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the birds of prey hunted down themselves in pakistan as play things for the rich. i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia we're glad you could join us japan's prime minister yoshihiko has locked down tokyo coated 1000 cases hit record highs topping more than 7000 cases in the country in one day for now the state of emergency will last a month but that very much depends on the case count. at this tokyo supermarkets they're filling the shelves with all the essentials noodles and passed and nearly ran out during last year's state of emergency they're hoping this time around they'll be more than enough. with. the i felt

relieved to see there's an ample supply on the shelves. coronavirus cases are rising sharply in tokyo and hospitals are struggling to cope and it's why the capital in 3 surrounding areas and now under one month locked down . so i would like to take all possible measures such as shortening the business hours of dining establishment and reducing the number of people going to work by 70 percent infection is the highest ever in the respect in regions of the country. that. bars restaurants and cafes must close by 8 pm and people are being urged to limit their movements but stores and schools remain open. the virus is spreading rapidly we won't contain if we continue to live normally. we do this by thinking about there's no need to declare a state of emergency people are already refraining from going out i think this will

scare everyone. and water the tokyo lympics despite the emergency organizers maintain the showpiece event will still go ahead they say the measures now can help plan for a quote safe and secure games this summer. it comes off to one prominent international olympic committee member dick pound cost down on that telling the b.b.c. i can't be certain because the ongoing elephant in the room would be the surges in the virus. with a vaccine not due to be rolled out until march the next few months will be crucial for japan much is that stake joining us for more on the situation in japan is journalist michael penn in tokyo michael generally japan has seemed a bit sanguine about the pandemic it didn't respond as proactively as other countries in the spring why has that changed well the government

you have to kind of make a distinction between the government and the people here the government has taken a position that is really prioritized keeping the economy open basically at all stages of the pandemic and they've only been calling these states of emergency including the most recent one sort of. under pressure from the public and from medical officials to do something so while the japanese public would probably like tougher measures in general the business community and the government have essentially said that what's most important is to you know keep people's daily lives as free from and pediment as possible so yes it's true japan's taken a much softer approach to the pandemic than a lot of other countries including neighboring south korea and are most people fairly cooperative about these new lock downs. i'm sorry you are you faded out of the question there are people cooperative about these

lockdowns or are they pushing back and grumbling about it. yes well the japanese people are sort of maybe world famous i would think for being cooperative folks and in fact over the new year's holiday something like 2 thirds of the public was not traveling on trains as much as possible so even you know if the government just says you know don't go out as much a lot of people in japan will go ahead and obey that. they may still go out basically because sometimes their companies require them to come into the offices and japan has a real problem with teleworking and and issues like that but but generally speaking the japanese public gives a high degree of cooperation when they're told what they should be doing now does japan some of the same problems we've seen in other countries where people question

the jab with the vaccines rolling out do we have and have access in japan. certainly not to the same degree you have been a lot of other countries it hasn't really been tested yet there there isn't a a vocal anti vax movement in japan of any kind so i think probably we will find that once the vaccines become available they're not here yet but when they do become available i would imagine so it's also a sphere where you'd find that most japanese are cooperative and you know if they're told they should take the back scene they'll probably do so ok so last summer tokyo really didn't want to postpone the olympic games and now what's it looking like. well the message from the government is crystal clear they're saying we are going to hold these olympics no matter what that any cost even if nobody watches them even if nobody comes they're still going

to hold them so the government really you know is 100 percent committed at least rhetorically and probably in reality to holding the japanese people now essentially the majority of japanese think they should be delayed or canceled it doesn't have a great deal of public support but this is another thing where the governments on one track and the majority of the populations on another and right with every delay it's more costly i imagine michael penn thank you thank you. particularly cold winter has hit the residents of delhi with temperatures falling to almost 0 degrees centigrade usually at this time many of the city's homeless stay in shelters but this season will be complicated by covert 1000 and the need for social distancing as. reports. as the cause of the move to delhi and the sun disappears for days behind the pitfalls it is those with

out of will who suffer the most according to estimates about 150000 people in delhi are homeless making them particularly one of the blue to the cities it's seen. as a core of do you read to tonight's the homeless who outside government on scent of just right. 52 year old saying he is a migrant labor living in delhi for the past 20 years the globe in 1000 locked down left him i'm employed and without the resources to resent even shared accommodation . he ended up on the streets. while going to be one cannot do without shelters when it's cold. during the summer i can sleep in the park with just a sheet because it least there's a cool breeze in the winter it becomes very difficult. less and he has been a frequent visitor to such shelters for the past few years this year he says the

