yes rate since april when the kountry was today knocked down has minister yen span warned of crawling complacency in the population and called for responsiveness rate since april when the kountry was to knock down has minister yan span warned of growing complacency in the population and called for responsible behavior 2x6w8xw people cooperate the chances of the virus spreading will drop dramatically like that is the good that this pandemic is or so character tests for us as a society and we can only pass if we pull together minds in recent days authorities have tightened restrictions in high risk areas such as the capitol building from saturday on the way it's a curfew will be imposed on bars and restaurants many prices post soaring cases but according to the account trees leading vajrayana g.'s rest trick sions alone one suffice it is not sufficient to impose its that people don't understand until the

cooperation of the population especially in the coming weeks and months. over all the autumn and winter. is probably one of the most important functions of the whole concept to intervene. with spalls school holidays about to begin the government has called on citizens to avoid travel abroad most of the tammany 16 states have though so agreed to a ban on overnight stays at hotels for visitors from high risk areas in a bid to curb the surge of new infections. now earlier we spoke to epidemiologists stefan willich he's the director of the institute for social medicine epidemiology and health economics at the charity hospital here in berlin we asked him about the hospital capacity in the german capital and whether he agreed with one top health official who says the spread of the corona virus in germany could become uncontrollable. i don't think this warning is justified particularly not given the

current numbers not even in spring time. hospital the passage here and intensive care capacity it was was even remotely used in germany we obviously are well aware that in in some cities in italy and spain and also france and probably also u.k. there was a of there was a shortage but in germany there has never been a shortage due to give you a clear idea currently about 3 percent of intensive care unit capacity is used for a car with 19 patients in berlin and that is probably representative for journeys of 3 percent only there is huge capacity. i don't see in the forseeable future that healthcare system could become. overburdened.

again that's epidemiologist stefan felix on the charity hospital here in berlin speaking to us earlier. 5 years ago russia intervene in syria with airstrikes turning around the civil war that president bashar al assad's troops had almost lost since then his regime supported by russia and iran has regained control of most of syria only live provinces still controlled by rebels who are supported by turkey a ceasefire began in march but an increasing number of airstrikes has left people fearing a new offensive by assad's forces. even when he's making t. plane spotted. focuses on the job not to miss a single military plane taking off from the bases controlled by the assad regime. the 41 year old has set up a mini listening station to follow syrian and russian radio communications at

a secret location for security reasons along with 1000 volunteers he monitors all air traffic over you clip around the clock. the most when we can listen into the pilot's radio communications and find out his destination so we know where the bombs might fall of them like i do this work for civilians if we can warn them we can save lives and with and control. as soon as he spots anything they need warrants local civilians hospital sent 1st responders using radio and other networks. he says the number of air raids on eclipse has risen significantly in recent weeks although the ceasefire agreement is still in effect. on hold my biggest fear is that the russian air force will bomb adlib city because it is so densely populated. in recent weeks the bombs sometimes more than

20 a day have mainly targeted less populated areas but there's growing concern that assad and his forces are said to launch a new offensive also targeting hospital tent schools. in a similar way to the beginning of the year when attacks flattened the small town of coffee to move around. many families have since returned home but holiday halid from the local council has no idea how they'll survive the coming winter water supplies hospitals electricity generators have all be destroyed and covered 19 infections are on the rise. and. we can't quarantine people to protect them from the corona virus. so they've got to work to feed their families we would need support from relief agencies in our town but no one has shown up and even though. hundreds of thousands of people have sought refuge

in the sprawling campus of northern euclid province here too conditions are palling but there's at least some support from relief organizations. hamamatsu limine is among those who desperately need that support a year ago his house was destroyed in their raid one of his sons was killed after met lost both legs he's grateful for the 10 they were given but he's anxious about the winter that lies ahead. so right away i'm disabled i can't walk at all. we've got no income nothing at all your. comment says his wife left him because she could no longer bear the gloom and the misery in the tent since then his sister has been looking after him and her 3 children they've never known anything but war never been to school. whether you

