what is the heart of the story why does it matter who live in. focus if you want. to cut through the noise to get to the truth. and i've worked to death. this could be tempted to use a show coming up today to show off support for hong kong's pro-democracy movement. taiwan's foreign minister joseph called pro-democracy activists in hong kong freedom fighter in an exclusive interview with people also want the world to hold the line against china's expansionist visions. and nights out on the broadcaster. the philippines is forced to cut down its use operations. refused to renew its license we also. need press freedom.

welcome to news asia it's good to have you with us hong kong's fight against an increasingly authoritarian state has found a very vocal supporter in the government of taiwan in an exclusive interview to its foreign minister joseph who has called pro-democracy protesters freedom fighters and promised model support. with the stand the government of taiwan has taken since anti-government protests broke out in hong kong last year as more of what. we try to give support moral support to the freedom fighters in hong kong we continue to urge the hong kong government to adopt free election. and

to ensure freedom freedom of speech and freedom of media so that hong kong can stand the symbol of freedom in east asia but it's very unfortunate that the chinese government imposed nation's security all. hong kong and i thought that you know we saw the election scheduled later this year has been postponed for one year the rights of the hong kong people he's speaking are taken away by the chinese government the last bastion of freedom of press the hong kong. has been under assault by the chinese authorities there are politicians especially on the democratic side that are being disqualified by the chinese salt already ordered by hong kong authorities and that is a gross violation of political rights in hong kong so this whole situation in hong kong is really a tragedy. let's get more from the double correspondent we have yang who conducted

that interview and joins me now from taipei we're in taiwan is clearly concerned but in reality how much of a difference can it make when it comes to the situation in hong kong. so in the interview that we conducted with the foreign minister joseph he clearly pointed out the time once they can stay friends from falling into this similar situation like hong kong is to rely on its sovereignty and also its democratic system and the government that is always elected by the people in taiwan so in a way that is there in much aligned with what the administration has been strengthening and really emphasizing over and over again over the last few years which is that the democratic value is playing a very important role for time one to continue to strengthen its independence from any sort of interference or impact politically from china. voter as we have

seen over the last few years have been also exercising their democratic rights. historic highway we have already seen over the last few elections that the turnout has been surpassing the past so that's just also shows that the taiwanese society is receiving the message that the taiwanese foreign ministry is hoping the international community will receive a civil look there's more to talk about but foreign minister of address john i was obliged expansionism in the region and instruments to go rules based international order and this is an indoor the foreign minister had to say. i think it's not only about china's expansion their expansion their ambition to you know. occupy territorial waters or territories in this region i think they are also interested in changing the international rules of the game they are trying to

export the old tory tarion international order while that democracy isa following the rule based international order i think it's going to be a moment where the international freedom and democracy needs to be very close and about and as i say you know we are standing on the front line we understand all want all responsibilities and we'll do everything we can not only to protect ourselves but also to protect freedom and democracy democratic way of life for the international community. yang our correspondent is doing with us on the line with the foreign minister says taiwan is on the front lines against an expansionist china but is it getting any help internationally in the trenches. so since 29000 we have actually seen the increased frequency of different countries sending their warships through the taiwan strait and the frequency have also

trigger a more heightened response from china and at the same time the u.s. half has been actually approving a lot more military selves to taiwan over the last 4 years and so these are all feeding into taiwan's growing preparedness and also at the same time the capability of its military in order to prepare for all kinds of scenarios for the chinese military invasion and during the interview mr minister also pointed out the very important thing which is taiwan is basically only hoping that. countries like the u.s. is going to continue to help to approve these moves for yourselves and it is not counting on the foreign powers to actually militarily intervene because at the end of the day they think that their responsibility rests with the story and the tony's people. are there for the time being. in taipei.

the largest t.v. news network in the philippines has had to lay off hundreds of workers. operations after lawmakers voted to reject its license renewal. to 53 television and radio stations leaving only its cable operations in the capital untouched the network had in the past been highly critical of president. and the so-called war on drugs the cotillons of its operations has been described as a black day for independent media in the country. death knell for media freedom in the philippines for decades a.v.'s c.b.s. broadcast beisel information to isolated communities through its regional network now it has been forced to slash its operations leaving millions of filipinos but

there's a crucial source of local news. there will be many filipinos in rural provinces who will no longer have access to accurate information and that's where the issue of press freedom comes in. laid off workers and members of the public gathered outside the broadcaster in the never to mourn the loss of the regional station. they also added their names to a petition launched by a group of citizen volunteers the group hopes to collect 7000000 signatures and push congress to renew the broadcast franchise. i grew up watching a.b.s.e b.n. as a child i love this network. the programs keep me company and entertain me when i come home from work tired. and makes me cry when i think about abs e.b.m. not being allowed to operate. the company.

