this is d.w. news live from berlin man laws genter cuts off internet access amid protests against the military coup crowds of people took to the streets of the largest city jammed on on saturday to denounce the army's takeover riot police blocked protesters using barricades and water cannon also coming up with some countries like brazil suffering a much more than others from coronavirus we ask how much a nation's culture affects the effectiveness of its response to the pandemic. and

before they head to warmer climes and cuts up find new nick sign off with a narrow win extending their blunder slagle day we'll bring you the reaction. i'm rebecca races welcome to the program man myles military join to has cut off internet access across the country amid growing protests against this week's cooed crowds of people took to the streets of the largest city yang gone on saturday to denounce the military takeover riot police block the straits using barricades and water cannon many of the protesters will read in support of the rest of laeta songs or. resistance appears to be growing this demonstration in yangon is the 1st such mass public protest since the military took over the country on monday among the chants military dictator fail fail

democracy wind and demands for the release of elected leader aung sun suu chee authorities were not far away army chief min on lying seized power on monday alleging fraud in a november 8th election won by aung sun suu cheese and l d party the electoral commission dismissed the army's accusations. now the country's internet access has been severely reduced independent monitor net block's says meehan maher is in the midst of a 2nd nation scale internet blackout with connectivity at almost half of ordinary levels other reports say the military government ordered the shutdown of facebook and twitter claiming the spread of fake news protests against the military coup have also spread to other countries in melbourne australia hundreds of demonstrators expressed their concern. i dare show you know why says

too that the military knows that we're not gonna stand back and let them do whatever they want him. off. 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 with them thankfully we don't want to go back to that it'll be a woman a few months and so we hope in our next generation can live in a country like taiwan where everyone enjoys civil rights would think i was right 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. dave grandmamma's a journalist who's been covering them often many years he joins us now from kuala lumpur widespread cuts to the internet access some a calling it a nationwide blackouts what's behind this crackdown. yeah all 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 playbook grab the plating of that particular time or what they think to me now in australia an advisor to elected later. she has been detained as she has also they not why are authorities tongan targeting her in a circle so it's really not clear at this time why they're detaining sean turn out that australian economic advisor but you're talking about the case and she's not really known by most of the people in me out mark but her all her advisers many of whom are well known in 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 later 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's a colony 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 the name may find themselves back 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's no turning back even if it means that he has to use deadly force to keep this in mind this is something we do not know does he truly command the loyalty of all of its kinds of units across the army this is really have the loyalty of police officers across the country we do not 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 cheney who 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 have been prepared in advance of the coup as they want it's a case that might happen. 10 list a good amount in kuala lumpur thanks very much for the up to a. sure thing. turning now to some other stories making headlines around the world this hour tens of thousands of followers has blocked highways across india to protest against new agricultural laws the blockade is the latest action in more than 2 months of protests thomas has been camping outside delhi demonstrating against the moves that they say benefit big business at their expense. chad's ruling party has endorsed president interest debby's bid for

a 6th term the former army chief has been in power since 1900 and used his time in office to change the constitution to remove limits on presidential terms chad's opposition parties say they would agree on a joint candidate to run against him in the april election. german chancellor angela merkel has vowed to provide more support for anti-government protesters in bella ruse germany would ease visa rules for persecuted dissidents and offer help to victims of torture belarus has been gripped by months of protests from a disputed oldest presidential election and a brutal police crackdown. thousands of people have attended an anti-government rally in tunis police lockdown parts of the city ahead of the demonstration which is the country's largest in years to this is revolution 11 years ago sparks the arab spring but the country is now mired in political turmoil and economic decline. let's take

a look at some of the developments in the corona virus pandemic here in germany the number of new infections keeps falling health. committee is revolution 11 years ago spots the arab spring the country is now myatt in political turmoil and economic decline. let's take a look at some of the developments in the corona virus pandemic here in germany the number of new infections keeps falling health authorities registered 10 and a half 1000 new cases in the past 24 hours down to around 2000 from the same time last week italy has approved an antibody therapy developed by u.s. drug makers any merely regenerate on the treatment is aimed at patients with mild to moderate cases whose condition is at risk of worsening and the vena is relaxing some of its coronavirus rules ski resorts and some shops will be allowed to open and migrant workers from most e.u. countries will no longer be required to present negative coronavirus tests. that

