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one of those suffering from hunger. programs fighting over. the foot. it's a deal of 7 years in the making and today could be the day the e.u. and china announce a great through for their massive investment pact we go to brussels to find out more about the deal and its implications for europe also coming up the thinking of switching crops to something more profitable chinese farmers are branching out to

make a bigger buck and its own legal. and it took a deadly explosion in the port of beirut to reveal the poisonous liquid stored there now a german company helps clearing out the chemicals. welcome to do that we have business i want to jones in berlin good to have you with us it will take months to be finalized and fully ratified but the new e.u. china deal which is expected to be signed today is certainly a landmark deal it will remove barriers to e.u. investments in china for key sectors but critics say it's rushed and it reduces europe's leverage on dealing with china. after 7 years of wrangling the e.u. is set to include investment agreement with beijing that it insists will guarantee a level playing field for european companies operating in china blocks top trading partner. the investment agreement a passion project of german chancellor angela merkel is framed as

a victory of financial wral politic over political concerns especially china's human rights record. but critics say the deal is rushed and weakens the e.u.'s political power beijing recently imposed hefty tariffs on australian goods after camera made political criticisms despite the 2 countries having a free trade deal i think there's been a very clear lesson this year and that is really intrigued by china iron economic concern china costs and i think they are better for the loss of the world to unite our common and you know if i should i'm dealing with china and response study economics really i think has missed an opportunity to work was its allies here to get a better longer term view of china. members like france were worried about shinji and weaker is being used as forced labor in response china has reportedly agreed to step up efforts to meet the international labor organizations rules. also there are

fears the deal could alienate us president elect joe biden who has expressed concern about the e.u.'s overtures to china so soon before he takes office plans what comes next and for more let's bring in now is a recent felon from the center for russia europe asia studies in brussels good to have you with us so so many hiccups we just learned about in this report. in the final stretch certainly china's handling of the hugo amount already again in focus its failure to comply with existing treaties like the one with australia so from an evil spec to why this rush now. that's a great question it is 7 years in the making and we saw last year with one used visit to brussels in december he said we are developing economy it will be very difficult to make this agreement so in one year we've seen that statement stretch all the way to the finish line which will be today why is this happening now while angela merkel has made this her signature goal to get this push through during her

e.u. rotating presidency which concludes tomorrow so this is her final chance to get this through and as you noted in your program that there are the optics on this or a really bad because we've seen a year with physician uncovered 19. tensions in the south china sea troubles on the indian border you noted problems with australia not china keeping their agreements and it almost feels like a reward to beijing for their bad behavior last week we saw a german and that's or to the un was leaving and the chinese said good riddance so it doesn't seem that there is anything that china can do that will upset anyone this deal seems so important that nothing's going to sideline it why why is it so important i mean what are those huge perks that make all of that worthwhile. i think there's a lot of smoke here when we finally see the real deal we might be far more disappointed than what would sexually been promised china has everything they want

in europe europe is open for investment but the europeans have been the demand or they have been asking for more market access in china and clearly after covering $1000.00 posts economic landscape it would be people are worried about growth so the 3 major issues they want are. equal playing a level playing field let stopping for signal to transfer and also this idea of investment guarantees but that's not what the europeans got they didn't get the investment guarantees that they wanted it is called the comprehensive agreement on investment and that's one of the key ask that the europeans don't get the other issue that was made clear by the european parliament was that they would block this because of the forced labor issues in regard to sion jug and weekers and the languages so we can the agreement it's very easy for anyone to for beijing to get out of it because the international able organization china has agreed to kind of

work towards this goal but there are no snap backs there are no ways to enforce any of these mechanisms to raise a fallen there from the center for russia europe asia studies in a brussels thank you so much for sharing your insights with us thank you. well european stocks edged higher today after britain approved a covert 1000 vaccine developer astra zeneca and oxford university shares in oster seneca 1.3 percent after jumping 3 points faith and a percent earlier in anticipation of the news most markets though in the region are subdued to duty thin volumes in a holiday shortened week the german dax trading flat after reaching record highs. i think kind of this used to be a bad rap s. and illegal or it used to have a bad reputation as an illegal narcotic recently though its reputation has been

