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a week after arriving many talk to them that. i'm british by major welcome to news asia that you could join us india is in forcing new rules that affect popular online platforms such as netflix and amazon and social media companies like facebook and twitter the rules allow for greater government oversight of content on these platforms and make them liable for any content deemed harmful but critics argue these will have a chilling impact on a constitutional guarantee your freedom of expression and also previously. is one of india's most popular. and leading ways when it comes to political. or are leaving them out in the online space he is traveling as a content creator for

a young digital audience. he started you tube channel point that these are patriot to talk about social and political issues over the years he has built up a team and a strong presence on all social media platforms. as he says the digital landscape has given independent voices like his own a free space to express themselves on a wide range of issues. but now he's allowed. the indian government recently announced a new set of intimation technology tools it can now more strictly regulate social media content digital news and streaming giants such as netflix these platforms are expected to regulate themselves more and also set up a system to address complaints about their content but the government says it wants to prevent what it calls the misuse of these platforms i completely agree that news

can be misused it could create to law and order problems and there should be a set of guidelines for people who are doing news and social media completely understand that but why what the wordings left convoluted why is it that it has been left open ended that anybody who is a common who makes a video on published information also is liable to these rules and regulations so it is about controlling the narrative of what people are talking about nuclear power a digital rights activists and news editor says these concerns he says existing laws already apply to the digital space and that the government is just trying to crack down on content it doesn't like the most important aspect of these regulations is the imposition of a particular section in the indian information technology gap with allows the government of india who orders to censor content so they can block certain content or news i'm going to present your piece with they did not have the power to do

before these rules came about. but there are others who have broken these rules mention capitalists mundus by says these regulations are the need of the hour to break what he calls didn't need of digital giants and to protect usis if you look at short journey you had to be there are all for it one of the least if you look at detail news media many of them have a i don't. they publish if imagery article published big magic exists and they are that efficient media i subject to government control of rules not bene to believe these rules get the government disproportionate. and that now their digital space in creators like him is shrinking with even when it comes to content likes a dive satire to ease all about putting the facts maybe robbing people a little the wrong we but unfortunately in india. and satire is taken personally so

i go we see ourselves drumming down our content we see ourselves fighting cases and quarts or we see ourselves spending some time in jail but that's where we're headed and all your identity says he will not stop meeting his show but he knows that he could one day be more or be in the line of fire for this content to care about. for more on this i'm joined from journey by my saying he is a lawyer for the nonprofit internet freedom foundation that advocates online freedom in india from the government saying is that these new laws are required to fired the spread of fake news for example or event one or graffiti on the internet i mean that's also a reasonable argument doesn't it. crile 1st of all thank you for having me i'm unite there is a reasonable argument the stated objective are to fight news and numbed events but i don't see any of these things that's absolutely perfect you said and that's feasible and be ok with the intention. but we can start to deduce far beyond that

and they also end up igniting and it is there a lot to do with this effects on which are not necessarily but it was there i said you know it's all events but i would see like next time. we speak about that in a minute but then i'd like to focus on the 1st part or for the companies where this does apply for example social media company and i know it's a huge market for sort of media giant such as facebook and twitter one example how do these new rules impact the social media users of say facebook and into. right so these do this they give they don't mean a much greater level of control or social media changing it is like facebook instagram even what's up now the government exercised before. they even got me in white i was already showing it on where does even more than was available to the government before and in the event these intimate it is not complying with the

government's orders they would be a danger. in joining the community such as what's. be like them said well there aren't and that's all stored on these websites now that somebody in development because we expect and be concerned that this will cause. an chilling effect on fundamental rights to speech and expression and the access to information the citizens of india but shouldn't the source media companies bureaus possible somebody has to be held accountable for any harmful content that does come on to these platforms from their. so i absolutely believe that i think there absolutely it is necessary to own bad use and a lot of things but i think there balance needs to be struck between. psalms of expression and protecting legitimate forms of expression and speech and

been concerned that these rules do not presently and the current form strike their balance. there have some concern for me or to keep that from the center of being so-called over the top platforms but forms of entertainment such as amazon netflix or online news portal for example. yes absolutely but going to decide are even split into the constitutionality of all of these rules and the management these. costs. by the government. and even focus for the moment just on the content of that was themselves. in those 2nd half of disgust at a collation really dark songs and eastern used are what these rules have been essentially is that they've created so you know all the statement kind of over the counter and i just posted on what did you always i don't is it in you is media platforms but the 1st is the start phones themselves public events are just the

