and then to murder off. a 5th lawyer in 2015 on malta and so now he gets away relatively lightly was this 15 year jail term and he finally admitted yes it's me and those 2 other people beside me here in court to have actually killed the journalist what have we actually definitively learned now who exactly was behind the murder of. absolutely not and that is the main problem because there is another man still in court the organ fenech he is a businessman who was involved in a lot of the shady dealings that it took place on multiple for many years particularly during the time and government of joseph muska the prime minister who had to step down at the end of $2900.00 after those huge protests that we don't we witness stand and you're going fanning says no it wasn't me it was the chief of

staff of the prime minister who did know he of course says no it was me and the 2 are pointing the fingers against each other and so far there has not really prove there's not really been any proof of which one of the 2 all may be in the person whom we don't know yet or did the murder and paid the money for it because the 3 killers one of whom is going to go to jail and we heard the verdict today they got money about $40000.00 euros for the motor so who paid the money who ordered the killing that question is still unanswered the case the has the shocked people at the time across your producer your correspondent reporting from brussels thank you very much. and we want to turn now to some of the other stories making news this hour hong kong's chief executive has backed a bill that will bar anyone seen as disloyal to beijing from elected from holding

elected office while the electoral reform will require counsellors to pledge allegiance to our kong as a special region of china opposition forces in hong kong have increasingly been silenced following last year's mass protests. and hundreds are demonstrating in the georgian capital tbilisi against the detention of the country's main opposition leader the demonstration began a few hours after police stormed the headquarters of the united national movement and detained nikka melia he faces charges for inciting violence during protests in $29.00 to denies all wrongdoing. facebook says it will lift a ban on australian news pages in the coming days after reaching a compromise with the government over paying for media content cambra has agreed to make changes to a law and not to penalize facebook if the company reaches some deals with local media. the court of ars pandemic has hospitals in portugal working at

their limits earlier this month germany said medical personnel and equipment a 2nd team from the german military has just arrived in the capital and spent to support intensive care units there the goal is to assist a fellow e.u. member states with its covert crisis but now it seems a chinese own private hospital and there's been is also we think the benefits to use young philip schultz thought this report. german soldiers sent into battle against covert 19 in portugal its capital city list one 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 line up outside completely overwhelmed hospitals

but this is where the soldiers are fighting the disease a 5 star private hospital this is the hospital loses its football legend cristiana ronaldo came for an operation on his foot some years ago on its website the hospital says its proud to be continuing all of its normal services despite the pandemic those services cover a wide range from 10 such treatments to cost metric surgery not only that in its latest annual report 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 congo marriage 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 the creditor for money that's when you can risk the person just because we are using their services

the hospital did not want to speak with us offering a statement instead it. 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 congress its own many companies in portugal a trend that where reason number of folks are those really bad was an investigative journalist found out that in the 1st 6 months of the pundit make the portuguese government page to the loose 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 at all because the connection share. news was really at a key role. although of course is government and will depend i mean do you think this will increase europe's and in part

a growth dependency on china i think he said base asked europeans we should. they are just 26 military medics sent from one european country to another about their work of us a glimpse of the new reality that reality is of e.u. countries relying on a hospital owned by chinese companies as part of the all for profit business. all right to have want to turn now to philip for euro she's a researcher with the china focus think tanks and office 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 an ember 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 problems we can see now in australia are basically it's clear that china has this crazed friend centralised

strategy of weaponize ing and politicizing anything that is economy and business cooperation 'd 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 they can then be turned into a weapon against against those infrastructures and the people behind it now as you know a couple of months ago the european union and the china agreed a land mark deal that has been the recipient of chris criticism by the new u.s. administration. in terms i mean the e.u. is in kind of a band in a bind it has to start this delicate balance between you know keeping the u.s. happy and keeping china happy because 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 a more in need of europe right now during its trait but it's a war with the us 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. so if you are sure researcher with a china focus think tank synopsis and product thank you for joining us. thank you very much when i turn our attention now to israel that country's vaccine rollout has been one of the most successful in the world more than 80 percent of those eligible have now received at least one shot and that's allowed israel now to start

reopening its economy many shops and services are back in business again but they're not open to everyone some only allow customers who are fully vaccinated with the so-called past 20 kramer or parts. since september classes at this television studio have been held online because of the pandemic now people can attend again and christen but only those who hold a green pass the kindness issued by is virtually history of hers that is given only to vaccinated people or those recovered from carpet 90 so it's an amazing feeling and everyone needs a vaccinated so there's no fear and it feels like and apparently we are broadcasting the classes that are taking place here we are broadcasting them for people who still did not vaccinate on sunday is ready

