well starting in hong kong rather media tycoon jimmy lay has been arrested again even though he's in jail he suspected of assisting a fugitive who fled china and was captured at sea as to legs juicer fight or face a bail hearing on thursday a charge for violating china's new security law following his involvement in the home kong's pro-democracy street protests. in the u.k. and the un are calling for evidence that a missing dubai princess is alive after she released a video claiming she's being held hostage in solitary isolation and she committee for is the daughter of the leader of the united arab emirates shaikh mohammed she also said she had no access to fresh air or medical care wife of north korean leader kim jong un has appeared in public for the 1st time in more than a year resoled jew attended ceremonies commemorating the birthday of her father and all the country's late former leader kim jong il the secretive couple married in 2009 believed to have at least 2 children together this is d.w.

news a life from balance still to come free speech or support for terror we'll look at the case of a spanish rapper was arrested strout a nationwide protest. person nigerian president mohammad who biharis calling for a rescue operation after a gunman kidnapped dozens of students and teachers from a school staff say one student was shot dead during the attack stuff also say the students from a government science college in god are in the gestate were dragged away by large numbers of men dressed in military uniforms there were few did manage to escape and local government officials says most of those taken were children the abduction follows other recent kidnappings blamed on violent gangs. d.w. corresponded to the way so interest joins us from the nigerian capital abuja welcome what else is known about this abduction.

this 2 nation now is that the nigerian government has sent military personnel for lease an address to return agencies who have gone to the foolish to try and track these kidnappers and see how do you would be able to rescue this school children pa i haven't seen that unite them with their families but up to now there is no any new information of what del webb i had been taking to them and what is happening to them. so we don't know who has taken them do we know why they have been taken. it is not clear out why did i've been deceived option beside what is known to people kidnapping for ransom but gradually lead up creation is change in the

leftists big deal which they issued after a kidnapping dissin my job is like this title because. she did he do i share which is new about doubt on our doctors and asking them to tell the government to come i rescued them with the 500000000 and then not taken a school is also more on this december trying to send fiesta people to a bun done with education which has more or less gradually chief because decease not the 1st but the 2nd and he said that tied to talk time and used to be going on so what is the government doing about it. what is the government doing about this. is do you turn condemnation which depresses down house dam i said nigerians that

he is ready. mitch. if this ted gov no just finish a security council meet in sindh do what if i had the coop to get these children back but 290 in nigeria see how many. there i must satisfy with what is going on so far. there is a kind of frustration from the parents especially those who screwed them had been taken because they got been in may just to. close down on board unscrews in for the governments in that area remembered because of couldn't they in schools just open not quite long in nigeria did not so much time ok thank you for that so i did correspondent away so interest in a burger. now to south africa which has started its 1st. nation with presence around oppose it getting the job in front of congress today in

cape town $80000.00 doses of the johnson and johnson vaccine will be distributed across the country with health we're getting inoculated 1st as part of a research study and this comes after the country dropped plans to use the astra zeneca vaccine of concerns about its efficacy against a fast spreading south africa corona virus variant. well d w correspondent krishna's vaccination center in cape town and sent us this update. right i mean behind me you can see a vaccination station so this is where the 1st health workers of this hospital in getting their vaccine had to move move just happiness here and let us actually bring in one of the health care workers see a doctor who can call he's been working on the front live through it with coverts patients and you just got your vaccine i was here with you in late december when there was the 1st peak of the 2nd peak actually of the coverts cases and you showed me around here it looked quite crowded dozens of people the room where people are

vaccinated now was packed with patients back then coughing sitting waiting for a bed now it looks much better but still me why is it so important now for the health care workers to get this vaccine. being a front line worker is very important. for this vaccine been waiting for long to get this vaccine and they are going to come i'm very excited is very important because we've seen what this virus can cause and we need to create it. we need to create. a kind of immunity in the community and the only way really to fight this disease is to get vaccinated and not why is the frontline would need. to be on the front lines so i need to be vaccinated be protected be immunized so that i can continue fighting with the disease in civic life dr mercola thank you very much for your time and all the best for your work but he was not the only one who got the vaccine obviously other health workers but there was

