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a mission to win big on the star market will he teen or lose his seat. i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia china's biggest political meeting of the year is set to begin on thursday it's an important opportunity for the rubberstamp legislature the national people's congress to announce both new laws and to tout the country's achievements expect the leadership including xi jinping to celebrate the eradication of all poverty in the country this has been a major talking point of beijing's but things are not always as they seem. another bumper crop for me geology his storage business has blossomed over the past few years so much that he can now afford a brick house a sign of wealth in

a rural county in central china. he says all of this was made possible by government assistance. for. village officials and the government were very helpful in poverty alleviation where they helped to develop the orchards countrywoman orchard is our main source of income here and they supported it well i can earn up to 5000 euros a year right now order to. me is the shining example of china's go to eradicate extreme poverty by 2021. in 2014 president xi jinping announced relief strategies to aid the poor government officials went door to door to assess holes hold income and provided 8. now beijing says it's achieved its target. george and barbara almost 100000000 rural impoverished population have been lifted

out of poverty. with finishing the hazardous task of magic ageing absolute poverty funds all are you creating another incredible. surrogate. but some critics say she's official version isn't the full story they say his government set the poverty threshold to low here in biology and some farmers who have officially excused party still struggle. says his harvest has not improved despite government aid to diversify his crops. i have 2 sons who go outside to others when they're free they can earn some money to sustain a living i'm nearly 70 and my wife is over 60 we cannot work like this a living isn't such a push even. leo and his family of 5 wish to move to

a better home like others they know but for now they have to stay in this wooden house which does little to keep them warm the 67 year old still hopes that one day his farm will bring them the wealth he has long wished for. joining us is john donaldson of singapore management university john that when beijing says it has eradicated poverty what does that mean and is it an accurate statement. well there were 2 important words that she said when when he when he made the announcement recently declaring victory one was rural so it's has nothing to do with urban poverty and the other one was absolute poverty so what they're claiming is that you know in terms of a relatively low poverty line that that is what the entire population is under now is it true i don't know any serious scholar who thinks that china has even in terms

of absolute rural poverty has a radek aided poverty has china made a humongous leap forward has it made a contribution that is very very likely to be true and so what more does the country need to do in its fight against you mentioned rule of versus urban i don't know if you want to focus on one over the other and of course the growing inequality divide there. and those are 3 very very important issues all 3 of them are very difficult to tackle and you have to tackle them differently in terms of rural poverty china should not be letting their foot off the gas the fear it is that by declaring victory over poverty people including many chinese people will think oh that means that we've we've eliminated poverty what they really have done is if their claims are true eliminated the most severe point of forms of poverty they there are still poor people in rural china today and so they need to keep their foot on the pedal urban poverty is very different because you're talking

about layoffs and other kinds of things that thrust working class working people into poverty standards of living and so very very different kinds of tools that you would need to attack. urban poverty as opposed to rural and of course they're linked because meant much of the urban poverty are folks who are coming in from the countryside looking for work and other things like that and so by reducing rural poverty some ways what you're doing is shifting it from the rural areas into the cities now we've danced around this a little bit but how much of this is driven by propaganda and the need to sort of spread certain messages well i take it on 2 different levels i do think she is taking poverty seriously i think she really should be applauded for taking poverty seriously nobody is suggesting that this is pure propaganda in the sense that they're just cooking the books right down in the local china and rural china when i have a chance to visit you know which i do basically every year that there's not

a pandemic around i can see that local government officials are taking it very seriously on the other side she had to bring it down to 0 as soon as he made the pledge in 2015 i knew that they were going to success. and just to put this in context how are other countries in the region doing compared to china based on metrics you go by well the truth is every country struggles with you know struggles with poverty you know from singapore to you know to germany to to america and so poverty is something that you know really humanity cannot that it's it's you know cannot stop paying attention to we will always have to be dealing with poverty at least for the forseeable future in terms of countries nearby countries like cambodia laos and vietnam you know all are struggling with poverty fortunately

the worldwide poverty rate is going down and much of that is actually generated by china john donaldson thank you so much for your time thank you around 10000000 people in india have registered to get vaccinated since the country expanded its not to drive this week after front line workers now older people and those with serious illnesses are eligible to get a shot but with case counts on the rise things aren't quite going according to plan . hospitals and vaccination centers in india are busy places right now they're trying to get 300000000 people vaccinated by the summer and although vaccine hesitancy is a concern people do seem ready and willing. they have been looking forward to this for he will be happy that it's a fast. not a toll free of being going through so we want. to go out there very. very

being a. very ready as well as our sense. yet india's ambitious plans are looking a little wobbly right now of the $10000000.00 health care workers that the government planned to immunize only 6 and a half 1000000 have gotten the 1st shot and only 2 and a half 1000000 have received both. and then there are the technical problems a glitch in an online booking system means thousands have been turned away from hospitals across the country i'm not fond of coming down there thank god let's say that there are forces out there that i look around don't know. how many. how good it is and it gave me a lot of difficulty india has recorded more than 11000000 cases of covert 19 that's the 2nd highest number in the world behind the u.s.

