the european parliament is a bite it's about the situation in myanmar just this week and just 15 minutes ago i voted on our joint resolution on the situation in myanmar and it's clear that that you must act and support the protesters that are demanding that the democrat is ation process in the country continues and that the military returns the power and the european parliament is very clear we're calling for support to the u.n. to get access to the country and of course the e.u. is not a big diplomatic power but we are an academic power where the 3rd largest trading partner of myanmar we need to act on sanctions against the military and that are responsible for the coup and we need to suspend the preferred access trade access to the european single market to good economic pressure and to support the demonstrations in the country i mean peace fenya. i mean ited states

prosecutors in the impeachment trial of donald trump have revealed new video footage showing the violent mob breaking into the u.s. capitol building the former president is accused of inciting the riot in january in which 5 people died. on the 2nd day of the impeachment trial democratic prosecutors wasted little time to make their case. they used security camera footage to reconstruct in painstaking detail how the rioters worked their way into the inner sanctum of u.s. democracy coming within touching distance of the politicians inside. as the riders reached the top of the stairs they were within 100 feet of where the vice president was sheltering with his family and they were just a feet away from one of the doors to this chamber where many of you remained at that time he concedes vice president pence and his family quickly moved down the

stairs the vice president turns around briefly as he's headed down. other footage leaves little doubt about the mob's violent intent. what recordings of police radio calls show how the embattled officers lost control of the situation. we were doing there. where are. you great near 000000000 well what not outright fear no you're up there. were 33rd of your. reviews are when you walk up when i was growing up were. the rioters did finally manage to breach the senate floor prosecutors say they acted at donald trump's behest was this was not

a coincidence none of this was donald trump over many months cultivated violence praised it and then when he saw the violence his supporters were capable of he channeled it to his big wild historic event democrats hope these dramatic images will convince some of their republican counterparts to vote to convict the former president. with millions of americans watching the televised proceedings the intensity of the prosecutor's arguments has reverberated far beyond the senate chamber. i merely 2000000 venezuelans have fled to neighboring colombia to escape food shortages and hyperinflation this week colombia's government allowed them to stay for 10 years but it's becoming harder to seek refuge that they cause more duros authoritarian regime has sealed venezuela's borders claiming the pandemic the colombian city of kuta was once the busiest

crossing point between the 2 countries the w's jonah ramirez has been talking to some of the people who are now trying to cross the border. this is just one of the illegal trails that connects venezuela to colombia with the border closed due to the pandemic it's the only way to cross a road in the frontier city of. there are more than 120 dirt roads like this it's where venezuelans try to escape poverty. others like 81 year old. go back and forth between the 2 countries several times a week illegally so he is colombian but his family lives in venezuela today the police don't let him through. my wife is in venezuela because her mother is very ill. so i have to go from

here to there even though it's illegal because family is family and to bring the grandchildren something to eat. venezuelan migrants in colombia get help from the venezuelans and. established 6 years ago every day it offers free meals volunteers do the best they can sometimes they have enough only for a bowl of porridge but the migrants are grateful for the nourishment. venezuelans arrive survivors of war even though there is no war on many of them have high rates of malnutrition children who have not even received their 1st vaccination. here we help them but the situation is getting worse every day. do not stop migrants the organization of american states.

20211.4000000 venezuelans will enter colombia most of them into reach the colombian capital. has already embarked on the journey. they are traveling with the 7 month old baby girl. living in poverty in venezuela. sleeping. tries to sleep sometimes eat sometimes you don't but we were living under the same conditions and. there are still many days of walking ahead for these venezuelans 600 kilometers separate them from bogota meanwhile others arrive via the illegal trails the police are watching so we turn around but for them the journey is far from over. so more of the stories making headlines around the world are supporters of ecuador's largest indigenous political party have been protesting against alleged fraud in this month's

elections which ended in a 3 way split indigenous environmental campaigner comparison gained ground but isn't expected to advance to april's runoff. place in haiti have clashed with protesters calling on president or juvenile maurice to step down unrest broke out in the caribbean nation this month after president morris refused to leave office he insists his term lasts until next year 'd. organizers of the oscars have announced a very different looking awards ceremony for this year as the movie industry continues to grapple with the pandemic academy of motion picture arts and sciences says this year's event will be live in person from multiple locations including its traditional venue hollywood don't be theater organizers say the decision to d.c. centralize the event was to prioritize public health and safety. and here in berlin the organizers of the burning film festival the berlin ali have announced

