here in berlin where a far right bob tried to get into parliament here and of course you know that ended up being far less serious they didn't get in and of course the key difference was they weren't being egged on by the head of state but still what you're hearing from many observers many politicians is that they feel that this is something of a wake up call for democracy that there's a fragility to western democracy right now that we're seeing not just in the populist wave of the last few years since the election of donald trump and and the bricks in vote for instance in great britain but also this sense that western democracy is struggling to deal with the pandemic and you have a thorough tarion powers out there in the world for instance china saying that it's handling these issues these modern issues better than democracies are so that a widespread fear here in germany and around europe that democracy is on the back foot and it has to do his homework our chief international correspondent richard walker thank you it's

a. little earlier. spoke to a leading german politicians european parliament and i asked him what lessons europe can learn from the scenes in washington. with me now is the monthly to be about the leader of the p.p. group in the european parliament the survey you spoke of a warning for liberal democracies looking at what happened in washington how does europe how does the european parliament have to respond to this. what we have to learn of the developments and washington this we have to defend our institutions you can have from non-content different of different ideas different proposals for how to solve the problems of today but you can never attack institutions you can never take into question the counting of votes for example and that is what we have to learn so we as liberal democracies in the rest of the of the world we have to defend our institutions and we have to be very warned about what happened in washington now you lead the largest group in the european parliament and among that

group is feed us the governing party in hungary viktor orban who itself faces criticism over the rule of law so how would that inform your decision whether they can stay within your party group or not it's obvious that he has europeans should not lecture others we should take our response of ourselves and in my party the p.p. party the fittest question is one of the open questions and we have to make a decision in the upcoming weeks but the fetus can stay in the european people's party yes or no and the latest developments in hungary and also in regard to the european level and it was about the rule of law make and isn't are not promising of are not really helpful in the last weeks so the parties must make up their mind and must decide finally for the fetus can stay or not but for my group in the european parliament i want to underline that really fought together socialist together is liberals for a strong and binding rule of law mechanism for the european union to link the 1st

time in history of the european union to link money implementing the rule of law mechanism is independent of media independent of sedition in the european union there is no guarantee for the future and that is a major. and even historic a good step for europe not social media in the united states like twitter were very late to pull the plug on president trump when these riots began what are the lessons you will draw for the new. democracy can only work as a proper way of communicating among citizens among institutions to inform in a proper way to fight against fake news for example and that's why i think the lesson be can learn of the out of the american developments is that we have to take a focus on what is happening in social media what is happening with this fake news what is happening this is all these activities on on on on the disinformation in the social media field that is what we have to take seriously into question and

from my understanding is that we have to alter to regulate the social media field to make sure and to guarantee that all these communications is based on the basic principles on trust and on the fight against takings what were the thoughts that went through your head when you saw those pictures did you ever think that would be possible. the pictures of yesterday were unimaginable for everyone who believes in democracy because the congress. in america the democrats in america is reasonable of what we stand for the democrats are for freedom and that's why this was yesterday a turning point for me this means also that these europeans have to take over more responsibility in defending basic principles like democracy in the world we have to show that we're picking up these ideas and defend them in the future mantle if they were leader of the e.t.p. group in the european parliament thank you very much thank you so much. and out of some of the other stories making headlines around the world today there's been

widespread international condemnation as well off the hong kong authorities after the massive arrests of pro-democracy opposition figures 53 people were detained under beijing's new security while western nations of jews distortions of grave repression and a grevious attack on freedoms from is when britain handed hong kong back to china. japan has declared a state of emergency for tokyo and 3 nearby regions as corona virus cases rise to new daily highs stay at home measures will be in force from friday for a month's japanese capital reported more than 2400 cases on thursday that's almost 1000 cases more than the previous day. the mayor of paris and france's interior minister have laid flowers and held a minute's silence for the victims of the charlie a dog attack that happened 6 years ago today in 2015 logy hardest gunman stormed the offices of the satirical newspaper and shot dead 12 people. the

russian orthodox church has been holding its main christmas service with elaborate ceremonies taking place across the country in moscow patriarch kirill led celebrations attended by a few worshippers than normal because of covert restrictions. in the race to vaccinate against coronavirus germany has been getting off to a slow start did a did order too little of the job let's take a look at where the hold ups may lie everything is ready hundreds of people could already have been vaccinated here but the vaccine refrigerator at berlin's battle hospital is still empty no one has received the coveted job here yet and chief dr hans feigele is disappointed. we haven't started vaccinating anyone yet we've been waiting for the vaccines so that we can get started. that we have been able to. working nonstop for months

