there resolve of course still a resolution that can be found and people have been shouting from boat to boat and we're trying to find an agreement but us we would imagine that amongst the british people they might take it with a pinch of salt and they might think that maybe there was a slight overreaction on both sides. london thank you. for the democratic republic of congo which has seen a surge in violence of recent weeks attacks by militants into community conflict has forced thousands of people to flee their homes the u.n. says the fighting is making it difficult to reach people in many areas correspondent travel to tortie one of 2 provinces in the north east of the country officially under a state of siege. hardly any other region has suffered atrocities by militias and. we are on the road with a nerve agent aid organization over

a distance of just 60 kilometers we pass through about 20 checkpoints controlled by various rebel groups as well as the congolese army. militia point it's mostly boys carrying guns their weapons are concealed but the threat is real they ask for money but a few words persuade them to let us pass today. because . we reached internally displaced people intro drill it's one of many in the d.r. see about 5 and a half 1000000 of the country's estimated 105000000 people are displaced more than anywhere else in africa. barely managed to escape her village when a militia attacked it she was on the run with her children when she realized her daughter was missing. oh. for now. i decided to

go back to find and save her i was convinced she was still alive but unfortunately she was already dead i was so sad just devastated when i walked past them they shot at me i had no idea and survive i gradually lost all my strength i was having difficulty breathing then and slipped into some bush i lost all hope i was sure i was going to die he she was that your mother did it. she survived but found her 4 year old daughter and that it. was as soon as she was released from hospital she gather to 5 other children and fled to this camp food water and medical care supply but at least they are safe here she says cook in. the. state of affairs my own mother reporting from

a tory and you'll find more of our coverage from the region on our website that's the. now here in germany a business leaders have criticised the government's latest policy on curbing climate change it comes day after ministers announced tighter greenhouse gas emission targets which in turn find a high court ruling that current laws are insufficient the new measures would see emissions slashed with the goal of making germany carbon neutral by 2045 of a berlin has been accused of taking your solo approach to climate change instead of joining and you coordinated policy chancellor merkel pointed out her position on the 1st day of what's called the petersburg dialogue climate conference the federal constitutional court in a groundbreaking ruling has says to pay more attention to intergenerational sadness and climate protection and to also describe in more concrete terms the path to climate a challenge each therefore makes a geisha targets for 2030 will be increased by 10 percentage points to 65

percent and and at the same time we wish to strive for climate retallack she already for 2045. let's talk about this with routing cruiser who's a member of the german parliament i'm going to medical c.d.u. party you're also a member of the blunder starts committee on the environment nature conservation and nuclear safety welcome to the w everyone wants to know what are the concrete steps the government will take to reach those climate targets. you know we wanted to wait for the european union but now we're at. what the high court decided and we have to act as specially because they're on the few sittings of parliament before some and before the next election so what we are going to do is that we are asked to go to

say how we will do the steps after 2030 to reach. on tuesday a man we decided that we say we want to read to them 45 years us. quite a lot to do and on the other hand it's quite good if you say that. you still have 5 years left so you know 5 years early as i think it's a very good and yes the same as if you have a very important point and then you try to be 5 minutes before ok so how will you do it. that's a good question. the are going to change all this in the next 4 weeks and then we have to defiance and the aims for the next years we will have to do quite a lot more considering. the fossil fuel for the free energy plants we have to enlarge. the tree in fact that

we have. and the role of out of the 4 so for the coming. this sounds like ideas that you know that you have to actually get around to would i be right in assuming that you don't actually have a plan at this stage. of course not because it's the one we could go there today we got this decision and now oh we design ideas and you know we had to die and look at. using coal and i was in favor of something like 2032 in the end it came out was 20 so the age was a tendency to do it 2035 so now we have to see well when chicks. that action to the foster coach we employ. for example for

politics for traffic of or i'm just going to run through because i'm not quite clear what what what question you answering when i asked you if i'd be right in assuming you don't have a plan your answer was of course not is that of course i'm of course not you do have a plan and therefore i am wrong or of course not no we don't have a plan it is of course we had a plan to do so and said the rest should be together with european union now we have to react and then we have to do a plan for all the steps to 2045 and this has to be negotiated no so i do have my ears and others on my part yes now we have to see the certainty how we do it and we have to avoid it things like a climate locked on that was the reason why the cost. to do the

