mass displacement 7 years of conflict the declining economy he said those who maybe are in safe areas still are affected because they kind of forage by like basic necessities anymore or even food and you know with all of the things that are already going on then we have the cold in 1900 and before that cholera so there's many different emergencies happening at once in one country ahead of today's dota conference german foreign minister heiko mass pledged what he called a substantial sum from germany and then went on to say that as we all know no matter how much we give it's not enough the suffering of the people in yemen is man made there is hope for real improvement only once we succeed in stopping the fighting so i wonder is the fighting in yemen any closer to stopping. yeah he's exactly right the only end to this crisis is a political one where all the arm doctors come together around the table and find

a peaceful solution what receding on the ground are some hopeful sparks of the process but overall the situation isn't improved and i mean in recent weeks in the past 3 weeks we've had an escalation of fighting in an area named mar of which is led to the displacement of over 10000 people and that's just in 3 weeks and that's in addition to the poor 1000000 people who are estimated to be already displaced by the conflict the country for these people the conflict is very much still alive it's very much still impacting their day to day and their safety i'd love to be able to report something better especially 7 years into the crisis but it doesn't seem like we have a solution coming too close to us at the moment so that's why it's important that we've got these vital funds right and this is straight a half $1000000000.00 the. u.n. is hoping to raise but i want to do these donor conference is can they have any credibility when countries like saudi arabia which is last year's 2nd biggest donor

countries like saudi arabia are also paying millions to keep the fighting going. for us we're usually focused on the urgent humanitarian needs that are part of the crisis and we do you have actors like saudi you've mentioned a part of the donor response to that crisis if we can save a life then we'll take the funding that really is vital to helping or. save those lights to health care to food provision to providing clean water. but we do know that the only end to the overall crisis and this emergency is a political peaceful solution and all the actors involved in it whether those that you mentioned or part of the donor community have to be a part of that process to ensure that it's a successful one of the richer rovio efforts thank you so much for joining us live yeah hadn't from the international organization for migration thank you.

the united states is calling on the african union to intervene in the deepening crisis in ethiopia region washington expressed what it called grave concern over reported atrocities and the worsening humanitarian situation i'm listed sonata has accused every trend forces of killing hundreds of civilians thousands of fled the region a many to harboring stories of violent stranded in a border town in sudan burdened with traumatic experiences cinema and grim a are both refugees from to grow by the likely never forget the day that soldiers invaded their hometown. but i knew. they shot innocent people such bodies they took people's belongings and everything we had. all i've got left of the clothes on my back on the end. tens of thousands of people fled the ethiopian army's offensive against the provincial government and to gripe. reports of

atrocities and massacres of civilians followed the hamdania border reception center has been overwhelmed by the flood of refugees there's not enough tents often just plastic sheeting to fend off the searing heat illnesses are rampant and food is scarce some lucky few managed to get bus tickets to refugee camps farther away from the border. but these facilities are also full now the owner a cuba camp is now at twice its plant passage many children here a 2nd in may she hated their mothers are desperate. when we arrived here no one could give us food for the children and we didn't have enough to eat either i didn't have any money to buy food at the market this is a holiday like that it. fears are now the upcoming rainy season could bury the camp in mud no one's prepared for that here aid workers predict a catastrophe of steps aren't taken quickly. becoming that

a positive that has been built is going. to be broken there is a lot of the refugees are going to be booking again and so there would be but to a point where we have to stop supplying them with sources from square 0 in the coming weeks it's feared tens of thousands more people could flee from ethiopia over the border into sudan one of the world's poorest countries. the berlin film festival is over and so one of the most hotly anticipated events in the german capital's cultural calendar this year though the pandemic has forced about an hour into lockdown the audience has been limited to a select group of critics and industry professionals who watch the contenders for the golden bear i live stream that won't stop us bringing you the highlights starting with 2911 inspired offerings. you need to tell me the truth you need to tell me what happens here i can't defend you do you want to stand here to tell you nothing whatever i say. doesn't matter a defense lawyer and her client mohamedou old slahi from mauritania is in custody

in guantanamo he's accused of having aided the terrorists who carried out the 911 attacks but is he really guilty golden globe winner jodie foster place lawyer nancy hollander like the real person the character is based on she also believes in the law. you know how our country is shaped by that how the world is shaped by that and if there was ever there was anything that made me believe in democracy in the rule of law it's been me from. the film copilot is also based on a true story having to do with 911 astley love say yet a seemingly perfect love story but then he becomes one of the terrorists on that fateful day september 11th 2001 he was the man she must have asked herself at some point was that a monster could i really have loved a monster how could i do that but on the other hand she knows very well that he was