were dancing the children i'm very bad change they don't listen to me. especially the elder sister driving us crazy. they just want their mother back. so what does the future hold how could they possibly keep going would move they do for heating when winter sets in what about the koran of virus and where can they go next if assad forces start a new offensive to many questions and no answers. let's bring in due to abuse of beer to short who just who filed that report that's a poignant piece we just saw you have been to syria you have reported from there do you also suspect that a new offensive is coming. this is very difficult to say right now we've seen more violations of the cease fire deal for definitely it's

not only through air raids but also through artillery if fire from both sides the situation is very volatile right now the turkish government has sent deployed more troops into the region to support the rebels and russia really want these troops out so what we're seeing right now is more a situation which is influenced by the difficult for life in ship between russia have to keep rather than a fight between a satirist and the rebel forces you opened your piece with that flight spotter there it appears to be a fairly sophisticated system could you tell us how that works yeah there are at least 5 spotters in the in the region. and other souls who are operational in the us has had areas close to the military bases which are controlled by

a sad regime and what they're doing actually they are collecting day tell like what is this plane leaving the airport which sort of plane is it and they feed all. all these data into a program called said tree and this program which was developed by to us americans this then i guess is where the distillation off of the plane is and issues a warning and that triggers automatically facebook and other social media messages tweets and most importantly lots high readings in the sirens and supposedly affected areas and this is a huge improvement for the people on the ground because they have at least some 7 minutes to prepare for possible as strike and seek refuge i magine that is something of a godsend for the people who need live province now imagine you also in fairly

constant contact with people there how much aid is getting to the people of in them . to cut it short not enough at all the local relief organizations on the ground are really doing whatever they can but they don't get enough aid in and the situation deteriorated in july when the so cold across the border mechanism ex-pirate and this mechanism allowed the u.n. agencies to bring in a without asking us how true. this was crucial because often try to block 8 which was supposed to go into the rebel held areas so now when the when the mechanism expired russia pressed very heart and insisted on reducing the border crossings from 2 to one so now. the mechanism is reestablished but there's only one open border crossing for for a to come in and this is not an off one border crossing. we're going to really

appreciate your perspective and your insights. turning now to something completely different a world championship surfer is counting his lucky stars after an extra close encounter with a shark on australia's east coast the close call was captured by a drone former pro surfer matt wilkinson is seen paddling on his surfboard when the shark briefly surfaces within striking distance then abruptly swims away wilkinson later said he heard a splash but didn't realize until he was back on shore how narrowly he ticks kate becoming the 20th shark attack victim in australia this year. this is deja news a live from berlin this year's nobel literature prize has been awarded to the american writer and poet louise flick the swedish noble academy said she had one for her unmistakable a wedding writing on themes of childhood and family lines. coming up next

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welcome to news asia it's good to have you with us there is anger in bang others after news of the gang rape of a woman in the country's south went public the woman was stripped beaten and assaulted by a group of men who also filmed the crime and made the video public student organizations and activists demonstrated in the capital dhaka against a dissident they are demanding amongst other things speedy trials in rape cases and capital punishment for rapists authorities have so far at least 6 people in connection with the case. spoke to some of those participating in the protests this is what they said. we have come out today to give

a strong answer to those across the country who are playing with women and children's lives in the name of sexual harassment. committee. just by being molested today in a public bus by the attendant i have come to protest how much more do we have to bear we don't want such a bangladesh i want freedom i want to save my mother i want to save my 2 year old sister from all this we don't want this kind of a country sara san is a lawyer and a human rights activist she joins me now from the buying of the she kept will talk out. do women in bangladesh feel safe in that country. i think unfortunately not and it's at the moment there's a huge crisis on where women and men together protesting about the total lack of security for women in this spate of extremely violent and or endless rapes that have been reported but as a general rule i think that women don't feel safe whether it's on the roads or in

their homes or in their workplaces it's different forms of gender based violence or quite of a sieve and there really is a kind of impunity in these cases that we see which leads to this sense of insecurity that there aren't enough efforts to prevent it and when these incidents happen we don't see in general we don't see effective prosecution so for most women the fear of violence wherever you live is very much a daily reality you spoke about prosecution and the protesters are demanding for instance speedy trials on capital punishment for rapists are you saying that the legal system in bangladesh is letting down victims of report instance. and you know i think these demands a disturbing and they're disturbing because they show a lack of confidence they share a kind of destruction of confidence in the legal process and i think they come out of a sense of extreme frustration in people that they found on the legal system to work