revived and a growing number of countries are legalizing the drug for recreation or medicinal use the same goes for china where cannabis derived products are becoming popular while the state is granting licenses to farm us of the crop joe chung young lives in a village in china's south western union province is among the 1st crop of the country's new cannabis farmers. i planted 20 had tears in the 1st year but we gradually expanded today i plant 40 hope there is a cannabis that brings in a lot more money than other crops. farmers shows business is entirely legal as long as he uses the seeds he receives from the government which contain very little of the psychoactive substance t.h.c. and he may only sell it to a licensed company michael one has invested in this type of business he's one of china's cannabis pioneers. people still can see that cannabis is

some a truck industry so you know the my family friends and even those legal in here and that only some priest do not get involved with chuck business. michael huang's business is fully supervised by narcotics regulators he supplies the seeds to the farmers and buys their crops then he extracts the khanabad dial from the plants we had for his factory but while we're on our way the police send him a message he's not allowed to bring foreigners to his factory of china and our governments do you want to want this industry to grow slowly and don't get too much attention from around the world i think. that is the one. there is a police station right at the entrance of his factory. the officers monitor how much wrong material has factory receives and how much can a big dial extract leaves. extract in canada dial is the trickiest step in the

production chain a small amount of t.h.c. build up the police have installed cameras in the plant to ensure that the t.h.c. is destroyed. i will regulate your body in the sense that i'm the stand the function of canopies and we also want to support the industry so at you until we get this supervisory procedure i mean why we have a really good relationship. michael who mainly produces for export but chinese consumers are starting to discover cannabidiol products one she cosmetics is one of the firms entering the market they produce skin creams lotions and facial masks which contain the anti inflammatory and soothing and creating it. it probably remember those images a major explosion in beirut harbor last summer a destroyed large parts of the city at least $190.00 people died more than 6 and

a half 1000 were injured sadly it was a disaster waiting to happen corrupt officials have allowed highly poisonous liquids to be stored in rust to contain at the harbor for decades while now the chemicals are said to be removed and that with the help of a german company. but there's a dangerous surprise in every container some of them have been stored at beirut harbor for up to 20 years there's no paperwork and no one knows who they belong to let alone what's inside the contents are jumping out now forming noxious puddles the german company can be left is now working to clean up the harbors toxic legacy . list very very important for us that we have an overview of all and to make test of the different kind of substances because it's not completely labeled everything so if you mix some things in there could be that with a blast. sulphuric and hydrochloric acid acetone and now banned pesticide methyl

bromide are just some of the chemicals they found here in the bay report authority wants to get rid of the containers as quickly as possible but it's not easy. to structurally they cannot sustain the lot inside the containers and the containers falling apart we can at leave that we cannot transport them. all in all there are 52 toxic containers here. in a cordoned off area of the port the dangerous liquids are pumped into special takes which are then shipped to germany for recycling. it's a costly process which the lebanese port can't afford but in association of lebanese and german businessmen brokered a deal. we tried to squeeze through mark simone. to. $3000000.00 euro subsidies which

is was city born $6000000.00 this was the lowest we could do. in systems of mr bus. casey who is the president of the. board. he said look. for a door 1000000. copy lift is paying the initial cost itself while the port authority tries to secure a grant from the european union to stump up the remaining $1600000.00 but to rid the border of dangerous and destructive chemicals that's a price worth paying. now with the new year's eve approaching pandemic weary folks are treating themselves to a bit of luxury to celebrate anyone for white caviar perhaps austrian fish pharmacies are expecting big sales of precious whites caviar from the rare sturgeon

retail remains strong even though many restaurants are shot each fish yields just 600 grams and a row are worth $8000.00 euros that's 3 times the prize of black caviar caviar is the world's most expensive food worldwide yield is just $415.00 times. and as you business update here on d w this hour for me and the team thanks for watching stay healthy. or not to own a little. bit about assuring economy instead. of . a change in thinking is changing the economy to create something.

