just to shape an understanding of what the posix use of oil is being why. the u.s. accused him and wiki leaks of being enemy combatants. for the past decade 3 thick and thin a songe always maintained he was a journalist. the saga is not hard to get the u.s. government said it will appeal today's decision. well we're joined now by neil's meltzer he's the united nations special report on torture and has visited prison he says the past 10 years have effectively been psychological torture for the we can leaks father mr moussa what's your take on today's ruling that. well thank you very much for having me yes clearly the start meant is a very important 1st step in the right direction i think it has to be celebrated the judge has recognized that the conditions of detention that julia fans would be facing the u.s.

are oppressive in my view and in view of many human rights organizations they would actually amount to torture and other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment and that therefore for medical reasons off which you cannot be extradited to the u.s. so that is a very important 1st battle to be won into in this fight and a battle that is also for the prohibition of torture to terrific national. on the other hand we have to recognize that most of the judgment actually goes very far fortunately income farming and sustaining the rationale underlying the u.s. prosecution of during the firms which could be setting a precedent by which other journalists could be prosecuted and extradited to the united states. for if during our starters if they were to publish secret information so why did mr sampson's case in particular catch your attention.

to be called honest with you and to begin in the beginning i refused to actually get into this case because i was very much marked by the same prejudices that the broader public has been affected by through the mainstream press reporting on this for us on for 10 years it was only when i started to actually look into pieces of evidence to see that that whole narrative that has been spread about him for so long 'd. was not supported by evidence and that's what triggered my interest in this case and i've been visited him together with a medical team in belmarsh prison and we found that she showed all the symptoms that are typical for persons that have been exposed to psychological torture for a prolonged period of time can you go into bit more detail on that one expert in torture so then we which way has winter tortured and what's your assessment of his condition right now. yes i think thank you for the question it's important to clarify that obviously modern forms of torture. cannot be compared to the kind of

medieval forms of physical torture it is very much a cumulative process of the stabilizing people through isolation. and really a sion itself just to show harassment which and i mean by this judicial proceedings that are not based on law but they're being conducted for political purposes we're prostitute all rights are systematically being violated and so the person is being destabilized systematically they're seeing that in many countries in the world many regimes that try to use torture methods that don't be physical process and in the end it breaks a person and we actually have a confirmation of that precise process in today's judgment because it confirms that julian offense mental health is so fragile today that he cannot even be extradited to the u.s. without risking his suicide and that actually confirms that his mental health has

deteriorated dramatically and that's also what we have observed together with my medical people. thank you very much news now for the un special rapporteur on torture. and after some of the other stories making headlines around the world today iran says it has resumed enriching uranium up to 20 percent that goes well beyond the threshold set by the 25th a nuclear deal with major world powers the decision coincides with increasing tensions between iran and the u.s. and is expected to complicate efforts by u.s. president elect joe biden to rescue that deal. recording has emerged of president of trump pressuring a state election official to change the outcome of the november vote in the audio of a phone call released by the washington post trump tells georgia's secretary of state in needs to find more votes. schools in kenya have opened for the

1st time in 10 months the government closed them in march due to the corona virus pandemic students had temperatures check before entering school while there are concerns that social distancing won't be possible classrooms due to a crowding and a lack of desks. britain's prime minister boris johnson is due to announce new coronavirus restrictions in a televised address later today calls are growing for a return to a nationwide lockdown to combat a fast spreading new variant of the virus stuff and has already announced a tightening of measures from midnight u.k. time bad news hits the end of a day that started with a glimmer of hope after the arrival of a 2nd covert 19 backs in. a milestone for britain as it became the 1st country to administer the oxford astra zeneca vaccine more than half a 1000000 doses have been made available for the 1st 24 hours alone it comes as

britain struggles with a surgeon corona virus infections including a highly contagious variant this 82 year old was 1st in the queue for the jab. so more and more in the. normal road. this forces turn. and it was a proud moment for this oxford alumnus who was next in line. is it's wonderful and it's good to be able to tell. all the people. that it's going to get it quickly and as quickly as you can. britain has called it a scientific triumph the shot is less expensive and is easier to store than other covert 19 vaccines. but some are proceeding with caution it has yet to be approved

in the e.u. and france's data for the jab is insufficient d.w. spoke with a viral just in the u.k. who said the information has not been me and the level. of debt at that media grewal for this vaccine is only belonging to the government that is not publicly available and according to the government is like this that if the 1st nose is given the person there is around 70 percent efficacy and then if it is the 2nd those given that it will be around 80 percent efficacy. at 3 months but that is something that we haven't seen the debt as so therefore all is in error and we don't really know how efficacious would it be particularly after the 1st dose. the european medicines agency has said it is unlikely that the astra zeneca vaccine will be approved for the e.u. in january. meanwhile the european union is being forced to defend its compared to a comparable low slow rollout of

