present, the organizer see hong kong vigil as a symbol of freedom in the chinese territory. it's not just about commemorating the protest of $989.00. what about being able to just sit and to be able to call for an end to one party rule? no question that they go from one to replicate. so it's not insisting on some slogan awesome. from principle, the risk is what we are doing. sincerely fighting for the end of one target dictatorship, there will always be that joe was one of the few leaders of hong kong pro democracy movement not already behind. bars come in, her rest puts her constant battle activists under even more pressure he w correspondence, c. b call is in hong kong, and she told me that despite charles arrest under heavy police presence, people still found ways to mark the anniversary. hello enforcement has actually

deployed several thousands offices to cause every plays a recall, 9 phone call, and just have sam or any kind of like commemoration. and just hours ago, police tries to disperse anyone, including each other and bystanders. like what the case all the talk we couldn't even say, advocates off say that point, but now people are resorting to more innovative and more stop co ways to commemorate the anniversary that all the stories we have seen people is waiting on the lights off the move out phones and holding, i can those 2 more and the victims also 10, 10 am and the anniversary and also some of them. they play protests on outside of cox. so they saw some of the ways that they won't just the same. the activism and also some of the churches are hold like private digital or even like commemoration

service, putting the premises as active as they try to set up the booth to distribute those 2 topic just to try to sustain so very challenging activism here on the ground hong kong, but of course we have been receiving warning from the authorities throughout the day. they want people not to try to like challenge the right line. so let's take a look back at what happened on the 4th of june, 1989 on chinaman square. the several weeks leading up to that day, the square had become a focal point to protests against economic hardship and corruption. students also gathered to demand democratic rights and freedoms, from the communist government on june for the chinese leaders sentence troops to crush the demonstration. footage of a loan protest standing in front of the line of tank has become one of the most enduring symbols of the violence. no one knows exactly how many people were killed

. some say hundreds, others say thousands. we were hi, she was one of the leaders of the student pro democracy movement in china on chinaman square. today he lives in taiwan and earlier we asked him if people for the massacre coming back in 1989 was nobody could have seen that coming. chinese government has conducted a long time propaganda that the government, the communist government is the people's government. and then the spending troops of china, people's liberation army is peoples army in 1989. and i think nobody can anticipate that the real standing folks will using real ammunition should act the peaceful protesters along letting tank roll over them. so it came up,

you came as a major surprise, a major shock to be a 1000000000 chinese. let's take a look now, some of the other stories making news around the world. russian president vladimir putin says the 1st line of the north stream to gas pipeline. germany has been laid . speaking at an economic forum and st. petersburg, he disputed that russia was unconcerned by climate change and said moscow, some portion of the power of climate court greece has become vaccinating people against the corona virus. at micro comes on the gee and islands. athens has come under criticism by rights, groups for being slow to vaccinate asylum seekers at risk in overcrowded camps. brace rolled out in the nation campaign to the general public. in january, germany's most senior catholic cleric has offered his resignation to pope francis. germany is cardinal. hon mom says he must share responsibility for what he called

the catastrophe of sexual abuse by members of the catholic church. and in his remarks he admitted to personal failures as well as institutional and systemic failure. knox has been a leading voice in the call for short church reforms, and his resignation comes just weeks after the pope order to review several of germany set for the scandal within the church. initial investigations showed decades of cover up by the clergy and cardinal mark spoke a little earlier at a press conference. let's take a listen to what he said is good for me as you can to me for me, this is about taking joint responsibility for what happened inside the church home, the place which is a post to provide the space for healing for hope and confidence. and horror about the fact that inside our churches, this amount of sexual abuse took place, funk 6. well, let me get more on this developing story with religious us has expert john. very

com. thanks for joining us. and why did cardinal marks resign and why now? but he's let, offering his resignation to the pope, he gives the impression that he is disgusted with the very slow progress and performs within the church. and specifically with regard to the child abuse scandal . on the other hand, one has to also see that he's under considerable fire himself for having not investigated the case of the priest, neither diocese, the diocese, a tree at the time, 2006 accused of child abuse. and that was really only brought to the public attention 2 months ago by the media. so he is under fire and his letter of resignation mentions personal failure. but it's tucked away in a, in a letter that is really a distress signal about failure within the system space within the institution. and

one, his critics would say that he is deflecting criticism from himself, personal criticism to the institution. how big of a deal is this resignation and how important a figure is cardinal marks and the the hierarchy of the catholic church. i knew it above show. cardinal marks is not only a senior bishop in germany. he is. he's president of the e u. conference of catholic bishops and he belongs to the smallest most select group of people advises. so this is, this is a decision request for or his resignation that will have echoes throughout the catholic church everywhere in the world. it's a little bit puzzling to me the logic of this though, because this is a man whose spend all his adult life in the catholic church and in much of it in positions of great authority. and he says in his letter,