a program that aims to reflect the era of the coronavirus pandemic in a virtual presentation the festival's directors unveil the lineup of films will be shown next month i say the selection highlights the new world we live in the sense of apprehension and here are a few movies that normal are now going to be shown on line. like. scott to rockford from d.w. culture can tell us more welcome scott let's look at the announcements any surprises in that. not so much i mean the big surprise was sort of how this announcement was made it was done live in a live stream virtual event of course because here in germany like in so much of the world we're under lockdown and we can't meet in person in terms of the films that were announced there were fewer as you said than usual for the belly nala but the kind of movies they picked are quite similar to what we've come to expect from from from this festival you have basically international art house films there's

a new film set in. french director one from hong sanctions one my favorite korean art house directors maria hsia who's an up and coming a german director who just won an international emmy for for her series unorthodox she's got a new movie but very much these these sort of international art house films that makes the core of the of the competition this year at the ballot. box loved it not many big stars this year but there are a couple of hollywood movies in the lineup. yeah definitely these are films that won't be in competition but will be screening and sort of special screenings to get sort of a big push for for bigger stars and we got to of like what the biggest hollywood actresses around oscar winners jodie foster's new film. will be will be screening at the at the barrel and out of this is a legal thriller she plays a lawyer representing a man who is rendition to want on a moment bay and she's trying to get in free based on a true story of

a man who was actually snatched from the streets of of germany and taken to guantanamo bay looks like a very slick legal thriller is from kevin macdonald the guy who did last thing of scotland so very interesting to see that and if you want something a bit lighter perhaps with all these sort of dark or serious movies there's a new film with michelle pfeiffer a french accent this is sort of a light comedy michelle pfeiffer plays a. woman is sort of full on a bit harder times and she's forced to move back in with her adult son played by lucas hedges in their tiny apartment in paris from the look of it it looks like a very light frothy comedy but probably just the thing to sort of get through those dark berlin nights right i mean event itself what will they see as compared with last year yeah i mean completely different last year berlin was the last big film fest will be held in person so the red carpets on the big gallows and so forth that's not going to exist at all at least not initially will have a virtual event 1st in march worldly you know film freaks like myself and some of

the industry will be able to see the movies and then they will pick the winners for this year and those winners will be shown in it a big gala event a big public event in the summer in june that's the plan at least hopefully the coronavirus plays ball and germany will be allowed to have big public events by the summer and if that's case we can have a proper person film festival in june in berlin. thank you so much for the. watching b.w. coming up next on news asia democracy supporters squeeze out of hong kong or finding a room to flourish of the traditional a new market in taiwan. on the hong kong snake catcher saving his color from the restaurant chopping block to give them a 2nd chance at the box. first ballot they will have those stories and more in just a moment i'll be back at the top of the hour the meantime of course as always the

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thanks to where they belong. i'm very welcome to be doubly news isha glad you could join us hong kong has introduced a controversial overhaul of school education to bring it in line with the national security law implemented last june the changes will see children as young as 6 being taught about national security school students but a visible part of pro-democracy protests that gripped the city in 2019 the changes are being seen by many as an attempt by beijing to solidify long term control over the city. what is. a cartoon to explain a crackdown mr alice helping children understand the power relations between hong

kong and china as well as the need to maintain them on national security affairs are of utmost importance to the whole country. hong kong's new education guidelines would teach children as young as 6 about the security law and its main offenses they require teachers to beyond god for anything deemed subversive including books in libraries and flies on school noticeboards their reaction has been mixed. really worried about the independent thinking abilities of primary school students in the future. i think it's ok to teach national security within the country but my concern is about the reduction of good content in general education. is a good start no matter who you are where you're from you have to love your country . a decade ago another attempt to bring hong kong schools in line with china