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minorities imprisoned their culture coming up. goals for reform of the type of money grow louder as protesters demand accountability from a king who spends most of his time in germany. and the teenage mum to me are determined to prove afghan women and conquer challenges just as well as men . welcome to news asia glad you could join us this year hong kong implemented a new security law all subtleties now have sweeping powers to target acts deemed secession subversion or terrorism it's a handy tool for the beijing backed government to crack down on supporters of the months long pro-democracy protests that rocked the city from an inductive it's like

joshua wong could be virtually silenced but i've vowed defiance but continuing political instability and fears of an erosion of the territories freedoms have forced others to look for exit options literally he doesn't look at one couple's tough decision gary and his fiance has just a few more months to life in hong kong before they say goodbye to the hotel and then equate to australia. gary filed the application 5 years ago leaving was only a backup plan says dan hong kong has been through massive social and political upheaval but it was the unprecedented antigovernment protests last year that finally pushed him over the at church. this isn't the hong kong i grew up with any more freedom has been restricted but hong kong will soon be no different from the rest of china i feel even more unsafe under the new national security law from what

we've lost so we have to find it elsewhere who are you won by you go or came along to fight or to flee that's a tough question for many homeowners like gary starting a life abroad will likely be a rocky path even in his job as an engineer gary and his fiance but that's not want to be interviewed because she fears for her job here are prepared to start from scratch a price they're willing to pay in exchange for liberty. something to abandon our well paid jobs friends everything we've established here where we were born in ranges we did struggle to make this decision but around a 3rd of my friends are also considering leaving him or at least sending their children abroad. for these 200 al gore who. has recently been travelling around home call to capture is iconic scenery these

pictures was just 3 memories off took place there were no longer a car or. well gary and his fiance chose to leave hong kong sadek will say that they had no such choice when she left her home in china and that's because up woman with chinese nationality she fled to sweden after her ordeal in china i was reeducation camps located in the shin jag of the northwest of the country china says these camps of of vocational training purposes but reports indicate they actually hold at least a 1000000 we go to and other ethnic muslim minorities all big deal radicalized as part of trying those measures to counter terrorism so article so you pay a former education official was imprisoned here and forced to teach chinese to the other inmates in an interview to the doctor news she recounted what she saw there hears and accept what they paid on time but after i was brought to the fascist

internment camp had i realized that it was in a bit i might marry that's ago almost and then be quiet others are so fond of finding me oh for every action of the inmates was watched since 247 but i said to you do you know you've got but there was one room in the camp that didn't have c.c.t.v. complete they call it the black room to get to dig to go father said you should try men to get people to enter the room were tortured physically by various brutal means. more than. the fun. just buy the other cars pull off their fingernails they would tie them to a chair and use electric shock to torture them. to get them into the.

bargain that you would like they would be. the means were very brutal because i had to go. that's 100 showed that. i used to be locked in that room to. come. there's lots of things that i will never forget. every time i eat i think of the enemy made. for friends. sometimes want. to change the sound to them and i think of them before i go to bed every night. my mind keeps returning to the internment camp where i worked every single day trying. one thing that i can't stand. when you're very young girl she got raped a lot. but

if it's something that at least struck me i can never forget it it stuck in my mind . disillusioned young people in tyler of this year if you will pro-democracy protests . and calls for change from thousands protesting on the streets of the country in particular focus is the current king a long cord whose long periods of state in germany have raised questions among his people a strong list but just laws in the country make any criticism of the king punishable with prison time an activist who fled thailand now lives in exile here in germany is among those daring to call for change your small. the protest movement in thailand is picking up momentum protestors are calling for

constitutional change and want to reform thailand's powerful monarchy. thailand's king might have a long corn has a strong influence on most aspects of thai society and has tried to consolidate his power he is known and often criticized for his lavish lifestyle. but instead of ruling from his royal residence in bangkok. the king prefers to spend his time fountains of kilometers away in germany. this hotel in the bavarian resort town is where he normally stays for long stretches of time his presence in southern germany has been a tabloid sensation but it has also drawn strong criticism from thai activists including jr. who fled thailand and lives in europe since 2010. the thai people are getting more angry because he's not here just to to a nice and. stop into winning you know what he is here using.

locations and continue to how to say influence she has organized the series of protests across germany to raise awareness and push for change in thailand like shining slogans against the king on his favorite hotel the unpleasant things the king shouldn't be acting as head of state from a foreign country germany's government appears to agree it's. dark as we have made it clear that politics concerning thailand is not to be done from german soil which board on top of that there are many bizarre reports about what is happening there. and this is what we would always oppose having guests in our country who run their state affairs from here. and given for one. but the german government hasn't announced any specific measures jr your president sent a letter to the german chancellor and other leaders to urge the government to act

