place 300 calls in one day. and i know because people are terrified, fueled by desperation, to protest and poll and show no signs of abating. you're watching the news of me claridge's and such training as the fight against the corona virus pandemic has the rate of infection been developing. what does the latest research say? information and context? the coronavirus update. 19 special on t w n u u m e. no years, yes, we can hear you and how the last 2 years german chancellor will bring you an angle out machall as you've never heard have before surprised yourself with what is

possible? who is magical? really, what moves and what? who talk to people who follows her along the way, admirers and critics alike. how is the world's most powerful woman shaping her legacy joiners? the metals last stop. has the coronavirus already found a way to beat the vaccines? a mutation in maine has led to mess culling in denmark. the new strain doesn't appear any deadly good to humans, but it does raise serious questions. what we have to value is over time, just for the purposes of the difference in transmission or clinical severity, or with the reason, the implication for diagnostics erections. but we're a long, long way away from making issue of the reason for

concern is that mutations have occurred in the viruses spike protein. that's the very target of the most developed vaccines. and officials have since discovered the corona virus on many farms in half a dozen countries. but the biggest producer, denmark is hardest hit, and it's become political with the agriculture minister, stepping down after the government admitted it didn't have the legal basis to order the nationwide college. there are more than 1300 main farms in denmark. many of them are in the minister palette of the office, including piano paterson's. the virus reached his farm in early september. he clearly remembers that day and going to cornea. it was like a wave passing through the stables. it began at one end with the animal, sneezing and losing their appetite, and it kept spreading. but one week later on the following weekend,

it was over. the animals were healthy, again. the new mystery going to be on a patterson also contracted the virus. now to be on the safe side, all of his 10000 to make will be called. he never imagined that denmark's meant farms could develop into hotspots. it is thought that the coronavirus stems from the animal world. it is believed to have 1st jumped from a bad species to humans via the pangolin in china. on denmark's make farms, it is now jumping back to animals from humans. once a mink is infected, the virus spreads to almost all of the animals on a farm in less than 2 weeks. viral and just are concerned about this. extensive transmission. and us from scott's team analyzed the mutation on the mink farms and

found it matched the virus found in some people in the region who fell ill. so we can see exactly how the virus spreads. it comes from humans, it is transmitted to minks where it spreads on mass and mutates in a manner we don't see and humans. and then it jumps back to the human population and thus to the rest of the world. never have every 3rd corona case in northern new england can already be traced back to the mink farms. exactly how it spread is still unclear. but with ever more mutations in circulation, especially those from animals, the pandemic will become difficult to stop. the vaccine could lose its effectiveness and the people who have been ill might not be immune to the mutation . so we would never achieve herd immunity. and that is why culling task forces are now rapidly traveling through denmark. the animals are killed with carbon monoxide in boxes like this one. there then

immediately incinerated, along with their valuable fur. protective gear is mandatory as any animal might be infected. and here we have to kill 39000 minks on this farm will be busy for 2 and a half days. we have 30 workers, 5 vets, and a standby team of 5 to 10 men here. and they will need at least another 4 weeks to work their way to all the farms. a total of $160.00 farms are affected and there are suspicious cases on many more millions of manx have yet to be called peter pan am barack, is an expert in food safety and so knows these are the world health organization in geneva. could you explain to us 1st of all, what's actually going on in the mix? how is the virus mutating? well, what happens is that we put into any population, human values,

and that's our code. it 19 bugs. and of course, just virus. this human virus has not lived up to the mean environment and therefore treatment station. when jumping from one of me to the next indeed speak many forms, it mutates and try to adapt to the new and vitamins. and that's what we are seeing . we have the virus, you know me and allowed to spread from one into the me over a period. ok, but the question is, could these mutations which occur in the spike proteins which are used to enter a host cell and are also targeted by most of the promising vaccines that are in development, undermine the progress that we've made on a vaccine that's very difficult to say because these mutations are difficult to predict, and we have seen so far and the traumatic we've seen one famous cluster finding variant mark. and he says that these would tend