is this law again so of course the plant is not ready now we are going to go straight about that that for i think we got there in the end thank you so much for joining us cruz from the german parliament environment committee thank you. it is very which has administered a millions of vaccine in a bid to fight the coronavirus pandemic with a focus on reaching priority groups like front line health care workers and senior citizens now al the residents finally have the chance to get some outdoor activity after months of being stuck in dos. it's an outing this group of elderly residents in spain could have only dreamed of after months of living in isolation and cooped up in a nursing home it's finally become a reality around 50 residents and staff from the cost of their day care home a newly vaccinated. and now they embark on a journey of fresh air and the wonders of madrid's 0 inhabitants. spain's 1st

wave of the current virus pandemic told through the country's care homes killing nearly $43000.00 people last year many of the residents faced tough restrictions on movement and visiting rights authorities have since launched a nationwide campaign to inoculate all frontline workers and the elderly. point is. it's good to leave to break the monotony of the nursing home especially as we've been confined there for so long it's nice to get outside so i decided to go out and see the world. first stop on the excursion is meeting beings ing the giant panda as he waits for lunch. in the next step flamingos gathering in their dozens. and an elephant getting his daily wash. myself.

for residence and stuff the out he was a delightful change to what had long been the new normal to see or. whatever the reason. i feel as if i was in my village many years ago in the middle of nature listening to the birds which i haven't heard for a long time so for me it's a great day. i'm a bit tired but it's compensated by the pleasure of seeing and hearing what's around us. yeah there you go your way out of it a lot of it out on the other day was a very exciting day they were really looking forward to coming out again to getting back to normality much of being able to do this activity in the open and enjoying nature the animals at the zoo it's really good today we had forgotten about paying us. oh you know so much will be all that is a lot of us. as spain looks to relax its knocked down knows some of the

most vulnerable relish taking back their freedom and look forward to venturing out another day. this is the w. coming up next day w. news asia with joshua wall and many other hong kong activist mary jailed what does the future hold for the chinese territories pro-democracy movement. why do people in taiwan seem so blocked and to get vaccinated against covert nazi. melissa tropical storms in just a moment i'll be back at the top. of the day. it's

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it's an ongoing quite story a bit of. the arab spring began in 2011. people stood up against corrupt rulers and dictatorship the ball over these moments. had left deep box in my memory. they had hoped for more security more freedom more. have their hopes been fulfilled . in years after the arab spring. rebellion starts june 7th w. . you're watching news asia coming up today 24 year old hong kong or joshua long has been sentenced to more prison time with so many top activists imprisoned where do things stand for the territory civil rights movement class in taiwan and its story of

covert success the past year could take a new turn we take a closer look at vaccine hesitancy there. i'm melissa chana thank you for joining us honk honk pro-democracy activists joshua long and 3 others have been sentenced to between 4 and 10 months in prison for their participation in an annual vigil marking the 1009 $199.00 and square crackdown for the 1st time last year officials had banned the event that gave the government grounds to charge those who gather on kong has been the only place in china where people could commemorate the events of chan and it was an indicator of the territory's political freedoms under its one country 2 systems arrangement with beijing. china hong tung one of the organizers of the event reacted to the sentencings i wrote disappointed in paul i'll call it had been failing to save

got our rights to say got a right to peace was a mistake iraq 2 to 3 of us russian. the coach was dressing that. none of us have more freedom than the other but it's not we're not seeking more freedom than are the real seeking i'll grant you right under our constitution under basic law under the bill of rights. we have samuel a cio of hong kong democracy council he joins us from washington d.c. samuel you and your father have participated in the candlelight vigil in the past it's gone on for 30 years now young activists have been sentenced for showing up your thoughts well i think that the timing of this is unmistakable we're coming up on the 32nd anniversary next month just under a month and i think that this is a deliberate attempt to turn intimidate people from participating even though just

weeks ago they have already announced a government that they're banning the vigil or 2nd year in a row and i think that today's sentencing is to make larry they don't want anyone to publicly memorialize what happened in 1989. and your father reverential uming very well known in hong kong had earlier also been sentenced for his activism the government has gone after so many of the major players where does that put the movement. well i think that this is becoming increasingly clear to the world and to everyone and that the tactic that hong kong government or the beijing government is using is to manipulate the rule of law in hong kong to pile of various charges for joshua log for example this is actually the 2nd conviction while he is already serving a jail sentence and so this has moved from jail sentence from 13 and

