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shadow of growing chinese assertiveness india and the united states to emphasize the growing defense into pacific. i'm going to welcome to news asia glad you could join us it's not just me in most cities that are witnessing a military crackdown but increasingly its border as well and all me offensive in the southeast and 7 states has forced some 80000 ethnic civilians to flee into the jungle aid groups say they are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance. just one of many ethnic groups in the country that have faced oppression from the military for more than 7 decades and a cease fire of side with the government hasn't evolved to do much on the ground. a life in hiding these jungle simiane more has become

a makeshift shelter for thousands of ethnic arend villages police the army. humanitarian organization say they're safe for now but the situation could worsen very soon. as they get this place they've got to eat it can't go back and start their crops they can't prepare for the next meal they can't we get their animals once they're out moving in the searing month small stream people get sick and so they need medicine military activities aimed at dominating the qur'an state started in 2017 they were scaled up dramatically in recent months as to groups on army tried to fight back. the qur'an belong to more than a dozen other ethnic groups across myanmar that have sought greater autonomy for more than 6 decades at times the groups and gauged in armed conflicts with the military regime and later the civilian government. many eventually reached ceasefire deals with the government including the qur'an rebels in 2012 but before

they came up with the compressed hands of political resolution the government was deposed by fabrice military coup. oh no no no no he's not. spying. well there. are. no despite the challenges the village is attempting as well as they can. shelter and organizing school classes in the open and with no prospect of a quick return keeping the spirit up is more crucial than that. across asia. democracy continues in taiwan many people have banded

together to demanded a ton of elected government. this is what people in miami. and they want the military out. 9 tundra scattered on a weekend in taiwan to show solidarity with the and he could protest at home. they also prayed for those in clashes with security forces at the rally was all going to excel us in taiwan 54 year old toke is one of them his calling for international intervention. the death toll is going up every day the military is acting like terrorists. no one in myanmar accepts that it is over but there is no way to stop them no unless through international pressure by money i hope the united nations the united states will help us make obama. cocoa not all

flights to taiwan 33 years ago he lives on what's known as me i'm a street in taipei his small on a routine remains unchanged in his new country starting with a cup of tea but since the february coup his days begin with worry. about how good can milk cheese used to be very sweet as it is a taste of home to go out over the past 50 days milkiness read anymore back here only bitterness and pain and because of all the brutalities and sufferings at home. he was born into a military family in yangon and supported the gentile as a kid but taffy thing changed in 1988 last studying at yangon unify city he witnessed more than 30 students shot dead during the uprising he sat at breakfast hot to see history repeating itself. how many me and mark people have to die until the world sees us as of this morning 251 people have died down that's only the

disclosed information about their lives matter i'd rather us the older generation die for them i'm willing to die for the sake of the future of my beloved me and mark her daughter coco and i talk now what's with the young people from yemen here in taiwan they translate me a man us on line and send money home to support the civil disobedience movement public knows that it's been 60 years since the junta took power and they've made us a backward country. do we have to endure another 60 years. we failed in the 196-2988 uprising says we must help our younger generation when this time i'm very determined probably got you there this is my life's mission. or the thing . and many from me a mafia of the say that the protests must go on and seem in that area it's over.

the united states have emphasized their growing military cooperation during talks between u.s. defense secretary lloyd alston and indian officials over the weekend alston headed to stops in south korea and india is emerging as a key strategic thought for the united states as joe biden seeks to realign u.s. policy to deal with china with the help of alliances and like minded. and at the top of my agenda i wanted to convey a bitin harriet's administration's message of our strong commitment to our allies and partners india in particular is an increasingly important partner among today's rapidly shifting international dynamics and i reaffirm our commitment to a comprehensive in forward looking the fence partnership with india as

a central pillar of our approach to the region. all the discussions duty focused on all but why didn't in defense cooperation and expanding political belief and prosperity says information setting cooperation in the managing fetisov defense and stick support midi don't dump white guy tough by and by key to our faces and greet to punish you you know hans cooperation if you don't use if you don't i think come on come on and off we cough come on and joining me for more is manoj joshi he's with the think tank the observer decide from vision in delhi welcome mr dorsey now the deepening oath in the us defense cooperation has been highlighted by both sides during this visit why is this so important. well 1st of all from the american point of view there is a new administration and the new administration is trying to croft the new

