this is news coming to you live from berlin belarus military rulers social media platforms alleging they're being used to destabilize the country following this week's truth protesters continue to take to the streets calling for the release of arrested leaders including own sons to cheap she's being accused of illegally importing walkie talkies also coming up portugal welcomes german military medics arriving to help battle the coronavirus crisis the country's health system has been overwhelmed as infections spiral out of control plus the vaccine that does more

than just protect people from cope at 19 a new study shows the office for the astra zeneca shot to make also help stop the virus from spreading. test the technology used in some coded 19 back scenes that could help millions of cancer sufferers on world cancer day we're looking at a new approach scientists believe we can come up all for weapons to fight against c.p.s. . and good to have you with us people in myanmar have been cut off from facebook what's happened instagram the military blocked the platforms alleging they were being used to destabilize the country some the disruptions come shortly after police formally charged el cid leader aung san suu kyi with breaking an import long. meanwhile u.n.

secretary general antonio terrorist has urged the world to rally to ensure that the coup fails. acts of to finds too noisy to ignore residents of young gun buying pots and honk their car horns for a 2nd night major demonstrations against the military for now have not taken place earlier in the day health workers and hospitals across myanmar wore red or black ribbons and refuse to do any non-emergency work much of the civil disobedience is being organized online. activist friends aren't sure les ye is one of the driving forces behind the calm painting. and now young people in your ma we have it up however it of i have to suggest that this is the only us the women use it this is the war because you are was that we are opposing the

military tend. to heavy military presence is on full display here in the capital naypyidaw tanks and soldiers were on patrol. the country's military chiefs appeared on state television and 11 members into has been appointed and will rule under a year long state of emergency. the whereabouts of myanmar as i've said leaders including own son suchi remains unclear several charges have been brought against her including possession of unlawful communication devices the ministry have claimed the reason for the coup was allegations of fraud in last november's elections which suit cheese national league for democracy party one members of the party have condemned the coup. the military action to take control of the country is not a good thing considering we've had democracy peace the national ceasefire agreement

. and we've had a well managed system to deal with covert 19 this isn't good ole for the citizens. despite international condemnation and open disobedience on mars ministry appears determined to undo the course of the country's past to change. they've grown a journalist who's been covering millibar for many years new joins us now from kuala lumpur dave the disrupted facebook and other social media services which people opposed to the coup were using to organize themselves how big of a blow is this for the protest i'd certainly significant blow because facebook is the king of social media in myanmar for a lot of people that's all they know when it comes to social media and when it comes to the web for that matter that's of the communicate amongst each other that's how they get campaigns going during the political season last year that's how a lot of campaigning went on because of over 19 now it will people will still find

ways to communicate obviously was not long ago there was no such thing as social media 10 years ago most people didn't even have a phone in this country and people still found a way to organize and have demonstrations but this will definitely slow things down in complicate things for them so people are largely cut off from digital communications now in myanmar what steps can we expect the military to take next. well just as i said people would find other ways to communicate keep in mind the military knows all about this and the military has an extensive network of informants inside the neighborhoods in the cities in the villages across the country these informants are as many people would call rats they're there to try to find out what people are saying to each other what they're planning to do and when they're trying to do it and then communicate that message back to their superiors people who are paying them off in the security forces so right now becomes incumbent upon the people to think really hard about who they know how well they know them and who can they really trust and there's

a lot of history here of conflict between the military and civilian population what are the chances that we'll see the burmans people rise up they even challenge military rule this time will they really rise up and take to the streets in mass numbers of demonstrations what would take them over that line that's the big question because if they did that then they risk a serious backlash from the military. in the past also does they sometimes come back with violent force and sometimes deadly force it's hard to say what line what it takes to get those people to take that risk thanks very much for this update that was journalist dave from kuala lumpur. see lucas' mother stories making headlines today canada has designated the proud boy's extremist group as a terrorist entity ottawa says the group played an important role in the deadly riot at the u.s. capitol early last month separately the u.s.