a half months or 17 and a half months a few months ago and then out or another 10 months or 27 and a half months and i think that what they're really trying to do is to essentially de facto putting them in arbitrary detention while they're in prison they continue to prosecute them and i think it's important point out that joshua for example in his case he hasn't even gone to court for his case under the national security law which could mean up to 10 years or lighted. if he was convicted and so i think that this is clearly a way putting together charges and cases that oftentimes have very flimsy basis legal basis or evidence but as a way of silencing and putting behind bars and keeping dubey high bars the most recognizable and powell hold voices for hong kong that makes me wonder do you think

we can ever see the kind of protests we saw in 200-1000 ever again well i think that. this is in some way bad against hong kong or so to beijing it's making. i think it's worth remembering and point out that back in 89 there were a couple 1000000 people marches in hong kong even back 10 times square protests was happening protests in the d.n.a. of hong kong years it is part of the historic development of this art of the collective consciousness it is part of the civic culture in many ways a dominant right in the civic culture so i think that while we might not see the frequent lots of large scale protests that we saw in 21900 before cold it hit and before that actual security law i think that what you'll see is a lot you ward the squares creative way we're already seeing people using other

form a public expression to continue to voice and express their dissent samuel chance thank you so much for joining us thank you. taiwan a paragon of good public health that has seen stunningly low numbers of covert cases and just 12 deaths the entire pandemic is not having the speediest vaccine fallout is choice and he explains. waiting for covert to restart her overseas studies and no way came back to taiwan last year to excavate from the us a fear outbreak in the united states she plans to go back in the fall semester but she needs proof that she has been fascinated. one termer i'm ok i'll sit down good for none of my friends have got facts in a to when i told them i'm going to get

a shot they were all fairy shocked and asked me to reconsider i read a lot of news about the side effects of the job and i'm quite worried basically if my school doesn't have this requirement i won't be getting a shard of what we know as a. taiwan began as faxing rolled out in a to march and astra zeneca is the only f.a. level fact seen on the island with but concerns the facts in asia rate has been much lower than expected even medical staff are reluctant to get a shot why wouldn't use a white board for those who need to travel abroad they're willing to get the shot. before the majority of taiwanese people there sitting on the fence as local infection rate remains low income. taiwan is one of the top of all most in covert containment with only around a 1000 come from cases and trials where they touch that so far but the island is far behind in the facts in asia raise the number of facts in dos and the start per

100 people it's only sorrow point 3 in contrast with the global effort 14.2 many taiwanese simply don't feel any urgency to get a job if you don't you know i mean when you go to spend yes since the outbreak but life hasn't changed much the only inconvenience is we have to wear a mask but i'm used to that already so i don't think that's the urgency to get vaccinated compared to other countries to meet you know. i'm in the low risk country and all covert containment measures are exceptionally good i don't think it's necessary to. get vaccinated but if it get worse. right now to be there you know i want to wait for other facts scenes because the side effects of astra zeneca seem to be quite serious now right here though you are here for the oil in order. to achieve herd immunity many experts say the facts in asia rate must reach at least 70 percent taiwan's faxon has written see the island funner

a bowl once there won't open so but experts anticipate child one will pick up in july to august once wasn't countries start to live travel bans when that day comes the challenge will be whether there's enough supply of vaccines i want to deal with taiwan will eventually get to 70 percent vaccination rates because people want to travel abroad so to be honest i'm not worried about that i'm only worried about the supply it's not in our control the balance of supply and demand has been disrupted by the outbreak and. until this vaccination raid the island will have to remain closed to the rest of the world joining us is journalist ryan ho kilpatrick in taipei ryan this slow vaccine pick up is potentially a public health disaster waiting to happen for a country that has so far won the global p.r. campaign as

a democratic model for combating kobe to what is the government doing to change public behavior on the matter if anything. key issue here right now used to be earlier this year the government was concerned about not getting enough vaccines and after a deal with pfizer fell through the ledge to apply to interference in beijing but just yesterday the health minister tranche of jones told reporters that actually the biggest problem isn't supplies for all the public's willingness to get vaccinated today introduced a new policy mandating 2 days for police to get actually did they get the job in a kind of no side effects but that is unpaid leave and we'll see how well. they have to at the moment it's very difficult for the government to offer carrots to people because as you say it's been so successful is they want to get training the virus that it's been virtually untouched by so it has the rest of the world so there's not many things they can get off the people at the moment schools are open

