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have also spread to other countries in melbourne australia hundreds of demonstrators expressed their concern. when i. show you know why this is to let the military knows that we're not gonna stand back and let them do whatever they want. and in taiwan hundreds of members of the 1000000 mark community there also came out in force. the woman who. had more than 30 years of repression from the military government. we don't want to go back to that. we will miss you and so we hope our next generation can live in a country like taiwan where everyone enjoys civil rights. we are here today and i like it. despite efforts to silence protesters in myanmar calls for an end to the coup are still loud and clear in the country. as
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a journalist who's been covering man often many years he joins us now from kuala lumpur gave widespread cuts to the internet access some a calling it a nationwide blackout what's behind this crackdown yeah well makes it tougher for the organizers of these demonstrations to communicate with one another and strategize with one another i also makes it tougher for them to get their messages and powerful visuals out to the outside world for us to see certain the military like to clamp down on that you know the military they've got a playbook that they worked out before they went forward with the coup on monday what they're doing is seeing what the public does the reach of the play book club the play they needed up at the time and what they think. now in australian advisor to elected lady she has been detained as she has also they why are authorities tongan targeting her in a circle. so it's really not clear at this time why they're detaining shawn turn now that australian economic advisor but you're talking about particular since he's not really known by most of the people i mean am are but her other advisors many of
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whom are well known the military does not want anyone influential out there encouraging the masses to continue resisting what kind of response can we expect from the military late as today's public protests. well it really depends on how big these protests get there picking up steam do they really become something massive and also these work stoppages that are going on across the country to do those continue to grow and if the generals find that there is this economy is just really sliding down i mean it's already been battered by quoting 1000 but if they lose the ability to keep the economy running at all well then they may find themselves backed into a corner senior gentleman on the arm the commander in chief he has put his chips on this risky gamble for total power for him there is no turning back even if it means that he has to use deadly force but keep this in mind this is something we do not know does he truly command the loyalty of all the times in units across the army this is really have the loyalty of police officers across the country we do not
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know there is a chance at some point there could be some division in the ranks that's something we need to keep an eye out for now what about. here has been detained for several days now any update on her whereabouts yet her lawyer says that she is at her home and maybe dot he has not been able to talk to her but all we know is that she's basically under house arrest we have not heard from her really since monday and what came out on monday was a statement that had been prepared in advance of the coup as they went it's a case that might happen. in kuala lumpur thanks very much for the updates sure thing. let's turn to some more of the stories making headlines around the world this hour tens of thousands of farmers have blocked highways across india to protest against in the agricultural war all the blockade is the latest action more than 2 months of protests from a sort of bank camping outside delhi demonstrating against the laws that they say
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benefit big business at their expense. chad's ruling party has endorsed president idriss deby he's bid for a 6th term the former army chief has been in power since 1990 and used his term in office to change the constitution to remove limits on presidential terms chads opposition parties said they would agree on a joint candidate to run against him in the april of action. german chancellor angela merkel has vowed to provide wall support to anti-government protest is about a ruse germany would ease visa rules for persecuted dissidents and offer help to victims of torture bellerose has been gripped by months of protests stemming from a disputed presidential election and a brutal police crackdown. but to brazil now where the country's top prosecutor has opened an investigation into president diables and over his handling of the pandemic in the city of man
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a new more contagious variant of the corona virus has emerged it pushing up infections and driving hospitals to breaking point overwhelmed with coded 19 cases clinics like beds that have little oxygen to give patients. now skin cope with crowded at least according to a state government which made this video showcasing the new hospital ward with 80 fresh beds. but this is closer to the real situation i'm in now a makeshift clinic with a couple of oxygen tanks patients fighting for breath and this is worrying that things could soon get even worse. we're most afraid of running out of oxygen. we need a lot of oxygen because so many people say. things are just bad in the isolated amazon the virus the 2nd wife is also washed over brazil's
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mega-cities these graves in rio de janeiro testify to its toll with some 800000 deaths rayo is now the worst affected city in the country. it's mismanagement that play into these previous s.-a. the way the crisis at its peak was managed practically visited genocide on the city of rio de janeiro lives that could have been saved were lost and this is sara lee. of this fault the federal government's response and the country's leader gerry both. even when he was ill with the virus last july kept making supporters. spending hundreds of times his repeated d.c. information about. comparing it to the flu and promoting a cure which hasn't been proven hydroxy clerk when but now he's admitting that drug might not work. like i say the chances it works is 0 it was