triggered protests and spawned a generation of activists in 2012 tens of thousands of students stage much as and citizens to demand an education free of communist influence. then student activists such as joshua wall and agnes chao and on to become leading figures in hong kong's wave of mass protests and increasingly violent on wrist against china's tightening grip on the territory. both joshua walling and agnes chao have now been jailed in a widening crackdown on dissent. china is now trying to reassert its influence on hong kong classrooms its new curriculum both a lesson and a warning the fighting and response. joining me now is called in law and executive committee member of the hong kong professional teachers union welcome mr lai these changes to the curriculum that have been ordered would you

call them an attempt of brainwashing or education. you know it certainly put a lot of constraint of what we can teach we use to emphasize critical thinking in our curriculum we allow the students to have different positions on social issues and some national issues as as well but now the duly introduce national security education has put a lot of limits on what we can discuss and the standpoints that we had hoped to kitchen bureau has served in the past court fostering students sense of national identity is done in other countries as well that sounds like a reasonable argument doesn't it. yes this our position as well we never say no to nash no cation we we know that of cause now we are under the rule of china aging governance of course we we have to learn about our identity as

a chinese and we need to care more about that you know security but we might be thinking that maybe the government is a bit too sensitive about these issues in schools that's what we are worrying about as a teacher you're sort of how do you think this sort of change in education will affect the way students act and think. yes there are actually putting a lot of constraints on what we can teach and talk about and they also have fairy specifically defined roles for different levels in the school hierarchy up from the founding organization of the school the school bought to the principal to that teaches you to students they're all fairy strictly defined so for example one of the things that current to the new regulations is that if they are students sane

sols with political message just as schools there are encouraged to report to the police so that certainly limits the freedom us expression in the school and also it breaks down the mutual trust between a school and its students so where you're of describing of mr laurie is the choice in hong kong right now between another generation of george or walls or a communist party collides. in the past year or soul obviously we see a lot of youngsters coming joining me for input who activities send off cause there also a lot of challenges. by the government in in a freezing out in a just and we as educators we think that we should talk about these issues in schools freely because it is useless for us to indoctrinate to give them

a certain political stance and asked them to believe so now the new curriculum and the new regulations are limiting freedom to do so. relieve a bear for the time being but of course a lot more to discuss potentially or to me to be a printer so much for joining us today as i think you'll have me. man with freedom of expression shrinking in hong kong it's found a place to boom a lot in taiwan especially at a traditional pneumonia or market in taipei where hong kong has a free to purchase and some political much and something that was quite common in hong kong but things have changed drastically since beijing's heavy handed crackdown in the city. the smell of hong kong time some walk through this type airlie this is the chinese new year market told hong kong those who have gone into exile it was home. hope hong kong people can get

a taste of home to encourage them to support each other as we struggle to survive in a foreign land you know this is the 1st lunar new year many hong kong this in taiwan has spending away from home most of them are stuck here because of the pandemic and the political turmoil back home. before beijing imposed this national security law last year you can frequently find political much dies in the chinese syria markets across hong kong now that tradition can only be continued democratic taiwan. must go free hong kong revolution now these slogans have been banned in hong kong how ironic is it that we can still chant them as much as be like in taiwan why has hong kong become like that. would be a thing. all the booths year are yellow ribbon stores indicating their support for

the pro-democracy movement and hong kong some so products made by hong kong designers some of the revenue were flown to needy home comus in taiwan. the market attracts a few 100 mostly hong kong students and unifies a team in taiwan. the whole the whole dalai. lama we've been studying here for many years. we never had such hong kong peoples gatherings before we used to be scattered across different schools but because of the pro-democracy movement and the political upheaval we gather together and spread the word that you'll be arrested if you speak up in hong kong only be a doctor because he was as i was that are they to be honest we can experience firsthand what happened in hong kong we feel more or less guilty we come here today as a group of guilty hong kong nurse hoping to do something or simply to support each

other. you know at the high bank so home. tens of thousands of hong kong ers have already fled their home town in fear of beijing's crackdown those now overseas are trying hard to keep their traditions alive but i thought this event has a spiritual meaning there are things we can no longer do in hong kong but we can still do elsewhere in the world we can't stop what we're doing because of the oppression we must keep going wherever we are. these hong kong most don't know when they can go home but home is always send their hearts. have you ever heard of snake in hong kong turns out there's quite a few of them for generations they've caught the slithering reptiles from across the city's bogs and green space is traditionally they've been handed over to restaurants as an item for the menu but a new generation of cultures believes in conservation more than gastronomist.

