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in life. i'm. glad you could join us north korean dictator kim jong un has given himself the thoughtful general secretary of the country's ruling party now not much for titles but in north korea they mean quite a lot for kim taking on a title last used by his father kim jong il is a way to consolidate his authority in the one party state this at a time when the economy is suffering due to the cut on a lot of spam demick and continuing u.s. led sanctions sanctions that the country would want. to see the back of but not at

the cost of its nuclear weapons and australia's kim jong un has pledged to expand wide again taking aim at the united states during an ongoing party conference this is what he had to say well. i caught our foreign political activities should be focused and redirect on subduing the us our biggest enemy and made obstacle to our innovated development on court. and for more on what this means i'm joined by a german came correspondent at n.p.r. news and sir on the south korea and can use is a website focus only on reporting and lazing news from north korea germany welcome north korean antagonism towards the united states is well known so should we be reading anything into kim jong un calling it the biggest enemy. use the term biggest main enemy but it's not the 1st time that north korea called

united states like. it returned this time after a while they didn't use that term during the period of the town to the starting in 2018 singapore a summit between john and and u.s. president on the trump obviously after donald trump walked out on to john and during the hanoi summit in 2019 it seems that north korea is thinking that that has been a waste of time and now they are not going to try to much energy into improving relations with the united states and close future i think that's why we have reverted back to their old phrase and seeing united states as the biggest mean enemy what does that mean for the incoming biden administration what will the biden administration do now and how will they be dealing with kim jong il moving forward. until now u.s. arsenal and biden did not share and much hints about what the policy direction will

be we do not know yet if he will indeed see much has changed between us and north korea after they started the year 2 year discussion mccune and from north korean side it seems that for example they said the only only only method for a us keep relations to improve is for united states to drop its aka a hostile policy which is also very poorly defined it's also something not you know it's very old and it seems that for biden administration this means conjunction it won't be offering any opportunity for dialogue 1st it means a buy in an administration probably has to reach out 1st. but for now it seems pretty unclear where we are headed from now on both north korea.

going back to become a hostile to the united states but john in the core of the problem still remains on the one hand you have north korea that confuses to give up its nuclear weapons and on the other hand you have the united states and the rest of the international community that says unless you give up those nuclear weapons you will not receive sanctions relief so we have this deadlock situation is what you're saying is it looks like this will continue. yes i'm pretty sure this is going to continue for a while. if you see the readout from the party congress from friday because reported on saturday north korea not only discuss the direction of course tonight policy direction which united states but it also focused a lot of calm length on about their military capacity how they are going to be fought their capability even more and they had

a very long list of wish list that they won it in the next coming years like tactical nuclear weapons more nuclear warheads longer range i.c.b.m. and solid fuel i.c.b.m. these all can count and pressed provocation for the biden administration and about sanctions they are saying if you look at that economic policy that they share green card in congress they are focusing very much on building of a self-reliant economy about this not alter our regardless of what happens in the external relations that she means which probably means sanctions they it seems that they are thinking biden administration won't be budging that much about sanctions relief that's why they are saying they are just going to hold onto this leverage of military capacity drum and can we leave it there for the timing but thank you so much for joining us.

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origins of covert 19 the w.s.j. has long pressed for the mission beijing has faced international criticism over its lack of transparency in the initial stages of the outbreak many scientists suspect the disease was carried by bats before being passed to humans the w.h.o. team are expected to visit the central city of blue han where the corona virus was 1st detected just over a year ago the harsh destructions of the height of the pandemic along and today the city is pretty much back to normal but the experience has given some a new outlook on life. they're back on the floor together a dance teacher and his students dykey is one's only teacher of vogue the style that came out of new york in the 1980 s. brings them a sense of freedom and exhilaration. tuns and you can be yourself in the moment when dancing vote no matter how you dress up others will not discriminate

