printing on the health check a faster 12 week asylum processing target and a sponsored return scheme that would see member states take responsibility for returning migrants on behalf of other member states. the plan abandons previous efforts to relocate new arrivals around the 27 member states something opposed to by the likes of hungry i'm paul and n.g.o.s see that could create havoc in the mediterranean. member states from play member states like italy greece and and malata will be reluctant to cooperate if there isn't any sort of mandatory relocation and then they might not disembark our ships that have been rescued and then migrants remain stranded so a lot will depend on the willingness of even member states which in the last 5 years has not been a very high the commission hopes the scenes of a farming migrant camp on the greek island of lay's poles will be the catalyst for change. morea is

a stark reminder we need to find sustainable solutions on migration and we all have to step up. moreas residents know rehearsed in another makeshift camp can only hope that action comes sooner rather than later. i want to go now to brussels or to correspond above of a. following this story for you barbara so will they rise to the occasion what are you hearing. it depends on how you look at it of course there were a lot of wonderful sounding words there was a lot of paper there of a lot of new proposed legislation but then this new listening to the commissioners they began stumbling through the minefield off their own proposals because it is difficult it take for instance the proposed sponsorship for people who bring being brought back to their home countries how is that going to work take for

instance 300 afghans who might not have the right to sign and then we'll hungary who as we know notoriously doesn't want to take migrants in take the sponsorship for them take in all girl they hire the flight to take them back to kabul will they talk to the afghan government how is this going to work nobody really knows journalists here pose a lot of questions and we didn't get that many answers so already this overhaul has well has elicited a lot of criticism from n.g.o.s barbara because what they fear is that refugees who are now currently in those abysmal camps will not be spread over europe that they have to stay there where they are. maybe the camps will be a bit better but no they will not be spread out because that is not obligatory quota in that to that much the commission really said new we will not force member

states to people people in if they are not willing to we will not really. from our by our own sort of administrative powers so yes people who stay in camps they might be slightly better there is a promise that the whole process of asking for asylum and being considered or not and being sent back is going to work faster but we've heard that promise for 567 years and it has never happened so why should it happen now again cams will stay they might just be a bit nicer and the you might spend a bit more money on them well that's the thing though isn't it in conclusion barbara it kind of sounds like the please correct me but the commission just kind of gave up on this whole idea of redistributing refugees across the continent because of countries like hungry i feel you quite right line a because they have given up the populace have won this battle more or less politically because they have really put up so much resistance to this they have

a created so much political have a around it that the commission says ok if we can force them we can do it it's there is no purpose in trying for there and now we have to sort of call for for. solidarity and just of asked people to do something voluntarily and the question really remind every manes after this why should other countries looking at eastern europe then say ok if they don't have to do it why should we do it so it might even reduce the will to take in migrants and to take in asylum seekers even further than we've seen now reporting from brussels thank you. russian opposition figure alexina volley has been discharged from a berlin hospital he had been undergoing treatment for poisoning since being airlifted there at the start of the month when the volley has made it clear he wants to go home but that still looks so way off not long ago

alexina valen he was at death's door and this is how he looks today drawn thien visibly aged but very much alive it's now just start for a month off he fell ill and 2 weeks since he awoke from many jews coma and the valley is no longer in the intensive ward but russia's most prominent opposition politician will stay in germany with wife yulia and his children for now to continue his rehabilitation he wrote on instagram my doctors have decided that my recovery requires a regime in normal life rather than treatment in hospital walking spending time with my family and i've already stumbled to the pock in pants 3 sizes too large 44 year old invalid me got sick while campaigning in siberia last month. he was lifted to belin. then tests in germany france and sweden confirmed

he was poisoned with a military grade nerve agent novi chalk the west holds the kremlin accountable for the valleys poisoning but moscow denies responsibility and says he's welcome hun when he's ready. it's great the patient is indeed getting well we wish him a speedy recovery as a russian citizen he has the right to return to moscow at any time. it's still highly uncertain if he would be site there last week ally said traces of navi chocolate been found in a water bottle from the siberian hotel but the kremlin still says he wasn't poisoned in russia germany for its part wants answers from moscow about who attacked the valley threatening action if that's not forthcoming if russia is not cooperating i think we should. be and nato partners who think about what should be but 1st we have to said those questions to russia and russia should have the

chance to answer but there's little sign the kremlin is ready to cooperate leaving relations between bilin and moscow i ling even as alexina valmy recover as. well as i know what some of the other stories making news around the world. the united nations world food program is warning that yemen is at a tipping point as conflicts and economic woes drag the country to the brink of famine the w.s.p. head has called for funding to avert a humanitarian disaster. the u.s. is holding 3 days of tributes to the late supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg after a private ceremony the public will be able to pay their respects to the liberal icon at the courthouse ginsburg will then lie in state in the u.s. capitol on friday president from plans to nominate her replacement before the election. the u.k.

