says the remains of their existence. children. storage january 11th on d. w. . this is news live from berlin a pandemic for millions of cash strapped americans u.s. lawmakers fight to increase code did not take the motions he broke his payments to 2000 as dullards the house of representatives also rejects outgoing president donald trump's think hope of a massive defense spending bill and jailed for speaking out about the coronavirus

china locks up a citizen journalist whose reports on the beginnings of the pandemic. a math mean how and welcome to the program u.s. lawmakers have rejected president donald trump's veto of a $740000000000.00 defense bill the vote in the house of representatives sets the stage for the republican controlled senate to deliver what would be the 1st veto override mr trump's time in office elsewhere the house also voted to increase emergency pandemic relief payments to struggling americans to $2000.00. the pandemic left christina kelly unemployed she hasn't paid rent for months and her family has relied on an evictions band to stay in their house now they may lose everything there are no options right now the homeless shelters are all closed to

new people because the pandemic obviously. and i don't have a vehicle for me to even sleep in but now there's a lifeline while playing golf in florida president trumpet been threatening to block a massive package of public spending then out of the blue he demanded an increase in one of payments to individuals from $600.00 to $2000.00 on twitter trump agreed to sign the bill also in the house democrats voted to overturn the president's veto of a 700000000000 dollars defense spending bill president elect joe biden is also weighed in complaining of a lack of cooperation from the outgoing trumpet ministration right now we just aren't getting all the information that we need the ongoing outgoing from now going to do stray shoot in key national security areas it's nothing short of more if you irresponsibility the debate over defense and billions in pandemic 8 now moves to

the republican controlled senate but many hard pressed americans can breathe a little easier much needed cash relief is on the way. so then why did president trump change his mind that's a question i put today to please washington correspondent stephanie simons earlier political pressure i think i think something else for him that he won't be and that he tries not to be remembered as somebody who throws in the last 9 yards a grenade into all of this that would have been definitely not very good received to his image which is scratched anyway so political pressure probably did this. and from stephens on it's in washington let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines this hour and stock markets look like ending the year on a winning streak japan's nikkei index has risen to its highest in 13 he means and

the german dax is also hit a new record invest as a boy by the u.s. stimulus package 19 vaccines and the breaks that deal is driving government is warning it might cancel the visa visit and so bright social distancing rules recent video footage shows large crowds patting a 2nd page popular with tourists immigration minister says local authorities should take action against anyone to violate the covered 19 regulations. spine is one of many european nations pushing to get as many presidents vaccinated as possible but maybe too hot health officials will caper registry of those who are willing to get the shot and that has stirred up controversy they've got the reporter i mean is safe is here and then following the story for us in a registry of the unwilling what's this about well in spain the vaccine will be will be rolled out in this way that regional authorities will contact people when

they're eligible for the vaccine and if those people refuse for any reason then their name will be recorded and that information will be given on to other you countries. health ministers said that this information will not be available to the public and he justified it this way whatever it was to raise the vaccine in our country is voluntary although it is highly recommended. that we will follow common medical practice by noting the names of people who are for the vaccine and refuse it for any reason it will be noted in their medical file started spake that way we know it was not an error in the system and they were given the possibility of being vax knighthood. it was the spanish health minister so how of paper reacted to his words well as you can imagine the sparked a flurry of anti vacs or conspiracies online saying that they're being put on

a list in spain it wasn't just in spain that people were reacting this way but conspiracies the thought aside this certainly does send a kind of message that if you refuse the vaccine in spain then your name might end up on center is not a list so there's also some level headed critics out there saying that this seems like a form of intimidation in germany such measure would probably not fly that personal data is being used in this way especially since in spain what the health minister said was that they're just using it to see if there's errors in the system and there's not he didn't really give a reason why anonymous data wouldn't achieve the same thing so it has sparked a controversy because people want to know why there's being a list created of people who won't take the vaccine why other measures wouldn't be just as good in getting people to take the vaccine and so that leads to a reasonable question is this legal within the european union well it is there's nothing in the e.u.

