rather shaky the chinese state has a lot of money its disposal. and that's how it's expanding and asserting its status and position in the world the face of the. china's gateway to europe for feb 19th on w. . this is the w.'s a shot coming up today. called for next year's beijing winter olympics. rights groups want countries to boycott the games over china's court reprehensible human rights abuses so why isn't any country for it we asked one of those making the plea and in japan as sexism control the sea and uncertainty of the tokyo summer olympics leaves fans disappointed.

i'm british manager welcome to. join us with one year to go to the start of the winter olympics in beijing human rights organizations are calling for a diplomatic boycott of the games over china's human rights record 188 rights groups are asking world leaders to take this action on the games to court ensure they are not used to embolden the chinese government's upholding rights abuses and crackdowns on dissent so far though that call has had little impact. beijing. the aesthetic winners of the 2022 winter olympics for china another chance to showcase itself to the world after the 2008 summit games those prestige venues are now being repurposed in a slew of new winter sport facilities a skating arena. downhill skiing runs the world's longest bobsled and lose track

and a stage of the national ski jumping center despite the pandemic preparations are surging ahead in what the i.o.c. describes as almost a miracle but china's human rights record is casting a shadow over the major event activist groups a calling for boycott. if china does not stop human rights what is since in tibet and the neighboring. town i should not be able to haas this 2022 winter olympics the chinese government has drawn international condemnation for its repression of minorities in particular the mass detention of shin johns we go in so-called reeducation camps. and this past year has seen a massive crackdown on political freedoms in hong kong. but while the i.o.c. claims to be paying heed to human rights activists say it's only paying lip service

. to the commitments that the chinese government made to the i.o.c. and the other 2 members of the i.o.c. named to itself on human rights are clearly not worth the paper they were written on. china dismisses calls to boycott beijing 2022 as political gamesmanship to return to the words any attempt to interfere with and disrupt the normal preparation and holding of the olympics out of political motives is highly irresponsible just feet before they're in this war. meanwhile olympic athletes a lift to walk a fine diplomatic line we haven't been talking about anything i've seen ours like neither that situation with china usa usually we don't talk that much about. but politics will be hard to escape as china counts down the days to its 1st winter

olympics. and insistent on keeping china's human rights record in the spotlight is the world we go to congress an international organization defending the rights of people it's dubbed next year's winter olympics the genocide games treating this as the olympics have always been deplete but firsts and the upcoming winter games could be another the 1st olympics to be held in a country accused of committing genocide don't call the president of the world we go to congress and he's one of those calling for a boycott of the winter olympics a mistake a welcome now it's been dubbed the genocide games by activists yet your call to boycott them has found virtually no takers amongst countries why do you think that is. well the call actually not at the moment this call it give the market by port beijing will begin there

a little bit because the winter games of beijing is get the ball this is a jump from the international olympic committee because it will be taking belief in the country the commitment genocide began called the village and then there will be given that the general site olympics you can say because you know is that olympic committee had. a bad experience in history it is that unfortunately history beaten again after 20 years ago or this isn't nasty or the bitch 1936 same thing as was is that have been since before that we were today and china's government is going to the party commits genocide against what we were it is that you have so many if it is over and also some many rather less than the media or this is also where it was the chinese government who committed genocide then this. and continual all the big rather than it is

a big it is a wrong decision yet right now but despite all the proofs if i can call them them being in the public eye or for quite some time your call for a diplomatic boycott is not receiving enough support and the question remains why do you think that is. well you not as the most of the other fortunately is the most of the country most of the people it's fuel and that even older you know cite and that but it is the general type as they think that open. ended. the rest all are by the it better than people suffered and even chinese people suffered but unfortunately most of the country and the sport meant just the seeking both economic base of it mostly and the chinese and even some country and.

