woman became the 1st fatal victim of myanmar's uprising she was shot in the head by police 10 days ago. but the other did only her condition became worse by the day and then her heart stopped beating. her death is adding fuel to the fire much of the country has been in open revolt ever since troops arrested civilian leader aung sang suu kyi. the rallies have been steadily growing in size and the hunter has responded by making mass arrests and by escalating its use of force against peaceful protesters. and the presence of security forces has been stepped up across the country. we are being peaceful why are they using so much force they pushed us violently look at them do they need to act like this we are not blocking any roads they

intentionally use this force they shouldn't do that. tens of thousands of people from across me and mar society have joined an all out strike by refusing to go back to work until democracy is restored. citizens have been coming up with ever more ingenious methods of bringing the country and its traffic to a standstill. these residents are pretending to pick things up from the ground to make it more difficult for security forces to reach the protests. others are overcome by a sudden urge to repair their bikes in the middle of the road. but rights groups are calling for the international community to support these civilian tactics with harsh sanctions on the country's lucrative gems and banking sectors so that no more protesters get killed like that. only in that i want to

encourage all the citizens to join the protests until we can get rid of this system . she says she hopes her sister's death will ban people even closer together as they resist the regime. here in germany people are marking exactly one year since a gunman went on a racially motivated attack in the western town of hanau he killed 9 people before shooting dead his own mother and taking his own life but tragedy started abate over whether more could and should have been done to prevent it. it was a night that left a community in shock grief and anger. shortly before 10 pm shots rang out in the center of higher now a gunman entered 2 bars where he killed 3 people. the attacker then drove to another bar across town where he continued his rampage here and in

a kiosk next door shooting another 6 people. within 12 minutes 9 people were left for dead 7 more were injured some seriously. the police were quickly able to identify the killer who lived in the area. a few hours later they searched his home and found he had shot his mother and himself. his motive for the attack hatred of foreigners the 43 year old shooter had posted a manifesto and videos online full of conspiracy theories and racist rants. his victims all had a migrant background. in the wake of the attack there was an outpouring of solidarity across the country. and strong condemnation from the german government. yes this was racism is a poison hate is a poison and this poison exists in our society and is responsible for far too many

crimes we stand with all our strength and determination against all those who try to divide germany after last night. one year on from the attack. still run deep and for many questions remain whether move could have been done to prevent the events of that terrible night. they have any political correspondent hands behind is standing by for us in home now and just how 7 heavily does this tragedy still weigh on the community there one year on the very heavily indeed of course now with the anniversary there are pictures of the victims all over tall and even an outlying areas it is very much present in the city that this attack took place and if you talk to people here you feel you get the feeling that they have been dealing with they have been grappling with this for years for

the whole year and they don't really feel that they have found closure they have not got the feeling that whole matter has been cleared up by the police properly and they're doing feel secure in the street because this attack came completely out of the blue and many people who live here about half of the population are people with a migrant background are not fearful that just by being on the street there might provoke further attacks so no closure van where there are specific other specific things that they're angry about. yes indeed there are several aspects of the investigation and of the behavior of police and the authorities before the attack took place for instance there was an emergency x. exit in one of the bars that was attacked which was locked so the people could not get off when the gunmen entered the premises and this locked door should have been

open the police knew about it for years but for some reason nothing was done about it then there's also criticism of the way that the authorities have been dealing with some of the families of the victims a lack of sympathy for instance a lack of support that the support has been mostly organized in citizens' groups by private private initiatives and so on there is a feeling that in some sense the authorities have not been doing enough and then there is the official investigation which has been going on for this year and no results from that have been published yet it has apparently been completed but at the moment it's a story not being disclosed because the families are being given an opportunity to respond to the official investigation haha just briefly how will the city be commemorating the victims of han on today well there have been commemorations in a small way all during the day today especially at the 2 sites where these attacks

took place and then in a couple of hours time there will be an official state celebration where the german president will be speaking into the name of the german state and the german people as well as the president or rather the premier of the local region the local federal states and the mayor of the city of homs so that will be happening in the next year or this take up any political correspondent hands on in hand i'll thank you. and we'll have live coverage of that commemoration ceremony taking place in one hour from $1800.00 a 6 pm hours central european time we'll take a look now at some other news that from around the world china has confirmed 4 soldiers were killed in border clashes with indian forces last year it was their deadliest confrontation in decades this is the 1st time beijing has admitted casualties in the fighting which also killed 20 indian soldiers as the country's recently agreed to disengage at the disputed region. the trial of

a journalist and doctor accused of releasing the medical records of a deceased protester started in bella roots the victim died from brain damage after he was arrested at an anti-government demonstration last year on thursday a court trial to journalists for violating public order while reporting on the rallies. electricity is being restored to households across texas after a deadly winter storm paralyzed the u.s. state's power system millions of people spent days without hating water the state's governor has called for more money to make sure the electricity system can withstand ultra cold temperatures. britain's prince harry and his wife meghan markle have announced they are stepping down permanently as working royals buckingham palace said their patronage is an honorary military appointments will be handed back to the queen the couple recently announced they're expecting their 2nd child. think nasa is celebrating the successful landing of its most advanced

