rulon man man has triggered a groundswell of demonstrations right across the nation. everywhere the same demand. something i want unsung suchi and president when meant to be released quickly we want all the people from the winning party the n l d to be released that's what we all want. in n.y.c. missing out of. it isn't only support for one party or even one later these demands for democracy run fun taper. i know i know we're very glad that the protests are happening in the entire country. but we will fight until we win. and there are signs the tide is turning among all thora ts to this video posted on social media appears to show a policeman shaking the hand of a protester before they open up the barricades designed to hold protesters back.

until now the protests have been largely peaceful but this video being circulated by activists shows a woman being shot by police. the doctor treating her confirms the shot had been fatal. in his 1st t.v. address to the nation and the country's new military latest sort to justify a coup repeating allegations of fraud in last year's election. we're investigating the responsible for eighty's regarding voter fraud. he promised fresh elections but gave no timeline for when they might be held to the comments have done nothing to quell the anger and defiance of these protesters he say it's too little too late. they want the army out and say compromise is no longer an option. and earlier we spoke to an activist a man. delay for security reasons he wishes to remain anonymous so we have just

called him sam he explained what he witnessed though you are today there was a large crowd or to the protester in the street and i saw. the police are using one to turn around and tear gas to disperse the crowd and right off. another group of large protester has gather to again protest. the police shot at the. largely peaceful protesters that were just. stunning to me on the streets and early on turned out of one person has died and at least 3 has been injured and emotionally for more than 100 people has been detained and arrested by the police and probably for obvious reasons i'm not only inside the protests but on right close to the actual truth but your protest and the mood

amongst people use like. we're not going to give up and i can hear people chanting in the streets very loud right now so i can definitely see that the fear is not with you know range anymore we are ready to break off from the fear and for 2 years military. to you. well now lebanon's medical system is in crisis as the country battles an increase in coded 19 infections the government has begun easing its 24 hour a day lockdown even though the number of deaths is still rising lebanon's economy is also in a freefall with more than half of its citizens now living in poverty and that's forcing many health workers to look for work abroad. every band here is full. staff working round the clock

as they risk their lives to save lives. like there patients here at refugee camp near a university hospital in beirut they too are frightened. let it get you know i see my children every day but every day i live in fear the die may transmit this virus to them i'm trying my best to protect them. the situation is getting worse every day for the last 3 weeks of what i see your words are full and we have about 20 patients and their measures here all waking crew are empty but. this is it really is very exhausting for all of stuff. for almost a month the country has been on dry 24 hour a day care few to try to tackle the spread of covert 19 but anti lock

down protests in cities like tripoli put pressure on the government to begin easing restrictions and on monday ministers began relaxing some of its lockdown measures that may help the struggling economy but it's worrying health workers the number of . infections and the community is still hard we have more than what the 1st i guess positivity and if we prematurely open the company that will lead to a reversal of the all the gains that we have. in our chief doctor no. more patients here are receiving the best care available a shortage of medicines is making the job for health professionals even tougher. the economic crisis is also forcing some to leave lebanon altogether. we can see the skilled helps workers at all of it as they are looking forward to

leave because i don't have exact numbers but at least a girl from a hopeless tejas is. 2 shows was still talk of stuff to have this hit 302252 dishes that 60 people have departed they have left which is the point she looked at. in the middle of a pandemic hospitals like this qantas afford to lose a single member of staff but with lebanon in crisis they may have no choice. the world health organization team looking into the origins of the corona virus says that its investigations had uncovered new information but not dramatically changed the picture of the outbreak the head of the mission peter pan and barak said that the team's research suggests that it was extremely unlikely the virus leaked from a chinese lab and that it most probably jumped from bats to humans via an

intermediary species the w.h.o. team also said that there was no indication of covert 19 in the chinese city of new han before december 29th tina. the. fans are here for more on this let's bring in correspondent mathias bollinger who is joining us from beijing has been following the story for us mathias how is this statement likely to be received. well it's likely to be received quite well by the chinese government because one of the. one of the theories that would have been a most harmful to the chinese government here eat about a lab accident has practically been rude to our which. the most likely theory that due to my tooth jumped from about swine into media toast to humans that was the original hypothesis. is somehow less controversial there is also

a 2nd most probable according to these experts hypothesis is that it might have been transmitted via frozen foods although it is something that the chinese government. been trying to push because it might include the possibility that the virus has been untrue introduced from abroad this is something that chinese media have been pushing the during the last few months and telling their population many people in china believe know that the virus was imported into one. w.h.o. experts have been very cautious about this and and they have not supported this but they also for north completely ruled this possibility out so. overall i think for the chinese government the mission went well now the w.h.o. is going to publish a detailed report and then people all over the world will probably dive into this report and see what's really in there what they might have missed what is not. coming out of this report what information is has not been found on the ground and

