is exactly what they were discussing. the you has already banded bell routine airlines from its skies. next up on the agenda, economic sanctions this action we've seen from lucas shanker in bella. ruth had a terrorist character. it was so an acceptable that were not last august. workers went on strike to protest luca shank, who after he claimed a 6 term in office following you disputed election money from state enterprises like this is crucial to the regime survival. the hope that changing them will hit the regime hard, but as you was taking a tougher stance on bella, ruth, tensions with russia are also increasing. both countries for decades have been linked by a political packed since the crisis broke out, moscow has increased its backing for its allies. we know we still says that the west stopped demonizing. those. it doesn't like the bella roof and

authorities immediately after the incident announced that they were ready to conduct a transparent and open investigation list. you got them are asleep when you this crisis is playing out on the eastern frontiers on beller was his border. with lithuania journalists gather to protest on behalf of their jail colleagues, the fate of rum on part of it, and other reporters like him has become the latest flash point in europe's relationship with its autocratic neighbors. we can take a closer look at this with nigel gold davis, who's a russia analyst at the international institute for strategic studies and the former british ambassador, 2 bedrooms, a welcome to the w. let's start with you. sanctions from your experience of the diplomats and bellows. why have the current sanctions have so little effects on the regime in minsk use? current functions are fairly limited in nature and really always happy. they've

mainly consisted of individual measures targeting particular people include alexander and get himself imposing trouble. bands with nasa freezes and so on. those are punishments, but they are in the unlikely to change future behavior. well, the you now has begun to do is to consider escalation of son from, from a level of individuals towards applying measures. but we'll target the regime as a whole. and in particular, financial flows on which it depends. and what effects do you anticipate these having both to rely on policy instrument sanctions are not the magic bullet or like a likes which you turn on and things suddenly happen. so the effects that they have will be cumulative, an increase in significant over time. but i do expect them to put both

psychological pressure on the regime. and also by hindering and cutting off the financial flows on which this regime depends, making it harder and harder over time for the regime to function effectively. so i think a can be an important and potentially effective part of a collective response. and it's interesting that the president lucas shank because the biggest ally in this is as president putin of russia. another country which is suffering the you sanctions and kind of lucas ranko count on protein support. it's a close, but very dysfunctional relationship. putin and lucas have no love lost between them . they are the present embrace, going to sort of toxic embrace each needs the other. but each no, the other holds a different agenda from its food. and nutrition in particular knows, well food, putins, long term goal is to gain affinity,

greater degree of effective control over the roofs to turn this financial dependence on russia into a political control. and that's why the relationship has been so difficult. so i wouldn't say that allies so much as a congress with convenience and knows well he cannot trust. so person needs. lucas shan't go for what reason, what to act as he's buffer a bit between russia and the european union. i think putin's priority above all now is to ensure that risk does not become a free and democratic country. and not only because putin is worried that a free piano wrist might drift off toward the west. but also because of the vibrant free and democratic gonna roost would potentially be a, a worry demonstration effect for russia itself is enormous demonstrations across

bill that we've seen since last august took place in the wake of a rig presidential election, who didn't himself cases a presidential election, he's also a long standing authoritarian leader called in 2024. that's just 3 years away. so he does not want these sorts of things to succeed in a neighboring country. and it is the working assumption outside of these 2 actors, russia, balderas is the working assumption. that person is supporting lucretia because that actions rather than dictating them as sort of that guiding him as as to what to do . i think that's right. and lucas shouldn't come back in august public, appealed to putin for help and support. he knew he couldn't count on it automatically. so he said, very public and explicitly look, if these demonstrations succeed here,

they will continue to spread to russia as well. so both in this together is not a puppet at all. and, but he has been able to rely on hooton's financial support and potential readiness to, to intervene in some sort of full full way and who to signal that he's potentially ready to do. that as far as putin is concerned, any feasible alternative to cushion at this point were probably the worst mistake as quickly. however much he dislikes lucretia, and that's very clear. thank you so much for that. and i will go davis from the initial institute for strategic studies between israel and palestinian militants, has been in place for just over a week. but the recent flare up of violence in garza also sto tensions in israeli cities where your jewish and arabic rail is left side by side such communities of existing for decades,

some more peacefully than others. but the last 2 weeks have seen jewish and out of neighborhoods turn on each other in some places in the town of lod residence. and i'm trying to pick up the pieces while the flames made their way quickly through the tire shop on the outskirts of loot. where he is still in shock, his father's family business of 30 years, destroyed in just one night. as choice by lawyer. i feel a sense of loss being lost and we thank god we have our faith. and we believe that god will restore our rights. and we hope that all will be rebuilt. it will be a period that will pass. oh, follow, subtler had motor angela. the flames didn't stop at his store. they also burned down a computer repair shop next door belonging to the father of us, but now the young jewish israeli video developer had spent a whole year creating a new stage of a game. now it's all gone. both respect,