catching a 3 metre burma's pipe in by hand all in a day's work for ken lee his hong kong youngest registered snake catcher. he was saying that. the challenge of catching that snake was that it hid under fallen tweaks and leaves. so i had to remove them before i could catch it. i mean. many older hands at cannes job earned money by turning their cats into snake soup shops. but ken does it because he loves reptiles so much that he's become a conservationist when he saw the creatures being harmed he felt their pain. i got in the. eye on it but there were all kitchens before i actually arrived at

the scene people had already caught the snakes some of the 4 but unfortunately some of them were killed or had fatal injuries. and why some people caught the snakes bravely but actually it cost tom too bad life. instead of ending up in a cooking pot all the snakes come by can are sent to an animal shelter before being released back into the wild. that way it protects not only human beings but wildlife as well. those lucky snakes that's it for today there's more our web site it up without going forward slash believe you know with pictures of protesters a near demonstrating against the military takeover u.s. president joe biden has approved sanctions on those responsible for the cool other countries are considering economic pressure on me and miles military leaders we're back to more of the same about.

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out of all the senses most people say they could do without smell but have you thought about the consequences for your life and about 60 percent of those infected with the coronavirus will have had problems. for current starglider falling ill with covert 1000 was a professional disaster the 53 year old did not have severe symptoms what was left on able to smell or taste anything but the owner of a confectionery shop she needed to test the quality of her cakes and chocolates. and by if i have a glass of wine for example i have the same time how to taste a glass of vinegar i couldn't tell the difference that is that this is why it is both of them taste acidic but i couldn't tell you which one is vinegar and which is the wine. alessandro but sato says are symptoms are typical. smell loss occurs when the corona virus infects cells that

support neurons in the nose. he prescribes smell training as therapy in which patients rely on prescribe sense such as those of roses and lemons. now. after losing their sense of smell patients can do to smell training to stimulate damaged nerve cells and start the process of healing or regeneration. so when i. started laser has been using 4 different sense of day to reactivate her sense of smell coffee cinnamon chocolate closer vanilla are her favorite fragrances it's a slow process but she hopes male training will bring back her ability to smell and taste things and let's talk about losing your sense of smell with scientists rachel herz what i'd like to know 1st of all is if it could be permanent. so small loss with hope at 90 that we really don't know what permanent leaves so

it's only been about a year's though that we've been into this crisis and it's certainly the case that with upper respiratory tract infections loss occurs but there's hope for regaining it in those conditions and i think that probably will be the case here as well and there are different methods that can facilitate that especially things like snell training some people have been experiencing this learn from months and months and months i mean a year can be a long time how how traumatic can that experience be emotionally and psychologically well it's extremely traumatic and one of the problems being in this idea of permanence how long is it going to last is it going to be forever you don't know and so that uncertainty even adds more to and at the very traumatic to lose your sense of smell which people unfortunately don't realize because our sense of smell is connected to everything people assume it's connected to can i smell fire or the gas that you know danger or the pleasure of food but actually is connected to our emotional life in very intense ways it's connected to our social life it's

connected to our personal intimacy it's connected to our sense of self and our memories and our sense of where we are in the universe with respect to other people on the whole world so it can be extremely and grounding and very very disturbing for people to lose their sense of smell so much is this a side effect of something you're a logical. so with company $1000.00 what seems to be going on is that the stars could be to virus needs to enter cells in order to in fact the host that is the human and the nose has a patch covielle thankfully if it feel again that's where all factory censoring their arms are we to text mels also contains 2 other kinds of cells these also is and what are known as supporting cells and these supporting cells have a high number of the kind of enzyme that's needed for the state protein of the sars virus to enter in this case to receptor people may be hearing about so than their

virus can bind very easily to these cells and what happens is it causes disruption and creates inflammation which seems to be the reason why your factory sensory neuron shut down because that's where we're normally detect and smell and then that's the 1st port of entry into the rest of the body so that's the basic mechanism so one of the things i have a kind of pet peeve about is people really need to cover their nose with their mouth because that's their primary route of entry for the stars virus to get into you. know just came across one of those callings in the car as before tell us when does this happen is this loss of sense of smell is is it an early symptom is some health care workers have experienced before even testing positive but i mean it could be a great warning in stopping the spread of the disease just like you were saying the warnings of a bad smell of a fire of gas. yes so what we've been involved in i've been involved in research conducted with health care workers and what we found was actually that disturbance