the vaccine is a glimmer of hope for us i just hope that we can start soon. but why is it taking so long people have been getting paxson ated in germany for about 2 weeks but things are still slow even in vaccination centers the long awaited serum doesn't exist but it's only gradually being made available here vaccination centers have yet to reach their capacity. we can vaccinate up to 20000 people a day when we reach that depends on when we get the vaccine hopefully next week the nation's centers will open in a week after that the others will be. here in germany thorough our preparations have been made the vaccination centers were set up early on and staff of been ready and waiting but even though the vaccine was developed in germany it's in short supply here. that's why there are strict criteria for who gets the jabs 1st

starting with very old people and nursing home workers the 1st vaccinations have turned into media events. germany's health minister yen spawn says the slow start comes as no surprise. the reason behind the bottleneck for the short supplies at the start of the vaccination campaign is not because too little was ordered supplies are short because of low production capacity. but other countries took that into account and ordered large amounts of the vaccine very early on that involved taking a risk germany's approach was more cautious and took into consideration the likelihood of increasing production qualities and decreasing prices that is the joint strategy of countries meant to prevent competition among member states there

is also hope that more vaccines will soon be approved after all the government's aim is for every german who wants to to be able to receive the vaccine by this summer. some sport soon cameroon will be hosting the african nations football championship next week it's going to be the continent's biggest sporting event since the start of the pandemic which caused the suspension of a number of other high profile competitions who must go for the she has a few conditions championship be done. before the people that underlie it has proved a big attraction. and here in india the tournament was originally shadow for last year but had to be called off because of the pandemic on the way except for about 12 folks understand around it started in full gear. today we're happy the mascot is in the city one of the wilson says. you can see the crowd is excited so

i'm looking forward to where we got it. but most fans will not be gets into history too with. those restrictions mean all the normal number of fans will be allowed to attend and boost the just how of the 50 percent more can be allowed in doing the knockout stages this is according to comrades wants me to stop but this is not the only award footy unfun stick in part in this tournament meant for players playing in africa's domestic leagues uganda is the 1st team to arrive in cameroon. african country has been suspended. is doing his best to get the side read obviously for us you know we've got the players together only a week ago on the last time this group of players were together was back in march so as an international team it's been very short preparations it we're from the

stadiums cameroon is busy with groundwork for hosting the competition. but i still entertaining the crowds and the fans are determined to go to we worry about the virus to one side. yes without the. hope that everything will be ok. this is the 1st train coming his piece to championship 16 national teams are battling it out because most important title says the pandemic. news here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you congress has come from joe biden as the next president of the united states the information came just hours after supporters of donald trump tried to disrupt the proceedings by storming the u.s. capitol one person was shot and killed in the bottom. across the world political leaders have reacted with shock at the chaos in washington germany's chancellor slammed president trump for stoking the violence by failing to admit his defeat.

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and there are many stories. you're watching news asia coming up today in investigations got old or at least it delayed the world health organization team of scientists had wanted to travel to china but beijing now says no we take a look at why that might be. plus the language of protest why money mongolians arm bracing an ancient writing script to resist the rise of china.

i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia we're glad you could join us the world health organization planned to travel to china this week in order to investigate the origins of covert 19 but now says beijing has blocked their team's arrival scientists have set in on ground inquiry is essential to understand how the virus jumped species to humans the w.h.o. has criticized china but chinese officials say it's merely a bureaucratic delay. disappointed with this news given that 2 members had already begun their journeys and others were not able to travel at the last minute but i have been in contact with senior chinese officials and i have want to see again made it made it clear that the mission is a priority for w. george and the international team and i'm sure when he sees him to assure the work of the global experts group in china is successful we need to carry out the necessary procedures and make relevant concrete plans currently both sides are

