the bad. place . d.w. lose a lot from broadway and myanmar's military rulers to lock social media platforms alleging that they are being abused people's lives the country but following this week's cool protesters continue to take to the streets calling for the use of the rest of the leaders on the songs sheet she's being accused of illegally importing walkie talkie. also coming up the technology used to get some covert 19 vaccines that could help millions of cancer sufferers a world cancer day will have

a new approach that scientists will believe will become a towel for weapon in the fight against the disease and ukraine shuts down several t.v. channels all budget be financed by 8 o'clock the post ties from the kremlin the country's president says the closures are necessary to limit russian propaganda to some journalists see it as that in this attack on freedom of speech cops care just sounds unwanted daughters under the country's patriarch told society many wives are forced to keep giving birth until they produce a boy you meet a woman abandoned by her husband over his desire for a soft. welcome to the program myanmar's military has cut the country off from facebook just days after seizing control it comes after people flocked to the. social media platform

to voice opposition to the coup which ousted elected leader aung sang suu kyi on monday among those opposing the power grab are medical staff who say they refused to work for the military government the putsch has also sparked international condemnation including from the united nations. and this video of anti crew protesters in mandalay on thursday was shed on social media it could be one of the last for a while. resistance to the coup had been surging on facebook with calls for civil disobedience the platform was also often used by the now ousted government to make announcements but the new military government's move to block facebook apps including instagram and whatsapp has left many in the dark. yet we have no access to any news no news about mother and son searching i feel so sad it gives me

a pain in my chest. blocking facebook means that the freedom of young people is restricted this military coup has started costing us our jobs and our education is now in trouble. with soldiers back on the streets of major cities most of the protests have been under the cover of darkness residents and young gone bank parts of the night and honked. among those who have openly shown opposition a medical personnel who have declared they won't work for the military government. i mean you know this government was not elected and verted for by us we don't accept them work under their command so we have stopped providing services a government hospital is instead we will consider providing free medical services through external doctors and in other ways. it comes after the detainment of unsound suchi and all the civilian leaders on monday plunging the southeast asian

nation under military rule suchi who has not been seen in public since she was detained is being charged for illegally importing walkie talkies the military has justified its crew by alleging widespread virtue fraud during november's election which saw suchi win by a landslide. and we are joined now by david gergen obama's journalist who has been covering me on maher for many years he joins us now from kuala lumpur dave we understand that the junta has now been off facebook or many people were expressing opposition to the coup organizing civil disobedience therefore what impact is this likely to have on efforts to resist. it's certainly a blow because facebook is king of social media in myanmar a lot of people only thing that you know when it comes to social media the only thing they know when it comes to the web in fact just last year during the campaign season a lot of the political campaigning because of course in 1000 happened on facebook

now a lot of people would say well you know you can get virtual private networks weekends to try to get around this block but a quality d.p.m. the cost of that is beyond the means of a lot of people in myanmar. ok so so then what happens next i mean are there other steps that the country is also taking that the security forces are taking to counter opposition it well 1st of obviously people will find other means of my will is could slow things down but look just 10 years ago most of the people most countries didn't even have a phone and of course we know in the past that there were massive demonstrations the security systems those security forces they have an extensive network of informants or some people would call rats there are neighborhoods across the cities there or in the villages across the country and they lean on these informants to provide information on what people are planning what people are saying what they plan to do and when they plan to do it so it becomes extremely important for the people of myanmar to think really hard about who they know how well they know them

and who can they really trust wow the those are really a lot of factors to consider but we know that some people are deciding to speak out to step out for example today on the streets mandalay we the country's 2nd biggest city at least 3 people were arrested for taking part in demonstrations are further demonstrations expected. well you'll certainly continue to see the pot so you can bang at night behind you but aren't the ribbon wearing campaign but are we going to see a real organized mass mobilization massive numbers thousands of people marching on the streets of yangon mandalay or other cities in the country that would be a huge risk for these people to take it would send a powerful message around the world a message that to the coup leaders the military leaders would not want to see out there the risk is that they might respond violently the military might respond with

deadly force as happened in years past. from call of poor thank you so much shipping and here is a quick check of some other stories making headlines around the world canada has designated the proud boy's extremist group as a terrorist entity ottawas says that the group played an important role in the deadly riot at the u.s. capitol earlier last month separately u.s. justice department charged 3 members of the organization for their involvement in the attack on the capital. syrian state media has accused israel of launching missile strikes from the disputed golan heights the britain based syrian observatory for human rights says that israel targeted a military post for regime forces and pro iraqi and militias syria's air defenses retaliated israel has not confirmed or denied the operation. the pollies have

