my choice is this card because given there were times troops. and i want. to talk. you're watching t w news asia coming up today the bangladeshi government is relocating risk injury refugees from their longtime camp at cox's bazaar to a remote island it's a move criticized by human rights activists. and beloved in the type of coverage 19 how the pandemic has changed wedding celebrations in india this year.

i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia we're glad you could join us in bangladesh the government has transported the 1st revenger refugees from their long time camp at cox's bizarre to a new island a location this was a unilateral decision made without the cooperation of the un refugee agency and has been criticized by human rights groups as yours minder many of these refugees have been in bangladesh for years the most recent large group of arrivals came in 2017 when more than 750000 people fled their home in myanmar following a genocidal campaign launched by the military there. cox's bizarre the world's largest refugee settlement. for the rohingya who live here bangladesh is decision to relocate 100000 of them to beslan char only adds to their uncertain fates. for some it's

a chance to escape the squalor of the camp. there the person in charge here told me we have a room on the island like his office that's why i agreed to move there. and the. others have doubts over starting a new on a place known as the floating island i don't know what was in it we came here after so much torture in myanmar even if we're shot 2000 times we won't go to beslan child. we feel safe here in the camp we don't want to go to best un charter. and. more than 1000000 refugees a squeeze on to 26 square kilometers near the bangladesh myanmar border. the bangladeshi government says its relocation plan will ease the pressure on the crowded camp. according to the country's foreign minister a.k. abdul moment ranger if you g.'s won't be taking the best forcibly only those who

are willing to go will be going there voluntarily. but some refugees say they're being given no choice. now they did it 1st my father was arrested by the police they beat him badly he was put in a dark cell for a day and a night and they asked him to choose between death or going to pass on charges. that's when my father agreed to go down even though he had a name and an. international rights groups have also published evidence of forceful relocation. we are concerned that you know we want island which is off limits to everyone including the journalists and the rights groups it poses a serious concerns about human rights monitoring and for that to be overcome i think the court issues create that framework they should be ensured that the

refugees are able to take free enterprise informed consent they would give those be able to take voluntary decisions to be able to get. a 1st group of 1600 refugees were taken to beslan char last week the island is 34 kilometers from the mainland in the bay of bengal formed by silt less than 20 years ago bangladesh has built flood protection barriers barracks hospitals and mosques. but international aid agencies fear a big storm could endanger thousands of lives. on the un which was excluded from the relocation process once more consultation and access the un high commissioner for refugees from grandy said he's concerned by reports of ranger if you g.'s being moved to beslan char he wants access to see conditions on the on himself and he

transfer he said must follow a voluntary informed decision. refugees are urging dhaka and the u.n. to focus on repatriation rather than relocation they still want to return to myanmar but only if the muslim majority are recognised as citizens. joining us is. islam who reported this story are fido it's not a great sign if the u.n. high commissioner for refugees says he'd like to go to bus on chart to check out conditions because he's not had access to the place is it yes it's a good sign that he has expressed his concern about every location of the rowing if it is more thailand prone and floods and the un had opposed to the idea of relocating that if it is a low lying island we need to foster proposed a few years ago since then by others has built a flood. cycle on shellcode and other facilities to make it to.

100000 people now un wants to tick independently avoid the dial and it is still not the un technical team is reportedly north to getting access to dial and. now cox is bizarre is itself overcrowded and vulnerable to flooding and frankly so is bangladesh's entire coastline so the christic criticism that this new location bus on char is vulnerable to floods is that really a fair criticism. that camps in courses was indeed overcrowded and it's also true the whole coastal area of bangladesh is prone to cyclons and floods but here we are talking about an island named a fashion taught in bengali which means a floating island in english the island has shifted its position a couple of times in the past to decades experts have different open your eyes on whether the island is all enough to become livable or not some exposed thing there

the dams height their island it needs to be increased from 3 meter to around 7 meters to make di land safe from natural disasters others say that increasing that dams height could be disastrous because the die structure built inside the island was not planned for a dam of that height so the international community wants to examine everything in different indeed to find answers on the islands habitability but bangladesh is reportedly not allowing them to do so. now we heard at the end of the reports that there were some refugees who would really like to just go back home back to myanmar but how realistic is this at the moment ruling or if you just want to the myanmar government to recognize them as citizens of the majority country they want to make sure that they would be safe there when then return in the future now the