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a placebo i could find to give me challenge you didn't get. many also angry at the country slow vaccination program with hundreds of millions to inoculate officials now say the older more dices of the chinese vaccine sign of back which reported only 50 percent prevention figures in its brazilian trial. let's take a look at some of the developments in the pandemic here in germany the number of new infections cape's fooling healthful thora he's registered 10 and a half 1000 new cases in the past 24 hours that's down around 2000 from the same time last week and nighttime curfew has again been imposed in havana the 1st weeks of this year have say more khurana corona virus infections in cuba than were recorded through all of 2020 and the world health organization has called on vaccine makers to dramatically boost production of w.h.o. stress that most almost 130 countries with 2 and a half 1000000000 people yet to administer a single dose. down in the bundesliga head then hosted by in munich in
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a mini blizzard would face by the elements winning one nil to go 10 points clear at the top of the table the variants had hoped to make short work of the capital club before jetting off to cutoff for the club world cup but her to were not prepared simply to roll over. berlin versus byan a match up well worth watching as hats are typically up their game against the record champions for recently rehired coach paul dart i it was a 1st home game back at the helm and his side put in another strong effort by and did win a penalty in the 11 minutes which saw robert levin dusky step up he scored all goals in this season's previous 43 victory over here to this time he was denied by whom the are shown back between the posts under the new coach and repaying the faith. however he could not prevent by in scoring 10 minutes later kingsley
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come on benefited from a hefty deflection the frenchman put in a lively performance and was rewarded with a slice of luck. after the break how to held the fort and kept counter-attacking they even hit the back of the net just before the hour mark only to have the goal ruled out for an offside position in the build up. the capital club put in a strong performance in their 2nd game under dart i but it did not yield any points by and got the win and then hurried off the pitch to catch their flight to the club world cup in qatar. it's one of the more curious viral hits of the pandemic the sea shanty the songs were typically sung by sailors to cape spirit south as they worked that race and make this thing rocketing up the charts across the world and then you found popularity is thanks largely to one young scotsman who
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decided not to stick to his day job. until a week ago you know that an evans was a postman now he's an international star. there once was a ship the sea the name of the ship was a belly of the winds blew. my boys. the scotch became famous almost overnight with this tick tock version of the new zealand sea shanty there well i'm in. it and didn't need much more than a fist and a guitar to help with followers imagine life on the high seas. sea shanties go back hundreds of years and there are some very practical reasons for their existence sighters led very physically demanding lives and hoisting sails and pulling fish lines was much easier to abate and a melody. something that helped bind the crew of
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a ship in the 19th century can also bring people closer in times of physical distancing. that song has came along and in left by the spot it sits especially on the face it's made everybody like. the old join and it gives everybody a chance of like togetherness. hit songs was so successful online that he got a surprise phone call. i was actually i was still at work and i was still of course mine when i had my 1st phone call with polio and i was walking while supposed in wales a record label about saying that i record the one and it was just absolutely crazy . and got to 3rd spot on the british single charts with the well of and he gave up his job as opposed to and now writes his own songs but what if he doesn't have much success with songwriting i've been had to go wrong in and i don't have to fall through them and they've already said they'd be happy to have me back but hopefully
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i'm just crossed that we don't need years when the timing is done well to leave. you're watching date over the news live from both of them coming up next as well stories the weekend reports stay tuned for that we'll have more headlines for you at a top of the hour until then there's always our website dot com you can follow us on social media as well as. i'm going back to racists thanks for. playing why did this person. play. there are certain players.
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playing there is a lot that can be done playing . make up your mind playing. this week on one story. doris is hoping for a vaccine. connecting people in the u.k. . the 2 beginning to take a stand with women to still be a 2nd chance citizens which puts pressure on mothers to have a male $0.06
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a. dozen difficult so again the name means the. long awaited son is a son after 4 daughters. a son and a quiet family life that was all amr 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 you saw these girls his own daughters as a bird and. marry them off he kept
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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 kyrgyz 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. supervisor is grateful for the life she leads even though things can be tough her husband had an alcohol problem and used to beat her. 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
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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. to do a march. 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. soup of a 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 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
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a good education and most importantly a happy family that's what she hopes for for her son and her daughters. in germany the number of new coronavirus cases is slowly declining but some regions are still so inundated with new debts that local trees have become completely and. there should be a moment of prayer but there's no time for that there are simply too many coffins too many bodies arriving at the crematorium in saxony. some days there are more bodies than we can actually cremate on a single day and this is a trend us for our employees also because there's no end in sight.