staged a nationwide strike to protest the dissolution of parliament and the $77.00 protesters including the foreign minister were arrested in the capital come on do the parliament was dissolved on december 20th at the direction of the prime minister and new elections were announced for april and may. well i to bring you now some breaking news the international criminal court has convicted a former ugandan rebel commander of war crimes justices in the hague found that dominick on when ordered the killings and abductions of civilians including children he was a commander in the lord's resistance army he has also been convicted of systematic sexual crimes and forced marriages he will be sentenced later and could be imprisoned for life as many find. huge german military medical staff have traveled to portugal and a bit to help the country cope with the coronavirus pandemic

a team of 26 doctors and nurses arrived on wednesday along with medical equipment they will now treat critically ill covert 19 patients logical currently has one of europe's highest infection rates with intensive care units across the country clearly fall portuguese media are reporting that patients are spending hours waiting in ambulances before they can even be admitted to hospitals. and for more let's bring in petro seema saver all of just with the university of lisbon welcome to the program and thank you so much for joining us of when we look at the 1st wave of the pandemic portugal was handling it relatively well now it's among the hardest hit in the world what happened. well what happened was that we relaxed. measurement at the containment so there were no clear official measures being given before christmas and that led to the last use of mosques and

last distancing between know that you would increase exponentially the number of future actions but that's what happened was very simple so just a relaxation of the measures at the stage where you were. high level off infections per day you know i did all 3000 new infections birthday ok so where does that leave things now because you know it seems as if the situation has now spiraled out of control why is that. it spiral out of control because as i said off there access enough measures 3 christmas and doing 3 since the new year and now it's under control in the sense that we had the state as now imposed a lockdown and we know that any way in the world then when you start to logged on after you read the new infection start to decrease and that's exactly what is

happening so we expect in 3 or 4 weeks to be in a comfortable position and the number of people that going to hospital and and anything you can just care like to live before you hon so we expect in the next week or so still perhaps the number of people going to hospital to increase but then we expect the natural decrease on those numbers and. sorry i didn't want to interrupt you there but i just wanted to ask you i mean so it seems as if you're saying that there is indeed a light at the end of the tunnel in terms of getting there now within the within the next weeks how critical for example are additional measures are for example outside help which we have heard as in sense of the country. help is very important as you said in india. and yet we have it or not help germany and friends helping as well and tell when men are to drive the private sector.

this is like a deer situation that we have now fortunately i think it's just going to be temporarily now the main lesson is that we cannot after we control these you cannot relax completely so it's very important that society keeps using the decency measures and the mosque and get to be very clear instructions from the fishermen situations on what to do to release the lock down that is very important because all over europe we have at this stage of the hospital and then agree to 16 initial we'd also huge area that are most more transmissible so. at the same time that vaccinating which is a solution try to spend any crease should be very very careful because the critical point. of our ologists at the university of lisbon thank you for joining. you all

come. well meanwhile all around the world people are pinning their hopes on vaccines as a way of defeating the virus now a new study suggests that the oxford astra zeneca shot could indeed prevent people from spreading cope with 19 the research by oxford university is the 1st to show a vaccine stopping the corona virus being passed on as well as protecting against illness the university says that the vaccine could cut transmission of the virus by 2 third's scientists also found that a single shot can offer a high level of protection for up to 12 weeks 10000000 britons have already been vaccinated the british health minister matt hancock had this to say about the new study. this. report is a very good news it's '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 there were no people in this part of the trial who were hospitalized. with covais that after getting york's job but also it reduces the number of people who have carried it at all even a symptomatically by around 2 thirds. now the technology being used in that vaccine and others also promises to become a powerful new weapon in the fight against a mother 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 it uses so called memory r.n.a. and that could be a game changer for cancer sufferers. a customized vaccine created for an individual patients particular tumor fast effective 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 before 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 left over cells companies to fix in a dr cat 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 if you know for me m z. the messenger r.n.a. vaccine is 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 the knowledge of its enemy wasn't 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 teach the immune says. what it needs to know. is. b.m.r. in a vaccine and the study is made by german pharma company beyond tech whose coated $1000.00 vaccine is based on the same technology cure a vaccine 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. this is a real milestone we're no longer talking about months or years until it's ready just

weeks its significance and potential efficacy have opened up a whole new playing field and. 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. and let's get more now on the future of cancer treatment we are joined by professor helmut sala from the german cancer consortium thank you so much for joining us to share your expertise we understand that you have developed therapies that use the body's immune system to treat cancer how optimistic are you about the m r n a technology basically one has to say that this is very exciting and impressive we have the pleasure to watch in these days and maori what's unusual liza disruptive technology if we talk about infectious diseases in.