the shop was targeted by extremists from outside the city, but there's no evidence to before the riots, some young people came and looked around checking out which businesses are jewish in which are arabic, leaky. and for me personally, it reminded me of terrible times in our jewish history. let quote, it hurts. it really hurts to see so much fire and hatred. she brought it by now. she was both a residence of a town in the center of its valley, which has seen some of the worst violence in decades between jewish, israeli, and our up is really the violence about the not just a new also in many other like cities in israel, protests but also appearing to revenge attacks by arab and jewish mobs fueled by long standing issues, but also recent tensions over jerusalem. israeli police responded forcefully for

where he did. and you know, there's only one way forward. there are in it together through a crowd funding campaign to hope to rebuild their livelihoods. but the vari remains the same. yes, we're scared. i worry the jewish extremists are looking for me and will tag me as someone who cooperates with arrows as if that's a wrong thing to do. lima, she's a cute little med is also worried that he'll be singled up by his community. but enough is enough. we need to say what we think and not be scared. we don't know, we have a choice, which is what i need to make sure that we also have the future looks uncertain here and across the country. violence within communities and israel has left. everyone in the australian state of new south wales is launching a relief package. for pharma, steven catastrophic pike of mice, which has destroyed crops and is causing habit for farming communities. the agriculture minister wants to use a new past aside that's currently outlawed in australia,

which he says is the strongest most poison. at the farm in new south wales, mice are swarming the grain stores its a widespread problem. social media is full of images like this. something out of a horror movie. farmers are desperate crops things side. but then go and dan, digging into the crop, nate and it doesn't come up or as it just came out and poked the head through the soil that is been bought in the heads of bought in the tip. so from this phone and then if there isn't a massive calling of the road and soon farmers, associations are warning the play go on for 2 or more years. are also a have applied to the federal government for emergency approval for a poison, but he's 4 times stronger than anything that's available on the market at the moment. a product that he's currently illegal in australia because it is so toxic.

and we're having to go down this path because we need something that is super strength. critic say the poison could have unintended consequences on other wildlife. last years, wet weather could be a reason that the most population has exploded. environmental and animal rights activists are calling on the government to invest the time and money now to research alternative methods for solving this problem and preventing the next infestation. one of our top story at this hour a germany has acknowledged for the 1st time that he had committed genocide during its colonial rule of namibia, up 210-0000 herrera and now my people were murdered by german imperial forces. the government says it's now ready to apologize and pay compensation still to come on de w. i can a new us intelligence investigation 1000000000 kind of the origins of covered 19 or

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news british benedict welcome to did up the news. asia. glad you could join us. china has accused the united states of ignoring science and pursuing political manipulation after president joe biden authorized an investigation into the origins of cove at 19 biden has given us intelligence agencies 90 days to determine if go over 900 spread from animal to human contact or leap accidentally from a chinese la bought a tree. this so called lab leak theory was categorized as extremely unlikely by the world health organization earlier in the chinese officials did refer to this finding. as they took aim at the united states for the newly announced prob, may way here. and there are some in the us who are turning a blind eye to facts and science. as well as the questionable study of the origins

of covered 19 companies. and the botched response at home. but i've kept clamoring for additional investigation in china, so the tools, i mean this shows that they don't care about facts or truth and have 0 interest in a serious science based study of origins. are there only aim is to use the pandemic to pursue stigmatization and political manipulation to shift the blame please. this is disrespect for science because that was a responsibility for people's lives before the and the destruction of global solidarity and fighting the virus. now at the center of this control this year, over the origins of over 19, is this la bought a tree in hon in central china. the hon. institute of biology, which has for years been conducting research around corona viruses that originate in bats the trump administration. last year alleged cobra, 1900 lead from this lab. i'm

a u. s. intelligence report recently said 3 scientists from this institute ill and when i went to hospital in november 2019 before the officially acknowledged outbreak in bull han. and from on this i'm joined now by dr. eric fargo ding and f d. me all assistant senior fellow at the federation of american scientists in washington dc. dr. welcome, i'd like to begin with seeking some clarity 1st the so called lab leak. terry is taken by some to mean a deliberate leak from the one lab. other say it could have been an accidental leak . and there's also suggestions that chinese scientists were carrying out lab experiments they shouldn't have been. which theory is the us investigating? later having a lovely theory is obviously a very controversial topic previously thought. be a conspiracy theory, but in turn away a lively theory. this is a to our ology. it could just be

