'd i'm with i was a women especially in victims of violence. take part in your story you have trained always to understand this new culture. you want to become a citizen. migrants your platform for reliable information. this is the wus a shot coming up today across the cautious school reopening after months of shops. in india despite rising covert cases schools can reopen monday next week but parents are still not convinced it's the right thing to do bring your reactions from delhi. in neighboring pakistan students are already back in school after

government has announced a stack goes green opening plan but how safe is it. and in hong kong kids make a cautious return to class since the new academic year began in august. i'm british manager welcome to news asia glad you could join us despite recording at all 90000 covert cases daily for the past week india has decided to reopen its schools but only for senior students and on a voluntary basis schools can reopen next week starting monday the government has said over precautions need to be in place for schools to open but many parents aren't convinced the measures will be sufficient to keep their children safe. added he has spent the past 6 months almost entirely at 118 she says has been quite done

when she's not studying or completing her assignment she watching films and spending time with her twin sister. a senior at school under d. has been taking all her classes online. which has become the norm since schools across the country have been shut for the 1st 6 months due to it but for our studying online has not been as efficient as going to school or in school we really wanted it in way much but had we gone to know that much because sometimes they're going to choose which our last we can be able to hear the teachers and or we can't really read any thoughts that she is given because again the connection problem is so many problems after a long gap in government is now going to plan which schools to partially view from september 21st. but only for senior students who need guidance from teachers

and on out completely $1.00 to $3.00 bases many schools are still in the process of finalizing their reopening strategies and the safety measures that they will be taking which include not allowing students to use public transport cutting down on the school time reduced classrooms trends and multiple entry and exit points among other regular measures some schools have started giving orientation classes to the students under the rules they need to follow it dillard down to the classroom. but at a time when the properties of the country are skyrocketing this money is proving to be a challenge for schools their memory some students more north before this thing and reconnoitre keep our eyes on them or look at them so that this is a turn and then another yes there is are these so expense on. the score now with this of the of my dear friends and business and provide envious things we went up with it is not the school. impressed that so. guidelines given by the government have done little to reassure parents and students about their safety 1st of all.

give us 100 percent sure after. we see if this can swim and i think people should stop them in my circle. marking farewell sending that can. despite the passionate reopening of schools next week school administrations and the government are still encouraging students to stick to online classes but they see. the school will not open its doors for a couple of weeks. but even when it does she believe not to begin with why she said she misses attending classes and being with her friends i do know it does not get anything out to be done just. i mean not true filed that report joins me now from delhi i mean you know i'd like to expand a bit on a few points of your report raises 1st what are the safety measures schools are

required to have in place before the open well run thing to remember is that the government at the moment has just been lifted the schools that if they wish to they can open this. and so a lot of schools in different states are still in the process of deciding what did they should actually start functioning so in their guidelines the ministry of home affairs has given some rules and regulations that should be followed close that there should be a 60 distance but should be maintained in all areas at all times events like sporting events assemblies us to be prohibited because that creates a situation of crowding also a saturday they should know all school premises is necessary which schools themselves are taking that will measure for example not allowing students to use the public transport when they're coming to school or not allowing them to share their food with each other so that different range of measure which schools are taking one head of the school that i spoke to also said that the me actually in all in somewhat india has to ensure that when the students come to school there is

a proper distance which is maintained between them and. i suppose the question is also why the government is alarmed schools to be open and clearly a majority of parents don't feel like sending their children to school and covered cases are rising in india. well it's a tricky situation at the moment there is no reason which has been given by the government there's nobody out there that why schools are being allowed to open but some heads of the schools that i spoke to in private by researching for the story out of the opinion that the government to know that online education is not a successful concept in india is the beginning it's been 6 months and the logged on the plus lockdown took place and we know there's a huge digital divide in india forget about households but even within an area that is a digital divide so in done and it out even though parents are concerned that the gandhi should not be sending those who are going to school they're also concerned about the huge loss of education that they're suffering so in a way the government has in an attempt to according to these had that the school

that i spoke to in an attempt to share the own us a lot of the schools and not only themselves had given them given an option that you know that is what into the base of the students want to come into their doubts they can't we leave it there for the time being but thank you so much for joining us money on the children in delhi over in pakistan students have already begun to return to schools so you know schools are the 1st to open their doors as part of a stock good reopening of education institutions across the country the government has asked all establishment mosques on hand sanitizers are used schools were closed in march when a mission by blocked on was enforced as part of a covert 1000 containment strategy. from one joined by pervaiz who by his a nuclear physicist and educationists and he joins me now from islamabad reza good bye good to have you on the program now this staggered every opening plan for schools from the government do you think it is safe and planned. well

