to the. discovery. documentary. you're watching news asia coming up today we take a closer look at india and pakistan improved relations what's driving it how genuine is it and for how long will it hold especially given the tensions over the past 3 years. plus if you paint it purple they will come to south koreans with no overseas travel opportunities because of the pandemic has found a holiday spot closer to home.

i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia india and pakistan have had a tense couple of years over the disputed territory of kashmir following a 2019 suicide bombing there and fighter jets skirmishes they had almost gone to war but the 2 countries appear to be making an attempt to move on helped along by a cease fire agreement recently brokered by the united arab emirates both sides are making overtures a communique of peace this led to circulating on social media this one proposed at least by indian prime minister on the run from modi to his pakistani counterpart imraan khan in it a wish for cause you relations with the people of pakistan. the message of goodwill as described by pakistani officials on twitter came just days after modi wished

khan a speedy recovery from covert 19 these the 1st signs of reproach between the traditional rivals in 2 years. the flashpoint kashmir a region both india and pakistan claim fully control in part and each of these parts divided by a so-called line of control both armies regularly exchanged fire across this defacto border despite an 18 year old ceasefire agreement. tensions reached a high point in august 29000 when india decided to scrap the autonomous status of its part of kashmir. all our friends i have full confidence that through this new step. we can all join together. and kashmir free of terrorism and separatism. india placed

a state of jammu and kashmir under a strict lockdown internet and phone services were cut off. it's a pakistan war and india's actions were sign of worse things to come. this action will not stop at kashmir. tensions between the 2 may lead to increased incidence of firing across the line of control some 7000 until february this year when both countries agreed to once again respects the ceasefire. if. a sentiment that was repeated some weeks later by pakistan's army chief who said it was time to quote bury the past and move forward. since

then teams from both countries have mad to discuss what to share in pact the 1st such dialogue in 2 years. peace between both nations still remains elusive but there is hope that recent developments bring a welcome change. joining us a state of the shots at jelani shots ever why have india and pakistan decided to bring down the temperature now that sir really good question but slightly difficult one to answer because you know the 2 countries have a long history of deep mistrust if you ask analysts in india davil take a cynical view and say that pakistan has run out of options to pressure india on kashmir its economy is suffering and it is desperate to try to improve relations with india now there is some truth to the fact that box towns economy is indeed hurting it is in debt inflation is high the i.m.f.

suspended its program for a year it has just been restored buckstone has been under pressure by the financial action task force the international body that monitors are terrified and saying and money laundering so bug stands economic problems are huge but i think a more plausible reason would be the change in washington and the government has the biden spirit administration is very keen to progress on of gonna start it needs pakistan on its side bogged down in return wants the us to to pressure india to improve relations and so there's a lot of signaling going on in the last month. by the 2 sides and that is a 5 year beginning to see an early signs of possible improvement. well i guess it sounds like prognosticating is going to be a little difficult so i'm not sure how much she can answer but how likely then will

we see the 2 sides continue down this path. so if you've observed the pattern in india pakistan relations this is something we have seen before. what we are seeing now is carefully choreographed statements from both sides buckstone leadership talking about burying the past and reaching the hand of friendship the indian prime minister sending a letter of good will couple of days ago and then also reaching the pakistani prime minister well when he was diagnosed of corona so they are exchanging basic go to seize. and there is on the line of control in kashmir for the last month or so so they are taking these baby steps to try to create an environment where they can gain some momentum the words in gauge more and the next thing to look at is a meeting in tajikistan to moreover the pakistani foreign minister and the indian

foreign minister are there for hard official conference on afghanistan and there's an expectation that they meet their might meet on the sidelines they're playing it down they're saying nothing as you're doing for now but that's something to watch if they indeed meet we might hear some more positive noises that's very interesting now you had mentioned the united states i want to bring in china pakistan and china have very close relations and last year india and china had a deadly border battle so how has china's relationship with both countries played a part in their decision to maintain friendlier relations now. so we know that the word china is a strategic partner of pakistan it has provided weapons in the past it is investing billions of dollars in infrastructure project in one belt one. scheme in pakistan but in the last couple of years i would see the excitement about investing in

pakistan has somewhat slowed down. a notch or 2 did it means to dziedzic partners india every time pakistan has quarrelled with india in the un in the security council china has come to the rescue so that relationship between china and pakistan is strong but at the same time johnno doesn't really want constant bickering involved between india and pakistan so it has tried to encourage bhagat stand to to dissolve its border dispute the dispute with india. i think that the india china border dispute which went on for a couple of months you have focused minds in india about not trying to open too many fronts. but i think for the most part and pakistan partnership is very much intact now you talked a little bit about this earlier but can you say a little more about the domestic pressures driving both prime minister narendra modi and prime minister imran hung in this. so you know there's