spacecraft yet on mas its space rover aptly named perseverance touched down safely inside one of the planet's crisis after a nail biting to st robotic vehicle will make history by collecting some samples of martian soil to be brought back to worth that could help scientists the term an ev life ever existed on the red planet. at that confirmed. a break in thinking at the end of. the moment scientists hope he could be a way to. describe the 3rd part of the 1st and this is what it looks like the 1st images beamed back from os more high quality images will be sent back in the coming hours and days. i feel relieved to have be excited ready to get to work or

a part of the science team let's go do some science it's been a long 8 years and we're ready to go. it was a high risk landing. presidents are going about one comment of perfection at an altitude of about 6000 kilometers on the surface of mars. a 7 month journey followed by what scientists call 7 minutes of tarot. president out of the word 2 thirds arctic believe and that he still has been separated. when the probe fix succeeded its delicate landing maneuver without help from nasa says mission control. over the next 2 years perseverance will make history by collecting samples of martian soil. scientists believe that around 3500000000 years ago this crater was home. a river that float into

a lake making it a good location to start looking for signs of life. this mission is amazing on its own science technology and catching samples back to earth but it's also part of our bigger exploration plans for right which involve really understanding mars and the evolution of mars and whether there was life ancient life but also preparing for eventually human missions to mars. bringing the samples back to earth would be another complicated journey. involving several other rocket launches and spacecraft meeting up with perseverance in space to pick up its congo. if cold goes according to plan those precious samples without drive back on truth as early as 2031. and watching news coming up next on. the form

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so what is the best. time to welcome to. 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 world war 2 it's an issue that's dogged 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 and. 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 we as well. liang sue 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 in 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. and then i want them to completely acknowledge the crime and give a full sincere apology. but that acknowledgment 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 auction is an international law expert at yonsei university and so on and was at the press conference by. even welcome what does he want from the i.c.j. . think embarrass these the young sue is one of the 200000 japanese military conflict women or military said slaves were taken by the japanese forces during world war 2 she like

a muslim like other victims as in the asking for 7 demands and the top 2 demands have been for japan's recognize is the legal responsibility for its past and human crimes against manatees and to make amends for to use actions not 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. it well you can has been not bad has been the standard argument given by the japanese government. says the sixty's has been noted with respect at least to the comfort women issue the japanese government the not its involvement until 1901 basically almost 30 years after the signing of this 65 came to agreement so that it is ingenious but you have to claim that their claim

to the new york claims had been way under that is 65 agreement when there was the least with respect to the consular 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 government on this particular issue. 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 when jane has promised 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 japanese government has argued that that court decision is action by omission of law which is why victims including the un still have where he has asked south korean government to actually create 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 human rights why is this such a vexed issue or will it be in south korea and. it's unfortunate but the comfort women issue has not been addressed in the immediate post-war 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

1901 that the japanese government actually admitted its involvement in the console the institution of the council woman so it's been you know mean past 30 years after almost 40 years after the end of the war that this issue came up now south south korea japan korea as a. all i need from that detention 945. system to 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 timing but thank you so much for speaking to us. thank you so much fish.

ruling that has many wanted about freedom of the press in the country the court found that the 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 editing chief steven warned the ruling could have far reaching implications. as i say. it sends a 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 joins me now on the line phil. says the verdict will have a chilling effect on freedom of expression in malaysia do you agree. there is 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 if it does the courts have a point i mean it is a media organization not to be have 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 or they have 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 authorities were 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 or 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 of of 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 its in all its present open to it thank you so much for all that you. and that's if there's of course.

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caused most of us. who still. want to do years do they have the future. dot com for the mega city. click on. the for. its enjoyed one of the world strictest lockdowns. in lebannon a month long 24 hour curfew has bought most people from leaving their homes to the food protests like this one either a route has led to a gradual easing. now hospital staff worry the strain

on her. grow. the good news officials are rolling out a vaccine 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 posed 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 a country counts a 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 a ready 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 refuge hariri university hospital in beirut they too are free and . fornication hope you 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 it can't happen young men know. the situation has been getting worse every day for the last 3 weeks or what i was hubris or and we have about 20 patients and it measures here all week the crew are empty but.

this is it really is very exhausting for a lot of 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 because. heart we have more than 20 percent just positivity and if we've pretty much really opened the company that would be to reverse the gains 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. the economic crisis is also forcing some to leave lebanon altogether. we cause he's the skilled has switched gears just looking forward to be able to go . i don't have exact numbers but i can study well from a prestigious years 2 shims was talk of stuff to her this had 302250 decisions like 60 people have it but to have left which is the point she became. 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 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 debate 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 the 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 this is a minor word actually for what differentiated 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 and 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 others. and 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 that 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 are you going to stay when you've just told us about the financial crisis that 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 stuck 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 that go for it of course the whole world is dealing with covert 19th and i make about 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 cove at 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 what the government per say 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 on 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 and 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 change your mind so you have it on could go away saying no 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 the travel of people going in and out you know opening again you know shops and restaurants because you've been on a lockdown since mid january and so many more times before so i think that will make a difference yes it will help for sir i will fingers crossed i say korea's been 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's. 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 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 would that also prove true in the real world well. israeli studies comparing hundreds of thousands of fully vaccinated adults to those who didn't get the vaccine and now showed 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 called 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 not just offering food one buy in tel aviv was even offering free drinks to the freshly vaccinated nonalcoholic of course just to feel safe side to side the health workers get on to. i'll have a job if you give me a pizza a full well that is not just a beer 6 pack thanks for watching stay safe and i'll see you again 6.

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