this is the w.'s lifetime for lead prominent democracy activists in hong kong are headed to jail terms and suspended sentences they are the latest in a string of anti establishment figures to face the courts over their roles at one of the city's largest ever protests we will go live to our correspondent. also coming up to intensive care workers in germany are sending one distress call after another that's what the chancellor angela merkel told lawmakers urging them to

consider granting her the power to impose tougher restrictions in germany's 10 demick fight. and sometimes when times are tough but you do post is a hot subject photo captures what has been a dramatic year from thousands of images back to tell the story of the pandemic this one the top prize of the world press photo contest we'll hear from the photographer. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program. 10 of hong kong's most prominent democracy campaigners have been sentenced for their roles in the 2098 anti-government protests media tycoon jimmy lie will serve a total of 14 months in prison he's been given 2 sentences for on authorised assembly during the demonstrations meanwhile martin lee who was

a 2 and known as hong kong's father of democracy has been handed an 11 month suspended sentence almost 1700000 people who took part in pro-democracy marches in the city in 2019. let's bring in correspondent steve because she's standing by for us outside of the courthouse phoebe what's the reaction been. yes all sentence says handed down in the court to 10 defendants all leaving fakers off the opposition came in hong kong but among the 10 defendants half of them were sentenced to prison and they will have to assert their sentence immediately tonight and the rest of the other 5 that the founders were given suspended sentences. and that includes march ileus you have mentioned in the report 11 months joe term a suspension of 24 months and also mark right now the whole many of them are

lawyers and barristers and also former lawmakers just nature so is shot i think the reaction on the ground house been pretty expected people expect that they will face are not lenient sentences given the current political climate but the length of the prism and it's a little bit out of expectation and it was quite a scene at the courthouse where you are standing earlier in the day just to walk us through what you've been witnessing today. yes this case is being put under spotlight in hong kong not only at the local level but also the international communities are still very concerned about the restart of these cases at that point that the mats from western countries including you the rupee and gown and they sent representatives here today on to attend a hearing and observe the results are part and

a lot of supporters are talking about. thousands of supporters from the opposition came show up here and they sways inside the courtroom and chant a slogan for it that owsley fairy. we can say that certainly after the census is that they want to cheer up the church defenders and with and in response that some of the chose to defend us they are told to supporters to hang in and insisted that there's no nothing criminal to all the nice peaceful assemblies even those without police permission to be put this into the bigger context for us i mean this is a dark day today for the pro-democracy movement talk with us about other efforts and how things have been going. yes this is an animation step back up the opposition came because all these defendants but talking about the most i'm balling icons of the back

a strong start the democracy movement in hong kong that they represent see this civil society and various fronts including the media the legal sect the whole of the public the political our sector that they are. literally the factors of the haute camp announced today the caught want to send to deterrence to the whole society that the court is not going to tolerate similar kind of those fans even though they are participating in a few whole rallies and there confection and also the sentences were in fact other similar cases that many of the defenders and now also facing multiple charges all fly about unauthorized assembly and illegal assembly charges that pending confection that these results wait may affect the sentence of a similar case is that even though for those who didn't have to go to cho today they are expecting that any time soon they will have to be sentenced to jail

because of other charges that they are facing here because in hong kong thank you. and he had the opportunity to speak to one defendant the former chairman of the hong kong democratic party about how he sees the increasing crackdown on dissent. a silver medal awarded to young song by the government for his political work it was something this former lawmaker felt proud of but 12 years later it seems to represent a hong kong that's been lost time this government everything. has to. follow the approach to hong kong try to as my country home cause my home to love your country doesn't mean you love. political regime young so much one of 10 defendants found guilty of organizing or attending

marches in 2019 during massive anti-government protests many opposition icons of his generation now sentenced for the 1st time this is just the 1st of 6 charges against young saw him the 73 year old has taught at the university of hong kong for decades while also engaging in politics in course he was the only defendant to read out his submission in person. as a civil disobedience i perk beauty but i don't feel remorse because i don't think i have done anything wrong and so i don't be picky my pace and. goal for appeal imprisonment. won't be a surprise to me. young son calls himself a moderate who hoped for democracy under chinese rule but that hasn't happened before hong kong's handover from britain to china you saw him and fellow activists

