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i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia we're glad you could join us mass arrests have swept up more than 50 hong kong politicians and activists many say it's an attempt to crush the pro-democratic movement once and for all these are their names police took people into custody citing suspected subversion under the new national security law that beijing forced on the territory 6 months ago this is an ongoing story and this list may grow here's how one of the many arrests across the city went. the shocking is perhaps un surprising moment 10 was paid a visit by the hong kong police the former lawmaker is among more than 50 pro-democracy figures arrested on wednesday. it's the latest crackdown under a controversial new national security law an attempt to thwart months of

pro-democracy protests in the territory or sardi's claim the law would only target a few but critics say it's being used as a political weapon while the sun is dissent. out of. the way of all. these latest arrests are said to be linked to an independently organized primary vote held last year. one. of charged lamb and the others could face life in prison also. police have already charged and jailed several from the movement in recent months wednesday's crackdown is the biggest to date and more than doubles the number of people arrested since june. with many now calling it the end of a free hong kong. joining us from hong kong as a very in secretary general of the league of social democrats one of the

territory's political parties every we have more than 50 arrests of pro democrats like yourself in a single day is this the end of a free hong kong. the city and of the free hong kong. i think the end of free hong kong has sort of started 2 years ago and this is just the latest wave of crackdown that unfortunately at least. was expecting now to members of your party were arrested you've been arrested before many times what is the mood right now are people scared. well. we we are living in the atmosphere of fear at the same time with a touch of absurdity every single day we'll find some. new crackdown from. different corners with different excuses but

this time today in particular. the arrests we're talking about a coordinated arrest of more than 50 individuals who were involved in the pan democratic palmer election made largely. to police actually mobilized more than 8000. police forces early this morning. and. the charges that the government is using. relating to the national 60 law in terms of subversion and the actual act itself is that the 50 plus individuals or the candidates of the primaries were participating in an election.

the their goal is to win over a majority in the legislative council seats and by virtue of wanting to win the majority that equation to somehow equates to disappear usually of the state so absurdity spells out that the government now to spare no expense and just fine whatever reason that they could get to arrest keep hold that you know that represent hong kong basically. now the next u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken of the biden mystery has said the white house will stand with the people of hong kong ideally for you what does that mean what deliverables do you want to see from the united states and other countries. i think 1st of 1st of foremost. the international community needs to be aware that this. has stopped listen to the people of hong kong

a long time ago and basically sort of like a sitting duck so i think. the next thing for the. people of the world as well as the international community. to work together to find solutions diplomatic ways to encourage people to. please let me just make good on their promise to introduce genuine democracy and universal so preaching in. every ng thank you so much for joining us. in pakistan islamic state militants have kidnapped and murdered 11 coal miners in province in the country southwest all of the victims belong to the shia has are

a minority their families have been staging a sit in for several days demanding strong decisive action the military has pledged to track down the attackers but the has our community say their pleas for protection have long gone unanswered hundreds of hazaras have been killed in attacks over the last decade. joining us is shots of july me in as. i understand the has our protesters have delayed bearing demential how big a deal is that. well you know in the muslim tradition this is the ultimate form all but mention of. people who have parents that they have been dogged for many years hundreds of community members have been killed in the shooting and in baluchistan and then all saying that he's on the prime minister to come here to assure us that the culprits will be caught and then there will be an end to the getting off. of muslims in baluchistan so deskilled that i just

pull through. and he's saying they're very angry scenes that are very emotional scenes because just i mean if you thieves persecuted in pakistan now the has are is aren't the only group who feel like they are being pot persecuted. tell us more about the political unrest in the region. just on have been witnessing a militant separatist insurgency for regular 15 years now the ex in the village feel that they are being exploited being subjugated by the federal government in particular the army which mainly comes from the biggest populist province of punjab. and there's been no you know long running towards the federal government so if you want more rights they want to be equal partners in the box

than he thought. and some of them have taken to the mountains the pakistani army issued a statement yesterday saying that that is will be caught and it will be punished the army says that india is involved in baluchistan and in in encouraging just kind of insurgency. well you can stay with us shots at we have more to talk about but 1st here's a report on one of the many thousands of people activists say have gone missing in the region. honey balochi says they came for her just weeks before her wedding armed men from pakistan's security services she claims she says she and her fiance were accused of being part of a terrorist organization and taken to a secret jail. yet they tortured us they gave us a letter we sat down on chairs they hit my right foot with