businesses are open major events are going forward so it's going to take time when the more vaccines the con the veil the more options such as. or at the domestic 3rd . probably help people who are concerned about yesterday seneca virus was. seen which is the only one currently available here or when other places around the world so open up an international child comes. to but this is going to take a long time right it sounds like it's going to take a little bit of a time in taiwan now i want to ask about misinformation it's been a big driver behind a vaccine hesitancy in many places and i wonder if that's the case in taiwan. of course a pandemic has been the locus for misinformation all around the world and tony is no exception as well as the usual rumor mill it was that deliberate just information campaigns. from chinese state agents were trying to so you discontent

and i rest domestically. but because it has been responding to this very effectively it's been very clear it's you it's messaging. notably the work of digital minister or if you're trying. want to boss around the world i think what we're seeing right now is actually more than deliver just information facts and hesitancy has been informed by sort of skewed reporting that's been emphasising the side effects on the rare cases of complications arising from the axioms. but i think the key distinction to make here is that facts and hesitancy is not true in so much by conspiracy as it is just i caution the movie urgency and want to just see how it turns out and take the time and not rush into anything that's a huge distinction very quickly we do have a small outbreak understand among a flight crew that has also spread to hotel staff how worrying is this up over the past couple of weeks we've seen over a dozen pilots and flight crew from the fi carrier air china airlines be

test test for the virus and also hotel staff airport hotel entirely and so this this has been worrying but. yesterday there were serial local cases today if there is one new custom to govern has introduced a slew of new safeguards right extending mandatory quarantine for flight crews and you know mandating 5 tests over this extended mandatory course you know monitoring period. so they were spondon to know that they're definitely responding to this little outbreak thank you so much ryan help kilpatrick in taipei. that's it for thursday we're back tomorrow at the same time see you then about. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts the

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many countries are considering vaccinating kids 12 and above against coronavirus thousands have already taken part in trials. usually i'm just at home doing online school and there's not much i can really do you know fight back. and with the results proving extremely successful researches and now looking at even younger age groups. such as them will soon start to be vaccinated against the corona virus canada has authorized the biotech pfizer job for ages 12 and up jason kenney the premier of the worse. it. says it will begin in ok to schoolchildren on monday canada has faced criticism for its slow pace of vaccinations despite having quite a large stockpile of his prime minister just in getting his job around the 50 cases in canada have been recorded in people under the age of 19 other countries

including the us are likely to also prove charge backs a nation so. well from all we're joined by dr noni mcdonald professor of pediatrics and infectious diseases at dalhousie university. health center in halifax nova scotia thank you very much for joining us on this cover 19 special can you just explain to us why we're only now seeing vaccines being approved for children and teenagers is not a surprise at all rob the big point was when we looked at the epidemiology for coping and who died it was absolutely adults especially older adults it was not children so in contrast to other diseases which were killing a lot of children in the past or having the worst disease like polio was much more a problem for young children than it was for adult depression respond to get a vaccine for adults 1st. but to take into account the fact that children could

potentially be spreading coronavirus. they were looking at that but they were not as big spreaders it's not like employee ends that were with influenza school age kids are it they just moved out virus around like no tomorrow but for colored it again and they were kids were not the big big spreaders there's now which we didn't know at the beginning there's now some data to show that children in general he's part of the reason they don't get such bad to see since they do have a different immune response to to the virus than old people like myself and they also don't have the same angiotensin enzyme converting enzyme in their lungs which the virus when it gets in there that's one of the ways in so there were 2 reasons why they didn't get such bad disease and the other piece i wanted to just jump in on is that when we do drugs we almost always start with adults because they can

have permission when you're doing your trials there they're given permission for themselves where if we're going to do a trial in a child we have to have the parents' permission to do it in the child and the 1st thing they always ask is well what's the safety for adults for this so that's why i mean there are many reasons why children relate one it didn't look like they were the biggest risk group and 2 we rarely start with children for many drugs to be studied in the 1st place. a lot of the trials haven't involved so right so it's only really the. scene that has been tested on children but it takes a long time to get the other vaccines available for children. well there are trials that have been ongoing the astra zeneca child vaccine has just been halted for a little while but mcgurn has got one going on there are other companies that are doing the same thing and it's like

