we still have a lot more cases then the government says according to our estimates we have about 50260000 new infections per day who will our doctors and hospitals are at the absolute limit we have to urgently take radical countermeasures early on that almost all the. theaters things the current restrictions are already plenty tough policies over the kids have to go back inside next year she hopes for a birthday with out the coronavirus. yojana reporting there from turkey let's take a closer look now at some of the other stories making news around the world cornish talks over greg's a deal are scheduled in brussels on wednesday u.k. prime minister boris johnson is to meet top officials for a last ditch trade talks both sides say there must be compromise but are still no closer to agreeing an exit plan. leninists was caught off guard

by surprise flooding on choose day after sudden change in the weather parts of the city were submerged at high tide in spite of the new multi-billion euro barrier designed to prevent flooding and the floodgates have been activated within the 48 hours needed to be fully operational. the ethiopian government has rejected calls for an independent investigation into the conflict in a stingray region the un human rights chief has set the situation is worrying and volatile humanitarian workers say aid cannot reach the region and thousands of people have fled the fighting. and those who have fled the fighting into guy face the added risk of coronavirus outbreak in the bring some died nearly 50000 people are now crammed into refugee camps with sparse and in adequate facilities. under the scorching sun they wait their turn

at camps like america refugees have no option really they wait for food for cash to register with aid agencies and they also share shelter. health workers worry that raises the chances of corona virus spreading in the already strained conditions. i was going to. be here at least the problem becomes bigger because the person that comes here will go back to their camp or where they live surrounded by people so they could spread it very easily. they are people who are going through a difficult time so there are young people older people also people who have chronic illnesses and other diseases affecting their immune systems and add to that if cope with 19 is found here it could spread widely over in the uk to the uk there

is a lot of. health care facilities are limited. and there is no covert 19 testing or treatment available the refugees are themselves also concerned. about the matter is scary when you see people together they may be infected with corona virus people sit together and do not wear masks of course it is scary you see people always move collectively without masks of course it is scary. but. with more refugees expected to arrive the already strained humanitarian services might not cope putting this safe haven at risk of its own crisis. and we turn our focus now to india we're a small indian town in the state of under and ash is swarming with investigators after a mystery illness made hundreds of people sick including children officials in

a noodle say blood tests on some patients have revealed the presence of nickel and lead they have now identified possible sources of what appears to be a mass poisoning. more than 500 people many of them children have been hospitalized with the mystery illness since saturday patients have reported a wide range of symptoms including nausea and headaches some had convulsions on the street others just collapsed with no warning. and then another. my father asked me to put on a news channel on his mobile phone while i was doing that i fainted i only regained consciousness in the hospital and. probably you are alone we got our daughter admitted last night that she was vomiting had diarrhea and was shivering we were afraid end up missing we brought her to the hospital. medical officials have been baffled about the cause of the illness they struggle to find

a link between those taken ill but now traces of heavy metals including nicklin lead have been found. in the blood of some patients tests on the water supply and food such as rice and oil being carried out one scientist said the source could be pesticides. on a blood sample we had more than 70 blood samples we have collected 70 food samples water samples milk samples and all samples for analysis and so i'm john allies saying we will be able to conclude and find the reason behind this disease. that we are suspecting that it could be metal toxicity and pesticide toxicity. the majority of people appeared to have recovered within hours and was sent home but doctors warn if heavy metal such as lead are confirmed as a cause then this could lead to more health problems down the line. mount everest on the border between china and the paul is already the world's

highest peak but now it is even taller officially at least up to now the 2 countries have differed on whether to include a snow cap on top of the mountain in measurements but after both countries sent teams of surveyors they finally reached an agreement and in years of debate. chum a long saga mata mt everest the world's highest peak is known by several names and now it's reaching even greater heights to be used to. charge. to the world. is 1848.868. that's 86 centimeters higher than was previously recorded when the 7 natural wonders of the world ever straddles both nepal and china but the 2 countries have long disagreed on its height so each sent out teams of surveyors to scale the summit the

multi-year effort to measure the legendary mountain wasn't easy teams endure it extreme weather conditions and a strenuous climb to come to calculations that both katmandu and beijing can now agree. we have to respect anything that becomes bigger the encrease and height is a source of huge prize for nepal and her people so it's a big deal. pride comes from conquering the mountain but also from keeping the quest local. here on the table in the past measurement of the mountain all the instruments and equipment used by china were imported from abroad but this time china used its own equipment and withstood the test of the extremely harsh environment there were concerns the 2015 earthquake that killed nearly 9000 people had also caused the mountain to shrink but those fears are gone at