to indicate that it so would be to listen sibyl sensitive to potentially flu vaccine, bit early days. and we hear much more studies to to get better understanding of that. but what worries us is the potential for another mutation, another of our agents that has not yet it's a pia. and there will be much more problematic with regards to a vaccine or will be more. 'd or easier to translate between him and so is the potential for one day when the patient coming out that he's not nice well and that not so nice to me. taishan. could that a car in any other animal? yes. include in any anywhere where the virus is allowed and attempt to mutate when it's jumping from one even if and only if you don't. and

that's more nicky. it will happen in a human population than where it is, continues to simply between humans and more likely to happen in inks or cows, goats sheep. it doesn't from initial studies, it doesn't. the virus doesn't seem to be in 15 peaks. easy. if he, if you can it's, it's very difficult if it's not at all it up to these miners and therefore jumping from one count of the next one key to the next would be a difficult process. and the most likely the virus will die off and are not. marriage starts when the meat will be rationed, it seems to be very well transmissible or in between makes and therefore it has to join quickly between one needs to the next in these big farms. again,

and each time it has not been seen c 2, it's much more likely to happen. or that most patients where it's not likely to, to, to effect the same laws or to transmit between and humans. but why is that happening? what is it about that makes and to me seems to have sales in there is pretty trucks and belongs very similar to the human scent there for the virus. and it's already an easy way to, to, to answer response really sorry. and we use ferrets. we use them very regularly as most of us, where we just call the nurses insurance. so it's not surprising that meat has natural affinity and society didn't seem to have arms. so is this the right approach killing the laws makes it's seems to be the logical

approach. because the only way to avoid it is to either to take the meat from the virus, meaning protecting the farms, the virus infect all these farms, or protecting the humans who are working on these farms. and what we have seen in past months is that this seems to be very difficult or impossible. and therefore, the only logical solution is to remove that makes it and barack from the w.h.o. . thank you very much. i think you could, dogs spread covered 19 a study by the university of crown and on the adam lucien school of public health shows, living with a canine can increase the risk of getting a virus has one doctor has to take extreme hygiene measures with their pets as it's not yet clear whether owners were infected by the animal or from taking it out for

a walk in public of into our science correspondent, gary williams. now he's been looking into your questions on the corona virus. how long does immunity last? once the disease is overcome, straight off the bat, no one can really answer this at this point, but that doesn't mean that it isn't worth talking about on this is really a key question, especially with the vaccine approvals, apparently, just around the corner. because immunity in people who got the disease will also sort of set the goal posts with the immunity that we can expect a vaccine to provoke. although the 2 aren't necessarily tied really closely to one another. knowing about one will at least allow us to make a stab at guessing the others. so this is what we know so far about immunity and people who've recovered from covert 19, we're over 10 months in and so far as far as we can tell,

very few people have gotten it a 2nd time just just a handful so. so that's positive. it indicates average immunity could last least a year as long as with other coronaviruses that are less deadly, possibly even 2 or longer, which was the guestimate force for sars. there have been worrisome results from studies that showed levels of antibodies falling in people who recovered from code at 19 just a few months later. but most experts say you shouldn't focus on that because that's to be expected. we focus on antibodies so much because they're one of the easiest markers for us to measure. but there are many other aspects to an effective immune response. ultimately, for societies at least the $1000000.00 question, is it really how long an individual is immune after catching the disease?

it'll be how long immunity lasts. after people get vaccinated, that's what will determine whether or not we heard immunity only then will the pandemic. and i've been fizzling for any other developments on the bar schedule website, w dot com slash of a one to a buck into the conflict zone, confronting the powerful muslims in a special edition of conflict zones on the crisis in the cauldron of the lawsuit, mentioning several fro beijing and pro-democracy figures. let me challenge the whole to justify what they've done and said some of their arguments to me felt to stand the test of time. conflict so focused on the good folks in the