a covert 19 vaccine member states started inoculations on december 27th with the biotech pfizer vaccine but progress has been much slower than in the united states or britain france has only vaccinated $500.00 people the european commission has vowed to speed up the rollout and is an urgent negotiations to secure more doses of the biotech pfizer vaccine european med since agency is expected to make a decision about the u.s. development turn a vaccine this week critics say all this should have happened much earlier. let's discuss this criticism with our correspondent marina strands in brussels marina the german government said that the rollout was a european decision and that it was always clear there wouldn't be so many dog doses available in the beginning what does the e.u. have to say in its defense. but your commission defended itself today again this they have been doing so in the last couple of days it's books that you

commission spokesman said it's obvious that such a complex and over is always going to bring with it difficulties and your commission also said that they wanted to diversify risks at the beginning because no one could be sure which company would come out 1st which. could have been ruled out 1st so they ordered 2000000000 doses from different companies and the problem with the biotech pfizer one is as we've heard before it's quite expensive comparatively and also it has to be transported at minus 70 degrees so that's why many member states shied away from buying a lot and as we also heard the main bottleneck at the moment is the protection capacity. i want to bring in a graphic to give our viewers an overview of the global vaccine rollout the company that's administered the most doses $100.00 people israel is already vaccinated nearly 13 percent of the population that's followed by bahrain the u.k.

with united states and denmark rounding out the top 5 germany however has vaccinated less than point 3 percent of its population making it only 9 on that list. why are you countries like germany so low down on that list. interesting the the c.e.o. of biotech has said that companies leave trying to boost the output but it's not going as quick and as straightforward in europe as it is in other countries and there are many reasons for that and one of the main reasons is that the european medical agency that is not as quick in approving vaccines as is the u.k. for example or the or the united states and the reason for that is that the u.k. and the united states for example are pushing through emergency authorization that you just want to do that because they say we want our population to really trust in

the vaccines and that's why it just takes a little bit longer and that's one reason another reason we also heard that in france for example just a couple of 100 people have been vaccinated so far so very low number what's going wrong there apparently have not set up a mass exodus center as another country so it just takes too long and some people also say it's just a huge bureaucratic ford and the french government is not up for it at the moment our correspondent morgan strops talking to us from brussels thank you mary. if you're watching the news here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you there are scenes of celebration outside a london courthouse after the judge rejected a u.s. request to extradite julian assange to the u.s. the judge that the wiki leaks founder of would have been a suicide list if he were under the old us to the u.s. authorities to face the spirit of shoppers. and that's it for me in the news

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it's not just the animals of all suffering it's the environment we went on a journey to find ways out of the nutrition if you want to know how old weightlifter the priests and the focus changed as a 3 says listen to our podcast on the green fence. and to classrooms and empty playgrounds and nursery schools. it's pretty much the same picture around the world. to curb the number of coronavirus infections schools and kindergartens remain shut. when can they open again and if so under what conditions that's the question most parents ask. children need an education but they also need to be protected from the virus a difficult balancing act. welcome to our carbonite in special on detail the news i

want to jones and berlin good to have you with us it's 2021 and the pandemic still dictates our life and that of our children of course now there's talk of prolonging the lockdown again no school no kindergarten but our kids really at risk a recent study implies yes they are. children are generally not considered to be driving list spread of the corona virus but researchers in munich analyzed blood samples from 12000 children and what they found has the more. we have and can know with children for antibodies against the corona virus and we found that around 6 times as many children have had the infection as would have been expected so we do if i speak on going on with the a c. in his study shows us that children definitely do get infected and that they can take the infection home with them how is it. that so many of the samples from the

children tested positive came as a surprise to professors who headed the study she thinks that in many cases the children only had mild symptoms or none at all so the infection wasn't detected so next sunday in the 1st we had no idea what the rate of undetected cases was but now we see that it 6 times higher that can reflect the fact that children tended not to be tested as often so the number of cases was underestimated and. that children often don't get tested is something this father experienced. when covert 19 broke out in his son's daycare center it was mainly the educators who got tested the children were just sent home to quarantine. concerns on this new to have to say that i was consigned to so we decided to play it safe and have the

children and ourselves test so as to have certainty. it turned out that both his children had indeed been infected even though they exhibited no symptoms. nevertheless the local health authority didn't have all the other children in the daycare center tested you're going to house them back says it should have. huddersfield goes on with this i think it was a big mistake not to test the children apart from my 2 daughters. i was basically the only one in quarantine by the phone or the parents of the 90 other children continue to go to work. and they may have spread the disease without knowing it by the truck owners through this and. another thing house the back can't understand is that although adults are being told to not meet up in their free time in the daycare center all the children are in one big group rather than in small groups.

