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welcome to. join us pakistan's parliament is set to decide if the french ambassador to the country should be expelled the government agreed to take the matter to parliament after negotiations with a hardline islamist group that has led violent protests across the country that they regularly back pakistan or t.l.p. has been demanding the expulsion of the french ambassador since late last year when french president emmanuel mccraw defended the republican of cartoons of the prophet muhammad in french satirical magazine charlie hebdo the government of pakistan prime minister iran can band of the d.l.p. under an anti terrorism role last week and arrested its leader but that only inflamed protests further. pressure from the street has been building for months in pakistan. supporters of the radical islamist group are enraged at what they see is the government's failure to response of blasphemous comments last november by the french president. their main demand has been for pakistan to expel the french

ambassador. an escalation of violence over the last week is like the casualties on both sides. and a crackdown on the people by the authorities. there on tuesday the government to change. it's position. there pakistan after a long talks the government of pakistan and terek a law back have decided that a resolution for the expulsion of the french ambassador will be presented in the national assembly today. about. among the tactics used by the extremist g.o.p. to force the government's hand was a call for a nationwide strike on monday many businesses complied to show solidarity with the protesters and to demonstrate the strength of feeling when it comes to perceived insult to islam. the other organizations for the protests must be recorded the

world should know that what is happening in the western world is not right i think it would be better if this matter is taken up at a higher level. but pakistan's prime minister fears the protests will damage not just the economy but also international relations job harm for our own skin if we expel the french ambassador and cut ties with france it means we would cut ties with the european union is half of our textile exports go to europe that means a 50 percent reduction in those exports which would mean unemployment and factory closures discovered the. factory about ordering. now the government is hoping to strike a balance between the demands of the demonstrators and the need to end the disruption and rioting on the nation's streets with a perspective on this i'm joined by pakistan's ambassador to germany dr. dr 1st of

all welcome is an organization and on the an entity. dictating terms to the park assad government. regarding this specific incident the perspective of course is. the property. it is very very air sacred when they radiate. you out of arafat. and it's been sought for centuries and difficult instances have happened in the past also and many hundreds of years it has happened and in the last 10 years you must have heard these things these things happening so when when these incidents happen in a country in europe the sentiment in fleet not only in pakistan but also in muslims all over the world. and you know the government of

course also wants. relations with all the countries and wants to move forward. yes but without naming any countries i'll say your. sentiments that were inflamed of course some people some experience. trying to inflame them and those are things for the government it became very difficult and it has tried to. resolve the situation of a difficult situation to. not want any any sort of let me just complete but one more. place there. and the effort is to engage and to tell them that they are talking to your evil continue as my prime minister said yesterday you must have seen that the that you talk about the

miscreants the miscreants were basically banned under an anti terror law and the government is now going with their demands to parliament what does that look like. any that would be taken would be by the parliament our son is a democracy so the vision of the people is that if elected in a democracy in the parliament as you are available the issue is in the parliament i am not dead but i am sure that the parliament will debate in open space in media you will be able to see it the sentiments and the debate and the final conclusion really come out of it which can be anything and whatever that conclusion is of course that will be developed the people in it will stand by that violence is never supported it is never an option by the government by the people get a peaceful the want to find common ground and we want to fight move forward in our relations not backwards one initial part we have millions of chinese living all

over europe you are a bit of that about 100000 plus germany so you have a lot of interests in addition to trade economy economy etc etc. bit of europe and we would want to build upon that right we're just going back to what what is happening in pakistan what is the message that the government through sending women since stone and talks to a group it has outlawed and then agrees to take up the demands i get in more into the details but it is not as simple as you said if i follow your line of thinking maybe you would want us to take. 20 and send 30 pieces on civilians that is not i think what you want that is not what we would want there are only our dialogue and box and we are on dialogue whoever has tried to create violence has been

a fight and the i sincerely would want that they are able to find solutions regarding this in our parliament and then we engage with europe we are able to fight. and calm down and build upon that calmed down by the spec thing. right to free speech. which might have even limitations in europe but still it would want not to harp on their differences but we were too hard on commonalities and i'm sure there are many and the we have in the past build upon it and you can do it again there was an incident in 2007 that that was a danish newspaper then move forward on that there were protests and everything so i think the let the government speak and let it be discussed that will be indicative of the sentiment in pakistan for our friends brought and maybe be very useful in how to move forward or to home affairs