a complete accident and the accidental leakage of a naturally occurring buyers. that's honestly the most plausible of lab leak theory, but the lively can itself is not the most possible. the most plausible is just natural infection to an animal for that's another animal to humans that occur naturally. nature is probably the most likely lab leak. it's possible there is not enough evidence, it's just circumstantial evidence. lab technicians got sick. oh, little satellite images showed. ready you know, high density of people around the hospital. those are not direct smoking gun in any way. and of course, none of them imply any intentional biology and now the w threats are there later in the year after visiting this very same institute, the one and you divide, ology, the lab $830.00 was extremely unlikely. do you think that was a premature statement?

well, i would say that their statement, it was unlikely is it's really not based on much data in either direction. and i, you know, i meant that there is not much data that proves one way or the other right now, if these are all just circumstantial. and remember, we found, actually, sorry, golly, to virus in italy near in, near milan, back in october and november 2019. so whatever must happen must happen way before. in order for that virus, you picked up in italy back in october, 719. and at the bottom line is, what is likely is what can the data show and right now, biden says they're coming through more data. there is more data intelligence data. they say that they need a couple more weeks and months to come through. and hopefully we'll find something until then everything population that speaking of this data,

can this data told really be to read any truth in china? doesn't cooperate and provide data. yeah. you know, asking, trying to cooperate where it, by friday, did it obviously not the most reliable past with the data that 5 is referring to is intelligent data collected by us and other agencies. and this is why i think they probably have some additional surveillance data, probably from by aware that we don't know about end date that will take more time. but in china to provide the data on, on the lab leak or bio engineering is probably not the most likely outcome. anything the most likely to prove one way or another is when we find an animal that is the most intermediate between the background of iris and sars coey to find that intermediate animal and the nature,

then that would actually prove the natural theory way more than anything else, do you think scientifically, we can ever get to the truth behind the origins of covered by team? give him that has been more than a year and a half since the outbreak is difficult, but not impossible. if we find the animal reservoir that intermediate, that before the emergence, and about scroll, or if we find the intermediate that the closest close to jump to, the concert is going to solve it. in the future, you know, there could be a blood banks somewhere stored somewhere from blood donation. that's how we found the original october, november 2019 italy sample. it was from a blood samples and us also had some blood sample. if we find it in blood samples somewhere that could also offer a clue, but right now that is not normal testing and we might have to just cross your

fingers to find something like that. and hopefully something does come out through the dr. eric final thing. thank you so much for joining us. diamonds health minister has revealed that 2 words scuppered a dean for millions of grove in 1900 vaccines with germany's by on tech. jen. she's june said the company requested taiwan to drop the words all country from a joint press release set for january the 8th. he said his government agreed to change the wording to just tie one the same day. but a week later by on tech put the agreement on hold, due to a court revaluation of global vaccine supply and adjusted timelines of this explanation comes a day after president sign when directly accused china of blocking taiwan deal with biotech in response to her statement by on tech told didn't use a show, we do not provide information on any potential,

a possible distribution of our vaccine. our goal of biotech is to make the vaccine available to as many people worldwide as possible. meanwhile, only about one percent of taiwan population has received a vaccination. and there's a growing sense of alarm as the island faces its biggest over $900.00 outbreak. yet, after month of keeping the pandemic well under control, the government has ordered a lockdown to cobb infections. it's something that many on the island thought they would never see. as the blues joyce lee reports stuck at home for the 1st time that you have siblings. i still was that saying to online learning, as schools in taiwan shut down for the 1st time since the thought of the pandemic. i can't take it because i've been stuck at home since last monday. it's been a week. i'm so bored, online learning is doing all the things i did it at home. i feel lazy because

there's no one to push me. i do have that last bill that i missed my classmates. now i and i spend time with my family. the mother is also struggling, navigating what it means to be a parent, a teacher, and working from home at the same time. she says it has never crossed her mind that this day would come. things like that are y'all in the past year, we watched international news and saw people working from home because of a locked down. i thought it was funny and unrelated to my life. but now it's happening to us. after more than a year of relative safety, taiwan is battling as fast. major domestic outbreak reporting hundreds of local cases daily its beliefs that airline pilots brought the u. k. ranch to the island, not a month after quarantine was short and to just 3 days for crew members. the right