19 has devastated many parts of the world with millions of people infected and more than 2000000 deaths and counting but the impact has vary considerably between countries even ones with similar resources earlier i spoke to data. about the study how low this sounds intriguing tell us more about this research. well the researchers found that i actually culture plays a very important part here that it doesn't just come down to whether a country is wealthy or whether it's population has access to medical resources so what the researchers found was that whether a culture follows the rules or doesn't plays a key role here so what they did was they broke it down even further and it said ok what we have that cultures which would be culturally tight an example would be say and or south korea where normally the population would mostly follow the rules or

cultures which would be considered culturally lu stout would be the u.k. and the united states would be 2 examples where normally rule breaking will say is a little bit more accepted within those cultures so let's hear now from a professor michel. gelfand who was in charge of this research but what we know now is that looseness can be a real liability during times of collective threat in our research published this week in the lancet planetary health we found that this culture has had 5 times the number of cases over 8 times the numbers of deaths ok as a culture plays a big but this race says it's analyzed on top until october and we know there's been a 2nd wave since then has anything changed well it certainly hasn't and we don't have to look too far rebecca and it would be here in germany which would say of the 1st wave that handled it pretty well but in the 2nd wave things haven't gone as

well as they had had the 1st time around let's hear professor gals i have to say on the topic. but in that context some countries that were doing really well when we were analyzing did it not tobar had a lot of problems there after germany austria were doing really well early on the pandemic but had large spikes in cases this fall and so it's a reminder that even cultures that lean tighter can prematurely loosen and so we need to really be thinking about as we go forward. managing the nature of this threat and tightening when we need. about how does the study explain countries that it claims might be rule breakers ordinarily but who have managed to handle the covert 19 crisis pretty well throughout well a good example would be new zealand in fact in this research they looked at you zealand you zealand has only $25.00 deaths. you know considerably less than say here in germany earlier countries but the key issue here is that communication was

very important they closed their borders very early on in the pandemic so there was no exit of movement of people in and out of the country i'm too old so people had a clear kind of goal a cure clear sight to the end of the pandemic which sort of gave people a boost in following the norms and saying ok if we follow the rules things may come to an end relatively soon proof is in the put in have i thought it is thanks very much for that. some support now in the bundesliga has then hosted by in munich despite a mini blizzard of law and what size by the elements well in winning one nil to go 10 points clear at the top of the table the variance had hoped to make short work of the capital club hurt so when not prepared to simply run. lynn versus brian a match up well worth watching is have to typically up their game against the record champions for recently rehired coach paul darvill i it was

a 1st home game back at the helm and his side put in another strong effort by and did win the 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 yosh line back between the posts under the new coach and repaying the faith. however he could not prevent by and scoring 10 minutes later kingsley commom 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 the 2nd game underdog 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. are some showbiz news now in a big loss to fans of the stage and screen oscar winning actor christopher plummer has died at the age of 91. the canadian border bomber was best known for the training captain gale tran 965 the sound of music in a career spanning more than 7 decades he enjoyed a late career a nice sound at the age of 82 he became the oldest winner of an academy award for acting taking home the ask us a best supporting actor for his role in the 2012th sell the guinness. you want to get over news here's a reminder of the top story we're following story about a 1000 people took to the streets of man was launched

a city again go on saturday to protest the military military coup earlier this week riot police blocks the streets using barricades and to comment the crowds were the largest yet to protest in column it and internet blackouts. coming up next hour of course a series looking at tamarind we're back to more news headlines at the stop all the hour stay tuned for that we'll have more headlines for you until then you can always get information on our website that is state of the dot com i'm rebecca ritter's in bergen thanks very much for watching. where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t.v.

shadow and a few newspapers with official information as a journalist i have work off the streets of many cantors and the problems are always the same forward to social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press. corruption to gun the fortress states.