he talks about author optimistically about the need for reforms. and this seems to me very strange that a man in the situation to draw the conclusion that he personally is not in some way responsible to assist with these reforms. he wants to resign. would it be fair to say that the catholic church is right now in a major crisis, both here in germany and around the world? well, certainly in europe and in north america, it is in a crisis. i think that is the churches not experience since the protestant reformation in the 16th century. and cardinal marks is presenting himself as, as a reformer. but his critics would say, perhaps there's also a very fruit korea move. because in fact, you see a logical positions of quite conservatives. he's opposed to women being ordained priests. he's opposed to the blessing of same sex marriages and many other issues

associated with traditionalists. he hasn't author, you author hasn't resigned his position often to resign as a select advice to the pope. and if he simply resigns, as the bishop of munich, we may well find him. a landing up with a, with a very even more influential position that the vatican should be watching the repercussions of this closely. i'm very religious has a much now, a 3rd interview would be detained. accidents for him and practice have, has been released on beller russian state tv. his family says he was coerced into making a confession publicly for organizing anti government protests. press save, which has been held by bel irrational authorities since his arrest 10 days ago. when a ryan f flight that he was on was diverted to minsk as here fell tv appearance shows press service praising president lucas ankle and the confessing to state crimes is the 3rd statement that's been published since his

capture belarus, opposition activists say the interview was clearly chorused marks were visible on the journalist's wrists. i just hope that i will be able to put everything right and live a normal, quiet life with start to family and how to children. stop running away from something his father said in an interview with a p that his son was forced into making the confession. we should believe his words because they were where as a result of abuse and torture of my son is the largest. come said the authorities need his confession in order to justify their own criminal actions. the bell or a cna position leader also warns of k g b brutality. and the severity of the danger that protest savage is in we know

that louis visited rahman and sophia the told that i'm on is a key. but you know, it's doubtful because for sure he was tortured for surely he was beaten. and in no, he, of course, he has to be released. the same is hundreds of other prison on political motivated prison that the arrest of practice savage caused an international outcry. western countries accused bella was of hijacking the ryan or flight which was forced to land by a military jet interception. heavy sanctions are being imposed on bella ruth, by both the us and the you in the hope that this will lead to the release of the journalist and other political prisoners seeking a sky is taking part and talks concerning new sanctions in poland where hundreds of

fellow resumes are protesting. president lucas shane close regime. just a few of many across europe. raged by the tactics. lucas shank. oh is using to silence his critics. hello. yes, you're watching the w news live from berlin. thanks for watching. and i hope you can join us for more news at the top of the hour. the me the fight against the corona virus pen damage. how has the rate of infection been developing? what does the latest research say? information and context? corona virus, off the 19th. next on d, w many pushed out in the world right now and climate change. if any of the stores this is life less the waste,

just one week. how much was can really get we still have time to go. i'm doing all this system scribes are more than you like. ah, it's the biggest vaccination campaign in history. almost 2000000000, those of code 900 vaccine has been administered worldwide to date. but is it enough to wipe out source code to the virus key, to mutating and each change makes it harder to control 4 major new variance. i've already been identified alpha, beta,

gamma and delta. but there are more letters in the greek alphabet and research as worry. they'll soon have to use them when you probate various many areas of the world is still waiting for their share of the vaccine supplies. giving the virus a fertile breeding ground for fresh mutations. you outbreaks in the corona, virus pandemic. the welcome to occur. we're not in special. i'm wanting to jones good to have you with us. now. let's just p a vast, again, almost 2000000000 shops worldwide from quite an achievement. but of course, those shots are not even the spread across all continents. in terms of sheer numbers, north america and europe managed about 370000000 shots each south america with koby stricken countries like brazil, as a lot of catching up to do africa. and it's more than 1300000000 people only

received 34000000 doses so far. while asia is storming ahead with more than 1000000000 shots. but that doesn't mean it's fully vaccinated far from it. there are huge gaps like in vietnam, a country that has long been praised for his response to the pandemic. now, it is faced with new outbreaks and a new variant. the discomforts of the pandemic known to many around the world and now common in vietnam to ortiz, and how many city of ramping up cobra, 1900 testing 1st focusing on high risk groups, residents are on alert, made fast, rising case numbers. i'm more worried about the new virus variance. i have to wear a mask more often than before outside, and also limit meeting out those ho cim in city has been partially shuttered. with many businesses closed and public gatherings. restricted. some resident find

themselves behind quarantine cordons amid local outbreaks, students vacating their dormitories to make way for a new hospital in preparation for the worst. the last flight sent to her noise atlantic. the busy international airport is closing for a week. the government to see at the country's outbreak was fueled by a new coven. nice hint, but w h ho researches have confirmed that most cases here caused by the delta variance a previously documented strain of the virus. vietnam is in a race to vaccinate. so far, only about one percent of its population has been and not related. only weeks ago, vietnam had achieved a month of 0 community transmissions. it's strict arrival, quarantine meshes and fast lockdown proved effective, but covey 19 is finding cracks in even the most cautious countries. so for more

