the to react. well you know we have seen some civil disobedience already in myanmar mean last night we saw people banging pots and pans hanging honking their horns as a show of protest against the military coup today we had people in hospitals who were demonstrating against the doctors and medical staff demonstrating against this military takeover but the real question here is down the road are we going whether days or weeks or months ahead are we going to see some sort of mass protest mass demonstrations of people on the streets of the on god and other cities in the country i've spoken to a number of contacts in myanmar in the last couple of hours they tell me people are furious about this not entirely surprising figured something was going to come they weren't sure exactly what it was and what it was but they say they are absolutely furious the question is no one really knows is this is what's going to push people over the actually what have these mass demonstrations because if they go that route if you look at past history here the mammaries military in past years in the old

dictatorship was known for crushing these type of demonstrations with violent force and sometimes deadly force so for the public now to come out and go for this would be a big risk for them to take is there that you knew you saw somebody along the road my next question because what i was going to ask you what the playbook says about a military judge said reacting to civil disobedience because it's hard to imagine soldiers going in and beating up the hospital doctors nurses who are refusing to work. yeah it's hard to imagine that i mean one of them especially with a pandemic going on you know some are not some are refusing to work some are working but they're wearing you know ribbons to trying to show their their loyalty to the l.d.s. son suchi and keep in mind here you know i have spoken i spent years in myanmar and i've spoken to soldiers who had told me that they had voted for the end of the not as lax election in november right haven't been there since then it's hard to

understand but election 5 years ago so it's hard to know the numbers what percentage of soldiers did but there are some soldiers in the ranks who do support the n l d the question is if there was a mass demonstration orders come what happens then thank you so much for that david good about him into a little. something now to russia where security forces have arrested more than 1400 people during demonstrations against a journey of anti corruption campaign alexei navalny when is the same police used excessive force to detain peaceful protest as the kremlin says the police response was justified on tuesday i've seen if he was sentenced to 3 and a half years in prison for violating the terms of his parole western governments have condemned the ruling and called for his immediate release. just that we heart for his wife you are. the only goodbye alexei navalny could manage before heading to prison earlier he told the court the charges against him were fabricated

a way of intimidating his supporters. all of these officers and this cage it's not a show of strength it shows their weakness they are weak. and they cannot jail thousands or even millions of people. outside the cavalry arrived early. lines of riot police stood in front of the court not to keep the end but to keep his supporters out. as the day progressed police detained hundreds of these supporters would come to show their solidarity. age was no barrier this woman stood her ground in defiance. as night fell on moscow the protests room.

but so did the presence of police in riot gear and the arrests. detention is a price these protesters are willing to pay to speak their mind. we're going to go to i don't want my children to grow up in the same conditions i did aleksei is trying to do something at least you know vali has just been wrongly convicted the country will never be free if this ortiz and the courts behave like this it looks like they will soon start beating us with a baton again but we came out so that our children won't be beaten with batons in the future. soon enough the police proved him right. there but tons directed indiscriminately at. one in the crowd. in the volley supporters are taking risks in the hope the next generation won't have to. israel has vaccinated a greater proportion of its population against corona virus than any other country

but the number of new infections is still high and the cabinet is now deciding whether to open up the country on friday or extend the current lockdown again authorities say they're determined to contain the spread of the disease while immunizing as many people as possible as d.w. 10 year criminal report senior citizens are suffering amongst those suffering most . it's been a long well the only year food protests since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic last year the 88 year old israeli american has been mostly confined to have flat the internet has been her main source of contact with family and friends but now she has new hope a week ago she received her 2nd shot. at the 2nd taxi so what if you come visit me i'm very excited saying people in person. side are bad it it's really been hard and now to see people it's

a step forward but she's still very cautious a large majority of israel's most vulnerable population over 70 has received the 2nd vaccine chart a so-called green passport confirms the vaccination but for now that doesn't mean any extra privileges while it's us raf it wrecks a nation dr made headlines the country had to extend its lockdown once again to tackle a 3rd wave of the pandemic the disease rampant and there's you know we have the variants the south african variant and we have the. the sun jealous variant and the british variant which are which is the dominant currently. the disease is spreading pretty quickly. yet the vaccines are spreading quickly as well and we are racing the virus was the vaccine. at the it section near medical center

a large hospital in the center of the country doctors and nurses worked tirelessly to cope with a constant flow of patients in serious condition generally has been the deadliest month yet of the pandemic and that. all of us my colleagues doctors and nurses see a lot of cases here because they myself will invent critical cases and at you know . ages very big. a few 100 meters from the coop at 19 ward it's mostly young people waiting for their vaccination last week people over 35 called up to get their 1st job over 3000000 out of israel it's 9000000 citizens have received at least the 1st big scene do in jerusalem ruth ratus and her kagen for mary are on their way to a local shopping center what might seem ordinary has become special ruth hasn't been here since march last year it's strange very strange very strange i hope in