a rifle i'm in pain when i walk they hit my head with a rifle i had 6 stitches on my head. the 27 year old denies any links to anti-government groups she was released after 3 months but has heard nothing from her fiance naseem activists claim thousands of people like naseem have been disappeared over the years resentment simmers in the region poverty has sparked an insurgency movement residents say they don't get their fair share of the region's gas and mineral wealth a landmark 2015 investment deal between pakistan and china has further escalated tensions. this deal has ignited it because below just on is not receiving any share or. even labor is being brought from point jobs or china. there is no trust and below 2 workers. they are not being given work over there so it's

creating more he trid. disappearances have increased in recent years but activists say not all of those missing are insurgents. abdel-hamid by large says his brother was taken away in july last year his family are left asking why. we are that if they know that i'm talking about what's happening in balochistan maybe they will pick me up and dump me after killing me. if someone committed a crime they should be punished but what is my mother's crime why is she being punished she has been weeping for her son day and night now she has stopped speaking honey doesn't understand the reasons for the kidnappings either she just waits hoping to one day be able to be now seems wife that's quite an intense story of their shots the report mentions chinese investment in the region can you go into

that a bit more and why that's an issue in all this. well you know we were talking earlier about the baluch separatist insurgency now china is investing heavily in focused on this is building roads it is building a deep sea for the water on the in baluchistan and the national feels that this is of ploy by the talks on the federal government by the army to take away further resources from but not just on because they're saying b.n. or benefiting from it whatever you are doing to to provide. one belt one road project in pakistan but let's are not really benefiting from it so there's a lot of suspicion there's a lot of animosity towards this project because china focused on economic or door and that's why a lot of chinese have been attacked by militants in the past it was an attack on chinese consulate. and i think people talk of. these infrastructure projects being

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information on the chrono larysa or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast. your podcast you can also find us at. staying at home during a lockdown with much time to eat and little movement at the same time no wonder that many people all over the world have gained weight during the pandemic and while that is quite a stretch from too much comfort eating too straightforward gluttony too much body fat is bad for our health in fact those additional pounds can increase our risk of severe illness from code 19. are

overweight and are i think i need to do is a bit overweight so the drug cases are getting further from not dangerous. excess weight has always been a health risk in times of a coronavirus pandemic could be lethal. welcome to occur overnight in special on news some want to johnson berlin good to have you with us now then when it rains it pours it's the perfect idiom for overweight and obese people these days they already have enough health worries as it is and now a tiny virus is adding to their plight putting them into the same risk category as the elderly and especially vulnerable. dr marcus riser heads the covert 19 unit here in clinical test a hospital in western germany most of the serious cases they've seen here during the pandemic are elderly patients as well as another high risk group. you know in

our covert unit is that patients who are overweight especially those who are morbidly obese have worse outcomes in this infection they're more likely to need intensive care. studies and several countries have shown a link between excess weight. is overweight and she survived the cool bit 1000 infection in early march 1st she developed a sudden fever and a dry cough a few days later she tested positive. i was in the hospital and they told me i was a risk patient and that it couldn't fatally. 2 years earlier she had been diagnosed with diabetes to get the disease under control she changed her diet and lost a lot of weight she's convinced that helped her to get through the covert 19 infection relatively easily. covered 19 have appeared a year earlier than it did i don't think it would have ended that well for me. with poorly managed diabetes and high blood pressure and much more excess weight than

now 35 kilograms. i think that would have finished me off. that's going to. become a global phenomenon usually expressed using the body mass index. which is the ratio of a person's body weight in kilograms to the square of their height. a b.m.i. of 20 to 25 is considered a healthy weight 25 to 30 overweight 30 to 40 is classified as obese with over 40 severely obese. we don't just have a covert pandemic we have an obesity pandemic all around the world and into. the. at clinic on fast specialized obesity center martin boozing is a berry actrix surgeon he can hardly keep up with the many obese people seeking gastric bypass surgery and other weight loss procedures in germany their numbers

are climbing at the moment more than 2000000 people in the country would qualify for this kind of surgery with a b.m.i. of over 4140 months and it's a good vehicle from the fruits of. severe obesity goes hand in hand with a number of other conditions including diabetes respiratory problems cardiovascular diseases dr boozing puts this development only down to poor dietary habits and over consumption of sugary drinks. what i see again and again in overweight patients is that they simply can't drink plain unflavored water soda water or tap water they always need some kind of sweetener in it it's developed into a kind of addiction. is better prevention can help but when it comes to that health systems often fail and the food industry has a powerful interest in the nutritional agenda both these problems explain why the doctors here continue to battle to pandemics over 19 and obesity.

