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this by the rise in case law as the government has rejected a 2nd nationwide lockdown and this continuing to lift restrictions how do people feel about this but we can't seem to achieve that. the government says it's not to believe that there are not as. locked up only in the u.s. . and b. . and we must. not. just thank you. well the coronavirus crazy difficult conditions for many industries around the world including the artists in south africa are protesting in major cities asking for government help to save the creative industries they say pandemic lockdowns have left them on for nearly 6 months. chris reports. there has

been a lockdown here in south africa for 6 months now but gradually the economy has been reopened in the past weeks and months but not all industries many people are still suffering this is why artists came here to protest they say they haven't been able to perform for half a year not able to make an income and they want the government to consider them as well. i mean is that mean i'm an artist i'm a performer it has been the music. performance industry detainment lots of other small businesses attached to all those small businesses out there not just . you know. people so it's a lot of levels that have been affected. they just pulled the plug i've been just

surviving via the grace of my god you know in my creator and my family people that have helped and supported me they can because our industry was the 1st to be affected it was the 1st to be knocked down shut down completely businesses have gone out of out of business. many people are also complaining that the government has largely been ignoring the arts and entertaining industry for many years and even during the times of the pandemic some odyssey are complaining that they had no access to a covered 19 emergency relief funds among the people protesting musicians seeing people playing in theaters. most of the arts menus in capetown remain closed open but at limited capacity at the moment with a maximum of 50 people at one venue people saying this is not enough to survive to make a living and for them to be allowed to operate at 70 percent capacity but there might

be a reason for hope for the artist c.e.o. president. announced that he will address the nation tonight and image for virus infection numbers many people here believe that he will announce a further relaxation off the lockdown regulations. by an increase reporting now it sounds like a script for a hollywood disaster movie the european space agency assigned to deal with a german company to build a set of spacecraft and that mission to really direct asteroids before they crash into. science sometimes takes a while to catch up with fiction more than 2 decades ago this film get in proposed to bombing asteroids to save planet earth from a collision and say. now a similar plot is being hatched by the european space agency and. the

until now humanity has been powerless against the impact of asteroids and other objects circling close to earth in the meantime we have the technology and the capital to defend ourselves. a series of spacecraft will be launched from june next year 1 will crash into an asteroid to see if it can change its trajectory another croft will analyze the debris from the collision if it succeeds it will be the 1st time human technology has shifted a celestial object. before. it's like billy it's a small force hits the asteroid that is heading for earth. which should cause a deflection. we want to practice this so that we are ready if an asteroid is really heading for us we took a course of forms and the whole mission will take more than 6 years to complete better late than never is already being bombarded. and it continuously happens we

get tons of material from the sky falling on old lucky 3 fourths of the earth or core with water and a large quantity is also there's a. but yeah that's like the scientific way to approach the problem. photography asteroid is attending to us but another one might be this mission could help us prevent a real life get and. so i mean there's a project scientist with the european space agency's planetary defense mission hara welcome to the w so the plan then is to nudge any killer asteroids off course rather than destroy them why because not doing it is much more control it so this technology needed a demonstration like here not yet when i'll be able to approximately predict how

much change the cause of the asteroids is that can make sure into the case that instead of hitting us. why if it would last it would be many fragments and it's impossible to control what would happen is awesome so how big are these meteorites and how much damage could they do. so as i want to read that you know in next year and saying here i'd be investigated is. a big us though it is about 160 meters in diameter. and it oh and years size that would destroy a big part of it it's a home. and it's also about meaning room size you know i don't actually try to do something about it tried to deflect it and because it was more weeds and because the way it it's ours was almost like size stange beriberi expect it one day ok so

how would this work and with what do you do you have to source super big telescope to say there's a big one on its way. how much sort of notice would you have. yeah that's an important point it's not enough to have. to have a plate to be able to get it if necessary it's also important to know what is coming and so as important as fresh missions like like that in here. as the search and support comes out for all the asteroids. and so this is also ongoing and currently nearly 40 asteroids in your eyes down to a kilometer or so in size unknown and to go over 4 months and next 10 years is to know 90 percent of the asteroids larger than $140000.00 sites and once we know those and it is likely that we are still get c. 5 or 5 or 10 years or so each time that we need to deflect an asteroid should it