a couple we saw her went to the store and. take care of stuff and now. it's a whole different experience for me now i feel back to. back to the real world. amid the uncertainty she hopes that at some point she will be able to see family and friends once the effects of divac see nation drive kick in by his look at some other developments in the corona virus pandemic a new study suggests the astra zeneca vaccine could prevent people from spreading covert 19 is the 1st to show a vaccine stopping transmission the white house says the u.s. is now averaging more than 1.3 vaccinations a day and organizers of the eurovision song contest say the show cannot go ahead as normal this year some x. should still perform live in the dutch since you rotterdam in may but without an audience plant and animal species are dying out tens if not hundreds of

times faster than the average over the past 10000000 years that's according to a new u.n. report published today the culprit unsurprisingly it's mankind and the way we eat is largely to blame. stealthy and solitary she just may not be the biggest of all the big cats. but they certainly are the fastest reaching speeds of up to handed 30 kilometers per hour to catch their prey but despite their speed numbers are following the i.u.c.n. estimates that almost $7000.00 of the animals can still be found in the wild most in sub-saharan africa that's down from 100000 just over a century ago like many other animals found across the world their population is threatened. in border.

farming in agriculture are a major driver of habitat loss and a key threat to more than 85 percent of the $28000.00 species at risk of extinction that's according to a new u.n. report released wednesday together with animal welfare organization compassion in world farming and british think tank chatham house at the heart of the problem is a cheaper food paradigm say authors which aims to produce ever more food at ever lower cost. around a 3rd of land globally is currently used as a group cultural land with one 3rd of that use for crops and the remaining 2 thirds for grazing livestock. to battle biodiversity loss humans would have to lower their intake of meat reducing the need for more land and significantly cut our food waste say authors of the report changing our global food system may be an

uphill battle but seeding biodiversity is paramount say experts. on. almost. they live on. diversity without reform destruction of ecosystems and habitats won't only accelerate biodiversity loss for animals like the cheetah they authors of the report but also threaten our ability to sustain human populations. could line of sports 600 australian open players officials on support staff have been told to isolate in a quarantine hotel after hotel were tested positive for coffee at 19 this is just

days before the start of the years of 1st grand slam i would affect all 6 woman events in the city of melbourne the positive test the brakes 28 day run of 0 community transmissions and victoria state capital but doesn't yet affect the open tournament itself. this is due to be mid life from 1000 special is next i'll be back at the top of the hour good day. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts the coronavirus update nineteen's. on t w. many pushed. us right now on the board right now

climate tree different harmful stories. faces life lessons when from just one week . how much work can really get. we still have time to work. that subscribed on morning news like. wearing a mask is no big deal in asia they've been doing it long before the coronavirus pandemic. western countries have been more reluctant to adopt trace masks as a useful tool to fight the virus we don't generally recommend the wearing of masks in public but otherwise well individuals. because it has not been up to now

associated with any particular benefit. but eventually opinion changed fancy home soon masks popped up everywhere and experts change their tune people congregating often without masks of being in crowds and jumping over and of voiding not paying attention to the guidelines that we very carefully put out we're going to continue to be in a lot of trouble and there's going to be a lot of hurt if that does not stop. as more variants of the virus emerged medical masks were back on the agenda even becoming mandatory in some places but can masks really beat the virus. that's the question welcome to our coverage 900 special i want to go jones in berlin good to have you with us and just in case you're wondering why isn't she wearing a mask well the studios pretty much the only place i can take it off for now because things keep changing just like the virus itself and that also goes for the

acceptance off wearing masks and the evidence that they really help curb the spread of the virus in fact a study from germany has found that face mask could reduce the number of new code with 19 infections 20 days after their mandatory introductions anywhere from 15 to 75 percent and researchers also found. that the reduction in new cases was the most for those above 60 years of age this is the 1st study to identify causal effects in a population rather than in a clinical setting highlighting the co-relation between wearing face masks and the drop in new infections. plus they had a professor of economics at the u. has couldn't bear to university mind is the co author of this study and he joins me now good to have you with us what i noticed is that your study doesn't mention specific facemasks why not. that's true we don't mention for specific

traits marched across the regulation at that time just required to wear any mask so the bees were probably normal made over it not ok so we don't really know about the efficacy. when we take into consideration the medical masks which are now mandatory in many places or f.f.t. in moscow do you have a hunch would there be even more effective. yes of course i mean there are other studies that it's very detail which type of mask or effective and we know of course the. last mask on the 1st one so it should be to nurse because it's all you have a much better filtering yours is ok but apart from the model or the material of a face mask what other factors play a role in in making wearing a mask effect if i believe your study also points to different regions different climate. yeah well regions on climate i'm not too sure about but what