also lovable. mo has to make you learn in the last. the film dissects the main character's pain without making her seem naive that makes copilot into a successful illustration of the maxim love is blind even against the backdrop of the terrorist attacks that changed the world. this year from scott wrote for the culture welcome scott so strong political being said which is kind of what the dollar has made its neighbors. yeah definitely i mean this this is a film festival that was really started as a political statement i mean it was set up in west berlin as a statement of artistic and political freedom in opposition to what was on the other side of that was the berlin wall that time east berlin and the communist bloc and the censorship and political repression that occurred there and berlin has always put really strong political films in the spotlight and those are often the

films that end up winning the top prizes at the festival they often seem to be the jury often seems to choose political films in some ways also make a statement i mean you saw that last year with an iranian film which won the golden bear and this was from a director who had been censored in iran who was actually under house arrest when he received the award and i think the jury really was trying to make a statement there against repression and for artistic freedom ok so what other films of course your attention mostly she has offerings. yeah i mean there's a lot of really interesting political movies on offer this year we saw a couple of them in the piece there's an iranian film a really good to see is called the ballad of a white cow and it seems that some thematic similarities to the film of last year it's about a woman whose husband is executed in a miscarriage of justice and she tries to fight to 2 to have that overturned or at least to address it in the government and then there's a film from bella ruse called courage it's

a documentary and it looks at the the protesters who are still in the streets bellerose really inside look at these people who are struggling really against the odds to try and find to try and create real change in that country ok so as i understand it these films are going to be live streams to the judges so when will the rest of us got a chance to see these. well feel lucky for a lucky few like myself will be able to see them this week but for the vast majority they're going to be showing them at a real festival or an impersonal festival in june in berlin assuming that the virus elects them but that's the idea that the films particular the ones that win in berlin this week will be shown at proper red carpet events in proper theaters in the german capital in june it's got rocks where thank you for that you don't know. what's up with the bundesliga football and the armenian bielefeld have parted ways with coach noir house as they remain mired in

the rather patients are happy to both appear to both that meanwhile he's still in charge at leverkusen despite the top sinking deeper into crisis after losing to freiburg there now or without a win in 5 matches in the coaches and a mounting pressure. like a coach paid a bush led accusing fans have been waiting more and more in patiently for the reemergence of the side that led the league early in the season hosting freiburg the intent was there if not the execution tonight by the hand of florian miller several times they would pay the price in the 2nd half when the visiting side chances came they were taken. and married into meredith's cave freiburg delayed in the 50th minute and it was to write only alomar. when lucas hurler was just the right side of offside to make things very difficult to live accusing leon bailey she made left on the edge of the area to get things going in the right direction after 70 minutes but it proved to be all of accuse and could muster.

finish with pride they deserved to one winners and eyeing the european places lady hughes in our still way just at the outlook is bleak. is reminder of our top stories at this hour. a court in paris a sentence former french president nicolas sarkozy to jail after he was found guilty of corruption and influence peddling he served as president from 2007 to 2012. pro-democracy supporters gathered in hong kong as dozens of prominent activists and politicians appearing courts charged with conspiracy to commit subversion $47.00 activists were charged under the new national security critics accuse china of using it to stifle political be sacked. this is d w still to come on the news asia what is driving young people in there not understand lives in protests against the militia coup. time people in the taiwanese

are not to islands feel losing from to china at a time. when it's a child will have those stories are going well in just a moment i'll be back at the top of the building. the body.

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i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia one month after a military coup myanmar saw its bloodiest day of protests this past weekend according to the united nations at least 18 people are. dead and that number may change as we learn more on monday on sun suchi leader of the national league for democracy party which won resoundingly in last november's elections appeared for the 1st time since her detention via video link for her court hearing her lawyer says she faces 2 new charges by lation of communications laws and inciting public unrest despite losing favoring recent years for her denial of genocide against the countries within just the international community has called for her release and for the restoration of democracy. the tension is palpable beyond most future is being played out on the streets of yangon on young soldiers facing off

against youthful protesters. queen is just one of hundreds of thousands resisting the military coup. tactic is to maintain peaceful civil disobedience even when the security forces resort to violence we're remaining peaceful and we're not giving up we'll keep going until we win the protesters understand the dangers risking their lives by confronting an army determined to crush their pricing they know that their future will be taken away from them they see this as their last battle because they have seen the . older generation how they suffer it if they cannot fight back. we will have to live under the ritual dictatorship for all the left the activists a much younger than their figurehead 75 year old son suchi symbolized man mas'

