and arrests and other critical news outlets under pressure is mr. it's been labeled extremist organization by better lucien authorities. nation as co founder and practice if it had been reporting from abroad until he was seized from a commercial aircraft that was forced to land in minsk. he's been charged with them . so i think some of the math demonstrations that have rocks bellicose since august last year, challenging the outcome of disputed presidential elections since then, almost 500 reporters have been arrested according to the better receipt journalists association. more than 20, remain behind many of those who have been released to say they suffered physical and mental abuse like the w's, alexander, but i call of punishment for reporting on a brutal regime. joining us now, you williamson,

director of the europe and central asia as human rights watch in berlin. thanks for joining us on d. w. sure. after his release, bureau cough said the detention facility he was in was like a military prison. he also said he'd been subjected to torture and inhumane treatment. do these accusations surprise you and fortunately, they do not surprise me. our research shows that in recent cases, we documented there are examples of torture and mistreatment in prison. we've documented brutal beating of journalists, journalists being denied medical attention being held in very poor conditions, just like funded, denied access to equipment that was also destroyed. we also documented cases where journalists have been threatened that will no longer have custody of their children . and a very recent case where a journalist had to flee feller was because police re did her apartment and then

when she was a broad, your so it is contacted her was that last she would turn and they would arrest to grand physical and psychological torture. it's quite common, unfortunately, almost 500 journalists have been detained since last year. i'm curious. what impact is this have on the media landscape in the region and the work specifically of journalists and baylor's, who just has a history of a very strong independent media. also the reputation of very courageous journalists, and despite that the crackdown in august last year to the presidential election as mean, but the industry is really quite decimated within better whatever. still some courageous journalist that many have had to leave a country and many a working in the baltic states in poland with independent media doing their best to report and what's going on in the country. and obviously we've seen very graphic

report, so they're doing good work. what's needed now is that the government's in the, in europe, including germany, to support that work for the work of independent media. but they can continue. there's been unequivocal international condemnation and demands to free journalists and allow independent reporting and beggars. but does that really have any effect on lucas shank? oh, i think obviously difficult to tell, but i would say probably has, i think his actions are becoming more desperate. the plane incident 9 days ago is an example of that harassment of media suggests that he continues to be determined to try to stop the message getting out. on the other hand, casting a light on what's happening in ballard is one of the best ways of ensuring that in the end a government comes to power that will really respect human rights including media,

freedom and the continued in the independent reporting of the soul of the your correspond that was doing is really important. hugh williams and from human new i'd thought, really appreciate your time sir. and so much. taking a look now at other stories making headlines around the world at this hour. a prominent russian political activist is in custody after being pulled off a flight bound for poland. andre pupil virus was detained shortly before take off from st. petersburg. late monday. he's a former head of the recently disbanded open russia. a group of are of now faces a criminal probe for cooperating with what authorities call an undesirable organization for francis has updated the laws of the catholic church reinforcing penalties. reprise who, sexually abused children. the new provisions also recognize that adults 2 can be victimized by police. it's the most extensive revision to church laws. in decades,

the measures were long sought by the victims and their advocates. united nation says more than 90 percent of the population and ethiopians to gray region need emergency food day that some 5200000 people fighting broke out in the northern region nearly 7 months ago. and the un says that has exacerbated already high levels of hunger. it's appealed for more than $200000000.00 to scale up its response. for roo has made a staggering revision of its official cove in 1900 deaths. toll officials are now reporting that more than twice as many people have died from the viruses. previous, we estimated from just under 70000 to over 180000 countries. health ministers said a new criteria change the count as means peru now has the worst death rate per capita in the world. fighting for life in peruse hospitals with

oxygen shortages and overwhelmed intensive care units, experts had warned officials were under counting covered 19 death. now the government has announced the new toll using updated criteria accounting victims of the pandemic. i can see for counting methodology, we will have more exhaustive figures and figures that as the health minister said will be very useful to monitor the pandemic. continue nelson, i meant them on the 30, and we will take the appropriate measures to deal with it and hopefully overcome the pandemic very soon. but on the new criteria has been broadened from those who tested positive. it will now include people who showed corona virus symptoms and those who have been linked to a confirmed case. but outside period crowded hospitals, the families of the sick, angry at the government's response to the pandemic. your

a should own the population about this new figure. so that people would really be aware of what was happening because with a figure as low as 60000, i think people felt quite confident. and in some cases, they did not stick to social distancing measures on buckling non, they can also be outrageous that our socrates, our latest don't do anything. because as we know, it is true that our vaccines at the moment, but they are not enough. think the government purchased additional doses last month, but the vaccine rollout has been slow and hit by allegations of corruption until the vaccine drive speeds up. the new death toll is a devastating reminder of the human cost of the pandemic. from south america, to southern africa, the leaders of the herero and nama ethnic groups in namibia have rejected an

