more of the other stories making headlines now, starting in armenia, where protesters have taken to the streets for a 3rd day, calling for the resignation of prime minister and he called the shia. but he sparked anger by giving up large parts of the disputed nagorno-karabakh region in order to seal a peace agreement with the in the conflict with neighboring, azerbaijan. u.s. president elect joe biden has chosen long time aide to wrong clyde to be his white house. chief of staff, was declared, was a key figure during the presidential campaign and served as joe biden's top left hand. it's during his time as vice president in barack obama's 1st term a typhoon vanco has hit the philippines leaving millions without power rescue teams for overwhelmed in marikana city. close to the capital of manila. around half of the flooded houses have been flooded. it's the 1st typhoon to hit the philippines with as many weeks of the storms. now we can down,

he's heading towards being that china is condemning the mass resignation of pro-democracy indoor makers in hong kong as a political fast. and a blatant challenge. 15 opposition. legislator stepped down after 4 of their colleagues were expelled and the new powers to remove members of the territories parliament were deemed to be disloyal to china. a radical change for hong kong's legislature. the seats are usually occupied by hong kong's democratic parliamentarians, but now they're empty. as the session got underway a day after the mass walkout, one of the lawmakers resigning in solidarity protested he rolled out a banner in the foyer, criticizing city leaders carry lands decision to disqualify the legislative council . not long afterwards, the lawmakers took part in their last act, formally handing in their resignation, letters they cues beijing of trying to remove the city's autonomy and

shrines in hong kong's basic law. we all know that the central government in government can always say they're going to get that right because they have alternate theories of home. but the point is where does not a thing come in? if it was back that way, if the 15 lawmakers informally resigned on wednesday in solidarity with their colleagues who were deemed threats to national security by joining and expelled from the assembly. but pro beijing lawmakers dismissed the opposition's resignations as a political show would. i don't care, it's basically a fast, it's blackmail, and it violates the voters trust departs from what they call the principle of democracy. and it clearly shows they are against the central government. in beijing

denies its restricting hong kong special freedoms and says, what should happen in the territory is for it alone to decide jungle taught you. the hong kong legislative council is china's domestic affair. now while the country has the right to comment and interfere this lawmaker's walkout evokes strong feelings in the city. a mighty get. i'm very thrilled and i support the disqualification of the lawmakers. they've been creating chaos in hong kong, and they are against every policy of trying to help me because i've been given all about hong kong people that are part of our people, our lives not belong to our government. the lawmakers, resignations are a sign of escalating tensions between hong kong's ruling executive and the pro-democracy movement, which is determined to show their fight is not over yet. but the un refugee

agency is warning of a growing humanitarian crisis in northern ethiopia. they estimate that more than $10000.00 ethiopians have fled to neighboring sudan because of increasing fears of a civil war. dozens of been killed in fighting between government forces and the t., greit people's liberation front. since early november, the u.n., he's hurting nearby countries to keep their borders open to civilians. they have their representative for ethiopia has been speaking about the challenges facing the organization. 19 nations as a whole is neagle. see all the populations in need and asked for humanitarian corridors completion. this is not to leave. it's a dream that's meant to be easy. well, let's talk about this with

a freelance journalist. i get that welcome to day w. tensions between addis ababa and gries vision or government have been simmering for months now. and is this conflict likely to become a full blown civil war? well, there certainly many people, voicing concerns that this could become a large scale war. we've had the united nations, the african union, and so on calling for deescalation and negotiations that obvious met the prime minister was very clear when he said that the war will end once. as the g.p.l. left, leaders will be disarmed and arrested. so it doesn't seem like he's willing to cave in to any international pressure on this issue. he's also a promise to the ethiopians that the war will end soon, and that ethiopians will be able to go back to their daily lives. now of course, it is very keen on controlling the narrative on this topic,

and it's very difficult to verify any information on who really has the upper hand and to grey right now. because telecommunications are still a completely shut down in the entire region. there are also people of fearing that this will go beyond the well, it looks like we've lost our lives or our ideas of a brother, so unfortunate. let's move on a story now of bravery and basketball in somalia. it takes courage for women to take part in the sport, the girls, the girls who do take part, they face anger from their own families for playing the game, and they also get death threats from both the extremists basketball practice in mogadishu. in blistering heat, it's a tough routine for the all female team. however, it's not only these conditions that make it hard. most of the girls come here against the wishes of their family. and there's also the constant threat of attack