still negotiating on this for more on what's at stake for both sides we have joyce lee out of the east asia bureau in taipei and joyce the perception has been that the china have had a pretty good relationship during this covert pandemic crisis what's happened yes it has been a lot of analysis thing that the actual has been the union to us china because it hopes to. get some time for china to you know profile more transparent data and information to the. whole but then it has not worked well with this strategy because this is not the 1st time the expert teen has been denied to watch the origin plays of the outbreak of the endemic so how much can an investigation team learn travelling to china one entire year

after the earliest known outbreaks there many people are probably wondering isn't it already too late. it is probably too late to go to the wet market to collect evidence and data regarding you know how the fire has jumped from animals to humans but then this is exactly why china it's not so welcoming for the team to go to war hunt because china authority is trying to reshape the narrative of how did he see originated this bite global scientific consensus that the fires 1st came from one and not actually a lot of. citizen journalists has been detained or even sentenced to jail because they were. covering you know the one situation at the very 1st

stage of the pandemic tell us a little bit more about how this is sensitive for china joyce. for the chinese communist party it has turned this pandemic into a celebration for the triumph in containing a fire despite many question that the virus originated in one and that. and. very poorly in the early stage and if i were a stretch across the word. john john a. citizen journalist was detained and sentenced to a 4 year job recently because she was doing live stream reporting in. joyously thank you for joining us.

our identity and our sense of nationhood toona extent is connected to the language that we speak sometimes it becomes a political statement more and more that's become the case for people who identify as goalie and most of them live in the country or in china's province of inner mongolia language emerged there as a lightning rod issue last year after beijing announced mandarin would replace mongolian in core school subjects many parents there saw it as an effort by china to erase their culture correspondent bolinger went to the city of whole hot after rare protests erupted over the new policy here's a look back at the tense atmosphere he observed there i am. one of these groups as you can feel superior to ministers i would leave the room to. do it with here instead of. the beginning of the week the students try to organize

a strike they wouldn't attend the losses because if they knew by language usage but the reserves exerted pressure on the families and now it's the most you talk in a carriage. as you can see here is the world long period. a few people know me before. we let you do the work. he seemed to be afraid to come on 3. 100 and i'm not alone here. i want you can. be. with. you and it will be to. those efforts by beijing to

diminish the mongolian language within china has caused a stir across the border in mongolia proper a country of 3000000 people there the language is classic script is now seeing a revival. it used to be an artifact of history now it's a sign of protest not for what it says but because of the way it's written in vertical stripped most mongolians grew up using cyrillic but this engine script is making a comeback sparked by what's happening in among across the border in china. protests to save the mongolian language in minimal golyer went viral here. i believe mongolians were not aware that in a mongolian swer so dedicated to the ethnic culture and the language until people saw their protests to. us. the sudden

revival started earlier this year after beijing introduced a language reform in. schools had to replace mongolian with mandarin as the language of instruction for core classes. critics say the policy aims to assimilate local minorities into the dominant han culture and let you read protests in the region. it also hit a nerve in neighboring mongolia. should be alarming to us to know that people who speak our language are losing that identity. the. fight isn't just a fight to use definitive language. this is a fight to remain mongolian. but that inspiration takes quite a bit of concentration students have to master archaic language and learn new

grammar rules. who don't is also in need of a digital facelift developers have also been at work designing ways to incorporate the vertical script into apps. it is simple to read and write in proficiency we need social media platforms to practice and used to model in script to be a way of communication has already shifted this group should exist in digital platforms so that's how we can save all script and identity of this page it's. still on the greens really need to learn who is a paper and pen then practice makes perfect. for more we have journalists wholly owned by at sucked a joining us from all end but tart mongolia can you tell us more about how mongolians in mongolia react to china's new language policy.

first of all thank you for the opportunity yes we are the brain manch. reactor the protests in g.r. in on gornja famous song cold war young when there are protests in broke hearts of many modern mongolia who are too easy to use english or other foreign languages as ironic he. had no intention to. get off their tradition or turn up or their culture or their national identity. in the water yes in short the progress that mongolian in mongolia to make more effort just. their own are worth the gold grasped. the progress made us realize that. there is great and the language is there is not

part of our our national and that invented so the so we thought that it must carry the heart so it carried on generation to generation. also i'd like to mention that those protests and. protest it was not only. as i read the language it also spike at this gushes about the relationship between 2 mongolians. and among the ones in the. yes so give us a sense of the level of cross border exchange between mongolians and enter mongolians is there much communication between the 2 groups or not really. in order to answer that question i have to give provide you some facts for example mongolia was sealed off from the world in 70 years. so the