china policy and that china policy. at the center of it all is what the americans call the indo-pacific strategy and so you saw that in this visit general austin initially visited so korea and japan along with secretary of state clinton. and then he came a week to do it he would as blinken and and sullivan went to alaska where they had 2 plus 2 talks dialogue with the chinese so you can see that this is part of a larger construct. that the united states has and in that i think india please a very important rule. because you all probably know pacific. your. essentially what the american the trying to do is somehow or the other. i want you

to work containment of china but the link at the white an administration and its officials say that we would hope compete jan. their intention is not merely a security related response but a response that cuts across various levels in the sense of spoken of all of. corporation involving india in japan spoken about technology about emerging technologies it has been spoken about. humanitarian relief and etc infrastructure construction so this is the raid a different strategy from the one that will adopted by the trumpet ministration and what the the us is trying to do is not always to fill in those kind of blanks that are there and try to get everyone together and that's one of india's concern india's is very important because of its size and off its economic potential there

is no other country in the pacific region which matches india so what exactly is india's role in this in new emerging partnership and alliance network in now the in the pacific. there one issue is of course about i said in your size because when you look at the other partners when you look at japan when you look at australia simply not up to it in the sense that japan has historical issues with china it just doesn't have the kind of heft that that india has at times past its constitution restricted in some ways not to implement security at all but in partnership with various countries if they work in coalitions you know they are able to compete with china in a range of areas and that's i think just concern on india the country that seeking

investment. in the present kind of an indoor pacific policy what we're seeing is that the united states is docking about you know they're creating new new play chain initiatives so there's an australia japan india initiative there is a u.s. rich going and emerging technologies so india hoping to pick up there. that if there is a movement away of companies from china there is a shift from there india hopes to benefit from that and also talk about her for leave it there for the time being thank you so much for joining us from delhi manoj joshi thank you. and that's if it is of course more on did over dot com forward slash asia believe in over the images connected to the top story the long running conflict between the military and ethnic. insults demanding a group to autonomy more of the same time the birth.

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vaccines. we didn't expect to cope with 19 special to still be a year on but the pandemic is still here. and it's been locked down after lockdown with another on its way here i'm totally over it i bet you are too and no wonder it's been a year since germany officially classified the coronavirus as a pandemic there are lots of lessons to be learned from this crisis the biggest challenge being understanding how we perceive the dangers of a microscopic pathogen how science progresses and how politicians decide what's best for us i've had to switch from business anchor to science journalist not the easiest tracking the ups and downs of a pandemic but seemed way suddenly became a painful reality here at the company. one of them play us was the fast track

coach at 19 from a colleague who had travelled from china the german health minister from up to mystic is no cause for concern. a few weeks later things looked quite different factions were spreading throughout germany in mid march the chancellor took the unusual step of addressing the nation on t.v. . this is it is serious please take it seriously too that there has not been any such challenge to our country since germany unity not since what with 2 that has demanded such great joined solidarity based action which has 100 and called germany's 1st lockdown started the streets of berlin were virtually deserted museums and theaters had to close and the economy came to an almost complete standstill. schools and nurseries also closed the living room became the new classroom but online teaching was difficult as laptops and software was scott's

meanwhile supplies of protective clothing in hospitals providing no doctors food to keep people infected alive early may nearly 7000 of them have died the high number was relatively low in comparison with other countries infection numbers started to fall the lockdown worked that reduce the burden on hospitals. finally some a time restrictions were eased people return to the streets but the easing of measures brought new infections. by november the numbers was so high that people were told to stay at home again what became known as lock down life began. the months parts of the population have been protesting against the restrictions. of this. but lock down light wasn't enough shortly before christmas in fact numbers