a surprise guest coming here today the president of south africa serum up was also came to this hospital to get the vaccine basically to show people it is safe because in the past weeks there was quite a lot of confusion here you mentioned the astra zeneca vaccine delivery that came here and 1000000 doses 2 weeks ago shortly after was a study was published that said well it might not help against mild disease from the new of the ryan that is dominant here in south africa that's why the gaffer. decided to put the rollout of the astra zeneca vaccine on hold that was pretty much criticized from a lot of people around the world just to say well it's could still help with a mile to the east but the decision was done by the government now it is the johnson and johnson vaccine that is vaccinated here and you have to remember this vaccine is also not in use in any countries yet it's not approved yet even here in south africa so what we see now the vaccinations are still part of the face 3 trial and this is where the president said well i have to show people it is still safe it

can still help because when it comes to the johnson and johnson vaccine there were 1st studies that proved that this vaccine can help with a new variant under increased reporting violent street protests broke out in several spanish cities on tuesday following the arrest of rapper public he was sentenced to 9 months in prison for his song lyrics and tweets which authorities say glorify terrorism and insult the monarchy but he supporters say he's case is about free speech several 1000 turned out in barcelona. the. chants of freedom for pablo has said echoing through the streets of barcelona scuffles erupted between protesters and the police with trash container set on fire and shop windows destroyed demonstrators are calling for left wing rapper. to be released from prison. earlier on tuesday police have stormed the university

in the country's northeastern catalonia region and the rest it has said who was holed up there with dozens of supporters after he missed a deadline to turn himself in in 2018 the rapper was sentenced to 9 months in prison for glorifying terrorism and insulting the spanish monarchy and some of his songs in tweets they included references the paramilitary separatist group and called former king juan carlos a mafia boss his case has garnered widespread attention in spain and spurred a debate on freedom of expression after the arrest the deputy prime minister said in a democracy like spain there should be few limitations on free speech. been some of . those as soon as we think that in all matters stemming from freedom of expression if nobody's safety is put at risk then imprisonment is not an appropriate punishment within the freedoms granted by

a democracy. the government confirmed that slamming to reform spain's criminal code with lighter punishments for free speech offenses and protection for artistic and cultural forms of expression. will start with football in the champions league soccer live poor. man have put themselves in strong positions to advance the quarterfinals philly and back pay star with a hard trick as p.s.g. humiliated barcelona 41 in the 1st leg of their last 16 tie in spain meanwhile liverpool beat borders league a side to argue leipzig 2 nil thanks to goals from mohamed salah and study a man in a coach yoke and club said he was very pleased with his side's performance by one or lived pretty well and i know how. they can be football wise and how.

overwhelming they can be in a game from a physical point of your soul that's what we had to deal with tonight and the boys played a really good game a really good game but we created one big chance in the 1st half and 2 chances when they. shoot the goals after 2 big mistakes of my team but at the end i think we have to be good chances and be one of the most important topics for a 2nd game that we score when we create. that many chances that's important to score. in australian open tennis stefan asserts it's a pass staged a remarkable comeback to knock out rafa nadal in the quarterfinals ending the spaniard spared for a record 21st grand slam title so it's a fast loss the 1st 2 sets before recovering to win the next 3 in a match that lasted more than 4 hours 22 year old from greece will now face the neo medvedev in the 70s as he looks to reach his 1st grand slam final. this is day

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struggle to survive coronavirus small towns. welcome to news asia glad you could join us nato defense ministers are meeting their counterparts from the united states for the 1st time since president biden's inauguration the future of the alliance in afghanistan is an important point of talks over 2 days nearly $10000.00 troops from $36.00 nato nations including the united states currently support afghan forces in the country and whether these forces can secure without nato is a key concern last year as part of a deal with the taliban to trumpet ministration agreed to withdraw all u.s. troops by me that decision is now being reviewed by the biden team. but even as the preview is also discussed with nato partners levels of ballance have

continued to increase in. attacks often unclaimed but attributed to the taliban are on the rise and that's left particularly afghan women concerned about a future where the taliban could play an important role. aided doesn't stay long on the street she wants to get inside quickly afghanistan's best known model poses for the camera without a veil embodying the lifestyle of many of today's young afghans. the 26 year old has found fame as an end fluence with more than 200000 instagram followers it's an image of the modern woman which the taliban cannot accept and i do receives regular death threats. i worry that if the taliban become

