rich. but in europe there's a sharp warning whether accept money from the new superpower will become dependent on a 13 year old brother 15 the chinese state has a lot of money at its disposal. and that's how it's expanding and asserting its status and position in the world to be physical before. china's gateway to europe if you're a 19th w. . you're watching news asia coming up today we take a closer look at the disappearance of hundreds of weaker scholars in china they serve as cultural stewards and their absence has been painfully felt by the eager community there and in the overseas diaspora.

i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia the united nations estimates that the chinese state has detained more than 1000000 weekers the ethnic muslim minority in china in camps some have been eventually released but notably communist party officials have shown reluctance freeing weaker intellectuals and according to the weaker human rights projects based in the u.s. hundreds of scholars historians artists writers poets musicologists have disappeared activists call what's happened a cultural genocide correspondent mathias bolinger has this report spanning germany and. as he tells the story of one missing professor from the city of cashed our. for many years if few scientific books have been tell him what teleco here is only a link to his family his father telep citic a year it had dedicated his life to linguistics specializing in the etymology of we

can names a member of china's ruling communist party the weakest caller was a model scientist in sin john and the editor of the university's magazine then in 2017 he certainly disappeared he had been accused by the authorities of spreading ethnic hatred. so most in the party decides who is a professor and who is a criminal my father was a professor and scientist because the party allowed him he was of course hard working but it was the party who allowed him to do this work and now the party has made him a criminal one to the melodrama here khejuri is a university lecturer in getting in germany he is followed in his father's footsteps and teaches we go language and literature this semisphere east teaching a class when we go pop culture online because of the corona epidemic.

some of the songs are just a few years old but they already sound as though they are from a distant era. on the province over the met with hundreds of professors who study we are culture have been arrested. on finnish many artists and singers have been arrested and biased but often the man we listen to today is one of them or the hard 100. since 2017 china has detained hundreds of thousands possibly even millions of we gaze in reeducation camps or sentenced them to prison terms members of the cultural elite like his father have been especially targeted. i'm very angry but i try to control my emotions to stay human and peaceful in the present the persecution is part of a complaint to assimilate minorities in china that we go language has been removed

from school curricula while historic monuments like the ancient city of qashqai have been renovated and turned into tourist attractions traditional lifestyles have come under attack or mosques inside the ancient city have been closed many minarets been removed some have been converted into tourist spaces the evolution facilities now host public toilets at isa creation. one mosque was even turned into a bar it has since closed because guards 2 main bookstores we ask about the works of mystic i hear you seeing. as if rumaylah. oh you know. what do you mean we don't know how many 100 official documents have clearly named the goal of these policies to destroy the roots and break the

lineage of the week is back in getting him to here to here a finally heard news from his father in march 201918 months after his disappearance looking old and frail he denied via video chat that he had been detained and said he had spent the last months in hospital. my son you must not believe these lies you must keep your mouth shut and publicly renounce the accusations you have made and clean up the dirt that you left. this will be best for us if you want to do something for us do what i tell you. what you're going to always one sad for me is that here he's defending the perpetrators fine and. i try to see mystic a year e who lives on campus as soon as i am at the gate police across the border for the

border was over but i'm a woman will i ask them to let me see was to cut you. down to. do all the if you can see. a lot. i would have to go into my ears just the cause to the universe you were not answered to hear criteria has gotten confirmation from a court that a verdict has been issued against his father but he has not been able to obtain its content he can now talk to his parents every 2 weeks for 2 minutes then the line is cut off from there to have her you are in the chinese government has made me a lonely man a sad lonely man an exile. one of his only solace is is that by teaching at the university he can contribute to preserving the culture that has suffered so much under china's government

we have leader at no musicologist performance artist and filmmaker das midget joining us she was born in the city of all she in what china calls its shing junk region look at ask this story of. a hearing has happened to many weaker scholars and when so many stewards of our culture from specialists and literature to music to history and anthropology are silenced like that what is the impact. this is a very important question i think what is the impact of 1st impact as like we are losing so much knowledge so much creativity even for human society i mean it is a loss for everyone it is the. it is really tragic for the human civilization i would say because culture is really rich and it is

a part of human history human culture if we lose that part of humanity it is it big loss for all of us. i know that many people doesn't really know and not really familiar with we go culture or e. or weaker. our but the main role of all these people who are disappeared in chinese camps are really the the people who knows really a lot about these cultures and who are carrying on and making these cultural expressions a life so in that sense it is a big loss for a week or society or people and it is also a big loss for anyone else as a wonderful point you have highlighted because cultures interact so eager culture doesn't happen just in its own ecosystem it's shared by so many other people so