become necessary ok so we know that the saying is have been hitting the earth from from from time to time and we just we had in the report we just been lucky. i think europeans the only ones during this or all the others launching their own space not just. yes i do what's happening now is a corporation but he's out so i'm not i'm going to launch next years and that is cover the trip actually impact in the mall for us to be just the name of the home of the minister would get you must it. and change the orbit of sea of the moon and consummate us through it and then a couple of years later if it comes in to look at success to measure the mass of the small last minute just need you to interpret the experiment as direct how efficient. and generally to look at i said last well we wish you well with that thank you for joining us couples from the european space agency. thank you very

much a german politicians have decided that fans across all 16 german states come to put a can return to sports stadium in time for this weekend's 1st match day of the pundits make a season for a 6 week trial period clubs will be allowed to use up to 20 percent of best stadiums capacities strict coronavirus and measures will be in place but that no plans for fans to be tested. football grounds in germany are live in one small slowly but steadily the fans are returning after a recent friendly between on your own berlin and nuremberg 5000 socially distanced supporters were allowed back on the terraces it was the 1st time that they'd seen a live game or indeed a live gold since march and fans would grateful for the opportunity to be back with a fellow was that of course it wasn't completely normal because

a few people were missing but it was still nice. the fans everywhere will be subject to strict measures on their return but when your supporters were impressed with their club safety protocols. 1000 people in a stadium that holds 23000 to big problem i think. i agree on your own did a good job in executing their plan there were no problems no risk of infection or anything like that. i. recently german cup matches have seen even bigger numbers of spectators returning welcome 7 and a half 1000 fans back to now motorist and 10000. previously the decision making power rested with local authorities but now there is a single solution for all german sports clubs 20 percent of the stadiums capacity may be used away fans won't return yet and no alcohol will be sold normality might

still be a long way off but the days of actually empty terraces unnumbered bit by bit fans are coming home. and set you up to date i'll have more for you at the top out at. next to their advantage. good.

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of this comes straight from the heart to see you before there's no more delicious the mushroom inches. from the 1st glimpse of the law to their final resting place the russians t.w. documentary. this is deja news a shot coming up today of him on the run standoff between 2 reach them powers that looks set to continue. into accuses china of violating past border agreements even as both ministries continue to reinforce the troops is this going to get worse before it gets better plus the. pandemic waste is finding off in the philippines so while on twist because they're seeing a bump in profits. and is keeping pandemic demand to stop those autumn on the wild animals rescued from fortress

a few willing to trade in eastern wildlife joining the call now by this crisis. and bishop energy welcome to the news asia glad you could join us india has accused china of violating border agreements as the armies of both countries in. gage in a tense standoff along a disputed in mali and border speaking in parliament india defense minister of arjun not seeing said china had unilaterally altered the status quo along the border she also short members of the army was well prepared for any eventuality and contingency plans in place to ensure india's sovereignty. i'm not sure you know. we have mean forms china through diplomatic and military channels that such activities are an effort to change the status quo you know laterally and it has

been made clear of these efforts are not acceptable to us under any conditions. and this year's recent incidents of violent conduct of chinese forces are a complete violation of all mutually agreed norms. according to the current situation the chinese side has mobilized its armed forces and sent ammunition on the l. a c. and internal areas. china has been well read to that of that a recent agreement between top officials of both sides should form the basis for the easing of tensions went down during their meeting in moscow the foreign ministers of china and india reached a positive consensus on jointly easing and cooling the border situation don't you. and we will continue to maintain close communication through military and diplomatic channels to resolve the issues on the ground we hope that india will honestly implement the consensus reached by the foreign ministers of the 2 sides

