to the discovery documentary is coming up today, south korea's digital sex crimes in focus amount of time to the 4 to your prison time for having a sexual blackmail ring that preyed on women. it's the latest in a long line of digital sex crimes in the country. why do they keep happening? and these hospitals, with a surge of cases from the festival season 6,

people have to search in the capital for days for an available beds. welcome to glad you could join us on how to use in south korea have handed a 40 year to this 24 year old recent graduate for hitting an online 6. will blackmail ring, coerced women into sharing, degrading sexual images and videos of themselves. and sort of these onto paying view was in online chat rooms, prosecutors said $38.00 people were involved in total, in what they called virtual in slave moment of women and teenagers. online. he called himself the dr. all of south korea and it says israel 9

was arrested in march for running a notorious sex online. today the cotton sold aside it. he'll spend the next 4 decades in prison for it outside the court. female activists read out statements from some of choice victims, september and then in order for everyone to live in a safe society in the future, the court should also impose severe punishment on accomplices and set an example to prevent such evil from happening again. in total, there were $74.00 victims, including 16 under-age girls prosecute, just said the women were blackmailed into filming degrading and sometimes violent sexual imagery of themselves. that imagery was then distributed to paying customers by the messaging app telegram. at least 10000 people used some paying up to

$1000.00 euros for access to them. baby, i don't think we live in a digital society that's evolving every day. those who committed these terrible crimes are not human beings. the south korean justice system has long been accused of failing the victims of sexual violence. it was one of the issues targeted in me to protest and 2018. activists have welcomed cho sentence as a step in the right direction. but there's still a long way to go. after his arrest, south korean police identified dozens of similar chat rooms and said they're being used by tens of thousands of people and journalist friends for dresden or for more on this from saul frank. do you know how this ring of sexual black worked? well, what the managers of this site would do is they would recruit young

teens. female teens generally at risk teens with the promise of securing them, work as models, and they'd have them upload their photographs. and then slowly get more information from them, their names in their address, and then they'd ask them to upload more explicit material and then use that content to blackmail them into providing more explicit material in videos. and then they would post those videos to a sharing website that required secure passwords. and then they would ask, you know, users, potential users about web site to pay them upwards of $1200.00 u.s. dollars. and those people, those users would then have to prove themselves. but loading their only explicit material, there were something like 50 of these chat rooms and blocked in something like

$250000.00. people accessing these explicit chat rooms. but it's sort of, it's not the 1st instance that all the digital sex crimes against our women in south korea are frank. why does this keep happening? well, that's a good question. we, you know, we don't need to go far back to, to look at some other scandals that have happened here. recently. the burning sun scandal, which, you know, caught some, some key pop idol stars, some intertwining entertainers involved in drugging women at a nightclub called the virtue cern and then sexually assaulting them. they dealing that sexual assault and then uploading it and sharing it. and message sharing apps, it has to do perhaps with the culture here. if we look at the nightclub culture, there's a, i think called booking, where men typically occupy rooms within

a nightclub and women in other rooms. and then staff are suggested to go into the rooms with the women and bring women into the rooms with the men kind of deliver them. and it, you know, we commodify as women here. we've had other scandals as well. the whole spying scandal spy cam scandal where cameras were put in washrooms, there is public washrooms to spy on women, and then upload videos of there was cameras in other similar to this telegram sexting scandal. similar spindles where videos have been taken without women's consent of a sexual nature and uploaded on to websites that share those videos with more widely or even their own that i've been. but thank you so much for joining us, frank, spirit and soul. now the indian capital delhi is in the midst of what's been called the 3rd wave of corona virus infections. the deadly surge coming in the weeks around the festive

season. it has left the city's medical infrastructure, struggling to cope. the most visible of that struggle is the search for beds for patients who need them. the most. 31. stocks, 50 and spend all morning taking he often has to work late into the night. govern is part of a member team that runs an initiative quite charity bit, which started 8 years ago to help the underprivileged get medical care in private hospitals. since the team a charity beds has also been helping patients gain access to hospital beds and their normal procedure. and there is a follow up after i get a call from someone we're going to ask for their medical speak to the hospital staff within 40 confirmation on the validity of the bed. then inform the patient in

the hospital who to contact the name is. i keep falling over the until the patient gets to hospital. but what about the delhi has witnessed a significant spike in the number of cases since the festive season began in court. that could be the widest in the city. with hospitals becoming there has been a little bed in the capital,, many pieces in need of medical attention. it's difficult to get i.c.u., even on i.c.u. beds in the city. i have to be printed on my hospital. after dialing up finally and really ended up, you know, private hospital. so unfortunately there were no space available in the private hospital as men. so i was there in the tent for 2 hours, where there were a couple of occasions already waiting for admission up in children found out of