create the good they did like the chinese government it can omit sense yes that country is so and that even though it is shades to shent but it is a reality it thought so many countries in the know just usual but the. gist is that the because the mother like and like most of the men is the sick and the poor are the economics unfortunately right we leave it there with it i mean look thank you so much for joining us dole can ease our president of the world we go to congress i thank you. and while many athletes are treating china's human rights record as a norbu they have certainly spoken up over the sexism controversy in the upcoming tokyo summer olympic games last week tokyo 2020 president former prime minister yoshiro mori said that women talk for too long in meetings mores comments set off a social media frenzy nearly 400 olympic volunteers have resigned and the 83 year

old has apologized but the issue hasn't died down. i think that someone that makes comments like they need to be. or they need to have more knowledge on the things that they're talking about. so i feel like there was a really ignorant statement to me this sort of attitude and so the color thing behind the scenes all years decades he's going to say well it's not right for him to make such sexist remarks and for everyone to let it go by saying oh well he's a grandpa. not a more i would resort to experience the excitement i felt for japan's last olympics but now i wouldn't be proud to work as a volunteer. now that outrage is the latest in a series of growing problems for ghanaians as of the summer olympics the organizing committee insists the games we'll go ahead despite public support and

a continuing pandemic questions also remain over whether spectators might be limited or barred altogether a mix of uncertainties affecting enthusiasm for the games themselves. the tokyo impacts may not karate instructor a chrono. tokyo will be the 1st games to include karate in the competition and although he can't compete at qana still wants to participate. more god given then i'd be happy even if there were no spectators to be a torch relay runner for an olympics in japan is a once in a lifetime chance. if it's possible i do want to do it. more than that he says for many athletes these games will be their last. call going on in regular signage and i think there are many athletes who plan to

retire after the tokyo games when i think about that i want to see the event take place as there was in this the. for 56 year old you sheiko tanika everything hinges on whether spectators will be allowed in she and her family won tickets for the judo and hoping to attend to napa has been in or of the game since she saw her 1st live event in 1998 at the winter olympics in the garner. that had him out of the going to see the guess i thought i was struck by how many people there were saying the no i was surprised by how quiet everyone was when the races started then the noise when the race as well one was something i remember to this day where it was amazing i was struck by how different it was when you watch it live long gone are the one my stuff she doesn't expect tokyo to live up to those memories don't go there that won't be loss all of the tokyo olympics held with no fans. i have no

idea what it would be like an animal gone are they will have to see how it goes. it's not just boarding fans who are disappointed organizers have recruited some 80000 volunteers for the original dates but the delay now means many are unable to take part my to roomie is one who still intends to join in but she says she'd prefer the games to be postponed another year if possible but that's here are. my opinion it will be difficult to hold the games in july this year we will see them on a day. from us and if we have the option of postponing it again i think we should increase the regular they will she'd understand she says there's just too much at stake. we don't i don't need a month or even a good shot and hold it in the kind of situation where is now where tens of thousands of people are still infected with the virus in so many countries and i

think the world will look at us with disdain thinking we're selfish to enjoy it just by ourselves i would feel bad about it. this is a benefit of the settlement that the. but with the games having already been delayed once organizers still insist that this summer the show must go on. and the talks are lumping such a deal to get underway on the 23rd of july that's it for today there's more now website. and while talk show doubles down to open its olympics bridging is on course preparations for its winter olympics next year however a lack of real snow in the city means. feature after official we leave you with images of some of those venues right back tomorrow about.

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based vaccines the beauty is that scientists can design them on a computer in a matter of hours but people are worried about their own d.n.a. being altered italy is said to stop trials of a vaccine based on a d.n.a. fragment next month its drug regulator having approved the coated evacuees inoculation more on the safety issue when a bit 1st a little history lesson. as early as the 10th century in china secretions from smallpox past jewels were dried and rubbed into superficial scratches in the skin or inhaled this is considered the 1st inoculation using attenuated pathogens to cause a reaction by the immune system. in the 770 s. english physician edward jenner discovered that people infected with cowpox which was relatively harmless did not contract the much more deadly smallpox disease. in $1796.00 he vaccinated an 8 year old boy with pass from the milkmaids cowpox

lesions 6 weeks later the boy proved to be immutable hence the name vaccine from vaca the latin word for cow. originally vaccines were based on injecting or administering small doses of attenuated live or dead viruses into the body the immune system then attacked them and created antibodies and subsequently an immunity. with more complex viruses such as sars kovi to around about method is necessary. that's why research teams try to produce only certain fragments of one viral protein the spike protein which when safely introduced to the body would stimulate an immune response. genetically manipulated d.n.a. and r.n.a. vaccines are also being tested here the body produces

