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to the heights of the. welcome to. join us canada on monday became the 2nd major country after the united states to label china actions in a genocide the motion passed in the. condemned. and other ethnic minorities and it's not western. china has consistently denied these accusations with foreign minister one year telling the ongoing un human rights council in geneva that quote there has never been so-called genocide or religious oppression in the region he also invited human rights. to visit the region herself . he's always open to people from many countries who visit the province of learn

the facts on the ground china also welcomes the high commissioner for human rights to visit. joining me now as president of the congress. so welcome. has been seeking unfettered access to for over 2 years now. from the moment the un has been waiting for. well secular thought for the pope heavenly this more than actually this is the very empty promise it is not the 1st time in the past also we have been trying to sneeze you know chimes of his show and 'd gives a promise but never any longer it is the same say and chain as are open but it is evicting all too in a might and the sprit their propaganda even future china overnight the propaganda ploy of the plus also but to go that jordan out is so but china has been a lot an independent international finding mission to visit mr stern the

region so the mission and the other countries. have been of the covenant for visit for more than 2 years but it wasn't still locked up and if you believe that this invitation from china is disingenuous no it is i they say that just empty promise is. as others are others all just trying to. chip in it to the un and the earth playing the game of the i am i believe i believe this this in with the yet also not if so this is early. sort of are not happening i see this time all that this is also a. 'd promise yes or no kind of a has called the situation in shin during genocide and you care for the circuitry

adamic rob said of the ongoing un human rights council that abuses in triggering were happening on a court industrial scale do you think it very international pressure is finally working on trying. yes is there something in the national press cher is it growing up and is it is the some all the some some rule on this but not it had been moved from the like in the national condom me. to conflict action so we have seen so many countries particularly in countries of the parliament and the government and civil society or government of the soul but mostly if you're as of human right cause or section right at the root who could be sure and the make precious changes but we haven't seen the lull concrete action so that's like it is the kind to look at talk at this decision is alone and then

everyone has to look into soldiers craziest visit it is the most organizations and the space that the trade unions and the enlisted get will look on as it is and so on and they look at it is are they say it's a bit sick if they have some wood but just most of them talking if having hits in there or walking yeah but the whole body is that they are there are some other parliament passed new motions the it is this is the guy. i can say can have the parliament made the fist through for 21st century this is there there is this is that the governor is because it was you know almost lloyd so it does all kind of off the concrete action we need it also from all the wall particularly democratic countries. in country like germany or maybe follow ups it's not a big issue for ensuring i was there were also critical point or came up very un

human rights council what are your expectations from the u.n. . well the expected fall possible many more than 3000000 people concentration camp 20 percentage but whole lot haven't seen anything else section that's coming by the un the man at council so he needs us to the time that the council approved a resolution aqua to genocide and that some country a part of the early muslim country are continuous high then this country must be broken society and should be take concrete action and that soon the planet satisfied the need merely lesions that put that research on there is a very very rich and yes token is so we leave it there for the time being but thank you so much for speaking to us all can use our president of the one week of congress thank you i think and on wednesday of the un human rights council

discusses for a long time its called for accountability over the government's alleged human rights abuses there we'll have coverage of that and to model state of the news asia yesterday the situation in myanmar was addressed on the opening day of the council un secretary general antonio could turn as called for the military to stop their oppression and to release arrests of protesters it's part of the international pressure that's growing on me and ma the european union has now threatened sanctions against the country's military leaders in $1.00 and $2.00 military demonstrations continue on the ground with some protesters already paying a high price for their activism. a final goodbye to ted 9 when a father husband and protester. none of his family and friends thought resistance would mean a death sentence for the 37 year old. i

feel so sad losing him we lost the backbone of our family. i have to move on along with the rest of our family. on the road to decrement toria people in mandalay also be fab well flashing to 3 finger salute a symbol of solidarity. yet none win and another boy were gunned down by police on saturday in a heavy handed response to a protest against a february 1st military coup. another woman died in a separate demonstration. their deaths cost not only grief but also feared anger. here in the main city of young gone around a 1000 people returned to the streets they don't believe the junta has promised to hold fresh elections in a year's time the e.u. caught the development in myanmar quote extremely worrying and vowed to step up