to confound on getting justice for victims and survivors of violence so they come from that space but what we really need is not not calls for the brutal violence of death penalties and you know exchange punishments i think what we need is to look at what is not working in our system why it is that the majority of women who experience violence we have we have data showing that not more than 2 or 3 percent of those women ever seek any kind of protection from anybody they never seek any kind of legal remedy because they don't feel that they have access to the system so i think those are the places where things need to change the police need to listen to women they need to accept complains when they're made to them they need to investigate them promptly the fission leave we need to have protection for victims we don't have that in place a little commission has drafted in all almost 10 years ago us measures to be put in place to ensure protection for victims and witnesses the law still hasn't been

considered by a parliament and many people are talking about this is an epidemic of violence an epidemic of violence against women happening during the epidemic in the pandemic of it and there's no reason for us not to address it it's not the 1st time we've seen these kinds of protests the gathering storm this time we have seen the full and in the many times in the process you see that it's only when people galvanize on the street it's only when these demands made that finally the state responds and tries to make some changes speaking of the response from the state bar nothing has a woman prime minister sheikh hasina one would think that safety of women would be a priority issue for government so that all these recommendations that have been made in the past can be implemented is it a total of 5 or 10. i believe it's a priority in the sense that there are certainly policy measures that are in place there are high level political commitments also made by the prime minister has and by this government about protection against violence against women we have

specialized legislation on violence we also have mechanisms like the police have a victim have victim support centers medical hospitals in many districts have a one stop crisis and so in a sense the architecture is there we have part of the legal system the legal framework also there but not only in bangladesh but in many of us south asian countries our legal framework is is up still a largely colonial framework so even the definitions of of rape come from the from victorian lower they don't they're not in they're not consistent with our new modern understandings of basic rights human rights and our constitutional rights and so on so i think although there are policy commitments in place a lot needs to be done to overhaul our legal system to ensure that it is rights friendly and it is women friendly and it's not the case but even more critically i think the real problem is in force and of the laws that we do have and meant much of the current protest is about this enormous sense of frustration and resentment

that the legal process is not a fair process it's a highly politicized process and it's a process in which influence whether bought by money or bought through political political pressure can change the course of proceedings for victims that's why women don't get justice the end of the day and that's those are some of the recent cases that have catalyzed these protests are exactly about that that highly politically influential connected people are involved in these processes so you know there was a time and i thank you so much speaking to us around saying thank you. to pakistan next but a biscuit advertisement has set off a debate on what is moral and immoral in islamic pakistan the control of a seat of old around a well known actress in pakistan may be dancing in an adventist bun for a famous biscuit brand i ought to to this video.

i'm sure there is a biscuit that eventually shows up for that ahead in this advertisement but to help us understand what the entire controversy is all about i'm joined the studio by deed of losers be nice job or welcome how does a biscuit advertisement generate a debate on what is moral and what does not involve. purchase none has. because i think something. are not happy to see a. dumb thing like this and brought and one of the journalist who did it at the peak of his more conservative journalist and he started this debate on social

media by tweeting. now done think will be used to sell biscuits wasn't pakistan created in the name of islam and british this tweet was liked by more than 15000 pakistani and it was indeed to be did almost 4000 times so he gained a lot of support on social media he was countered by a more progressive pakistani science minister from charley who said i'm in st why you keep searching for where you got it why don't you do something productive so a debate got quite intense an interesting and i think by this and a feminist they're going to money she summed up it like that if you can't woman done thing is sexual rather than beautiful you are the one with the problem so the debate in the news but about diverting so much out crude how come. it is i think this outreach highlights the very 4th lines that exist and pakistani society there

are competing views and competing ideologies in pakistan so there are people who want a more kilpatrick's state there are people who want strict implementation of the rules and barca's than i think they're of like to have a system of like saudi arabia but then there are people in pakistan who want a more liberal country they want a more open society they want pakistan to become a part of global community and a country where women are not suppressed and women can express themselves and can view their own where would they want to be in this increased cons a very does a lot of fodder do is this a recent phenomenon in the apartment so what if it is it has changed from what it was in sixty's and seventy's to what it is now today and pakistan it was in 80 s. when islamization and suppression of women started there was a minute to dictator who pushed for a country which has more stricter origin of islam. and he pushed for