actually i feel a mix of emotions. it would be hypocritical to say that we are not angry with those who killed our franchise. but we believe that the day will come that we will be alive to be on the air again. but in. the media freedom watchdog reporters without borders says journalism in the philippines has been under increasing attack since president brought rico to ted to came to power a b s c b n is one of the most high profile casualties. resizes editor in chief of the news. was a thing or 2 about owning the displeasure of the detector government she joins me now on the line from and then. i'd like to ask you 1st to. place it in context for us what does it mean for the average for if you know. it is

the largest broadcaster in the philippines it's radio stations reach parts of the philippines that no other news group hits it is also known as the star network its entertainment group is huge it's the star network right so news entertainment it is a company that employs 11000 people. have this shutdown is a huge blow and definitely meant to be a cautionary tale for journalists where does this leave independent media in the philippines for. an endangered species you know all of the cases against me and rappler in 2018 there were 11 filed by the philippine government and then arrest warrants that have gone through the can one conviction on june 15th this year all of this is just one journalist and one small group it was

a cautionary tale but to shut down a.b.s. is unthinkable before the time of code it in fact the last time it happened was in 1972 when ferdinand marcos declared martial law and the network was shut down for 14 years you know so is this bringing full lord another decade or so of a dictatorship this is a question in the minds of filipinos and frankly for journalists to shut down a.b.s.e b.n. this tremendous power this is what we're up against what do you feel. all things going to get far worse on the debate to go. i think it already has if you look at what colvin 1000 has done right we have had the longest lockdown this is the 24th week of a lockdown that is largely driven by security forces and we have incidents of still exponentially increasing meantime as. really

a staple what you have president telling security forces to shoot anyone who violates quarantine rules this is not a good way to deal with that having said that in the middle of the pandemic on may 5th a small regulatory group issued this order to shut down a.b.s.e b.n. our house of representatives a working committee there then took away the franchise voted against it so you can see that we have at least a captive legislature it is we're on the precipice fighting for our democracy. there is a real affinity there for the time being with us so much for joining us. and that's it for nob be sure to check out other stories on deductive dot com for what's not on facebook and twitter now on sunday india just a more than 78000 new covert cases in a single day the figure beat the previous google record in the united states really even over the images that illustrate the story of india's growing covert crisis

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a student i wanted to build a life for myself. but suddenly life became alledge. providing insights global news that matters d.w. made for mines. and percent back in the battle against the coronavirus cases of reinfection are emerging in hong kong the united states and europe. they suggest immunity from the disease does not necessarily last long. the world health organization is calling for more studies. concrete answers a vital in developing a back scene that is if we ever get one. so much for herd immunity or full immunity and what about natural immunity so many

questions which we'll get to in a moment with an expert 1st the world's 1st genetically verified case of someone being reinfected with covered 19 and what that could mean for the pandemic. as the coronavirus pandemic took hold scientists knew a vaccine would be the best protection against the virus but there was still the hope that those recovering from infections would be immune as is the case with viruses like smallpox or polio when a 33 year old man in hong kong tested positive for a 2nd time those hopes were ruined. some people might ask will you be immune to the virus forever after you recover there wasn't a clear answer before but now it's certain after your 1st infection there's always a chance you'll get infected again. in their research paper the team at the university of hong kong says the 2nd infection was a different strain of the virus and that the patient was asymptomatic the study

examines how often people who've had covered 19 are immune to new infections and for how long these questions have implications for vaccine development and decisions about returning to work school and social activities as many countries in europe and around the world went into lockdown to slow the spread sweetened wind against the tide opting not to confine its population schools and restaurants remained open in the hope that infected people would become immune thus allowing them to continue their lives as normal and ultimately slowing the spread of the virus. i think people. are sick. we can be. sweden's infection rate and deaths per 1000000 were soon among the worst in europe. and yet testing showed the country still fell

a long way short of the estimated 90 percent which would create herd immunity nor is the rest of the world anywhere close to that. the w.h.o. says that until the world has readily available vaccines the virus will continue to inflict significant changes on our lives. as a planet as a global population were close to levels of immunity required to stop. and we need to focus on what we can actually do not to suppress transmission and not live in whole herd immunity been our salvation right now is not a solution 'd that's on the solution we should be looking to for. and the immunity picture is looking increasingly complicated in the southern german town of bad fine by a study by germany's robert cock institute found that 40 percent of participants who had tested positive for the corona virus before the study began no longer had immune aglow binjie anybodies the most common type of antibody in our house and