a belief in board the countries. if peace is ever achieved between them it will be through the hawks on both sides so at the moment we have a prime minister narendra modi who is a hardline hindu nationalist. in india and pakistan we have the prime minister in iran hon but effectively the government and policies run by the army and when the army chief in pakistan says we want to bury the past and we want to move forward with trade and other exciting opportunities that save a lot so there is clearly. opposition but in each country there's a strong push midi lobby in pakistan pakistan will want to see some movement on kashmir to try to take a leadership on board so they don't get a sense of being abandoned. but i think. india feels it can now engage with

pakistan from a position of strength after having unilaterally effectively annexed meter in august 1900 it feels it has got nothing to lose shuts up jelani thank you so much for joining us. it's monday the start of another week and when we all rather be on vacation than working well since travel has been especially difficult this pandemic year here at the dell bill will at least take you on a visual if not actual trip to one very lavater island in south korea. no there's nothing wrong with your screen these islands really are purple from the purple roofs roads and bridges to the lavender fields and even the locals working in them. in the morning i dress up in purple from head to

toe even including my underwear and shoes and it makes me happy when i go to other cities like. people praise me as i am from the purple islands and i feel great that . i'll tell you. inspired by native flower and government tourism initiative residents of the ban welcome back she islands in southwest korea have cleverly transformed their town's into a tourist attraction more than $4000000.00 u.s. dollars have gone into purpling up pretty much everything there are purple hotels and restaurants and there's even purple food. who we couldn't travel overseas due to covert 19 so we thought about a local trip instead and we found these purple lions so i'm here with my friends and we're all dressed up in purple it's amazing and looks like fairy tales and magic as i'm seeing the grandmas are all wearing purple clothes to it's dreamy for

. visitors who wear the magic color are allowed free entry to the islands they can stroll along the 3 purple foot bridges connecting the islands and if they get tired they can take a break on one of these benches i purple you was made popular by a member of the k. pop band b.t.s. and something which attracts even more visitors. imo big b.t.s. fare so there's many places around korea that i wanted to visit because of a connection with yes this was one place that i had seen online and i thought it was so beautiful and wanted to come and when i came it's true it's just as beautiful as in all the pictures and i didn't know that they even would have this year so it's a really nice to see all these things as a fair little more than 100 people actually live on the purple islands and then mainly elderly farmers they say they're happy about the tourists now visiting their home even if some do wear the wrong color. that's it from us today

we leave you with pictures out of india and the annual hindu festival of colors we're back tomorrow see you then good bye. if. the face off against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection in developing what does the latest research say . information and context the coronavirus update. on t w. they've been groomed of their soul that's what people experience is when their

heritage is taken from them. countless cultural artifacts were stolen from africa by colonialists and carted off to europe. to lift wounds that have yet to heal what should be done with the stone or from africa . on t.w. . at 1st it seemed as if children were immune to sars cope too it was just adults who had to worry about getting sick but at least their kids were safe. about where they. schools reopened after lockdowns it became clear that children could not only carry but also spread the virus. then came the variance

and with them a rapid rise of infections among younger children but some getting seriously ill. more children are being admitted to hospital then before so are the new virus variants making kids sikka or simply more children being infected than before. it's not pleasant i'm doing that every day oh no well come to our covert $900.00 special i want to get jones in berlin and schools here are currently closed for the easter holidays that means kids can catch the virus there at least for the next 2 weeks but what about meeting friends and family and how big is the risk for children anyway here's what we know so far. for a long. day is there.

any. kids and the coronavirus ringback it's supposedly harmless for them but is that true. a year after the pandemic struck hospitals are reporting an increasing number of young admissions they're suffering from the so-called pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome or pimms. worldwide doctors have seen this condition emerge weeks after a covert 1000 infection the w.h.o. keeps track of the severe illness in children and young people but says it's rare luckily children in adolescence tend to have more mild disease and even most children tend to have asymptomatic infection which means they don't have any symptoms at all. but since most children are asymptomatic it's hard to know when they're infected so the virus is transmitted easily off and it's completely undetectable some studies show. we have. children for

antibodies against the corona virus and we found that around 6 times as many children have had the infection as would have been expected so we. see in history shows us that children definitely do get infected and that they can take the infection home with them how's it going and the. so far nurseries in schools haven't been seen as covert hotspots but that may be about to change virus mutations likely be 117 variant which emerged in the u.k. are far more contagious amongst children as well scientists want to apply the same strict hygiene measures to them as for adults. the same rules smaller groups social distancing hygiene ventilation should apply there too. just like everywhere else if only because children also contribute to the spread of the infection.