mechanics and in the 2nd you know what it just seemed as a self-regulated to make an ism. these entities will get together and it's almost as if they can lay people already from amongst themselves own the government exercises a great amount of control over the 2nd because the government is he didn't find in approval all the appointments they got in the sense regulatory body and in the 3rd year it's the government except it isn't will the statement and isn't committee which comprises offices of status ministries of the central government and is headed by the secretary of the ministry of information and brought us to know what's in this so you know the kind is in there not just it does is that 80 danes. approval and final say overboard sort of content can be on it cannot be hosted by getting started on such as buy or digital news media sites. big speech we think is very dangerous and i think when even there from the time of thank you so much for

joining us from tony thanks my spank you for having me. chinese tech companies like ali baba and judy dot com are well known around the world but meteoric rise has been driven in large part by an industry wide culture of walking along. the 196 walk ons up to 12 hours a day from 9 am to 9 pm 6 days a week and it's tiring. it's the start of a new working day for shall hand that he feels tired is nothing new like others on their commute the icy work and knows there's no let up in his job. usually my shift starts at 9 and ends 8 in the evening the working day is 11 hours with one hour lunch break it's been coined the 996 working week 9 am till 9 pm 6 days per week

a total of 72 hours tech companies in china expects this level of dedication as they pick to compete with rivals and return employees often highly educated program is a comparatively well paid. job that most of us put up with this because we want to earn money. but there is growing pushback against the system which critics say contravenes chinese labor law this and $19096.00 website is clear where workers were end up in i.c.u. intensive care in recent weeks the deaths of 2 employees at online retail platform has put 996 back in the spotlight and then another former pinned worker claimed in a now viral video that he was fired after sharing a photo of a colleague being pushed into an ambulance outside the company's office. maybe i'm young maybe i have a student sensibility and i'm not mature yet to be the kind of professional who

hides my thoughts and protects myself but i don't think the world. it worked like this when he wrote that are kind of. what sold as a dream has for many become a nightmare. working in the idea industry is to dream for the work is is to realize the dream to become another jack ma to become another billionaire and also to acquire these skills and start your own business shall hand with dream is now something different he hopes to get a more easy going job as a civil servant all the time he also acknowledged and well now if i can put away enough money i'll move to another town when i'm 28 or 29. until then the routine will remain the same head back home after a long day at work and grab a few hours sleep until it starts all over again. that's

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and how do we still come from. my name is dr. i talk to medical experts. and i discuss what you can do to improve your health. state use and let's all try to stay good. on. the measures meant to protect us from the coronavirus always inclusive. take social distancing not at all easy and sometimes impossible to adhere to for people with disabilities. roughly one in 6 people have experience a form of disability. mosques may. communication hard for the hearing impaired like

this young man in uganda who otherwise relies on lip reading. at coffee house to just sore is the 1st sign language in the cafe uganda's capital kampala indira coffee says it wants to create employment for the deaf community with the ultimate goal of raising awareness for this marginalized group of people especially during these even tougher times of the pandemic. as a customer. is dave so he uses sign language to communicate. he's worked as a barista at this coffee shop in complain of. good coffee and i serve the customers or not perfectly and i get a positive feedback that makes me really happy as specially if it comes from different customers. graduated from university 3 years ago

but since then he's had real difficulty finding a job. uganda has one of the world's highest youth unemployment rates resources that being dave makes it even worse. i would apply for jobs write letters send evils and all of that but whenever i mention that i was deaf they became afraid of working with me in the end they wouldn't give a chance they wouldn't hire me. as workmates had beef too but that doesn't stop them from offering great service to their customers and by employing them the owner of the company wants to help break down stereotypes i guess that if. we want to inspire the you have a companies and their brands out there to employ different people because we are

capable and want to use these people here as role more doers. according to official fugue as uganda has 1800000 different people that is about 3 percent of the total population activists see this number could be high you. seize that defeat for a ticket into a comment by the government he cites the recent to distribution of free face must we choose cities did you not to be it needs into derek to consideration. on advisors the international disability alliance and joins us from new york when it comes to covert 19 aap people with disabilities more vulnerable definitely yes 1st of all 80 percent of persons but disability all over the world live in poverty and poverty means they have difficulty is access saying they're