hopes of freedom and democracy until the army deposed the government she is once again under arrest but this charismatic leader is still crucial to me on most future robert cooper got to know suchi well she was working at the united nations in new york in the 1960 s. i think she's one of the most stubborn. and she came from a family that made it natural. but the other side that you want to understand. is she was always committed to nonviolence so. she was born to rule but she was born to rule by persuasion not by not by force not by words. after 15 years under house arrest suchi was freed in 2010 the generals needed her as

a front to gain access to financial help from overseas from 2016 she effectively led the government and in last november's elections she won a landslide victory. general min lang is su cheese most powerful opponent he was supposed to retire last year at the age of $65.00 but isn't he strengthened his grip on power. to the cornerstone of the constitution is that no one is above the law that is democracy. has been accused of breaking import laws and failing to observe coronavirus rules the generals clearly want out of the way on the streets she's venerated by the young protesters well the military is hated the latest violence is likely to drive the 2 sides even further apart.

let's take a look now at the rising tensions between china and taiwan for years now beijing has been stepping up pressure on the territory it sees as its own one of its latest tactics in that campaign dredging up sand around the taiwan run much to islands since last year chinese judging ships have started operating heavily around the islands which are just off the shores of mainland china dropping anchor and scooping up vast amounts of sand from the ocean bed for construction projects it's a strategy that's testing talons coast guard and officials say it's disrupting the local economy and intimidating residents and tourists ships are also a problem for local fishermen joyously reports from taiwan. cheer a year has fresh the waters here for 6 yes. today's catch just one fish. my whole fish used to worth $100000.00 taiwan dollars

a year now it's got to $10000.00 only 10 percent left and used to be called the fishing paradise but now all the official are going. he blames china's illegal son trashing for destroying sea bad habitats and the marine food chain the fish have gone elsewhere to eat and lay eggs that's not the only destruction he sees the sense gived from the ocean bad by treacherous is causing coastal erosion a round 2 here this was covered in sand in the past and now it's all stones lost or sent makes the beach steeper than before it used to be just fine if decreased and now it's nearly 15 degrees it's much more tiring to move my whole fish up i need double the time and it takes my work a lot. the taiwanese money to islands are just 9 kilometers from mainland china last year chinese ships half ramped up their dredging in the

surrounding water as each fossil can take on a full load of 2000 tons in 2 hours officials say it is part of china strange so many tactics to drain resources and pressure taiwan by nonmilitary means. and her husband left on the south and side of monstrous nagan island it's quiet tonight but they say they often hear the send dredges at dinner time noise pollution affects the quality of life it also brings spectrum magic memories of war from the sixty's and the seventy's. don't want reminds me of my childhood trying not bombarded matsuo 0 to 90 days of the week we always had to run to bomb shelters when we heard the alarm so we're very sensitive. though i don't think china will start a war on us now it still makes me nervous. when it is the psychological impact on

the. modules of the us taiwan's frontline military base against china and to $992.00. the sign behind me is us fight against the communists and a selfie as. this war time so again from the cold war era still everywhere on the island a 5th reminder of the threat from beijing. last year taiwan's coast guard chased off nearly 4000 chinese structures a more than 6 fold increase from the year before in december taiwan's parliament changed laws to increase penalties and make it easier to confiscate illegal treacherous but in forcing the law as difficult mark 2 parts simply don't have enough space to impart all the fast. alone. she says he may have to give up fishing soon. fishing is my passion

when there is no more fish we have no choice but to do something else. this is not just a problem for the fishing industry we are losing our land as a country if they continue to steal the sand it is a matter of national security. marja residents typically welcome cross trace exchanges but sandra has crossed the line joining us is steve tang director of the china institute at so us the school of oriental and african studies in london steve this small island affair seems like a small matter for an outsider who might not follow the ins and outs of taiwan china relations why is this important it is important because it is a new park. in the park the chinese government respected that it must rule and cumin and are territories under

taiwan's control and therefore they will not go and direct descend from the from those islands now under siege in pain a policy has change which is that all these are now defined simply us chinese territory and therefore there's no reason why the chinese government should not simply allow old chinese merchants and others to extract whatever they want to extract from chinese stop and territory is a very powerful message to type a that things are changing and taiwan should take the message ok so they're dredging the sand what's the worst thing that can happen here. well it does cause a bit of a problem for the government in taiwan because if they don't do anything they are they facto accepting the chinese assertion of sovereign rights and jurisdiction