rules that say that countries can't do something like this is long as they don't make this information public there's no reason why they couldn't do that and actually in france and italy some vaccines are already mandatory not the coronavirus vaccine but in france about a dozen vaccines are mandatory for every french citizen so of course if you don't get that vaccine then that's breaking the law in your name will be on a list somewhere as this isn't unprecedented but european health authorities are are following another protocol which is that if you make the vaccine transparent and this is a fairly harmless vaccine the benefits vastly outweigh the drawbacks if you make this information open to the public then people will voluntarily take it and that's how you're going to achieve the numbers that you want to not by coercing people not by putting people's name on a list and making them feel bad for not getting the vaccine i mean to say thanks so much. as journalist who reported on the very 1st

corona virus outbreak in the city of who has been jailed for 4 years some chance vivid accounts of crowded hospitals and empty streets were in stop contrast to official reassurances at the time the from a lawyer has since been on a hunger strike and is in poor health. eluding police pushing journalists back outside the court building for yet another journalist was being sentenced. for years behind bars for citizen journalists. the charges picking quarrels and provoking trouble john has been imprisoned since may she went on a hunger strike and her lawyers claim she was force fed through a nasal tube. after i explained to her what kind of punishment she could expect she was determined to follow through with her hunger strike come what may i reminded her of the risks but she said she knew in her heart what she was doing was right. during the lockdown and john john put up critical posts on twitter and you tube

both blocked by the chinese government reports dealt with everyday problems in hospitals and official corruption junction is one of several citizen journalists who ran afoul of the authorities. the way there are many similar cases of human rights abuses in china you never hear from these people again some are allowed to go home others disappear john john is the only one to actually end up in court. the government has reacted harshly to any criticism of its handling of the corona virus outbreak it appears determined to stop journalists like john john from muddying the official message that its response was both swift and effective. accord and saudi arabia has sentenced a prominent women's rights activist to nearly 6 years in prison and came to global attention as the face of the campaign to allow women to drive in the conservative kingdom she was charged with harming national security and the anti terror laws.

now left little has paid for her activism with ease of her life she believed it was her right to drive no matter what saudi law said. men who want to stop us from driving are doing us an injustice they are oppressing us. now have to lose been arrested more than once for women's rights activism she's been kept behind bars since $28.00 aine. her family has alleged she's been tortured in jail now she's been sentenced by an anti terror court the moment. she saw the their verdict she she started crying well because the files the fact that she has been labeled as a terrorist basically. have little is just one of several women's rights activists who've been in jail for the past 2 knock years because it's been taken up by campaign is a broad they say the sentence is intended to stop other saudis from seeking shine.

the saudi authorities have done this in the past with human rights activists which we have seen in sentence of being treated as terrorists they have made it clear to the citizens that you cannot you can only provide it a month after legion was arrested and the government finally allowed women to get behind the wheel to favorable headlines of broad. but rights groups say this reform came at a cost. to the very people who spoke out 1st on behalf of this basic freedom. or freedom of speech access to information and free press taken for granted here in germany but these rights do not exist in many other countries at least 50 journalists have been killed in the past year alone the campaign group reporters without borders says most were targeted assassinations afghanistan is one of the 5

deadliest nations for journalists along with mexico iran pakistan and india. this is the 3rd funeral of a journalist in afghanistan in 2 months with a t.v. and radio presenter my lai my wife and her driver were killed by gunmen in early december. and i'm so hard i'm there but i wouldn't and i don't want to know 100 coming down with you she was on her way to work and we had planned to do a show together i was on ed when i got the news we had to stop the show. last year but how about a round of i want to go to one of those new reports that the word of a journalist and a woman in the spotlight 25 year old with a symbol of the new afghanistan the threat to fundamentalists and go she criticized them i have 10 more daughters like milo who could give their lives for a cause but i want the killers apprehended back in the know what is possible. targeted killings of journalists like my one by gunmen or car bombs have become all