a country very woman stay at home don't go out and buy dissipate equally along with woman along with men in this society and i think if you talk to pakistani people some of them have a foreign memories of what pakistan was like in sixty's and seventy's and i know one of my college principals used to adela's that when she was young she could wear a sleeveless shirt and would cycle to her college in the heart but i as a woman could not do that i did not have i did not enjoy that kind of freedom in pakistan so all way years things have changed and i think there's a sense of fear among liberals that islamisation has influenced masses in pakistan and we see when i read something like this happens people who have more conservative views they gain a lot of support what about the more liberal voices in society are those worse is being heard. again it's a difficult question to answer there was this idea in pakistan is increasingly

talking about human rights they are showing that concern about women rights and then when there's a very strong movement in pakistan women march or it's also called audit march and it has gained a lot of attention of urban men and women in pakistan and this movement is basically talks about hypocrisy is that exist in pakistani society they're very provocative and very walk about what's happening in pakistan and dad of course attracts a lot of negative attention and the criticism from the more conservative segments and baucus and his id but i think this spike is any movement that also libya the hypocrisy is that exists in pakistan is this idea specially when it comes to warn of women and backers than i think you see a lot of b.c. a lot of concern among the civil society recently there was an incident in pakistan that a woman was raped late night on a motorway and the local police chief actually just criticised the woman that you

know she was that. she was. at the wrong time on board and there was a lot of outreach an angle among pakistani people and the kind of pressure the government of pakistan needs to do something so that bowman in pakistan and i think there are people talking about it showing concerns and i think god to me. and his driver thank you so much for coming in and break this down for us thank you and that's it for today there's more on our website. we're back tomorrow at the same time about. combating the pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and. our corona update. from the covert 19 special next on d w. don't entice me and i

ask him to jurors or dealing with anyone at all i killed many civilians that come including my father while. i was a student i wanted to build a life for myself. a sudden my life became elish kind of. providing insights global news that matters d. w. made for mines. deaths from the corona virus have devastated millions across the world. many couldn't say goodbye to their loved ones. funerals were restricted making grieving difficult. but even in normal circumstances one in 10 affected typically develop prolonged grief disorder. kovar deaths have been even more

traumatic for the bereaved as specially at a time when getting the support they need isn't always possible. nice to have you along dealing with grief is hard enough but in the middle of a lockdown during the panic of a pandemic or surrounded by bulldozers filling mass graves that's not easy but it's important to deal with there are major health problems to think about and consequences for life. teri schultz reports on one belgian family's loss. the world has lost a 1000000 lives. one of them meant the world to 10 year old lorenzo my grandpa was the best his grandpa luke picked him up from school each day and what. we made don't work and after that. we just played and

couching just didn't really want to deal. mostly i got snacks easy but their hometown st truth was hit early and hard by the coronavirus we had 53 people. who had to enter the hospital and we only had bets for 20 people but luke was already hospitalized failing fast he said if i don't make it police take good care of the child he didn't make it on march 23rd luke became seen truants 1st corona death janine their daughter's nella and elaine and lorenzo didn't even get to see goodbye now that really hot. it struck was really all. mayor very early hit and felt it personally her husband became critically ill but survived it was

a terrible time for the families but also for us as a mayor but also all the people of my policemen and you know the people in the town working for 24 hours a day 6 months later seen treated has the infection rate under control with strict measures father room 10 and he says now inhabitants need to heal it's important that we share. with each other what we feel what we want or are and shrinks are the 2 but also or the. mayor here and decided to create a space for that a corner of a city park is now a memorial the theme forget me not plenty of those flower. as had been planted by city landscaper d.v.s. summers with the tree of life and a plaque bearing a poem in the heart of. the flowers will come so yeah even when it's. it will be

a little bit. beautiful. for the memorials dedication september 13th lorenzo was asked to commemorate his beloved grandfather he told his mom nellie he was too afraid to look at life they were gonna laugh at me. but lorenzo changed his mind and wrote a letter leave. your grandpa i miss you very much i am mad about corona mad about what happened you were dead best and always are going to be the best you think he said. that i was brave and i was happy that i did it that i. throw it all out. who is happy. everyone lies. in the sunni grandpa. no one here will forget some.

