paired to american speeches of the past there was an element of humility there an element of needing to look at home president biden emphasize the need for us to lead not only in our new actions that it will take or read hands think it's partnerships but also by strengthening democracy at home by a better and democratic country he said reaching out to allies will we know that the trump administration did cause a lot of concern among allies here in europe so do you think the speech is going to restore trust in the u.s. this speech is a 1st step but a new relationship between europe and the united states it's absolutely important for the biden assertion to set groundwork to say look we are going to be cooperated with europe we are rejoining the parents climate change agreement we are we entered the world health organization together we're going to solve some trade challenges it's an extension of the hand but europe in many ways has been offended by the u.s. over the past 4 years and it won't be automatic this reset in transatlantic

relations but this as a 1st step forward is very important you mentioned russia what we saw that joe biden did sends a very clear warning shots in his speech to russia and at the same time we saw the e.u. foreign policy chief joe said in moscow today really struggling to take that tougher line while trying to keep dialogue open so how well did the u.s. and europe actually line up on how to approach moscow in this case. it's interests of discord right now between the u.s. approach to russia and china and the u.s. and the european approach we see a president by very clearly say that the u.s. will not tolerate election turbulence or cyber attacks or poison in russian citizens in the way we've seen in salisbury and against a volley and clear denunciation of the actions taken against of almaine at the same time you see but i will not cancel in the script not being able to make headway on

this in the court cases and attacks kind of on it continue so you see a much tougher approach from the u.s. on these issues and you are tipping more of a back seat and that there are discussions of course in brussels and do the good and there are they will continue on this question but it really the u.s. is taking a much more forceful ally this week in particular and i think we'll see a similar pattern with china when you have president biden clearly saying that the u.s. is going to continue being very tough on china and does see the need to address various threats to prosperity and security that china can pose on the other side you see it as a democrat in a recent speech say that the u.s. bet in europe would necessarily follow the u.s. on a so we do see divergencies here between the u.s. and europe approach to these big adversaries just quickly christine despite those divergences do you think that you're a will stand shoulder to shoulder with the u.s.

even if there are differing opinions. i think we're headed to a much closer transatlantic relationship or i hope that's where we're going the u.s. and europe have a very strong security partnership and there has been a commitment expressed commitment from both sides to that continuing we still need to deal the 2 percent of nato spending questions those aren't going to change but i think kind of bunch of big shifts many of the complex in the past 4 years will be solved so yes it's not immediate this speech yesterday was a 1st step but i think we're headed to closer transatlantic relations in spite of the differences of divergence as we might still have christine vezina with the german marshall fund in brussels thanks so much for joining us thank you very much . now in syria internally displaced people in the northwest of the country are facing increasingly desperate conditions there is ongoing fighting a coronavirus pandemic as

a threat and winter has brought heavy rains and bitterly cold temperatures tens of thousands of people fled to it live province about a year ago in search of safety away from the assad regime's attacks on rebel territories hundreds of makeshift camps were set up close to the border with turkey but they lack basic supplies the winter weather is making things worse and they haven't found safety either d.w. correspondent visited a family in one of the camps. to bartend frame standing among charred to ruins the reminder of the horrible night 4 weeks ago when up to 5 am just his 10 year old daughter. in the bitter cold his neighbors were trying to light a hole met furnace when the entire tent went up in flames. the fire spread very quickly there were huge flames and a motorcycle and some fuel exploded all the tents caught fire my wife and children

were trapped inside only 5 made it out of the homes of. my sister yes i mean try to save our mother and she pushed her out she told her go i'll come out right after you but yes i mean got caught inside and she died. their youngest daughter also suffered severe burns and the aid organization brought the one year old to turkey for medical treatment doctors have sent messages and videos but the family's not allowed to visit. the border with turkey is closed to syrian refugees the mother fatima can barely stand it. so long i hope so much that she'll come back healthy. but i saw the fire i fear the worst. tragedies like these happen frequently in the makeshift camps in the northern eclipse tens of thousands of people are living here in miserable

conditions they like even basic necessities latrines food heating fuel and medical care. a. constant heavy rain has now made the situation worse people here were cut off from all supplies for days many tents were destroyed age organisations have been doing their best but are totally overwhelmed the situation is made even worse by the rampant coronavirus the infection rate in egypt province has risen dramatically. going to be. we've done what we can and together with other aid organizations and the white helmets we've tried to raise awareness about the coronavirus we've handed out masks and disinfectant all about given the desperate situation it's not enough. of them. have to fight half family are simply glad that the aid organization has given them