by gunmen who think women should not play sports publicly. while out of mogadishu is risky, we cannot openly say we are going to play. we put our playing clothes and shoes and bags and carry them like that to the field. and we pretend we're going to school or university. measure me despite the insecurity and with no government at the carriages also sorts us to do. we still love playing basketball or hit the house or not. katherine is some man and the coach is happy to have a space to play at all now and no one supports us that gives us equipment. and we do not have anyone supporting the players with uniforms balls and shoes. we even do not have a proper court. he didn't have a good idea that the local commissioner, however, backs them and offered the space for free. other than that,

it's enthusiasm and dedication that keeps on going before islamist attacks surged, somalia had a national women's team. and nasser mohammad was a player for them. this enables her to pursue her ashlan and help the girls i decided to train girls after i saw that the girls enjoyed and needed someone to train it up as this is also voluntary organisations, i came to train them for douse a trained hard. she would love to make it into a national team, but hasn't been one for the past 7 years. for now, the dream of one day being able to play in the open again. and maybe starting teams across somalia keeps the girls going up. but to try the 4 men under woman suspected of sexually abusing or enabling the abuse of at least 3 children has

begun in the western german city. one step forward asked earlier this year after hard disks containing incriminating footage were found at the house of one of the suspects. this is where the horror took place. a garden house on an allotment in the outskirts of minster in the west of germany. back in june 11, people were arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing children there. and filming their actions. investigators say they had identified at least 3 of the victims, age 510, and 12 on videos in photos seized in the basement of the main suspect. the 27 year old man, all victims were related to the abusers. the mantra of the shield was surely the 27 year old. the keys to is said to have committed numerous abuses and to have documented these abuses on video or photo made. these are accessible to all of the persons the darknet going to darkness. and

this is presumably only the tip of the iceberg. the main suspect already twice convicted for possessing child abuse images is in 1902. investigators, highly professional electronic equipment containing disturbing proof of the abuse has been found at his home and a garden house indies. and, you know, all the fancy in this basement room was a server cabinet with 7 survey units larger when the storage volume amounts to more than $500.00 terabytes already according to initial calculations. and this is not exhaustive. there are guards before man stand accused of having sexually abused, drugged and injured to victims. the woman accused of condoning the crimes is the 45 year old mother of the main suspect. she owned a building where the abuse took place and worked as

a kindergarten teacher in minster to try all should shed light on the extent of the abuse and on the child abuse network. so far, all of the accused have remained silent. this is state of new news live from berlin, coming up next on news asia. after this month's devastating islamic states attack on kabul university, i. d, w 5, so many afghans have lost hope that years of war and terrorism will end soon. philippines faces more misery, as they say it enjoys the latest of a string of devastating storms in just a few weeks' time the president elect and noodle diplomacy will see how the u.s. soft power is impacting lunchtime in china's capital. melissa chung will have their stories on asia in just a moment. i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news. of course in training there's always the web site, e.w. dot com, good or

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who is medical really what moves and also who talks to people who follow her along the way, admirers and critics alike. how is the world's most powerful woman shaping her legacy? joining us from eccles law stops. you're watching the daily news asia coming up today. attacks in kabul have put a city already familiar with violence on edge with the rise in ice is terrorism due in part because extremists badly want to derail ongoing peace talks between the taleban and afghan government. more misery for filipinos as typhoon vanco sweeps through their countries north is the latest in a string of destructive storms that have hit the philippines over just a few weeks. plus the president elect and middle diplomacy will see how soft u.s. power is impacting lunchtime in china's capital. i'm

melissa chan. welcome to g.w. news asia. thank you for joining us. afghanistan faces a greater threat than the taliban with an increase in the number of tax claimed by islam state its capital. kabul especially has experienced more violence. earlier this month, gunmen stormed university, killing 32 people. most of them students as ports. there's little confidence that the government can in short, civilian safety, and there is even less hope when it comes to seeing the government negotiate a deal to end years of fighting law students still finds it hard to go anywhere near the university of kabul. he was taking part in a seminar when the attackers came, he seeing his fellow students for the 1st time since the attack. the only topic of

conversation is how they managed to survive. that day when they heard the shots, they knew something terrible was happening. everyone was screaming, but suddenly it was quiet and we heard someone saying a prayer behind the door that was the suicide bomber right before he blew himself up. it's only thanks to god that we got out alive. not everyone was so lucky. $32.00 people died in the attack and more than 50 were wounded. the attackers left a taliban flag behind the so-called islamic state later claimed responsibility saved his own life by jumping out a window. his physical wounds are one thing, but his emotional trauma runs deep. changed my life completely. all the goals i had before my life was carefree,