martin lee set up the democratic party they were among the 1st lawmakers directly elected to voice dissent in the chamber and paved the way for hong kong's party politics but now the national security law and intellectual overhaul are making it difficult for opposition parties to even survive. were typical militant prayers we just we were all the peace of democracy we have managed over the past 50 years so this is a big retreat of democracy you know call is it worthwhile to stand for you action again i mean think about the politics i think is a big question of whether we go back to the pressure group politics i did like in 70. 5 his generation may soon become history but he doesn't think that efforts will have been in vain on history is so full of struck was. never peace

engage myself in politics and i don't think i would leave hong kong at all democracy and not just about the party politics not as about the world but also just how it affects our ways of living but i was to insist all the russian no peaceful approach and i think this is the way to solve the problem in the long run . so mellie's democratic values are now deeply rooted in hong kong culture his fight isn't over yet. and we can tell you that young some the former chairman of the hong kong democracy party featured in that report has been given an 8 months suspended sentence he is facing 5 additional charges for speaking now with steve sang he is a political scientist and the director of the so us china institute in london one of the world's leading centers of expertise on china steve thank you so much for joining us what does what we have been witnessing today named for the hong kong

pro-democracy movement. 58 is a very sad day for kong democracy movement is not unexpected i think. on the steep sides and considers really has been generally expected and it is i think a judge was trying to do a bit of a challenge between and causing a lot of nikolay and allowing some of the sentenced people wish to have suspended sentences but still it is crucial to send a very clear message to many people in hong kong that peaceful demonstrations are no longer tolerate. and i mean we have had developments we have to say you know since these charges were leveled since this trial and i'm thinking about the other pro-democracy cases which are now pending in the courts for example the nearly 50

activists that have been charged with subversion in february under the new national security law when you look at these most recent charges what do you think we can expect there and what does that say about the direction that hong kong is going at . now decreases still a sentence today were traunch not under the new national security law and therefore could be. calibrated much more in terms of how the ongoing traditional judicial systems operate. those new cases are being charged under the new security law all on mikey's to be sentenced much more harshly the whole arrangement under the national security law is such that only judges who are expected to understand what the chinese government wants to be done under the national security law will be allowed to seek and precisely over those cases and

therefore we can expect those cases to be sentenced in gary hart where he's against the if and ns i think the results are almost vocal in conclusion wow you think if you think if that definitive that's really incredible to hear i'd like to also ask you you know about these efforts to have so-called only patriots in the legislative council tell us a little bit more about what you think about that and you know what it means for one country 2 systems. means the end of the one country 2 systems us determines been understood in hong kong historically or by the rest of the world olson and china. it doesn't is the end of one country 2 systems as to chinese government understands it because the chinese government's understanding is that whatever the chinese come and say says one country 2 systems anyway. now in terms

of the. future of all. around him and your home kong i think we have to accept that the national security role was introduced to make sure that there is no more democracy movement in hong kong and a democracy in hong kong in the future will be democracy wish to correct a restriction of the chinese communist party which basically means that. every person who try to stand will have to be vetted and been deemed as subtable by the communist party or the chinese government then on that basis then you can have a free. and open election but if you are not pre-approved by the communist party then there is a bit of a problem while steve sang political scientists and the director of china institute in london thank you so much for joining us to share that expertise on what is

really a historic day for hong kong we appreciate your insight let's take a look at some other stories making headlines. french president of manual micron is hosting his ukrainian counterpart vladimir selenski in paris for talks on escalating tensions with russia they will be joined on a video call by german chancellor angela merkel russia's recent military buildup along its border with ukraine has sparked fears that it may be preparing an invasion. several people have been killed in a shooting in the u.s. city of indianapolis police responded to reports of shots fired at a fed ex facility on the southwest side of the city near indianapolis international airport police have confirmed that the gunman is dead. and chicago police have released a body can put it of the moment that a police officer shot and killed a 13 year old boy adam toledo police said that the teenager had a gun