tell us about your own recent work and how critical and important it is to preserve we their culture overseas in free spaces i mean you've taken traditional weaker styles and made them contemporary. yes i have a very traditional. dance education i went to the art institute in orem she when i was still living there and i had the chance to encounter with so many brilliant other traditional dance musters and then when i came to europe i realised that my culture was so less known like less known it's a nice way to put it but a lot of people didn't know who or that we were as and that they didn't know our existence so culture and artistic expression has always been. very important tool for me to introduce my culture introduce who i am and my people so

and then i went to this journey of being a ethnomusicologist and i i saw that actually apart from what i learn in the art institute i like my culture is so diverse and there's so many things still be be discovered for even for us for someone like me who are sick who are studying at we go culture so with all this richness and then with my own personal artistic journey that i i had in in europe and in the world i started to think like we were then spoiled their music they also have like a very strong apollo or off expressing themself it's not just a museum piece and it's not just a fixed or crystalized form of artistic expression or it doesn't belong to the past so i wanted it to be. a vibrant part of contemporary

art i wanted to make it more accessible and i wanted to use my own roots to express myself and tell my stories. now if the chinese state manages to control education and deploy propaganda the way it has for an entire generation of we are children we're seeing this to tight essentially make them conform to ethnic han chinese norms what do you think will be the outcome. the outcome is the we were region is a very historic and as you said a very mixed and very diverse part of the world and if we took away all the identity all that we go right into tea or all the the rich history and all the why burnett's of the these people in this culture and thus displace. all like

what chinese government is eventually trying to do is just a raise anything which make these people individuals make those people free spirits and make this people different they're raising all the differences to bring them into like making creating like machines or creating like a soulless. man over and they can create like they can work in factories and then they just have to participate in this very dangerous in a mission of chinese government to to really control world economy. thank you so much for joining us. that's it for today we leave you with a clip from a course formants could us make it work pays tribute to the novels perhaps sure sent and other weaker intellectuals the chinese state has detained thanks for

watching see you tomorrow it is by. that. to do that is a. partner in our use in our navy that we're. working to insert a massive. you know. our viewers there. and you know we are led. 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 19 special. on t w. n u u m

e no here's here's we're going to review in how last year's german chancellor will bring a new angle a map or as you've never cards have before surprise yourself with what is possible who is medical really what moves and what. we talk to people who follow along the way admirers and critics alike how is the world's most powerful woman shaping her legacy joining us from eccles law stops. violent protest in the netherlands at the start of the year people venting their anger against kimono virus restrictions demanding politicians to come up with a long term strategy to deal with the pandemic. easier said than done. in the chinese city of $100.00 total lockdown broke the chain of infection today things are almost back to normal in the city where the pandemic began. while most

countries in europe opted for temporary lockdown measures with mixed results some countries like sweden decided to go easy on the economy with many elderly bearing the brunt. and populist governments around the globe basically ignore the virus altogether again pushing up their country's mortality rate. and the economies and people are suffering all the same it's time for a silver bullet that ends the pandemic. hello and welcome to our covert 900 special on d.w.i. monica jones in berlin which is still in lockdown case numbers are going down slowly but the virus is still very much active so what's next could the no covert strategy be the answer to our press here's what it's about. a new plan proposed by scientists in germany aims to do more than just flatten the curve it

quote ready kate corbett 19 and help get things back to normal their plan basically consists of 3 elements. first they suggest that the government should enact a rigid and efficient lockdown measures could include a stay at home orders travel bans and the closure of schools and kindergartens as well as all non-essential institutions factories and shops. government programs should be introduced to secure people's livelihoods apart from that all contact should be reduced to an absolute minimum the lockdown would stay in place until the number of new cases drop police iraq areas that don't register any new infections would be declared green zones in those zones the scientists say restrictions would be lifted and life would gradually return to normality. ringback to prevent the virus from entering

a green zone travel restrictions and quarantines would be imposed as well the green zones would gradually expand and merge until individual countries and ultimately europe would be packed to normal. to keep infection numbers down or sororities or trace contacts expand testing and isolate new cases and local outbreaks of new infections would be controlled by strict measures and quarantined. the scientists say they are no covert strategy would be the best way to restore moral and fight coronavirus fatigue instead of ineffective flopped on measures that keeping extended it would offer a clear path towards normality. now earlier i spoke to professor elena kickbush a much sought after global health consultant who the renowned medical journal the lancet refers to as a global health reform up and i asked her about her take on this no covert strategy