made china halfway and make concrete efforts to ease the situation. is a journalist and strategic affairs analyst who's been reporting on the india china border standoff since it began months ago. the foreign ministers of both sides agreed last week in moscow the chinese and indian troops would court disengage from their current standoff points is that not already dead given that both sides are actually reinforcing their positions as we speak. well this is been all since the start of this crisis to see one thing and do another in the giants from the time the entered indian territory which was the early part of me i had been. seeing that they have not transfers the line i've been through here in china instead of 3 and 2nd greek 2nd calling to disengagement for all but not actually

doing it on the ground now the indian side does have the time to build up. the border along the lines actually control and the same thing is happening there is one state of rhetoric that is going on and the other is a possible aggressive and tom of worrying deployment and counter deployment that is going on on the ground there is bringing the troops into peace with each other and setting the stage for violence so that's a wiring proposition you spoke about indian territory and the embassy or the line of actual control now indian defense minister of ard nothing said in parliament to the court defining perceptions of the line of actual control which is of course the line across which the standoff stayed in place the opposition congress is saying that the phrase deferring perceptions of the m.d.c. legitimizes china does it. well yes in a way because a government in a country has to be quite clear where its borders lie and if the other country the

country with whom it has a disputed border says that the border does not lie in place x. but lies in place why then this country cannot start seeing differing perceptions and so on and so forth but each country has to be clear when it's what i'd like. you know we if you are if you're rationalizing this this issue of deferring perceptions you also rationalizing aggressive action by the other side to capture the border up to where that country believes its border lights so i think that there's a there's a bit of sort of excuse making that is going on over here when they're talking about deploying perceptions the fact is that the chinese have entered into a territory that lines on the indian side of the indian perceptions and strong india's viewpoint there can be only one set of perceptions so to that extent this is a bit of an excuse making sort of statement sort of seeks to justify china coming into

territory that india teams and that india has always had and that india has patrolled for you know if i'm not wrong there are 40 some 1000 square kilometers of dirt a tree that india claims as it's born is not in accessible to indian troops is this something that the government is to be concerned about. yes the government is very concerned about this a lot of territory specially in the south asian context is a very emotive subject so this figure itself this 1000 square kilometer has been arrived at by joining several points of incursion so to that extent it's it's not really valid figure but the fact is that china has entered at least 4 or 5 different points along the line of actual control in grants to do indian claim

territory to a distance of 15 to 16 kilometers of the deepest and 2 or 3 kilometers of the shadow points so all these things add up to the city loss of a significant amount of territory and that's a very emotive subject and something that the government is very careful in and final question do you think china and india are now in this for the long haul. that's hard to see and i would say that both countries aboard not like to get into a winter deployment in an area where temperatures being legal are down to minus 20 and minus 30 degrees centigrade where there's a wind chill factor where high over to fuel causes very serious limitations to how much a human body can do so taking on a winter deployment which is something that would not appeal to the chinese all the indian side so aboard have a very strong reason to deescalate and we have to wait and see if they do that over

the next 2 months and you have ever the time in thank you so much for joining us. the growers crisis is creating a tidal wave of plastic waste across asia yet the waste because are limiting the business shutdowns or the pandemic mean they're having an even harder time making a living we followed one man on his daily rounds in the philippines. cortical manny is a problem is giving a livelihood to virgilia s 2 s their waste every day he comes the streets of manila to collect and sell it for 4 decades already. but since the corona crisis things for him have to change drastically. and the pandemic caused a lot of problems my son lost his job and for me the junk shops were closed for one

thing even if i go out there are barely any junk shops to sell to lower. only what the mines in the. normally as to a store would earn up to 80 euros a day selling plastics and metals now his income is cut by half he's had to sell his bicycle to get by even when the amount of waste has risen due to corona especially plastics but demand is low a problem also for the philippines which produces around $40000.00 tons of waste a day. the country is largely relying on and former waste pickers like us to esther to deal with the problem. the pandemic is really increased benteke will you share in. in the philippines and also in other countries just because there's a lot more people using disposables now due to misconceptions and fears around