pressure today we have decided to set a target of measures with ministers in response to these events. when we took the political agreement to apply sanctions. interest. other countries. and the us of also imposed sanctions against some from military leaders. family members of the deceased protesters are calling for justice s. thing and many. more things last. for the future. pakistan is trying to come to terms with the loss of one of its heroes. he was among 3 dead after going missing while trying to scale the world's 2nd highest mountain k 2 in brutal winter conditions such as death comes as

a blow especially to the village of nestled in the mountains and known as a village. another day inside a village another chance for mountaineers and porters to gather and discuss news from the nearby mountains and those further afield the news of late was particularly bad with one of the villages famous sons declared dead after trying to do what no one had done before. team was attempting summit without the help of bottled oxygen in mid winter temperatures and wind his able son had to turn back near the summit site she'd said parra is sure his dad found the peak but then found deadly trouble on the descent. you know me and my family lost our leader. and the pakistani nation has lost a great and brave climber. and the village of side

lost one of its own side is a place where many kids aspire to be like elisa power a. village is very famous it's the home of mountaineering. all the famous pakistani climbers are from such barra. we have motion errors porters cooks and the people who are running the expedition companies. climber after climber from side power has found success and ok janelle tragedy on the top peaks of the world and they've helped others reach beyond their limits. as a sub but all because of my training here and with the grace of god i became a climber and god willing i'll keep doing it in the future like i climbed broad peak and i claimed k 2 and 21900. 1000 meter mountains like k

2 in spring is much different than when her but subpar climbers will almost certainly continue to push for new records in mountaineering one of several of these children will likely one day be looking down from the roof of the world. and relieve your today with images of couture of the rules of the world 5 doctor who have lost their lives trying to speak this winter the best is one of the girls mountain as from around the world who bought a stock with each model by. the for.

the for. the for. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection in developing what does the latest research say. information and context around a virus update. on t w. this you know i mean in your minority. wedding because when i'm on one i notice what i'm focused on in this here but i'm like why don't organize it i know but as

a term of this you know i mean in your minorities who are getting what you guy i don't want to. me number and unanimous. the show could go because as of right yes or to put on i've only said that are going on what they're doing finding. 4 more months and then everything goes back to the way it was at least that's the plan in the u.k. where prime minister paris johnson is plotting a way out of lockdown he wants to lift all restrictions by the summer. no more lockdown in israel 2 with large parts of the economy open for business last weekend israelis can gradually go back to normal life the government is issuing a green pass app to anyone who has been vaccinated twice the 2 nations can relax

a little due to successful bax a nation drives a bet on the future but they can only when the fat scenes are effective against mutations. oh my goodness there's finally light at the end of the tunnel a heap of countries are easing restrictions again the difference this time being that we've got a vaccine but some people don't want it including a lot of health professionals something we'll look at on tomorrow's show 1st i spoke to the shaikh director of the us or institute about whether or not the exit strategies of the u.k. and israel are realistic. basically it is one of 2 approaches want to try to eradicate the virus completely sometimes called because it's there are strategy i think the other one the one i think is much more realistic is the assumption that the virus is now here with those suits and make so what we have to

do is try and live with the virus which means that there will be some restrictions in place over the longer term periodically relaxed. and but basically it's a it's a long stretch you where we recognize that the virus is in our mates. long term in the sense of forever. yeah i mean i think potentially just like we have with influenza influenza hits as a every season and every year periodic leave there are a pandemic. but what we have is a way of actually living with it trying to balance. the ability to. minimise any social restrictions whilst. also trying to minimize any. movie to see our mortality associated with the virus through what are you saying are you saying mosques are going to become. regular. we going to have to

continue social distancing for for the rest of our lives. i'm i think what we now have are like scenes of various active and i think that will help reduce the number of serious cases i mean hopefully also reduce transmissions i think that's a very important instrument that we've got in our toolkits we also now got a number of treatments for people who do develop serious disease and i think that is also incredibly helpful with that's when i think we should be able to actually substantially reduce obesity and mortality but there may be periods of time where we do need to take additional safeguards and those that may include. face masks that they may include physical distancing measures. actual physical contact periodic lee and i think the other thing we do need to develop and continue

to develop is our testing capabilities and the ability to support people who are isolating in the testing positive what would you say just finally to people who are tired of all these lockdowns. would like to see an end in sight but. may not think they can live with this type of virus for the rest of their life you will not think we're all top of them in this is an incredibly challenging period for all of us. what we know from our own human history is that reason learn to manage viruses and learn to live with them when they're in an aran posit nature with coded 19 what we've seen is just really very very rapid acceleration of our understanding of our own i think vaccines having treatments available and so i think mean clearly it's been a very very difficult it's all of us i mean i think things will get improved i very

