europe come 1st if you can't help that's fine rundowns former host minister aeneas be a long while more tells me but then don't cast yourself as a savior be frank and say my people 1st don't lie to me and say we will be quote with so so because we start to prepare the we uplift it but we just see that. we cannot and. while the coronavirus continues to spread rapidly in africa only few countries there have begun immunizing their citizens egypt ordered vaccines from china for example and guinea is rolling out a russian vaccine these 2 world powers were quick of the market then they had practice in vaccine diplomacy for 2 army did they are foreign policy object but in the meantime we need to look at the op comes why you know you are free to. mitigate you know the access gap between poor and the rich nations why not.

even the europe's closest neighbors in the western balkans have yet to see the bloc deliver on pledges to help here to chinese and russian vaccines are filling the void the european union have that they wanted their global public good they wanted to ensure a quick bloc there but we're just seeing even today and yesterday then you know suggesting or threatening that there might be export bans on the coronavirus back in the e.u. and so obviously that's very concerning sign of buckley nationalism here and brussels officials say humanitarian vixen donations will be exempt from tougher export controls they promise help will come soon to say that the e.u. is not doing anything i think it's is really not correct that we are actually in discussion both with the member states but also with the pharmaceutical companies in order precisely to help this advance the e.u. was quick to call for global cooperation against

a pandemic but so far it's been too slow to live up to promises of global solidarity. let's have a look at other stories making headlines around the world at this hour world health organization scientists have inspected a hospital in the chinese city of wood on the facility was one of the 1st to treat coronavirus patients the team also is set to visit the food market thought to be the end of the pandemic. there's been a 4th night of unrest in the northern lebanese city of tripoli protesters set fire to cars and a government building they're angry about the strict national walk down combined with the economic crisis. at least 4 people have died in a fire at a hospital in the romanian capital bucharest the building had to be evacuated it's not known how many people were injured. an appeals court in the netherlands has ordered the british dutch oil and gas company shell to pay compensation for damage

caused by oil spills in the niger delta the case was brought by 4 nigerian farmers who alleged widespread pollution on their land. you're watching news still to come new netflix movie the da tells the story of an archaeological find in england that revolutionized understanding of early history. china says it will no longer recognize the british national overseas passport many hong kong residents hole the passports have been in use for decades of the legacy of the former british rule over hong kong the u.k. has said it will open its doors to hong kong residents after china imposed a controversial national security law many hong konger can apply to live and work in britain and eventually seek full citizenship. and joining us now from hong kong is our correspondent phoebe kong phoebe greetings i'm curious about

just how significant this move is what kind of impact is it likely to have on hong kong or. well the. later situation in context we have to notice that most of the hong kong the citizens they actually have 2 passports one of them is issued by the home for a ts which is the home passport and the other one is sufficient snatch the overseas hospitals you mention in the report is the legacy of the colonial rude a nearly 3000000 people making it nearly half of the population holding this hospital so reality even though beijing and hong kong governments now stop paying to recognize the british national overseas possible arrest and can still use the whole home passport and other hong kong identification documents to the parts of the torah tree but in the broadest sense that beijing is trying to send a message if not an alert to home residents who are considering to moving to move

to the u.k. if there would have been just national overseas possible citizenship scheme that beijing city there is a great territory mattias to respond to you case hong kong policy and also to send a message to people that they may face consequences if they do so. you know he be as you well know trying it has steadily hollowed out basic rights in hong kong in the last few years what's to stop authorities from keeping hong kong from leaving when they eventually show up at the airport. well indeed this is 9 a real issue as for beijing right now emigration has been a hot topic in hong kong since the 21900 test not only activists and politicians that also or there is citizens are considering to leave the country because of beijing's crackdown so these people are leaving not only it's not only about the people but also the capital and talent the professions they have they will bring it

with them and leave the country so patient feels that it's necessary and it's more urgent for them to stop their did away pop an equation that the half it room among the whole beijing politicians circle it that they are suggesting 7 their chinese authorities don't know only to stop recognizing the precious national office these passports but also maybe to consider to refocus electional rice that new say that those people will leave with the vienna passport it can't vote or run in office in the future or if and to to cancel or to to to to confiscate their patch and so this may be some of the very serious consequences to words following the at this mess just what you know today and that's why for other citizens having this that's going to make them feel even more urgent to move faster both of those who are already considering to move the city to leave the city so just very quickly this