situation is different everyone has been instructed to wear mosques insights to maintain distance and clean their hands as often as they can the bank demick has almost a challenge for the authorities and civil society organizations are like as it is not just the coolest they have to protect people against. osama we could arrange for people to sleep in open spaces like punks to maintain social distancing but during the winter we have to protect them both from the virus and from this extreme cold according to delhi government officials because of the house because most of the city in the shelters had been to do something to haiti and now that he left them hoping to maintain social distancing to make up on that temporary shelter have also been fed up in different parts of the city apart from taking on the production then the child is like conducting public grieving and providing moxon kind of tight i finish and want to also been created to accommodate those bushell symptoms many

social workers see that sometimes it gets difficult to explain the seriousness of the pandemic as it is the business of day to day so a bible that takes up most crowded to put the people who end up in these shelters for which they are fools to step out in childhood to see what. naca sons who has been working for the rights of the homeless for decades has the same concerns he says the government needs to do much more insidious are. we need to do a lot more we need to maintain more social distancing among them and encourage the use of sanitizes because once they spreads among the homeless it will get very hard to control it's. beyond our control because we won't even be able to trace the chain of contact. then he says that everybody tries to pick the questions as instructed by the so. but it is not easy. nobody can have

a mask on for 24 hours people do take them off at times or get together to just chat with each other but it should be fine as long as we maintain some distance. the coming months will be tough for those on the streets as the called and will drive many more seeking a warm bed and a blanket. but the people like then the hard reality is that surviving the cause at the moment is a bigger concern than so why the. every year falcons fly thousands of kilometers from siberia south down to pakistan where it's warmer and wildlife traffickers follow poaching them for export to the gulf states most recently authorities seize dozens of birds with the word 1000000 u.s. dollars it's a thriving black market that's tough for conservationists to counter. these rescued falcons represent a small fortune for poaches in pakistan a single bird can fetch tens of thousands of dollars on the black market. the

falcon poaching ees officially banned in pakistan wildlife groups say demand for the birds is rising. since learning to capture birds is attain this local poacher has made more than a decent living trafficking rianna ml's. this was a peregrine falcon which i caught in a one week hunting mission. i brought it here and called the deal is from kharaj. one of them for the price of $1000000.00 rupees and another fix the price at $1003000.00 rupees. conservationists estimate some $700.00 falcons were illegally smuggled out of the country last year alone most of them headed for gulf states but fell canary is a treasure tradition. out of falcon is usually have up to as many as $500.00 birds most of them captured in the wild here in pakistan most common threats of

a siamese most birds of prey it's human encroachment climate change loss of habitat loss of primary food sources one of the biggest threats however is the illegal trapping to supply the illegal focal meets right. if it's for conservation schemes such as regulating the falcon trapping market or under consideration but for now these birds of prey that still prey themselves. that's it for today thanks for watching have a good weekend and good by. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update. on t w. young immigrants. to the

police will start. to. see. their flight could be fatal but going back is not an option. i'm on and property are stuck in the. for a chance that will probably never. dreams starts january 18th on t.w. . conspiracy theories a global phenomenon. some people deny the existence of the new coronavirus while believing that vaccination is about the implementation of brain chips. others inside voters who just lost an election to assault a democratic institutions like those trump supporters storming the u.s.

capitol to stop congress clear the way for a joe biden presidency. today's events did not happen spontaneously the president who promoted conspiracy theories that motivated these dogs the president who exhorted them to come to our nation's capitol egg them on. he hardly ever discourages violence and more often than cards is that. people who believe in conspiracy theories just gullible or is there more to rate and how worried should we be. welcome to a car with 19 special i want to jones in berlin a city that seen its fair share of protests by conspiracy theory follow us we even had a group storming the steps to the german parliament a few months ago not quite as dramatic as in washington but shocking enough so who are these people and what drives them. some of them were for oil how to protect

themselves against radiation or ward off other evil spirits often considered harmless conspiracy theorists they have now come to the notice of germany's domestic intelligence agency the office for the protection of the constitution the crisis around the corona virus is a perfect fit some argue that it doesn't exist at all others that it was invented by politicians to control us. from ranges from mainstream society to people with isa terek views there's nothing illegal about it. but they are now protesting alongside right wing populist. right wing extremists who for their part are trying to exploit the dissatisfaction and hijack the demonstrations . the new thing about as and what we need to be worried about is. the right been extinguished and conspiracy theorists point to perceived similarities with 1933 when adolf hitler seized power in germany and the fascist dictatorship began some

people demonstrating against the coronavirus measures have compared themselves to the jewish victims of the holocaust. but you know what i was the and what we're seeing here is the trivialization and even denial of the holocaust of course that's absolutely unacceptable to the it's not just anti semitic it's a criminal offense by the. one challenge facing investigators is the lack of organized structures among conspiracy theorists they are branches of the american q anon movement in germany but there's no reliable information about how many people belong to the hard core of conspiracy theorists here however surveys suggest that one in 3 people believes that there is a grain of truth in their elaborate stories of a more let's bring in psychologist who's dead he stated a lot of time on analyzing the root causes and the nature of conspiracy theories good to have you with us and of course we have to start with the with what's