much hope so but we need to be patient and we need to tread very carefully i think they say from the university of edinburgh thank you very much thank you. well germany has seen a harsh winter when it comes to the pandemic but one region in the north has made it through the last months with exceptionally low numbers of infections what's their secret to success the w.c. testified to and on a card house visitor brought stock in the state of limbo west pomerania. is it the cruel baltic breeze or the rather calm and collected mindset of people in the north of germany so far they have made it well through the covert crisis especially here in the city of. infection numbers are currently lower than the german everett. to supernews we are disciplined northern germans are quite different from everyone else. we're

a bit more nordic and distance anyway maybe that's our secret recipe lydia allowed to get so hard to try to bring it down to its rules so that it doesn't increase on the hurting does does the secret timing might have been one reason very early on the city started testing more people than ever it masks quickly became mandatory in designated places and alcohol was spent on the streets earlier than in most places in germany. another reason might be him of our stocks mayor he is originally from denmark and had just started his political career when the pandemic hits before that he was an entry printer helpful when leading a team. minded people looked very surprised when i said now we're going to shut everything down it took 15 minutes and then they started working all together as a strong team and immediately put my words in action and i can understand that when

the new mayor suddenly says we're going to shut everything down. now he wants to do things differently again the mayor has suggested opening up businesses before everyone else as an example for germany. we would be very happy to offer ourselves as a pilot city that way we can look at which concepts can be implemented that's a search reason for the low number of infections could be the north specs a nation strategy relative to its inhabitants they have vaccinated more people than any other region in germany. and there is something else a few family doctors are gaining nationwide attention because they started vaccinating people in their own practice unique in germany because so far people had to go to vaccination centers to get the jap administering it has been doable for doctors here contrary to popular belief the biotech pfizer vaccine can be

stored at normal french temperature for a couple of days minus my wish of course would be that when we have enough vaccine available in the near future that we will have proven with this model project it's possible the family doctors can do the vaccinations it has brought in this idea and let the family doctors take over. but germany is still missing vaccine doses until that problem is solved the country's north will have to continue counting on its discipline and maybe the fresh baltic breeze but me and you have been out through our science correspondent eric williams he's been looking into your questions on the coronavirus if there is something you want to know just leave a message for derek on our you tube channel and you look into it. our children as infectious as. what you read over and over

when you start to research this question is something that along the lines of the role that kids play in the spread of covert 19 remains highly controversial which is just a complicated way of saying we don't know but we're starting to fill in some of the blanks surrounding children and transmissions so so here's some of what we do know 1st of all kids in general tend to not manifest symptoms of the disease as strongly as adults do so they don't get as sick some researchers have polishes slee hypothesized that could be a reason why they don't transmit it as often even if they might have a viral load as high as that of an adult but another new study has muddied the waters a little because it's linked viral load in adults at least pretty tightly to

how infectious people are so actually some conflicting narratives there the other really interesting aspect of this issue however is that some studies show kids especially young ones appear in general to be less susceptible to catching cove at 19 in the 1st place there are several different theories out there about why that might be so but the important epidemiological takeaway is of course that the harder it is for you to catch it the less likely you become to pass it along many experts think that helps explain why schools don't appear to be driving community transmission but instead seem to only reflect it but the evidence is. overwhelming which is why so many schools are still closed so i can hear you say well what's the answer or are children as infectious as adults or not. and i can only respond

the role kids play in the spread of covert 19 remains highly controversial. a science correspondent derek williams there finally for 10 rockets hangs in indonesia the pandemic is made having to hitch a ride in a helicopter when released into the wild just recently a critically endangered animals had been in captivity wanted thailand and were rescued by the borneo rang a tank survival foundation 5 males 2 females and a mother with 2 babies were released right things were transported by chopper to prevent possible transmission of the corona virus in the a 5 villages poaching and habitat losses decimated the tank population and the coronaviruses emerged as and now the threat for the only great a for native to asia can see the helicopter ride there and touch down into the wild . always nice to finish on a fluffy out of all story we have had wanted