a protein by itself that triggers an immune reaction. another possibility is the viral director vaccine in this case a harmless virus is disguised as the sars kovi to virus the immune system responds and remembers the characteristics. and. side effects of vaccinations are usually limited to a bit of swelling or mild symptoms for a few days permanent vaccine damage occurs in very few were there was vaccinated and the belief that vaccinations lead to autism has been disproven by many studies . is a professor of the role of g. at the university of pisa just for the record d.n.a. vaccines get alarm bells ringing for some people just how safe are they. but actually it has been a lot of studies meanwhile and what you say it surprisingly they found very little

integration some studies just found ciro of it or slowly fog clearly found the d.n.a. in the organisms so apparently they seem to be safe but apart from the close to 0 result i mean is there is there something to be concerned about that why are you always have to keep an eye on that that's for sure and this is why it has all these safety studies after the vaccine has been rolled out is just absurd for a long long term effects if you want and you there's nothing in biology there's nothing you can explain to 100 percent but just to keep that in a perspective of vaccines like if you use a d.n.a. virus vector is in fact already you know vaccine it's just enclosed in a virus shell but from the point on going in it has entered the cell it's basically the same as a teen a vaccine and i guess we can't be 100 percent yet because they don't ready for

humans there being tested on animals it's correct that there's 2 animal of oxys are at the time. what sort of animals and what sort of results have been achieved it. well one is for horses about west nile virus and the other as for solomon it's called infectious him or to pour it in a close as virus which is a rupture virus related to rabies basically and in both cases they found them to be safe and efficient this is why they are license until you can can give them as a vet so apparently no seems sorry i was just going to say the safe and efficient and a proven quite successful why our d.n.a. vaccines lagging behind other sorts of vaccines that. i think exactly because of the concerns you just expressed and these are relaxed concerns

no doubt about this and they have to be checked on and on but safety is always doing all those clinical studies the 1st issue the 1st thing to be checked rather than efficiency that comes later on. as i said so far it seems to be ok but the other ones are most of them apart from the messenger r.n.a. vaccines are like a step which platforms all you had to do was to put your favorite science coronavirus tool and a chair on it and let it expressed by your vector a lot and then off you go so that's easier because there's always that's over already plus liason what seems on these platforms ok well let's compare the m.r.i. in a vaccines to the d.n.a. vaccines and how they both work the d.n.a. vaccine introduces genetic code of a piece of a virus like the spike protein for example into a person cells. just like an m.r.i. in a vaccine bot it then has to get into the nucleus where it's transcribed into an r.n.a.

which instructs the cell to produce the spike protein priming the immune system for the real virus so the d.n.a. has to get in through the cell nucleus to make the m.r. and why not just take the m.r.i. in a vaccine in the 1st place well that's perfectly correct the only thing is simply messenger r.n.a. vaccines are much more expensive like 10 times as much at least so it's also a question of economy and d.n.a. is just very very simple to make very cheap to produce in you to mons it is something that the people are genuinely worried about though injecting that d.n.a. into the nucleus of their cells i mean could it homme cells could it all to the genome. well it's fact if you have a vaccine you have to harm the cells to some extend because besides the expression

of the end you need to have a little interest to be set in order to allow an immune system so this is always goes hand in hand if you want and in fact what we do is we apply the d.n.a. as an electric shock so you get a little a little shock yes with the device it looks like a pistol it has certain amount of electrodes there's still it's parents how many there will be in the end and. after this little shock the d.n.a. has entered the cell not necessarily the nucleus that will be the next step and will not happen in all the cells but when cells are dividing the nucleus is the solving actually and it's in the open and in truth kind of when the cells half divided form again and then this blast with d.n.a. is ending up in the nucleus you're making it sound better and better with the electric shock and tell me how with the. videos of people this

a. case of a script to tell me how i see it a vaccine could actually deal with something like me taisha which is on everyone's minds right now i think with a d.n.a. vaccine one is as flexible as with a message army vaccine over the i don't know virus vector for example all you need is you know you sequence either you insert if it's just one mutation you can insert it like by hand and then that everybody could do that in the lab but if it's more mutations all over the gene and you just exchange the whole routine but this is basically normal lab work not much of a problem if you had it from freedom on veba a professor of neurology at the university of the said thank you very much. you know i can thank you and let's get you over to our science correspondent there at williams he's been looking into your questions on the coronavirus.