government has warned of trucking chaos of british businesses if british business is rather fail to prepare for braggs it the minister in charge of operations a michael gove's said if a trade deal is not agreed there could be hold ups involving thousands of trucks at english channel ports starting in january and vehicles could face today waits to enter france and. germany so foreign minister heiko mas is in quarantine after his bodyguard tested positive for the coronavirus it is unclear exactly how long mr moss will have to remain florentine in his apartment in broadway is initial kovan 1000 tests came up negative which would most of. the presidents of bell or alexander lukashenko has been sworn into office in a surprise inauguration ceremony despite mass protests against his re-election

because franco assumed his 6th consecutive presidential term with hundreds of top officials present although the inauguration itself was not publicly and else while it comes on the heels of a disputed election that sparked weeks of mass protests the opposition in both groups says the poll was rigged the u.s. and the e.u. are pushing for sanctions against officials involved in the vote. we can now i'm now joined by one of the belarusian opposition leaders veronica step kahlo a very good day miss accept kahlo 1st of all were you surprised when you heard that alexander lukashenko has been sworn in for another term. well actually i think old bill are gross people the russian people were surprised because he she did these ceremonies of course years later when all of this in money is open publicly open and name many guests international guests well there's that that people are invited for this to my son and my but this time and the entire procedure the entire

ceremony was hidden these just goes to show that location is near it frayed that there are people who are protesting against the poll results for the 48 laws diesel rated because we do not accept him as a president elect he became and in the image of him with president of demos and he is not able to present a list or an international arena we do as there are most people we are going to fight for our freedom and democracy in the well exactly what is there anything that you can do now. well actually yes we have negotiations with the international community and we let them know what's going on there is that it's our cities which are happening and belarus will lead not only with let them know what's going on in billers prisons how the people are beaten up how do people do shit how the people are put in the treasons and then we as i said we are going to demand the question got to meet the soonest possible and 2 are to release all political prisoners prisoners and to announce 3 in the house new

presidential elections where alternative candidates will be able to but he's a bit in these elections and this then is going to be different this than this which is going to be hopeless and open and him and him and him of democracy at these are your aspirations but for now he's not going anywhere he's just been sworn in what does the international community need to do what can they do. well 1st of all as iraq in union order is indeed the europe problem and i was here as a persona non-grata. all a european countries do not and can as human as a president elect and they should not ever have any kind of negotiations with location that the european countries and to the rest of the contras in the world should never accept and ambassadors from the question of the course except in them best as we are our understand of the acknowledged him as a president so they should refuse him and the question can doesn't have any support in south of the country he has now aapl around 30 percent of supporters inside the building was so taken into consideration the lack of international support is the

level of international support it's just a matter of time one question to leave and we just hope it's going to happen is this possible but will never give up that want to. thank you so very much for speaking to us thank you. you're watching the news up next to all things corner virus in our covert 19 a special show our. stick around. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and news. hour carona update. 19 special next on d w. compatible with the great.

muslim women choose between their faith and self-determination. i don't want anyone to tell me what the right to lead scott among women are striving to reform there is away from traditional prejudices. start september 24th on g.w. . and. in african countries poor living conditions are endemic and diseases such as malaria diabetes and tb a widespread. health care facilities are generally under resourced and often decrepit. and yet so far the continent has avoided the worst of the pandemic. there were fears that living conditions in urban communities in south africa are

beyond would accelerate the spread of the virus for some experts are now asking those same crowded conditions also has some extra protection against call that night. some signs. historically useful population might be behind africa's relatively no infection rates but as the pandemic continues analysts are more and more reluctant to push the continent successes down to demographics. some researches have also hypothesized that the presence of certain parasites in the body are contrary to into higher survival rates. but they're still trying to unravel the mystery. africa has recorded a little over 1400000 cases of coronavirus that's less than a quarter figure of the figure for the united states alone almost half of the continent's confirmed cases are in south africa but even there the death rate is

surprisingly low and the country scientists are pushing to find a vaccine. to search for a lifesaving covert 19 vaccine is back on in johannesburg. any christians. that survey today were all sick 88. minutes to make sure that you understand that in fact discuss this dead pools and this 10 years thinking that any. oxford university partnered with south african backs knology experts in june to begin producing a locally effective serum to vaccinate against the corona virus which was halted when a sister trial in the united kingdom saw participant take ill. you. think you can pick up after going to just kind of you know when i had thought someone was in england i was worried because it didn't know what being close we would fall

apart at least involved with this. vaccination. but after a few days i understood what it was about and i'm here to continue to try. to even notice the very care the efforts form part of emergency measures to deal with the coronavirus pandemic in the world's most unequal society that's very important for us to know that these vaccines are safe and effective in a south african population who may differ greatly from from populations in in other parts of the world. south africa much like the rest of the continent has not experienced the covert $900.00 death rate seen in parts of the developed world i. dismiss buffel some experts as to how a country with poor living conditions a high burden of diabetes tuberculosis and hiv aids is not overwhelmed by the

