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i'm melissa chan thank you for joining us 9 of the most well known and well loved hong kong activists and politicians have been found guilty of organizing and participating in popular protests back in 2000 in 1900 they include 82 year old martin lee one of the key architects of the territory's constitution a defender of civil liberties and the founder of hong kong's 1st pro democracy party media tycoon jimmy lie has also been found guilty along with margaret a respected former lawmaker the founder of hong kong's labor party each up young was also found guilty kong caught up with him in the days before his verdict. a small flat in downtown hong kong weather woes only museum dedicated to the 18 i channel in krakow is located the military repression in beijing 32 years ago

changed the course of many people in china and hong kong including legion again i was there during the during for the massacre and i was deeply in propre days after my relieve pressure to hong kong crash that i would spend my life time in 5 people who mockers in china. were not being very. street at leisure again is facing a difference fate critics see and i don't massive track now being carried out by the change this time honest most liberal and democratic city hall can't in the wake of anti-government protests here an age this which all the icing and attending and authorizes and that's really wish over a 1000000 people took part was one of the few without power and questions every one of the defendants a high profile figures apart from media tycoon she knew i or a former lawmaker has icons of the opposition movement like martin lee who is no

this father of 2 my issue of the charges carries a maximum 5 year jail term was these cases just the tip of the iceberg with over $10000.00 adults arrested for the child is the 1st verdict among the 9 charges for which he's on trial pages recently post weeping national security law and his overhaul of the city's that to a system intensify the fear we should all denies hong kong's tenement morning vigil every year calling for an end to china's one party move for decades and that it had to make him a prime time get and beijing security this year he will likely be absent for the very 1st time in this era in a way they're going to go now i would be. by saying that this is already some video of a blessing for me that i would only have to go to jail off the you know 40 years of activism in hong kong and but i'm ready to pay the prize and read your face or

something witnessed hong kong's decades long struggle the 64 year old activist is not optimistic but he believes that he success says we'll continue to fight for democracy and to define the leverage to go home. joining us as activists sonny chung now in exile in the u.k. these days sonny you fled hong kong last year because of what looked like your imminent arrest now we've seen the verdicts your decision to leave must feel somewhat justified. arbitrated yes it is so bad i left home colmes we already be a large starts at dissipate i ask their regime lots of rest the political crackdown by day she will not stop you see the future see a real shift us are shipping this really focus on home combatants and they are really to pay the price to get on a home call reek of the canvas of how much how many sentient that will be

implemented by t. international community and that's why many political prisoners are now to take that you hold home and many people also go you saw how and that is fairly simple give us a sense of how important these figures are martin lee jim ely most viewers might not be familiar with their names but what do they mean to hong kong or zz. oh martini actually and many at this they're very senior and democracy campaign is for methot that case actually of course their political fields may have a little bit different with the younger generation however they're still very much well respected by many people and then there and now they are now being arrested and being prosecuted and that's also a very big loss to our civil society because without stand our movements it's

become much leaderless of course but on the other had we have to assemble all the power and forces that we have and this is getting more difficult without it i want to pivot to what happened earlier this week with beijing overhauling hong kong electoral system what will be the impact of that you ask a very good question i mean we all of surf the national people's congress they make a fair we change or not your natural system and that's changed can potentially severely undermined our whole economy and hinder our democratic poker asked in the long run because this is a fairy pact work with both by the beijing government when they try to can so and try to decrease the direct seats elected in the legislative can so that also means beijing want to increase their control over our legislative council and that also

means the one country 2 systems is already fallen and we have no expectation from the one country 2 systems and democracy is not allowed it by the beijing government the senate has done decoration all the promises are now being cut and now being the current by the beijing government and the hong kong as a now you know very dire situation. now you mentioned earlier that you don't think sanctions are working is hong kong last is there no hope i mean of course hong kong we have hope because we after this no matter people on the ground or people are excel overseas as for our we are still trying as even as we can to help their democracy and try to repeal we shake the last months for hope home however we also realize that's of course the most months use of very trollop during the crackdown of beijing that's why we have to stay connected and we try to

have to help form the international community a sense that they use not effective be the part but by sanctioning we still have to find other ways to contest or try to understeer it's their own it's a question of beijing study chang thank you so much for joining us. the major story out of mainland china this week has been the world health organizations report on the origins of covert 19 a team of w.h.o. and chinese scientists found it was highly likely that the cone of eyes transmitted to humans from bats via 3rd animal crucially it pretty much ruled out a lab leak beijing has welcomed the findings nothing to see here while the united states and other countries say china restricted access to key data. their mission to get them to the wood seafood market community centers and the infamous institutes of by rolling. did you already there for