against you and i think this is very good as it lets me enjoy being myself very much. for dykey and his students that's gained a new importance since last year when will han endured a grueling 76 day lockdown and experienced china's heaviest death toll from coded 19. it's insane. during the pandemic a few of my friends and i would practice with each other online in our beds we would start doing vogue in bed we could only practice from a distance because during that time everyone was at home and could not go out. to ikea and his crew shot a promotional video for vogue to popularize in china the dance that's become a part of their identity. they say the experience of the pandemic has taught them

some valuable lessons in well just eating which is where the just now after the pandemic i feel vogue dancing has given me a lot of emotional support because it made me realize that we need to seize every minute and every 2nd to be who we are true to you we have to cherish ourselves and live a more fulfilling life i. wish ocean. only when you dance like this will you truly feel that your soul belongs to you. there's a feeling of letting yourself go and just being yourself i like this feeling very much. enjoying it. that's it for today there's of course more on did up a dog gone for. even i would scenes from northern japan there's a scene some record snowfall in recent days.

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the fuel economy. how will climate change affect us and our children because. dot com slash water. cooler i. over a year after the 1st corona virus cases some early patients are still suffering. long covert refers to symptoms that can last for months or the return up to recovery i was only the hospital for a week and. yet months later i was still can't go back to work. and you study from a woman in china has found 3 quarters of hospitalized patients still experience at least one symptom half a year later. what we're yet to discover is just how long covert can last.

in the mean time doctors say get the vaccine regardless of whether you've had the virus or not survivors know all too well how damaging the sickness can be even after they get better the road to recovery can be long and difficult. peggy green is battling the long term effects of covert 19 when she became sick in march she had few sometimes but it's now devastated her life. pretty confident. i only became really ill months later and at the time i thought that everything would eventually be fine but things didn't improve i was extremely ill for many many weeks which turned into months without getting better. and. peggy is 48 years old and suffers from long term effects after kovac. she sought

treatment at a rehabilitation center on germany's baltic sea coast after the virus peggy felt. she suffered from dizzy spells and chronic pain. in some cases i also had cognitive difficulties like my head wasn't functioning properly i couldn't hear had poor vision and couldn't follow conversations well. i'm not afraid but i still wonder if i'll ever be the same again. as a covert survivor peggy has officially recovered from the illness but she says it feels like coronavirus has stolen her healthy body and left her with a sick one in its place. peggy spent 5 weeks here her main goal is to get her life

back on truck. you live your life 5 days out work a week and so on my life might be more intense that it was before i would like it to be as it once was at the moment life is dramatically different for everyone and maybe i can still manage to get a lot done i'm sure that my recovery will allow me to i think i will be a different person than i was before but that's ok. peggy green has since gone back to her normal routine but she still feels the lingering effects of illness she often feels weak and her muscles hurt but even if the road to recovery is slow she's glad to be on it. dr david strain heads up the british medical association's work on the long term impact of covered and is also a survivor we'll get to that in

a moment 1st david is there any way of speeding up recovery for long term sufferers like the woman in that report. that's a really interesting question because we don't really know what the natural history of covert itself is something long covert is so i get many reports of people who for example it's a multi vitamins or it's a health supplements and swear that has made a dramatic difference for them but i also get reports from people who don't know intervention have got dramatically better off and the apparent reason whereas in all cases we get people who don't get better so at this moment in time in the absence of randomized control trials we don't have any definitive answer as to what will or won't work well take us back to the beginning what causes long coded in the 1st place. that in itself is a huge question that may help us identify what the treatments are but at the moment

we don't fully understand there are 2 or 3 different hypotheses of being run the test and the one the research that i'm researching into is looking at the mitochondria that is the powerhouse of the cells i mean actively if you want to think of them as the battery that powers your body basically we know covert the disease does attack that battery and what we believe is happening is that there's a many individuals who that battery just isn't recharging at the diseases it's like having the old i phone it doesn't matter how long you plug it in for it will not get the charge that it requires and we think that's what's going on and that's the theory we're working on there are others that think that this is an old swimmin disease the antibodies that you create so the virus then turn on the host and effectively become like rheumatoid arthritis or s.l.a. and trigger and also immune disease that there are some that think there are permanent scarring that take place in the lung and the blood vessels that occur as