to us then accelerated threat network of t houses in ty, pace, red light district. the authorities have declared a nation wide level 3 alert, meaning a soft lockdown. pop like a fence are caught of many shops are close to and restaurants can only do a check out. the shopping district. anti pay is spiritually a dose tone, while dozens of people q of for cobra test sites hosted with hosts in great high pe i running out of patients will now be sent to other parts of taiwan for treatment, the authorities. i've also taken up several hotels to accommodate those with light on symptoms. so fall into one has only fascinated around one percent until it's 24000000 people. most taiwanese have the infection has to be called the local outbreak. and how about no, ma'am pio was afraid of the side effects, but now that there is a community outbreak, i want to get a shot. i want to get vaccinated because vaccines are the most fundamental solution

to control the pandemic. but we're having a vaccine shortage call. i don't want to get any of the time being because the virus mutates too quickly. may not be effective after 2 minus 510000000 doses. so 5 themes were rushed by august. but until then, the island is likely to remain on the south locked down. the family has stopped fridge. they say they're ready for a long battle about told that was affordable. so in, in this, in kind of one had a whole year to prepare for those. seeing what happened in other countries, we should have been alert, but we didn't bother. so the government didn't take it seriously when all the countries were fighting to get vaccines. i want didn't do much, just sat there and waited for our own vaccines. and so now the vaccines are coming soon enough that we can only fight the battle in a passive way by staying home. do not be complacent in the face off and i make it's a lesson learned for taiwanese that's bought by the correspondent joyce lee. that's

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know, on this channel we are not afraid to young people clearly have the solution. the future is 77 percent. now, every weekend on dw the, even as many parts of the world start to open up like in frontline work as a struggling to cope with the silent, told the covert 19, pandemic bone out. and now all our recent studies on health workers and other for, for suggest that for now is increasing anxiety is increasing. and so we expect with the rates are going to kind of stay high for, for public service. for a while, i see you know stuff. there are some intensive care unit staff saying they've reached a breaking point left from academic research centers to scientific journals,

health workers, and scientists. fighting the pandemic say they are hitting a wall. me know, some health care workers have thrown in italy and taken up a completely different job. main thing, stay the same. doctors and nurses who can soldier on is still a lot of work. maybe like at the end of the tunnel, but the crisis isn't over. a taste of normality can be felt all over madrid. the cities vibrant nights have recently been approaching what they were before. the pandemic bars and restaurants are busy. since spain lifted the state of alarm bars and restaurants had steady extend that the hours cookies have largely been canceled, non essential travel between the regions is allowed. again. the lifting of these restrictions was met with wild celebrations in the streets of spain. that outraged many spaniards infection rates across spain are dropping. but here in madrid,

this still higher than elsewhere. and hospitals, especially feeling the pinch intensive cast off, say that debit occupied after more than that breaking point. some even quitting that job at the coven ward. this is why people we speak to are cautious. they want to enjoy their new freedoms, but also do so responsibly. one of it for this garcia hasn't seen his family in 9 months because of spain travel bands. yes, planning along over to visit yada. now that they're opening up, we really want to see each other, but we're also scared is particular okay. especially because my father died last june from cove it, although his mother is already vaccinated. what it is, garcia will still take every precaution to make sure his visit home will be safe laterally. that is like it is what it is. the virus is fair enough, restrictions are ease. but it's true that the eating of measures takes a weight of your shoulders, could get the freedom to

a certain degree. bar owners like simone, i thought, oh, optimistic that such freedoms are here to stay. steady. our business is in our sector that live from one day to the other cannot afford to close. but i am confident that by the end of the some of the situation will have improved. whether it's social and night, life or everything else and myself and food and all those bodies until then, spain will try and enjoy this fragile life, hoping that 1000000 small people will get the vaccine. and that corona virus variance can be kept at say here's another interesting question for our science correspondent derek williams. if you've got one you've helped send it to, i'll get your channel. oh, i took an antibody to destination negative. shouldn't have come at positive.

no, not necessarily the food and drug administration in the u. s. actually issued a communique on exactly this topic just a few days ago. it says that although cove at $900.00 vaccination might cause a positive result in some antibody tests, it doesn't necessarily do so for all or, or even for most of them. that sounds a little counter intuitive. i know, but, but it isn't really for some simple reasons. one in particular, which is that most antibody tests weren't designed to detect immunity after vaccination. they were designed to detect a past infection with ours copays. and although both vaccination and infection lead to the same result, which is immunity for at least a while against the virus, it turns out that at the immune system level things are