a lawyer for the boy's family said that he had complied with demands to show his hands when he was shot. iran says that it has begun in virginia rainy and 60 percent its highest level ever the move brings it closer to the purity needed for the production of a nuclear weapon it comes after a suspected israeli attack on a key plant that has cast a shadow on talks aimed at reviving tehran's nuclear deal with world powers. the head of the world health organization has sounded the alarm saying that covert 1000 cases around the world are rising at worrying rates at a press briefing the w.h.o. director general warned that steep increases are being seen even in countries where widespread outbreaks were previously avoided for the womb crazes is continuing to increase rates globally the number of new cases but we

can't it's nearly double over the past 2 months. this is approaching the highest rate of him fiction that we have seen so far during the pandemic and europe is in the middle of an intense 3rd wave in the coronavirus pandemic in france more than 100000 people have now died from cold at 19 meanwhile germany is seeing its largest rise in new infections since early january that's despite vaccinations picking up pace new national controls have been approved by the country's cabinet but that could take another week to pass through the parliament doctors and health officials are pleading for a meeting of action. on germany's intensive care ward this is what the 3rd wave looks like more than 29000 new coded 19 cases were reported on thursday the highest number since early january doctors are warning that in parts of the country only 10 percent of intensive care beds around filled the head of germany's public health

institute is alone. is just the recent yet still good it is clear that we need to act now on all levels above all the decision makers need to take action we need to reduce our contacts now break the infection chain now and save lives in the health of many people feeling. but not all decision makers share that sense of urgency in particular some regional leaders have been reluctant to implement tough restrictions now chancellor merkel is introducing a change in the law to grant the central government temporary powers to enforce lock downs in areas with high infections. but even for the health minister this could be too little too late. because i already said a week ago that we needed extra measures and that we needed to take firm action time is not on our side and everyone already has the option to be taking measures

they need not wait for the law to be finalized but. the new nationwide regime mandates school closures and contact restrictions when infection rates hit defined levels much of the public support staff action but critics say the focus is too much on limiting personal freedoms for instance with the proposed introduction of night turn curfews. much of my dad a lot of people of my age will just make it home in secret curfews won't get this under control people will meet privately this dimension i think you've got to that's my guess and i don't like it you can't do that with people marking that's a lot. all i also like to be outside and meet people but i think we just need to shut things down for 4 weeks and. those who didn't follow the rules before won't listen to these new laws but those who did of barry feel they're being treated like foals restrictions in some parts of germany have been light for much

of the pandemic but as laws are tightened people here having to face the fact that coronavirus not only costs lives it corrodes liberty as well. that debate over whether to grant the central government more powers for pandemic management is currently playing out in the og earlier chancellor merkel made her case to members of parliament. them enough that i've seen more than if we've learned a lesson 13 months into the pandemic it's this. that's a virus doesn't forgive any half heartedness it only makes things worse. the virus doesn't forgive hesitation it just makes everything last longer. the virus doesn't accept any negotiations it understands only one language the language of determination and for more i'm joined now by you who are young since he is general

secretary of the german society of medical intensive and emergency medicine and chief of internal medicine at the st antonius hospital in the city of osh feiler thank you so much for joining us this afternoon what is the situation right now in your hospital compared to say 6 months ago and how is your staff coping. it's the same with 6 months we've flora's 8 months before we all rooting on the high level of stress. because we have to treat the patients but also we have to treat patients without coping once and with quite sick so this is a mixture of coping 19 patients and nonpublic patients and at the moment the increasing numbers here in need to cologne and overall germany puts a very big pressure load on the ice use you just reported it and in some areas there are only 5 to 7 percent 3 i.c.u.