a result of the virus the bottom line is at the moment we don't know when reality is it's likely to be a combination of multiple different causes what about just how many people this actually affects but what do you make of the chinese study that shows 2 thirds of hard hit patients suffer long term effects. when you looking at the hard hit it's no surprise at all if you look at people who've been on ai to you for other reasons many of those will still have long term effects 6 or even 12 months later i think what's more interesting in a long coat it is a number of people like was described that only got relatively mild disease i mean for me personally i only have one day that i needed any additional therapy yeah i've been left with symptoms at 12 weeks later there are actually worse than the initial disease and these are the ones that are causing more issues from the oh and s. the office of national statistics in the u.k. they estimate that 20 percent of people who had any symptoms at all with some

debilitating illness at 6 weeks and 10 percent of people even though they didn't require hospitalization or any additional care at the outset 10 percent of people who ever tested positive will have symptoms of long coma bit at 3 months and you've said this is happening to younger people more women than men those suggested to be at lower risk. exactly and that's part of the thing that we're seeing particularly in the health care setting that. the risk of dying from code it is much lower in females it's much lower in the youngsters and therefore in many health care settings these are the people that we get to work the front line because if they catch it the consequences won't be as severe but now what we're seeing is an after effect is that these are exactly the people that are more at risk of lung covidien you know austudy we've identified that even though women are more likely to suffer presents itself participates in study even after we had just found out 86 percent

of the long covert that we're seeing is a new younger fitter ladies and and it does appear to be very similar that all of the people who are coming presenting with symptoms of long opiate were previously very fit they were very active we're not sure if that represents that they have a higher they slide and therefore they they realize it a lot more if they've been left with some weakness or it may just be that these are people who are actually noticing it because while most of us around the world are in some form of lockdown where we don't have the same freedoms that we have normally that we just don't notice how much that they set out impacts on us just briefly you've also said this isn't just a respiratory infection it's a multi-system disease are there steps that can be taken to prevent long coping from setting in. we don't really know what the cause is so it's very difficult to say assess it but one thing that we are trialing and not having

a good response of with is making sure that way you've got the illness you stay with a new your exercise envelope or your energy envelope we call it for many other people training if you're training for a marathon or creature going for a race you want to push yourself every single time you train with long covert what we believe is if you stay well within your energy window then the window itself will get bigger over time rather than trying to push because one of the kit key things that all of us are saying is the harder you push yourself the longer it takes to recover after each episode so stay within your energy envelope at every available opportunity to have it strength think you very much for being on the show . you're welcome. officials are distributing madonna's coronavirus vaccine in germany it's being administered from tuesday and is the 2nd vaccine available it still people won't have

a choice they'll have to take whatever comes germany is facing criticism for a slow start to its execution program code infection rates remain high despite an ongoing. time for your questions now over to our science correspondent there williams. what's the difference between quarantine and isolation and what are the correct ways through odds are both. in the course of this pandemic these 2 terms have been used interchangeably quite often although they actually mean different things and the confusion arises because both are protective measures for stopping potential covert 19 spreaders from transmitting the disease to others so definitions 1st isolation is defined as a measure for keeping people known to be sick with a contagious disease away from people who don't have it quarantine on the other

hand is restricting the movement of people who might have been exposed to an infectious disease for a while to find out whether they've been infected are not so so posts are waiting games the big difference is that if you have code at 19 you're in isolation if you only might have gotten that you're in quarantine when it comes to the right ways to observe then things get a little trickier because different health authorities in different countries regulate the 2 in different ways here in germany for example if you've tested positive for covert 19 and are recovering at home you have to isolate for at least 10 days from either the day you tested positive or the day you began to show symptoms though you can also only leave isolation if. dr determines that your symptoms have really improved and remain that way for at least 48 hours those who have been directly exposed to someone with the disease for example family members

they're what are called category one contacts and they have to quarantine and germany's health authority says they should do so after their last contact with the sick person for 2 full weeks although they can also leave quarantine that they test negative for covert 19 after 10 days. i for now. the be. the be. the be going to.

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