in the sense of smell preceded getting a positive test by the p.c. ari how normal method of detecting you know biologically whether or not you've been infected by 2 whole days so this is actually a tremendous finding that smell osprey seeds getting a positive diagnosis and also preceded sort of feeling sick in other ways and actually is involved in about 86 percent of people who feel very mild symptoms or could otherwise be asymptomatic so having snow loss is a very very important signal to the individuals ringback who 1st of all get tested and secondly to self isolate to quarantine themselves then because you want to be avoiding transmitting it into the population so if you can self quarantine at the 1st sign of notice things now lost that's really important and not only smell os but also alter smell what's known as rosin you know so smelling things that they don't smell right you know one person said to me everything's not like that if you

are and so that's also something that's a really important signal early warning sign in 19 and we saw that in about a 3rd of the people who reported smell this function in our study of i don't leave it's also a signal of old timers of pock and since disease but is that also a symptom of the new cohort variant. so just to clarify the per us near the altar sense of smell is not really so much as far as we know involved in alzheimer's or parkinson's disease in those things where small loss occurs that is decades before we see other symptoms but if you ask a really good question about the other variants and i have to say that i don't know the answer to that yet there hasn't been any research that i've seen that specifically looked at what variant of the iris is causing or this star is virus red that's causing the illness and whether or not and how that's connected smell us that's a great question i unfortunately don't know the answer to that yet. like so many questions in this crisis my last question can you fully retrain your sense of smell

. so the good news is that because of the fact that it's about her respiratory tract infection that causes smell loss you haven't had neurological damage to the way that the neurons can get into the brain for detecting smell and so forth so generally speaking in these cases there is hope for recovery and the best method to date is actually exercising your nose where what you want to do is get a set a very distinctive smell so things that's not really different or that you remember still believe different like lenin or mint and you know some of the perfume or cloves and things like that and smell those sense multiple times per day smell each for like about 10 seconds and repeat that over and over let's say 3 or 4 times per day for about 3 months and then switch to another step and the good news is that although it's not a 100 percent effective many people start to see improvement in their ability the

smell through doing this sort of smell training is exercising of your nose so there is real hope you know and it doesn't take that long just as like as that you know a few minutes a couple of times a day and just have to keep keep up with it and it seems what's happening there is it's both training your brain and potentially causing your receptors to become re stimulated again reactivated to bring in more abilities actually is not. right vice there from your scientists rachel post thank you very much for being on the show today thank you very much for having me over to derrick williams now our science correspondent has been looking into your questions on the corona virus. does the immunity require from the vaccine vary from person to person. yes it does vaccines never provide 100 percent protection although a few that we've developed for other infectious diseases have come close but but

everyone's immune system is difference and will respond to particular vaccines in individual ways trials showed that even after being vaccinated some people who were exposed to sars kovi 2 ended up contracting symptomatic covert 19 but the vaccines being distributed now have proven to be pretty effective at preventing symptoms caused by most variants in most people and and some vaccines have proven extremely effective at doing so. a simplified way of putting it would be to say that trials in some back scenes showed unvaccinated people were nearly 20 times more likely to develop symptoms of pope at 19 during the trial than someone who got vaccinated. but the really interesting point is that and trying to return

to something like normal back scenes don't actually have to prevent cope at 19 and everyone if they can just stop symptomatic disease in most of us that would ease the strain on health systems and what would be even better is if that scenes could help slow or stop transmission of the virus so if they not only prevent the disease in most people but also keep people from catching at having those symptoms and spreading it subsequently unknowingly there's new evidence that with at least one approved back seen that's the case that aspect really is key because it would break infection chains of to do that right now we're still relying mostly on on blunt instruments like like masks and lockdowns and finally there are strong indicators that even if you do catch covert 19 after getting the shot at least some of the

vaccines are limiting its severity so in other words the people who get the disease even after being vaccinated are rarely end up in hospitals. so this is you know there's things watching stay safe and secure against a. good

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