very basic things required to protect themselves against covenanting for many of them. social distancing is really not feasible thank you madge and i am a blind woman myself and how can i make sure that i am 6 feet a break from people in the supermarket if i go shopping or how can i get help from people to cross very busy and accessible straight to new york. so that's it like so because our studies have shown that persons that disabilities are much more of all of all especially for example persons down syndrome are up to 60 thai more likely to die because of that 90 why is that is not in that case why is that. the reason is that they have all of the underlying health condition and because of their all like the conditions of tick down syndrome and because of lack of access to information because old information really relevant to how to protect

yourself against coverage 19 is not really provide it in a format that they can access it should be plain language for a person's been drunk should be in sign language for those who are death captioning should be a little but none of these are really provide it so they don't learn how to protect themselves and if catching coverage nineteen's purses that disabilities are more likely to experience more serious symptoms and lose their lives well it's like so much in this crisis things have been thought through to the end how inclusive would you say coronavirus restrictions have been for people with disabilities. well not really we have cases where example in the uganda that a deaf person bus shot by the police just because he didn't hear that there was a curfew. we have cases that essential services have been decided without the

being you know kind of city or any situation of persons that disabilities that for example think signorile chair or your hearing aid is considered an essential service so these measures have been teachin proper consideration of persons the disability and if you ask me why i would tell you because they didn't invite persons a disability and there are presented organizations are on the table and they were talking about. coverage 19 restrictions if they had some of us are on the table the would have told them what to do and what not to do to include us sure what what about the when the rollout of vaccines with those groups invited to the table to advise on making that at least more inclusive. well not in many countries in some countries we do have inclusion and here we are asking for prioritizing persons that disability and accessing that situation because we are in higher risk groups as i

explained so if you're rolling out of the vaccine should happen on the basis of at risk we are experiencing more risk should we should be prioritized and sometime treaties persons with disabilities have done successful advocacy not 100 percent successful but at least they have some priority but in many countries a gang you have been left out from vaccination what about women with disabilities how have they been treated during this pandemic well i don't think with the difficulty imagine because imagine you're living as a home and you're living as a woman the disability in poverty you're already experiencing a lot of barriers and then such a situation like a pandemic happens your defers to be less alt so you have to have cases that women with disabilities could not access. their sexual and reproductive rights. to

alliance and have you is and couldn't complain because they were relying on family members to give support and of course then you are relying on someone for support we don't any monitoring it puts you in a situation of being involved over again spying and unfortunately you oversee many countries and receive reports from various regions any good examples of inclusion during the pandemic. yes there have been examples for example in some time treats they have started broadcasting at public briefings at all called it 19 in sign language which means that if persons can also access it and sometimes trees social protection schemes have been introduced to provide additional support for persons with disabilities and their family members. and together we are allies and national disability and development costs early on and we as the alliance of

organizations all persons for disability have introduced a few campaigns since the pandemic hit and we have managed to gain some success in making the global. fight against coverage 19 more disability inclusive for example health organization has started to provide captioning in their public briefings which means that those who cannot follow the audio can rate what is being said but still i mean a long way to go good to hear at least that there are some inroads being made to see if he and she advises the international disability alliance thank you very much for being on the show today european medicines agency says there's no indication that astra zeneca is corona virus vaccine is the cause of reported blood clots it says the benefits of the vaccine continue to outweigh the risks the regulator adds that the blood clot events very brand but need to be evaluated several countries have suspended the rollout of the astra zeneca bank saying following reports that

people who received the job in denmark and norway developed blood clots. let's get you over to our science correspondent now derek williams he's been looking at the questions you've been sending us on how you tube channel. how long can fact seem side effects last conforte indicate it's working. i want to leave all the speculation about blood clotting and the astra zeneca vaccine behind for a minute and focus on what we know for certain about common minor side of facts reported in connection with covert vaccines pretty much all of the ones approve so far in various parts of the world appear to be pretty react to janick which means they regularly cause mild side effects like like pain and swelling at the injection site as well as things like like fatigue headache fever chills or aching

joints the single shot johnson and johnson back seen appears to cause those effects somewhat less often in 2 dose m.r.i. they vaccines they seem to occur more commonly after the 2nd dose while the opposite seems to hold true for the astra zeneca vaccine. another point worth mentioning is that younger people seem to react more often and more powerfully than the elderly it's thought that's because they have more responsive immune systems authorities say the symptoms can last a few days but but in most of the firsthand reports that i read they subsided within 36 hours the good news is that side effects while unpleasant are actually a sign that the vaccine is the doing what it's supposed to do which is laying the

groundwork for an immune response so the. if you are infected with the by wrists your body can get to work straight away wiping hell out personally and more than happy to experience a day or 2 of discomfort if i know that i'll be protected afterwards from a potentially life threatening case of tobit 19 that sounds like a really great deal to me and with terry thanks for watching.