happened in washington i mean this. people storming the capitol there is this. conspiracy theory at its worse. yeah that's actually one of the consequences of chris percy believes we showed it in our research that people who believe in conspiracies not only more likely to use violent but also more likely to use non-democratic approaches to focus their goals so actually what experts were wanting to what time now happened and. i'm not completely surprised because drug force trying to mobilize to people for years and yet destabilizing democracy it's actually just a result of his campaigns is this how worrying is this some because i'll be asleep we've seen a lot of protest movements over here as well and tea coronavirus measures protests

those theories that are behind a lot of these protests they're not new but the followers of the theories are certainly more vocal invisible now attracting a lot of media coverage so how big a phenomenon is it would say that before when a it was like one served of the population in germany who believed more or less in conspiracies like their secret power those who are ruling everything or that was made out this kind of stuff a sense depend you can assume that there's an increase but we don't know that yet for sure because we have no comparison before and after that and then me but if you look at the social media channels you see a huge increase on platform slept till a gram you see that they are mobilizing more on the street so i don't know if they are more but it's more element put them right now how dangerous is it to us as individuals because we look at it from the outside and say what are these people

doing why are they why do they believe that how susceptible are we when it comes to falling for conspiracy theories when you look at this information wrong claims we all believe incidents that are not true. that happens easily so i for myself belief that for a long time that you eat 8 spiders in a lifetime of bullets not to have that their faith use that as some journalist made up years ago when the internet was. when it comes to conspiracies as a single also many people actually believe a little bit in them and what we do in psychology is we measured a conspiracy mentality that means to general tendency to believe in press perseus i'm not and most people out on descale in the middle that means stay believe a little bit in it. and they are only a few who completely refuse that and don't have that mindset and it's also to question if this is better because people who have no conspiracy mindset i don't

know say police they are doing everything right to whatever they do async them easy and this is us and not a critical perspective on society so being in the middle is actually not the worst thing is this actually a typical western phenomenon that we're talking about conspiracy theories or conspiracy series exist or to believe in it excess all over the world psychologists yet even saying at least some of them that it hasn't even to scenary basis odette that is there and it's rooted in our systems. there's one biggest study that was conducted in the summer and that looked at conspiracy beliefs in 7 different countries and quite sample in india 72 percent of people believe that one of the iris is actually chinese bioweapon that's a huge amount of people and in the us wakes up it was certainly 2 percent which is

still every certain person that believes that kind of sings and when you look at narratives like that 5 g. disna new phone. networks than it is responsible for the one. virus in germany you have 7 percent who believe that but in jordan for example it's also one search of the population and business link to following them has us less like wearing no face masks or being not likely to get rid of vaccine or also using violence so it is to behavior in the endemic and it in this asked to minister pandemic and i think it's important to have a look at this on an earth state and have concepts how to do you of that because despite seems centers are likely to be attacked not maybe physically but that people go there and interrupt people in their work and yet we need concepts how to

deal with that and how to prepare and employ stare we stressed and to the 2nd year of the pandemic will we see even worse protests will conspiracy theorist's rife even want. i think it also depends on how the government reacts so if a certain kind of protests are not allowed then they won't happen but they look of course what other wastes like giving players and stuff like that so they try to erect yet restrictions that they have but of course the demonstration has another. powerful impact to see the picture as they look very moody waiting for the scene so it depends under actions of the government but a senior specially the topic of maxine nation was always since vaccinations when ben's a part of conspiracy series and therefore it is crucial to read the a sit down and have strategies how to deal with that would wipe not only in germany

because there will be probably attacks and there were already attacks against scientific institutions also in german. and warring outlook that the batty psychology is an expert on conspiracy theories thank you so much. you know that come back. right time for your questions now over to a science correspondent eric williams. why do children have a thorough few symptoms of covert 19 and have fewer side effects. one of the things that's puzzled researchers since the beginning of the pandemic has been the effect that the disease has on kids they just don't seem to get it as often as adults do and when they do it only rarely turns severe why not well experts now think that there are factors could be playing roles of the 1st involves

differences in immune response in children and adults that hypothesis focuses on the emergency system that responds to an exposure fast called the innate immune system its proponents say that because the innate response is still largely untrained in young children it might often react more powerfully and quickly to infection with sars cove 2 then it would in an adult wiping out the virus before it has time to gain a foothold another train of thought says that what's called a cross reactivity might be playing a role anyone who has kids is the mill you're with the seemingly never ending series of sniffles that they bring home from daycare and from school by some estimates they have cold symptoms 3 to 4 times more often than adults do on average that means that a child's blood strain is this kind of see the boiling cauldron of antibodies

against the coronaviruses that cause common colds and the theory is that some of those antibodies might also have a cross reactive protective effect. the they might also be able to latch onto and disable source code to there are more explanations out there for why kids have fewer symptoms with covert 19 but but those 2 are the most common.

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