agreement between their country's government and germany over the designation of colonial era crimes. last week, germany acknowledge it, committed genocide during the occupation of its former southern african colonies. tens of thousands of herero and number of people were killed between 19041900 weight. berlin has offered to make payments of more than 1000000000 euros spread over 30 years to help the communities affected. he w corresponded add. your increase is in the new may be in city of out in n a, which is in the former homeland of the hero people, and still a center for them today. adrien, why have the leaders of the hero and nom up people rejected the agreement, reached by the german in may be in government? or michael, it's has several reasons, but the main one is money. they're simply not happy about the amount that was mentioned in the media around 1100000000 years that will be used for developmental

project. they say it is not enough, but the problem is also that the heroes do not speak with one voice. the people here and also their traditional lead us, you have those to where on the negotiation table together with the government. some of them say we have to move ahead and finally conclude this deal. others of them say no, this is not the deal. we want it and the government did not get our confirmation to agree on this agreement that was apparently reached last week. so they're now trying to pull out. and on the other hand, you also say have those who have even a stronger position like here, where we at the moment we just went on a tour with a local chief. and he said, no, this whole negotiation was never fair. we always said that the government should not be, should not negotiate on our behalf. we the effected communities are the ones who want to negotiate directly with the german government, which the german government did not want to agree on. so this complicate things, of course, to find a solution, and so they had issues clearly with the process. but what are they also asking for at this point? well, i mean those ones here, we talked to,

they actually asking for the whole negotiation process to start from scratch again without the government. well, the government, they say can be an wealth, but also the effect that communities have to be stronger, involved others saying the amount that is supposed to be paid is not supposed to go to the governments because they say they should set up a funding that with effected communities can decide them what they could do with the money. does the fact that there row and number of people are not on board? have any impact on the agreement reach between the governments? it looks like the german minister of foreign affairs. what scheduled to be in the media this week to sign a 1st agreement, this, it doesn't look like if this is going to happen, and it's going to be a long process though, it's going to be a long delay. and one of the problems is also that the hero and i'm, as they're still minorities in the country, and many i talked to, they don't feel themselves represented by the government. they say the government

is mainly made up with people from other ethnic groups in the past. they have not represented our region, they complained about the under development. you can see it also behind me how things look like in the villages here. many people still live in check. there's no access to, to toilets and electricity in some areas. they say it hasn't worked out in the past, so they do not trust that the government yet would use these funds that could possibly be paid by germany to really invested in the region where they live and whether it was really needed. it's audio increase. many, many things in switching gears here. now, if you're a volcano enthusiast, this footage is certainly for you. this is a drone fly that went more than a little awry. youtube, bert, joey helms, released a film taken by his drone as it traveled along a river of lava in iceland, giving the viewer a stunning look and in a rubbing volcano. but sadly, not for long. the drone crashed into some flying degree and tumbled to a hasty, hellish, fiery death. for now,

you're up to date coming up our cobra, 1900 special. this time looking into mirrored morris corona virus. crisis with the military went to denying talk of high infection rates. watching d w. news. i'm like local thanks so much. stay with the news. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection in developing? what does the latest research information and context corona virus, not because of 19 special next on d, w culture. high hair,

super super food diet style. like on the lead o's lifestyle, you're at the 0, dw, the ah, the efficiently me and my says there are only a few dozen new infections a day. say that can't be true. there's hardly any testing going on. there are reports about lack of stuff in testing centers. hospitals have the same problem with doctors and nurses joining strikes against the military, which sees power 4 months ago. that being attacks on health care workers, me as schools reopen,

some teachers and students are also making a stand define the winters calls for full classrooms, which would only help the virus sprayed hundreds of thousands of people across me, m. i have been calling for an end to the military tank over the country is in turmoil. and the health care system is one of the most effective sectors doctor. the nurses were the 1st to go on strike. thousands refusing to work under a military, beijing that also poses a problem for cobra patients. my on mostly in is head of mission for doctors without borders in be in my and joined us from young. go and tell us about the difficulty of your work. first of all, i mean you're trying to save lives at the same time as putting your own lives at risk. oh yeah that's, that's true. and that's being part of,

i guess at the moment our lives is not very high situation for the people in the marsh, very fear before the actual international stuff with an assessment. it's not a dish. ringback for our national stuff, the challenging periods, not only asking we add them to, to do more than we usually do, we are up scaling our activities due to the increase needs. at the same time, they're facing psychological stress from, from what is going on in their own country. so yes, for our, our stuff, our national stuff here in the office around 11 or people. it's a very testing testing time they're doing are best to to bring the services we want to bring in these times. and the missing breakdown of