i think the key thing is that we are looking for a sustainable strategy that involves the population that is motivating and that brings the different societal forces together we want to work together towards no cove we want to create green zones that allow people to live an ordinary life and we want to do away with this simplistic contradiction between the economy and people's lives because they really enter twines in so many ways so we're very keen to say this is a positive a motivational strategy and if we look to a stranger and see how people are living their lives now even organizing the australian open with thousands of spectators then it is this

motivational goal that we want to work to right now before we look to stray let's 1st dissect a little bit to the sustainable approach i believe that this no cut it strategy aims for an infection rate of below 10 percent where are these 10 percent suddenly coming from why why 10 percent. well it's the various calculations from the model that help us understand that because then of course the infection rates are pushed the reproduction rates low and we actually get an exponential reduction of infections and that also means that people can be traced if there is an infection then there are enough resources to actually try and find out who else where the infection has come from who else this person has been in contact

with so it becomes a really manageable system it becomes transparent and one can work with each individual that is infected the loss or your numbers are all the more difficult it is to have a tryst tracing strategy and that's of course then in turn increases the incidence . once a region is below those 10 percent this distracted she says it is a green salad but how do you keep that green sewn contained do you do you close borders again to keep people from red zones out of their. well that is the strategy the strategy is even to have a sort of competition that people want to get their everyday life back and if you're in the green zone that means if you act responsibly that you can actually move around again you can't let go of all restrictions we do recommend

that for a significant period for example even in green zones people still wear masks but yes it is a strategy as we've learned from other parts of the world that the contained area the green zone is the interaction the mobility has to be reduced specif course we have to be realistic so one of the things of the whole of society strategy is that a green zone might have a factory or a company that has many people who work for them in the red zone so we need to clear testing strategies or cooperation with those companies a lot of these things can be managed but there needs to be not only the political will to manage it but it's also the will of all the other societal actors exactly i think this is a very important point you mentioning there that everybody the people especially

included have to support the strategies you've mentioned australia as a good example now if we have good examples and what you say sounds so easy to do why aren't authorities just adopting it and doing it. well to some extent there is a climate that seems to hinge. we always have a tendency to discuss what qantas bitter we have a tendency to say we are different you know one says oh be contrarian from taiwan because they're an island i mean taiwan is 24000000 people who live very close to me so you know you can compare it to the u.k. that has enormous times faction rates and is also an island at least influences so i think we have to be much more willing to learn and we have to be willing to innovate to bring the societal forces together and to say you know we

want to do this and i think that this whole approach we are in this together i must say i've lived in a stranger for a while this is what has most impressed me that people have said you know this is for all of us this is not just for me but if my i do my bit we all are going to benefit and i myself am going to benefit because i can go to the express or shop next door. professor kickbush there a much sought after as mentioned global health consultant from switzerland there thank you so much for your time and let's hope that this new strategy will overcome people's fatigue with a lockdown. thank you very much for having me. so let's remember we're all in this together and let's not forget there's also

a vaccine available now which brings us to alice science correspondent eric williams well ansa one of fuel questions now. how long will it take for countries to vaccinate significant parts of their population. a couple of factors will play roles here the big hurdle at the moment is to produce enough doses to vaccinate 2 thirds of the world's population so so over 5 and a half 1000000000 people manufacturers of the vaccines approved so far say they can provide a significant fraction of what's needed to do that by the end of 2021 but not all of it making vaccines is a complex process and as we've seen in the last few weeks a lot's can go wrong in production but hey it's still only early february right and don't forget several other vaccines are also approaching the regulatory finish line

and i'm confident that in some places at least widespread vaccination will be the rule by say july or august the way israel's going it'll be a lot sooner than that but reaching goals in other countries will be challenging as was all too predictable and despite the kovacs initiative it's already clear that wealthier countries that bankrolled vaccine development efforts and placed early orders will be 1st in line when it comes to distribution my guess is it will be pretty much impossible for many poorer nations to make significant progress in vaccinating their populations for at least 6 months simply because most of vailable supplies will be snapped up quo. plate logistics will also pose a challenge as some of the approved vaccines require high tech cold chains

so i'd say the answer to the question of how long it'll take for countries to vaccinate widely depends very much on the country some will do it in in months i think and others it looks like it'll take at least a year and possibly more than one. there is williams there and he'll be back to answer more of your questions again tomorrow so keep on coming that's it for today for me in the team thanks for watching stay safe to.