too common in afghanistan despite the ongoing peace talks between the government and the taliban the country is still rated as one of the world 5 most dangerous places for journalists and with weekly reports of new attacks threats and intimidation local journalist groups are raising the alarm in november the afghan journalist safety committee wrote a letter to the un security council urging it to help reduce the violence. i don't think it's ever been as. scary as it is right now. because it's yours at all jill. threats. well only 6 weeks of lost for jewels and all. jokes you know are. targeted killings. so probably. and that's has created extensive fear of american journalist all over the country. just days after my one's death and almost

300 kilometers away another journalist from the to learn ecstatic was killed shot close to his home but are not gunmen next out head of the local journalists union and reporter for outlets like a.p. and al-jazeera according to his colleagues yet received threats and inform the authorities about them but got little help. oppression in our society no one is more press than journalists i have to say let's question ourselves and let's get united. playing why this cruelty has happened and how long it's going to continue. whether if a. local strongman or government affiliates the question of who is behind these attacks often remains. good for those who continue to do their work as journalists one thing is clear they should not have to risk their lives to do their jobs a quick reminder you can always get to the news on the go just download from google

or from the app store so it'll give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news if you are part of a news story you can also use the. scenes photos and videos of what's happening. there's more news headlines coming at the top of the hour from now live from the hell of it the rest of the team here in berlin thanks for watching. emigrants. the police will stop. the rudest solution. there could be cynical. but. not an option shattered dreams starts january 18th on t.w.

. china deserves our gratitude and respect the world health organization should be ashamed of themselves. as they are like the public relations agencies which. praise china again and again praising china for its so-called transparency and over and soon. the w.h.o. under dr tetras has made a major contribution in advancing the global response to cope 19 with its good work is applauded by the international community china's cover of love they will harm virus allow the disease to spread all over the world china and the united states

stand to gain from cooperation and lose from confrontation regretfully in addition to the raging corona virus a political virus is also spreading in the united states so this political virus is using every opportunity to attack and smear china. ringback on january 23rd 2020 china announced that a new academic had begun to spread in the city of rouhani in the center of the country. the chinese authorities decided to impose a lockdown on tens of millions of people the 1st of many that over the next few

weeks would spread across the world get on that same day in geneva the director general of. the world health organization was urging for calm rather than caution. make no mistake. this is though i mean mergence seen in china. but. it has not yet become a global health emergency. over the next few weeks the daily reports coming out of china went from unsettling to a lawmaker. the 1st cases seem to have emerged in ruhani at the end of 29 team near a way to market where live animals are sold and slows it in squalid conditions. it's here that a novel coronavirus is believed to have been transmitted from animals to humans and have claimed its 1st casualty us. doctors treating those 1st

cases in 100 central hospital tried to alert the authorities but were arrested by the police and accused of spreading rumors. it was during chinese new year the country's biggest holiday and for the government in beijing this was not the time for bad tidings. reflects the 1st reflex of an offshore tarion regime is to stifle and deny facts and to avoid risking panic they were eager to avoid interrupting festivities during new year the big national holiday with hundreds of millions of people travelling around the country. in china it's also a political ritual it's really pretty cheek. a few days later on january 27th the streets of beijing were eerily empty.