justice department charged 3 members of the problems for their involvement in the attack on the capital. syrian state media have accused israel of launching missile strikes from the disputed golan heights the briton based syrian observatory for human rights says israel targeted a military post for regime forces and pro or bahraini and volitions syria's air defenses retaliated israel has not confirmed or denied the operation. the french court says the government of president manuel mccall must take more action on climate change bottom analysts took the administration to court for not fulfilling commitments under the paris 2015 climate accord a tribunals found in their favor and gave the government 2 months to change its policy. also tools across portugal have been overwhelmed by what's become one of the world's worst coba 19 outbreaks international help is

being provided now german military medical staff have traveled to the country they've delivered much needed medicines as well as hospital beds and ventilators but most importantly they're providing trained medical personnel. the much anticipated age on arrival h. doctors and 18 medics from the german military really remain in portugal for the next 3 weeks to help get the worsening virus situation under control an advance team was already in the country last week to assess the situation now the german medical personnel will assist portuguese health care workers to treat covert 19 patients idea she is going to be with me aside i have just sent a message to my german colleagues to thank them for best support and i've already received a reply from then they wrote that's what friends are for especially i'm afraid but he's settling for me and help us desperately need it intensive care units across the country are completely full portuguese media reporting that patients are spending hours waiting and violence is before they can be admitted to hospital many

portugese were relieved to hear it was coming from abroad situation is really bad so every little bit. it could be no way of course it's just a drop in the ocean at the moment we definitely need more help but it shows how good it is to be part of the euro. by portugal has been shut down since mid january nevertheless infection rates remain high many experts believe that the rep and spread of new virus mutations are to blame the arrival of the german medical team is a big topic in the portuguese public many commentators emphasise that germany is the 1st country to send a further delivery off medical supplies from germany is expected to arrive soon and other european countries including austrians. they have also promised to provide support. meanwhile all around the world people are pinning their hopes on vaccines

as a way of defeating the virus well now a new study suggests the oxford astra zeneca shot could indeed prevent people from spreading covert 19 research but oxford university is the 1st to show a vaccine stopping the corona virus being passed on as well as protecting against the illness university says the vaccine could cut transmission of the virus by 2 thirds scientists also found that a single shot can offer a high level of protection for up to 12 weeks or 10000000 britons have already been vaccinated british health minister must hand caulk had this to say about the new study at this. report is a very good news at 8 'd backs the strategy that we've taken and it shows the world that the oxford vaccine works effectively and the really good news embedded in it is that it not just reduces hospitalizations that we know people in this part

of the trial who hospitalized. do with covais that after getting your job but also it reduces the number of people who have actual even a symptomatically by around 2 thirds. see some of the other developments in the pandemic the world economic forum has again postponed its 2021 meeting due to the pandemic the business summit plans to meet in singapore this august instead of the swiss resort of balls a t.v. ad by airline ryanair has been banned as irresponsible by the u.k. advertising standards agency it says the slogan jab and go could lead people to corona virus restrictions and as we reported u.k. researchers say one dose of the pfizer biotech back same gives about 90 percent protection from govan 1000 after 21 days their findings or based on an analysis of

israel's vaccination program. well the technology being used in the scene from. her and others also promises to be a powerful new weapon in the fight against another disease cancer as today marks world cancer day we take a closer look at the new approach that uses an anti cancer treatment tailor made for each patient and uses so called memory r.n.a. could be a game changer for cancer sufferers. a customized vaccine created for an individual patients particular tumor fast and affective and with few side effects that's the promise of a new m.r. and a technology in the fight against cancer. malignant tumors can slip past the body's defenses for years with camouflage so clever that the immune system doesn't notice the invader or it is too weak to keep the cancer cells at bay allowing the tumor to grow on the hindered. typical treatment involves surgery followed by chemotherapy

