the time a new case comes in he's has to take full protective measures it's a strain for staff and patients alike while it is where was headed for containing the pandemic at the beginning of the crisis it's infection rate is no one divorced per capita top house experts like professor was imposed in communities with high infection rates like here in been a. now israel's government has drawn up a plan for a face nationwide lockdown expected to be imposed from next week. at their simian medical center a new patient arrives and just taken to the isolation board israeli soldiers are also hoping now to manage the crisis here they're taking corona test samples to elapse before. severity of this disease. the precaution thinks that they need to do in order to prevent spreading and also bring

. some friction or some people think they're protected or it's nothing but it's more than offering. celebrations for the jewish new year with start in israel next week they may be happening in a country under lockdown. you're watching news still to come on our show we take a look at the painstaking restoration of the notre dame cathedral in paris with a crucial work on the roof to reestablish that ancient buildings delicate architectural palaces. but 1st opposition activists in russia say they're facing increasing intimidation ahead of regional elections this weekend police in moscow have raided the open russia group and an intruder smashed a bottle containing a chemical substance in the siberian office of opposition candidate surrogate boyko he is an ally of alexina volley the kremlin critic who germany says was poisoned with a nerve agent. now before that break. when spoke to boyko about his campaign and

his hopes that this vote could shake up russian politics. at the moment sergey boyko prides himself on being alive and edited social media is the main way the politician is reaching out to voters in novosibirsk he's up for a seat in the siberian cities parliament on his you tube channel the politician promises to clean up his hometown and sweep out corrupt politicians and we have a mafia here boyko is leading a coalition of $31.00 opposition candidates their goal is to push united russia the ruling party out together boyko says the kremlin is watching the regional election campaign closely there is no way out of course and they are friends united russia has a majority here if we can break the majority of the number severest can been example for the rest of the country if you consolidate forces and go to the ballot box you contingent the situation and destroy their monopoly. campaign recently got

a boost when he appeared alongside his close ally opposition politician i like saying. in a video that has gotten millions of views now via news team expose the alleged corruption schemes they say helped united russia politicians in the get rich and buy luxury properties and he was poisoned shortly after filming this video he uses it to call on russians to support the candidate most likely to be united russia in the poll a strategy he calls smart voting. we can use russia 3rd the biggest city as an example of how to take down the insatiable told that is united russia. novosibirsk is siberia's main industrial hub more than one and a half 1000000 people live here. united russia current li has the majority in the city council and the regional assembly and they're campaigning to keep it that. way . united russia is the party of the president of the government the

party of respect and care we work in the interest of the citizens of the russian federation. but not everyone in the city feels cared for by the russian government . a lot of people live in fear of what the future holds it's not clear who's shops could be closed might be fired. the situation now is a far cry from the whole thing so why in the ninety's and early 2000 i think a lot of things are good no but a lot isn't. do. we pay taxes like good citizens but who knows where those taxes go. wants to drive the city in a new direction he hopes that if his coalition wins a majority they can turn novosibirsk into

a city for its people. people from united russia are not interested in developing the city or talking to voters instead of running the plays they're just defending their own personal interests i believe that despite the extreme weather here and the fact that it isn't of the richest place no sabir can be a modern european city like it says the main challenge is to convince people their decision in the polling station can break through the status quo and that smart voting against the ruling party here can set an example for change across russia. that report for sure when she joins us now from moscow for more on the story hi emily how important are these elections. well sunni on the one hand these are regional elections in a very centralized country but on the other hand they're widely being seen as a sort of litmus test ahead of elections to the russian parliament the duma which

are happening next year a litmus test both for the opposition for candidates like city who we just saw in that report and also for the kremlin and the kremlin is likely to be paying particular attention to these regional elections now because we've seen protests happening in some regions across the country which is very unusual for russia usually people only really protest in the capital moscow and in st petersburg but in recent weeks and months we've seen protests in the far eastern city of over a governor who was removed from office there after he was elected also 2 years ago in a protest vote people have been taking to the streets every day there for weeks now there's also been some environmental protests just on for example in the southern region and also in the north of the country so it does seem likely that the kremlin