if the vaccine is not 100 percent effective can you still catch the virus after vaccination 1st of all no vaccine that we've developed for any diseases ever provided perfect protection to everyone although although a few like those for measles or for polio come very close but because every person's immune system is different in some people exposed to sars cove to the new vaccines will not stop the corona virus in its tracks trials in healthy volunteers indicate however that the candidates now being authorized for use in countries around the world are highly effective at doing so in most people it's kind of complicated but a simplified way of quantifying the efficacy demonstrated in trials would be to say that if you haven't been vaccinated you're around 9 times more likely to

contract symptoms of covert 19 after an exposure then you would be if you got the shot so it drastically reduces that possibility. but what's really interesting is that for a return to something like normal vaccines don't actually have to prevent copd 19 in every one if they can just stop the disease in many or most people and that's half the battle especially if they also limit its spread so if they keep most vaccinated people from transmitting the virus to others for every person that can't catch the virus and then subsequently give it to someone else one step closer to herd immunity as the virus finds fewer and fewer unprotected hosts that'll slow the speed of the pandemic and eventually stop it and there's another possible upside which is that even if getting a vaccine isn't an ironclad guarantee that you won't get coburn 1000 later there

are at least some indicators that if you do the vaccine could limit its severity so you might then very well have milder symptoms. keep sending your questions to our you tube channel thanks for watching stay safe and see you again sir.

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this is the line from the united nations can police violence against protesters and opponents of a military coup refused. to be a. demonstration ceased tens of thousands defy want to comment tear gas also on the program. scientists failed to uncover. weeks of searching in the chinese.

so what did they find out. recalled a previous protests in the country's recent history triggered by last summer's stole the presidential election. and the spacecraft hoax. spearheaded the 1st hour of the. planet's class. i'm the program. united nations has condemned the use of force against anti coupe road test as in manned by our security forces have turned water cannon on demonstrators and there are reports of police firing rubber bullets and live ammunition crowds have defied a ban on gatherings to stage

a 4th day of protests against last week's overthrow of the civilian government much of me and bars on the curfew but pro-democracy activists say they will fight on. that a ban on gatherings hasn't deterred them here in the capital naypyidaw police fired water cannon the protesters rallying for their freedom. to demanding a return to democracy and the release of elected leader aung sang suu kyi from naypyidaw. to mandalay thanks to the 2 young gone. a week of military rule in me and man has triggered a groundswell of demonstrations right across the nation. everywhere the same demand. 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 was thinking and i finally said enough and . it isn't only support for one party or even one later these demands for democracy run fun. look i know i know where very glad that the protests are happening in the entire country. and we will fight until we win. and there are signs the tide is turning among all foreign teas 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. 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 a tease regarding voter fraud. he promised fresh elections but gave no timeline for when they might be held i think comments have done nothing to call 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. a law is a filmmaker and activist simian mass economic capital gang god he's obscuring his face for safety reasons or welcome to d.w. what's been happening there. thank you for having me today it's tuesday and people are still going to work and then it's 8 30 pm where you can hear us courts and people banding pots and pans from their balconies from their

houses and us of course are going to see all videos movement despite of what happened today unfortunately today police. police in the country are using harsher tactics especially in mentally and if you go there using water cannons and rubber bullets to stand off with the protests and in the end though although they were in any. case 2 other teams there were some intense standoff in where police show up with water cannons and the protester responded with. their protection to take place in what would play example raincoats and bring coppers so high now people are just banging pots and pans to scare the spirits. and have you been out on the streets taking part in the demonstrations yourself. let me keep it confidential but. today because we were afraid after the crash us up

from the yesterday but also one thing that we realized is that. whatever the rules are if if the government was the rest of us he was still arrested and if he still did this ground iran has done the rest again specially in mandalay on the however again we see a lot of professors coming out more than more than the other days again and today on top of the people from the other basically we have a teacher's stuff from the civil servants from the fire brigade for example on my t.v. which is a state broadcasting t.v. and not even like their religious community you community show up in young girls so although we were a bit scared after we saw all these people coming over again this week from more of our yeah i can see that we were looking at pictures as you were speaking and that the idea that there are thousands of you out on the streets must must give you some confidence but at the same time the t.v.