may very well encourage on congress to eventually every great britain. so aside from sunday people can apply to new pieces out of business called plates and the mc home cohen also on why. they can move u.k. bobbies he says they have that for 5 yes and then one more yes they can gain and. this is a president change of policy off the u.k. and u.k. has already expected that that will be hundreds of thousands doing so in the next few years is ok. in hong kong for us thank you very much for your. support now and some of the world's top tennis stars have been allowed out of corn teen before next month's australian open rough and the dull novak yoke of victory and serena williams were among those stuck in australian hotels for 14 days but

they were at least able to train outside 72 other players had to undergo full corn team with no outdoor practice. so what do you do if you are an olympic skiing hopeful but you can't get to the slopes because of the virus well 14 year old george brown has the answer he has built his own mini slope in his back garden in england after a flurry of snow is goal is to make it to the 2026 winter olympics he's also been busy training in the garden even when there isn't any snow and now to a new netflix movie the dig recounts an archaeological find in england that revolutionized people's understanding of early history carey mulligan stars as a widowed landowner she employs an amateur archaeologist played by ray finds to excavate what they believe or viking burial mounds on her property. or you want a big mess is pretty. tiles of buried treasure.

my interest in archaeology began like you are the last gasp male left held a trial. my childhood home was built on a thrashing convent held my father exco it yes. speaks to. the past. the did was shot in suffolk has near the original sutton who cite me but it's not just the documentation of the famous archaeological discovery. i didn't know much about someone who but i was very taken with the story that the excavation but i was particularly moved by causal relationship between critique played by carey mulligan. the 1st human and pretty only because. we have some to continue. when excavation stunt terrified actress carey mulligan during filming in ensuring

costar ray find safety in a scene where he was buried in mud island he also had kara. yeah i mean obviously you break it once he's a stunt mom which i totally get but it just it leaves me with a terrible task of trying to you know stop him from such a casing which is pretty or think you'd better come and say. thankfully they find survived being buried alive and the film couple can go on to make an archaeological history or king everyone is going to want to patient he says ruefully. a masterpiece by the italian renaissance painter of botticelli has faith fetched a record price for his work at an auction in new york the painting sold for 76000000 euros young man with the. depicts a young nobleman showing off his own prized artwork a decorative medallion bearing the image of

a saint it is considered one of the finest portraits and dates back to the 15th century. and a reminder of the top story we are following for you the european union's fight to secure vaccine supplies he's intensifying the block is to outline plans for. exports of the vaccine drug maker astra zeneca says it will not be able to meet its delivery targets. you're watching news coming up next in asia a message to the u.s. and taiwan how chinese military incursions into taiwan or raising regional tensions and why have proposed change in immigration rules could allow young hong kong to escape political turmoil. that and more with after a short break more news at the top of the hour don't forget you can always get the

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i'm british welcome to news asia glad you could join us the united states says there is no reason for tensions between china and taiwan to escalate to confrontation the remarks come as a senior chinese official warned that any moves towards taiwan independence could mean war the shop and rhetoric from beijing matches increased military activity by its forces against taiwan the aim analysts believe is to place a new u.s. administration and taiwan on check. taiwanese air force pilots are on high alert this may be just a simulated thrill to show how fast they can take to the skies but a recent months they've been doing it for real the president laid bare the threat from their nearest neighbor. who are in the past here are really dark stations have

detected the incursions of nearly 2000 chinese military aircraft and over 400 vessels in the solo does to intercept and drive them away and secure our maritime an airspace. a record number of incursions came on january 23rd china sent 13 warplanes into taiwanese airspace taiwan scrambled fighter jets to monitor the activity a day later china sent a farther 16 aircraft into their airspace over that weekend the united states sent a carrier strike group into the south china sea on what it called routine operations to ensure freedom of the seeds and there are just china to cease its pressure on taiwan. jang called on the u.s. to respect the one china policy. the us frequently sends vessels and aircraft to enter the south china sea their activities are