part of the government all the progress we have now. made in the last few years will be lost i studied abroad and returned home to set up a modeling business that if we lose our freedoms and women have to stay at home again then i will be forced to leave my homeland. nothing in kabul can be taken for granted especially not a yoga class factory a bomb towers once to bring in a peace to a country which has been shattered by war for the last half century. korea opened her own studio 5 years ago in the face of stiff resistance from religious fundamentalists. her pupils are students office workers and housewives it takes a measure of courage to join the class in spite of threats from the taliban they say that you know goes against islam and women shouldn't be involved in sport but

these women are undeterred in fact korea refuses to be intimidated. she will only agree to be filmed in the studio and at home not out on the street. after we 1st met her a year ago she started getting death threats from the taliban and had to close the studio temporarily. well known religious leaders have started talking about what we do. for them. leading declared holy war on us. thank god that makes them. right to use the opportunities which have opened up for women in recent years to start

a business in the city center. she has benefited from western intervention in her country. but now she worries that american troops could soon be pulling out. it's not a good time for the americans to be leaving afghanistan. everything is very uncertain . the americans should at least stay until we know what's happening in. the future of ideas business should become clearer over the next few months there's a lot at stake for afghan women their freedoms up more at risk than at any time in the last 20 years. joining me now for more is journalist if you would drive me from . we have been reporting continually to the concerns that we're going to have about the loss for freedoms if the taliban came to power but how much of

a concern is this across afghan society. i think the problem is that the taliban haven't been upfront about what they want in terms of women's rights they recently issued an open letter to the united states about you know their dream in the peace deal and one of the things that they brought up was the issue of women's rights they said that the rights of women would be maintained and accordance with islamic law in islam practices but again what we have to remember is that the entire of on the equal system the terror of our constitution and law and society all of that is based off of islam so the question that women men everybody feel that want to ask about any sort of societal issue is you know what do they mean by by this law macv you say women's rights because as far as anybody can tell everything in afghanistan currently is based off of islam no founded on control in

some shape or the other more than roughly how far gone his son's territory based on your travels around us on this on what has been the experience of people living under taliban control and what form of islam have the polygon been implementing. you know it really depends on which parts of the country you're living in it's interesting because a few years ago. i was in that province which is south west of kabul and i was talking to people who were saying that the taleban in part in pox on had allowed for girls to go to school but the taliban on the ground in wa that weren't allowing it so this is kind of the issue that it can become very ad hoc depending upon where you are in certain places you know they'll be there they'll let you get away with more and in other places will be much more brutal and then there are also places where people you know turn to them to solve things like legal

disputes land conflicts things like that that otherwise if you went to the court system would mean you're stuck in endless bureaucracy in pink bribes and just years of complication so it's really complex issue with that situation being on the ground mr ministers are meeting here in brussels to discuss the future of may to approach including u.s. troops in afghanistan do you get a sense that of cons want them to stay. that i want people just want a solution right 1st thing they want is peace whatever will bring peace for over an end to the war and then beyond that they just want to know what's going to happen they want you know with this nato meeting or with whatever you know for a future decision joe biden takes they just literally want to know are you staying are you going how long are you staying for and what are you really going to do that's all they want they just want to defend events or erode security duties have been in the hands of of gone forces for some 6 years now off to nato handed over to

sponsibility to the afghan security forces are they in a position to battle the taliban and other groups singlehandedly. so i was just in long out of province in the south of which is just south of kabul and i was hung to soldiers and is talking to police and they were saying that the u.s. presence really doesn't make that much of a difference for them in the fight because for the most part they haven't actually been involved in combat in whatley 8 years 7 years. but what does make a difference of them is being properly equipped is having the ammunitions i mean the guns as having even walkie talkies things that they are lacking at the moment or even being paid on time you know there are several that said that it's been 6 to 8 months that they hadn't paid so to them they feel if they're properly quipped and they're properly supported they could stand a good chance at standing up to the taliban if they were given that support. it

would leave it there for the time being but under if you thank you so much for joining us from kabul if you. gaming arcades or for an alternative to playing online and often popular in many parts of japan many of those yes go there for their retro experience of meeting an actual human being and that unfortunately is the rub as we all know by now the pandemic has made such face to face contacts perilous that means many of the our kids are now at risk of being closed. it's a throwback to a golden age of gaming. video arcades like they say usually the stuff of eighty's nostalgia but in japan they're enjoying extended play. the mikado in tokyo is no legends cave a vintage games. among the rows of cabinets classic top was like street fighter and gallagher a still going strong. it's