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beethoven is for us. the tone for it is for every one of beethoven 202250th anniversary. here on dio, you after the mass rioting last year, hong kong may be quieter, but it's far from being at peace. this month of the city's local government, beijing forced out for pro-democracy legislators, giving them no chance to oppose the move further 15, resigned in protest of what they called an attempt to silence the last bit of dissent in the city. for half part chief executive, kerry love said hong kong is now needed an assembly comprised of take its

allowance. welcome to this special edition of conflict zone on the crisis in hong kong. over the last year, we've interviewed several probate janan pro-democracy figures, and we challenge them all to justify what they've done and said some of their arguments have clearly failed to stand the test of time. nathan law, a leading pro-democracy activist, fled to london in june after a warrant was issued for his arrest. this week i asked him if he'd ever believed his movement could take on beijing. and when i think we have already achieved a lot of things where demonstrate the courage and bravery of how calm people and making sure the world knows that well received thing and collaborating in combating the authoritarian expansion of china. so i think we have awakened the world, but the result isn't in doubt, is it, china will get its way,

beijing will get its way, won't it? well, beijing has been suppressing hong kong people at the cost of our basic freedom. and as a matter of fact, the world has been reacting to that suppression that a lot of sanctioning zen embargoes and also plenty of countries upon downing and extradition treaty hong kong shows that the well actually know what china has been doing and determined to counteract. last years, the rioting intensified raging war on protesters to expect what it called a blow from the sort of lore. victor got chinese lawyer and academic trying to suggest that this government had nothing against democratic rights. it was just against violence, so long as democracy, democratic rights are exercised, the peacefully and lawfully. everyone is a winner. no one is a loser. what we need to a pops in hong kong is violence. you. that is the key. you ignore the fact that

china's plan has been to chip away at hong kong's freedoms and democracy until they were all meaningless. and then beijing reassert full control in that. that's been the plan, hasn't it? well, no, not again. with due respect, i disagree. why should beijing of the central government in hong kong take away any, liberties or freedoms in hong kong or the deal they did. mr. y., like the kidnapping of 500 cong booksellers, is that didn't turn up in mainland china. the crackdown on those who led the 2014 process, the highly controversial decision to allow mainland chinese police to operate in the west cullen station. all this is chipping away at the freedoms of hong kong, beijing. imagine that people wouldn't notice this. i think we need to really keep an eye on the big picture that is ever since the 1997 hong kong has managed to keep its relative independence. judiciary independence, for example,

political system. there has been no change in set. or if you talk about specific cases, we can go into details if you have more time. now, remember when 10 shopping were still alive and he was the key architect for the one country 2 system. he said, for the record that if the one country 2 system will work out for the 1st 50 years, why couldn't it be extended for another 50 years? so there is an uncertainty as to what will happen in hong kong after 2047. i would say everything will come to their end if, for example, violence continues in hong kong. however, if stability, prosperity, development, and the improvement of the people's living standards are the normal things all the way leading up to 247. why couldn't the one country 2 system apply more years ago asking me you have to turn to me to make sure and point you know, hong kong in the overall magnitude of the scale of china or whatever bad things

that have happened the home of the past 6 months and things in china is, is, is at the best. it can be called a storm in a teacup. it's not going to change meaningfully. anything that's happening in people's republic of china had all what beijing is a happy about and adamantly is a pollster to is the violence in hong kong. let's be honest, as straightforward with them. no country either britain of the united states will tolerate the level of violence that has engulfed hong kong for the past 6 months. and that kind of warning fell on deaf ears in the streets of hong kong. with demonstrators were in no mood to step back. besides, by using violence themselves, they now have the attention of western governments. i put it to joey pro-democracy student that the protesters went so far as to kill anyone movement.

yes, i agree. and i am prepared to take that risk and you won't come out in public and say, we need to stop this. the british government has slammed last week and what it called the hard core minority said the violence was unacceptable. this is the sound of you international support, wavering and believing you isn't it? yes. well, i believe the escalation of thousands and with absolutely be very concerning to the international society. when all the free world countries are advocating using means to bring the situation to a tree restart, but they tell you that going too far already, doesn't matter. well, of course that matters, but i think the most important thing is about how can we hold our government accountable, and how can we bring them to respond to our demands. what about the judiciary?