everybody in black starting now is taking it easy the markets are open people are going to work it's life as normal except for the schools and colleges and so yes i think it is time that students go back to school so students have been away from school since mons how has this impacted their studies have they're told being able to study in this entire period. when it's the students who have had absolutely no chance and they've lost all these 6 months because there's no question of them having internet where they live in the villages and in various distances by distant parts of the country as well as those who live in the poorer areas of the cities so yes i'd say that 80 percent of students have pretty much lost all these months in terms of colleges and universities some of them have distance learning but relatively few and so these 6 months have been i would say

by and large lost it's quite a significant number you say 80 percent of school students having lost 6 months what does that mean for their future. that of course. education quality isn't here it isn't very good over here so i don't know what that means precisely but i do know that those who go to the better schools and who are in competition for getting into univ estes they have lost and this is irrecoverable time now in pakistan something like $25000000.00 students don't go to school at all they don't have school so of course whether they've discovered or no covert they wouldn't have had an education what would you say about the response of the government in trying to cater to the students who don't have a justice who are dickerson and these 80 percent of school students who have lost 6

months is there any help or any some any sort of a plan forthcoming from the government none that i've heard off i don't think the government has the capacity to make up all this. what they've simply done is that they've deferred the examination they will be held at some later time but in terms of quantity of learning i don't think that data is any plan to make up for that what does this say about the state of education in the country and i wonder if this is also an absurdity what does this say about the state of education in pakistan and i also wonder in the same breath if this is potentially an opportunity to have another look at that and maybe one fence up and felt cummings. i'd say the opportunity exists only if they had best the level where i know some

universities have started distance learning and this in principle opens the possibility of a better quality of education because once you get on the internet then there's a lot of stuff out there of course most of it is in english and so will not be understandable nevertheless i'd say that the distance learning desperate fight and opportunity as far as the rest of the country has on a school education goes. only the reach schools have been able to take advantage off this and so yes i do know that the private schools are making the same amount of money as they did earlier and that they are not having any effective distance learning program but the poor schools there is no chance of that when they were there with the timing but thank you so much for joining us but of hands who buy from islam. so that's also being allowed back to schools in hong kong though only partially they can attend hoff to classes orientation or property trick losses

depending on their yard of study but one pupil in a primary school has already deciples a difficult so all have to take thought an extra precautions making life in class even more of a slog. they told us we need to be careful. someone at school got sick. so we have to stay extra clean this year. extra extra clean. at least all the hand stuff keeps the germs away. we have to keep away from each other to. keep our hands to ourselves. man this is boring. all the time. these plastic dividers like a fish bowl but it's for our protection. and if those older kids can take it so can

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beethoven is for. beethoven it is for. the. band beethoven is for. beethoven is for. beethoven 2022 and 50th anniversary here on d w. it's the world's 3rd largest industry but that was before the cove in 1000 pandemic brought tourism to a screeching halt. that's been especially hard for europe the world's number one travel destination in years past tourism brought regular surpluses to european budgets. or shutdowns or restrictions have shown just how many jobs are dependent on foreign visitors and such as airlines and tourism companies but also hotels

cafes and businesses all dependent on bustling travel. but with the full coffers of the past also came growing tensions across europe higher living costs gentrification and frustrations for locals in many cities like here in barcelona but also venice and amsterdam. will tourism ever bounce back to is prepared to make highs and could this extended offseason be an opportunity to rethink travel for the future. hello and welcome to doj of covert 1900. 11 it's good to have you with us a tourism may be a double edged sword for europe but the pandemic has reminded the continent just how important the sector is for its economy especially for jobs john philip schultz brings us this report from spain's canary islands. while the season is coming to an end in most of europe the real action is just beginning on the spanish island off where to vent to what are you tell you now has lived here for 15 years she runs

a kite surfing school after months of coronavirus restrictions she's now hoping for winter vacationers because climate here is pleasant in the colder months and it's nearly always windy. i hear that should arrive. we have a lot of reservation not like us for long. more like asking for information how the situation is looking but i know there are a lot of people from all over europe interested in coming here and i hope it can be possible for everybody because it's far less optimistic he runs a small country hotel in the interior of the island the restaurant is doing reasonably well but he says the hotel business has collapsed because for months people all over the world have been warned against travel to spain he has already had to let go several employees on his small team and he sees few signs of

improvement. so you will see no joke today ok. see you know all the time who didn't you have to wait up till about 2 thirds of all workers on 4 to ventura live from tourists and the crisis is sitting the african and south american migrant workers on the island particularly hard many lost their jobs from one day to the next and do not appear in any official statistics. 100 self migrants work without papers in the hotels and restaurants on the island according to local age organizations and like other residents they're not entitled to any government supports and for them the absence of tourists is becoming more and more of an existential threat to. the island governments doesn't even try to