will be watching the mood and the outcome of these elections very closely and we mentioned in your report to survey boyko and its ally alexina vali they're calling for this smart voting strategy to oust lived near putin's party does this actually pose a serious threat to the kremlin. well sergey boyko certainly thinks it does and so do these allies in fact even told me in novosibirsk that he thinks that this smart voting strategy that not only has been advocating for the last few months is actually what got him poisoned because it's such a threat to putin's party and to the kremlin and it is true that smart voting has shown some success in the past for example in moscow city council elections last year when united russia lost around a 3rd of its seats but on the other hand i think it's worth saying you know smart voting may be smart but the kremlin is also smart and they have will have

strategies to kind of hold on to power we've seen for example new parties running in these elections which critics say are supposed to split the opposition's vote and we just quickly if you can the voting starts today it will continue then through sunday so 3 days of voting why is. well this is a new thing that we've seen only so far in the vote on constitutional amendments that took place a few months ago and the electoral commission here in russia has said that it's just much more practical for voters to be able to go to the ballot for several days and that that experiment with the constitution was successful that that showed that it's a more convenient way for voters to go to the ballot but critics say that it actually makes election falsified cations and ballot stuffing easier and the opposition for example in over c.b.s. has been calling on voters to only go to the ballot on the last day to make sure that their vote is really counted as moscow correspondent and we sure were

reporting thank you so much. now if you will forget the images of notre dame cathedral in paris being engulfed by flames in april of last year the crypt has now reopened but a painstaking work continues on the rest of the ancient building. restoration work on the roof of the dart at dizzying heights climbers saw through the $200.00 tons of melted scaffolding piece by piece for months they feared the walls of the cathedral would collapse under its own weight with a huge crane the parts a carefully lifted out and lowered to the ground it's precision work. when we have a wind speed of 20 to 30 kilometers per hour then you can see that the containers sways 5 meters in both directions so we have to be careful not to hit the scaffolding. the fire broke out almost a year and

a half ago when i pull 152019. not only discovering but also toxic lead dust has posed a constant threat to the cleanup crew with the entire structure in danger of collapsing and pressures artifacts needing to be salvaged countless sculptures and stones were removed. and taken outside of paris to geologist john d.m.'s because the stones are still contaminated with lead he needs to wear protective clothing these angel heads fell 33 meters to the ground when the vault dome collapsed only their wings are broken these stones are in critical condition badly damaged by the intense heat of the fire some are as fragile as glass and ultrasound scan determines how porous they are and whether or not they can be used again in the restoration at the same time researchers want to know more about the cathedral's construction the research is making the best of the situation.

we wouldn't. never have been able to take these kinds of samples had the fire never happened or we never could have isolated such big pieces it would have been impossible to see the back of the building site the workers are forging ahead the scaffolding needs to be removed by the end of september because it will be reconstructed exactly as it was before the fire and that hopefully before 2024. coming up next on d.w. news asia tensions along china and india's disputed border can an agreement to disengage ease tensions in the himalayas a new exhibition in china celebrates the communist party's apparent victory over the coronavirus and hong kong's artists face pressure to self censor under beijing's new national security law. there is banners she has no stories coming right up on news asia statement.

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this is the good news a shot coming up today defusing a border dispute. trying to n.p.r. green to disengage and ease tensions part of the mali has but how much will really change along the fall apart from fear plus pandemic propaganda travels communist party celebrates its response to the coronavirus with a new exhibition in the capital. mean dr hong kong. now this field of political pressure from beijing we'll see how it's impacting the territories creative see. ibish prodigy welcome to did other news asia glad you could join us the indian and chinese foreign ministers have agreed that the troops should quickly disengage from

a border standoff in the la dark region in june the tuition giants had the deadliest clashes in decades and only this week china and india accused each other of firing warning shots at the line of actual control breaking an agreement prohibiting the use of firearms that incident could hear around the banks of the pie and go make the lake itself lies in india dock region and is directly on the disputed border with china from west to east that border extends around 3 and a half 1000 kilometers indias. and chinas one he met in the russian capital on thursday night and concurred that the current situation in the border areas is not in the interest of either side. let's get more on this from an unchristian he is china correspondent for the hindu newspaper and author of the book india's china challenge another good to see you again it was just tuesday when you were on the

show and you'd said there was caught between reason for optimism given how talks between both sides had been progressing on to that point are you feeling more optimistic now. and we're very very slightly so gracious i think that there's been some positive movement compared to the september 4th talk between the 2 defense ministers the big difference now is after the 2 foreign ministers met they've actually come out with a joint statement earlier 5 point consensus is what they're calling it which is at least a break from the past where you had 2 statements essentially speaking in different directions so finally india and china have found some common ground with grace i think the challenge will really be in translating this text this points of consensus into concrete outcomes on the ground and since july that's actually been the biggest problem along the line of actual control ivette talks between the special representatives foreign ministers 5 rounds of call commander talks and