the director general of the world health organization was afforded an official reception by the chinese president with the 2 men insisting the situation was under control. of the regime i personally directed the provision of containment measures to keep the epidemic in check. she said. ching our political decisions will ensure a victory against the epidemic. so that. each. this is very very important and really without that and the other one gentleman. is the political. your personality to which we have been for. 48 hours later the w.h.o. delegation were back at the head courses in geneva some 15 governments had now confirmed that the virus had spread to their countries in asia and europe concern

was growing as was criticism of the w h o's chief who had still to publicly acknowledge the health crisis of global proportions the speed was with china detected the outbreak isolates of the virus sequence of their genome and shared between is doubly join the world out of very impressive and beyond words so is china's commitment to transparency and to supporting other countries in many ways china is actually setting a new standard for outbreak response and it's not an exaggeration and joe doesn't recall imminent and actually opus's any restrictions for travel and trade or other measures against china. clearly the w.h.o. was to has attended and made mistakes from the outset. china informed the

w.h.o. too late and the w.h.o. waited too long before acknowledging human transfer of the virus. that was evidently detrimental. in that week or 10 days the time lost was considerable it did their job. good don't go see the. new discipline the chinese and nischelle he held back information for 2 or 3 weeks but eventually it was no longer tenable. the w.h.o. director general at the time dr ted rose to clear that it was not an international health emergency declared us show. and tell us that. people were asking why he didn't say otherwise. in order to understand this you have to look at the structure of the w.h.o. w.h.o.

has an executive council of around 30 countries and suffers from the same problem as the un unanimity admitted you didn't get invited to do that and. china has a powerful voice on that board. executive world now ask yourself whether the chinese ambassador while representing his country would be willing to agree to that opinion and say yes it all started here and we're going to unleash an epidemic on the world. absolutely not they posted no. untenured he says he says donald trump closed the u.s. buddhist to chinese people and everyone else entering from that country. the president announced the unilateral move in spite of the advice and with no known cases in the u.s. . the decision marked the start of an ongoing escalation of the attacks by trump

against beijing and the w h. we're not happy about china i will tell you that there was a dryer a great great deal and all of a sudden the plate comes in for john what out after if they could have stopped it they are a very brilliant nation scientifically in other words. it got loose let's say and they could have kept it they could have stopped it don't close your borders to china don't do this they don't report was really going on they didn't see it and yet they were there they didn't see what was going on in. they didn't see it how do you not see it. in may 2020 trump announced he would be pulling his country out of the w a h. he claimed the organization was responsible for the spread of the pandemic and called it a puppet of china. and cuba. the world is now suffering as

a result of the malfeasance of the chinese government china's cover up of the will han virus allow the disease to spread all over the world instigating a global pandemic that has cost more than 100000 american lives and over a 1000000 lives worldwide. chinese officials ignored their reporting obligations to the world health organization and pressured the world health organization to mislead the world when the virus was 1st discovered by chinese authorities. oh the me from the united states is condemning china and the w.h.o. continuously without reason. they want to shift the focus of the american public as a distraction from the inefficiency in their epidemic response which is quite

immoral and most disappointing to see him sure. 180 kilometers from mainland china the island of taiwan is one of the most modern and highly developed countries in asia. beijing has claimed the territory since 949 bus its independence is supported and defended by washington. since the recognition of mainland china by the un taiwan has been isolated and practically excluded from the international community. under pressure from china the w.h.o. refuses to communicate with the government in taipei which seems to be the case even if the epidemic were to directly threaten the taiwanese. washer toward taiwan as part of china there is only one china not to me or you go to war you go

to taiwan are certain that every international organizations including the w.h.o. and the united nations and the vast majority of governments you will all admit that the people's republic of china is the only legal representative their only partner . which means they all agree with the one china policy just. taiwan has to agree with this principle if it is to become an observer of the w.h.o. without any problems for me or great confidence. paradoxically that exclusion may well have saved taiwan from a worse fate the island nation was obliged to develop its own warning and response systems in december 29th teen with a w h o receiving no information from beijing the time when his government immediately took steps to protect its population.