over sue and that to them will in effect be accepting chinese cleaned up some tea over taiwan which they cannot possibly do not politically. doing so in taiwan and then you have to issue of if it should have been in taipei tries to respond for example by sending taiwan's coast guards to. protect those waters then you are looking at potential confrontation between chinese and taiwanese authorities and that can get. that here politically is this something that might pull other powers into the picture i think you have for example the way things have played out sometimes in the south china seas with the us conducting freedom of navigation operations etc. probably not because the actual islands of taiwan it is case not to really is something that.

is completely indefensible from the perspective of i do try to warrant or the united states must know you're really talking about a small island. less than a mile off the chinese coast so is a very very difficult. piece of. islands to protect and defend against the world's 2nd most powerful military power. so i don't see that happening but i suspect that the chinese government would not at this stage wants to seize control over natural to write the simple reason that if they take all those islands and i want in effect isn't that kind of it stiff saying thank you so much for your time. you know we leave you today with pictures from this weekend sweep of dozens of hong kong politicians and activists charged with subversion most are not

expected to be granted bail which means jail time for these democrats will be back tomorrow. and go by. the fight against the coronavirus. the rate of infection in developing what does the latest research say. information and context. on t.w. . it was kind of the famous the budget the queen because i want to see of germany was the making the last few years have been quite override early. on learned i'm

a hermit when it comes to gemma bits and of course i always look in the eyes for a chance but perhaps the biggest on the new i'll be a blood i'm going to work for it i love to be in the music there are pros in the recall but when you feel them all the giving to realize it because of the another way of living are you ready to meet the servant then heard me right through it. your immune system is critical for fighting off disease but millions of people around the world are immunocompromised their immune system is weakened either by a genetic disorder or by chronic illnesses like cancer or diabetes. living with such diseases is hard enough in the best of times but in the age of 19 a positive test could be a death sentence. as nations race to get their populations vaccinated those with an already compromised immune system are often not at the top of the list so how can

overburdened medical systems keep these at risk people from falling behind. welcome to a new edition of the covert 19 special here on d w i want to get johnson billing good to have you with us and even better if you are among the lucky ones those who already got vaccinated because the majority have to wait their turn even if their health is already compromised for 4 weeks now tossed in kabul has been at the last uk university medical center in germany the 49 year old was diagnosed with cancer last summer the chemotherapy and surgery made him weak and compromised his immune system while news about the coronavirus pandemic was dominating the headlines. next of course it's scary you now have this extra danger out there and you don't know what's on the horizon what are we walking into here and what kind of impact will the chemotherapy. because of the high risk

of infection tossed in kabul lived in strict voluntary quarantine when still at home he was separated from his family with all possible hygiene measures. he will shortly be leaving the hospital and hopes for a vaccination soon to at least get rid of the fear of covert. that would be a huge huge leap for it it would be a massive relief when i'm in pretty bad physical condition but i can't imagine that i would survive even a moderate case of the coronavirus than the. fall of. a german government vaccination board regulates who will get the vaccine and when several 1000000 doses will arrive in the next few weeks this frees up places on the waiting lists and increases the chances for youngest seriously ill patients to be vaccinated more quickly it's a real opportunity say experts to have at least a little bit of normalcy the psyche plays an important role in healing by contact.

contacts and social surroundings are a very important resource in coping with cancer and these are now very limited or not possible at all for some patients. and to compensate for that along with all the other problems is quite a challenge so going to. doctors should now be able to directly register their seriously ill patients for an earlier vaccination appointment how this will work in practice needs to be regulated as soon as possible. in addition to the revised vaccination recommendations our organization is interested in working together with the cancer centers to create a kind of point system so that we can do justice to the situation of the individual patient. that this news brings a ray of new hope for tossin garble he wants to fight for his health a vaccination would take away

a lot of his worries. let's bring in kay have an exam the professor of epidemiology and medicine a johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health a good to have you with us and 1st of all please what is the difference between a week or a compromised immune system and a suppressed immune system will thank you very much for having me and it's a pleasure to join you and your audience sometimes we use these terms interchangeably a weaker compromised immune system and a suppressed immune system but in health care sometimes we seek to suppress a person's own immune system using medicines in people that have auto immune diseases such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis or shroeder a syndrome and so sometimes we use medicines to suppress the immune system and in other cases people have diseases such as cancer or each i.v.

