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manager welcome to news isha glad you could join us thailand's a very monaco is facing calls for change from thousands protesting on the streets of the country in particular focus is the current king did a long who's wrong periods of stay here in germany have raised questions not just among his people but also in the german parliament here's mall. the protest movement in thailand is picking up momentum protestors are calling for constitutional change and want to reform thailand's powerful monarchy people want to really really go to the roots of grievances they want systemic changes. and they will do you know and these protesters our mary. and. and when we look to the root causes of that part of the sea these gene

compositions as the cause and i think the palace is. thailand's king along corn has a strong influence on most aspects of thai society and has tried to consolidate his power he is known and often criticized for his lavish lifestyle. but instead of ruling from his royal residence in bangkok. the king prefers to spend his time fountains of kilometers away in germany. this hotel in the bavarian resort town is where he normally stays for long stretches of time his presence in southern germany has been a tabloid sensation but it has also drawn strong criticism from thai activists including jr. who fled thailand and lives in europe since 2010. the thai people are getting more angry because he's not here to answer to at least.

stop into winning you know type what you think what he is here using. locations and continue to hope to say. she has organized the series of protests across germany to raise awareness and push for change in thailand like shining slogans against the king on his favorite hotel he implies if things became shouldn't be acting as head of state from a foreign country germany's government appears to agree. that we have made it clear that politics concerning thailand is not to be done from german soil. on top of that there are many bizarre reports about what is happening there. and this just in terms we would always oppose having guests in our country who run their state affairs from here. but the german

government hasn't announced any specific measures jr president sent a letter to the german chancellor and other leaders to urge the government to act the king has now returned to thailand for the 1st time in almost 6 months and is expected to stay for a few weeks protesters have vowed to continue demonstrating despite a crackdown things are not getting easier for king corn. and joining me now is poverty in charge of all associate professor center for southeast asian studies at kyoto university and himself living in exile in japan praveen welcome why do you think the king of thailand spend so much time in germany . well i guess there's a number of reasons as i heard you know no one no one not quite sure i think the 1st one is for the medical reason that you need to consult with regular doctor you know in germany so when i get this is about his personal lifestyle i think he's

a kind of a king who you know have some sort of a central. a correct good at least in bangkok he would be put to much under the spotlight popular local media so being away from home especially in germany you know he can be away from the thai press and he can be here you know as you wish and at the playfully but aria because it's not a bit like cosmopolitan in many way it can be a way you know from from the last crowd right government official and the head of a monarchy that is very revered ties but now this monarchy has suddenly become one of the 50 points a fortress in thailand are start happened. well i guess that when people think about king ramattan the current king. you can hear what have had to compare him

with his flock though much must be real. and exactly because of the opposite correct there is the copy to king which the p.s. one having earned a kind of moral authority whereas you know the correct one having no luck are such you know quality so people who see the stark difference between the 2 and are probably that we talking about here staying long term in germany i think a lot of chi people felt that the king is not responsible the king has left the people and attend it especially during this time of difficulty so you know window when the well and good in thailand had to go through coal with nike and so because of these. you know by that sort of push the way the people come on the street to protest against the king. you want to tie dissident to living in exile in japan but there are many thais who are still supporters of the monarchy i'm wondering how

that support squares with the criticisms that you have just leveled. well yes i mean the. political landscape has long been divided and i think the the political fault line has been drawn around a monarchy at least since 2016 political crisis. that you know witnessed the overthrowing of the government of passage in a while i think from that point onward society had become so wide it either you are royalists or you are not royalists obviously what i said you know especially my critical standpoint we said we would not be would be rejected by the royalists but i but i understand that you know disprove this they are sort of the extreme thing you know in terms of. simply because of the younger generation you can see them coming out on the street now these younger younger generation they are quite lucky

you know to be able to escape long your propaganda under the previous regime so that's why they have nor sort of let collection octave greatness of the poorest and that's why did come so correct this you know to come out to protest and speaking of this younger generation their own children modern constitutional reform and that come from minister for you john or just step down what is the connection between views demands and reform of the monarchy. well jamie is inseparable you know talking about the reform in general you have to include the reform but we're not considering that there were east in fact the sauce op the op the problems in thailand so that's why i think at the beginning the student cuts on the government meaning that you know to push through to call for producers to step down but now they move on to attack the monarchy instead because they know that talking about a monarchy would also cobble everything else in type politics. right the way the

