the new silk road china wants to expand its influence with this trade networks also in europe, conflicts or inevitable consequences. unpredictable as gateway to europe starts july 1st on d, w a show coming up today. hong kong new climate is one year since john, i impose a top security law. we ask what has changed since the crackdown and we hear from young activists determined to continue speaking out. we feel like we have to step up, especially when prominent figures are either in jail or in exile, deli bunger, they're suffering aside. in the number of cases at the desk of various spreads, the government is preventing to introduce drastic measures to try to bring the

numbers down. and plastic pollution is a growing problem in indonesia. authorities are unable to even collect much of the garbage. now though, a startup has come up with a way of producing waste. the news i british managing. welcome to the, the other news, a show. glad you could join us. right group, i'm listening to national says hong kong to national security law has created a human rights emergency for the people of the city. one year since its implementation and take up and protests have been muzzled. hundreds, arrested for endangering national security and prominent activists put behind bars . but still some persist like student pro democracy activist long, yet chin riding his politics and his love of hong kong into his skin.

they'll be with one yet chin even in the darkest days. solving whole whole i hope me remind me of the beliefs i started with, even if i'm jailed in the future. one started the group student politicize from last may just after hong kong or is heard about the national security law all at 20 . he's one of the oldest in the group. there is young as 15. there's some of the few still visible on the streets. many other groups are gone, but i still have got no many political influences, seldom speak in public. people that could be coughed under the national security law, all, especially with it being so uncertain gallia. how we feel like we have to step out . especially when prominent figures are either in jail or in exile. one has been arrested for times in the last year, twice just this month. marches are banned under pandemic rules. he and his group

hand out leaflets instead, but it's enough to get him into trouble. water even the terms, freedom and democracy become to be one day. i won't compromise on my speech or that if he will, he and his groups support those already in jail. they take supplies to protest, years behind bars and all. and we have gotten many see we are the kids chosen by the time. but i think it, we have chosen this era, since you've seen this symbols on his skin state, his certainty, the tattoos are messages of defiance to his future self. and me now for morris hong kong, for democracy act, it was different law. and it's an up people like born get children who are still publicly protesting against the government or rarity in hong kong now. well, definitely, after the implementation of the national security law,

government basically sees or protest brushing the national security. and it people who are rested under the law could face up to decades or even by filling prism. and so we impose what tara in hong kong, so people want to chin and other who are still protesting on the street has bravery to go against the sphere and probably readiness for these long jo time. so they are definitely not as many as before. but i believe that even though for those who are not twisting on the streets, they still have a lot to a ball position and the content source, the government. can you describe for us how life is changed in the city since the law was implemented? i'm wondering specifically if the impact is only in the political arena or it extends to other aspects of daily life. well, the, the facts of the national security law is actually covering all aspects of lives.

it is not only introducing a new law in john call, but completely different ways of governing the city. we used to believe that one country to the to, to system mean says that it's a fire war in between hong kong and china system. that hong kong, still compressed is freedoms, is not told him in democracy. but i think the while the meaning of the national security law is more than just a law transplant. the way that the government sees the centralization of power, men and china, and implement them into hong kong. so that you could see a lot of officials now claiming that he has no diffusion of power. and they go from government is trying to you rhodes, or the checks and balances up vailable in those society. so not me for protect this, but you can see that journalist media education publication also to

expect in the civil society are being severe. the credit house and scrutinize, or even some of the organization dispense because the government for nowadays does not allow any checks and balances and monitoring from the society. nathan abridging always maintained the national security law, was meant to bring about prosperity and stability to hong kong. you think the majority of hong kong guys would agree with that view? well, definitely not. if you look at the 2019 district counseling election when the pro democracy came, which was also troll movement, they will not length life victory. we will actually express the view by voting one of the most ordinary practice in the classic countries. and they said a very clearly they want democracy. they want the government to be held accountable . the implementation of the national security is quashing all freedoms and that not

what all people want. now this law is only one year old, but as time passes, do you think the voices of protest in the city will gradually fade and be replaced by the reality of the cities political situation? well i think that would definitely be the weight of protest, but it just takes time. we've been to, we've been through a lot of ups and downs and local countries, even though they have more strict political situation like murmur. but there are still people coming out to protest, patricia moving on the cycle. so i believe that in the future when the energy in the civil society grows and up to a certain level and that will be definitely another way of protect. and if you left hong kong about the same time, last year as this national spiritual was coming into force, was that the right decision for you? well i think for now i've been able to be

a voice of ongoing continue to become phone call and continue to do my instructional efforts work. these are enabled to achieve when use remain on call. so i think that i have played a role for now. i think it's important for the movement law. thanks so much for joining us today. a bit now about by another. she has a situation with covert 19. the country will implement the strict locked on from thursday to tackle rapidly rising infections initially planned for a week. it comes off at a certain cases, particularly in areas bordering india. the delta variance has run rampant, and the government want to avoid a repeat of the devastation it caused in india. the to the 19 crisis is pushing this hospital near bangladesh and border with india to its limit relatives desperate to secure medical care and oxygen for their loved ones. the one will be important issue with the patients we're currently seeing is that

oxygen saturation levels, they can't be managed properly with only oxygen cylinder concentrated. and if we can't provide them with a central oxygen line, god forbid the casualties may increase. more than 14000 people have died in bangladesh since march last year and daily infections. a currently skyrocketing after the pandemic case, a devastating peak in india in april, death began to rise in bangladesh. the border between the 2 countries was shut. the people continued to cross illegally prompting new infections and fatalities. the virus is now raging through smaller towns and villages in the border regions, aged down by making the tests free. we can now locate the covert positive population. people from the villages are coming to get tested and it's proving the