calling all those talks about all the most sides wanted to disengage but instead what we've seen is the opposite we've seen a buildup of forces continuing on to last week so i think that there is a little bit of hope after the foreign minister socks but i think the proof of putting will be in the thing and you have to carefully watch how this translates into changes on the ground are they really going to disengage and more back or are we going to see more of the same i think only time will tell bridge exactly an answer in china currently holds some 1000 square kilometers of territory that india claims as it's on t.v. expect to shame in new delhi really that beijing will just walk away from these games on the ground. i don't think anybody really expects that even though india has publicly said that it will only accept a return to the status quo as of and april but since and april as you just pointed out china has transgressed media that india sees as its territory at least 5 or 6

different spots along the elysee and according to indian intelligence estimates india has lost access to about 1000 square kilometers of territory where it used to patrol so i think it would be very difficult to see china completely cut and run and that would really ask the question why did they even do this in the 1st place i think now the focus will be on at least trying to get the troops to move back in some spots they just wanted 300 meters apart i think as they didn't go on rally the idea would be to create buffer zones and some of the areas where there is interview peter firing of shots or of brawls over it or any other skirmishes i think we need a priority now is for both to step back and i think the longer term problem still remains our lawyers always how do you actually solve you know the new change of the elysee that's taken place from a onwards how do you go back to what it was i think that's going to really take a long long time for both sides to sort out since we are speaking of a long time let's take a longer term view on what impact will this have on the bilateral relationship

given that mr shanklin has already said the indian foreign minister has already survived the bilateral relationship it's future depends on what happens in the border areas. but so it is interesting to see that delhi and beijing have been framing this differently let me saying that it cannot be business as usual as long as there are problems along the boundary but china has kind of hinting at statements that india is emphasising the boundary too much they freeze right now that their feeling is that the ball recently put in the appropriate place in the relationship so i think there's a fundamental divergence here and india's use that you know unless things are normal this peace and tranquility forget about trade forget about investments they cannot be business as usual i think that's a very clear message from delhi right now no easy answers to this one a month christiane but thank you so much for joining us from chennai.

now after the corona virus spread from one hand to the rest of the world to china successfully contain the pandemic at home beijing is now telling a version of the story in which the communist party takes all the credit for that success forgotten the early mistakes that allowed the virus to spread uncontrolled for weeks no word either on the whistleblowers who warned of the danger only to be silenced by the authorities or tiananmen square in the heart of the chinese capital beijing the national museums large. dimly has come here with a grandchild my. the art is classic socialist real isn't it utters frontline workers during the pandemic my is a little shy as she poses for pictures with the heroes in the fight against the coronavirus. the theme of the exhibition. unity is strength. or. the exhibition brought tears to my eyes. i

love my country and the party leadership. without the communist party leadership this enormous challenge will not be overcome to keep that in the chains you. the artwork leaves little room for interpretation the message is clear under communist leadership china has managed to contain the virus. front and center and yet somehow relegated to the sidelines the nameless helpers who work themselves to exhaustion to repel the pandemic. for us even staying at home was a patriotic duty we don't know what the people in the front line had to sacrifice. i'm proud that china has the pandemic under control. china's leadership has cast itself as the savior of the nation and as a friend in need of broad. in the global struggle against the

virus we have acted with wisdom and strength. we have filled our international duties responsibly and with transparency. in beijing's great hall of the people there is no room for doubt and this is no time for admitting mistakes. the country's foremost coronavirus expert is honored by himself. jong features prominently in the exhibition 2 others are simply ignored. sounded the alarm over the coronavirus while the authorities were still denying its existence the doctor from mohan was forced to recant and forbidden to speak up again the contract of the disease and died for weeks the pandemic spread throughout the country unchecked because of the coverup. despite being locked out of the official history lisa story is not forgotten. if you tell

a book that your next edition can show everything i think whistleblowers are pioneers and we should respect and admire them for those unsung heroes we should build a monument in our hearts. if you. take it up. official monuments are built by the communist party they expressed no criticism as the regime tolerates no dissent. artists in hong kong have started to censor their own work while others have decided to move the city altogether in the wake of toronto's national security and all the law which came into force in. subversion terrorism or collusion with foreign powers with up to life in prison the city government says the legislation simply restores law and order after the yard of undressed. the artist known is on to his use to making headlines his political illustrations have been