a mecca for old school button mashes. needn't have all the information we can play games online at home but one of the pleasures of coming to an arcade is to be able to strike up a conversation without this to hear what they're thinking. or game thinking. but in the age of social distancing it could be finally game over for arcades under japan's mission c. measures businesses have to shorten opening hours and adhere to strict hygiene rules and all that costs money but unlike bars and restaurants arcades aren't eligible for government assistance the mikado as manager knows he's facing an uphill battle over the what you are going to get i feel i know i have to work hard to earn a living in these hard times but the pandemic is truly an extraordinary event. and the government is doing nothing to help us out of this hopeless situation. so i'm

thinking about asking for support through crowd funding. although it is all right probably. several arcades went bust following japan's 1st lockdown last year those remaining are now struggling to keep the doors open leaving richer a game is in the cold. it's sad i've already lost one arcade that i used to go to and i've also lost contact with people that i used to play with. a lively and social place is now simply gone would you know but when you come up with. the macau dough is now adapting to keep itself afloat. even streaming matches on youtube to reach game is stuck at home in. a full video game arcades the pandemic is one last boss fight for survival. that's it for today there's more. pleasure we leave you now with images to do with

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17000000 land out of all killed worldwide so that we can conclude that it's not just the animals at all suffering it's the environment we want on a journey to find ways to shrink if you want in a way click to the priest and the whole trust changed as a thesis listen to our podcast on the green fence. the variance in the making the bars more transmissible ending efforts to control. infection rates. this month south africa council plans to give people the astra zeneca jab after finding it wasn't effective enough against the local variant . it was definitely disappointing. much slower than expected

if. time is taking no one knows when and how when you variance will affect transmission and whether the current back scenes will work. the u.k. is stepping up testing to stop virus variance from spreading up to 10 percent of positive tests to send to labs full for the genome analysis. in the global fight against covert 19 is mutations that are preventing the next great challenge and here in the u.k. authorities are taking that fight directly into people's homes that. they're doing door to do the testing in areas where limitations have been found to go to identify cases before they have a chance to spread. it was just one case of the south african variants found here in this community that launched this door to door testing scheme but the concern is

that one case could just be the tip of the iceberg ordinarily only a small amount of positive covert tests to screen 2 mutations mean that when they are found authorities here a cracking down hard it's thanks to genome sequencing that authorities can pinpoint where to look the u.k. is the world leader in sequencing analyzing 10 percent of positive covert samples for the emergence of new variance in total the team of the u.k.'s private 19 genomics consortium is responsible for almost half the world's poor virus sequencing. work that will continue to prove crucial as more mutations emerge i don't think we've seen the full spectrum of mutations that could arise so the very common in england at the moment 117 that's very good at spreading but actually what i'm looking for very carefully is mutations going into that variant that also impact on immunity and that's what starts to worry me considerably and that is what we're seeing in the in the u.k.

but no population is immune to taishan and that's why professor peacock says genome sequencing needs to become a global priority without comprehensive international screening it's feared new more dangerous variants could take hold and putting vaccine programs at risk mutations will be in the 4 corners of the lots that we don't know about that would be quite concerned. if we don't know about now there is that support of all of us is because some of these variants are actually going to lead to a talent in terms of immunization now that is really critical as we go forward we need to know what the virus is doing so that we can keep up with that scene development what has already been done to modify that things to protect against existing variants. professor paul heath is the chief investigator is the u.k.'s new vent spanx in trial he says he's confident sequencing can help manufacturers keep ahead of mutations one of the beauties of the vaccine

technologies or platforms that we're seeing. in the production of 19 back and they are very recent and flexible and so it's entirely possible that modified vaccines will emerge very quickly from the vaccine manufacturers and vaccines will likely have to adapt in the meantime identifying and isolating mutations will be an invaluable tool in the catamounts game between fact scenes and variance. julian tell you is a consultant they're all just at the leicester royal infirmary new mutations are called variance of concern how concerned are you so. i'm not that concerned i think on actually need to adapt to these variants i think most of the concern because we go transmissible so that we overwhelm health