a parkinson's ambassador to germany thank you so much for joining us. i may hear from thank you. my colleagues as of july me from the division joins me on the line now for more ambassador faisal they're talking of finding common ground with europe is the concern in pakistan that europe is disregarding muslims feelings on perceived insults to prophet moment. well the embassador has a very difficult job i mean his main role is to protect pakistan's interest and paint a positive image of pakistan unfortunately the situation on the ground does not go to spawn of it what he's saying you only have to look at the images from last few days of you know protestors going on a rampage police using excessive force reports of deaths policemen being held hostage and i you know i think actions speak louder than words no matter what the ambassador says at the end of the day pakistan has witnessed

a lot of violence in the last few days and you know that's something that it's very difficult to reconcile another point the ambassador made was about the spirit of democracy prevailing in august on but how does that explain the government negotiating with the group it banned under an antiterrorism law. so again i think he's just being a bit economical with the truth because these are the hard liners extremists group d.l.p. . created a few years ago they are emerging as a major political force they do have a lot of following across the country because the issue of blasphemy is emotive issue in pakistan they are capitalizing on it but there's a strong accusation in pakistan that this group is promoted encouraged financed protected by pakistan's security services with the aim of fragmenting the society

because they want to weaken stablished political parties who believe in democracy and supremacy of parliament who are against extremism and these kind of groups come in handy now the government of prime minister imran khan has banned the scruple last week and then for the government to go into a negotiation give them that respect as a legitimate partner is puzzling and that is via a lot of people are saying that this is seen as surrender as a copulation and essentially appeasement you talked a bit about the issue of blasphemy can you explain that a bit further as to how the plays into the political narrative so rich there are more than 50 muslim countries around the world but the issue of blasphemy is the biggest in pakistan because there are laws against criticizing the ridiculing koran and the prophet muhammad. but it is used to target political opponents a lot of times people settle personal store scores. christian minorities hindus

have been targeted but even muslims that you don't like you can accuse them and essentially the accusation is like a death penalty and this particular group is trying on it and there are other religious groups who want to be even more aggressive on this so this is pushing box down towards an extremist bought and it doesn't help whatever embassadors in europe . in countries say the countries like to extremism will make it unattractive for business for industry and for democracy briefly are there any voices that are opposing. this religious hard line hard line is i'm so you know you talked about the resolution in parliament which was stable today again there is only one political party talks on people's party which has not attended the session because they don't want to get involved they have said to prime minister iran found this is your mess you have to clean it up but other political parties even in opposition were there in the parliament and they want to be a part of it because everybody wants to prove themselves as

a good muslim so they can capitalize on votes because pakistan is an islamic country at the end of the day. thank you so much for breaking that down for us. of course more stories on. asia and you can follow us on facebook and twitter as well going back to. the coronavirus. as the rate of infection in developing what does the latest research. information and context around a virus update. on t w. w's crime fighters are back africa's most successful radio drama series continues. the stories focus on hate speech

prevention and sustainable production. all of the sos are available online and of course you can share and discuss on africa's facebook page and other social media platforms. crime fighters to name. the coronavirus knows no borders similarly there's one group of people that manages to target more migrants. there at a higher risk of acquiring and dying from covert 19. days patchy and the reasons are diverse. today we cut through the prejudices and racism to see what's behind the trend. and welcome to the show in a moment we'll talk to

a public health scientist about the dangers for migrants aside from what the states can do is also a lot we can achieve at a community level as our reporters found out. as a so-called neighborhood mother mona ramadan helps recent immigrant women and their families start a new life in germany for many a difficult transition made even harder by the coronavirus pandemic. must also cause people i really want out and on top of that you have the overcrowded housing conditions at the emergency shelter where i help out each family lives in one room together they just need some space and the beginning of a pandemic you couldn't even leave the house playgrounds bit close to that so that was a disaster. the sophocles. overcrowded housing conditions can lead to a higher risk of getting infected with the coronavirus today mona ramadan meets hi do you say you today was lived in the emergency shelter since her arrival from syria with the help of the neighborhood mothers she recently found an apartment for

her family. along with. him here in the. cups of course there were also many families that were infected then help them to find out where they can go. to clear is a single mother she doesn't have a job yet once she has improved her german she wants to start an apprenticeship neighborhood mother ramadan is helping her. to plan. but. a recent german study has shown that unemployed people have an 84 percent higher risk of being hospitalized for cope with 19 but similar data for immigrants is lacking. skipped. i think it. will studies for example from the u.k. in the us that show that there is a relation between migration and the risk of infection as well as severe cases. that has little to do with the fact that they are migrants but with the kind of