bed that is not enough for example in cologne 5 percent 3 i assume because this means 20 beds for is city of 1000000 inhabitants for if to demerge see that it's really not enough and there must be there must be taken very strong measures to get the infection rates down let's talk a little bit more about those very strong measures because i hear the sense of urgency in your voice we know that the chancellor said today the virus does not forgive hesitation and yet one year into this pandemic things appear to have gone from bad to worse how high is your hope that politicians will now act decisively. i think at the moment we see that many of the response of politicians they got the message the message we pronounced and of you of 20 that is false from not for weeks and months we told them to get very well measures like strict

lockdown to get to smoothen the curve and to get the curve down nobody. to us and now they realize and that's good that they realize that the pressure with very sick people is increasing and that means not only sick people cope with 19 patients on ice use that means if you go get that on an i.c.u. you have a mortality rate. about 50 percent that means from these patients at the moment 4670 patients on as you that means perhaps the half of them not quite enough will die and that's very very very sad message and everybody should notice that and i think the politicians and dr merkel the chancellor she realize that but she did realize that in the last year but nobody from the prime minister followed an absolute tragedy you know the statistics that you're mentioning from from those i.c.u. patients tell us i mean even you mentioned lockdown for example you know

this is currently you know being being debated tell us what specifically are you looking for. you see we are physicians we are not polluted with should do the measures with the side which measures do with taking but if we look too great united can it if you if we look to our law and order to portugal you can clearly see that these measures these countries 2 of them were very effective they did for instance beside many other measures person yes so this is 1.11 little piece of the most to get the contact gravestone to talk to ensure that social distancing takes place in the evenings and i think to do the curd to do occur for between 9 pm and 5.

that should be. very it's an add on on all the other measures but the people of very very tired and following these regulations and the compliance of. greater great population germany is decreasing and that's i think the problem and the result of. very very discussions between the chancellor and others well the anson's general secretary of the german society of medical intensive and emergency medicine thank you so much for joining us. how do you capture a year's worth of emotion and drama anxiety and loss in a single photograph all judges of the world press photo contest have selected the one image they say tells the story of the unforgettable year that was 2028 it was taken by a danish photographer and of course race the power of human touch and resilience.

the many aspects of the corona virus pandemic topped the target 1st around the world captured their impressions of exhausted caregivers people dying alone social distancing and loneliness. the winning photograph shows an 85 year old woman receiving her 1st hug after 5 months isolation and her son apollo nursing home through a plastic curtain which happens to resemble an angel's wings. she had to be the jury viewed this photograph as one of the pandemics few positive images this picture suggests vulnerability loss grief and death but above all survival and. brazil has been especially hard hit by the pandemic 350000 people have already died there nursing homes were closed off for months to protect residents.

and the split of a 2nd that we see the images we feel. how it must be it's good that all the person got a sense of. what unites us the jury looks through nearly 75000 images. but disposable surgical mask even made its way into the winning photo in the nature category. zookeepers and have and that cuba are celebrating the birth of 4 bengal tired tiger cubs including a rare white tiger the new arrivals are the result of 2 decades trying to breed the endangered animals at the zoo white tigers are aging at a bengal tigers which are usually orange numbers in the wild have windows in recent years too to poaching deforestation and excessive hunting.

and stuff next on d. w. news in good shape takes a look at why the prevention against hiv infection is the prime method of defeating that disease to stay with us if you can for that i'm sorry kelly in berlin thanks for watching.

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to trace begin to. create the tallest biggest and the most beautiful structures this is how massive churches are created. conscious the feed rolls starts april 12th on d w. hello and welcome to in good shape as always directly from berlin this is where in 19021 of the 1st persons in germany was diagnosed with hiv that's the wires which causes aids back in those days this disease was not treatable and it caused a lot of fear thanks to medical progress and doctors like me a lot has changed and improved some call building the city of positive on the one

hand there are a lot of people tested hiv positive and on the other hand they treat it with the highest medical standards and that's very positive but how can one lead a normal life with a potentially deadly virus and how can we protect ourselves from being infected and will we be able to defeat the virus one day i'm talking about this today with a chevy researcher hendrik rick we're meeting at the famous journey museum of technology in berlin. and you brought great news to bill and with you because it seems that there might be examination against the well it's a little bit too early to say brother be going to have a vaccine but there are currently 2 studies running to see whether a potential vaccine might work all of them have been tested in humans that they are safe and and using immune responses and this is looks like really good data at the