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where he's being held and suspense as icelanders we wait for the volcano to blow its top and finally put an end to weeks of trouble sometimes tremors. on by our thank you so much for your company everyone the european and medicines agency is carrying out an in-depth probe into the astra zeneca vaccine after several reports of possible serious side effects more than a dozen european countries have suspended the use of the astra zeneca vaccine was speaking just moments ago the a.m.a. head m.r. cook says her organization so far believes the benefits of the astra zeneca product outweighed the risks a number of people have died after getting vaccinated in the

e m a is still looking into whether there is any link to the vaccine or coke also stressed that they were taking the reports of blood clotting effects very seriously but final report will be released on thursday here's a part of what she said just a minutes ago take a listen when the investigation is ongoing we are currently we are still firmly convinced that the benefits of the are so pathetic that vaccine in preventing poke at 19 with a thorough fated risk of health before i they found that outweigh the risk of the side effects. in the meantime anyone who has received the vaccine and heard any come theron's should contact their appropriate care professional it's important that people who suspect that they have a side effect after vaccination report this to the national medicines regulator or to a health care professional who can help them to do so all right let's take you straight to brussels correspondent garrick modest who is following this all important story

for you georg the european union mrs a regulator said just moments ago that there is no indication that the astra zeneca vaccine is the cause of reported block loss does this now finally put an end to the matter. well i know she said there's no indication at the presence and so they're looking into the matter they're receiving data from member states as we speak and they want to swiftly analyze that scientific material in order to find out if potentially there could be a link a step list if so and if that would be the case a lot of ifs in that sentence if that would be the case the european medicines agency then has to decide if it still stands by its verdict that the benefits outweigh the risks and it appears that it's a likely scenario so far it's a real low number of cases so even if

a link could be established the vote it may be that yes to keep using that vaccine and another important information she gave is that she does unlikely that this is a batch specific problem because for instance an austrian individual batch of astra zeneca vaccines was stopped so what from what we can tell for now that doesn't appear to be a specific bet related problem but this has again painfully laid bare differences of opinion let's put it that way between national health authorities in the european union and the european medicines agencies and even within countries and the european union. yes indeed but you have to understand that the that is the way the european union is constructed it's what member states who are in the driving seat when it comes to health matters so the european medicines agency only provides advice and then it is up for national law

forty's a to follow that advice that for instance is also the reason why germany at 1st advised astra zeneca use only for people younger than the age of 64 and that is also the reason why some member states could as of tomorrow gift greenlights to another vaccine that is not being approved by the european medicines agency how much of a setback has this been going arc for the european union. i would say regarding the fact that we're fighting vaccine has a tendency on the continent particularly in france for instance but also particularly in belgium this is clearly not helping in that respect on the other hand experts say we're vaccinating healthy people yes as the head of the european medicines agency has correctly pointed out thousands of people are dying because of covered 19 so the benefits outweigh the risks here but see that you vaccinate healthy people you want to make sure that this is safe it is always

a question however and that is why the european medicine agency is looking into the matter with their scientists the question of course you have to ask is is it really necessary that national authorities then say we stop the use of the vaccine because clearly experts say that is a not really sure ink citizens who already have 2 outs regarding that particular vaccine yet might just reporting from brussels thank you. a stick a look now at some of the other developments in the pandemic pharmaceutical company phasers says it will deliver an additional $10000000.00 doses of its coronavirus vaccine to the european union over the next 3 months canada meanwhile has updated its guidelines to recommend the use of astra zeneca kovan 1000 that seen in people aged 65 years and older and cases of corinna virus are rising exponentially again in germany cases have been rising steadily over the last few weeks experts are

warning that germany is experiencing the start of a 3rd wave. the czech republic is among the worst affected countries in the european union vaccine rollout has been slow and the number of covert $1000.00 deaths per head of the population is one of the highest in the world news reports now from a town where the virus has inflicted a heavy toll. the streets of tough are silent there are no children at the elementary school local shops are closed with new coronavirus variants raging across the czech republic this is one of the country 2 worst affected regions. deputy mayor you know the poor ratchet tries to keep track of the numbers he says everyone here knows someone who died of kobita 19 or something nobody knows about it and i realized many of those who died were people my age or even younger. troops who were on the show so i realized i would never see them

again to go fishing watch soccer or have a beer. that really gets to you to not confuse the mission. in the local health center the 1st responders tell us they feel totally overwhelmed and frustrated there is no hospital in town that means patients with severe cases of cobbett 19 have to be transferred to a clinic 50 kilometers away magdalena and shove us says sometimes she doesn't have the energy to wake up and go to work the emergency doctor recently lost her father to the pandemic and wants me to give that i would not because i'm a doctor but i was allowed to say goodbye to my digital and to stay with him until the very last moment. i didn't want anyone to have to see what's going on in covert wards where patients suffocate even if they're given oxygen pain you cannot imagine that.