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have only said but i thought going on what they're doing fine to. say i said. this is the w.'s line from berlin the russian court is deciding whether it's a general kremlin critic alexei in the valley for up to 3 and a half years ok so sparked a nationwide protests and drive police have cleared his supporters from outside the court building also on the program man miles military ties and such grip on a day after the coup hundreds of officials of activists are still being held

prisoner the un security council meets later to discuss its response. portugal's health system nears collapse as the number of new covered cases accelerates germany is one of a number of e.u. countries offering assistance on the future of mountains of missions into space that's a focus of astronauts and research was meeting the german city of bremen today to speak with the director of the european space agency about some pictures new plans for the future of space exploration. welcome to the program a court hearing is underway in moscow which could determine whether russian opposition leader alexei no valley will have to spend the next few years in jail these are the latest pictures of him in court he's been in detention for violating probation since he returned to russia from germany where he was been recovering

from a poison attack he blames on the kremlin upside court dozens of mr novelli supporters are being detained by police. straight to moscow then we join d. w. correspondent emily show in welcome emily at talk us through the case against mr novelli what's he been accused of. well alex enough viney is the prison service here in russia is basically asking for his suspended sentence on the fraud case against him to be turned into real jail time they say that he broke the conditions of his parole by not checking in with his parole officer. mr navarre and these lawyers say that he couldn't have checked in because he was in a coma at the time and also in the hospital after being poisoned as himself

says by by the f.s.b. by security officials from russia and this could mean if he if he gets real jail time today this could mean that he gets several years in prison for a case that essentially the european court of human rights has ruled to be arbitrary and on reasonable that's a ruling from 2017 so this is kind of an old case against him that they are essentially rehashing now to give him jail time it seems. sparked massive protests across russia what is the situation. well there were also some supporters of the outside the courtroom today this morning on my saw around 100 people gathering perhaps more outside the courthouse despite the fact that police had essentially closed off various roads leading up to the

courthouse and the area around it and there was a huge police presence on the streets some of his supporters came out today and there were dozens of arrests over $200.00 according to some independent observers and this of course comes after the mass protests that happened this past weekend abs last weekend as well and many of the protesters at those demonstrations told me that this yes this is about non-binding but it's more about what this case against him stands for what they see as arbitrariness as a lack of the rule of the rule of law in russia and also people who are complaining about the fact that the political elite as they see it is corrupt in russia including putin himself. to vladimir putin.

well i think these mass protests like essentially any street protests are a threat to the kremlin. basically street protests are the nightmare are the main nightmare that the kremlin house i would say especially because these protests were not just in moscow and st petersburg but across the entire country which is unusual for russia now we have heard today from the kremlin and they say the spokesperson for the kremlin says that putin is not following this trial at all he's busy doing other things and they also called on european diplomats who are at the court today not to put pressure on the court they say the fact that they are there at all is essentially meddling by european and western countries in russia's internal affairs family show with. mr could situation i'm in the u.n. security council is meeting to us preparing to meet in emergency session to discuss

the military coup in which has been condemned by governments around the world the u.s. is threatening to re-impose sanctions to try and force the generals to stand down the country's former defacto civilian leader who has been detained and hundreds of officials confined inside government housing compounds. calm amidst the political storm people in the city of yangon adjusting to a new reality of military rule. a state of emergency has been declared for one year . despite calls for resistance by former defacto leader aung sang suu kyi residents of me on mars the largest city are hesitant. we've waited for 72 hours but people won't go on the street in protest everyone knows the military has guns and they are used to shooting people i think people will find

another way to protest. we are very timid and we can't say anything i'm afraid of them. many international leaders have expressed alarm over the coup the u.s. underscored its support for democracy and me on maher also known as burma after saying it was quote taking note of those who stand with the people of burma in this difficult hour. i think it's a message to all countries in the region and countries who you know will be asked to respond or to consider what the appropriate response will be in reaction to the events that happened over the past couple of days in the capital naif hundreds of lawmakers are confined in government housing complexes which are being guarded by soldiers. the military said seizing power was necessary

after the government failed to act on claims of election fraud. on facebook the ruling national league for democracy party appealed to the military to free those detained and to honor november's election results which handed the n l d a landslide victory. they were the 2nd democratic elections in myanmar after a transition from decades of military rule now there are fears the country could slide back to its old ways. journalist a de groot abounds has been covering this for years as the u.n. security council gets ready to consider its response he told the w the economic sanctions are unlikely to be effective well if the past is any indication of what could happen in the future while the economic sanctions are only likely to have a significant impact on any decisions that the generals make case in point this