let's bring in professor may have from the be with center the center for molecular life science of the university of basil in switzerland. let's clarify the situation in vietnam. first of all, is there a new variant? and if so, how worrying is it? yeah, so what we know from vietnam at the moment is that they, they are observing the very end of the area that cause the big outbreak in india. and some of the genome say they described over the last few days. they have an edition, a deletion that position 144 this by protein. and that is what is the cation of mutation that we've seen previously. for example, in the various alpha, the one that originated in the u. k. but that in itself is not really too worried. you can certainly be happy in the lease, in that position. $144.00 before, all right, and mutations per se. i'm the worrying either as far as i know,

the normal, because that is what viruses do in order to survive. so why all the fuss about new variance right now? yes, the virus, this particular aren't a virus. if you take all the time, they have a fairly sloppy replication machinery, that means that they don't change sort of step by step. but you know, some of these and actually a small fraction of these mutations. they allows the viruses to either you beta, existing unity or sort of become more transmissible, more adapted to the, to the human host. and they, by of cause new outbreaks and, and in our secondary ways, 3rd way for waste and bases that i've already seen, such sort of larger ways of course, mentee. and that's what if occasions, adaptations of the virus to the new environment are with concern in because it allows for resurgence of of the panoramic right. and that's why this

is why it is so important for us to do sequencing sequence in order to, to keep track of what kind of very into dealing with so that we can hopefully respond. do we actually have a chance to ever be ahead of the virus or we will always like behind while sequencing, as he just said, allows us to spot new very early use of allows us just see how, how different areas that are circulating different from each other. and the mutations that we observe in the genome with the virus and sequencing, they give him very early on, on how these viruses might behave. so for example, if that how potations and specific spots of last, the virus that the interest in recognizing that would be a cause for concern. because that might mean that the me, this is that you know, protecting left well from this particular variant. visit these very, very sort of intense sequencing at the base effort that we have in place. now we do have a chance to,

to get on top of that early. and so at least see any changes in the bio population before they become common. and i think that is sort of a big target badges that they have now, but what to do is to be if you know, if you want to go ok. and of course, the other weapon that we have, if you like, is a vaccine this week, we're closing in on 2000000000 shots of code 900 maxine will wife. but will live years away from global herd immunity. with a huge discrepancy between industrial and developing nations, how big is the danger that this discrepancy will create a strain that could eventually escape immunity? well, the important part is that we have to bring case numbers down because it can, you can emerge both by and take things that are vaccinated people over people that have had a previous infection. and there are reasons to believe that a previous infection is not as protective as seen, and that is that of more conducive to generate generate new area instead of barium . so brain case number found is pretty, the thing that matters to do that we need to bring back the nation to,

to the entire block. and of course, there are different vaccines and some vaccines. i said to work better against certain variance than others. but vaccination is still key because some people don't seem to trust vaccines anymore. what do you say? while it is, tory can have been, you know, our most most powerful tools against infectious disease. and, you know, they have every reason to expect for the same is going to be true. here. it is important to remember that, you know, machination enlisted. so the multiple layers of being in protection. and most of what you're talking about here is very of antibody is cake mutations, meaning a specific, specific aspect of the response might be less effective after that. but there's every reason to believe that particular protections, again, the view disease remains robust and does not. so if it's at the ball to change it by variance, my professor has had there from the center for molecular life science at the

university of buffer in switzerland. thank you so much for your time. you're welcome. thank you. one year into the pandemic. there is already a variety of axioms on the market with more on the way the questions still remain about the safety of vaccines for young and old alike. science correspondent derek williams, takes a look at the astrazeneca jap. oh, nice. the answer is in a convex, seen apparently see from age are people. oh, 1st of all, i want to emphasize that the data shows that for the vast majority of people, the astrazeneca cove, it back thing is both safe and reliable. but in extremely rare cases, it has also been linked to the development of potentially dangerous blood clots. there's been a scientific scramble to try to figure out exactly what's going on. and experts now

think that in those rare individuals substances produced by the immune system in response to the vaccine can also activate platelets in the blood which, which leads to the clotting because it happens so rarely the statistics aren't conclusive. but women under the age of 50 seem to be affected. most often. that's led national health authorities in some countries with a range of vaccine options to begin recommending the astrazeneca vaccine, primarily to those over the age of 60, where we're links to clotting. we're not completely absent but. busy much, much more tenuous. it's pretty amazing actually that we discovered these needles in a haystack so quickly and also that we already have a pretty good explanation for, for what might be causing that. i couldn't find any study explaining in,

in metabolic terms exactly why this particular side effect seems to impact older people last off and then it goes younger ones. but, but many experts think that the idea that the clotting is basically caused by an immune response that that could explain it. we know that as people age, their immune responses tend to damp and down. and, and in this particular case, that could be a good thing. and with all the other data we have about the astrazeneca vaccine and showing it to be safe and effective. it remains a very powerful tool in our arsenal for protecting the elderly in particular, who are most at risk if they catch cobra 19, hence the recommendation that they continue to receive it. mm. well,

vaccination in some regions is advanced enough for them to open up again in riyadh hundreds gathered last night for the 1st concert in the saudi capital. since the start to look over 900 times, the performance isn't the live audience. something to look forward to that's all for today. thanks for watching. the news, the news

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