communication can actually it was last so we were we were only able to talk to each other or interact with each other after the afternoon got it became the mechanic and also there are some problems after teaching our teaching history the way they teach in history is pretty much. not enough so model isn't what we have mis understanding about inner mongolia and we used to think that you know i'm going are chinese or half chinese or they all only become chinese people that's. that's what that's what we used to think but not now it's changes thanks to all those protests we learned that we learned that. are just like us. they are still loyal to their national culture our national language and

they are ready to sacrifice their life to protect their own culture language script and by at sucked thank you so much for your time. that's it for now thanks for watching see you next time and good bye. to. the fight against the corona virus tend to make. the rate of infection in developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus not today 19 special. on t.w. . it was 26 thing that's like a bunch of the queen because i want to see a gemini was for me the last few years have been quite o'brien early and. other in

it i'm a hermit when it comes to german b.s. and of course i always look in the village is perhaps the biggest on the new bride i'm going to go for it i'd love to be in the news there are pros and there are a pump but when you feel the giving your realize it cope just another way of never get you ready to meet the dr and then burden the right just do it. when t 21 began with a worldwide ambition to vaccinate as many people as possible against covert 19 but in many parts of the world it's been a slow start there aren't enough vaccine doses available yet and sometimes logistical problems add to the shortages. that's my the u.k. decided to simply delay the 2nd vaccine dose to increase capacity we should prioritize having as many people getting the 1st dose as possible and that will

ours to get protection to more people more quickly. than otherwise. others including germany discuss this option but there are no clinical trials available supporting this move what if it goes wrong. what indeed hello and welcome to our covert 900 special i want to go jones and like many of you i'm waiting for my turn to get vaccinated but i don't want to be a guinea pig so i'm not quite sure what to make of those developments and in a moment i'm going to ask about religious devout this but 1st a look at where we're actually at swiss kovac 1000 back scenes. only a handful of different pick scenes have been authorized so far some countries have already kicked off fix a nation can paint. supply remains extremely limited despite manufacturers ramping up their production capacities. most of the vaccines

require an initial job and then a booster shot some time later to provide adequate protection. with a global population of 7800000000 people that means that almost 16000000000 doses need to be produced for everyone to be vaccinated producing that amount will take years some experts say. but time is of the essence the longer the virus keeps spreading around the globe the higher the likelihood of mutation just recently scientists discovered 2 new variants in the u.k. and south africa that appear to be much more contagious the fear is that those mutations could render even stricter lock down measures useless and eventually even the vaccines now experts are trying to find ways to get more shots into more arms the discussion is focused on 3 options the 1st

option is to delay the 2nd dose that would mean more people could have a 1st shot which might provide some protection in the u.k. and denmark have approved the measure and are about to put it into practice but some experts warn that immunity might wane in the weeks following the initial shot that could create ideal circumstances for the virus to mutate and become resistant . to the 2nd idea is to cut the doses in half which would double the number of people that could be vaccinated while there are indications that the immune response is the same experts say we can't know for sure. the 3rd option is to combine 2 vaccines so that the composition of the booster is different from the initial one the reasoning behind that idea is that both the astros' in the car and take vixens target the virus despite protein but with 2 different methods. the problem is none of the proposed alternatives

has been tested so far. not trust is everything and for many getting a brand new vaccine is already a leap of faith so let's talk more now with julian tung he's on a reverie associate professor and clinical biologist at the university of leicester good to have you with us tell me isn't it a bit risky to change the way we use those vaccines on patients without proper clinical trials to back up those changes as to how the vaccines are administered. ok so we do have some dates on if it is c. or both vaccines are on the scene although to go trials are not designed to test 1st as if it is the only some protection we're from other vaccines our experience with those vaccines is that the 1st those actually just most of the work the 2nd there's just. so most people respond to the 1st as well as use

a sufficient sufficient immunity that commuter the beast is exposed to the virus in the population. but but this is not how they were designed certainly by on tech already mentioned that they they are a bit dubious about extending the period between those wanted to doze too so how big is the risk that extending the period between the 1st of the 2nd job already using the vaccine dose which is also talked about that that creates a vaccine resistant strain of the virus. here so this is a theoretical risk because you don't have complete immunity but this is practiced in using can even arise the 2 doses so if you suppress replications fission only one of those the risk of that mutant arising is a lot less if you have no dose of the top so if you know it's hot the population 2 doses of the hope that nothing is also a risk nuisance may arise not in the hall where there's no vaccine protection at

