the shaky the chinese state has a lot of money that is disposal. and that's how it's expanding and asserting its status and position in the world in the face of the bulge would be. china's gateway to europe storage feb 19th on d w. coming up today under arrest for supporting farmers. the 22 year old activist who was detained by police for sharing details on how to campaign for protesting. explains why the message from the government is. all. this information war how critics allege a chinese campaign is clouding the truth about the origins of the virus. and

dogs on how these disease strays in thailand. due to the covert. welcome to the. glad you could join us now 22 year old climate activist in india is under arrest for her walk in support of an ongoing farmer's education in the country the show ravi is accused of a document which listed ways in which people could protest in favor of. controversial laws ravi is also accused of collaborated with the separatist movement by police the documents being called. was shared on twitter by swedish. gonzalez a human rights lawyer and

a past where no of the right level to go to war he joins me now from delhi police are calling her a court key conspirator in drafting a document that essentially lists how one can protest for a cause is this conspiracy or campaigning. this totally can't be getting it's peaceful democratic secular law abiding. and this government has become so intolerant they don't even want to know peace will not be released so it's not really can't be very is it activity which is constitutionally protected and the government wants to stamp it out. so what 22 year old is now are sitting in police custody for essentially campaigning i wonder then what is the message the government is trying to send out. well the message is very clear we don't care about what you stand for what you believe in we want no criticism

of the any government at all and if you criticize us we will treat you as a terrorist. eco terrorist. bombers terrorist we will treat us the terrorists and we will draw the book at you in terms of the most severe charges possible we will arrest you without cause even without legally and make an example of you that's what it. it was a frightening message calling coming from the biggest democracy on the planet just talk us through why the message is this from a government when it is faced with protests for more than 3 months from farmers who are demanding the rollback of certain laws well it's not a new or stately measured at all it's been going on for a long long time in india and started with the arrest of grumblings human rights

lawyers was still rotting in jail for doing nothing really so it's not you at all except in the case of this girl disha. they have almost stepped their boundaries and they are handing down and somebody was totally innocent and they can't make a case either over link with the guy list any movement or with they dish an economy that is totally up abrogated case and this day there overstepped the boundaries and i think the government has been he is going to get very negative publicity on this but do you think the government of india cares given that the foreign ministry to we did into this is specially when people agree to turn bargain popstar yama treated calling for greater attention to the ongoing protests by farmers you say that the picture of india is going to be damaged you think the government cares she the government is a bully. a big bully barcode bully and the government thinks it can make

people surrender give up become timid and frightened but this time if the government doesn't care there's going to be security action to this is a rest but i think now the believe will realise it's a deemed illegal act in a situation that david is going to win and will add is going to get a pretty big bump and it's fair. you know i don't think this time they can take a united you they eat ok. they be forced to be forced to be look they're very autocratic i think. right corner gonzales we just have to wait and see but thank you so much for talking to us today a president. china

has responded with anger to relegations from the u.s. that it withheld information about the origins of the covert 900 out break last year beijing said washington had coached already gravely damaged international reputation i'm sorry cooperation on covert 19 and was now pointing fingers at other countries the comments come as the u.s. said it had deep concerns about china's handling of the w.h.o. mission investigating the origins of the pandemic in the central city of. the team is expected to present their findings as early as this week several members of the team said they were happy with the access to information provided by china but others including australian microbiologist dominic diop said china refused to give the raw data on the covert cases and that this could complicate efforts to understand how the outbreak began. if you really tried to go back to the very beginning to try and understand the source in the ideal world you would get if you

would. and that's what we call no mistake all of that stuff is anonymous you know you don't want to push it you want the day you know what with the questions asked what were the responses and what were the sort of analyses of and that's standard practice for an outbreak investigation in this situation the chinese guy was the result wells we would have liked i guess you're saying the wrong. but that can still come. now with aspects of the dominance of mission to china the uncertainty over the origins of the us compounded by a deliberate descent from nation campaign by china. it began almost as soon as the corona virus began to spread through woo han asia and the world a rumor here a claim there a conspiracy theory touted further afield and reposed it had the virus been

imported to china via frozen meat had one of its adversaries unleashed a bio weapon and on as the world was fighting the corona virus a new war was raging on line a campaign of disinformation people traditionally think about russia when they think about foreign information operations with coded that really began to change and we found that china played a central role with cope at this information analysis of millions of twitcher interactions by the international affairs group the atlantic council with the associated press news agency shows the chinese government weaponized social media for a propaganda war to deflect blame for the pandemic the chinese government have been incredibly well devalued marts this information apparatus the investigation found china's apparatus of descent from asia normally used on its own people was aimed abroad chinese diplomats at a dozens and dozens of accounts to twitter and facebook even though those platforms