a regular fixture in the main power weekly newspaper. that was until his cartoon column was axed in july a move he's blamed on hong kong's new national security law. where over a ball in their eyes i'm pretty pessimistic on the creative front you see some of what he found out is accidentally crossed the red line and the space keeps getting smaller i know that some of my artist friends have chosen to emigrate the reality of how i see it operate not go through. him low has already made some big decisions the artist has moved much of his work to a secret location in europe in order to protect it from the authorities. this appears a security law is that it doesn't stipulate what can be done and what can't go away

and it's that fear with yours on top that makes you self censor yourself before you act. it's already affected our creation to some degree. hey you know you're being held at all. before the security law was introduced protest art was often used by pro-democracy campaign is they feared their freedoms were being a road by beijing freedoms that was supposed to be protected. now people involved in protests like this could face life in prison. but that won't stop our 2 whose own art can still be found in some bookstores across the city. to her to get it all gathered there or you have to decide what your values are. so you can fear being arrested it any time or regret that you have not done enough to

try to make an impact on society. i've decided to persist. in your i do all the would be. a risky decision but one he feels he has to make. that's a fun of a visual to track all the other stories on bit of a dot com forward slash show on facebook and twitter and been finished today with more on from a shop in taiwan model makos off through zing reality and fantasy in miniature while that's all for this reason we're back again on monday through that but.

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phone. drug companies around the world are racing to find a coronavirus vaccine what happens then distributing doses to billions of people worldwide will be. an unprecedented logistical challenge limited supply and enormous demand it's a recipe for a cutthroat competition as wealthier countries shell out hundreds of millions of dollars to secure a coveted 1st access to vaccines meanwhile the most vulnerable are at risk of being shut out. there's never going to be enough vaccine to go around globally access will be an issue some of these 1st vaccines are likely to be extremely expensive certainly well beyond the. the purchasing power of many low middle income countries. developing the vaccine is only half the battle getting

it to people could prove an equal challenge. in the race to find a coronavirus vaccine the stakes could barely be higher not only are millions of lives potentially on the line but whoever wins that race would take their place in the history books as the nation or organization the rescued the world from a deadly pandemic. just days ago russian defense minister sergei show you who was one of the 1st people to receive russia's new coronavirus spec seen the job was nicknamed sputnik 5 recalling the pioneering soviet satellite and it was approved last month international experts were skeptical saying high profile guinea pigs are no substitute for wider scale testing but the race is on and some countries are confident and effective vaccine will be available by the end of the year. worldwide there are well over 300 potential vaccine candidates 33 of these are being tested

in clinical studies 280000 people in 34 countries are taking part. there are very different ideas about how any approved vaccines will be distributed the u.s. for example says it's willing to. share a possible corona virus vaccine with the rest of the world but only if it is adequately supplied itself. astra zeneca agreed with the european union to sell at least 300000000 doses from member states but the company had to suspend a study after one test subject fell ill for reasons that are still unclear. the chinese say their research is also generating a lot of interest. sign of back biotech and sign a farm even showed off their vaccine candidates at a beijing trade fair. yes in that well we've received a lot of orders and proposals to work together from a broad including using our vaccine and clinical cooperation with the world health

organization is warning against what it coles fact seeing nationalism the 1st priority must be to vaccinate some people in all countries rather than all people in some countries this is not just a moral imperative and a public imperative it's also an economy imperative but who will be the 1st to be vaccinated this question is also being hotly debated around the world should those at greatest risk be given priority. to w.h.o. suggest countries receive doses proportional to their populations. but a group of international health experts says that approach is flawed because the pandemic hasn't hit all countries equally severely. they've proposed a 3 phase plan called the fair priority model seeing the goal should be reducing premature deaths as well as the long term health impact of a corona virus infection the researchers say 3 basic values must be considered when

deciding who gets the job 1st benefiting people and limiting harm prioritizing the disadvantaged and giving equal moral concern for all individuals. and we can now speak to one of the health experts behind that fair priority model for distributing the corona virus vaccine is the emanuel joins us from the university of pennsylvania's pillman school of medicine thanks a lot for taking the time to talk us through this so how is your interview with. than say like the says by distributing it by population size or doing it by population age. well if you do it by population size that i like to say is analogous to the physician in the emergency room looking out at everyone who's waiting to be seen and says all right i'm giving 5 minutes to each of you ignoring how sick the patients are treating the person with