a week this team of scientists were trying to uncover the source of the corona virus pandemic very bored with. their report found the virus was highly unlikely to have been leaked from this lab but the head of the w.h.o. said the result was inconclusive. all hypotheses are on the table and water and complete and for the studies from what i have seen so far. even before the team of scientists said 13 route and they were doomed to disappoint their investigation plagued by bickering with the u.s. accusing china of seeking to influence the report we were. pressured to remove a critical element you know report. despite that more than a dozen countries led by washington calling for an independent inquiry from

influence at last crucial data information it lacks access it lacks transparency it certainly we don't believe that in our review to date that it meets the moment it meets the impact that this pandemic has had on the global community policing mounting pressure china back at its critics. politicizing the search for the origins of the virus is extremely unethical it will only hinder cooperation and undermine global anti epidemic efforts leading to more lives lost. 2.8000000 lives and counting since this pandemic emerged in late 2019 how and why this outbreak happened is still unclear and may always be. we have to be as clifford clinton in this. studio formerly a long time correspondent based in beijing clifford it was very interesting to hear what the director general of the w.h.o. said he's been fairly commentating of china what do you make of his new remarks

well i think a lot has happened over the past year and i think key to this has been the return of the usa to 2 the w.h.o. . it left under donald trump and the narrative very much switched in china's favor trying to put a lot of pressure on the w.h.o. i think since joe biden brought the usa back into the w.h.o. we've seen a different approach less accommodating of china as you say and as we saw in the report and i think. clearly there's there's a new dynamic at work in the w.h.o. that's very interesting now this lab leak theory a lot of people say it's a conspiracy theory some people will say that the u.s. keeps mentioning it because it wants to weaponize it politicize the issue what do you make of the laptop theory i think the lovely theory has been weaponized i think under donald trump it was used as something to be china with the fact that it was it may have been developed in a lab but increasingly it's looking like something that could be true and there's

no way of knowing that it's not true because 1st of all it took you know this break happened in new holland which is a long way away from you know on province which is where the this this kind of outbreak normally would happen we don't know anything more about the animal that may have transmitted to us there's a lot of open questions there's a big wall of silence coming from china so i think it's not it was sort of lumped in with the brigade early on but i think now it's it's looking like. it's looking like a possibility in the in the absence of anything to confirm otherwise do you think we'll ever find out the origins of cup in 1000 i don't think with the current government in china i don't think it's going to be possible i don't think it'll ever be allowed to happen because there's just too much at stake can you imagine if it was proven that it happened in a lab and the repercussions. absolutely enormous there would be reparations kohls china's reputation internationally would be destroyed so i don't think they're ever going to allow that to happen in china i think is going to be something that. i

don't think we'll ever know the truth hopefully somehow we will be able to find out the truth thank you so much clifford conan for joining us and that's the show thank you for watching we're back tomorrow see you then and goodbye. to. the phone against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update. on t w. how does a virus spread. why do we panic and when we'll. consider through the tactics and we couldn't read your blog. if you would like and the

information on the coronavirus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast you can get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us at. science. was it a mistake to send our children back to school. the number of infections is rising rapidly among kids and what do we do we prioritize teachers to get vaccinated soon or children are still at the back of the queue. but kids can also get sick with coated 19 and seriously 2 what's more they can also develop what's known as long coded meaning they can suffer a long term damage regardless of whether they have shown symptoms after their

initial infection or not their crucial age were developed meant it could impact the rest of their lives. so are we doing enough to protect our children because there could be much more at stake for the young in this pandemic and we have so far wanted to admit. welcome to our coverage 19 special i want to cajones good to have you with us now we all know the feeling of being out of breath after going up the stairs for example that's quite normal usually but not in times of covert 19 and not when tickets are affected what does long colwich do to them a condition that keeps calling 900 patients down for weeks even months beyond the initial illness an italian study on long covidien children surveyed kids and teenagers 5 months after being diagnosed with 19 only 42 percent of them had fully

recovered 36 percent showed one or 2 long sentence while 22 percent showed at least 3 sentence symptoms such. sleep disorders breathing difficulties muscle and joint pain plus exhaustion headaches and an over a lack of concentration basically all symptoms that ultimately stop kids from being kids full of energy and life francis simpson is a lecturer in psychology and counseling at coventry university in scarborough she also co-founded the compelling long covert kids and she joins us now good to have you with us you and your children had 1000 last year when did you know it was cold at 19 given the testing was still scarce. not really a question we became ill at the beginning of march and at the time of this you know the narrative was very simple about you know. there was either. you know