a new tent some clothing and even a new furnace but they hardly use it despite the cold they have no money for fuel and they are terrified of using it anyway. the land they have lived my children and i have a psychological problem in the tent we are afraid to light the furnace when my husband isn't here so our children panic and start screaming when they see fire so it's very very hard for us to say. when they fled the fighting and their rates up the fatah thought they would only be here for a few days but now it's been 14 months and they are too afraid to go back home to southern eclipse because the fighting rages on. now european union leaders have been under pressure this week over the slow progress of the blocks vaccination campaign german chancellor angela merkel has defended the e.u.

strategy her government is aiming to offer everyone an initial dose by the end of september that's also when national elections will take place. more than 2000000 people in germany have now been injected with a corona virus vaccine and over 3 quarters of a 1000000 have already had their 2nd dose despite the progress there's a widespread feeling that it's not fast enough. 68 percent of those surveyed said they think the vaccine rollout has been too slow in germany that's a 16 percent increase compared with a month ago. chancellor merkel knows it too this week she called a meeting to work out how to speed things up. this at least in the past has been slower at some points but i think there were good reasons for this. death and. one of the reasons cited for slowness was that the european union countries acted together the e.u.

decided not to issue provisional vaccine approvals as happened in some other places . if i think we did the right thing it's about trust. another delaying factor was the joint e.u. approach to ordering vaccines some say attempts to push down the price meant it took longer to reach a deal. whatever the reason support for the e.u.'s common purchasing policy is dropping only 63 percent of those asked in germany said they thought it was a good idea 7 percent less than in january the government has promised all adults will be offered at least a 1st dose of vaccine before the end of september the good news is the number of people saying they intend to take up that offer is steadily rising. let's get a look on some other developments in the pandemic biotech pfizer have withdrawn a bid for emergency authorisation of their vaccine in india pfizer says it will

resubmit the bit with additional information required by indian regulators in the us daily infections fell 17 percent over the last week but the daily death toll remains high with more than 40000 virus fatalities in 2 weeks mexico has run out of vaccine doses and no new shipments are expected until mid february meanwhile the country's hospitals are at over 80 percent cap capacity and denmark says it will launch a 1st version of a coronavirus vaccination passport by the end of feb. in football liverpool have been barred from entering germany to play their champions league quarter final because of new restrictions to stop the spread of coronavirus variants the reds were scheduled to play in life say on feb 16th the german interior ministry has confirmed that federal police denied like 6 application to grant liverpool special permission to enter the country they're now exploring other options including the possibility of finding

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take up to 3 days to make its all right coming up next on news asia. as protests gained pace against the military coup in myanmar what after should the international community be backing. the w.h.o. with most a child coming right out state your. innocence

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policies and development to put the spotlight on issues that matter most hunger to security oppression marginalizing you since. i'm not has been achieved so much more needs to be john and i think people have to be at the heart of solutions my name is a massage and i work at g.w. . cut. you're watching. coming up today resistance to the military coup builds in myanmar but how hard will the people push back whether code democrats take to the streets and what numbers may determine the political future of the country. plus ongoing farmers' protests in india gaining international attention we take a closer look at the women behind the movement.

played. i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia we started the week unpacking the breaking news out of myanmar that the military had no old recent elections to seize power and detained earlier on sun suchi of the national league for democracy party we ended the week with a look at where things stand more than 100 pro-democracy officials and politicians have been rounded up facebook which is widely used in the country has been blocked and while the main political party has called for protests a few people have taken to the streets for now so far the international community's response has been tepid here's the president of the u.n. security council barbara woodward. the members of the security council expressed deep concern at the declaration of a state of emergency imposed to me and by the military on the 1st of february and

the opportunity detention of members of the government including state councilor i'm some sushi and president when mint and others they called for the immediate release of all those detained. the members of the security council emphasized the need for the continued support of the democratic transition in me and we have pulitzer prize winning journalist a man band joining us from myanmar a we just heard the comments from the un security council and the biden administration is still deciding how to respond what can the international community do and what do you think it should do. there are i think one really important thing to remember is to not repeat the mistakes of the past we had for decades and now are brought sanctions really harmed people at the grassroots level because many of the military. business is natural resources based