you've heard criticism from judicial institutions in hong kong, heavy criticism. these are the bodies, enjoy considerable respect around the world for the impartiality, and if you are losing them, this is a really bad sign for the law society, for instance, of all forms of honor for violence, particularly against the police, the use of petrol bombs against the police, as well as the apparent attacks on the families of police officers and bullying of the children at school. who proof of those methods, bullying the children of police officers that school? well, i don't agree with those math that's still with us. and so you don't agree with the violence and you don't agree with the bullying of the children. doesn't sound as though there's much you agree with that. you'll stay silent anyway. now we had the africa using piece. i mean, for example, like peaceful rallies, marches to,

to express our consulates and demands. and, but the point is that we do not publicly condemn those actions, but still we try to use our peaceful means to use our own case for means to try to switch the tactics of those using intimidation, maffia, style, and intimidation. we have a report of one teenage daughter of an officer being heris by an adult while she was playing sport. they said to her, what your father is doing is disgusting since when are children responsible for the actions of their parents? well, 1st off, i don't thing any family members of those police officers should be responsible for their own disgusting actions and i'm able to, you're making them responsible. some of your people are making responsible bull in them. harrison. what i believe that is happening. but after or when the law society says it's happening, yes, i can deny that it is actually happening. but still we're trying to use play so tactics to, to bring the situation to

a resolution. and i believe like bullying family members would not be a very good way to solve the situation. the hong kong bar association. so do the hong kong airport constituted serious struction and was in open defiance of junctions granted by the courts. in other words, you broke the law. do you want to live in the street governed by the rule of law or only the moves that you like? of course i would like to live in a state of our floor. however, we can see that it is very obvious that the situation of where our flying home town is being broken, not by the protesters, but by the government itself fast. and i believe that's why protesters are marching on the street are taking on to the streets even though to know that it will break the law. and i believe she will return to something, you know, the most important is to fight to protect the rule of law in hong kong and judicial independence. but you are trashing it at the same time. while i believe breaking

the law to protect the law doesn't because well it is the government that forces us to take on the streets and to break the laws. it is not a private entity. so this is, you know, very forces you to break the law or do that the government far as i set it up to me . that's your interpretation. but here, here are these judicial institutions rule warning, you that criminal contempt as they put it impedes the administration of justice. and the fun checked will inflict grave and represent damage to the rule of law in hong kong, grave and irreparable damage. that's what they think you're doing to. hong kong doesn't matter. well, of course that matters. but as i have mentioned, what matters to most apps about whether we can actually bring a change to our political structure and our government structure. and that would be the common goal, and would be the most important go for us to achieve for this moment. and i believe,

even for the department of justice's self as in being totally independent for now, after, after the handover of hong kong from the british government to chinese government, we can see that our core values, our tradition where system is being encroached by the chinese government for a while, the protest brought results. the hong kong government scrapped a controversial extradition bill. it would have seen suspects tried in mainland courts controlled by the communist party. the police arrested hundreds of protesters in the pro-democracy movement, have plenty of other demands. foreign governments want them to open a dialogue with the government, but there was little appetite for them. if you ever sat down with the government and hold a dialogue, who would hold the talks for you? also, who could, who could authorize compromises that are essential in any kind of political dialogue? who in your movement could actually sit down and authorize compromises?

i believe nobody could represent our movement because as you know, the letters, nobody will sit down with you. you're not opening doors, you're closing doors. when we are going darshan, you just said nobody could authorize compromises that we consider room for you, represent you. while back you sort of not supposed to talk to you well back in june, the chief executive, caroline has tried to approach to several student you. there's a hong kong and we had rejected her offer because she requested a private meeting with some of this, didn't you? hong kong which, which is not even representing all the students in hong kong, it would be a start, wouldn't it? it would have been a start, it won't be a start, it will only be a end to our movement. because back in 2014, we see that caroline tried to talk to some of the student leaders, some of the leaders of the umbrella revolution. however, what we got our dirty after di, di, a lot worse, that was to crack down our family and then carol,