international community needs to work on that they have to do what it what it needs to ensure that that if you just will have a safe and independent life if they return to the country they came from so far to me and not haven't made any such commitment ruling activist pull to be there that got into the pit creation proposal offered to shift of these refugees from camps to other camps environment there so they don't have to turn under the current awful. thank you so much for joining us. so many wedding ceremonies have been counseled this year in india known for its lavish. weddings the social distancing and lockdown measures have proved difficult and not just for the couples the indian wedding industry is worth billions 2nd only to the united states so both the bride and groom and the businesses have had to

make adjustments as the. reports from delhi. it's peak wedding season in india like every your couples who read it for auspicious dates uncool over though are tying the knot but it isn't quite like every oh. india is country recording around $35000.00 coronavirus cases every day. while most restrictions have been eased there are still limitations on gatherings. which have had the great indian wedding hard. events of social prestige for most families where guest lists can run into the hundreds sometimes thousands. but couples like a nun and child rape are finding these out. as cruel nutcases in delhi will be king they moved their wedding to the state of goa now for the deception they chose this open air venue in a suburb of denver. it can accommodate 1000 guests they have invited 300 to

allow for social distancing family members have been tested regularly those showing any symptoms of all entirely missing the event. while the ski had to be reduced it was important for the couple to have all the ceremonies in style we were going to get anywhere and very few which i am. intimately reading yes we're going to have a granddaughter for going into the afternoon voicing that we will do to have the very hope so and that's what the guests will tell us. on a may have pulled off their dream wedding many other couples haven't been as lucky small already having an impact on the wedding industry like you're into on the chalk a traditional wedding market in delhi's old city typically this market is full of people buying bedding finery but shopkeepers say delis told spike in november has

also driven many customers over. how do you all know has been working in bridal best stores for 2 decades he says even recessions did not hit the wedding industry as hard as the coronavirus has and it has a pull of fact how do you on was unable to sell stock earlier in the year as veterans were pushed back indefinitely because of india's hotshot down now customers are on happy with what they consider last year's designs. he also finds that for smaller gatherings even guests don't want to buy expensive new clothes. for a gathering of 50 people why would someone dress up even the bride is not enthusiastic for a small gathering they just want to make do with something and expensive. beddings customers fine are just not as special as they're supposed to be there should be excitement around a wedding there should be happiness i feel none of it for my wedding cost closer

look we're not able to celebrate as well with restrictions even if we just call our closest relatives there will be 50 people from each side that's already a 100 but while many are disappointed because of the strict ins for a moment the pandemic wedding will be a story to tell if you made it in the fall don't go through the band did a lot more space to measure up to the odd difficulty yes but i think every view of the full thing is difficult intimate and grand combination the fabled inventing seems to have pulled off despite significant obstacles. that's it for today there's always more on t.w. dot com for it slash asia and check us out on twitter or facebook as well we leave you with more pictures of indian weddings in this most surreal year thanks for watching next time and goodbye.

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how much work can really get. we still have time to our. success. that subscribes. to. just how many people are dying from. as it stands more than one and a half 1000000 people have died of covert 9000 around the world but official figures can only tell one part of the story that's why scientists are calling for certain types of data to be used to get more reliable numbers to help us better understand mortality in the coronavirus pandemic. first off we take you to the russian city of where the discrepancy between the

official coronavirus death toll and how many more deaths there are compared to last year is too wide to ignore. with a steady stream of corona virus dead speed is of the essence that the most every morning the team from the funeral agency. comes here to collect new victims of the pandemic 29 year old toure has been working in the funeral business for 12 years but he says he's never had to bury this many. workers one time there was a huge line of hearses standing in line outside the morgue it was only then that people started to understand the death really. call the relatives to identify the body by. this movie in the city of is only for people who died of corona virus or had contact with an infected person the bodies have to be sealed in plastic the

coffins closed. many russians feel that dead should be treated with more respect or explains. their relatives are often more tense than usual because their dead are handed over to them in plastic body bags. to open the bags so i tell them that right away some people cry and demand that we open the bags. and i have to explain that they could get infected themselves this virus is no joke. if you've. been in the business for 7 years today he's in charge of the team of undertake he says since the 2nd wave of corona virus there have been at least twice as many deaths in the. funeral agencies have had a tough time keeping up. with we work a lot more work over a 1000000 people live in the capital of the republic of. government statistics say

that only around 90 people in the region have died of the corona virus since the pandemic began but the official numbers also show that during that time of a force. 1000 more people died the nost year corona virus infections are spiking across russia but. the situation is under control. the undertaker. today unicode slope and his team are in tearing a 92 year old woman she didn't die of the coronavirus that means her relatives can say their final farewell with an open casket which is the tradition in russia usually funerals a big family affair as in russia but the pandemic has changed that people are often worried about getting infected and stay away. so far no one in your research team has caught covert he can only hope it will stay that way. and russia people say if