despite its proximity to mainland china taiwan among the 1st countries affected has seen minimal deaths since the start of the epidemic. an impressive record for a nation that the world health organization effectively refuses to deal. in april a journalist from hong kong interviewed is senior w.h.o. advisor about the situation in taiwan would that be extolled consider how once membership. the epidemiologist insisted that there was a problem with the connection. a lot but it was it was not good your question ok i mean let me let me repeat the question of. what that right i guess is i'm i'm actually carries on talking about how i won this war on how once

case. when the journalist called again he refused to even utter the name taiwan. and i just want to see if you can comment a bit on how one has done so far in terms of containing the virus. but we we've already talked about china. you know when you look across the different areas china is actually quite a good job so that it's like a very much. an embarrassment for the w.h.o. the very country that arguably defended itself best from the virus is one that is not recognized by the united nations while the w.h.o. itself has become a pawn in the geopolitical confrontation between china and the united states. for this reason the founders of the w.h.o. wanted to keep the organization independent of international conflicts on july 24th

948 in the aftermath of the 2nd world war and the creation of the un 55 nations came together to create the world health organization in geneva. the suffering of millions of human beings in the country will be only be and many many thousands of lives will be saved. the choice of switzerland was no coincidence a neutral country where international politics should be put aside. that is what the founders wished for in 1948 when they chose geneva as the headquarters of the w.h.o. to some extent to keep it at a distance from the political decision making at the un headquarters in new york. the un's predecessor the league of nations had also tried to promote international cooperation on the health front especially after the spanish flu pandemic between

$918.92 the un wanted to go a step further. created an immediate post world war 2 period it began with very great idealism and aspiration and there were some from whatever country who believe truly an international order united nations and various agencies that would make the world safe for peace so that we would never see our devastation like broad war 2 again that was the aspiration but the cold war between the united states and the sub union was already jeopardizing international cooperation in 949 stalin withdrew the us s. r. and the east european communist bloc from the w. h. could we be demanded exception to this is it is he said to me this is going to be about us really really obvious but you want to acknowledge the big issue of. the conflict of the 2 world powers was also

a battle of completely different ideologies a capitalist designed business a state run health care system stunning success and nikita khrushchev was eager to seek peaceful coexistence with america and in 1955 he also decided that the soviet union should rejoin the w 8 that created a moment and always has in world history which will allow the show to step out of that stage and seize that opportunity with one of its grace the confluence of not it's raised the culture in which was the campaign to eradicate smallpox worldwide. well relations between the 2 superpowers remain tense in berlin and cuba inside the w.h.o. they were tanned in hand my 1st international activity was working with the smallpox eradication for 2 years during their program i worked in india side by side with people from the u.s.s.r. from many different countries around the world and we all work together technically

to accomplish a common goal well the politics continued to inflame international ideas . and international views the tactical people worked perfectly together and eradicated you disease who was causing 2700000 deaths in 1967. at the end of the $970.00 s. the world health organization and mounts the eradication of smallpox as i am concerned i believe surely that it is the last case in. the w.h.o. had defeated one of the deadliest diseases known to humankind well also expanding the availability and use of antibiotics membership of the organization then increased from $55.00 to $150.00 nations and at the behest of these new joint developing world countries the w.h.o. decided to set its goals even higher. in the 1978 the w.h.o.

hosted a conference in the soviet republic of peasants in. and declared that it was no longer just an agency for cooperation it had become a universal guarantor of health for everyone everywhere. there was a great international conference in which the declaration of all out of the clear that the social determinants of health must be addressed health policy must be formulated into sectoral way all the sectors of the country an economy has been brought to bear on it and the goal should be universal equity health for all by the year 2000 was the glorious naive dream of the declaration. but what should have been a promising future soon turned into a fiasco. marks the beginning of a new division in the w.h.o. with member states again pursuing their own specific interests that was extremely

threatening obviously to the powerful nations because the powerful nations don't really want. an equal or a fair international economic order it goes against their interests and so that project was abandoned very very fast many countries in the global war the united kingdom especially when margaret thatcher became prime minister of the united states especially when ronald reagan became president became very conservative didn't like the fact that these countries former colonies from the global south were now becoming numerically dominant in the world health the same way. but faced with ever increasing challenges the organization suffered from its limited size in 2020 its budget was close to 5000000000 euros an impressive sounding some bus in fact no more than the annual budget of