and they continue to have trade partners especially with china you know around the region this well and they didn't really a target the people they were where they were met properly and i think another mistake that we need to avoid is to make sure that we're not pinning all of our hopes onto one person and the leadership and potential of one person as well and instead to really solve. all of these grassroots organizers who are popping up around especially the. civil disobedience movement. and if we are going to do sanctions as an international community and to do something very specific targeted like what we're saying we're tearing. each beer company is now pulling out of its relationship with them your own little tired company is a lie. now why aren't we seeing that mean many people taking to the streets given the popularity of the national league for democracy. it's and part because of the

concern people are having for the national league for democracy and the people who've been taken into prison so based on the 2008 constitution which the military track. and which allowed. the previous elections that we have for the last 15 years to occur they're allowed to do a coup monitor various. other various and go situations and so the iraqi people really waiting to see which section of the constitution was going to be invoked and what charges were going to be levied against those with the change and from what i was hearing on when i was going out and reporting a lot of people are deeply concerned that's something they did post-coup you know would be used retroactively to charge or used use of court against the people who are currently detained including outside sochi. now why is this happening right now . yeah that's the question i think that everyone's trying to figure out

i think there's a good argument but it's convenient and we had an election lined up very. quickly with. yeah perfectly with a global pandemic and so there there's just a lot less ability for the international community to observe the election for journalists to come in now for any sort of diplomatic missions. and just even for the international community to intervene in some way or to provide support and want in some way. i think there's also arguments to be made. the military was trying to see if they like with. a won the election in large part because it was boycotted by a lot of artists especially the internet i think the team they lost. but you know they may have expected to win in 2020 given that there have been protests of

intervening years and there are people who despite liking the end of the are not particularly are not you know jubilant the leadership they shown. now is democracy these brief few years we've seen and it's decades of authoritarian rule what do you think is democracy finished. i would make the argument that we have not only transitional democracy. and i think if you are a modern but. of a certain class then you enjoyed a lot more freedoms there in the last 10 years but for people who are living in conflict zones or the right answer for you know people who are just really economically disadvantaged you know you didn't enjoy those 4 rights as a citizen and even what constitutes a service some of them are is is based on like race riots started so where you're

right instead of ideas a separate engagement. so i think we were on the path we were on the brother path before the coup so i don't think we're quite it's the shock or so yes. and i think whatever happened next if we don't keep those broader issues of mind always going to have something about it at least partially authoritarian. payment on thank you so much for joining us. farmers in india are calling for a nationwide strike this weekend after more than 2 months of protests against controversial agrarian legislation the largely peaceful demonstrations suffered a setback last week when farmers broke past police barricades and clashes broke out but that hasn't stopped the movement and as many are charging reports many of the farmers behind this campaign are women. slogans songs

of resistance rallies. the family protests. showed no signs of dying down. with the good and enthusiasm women of all ages are on the front. one of them is 58 year old minimal of the being. a farmer who has come to join the movement with an all women group from a village 2 hours away from the capital her entire family back home farms for a living she has been participating in the protests against the 3 agricultural laws passed by the government since the beginning. she says her age and the constant pain in her knees have not dampened her spirit and that women have as much right to be at the protest as men want more of what is in that women cannot do today. sorry i had every branch of the flight planes there judges and lawyers read you not see women today don't get in the milo don't women win legal cases in quotes here also

be real when they are yeah. yeah my name alone 6 is optimism is shared by far most camping out at the borders for over 2 months now. the protest has evolved and grown bigger. recently on india as a public after farmers pledged to hold a peaceful track to rally the government allowed them into the capital. my classes still interrupted in some areas. now the government has hardened its towns to worse the protesters placing heavy fortifications and barriers to contain them c. but the crowd continues just when the clashes that took place on 26 in january between groups of farmers and security forces led to the atmosphere in which it was being part of the protests may grow weaker on the contrary the protests have only strengthened when more and more women from the neighboring states all daily joining

in making their way into the capital city continue the move. for over 70 percent of rule indian working women are engaged in some kind of farming activity to make a significant contribution to in just agricultural vocals. and their participation in big numbers at these protests has strengthened the movement. like name of the community also comes from a family of farmers and says the farm bill's book passed without consulting them and will not benefit. a large group of women from her village have joined her as well to show their solidarity with the farmers cause most reliable were no planes women are as important in these protests as men we are also as in modern agriculture as them and the region where i come from women actually work how do you feel standing among. them a locum least. and gauntlets other women like them see they will not leave until the laws of permanent you should be. if this gets resolved to do. but we will