really powerful stuff there and a great message about dealing with grief well martin i suppose and assistant professor for the department of psychology at the university of corning in the netherlands how do you deal with not being able to say goodbye. so this is this is obviously a very very difficult situation. for about. able to be physically present when the person dies and also the funerals can be quite limited in how they are arranged not so many people can be there the example we just saw and where there's a collective ritual to deal with these losses i think that's great i think you can also creates a more private rituals with friends repeat close to the deceased. too to say

goodbye to cease again when it wasn't what you were able to do that while before what is it about the pandemic what else is there that's making it so hard for people to cope with losses like they. now so there's a there's a couple of things you consider of course not being able to say goodbye or not being able to say goodbye the way you want to is definitely one of these factors. but there are also. many additional stressors that people are now experiencing for instance that mine. feels more difficult to get social support socially isolated lonely girls would be that they're. they're afraid to become ill themselves restricted to a house or or that they have certain i don't last is that they have to deal with such a financial moss' with most of the jobs and likely to just you know look sorry mum won't what are you going to say that i was it was going to say that if you look at

court 19 that's the civically it's a different story still because people are also dealing with the sudden loss. and loss that occurs after some time in intensive care during which it's really uncertain what will happen and i. know from the from side to literature these are risk factors for more security reactions but what will happen because 10 percent of bereaved individuals sits historically typically develop problems. grief disorder house cova going to change that yeah that is indeed the case stocks are after not lost due to natural causes we recently conducted the 1st quantitative study it's this topic were a white with a loaded lots and what we found in a very large surveyed 1500 people is that people who experienced loss to cope at 19 actually have stronger acute griefs those then people who experience natural losses

or just losses due to long term illness. and their acute reveals are more or less similar to. that experienced by people who 'd have experienced a natural loss so that we're talking about accidents murder or suicide. so so these are very strong responses and be can expect that in the long run to prevalence of the long grief if he's within this specific group a local will go up and i believe you also have new findings on people grieving those who've died from other causes than corona during this pandemic yes thanks for asking yeah we are we just had the breaks up that are. on this topic and what was really striking is that we found that people who experience loss not due to too corona to grown apart is actually also have elevated the grief levels

if the loss occurs during the pandemic but off the floor it so so that really shows us that also within this group. there is a people are experiencing more difficulties initially dealing 'd with the loss just in general is the internet making it any easier for people to grieve. well what you do see is that more people are meeting online and this is not really a substitute but i think i think that can be a way to stay in touch if you kind of meet face to face but i think you're you might be referred to 'd is that these treatments. and in that case i can say that internet based treatments are. available at an internet unless there's also groups working on that. so there's people from university of corning and people focus at university that developing our lie part of the behavioral treatment for long

pieces were specifically for people who experienced a loss to cope with 19 cases a very promising. modernised i thank you very much for coming on the show today. let's check in now with eric williams our science correspondent he's been looking into your questions on the coronavirus. will the developments in the creation of a vaccine for this corona virus help towards a vaccine against the corona viruses that cause the common cold. wouldn't it be great if something positive came out of this pandemic like other vaccines for other coronaviruses for example or or even a universal coronavirus vaccine of some kind while that isn't impossible but it's pretty unlikely any time soon with all the resources that we're throwing at a covert 19 vaccine we're learning more every day about sars cove 2 but we still have a long way to go in understanding the way that karuna viruses in general evolve and

the ways that they're transmitted and we still don't know nearly enough about what's called cross reactivity which is when the weapons your immune system produces to fight one infectious pathogen also work for others that have similar characteristics there's some evidence that cross reactivity in some people might be playing a role in how badly they get coded 19 or how easily they fight it off but it's all still very speculative one promising avenue of research for example that could help in the development of future corona virus vaccine involves what's called the 2 domain on corona virus spikes those proteins that stick out that the viruses use to latch on to cells that they're trying to infect researchers have discovered that these 2 domains seem to be pretty well preserved across the range of corroded

viruses that in fact humans there are quite similar regardless of which one you look at that's a great potential starting point for working on a broader coronavirus vaccine but but it's only that who knows though. maybe one day the work that we're doing to stop covert 19 might also finally help us stop it's much less deadly cousins. i felt see an excellent.

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