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be. the best. this is you know we knew it was live from berlin america mourns the united states surpasses 500000 coronavirus steps more than any other country in the world. each person we've lost and lived their lives. the left behind. candles light the white house as president biden leads an emotional national moment of silence what he wants the months of suffering are still ahead also coming up tell us what is wrong the way germany says

a medical team today portugal's overwhelmed health care system as it deals with a covert search but as a luxury chinese old hospital the real winner we have a special report. and western powers to step up the pressure on me and worst generals as protests broke against a military coup contend for sanctions more all stuff threats those increasing violence. thank you so much for your company everyone well we begin our broadcast with devastating news out of the united states it has marks and other somber milestone in the corona virus pandemic more than half a 1000000 people there have now died as a direct result of covert 900 but overall daily case numbers and coronavirus related deaths are continuing on a downward trend still u.s.

president joe biden urged americans to remain vigilant as he led an emotional commemoration for those who have lost their lives just over a year since the pandemic claimed its 1st known victim in the united states. a somber president joe biden and the 1st lady commemorated the 500000 victims of the pandemic on the lawns of the white house along with vice president come in the house and a husband they called on the nation not to forget the individual stories behind the numbers. that's more americans who died in one year's pandemic. than a world war one. war 2 in the vietnam war combined. that's more lives lost to this virus in any other nation on earth the president has ordered flags to fly at half mast for 5 days across the country.

according to the chief medical advisor to the white house the previous administration is partly responsible for the high death toll in the country but i don't think kids you know all donald trump or all this or all that it's a combination of things and certainly the lack of involvement at the very very top of the leadership. president biden has made the fight against the virus a priority the good news is that the number of infections is forming but the fear of yet another wave is growing due to the new variant of the virus. right dr eric feigele doing a joins us now from washington he is an epidemiologist and a senior fellow with the federation of american scientists or thank you for taking out the time to speak to us we greatly appreciate it i mean it is an unthinkable number 500000 people who have died as a direct consequence of covert 191 of the highest the death tolls for capital in

the world where did it all go wrong. it is such a sobering number and we we knew that this virus was kind of your parent panic and we are the white house will mourn as early as late january and february you we do not take action we do not have extensive testing we do not want p.p. ease off for all we do not invoke defense production act for writing of things and we downplayed it we made it a political war a political football in which some people didn't think it's a hoax that they don't believe in knox and now some of the same people don't believe her back scenes and this is how you lose a pandemic by downplaying it ignoring it in minimizing it in a home of sitting on your hands while the while the world burns and now we are living the consequence and we're trying to turn around the titanic but it's not an easy job right but you're trying to turn the corner the u.s.

leading in terms of vaccinations one of the countries in the world living in vaccinations or at 13 percent of people there receiving or have received their 1st shot is that changing things on the ground what you're seeing. it is in certain degree but it's you know we're not at israel level of vaccinations yet and in addition oftentimes that will go back to the backs nations it's not fast enough and we're approaching 2000000 a day but because of the more factious variant which is 50 percent more in fact we need to get at least 3000000 and preferably if we're 5000000 people vaccinated and dates the head of it is just that much race against time right now we're not a lot because. if you want 17000000 has not grown that much but the vaccination rates still means that pick up tremendously and i cannot stress enough because right now you have

a lot of willing people but as you get further and further all there's me. we're going to run into more head winds people taking a backseat so we need a lot of communication cornish and a mass mobilization in conclusion dr how do you see the situation involving the united states i think the keys will drop for another of few weeks but i'm really worried about the surge of variants in the combination complacency and now the more we vaccinate the worry is that once you've got there will be a push to reopen all businesses reopen all schools without adequate see the measures for schools to stop future spread and i think trigger another surge and probably more maybe and that is my biggest worry so we need to stay vigilant dr erica fable it's being at the knowledge just and a senior fellow with the federation of american scientists or thank you very much.

earlier this month germany sent medical personnel and equipment to portugal the goal was to assist of fellow e.u. member with this covert crisis but now it seems a chinese owned lovingly hospital lisbon is also reaping the benefits of used young philip schultz reports. german soldiers sent into battle against covert 19 in portugal its capital city lispund it's an act of solidarity between 2 e.u. countries but as we discovered they are also a small part of a much bigger story of chinese investments that reach around the world this is what those german soldiers were probably expecting portugal's public health system is struggling to cope and your lenses lined up outside completely overwhelmed hospitals but this is where the soldiers are fighting the disease a 5 star private hospital this is the hospital lose its football legend cristiana