pandemic. south africa has a much younger population than many european countries and younger people are less severely affected than older people in addition about 40 percent of those young people we estimate had a symptomatic infection and that might be because they have been exposed to other coronaviruses that cause the common cold early on. indigenous communities have a simple hypothesis and claiming south africa weathered the covert $900.00 storm it's through the power of traditional medicine that is widely used throughout the country. for them to search for a modern vaccine in africa is futile and offensive. so we feel insulted that. people who come with me at the damages from the worst could come in london oh sure and want to think that you can just be vaccinated is problematic with that recognizing the fact that the incidence systems of healing

that exist in there isn't it you know in the midst. amid this opposition the vaccine trial continues with fears a 2nd wave of covert 1000 infections could arrive in coming months. we need to try and diminish the impact of covert both from a health point of view but also from associate konami point of view and that can actually only be done if we have a suitable vaccine going forward. only a few months old the vaccine trial is expected to run at least until the latter part of 2021. i'm really hopeful that by this time next year we'll have a vaccine available the studies are going well and we should be able to achieve. with almost 16000 deaths and over 650000 impaction is in south africa alone for dr fairly and her team the arrival of a vaccine can't come soon enough. for corona virus deaths across africa

lower than scientists would have expected especially when you consider there may have been many more cases than of so far been recorded a number of reasons have been put forward for that from africa's young population to traditional medicines there is another more unusual hypothesis some scientists believe parasitic worms could be protecting some africans from the full effects of coffee 19 on this we can speak to dr aqim hare of who is a parasite talers just on university thanks for joining us can you please tell us what this hypothesis is all about. you know get out of. we have been working a long time on the reality of parasitic disease and the host response of the human immune response particularly against warms and one of the dominant features is that the warmth ensure their survival for 10 years and longer in the body by suppressing

the immune response for example. which is a parasitic one sees it is spread out through the tropical africa of about $40000000.00 people infected and here you have one long in the skin amounting to some hundreds per square millimeter yet the. immune response is sort of regulated that there is almost no inflammation in the majority of people and they sometimes don't even know they have the disease so we know also that there is a spill over of this immune response to. responses for example negative is that somebody seems to not work as well as they should and this is also been very clearly aligned to this immune suppression and the motivation is more as well established and the hypothesis now is that this overshooting immune

reaction that carries with severe chronic 90 cases might be mitigated because the people who are were worse and have an immunity suppressed general. status if this hypothesis does prove to be true other any implications for possible treatment coronavirus. just long sought to carve out the beneficial parts of the immune response of a. suppressive mold and voids the total parasitic infections but this is very tricky you have to imagine the parasite horrors of $10000.00 different proteins and even more other molecules ready that it can play with in order to interact and down regulate the real system not to speak about that of the infection and the locality and all these things it's very complicated so far. except for a few molecules that for example have been shown to dargon lote

overcomes a very specific problem like receptors in shows of pollen you are in the immune system also playing your partner on septic infections they can be addressed as molecules but they are still in the brutal developments and we are not yet there are definitely the longer. perspective for a group of 19 we've seen which seems to be more or less round. so we went be relying on the worms just yet dr aqim her hour from on university thanks a lot for joining us thank you very much. and now is the part of the program where we pose one of your questions to ask science correspondent eric williams. if you inhale. does the number of viruses you inhale make a difference in your symptoms. this is

a really interesting question because it touches on a recent comment made by a top american health official that universally masking up might be more effective than a vaccine at protecting us from covert 19 the idea behind that claim is that although masks don't prevent people from being exposed to the virus entirely by limiting exposure they could help reduce the number of people who develop severe cases of the disease and the theoretical equation is that light exposure leads to more asymptomatic cases ed and there's some evidence to back that idea up from settings like cruise ships and meat packing plants where were people who were required to wear masks during tobit 19 elp breaks on average less severe forms of the disease no the exact amount of virus that it takes to make someone really sick

is a kind of a slippery concept called the infectious dose or viral and and there's no way to really tell for sure whether a higher infectious those causes more severe symptoms or not at least not in humans that's because if you really want to test the idea you're going to run into a major ethical problem you'd have to intentionally infect people with varying amounts of the virus and basically wait to see what happens next but we have carried out studies like this in animals for example hamsters and they do indeed showed that there appears to be. a correlation between being exposed to more stores close to and disease which is not really a surprise but of course other factors like like age and general health also play

a big roles and i'll cop. one and derek williams there and if you've got a question for derek you can submit it through i you choose channel that's all from this college 19 special if you do want more from us check out the dedicated coronavirus section of the d w website www dot com thanks for joining us and until next time take at.

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