1700 years. in germany our series this week. we journey from berlin to munich to meet cultural leaders commemorating the past taking creative risks and building community 700 years of jewish life in germany. this week. and culture. this is the dublin news a chef coming up today a demand for justice for a walk time atrocity. the young suv was forced into the japanese on these brothels of world war 2 now this 92 year old is demanding an international court does about accountability for suffering plus. penalized for undermining the judiciary. portal is fine for

comments its readers made online so what is the message the. press. welcome to news isha glad you could join us a 92 year old woman forced into sexual slavery by japan during world war 2 wants both governments to settle the issue at the un's highest court. has demanded that the international court of justice delivered a verdict on the issue of so-called comfort women a euphemism for the thousands of women forced into sexual slavery by the japanese army in world war 2 it's an issue that's dogged tradition both countries for decades. she is 92 and those who suffered as she did are now few in number so this overwhelming moment was perhaps li yong sue's final

attempt to push for what she sees as justice that is that. when i die and meet other victims in heaven what can i say to them. i will have no excuse when they scold me for not solving the problem before dying. my last wish is to see our government taking this issue to the international court of justice and get its verdict so we as well. leon soon was a sex slave during japan's occupation of the korean peninsula she says japan and south korea should have the united nation's highest court decide on an issue that continues to divide them that is whether japan should do more to acknowledge and compensate for the system of enslaving and abusing thousands of women who were sent to military brothels. japan insists all wartime compensation issues have been

settled and 1965 treaty that normalized relations with south korea also extended compensation. but victim anguish and activism persisted a settlement in 2015 with japan said to be final and irreversible provided $9000000.00 to a victim's fund but many victims criticized the language and the current south korean government dissolved that deal to take the issue to the international court of justice in the hague both countries would have to agree and it might be the south korean government saying no to the idea considering the possibility of losing or at least not gaining an overwhelming legal victory. the matter has long put a wedge between japan and south korea and a recent court ruling in seoul lit another flame in the dispute. it says japan must pay about $90000.00 to each of 12 women who filed lawsuits over their suffering but

it's not the money victim lee young soo says. then i want them to completely acknowledge the crime and give a full sincere apology. but that acknowledgement has already happened japanese officials have said previously so the 92 year old lee may need to find another means of gaining closure on a brutal crime if i'm his option is an international law expert at yonsei university in surrey and was at the press conference by. ethan welcome what does he want from the i.c.j. . think embarrassed. is the young sue is one of the 200000 japanese military conflict women or military sense slaves were taken by the japanese forces during world war 2 she like among them like other victims has been

the asking for 7 demands and the top 2 demands have been for japan to recognise is the goal responsibility for its past and human crimes against manatees and immense police actions japan on its part says the treaties that was signed with the south korean government in 19652015 address its culpability in wartime crimes and therefore for japan the issue is closed is japan right. yes well japan has been not bad has been the standard argument given by the japanese government. since the sixty's but it has been noted that with respect billy's to the complement issue the japanese government of the night its involvement until 1901 basically almost 30 years after the signing of this is expired claimed remained so that it is ingenious but you have to claim that their claim to the

illegal claims have been way under $9065.00 agreement when there was a lease with respect to the council and think those that agreement as there are basically in the session how much support do former sex slaves in south korea have from their all in government on this particular. soon become fluent issue is a very very emotional issue in south korea. because of is the nature of its affairs and the current our current president in his promise to resolve this issue with her victim center probes now. he has been he has been conducting diplomatic he has been meeting between efforts was japan to resolve this issue but so far there has been very little urban planning breakthrough and.

the south korean court are just last month ruled that japanese government should compensate the south south being victims the japanese government has argued that that court decision is action by omission of law which is why those including the un still having as asked the south korean government to actually japan and to bring the case before the international court of justice or the i.c.j. so that they can finally adjudicate on this matter of great importance in terms of his human rights why is this such a vexed issue in south korea and. it's unfortunate but the comfort women issue has not been addressed in the media because court years or even in the immediate post-war decades it was only 990 s. that it issue actually came into the public limelight and like i said it's only in