charity beds. says daly is experiencing the latest with because of the lax execution of coverage restrictions and public negligence. we need to address the problem, addressing the problem is reduced the kitchens. holyrood use the cases, then he needs to go for appended were 15, be complete, shut down. not for any other reason, but it will mean for social distancing. it will also enforce hygiene in a way that then says deline end up in a worse situation and finding hospital beds could become more challenging. but he feels passionate about what he does and we keep trying. members, i want to be of use to people to help them if they can help. people call me when they are in their lives and hanging by a thread. this is what motivates me to make every single phone call is very important for me. i cannot believe even for 5 minute deal and he doesn't says his

only priority right now is to arrange a hospital bed for every patient who reaches out to him correspondent money or try to really find that report. and she joins me now for more from delhi. how does delhi plan to tide over the bed shortage? well, since this started what is being called the toward being in the city, it's become evident that joe was quite under prepared to deal with such an influx of patients suddenly. so to deal with the situation, to augment the bed capacity, what the locals, the delhi government have done, it has approached the national government for help. it has been a wide then he with about $1000.00 additional beds to accommodate the patients. and apart from that, the delhi high court has also allowed the delhi go meant to basically leaders of 80 per cent of the i.c.u. beds in 23 big private hospitals, only 1000 fishes. so these are the 2 big reason, wished that it's trying to augment expect capacity to accommodate all the patients

that are coming in now. now it's something the trooper, one of the people you spoke to mentioned in your report as well. another knock down is the city government considering this as a possibility, given the increasing too slow. my last spot of the current situation with the delhi government has me being extended even to very recently to look up live because it will so that delhi is not going to go back down or the law go that direction. of course that uk and the human zones, but there will be no love down situation. that's what the government has made. but then taking some other measures like that, increasing the testing capacity even more they are trying to put up well by testing lands in different areas. they have increased the fine folks who are not wearing mosques, simply the number of people who would attend a wedding in any it was capped at 200, now they have a duty to 15 audit to control the spread. and it is also a proposal that act talks about delhi government is thinking about shutting down

some markets which can and much as call the sports. but at the moment, this is also being done. at the same time, the delhi government is also a shot in the tree to that nobody would have a loss of business. so these are some of the measures that they are seeking. but so far the situation at the school with the delhi government is not saying that they're going to go back to another long ride for the time being. thank you so much for joining us. but you're a troll. the very deadly and that's it for today. there's of course more on our website i did forward slash is sure you can follow us on facebook and twitter as well. we leave you now with images of sites. no one knew that made landfall of the southeastern coast of india near the state of a time when not too heavy rains flooded the streets of the capital chennai and uprooted trees at least 3 people out of order to have died. we need you now with these images of the same time about

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p l. 9 percent on the national or entire scheme for jurors are dealing with anyone at all. they killed many civilians. coming clearing my father while i was a student. i wanted to build a life for myself that these totally, he's a sudden my life became alledge. providing insights, global news that matters. d.w. made for mines. while parts of the medical community are on the hunt for a vaccine against the corona virus, others are on the hunt for its origin. well, the 1st confirmed case was in china. the exact steps of the virus is very progression still unknown. the current working theory is that the virus originated

in rouhani, but there's still more to learn sequencing the viruses genome is key for the ongoing medical forensic investigation. and scientists hope by pinpointing where the virus came from and how it jumped to humans. they will be able to develop the tools to fight the future evolution of covered 19 it's a bit like a medical detective story following the clues should eventually lead to the origin of the corona virus that has brought us a year. the world will never forget. the to get the beginning, i have to work backwards. autumn has brought 2 things with it this year in europe, falling temperatures and skyrocketing rates of corona, virus infections, cold weather, forced people inside after socializing outdoors during the summer, with many tired of hearing to strict kovan 1000 for cautions. infection rates are rising dramatically in germany. spain has been in

a state of emergency sense the end of october on september 28th, 33000000 people had been infected with kovan 1000 around the world. on that same date, we passed the milestone of 1000000 deaths. meanwhile, life in china, where coven, 1000 was 1st detected, is mostly back to normal, with some health restrictions in place. but after strict lockdowns across the country, people here are once again able to go to concerts. new zealand declared itself coronavirus free on june 8th, and has only seen a handful of cases sense even allowing travel and hosting large events again. at this time, there had been nearly 7200000 cases worldwide. europe's 1st taste of the pandemic came in february. italy bore the brunt of coven 1000 then, and was quickly forced into lock downs,

deaths and cases piled up in hospitals in the northern part of the country, prompting border closures around the e.u. . on february 21st, there were only $78205.00 cases around the world. researchers believe the spark that 1st ignited. the corona virus pandemic took hold in china. medical forensics is a big part of the equation. now. dozens of people connected to a wet market reported flu like symptoms in the early part of last december. the leading theory is that a man originally constructed the virus from a bat. the w.h.o. is currently working to trace the viruses path to better understand how the pandemic could continue to spread. you know, many scientific minds have been putting their efforts into retracing the steps of this corona virus. one of them is dr. peter forced from the university of cambridge . he joins us on the show. i thank you very much for coming along. your research

traced the did that ix of the corona virus backwards reisa and the like you might be able to do with a person or a species. i suppose. what we were able to conclude by doing that. we get the data from the beginning of the 1st song, pulls in december 2019 up to the end of february 2020. and then we constructed a well, it's like a complex tree. so a combination of trees to find out how the virus had developed. and we identified 3 types which we called a b. and c. . and comparing these types with the back coronavirus, we saw that the a type was the most ancient, and b. was a bit younger, and c. was the most recent ricer. we have these 3 phases of the corona virus. where do we find those around the world? are they or are they everywhere?