same time they have been tested in the monkeys and in particular one of them shows in monkeys a really high. which suggests or gives the whole that this might actually also work in humans but we will only know in 20 or 21 or 2. $22.00 those results and then we will know if you're going to have a fix seen on it and if there will be a vixen effect unsafe well. for clinical studies that we normally 1st test and that has been done for that vaccine we 1st test whether it's going to be safe so these studies have been performed and all of those studies have shown that these vaccines that are currently on the development of totally safe there are minor complications sometimes like for any back seen or any action like for example some rash at the site of injections but this is totally normal so right now the it's no big seen but there is something called print which is the pretext poser

prophylaxis which can prevent hiv infection so could you please explain the difference between those 2 well so the pre-exposure prophylaxis this a pretty new development of preventing hiv infection and it's really a good and efficacious tool that we have so if it's taken daily and correctly we have to be preventing h.l.v. infection in over 95 percent so this is the medication it's a chemo proper lexus that has to be taking every day if it seen as basically injection that trains the immune system like a soccer team to combat the virus and comes in so it's basically training on the one inside the moon system on the other hand you're giving a medication to prevent an infection thanks for now we'll continue to talk in just a moment and i'll be back. unfortunately we have to wait a little longer for an explanation against hiv and until then we have to protect

ourselves against infection in other ways in 1903 and educational pamphlet was published in the us it's titled how to have sex in an epidemic or use the word sex on international t.v. in this publication the term safer sex was used for the 1st time or say for sex this was the year of 1983 i was 12 years old back graeme until today there are 3 problems reservations ignorance misinformation activists fighting for sex education by various means. the home his majesty the king of condoms. we join him in his kingdom. in america he came here africa's largest appen slab. this is my kingdom is my territory this is my icon mia i really did and use what you call the.

first. item is to engage the community in love. with them. and i teach them on the whole to use that indeed stage is from the i do the the most ritual so we've got. from the most literal everybody we depend in to the need or want an immediate want one thing that. the king of condoms started advocating for sex and the importance of using condoms after high school after losing a close friend to a change stanley decided that honest and open conversations about hiv with as many people as possible to draw people's attention here is this i catch a royal out. this is very attractive and it's also made me feel proud that i'm the

king and i'm able to interact with people you know a good level at a low level the high level coming from the slums it's very attractive to them. in the last 2 decades hiv infections in kenya have decreased by heart organizations like l b c t health who supply the king of condoms with well condoms have helped steer these efforts however 5.6 percent of the population still carries the virus and recently and new worrying trend has a much to. do we've noticed that now among the new infections there's an increased number among young people generally so here we're talking about age about 15 to 24 years who are at highest risk of infection in poor settlements like kibera infections among young people particularly on the right. i've come to realize that these are chartered. by guinea because the same god when you ask them why why what

happened they'll tell me i was ideas man he bought for me being the start of being made into his diamond ring do they present this man in a simple. picking of condoms and his project to supply girls with green farming eggs full of digital ones so that they can sell their crops even the small income helps young girls become independent and less likely to engage in and say 18 year old lucky for media is part of the project and part of her living with a farming pad. we don't have to depend to those money. smoko since sexual. activity so that you can get money to buy. your food. their confidence their courage to say no i can't support myself thinking of condoms moves on to continue he stay. really mission to protect his kingdom kibera i can

tell you to. use an african i was summoned to put a sample of people living. here in africa the power of that simple thing called the times. military victory i believe somebody who could now mark where he told me to be maybe when closed. in the 1980 s. in a chevy infection was basically a death sentence especially terrible for children who are infected by their mothers during birth today things are different the virus can be kept in check with specific medications and the ones deadly disease aids cannot break out those who are treated with those drugs in time have practically a normal life expectancy many people have been living with a virus for years some of them since birth.