the king has now returned to thailand for the 1st time in almost 6 months and is expected to stay for a few weeks protesters have vowed to continue demonstrating despite a crackdown things are not getting easier for king long corn. and things weren't easy for a 2 year old. but she decided to serve extraordinary goals nonetheless despite the violence all around her she has. to climb mountains it's a sports not normally associated with women of the country who already face a difficult hurdles in their daily lives but that is of no consequence to this teenager. fasten muscle tunnel is used to scaling new heights as 18 she's already climbed no shack peak afghanistan's highest mountain soltani says it's one of the hardest climbs in the world she's the youngest woman ever to reach

the mountain spectacular summit. yes i went on and on with my main goal is to show the world that afghan women are strong and can do the most challenging work that men do. and i worry that our women from foreign countries come here to conquer the high peaks of the mountains of afghanistan i thought why can't we afghan women also conquered these peaks. the hindu kush mountain range was a popular climbing destination in the past but nowadays the ongoing war in afghanistan makes doing sport here dangerous as especially true for women with soltani well aware of the current political climate in the country. when i got into sports i knew that i would face some problems in the future. for example one

of the issues is that the taliban may feel that sports for women of. the to raise the afghan flag i'm ready to face any challengers the couple got on. what's next for the afghan pioneer soltani is setting her sights even higher she's preparing for the world's highest peak mount have wrist. and good luck to harm to you as well as you enter 2021 through sort of you yeah but believe it or now with the reduced offboard living people caught up in extraordinary political events in. syria and i have to.

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it's. one giant problem. because she now beat you. by eliminating the fuel economy. how will climate change affect us and our children. w dot com slash water. using a u.v. lamp to kill the coronavirus that's just one light bulb moment in a multitude of responses to prove that 19 saloon was repurposed hand sanitizer at the beginning of the pandemic the speed of innovation and the corona virus could be a game changer experts say it could revolutionize global health care allowing us to

come up with solutions that could change health care delivery. they say necessity is the mother of invention the coronavirus pandemic has thrown that into stark relief from innovations enabling us to live with the realities of the virus to devices that make it say to action possible here's the story of 2 entrepreneurs who say a diagnosis is just a breath away. christoph and thomas wolfe have a vision they want to return some normality to this called 19 times for months the been working on a breath test but can identify the novel coronavirus they're now confident it works . taken in august from a technical point of view this device can get to areas where normally only a dog can sniff things out. a device that's almost as sensitive as a dog's noles the technique is similar to a breathalyzer for alcohol. this is

a stimulus when what we have here is a sterile mouthpiece. and you take off the packaging and then what happens you blow into the mouthpiece and you just breathe. in there start up the brothers develop highly sensitive sensor technology from a spectrum meters pull industry and labs for a new type of diagnosis in real time in an automatic and we can see all sorts of things using breath analysis like whether a patient had coffee yesterday afternoon or not we can identify his nutritional status we can see different amino acids different fatty acids all of this from the breath breath as a direct window into the human body. but the brothers believe it could recognize up in 1000 other researchers also say breath analysis could work in principle to test for the corona virus. the challenge is to is to get the. methods that you run on the equipment the way the equipment is used to chew on

and the analytical technique of mice with verified biomarkers that are reliable. once we've proven that then you have a corrupted 19 breath test ready to go conventional swab tests are reliable but often only carried out when the infection has been there for a while and a result usually takes 2 days the breath test detects metabolic changes in breathing caused by the virus while it is not yet 100 percent reliable it does give an immediate result. the researchers believe that they will be able to deploy the tests as early as next summer in places like football stadiums. passengers could also be tested at airports before check in the accuracy of the test is currently around 80 percent however the researchers are expecting efficiency to increase significantly in the meantime a lot of detailed work remains to be done. people are complicated and you're

looking for a small signal in a snowstorm a blizzard of information. but we've we've found we've found the signals we think are helpful young christophe and thomas both originally developed their test for very different types of bad gnosis one problem with a covered 1000 tests is that they have not yet been able to carry out studies on patients with the virus they are hoping for to once again access to their processors access to resources to allow us to carry out a validation study on the site in a hospital or an airport test center and with that it becomes very easy to determine whether this would be a way to bring back some normality to people's. breath analyzers could be a way to detect carbon 1000 infections much faster than before. matthew harris joins us now he's a clinical senior lecturer in public health at the imperial college london mathew

