different fronts the fact that students and office workers from the main cities have been going to the jungles to get a sense a crash courses in guerrilla warfare all of this just shows you that this really does have the potential to turn into a full blown civil war how quickly we get there is a little difficult to say but as this develops we could somebody be looking at suit shortages. the public health care system in myanmar which even before the pandemic was greatly under resourced well now it's barely functioning that could get much worse. this could absolutely turn into a complete humanitarian disaster and myanmar countries who just a couple years ago people were talking about the potential for well now we have to wonder if it's going to turn into a failed state before it does what would it take at this point to resolve this crisis is there any chance for dialogue. there's still time but the countries that haven't you know taken the steps are taking steps necessary

to do that so many haven't done that yet and time is running out if you look at the u.n. security council well you seem strong steps being pushed from western countries u.s. u.k. france but to other countries that have veto power russia and china have not allowed any strong action come out of the un security council what either of those countries do anything individual e china could make a difference here china's got some leverage here but china doesn't seem to have an interest in doing that they haven't shown that yet the association of southeast asian nations which is me m.r. is a member of they could they could have some real impact here they generally have a policy of mana difference in each other's internal affairs the lately we're seeing stronger statements coming out of members such as singapore indonesia philippines malaysia thailand but they're going to have to really do more and they're going to have to step up the pressure politically soon if it's going to make a difference. in malaysia thank you very much for this assessment. and

the u.s. president joe biden has unveiled a 2 trillion dollar infrastructure plan called a day once in a generation investment that would allow the united states to outstrip china as the world's economic power. 50 years people can say this was. the. future. is one time company roughly 2 trillion dollars in the future spread largely over 8 years. generated store job growth historic an economic growth businesses to compete create more revenues well. well this stimulus package will modernize 32000 kilometers of roads and bridges half

a 1000000 new charging stations will also serve the growing number of electric vehicles and other amos to look industry back from asia by investing in ship production for more on this ambitious plan i'm now joined by g.w. her spawn of the beer chief in a sport as the republicans are calling the package a recipe for stagnation and decline why. well the republicans have immediately opposed the president's plan to if you're raising a corporate tax you know this comes only a few years after a president trump dramatically lower the corporate tax holiday we have to keep that in mind because that was something the republicans cheered on during his during trump's presidency so they are claiming that any gains in the economy over the last years will be lost this will be the republicans message for the next several months

but it is a legitimate question where will the money for this infrastructure plan come from. are right for the administration they will rely on texas to fund these really bishes progressive projects so the white house wants to raise corporate taxes by around 7 to 8 percent 7 to 8 percent so they believe that the investment in green broad chinks will ultimately lead to the economy in the right direction and get how it will help provide jobs to woolner of all communities that still rely on the fossil fuel industry to keep them employed this is also really a crucial part of this whole plan and so the republicans not in favor of this plan how much of this stimulus package can biden actually push through without republicans or how can he get to get them on his side. that's

a very important question biden has already said that he will bring republicans to the wind tell us to listen to their proposals but the reality is that republicans oppose the president's plan and won't get onboard no matter what biden offers they will not accept raising corporate taxes or funding of green projects that phase out fossil fuel is. so it is really realistic that the president has to rely on his own party which will be another challenge because there are many democrats who actually a poll was raising taxes by up to 8 percent of both of biden's predecessors donald trump and barack obama have made pledges on infrastructure investment never delivered do you think by the administration can do any better. well biden is really experienced he has. president obama as his vice president and he

says that he and his administration are using this hospital years to learn to why is this from breaking down again but again the problem won't just be the republican position but also the democratic party who is really deeply divided so i'll veto all this bill biden's this will be biden's 1st policy challenge and i'm pretty sure that this will be a long process that will probably go on throughout the whole summer w.'s washington bureau chief he has pulled i think eunice. but less than 4 months before the rescheduled tokyo lympics there are growing concerns over staging the games in japan the olympic torch is on tour with strict hygiene controls in force but the governor of soccer does not want to host the relay is pushing for the display to be cancelled or held without crowds around $10000.00

runners are taking pot. out of football north macedonia stunned germany winning 21 in a world cup qualifier and deuce book midfielder. scored that is size of goal late on in the 2nd half that ended germany's 18 match winning streak in world cup qualifiers it was also the germans final competitive game before this summer's european championship results sparked while celebrations among a few north macedonian fans gathered into spoke to ended up sitting with the national team players outside of the stadium. well done thousands of clocks and sculptures known as the bin in bronzes once filled the royal palace in the kingdom that is now in nigeria then the british army sacked the palace and looted the artworks for more than a century the pin bronzes have been displayed in european museums but now pressure