for the east restrictions after prolonged lockdown most museums and stores have been opened for me but gyms closed culture and sports events will be made accessible to cream pass holders of over 4000000 people have received at least the 1st client take place there so it's really this one of the 1st countries trying to get life back to normal opening up has also opened a debate over a variety of legal and moral questions of limiting personal liberties as there is someone not rushing to get the vaccine we are limiting few people and i believe this is a balance we are not doing that for good you can really enjoy cultural if you enjoy . balti willing joe you know going to the gym but in this time only temporary base on the shoulder we will let only people being vaccinated all the coverage from

corona to have the green posts it remains unclear where the international travel could also billing to the clean power for now israel's ben gurion app poetry remain closed for another 2 weeks to keep virus variants at bay traveling is not yet on the mind of this group of film time friends and 2 recent every age between 84 and 95 they had to play their favorite chinese board game a zone on line for the past year after their vaccinations they feel safe again to meet i feel like at this point i am sorry i mean just to be able to talk to people you know it's wonderful very nice to see everybody's ok and remained pretty healthy throughout the year but very lonely and. it really is a wonderful feeling it's a 1st but cautious step back to some kind of normality. so i am reporting there in

our mind now the top story that we're tracking for you this hour one of 3 men accused of killing maltese journalist daphne are want to go he still has pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to 15 years in jail she exposed corruption in a wooden multiverse political and business elite her death sparked international outrage and protests that forced prime minister to step down. sick round up next 1000 special an update on. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update 19. on t.w. . different on the islands of.

here women are in charge. archipelago as a whole system for centuries the reform of society do. differently. what do they do with their power. who cleans over rango starts more changes on t.w. . full months and then everything goes back to the way it was at least that's the plan in the u.k. way prime minister barak johnson is unfolding a way out of luck down he wants to lift all restrictions by the summer. no more lockdown in israel to what 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 vaccination drives a bet on the future a bit they can only when the fat scenes are effective against mutations. oh my goodness as 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 as the shaikh director of the other institute about whether or not the exit strategies of the u.k. and israel are realistic so i think basically it is one of 2 approaches one is to try to eradicate the virus completely sometimes called a coded 0 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 endemic 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 long term strategy where we recognize a virus is in our midst long term in the sense of forever. yeah i mean i think potentially just like we have with influenza influenza hits every season 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.

overseer mortality associated with the virus through what are you saying when you saying mosques are going to become. regular. we going to have to continue social distancing for for the rest of our lives. i think what we now have are like scenes of the various active and i think that will help reduce the number of serious cases i mean hopefully also reduce transmission so i think that's a very important instrument that we've got in our tool kits 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 been i think we should be able to actually substantially reduce movie c. 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. the actual physical contact that periodically and i think the other thing that 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 know i'm not think we're all tar i mean this is an incredibly challenging period for all of us. what we know from our own human history is the reason learn to manage viruses and learn to live with them in their in an era posit nature now with coded 19 what we've seen is just really very very rapid acceleration of our

understanding of our roads i think that seems 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 as a shape for the university of edinburgh thank you very much and you are germany has seen a harsh winter when it comes to the pandemic of one region in the north has made it through the last months with exceptionally low numbers of infections what's their secret to success they have used testify to and i caught house visitor brust stock in the state of edinburgh west pomerania. is it the cool baltic greece 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 every.

discipline where disciplined northern germans are quite different from everyone else. so we're a bit more nordic and distanced anyway maybe that's our secret recipe the allowed to get so hard to try to bring the puts in rules so that it doesn't increase on the seniority 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 here. now he wants to do things differently again the mayor has suggested opening up businesses before everyone else as an example for germany. the 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 the 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's 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. 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 that 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 let me hand you over now to 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 derrick on our you tube channel and.

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 coated 1900 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 polish asli 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 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 are our 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 meant 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 a running tank survival foundation 5 males 2 females at a mother with 2 babies were released ratings was transported by chopper to prevent possible transmission of the corona virus in nearby villages. and habitat losses decimated the tank population and the coronaviruses emerged as another threat for

the only great ape native to asia can see the helicopter ride there and touch down into the wild. always nice to finish on a fluffy animal story we have had wanted a very long time thanks for watching stay safe i'll see you again very soon i've been fizzling nice to have you here all day w. of ike.

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push. ups no knowledge of right now climb a tree different office story. faces much less the way photos one. how much work can really do. we still have time to work i'm going. to subscribe and more likely. this is t w news africa on the program today 19 in nigeria the country santa for disease control say a vaccine is important now more than ever. that the infection rate could be exponentially higher and what's been officially reported.