a single major hospital in the developed world. clearly the budget of the world health organisation is very small compared to budgets and even in cities in big cities his 1st public health coups so w.h.o. doesn't have a budget which permits it to do what it could be doing and so every time there's an emergency it has to go out and raise more funds in order to respond to that emergency. ronald reagan the us president during the 1980 s. was the 1st to understand that this modest budget gave him political leverage over the organization. unhappy to see the balance tipping towards developing countries he decided to reduce the united states financial contributions. the united states and other countries the global war with losing control of the policies an agenda of the w.h.o. and so they began to act in very punitive ways towards the w.h.o.

an effort led by the united states in 1980. froze the budget and the reagan administration actually cut its act its contribution to 20 percent of its assessed juice so do so frozen 1st which in a world of inflation and broth of additional expenses that's essential in effect of decreasing the budget. in an attempt to boost its financial resources the w.h.o. began to diversify its sources of income the obligatory contributions from member states represent only 20 percent of its budget the rest comes from voluntary contributions donations mainly from member states but also from private sector institutions and that has an impact on the functioning of the w h. 30 years ago and starting microsoft if there was we had

a very ambitious vision computer for everyone. now i join you in seeking to achieve an even more important vision which is good health for every human being . busy and fuels the 2nd biggest donor to the w.h.o. is the bill and melinda gates foundation. so mr gates could say i am happy to continue providing money but i would prefer it to go towards polio vaccination and the director general of the w.h.o. is given money under the condition that specific programs are funded. this just can't be. satisfied stone is the w.h.o. launched high profile publicity campaigns on issues such as sexual health or smoking

but adapting to the threat of sporadic epidemics proved extremely difficult. yes at the turn of the new millennium the world was beginning to change the emergence of china and added a new dimension to globalization the most populous country on the planet was evolving at a pace unprecedented in modern history from a largely agricultural country into a major industrial power. the kind of development that exacerbates the spread of viruses when live animal markets do business in the middle of megacities. as seen in late 2002 when an animal coronavirus made the jump to humans in the southern chinese city of fresh air and. it was the start of an atypical pneumonia epidemic that spread slowly and silently across the country the world only learned about the novel virus when the 1st victims were reported in hong kong.

sons as it came to. you know and was soon infecting people around the world well china continued to deny its existence. they said this is nothing it's serious it was an infection we know what it was we've stopped it it's not spreading any further and so w.h.o. went on for about a week is it learn more about this disease spreading around the world and then the director general took a brave and courageous move to report globally that china was putting the rest of the world at risk by not reporting what was going on in china to help them to fight u.t.c. grow harlem branch and then director general of the w h o tells the organizations chief epidemiologist with making the news global that we needed to make a global alert so that other countries could be aware of this. dr brundtland was

a former head of state and in addition she was a pediatrician she understood clearly politics as well as technical issues related to health other director generals were less willing to take a political stand then she was she was a very strong director general who didn't wait for consensus from countries before acting she acted and then brought countries along winter in order that they would agree with what she did it was enormously effective in what the w.h.o. was able to provide leadership for over the reluctant consent of china china was offended was upset was insulted and this will come back to haunt the day of your show and the world to this day. 3 years later the sun's corona virus completely disappeared and the w.h.o.