is mounting to return them. the binning bronzes have come to symbolize art looted from africa debate over their restitution has gone on for years now the matter has gained momentum in germany foreign minister heikal mass has called for them to be returned culture minister wants a conference at finding a solution is this a turning point. what's happening or something sensational you could even call it a paradigm shift suddenly the restitution to africa of precious objects from africa is no problem at all anymore that's something really new and it's electrifying the restitution as will happen i'm convinced of it so many brands as were meant to be displayed in berlin's new humboldt farm in a few months time as the heart of the ethnological collection the pression cultural

heritage foundation which currently holds the bronzes doesn't want to give up that idea completely. optimistic i'm optimistic that the original objects can still be displayed here some could be returned and some could remain here so there could be a continual exchange of items on loan and it was always clear that the context in which they were acquired the context of injustice would be explained it's the fact is that in $897.00 in the kingdom of british colonial forces looted $4000.00 bronze sculptures in a raid germany 1100 of the stolen goods. there's blood on these objects so do trophies from the colonial era really belong in an exhibition in the heart of berlin. can be seen in many museums around the world the binning bronze those are exceptional art and when they came to europe they highlighted a completely new image of africa as a continent steeped in history and culture the binning bronzes are of course part

of the cultural history of nigeria and been in but they've also become global. nigerian authorities take a different view the new museum is planned there where the brands are to be displayed as the country's legal property. woods. national. best practice. is international order. the bronzers are legacy of colonial conquest french historian benedict savoie is one of the most important voices when it comes to blooded art her research has revealed that for decades museums have deliberately covered up the provenance of their collections and hindered investigations in clinton thinking it's obvious that museum directors tried to put off having to take action before they retired and simply passed the problem on to the next generation

which as us now it's clear that we cannot and must not burden the next generation with this we have to act in this london there are still no definitive decisions but in general tendency is becoming clear in germany calls for restitution of the bending bronzers are growing louder both within the public and among politicians as here in africa when we were in africa the culture minister of the republic of been ian said he didn't think there would ever be any restitution and if it did happen it would be as important as the fall of the berlin wall and i think we've reached a kind of cultural fall of the wall. europe's biggest volcano lit up the night sky as italy's mount etna burst into action again. streams of love us viewed out of the volcano creating

us clouds kilometers high flights from one airport in the area have been stalled since the latest in a series of eruptions since the volcano became came back to life in february at night as one of its least 3 active volcanoes. and that's it for me other news seem here and a valet and i will have an update for you at the top of the hour i'm going to tell 1st and so watch. the. back with.

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another. i'm melissa chan thank you for joining us now. 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 1000 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 lai has also been found guilty along with margaret ng a respected former lawmaker the founder of hong kong's labor party was also found guilty w.'s phoebe 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 tell them in krakow is located the military repression in beijing 32 years ago changed the course of many people in china and hong kong including leadership again i was there . for the massacre and i was the pain propre days after my relieve pressure to hong kong crash that i would spend my life by people who mock within china and. were not be invading streets are legion again is facing a difference fades critics say and i don't massive track now being carried out by the chain this time honest mostly liberal and democratic city hong kong in the wake of anti-government protest here an age of this which asked for organizing and attending and authorizes and that's really it was over a 1000000 people took part was one of the few without violent questions every one

of the defendants are high profile figures apart from media tycoon shimmy ally or a former lawmaker and icons of the opposition movement like martin lee lewis know this father after all this issue of the charges carries a maximum 5 year jail term right now but this case is just the tip of the iceberg with over $10000.00 others arrested for the choice is the 1st verdict among tonight charges for which he's on trial beijing's reasonably close weeping national security law and his overhaul of the city's electoral 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 who for decades and that had to make him a prime target and the beijing security this year you 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 unregulated something witnessed hong kong's decades long struck home the 64 year old activist is not optimistic but he believes that his accent says will continue to fight for democracy and today finally reached a call. joining us activist 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. arbitrate yes it is so bad i left home colmes we already we are large starts at dissipate asks their regime lots of rest political crackdown by staging will not stop you see the future see a real shift us are shipping this really hawkish on home combatants and they are

really to pay the price to crack on a homecoming week of the canvas of how much how many sentient that will be implemented by the international community and that's why many political prisoners are now to take that in the whole poll 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 ors. martiniere actually and when many at this they're very senior and old democracy campaign is form at 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 and now they are now being arrested and

being prosecuted and that's also a very big loss to our civil society because without them 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 him i want to pivot to what happened earlier this week with beijing overhauling hum khan's electorial system what will be the impact of that you ask a very good question i mean we all of serve the national people's congress they make a very huge change or not your natural system and that's change can potentially severely undermine our whole economy and hinder out take a poke rest in the long run because this is a very packed well wolf 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 has 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 other now being the current part of asian governments 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 after this no matter people on the ground people argue they sell overseas as far we are still trying as even as we can to help their democracy and try to repeal the most months for hong kong however we