i'm studion is the can we know from other studies that a proportion of people proven to have been infected with sars cave to show no antibodies after a certain amount of time but this doesn't necessarily mean they don't have immunity to. it in the 2 cups ass caused by the state the robert cock institute is now conducting several regional studies and plans to start a countrywide antibody study at the end of september as researchers toiled to bring vaccines to the world questions are looming about whether it's feasible to create a vaccine that would actually work for a lifetime. and let's go over to thomas com hot he's director of the institute for immunology. for us what are the chances of getting reinfected. the chances to be real but slim there are several case reports from different

countries from people who have recovered from cope with 19 and then fell sick again this is series of 8 patients from china and single reports from hong kong and some european countries so it seems to be possible but you're saying read that. what about other cases that haven't been uncovered and more studies that have to be done according to the world health organization i mean could this be the tip of the us but. probably not because from we know a little bit about the immunity against covert 19 man how people usually develop antibody responses which are protective people usually responses fi t. cells which are protective but we do know that in some people these responses may be showed live so that would be a possibility to explain the fact that some people can become reinfected after well but most people should have a protective community for some time after their interaction with school with 1000

reservists who have to but what about full i mean i mean does that exist when it comes to code 19. what do you mean by a full immunity that once infected you can never get infected again in your life is that what you mean exactly well that's true that's true really to say because we only know this infections it's a little bit more than half a year so thus far the vast majority of the symptomatic patients and the asymptomatic that have been investigated have not fallen sick again but we do not know if the immunity against the virus will last for year or for 2 years or for many years experience from other coronaviruses including the zoster one of our shows that the immune response is when enough to some time so for doris. immune responses antibody responses were no longer detectable after 6 years in most of the people so we do not expect lifelong immunity after an episode of covert 19 probably . and of a question what about developing vaccines or drugs to treat

a code infection doesn't doesn't success depend on knowing exactly how immunity against the disease what's well seems have off meaning quite empirically and there's a lot of fixed scenes promising rick scenes in the pipeline we do know a little on protective immunity you're absolutely right we need to know much more but thus far it seems that the wreck scenes that have been tested are and using the right responses and probably or possibly we will have to be content with less than the normal search says so maybe of exceed what not induce a lifelong immunity or not induce an immunity that lasts for 10 years or so but even if it lasted for 2 or 3 years this ng would be a great success and even if it would just prevent the c.v. or clinical choruses if it would switch the clinical a severe clinical course to a mild infection acing that would be a huge success already given the current situation so could it mean getting

immunize the getting of like a flu shot every year basically we don't know if it would be every year every other year or every so years or so but that could be the case it would be slightly different from flu because flu you need a new show every year because the virus changes so rapidly that does not seem to be the case with the grown of iris and there was a scarf to if one would have to immunize more frequently it would probably be cause the immune response of memory wanes against. the virus and therefore needs to be refreshed that that's a possibility that needs to be explored for us coming out there from the institute for immunity in a thank you very much. thank you or much of my story. for a look at some other aspects concerning the coronavirus it's over to our science correspondent derrick williams with your questions. we've heard about the underlying diseases and conditions that can influence the severity of college

19 outcomes but does viral load also affect. when i began looking into this i quickly realized that there is still no clear answer to this question partly because the amount of virus in a patient's body changes from day to day as the disease progresses we know from other diseases that that high viral loads are linked to infectiousness but do they also affect disease severity in covert 19 well the information coming out of the studies this kind of conflict in a recent fairly large scale one for example found a clear link between mortality and high viral load in hospitalized patients and even suggested it could be used as a tool for stratifying patient risk but other studies that have measured viral

loads in for example children who had very mild forms of the disease found they were generally carrying even more virus than adults who develop severe forms of the disease and then there are the studies showing that that asymptomatic or precentor matic adults can also have very heavy viral loads so so after hours of reading this is how i would interpret the data because kids and asymptomatic adults can have lots of stars cove 2 in their bodies but no symptoms a high viral loads don't seem to be a reliable indicator of disease severity and. so you land in the hospital with this in your case at that point it does become an indicator of outcome severe what we still don't know is whether high viral load is actually causing the disease to get worse for those patients in the hospital or if it's in effect but at least in those

who are hospitalized the 2 are associated in some way. well over 38000 people turned out to protest against germany's coronavirus measures on the weekend and were multiple arrests of the clashes with police they say right wing extremists co-opted the demonstration of 1000 people have died from the virus in germany still protesters believe the danger is overblown. personally i don't believe that there's a pandemic i do think the disease exists but not a pandemic kind of that no difficulty on for the problem according to the new definition of a pandemic it's a pandemic. but that has to do with how much it spread and not with how dangerous it is. finally medical stuff are among those most at risk of getting the corona virus but a hospital in mexico city has taken on

a new employee with complete immunity to cover 90. goes from room to room providing support to patients with robots help they can talk to relatives via video call or to the hospital psychologist feelings of isolation are a big problem for coven sufferers and this is where the road comes it. fizzle in the next time.

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