a little more complicated to surprise, surprise, to explain what's going on. let's look at the structure of, sorry, covey 2 for a 2nd. from the outside. it looks like a ball studded with weird, feathery structures. the ball is what's called the cap that which in cases the virus is genetic material together they form what's called the nucleus caps and the feather like structures that don the surface are called spikes. now when you contrast cobo 19, your body reacts with a range of antibodies that attached to a range of different targets. lots of them on the nucleus caps it, and those are the anti bodies that many tests are developed to detect. most vaccines, however, worked by getting your immune system to produce only antibodies that target spikes and plenty of tests weren't made to detect those. so if you've only been vaccinated

but not infected, and you take one of those tasks, then it'll come up negative because the test was made to detect nucleus caps of anti bodies and not the spike antibodies that you're vaccinated system is producing . but they protect you effectively to me in europe and north america starting to reopen. but that has many employees. worried one survey shows that nearly half of the work is put li fed jobs in the coming month. with 66 percent of respondents saying they feared that workplace safety measures were being lifted to thing. on surprisingly, health care workers and research as are some of the most effective by coven stress, one in 5 saying they were considering leaving the field when the crisis is over. look at children in india, a fast becoming the unseen victims of india's corona virus crisis. with millions of

indians having lost their jobs, kids have been forced out of school and into work to support their families and a deadly 2nd wave of the pandemic has also made a orphans of many children, especially those from poll communities. for 9 years now, people had worked with children from under previous communities on a daily basis. she deals with children who have experienced creek laws and forced to grow up before they're ready. but since the outbreak of who would 19 their numbers are growing, children are being made to quit education and take up household responsibilities and are also being pushed into child labor as their families have lost income. secondly, since they are spending a lot of time at their home, now many cases of child abuse are also coming up. having already been disproportionately affected by court with 19, many children are facing another tragic fall out of the funding. many have lost mother or father or both, leaving them extremely one that was since last year the angel

a pretty world had provided support to talking children who have been offered new to call the 1900. by helping them settling with their extended families. sooner opposing the founder of the organization says that while children who have been often how much tougher and need immediate attention, a more holistic approach is needed to address every child in distress. there's a lot of conversation about it often, but honestly, on the ground in such cases are probably 5 to 6 percent. the other 95 percent cases that we're looking at is where the bed, the very best of these children are pushing them into sexual trade. transactional sex and child labor, the real issue to be used to look at the vulnerability mapping of which child is in massive distress and which side needs more support that there is a need for a more comprehensive approach is something that an iraq can do. the head of the daily commission for protection of child. right. also i'm looking for something for

3 things need to happen. one, these schemes that provide the financial assistance to these families so that the basic subsistence is insured. the 2nd thing that needs to happen is the government have to explore ways of keeping the children in school, the toward either ensuring a livelihood for the family, or ensuring that there would you start in different existing schemes of the government could be a russian or whatever but ensuring the, the family has adequate means as an immediate or just that the commission has started a health line for children in distress. back at the center pretty says that many children she meets with are in crisis right now. we've got a home because of it years of hard work that we and the children had put in seemed to have gone least our home. we are now trying to get them back to their studies and 2 different activities. we are trying to heal them and had them come out of the difficult situation. there was still hot breezy says that despite their best

efforts, it will be a long while before the children are able to cope with the heart. and the trauma that the fun to make has inflicted us president joe biden has ordered a new investigation into the origins of the corona virus. he's asked intelligence heads to deliver their findings within 3 months. i tell you, i was hand institute of viral g houses, the biggest foreign bank in asia. it's a maximum security bio lab. 3 research is fill in november 2019 and we'll hospitalized with flu like symptoms, weeks before the 1st identified case of the code 19 outbreak. the wall street journal is the 1st to publish the new details, quoting us intelligence report. the hypothesis is that the virus spread to humans after lab accident 2 weeks ago, 18 prominent scientists wrote a letter to the journal science calling for

a new investigation into the origin of cove at 19 every laboratory in the world, including our very own c, d. c. and i, containment laboratories in the united states. they all have had laboratory accidents, laboratory accident shop, and everywhere there it humans, humans are fallible. so it's absolutely reasonable to think that some other laboratory also had an accident not least because the war had institute studied corona viruses and the transmission through betts china has dismissed the leveling theory. it says reports of 3 sick researches are allied in, maintains there was 0 infection among the new shoots staff, one being useful after months of the go see ations, china allowed effect funding mission led by the world health organization to travel to hand more than a year after the pandemic outbreak, the pedal concluded that the virus probably originated in bets and past the humans

are an intermediate animal. the laboratory incidents and i put disease is extremely unlikely. thanks for watching. stay safe and see you again. so. ah. the news news. the news

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