transmitting the virus and then of course there's things like i disposable ease being used environmentalist so that by informing people that will change meanwhile 60 year old virgilio just wish to is desperate for business to bounce back. at us and we hope things get better soon and it's been really hard for us that again. coronavirus restrictions in the philippines have recently been east despite high infection numbers sometimes earning money involves risks. but the pandemic is fueling business for another informal sector the illegal trade in endangered animals like these sea turtles is on the rise poachers have exploited outfighting market on line driven by people stuck at home conservationists in indonesia recently returned a bunch of rescue turtles back to the wild but activists say more needs to be done

to stop the trade by a social media. it's a slow walk to freedom these endangered marine charter schools are back on the beach after narrowly escaping the clutches of porches police in bali rescued 37 of them in a raid on an illegal profiteering in july look you know all about the advantage that you had that happen and if you want to release that there are 2 stages that we need to ensure the 1st is to make sure that the animals are healthy and the 2nd is to ensure that the animals are ready to be released because for example if he cannot adapt to the environment we cannot let them go after passing these through stages they will be released today to get in if they don't get up the. international wildlife charity seats which in consumption and trading is rife across the region but especially prevalent in indonesia. much of the illegal trade is no done online from tough times and macaques to asian brian bears campaigners

say the current pandemic has driven demand. is increasing especially because 1600 people usually stay at home and dangerously you know have time to go online i and some people may want to buy some eco i like products so you can just go to facebook and easy for them for its part facebook says it's cracking down on adverts on its platforms. we prefer the trade of live animals and. or their car. and also in the type of content. we're very committed to working with wildlife and one for our teams around the world so many. of them. anyone involved in trading choctaws faces a potential 5 year prison sentence in indonesia but campaigners say the laws must

be enforced until poachers are to tear these reptiles will be heading back into dangerous waters. that's it for the show to check out all those stories on the. show on facebook and twitter more of the same time about. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and news. hour corona. covert 19 special next on d w. 2 go beyond yes. it is a. live. as we take on the world. we're

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information on the crown of virus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast you can get it wherever you get your podcast can also find us at. science. china has declared victory over the coronavirus following 9 whirlwind months for 1st responders scientists and party officials after denying the severity of the virus and than initially under reporting numbers beijing now says that it can keep the pandemic at bay. for normal chinese life and community are slowly edging back to normal. but china's success is impossible for most nations to mimic so overwhelming is the communist party's grip on its population. and while the heroic

narrative may resonate domestically abroad there's skepticism and discomfort over the blurring line between propaganda and leadership on the global stage. china's handling of the coronavirus separating substance from show. low and welcome to georgia. special i'm stephen beardsley in berlin it's good to have you with us china has seen both failures and successes in its response to a pandemic to begin with in its own borders beijing's official narrative neglects those early missteps it's a storyline that's being firmly embraced at home. tiananmen square in the heart of the chinese capital beijing the national museum large. dingly has come here with their grandchild my. the art is classic socialist realism that honors front

line 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. under 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 kins you that. 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 didn'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 abroad. 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 being himself. features prominently in the exhibition to others or simply ignored. we were nearing sounded the alarm over the coronavirus we had the authorities were still denying its existence the doctor from one was forced to recant and for business 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. that if you tell a book that you can actually vision 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. thank you. michel monuments are built by the communist party they expressed no criticism as the regime tolerate no dissent. and i'm joined now by now he's a senior analyst with the macarthur institute for china studies in berlin this is good to have you on the show were told that life is returning to normal in china and that the numbers are vastly improved can we distinguish from afar if that's

really the case. well i think it's fair to say that the low numbers and a single low double digits that china is reporting are the ballpark and i mean there is no reason to believe that while china reports. new cases or so every day there are millions off cases somewhere hidden i think with the measures that china has developed over the last months to deal with local outbreaks and new cases coming in it is realistic that these numbers are true truthful and you know the the pictures we see and that also the person reports are we get off normal life returning to chinese cities is real has this pandemic been more of an opportunity or a challenge for the party. i think it started as a huge challenge in many regards governance challenge in terms of information sharing between local government and central government a huge. damage that the government has has taken there and public trust