well, the a.b.c. types are all represented in china and in east asia. but we see a type that even penetrating 2 to europe, a stray here and north america. and then later, the b. type takes over. so that happens in march and april. so it has developed by mutation, a more infectious type, which is then taken over the world in the course of march and april. so we saw that coming up in march, not data. so if we have all 3 of these types in china, as you say, does that mean we can pinpoint china as the origin of this correct virus? i have no reason to doubt that on the basis of our analysis. but the origin question really breaks down into 3 questions. so the earliest origin would be the jump from between species. so for example,

from back to human and we did some calculations to find out when that might have happened. and interestingly, the common ancestor between the bat that we have and the human coronavirus is on the order of 5 decades. so that might mean that the corona virus has been circulating in some part of mankind. undiscovered for decades,, just like the aids virus, was not discovered until the 980 s., even though there were sawmills in the fifty's. now that we know about all the other solution to this conundrum is that we simply don't have the right back yet. and there is some other bat out there which is 99.99 percent similar to us. and we just haven't found it yet. so anyway, the 1st infection from birth to humans could have happened. you know, last year it could have been 50 years ago. we just don't know that yet. the next

origin number 2 is when the corona virus started successfully spreading amongst humans, and that we have dated with some certainty. so we think that was between mid september and early december 200-1000, the 3rd originated. sorry if i didn't interrupt you on that one. so, so that's quite a bit before we have the 1st case towards the end of december. how does the fact that it was spreading between people with the 4 then impact the sort of working theory that it originated in with let me correct you slightly there. you said end of december is the 1st case. many scientists make that mistake as well . in fact, the 1st geno was submitted on christmas eve 24th of december. that is correct. but the 1st patients described with the coronavirus symptoms in a medical journal in the last, in fact,

fell ill on the 1st of december. so inevitably, that patient must have caught it in november. and as for the origins of all of the theory that the origins of the infection started in the rue hand fish market, i think is problematic for 2 reasons. first of all, as i said, the most ancient viral subtype is the a type. but what we found is that the dominant type and who had, even in the early phase in the 1st 3 weeks, was the b. type 20 out of 23 patients who have until mid january have the b. type only 3 of the 8. and elsewhere in china, you find more of these 8 types, for example, in, you know, and or in guangdong, in southern china, where indeed you have populations where those who don't. so, i think there are better candidates than for the beginning of the epidemic.

an awful lot of unknowns and yes, well the other point which is known is that if you look at the dance of paper from january, it actually says that the very 1st patient who fell ill on the 1st december had no contact with the fish market. so this looks to me as if the fish market may have been an accelerator, a catalyst, but not necessarily the origin. there are something to foster from the university of cambridge. thanks for bringing as your theory in your a set. my pleasure. now it's the part of the program where you get to ask the questions, you've been submitting them through our you tube channel. so let's put one of them to ask science correspondent derek williams. what the different vaccines cost and how does that compare to other health related costs in the pandemic? with reports a couple of days ago that a trial involving

a vaccine developed by a team of at oxford university and pharma company, astra zeneca had returned safe and effective results. it was the 3rd candidate to do that in the last few weeks. it's time i think, to start talking about the next big step in overcoming the pandemic, which is the logistics of vaccinating the world. and that's going to be not only a gargantuan feat, it's going to be staggeringly expensive as well. but even so, a lot less expensive than what we're facing now on the health related monetary costs of this pandemic so far have been just immense. one recent study that i read said they could hit 16 trillion dollars in the u.s. alone. and that's assuming by the way, that source code to is contained by next fall,

that scene's will be key to that containment. and compared to the cost of treatment in an i.c.u. unit or, or expensive high tech therapies like monoclonal antibodies, they'll be a bargain. the oxford vaccine, which astra zeneca has promised to offer at cost for the duration of the pandemic. and beyond that, for low income countries. and the company says it will be charging only around $3.00 a dose or less for it. since you need 2 of them, that works out to about $6.00 per vaccinate. the other 2 vaccines for the ramping up are or more expensive, but still come in at under $25.00 a dose. distribution costs will of course, add a lot to the overall total. but effective vaccines are still orders of magnitude cheaper. that hospitalizing possibly millions more people and,

and continued lockdowns that's a science correspondent derek williams. actually got a question for when and if it's a huge human, you could submit, submit one through the t, w. news you tube channel. and that's all from us as a day for the latest developments on the corona virus pandemic. you know, our web site data, we don't come slash culverts 19 till next time. take cat times to stay healthy

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