to destroy any leftover cells it continues to fix in a doctor can't change the biology of this disease we know that latent tumor cells can survive inside the body for a long time and they can wake up and start to divide and proliferate again some of them from the disease. the messenger r.n.a. vaccine it's a totally different approach it's injected into muscle tissue where it provides the blueprint for a specific tumor protein once it has the blueprint the body then produces its own tumor modules the immune system recognizes them as foreign and produces anti-body. the body is now armed with knowledge of its enemy but. it's basically reversing the production process instead of making it in a laboratory with all the technical procedures it starts out inside the patient's

body which ultimately produces it on its own to to. each of the immune system what it needs to know. to not. be m r n a vaccine and this study is made by german pharma company beyond tech who's coded $1000.00 vaccine is based on the same technology cure of ak and the us based moderna are also using m.r. in a technology in the fight against cancer as well as covert the goal is to give cancer sufferers personalized vaccinations in the near future. and let's unite and this is a real milestone we're no longer talking about months or years until it's ready just weeks well its significance and potential efficacy have opened up a whole new playing field and gunslingers. much work remains to be done but oncologists worldwide are confident that the new technology will become a powerful weapon in the fight against cancer of more on the future of cancer

treatment and the challenges posed by the pandemic we have one of the organizers of world cancer day on call a just cruise he joins us from mumbai thanks for being with us dr de cruz 1st of all how promising do you think i am or any technology is as a treatment for cancer. it's something that's evolving it's one of the exciting new news there's a lot of that needs to be done there is scientific basis in these vaccines and martinique technology it's not a new area of my exposure is because i'm a surgical oncologist but having been in the field for long saw a lot of the progress it has and shouldn't in the years to come now some say that cancer research has been neglected because of the focus on covert 19 what's your take has cancer research suffered or benefited from the pandemic on the whole.

covert 19 has beena say backtalk answer is a holy red there it is screening programs that was stopped whether it was fissions coming into the hospital and probably the see the true impact of that in the in the us to come that it's on cancer research a lot of it was put back on hold but we have bouncing back and be a getting there to me i would see it as a plus and minus as when. cancer research now that covert 19 is the number one priority a lot of arms a lot of their foot diverted towards. soit will have some impact on the cancer research but then there's also the positive of the silver lining that they will be across effect what we've learned from what we've seen that. has done it's exposed to healthcare systems our ability to respond to these times of

crisis we know one from the vaccine of call the would help to delivery systems that could be positive. impact on. controlling cancer. rezai sleeve but that is going to impact on research i think the research will run battle to what's being done to. the pandemic has led many people to skip a medical check ups as you're saying of stern also to stop exercising stop eating properly are you worried that the pandemic has created a ticking time bomb of other health risks not specifically related to cover 19. i guess there's some truth and more to sit there is a nice lancet publication that says because of ovid they will be diagnosis and the implications the ramifications will run for the next couple of years when

people don't present glee it will have compromised outcomes it's also true of their. lack of exercise maybe 40 eating when they were locked up or told would have the implications on the non-communicable diseases but i see the latter as less of a problem because the world over we've come to grips with covert 19 we didn't know what really hit us lack of knowledge but now as we have getting to understand the facts people are coming back to their normal routine and they don't think of 56 month change in lifestyle he's going to have such and be busted in effect on any of the non-communicable diseases but he says people just aren't in you in this kind of the way and they will live state then probably in the us to come they would be but i really don't see that as so much of a problem in the long other non-communicable diseases such as the cruise thank you

very much for talking with us dr cruisers on color just president of the union for international cancer control thanks a lot thank you very much. in other news the biden administration says it has extended its new start nuclear arms treaty with russia until 2026 that's after russian president vladimir putin signed off on the extension last week a new start caps the number of warheads the powers can deploy it's the last bilateral arms control treaty still in force between the 2 countries it's. u.s. vice president camila harris has formed in pete boots a check to serve as u.s. transport secretary as husband chasten participated in the ceremony. holding the bible book to tick is a former democratic presidential contender and the 1st openly gay man to serve in