not let up until we get what sound right we wanted on empty handed then miller says her grandson has told her to come back after winning this but and she used to dumb it down to not. joining us is. delhi in addition to the women you profiled in the report we've also seen some internationally known women support these protests we have climate activists grana turnberry and also pop singer rianna does this kind of attention matter at all. when judging from what happened after the if we didn't it seems like it didn't matter after all jonathan get us we actually made quite a huge impact immediately after the treated. social media in india actually blew up especially twitter we had thousands of thousands of tweets to eating them and some of them criticizing both of them some of them appreciating them what their tweets did was big god the farmer protest issue happening in india

a sort of global attention which it perhaps had not perceived till now and not only the farm approaches but also the fact that the indian government has ordered 2 internet shutdowns one of the areas. around delhi to contain the protests immediately after they tweeted the ministry of external affairs and so issued a statement calling these tweets as a sensationalist and responsibly and we saw a lot of celebrity then minutes to come in all would to eating in one go about how india is united and how it doesn't need people from outside india comment on and so in a way did impact a lot interesting now the farm legislation has already passed so just how likely will the farmers get their way i mean politically prime minister narendra modi is in a very secure position or is he not. well in terms of what's going to happen it's hard to see the farmers refused to back down they do not want to settle on any compromise what they want which had they have been saying since the beginning as a complete repeal of these 3 laws the government do refuses to back down after my

point on the finalization with the founders they have not been able to break the deadlock but what critics have also been pointing out that this situation has also become a matter of a battle in of the office action and for the government itself and the government also not want to back down on this matter so actually element there seems to be no resolution in sight. many or chadri thank you so much for joining us. that's it for today there's always more on our website dot com forward slash asia thank you for watching have a good weekend by. 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. on t w. o many push. ups rodolph right now climate

tree different hot stories. this is one place the way from just one week. how much work can really do. we still have time to our ongoing. success. subscribed like. eating at home the new normal now for most of us around the world kids don't go to school and there are no school meals adults can't eat out because restaurants and cafes are closed that means back into the kitchen and do your own cooking a trend to the chosen interesting side effect organic and regional produce has

become even more popular. some just want to support local farmers and vendors but the main reason for a rise in organic food seems to be that most of us believe healthy food will keep us healthy too. and during a pandemic that's a pretty good incentive. hello and welcome to a new and hope. tasty addition of our night in special. and i have to say all of that looked yummy i don't know where they did their grocery shopping but if you're here in berlin you probably turn to organic food producers here in the region their business is thriving despite or because of the pandemic it's unusually quiet in the farm shop here in port of in brandenburg due to the pandemic only 3 customers have been in this morning. the people from berlin aren't coming it's very

sad that people are forced to stay home. it's called. the cafes closed no weddings or events allowed the international green week that happens in berlin every january was online this year so no catering contract the store and catering service turnover is down by 75 percent. and is a bit depressing also for colleagues who can't do their normal jobs. cut here for my son and her husband didn't have to put any of their employees on reduced hours they even hired 20 new people because they were going to produce delivery service is booming. they have 180 counties and produce milk and cheese in the farm dairy. the eco village board of the also runs a kitchen in the nearby town of vida which produces items such as chicken stock pickled beets and potato soup. the organic farms turnover has risen 50 percent

during the pandemic. of ok to be honest i'm overwhelmed right things here have undergone dramatic changes and dramatic changes are always a challenge. if you go. there also are staying. at the moment he and his team are delivering organic produce to some 3600 customers a week in brandenburg berlin and also to supermarket chains. that's a 3rd more than before covert 19 germany has seen a 20 percent rise in sales of organic goods during the pandemic. is enough as on earth as in the products demand really spiked when people were a bit panicked back in march april by that but the other issue is trust people need something that can trust in this difficult time that the organic market exudes trust with innes so it's become increasingly popular and smaller local stores have

also become more popular. many consumers are keen to support local businesses. it's a positive development it's hard work it's very challenging but it's great parts to it's great the customers are supposing us guys and a little fun my son is already thinking ahead he wants to build loyalty that will outlive the pandemic. for more i'm joined now by the diary he's the co-founder and director of lucien ridge bio a micro biome a company in the indian city of bangalore companies working on preventive health care and position medicine it's a very good to have you with us dr dhar and i'm sure you're familiar with the saying you are what you eat does this mean that all diseases perhaps even including 19 begin in the gut. well thank you thank you monica for having me on the show it's a pleasure well yes. you know our industry not got as big as you know it. and