a sequential thing i have to get my adult stuff trials done and those ones done then i have to go on and i will do older children and then i will do that middle aged children and then i do a little children so even with pfizer only down to 12 years we haven't done the 5 to 11 year olds yet trial has just started and they've just started rolling we probably won't have that data into a maybe late june early july as you mentioned there are crucial difference between vaccinating children and vaccinating adults is that it's not the person who's being best vaccinated the you've got to persuade it's in their interest right you've got to persuade parents it's not harder than persuading a parent to get themselves vaccinations. well let me let me ask you a different question if you were watching a child your child being given a needle would you rather have the needle yourself or your child have the needle and most of us as parents would always like to protect our children from anything

that's going to cause them pain ok so to volunteer your child to come forward to be in a study that a lot of parents are a little more cautious about that now i have to give you another piece when they did this study for 12 to 15 year olds not only did the parents have to give consent but the child themselves a 12 to 15 year old have to say and i agree to that i will be participating in this so it's a 2 for that one that they need to get consent from if it's a 5 year old well if the child when running out of the room it's unlikely he would be continued into it he would get enrolled in the child but you have to persuade the child that it's going to be ok and most children don't like needles they've had immunizations of the past they know it hurts and they're not keen to do this you mentioned about children not liking needles we recently did a program on the color 1000 special about nasal spray vaccines and what i hope they can offer is that something that is going to be

a breakthrough for vaccinating children. any vaccine that could be given not with a needle is a breakthrough not just for children but there are 10 to 15 percent of adults who really don't like needles either so it would be a breakthrough period for giving vaccines there has been some data in the past on nasal spray vaccines that was one maybe 2530 years ago the flu vaccine that did cause a problem i had a serious side effect but the more recent versions of the flu vaccine have been very acceptable for children and they much prefer it to the needle so this would be a big step forward but there's other technologies that are being trying to be developed micro patch ones where they're little tiny micro needles that you don't even feel like putting a band-aid on and again any of these new ones that don't have needles and if they can be shown to be effective when they're being done would be a wonderful step forward if i can just take a bit of

a sigh step away from children and talk about pregnant women a lot of countries are not offering vaccines to pregnant women is that something that needs to happen. pregnant women are like children they're always the last into clinical trials for vaccines they're always the last into clinical trials for drugs and that's a real problem for us so just as a comment in general about pregnant women need any of the drugs that are used to manage women in pregnancy they're very very old drugs and it would be terrific if we had better drugs that could be used but everybody super cautious about doing anything in pregnant women probably left over from the whole for a little my disaster but is that now 40 years ago and they're very very worried because we are the know with all pregnancies there's always the risk of spontaneous abortion there's always the risk of something going wrong with the fetus so people

are are worried that i have to compare what would happen if no drug was given to compare what's happening with my drug and most parents pregnant women really want to optimize the chance for their baby to be the best it could be so not always super king to be in a clinical trial. fox and any macdonald that is the boss of the program where you get to ask the questions to a science correspondent directly. can you get infected by a single droplet or does it take more than that. this seemingly straightforward question turned into a real rabbit hole for me because it's so interwoven with so many other issues a lot of them involve the still open questions surrounding variance do some of them need fewer viruses to kick start an infection is that why some variants are

proving to be so much more transmissible then there's the question of whether the dose of virus you were exposed to influences disease severity so so whether a low dose exposure maybe means you end up asymptomatic and a high dose exposure may be that you end up in the hospital and how do you explain what are known as super spreaders and the small percentage of infected people who experts think contribute in a really big way to numbers of subsequent cases all of those questions are closely tied to the seemingly simple one of how many aerosols in other words how much myra's it takes exactly to infect someone. so there's plenty of theory and postulation out there but the only way to really even begin to

define some parameters is under controlled circumstances and what that boils down to is that researchers have to infect some people intentionally with varying amounts of sars coby to in order to see what happens next studies like that are called human challenge trials and and their ethical minefields one involving covert 19 that's received a lot of coverage has been going on in britain for a couple of months now with the help of some brave healthy volunteers between 18 and 30 its 1st goal is to figure out the lowest possible dose of virus needed to reliably cause viral replication in the nose and the throat in other words a measurable infection i'd expect at least at least a preliminary study telling us more to be published by this summer sometime.

and just before we go it turns out that single use paper masks aren't quite the fashion disaster that some people seem to think they are a dodge visual artist says she's created the perfect outfit for her vaccination day a ball gown made entirely of her used face masks marion says she wants to make sure she shows up for the g. having style she hopes her outfit willing courage people to get vaccinated includes protective gloves how the bag and naturally the face mask. that's all from this covered $900.00 special goodbye.

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