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i'm british military welcome to news asia that you could join us on monday a committee of the german parliament the bundestag how to petition calling for sanctions against chinese officials for violating human rights. a digital rights activist from hong kong now studying in berlin was one of the initiators of the petition that also calls on germany to sue china in the international court of justice for its actions in hong kong did have a correspondent on the spot or was distraught as glacier arrived for the hearing. today is a big day for activists in berlin in a few hours german m.p.'s will be discussing a petition she started which has been signed by over 50000 people how are you feeling about today place here are you nervous yes i'm very nervous because i will

be the 1st time i'm speaking in front of her members and it will be about hong kong that's why i'm very nervous about today. once germany to do more against human rights violations in hong kong what exactly are you calling for what are the actions that you're expecting or you are calling for individual sanctions against human rights violations that happened and hong kong and china we're also asking for a life for hong kong areas that are in need and we are also asking the government to call off the investment deal with china because that would damage germany's mentor values. says the german government's reaction has been weak early and has criticised china's policies but the activist wants more insight parliament gives a short speech and discusses the crises with m.p.'s from the uk to elicit world saw the current situation in hong kong is dramatic and it's getting worse day by day basic freedoms rule of law human rights are being deliberately and systematically

destroyed by beijing. the passing of the national security law has unfortunately confirmed all the fears that existed even the so-called loyal opposition is now under attack one cannot help feeling that beijing does not want any opposition in hong kong. you know. a foreign ministry official is also there and defends the government's reaction or trying to interfere in a charity following the franco german initiative member states that have extradition treaties with hong kong including the us have suspended these extradition treaties common to spend years. we need to place the ikhwan the gain when the hearing is over. so no decision was expected today later but how did it go i think a hearing genuine well went well i made all my point that i wanted to make a fresh plays and 10 members did most of them did express support to our tongue call that a gunman still gave very very official answers without promising concrete action.

is aware that many of her demands may not be met but she says all change begins with recognition and discussion. and the definitive action on the petition is tim awaited but let's get more on germany's position on china from ryan had a bit to go for he's been a german politician and is chairman of the european parliament's delegation for emissions where china welcome mr particular is it time for germany to impose sanctions on chinese officials for their actions in hong kong well. e.u. to all take joy action. and of course germany as one of the walk powerful capitals within the e.u. has to play a very proactive role in. that's why i'm happy that these issues are not just being greece why us in the euro.

we. should be that it's also really strong hopefully through the resistance. so these issues are definitely already been raised but to go back to the point that you made about germany being more proactive why do you think germany hasn't been so proactive thus far. well it would certainly be unfair to say that germany and hasn't done anything in the house for instance suspended its extradition agreements with all. german foreign minister households or a lot of make several public statements but own germany just like other european countries as been reluctant to really move forward and to

take. more will forceful steps and obviously whatever we've done so far as not really impressed the whole kong authorities know how to sit in pres beijing and if we want to make them understand that what they are doing that the oprah show and that they are crucially needed in all along comes with the price then obviously we have to watch and i think we have to do more on 2 fronts we need to. look at sanctions we know how the years global human rights sanctions make it isn't and it should be invoked these are be a couple of figures in a long including to atlanta and all the other 100 the e.u. should also and germany particularly should also work diligently to words a reason these issues international or all around them for instance creating

a contact group of 4 hong kong with the like minded countries to pay attention to let's not let that topic not that is from the it's a national joke here talk about more action from the e.u. and from germany but then in december you have the e.u. that agreed on investment dean went to china a deal that germany had been strongly backing i'm wondering what is the message that this sends to the chinese government well unfortunately oh oh. that's not the the message that i wouldn't want to see. after a terrible year with. their e.o. aggressive policies not just in hong kong called so we see john also these are the ostrich also in the south china sea also on the evil eye and border with

india for instance after such a turn the year of chinese aggressiveness we basically put a christmas present under xi jinping stressed was 3. time being couldn't have been more unfortunate. i i would i regret having to say that that my government in this case the german government. if a sized trait over of geopolitical concerns an open human rights and i think that's our. priority that's a sequence of priorities right we should have rules so don't relieve them of the timing but thank you so much for joining us and i have to go for a chairman of the of and bottom of the delegation for the nations we're trying to thank you sir and in hong kong and some of the new national security i know has already had an impact on free speech by conic seroquel i spoke with

a former hong kong legislator my contin he's a probating politician and he admitted to her that the new law had had a chilling effect and put it to can debate. you have sometimes spoken out against the government do you personally have to watch what you say how worried are you my honest opinion. is that yes there's been a tightening of freedom to express views particularly when you're comes to hong kong. gaining some kind of a greater control over its own destiny. civic nomination there anybody can nominate to run for chief executive and it goes against basic law so all i'm saying is that anybody comes up with any kind