it's decided out there that you'll get run over by a street car you won't drown fate is fate if the coronavirus is my fate it will pass me by. or with a new approach to. the next day the team prepares for 4 more funerals and his colleagues hardly have time to worry about their own health at the moment they're just too busy. loss of esther guard joins us now he's the project coordinator of. of course stands for european mortality monitoring welcome to you we've just seen a new daily record of coronavirus related deaths here in germany totaling 590 why do you think that number has gone up so sharply considering run the 2nd wave. i think the most what we are seeing is very widespread transmission of call

it 19 in germany and in many other european countries but it is now reflected also in. mentality. but how do you think the numbers will develop further or have we already seen the peak and they're really good question so if you look at what we experienced in the 1st wave in march in europe we saw a very rapid increase in much energy within a few weeks and a very very decline after the lock downs then we saw a very quiet period during the summer in most european countries but since around september october in the in europe many countries have seen. gradually increased transmission not only small local areas but widespread in the country and this is now reflecting in a gradually increasing access mentality and you not sure yet when this will peak

expect exactly because hope that with increased restrictions we are now having in many countries in europe we will also see in our. climb again in what else but we're not sure yet can you please clarify for our viewers what exactly is meant by excess mortality. yes oh except matelot is more deaths than you would expect normally from previous years of mortality so you are you calculate the the expected everett's rate and previous numbers and you can adjust for seasonal variations and then you see the difference from what you observe in the current time current week and you compare what we would you expect and that is what we define as an excess morality and under situations when you have public health events that that excess must help so you can achieve it to that event

which is now 1000 and you don't have actually other public health then it's always been asians that quick spain this mentality so what you see is really a true picture original much healthier from 1000 europe now we've borrowed a graph from your organization showing deaths in iraq from tiny 17 to 2020 we're noticing in particular to market peaks one from a severe flu season in 2018 and one in the 1st wave of the corona virus earlier this year this means corona virus is definitely deadlier than the slow doesn't it how deadly is it exactly according to data yeah certainly we see normally during the inference the season in europe we see excess mortality and the example you show is from the very bad flu season in 1718 which was quite bad but the p.p. saw in the 1st wave could be 19 are many times higher the most healthy is is minute

and higher than in the west. in fact this is the scene so this particular group of . 65 years ago. it is it is at least $44.00 times worse than in the bad $1718.00 season and it is more than 20 times worse than the might influence of seasons so it's very significant extra mattel's you see john could be 19 compared to a normal winter season. now the pandemic has gone on for the better part of a year we've all changed our behavior in a way to prevent more covert 1000 deaths were all wearing masks and social distancing has that had any impact on the number of deaths for other infectious illnesses like the flu yes certainly we have seen a very dramatic decline in other respects or infections. influenza and then examined denmark we have seen

a steep decline in 1000000 judges cases so that will last to reduce much help from those of the victims. thank you dr loss of us or guard he's the project coordinator of euro momo or european mortality monitoring we appreciate your analysis today thanks very much welcome up next our science correspondent derek williams answers one of the questions you've sent in. what is the distinction between of vaccines efficacy and its effectiveness. every branch of science has its own vocabulary and these 2 words from pharmacology have been used confusingly and often interchangeably in the last few months although they mean different things for the general public efficacy is the less familiar term it describes how well a drug or a vaccine works in a controlled environment that's been designed to give clear answers that's because

in the best of all possible worlds an independent team should be able to take an efficacy study conducted trial in the same way and reach the same results so so trials like the covert 1000 vaccine candidate trials will have some baseline parameters for example they do things like exclude test subjects with preexisting medical conditions the fundamental questions are does the candidate work in healthy people safely in the doses that we're administering and if so does it also appear to protect at least those groups of people from contracting the disease effectiveness on the other hand describes how of the same vaccine will perform when it's released into the wild if you will out there in the real world when it's given to people on a much wider scale this and the specter of vaccine performance is also monitored

of course after approval is granted but they that takes a lot more time to gather and to study effectiveness numbers for covert 19 back scenes will almost certainly vary from the efficacy numbers we've been hearing about lately in the news they'll be different in people in different age groups for example. and although we're optimistic that current candidates will indeed protect a high percentage of people in the general public who receive them don't forget that calculating both efficacy and end effectiveness requires a sort of statistical sleight of hand because after all you're trying to figure out how many people didn't get a disease because they received a vaccine or or to flip that idea on its head what might have happened had they not

been vaccinated and that's a pretty slippery concept. now if you have a question for derek just send an e-mail to feedback taught english at the w dot com and type expert in the subject line thanks for watching.

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