but it isn't anymore. i think about my friends at university who i couldn't help make it across the country. they were similar, almost every day. there were more than 50 deaths and hundreds of injured. the spiral of violence is growing worse, and the islamic state is claiming the attacks. their base of support is growing. and speaking out for a long time, the afghan people supported the taliban. they bought them ammunition and weapons. the taliban are negotiating with the invaders from the us. they are traitors. they don't want to kill americans any more. they act against devout muslims. as an image at a mosque outside of,

he preaches the state. he says the group's goal of a caliphate in afghanistan justifies its violence. afghans don't want democracy. that's a western invention. we need extremists and a dictatorship for this country. we are real muslims, and that's why we support the dictatorship and not the liberal elites. feminine democracy. like many of his generation that it was possible to negotiate with the radicals. he doesn't believe that any after all the attacks people here have become very pessimistic. i don't believe that there will be peace anytime soon. to get a sense of what afghanistan was like as a peaceful country, such as it has to ask his grand brother, there's been nothing but war here for 40 years. he'd like to change that. but he

has no idea how joining us is d.w. shammal shams, who has reported on the attempts for some kind of deal between the taliban and the afghan government and shell, the rise of islamic state in afghanistan. how serious is this? it is pretty serious, but we have to have a stand slumming state house to get around in the gun. it's not quite some time and they have been gaining strength for many years. but the are not stronger than the dollar. the taliban are the strongest militant group in a constant. in my opinion, they are not only in problem because they control who lost their carries in a constant. and they are the ones who all the shops. so in my opinion, more than stomach state the international community, the united states, the other congo, and needs to worry about what the taliban have been doing since that deal was

signed between the us and the taliban in february. and let's talk about the americans. do we expect abiding administration to do anything differently? i believe that i do would also like newsgroups to be drawn from a constant drum loaded. i think biden would be more restrictor with the dollar and would probably listen more to the a cock up. i believe that biden going to be different in a way that he would not give too many concessions to the dock and boxed up on it supports that. so i believe that biden big shots when he comes to power. he will deal with box the box on establishment the military stuff and is in a script a man who does what drunk was not doing. trump gave too many concessions to the

other bond and a lot of what is still adopting are still arriving in afghanistan. so we see a big assure light, a slight change in the policy, but logically, i believe it will remain this. ok. and just sort of looking forward after 4 decades of war, it doesn't look like they'll be a peace anytime soon. are we looking at another decade of conflict and suffering? i don't think so, because i believe all lobbies are quite tired of this war. this wall, it's been going on for 2 decades. all of them long out of the state and they want peace in our government. so i believe that it will not dragged on for another 10 years. it really didn't go well in drug negotiations are going to complicated. there are too many players involved in it. regional players and

domestic players, national players. so it is going to get a fair, but i believe god, it's not going to be this all. it's coming months and next year it is possible that they have gone gone, gone, authorities find a solution to this, this crisis, this conflict, shammal shams, thank you. so much for your time. storm battered philippines was hit by yet another one on wednesday, typhoon vanco packed winds of up to 155 kilometers an hour and made landfall overnight, killing at least 2 people. the storm has triggered the worst flooding in the capital in yours. a flood that submerged the tallest trees, washed away countless households and turned busy streets into rivers.

torrential rains brought by storm, has cost major floods in the capital, manila, and many other provinces in the north. hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated since wednesday, but many are still trapped. but think of only what my sibling was left there on the roof along with 4 children. they kept going to other neighbors roofs because our house was completely submerged, and all our belongings were washed away. vanco was the 21st, so i clone to hit the philippines this year. it worsened to situation in a country still reeling from the world's most powerful typhoon. just a week ago, gone the coast, 25 people and destroyed thousands of homes. it used to be a complete house. that part was too long, and that part was the kitchen and there was an army. but as you can see, it's all gone aisle. and just as the last straw went away,

rescue was already finding themselves in a new battleground. vanco has now weakened, but the half of that coast will take many days, if not months to heal from beijing has yet to congratulate joe biden for his presidential win saying the outcome would be determined based on u.s. laws and procedures that makes it a holdout among major powers, along with russia and chinese media, and scholars have been relatively quiet on the future of the relationship between the 2 countries. but at one chinese restaurant, american voters have already made an impact. this noodle joint in downtown beijing has been popular for years with local residents and tourists. but recently a new group of visitors as shown up national and international media. all came here yesterday by accident. but today i fear is this almighty god johnny as the count