of course not every risk can be eliminated says professor siegel who carried out the munich study but she says that if the government wants to keep schools and daycare centers open as long as possible they have to institute stricter hygiene rules. on all we have to assume that children definitely also get this disease and i think that we have to take more precautionary measures in schools and daycare centers it's must nominate the same rules smaller groups social distancing hygiene ventilation should apply there too. just like everywhere else only because children also contribute to the spread of the infection. so that means that it presents at hearing to strict hygiene rules and carrying out more covert tests in suspected cases is probably the best way to keep infections in

day care centers to a minimum. and for more i'm joined now by donna father professor at the department of microbiology and immunology at columbia university and she's also the co-author of an article on distinct antibody response is to sars kind of 2 in children and adults across the covert $900.00 clinical spectrum and she conducted a study called children's untrained immune response. seems to be key to eliminating sars coast to a lot to talk about here and that would be the very 1st question so from what we've heard. children infected with sars cove 2 they often don't show any symptoms why is that well there could be 2 main reasons for that one is that the virus just doesn't infect as well so there might be something about the cells in the respiratory track of children that are different that just don't allow as productive had been sectioned so we still don't know whether that might be

a reason and the other is that the children mount a very effective minimal bust immune response and are able to clear the virus before they get severe symptoms and i mean a child's immune system still has to learn a lot as opposed to an adult if i understand it correctly and my t. cells seem to play a key role here kids a better equipped it seems lies that. well children are designed to respond to new pathogens because they have a whole arsenal of t. cell that are new t. cells that have the ability to respond to pathogens these are called naive t. cells and children are producing these all the time where is adults don't have many i.e. t. cells because we've generated memory over a life time and we aren't producing new t.v.

cells anymore so children are well adapted to respond to new pathogens they have these new t. cells see they mount a robust response however adults only have memory cells and or they have mostly memory cells so they're going on what they've seen before so normally adults are better equipped to respond to pathogens that they've seen many times like influenza are a city so compared to a child adults are responding much more effectively don't get as sick because they've seen these over time have built up these memory responses with provide protection nearly where is chiltern dealt but now we're looking at a situation where both the children or adults are seeing a new pathogen and now the children have all the cells the new t. cells to respond were adults are not they do not have as many t. cells to respond but do children they don't have as right do they also have an

advantage when it comes to the long lasting effects of covert 19 and we we've heard with adults that there are cases of heart failure of the long term health issues they have to deal with even when they were ill when they're actually had to cope at 19 what do we know about children so far. well i mean we know that there seems to be some long lasting effects of coded 19 even from adults that are that weren't hospitalized initially and those are there are certain coagulation defects and it could be due to the very strong inflammatory response we know that there's a lot of markers in meters of inflammation that is a virus seems stimulate in shoulder and that can also happen so the severe disease in children there is one manifestation which is called multi inflammatory syndrome and children and that can potentially cause long lasting effects although this far follow up has not shown that these children really have long lasting effects so

initially they were presented in sort of cardio heart problems but so far this hasn't shown to be long lasting about the quiet deletion defect certainly young adults have shown that and have have have actually developed strokes but in terms of b.b.c. young children there's just not enough evidence to suggest that that's also happening in children so so just very briefly yes or no basically because there's this big discussion about reopening schools and kindergartens yes or no should we or shouldn't we. i think we need to but we need to protect the children in terms of i mean we need to still be wearing masks and and have these precautions in schools but it would be better to open it because there are they don't seem to be the super spreaders all right professor farber there from columbia university joining us from new york thank you so much for your time and your

insights. thank you. well time for your questions now and over to our science correspondent derrick williams. is it possible to test positive for 19 and its antibodies at the same time the tricky question to answer it we need a quick refresher on the terminology antibodies our immune system proteins that can be detected by what are called serial logical tests generally from blood samples if you have antibodies that are specific to covert 19 that indicates that you were exposed to the corona virus at some point in the past whether you develop symptoms or not diagnostics like antigen and p.c.r. tests on the other hand are for detecting the virus or its genetic material so they're supposed to tell you whether you have an active infection this question

therefore basically boils down to can i have an active infection yet at the same time be producing detectable amounts of antibodies against it yes you can but but finding both involves getting the timing right that's because there's some overlap between when an infection is in full swing and the ramp up of the body's immune response in general experts say it takes a patient's body between one and 3 weeks to produce detectable amounts of the different antibodies that play a key role in fighting off covert night researchers in new york found that even patients producing antibodies in those measurable amounts however could continue to test positive for the virus for up to 4 weeks after their symptoms resolved what the team couldn't determine though was whether that viral genetic material was

actually coming from active viable virus p.c.r. testing doesn't tell you that although that's really what you want to know it just . tells you whether there are intact pieces of i rolled r.n.a. in a sample. during we'll be back tomorrow keep your questions coming that's all for now from me that he thanks for watching. me.

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