work. yes thank you very much for the best and i think yes it really depends on the clients or their interaction in question or crony these are different it's a nice inquest and it's. also the patient in users then place it out provided that the faith is going to reach the target area and their number of low thinks he's had time to find very many. patients in your interest that must take over to eliminate that in many. ways and kind of a background easy mate different. or spent. already. ok but if it is a secret from the rest only. yes i was god forgive me for interrupting i was going

to say i was going to ask given that it is effective in certain instances as you've outlined that one wonders why it's not more widely known about anything available in the summer 'd i think. it has historical reasons minicon doctor stress he says have not received training in face that are. uncomfortable to stop using it and therefore it's an ingrown to. their curriculum and reverse it. and we also need to promote face stare up in media and i think those are rarely thought these. course so given the antibiotic resistant conditions that are out there do you see phage therapy as being useful in this respect. yes i think so. and if it's do not mind if the

dog resistant to antibiotics or not. asians are different their interactions are even friends or so all. everything does not apply you know you know very similar. and the problem that we've seen with antibiotics is the development of antibiotic resistance is there a danger of that in phage therapy yes also but in practice it does not you know because oftentimes traits raise the area last other chinese it and then the patient immune system can take care of them and the other point here is that. usually we use a low the lottery for ha so also in the minority status it's months oh.

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