the public health system here are and i guess the psychological impact also has a political angle to it. the w h o is talking about 179 attacks on medical staff in facilities since the military took over. also 13 death dozens of arrests. i mean, how do you go about reaching the people when the health professionals are being attacked? yes, specifically that helps us help workers that are on cdn. so to civil disobedience rules are targeted. these are health workers working for are you still have health workers working for private sector or charity sector like this? so our doctors are continue their work. they're not striking and therefore their national targets directly. but you can see the fear among our stuff as

well. and that's basically from coming to the office having to police checks potentially being searched. there is definitely a fear we're not directly to talk of because we not working in the public health. thanks for me. and during the civil disobedience movement, the do you, you national stuff is definitely very aware and very by and can you tell us just how dia, the situation is with covert or how bad the numbers are? i believe her daughter isn't reliable. i don't know. i've also author the military take for the basically the country still a testing there. the whole facility,

the fractionation program came to stand still. there are a few 100 tests today, but there's nothing to compare to before the military girls were, which means we don't have reliable data. it also means that we are in besides the whole prevention that say testing tracing. fractionation. there's also a lot of things happening in the country that are messed instructions. the whole banking system is collecting huge atm. she'd like reading and the region are writing. and so we are really worried about their grades outbreak in our system at the current status. let's get another view from georgina phillips and emergency physician in australia who is trained doctors and nurses and me and my and his

published a copa solidarity in the lancet. some of the authors of that letter had fled the country or in hiding or have been detained. i sto gina though about the consequences of the qu for the people of me and not. so the government health system has essentially collapsed as a result of the civil disobedience movement in the targeting health care workers. so before everyday health care systems not available for the people and people suffering from covered, for example, neither getting tasted nor able to access emergency care. the consequence for health care workers is intimidation in arrest all or flaying the country. and so it's a health system in collapse and during the private pandemic. now we can anticipate that there is a search happening in may and mother bordering countries. are going through

a serge mortality, mobility morbidity statistics, and not a viable. we don't know tasting, it's not available. we don't know how many people are positive and people are frightened to go to healthcare services. the sales might be targeted. the health care services are extremely limited. there's charity clinic, there's private clinics, but they are limited in what they can provide for people. and therefore, we anticipate that people are suffering not only worsting of their normal health condition, but quite likely suffering from the escalation and search of the kinds of pen naming. this wasn't always the way it was, georgina you mentioned before, the curve that health facilities, we're in good shape. that's true. so prior to the qu the convent respond to me and my was quite robust. my colleagues in the emergency care systems in emergency medicine relating the clinical response. the government hospitals had

quite strong tasting screening, korea, and critical care responses. there was a system for treatment, escalation of treatment, transfer of covert positive patients. there was a robust public health response. people, of course, for a public health response, you need people to be trusting in, in the ministry of health and government systems. and that was happening. there was context tracing. and the vaccination vaccination program was rolling out the military coup of the 1st of february has called a halt to all of those activities. and most of those things are no longer progressing. the doctor i spoke to before said me and my wouldn't be able to handle a 3rd wave. what. what is coming there? why do you think? i think it's quite likely that there is a 3rd life happening in me and at the moment that there is no available, reliable data. i think you can anticipate that that is that is happening given the

neighboring countries, the situation of the neighboring countries. and i do think that me and my will not be able to handle this search. the government hospitals are bailey functioning. government health work is very limited. the workforce is severely restricted and the charity clinics and the private hospitals are not able to provide a service. and the people are most reluctant to attend to the military hospitals. so in terms of accessing acute care covered for people with acute infection and serious symptoms that will be severely diminished in terms of contact pricing and the public health response. that's, that's minimal. and the vaccination program, i think, is also severely restricted. time for derek williams and your questions on the corona virus call it some people can still

get the virus even after being vaccinated is heard immunity, even possible. questions like this or why many scientists don't like the term heard immunity because they feel the word immunity implies a point where the panoramic suddenly stops and a lot of them prefer the term heard protection because that seem drives don't make everyone in a population magically immune when enough people have have shot, they just, they just help protect people who are still vulnerable and protection implies ongoing vigilance, which is what pretty much all the experts say we're going to need going forward. and there are a few reasons why heard protection will be very difficult to achieve, not least that as you say, a few people still contract the disease even after full vaccination and can

presumably pass it on to others. this phenomenon is called vaccine failure and the person that happens to is known as a breakthrough case. but data from the end of april from the u. s. has confirmed something that had been reported from israel, which is that breakthrough cases, at least so far look exceedingly rare that could of course change as, as more time passes. but right now the data look great. it's a sign that her protection might not be an achievable at least in some local or regional or, or even maybe national contexts. but even if transmission is brought largely under control in some places, a few experts believe, sorry, covey too is just going to go away, because to wipe out the virus, we'd have to hit vaccination goals globally, which will take years. and in the meantime,

immunity could begin to wayne and those who were already vaccinated or the virus could still mutate in ways that would make her protection even harder to achieve me. thanks for watching. see you again say the the me the, the the, the the

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