so glad you can join us now you've written and the scientific journal nature about how the response occulted 19 has been distinguished by so-called frugal innovations what exactly does that mean well thank you through litigation really is the term that we give to the kind of innovation we see in the resource constrained so situations of extraordinary time pressure or situations where we don't have the kind of resources that we normally like to have when we where we develop health care innovations the word frugal oftentimes is referred to as sort of cheap or good enough innovation that actually frugal innovation is health care to patients that's actually as effective as the kind of innovation you would normally see but just in a way that is far more affordable far more sustainable maybe with fewer sort of complexity or functionality but that gets the job and undercoat it of course we've

seen around the world some extraordinary difficult situations at national level in terms of exposing the fragilities in our healthcare systems but also the real increase in healthcare demands and it really has necessitated a new type of innovating in innovating that pace rapidly using resources that we just find around us so kind of improvising if you are. this is the kind of innovation that we call frugal innovation so it's about reacting quickly using what you have but did have any examples of what a frugal innovation could be. well absolutely in the early days of the covert response we saw insincerities of elop in countries and really interesting examples of frugal innovations so for example where there was a lack of personal protective equipment we saw a clinician's improvised the use of simple acetate sheets the kind of such as a sheet that you'd use for overhead projectors in the old days and by simply

putting some holes in either side of the essay sheets in threading some ribbon on either side those became very effective face vices to protect not only the clinician but also the patients in front of them when they were interfacing and this was of course extremely cheap and actually very very effective since then baseball has a vote and become more sophisticated but it was a very good example of a frugal innovation at a time another good example of innovating at a pace was the construction of hospitals and on the 10 days in china actually eventually also in the u.k. where i'm from we saw the construction or repurchasing at least of conference sentences into into intensive care units and hospitals also in very very short amounts of time as a sort of idea of repurchasing the resources you have but also very very quickly the characteristic of really innovation now that the crisis has focused minds and

mobilize so much in terms of responses as you've told us there is also kind of dying down side to this kind of concentration of response to the crisis. well i think the pope it obviously has recorded a deviation of resources from other health care to focus our attention on the covert response and as a result some other areas have have if you like suffered in terms of research going into them and also the health care delivery the different clinical conditions i don't think there's a downside to frugal innovation and i think it's been a really revealing how we've been able to develop such a effective health care responses in a short period of time. without spending on safety checks or effectiveness or clinical effectiveness or for the patients that we serve so i don't see a downside to through elimination which tends to be foer fordable the healthcare

systems as long as the necessary checks and balances are in place to ensure the safety of those devices or technologies you've written that this kind of innovation could lead to a leveling in global health care equality what does that look like. what is the level in the sense that it has made us really reflect on the fragilities in the health systems even in the high income country settings and it's made us pay much more attention to the kind of innovations that arise from the low income countries is something we've been up to pacing for for many years and what code is doing is making us pay more attention to settings that traditionally we haven't really noticed in terms of health care innovation thank you matthew harris there talking about putting human resource lowness at the center of our cove in 1000 response there's a clinical senior lecturer in public health at imperial college london thank you for your insights. and now it's time for one of your assent and questions about the coronavirus our science correspondent derek williams is ready with announcer.

taking into account to patients sex and age what do the statistics say about complications. one of the clearest pieces of information that's come out of the statistics is that from the age of about 40 on women in general are a lot less likely than men to have severe outcomes data from both the c.d.c. and the european center for disease prevention and control a reveal how stark the difference is this graphic for example emphasizes how much more likely men of a certain age are to end up in the hospital or the i.c.u. numbers of men are represented by the blue bar and a numbers of women by the red one in europe men between 40 and 80 make up around 3 quarters of all intensive care cases and recorded deaths after 80 the split is more

even but that's almost certainly due to the simple fact that a lot fewer men lived at that age so statistically the chances are a lot higher that in the over eighty's a woman is going to get coke at 19 been a man is going to get it there's a lot of speculation about why and there and there doesn't seem to be a single reason that accounts for all of the discrepancy i'm several factors are likely playing roles we know though that people who have diabetes or high blood pressure or heart disease are at greater risk of severe outcomes if they contract to cope at 19 and aging men are more likely to have those who morbidity is then aging women are but another possible contributing factor involves immune response the male and female immune systems. different experts say because on their 2nd x. chromosome women have another copy of many of the genes that are involved in

fighting off disease it's been theorized that's also why women are more likely to develop certain auto immune diseases than men but in this case it could be helping them keep covert 19 or it's medical ramifications more effectively it bad that's hard to prove though. and that's all from us thank you very much for watching and stay safe.

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