then we will probably know more that was never the expectation that this might point us to the effort to the origin of the virus directly committee has stuck with us a little bit about the level of access that that have had because it only seems media reports showing that scene having access to a lot of different sites even being transported to the luan lab. you know why was it then so difficult to come to a clear conclusion. i think that to any circumstances it would be difficult to come to a clear conclusion because one needs to find patient 0 and see how what he has been or she has been in contact and contact with and that was is already very difficult because the disease whatnot was not detected in the 1st patient but only when it was spreading moreover of course the experts are visiting one on one year after the

initial outbreak and entirely dependent on evidence that has been secured by the chinese. saeed in the early stages of the old break on records by the chinese. is situations so there is of course the chance that at the time something was overlooked and this is of course not something that they cannot find now there were dependent on. on on what the chinese side hard organized with them although they have been able to see quite a few places and to talk to a lot of people and they seem to have gathered a lot of information mathias baldinger in beijing thank you. here are some of the stories making headlines around the world german exports tumbled to 9.3 percent and $22022.00 coronavirus trade disruptions according to new government data meanwhile new lockdown measures have hampered a trade recovery that began in the 2nd half of last year in december german exports

edged up just 110th of a percent. according to hong kong has denied bail for jimmy lai the prominent newspaper publisher and government critic he faces charges under the territories new national security law lie was arrested in december and a crackdown on pro-democracy activists protesting chinese influence in hong kong. rescue efforts continue in the indian himalayas following sunday's dam collapse 26 people have been confirmed dead and some 170 more are still missing the dam was overwhelmed in a flash flood after part of a glacier broke off. 6 months have passed since belarus this presidential election triggered the biggest protest in the history of president alexander the those 26 year roll weeks of unprecedented demonstrations followed the government cracked down on the protesters thousands were jailed with hundreds claiming to have

been tortured in pa city since then the regime hasn't let up in fact it recently intensified its cracks hell did that because nick connelly has been speaking to young bella lucien's to find out how the events of last year have changed their lives. on how. much interest. they sway my brother to get to know us that of course no problems for my family then indeed for me. my mother was forced to resign from the government job she had.

to deal with a lot of problems. but we know the regime. how do we wrong. question. now the ongoing crackdown in bella ruse also continues to provoke debate and outrage in other countries including germany over the weekend the chancellor have this message for president bush and co be able to produce a fool calling on the political leadership in minsk to immediately end their repressive acts and to release a political prisoner and we call on you to respect the rights of your citizens is

a free expression of opinion in germany and the european union will continue to hold accountable all those who are responsible for the ongoing human rights violations in bella ruse as we've demonstrated with the round of e.u. sanctions. now the chancellor also announced details of the german government's so-called action plan for civil society in belarus which is aimed at actively supporting the velo received opposition support will include offering refuge to persecuted opposition activists through easier visa access germany would also offer treatment to traumatized victims of torture and there's a plan for scholarship programs that are intended to help young professionals and independent journalists in a hospice on the story she joins us now from berlin nina tell us a little bit more about this action plan and how it helps or rather it intends to help develop 1st in opposition. well germany is putting some $21000000.00 euros on the table that's according to the foreign ministry for this

action plan for civil society in belarus and the idea of course behind this plan is to step up pressure on the political leadership in minsk and to send a clear signal whose side the german government is on and that is the opposition side and so more concretely in a 1st round the government would help people get out of the country and find refuge in germany and that would concern people who are very acutely in danger and don't see a future for themselves in belarus we have not been given any more details so far by germany's foreign ministry how those people would be selected for example but those people could be politically persecuted as well as medically injured people we're hearing and germany would offer them medical treatment including professional trauma treatment for victims of torture for example the german government has also said that it would hold human rights abusers responsible what could that look like . well the german government says that it's unbearable that since the

demonstrations started some 30000 people have been arrested and there are 200 political prisoners and not a single trial has even been started against security forces and of course as we all know that you has since then agreed on 3 rounds of sanctions against belarus but this current action plan that's in the works by the german government can also be interpreted as a sign that they are conceding that these sanctions are not enough to send this clear signal and to have a real impact on the political leadership in bellary so they want to step up pressure and germany and others are working on ways to document human rights violations in a way that those would be court proof and they're looking at 2 ways of doing that one would be via the u.n. human rights commission in geneva and the other would be to commission n.g.o.s on the ground with collecting evidence and that means that in the long run they're not ruling out that there could be an international criminal court for better or worse