now for more i'm joined by susan jep nutrition scientist and professor of diet and population health at the university of oxford skit to have you with us. let me start straight away with the way our report ended it mentions they are that we are battling to pandemics obesity and 19 which you could agree. i absolutely words i mean in the u.k. rare bracing in. situation we've had over 2nd 2000 deaths from it. all fall into trance headlines every single day the fact that around $60000.00 people's deaths are attributable to obesity every single year this is obesity is a problem which has been with us the decades and shows no sign of going away there is no vaccine for obesity right so it has been

a big problem is even before the pandemic however now with the pandemic it seems to be excess of 8 and you've conducted a study involving 7000000 people looking at the connection between obesity and kovi 19 what are your findings. well some colleagues have a contrasting data set to reach drills and data from primary cat health records electronic health records social anonymized we have seen these people who do have data about their weight and about whether they have heart or positive test where they've been damaged well spoken sorry all we were able to look at was the relationship between people's b. and i that body mass index a measure of their weight status and the likelihood of going into hospital or being admitted to intensive care at all dying from k. 3rd and what we saw was that there was a striking association with the if you like severe outcomes from case it in

particular admissions to intensive care so for people with the body mass index of the level that we say people have clinical obesity actually your chances of going into intensive care are about to marry times greyson than somebody read a healthy weight by the time you are 40 it's a the 6 times higher now is the time that the problem the problem is to a large extent a lot of people are not aware. suddenly not aware of their b.m.i. or that they are viewed as essential and at such risk. well many people might not consider themselves to be living with obesity but i think many many people are aware that they're a bit heavy up and perhaps it's good for their health the problem is that we struggled to convert that sort of you know general understanding that weight suppressed the problem into a real sense of the need to act and what task it has started to do is make this

really recognized that obesity isn't just about how really actually there are really important issue is the effect it has on our health and obesity is that every single organ system of the body says we know it leads to more diabetes my heart to see these many different cancers are increased people have problems with the joints there's a whole raft of ill health that goes with obesity so it's perhaps not a very surprising that this extra strain that being overweight works on your body also increases your risk from casement and of course we hear all the time that we have to protect the elderly and the vulnerable but nobody ever talks about protecting the overweight to the obese what can we do about that when we need to recognize that being severely overweight creates real don't remember see and so i

think we need to kind of at least one list of people who need extra take extra care during the. ride susan jeff the nutrition scientist and professor on diet and population health at the university of oxford thank you so much francie. before you step on your scale at home now to check if you've gained a few pounds to many let's bring in another aspect of this pandemic science and its ability to solve problems time for your questions and a science correspondent derrick williams. vaccines work could the research help developers create that seems for the common cold could cover 19 lead to a huge step forward in this area i love questions like this because they don't involve where we are now which in europe at least often feels like a pretty dire place but instead they look forward to the end of the pandemic and they ask whether all the misery might lead to anything positive but while it's

possible that the vast numbers of research projects being driven by covert 19 could lead to breakthroughs in fighting coronaviruses as a whole there's still a lot we don't understand about how they in general evolve and how they're transmitted what's called cross reactivity would certainly play a central role in research into any future offshoot of vaccines and that's when the weapons that your immune system produces to fight one virus might also work at least to some extent against other viruses that share similar characteristics some experts believe that cross reactivity from earlier infections with cold causing perrotta viruses in some people is influencing how badly they get covered 19 or or how easily they fight off the disease but we still don't know nearly enough about

it one promising avenue for example that could help in the development of future coronavirus that seems involves molech you are subhuman it's in the spikes those those proteins that stick out of their services. that allowed these viruses to latch on to cells and then fax them researchers have discovered that some of those areas look well conserved in all of the coronaviruses that infect humans and there so they're quite similar across the group that's a great starting point for future work but but it's still just a starting point so so when you ask whether covert 19 could contribute in a big way to coronavirus research in general i'd say it already have those but i also don't think that will necessarily be enough to spawn vaccines in the near term for the corona viruses that cause colds though i'd be happy if that prediction

proved wrong. and eric williams has so many morons says so do keep sending your questions just send an e-mail to feedback adult english dot com type expert in the subject line only for comment on our you tube channel that's all thanks for watching.

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