99 you want the japanese government actually admit its involvement in the become for the institution of the council woman so it's been you know me in the past 30 years after almost 20 years after the end of the war that this issue came up now south south korea japan korea as. i need from not to mention 945. this is the. place in that context so not only is this a very human rights violation issue which. is also a very historic issue between the 2 countries as well leave it there with the time being but thank you so much for speaking to us. thank you so much. ruling that has maybe what it about freedom of the press in the country the court

found that a popular online news site. was responsible for the content of readers comments it said the site was guilty of contempt for publishing comments that were critical of the judiciary and ordered to pay a fine of $125000.00 when editor in chief stephen warned the ruling could have far reaching implications as i say. it is a it has a chilling effect on. on freedom of expression in asia i think. it creates a situation where. we have to look through the comments in all these not just you know that that you are responsible for not just for your own comments that you post but also you are responsible for comments that it's actually meet by 3rd parties

phil robertson is deputy director with human rights watch and joining me now on the line. editor says the verdict will have a chilling effect on freedom of expression in malaysia do you agree. there's no doubt that it will it's and it's a shocking verdict it's one that says that anybody who has comments on their web page or their online platform is liable for whatever those comments are even if they had nothing to do with it and even if they removed it right away when notified by the police this is a shocking verdict and it's definitely going to have a major impact on freedom of expression in malaysia but does the colts have a point i mean is a media organization not to be held accountable for what's posted on its platform. international human rights law says that they do not have that liability if they are not involved with

a comment are they had to modify the content. i think that this is frankly outrageous and unacceptable by the court to come down in this way on this decision our view is that there is clearly a responsibility to respond to police thordis when notified and that's what malaysiakini did they acted in good faith and said they've been criminalized and face a massive foreign how would you describe the state of for press freedom in malaysia under the current government. the press freedom situation in malaysia is heading steadily downwards unfortunately we have seen a really return to the dark days of the period when for instance prime minister not jeep was in control and the press was really viewed as the enemy of the government . prime minister a movie dane and his government have wage an all out assault on any sort of

independent media that is reporting critically on what they do we've seen them throw out al jazeera journalists we've seen them raid al-jazeera office other journalists have been called in and questioned and now we have this action against malaysiakini it's it's an indication that the government is not prepared to accept any sort of criticism whatsoever even by independent media and even when that criticism as well founded fear how much is that down to the instability here but the current government well the current government just because it took power in a somewhat dubious manner and was not formally elected you know should not be taking it out on civil society or independent media outlets it has a responsibility to respect rights for all it's an all it's a pleasure talking to a thank you so much for all that you. and that's if there's

a. stay with the men just to do with up top story the most from the issue of war crimes sex slaves which over the years has seen protests across demanding justice for the victims. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection in developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts the coronavirus update coming. on t w. every day counts for us

and for our planet. global ideas is on its way to bring you more conservation code to make see the screen. how can we protect habitats. we can move to france. good morning to us the environmental series of the global 3000 on d.w. and all modern. it's in july 1 of the world strictness lockdowns. 11 on a month long 24 hour curfew his part moves people from leaving their homes. could protests like this one in a route have led to a gradual easing. now hospital staff worry the strain

on resources will grow. the good news officials are rolling out of that scene campaign. but critics say it's too slow and perhaps too fragile in a country where government skepticism and outright anger continue to grow. so can the vaccine turn things around for levanon that's a question i'll pose to our guest from beirut in a moment a clinical psychologist who's grappling with the issue of whether to stay in the country or go like many medical professionals the way forward for lebanon will not be easy the country counts as significant refugee population including large numbers of palestinians and even more arrivals from syria the demographics affect how the pandemic plays out a un report shows the covert mortality rate for palestinian refugees in lebanon is a whopping 3 times higher than other groups. corona virus infections continue to

surge medical capacity is already stretched to its limits and with the financial crisis having crushed the economy half full citizens now live in poverty where to turn. every bad here is for staff working around the clock. as they risk their lives. to save lives. like their patients here at refeed hariri university hospital in beirut they too are free and. want it to be all but i see my children every day but every day i live in fear that i may transmit this virus to them i'm trying my best to protect them that i can't have a young man in. the situation has been getting worse every day for the last 3 weeks . and we have about 20 patients and measures here all week or empty but.

this is it really is very exhausting for auto stuff. for more than a month the country has been under a 24 hour a day curfew to try to tackle the spread of cope at 19. but anti lockdown protests in cities like tripoli put pressure on the government to begin easing restrictions and last week ministers began relaxing some of its lockdown measures that may help the struggling economy but it's worrying health workers the number of. infections and the community is still hard we have more than 20 percent just positives it today and if we've pretty much really opened a company that was really to reverse some of the older games that we have. you know our chief. while patients here are receiving the best care available

a shortage of medicines is making the job for health professionals even tougher. economic crisis is also forcing some to leave lebanon all together. we can see the skilled has switched gears just looking forward to leave because i don't have exact numbers but i will throw it to prestigious to situations with 0 focus stuff to have this have 302250 traditions like 60 people have devoted they have left which is it which should be triggered. in the middle of a pandemic hospitals like this can't afford to lose a single member of staff. but with lebanon in crisis they may have no choice. but as it could he is a clinical psychologist and joins us from beirut what's your explanation for so many doctors leaving the country. while several factors of course have in fact that