here. that's not a starbucks surprise. funny actually. the reason is america's new president elect in 2011, joe biden, america's then vice president had lunch here. and something we felt very honored to say that he had his lunch and talk to our chinese customers to know how i felt, he was a very decent and easy going person. he just say, mrs. e., i was father opened this traditional beijing restaurant in 1996. mr. biden's visit the restaurant has become well known beyond the city. this is ya does not want to talk politics, but her preferences are clear enough to break down, because biden came to our restaurant. many people in china got to know us. i thought when i get a kick out, they know he came job place to try traditional beijing dishes and they wanted to try them out themselves only if it. yeah,

that's why we feel very positive about him. he might even say we are supportive. change the restaurant serves traditional beijing dishes noodles, pork buns, and livest you. it's a simple neighborhood joined the chinese public quickly noted the modest choice at the time biden paid just 12 u.s. dollars for a lunch of 5 people. this really shows how nice the food is here. it means chinese cuisine has already made it to the world. the u.s. and china may now be pitted against each other as rivals on the world stage. and when it comes to new diplomacy, this is, you know, this restaurant is coming out a winner. that's it for now. be sure to check out our other stories on dot com for slash asia or on facebook and twitter. we leave you with more pictures of the aftermath of the storm in the philippines. thank you for watching. we'll see you next time and good bye

to the for the fight against the corona virus pandemic has the rate of infection been developing. what does the latest research say? information and context virus update. on t w. o many push ups road all the more. right now, climate tree, different top stories. this is much less. it went from just one week. comment

was, can really do we still have time to and i'm going to subscribe like this over 30000000. people have contracted, covert and recover it. they now believe to have natural immunity that typically offers better protection than a vaccine, but the price is higher with so many unknown long term effects. vaccines may not be quite as effective, but they're also not as dangerous. not only not an influenza. and i was very well one, even in some compare it to

a hangover human trials of several vaccines now to positive results. but that doesn't mean life will go back to normal just yet. here in an old people's home in italy, the vulnerable can once again get close to their loved ones, but in a different way. we're making progress. the serum institute of india, the world's largest vaccine producer, says it's made 14000000 doses of astra zeneca, potential corona vaccine. it's a bold, 600 participants for late stage trials, and soon it will be making novak's rival short as both seek regulatory approval. and he has vaccine is big service has always been important enough from donating blood since a young age to holding treatment the grapes. he was disappointed when he couldn't join the indian army to serve the country, but then another opportunity and he's not indian from 1000. the route that came

along, he volunteered for the clinical trials of over acts of a covert vaccine being developed in india. people told me it was risky, but for me it was an opportunity to be of service. i'm happy to dedicate my bodies, my country, my fellow countrymen, whenever i needed it was this enthusiasm to wall until for the covert vaccine trials that stood out for dr. savage, that in previous clinical trials talked about mark has led to much more convincing to find volunteers for this one, she had hundreds calling in within days. so many people came forward because they wanted to do a greater good and make a phase one only within 34 days we had to have people in tears that instead with us i'm just isn't just individuals in india who are trying to play their part to help

deal with this pandemic 1400 kilometers away in the western city of tony is home to the world's largest back seemed to do so in the settlements due to end up producers over $1500000000.00 vaccine dollars every year for use in $170.00 countries. now, it is poised to play a crucial role in the global bid for the don't know why this laxity. this facility is producing $13000000.00. this is all fuel for a vaccine every month. it is set to stop by a $300000000.00 do this by the end of the u. . we rejigged out capacities. we sacrificed a lot of products that we were going to launch in europe us. and that's why we were able to have that much spare capacity available for making these 45 different covert vaccines and only at a low cost of a few 100 rupees. duffy fortify your goods. with the help of the gifts

foundation, the institute is investing to provide vaccines to over $91000000.00 combined trees at an affordable cost. for other back cvs at different stages of trials are also being produced to. none of these have been a food yet. but the company's c.e.o. or other point of allah is confident that stopping production already with the support of the indian government is the day if and when the vaccine is licensed, we have a lot of product that we can distribute. of course, it's a risk of the product for whatever reason feels of the last minute, which now let me say looks very unlikely. now things are looking far better, please for the oxford astra, zeneca vaccine, which makes it one of our low expects emergency approvals for the oxford vaccine to come through early next year back and drop back. now the meat will still be coming in full for their tests. next year that check how well he is doing with the back.

