make sure that an agreement is reached so that she can be released and their rights can be restored letty. has wanted to be free all her life and i am i'm not satisfied until latif i set out to extrapolate to a country where choice and. and and get that freedom vest is always wanted. some are calling for world leaders and dignitaries to reconsider their relationship with the u.a.e. and its ruling family this is a country that if the were literally mean people will be almost beaches in the by a few 100 meters away from where the paper is essentially in solitary confinement a hostage. it can only be hoped that international pressure will not come too late for the missing princess let's look at this closely with dr matthew had just from the school of governments and international affairs and done university in the u.k. he was imprisoned in the u.a.e. for 6 months after being accused of spying for the british government welcome to

day w m you've said that princess latif has cases brought back the trauma of your experience and back in 2018 what do you see as the parallels between your experience and. firstly in fundamentally it's the abuse of justice and any form of accountability in this case towards not one but russia there's no legal case against princess latika she was you know obvious charity detained in international waters much like a sister who was you know kidnapped from the u.k. . with the tacit support of you know members and people within the u.k. . and it's just a serial abuse of hours until we speculate about why prince mohamed might be acting in this way. omid been zaya to the rule of

tobias as he seems to be losing a serious amount of power and control both domestically within his own family but also within the federation of the u.a.e. is power has has subsided. the evidently ruling family has increasingly take control and show common russia it seems he doesn't seem to be able to lead properly and effectively he's he's in acting he's ruling at his own women this is a very dangerous path to go down because people's human rights are being seriously abused and it's only because these these videos and evidence is coming forward that anyone knows that this is happening and i'm struggling to make that connection between the sort of a power play within the region and kidnapping his own daughter not for the 1st time when i go and what why do you think there why does he act like this

he feels as though he can get away with it he feels as though that no one is pushing back against him domestically internationally you know countries like like my own the u.k. continues to do business with them there is no form of accountability and justice in my own case you know the u.k. government didn't appropriately intervene they didn't try to support me i didn't have any form of interaction with my embassy for 2 months whilst i was being psychologically tortured and held against my will in a similar way to which presents the tif is being held against her own will but she has no protection she has no martie national they could be doing anything to and which we simply don't know in the u. case positioned in this it is interesting isn't it because we have the united nations that and to great britain calling for princess lity for his release why is my is britain taking such a leading role in this. our i'd like to ask is the u.k.

actually standing forward and demanding any form of accountability for princess that. did the foreign secretary actually come out and and demond a form of of knowledge and understanding about his situation or was he merely stating that there should be or that there could be some form of sign of life you know is that proof that she's even alive and i know it's quite a dramatic statement to make but at this point no one knows her safety and whereabouts so do you think the british government is just play acting at this. absolutely they unless there is enough pressure placed upon them they will not do it they they have far too many interests you know with with the ruler of dubai and and the u.a.e. to do anything of to to make any form of intervention. you know there are deep deep

ties between the u.k. and the u.a.e. . the foreign minister of state for the middle east at the foreign office is now the chairman of the emirates society through the u.a.e. embassy in london you know that this is just a just one minor example of those connections between the 2 countries it's unlikely the u.k. will do anything to jeopardize that relationship but now this is gone as far as the united nations that the spotlight is very much on dubai it's clearly not going to go away. it won't go away. you know in russia he is his actions have become public you know last year not in the london high court again to share with you evidence of the abuse against prince of the tea for. well it's a willing good oss highlights in these events much happening but unless there's any accountability in any justice any form of sanctions on issuance or some form of

pushback against this type of behavior all we doing is enabling it to a car and this is not just against dubai and its one person the rule of dubai but also what about the entire country but this justice is continued that this is not something which happens rarely if this is a this is a regular occurrence and it's only through these extreme examples that it can be known thank you for joining us dr matthew hazaras from durham university thank you very much. and to me i'm aware demonstrators have gathered in the largest number so far to demand an end to military rule opponents of the february 1st akun a doubt the military will keep its promise to hold elections and hand back power deposed neda. remains in jail facing trivial criminal charges and as the thousands join drags in cities across the country despite fears of