put a gloss on things it is now pinning all its hopes on a meeting of the e.u. tourism minister at the end of the month the government commissioner's hopes rest on travel quality toss his government's idea on the rival and the island could test all the tourists for the coronavirus and existing quarantine regulations could be lifted and i hope in that meeting 28th of september in europe they are able to say ok all european countries decide how to proceed to make those tests in the airports on the ports the government of the coyotes and also from into we have to bodge it with that money to make it possible they could start airport tests as early as tomorrow the politicians said it would be expensive but it would be worth it if planes finally landed on the island regularly again. so the view there from spain's canary islands let's look at the broader woes facing global tourism and the pain started in the 1st 3 months of the years of the year rather as asia lock down that

led to a 22 percent pullback in the sector and while those numbers have improved slightly in some regions the overall tourism industry is looking at a whopping 60 to 80 percent contraction for the full year and that would put as many as 120000000 directors of jobs at risk. and let's talk now to richard weston he's a senior research fellow at the luxury school of business in the u.k. where he focuses on tourism but just good to have you on the show how dependent has europe become on tourism. i think that. probably is as a region europe isn't more dependent on the loss of all the regions in the world that there are parts of europe. particularly spying in italy greece which have become very dependent on tourism. 15 percent of their

g.d.p. comes from from just from this one sector that's staggering what does that mean for jobs they have to jump a lot of jobs and cause he's not just very directly employed people in the in the industry but all the ancillary support stuff you know the. travel companies and they don't treat companies that everybody does anything that might be connected to reason so the supply chain. largely impact you could probably add 50 percent again to that figure what does that 1st at the same time you have all these jobs but then the whole business model in some ways wasn't that great a lot of these cities amsterdam venice barcelona really chafing at the amount of tourists that were coming through their cities and what it had done culturally what it had done to gentrification things like that. certainly yeah some of the cities

become far too successful if you like. causing problems for the local populations the resident population in terms of increasing property prices and. because there aren't enough local. places. particular started to address this in terms of the attract and dispersed model where they they're not trying to put people off but then trying to push them out into the wider region. but he created a lot of places in in europe which were clamoring for more tourists you know some of the new member states in the balkans and. where they were they were under tourist. you know what i looks like everyone is under tourist how long can we expect things to last as they are how long this industry be down.

right how long the piece of string. that's. a very good question i think certainly. this year will be written off than we're already seeing a 2nd spike and so i think you know there will be coming towards the end of the primary tourist season anyway but i think you know we're seeing the 2nd spite we're likely to get more local lockdowns more interruptions to travel more borders closing and more quarantine period so all of these things will have a negative impact on on to reason that i think the long term impact is likely to be felt for for many years perhaps up to a decade. it just just depend on the progressive of the virus and whether we have a vaccine if we don't have

a vaccine an effective one then that means that we will be looking forward to censure distancing for. the future and of course that has an impact on the capacity of hotels and restaurants cafes beaches even and so that's going to have a serious impact on certainly the mass market you know the plight roaring heavily on tourism for those areas where the track to tourist but they were more dispensed then obviously it's less of an issue because there's their own natural spacing going on between people are richard quest and joining us from the universe of luxury thank you very much my pleasure. and once again it's time for your questions answered by our science correspondent there williams. do we need to stop taking medications for high blood pressure did they make a coded 1000 worse. this is one of those questions that's been subjected to

a lot of intense scrutiny over the months early on in this pandemic there was a lot of worry among health care professionals that certain medications called ace 2 inhibitors which are used to lower blood pressure that they might actually make people more susceptible to cope at 19 that's because we think they might increase levels of what's called angiotensin converting enzyme to or east to in your cell membranes and we confirmed that in early stage that that just like with other corona viruses the ace 2 receptor is kind of the door knob that 2 uses to open the door to your cells so the theory was that having more ace to receptor is would probably be a bad thing however stopping blood pressure medication suddenly can also have serious side effects so the medical advice was keep taking your meds until we know

more well fast forward 6 months and we do know more and guess what it turns out the opposite could be true a recent ward scale met analysis of 19 other studies conducted by british researchers shows that taking those hypertension medications doesn't put you at greater risk of a severe kovac 1000 outcome in fact the study says they might actually reduce the risk of disease severity although that wasn't proven definitively but really i think whether they actually help or not is almost beside the point just knowing that we're now pretty sure ace 2 inhibitor. really don't make over 1000 words will be a big load off the minds of the people who take them and the doctors who prescribe them as well. all right our science correspondent there

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