had appointed a new director general ma. chen who had come to worldwide attention as director of health in hong kong during the sars outbreak took over as head of the organization . i would like to thank my country for nominating me to this post. and also i would like to thank the hong kong and macau special administrators regional governments alongside with the central government provided me with a lot of support during the 3 months of campaign trail. margaret cho and was the statement of intent by beijing the w.h.o. was a prime objective in its international strategy the new director general had a new and extremely powerful instrument at her disposal to reinforce her independence the newly composed international health regulations revised and

consolidated in 2005 by the member states of the w.h.o. . live which always assume. they authorized the w.h.o. to issue alerts about health emergencies that might occur. with the members also committed to reporting certain events to the w.h.o. . not doing so or responding too late could result in the w.h.o. holding them publicly accountable. for them but the w.h.o. is also part of the system of the united nations whose fundamental rule is non interference in other country's affairs on the one hand w.h.o. is told to monitor developments and if need be intervene in the politics of sovereign nations while on the other hand it is to in general refrain from such action was to. look what happened at the world trade organization at the w t o one a country is out of line it is immediately brought to order by the w

t o director general and other states. and if it still refuses to accept requirements it can leave the w t o but quitting the w t o is a dramatic move for a country so what people have accepted on the economic front capitalism and trade they are incapable of doing so for human health. and that is tragic. the w.h.o. in common with any institution serving the public interest has been weakened this is not this is not some kind of unfortunate mistake it is wanted they do not want a strong w.h.o. they want a world health organization that will rep that will so the fact that health is a trillion dollar market. the w.h.o.

faced unlimited budget and we governments which were to have dramatic consequences in 2014. liberia sierra leone and guinea saw multiple outbreaks of the bowler virus. teams from doctors without borders on the ground reported that the wave of infections was out of control while the international community said nothing. in march the w.h.o. sounded the alarm. on it need to. keep going. on as on the rebuttal of a doctor strong or more the jostle of the territory. a few days later in geneva the w.h.o. declared that this does not constitute an international emergency w.h.o. does not recommend any trouble trade restrictions. does it they don't make public health sense. on august 8th

20146 months after the start of the epidemic and with the bowler having taken the lives of more than 2000 people the head of the w.h.o. finally responded. this morning i am declaring the current outbreak of ebola virus disease a public health emergency of international concern. by the time the epidemic was finally declared over in 2016 it had caused 10000 deaths in a dozen west african countries one small the w.h.o. prepared to change its director general. excellences ladies and gentlemen philip a special advisor to the u.n. secretary general submitted his application what the great to the it is for me. to be before us only. to present make your leaders see for the post

of. the world health organization. i could be shortly before hand he had been to beijing seeking chinese support for his election need to have the chinese president reveal that he had chosen the african candidate ducted tadros. when china decides to back a candidate well they obviously have a far better chance because the various countries are getting aid from china will play ball. with people so that is typical for the election unfortunately that's just how it is when you have a democratic vote. you. take the us was elected the 1st african to ever become director general of the w h. however he wasn't completely unknown. he had

served for over 15 years as either the health or foreign minister in his homeland of ethiopia thank you thank you. thank you dr ted rose i would consider one of the very best ministers of health ever in africa and i am not alone in believing that many many other people believe that as well he spent a decade expanding the number of hospitals improving the management capacity of the hospitals improving the quality of care. creating a health workforce that was the sort of health extension worker so every single person could get access to care in a very very poor country. but that's only half of the story of the new general director. for 15 years he had been a member of an all 3 tarion if you're a peon regime responsible for the deaths of hundreds of the government's political

opponents. while minister of health he had also refused to acknowledge a number of epidemics in the country to avoid pushing off investors. he had been elected by a coalition of countries driven by china countries in the south and countries of africa the aim was an end to western domination of this important un organization. paradoxically it is still the west but to a large part finances the w.h.o. but has absolutely no control over its political decision making it is the. european and american candidates in the upper echelons of international organizations now found themselves on the receiving end of chinese strategy. beijing began mobilizing its allies to elect its preferred candidates they tended

to come from friendly countries like dr tadros or directly from the ranks of the beijing regime. change. in 2019 she don't he was elected to head the food and agriculture organization the u.n. agency tells with fighting hunger and food insecurity strategically a body at least as important as the w a h a. n 2016 men home away responsible for state security in beijing was elected to head interpol the international police cooperation department based in france. his appointment was controversial given the role of the police in china suppression of dissidents. in 2018 main hallway disappeared overnight deposed by beijing which accused him of corruption without informing him to power.