on 70 percent of the immune system to fight in going to stink and a lot of that believe is especially the chronic diseases like you know type 2 diabetes. these human mental diseases like parkinson's and stuff like that have been shown to be linked to the got. i mean there's something called lung x. is there's something called as good brain x.'s that it's got a skin axis so yeah a lot of diseases actually. you know have a link to the dark. and could be one thing since we already know endemic you know so 19 people have seen. is that the 1st 2 whitish. infix lung group is to now is to result to present in the industry you know. interesting so

a lot of the fat in the interesting have that particular hand. might also interesting to study the shoe. and not just one thing we. lot of researchers have found. in the stool sample of people afflicted with this disease exactly and we also now because it's not just the intestine but basically the body we co-exist with millions of microorganisms partly also responsible for our digestion of course. how can we support. to fight the enemy a virus for example that enters our body. the microorganisms since we are talking about the gut microbiome and micro biome microorganisms. rule in not only. you know metabolism of who we decide is lot of vitamins in fact you're

doing which is and you don't transmit synthesised in the interest and so it's a very important. seem particularly since you have it on microorganisms and the best thing about the microbes in the gut at least is that. they can be more related and they can be more diluted by food and hence we come to the very important topic that you have put across. so when people take care of their gut. by taking care of their microorganisms that means a good microorganisms should be you know should be encouraged to grow so that microorganisms can grow then people be healthier that's that's the idea and how do we promote good bacteria good microorganisms well there are many ways. especially in the food because on this on the food. you can get you know just give us an example i mean we

all have to eat and that includes you give us the perfect meal especially now in in the times of the pandemic that that keeps us healthy and that supports our system what's the path like meal. so portrait me to my mind would have you know equal representation of fiber. because 5. people are to prove arctics group and of course a lot of if you did lose people who are sure you know thinking that you do good really help micro-organisms to cut down on meat because they'd meet leads to something called less demeo and that can cause a lot of issues have. you don't have a lot of not greens and stuff like that all of these in equal proportion. can out and help our stay healthy is it matter whether it's organic growing because people are really crazy about getting produce right now. so the organic foods are

basically food grown without you know having any. there will be in that way. but i mean if you if you eat food or too much vegetables which are grown non-organic really but but have a good proportion of you know humans and the grains and you know the nuts and only got 3 fatty acids that we can have let's say you know fish and stuff like that it should it should help so you're going to eat food is good but even if you don't have all going to food it is not going to change a lot of things so right the right balance and nurturing the good microorganisms in our body. found a director of the micro biome the company new scene in bangalore thank you so much for your time thank you thank you monica for having me. well time now for your

questions i want to derrick williams. what's the latest on whether humans can pass the virus on to their pets. there we still don't know the exact route it took through exactly which species the corona virus came from the animal world in the 1st place of course there's been a lot of worry since the beginning of the pandemic that infected people might also infect their pets proven examples of that occurring are quite rare though though it does happen and and the affected animals are also occasionally mildly symptomatic or one study indicated that kant's and ferrets are more likely to get it than dogs and in evolutionary terms ferrets are of course pretty closely related to make which seem to be more susceptible to the disease in another horrendous chapter

in this and that many of the detection of prove it 19 that further farms in europe lead to millions of names being told my last year the reason for the drastic move was the fear that populations of animals at the farms could serve as as reservoirs for sars could be too and also that packed cages of sick maine might accelerate the development of even more dangerous new variants of the disease and to prevent that scenario in the future researchers in both russia and the u.s. has been working on vaccines that could be used in mink that are all that different to some of the vaccines being developed for us if they were approved unlicensed we might even see the 1st mink being vaccinated in a month or 2 and manufacturers say they could quickly adapt their products. 4 for other domesticated animals including dogs and 10 ups so i'm guessing that's

probably won't be far behind. as we're all waiting to get vaccinated why not go for a sugary substitute in the meantime this syringe shaped cake may not protect you from coby 19 but it'll certainly sweetney a day a bakery in germany came up with the idea and it's not their 1st pandemic inspired product remember the hunt for toilet rolls last year i think about it just again. that's it thanks for watching.

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