a u.s. captain position. netflix is dominating the golden globe awards with a whopping 22 nominations its film made in a march to hollywood's golden age is leading the pack with 6 nominations 3 out of the 5 best director nominees are women including regina king for one night in miami by rival streaming service amazon. it's been 6 months now since a massive explosion ripped through the city of beirut in lebanon on the blast went off in a warehouse in the city's port when fireworks exploded and in turn ignited thousands of tons of highly flammable ammonium nitrate along with the coronavirus pandemic the explosion has sharpened the country's economic crisis pushing many more people into poverty. let's cross over to beirut now and gets more insight from di that he is basile a really awful it's been half a year now since that horrible explosion how is beirut recovering.

it's accompanying a 6 month. many 1st of all investigation. some . of the. victims operate the investigation look at the investigation. and the side. all the suspects now. so i'll do the economy. economy and state so we can say that. even before the accident in the midst of a political economic crisis the value of the currency since then has plummeted what effect is all this having on the people. the church effect would have swack we

witnessed last week one of the major city and not that i know one the professor. that it was so valuable in. 200 i don't 200 from 4 sites the security forces and the justice themselves so i got to the same time we 2 days ago but by the facts you mentioned. i think that lebanon is. just a preview of what's coming next the economy steaua with continuing stick to take hold and look at what they know it could be my source one of the sources it seems the got into situation that it may. make you worse especially all the. institution economic situations i'll close with i don't hop in the end i'll drop this now looking for the bank i don't 7555 before the going to citizens

are on their own to put all below the line to line up in this government 75 percent ok anybody's on the. us so mass poverty a lot of frustration civil unrest on the streets and now the coronavirus pandemic how is lebanon coping with. don't look down on. the committee the committee. yesterday but perhaps if we. don't. see that we might be somehow difficult situation i told one of the men that meant juggle to me that they can you don't need infighting but only if i just told me on the phone call. is so so so sad. yeah but it's.

all. right. if. that audience. which it's. ok. because. they've got. also thank you very much for bringing us up to date there that was. a repeat in beirut. the government of ukraine has shut down several pro russian television channels allegedly financed by an oligarch with personal ties to blood of a putin ukrainian president a lot of mayors linsky justify the ban as necessary to fight kremlin propaganda that undermines his country's path to the e.u. but critics accuse him of stifling freedom of speech. independence objectivity doubts would journalists at 3 ukrainian news channel say it's under

threat $12.00 new sworn in seek are no longer in ukrainian t.v. the broadcaster say it's a start of an era of lies. but in those 2 days $34.00 channels of stop broadcasting what does it mean for free speech and what does it mean for ukrainians give us a grain. since the government shut down the channels have been blasting president vladimir selenski the opposition session ukrainian leaders scared the reporting is damaging his government in the opinion polls. some ukrainian journalist say did channels have a point they believe the government's decision threatens free expression in a fragile democracy. against the president not being said here where the government of this country decides to impose sanctions against a media company based on a political consensus. but for others the channels pose a threat to the country's security they say the broadcasters provide a voice to ukraine's enemies. the government alleges that

a close friend of lot of ukrainian joke is hiding his ownership of the television stations and that he's using them to broadcast views that undermine the country and its fight with russia over crimea in eastern ukraine. after receiving enough evidence oaf those channels being financed by russian forces by russian authorities the national security council crane adopted these very important decisions for now the channels are still broadcasting on the internet but that could change ukraine's government is asking you to take them offline you can. and finally the 10 young panda cubs have made their public debut in southwest china in celebration of the upcoming lunar new year the cubs made their appearance in a playground adorned with traditional decorations at the china conservation and research center for the giant panda they range in age from 4 to 6 months and weigh

about 10 kilos each china prides itself on its efforts to preserve pandas which are a symbol of the nation and part of its cultural diplomacy. watching news from berlin coming up next. with tim sebastian i'm sorry march of thanks rick.

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