this interrogation is a bit different because the difference is infection made there from the outside the body. responds in the cells that you arrive from the body and it's much harder for the immune system. in cases of cancer at sea nation m.r. i mean technology changes their way of publication the year to see made against cancer is an old one it's kind of the bill that is jaded about the concept is there are quite for many days among us you know. that really changed the situation in cancer generally remains to be easy rich really interesting stuff and i'd like to to dig down a little bit deeper with you because we understand that the vaccines against covert are the fastest developed ever and that you're part of a team that's developed and is currently evaluating

a new vaccine so you know based on this work that you're doing what do you see as the lessons that can be applied and learned when it comes to cancer research and i think the most important lesson here is how can we be if we all want. it is just the president we have our teens available within one year while it usually takes many years even decades until you drop it's become available and i think if you learn from the coding situation there so far in germany $50000.00 people have just dramatic but if you talk about cancer only alone with lung cancer also if you get 1000 patients per year so we need to be quicker in hansard as well and if we learn that it is possible what do you call in the coincidence this needs to be transferred to a new development and hence a treatment in general ok so we have to be quicker when it comes to cancer but you know you have some people saying they cancer research has in fact been suffering

has been neglected because of the increased focus on covert 19 including deep funding cuts and i'm curious as an insider what your take might be has cancer research suffered. i think this is saying too much i mean of course i mean the all joining forces to fight this problem then you can also believe that you are and so i mean i would just in trying to contribute. improve on this exchange nevertheless cancer research is going on and even if it is hard for example who patients and even if cancer treatment per se suffers from the from the grown up i mean you know we i think in general it is over stated that pencil research has a dramatic fall and i'm very confident. professor helmut salah from the german cancer consortium thank you so much. my permission the

government of ukraine has shut down several pro russian television channels allegedly financed by and all the dark with personal ties to vladimir putin ukrainian president followed amir selenski justified the ban as necessary to fight kremlin pop propaganda that undermines his country's path to the e.u. critics accuse him of stifling freedom of speech. independence objectivity that's what journalists at 3 ukrainian news channel say it's under threat one went to news one in seek are no longer in ukrainian t.v. the broadcaster say it's a start of an era of light as to who would get but it will today $34.00 channels of stop broadcasting what does it mean for free speech and what does it mean for ukrainians of us to pray. 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 but of the year. were 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 or cheap insurance that's the last one for a month but for others the channels pose a threat to the country's security they say the broadcasters provide a voice to you chremes enemies. the government alleges that a close friend of lot of your putin ukrainian viktor met the 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 because after receiving enough the evidence of 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 know when you come. now to kurdistan where patriarchical tradition still determines life for many women there are pressured to provide their husbands sons to carry on the family name and are forced to keep having children until they have a long for boy our reporter i'm only sure when went to meet a woman whose marriage cracked under that strain. the name means the long awaited son is a son after 4 daughters. a son and a quiet family life that was all aamer yusupov all wanted her husband left her almost 5 years ago when she was pregnant with her 5th child the ultrasound scan showed it

was going to be another girl to everyone's surprise she ended up giving birth to a boy. but her husband was already gone in kyrgyzstan having a son to carry on the family name is still an important tradition even during her 1st pregnancy with i get him who's 11 years old now husband pressured her to get an abortion he saw these girls his own daughters as a burden to. marry them off he kept saying girls aren't people they just marry into other families anyway i need an heir i need a son that's what he said and that's why we separated. along with her 5 children and her parents. lives on the outskirts of the care gets capital she can't work at the moment because she's taking care of her mother who

has cancer the family lives off benefits of around 130 euros a month having 2 cows and a few chickens helps. is grateful for the life she leads even though things can be tough her husband had an alcohol problem and used to beat her. he drank all the time every day when i lived with my husband i was always afraid when evening came i thought now he'll come home drunk and it'll all start over again i lived with those thoughts every day now i don't have that at night the kids and i calmly go to sleep and in the morning we get. women and men have the same legal rights in kyrgyzstan they have since the soviet era but patriarchal tradition still determines life here for many even in the capital women usually keep having children until they give birth to at least one son and girls

sometimes are given 1st names like enough names that show they were on wanted. if they didn't give birth to a boy women feel somehow inadequate even before they start their own families women see the way their parents treat their brothers and how they react to the birth of a son that makes women feel that it's absolutely necessary for them to have a son of their own. knows that pressure all too well she accepts the 10 years with her husband as part of her fate as what god gave her but she says her family is much happier without him. i want my daughters to grow up to be conscientious and dutiful and i want their husbands to be dutiful to i don't want my daughters to go through what i went through i want them to have a happier life. says she loves all her children equally

a good education and most importantly a happy family that's what she hopes for for her son and her daughters. what do you have you know why from our land up next it is business news with my colleagues i'll be back down at the top of the hour until then you can get more now website stuff let's check.

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