and enough of the any of her any of her promises in the dialogue. and we felt like, especially in this leaderless movement, it's very important for us to have a public dialogue with as many stakeholders in a society as possible. at least we can not only have the student activists talking to kerry land. ok, we have to think that other stakeholder, you've put forward 5 principle demands of the hong kong government. you and your fellow activists, that the government has only addressed one of them, which was the extradition bill, which they withdrew. but in fact, according to albert chan, professor of northern versity of hong kong, the government responded to all of your demands, just not in the way that you want it. you wanted an independent investigation into police handling of the riots. you didn't get that, but you didn't get nothing either. the independent police complaints council appointed 5 overseas experts from britain, canada, australia, and new zealand didn't get everything but they did respond. well,

i believe. what are we calling for is not only a official demand for official response from kerry lamb. what we are asking for is about a concrete actions by to hong kong government. we're asking them to respond to our demands by taking actual actions. by june, this year, beijing's patience would run out. it published the draft of a new law that opened the way for its feared security agencies. so operated will in hong kong, regina, a member of the city government and chair of the new beijing people's party, tried to play it all down. i don't think that talking about direct and forstmann of law enforcement of laws will continue to be the responsibility of our policeman. that's not what it says. it is against the basic on. no, no, no, that's what what you described. they did not say what you describe. they only said that some national security agency may be set up on the need basis as an mocambo macao, as our national security council, you have known what is that 1000000 and marshalling homes. that means doesn't mean

the bay. we must all be creative only when it's actually we know enough for the details. so you can't delay culpable resolution not you can't give any comforting but as you have not about this. and you cannot give any unwarranted accusations if there are no facts, you are making unwarranted accusations. will these agencies operate under mainland law or hong kong law? you don't know, do you? no, no, no. it's in the basic law. they must obey hong kong law that i said this, it is not clear yet what any new national security agency would be responsible for . it could simply be responsible for public education publicized here and promotion . you know, you cannot come to the conclusion that they are, they will be enforcing hong kong law. that's what they bring. that's what they do when they bring in their national security organs of the central police. government does a central people's government, that's what they are looking for. education is it, you don't know that again,

you aren't, you and you have no, no factual basis for making those sort of statements. you are simply making our sweeping allegations based on your own assumptions and bias when there's no assumptions and bias when you look at how the national security organs of the central people's government operate when they're in on the mainland. we're not talking about mainland. we're talking about one country 2 systems. let's come back to hong kong. it doesn't look as though it's one country 2 systems that have running in the national security organs have and imposing their security laws on hong kong. it doesn't look like 2 systems. it looks like one country, one system, if you do that, they are and acting. they are trying to enact a hong kong specific version which is consistent with our common law systems. if they just wish to implement, impose china's system on us, they could just apply this to us, china's national security law,

but they are not doing this. they are now consulting hong kong experts about and drafting a hong kong specific version for us to take account of our separate systems. those comforting predictions turned out to be wide of the mark when beijing security law was published. it was all that the pro-democracy movement had feared, and more whole cases could now be handed over to the mainland for investigation judgement and punishment trials could be held in secret. and though the new security agencies were not required to follow hong kong law to be fair, regina haven't seen the full text when we spoke, but she firmly rejected the suggestion that the law reflected beijing's paranoia about free speech and freedom in general. and that's a very unfair statement. in the past 12 months, the police have uncovered at least 22 cases up extremely dangerous key a.t.p.

explosive hole that inching one in the school. and lots of weaponry, dangerous weapons have been using a lot of so-called peaceful protests. you know, and innocent people have been killed. these are violent events have never occurred in hong kong. and there are people waving, promoting hong kong independence, you know, waving hong kong flacks or chanting revolutionary songs. you know, these are activities that no government would allow a lot of hong kong people are very angry about it. john fund revolutionary song. never an order. trying to get a lucia. yes, absolutely. a prophet everyone started to chant revolutionary songs in free countries. regina europe, you can go to london or washington and chant, whatever revolutionary songs you want, why don't you try it? it depends on whether the songs are chanted as in an opera, livesay rappler. 7 or chant as a part of a well organized and well planned action plan to stalk separatist sentiments. at

the end of the day, your, your reason your pitch to the people of hong kong is trust. staging. this security law will not be used in the same way that beijing uses its security laws to tamp down on freedoms on the mainland. this is what you are asking them to accept that china is not going to behave the way behaves on the mainland in hong kong. do you really believe that? of course, trust our motherland. our motherland has nothing but good intentions for the people of hong kong and also trust the basic law. trust one country 2 systems which has worked well in the past 23 years. you know, why doesn't it have better attentions towards its own people on the mainland? why is it torturing them in prisons and locking up a 1000000 wiggers in so-called reeducation camps? why is it doing that?