and he will not be alone by his father was at 1st, voted for the safety of his son. he has now been sweed by love needs enthusiasm about the city who is now a vaccine trial volunteer as well, and proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with his son in what he sees as a service to the country and to the world. while scientists continue to work on a coronavirus vaccine, let's talk about vaccines versus natural immunity. so what's better getting infected, recovering or becoming immune or an actual vaccine when it comes to covered? well, at this point, it's hard to tell because we don't actually understand exactly how long lasting, how long lived natural immunity is after the 2 infection. so far, the data indicate that antibody responses are quite durable,

at least over the course of 5 to 6 months. but we don't, don't know how long that will last. what we do know is that from, and any coronavirus other coronaviruses that cause the common cold, that the immunity is not that long, that you can get reinfected after one or 2 years. and the hope is that with the vaccine and used immunity, that they will be able to produce a more long and more robust immunity than natural infection does. because for some other diseases, the vaccine actually does enjoy a better immune response than the natural infection. and then vice versa with others like measles. exactly. so there are examples from both. there are some examples where our natural infection induces a much more robust and long lived immunity. then vaccines have been able to do and other examples that vaccines are better than the natural infection. and then often

as do with the pathogen or the virus that causes the infection, is that bars has the capability to escape the immune system, as in the case of h o, b, or certain herpesviruses, the viruses are able to hide from the immune system and the hope is that you can create a vaccine that is able to bypass this property of the, of the virus to ha and, and this plate and use a more robust and more long lived in unity. there is also, there are many unknowns as far as the long term effects of covert go. i mean for young and old blood clots, heart damage, chronic fatigue, memory loss, fertility issues, seizures, temporary paralysis, increased risk of poc and since outside is there any added in any others that you'd like to add to the list? no, definitely. there will be long term consequences. of covert 19, at this point,

it is still too early to tell the whole thing, but they will be and how long these these consequences and long term effects will be. what we do see is that there's quite a substantial proportion of people that suffer from fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome. that is a very severe condition that basically descent leaves, patients unable to or unable to go about their normal lives for several months. then there is other effects such as off the respiratory system, you see people severely compromised for several months after the infection. and of course we have these neurological effects that you mentioned. so in addition to the quite high mortality and the strain on the healthcare system, we have to take into account those long term effects. and that makes it more important even to have is the fact of the accident. and what do you expect an

effective vaccine against kobe to be able to do? so the studies that are currently being carried out and also the 1st study where results have been reported have been designed in power to show every doctor in public to infection symptomatic infection. but i would hope which is a secondary endpoint of many of the studies. but i would hope, and i also think that they will be able to do is to reduce the frequency offs of the equipment, which means reduce the frequency of failure. the people have to be into bit and treated in the i.c.u. and also to reduce mortality from berlin's shot at a hospital life effects on the thank you very much. finally, your questions is our science correspondent, derrick williams, by on tack. and pfizer have developed

a vaccine to prevent covert 19 are there pharmaceutical companies also working on therapies to cure patients who already have it? as we'll celebrate very promising interim that seem candid, it results and look forward to possible breakthroughs with others soon. it's kind of easy to ignore the elephant in the room, which is that covert 19 is going to make this winter in the northern hemisphere of long, hard and likely very grim, even in a perfect world with a vaccine approved by the end of november. it will take many more months if not years to distribute it. and although doctors have gotten better at treating patients, thereby improving survival rates, we still don't have really effective drugs to treat those who become ill or who become very ill. in fact, a major disputed pre-print study released by the w.h.o.

last month. more or less said that most of what's in our medicine cabinet now, that can be produced at a large scale, basically doesn't really work. so why don't we have more compounds to help people who have the disease and are in dire straits? well, for a couple of reasons. in some ways, developing tailored treatments is a trickier process than developing a vaccine. because vaccines all do the same thing, they stimulate the immune system to fight off an invader, so we can judge end points pretty clearly. can it do that safely and can it do it effectively? but treatments usually have incremental effects and can affect the disease process in a lot of different ways, which is why in the search for therapy, we focused on what are called repurposed drugs, treatments that we already have that work for other diseases. and most importantly,

that have already proven safe to take because it all had to go fast, right? so, so yes, thousands of drugs have been screened or are in repurchasing studies and some are promising. but as, as we approach a year of covert 19, we still don't have therapies that can knock it out effectively.

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