high risk jobs migrants just reportedly end up doing with. jobs such as delivering packages or cutting hair which put workers often immigrants at risk of infection but data connecting health and socio economic status is limited in germany and does this extremist. that's extremely important because this way we can identify groups of people that have a higher risk and if we also understand why that's the case we can specifically do something to reduce these risks. while more in-depth data could improve germany support structure for migrants for now neighborhood mothers like mona are the best lifeline they have. public health scientists and physician rosé jaan joins us from the german city of mannheim so should governments be focusing more on migrants in the fight against it. the short answer to that would be yes

absolutely. migrants are at a higher risk of acquiring and also dying from combat 19 there are over represented among quick 1000 cases as one that's even though it has to be but have to keep in mind that the data situation isn't great so there are issues with regard to date of ability and comparability of data as well but overall we can definitely say that migrants are overrepresented in my model but in 1000 case rose i heard that as well from people who work in hospitals saying that cofa boards full of people with migration backgrounds i'm a migrant. should also already be toggling me. i think i would like to make 2 points with regard to that question 1st of all the

have the parts about covert 19 wards being over this proportionately. so patients with the migration background we don't know. what doctors are experiencing and saying that can lead there is some some that's valid but is the right with regards to actual scientific valid and comparable data. yes migrants are more likely to get covers but with regards to have been telling patients actually the picture is inconsistent there are some studies that have shown that migrants are most likely to be admitted to hospital for coke over 19 but there are also studies that show the opposite so with regard to that the evidence is in that encompassed and nonetheless the fact that across studies. re do you find that migrants are overrepresented among coaches that t.k. sense for example and we didn't they make out 32 percent. 19 cases but only

90 percent of the overall population so there's data that points to that. so yes what about high situation. i mean all that is at a systematic a structural level we definitely need to improve data out there that he would need to be able to more specifically say who is at a higher risk because migrants are a very large group and there are sometimes groups that have been identified as being particularly at a particularly high risk point can you tell us some. yeah of course. one group for example undocumented migrants that they have a hard time accessing house care and there's also migrant labor migrants because they're likely to work in precarious jobs health care workers also for example seasonal agricultural workers that have has been a major outbreak for example here in

a factory that was processing meat because labor conditions as well as for example being housed in like labor compounds all that kind of trees the risk of being infected with coke at night t.v. and of course the sound you can use and refugees are also living in reception centers where infection the risk of infection can be high there's overcrowding there may be an issue with accessing health care. so it's important to look at those differences and then find strategies that target those groups that are particularly high risk by making sure that when makes nation efforts for example by making sure that there is appropriate health information available. those are just examples but there's a lot and that can be done i guess targeting the right migrant group isn't always the easiest but i've been a refugee cap. how do you go about that it's easy identifying the people but there

are huge amounts of people living in really crappy quarters and we've looked at that in the recent bevy of media reports and germany to also quantify how high is the risk within the offenders and we found it to be a 13 percent misc of the virus spreading out instruction of the 1st case and we found that in 75 percent of those outbreaks a collective pointing out the whole he was implemented but this specific measure has actually increased significantly increased the risk of transmission of bias in the philippi so instead we recommend to. have more space available to households reduce the number of individuals living in it so that we make sure that sanitary facilities are not shared and make sure that health information is available appropriate help is made if and then which is available and include reception center and vaccination effort. on thanks very much for being on the show today

you're very welcome thank you very much for having me. after further reading the reviews that we referred to the size kovi to among migrants and forcibly displaced populations and clinical outcomes and risk factors for 1000 among migrant populations in high income countries. time for derek williams and of you a question about you variance and you back seats. do new variants mean we'll have to create new vaccines and how long could that process take. in the news you hear over and over again that we are at a critical juncture in the pandemic and the global vaccine campaign is often portrayed as a race against new sars kopi 2 variants that could potentially prove resistance to our current battery of vaccines variants that are more contagious or more deadly

are frightening of course but as long as vaccines continue to protect us against them the race remains a question of logistics it's all about getting as many people immunized as fast as possible but another big looming concern that could change that is corona virus variants that might develop what are called immune escape mutations that would allow them to evade even an immune system primed by vaccines to fight off an infection fortunately this is a situation that health authorities are familiar with since for example they have to update flu vaccines regularly because influenza viruses mutate quickly a lot faster than coronaviruses do so so experts designing the couvade vaccines approved for emergency use were aware of the danger and many modern vaccines are a relatively easy to update especially the messenger r.n.a.