a flu like thing with a cough and a temperature or. you know if you or all that you would under you know in hospital being bites rated so when we got this you know i got ill with a range of symptoms that were bit like you caught my door so i have different symptoms much from hunger again initially you know i didn't really want to do. and it was only when i lost my thoughts on paper at the time that it was an unknown. but when i do look at it in iran at the time of the pandemic it was the most. the most searched for term in google and i thought ok in $2.00 and $2.00 together i think this must be a kernel virus. and i talked to the doctors about it they said oh no that's not so it was very it was very difficult to get it was what she believed it was but that was it was because everybody was googling back then because we knew so little about

it so when did you realize that you might actually suffer from what we now know as long it. so i have for may i just didn't seem to make a recovery so that wasn't to kill your time i think after about 6 weeks i had a brief recovery. and then i was ill again but it felt very you know described as like a roller coaster of different symptoms coming and going. and the occasional day to day and then worst days just felt like i wasn't really getting better and it felt such an unknown kind of illness because the least. my daughter was really call it for 6 weeks. and then she. didn't really get better she continued to see. you know north korea and other symptoms and we just way i thought

just so we just saw pictures of your daughter and your son just now as you were telling us. we just say that what we now know is long cold it that it manifests itself differently with children than with adults. well we've done some research with long kids and we've we've sort of stopped less than actually a lot of the symptoms are very similar. but children tend to have an increased amount of gastric issues but then we have found children and do not with . you know appendicitis you know or are scientists we see quite a lot they like the terms you know the inflammatory multisystem disorder we see similar symptoms to that but we're also seeing. new newer psychiatric symptoms you know so things like. seizures so

there's a real gum or a different symptoms and children kind of mana faster differently and there's a lot of the same symptoms that are out there are certain features that seem to be delayed in the pediatric cohort there is of course still very little known about long cold even with adults and that is probably why you co-founded a contained known as long as the kids what are you hoping to achieve with this contain. well it's both a campaign group under support me. so i joined forces with sammy mcchrystal and he was the founder and we joined forces in october because you know we were part different support groups and campaign groups for the adult community and realize that there was this there was just a lack of anything for children and the children out it was just being lacked out completely of all discussions so we came together really to provide agree or

parents that really difficult place to be quite often the parents are elem south and have children who are l. an illness to be being denied or parents sometimes feel that they're being. got flight it or it was really just allowed to come in and find other people and then from that we thought that they were ok we need getting the message out that we need people to know because we are not going to see a change in this what my children unless we actually raise awareness of it that's not that was not so frances you and your children would you say you have fully recovered now. difficult to say i'm much better. the last really i mean i was really ill until about 10 so from march. and then i and i took some time off work to rest. and now i think i

have a relapse. probably twice a month. of a few days and i have to go you know take it off but after wrath i'm quite aware of you know when right and my children know they're not better they have relapses whenever they do anything to them they were back to school. last couple of weeks to see how they're going on and they've been ill since they eventually had well francis and send a thank you so much for sharing your experience with us all the best to you and your kids of course thanks for being on the program thank you. well last year no one dared to hope that we'd have a vaccine the says and while most of us embrace this fantastic achievement we also wonder if that could be any unwanted side effects it's time for your questions now

science correspondent williams. just a quick reminder 1st that p.c.r. stands for polymerase chain reaction and tests that employ the technology are considered the gold standard for for detecting the viral genome in swab samples now because some vaccines used information from that genome could they also trigger a positive result this question comes up all the time and the answer is is no believe me if it did then you would have heard about it because millions of vaccinated people would have suddenly started testing positive for coated 19 after getting shots that would there would be no way to distinguish between them and asymptomatic carriers it would be chaos but nothing even remotely like that has

happened no if you get back a positive p.c.r. result it's almost certainly because you've been infected even though you might have coincidentally received the vaccine a day or 2 before hand don't forget that it takes your body around to we to build up a significant immune response after you've received the 1st dose of a vaccine and in that time people do catch covert 19 quite a few i get e-mail from them all the time the science behind why vaccines can't cause a positive p.c.r. result is fairly complicated but basically boy. it's down to the fact that none of the currently approved vaccines used a full version of the real virus to kickstart an immune response and.

they're based on short specific stretches from the source code be to gina that it actually degrade pretty quickly and so they're not detected by p.c.r. only replicating buyable viruses so if you test positive it's time to talk to a medical professional the vaccine is not a blood. and eric williams will be back to answer more of your questions again tomorrow before we go and this is not an april fool's joke if you're anywhere with a mask requirement you will know the problem every time you want to eat or take a sip of your drink you have to remove it potentially putting yourself and others and risk well is a possible solution the nose only mouse it allows you to take a bite while maintaining at least some level of protection and 0 dignity it's been invented by researchers in mexico with street food is particularly popular although

it's better than nothing the w.h.o. points out that a mask that covers the nose mouth and chin is certainly best. and that's all for this edition of out kobe 19 special for me in the team as always thanks for watching stay safe.

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