are banned in china western countries for the 1st time i saw in china engaging in this war what's known as the russians the impact on throwing money and seeing what sticks the mud throwing was often aimed at the u.s. were top officials pilloried china for the pandemic when the china virus invaded are sure i promise china fought back against trump's talk of a china virus you want me from united states truly respects facts it should open the biological lead but for dietrich. the chinese foreign affairs ministry was speaking and tweeting the prospect the virus was created in the u.s. military lab in cary to woo han during military games in late 2019 tweets amplified by thousands of accounts around the world in dozens of languages and tens of millions of followers you don't necessarily want people abroad to believe you but if you want to have people come away with the impression that while the truth

simply cannot be known a sense then as peace as it sees us the most i don't like any of the. knots and that too the chinese government at least in the international context would be a wimp polling suggested as early as last spring that up to a 3rd of people in a number of countries already believe the coronavirus was manmade for its part the chinese foreign ministry says its diplomats use social media like other countries diplomats and is opposed to the creation and spread of false information. a rescue dog sanctuary in thailand has been saving dogs from destitution for nearly a decade set up by a swedish expert at the shelter called the man who rescues dogs has taken in thousands of strays over the yeahs if not all mclean's and feeds the animals it also helps them like literally to get back on their feet but now the pandemic is

causing it to fear for the future. those no stopping these dogs in southern thailand. the old disabled that can now run as fast as any of this thanks to their new wheelchair as provided by shelter in the providence of john kerry. is that said the wheels are giving the animals and new lease on life. it's almost like they have no idea that they have a disability and once you put him in the wheelchair for the 1st time. it's like there's no learning curve they immediately know what to do. most of the dogs lost the use of their hind legs after being injured in accidents there among hundreds of strays they knew to have to at the shelter. as what a screeching the dogs with mobility aids and helping them recover from life on the

street the shelter is also trying to reach the large number of unwanted dogs in the province by neutering and spaying stray. but their work is being threatened by the coronavirus crisis since the pandemic began we've experienced an 80 percent drop in visitors virtually no bolland tears and a 40 percent drop in donations. it cost around $1300.00 a day to care for more than $900.00 dogs sophie is the fans might dry up is causing concern. for now though the dogs are still able to go out and make the most of the new form of transportation the hope aides the wheel of fortune will continue to turn in their favor. that's if there's a false or not website i did up with the show we live in now with more images in the dog sense of the entire length of much more of the same time i'm going to buy.

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how much oil can really do. we still have time to. get some scribe like this. and especially peter winter in the northern hemisphere has been making living on the streets even tougher. crowded shelters the safest place to spend the night with the pandemic still raging. it's not just the cold the homeless have to contend with $1000.00 poses a special danger for a group likely to have other health problems too. now with many hotels m.t.g. to the crisis some cities have found a clever way to bring the vulnerable population in from the cold.

well many european capitals adopted this strategy during the 1st wave germany's taken longer hotels in berlin at least opens their doors in time for the big chill and with tourists staying away it's helping keep business going thanks to the homeless. as a vital reports. when i see your brains hit berlin some have it harder to find shelter than others but this man got lucky. kristen who doesn't want to give his full name normally sleeps in an emergency shelter during winter now he puts the few things he owns inside a hotel over here because don't feel safe and he can take a shower he also gets served warm food really upgrade he finds a shop go shopping container i used to sleep in a container this is

a hotel that's much better then through on that was all on its feet a bizarre started about. the hotel vita is one of several hotels and berlin which are now welcoming homeless people like a stone it is a win win situation he has a place to sleep and take shelter from the cold while the hotel can make some money the city pace for the commendation. the bats were urgently needed explains organizer wolfgang fitch due to the covert prices shelters had to reduce the number of births to keep up hygiene measures. in. the shelter usually puts people in dormitories or even on camping mats and big shared rooms we can't do that because of cold it we're very grateful that we can use the hotel because we can put people in twins rooms it means we never have more than 2 or 3 people in of room type as on

to song. and there is more the guests can return to their beds all winter long if they stick to the rules that makes all the difference as martyr who helps run the place and has a close connection to many of them i know. that. on that one from the young comments when they get here there and washed in the exhaust often depressed and lacking prospects after a few weeks here they've changed completely they have a different outlook on the future some of them find work some even a home of their own. something better anyway at least a given or. living in his own home that is also stands stream he's hopeful of realizing it once the covert crisis is over for expect when is from the european federation of national organizations working

with the homeless how can others be helped to permanent housing during this crisis and even more importantly once it's over and hotel rooms are no longer on offer. well i think what we have to like let me 1st say that it's important the most member states in the european union have done an effort to get people off the streets into. what is important we start that you know to the about the last quarter oh no. you don't want to these homeless people i mean we're talking about thousands of homeless people who as we don't want them to be pushed back into the shelter or even worse into the street so we have to make sure they move into supportive housing as much as possible so i think that's a really important commitment that we have to get from policymakers and look at national what about using this opportunity to test a part of the population that may not otherwise see a doctor. well yes of course who most people are more from the.