vaccines. trials with booster shot versions and then that target specific worrisome source code b 2 variants are already going on and approvals are certain to be fast tracked if if red flags start popping out like like if significant numbers of people who were fully vaccinated against cope at 19 suddenly began showing up in hospitals with severe cases long term the experts say future covert shots might actually combine multiple vaccines that protect against a range of variance just like today's flu shots often do. awfully the idea of sniffing out cove it is really catching on especially at airports meet time and a german shepherd in training to take the virus and sophie a labrador retriever in this exercise trying to find the one item it belongs to an

infected person the training there is that for drug sniffing or social rescue dogs diamond and sophia said to stop one at the airport of el salvador similar programs are in the works in ecuador and chile. thanks for watching stay safe and be answered.

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is it reduces live from berlin shock in the republic of china the army announces a long serving presence in that is that he has died in combat fighting rebel forces just hours earlier he was elected for a 6th term in office also coming up germany's conservatives finally have their candidate for chancellor army militia twill leave the conservative block into september's election putting him in privatization to succeed uncle america is the very unrivaled marker surtur concedes after a bruising battle for the candidacy and

a new coronavirus various sweeps across india the capital delhi goes into a snap lockdown hospitals are full as doctors struggle to find enough oxygen to treat a searching number of patients. and we have our thank you for joining us we begin this broadcast in the central african republic of china the army there says president in the east debbie has died just one day after he was declared the winner of elections that secured him a 6th term in office mr dubey was reportedly killed while visiting troops on the frontline of a battle against northern rebels the 68 year old came to power in a rebellion in 1990 and was one of africa's longest serving leaders.

here's now what the chief of staff of chides army had to say earlier. i'm not a. marshal of chad idriss deby it know as he did every time when the republic's institutions were seriously threatened took the heroic lead in a combat operation against terrorists who had come from libya. he was injured in the engagement and died after being brought back to. the year. now turned to west africa correspondent fred who has just returned from chad after covering those elections there fred please tell us more about the circumstances about how president debbie died. that me time it will. see if he died when he was called let's. see the opposition and some sources there to have this thing actually this is not

this is not true because i mean they're saying that it's unlikely that he was on the whole month he was fine team and probably he might have been actually killed by his own faeces so that's kind of so far the information maybe in the coming hours who days will know more about this upcoming says and i want his death but so far that's what the people who chant speak unity. these of our very fluid situations still fred why was he on the battlefield. yes exactly that's the question i mean we know from the past the. president induced the flu i mean dusty i think all of these title military top need to upgrade my short and last year as if. he was still seen as a strong military man and he has been i mean it was said that he used to go in the

battlefield to find. another lead times before but not at this particular time when he was waiting for the day or future results to be announced and then he goes into the battlefield to fight that's what doesn't make sense at this particular time so does that mean that people think that there have been foul play. yet exactly i should this is a go while i was there. i was talking to some people and they welcomed this that president idriss deby would not finish is 6 times he's probably going to be killed and even when these. rebel is tight. tight child coming from north to once they will convinced that these people are going to

succeed there will come to a judgment on their will i was deceived i mean full people who have been seeing him for 30 years as a top and strong military past and believing that he can just fight his just like that in a very easy with that is something which is what people don't understand and what makes people think that's probably the there is some sort of pretty here who could be taking over a now in charge who will take power do we thank you. yes he's his son general the mom a tease the 2nd in command i mean after his father he's very strong strong jenaveve there to survey the assault this is the guy the meter has announced that he's going to lead the transitional council and what kind of problems in conclusions could arise from

a potentially deteriorating situation in charge and in the region. but that china has so many problems they have poverty they have inside genes that have pretty torn they did the column she undergoes of this a region. so this is the death of president idriss deby might actually make the situation worse but then is that the country though position and they open the issue nancy was so sad organization rose up a few days ago a few weeks ago saying that we don't want him to stand for the sun so all these other powers that are going to stand and they have got a voice now when there is this is some sort of power vacuum now it's like you're going to be what i swear we would probably to see more people fighting for the power groups also rising to make sure that they get what they wanted but also the