of plea that goes against the basic law yes the freedom to express such views is much less today than before because the bill security bill and you can see the full interview on conflicts on here on did 1930 u.t.c. or online or did a dot com for the 1st conference on. politicians who openly or polls beijing have been targeted in mass arrests not only do they face disqualification from upcoming elections but possibly life imprisonment added lections now meaningless. kong talk to one of those arrested. every day was cyrus loud returns from his jarvis in there as he recalls the shocking moments of his 1st arrest. and then went on with the car it was 5 am in the morning i was sleeping and suddenly a group of people banged on the door 6 police officers were here to arrest me i was very shocked that we knew where i live you must have been following me for quite

a while and that. the services cyrano as has been living in a hotel for months to avoid spraying the coronavirus home from the hospital cyrus lau was among the 55 hong kong politicians arrested for suppression by running into a love for show primary last july 30th cleped they sought to paralyze the government by the towing is budget and bills. police seized many of his campaign materials holsters and live less and they are seen as potential criminal evidence so i'm trying back i know it's like a double whammy my work during the pandemic has already been intense and overwhelming and i can't even let my guard down when i'm off duty for this arrest is absurd to constitution gives lawmakers the power to scrutinize and veto the government's proposals. there was or how. the authorities are rounding up dissidents forcing them to. protest for deterrence and

beijing's new law and pandemic restrictions that primary was the biggest movement in recent months over 600000 people voted to pick the opposition candidates for the now postponed state the election is still unclear whether the government will call an election this year. in moscow russia have effectively silence many of the most outspoken and influential political progress in how i though they haven't been prosecuted many are now staying low profile this time saying themselves for an interview and public appearance cyrus and other leaders curley and bell are not allowed to leave hong kong do you think the opposition movement will evolve into a leaderless one justice to protest. we cannot only count on leaders or parties anymore i believe hong kong people are smart and adoptive enough to come up with a new form of activism it's not likely to go public as before but people will keep

their strength for the next opportunity. but that doesn't mean that he would just sit and do nothing right now he is working as an advocate for his nursing doing the slowness he is still free to do so. by phoebe kong that's it for you there's of course more upside to go forward slash wants you to morrow. the fight against the corona virus 10 times. the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the corona. virus update 19. on t.w. . passionate drama competition

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and when list scores of retired doctors trained nurses and medical students. we will get through this we will defeat is pandemic into a nation waiting for action let me be clear on this point help is on the way. the corona virus has infected and killed more people in the us than anywhere else in the world. or bodden better get cracking close to half a 1000000 people have died in the united states officials are converting sports stadiums and grocery stores into vaccination centers mobile units are on their way to underserved areas the plan's ambitious but it needs to be. surrounded by the corona virus in her illustration it's all i think about visual artist sandra bed lack expresses her feelings about the pandemic her biggest hope was getting

a vaccine and the date was already set. when i got the appointment i called everyone i told everyone i got a client that i was like what a lotto but the new york city ran out of vaccine doses. i didn't know that it had been changed until i saw something on the news and some friends sent me things saying that they were canceling all the rest of the appointments on thursday personally no when you mailed me no one called me she's one of at least 23000 people in new york city whose appointments were cancelled 15 vaccine have shut down over the weekend new york authorities blame the federal government new york blames the federal government. they said they had additional dosages in the area that they would send they say will increase the supply. they never did this is one of the facts you know house here in new york city had to close due

to the vaccine supply shortages thousands of apartments had to be cancelled and many other parts of the us by experiencing very similar problems the by government is under his pressure to solve this problem quickly this is the plan better vaccine distribution is part of joe biden's coronavirus strategy. but if you want stronger federal coordinator in the entire vaccination process by contrast former president donald trump left most of the decisions up to the individual states experts warn current problems won't be solved without increased production. i think number one is increase maxine supply very very important motivate companies to accelerate the production of. could meet the demand. americans have high expectations. i mean my family for almost

a year now. and i really want them to get vaccinated too so it's not just new york it's everywhere but that. kind of problem so the federal government needs to step in there i think there's a lot of order that needs to take place in these testing and vaccination sites that are asking a lot of patient the people that people are going to react for more than a race. center bed lex appointment was rescheduled but after the last cancellation she's now much more skeptical i'm just like hoping that they're going to come through with it the now i don't believe them anymore you know like i trusted them last week but not at all it'll take more time until the vaccines free americans from the virus. how much time monaco gandhi is a professor of medicine and associate chief in the vision of hiv infectious diseases and global medicine at the university of california san francisco good to see you again monica attard how much longer do you think this will take this vaccine dr yes we have been plagued by