country during the military dictatorship that ruled the country until about 10 years ago there were crippling economic sanctions from the west and most of the population it lived in absolute poverty because of it but the generals and their cronies in the business elite were still rich now you could have targeted economic sanctions where you just pinpoint the economic interests of a few generals or many generals but some of them already facing those type of targeted sanctions including the commander in chief of the military senior general going on he's already facing the. sanctions and he still went forward with the coup on monday so again any economic sanctions are like that have little impact of the generals make they would have already maybes calculations before going forward the coup now a key player in this well that would be china they were the best friend economically of the old dictatorship that ruled this country until 10 years ago if they back up economically the new regime well that would give the generals even less incentive to reverse to reverse course. david greene about here's some more of the stories

making headlines around the world and out of control wildfire has destroyed dozens of homes close to the city of perth in western australia has told people living in the air to be prepared to fight the place themselves as it's not too dangerous for them to leave their properties. turkish president has announced that he's considering drafting a new national constitution with his party's allies is criticize the current constitution folk and taming traces of military influence $28.00 same turkey transition to a presidential system that concentrated power in the president's hands while we're conducting bragg's it checks on food and animal products at one of northern ireland's ports have been taken off duty amid concerns for their safety after graffiti appeared close to the port of land describing stuff as targets there's been an increase in tensions over recent weeks bracks it means custom checks have moved away from the land border with the republic of ireland and into northern

ireland's problems. and the coronavirus pandemic is pushing hospitals in portugal to the brink of collapse the country has the highest number of new cases perhaps of population in the world as a new variant of the virus 1st detected in the u.k. it spreads out of control the situation has become so bad of the country is now asking for urgent help from other european countries a team of doctors and equipment from germany is expected to arrive today this is the 2nd field hospital being built on this university campus and respond with a few days this time the basketball court is being converted into a temporary clinic for 150 covert patients. jawad ok it's usually runs the university's sports facilities but in recent weeks he has also been working as an emergency. sports facilities they are very flexible and it's very easy to adopt this sport soul to

a field hospital more difficult to putin cite the human resources for to run. these kind of. doctors from germany are among those preparing to work at this temporary corona hospital they are part of the medical team from the german military that is set to arrive in part about on wednesday lispunds largest hospital right across the street from the university campus has been under massive strain for days almost all of portugal's intensive care beds are occupied and there is an acute shortage of equipment the pressure on parts of god's health system seems to become unbearable lenses often have to wait for several hours in front of the hospitals before their patients can be admitted and many fear that in the coming days numbers will continue to grow. joe out ok it's getting things set up for the stuff off the makeshift clinic he had mobile homes installed for the medics to take

breaks during their long exhausting shifts the mobile home project began 2 weeks ago and is already supported by more than $200.00 volunteers and 50 vehicles. is i should i put it couldn't what the work here is pretty emotional last week a doctor knocked on my door and wanted to thank us she said she offered desperate i think in addition to a place to sleep the medical stuff sometimes need something for to them precisely liberating because each day the volunteers think that solidarity is the one positive thing to have come off the crisis and the fact that germany and other european countries are now offering help is giving an international dimension to that feeling of solidarity. well report was produced by database young philip schultz who joins us now from lisbon welcome we saw the. report talking to

professionals and volunteers is there a more general sense of crisis there in portugal at the moment yes definitely there's a place now it's dramatic many portuguese we have witnessing unitarians not in the middle of europe medical professional today it reminds me of what we saw in bagram or in northern italy at the very beginning of march when the system there could not resist the press anymore for several weeks i had seen ambulance drivers coming from all over the country to this point trying to affirm some of the most disturbing probably. lines in front. of the lenses. and the patients having to wait for hours to get treatment and what is the latest on these offers of help from germany and other countries yes there will

be true after planes landing gear in this form tomorrow one f. plane where they carry 26 medical professionals from germany among them doctors from the german military it's taken plane with a rifle and but carry medical equipment ventilators hospital beds and so on and it's urgently needed equipment because there are reports that medical products especially oxygen is running very low here in the country when i saw how people are reacting to this news is. spots of news in this disaster. yes it really is it's a big topic for together and reports are used and of course the portuguese appreciate it very much of course everybody also knows 20 medical professionals and the crisis in. the beginning but not much more

part about it has always been a very important part of any construct.