care services for those who just transition and there's also some actual escape properties that some of them are showing that maybe tuesday effects of the current that's seen those sort of them as we do have the years of ok so no panic yet but what about the various variants tell us about the bristol liverpool variant the south african one. yes there was no can be 117 did not have the 4 it folk a mutation that seemed to be conferring vaccine estate properties but now the people on 7 can various acquire the 44 k. and is now called the bristol variant but also the previously existing circulating strain from the original hand chinese variant has done quite for 4 as well but. several case is now kind of infiltrating the u.k. so equating the 2 viruses and then of course these $44.00 plays already present in south africa in very early brazilian variants it seems to be

a kind of global adaptation to the human host ok you're just breaking up a little there but i'm getting the gist of what what is the data actually show us about these variants. so the original 117 kept variant seems the more transmissible there was in fact confounders than that but since he's probably more quickly throughout you keep up later and also in other places like australia for example and perhaps journey where you've got some places the bristol a little to variance have come on top of that may wash as in fact escape properties . additional research on the region of the 17 variant suggest some. increased severity but that hasn't been separated from the normal winter seasonal effects of enhanced. what i think of it c.g. to pieces in conditions like hypertension diabetes heart disease etc so there is still some. doubt about the. true effect of the of

clinical severity also the original of the $17.00 vary the can vary it may have a wider spectrum of clinical symptoms compared to the previous cyclical strain and it may well be that it has more morwitz was pretty symptoms and less with things like loss of taste and smell but again this is ongoing the number still needs to be improved increased for we can be definitive this what about the effects of weather at the moment of cold weather and hospitalizations as well. yes that's why i just mention the seasonal winter cold may exacerbate a lot of the chemo but it is that these patients present with and giving the impression that it is there it is more severe at this time so again this is the can't vary the on certain variance. we have an update of the liverpool in bristol for us to make a comment like this but the dates so for the $17.00 can't present just who are

transmissibility and more severity the onus at least being hostile people to hospital wasn't hospital there's no increased mortality and the relative increase in socal severity is about 30 to 70 percent compared to what it was in the previous original one tourney strain of the variant again that's subject to indoor crowding during winter and hence mortality mobility that use these preexisting conditions during the cold winter months so i think it's not entirely certain yet that the straits really causing all this extra effects separate from the winter indoor crowding and the winter increased mobility mortality of those preexisting conditions and just really really briefly in which direction do you think sasco v 2 ways actually evolving now. oh i think we'll see the r.'s devolving to a more transmissible as the doctors trade with the e. for at footscray and the additional meters to see who would be also inverts as well

as a south african brazilian service and the fact that these 4 if ok 5 award influence of mutations appearing independently across the world different variants from different countries suggest that these are the true. to the beaches that we're seeing now that's a decent population julian tom thank you very much. for your questions now here's our science correspondent derek williams. i've heard that like influenza sars coast to is destined to become endemic even with widespread global vaccination is that true this is another $1000000.00 question that no one get knows the answer to but increasingly it appears to be yes to understand why let's look at all the things that would have to happen to make the answer know instead in other words what would it take to put the genie back in the bottle and eradicate covert 19 completely well as one w.h.o.

official put it that's of a very high bar several factors were played key roles and whether or not we can even hope to do with one is the extent to which people are protected by a natural infection and the vaccination we now know that getting sick with covert 1000 provides a protective shield for at least half a year or so but not a perfect one and people can get reinfected after time has passed which is it's not a surprise as that happens with other coronaviruses too assuming reinfected people also in fact others which is a pretty good bet you end up in the long run with a circular fairly stable system. of a certain number of people regularly passing it along to a certain number of others whose immunity has lapsed it's endemic if vaccines can

spur long lasting immune responses and and help prevent transmission to things that we still don't really know yet then it would give us a fighting chance of breaking the circle but but that would take moving fast with vaccination programs on our own a really ness of scale worldwide because we're also in a race against a new tating viral enemy with with new variants arising all the time and as long as the large numbers of people remain unvaccinated wherever they are they'll continue to provide a reservoir for the virus and also a space for it to evolve potentially turning progress we've made so far into a 2 steps forward one step back situation. before i ruin your day though please remember another important thing we can still end this pandemic even if sars

to does become endemic all that means is that once we have the situation at hand to some extent in the future we'll have to react quickly to help breaks with effective control measures and we've been developing an arsenal of those for a year now. they're a could never my day thanks for watching stay safe and i'll see you again very soon here on the delegate bob i.

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