but the way that this has been dealt with and the effective measures going from being the original of this virus through to really one of the best in class players in terms of the new cases now. called the confidence of the population and we see this in surveys that are coming out now of china but also are very fired by foreign actors that there is more trust in the government capacity to deal with this before so it started certainly as a challenge but in terms off approval the i think it is now certainly a positive for the other party state or is the domestic confidences and also what about from outside looking into china has the chinese image been improved or has a worsened through its response to the coronavirus. i think overall china's image is in a downward movement right now i'm not sure this is only due to the corona virus

itself but certainly the whole crisis has triggered or it's deepened a lot of the rifts that were apparent also before in terms of trade in terms of you know the whole technology 5 g. question the american and chinese relation everything is and i will spiral and these dynamics have been catalyzed by the corona crisis so china has tried to to market its very effective approach to the to curbing the virus as you know as a system really relevant capacity so the chinese model is better suited to deal with this crisis and that is meeting opposition abroad and i think this is something that china will increasingly have to deal with that there's a lot more skepticism towards china and these attempts to market individual successes system. into end of a system systemic competition china's a better suit because it has

a party and this will increase indeed be contested also by the european union by other foreign actors so there is a challenge here that is very pressing. at the same time china remains a global player it's has a lot of sway when it comes to large scale projects global projects how hard does that skepticism on behalf of western governments make it for them to work with china it's inevitable they have to work with them out imagine. yes so the reality of it is that china is now a very important partner we can for example the climate issue we cannot address without china and at the same time there's a lot more competition going on a lot more challenges in terms of technology our peer our trade and so on and this is really. it's quite crucial to trying to deal for every one of us to deal with this and the government to the party really has to think well how do they want to frame themselves as a local player where is it is it wise to you know to to. global

standards work and they really pushed own standards and interests and priorities this is a very important a very big challenge for the chinese government to go forward and this is a new role that china seeing itself in this skepticism that china has met with is growing and this is this is really a new international situation for china all right it's growing big with the card for instance who for chinese studies in berlin thank you very much thank you and now it's time for your questions to our science correspondent williams. what fact are all the masks and social distancing having on the number of influenza cases and places that have had their flu season during the 19. 1 of the scenarios causing health authorities to wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat as as we approach the traditional beginning of the annual flu season

in the northern hemisphere is the fear of a twin demick after all influenza is also a potentially deadly respiratory disease and the idea of a thousands of patients or tens of thousands of patients descending on hospitals with with flu or cope at 19 or even possibly both at the same time is one you don't even want to contemplate so so they've been casting an anxious on what's been happening in countries in the southern hemisphere which have been through their own flu season over the last 6 months the good news is that measures aimed at containing the spread of covert 19 appear to have also had a major impact on the number of winter flu cases in the southern hemisphere quite literally dropped off the table in countries from from new zealand to chile to south africa the w h o's influenza tracking that has reported for example that that in australia there

have been less than 50 confirmed cases of flu since april 1 for comparison back in 2019 there were close 210000 during the same period so so the flu is practically disappeared there and epidemiologists are hoping that that travel restrictions and social distancing and mask wearing will have the same effects north of the equator in the coming months but but we can't count on it which is why health authorities in the northern hemisphere are doing everything they can to get. many people as possible vaccinated against the flu before winter really and truly. are on derek williams there with the answers to your questions and finally the pandemic has driven many diners away from their favorite restaurants out of fear of infection well here's one possible solution automated servers this footage is from a restaurant the south korean capital seoul 'd customers place their orders at

a self-service kiosks then pay and wait for a robot to bring their food not a single human interaction. i guess that's progress that's it from the scope of 1000 special i'm saving there's a berlin to check us all out a line d w dot com thanks as always for watching. the .

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