i must ask you to. i must ask you not to confuse and feels the issues, but keep talking about making allegations about the mainland, which have nothing to do a one country 2 systems. i ask you to come back to the situation in hong kong, how one country 2 systems really operate and don't allow your biased talk color your, you know, your reports on hong kong, that's totally unfair to hong kong people. i take strong objection to that. whatever the objections, the chinese president xi jinping has moved indisputably to cement his hold over hong kong and his record on the mainland speaks for itself. the most serious crackdown on human rights there for 25 years. because beijing really believed the people of hong kong would give up their rights and embrace the restrictions, censorship and political dictatorship of the chinese communist party fit to go out again. let's be honest about it. china is in firm control of the situation in hong

kong. as far as over india is concerned. no one in the world can really 2nd this 2nd, guess this point or really take hong kong away from china. that's for the record. that's not 2nd guess about that. of course on the one country 2 system, hong kong peeps its political system in hong kong. the capital is the system. but do you think anyone will realistically expect the hong kong can be misused as a stronghold against china? no, i that day, oh, all the way to 2047 or go unanswered in the question of us, which is where beijing imagines hong kong is that the kind of restrictions that is on the people in the mainland after 2047, china has full discussion to decide what kind of political system will prevail in hong kong more. no one full of hong kong get in return for being subsumed into

chilean or a chance to be spied on by what human rights watch called one of the world's most intrusive mass surveillance systems. whatever happens will happen in hong kong after 2047, they're honest records of arbitrary detention torture and violations of rights. you really think the people of hong kong are 2nd class i need some about in my life. not really looking forward to that. i think in today's world that we should be very objective and non-biased about china. let's look at how china is developing. let's look at china lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. let's look at how hong kong has benefited a tremendously, over the past 22 years after being part of the one country to system. is there no way for the pro-democracy movement to negotiate now with the whole government or has that door closed for good? i think if we look at the ask elating of aggressive behavior from the central

government that is qualification of the legislators, the sweeping national, a national security law and order arrest as they have made. there are no cites of them reeling to concede any grounds. they have been doing a lot of brutal suppression, hong kong, so i don't think that is a room for negotiation rather actually room for the international committee to act, to really hold china accountable. what's actually left for the pro-democracy movement on the ground, symbolic protest, lack of cooperation, civil disobedience. what form is the protest going to take? now now that china has narrowed your scope for movement, social movement is enough of a pendulum or we have our highest point. last year, where going rather to a low point now, i think for us, for hong kong,

people would definitely have to defend our professional values in the satyrs like education university. we're in a legal status that we have to defend our own grounds. that actually a lot of invisible battles ongoing. and the purpose of that is to preserve our freedom values. what we have had you had to london and now you here in exile effectively. do you still fear china's reach? are you afraid being here in london? we have a lot of attacks to excel at fist from authoritarian countries like russia, like china. i dare not say that i'm completely safe even though i'm in london. but it doesn't stop me to voice out for income people. i'll continue to play my way into international africa, it for hong kong's democratic movement,

and urge the international community to hold china accountable to address the human violations, human rights violations in change and end in hong kong. do you think you'll ever go back to home cole? i'm an actress. i'm not entitled to lose hope. so i am hopeful that i can return home cong. but in that case, tying seed to democracy and freedom in hong kong. but it takes a long while. you really believe that i do, i think many individuals not only in hong kong, but in china they, they also have to have that hope. and it takes a lot of efforts or maybe sacrifices from our generation or maybe future generations to achieve that. but i think the fate of people will never die and will never give up

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