doctors. exhausted from workers president in resignation and all this while the pandemic rages on across the region to have his less than 20 minutes drive from neighboring germany but the border has been closed this has disrupted the lives of many cross border commuters some have even lost their jobs to go through a burgeoning. i need a job through but. i am trying to find work but no one wants me. it's tough the british you know. it is taking too long people want jobs they have to pay their bills unfortunately this is the reality. top of stupidity mayor is pinning his hopes on vaccines even though so far big finish and are only taking place here once a week meanwhile. pulled herself together everything go day so she

can keep doing her job hoping that one day soon the pandemic will be over. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. britain's prince philip has been released from a hospital in london after a month long state of queen elizabeth was treated for an infection and then had to have heart surgery france philip is 99 years old. german president. has been holding talks in berlin with his israeli counterpart hovan rivlin worldwide vaccine distribution tensions in the middle east and relations between germany and israel were on the agenda. the u.s. and japanese foreign and defense ministers have been holding talks in tokyo a joint statement warned against destabilizing behavior from china in the region u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken also commended condemned rather what he described

as the military's brutal repression and me and mar. the u.s. senate's has confirmed deborah hale and as president joe biden's pick for interior secretary this makes her the 1st native american to lead a cabinet department it was a tight vote as a majority of republicans voted against her because of her support for the green new deal and her position against fossil fuels. russian opposition leader alexina vali claims he is being held in the equivalent of a concentration camp the kremlin critic spoke out in an instagram post recent of ali says he is currently under constant surveillance with a prison guard waking him throughout the night this involving a serving several years in a labor camp he was convicted of violating parole terms by traveling to germany after a poisoning attack. let's get the latest now from journalist at

the merits theo 1st of all how was mr valma able to send an instagram message from behind the prison walls. well as far as we understand he's passing these messages on to you his lawyer is he then pays them to social media and the only himself doesn't have access to a failure in he's not able to speak to journalists now he's in jail but all his accounts on all platforms are still active being run by his team and that's very important for him and for his supporters because that is traditionally how they get their message out because they're completely sidelined by official russian state media so how did his supporters and family react to this message. about well we don't have any official statement from his family yet his supporters

have been sharing this message very widely on social media there is a big sense of relief that he has been communicating a tall because for the last few days he's been out of contact we didn't know you which prison which institution he was being held in and that has happened before since his jailing that he has in the house gone out of contact while he's being transferred from one institution to another and when that happens among his supporters there's naturally a great deal of anxiety because they believe that he is in the hands of the people who tried to poison him who tried to kill him only a few months ago what do we know theo about the penal colony where mr valma is currently being held. well we know from former inmates he spake before mist in the vomit it was transferred that this is

a very tough institution there's been reports of violence there have been reports of psychological pressure isolation for inmates obviously we know a bit more about it from the families point of view from that instagram paste but some people who have been there before have said that this is where this state sends prison is that they really want to break say this is a tough place for anyone to be and what were you able to infer about his condition current condition there. both from the instagram post he describes these very bleak conditions some very tough regime the colonnade but as he says that if you deal with it with humor you can get through anything and that is what he seems to be doing that with some rather funny moments even in instagram message and so he concludes by by saying he's doing well and that is one of the

unique things about an avanti on the russian political scene that he is able to withstand this kind of pressure on keep his sense of humor intact say certainly his supporters will be relieved to see that. ability has an abundant him just yet the emirates reporting from moscow thank you. now we turn our attention to me in mar where families have been holding funerals for dozens of people killed during recent anti coup protests and me and my security forces have killed more than 90 protesters in the last 2 days along the military has imposed martial law in many areas to crackdown on dissent the many remain defiant. a funeral for a 19 year old can't in your head one of the dozens of protesters killed in clashes since sunday i am who i am.

in the in send this strict of yangon protesters are digging in residents here are frightened by.