also realize that of course the last months you saw very trolloping under the crack down of beijing that's why we have to stay connected and we try to have to help form the international community a sense in a not you start to be the part but by sanctioning we still have to find other ways to contest or try to understeer it's there are it's a question of beijing that he 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 a h o n chinese scientists found it was highly likely that the cone of ice 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 them to the woo hand seafood market community centers and the infamous institute of buy religion if you privately for weeks this team of scientists were trying to uncover the source of the corona virus pandemic very forward. your 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 i've heard of the studies but from what i have seen so far. even before the team of scientists said. they were doomed to disappoint their investigation plagued by bickering with the u.s. accusing china of seeking to influence the report we were never pressured to remove a critical element you know or report. despite dutch more than

a dozen countries led by washington calling for an independent inquiry from anduin . it lacks 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 facing mounting pressure china hit back at its critics. who don't tap politicizing the search for the origins of the virus is extremely unethical it'll only hinder cooperation and undermine global anti epidemic efforts leading to more lives lost. 2.8000000 lives and counting since this pandemic a marriage to late 2019 how and why this outbreak happened is still unclear and many always be. we have clifford coonan in the studio formerly

a long time correspondent based in beijing clifford it was very interesting to hear what the director general of the said he's been fairly accommodating 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 to 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 lap of the 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 the 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 breakup of the moon which is a long way away from you know 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 would have. and. the repercussions globally are absolutely

enormous there would be reparations kohls china's reputation would be destroyed so i don't think they're ever going to allow that to happen in china i think it's 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 clinton for joining us and that's the show thank you for watching we're back tomorrow see you then and goodbye. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context around a virus update. on t w. it was funny. because i want to be

a gemini with me the last few years have been quite o'brien. and heard it on the home but when it comes to. perhaps the biggest the new blood hound on the average i love to be in the news there are pros and there are accounts that when you feel the giving your realize and go to another way of never did you ready to meet the servant then burned me right through it. 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 coded 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 at their crucial age with development that could impact the rest of their lives. but so are we doing enough to protect our children because they could be much more at stake for the young in this pandemic than we have so far wanted to admit. welcome to our cove in $1000.00 special i want to cajones get 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 cold which do to them a condition that keeps covered 900 patients down for weeks even months beyond the

initial illness and 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 sometimes symptoms such. sleep disorder 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 complain long covert kits 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 19 given the testing was still scarce. that's 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 can pull all that you would under you know in hospital being bites later so when we got there you know i got ill with a range of symptoms that were bit like a cold my door so i have different symptoms my son hunter was again initially you know i didn't really go into together. and it was only when i lost a fence untaken at the time that was an unknown. but when i looked 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 current virus. and i tried to the doctor 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 that was of course 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 describe was like a roller coaster of different symptoms coming and going around and the occasional day to days and then worst days it just felt like i wasn't really getting better and it felt such an unknown kind of illness because of all these days. my daughter was really call it for 6 weeks. and then she. didn't really get

better she could she need to see. you know north korea and other symptoms i mean just the 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 carrots and we've we've sort of stumbling so 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 our scientists we see quite a lot they like symptoms you know the employment shape 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 of a different symptoms and children kind of manifest differently and so 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 campaign. well it's both a campaign group and the support to make it so i joined forces with some me macfarland he was found and we joined forces in october because you know we were part different support groups and campaign groups for the adult commuting and

realized that there was just a lack of anything particular and. the children not it was just being left out completely of all discussions so we came together really teaching provide a great for parents really difficult place to be quite often the parents tell them self and have children who are l. and the illness to be being denied or parents sometimes feel like they're being. got slighted or so it's really just allow people to come in and find other people and then from that we started they were like hey we need to start getting the message out that we need people to know because we are not going to see a change in the support for children unless we actually raise awareness of this. francis you and your children when you say you have fully recovered no. 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 a rest. and now i have a relapse. probably twice a month. of a few days and i have to go you know take this 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 frances simpson 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 there could be any unwanted side effects it's time for your questions now science correspondent derek williams. could a vaccine cause a positive p.c. on result. 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 use 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 2 week to to build up a significant immune response after you've received the 1st dose of a vaccine and in that time people do catch tobit 19 quite a few i get email from them all the time the science behind why vaccines can't cause a positive p.c.r. result is fairly complicated but basically boils. to the fact that none of the

currently approved back seems used a full version of the real virus to kickstart an immune response and. they're based on short specific stretches from the stars to view to gino that that 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 on to this is not an april fools joke if you're anywhere with a mosque 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 in all this 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 our kobe 19 special for me in the team as always thanks for watching stay safe.

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