protests are going and given the government response to it so far do you think the protesters demands were ultimately be accepted by the government no i don't think so or you can see the way in which the government has handled the protests from day one that they have children or side compromised and i'm talking about just the government for us that's why they continue to address callie and you could see that on wednesday night this crackdown on the protests there too not popular but it will not be also we have seen northside from king washable gone to be able to negotiate with the reform in fact he has remained silent and i'm afraid just silent is basically the answer to the reform we'll leave it there for the time emma thank you so much for joining us praveen charge of all funked on. now despite being one of the world's largest economies at least one 3rd of india's

children remain malnourished a condition that also makes it one of the top causes of mortality in the country but things could get worse as a coronavirus pandemic hits put indians hard. she knew weighs far too little 7 kilos at age 4 he has to be taken repeatedly to this hospital in madhya pradesh state in central india she knew is vinit to our walls 4th child a farm worker she cannot feed her family alone what about the one that my husband is a day laborer if he can't find work then we don't have anything to eat that night right now things are especially hard. she knew is not the only one this hospital sees around 15 such cases a day many of the children have never had enough to eat. look at this little she no can barely stand up on his own he's also mentally disabled these are the effects of malnutrition and frankly this is also because there is no family

planning. the villages near the hospital are very poor india has made great strides in recent years in fighting poverty and hunger but many rural areas have been left behind one out of 6 children here is severely malnourished nationwide there are millions. every morning mother seeking help come to the village children center many of these women feel overwhelmed they've never learned what children need for their development with some food and medical care these mothers get the basics on health and nutrition. i don't get a lot on how many mothers say that the gods will fix it that means we have to teach them the most basic things our souls for example what food is good for children kids need decent food and education that's the only way they'll survive.

through government programs and n.g.o.s india has been able to improve its position on the world hunger index from 102nd to 94th place in just a year. but aid organizations fear the coronavirus crisis could hamper those gains. when they are few what is source is i believe especially at the one level. even in the open areas for a large section of people that people don't have access to basic healthcare it is definitely going to increase the impact of malnutrition on the head of the u.n. wants to eliminate world hunger by 2030 to meet that ambitious goal india like much of the world has a long way to go. that's it for today there's more on deductive dot com forward slash even now with images from thailand where protesters on the streets have been

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asian in europe raises great concern. as they look at the surging numbers one expression is uniting many scientists are calling this time a cliffhanger moment what can the figures tell us about the best way to respond. welcome to the w.'s covert 19 special i'm jenelle that. we find ourselves in a time where each day sings to bring new sobering infection records governments everywhere are trying to push those numbers down while trying to stave off a lockdown but few have been able to avoid new restrictions we bring you with us report from france it's. lunchtime in the era of coronavirus the last time m.f. n e had fries she shared them with a friend who later tested positive for covert 19 and then ventured temporaries testing center close to university here in surgery not far from paris but she never

received her results it was annoying because over my friend's well meeting i'd like apartments or anything to just like leave and i couldn't even go to the school to like at them because physically when i cool so it was raining like but we'll just stay home and do nothing but. i think you have to go through that's it's not usual for test results to get lost in france but waiting for them isn't unusual recently people here often had to sit tight for several days in some cases over a week to get an appointment and the result time during which many others could have been infected france was hit is especially hard in the spring of the beginning of the covered 1000 pandemic that's why the country ramped up tests and it's now carrying out more than $1000000.00 per week like in this lab led by josh actually minutes he says the situation has improved. given

the facts that the requests were twice as hard we had to make sure that we could technically carry out the number of tests requested since that is on the big question. on today this situation is currently being resort city to us from. bad rapid testing is not the only solution cases are especially high in big cities like paris where the density of population is very high. this hospital in point of paris was going through a hard time during the 1st wave into our divorce scored an h in the covert 9000 response here he sees another main reason for the rise in numbers and france. the french population suffered a huge trauma during the 1st wave nevertheless with another wave we're seeing a relative lax behavior in people. devote says personal responsibility is key

in fighting the virus keeping a safe distance and meeting us few people as possible but since the virus is now heavily circulating in france the government is toughening rules in paris for example bars have to close down for now. we're joined by cutter enough and she's a live data scientist at the world data lab catarina since the start of the pandemic we've been inundated with numbers and it can be hard to derive meaning from that we've seen the death toll from corona virus worldwide past 1000000 now what does a figure like that tell us. first of all i think it tells us that we should really take this challenge seriously i mean one we can use find a high number and i think that a few months ago you wouldn't really ask me to imagine this but to really drive meaning from that on birth and to really be stand for something measures and i think it's even more important to look at countries numbers and especially