reached such a high that public life was entirely shut down again with alcohol bans in public and even nightly curfews in some places at the end of the gear germany's vaccination campaign had kicked off politicians promise that those who wanted the job would be vaccinated by the end of summer but many vaccination centers remain empty due to a shortage of doses but the 1st rays of sunshine many are no longing for move freedom when after the outbreak restrictions are being lifted bit by bit but in the meantime you taishan send infection numbers are rising again. all he's doing our goal is a new role just and founding director of the quest center for transforming biomedical research what was the biggest challenge for you as a scientist within this year. as a strong research at the charity or keeping our research low income in laboratories and shut down work under similarly respected conditions many of our mission helping

out in morris testing work with musicians book music reaching corporate and she is someone trying to analyze and consequently trying to improve your research and propel and institute of boy this this was busy you know kind of under a magnifying. one of the research is number one and also putting out spotlight on the many things we could do even better so it's been a tough year but science and scientists have have never been in the spotlight like they have being in this pandemic has that being good or bad for research. well i think the pandemic has convinced people that science is the best thing we have the key to progress and ultimately be only way to get out. of trouble such as in a pond demick i think a good example of this is the changing sentiment against wrexham nations i mean we have evidence that many antibiotics those are now or have been converted not to

receive. what about internationally. i know germany is a special case with the chancellor who's a scientist herself but what about in other countries well absolutely but and i'm sure there are many national idiosyncrasies regarding the end we can power and spoke with this isn't one i mean i think appreciation of research and science in general appears to be on the rise. was enough listening down to scientific evidence when it came to policy decisions where the right scientists listened to and at the end of the day with the scientists saying the right things and giving across the right messages. it's certainly an area in which we could have fun. it's true that in many countries including germany when you mention i mean scientists have the ear of policy made guns and in most countries playing most countries claim that they're anti khurana measures are science based but which

scientific evidence they live and let to which decisions generally remain completely opaque i think it was in transparent and one of one maybe not. prioritization and. use a scientific evidence of political reckoning in many cases so to paraphrase darwin i would say it was the ideas that shit so i think attributes of good scientific policy clients should should be inclusiveness rigorousness transparency and also excess ability and this is certainly not how we are resigned over the last year so has the pandemic brought science closer to the people or divided society. well currently societies like stream equal rights and that was certainly already true before corona but it may have even worsened so so. i think

science has been used on both sides of the trance scientific findings often not 100 contradictory or are tentative and until better evidence meets our previous uncertainties. i think that this is a defining element of science and one of its major strengths you can and the way progress is made however sometimes it is against science and they weapon at simon's . importantly i believe that in most cases these people do not fundamentally distrust science they they just distrust politics and politicians and i get that they are choosing the wrong research results or make decisions without proper scientific basis so tell me as a scientist what's your personal take away one year on in this pandemic. my personal take is that science right as an international joint effort has the investments faith of its fantastic potential but science during the pandemic could

have done even better i mean we have completely failed to provide solid evidence for example through randomized control studies regarding the usefulness and if you can see up in areas measure us which together make up what we call social distancing so even after more than a year and millions of deaths local right on this remains a black box with which we are basically experiment so even you know it's late in the game i think we should stop our mis i fear or not being a last pandemic we're facing all this there other thank you very much for being on the show today thank you. well one institution really has suffered over the past year is the theatre but the show must go on the curtain went up again at the famous bellino ensemble on friday despite the rising coated infections in germany under strict hygiene conditions the play punit cats was performed in front of about

$350.00 guests the audience had to test negative beforehand only every 2nd seat was occupied and mosques were compulsory during the entire performance it's part of a pilot scheme in the capital featuring 7 cultural venues to find the best way to stage a vent safely during the pandemic. next on the program a concert of the berlin philharmonic orchestra is planned for around 1000 visitors on saturday. for the past year d.w. has confined derek williams to his home study to answer your questions on the coronavirus we've all had a chance to delve into derek's mind and check out his bookshelf so here he is again like every day except today is a little different we had a question we wanted to us derek. how much time does derek spend in front of his bookshelves every day.

that there are incidents to. live their lives. i want to leave behind all the speculation about blood clot and an asteroid but. it's worth a try. not to. do so mixing and matching. that sam to london.

informative as a text usually it's a little more eloquent than that i meant was all in thanks for watching it's been really nice having me here the past year i have been keep joining us and obviously this is going be going on for a bit longer stay safe so you get so for. the for.

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