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we are standing in the morning hall of our crematorium. it usually accommodates 90 people for the funeral services. unfortunately we had to convert the hall into a storage space because we could no longer keep up with the death conflict if the elephant. it's a difficult situation for us. because relatives can usually say goodbye to their loved ones here. but at the moment that's not possible because the move leave. no room for a funeral service not all of the coffins represent deaths from the coronavirus but many of them are marked so. these people have to end their lives without a final hug from their loved ones luke spanish cares for the bereaved he is a pastor and do about of families sometimes only realize how dangerous the coronavirus
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can be once they've lost a loved one to it. when does your liberal me and i have contact with families who have lost a relative because of covert 19 to scorn they are in a state of shock and reconsidering things this 1st phase of mourning the so-called shock phase lasts longer for them because something inexplicable something in comprehensible has been added namely this pandemic plan to move. the pandemic is far from over. get a hold monster is worried about the future. that if i was going to assuming that the number of infections remains high it follows that the number of deaths will to be out of thirty's in the 2 and so on and that means we won't see any relief here until mid february at the earliest so the carnage follows then. it is a winter of mourning in durban as it is in many places in the world during the
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pandemic. the kingscliff acts initiative aimed to provide more countries with free i think 1000 vaccinations and one door says one of them will be enough of. a glimmer of hope in the battle against the pandemic in honduras in february the country should chill to receive its 1st shipment of vaccines against cove at 19 the initial shots will go to frontline workers the elderly over $3600.00 people are known to have died after contracting the corona virus in honduras the deputy health minister says it's unfortunate there is no international law to regulate the distribution of covert vaccines like the one made but biotech pfizer.
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by e. says the rich countries have practically monopolize the vaccine and are denying developing countries access to more vaccine doses that have access so a lot what i think are likely to see where the hunger in health ministry says some 4000000 doses are needed to immunize 20 percent of the population it's unclear whether one jurist will meet the target this year alongside the doses acquired through the kovacs initiative the government's also purchasing vaccines directly from manufacturers. but global supplies are limited and expense of. it's not my experience at the moment b.c. we have to beg internationally why because one jurist as a poor country has already used the money for other things. so we don't have money to buy vaccines from buy on tech pfizer. well there are several 100 people who are
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going to have for you sort of based on current orders placed by the government the one juror in medical association estimates that far less than 20 percent of the population will be inoculated this year and many one juror believe the government should shoulder part of the blame. we put our trusting god above all and hope for positive results despite the negative expectations of some patients. but we have. if the government acted faster we would have had vaccines here long ago. didn't have to know when they were meant to know if they were lacking good management the problem isn't a lack of effect of vaccines despite the vaccine skeptics simply simply what i personally know when i put it in a book. the vaccines can't come soon enough new infections and deaths cruise
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sharply in january in honduras. one father in the u.k. launched a not project to keep his disabled son engaged knocked down now artists from all over the world are participating. in these works of art at the result of a joint production between international artists and no one from southern england and his father. oh no it's epileptic suffers from cerebral palsy and cannot speak you know now but with the help of his father the 12 year old becomes back crying bob. he chooses the colors and paints the background then artists compete depict is. the idea for the project came about last year in lockdown as
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a way to keep you know what occupied. we went out to the carriage to be our small color and we just started enjoying it york are not. just your friends are not all going to push out just as a bit of fun to see if this will cooperate with you. and by the end of the 1st day i think you are just really involved and it just grew from there. the backgrounds are sent by post and competed by artists from all over the world who found out about it through social media works inspired by no i have already returned from space a stranger and columbia the boy who usually only gets letters from his doctors is delighted with all the mail is absolutely love being background always become his new name our constituency our iraq for his cool background all the really really loves it he loves all of the attention. at and. submission 250 of noah's works are on display the project is so popular that they father and son can hardly
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keep up with the number of backgrounds being produced a book has also come out and the works are set to be auctioned saying the money will go to the health centers where no $1.00 is treated and the project has brought both father and son even closer together. and make a big deal about it more times out you know we make a lot mass which we were getting extra. often for him i actually haven't got any choice now or that i'll go i'm gone i don't have to dream dream big all the time zones on just dream small and most of the small things. on it and. all it took was a father's love and the image a nation of a group of artists to give wings to a boy from england.
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