a violent crackdown. a battle cry for democracy tens of thousands of protesters flooding the streets of yangon stepping up their open revolt against a military takeover karsh uses roadblocks to keep security forces from moving around the commercial capital. in this cat and mouse game it appears to for now it's the might who have the upper hand. internet shutdowns another attempts to disrupt the demonstrations have largely proved futile even the judge says assurances of free and fair elections happen met with the skepticism exacerbated by fresh criminal charges against on sons who cheat. i know the young people of this generation don't have to believe the military's promises they lied before that they'd hold an election back in 1908 so we've already learned our lesson from that page of history that i have. used growing concern that myanmar's bloody history

could be about to repeat itself the un says it's received reports of soldiers being ready for crackdown in young dawn sparking fears that scenes like this are merely a taste of what's to come. but is this activist told the daily news they're not backing down no i'm not afraid i'm not afraid we being that we have been under the military control for years so this is that's why we have to finish them this guy we this we went oh what shall we give a crazy when your uncle was very early and. asked the world watches with bated breath for many here me and more there's only one way out of this. for with their fists high even if no one knows where the world will beat them. take a look at some more news from around the world and nato defense ministers have

begun a 2 day virtual summit to consider the alliance his future in afghanistan it's the 1st such gathering since the u.s. election the ministers will discuss whether the allies should continue the fight against the taliban or with joints troops even as the taliban increases its attacks against afghan police and civilians gunmen have stormed the school in central nigeria and kid not dozens of students and some teachers staff say one student was shot dead during the attack a large numbers of men in miniature uniforms that took students away from the government science college in can godhra in niger state a few managed to escape. a judge in india has cleared journalists to priya ramani of criminal defamation after she accused a politician of sexual harassment 2017 was ramani wrote an article as part of the global response to the meet to movement huge film a newspaper editor turned lawmaker and bar of workplace heresy and her claims were

followed by several applications from more than 20 other women is to at bar resigned from his post as junior foreign minister the most a criminal defamation case against her was ramani says she hopes her victory would empower other women to speak out if she is following today's acquittal. it's not about me it was about to be mean we spoke out about it. as part of the. this is what all this is for all of them. so with such obvious league football and liverpool and parry sound ramana for themselves in strong positions to advance to the quarter finals killian start with a hot trick as p.s.g. humiliated barcelona won the 1st leg of their last 16 tied spain meanwhile liverpool beat bundesliga side b. leipsic 2 nil thanks to goals for mohamed salah and sad sad you man

a coach you're going club said he was very pleased with his side's performance i know pretty well and i know how. they can be footballers and how. overwhelming they can be in a game from a physical point of view so that's what we had to deal with tonight and the boys who played a really good game a really good game who created one big chance in the 1st half and 2 chances when they. shoot to goals after 2 big mistakes of my team but at the end i think we have to be good chances and it will 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 stephanus that see past staged a remarkable comeback to knock out rough found that dow in the quarter finals ending the spaniards paid for a record 21st grand slam title since

a fast and lost the 1st 2 sets before recovering to win the next 3 in a match that lasted more than 4 hours and 22 year old from greece will now face the neil medvedev in the semifinals as he looks to be chiefs 1st a grand slam final. as if you're up to date i'll have more at the top of the hour d w 19 special next. the fate of against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update 19 special. on t w. what keeps us in shape what makes us sick

and how do we stay healthy. my name is dr carlson i talk to medical experts. and they discuss what you can do to improve your head. state use and let's try to stay. on the job of. the. new covert variants out of the making the bombers more transmissible their 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 and here in the. much