. in berlin thank you. so we're going to take a trip into space now where there is not one but 3 nations currently in the race to reach mars nasa is perseverance rover will arrive on the red planet in just over a week but china's mission to mars arrives tomorrow and today is the day that the all amal probe sent by the united arab emirates enters mars orbit it represents a giant leap for the country. the u.a.e. probe is called or hope it's been traveling between earth and mars for the past 6 months it enters mars orbit on tuesday. this is either going to work or it's not going to work there's nothing in between and it's not a spectrum of success now they could only wait and see if the mission goes according to plan. the miry leads the u.a.e. mars mission the 34 year old is one of 70 women on the emirates team that developed the probe the u.a.e.

government which provided $200000000.00 to launch the project wants to inspire more women to go into science. we need to have a greater risk appetite to be able to work in areas that is considered quite challenging specially when it's the transformation of your economy to be based on science and technology the emirates oil reserves are dwindling with only enough oil left for a few decades so the u.a.e. or no developing their image in the fields of science and technology this has allowed our researchers and scientists to get to a point where they are able to work with the global mars science community in a short amount of time since we started this mission about 7 years ago it's a short amount of time for any nation to enter into any scientific community and this is one of the main proponents all of our space exploration the probe will monitor weather patterns on mars and it will also help the u.a.e.

establish itself as a technology hub of the future. and we're joined now by her excellency sarah been to use a very she is minister of state for advanced technology in the united arab emirates and chair of the country's space agency thank you so much for making time to speak with you today 1st of all congratulations on making history 2nd of all i'd like to ask you how hopeful you are that mission hope succeeds especially given the complexities of mars missions and the failure rate which stands at around 60 percent. it's a pleasure to be here with you today and i'm comfortable the spacecraft as it's currently sound we've been operating it for almost 7 months now on its journey. and it's been operating according to our expectations with mind i'm comfortable due to this entire procedure being tested by the team we are awaiting now the sequence of entering orbit around mars. comfortably waiting and just the anticipating our

entry into space exploration as a nation and we know that this is the arab world's 1st interplanetary mission why is the u.a.e. going to mars now the 1st reason for us going to ours is to do our skills and skill sets and juniors and science in the emirates to design and develop complex systems and as you mentioned earlier this is a fully autonomous system very complex piece of technology that needs to operate on its own for most of its journey that has accelerated the rate of development of capabilities within the emirate for both sciences and also into new york and we're hoping that spills over to other industries and trees in the country it's also important from a scientific perspective this being the 1st satellite markets give us a better understand dynamics and climate change on a neighbor it looks somewhat like us and to get a better understanding on how planets transform and change through time i'd just

like to ask you before we go if i could get your assessment perhaps on a personal level because you know we've had much reporting about the number of women in fact that are on your team it's been reported that you know some 80 percent of your science team in fact is female do you consider yourself a role model in a country where amnesty international for example says women continue to face discrimination in law and in practice. so what we're looking at in terms of women in science in the rinse is we just go back to number of graduates the percent of graduates in stem where the course last and women so the percent of graduates of the college degree are one. is that reflected onto the entire team overall it's the spacecraft keeping this design in a very lax mission from the 34 percent women like you mentioned for science teams 80 percent women are they are based on merit based on what they contribute but for the design and development mission i myself have not faced any adversity throughout

my career abuse working at the that i should space center for from almost 12 years ago to becoming a mixer within the cabinet that also has representation in the thinking with our parliament that is today if you present needed to be women sarla marry minister of state for advanced technology in the united arab emirates thank you so much for joining us here on news and we look forward to hearing more about how your mission proceed with. you. now in tokyo 2020 news nearly 400 volunteers for the summer games have resigned following sexist remarks by tokyo's 2020 president us year alone mori now mori came under fire for disparaging remarks that he made about female board members last week the international olympic committee said that it had accepted the 83 year old's apology and considered the matter closed but following the exodus of hundreds of games

volunteers the tokyo olympic organizers now plan to meet this week to discuss the matter further. and in football news at the world cup the world club cup in qatar temperance league winners fire in the attic are through the finals after defeating african champions. of egypt 2 nil the germans in white quickly took control in the 1st half in the 78th minute forward rather than dusky scored from 10 meters to give biron in one nil a lead they continued the pressure in the 2nd half headed in a few minutes from time for the final to no score by arn now advance to the final on thursday against the grass of mexico. a koala has been rescued after causing chaos during rush hour traffic in the australian city of adelaide the marsupials attempt at crossing a 6 lane freeway resulted in

a total of 6 cars crashing no ambulance was required for the injured motorists though and the driver managed to capture the koala with a blanket and then gave it a lift in her car to the nearest wildlife rescue center. of next sunday the news that is due to be news asia with my colleague ben or gee do stay with us few can for that in the meantime there's always war on our website e.w. dot com and on social media at d w news i'm sarah kelly in berlin thanks for watching take care and see.

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