the citizens of these professionals starting with the devaluation of the lebanese town towards the dollar so the income that they used to make is you know now peanuts but i think the biggest decision really came after that made with blast in august when it's really hit security and the security of their families and some of them they had they clinics destroyed their hospitals you have 7 hospitals that were destroyed family homes i think this is what pushed people over the at and then they decided to leave unfortunately so it comes down to you know not just the financial but also the distrust in the government is that is that also where this distrust comes from is as far as taking a vaccine. and this this does is it is a minor word actually for what differentiates towards the government. but yet it's it's not only at this job it's a sense of security and you know security is really the basis to build on the life

you need to be secure anyway in order to be able to drive and work and have a family. in love and have relationships etc so when this is not present and debated with blast was very difficult on people because it hits people in their comfort zones and they homes you know people at home people who are you know visiting other people or in cafes so it wasn't you know like there was a declared war and then you know shelling started it was just out of the blue is that this gets asked if you happened and it hurts many people and when the security base is shaken that that hurts a lot so many we have many doctors who are young physicians and doctors and who were starting to establish their kid who left but you also have very well established doctors and professionals who had that period of 3040 years in lebanon who also left so that then did you know how difficult it is pretty much on

everybody to be living here what will tell me if it does affect everybody what about you when you're going to stay when you just told us about the financial crisis they were blas now the coronavirus crisis. yeah i mean maybe we're giving it another year my husband and family and i and and see where that goes it's also very difficult to leave you know you have to understand our relationship with lebanon the lebanese 11 and it's a love hate relationship we love the county we want to be here we want to serve it we want to build it but sometimes the country hasn't left us back and it's been very difficult and becomes a point where you need to have a you know you have to cut this dysfunctional relationship some people have done it to me i find it more difficult but who knows i hope i won't have to get to that decision now in terms of the covert of course the whole world is dealing with covert 19th and i make that lebanon has so many other levels of problems starting

you know with the security issues with the with the economic issues with the government. and then on top of this the covert 19 so it is it's been very difficult and you mentioned that this just about the vaccine well that this i mean i don't i don't think that the stuff is necessarily with the government per se but it's more about you know lack of education about what the vaccine as and you have all these conspiracy theories you know that what if they're putting a chip in us and you know all these things that you know are very common now but more and more i must say since the 1st day we got the vaccination until now the numbers have to print in quite they're perfect so it's been it's been very good i think you got yours could the vaccine and i got yours again changed your mind so you have it on could go away saying the vaccine making a real difference. i think so if anything on the minimal level in terms of at least opening up the country boosting

a bit the economy of the travel of people going in and out you know opening again you know shops and restaurants because you've been under lockdown since mid january and so many more times before so i think that will make it a fence yes it will help for sir i will fingers crossed i say koreans being a pleasure talking to you thank you very much for being on the show today thank you so much for having me. and staying in the region and a question one of our viewers had here is our science correspondent derrick would. now that vaccines are beginning to be widely distributed how long will they take to actually have an effect on society. we've gotten a 1st tantalizing answer to this key question now from israel at an early stage of vaccine development its government struck collaboration deals with companies to receive vaccines quickly and at scale once they were approved in

return it agreed to pay top dollar but also to share subsequent data collected by israel's extensive highly organized public health care system in effect the agreements turned the entire country into a fast track giant scale real world experiment on the dynamics of disease spread in a population during the largest vaccine campaign in history and i'm happy to say that the results so far which were published just a few days ago on what very good. since the end of december israel has fully vaccinated close to one out of every 3 people in the country so they've received both doses the impressive numbers on efficacy from trials indicated that those people should be well protected just 2 weeks after the 2nd shot but that was in

trials with that also proved true in the real world well. israeli studies comparing hundreds of thousands of fully vaccinated adults to those who didn't get the vaccine have no shown over 90 percent effectiveness in the vaccinated group in other words they were many many times less likely to develop symptomatic of at 19 just as the trial had predicted they were also over 90 percent less likely to develop severe disease and that was regardless of age one of the authors told the vaccines incredibly effective in real life that's pretty much the most hopeful news i've heard so far this year. science correspondent eric williams there finally how about a slice with that shot there talked about the big vaccination push on in israel

well many organizers there are offering free perks like pizza for anyone getting the job that is towns and even businesses across israel working closely with the country's health care networks to drive up vaccination participation and not just offer food one buy in tel aviv was even offering free drinks to the freshly vaccinated nonalcoholic of course just to feel safe side of the health workers get one take. i'll take the job if he may have a full well that is not just the beer 6 pack thanks for watching stay safe and also you are. going.

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