constitute big numbers of deaths and i think it still always all these numbers these things that make really puts into a new situation and to remain challenge and still we don't you know how the next months will turn out but why is it most important to get country specific numbers and especially of deaths does how does that help us get the most accurate picture of the impact of the pandemic. so 1st of all i think if we look at the number of infections versus the number of deaths in the herself infections obvious need to pend a lot and how much to review tests and the numbers of deaths i think they are by the report in almost every country of the ball so i think they give us a better picture of what use actually happening and how that situation really is i think however it can make sense to look at the number of infections if we think about short term measures that we want to take the number sections gives us a better picture wise and especially if we want to compare different countries

across the globe i think the number of excuses i'm using but. well comparisons have also figured quite prominently people would say compare fluid deaths to corona virus deaths as a way of putting these numbers into context how useful do you think that is as an exercise. well i think if we compare numbers of stats this can actually be quite misleading we compare 19 to the normal few and i think that in a lot of countries we can see that the numbers that's from 99 not so high so far microsoft in germany austria if you have the chance to really take measures quite early in this and that make i think here we should not be misled about another self debts but we should draw there are look at studies that analyze that infections at 73 so this is basically the rate of how many people are in fact that no matter whether you show symptoms or not really die of disease and here we can see that 19

is actually 16 times as that we estimate from him so i think that's the best comparison. 16 times as deadly as a normal flu without is a staggering figure of course i also want to ask you about the number of unreported cases we have to assume there are a lot how much do you think they affect their understanding of the whole picture. well they definitely affect our understanding of this picture and it's really hard to assess also how many on the part he says they are specially in countries that either cannot be one to test a lot or also in poor countries that just don't have the possibility to really get with measure of these numbers i think in this case it can be helpful to look at the total numbers of the us not only from the whole week but all over all and if you know more country you and compared piece numbers to the averages from the last years and i think this can really tell us have as the number of deaths increased

have people been dying because of it and that may. well i have to say katerina i worry that we lose sight of the fact that behind these numbers there are real people and real consequences for real lives to remind our policymakers doing a good job of remembering this when they design responses to the crisis. well i want to soon that they are doing their best and i think that in many countries also for example germany and austria they have dominant why they dropped so far i mean i think it's really hard to assess which messrs rogers we should take and i really wouldn't want to be in their place so i think in many countries they are doing a rotten job so far also and i think that the numbers are probably the most useful tool for setting measures and force the lemmings so i think numbers and they don't really give us the best guideline here and there are things that as.

posed to wife emotions or to feelings that we have with this one that make numbers can really help us to find the misinformation and also the insecurity that it's related to this and that range so i think that looking at the numbers and really trying to do our best setting different measures here is the best you can with which moment. numbers tell a story but you have to be listening thank you very much catherine offense of the world data lab we really appreciate your insights thank you for having me. and speaking of numbers here are the latest data off from more than 200 countries. the numbers show new cases doubling in 38 nations and increasing in another 79 countries. they stayed at the same level in 10 countries. 67 nations so seeing their new positive kovan 1000 cases decline another 8 are down by at least half and 8 countries have reported no new cases for 4 weeks in

a row here's the bar graph showing the statistics over the past few weeks the fight against the corona virus will be over when that whole chart turns blue so it's going to take some time. 'd and now it's time for our question over to our science correspondent derek williams. once dangerous is the pneumonia why not find a cure or treatment for the pneumonia instead of the virus. pneumonia is a blanket term that's generally defined as a more or less serious inflammation of tissue in your air passages and or your lungs it can be caused by a number of different pathogens both both viral and bacterial pneumonia that cove in $1000.00 can cause is generally initiated by the virus and can't be treated for

example with antibiotics which only kill bacteria when they're infected with source code to the cells in the small sacs in their lungs where gas exchange occurs what are called the alveoli begin to die and clog the lungs up and that can eventually lead to what's called acute respiratory distress syndrome as the pneumonia progresses the situation can be exacerbated by the immune system causing massive inflammation which is which is supposed to help get the infection under control but which can actually make things worse so so treating or curing coronavirus pneumonia means either addressing the problem at its root which is the sars code to infection itself or somehow toning down the body's immune response to when it goes over the top. and you can post their questions to derek on or you tube

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