a sure force are not conducive to the peace and stability of the region. analysts say the escalating tension is part of china's efforts to flex its muscles when china taiwan and. retaining its focal regaining control over taiwan is probably the most important strategic priority meanwhile taiwan hopes drills like these we assure the public that amata the aggression the face the island is prepared. now let's get more on this from professor steve siring he's director of the trying to institute at the school of oriental and african studies of the university of london professor trying welcome a senior chinese official has warned that any moves by taiwan towards independence would lead to war talk to us a bit about the timing of this very sharp rhetoric why no. i think it is because of the change of government in washington the chinese government would have

expected or hoped that that biden administration and would be versed u.s. policy on style won it by going and initiation has not done so so the chinese want to. sort of course to bow out of the americans. and how do the americans how does the biden administration intend to deal directly with china especially on the question of taiwan. the budget and the decision is fairly clear that it will take a will bust positioned one time one but it is willing to negotiate and work with the chinese if the chinese are willing to reciprocate and work with the americans so. many stations was very unreliable and erratic if i didn't miss it in can be expected to be very consistent night. is

something that the chinese like to see not the u.s. is bound by the taiwan relations act to essentially provide tire van with the weapons to defend itself against any chinese attired but not to necessarily come to taiwan's aid militarily do you think it is time potentially the u.s. considered amending that. the television's act does not require to do that it stays governments to you meet is the interest here on behalf of taiwan and if taiwan should be attack but if you look at the former us republic of china or taiwan and mutual defense pact of $155.00 people listen to of the treaty also does not trigger any media to american military response you taiwan to come under 'd attack it really mealy be quiet the us government to take

the matters to congress is very similar under the taiwan relations act so it is not well read it necessary for the americans to change policy and say that yes if taiwan comes under tag we definitely will immediately into see here. the decision is already under control but then given that there is no commitment to offer in egypt or us hope militarily on the side of tire on how does tire ron defended sort of in the event of an inversion or an entire. well the we feel so of the americans to be completely clear is intended to deter any government in taiwan from pushing that envelope to tool far and for example formally assert de jury independence which which would trigger a chinese military invasion and but anything sort of that the tonys

will know that the americans have very very strong strategic interest in making sure that taiwan's does not change hand and become to the chinese sed and the main reason there is because if taiwan's were taken and by the chinese by force. with the americans being defeated and the japanese will no longer trust the american protection of japan is security and the entire american into pacific strategy will collapse and that is the reasons why. trans of gay marriage it's not interfering is relatively ready low. right we'll leave it there for the time being but thank you so much for joining us for steve trying from the school of oriental and african studies in london thank you so much you're welcome our shrinking space for free speech and continuing political upheaval is forcing many young hong kong

so look for opportunities elsewhere taiwan has over the years been a favorite destination for many but now the island is planning to make it easier for students under the age of 18 to come to the island on their own for high school studies earlier they needed an adult to accompany them university students from hong kong already studying in taiwan believe it's a change for the better one that allows students to escape the turmoil at home amy is safe here she's studying at a taipei and a 1000 the hong kong authorities cannot reach her thanks are better here but she suffers from post-traumatic stress there are a lot of them a little i feel guilty i survived we used to chant together we stand but i got out and left them behind in hong kong. sometimes i wish i'd been arrested too so we could face the hardships together why am i enjoying life here when all my friends

are in jail. those friends were with her at the protests back in 2019 many of them are facing charges like rioting and could go to jail for a long time that was something she feared to getting into a taiwanese university seem to like her only chance to xscape. well till to you i lived in hiding in hong kong for 6 months while i prepared for the taiwan university entrance exam now i have freedom and peace here i no longer live in fear i don't need to text my friend every hour to say i'm safe. taiwan is only an hour's flight from hong kong is enough for university students to reach but high school students must be with their parents or have a residence permit. secretary is stuck in hong kong he took part in the

protests which led to a split with his parents his 2 young to go to taiwan alone sounding out. i was very disappointed when the high schools in taiwan said they couldn't accept me i don't understand why they take university students but not high school students it's frustrating and i feel unsafe here. as hong kong becomes more dangerous for pro-democracy campaigners taiwan is planning to change the rules this would allow high school students to move there alone school of a show's could become their legal guardians home or at all i hope the new policy will take effect this year so i can finish my last year of high school in taiwan and i don't want to do the university entrance exam here who knows what would happen if i route some of the politically incorrect you can get arrested for no reason no wonder the national security law and hong kong. life in taipei can be