the fact that she had been bold knows even walking along here today is not something she takes for granted she's coming up for her 35th birthday and no one neither her family nor her doctors told that she would live this long. and therefore someone going way beyond the life expectancy they predicted for me were told that i would only live to the age of 4 and a half so every year is one more year that i not only survived but also experienced often only. shootin is thought to be the person who's lived with the longest in all of europe her parents were both drug addicts and hiv positive she contract a different birth her parents both died and she was raised by her grandmother her life revolved around doctors' appointments and heavy medication. in the small towns sharon grew up in she was ostracized not even accepted into kindergarten she was very lonely. my grandmother tried to compensate for

all of the loneliness i felt there were a lot of experiences that i missed out on experiences you get from being in a group. it's still like that today and of course i also don't have that special friend from childhood who knows you better than anyone and. hiv is part of her daily life even so she even managed to finish school and trained as a medical technical assistant. sharon has been treated for the past 15 years by christophe stefan a senior physician at frankfurt university hospital he conducts research in the field hiv medicine and says great progress has been made. a move towards a target these days we have very many different therapies and quite a few single tablet therapies available that that means a combination therapy mixed into one pill so the patient takes one pill dale.

nowadays sharon also only takes one tablets a day. in the past she had to take up to 40 over the years she didn't know her doctor have developed a good relationship and even hold educational events together at the university aimed specifically at young people. in the shooting that's schizoid it was really brave of sharing to be so vocal and open to give advice and to talk about her personal experience and what it's like often enough. it was interesting hearing things from her point of view really impressive and. even in the most difficult times she had never lost heart she continued to set yourself new goals such as participating in the birth. it's here and i'm now 34 and i'm now slowly understanding who i am and feel more at peace with myself and of course nowadays the illness doesn't play the same role as it used to i'm no longer struggling to survive each day. these days she has one main goal to simply enjoy

life to its fullest. the united nations originally wanted to get rid of aids by the year 2020 and they failed so they got a new deadline right now at 2030 so what is slowing us down in the fight against aids well the fight against aids is basically the treatment of all individuals that are. positive the problem with this is you need to have therapies so you need to have funding to actually treat everybody who is infected at the same time you also have to test everyone who or might be age of the infected and because of stigma and discrimination people do not like to get tests that are against hiv so you have basically 2 problems on the one inside a lack of funding to treat everyone and the on the other hand like stigma and discrimination. that prevents individuals from being tested unlike in rist in

europe or in the united states and africa is made by hatred 6 rule transmission so what must be done to reduce numbers well so this test and treat is actually a very powerful tool of what we have so because we know that individuals that are hiv positive end up being treated the against the 1st of all they have an almost normal life expectancy then individual the hiv negative but more importantly they cannot transmit hiv to another person this treatment as prevention or task abbreviated is really powerful and that's the message that needs to go to out there because people should get tested and treated because they have a longer life expectancy and they cannot transmit hiv to another person there's still a lot of misinformation in mr rowland. so what are the biggest obstacles holding us

back in the treatment i think one of the biggest obstacles the people are afraid of getting tested against hiv. there's so much fear and stigma and discrimination surrounding age that individuals would rather like to die of aids than actually being tested but knowing that the person is not infectious that undetectable virus means that the virus cannot be transmissible undetectable equals and transmissible is so powerful this is the message that needs to get out i mean condoms a very see very effective very cheap why do we need something like a prick the pre-exposure prophylaxis anyway condoms are just not for everyone some people do not want to take quantum's as they have problems with their direction taking a condom but at the same time for example woman may not be a. they are or their partner. that he is taking

a quantum so these are all factors in the individual might want to have another prevention methods and for those individuals the pre-exposure prophylaxis as an individual lies chemotherapy against hiv infection is a really powerful to think so much of this talk right now you continue talking just a moment i'm protected sex is the most common way for the virus to be transmitted from person to person for a long time there were only 2 ways to protect it from being infected abstinence. and condoms but today there is prep the pre exposure prophylaxis dr streak just explained how it works prep is made to help reduce the virus will delight. new york to such itself the goal of drastically reducing the number of fresh h.i.b. infections on truvada tablets is proven to be enough.