today representatives of the chinese government also head the international civil aviation organization the united nations industrial development organization. and the international telecommunications union which played a big role in the development of 5 g. phone technology. the un's department of economic and social affairs is also headed by a chinese official plus the chinese are assuming an increasingly important role in the un human rights council which is also based in geneva. china now constitutes over a 5th of the world population and economically speaking in terms of manufacturing industry and trade with china ranks 1st or 2nd in the world there are more chinese citizens going into big international organizations and assuming top of posts usual she this trend is inevitable no one can stop this sort of work china is not going

to accept insults discrimination or an equal treatment against our country and people jobs it's not acceptable to slander and create rumors about china so we all . but. china has a strategy that consists of building its own intrinsic balances of it and it needs the world on the economic plane to maintain its internal balances for production stability for the enrichment of its middle class is that. once and for some years now it's been trying to become part of the international order that we have established a lot on this from that that couldn't have went to. for us there's just one question if she will china change and adopt the universal values that have led to over 7 years of peace and stability to come is a total of 2 people it was or will china on the contrary has to do the changing. illusional. china's ability to position its candidates in international

organizations was also a result of u.s. withdrawal on the international front. transamerica does not believe in multilateralism. anyone refusing to align themselves with the american position comes under criticism and pressure. they consider china a developing nation and because china is a developing nation they take massive advantage of the united states why did no the president stop this i've been talking about it from there got it and we're looking at that very very strongly world trade w so i have probably the world health and world trade both of them i'm not sure which is worse you want to know the truth but we'll figure it out ok. today the united states still plays the prime role at the heart of the un. but it has moved away from a great many international organizations that are very important. the un human

rights council unesco the vienna agreement on the iranian nuclear program. and also. the paris agreement. so here you have china acting inside the united nations not to create programs or new initiatives but to gain legitimacy and defend itself basically to avoid anything that goes against its own particular interests that's not new other countries do the same thing. but given the size of china and the sometimes contrary nature of the interests they protect that makes it more serious. and they are faced with the united states whose number one reflex is if we don't like the way the instrument works we break it off i'm sure. the world health organization is indeed a pawn in continuing tensions between china and the united states it is also come

under attack from various sites during the biggest pandemic so far this century in addition to mass casualties large parts of the global population have had to endure restrictions and even curfews what could they have done better. one of several big questions that will take time to. history shows that big pandemics always end in a search for the culprit always. the world needs a scapegoat. and we are in an increasingly marked by the malevolent spirit of nationalism to win this from the you know the obvious choice is to lay the blame on some all powerful international organization rather than look at our own failings. and i find that deeply unjust

for kocsis to perform the not as used. unfortunately in the 21st century multilateralism is in danger. countries look 1st to their own priorities every country and particularly the united states with its america 1st approach. and that kind of thinking is dangerous. and. how can the w.h.o. fires once again against disease and epidemics effectively and liberate itself from the rivalry between china and the us. she spoke you should try not restrict your foreign form i don't think it would be productive to restructure the w.h.o. to respond to emergency help situations like that. because it would eventually lead to the same failings seen previously even to see. and we shouldn't undermine the w.h.o. as trump has done by reducing its budget or by creating rival structures which

would be bound to rival the w.h.o. without performing any better themselves. in my opinion we have to get these respective states to respect the rules that they themselves committed to your small address book to write or to soon. the novel coronavirus has led to a crisis that serves as a stark warning to us. new pandemics are not only possible but probable a grave concern and challenge for humanity. but it has also shown how fragile our health care systems are if we want to be better equipped for the future we will need to have a come of this current of research and nationalism the crisis facing the w h o's is not the cause but a symptom of an increasingly unsteady to. 1000

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