definitely matters is how good a mask things. is a menu where a beer then of course there's a lot of airflow at the edge of the mask and this can be a problem and in any case with any mask depends on the environment if you are in a. controlled media. you know will contaminate it and you end it here and then you can get infected anywhere you are in grow plants and very small growth as they enter anyway right i just had to smile because you mention to be a tz and know a few colleagues here including our science correspondent who will find it difficult to pot with the beer. but back to the a ficus e of a facemask the average in your study says it's at around 4547 percent that's a good start but it means that we also need different measures to win this fight which rules are the most important all the rules that we need in place from your

point of view. well it's definitely true master are not the only measure we should employ and there should be other rules but if i should say something about rules i mean rules are one thing but compliance to rules is a much different and when we look for example at the sudden increase of infractions before christmas then no we this cannot be related to rules because the rules didn't change at that time but we know from ability day to know that around christmas which and be understood but nevertheless around christmas mobility increased a lot so the question is how much compliance is there to rules in their private environment and then another issue so for example the mask it replays i recently went to a small enterprise for a mechanic. and everybody was without a mask i mean i was shocked i mean so masked and there were places they would all

be your measure as well exactly and you just mentioned statistics with looking as mobility before christmas i mean with what's been flooded with statistics on daily infection numbers now for almost a year now and more recently sadly we also get the daily death numbers and how helpful ah those statistics when it comes to assessing the situation right now. yeah this is a very important question the daily reported infection numbers we hear every day a half serious study script there's a systematic bias where does this bias come from well we test for different reasons one example is we test when people go to a doctor and have symptoms and then we test the individuals who had contact with the person who is infected or we test individuals that return from molly days the scientists think a problem resulting from this is when the relative importance of how many tests you

undertake because of symptoms or because of crevice or because of other reasons when this relative changes then the reported number of infections are not comparable over time and there are of course other such as ticks which are less biased when we think about the number of individuals in intensive care units i mean this is definitely very i'm biased this is a very good measure and then as you said the number of deaths you don't want to hear this but this is also an unbiased measure but unfortunately these measures are late no i mean this is not some tenuous measure of how your append any so what we should. we should not just test individuals i mean testing is are extremely important test as much as possible and we should also report why individuals were tested and if we knew for example all the positive tests of individuals that were

tested because they hatch sometimes then we should then we would count quoted 19 cases so cases of the deceased and this would be a unbiased measure of the superiority of the time to me ok so there is definitely some homework to be done certainly when it comes to effective testing just very briefly. at what point do you think can we been our masks are our work when the band i mean is over its own plans are ok if if if i had to give a rule. wait for the number of patients in the intensive care units to fold to a level that we had in spring 2000 range. then we can be more relaxed so we need to use unbiased measures and or on this return based long term rules and long term planning right that sounds like a good plan class they had a professor of economics at the one is good and we're going to visit the mines and

co-author of the study on facemasks thank you so much you're welcome. so testing and wearing face masks to reduce the number of infections that half the battle won but some cases are less easy to trace than others which brings us to one of your questions and over to our science correspondent eric williams. what do estimates now say about the percentage of infections caused by asymptomatic cases. to answer this we have to 1st look at differences and similarities in asymptomatic and priest symptomatic carriers of covert 19 now if someone is infected with the virus it might take time to develop symptoms but most people eventually do they're just priest symptomatic for a while one of the things that's made this disease so hard to combat is that unlike

for example people who got sars we think that 19 patients grow most contagious late in their incubate period so so while the virus is reproducing rapidly but before they begin to show symptoms for some reason truly asymptomatic people never develop symptoms but apparently go through a similar stage of shedding the virus what asymptomatic and precint emetic people have in common are those few days where both are carrying the virus and shedding it yet neither is showing any sign of disease so maybe we should instead ask how many people are getting covert 19 from people who aren't showing any symptoms a recent study published by c.d.c. specialists tried to answer that question the researchers had to make a couple of educated guesses but based on data from other studies they assumed that

close to a 3rd of all people who catch the virus remain truly asymptomatic and that they are around 75 percent as infectious as those with full blown disease if those baseline assumptions are correct asymptomatic people would be responsible for around a cool. there are of all covert 19 infections present in batek transmitters or thought to pass it along at even higher rates than that so so the model therefore predicts over half of all cases of covert 19 are transmitted by people who have no symptoms at the time they transmit it no wonder tracing infection chains has proven so difficult it's more support for the advice that that wearing masks in public is a good idea even if no one around you is coughing. which

brings us back to the topic of this program that was derek williams of course and he'll be back to on some more of your questions again tomorrow that's all for this edition of 19 special of but as we're all stars of often called say in these trying times and want to leave you with some images from eternal rome from the coliseum to the vatican museum which you can visit again with a face mask of course enjoy the music thanks for watching and see you soon. w.'s a talk show. strong opinions clear positions from international perspective. every week we get to the point on a current topic. that. opens

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