slower than expected effect a sea of. time is ticking no one knows when and how when you variants will affect transmission and whether the current back scenes will work. the u.k. is stepping up testing to stop virus variants from spreading up to 10 percent of positive tests to send to labs for further genome analysis. in the global fight against co that 19 is mutations that are preventing the next great challenge and here in the u.k. authorities are taking another fight directly into people's homes. 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 tests to screen to mutations meaning that when they all found authorities here a cracking down hard it's thanks to genome sequencing that authorities can pinpoint where. the u.k. is the world leader in sequencing analyzing 10 percent of positive covert samples for the emergence of new variants. in toto the team of the u.k.'s pivot 19 genomics to 14 is responsible for almost half the world's poor by 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 meet ations 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 to take hold putting vaccine programmes at risk we take actions will be in the 4 corners of the year and there'll be lots that we don't know about that would be quite concerned if we did know about now the reason that support of all of us is because some of these variants are actually going to lead to a challenge 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 work it's already been done to modify that seems to protect against existing variants. professor paul heath is the chief investigator at the u.k.'s novak 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 the 19 vaccines are very recent and calexico and so it's entirely possible that modified vaccines will emerge very quickly from. their print vaccine manufacturers and vaccines will lie. they have to adapt in the meantime identifying and isolating mutations will be an invaluable tool in the cat's announce game between facts scenes and variance. julian tally is a consultant virologist at the leicester royal infirmary new mutations a cold variance of concern how concerned are you. so. i'm not that concerned i think and actually need to adapt to these variants i think most people concerned because they may go transmissible so they may overwhelm

health care service that isn't just like zation and there's also some fact in the skate properties that some of them are showing maybe just the effects of the current vaccine but then we sort of as we do have years of ok so no panic yet but what about the various variants tell us about the bristol liverpool barry and the south african one. yes there is no can't be 117 did not have to for it for playing mutation that seems to be conferring vaccine estate properties but now the big 17 can bring to the choir the 4 it folk is now called the bristol variant but also the previously existing circulating strain from the original who hunt chinese variant has done quite for 4 as well but the certification is not kind of infiltrating the u.k. so it'll give you 2 viruses and then of course these 44 plays already present in south africa in very other brazilian variants 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 it what what does the data actually show us about these variants. so the russian of the moment 7 k. france seems the more transmissible there were some fact confounders and that they seem to be spreading more quickly throughout you keep up later and also in other places like australia for example and perhaps journey where you've got some cases the bristol a little too 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. mortality mobility to pieces in conditions like hypertension diabetes heart disease etc so there is still some. doubt about the.

true effect of that of clinical severity also that the original evil 17 very they can't very and may have a wider spectrum of clinical symptoms compared to the previous cyclical strain and it may well be that it becomes more more it's was pretty symptoms and less with things like loss of taste and smell but again this is ongoing the number still needs to be proven creased 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 it's late in the season the winter cold may exacerbate a lot of the claim abilities 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 haven't they to the liverpool impressed the 1st to make a comment like this with the dates so from the 17 can't present just waters miss

ability 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 the straits really causing all this extra effects separate from the winter indoor crowding in the winter increased mobility mortality of those priests in conditions and just really really briefly in which direction do you think sasco heater was actually evolving now. oh i think we'll see the r.'s devolving to a more transmissible has that up to straight with the e for it for play and the additional meters to see what the also verbs as well as

something that was alluded thirds and the fact that these 44 play 5 award influence of mutations appearing independently across the world different variants from different countries suggest that these are the true. beaches that we're seeing now the tunisian population joleon tom thank you very much for your questions now here's our science correspondent derek williams. i've heard that like influenza sars cough too 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 would play 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 b 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 people can get reinfected after time has passed which is is not a surprise as that happens with other coronaviruses too assuming reinfected people also in fact others which is a pretty good bad 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 to 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 or on a really massive scale worldwide because we're also in a race against a mutation viral enemy with with new variants arising all the time and as long as the large numbers of people remain and vaccinated 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. erica never my day thanks for watching stay safe and i'll see you again very soon here on t.w. advice.

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