opposition trying to get to what they wanted to remove prince the east to be but of course there is also some of confidants of former confidants of president idriss deby also who want power. it appears west africa correspondent fred thank you for your reporting. and we pivot back to we're germany now where after a bruising struggle germany's governing conservatives have agreed on a candidate to succeed chancellor angela merkel in the country's elections this fall arm in russia has received the backing of both parties in the center right block after a week long battle with his be very in rival marcus or. he came out victorious from the conservative power struggle now i mean lush said once to focus on battling other parties he appeared say what counts from now on is

which party has the best ideas to the country's future for me or to just base who can pull together the best team to deal with the challenges we're facing or disappear and that's why our party union this cd you and see is you need to head into this election campaign as a team you see you will not win this without this see is you and vice versa only a cute. team that from now on will be led by him lash it back to ally carnival king and committed to a strong europe the 60 year old has been state premier of north wind of a scaly germany's most populous state for 4 years and was elected c.d.u. party leader in january. born in the western city of arson close to the dutch and belgian borders russia does a former member of the european parliament and fluent in french for the most part his politics are moderate and have really reflect macas positions. the long and

bruising power struggle within the conservative alliance only came to an end when his very and rival pulled out of the race. i mean last year i called i'm in luck today and congratulated him i also offered him our full support in what i believe will be the extremely difficult election campaign ahead of us we will support him without any sense of percent and with all of our strength i speak for myself as well as for my party this see is you see is was the support of german voters however is something i mean lush it will have to work hard for in recent polls the majority do not believe he has what it takes to lead europe's biggest economy. as if the current he's not my type and i don't see him as the decisive leader that i am hoping for and that we might need. i'm for his just the other way around he's not determined enough interest in. running the

conservatives on really handling it well now they finally have a candidate but they don't even have a program what kind of procedures that it's like getting a driver's license but there's no car anymore. there's 5 months ahead of germany's federal elections i mean lusha now faces an uphill battle to defend the chancellery against the greens and succeed america. and we're joined now by her to hear keys that are he is a member of parliament with the c.d.u. he back to mr armey washouts to be the conservatives chancellor candidate a very warm welcome sir thank you so much for your time mr case better you said that the c.d.u. has now made quote a very clear decision to back mr amin but has it really i mean does it really mean that now it's all water under the bridge because you know one 3rd of the leadership did not vote for mr. you know thank you mrs herrick also for the invitation to your

t.v. i would like to underline that after 16 years of i'm glad it was really a difficult process because there are no regulations inside of our party and therefore more than 75 percent of the party board been outspoken for i mean lush it so this is a clear decision i believe and after 16 years and 10 days of a struggle amongst the to. the state of prime ministers of the different states it was a good election they had a choice and they have met made the choice. but it dragged on for quite some time and it was quite contentious i wonder you know do you think it has been damaging to your party. i don't believe so look the greens have elected their candidate in the backroom of of their own party center and we have done this very transparent publicly and now it's time to foster the relation ship

between c.d.u. and c.s.u. of the 2 parties c. is sure but there ia and c.d.u. in the 15 other federal as we call them but this means now that we have to focus on what is really important to overcome the pandemic and to find the place for germany after the election in september because there we need a strong german war as in europe and we have with druggy and with mccaw in italy and in france to convince europeans and i mean lush it will also be a convinced european but we can only achieve this in the coalition and therefore we need to be able for majorities in our country right now 1st of course you have to win the september elections because the greens as you know they're hot on your heels they're doing quite well in the opinion polls and yesterday we found out that mr le chef the main election arrival will be none other than elena berra bok of the

greens she is a 40 year old woman against a 60 year old man and i don't mean that disrespectfully but you know it's mr i mean my ship the candidate that represents the future of german politics. i think the future of german politics must be related to content to ideas to a wish and of this country it's not only related to personnel it's a mixed combination and i mean lush it is a can with european he is governing north rhine-westphalia with one world majority in a liberal coalition so he has to look for me jury to use every day and he does this without any. hosty and without any stretch stressing politics he is really patient and he can wait and he

has. really good betray ssion of the situation and i believe we need the greens also in the german politics that means both will work for a coalition but both will also work for a majority so it's to convince the people who will be at the end the chancellor but it's content related to not only personal german lawmaker to hear keys the better from the conservative side your party thank you for your time sir. thank you. are as we have speed now with some of the other stories making headlines around the world. germany's chancellor merkel has said she is very concerned about the health of jailed russian opposition leader alexina vali and called for him to receive adequate medical treatment her statement follows reports that mr vali was on have brink of death after 3 weeks on hunger strike. protesters took to the streets of the us city of minneapolis on monday evening as the city braces for the

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