all so the risks are relative and i don't think they'll be any worse with just one dose was no doz you know of the population essentially all right well there are various kinds of vaccines so before we go on let's just take a look at some of these different kinds because one is created with the activated or dead parts of the virus another one is called the vector vaccine and it uses another harmless life virus as a carrier to transport the genes from the dangerous virus into cells in the recipient's body the immune system then detects the offending protein and creates antibodies. and then there is or there are big scenes that use message or are in a part of the genetic viral code and these vaccines prompt cells in the recipients to produce viral proteins themselves which in turn then provoke an immune system. so that in the back of our mind julian tang from from the university of leicester

there is talk about combining different vaccines to make up for shortages or even booster vaccines efficacy is that safe has the been done before. and so we've got some experience with the new macaca vaccines we have proven are 7 sins are x. $10.13 mixing and matching is on the doses certainly in singapore though in that without much harm if the box is thought the same antigen the protein with the delivery by m.r. nay or primary and no virus or even supply protein vaccines like the flu based vaccine design i think the minister even if it is the will be fine do you feel that people will trust this kind because this this is all going extremely fast and on the fact that we have a vaccine already within a year do you think that people will trust all those different combinations. so they will have to explain to the people and make them understand more about the

vaccines to give him the confidence that in fact what we do is just to live in the same antigen and use the same in the response we just slightly different areas and the carriers shouldn't really make that much difference to the carriers just ingest immune response to react even more can stop sickle antigen and delivering it in a different way to the body to produce the same immune response or the same integer to predict protect against the same virus so if you explain this to people understand that we live and she's about it just just like with anything more right and do we actually know how long immunity will last once we do get vaccinated. so some of the studies do have long term follow ups and overturn his long term follow up a few 100 days those of us as i think of that scene has followed 250 days in the face you can go trials protection against this is no boxing versatile see that against while talking fashion for at least 5 months so we do have some long term

follow up for that data and of course the longer you leave it the longer the minutes the more immunity will wane and then those with a 2nd dose at 3 months is going to come in julian tanka honorary associate professor and clinical neurologist at the university of leicester thank you so much care. you know what most of us conned way to finally be immune to this virus speak for 100 days 150 all maybe up to 3 months there are still tons of questions about the safety and efficacy of vaccines available and he has one such question you sent to a science correspondent stan mcwilliams. do that back scenes prevent infections entirely or do they just reduce your symptoms if you catch the virus. ok to answer this we need to go over the basics of how immune response works in a healthy adult immunologists distinguish between 2 different aspects of it the

innate and the adaptive immune responses and you can think of the innate response as as kind of the body's shock troops its different components react quickly and and nonspecifically to invaders especially those the body has never encountered before new pathogens also set an adaptive response in motion as the body learns to home in on the invader churning out antibodies to flag it up so it's a highly specific killer cells can can recognise and and dispose of it the adaptive response which takes time to kick in and also retains a memory of the invader that allows the body to respond quickly if it ever encounters the same pathogen again and you become immune to it however in new is kind of a loose term it just means that you are resistant to developing the symptoms of the disease again after having it once or being vaccinated for it but that doesn't

necessarily exclude the idea that if you are exposed after that you could actually carry the virus for a while or maybe even transmit it just not develop symptoms because you are adaptive immune system jumps on it pretty quickly the real holy grail of that. seen development as what's called sterilizing immunity that's one of a very rapid immune response wipes out the invaders subsequently so fast that it has practically no time to reproduce although trials in approved vaccines showed they mostly prevented vaccinated people from from getting ill those trials board set up to show whether people acquired sterilizing immunity until we collect more data on that even people who receive the vaccine should therefore go on the assumption that even if they are very unlikely to develop symptoms after an exposure they might still be contagious to others.

so it's all about collecting and analyzing data and i'm sure you still have tons of questions about the coronavirus of keep your questions coming derek will be back tomorrow to send an e-mail to feedback dr english at d w dot com type expert in the subject line or leave a comment thanks for watching. the

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