and because the corona virus does pose a serious threat to some children vaccines are needed pharma giant pfizer and madonna have begun clinical studies in the us some on babies as young as 6 months but with initial results not expected before summer it will be some time before a safe vaccine is available for children. and for more i'm joined by yvonne a maldonado she's an epidemiology is an infectious disease specialist at stanford school of medicine and she joins us from palo alto in california good morning to you good to have you with us at least tell me how worried are you about the rise in infection numbers among children. yes it is a concern but we have to remember that it is still a case of world war i that children do not make up a very large percentage of people who are infected with the virus for example here in the united states about 13 percent of voluntary actions are children under 18 it

is true however that children can be infected they can become hospitalized and rarely children can die from the disease so we do have to be careful and in addition as you heard before children can become infected more than likely without symptoms so that it can spread to other us we have to remember that all our family members must mask and distance how big a role does the so-called british variant be 117 play when it comes to children. well the b $17.00 variant is going to play a similar role in children as it will in any other age group and that it is this virus is more infectious so whatever we see in fact infections in children we're going to see more maybe 30 to 50 percent more infectious ness of that fire since children as well as adults but subtle make them basically at those searching does it also make them sick i guess we see more children hospitalized now yet we don't

know that if that's the case just for children we have seen data for the 1st year are that the b. 117 does seem to cause more severe illness but most of those data came from adults we don't know yet about children we haven't seen enough data there right now i know that you and your colleagues a working on a code 19 maxine suitable for children how will that vaccine different from the ones already available for adults. well we know that pfizer on the journal and johnson and johnson will be using their vaccines for children and we're going to be starting in another few weeks to use the pfizer vaccine here at stanford and then maybe johnson and johnson after that and my journey has also says they're starting their trials the doses will be starting out with smaller doses to see if they produce any allergic reactions for example and say make sure that they're safe and if they are the dosage dosing will be increased potentially to the same level as

adults are receiving and there's a different timeline understand for adolescents and to feel smaller children could you just briefly tell us when we can expect the vaccine for adolescents and then in particular for fatah flows and perhaps even babies. yes so bias or vaccine here in the united states received emergency approval for 16 and 17 year olds so we we imagine that for a major now and johnson and johnson there may be approval for 16 and 17 year olds for their vaccines locally by this fall but for younger children that is those say 122-155-2128 may take longer maybe later this fall certainly for the little 16 months of age to 2 years we don't expect that soon will be available all the trials will be going on this year he probably won't see any available approvals until 2022 right i mean i know that it's a bit of

a nasty question but do we actually need a vaccine for children given that the w.h.o. stresses that most children infected with the coronavirus are asymptomatic. well you know there are 130000000. births a year and this world and we know that children are a big proportion of our family members that can go out of the house and become infected so we think that children are as important as adults and be protected for their own health as well as for prevention of transmitting this virus in households in all around the world so yes absolutely it is critical that children become vaccinated but we need the vaccines to be as safe and effective as possible and just briefly in the meantime what's your advice for worried parents. yes i think that the same advice should hold true now as it did a year ago if we know that children should be monitored for

safety again and. not going out in crowds making sure that children can wear masks children over 2 years old can easily wear masks they're very safe and to live years above and just unseen and hand hygiene are still important and that age group as. a native from stanford school of medicine thank you so much thank you very much . may i ask you a question did you catch cold this winter come down with the flu no well over to derek and one of your questions now. what happened with flu in the 2021 winter season and. a huge fear of going into this winter in the northern hemisphere was potentially having to deal with with waves of cove it and flu at the same time this sort of dreaded twin demick that would put health care systems under even more pressure and and one

of the most positive things you can say about how things actually developed is that those fears never materialized in fact a flu infections worldwide have fallen so far during the pandemic that it's kind of hard to find the right adjective to describe the trend it's staggering maybe look at this graphic on the topic from the w.h.o. for a minute on the left hand side you see the numbers of confirmed cases of flu back in early 2020 when those lockdowns happened everywhere back in march and april the numbers nosedive and they've remained at truly historic lows ever since most experts think this dramatic drop as do largely to measures like mask wear and and social distancing implemented during the pandemic but i can hear you saying well if those measures worked so well against flu viruses why have they proven so much less effective against sars kovi to at least part of the reason could be that influenza

viruses were already endemic on a global scale sort of migrating if you can really use that term of the virus between the northern and southern hemispheres in a in a regular winter season rhythm so when killed at 19 hit a year ago lots of people had some immune. into the flu because they had it fairly recently then another significant slice of the population has since acquired some immunity from flu vaccines many scientists if the arise that that throwing 'd social distancing and frequent hand washing and masks into that mix possibly put flu viruses over a critical transmission threshold one where they they simply can't spread effectively but even today relatively few people globally have acquired any protection from sars kopi to do infection or vaccination so it can spread

effectively at least that's the working hypothesis and a significant turnaround for the country which at one point had the highest death rate in the wilts. the united kingdom says it's already administered at least one dose of its coded vaccine to over 30000000 people that's close to 60 percent of the adult population and we leave you with these pictures thanks for watching. the i'm going to. keep.

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