lonely for hong kong as the culture and spoken language are different so it's deferred any often comes through this hong kong cafe for a taste of home. oh i come here to remind myself that i'm a home corner here. i don't think i can go back while it's under communist rule i might live in taiwan for the next 1020 even 30 years high or low though to people the same. home is always on her mind her friends who are already in prison and those who are too young to the i am just like me many hong kong protesters are young many of them a still in high school and they need to wait for 2 to 3 years until they're eligible to study here can you imagine how dangerous it is for them it would be a learning pattern or they may think noakes of mutual support between political

exiles offer some comfort but they cannot reach the young teenagers stuck back in hong kong. on the choice sleep that's it for today there's of course more our website www dot com forward slash you can follow us on facebook and twitter as well as we live in today with a look at a day in the life of. the c.b.s. tram fighting cabin fever during his prime to treat 3 week quarantine after returning to hong kong from france they're back on monday have a really good weekend with.

the fight against the corona virus pandemic. as the rate of infection in developing what does the latest research. information and contact the coronavirus update. on d w. and you know years here as we continue and how the last years german starts now we'll bring you a man called as you've never had to have

a surprise yourself with what is possible who is medical what moves and what. we talk to people who. followed her along the way admirers and critics alike now as the world's most powerful woman shaking her legacy join us from ackles last hour. it's a race against the clock is new mutations continue to evolve. health officials blame high infection rates for the new strains. each new infection opens the door to unknown variants which threaten to unto the progress. there is no clear real danger of mutations making the virus mortars miscible more lethal and more resistant to existing vaccines and we must fast.

understanding what's driving the biases mutations a crucial next step in a race against covert 19. you mutations have seen the virus spread like wildfire in parts of the world but more help is on the way the u.s. biotech firm novak says developed a vaccine demonstrating 90 percent efficacy in a phase 3 trial and proving successful against variance it's the me that scientists say we need to keep an eye on. last week if you were horrid he's a member states to do more on sequencing the genome of the novel coronavirus the hope is that scientists can detect mutations earlier and keep track on how they spread. so far major new variants have been identified and south africa u.k. and in brazil all of them a cause for concern as they spread much faster. the reason is

a mutation in the so called spike protein that helps them attach more easily to human cells. the changes are not believed to cause a greater severity of illness at the higher rate of transmission in small cases putting even more pressure on healthcare systems in many countries there are already shortages of ventilators intensive care units and staff. plus slowing down the spread of those new strains would require even more stringent lockdown measures. initial studies have shown that biotech pfizer's covered 19 vaccine is likely to be effective against the variant found in the u.k. . but scientists warn that may not be true for the strain found in brazil this subtype even seems to be spreading among ours where 75

percent of the population had previous exposure to sasco v 2. that could mean 2 things scientists say either that people remain vulnerable because their 1st infection was too long ago or that the virus has mutated to such an extent that it's resistant to existing antibodies. fire ologists are still conducting research into what that would mean for the efficacy of the vaccines if it turns out that it don't not provide protection against this new type of koran or virus the vaccines would have to be updated. the good news is as the biotech fires a vixen and the one made by modern or you synthetic messenger r.n.a. or m r n a they can both be quickly adapted scientists have suggested the changes could be made in as little as 6 weeks but testing the new vaccine and authorizing it might

take much longer. party somebody is a computational geneticist at harvard and was voted time magazine's 100 most influential people dr somebody you sequenced ebola samples from patients marking the 1st in-depth use of real time d.n.a. sequencing in a pandemic how's that changed our project to the coronavirus. i mean it is it's a fundamentally different world where we don't know 6 months after an outbreak passes we don't find out what happened we can actually. respond to it right away basically the genome of the virus is printed it's you how we track it how we diagnose it and how it evolves over time so we want to get real time snapshots to know what the virus is doing in every moment and it constantly develop countermeasures that target virus so we would see later we missed the boat i mean you sequenced ebola really early on. did we did we miss out in this case.