but with the launch of the world's largest inoculation dr prime minister narendra modi insists more than 1300000000 people will be vaccinated got his 1st dose this week and is now appealing to all those who are eligible to get their job and make india covert 19 free going to this is their. homes they're required to get it is that we're. going to do that if these are all born or. earlier is recorded these in. india is currently seeing a surge in new cases about $15000.00 a day now so a willingness to step up and get vaccinated will be key in battling the daunting statistics. many of us has picked up new hobbies since the start of the pandemic in south korea

one boy decided to become an investment whiz and he's seen some good returns. the item of this 12 year old's morning with checking the business news as south korea's new retail trading starts being up to date as some must. be arlo i'm corn june rather than going to good schools like the sol national university i'd rather become a big investor like talkin warren buffett he's my role model. so he paged through books most of the children his age would point boring and his hard work has paid off. when the benchmark comp sci index began to recover from its biggest steve in a decade last april 1 june invested in samsung electronics with his quite substantial piggy bank savings. i started to earn money by selling toy cars when i was 7 and i saved about 18000 euros

a seat money. his parents 1st approached then they changed their minds and was stunned by his passion and 40 percent return yet they will live in a different world now it could be better to become a one of a kind type of person by developing their own talent and having time to improve it rather than just study hard and getting into good companies. look i think that with . a number of south korean families share similar thoughts under 18 investors are behind more than 2 thirds of the total value traded in the nation's shares. as a value investor my dream is making long term profits so that i can help neighbors in need and that would be my real joy. and to do good if 1 june has decided starting gunk is the best way to get ahead. we leave you with pictures from across china of people who are among those still

waiting for a promised progress against poverty it's a big week as the communist party meets to roll out its new economic policy among other things thanks for watching and goodbye. to. the fight against the corona virus. as the rate of infection in developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts the coronavirus. on t.w. . to go. take

on the. world. that matter to. whatever it is meant. to be on fire. to stay safe against the corona virus experts are telling us to stay at home but for some people being locked away with a violent partner family member could be even more dangerous. domestic violence some experts are calling it the shadow pandemic. here in argentina there's been a while. 3rd increase in famous side to the murders of women by their partners this

mother is burying her teenage daughter who was killed by a former boyfriend. demonstrations and protests against domestic violence have increased but so has this often invisible problem. with lockdowns and stay at home orders dipping into peeking around the globe how can victims trapped at home with their abusers get help. welcome to a covert 19 special i want to get johnson girl and today we focus on the social implications of the coronavirus pandemic starting with a look to russia. valentino constantine over hasn't let russia's locked down stop her she's used the time to redecorate her moscow hotel and because the pandemic has kept guests away she's decided to shelter domestic violence vive has a crisis center now sends women who have nowhere to go to her hotel because women

shelters have gone into quarantine and i would no longer. i have quite a few friends or acquaintances have experienced domestic violence in the teacher's skin so i wanted to help. i couldn't always help my friends back then sometimes i could sometimes not. so long just but now i can help others. valentino's hotel is right in the middle of it is my live ski market which normally draws tourists but it's typical russian look usually these stands would be full of souvenirs and bric a brac in this market would be bustling with people but during lockdown it's become a quiet place to escape. hotels which translates as fairy tale has become a saving grace and one of the domestic abuse survivors staying here is

a singer in that area xtina came here about a month ago. it wasn't the 1st time my husband hit me even before the quarantine when you love someone you forgive them all but the 4th or the 5th time it's just impossible to bear. it to something clicks in your head. it made me just get up and leave. i simply couldn't stand it any more. so usually just unfortunately domestic violence is not a criminal offense in russia there are no official statistics and what goes on behind closed doors is often considered a family matter but since the lockdown began women's advocacy organizations have reported a significant rise in domestic abuse. it gets down that he's going to other countries there are mechanisms in place to fight domestic violence restraining orders strict