8848.806 meters it stands even taller than previously imagined. still very majestic next decisional missouri champions league game with. russia was abandoned after players left us. field in protest they killed a match official of using racist language on the incident happened in the 1st half a member of istanbul's coaching staff was sent off after which players reacted to the official's choice of words on the game will be played on wednesday with different referees the turkish clubs were out of contention for the last 16 but. since 1st or 2nd in the group so a lot on the line there chris harrington is with me here on the set to talk more about this a rather testy exchange i understand what happens basically romanian referee the 4th official sebastian cole sess crew was about to show

a red card to the assistant coach. the assistant coach here way who is actually here and he was referring to him and said he used the word a group in romania that means black and he said you know the negril over there than a group over there and that completely outraged the assistant coach who went to him immediately and said why do you say negro why do you say nay grow and then another african player from brushy should hear chimed in also do say you know you don't refer to the other coaches you don't say the white one over there that white went over there so ultimately it was perceived as racist the players on both sides p.s.g. and by such a chair walked off the pitch in unison and it's being investigated right now by an ethics committee that was appointed by the way for all right now this wouldn't be the 1st time that racism allegations have been raised when it comes to european football is there a precedent for this absolutely not because it's the official that's in charge of relegating typically you hear the if in says by the fans or maybe an opposing

player the referee is never supposed to be the center of attention never supposed to be the star where they're watching the players this was a huge disruptive act you know you know call that ignorance on the referees part you know maybe there was no ill content. it is hard you know with with what he said but i think you have to hold your way for a countable they're the organization that have these anti-racist you know things that continue to move for like clockwork they have to educate their officials a little bit better because the whole world is watching no one can attend the games they're watching on television you're picking this up audibly some most elite club competition in all of football i think it's a shame in that regard but hopefully it sets a precedent and we don't see it again what's going to happen to the game where the game will be picked up you know where it left off in the 14th minute you know as you mentioned p.s.g. have nothing to worry about in terms of progress into the next stage so you might see somewhat of a goodwill game and everyone is apologetic right now the romanian sports

a you know minister came out apologetic the football federation of romania is apologizing and i do expect some swift action you know from you a for just basically extinguishes fire because we should not be talking about this ridiculous incident. reporting thank you so much confusion. meanwhile last season's semifinalists rb leipzig have reached the champions league last 16 after beating manchester united 32 and eliminating the english team leipzig top group h. at the moment pending the results of that notorious b.i.g. game or center were already through but top group f. with their win and senate at as rather 16 year old yusufiyah mukoko became the youngest ever champions league player lot c.-o. also qualified while you vent is so $13.00 nil and barcelona to be the qatar lions top spot in. you're watching the news coming up next on news asia.

while the u.s. criticizes moving were hit you're a few genes from an overly crowded name got camps to a brand new facility built just for them to find out about we'll see how the pandemic been affecting the. indian wedding. those stories and a whole lot more coming up with melissa chan indeed every news again just a moment outlet iraq until it came down to bombs or thank you so much just running as far as getting to us.

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i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia we're glad you could join us in bangladesh the government has transported the 1st were handed refugees from their longtime camp 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 and mine are many of these refugees have been in bangladesh for years the most recent large group of arrivals came in 2017 where more than 750000 people fled their home in the end maher following a genocidal campaign launched by the military there. cox's mazhar the world's largest refugee settlement. for the routine just leave here

bangladeshis 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. the person in charge here told me we'd have a room on the art and lucky's 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 beslan charge. 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 jes won't be taking the best sunshine forcibly only those who are willing to go will be going there voluntarily. but some refugees say they're being given no choice. no we 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 best and shot. that's when my father agreed to go down either the night yet or less than an. international rights groups have also published evidence of forceful relocation. we're concerned that you know we want island which is off limits to everyone including the journalists and rights groups it poses serious concerns about human

rights monitoring and for that to be overcome i think the court issued. create the framework they should be ensured that the refugees are able to take free enterprise informed consent to give those be able to take voluntary decisions to be able to give. a 1st group of 1600 refugees were taking the best one child 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 commission of