no actually we were very fast in our genome sequencing the original discovery of the virus that was one of the really sort of sad things about this is such a missed opportunity because we actually looks like we caught the virus very soon after it entered human populations and began transmitted from human to human the problem is that respiratory viruses move quickly and so even though we were very fast we had to be lightning fast and while the sequencing in the original instantiation was actually where it needed to be our ability to then turn those into diagnostics actually did that quickly to but then to get those diagnostics everywhere in the world so we could find it when it came that was where we dropped off that's what we missed the boat so you know the united states being a famous example of that you know going backwards where we were just months into the outbreak still didn't really have any capacity to look for it and it had some regulatory challenges and things like that that was that was what needs to change going forward but actually the original sequencing was right on we still there's

a lot we can do to keep up that sequencing to figure out as this virus is really the millions of chances to move we need to keep up with it even faster oh the british brazilian and south african variants for scientists are specific virus lines but no direct ancestors were identified house that problematic it's just telling us that we're not capturing enough information that we essentially we don't know where the virus went 1st and how it got there so we're still the things we're doing or sequencing than we've ever done before but we're you know in millions tens of millions of cases now so it's it's a whole different world of how much you need to capture to really see what this virus is doing and just relative to the amount of cases were still sequencing very little you say where a race against time is the virus may stumble upon the taste and that makes it more dangerous how much time do we have. it's hard to know that's the thing at

basically no time we should move immediately this is the way it works is every time a virus replicates in transmits to a new person there's opportunities for new mutations to occur and most mutations don't have a real biological side but if you give it millions of chances can happen even the most rare event can happen and so every in every new case is a new opportunity to the virus to stumble upon something and where we're worried now because the viruses it looks like it's more infectious and looks like it can escape immune system it could also change and somehow begin to affect our children and we don't know where it's going to go so we don't really want to waste a moment to find out but it's a guest on this show told me taishan is what like clockwork why then come we predict them better when we can predict how often they'll likely occur and what we can predict. you know we can we can predict essentially like they do it works like clockwork or certain every kind of every cycle there's

a certain opportunity for infections to happen and so we have a sense of how many mutations will come and we just don't know the by a lot that we don't know we know some of it we're learning we know we pay attention to the ones that are in this fight protein because we know that's going to affect the it's how it's going to that cells and there's different things we're we're we're paying attention to what we don't know the full biological logic of the genome and how it works and which exactly it had which biological that that's part of what some of these studies are doing when we do gain a function to try to see what happens but those are those are challenging for various reasons so we're still not there yet but the more we study the more we know when the more we can predict and when vaccinating how much higher is the risk of me taishan if someone's got the 1st dose but the 2nd is being delayed when when it comes to a 2 shot vaccine. you know we don't we don't really know i mean i think that the more army and system vets it down early the less chance it has to change and so so you know the best thing we can do is to prevent the best thing we can do is to

prevent infections and and to sort of shore up so that our infection doesn't go to anybody else so the you know that those are kind of the things where it's like for me insisting that's a down or we quarantine well and that new variant doesn't don't go anywhere and that's the best and we can do participate he from harvard thank you very much for being on the show today thank you. let me hand you have been out to our science correspondent eric williams he's got answers to your questions on the corona virus. if i get vaccinated if they had a chance i could still get infected and in fact as. guests to the 1st and we don't know yet to the 2nd we'll have a much better idea about the dangers of both issues in a few months when when vaccination numbers really climb in

a serious way worldwide i think the confusion about this topic is closely tied to how we use the words infected and infectious let's look at the word infected 1st it's used in 2 different ways and it strict sense it just means carrying a pathogen that causes a disease but it's often also used to describe symptomatically having the disease and after exposure to this pathogen you can theoretically be both or just one you can carry sars cove 2 and have symptoms but you can also carry it and not have symptoms maybe even after you've been vaccinated get back to that in a minute. but 1st let's look at the word infectious it means the virus is reproducing in your body whether you notice it or not and that you're shedding

enough of it to pass it on to others we don't yet know if this is possible even after you've received a vaccine because although trials showed vaccinated people later very rarely developed symptoms of covert 19 those trials were set up to show whether they also acquired what's called a sterilising immunity that's when you're. human response after vaccination wipes out any subsequent exposures so fast the pathogen never again is a foothold in your body effectively ruling you out as a playing and infection chad but right now we still don't know if you could theoretically get infected after vaccination just show no symptoms yet still give it to others we'll have a better idea of when we see whether large scale vaccine campaigns affect numbers

of new infections quickly and dramatically. thanks for watching have a nice weekend i'll see you again sick. in .

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