general population so they should. be a priority they should be a priority group when it comes to testing unfortunately what we see in most countries that they have to pay out of the group there's only a handful of countries including germany where the homeless population and the professionals working with them are a priority group will be tested and vaccinated quite quite soon so i think it's important to learn from up and to push the testing in vaccination in the home as much as possible od a mole. prone to covert though i've heard of reports of them having a higher dose of vitamin d. thinly because they're outdoors so much more and also that quite socially distance from from the rest of us. well i think they are more from the like that is. a lot of preexisting conditions make them more vulnerable but those that don't

don't think were homeless people out outside the who are dying most of the homeless people actually shot at in return. so anyway the head is really quite bad in general so that if there is no doubt that they are more vulnerable to the do you think that infection than the general population and which of the social distancing is really difficult like if you are given a shot and most of us are overcrowded so i think it would be wrong to suggest that it's easier for homeless people to socially distance is it also a fact that homelessness is increasing at the moment with so many people losing their jobs. yes but when this people was increasing. in a crisis between 20092019 we have seen in the european union a 770 increase in the number of people experience will miss and so on and any given day which means are sleeping on the streets are sleeping rough or in

a shelter that was up in peace. accord or not because it's difficult to say if when this is further increasing but we estimate like we think that it's further increasing and what would especially concerned about is how the. evil of the moment most member states a moratorium. in place they wouldn't last forever and that is increasing pressure too and if this moratorium inevitably lead to a spike in evictions and we defeat the spike in a fiction we translate in a spike in homelessness so we'll probably see we see that increase before quarter when i will probably see an increase of the quarter when i was well what about i think what about the housing 1st initiative is that making a difference in in some countries instead of makeshift health care and psychological support the homeless get an apartment without conditions attached. yes but that he's

a lot of evidence that housing 1st works works especially for homeless people with phone fixed eats and homeless people that are chronically homeless so i don't think that we have to further doubt about its effectiveness the scientific evidence is there what we need to do now he's to do is promote the scientific evidence and help convince all of the makers that look at the national level to be housing 1st to skate i'm not trying to argue don't need traditional way or dressing homelessness by making homeless people bus to a shelter of itself the system is totally ineffective but it's very clear that housing 1st is more effective if people keep housing people feel better and once you know that areas people are doing better so there is no doubt the housing 1st works especially for chronically homeless people frank skinner and from the european federation of national organizations working with the homeless thank you very much thank you and good afternoon. i'm to hand you over to our science

correspondent derrick williams he's been looking it's your questions on the growth by. having 1000 survives like me protected to some extent from re-infection with the new variant. the answer to this worrisome question is still up in the air but it's clearly something authorities will be keeping a close eye on in the coming months so what makes things complicated is that the pandemic landscape is shifting so rapidly we're trying to track the effects of vaccines in multiple variants across societies but even nailing down exactly which variant might have affected someone somewhere is still much more the exception than the rule even in the u.k. which does a better job of tracking this kind of data than any other country they've only sequenced viral genomes from around 10 percent of all infected patients which means

we only know in one out of about 10 cases which variant a british patient had and in most other countries we know a whole lot less than that. one thing that's fueled concerns about the possibility of survivors being re infected with new variants is some results from a recent vaccine trial in south africa although it was set up to provide information about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine the trial incidentally revealed something kind of frightening in the placebo group subjects' who had antibodies indicating that they'd already had over 1000 once seemed just as likely to contract the disease again in the course of the study as people who haven't had one possible explanation for that is that the variant discovered in. south africa

is less likely to be prevented by a naturally occurring immunity to earlier variants but that still hasn't been proven and the data set was too small to draw firm conclusions of the upside however is that even if reinfection with the new variant does occur many experts think that one run in with the disease should generally continue to provide some protection maybe enough to prevent severe disease with a newer variant that's the hope at least. and we leave you with rio's some but drug which is empty this year after the city suspended convolve due to the pandemic of course at the massive parade ground is being put to other uses like a slide show one of victims of the fires brazil has the 2nd highest number of deaths in the walt. dances with one of the city's somebody schools also put on

a socially distanced as displayed to cheer on the country's vaccination campaign. joy thanks for watching they say can see you again say.

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