legislation and or in force mentation sees the told how to deal with these situations unfortunately russia doesn't have that that's why more cases here and in murder and more women stay in abusive relationships because they don't have the tools to get out of them. valentino constantino plans to keep posting domestic abuse survivors even after the lockdown ends. her hotel is giving women like anetta the strength to start over. who. is. now your i'm joined now by our saying assistant professor of psychology at. hindu university in the indian state of utah pradesh good to have you with us now professor singh we've just seen this report from russia where domestic violence is not a specific criminal offense what's the situation in india. in

india or the mystical islands. or the. very very. very. heart of progress some of the rights of women from all corners of. the family oh yes we have this. here ok so the the law exists and of course we've heard that around the globe throughout this pandemic cases of domestic violence have risen i wonder do people turn violent because of lockdown or other violent to start off with and lockdown just makes matters worse. yeah yeah like money any violence to a guy at least 3 classes of factors that are responsible so fast at least police know factors. they're predisposed to. being involved in an act of violence

so like that so if i act out of the mindset dominance of men over women you know society and feel by the german on women it can see their subordinates 2 men have basically what they want at british police know their market work in this town had brought us it's going to be factors and a mountain is to. be due to the lockdown and both stand in the people basically if they go into this act of violence and then you never leave the of woman to seek help to go out and do a white and spew such a situation won't atman to an inspector so yes people lived in that environment did you do that british police know their egos wrecked this large long initiated the depths of violence and. in mindedness so the 2 islands also right so it also is obviously a question of character

a question of culture as you mentioned apache axe society but obviously i mean you're all pretty much in the same situation during this walk down what is it that pushes people over the edge and make some violent and others not. yeah basically it was definitely. what happened during this slug down that in countries there looking countries like india and many people basically the mike there from their home state and other parts of the country who are in their livelihood due to the law don't they return home and rented our new home they were . very anxious they were jobless they were economically integrated unstable situation and this gave rise to a lot also fear and anxiety and. a future confront for them what happened when these men were done to that home and to the lock on man and

woman that became isolated and then about only one day apart meant to relieve that anger was on woman so what we call it our defense mechanism called the displacement it acted very seriously part woman when nothing was under control of a man the only putting off controlling woman rest was living with them inside the family so this might listen what one of the car did that's all i did was basically engage the end up. rich people who could not control or develop not ready to give it the coping mechanisms to deal with subject response rather will be cut from the society from their social. so horses down and they basically don't work then i'm going to do for them that in night to come. officer david. professor saying yes because he's i mean this is it's an awful situation and if you a short on set piece is there

a way out of the situation. yes definitely definitely we need to work holistically no individual that on land and nongovernmental organization and i can be seen as not come together. we need to develop ourselves also horses don't basically have an education system and. training systems will incorporate. equalities whenever we are not in front of them and empowerment thing we must also try to think about eating and painting meant to mr goldman sachs not only that resort to each woman to be empowered and that we should also teach men to be more inclusive and to be more equal in. the end to their and also need to yes right now i mean perfect both sides need to. thank you so much professor singh from banaras in the university in india thank you so much for your time. now from the

psychological side effects of lock down to the physical ones of vaccines time for derek to answer your questions. what systems exist in the e.u. for the ongoing monitoring and vaccine side effects. the central authority responsible for recommending and of monitoring vaccines in the european union is the european medicines agency or easy and aid which was set out to harmonize these kinds of activities in the block the vaccines greenlighted so far in a conditional market approval in the e.u. are now in what's often called phase 4 when a vaccine is rolled out to the public on a wide scale but even after that happens a clinical trials continue and the vaccines are monitored closely for years the monitoring tracks long term effectiveness of course but it's also set up to

identify any adverse reactions or other potential dangers that were mis in earlier large scale trials so so what's called a pharmacovigilance system is in place it's pretty complex but also pretty tightly networked and the agency says it helps and he reports from patients and from health care professionals to b n y's extensively a lot of people distrust information issued directly by pharmaceutical companies when it comes to how safe and effective they say their products are to assuage that distrust and help promote transparency the e m a set up its own network and management system for for tracking suspected side effects of of not just vaccines but of any medication approved in the e.u. the euro. paean database is told you drug vigilance and it you can read any reports

of suspected adverse vaccine a facts on a on a country by country basis and it's updated every week so if you're interested and want to see what's being reported firsthand i urge you to take a look it's really informative and it's easy to use. now if you want to get vaccinated and you're in rwanda the 1st doses of the prize are coping 1000 shots are coming your way on the global kovacs vaccine sharing scheme that's it's thanks for watching.

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