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 island himself and he transfer he said must follow a voluntary informed decision. ranger refugees are urging dakar and the un to focus on repatriation rather than relocation they still want to return to myanmar but only if the muslim majority re-injure are recognized as citizens. joining us is. islam who reported this story it's not a great sign if the un high commissioner for refugees says he'd like to go to bus and church and 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 very location of the growing it if you more prone and floods and the un had all posed to the idea of

relocating that if it is the lining island when it was fast proposed a few years ago since then bangladesh has built flood protection cycle on shelter earth and other facilities. 410-0000 people now un wants to tick independently avoided dialin did they still have the divil or not the un technical team is reportedly not to getting access to the island. now cox's bazaar 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 khamsin courses was indeed overcrowded and it's also true dark hole of bangladesh is prone to psych loans 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 on

a couple of times in the past to decades expects have different open your own zone where the dial and it's all the enough to become livable or not some exposed thing there that dams height that protects the island it needs to be increased from 3 meter to around 7 meters to make di land safe from natural disasters others said that increasing that dams height could be disastrous because the dice dr built inside the island was not planned for a dam of that height so the international community wants to examine everything independently 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 really no 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 about it near strain sure that that if you just will have a safe and independent life if they return to their country they came from so far to me and what hasn't made any such commitment ruling activists told to be there that got into the pit creation proposal or forced to shift to these 3 foodies from courses camps to other camps environment they have said they're going to get to turn under the current of. hell is on thank you so much for joining us. so many wedding ceremonies have been cancelled this year in india known for its lavish huge multi-day 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 year couples who waited for auspicious dates i'm cool over though are tying the knot but it isn't quite like every of. india is gandhi 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 another in charge are finding these out. as corona cases in delhi will be king they

move their wedding to the state of goa now for the deception they chose this open air venue in a suburb of delhi. 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 voluntarily missing the event. while the scale had to be reduced it was important for the couple to have all the ceremonies in style going to granny who am very feed which i am. intimate reading yes bird we learned that the granddaughter for going needed the afternoon boys thing that we were to do to have be very hopes all that's what the guests will tell us. but when she was even on a may have pulled off their dream wedding many other couples haven't been as lucky smaller weddings are having an impact on the wedding industry like your inch on the chalk

a traditional wedding market in delhi's old city typically this market is full of people buying bedding finery but shopkeepers see 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 have the wedding industry as hard as the good owner virus has and it has a bill of fact how do you on was unable to sell stock earlier in the year as varying as were pushed back indefinitely because of india's harsh lockdown now customers are unhappy 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 just not as special as they're supposed to be there should be excitement around a wedding there should be happiness that i feel none of it for my wedding cost goes a little 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 and that's already a 100 but why are many and 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 special measuring up to the 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 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 see you next time and goodbye.

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successful radio drama series continue. this season the stories focus on hate speech prevention and sustainable production. all of the zones are available online and of course you can share and discuss on africa's facebook page and other social media platforms. hard fighters to know. just how many people are dying from. as it stands more than one and a half 1000000 people have died of. 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 coronavirus dead speed is of the essence of the mold 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 what the death really. called the relative strength of

the body of. 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. allowed 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. it. has been in the business for 7 years today he's in charge of the team of undertake has he says since the 2nd wave of corona virus there have been at least twice as many deaths in the city of 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 insist the situation is under control. the undertaker so sure today unicode slover and his team are entering 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. in russia people say if it's decided up there 3 chill get run over by a street car you won't drown fate is fate if the coronavirus is of my faith it will pass me by. her with a very good. 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. the last of us are guard joins us now he's the project coordinator of that 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 were in the 2nd wave. i

think the most what we are seeing is a very widespread transmission of call it 19 in germany and in many other european countries that is now reflected also in. group 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 in march in europe we saw a very rapid increase in much healthier within a few weeks and a very very good decline after the lock downs then we saw a very quiet period during the summer in most european countries but since around september or october in the in europe many countries we have seen. gradually increased in transmission not only small focal areas but widespread in the country

and this is now reflecting in it gradually increasing access mortality and you not sure yet when this will peak exactly exactly because i hope that with increased restrictions we are now having in many countries in europe we will also see in our . clan again in what else but we're not sure yet and if these 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're you calculate the the expected everett's based on 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 do expect and that is what we define as an excess modality 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 we don't have actually other public health even the nations that quick splendors mentality so what we see is really a true picture of the 2 original much healthier from 1000 europe now we've borrowed a graph from the organization showing deaths in iraq from 2017 to 2020 were 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 so 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 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 19 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 an example in denmark we have seen a steep decline in millions itis cases so that will last to reduce martel from those of the victims. thank you dr loss of us or guard he's the project coordinator of euro momo or european martella the monitoring we appreciate your analysis today thanks very much welcome up next stars 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 that 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 aspect 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 and 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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