pictures of the water canon and knowing that police can go to any lengths that must be very scary. yes it is scary and in the past what happened here with me you keep going to be try to a sacrifice themselves for your beliefs but i think in this generation of people to get smarter we have been encouraging people to. fight for the protest. to go to the front but also if it was risky just to you know. the take big say in their peaceful way so. right now our people all the focus is to. of course as you saw in the clips to release the people or release. people to be detained and also their main focus is to abolish the double date a pretty decent law which is police do say majorly pockets treated by the military so it's for example for us citizens whoever we vote for as long as this is the

constitution that is based on it will never be fair so if you're right the ngo if people want to abolish it of a constitution or want to reform and you want. your money for this course we thank you so much for joining us and laying that out for us i know night that i know young girl. thank you very much. now take a look at some more of the stories making news around the world will start with the indian himalayans where rescue efforts are continuing following sunday's class of collapse 26 people have been confirmed dead and about 170 are missing the dam was destroyed by flash flood after part of a glass here broke away. a court in hong kong has refused bail for publisher jimmy lie the government critic faces charges of the tariff was controversial national security law was arrested in december during a crackdown against pro-democracy activists protesting against the chinese

influence in the territory. of lebanon's medical systems in crisis at the height of the battle against covered 19 with government to started to ease its round the clock lock down even though the number of deaths is still rising the economy is in freefall with more than half the population now living in poverty and many health workers are having to work abroad. every band here is full. stone working round the clock as they risk their lives to save lives like their patients here at rafik hariri university hospital in beirut they too off right. election hope you know i see my children every day but every day i live in fear that i 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 i would always hear words are full and we have about 20 patients in the emergency room working for them and compared to. this is it really is very exhausting for all of stuff. for almost a month the country has been under a 24 hour a day caf you to try to tackle the spread of colvin 19 but anti lockdown 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 one person just positivity and if we prematurely open the company that would lead to

the reversal of the all the gains that we have. in our chief got to know. 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't see the skilled helps workers at all live it just they are looking forward to leave because i don't have exact numbers but at least they also have a hopeless tejas of situations who's still thought of stuff to have this $53.00 of the $250.00 physicians like 60 people have departed they have left which is it which is the trick of love. in the middle of a pandemic hospitals like this can't afford to lose a single member of staff. but with lebanon in crisis they may have no

choice. but team of scientists from the world health organization has ended its investigation in china into the origins of the corona virus without identifying the source head of mission and peter ben and barack are told reporters their research suggested that it most probably jumped from bats to humans into me responses it was extremely unlikely the virus leaked from a chinese alive they also said there was no indication of cover 19 in we were hungry for december 29th. the team spent several weeks inspecting sites in the city where the virus is thought to have originated from. correspondent mathias building in beijing has been following this story for us welcome it to how these law findings likely to be received. well they're likely to breeze be received very well by the chinese government i think it was very

important for them that w. h. o. has y. not completely ruled out but said that it was extremely improbable that the virus had leaked from a lab that was something that was a theory or that the chinese government had refuted furiously another finding that. the ranking of the probable causes of the virus frozen foods are ranking quite high in the 2nd place and frozen foods is is is something that the chinese government is drawing attention to because it might imply that the virus had to been imported or had to be arrived in one from somewhere outside to this market and then spread this market where the 1st big cluster appeared and this is something that the chinese government has been pushing for although the w h

o experts have said that they do not see any evidence that the virus might have come from somewhere else they are looking into this to have been reports about cases brought in the fall of 2019 but there's very little data and very w.h.o. was careful not to support this fieri rife and was the same allowed access and information it wanted. the team has been able to visit quite a number of places including this very disputed institute of viral logy of course it's one year after the 1st outbreak so what they were not doing is taking samples at the place and they were not very close to the origins they were basically asking for data and asking questions trying to trace back the earliest cases if theoretically they would find patient 0 then they would have maybe you can

read it really came from but they were not they were not expecting to find the answer in this they were trying to put together as much evidence as possible to identify further research pass they have said that they have succeeded in collecting a lot of material we don't of course know how much of it has been pre-selected of course everybody was carefully arranged in an awful mission so briefly how optimistic are experts that they viruses origins will eventually be identified. i don't think anybody would be ready to bet on anything. the thing is if each if one can get back to the very early cases public probably patient 0 maybe then there would be a great a chance.