a many difficulties in the u.s. with this transition of power but president biden has committed to purchasing 200000000 more doses which meant that we have 400 before supposedly 600 this enough to vaccinate the entire u.s. population with its huge oses and the current estimates are by the end of the summer so things are slower than we had hoped and anticipated in the united states what about his promise of 100000000 shots 100 days going to achieve that. we are not yet at that coal either but i actually think that that can happen i do think that can happen we he signed in what's called the national defense production act last week actually was one of his 1st executive orders when he came into office which allows more supplies in a sort of a war urgently like situation to help produce more doses so we thought we had the

doses and we didn't have the doses so i think the 100 is achievable biden also wants to release all available vaccine for immunization according to reports rather than withholding half of it for the 2nd doses trump planned how wise is that. i actually think that is a very good idea the image in a city or the amount of antibodies production that you get with a single dose is actually extremely high and of course we do need the 2nd dose that ultimately what's required but increasing the duration between those 2 doses is likely to have no harm in the ultimate efficacy of the vaccine and the purpose is to get as many people some immunity as we can we have been the epicenter of the pandemic since march 26th the united states we have had the poorest pandemic in the world so anything that we can do to increase vaccination rates is indicated if

you're waiting though these these poor people who are waiting weeks to hear whether or not they're going to get that 2nd is how much longer can they wait. so i mean that 1st dose will at least give over the 1st couple weeks 52 percent efficacy being depending on the vaccine it can go up to 80 percent they can go up to 6 right now the c.d.c. has said 2nd dose can be given 6 weeks later when the there is no even though the trials of 3 in 4 weeks early in the axioms in general increasing the duration usually does not diminish the efficacy and werner emergency situations of this one dose strategy and then given a 2nd later i actually think is biologically absolutely. the u.s. also wants to boost surveillance of new variants but critics call for a systematic nationwide strategy for sequencing the genomes of coronaviruses i mean

don't you need to be able to act quickly on mutations. yeah the problem. with that is there's actually very little you can do about new variants in less they feed the vaccine so there are 3 things new variants can do they can increase transmissibility they can creased very limits and they can evade the vaccine luckily we haven't seen the latter to any great degree in and increasing surveillance does little in less we can get the vaccine out into people's arms so if i were to focus on anything or focus on vaccine rollout get certainly surveil will always be able to hopefully tweak the vaccine in the future if we must to evade the variance but the vaccine codes for the entire spike protein and these variants have little point mutations along the rest and we're focusing

a lot of the variance when we should be just literally there's nothing more important than getting people in unity against this virus in this epicenter the pandemic really briefly if the u.s. does get its act together what sort of a difference can it make a broad buy by saying in the world health organization for example and back in kovacs to get vaccines to poor countries yes i completely agree that actually no country clearly is safe from crown of arson tell we have a whole world wide distribution of these vaccines so i think it's imperative to kovacs it's imperative to have other companies that patents. make sense not during an emergency this is an emergency and so with a little to she vaccine we're never going to reach herd immunity without worldwide distribution monica gandhi university of california san francisco thank you very much for being on the show again thank you. time for derek williams science

correspondent has been looking at your questions on the coronavirus. what possible adverse events are they looking out fall asphyxia proved and rolled out a notch number of temporaries side effects like fatigue or headache or a slight fever are fairly common with many of the vaccines that have been launched but but around $70000000.00 people worldwide have received at least 1st doses so far and major adverse events remain extremely rare a handful of people per 1000000 have had serious allergic reactions after vaccination which is a side effect that occurs by the way occasionally with vaccines for other diseases as well but so far no deaths from an awful lactic shock have been linked to getting a covert vaccine in norway over 30 deaths recently among very

frail elderly people that occurred soon after they received the shot might have been linked to their vaccination and authorities there have adjusted guidelines for the moment but only for that specific group a few isolated cases of facial paralysis usually temporary have also been reported but the experts say that any link they are is very tenuous monitoring systems are of course in place to to watch out for any other possible adverse effects that might not have been identified in trials for example anything that might be longer term moving forward authorities will be looking very closely to see whether for example certain rare or auto immune disorders occur more frequently and people who've been vaccinated although there's current. lee no

evidence that the vaccines that have been authorised so far can actually have those effects in general experts are in wide agreement that with a few exceptions almost everyone should get vaccinated when they had the chance because the benefits simply far outweigh any potential risks. you got it from derek williams i've been fizzling thanks for watching stay safe and seal gets a. commitment

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