or advance kirti avascular disease that weakens their own immune system so when i have either a weak and un system or my immune system has been suppressed how does the for affect my chances when fighting code in 1000. well it's an outstanding question and i wish that there was a completely simple answer for you of course we can start understanding that it's better to have a fully constituted immune system when possible but the effects of immunosuppression on being able to fight kovac may dependent part on why one is immunosuppressed and there is some good news as well for example we've been looking at the effect of medicines that cause chronic immunosuppression such as prednisolone or tacrolimus or michael fennelly these are medicines that are often given to people to help suppress their immune system and what we've found is that individuals taking these

medicines don't fare any worse than their counterparts if they were infected with cove it so the bottom line is that individuals with immunosuppression need to be vigilant need to engage in what we know are evidence based public health measures such as wearing masks and maintaining social distancing in order to minimize the likelihood of covert infection but the likelihood of severe disease if you do get infected may depend in part on why your immune system is being suppressed oh well that brings me exactly to the next question because when it comes to a suppressed or a weak immune system is the situation the danger of getting seriously ill with 19 is it the same for you mentioned accounts of patients of those suffering from diabetes for example and those whose immune system has been actively suppressed because of a heart and kidney transplant patient is there

a difference. i think that the totality of evidence to date suggests that the risks of severe cove it or the risks of infection may vary depending upon why once immune system is suppressed so i've already told you for example that for individuals taking medicines that suppress the immune system that they appear to do ok i mean just as well as their counterparts if they get infected but we do know that many people with one condition that can sort that can cause immunosuppression say cancer don't just have cancer many of these individuals are of advanced age they may have diabetes some may have obesity and they may have a history of tobacco use i mean there are other risk factors and so what we see that really put people at the greatest risk is not necessarily when they have one specific condition that can pose potential harm but individuals that have multiple

co-morbid conditions and these stack up on one another and can really put people at increased risk of more severe outcomes right and of course there are already quite a few healthy people out there they're very skeptical skeptical towards getting vaccinated. to people with a weak immune system before it. well i'm an active internist and i have a clinical practice and i encourage my patients whether there are you know suppressed or not to get vaccinated the vaccines that are out there such as that m.r. and a vaccine these are not live virus there's no risk of causing posted by getting these vaccines but we do have to recognize that that the that the vaccines have not been studied in large numbers of individuals with immunosuppression so we don't have all of the information that one might wish for i think the most likely thing is that the vaccines will ultimately turn out to be less effective because people

may have a chronic condition such as cancer or they may be taking medicines that surprise their immune system they may not be able to mount as aggressive or as robust a response to the vaccine itself and so it's very important that so so i think this is an important consideration absolutely absolutely cane about xander that professor of epidemiology and medicine and tom's hopkins bloomberg school of public health think you so much for your time thank you for having me. now while vaccination seems to be the best way out of this pandemic effective treatment is also important and that brings us to one of your questions and our science correspondent eric williams. can use convalescent plasma from people who have been vaccinated as well as from people who are covering this turned out to be tricky to answer i need to run over some

background again convalescent plasma is taken from the blood of people who've survived an illness and given to those who have caught the illness it's a method that's been employed with varying degrees of success to treat patients for for over a century now the idea behind it is that the antibodies to a pathogen contained in the blood plasma of a survivor might help hinder the emergence of full blown severe disease in those who've been exposed to the pathogen for the 1st time potentially saving lives in the current pandemic there's still no really solid evidence from trials that convalescent plasma is definitely an effective treatment for covert 19 but there are enough indicators that it does help when given at the right time for the f.d.a. to approve it for emergency use in the u.s.

now vaccines also prompts an antibody response in recipients so theoretically blood from someone who's been vaccinated could also be used to produce convalescent plasma however in its guidance the f.d.a. says people who want to donate have to have actually had the disease within the last 6 months which is to ensure the covert 19 convalescent plasma collected from donors contain sufficient antibodies directly related to their immune response. infection which is pretty vague so no specific reason given really for why but it's likely the decision involves the fact that approved vaccines only produce antibodies against a quite specific target on the virus the spike protein having the disease on the other hand for the uses a wider spectrum of them so convalescent plasma from people who've been vaccinated

would be different and require its own trials confusing the picture even more for a medicinal product where the experts are still trying to clarify effectiveness. that's all for today thanks for watching.

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