ronaldo came for an operation on this foot some years ago and its website the hospital says its proud to be continuing all of its normal services despite the pandemic those services have a wide range from 10 such treatments to custom at $63.00 not only that in its latest annual reports the hospital says it will continue to focus on profitability despite the pandemic the hospital isn't providing the intensive care unit fun nothing the portuguese government is paying. the operating company behind the hospital is in the hands of a chinese congress on the rich we asked the health ministry representative who was paying for want. there's an agreement with a private hospital yes to have patients here so you have to pay to privately for money that's where you can use the person just because we are using their services the hospital did not want to speak with us offering a statement instead. new sounded group considering the critical stage that portugal

is going through does not intend to benefit financially from the situation but above all to help the country chinese kong rohmer its own many host companies in portugal a trend that worries and number of folks are those louis bardo is an investigative journalist found out that in the 1st 6 months of the pundit make the portuguese government paid to the loo so i would group around 40000000 euros for covert 900 services it's interesting to see that these 3 biggest. companies 3 companies that got the most amount of money or. is the connection share. news was. at a key role. although of course is the government and will depend i mean do you think this will increase europe's and in part a growth dependency on china i think in the base as europeans we should be sure. they are just 26 military medics sent from one european country to another

but they work of us a glimpse of a new reality that reality is of e.u. countries relying on a hospital owned by chinese companies as part of their for profit business. all right to have want to turn now to fill it for you or she's a researcher with a china focus think tank synopsis and prague and has written extensively about chinese influence in europe a good day sir we just there saw an example of a chinese investment in a state that is raising a certain questions why does it matter that chinese companies have invested in infrastructure in europe why is that problematic. well the problem we can see now in australia are basically it's clear that china has this priest friend centralized strategy of weaponize ing and politicizing anything that is economy and business cooperation and using this dependency as

a weapon to achieve political goals which for the chinese communist party politics is 1st business is 2nd so it's creating lots of dependencies that can then be turned into a weapon against against those infrastructures and the people behind it but i mean does it always have to be nefarious intentions can't it just be direct investment of course i mean it's not that every single contingent of us mint is somehow in the fire's plan but the problem is that when push comes to shove the party can actually make anything that 10 years ago was not a problematic issue into a tool of politics and this can include even for example these medical services now as you know a couple of months ago the european union and china agreed a land mark deal that has been the recipient of christian criticism by the new u.s.

administration. in terms i mean the e.u. is in kind of a bad in a bind it has to start this delicate balance between you know keeping the us happy keeping china happy because well they need both of them. it is true but i feel on the part of the europeans we don't see that china needs us and china is actually in more in need of europe right now during its trait was a war with the u.s. and this is why china has actually pushed for this deal whilst it seems that europeans haven't really gotten anything out of it as far as we can say there's lots of concessions or issues that we don't talk about in exchange for promises that china made 20 years ago when i joined the w it's yo-yo promising to open its market to free use basically by foreign companies which is sort of happening 20 years now and they're breaking the same promise ok now covert of course that we're still going through the pandemic what

effect has that had on chinese on china's rather global influence i thing in the global perspective it's probably in the end at least in recent months been improving because china is basically seen as a competent government the company country that actually tackled its in a rational manner when compared to the west but at the same time there's lots of i would say. resilient sort of a lot of negative opinion still lingering especially in western countries that have now become more aware of the dependency on china and basically in western comes they're still narratives about how china in the beginning did not actually handle the pandemic which is true but to be fair for example when you look in africa or latin america a you see the positive outcome the sort of china being the the responsible rational

player that is tackling the pandemic and helping others through mass diplomacy so it basically depends on where you look. so if you're a share researcher with a china focus think tank synopsis and prague thank you for joining us. thank you very much. let's take a look now at some of the other developments in the pandemic mexico has received its 1st shipment of russia's sputnik sputnik vaccine seniors in mexico's cities and marginalized communities will be forced to get the shots meanwhile the world's biggest vaccine maker india's serum institute says it's been told to prioritise its production of the astra zeneca vaccine for the indian market and a study from the university of edinburgh has found that vaccinations from biotech pfizer and oxford astra zeneca has led to a substantial reduction in hospital admissions in scotland when it turned out

to me and mar that country's military or regime is facing group growing pressure both at home and abroad 3 weeks after its seized power the european union has warrant that it is considering sanctions and the u.s. has penalized now 2 more generals protests meanwhile continue to swell in me and maher despite the authorities threat to use more force against the crowds and at least 3 protesters have been killed even though the regime insists that police are using minimal force. want to welcome mat now journalist david greene an about who is a tracking this story for us.