a sore throat or a fever the same as a person who has a heart attack that seems absurd you would focus your attention on the sickest people where your attention can do the most potential good and that's the principle that we say limiting how are. prioritizing disadvantaged people those are important values and if you think about that that means focusing your vaccine where you're going to do the most benefit in terms of reducing the number of premature deaths then once that's under control mitigating the economic and social harms reducing unemployment reducing poverty and trying to get people children back to school and that makes much more ethical and prudent sense frankly than saying 3 percent of the population or 20 percent of the population of every country gets into about c. or in the agency room analogy that particular situation relies on the expertise of

the doctor triology and work out who is the priority who does the full 2 in reality and when we talk about distributing the coronavirus vaccine who makes those really subjective judgments. it's not a subjective judgment it looks to data which countries are suffering where will the vaccine do the most good in terms of you know iraq being so i disagree with you that it's subject to 2nd of all we do you know as you point out or suggest we lack the world government that can order this around we do have international institutions the world health organization along with dobbie that distributes vaccines has set up this kovacs is silly to distribute actually a low and middle income countries into countries that purchase it we have vaccine manufacturers themselves that have said they want an equitable distribution and a broad distribution and then we have governments that have to take the moral

leadership in this case and the prudent leadership let's face it the world's not going to get back to normalcy unless most of the world gets vaccinated and so there's an interest in making sure the vaccine is fairly distributed what we haven't had until our paper is really a framework to think about what is fair distribution and we're hoping having a framework will galvanize a consensus that that's how we have to distribute the vaccine let me just go back to give if i can say it's interesting to because we're talking about compiling data that could be complicated to compile it could take time in comparison certainly with just judging it by population size is there a danger that analysis like that could delay the distribution of a vaccine. we already have various groups making the kinds of estimates that we have suggested our suggestion would find to what they're doing

they are estimates they're not going to be perfect just like population is really an estimate it's not perfect and we think it's morally much superior to simply distributed on the basis of population here let me give you another example taiwan has have fewer than 500 covert cases and fewer and 7 deaths give me it actually is not going to mitigate much harm compared to say brazil or peru or other countries that are right in the middle of a serious explosion of cove it it doesn't make sense to give. 3 percent of the population of taiwan and give few brazil last doses of the vaccine because you've given it to taiwan that's just not a reasonable thing given the fact that when brazilians die it's really tragic and taiwan is a country that has done extremely well and that seems to be morally important

and just quickly because we have running out of time who do you want to head this advice that you know giving well i think international organisations like the w.h.o. that selected the population model the kovacs disability but i think also world leaders who can influence this and want to do the right thing but just haven't known what the right thing is i will point out that justin trudeau of canada led 6 other prime ministers and writing out an op ed in the washington post in the united states saying we want to fair and equitable distribution well here prime minister judo and the other prime minister here's what that would mean now take it and try to get the rest of the world leaders to abide by it dr ezekiel emanuel from the university of pennsylvania thank you very much for joining us. thank you and now it's time for your questions to our science correspondent derrick williams. my tests just positive but i'm asymptomatic should i receive any treatment at home.

many people who test positive for that 19 remain apparently healthy our best guess at the moment is that about 30 to 40 percent of those who contract it won't report any symptoms but if you tested positive you still need to go into isolation just as you would if you had the full blown disease because you can carry just as much of the virus as someone with symptoms and you're likely to be infectious to others even if you feel fine i couldn't find any specific treatment recommendations for for asymptomatic patients although i'm sure that the standard stuff like staying hydrated and getting sufficient amounts of exercise even if you're indoors that they apply and it goes without saying that you should monitor how you feel closely as as many supposedly asymptomatic people actually turn out to be precent to magic

and they will show signs of covert 19 sooner or later. now let's finish the week by having a look at how the world is doing in terms of coronavirus cases. new cases have doubled in 16 countries and increased in another 77. it also stayed the same in 11 nations however $72.00 countries have seen new positive cases of coverage 19 go down albeit by less than half. meanwhile 24 has seen cases go down by half or better and 9 have reported no new cases this week a toll. 'd is how that boss stocks up against the weekly statistics since the start of the year is still a long way to go but when the right hand side of that graphic is all blue again the battle against coronavirus will have been won. thanks for joining us.

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