virus has spread significantly in the villages. the surgeon cases have pushed the government to double down restrictions and a partial shut down began in phases on monday, leading to a rush of migrant workers to flee the capsule decker. as of this thursday, all economic activity will be halted and a stringent nationwide lockdown will kick in. but will it be enough to combat the delta variance and alaska vaccines? $1000000.00 doses of china. so i know from vaccine recently arrived in bangladesh, but it still waiting for 20000000 astrazeneca doses from india and the 2 and a half 1000000 doses of the medina vaccine from the u. s. before those arrive, math vaccinations cannot begin. plastic waste is a proven to be a growing problem for indonesia. a lot of that comes from single use sessions that are discarded, but cannot be recycled. now

a starts up into capital jakarta has come up with a seemingly simple way of tackling the problem. and as the report is proving popular with the locals, delivered straight to one's door cleaning products without the plastic packaging. it takes just a few clicks on an app or a text message. and growing numbers of jer, cartons are taking advantage of the offer. off sick las we can refill our bottles and reduce the plastic waste. neighbors here of joined us. really sick lists was set up in 2019, especially for lower income communities to help reduce the use of products that are packaged in foil pouches. these single use pouches do offer convenient access to every day household essentials, but even when they're discarded, they often stick around. indonesia has a huge plastic pollution problem. the country generates almost 8000000 tons of

plastic waste annually. and more than half of that waste is not managed properly. a lot of times, you know, in indonesia actually only 45 percent of race gets collected. because a lot of the small towns there is no funding for it. it's not, it's not cheap. you know, and so i think that the government is looking for a solution that are not just ok. let's recycle. i'm all for recycling. but a lot of these products, actually, you cannot recycle. so it's good if there's ways that you can actually reduce it rather than you know and have it out of the system. and so that's actually really helpful, and i think the government is supportive demand for the deliveries is growing fast . and not only because they're actually cheaper than the stuff in packages says the company's c e. o. i think indonesians across our class as they see the plastic

problem and they care about their country, they care about making it better. and i think this is really why the responders for good, good enough for plans to expand to more indonesian cities, helping people reduce and reuse their plastics. is more on our website. we will see you tomorrow about the the site against the corolla virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection in developing? what does the latest research say? information and contact the corona virus. coven, 19 special next on d. w. on the super hero. my mission is clear. and nicole polish

explorer in germany. they dive in and check everything out. there's a lot going on in germany tried and tested the d. w. me the who's on his lease was one of the 1st germans to contract over 1900. and she was one of the 1st to see that symptoms can remain even after the virus is gone. 5 months later, she was still experiencing difficulties. as you can see, the mood come on very tired. i can easily go to bed and fall asleep at 8 o'clock. that wasn't the case before. yeah. and that's the main problem. the tiredness, it's really debilitating. some tend to 20 percent of those infected later suffer

from long covert. recent studies suggest that women are at greater risk than men. the lungs, heart, brain or mental health can be affected and it is still not exactly clear what causes long cove it or what can be done to treat it. hello and welcome to are covered 900 special. and because cobra and berlin being tired out of breath and feeling like the infection simply won't leave. long covert syndrome is grueling for patients and a challenge to medical professionals. now, researchers in the german city of ally and might have taken an important step towards understanding more about the condition a single drop of blood. it's all that's needed for the examination at the university now long and matthew lunk, institute in germany, scientists are looking for the causes of long covert or post covered $900.00

syndrome in which patients suffer from lingering breathlessness tightness and the chest or fatigue and associates. we've seen many different blood cells react very strongly, they get bigger and have a greater volume. some become more malleable, others become more rigid on both of these characteristics might have something to do with the sales, not passing through the capillaries as easily. and instead, getting stuck in the lungs, cylinders come to the longest line to measure the cells melly ability. scientists have developed this so called chip which contains tiny holes finer than a human hair. blood is pumped through these canals and films with the high speed camera. the result, healthy blood cells become ron shaped, infected ones remain around clans, potential alone, the finding that old blood cells change is very significant. and what we then saw

is that these characteristics revert back to normal in most patients, once they've got over the disease and made a full recovery part of the test method from and then provides doctors with yet another tool for better understanding cove with 19 and his long term effects. so there is some indication of what could be causing long coded symptoms, but a lot still needs to be figured out. let's try to unpack of what is known so far. with me is matthew barton, professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation. and while you're a medical center in new york, welcome back to our program, matthew, as we just saw the report abnormalities in the blood could be a cause of long could it, could this finding help in the prevention or even therapy of this is a very interesting finding because, you know, we have not really at this point understood the exact causes of long code. and it

is a systemic type of disease and manifests in many ways as you have in your intro piece . the idea is that something that the blood of malady may contribute to a systemic diseases is not at all something that would be unusual. many people are familiar with sickle cell and although that's a genetic condition and very different having maladies with the blood cells, they are cause many effects including central neurological symptoms, t cause muscular skeletal complaints problems with the joints. so having something that is present all throughout the body like blood showing these long term abnormalities may be a very important step in understanding part of where we may be getting the cost of our lawn cove. it 10 to 20 percent of covey patients end up suffering from long covered symptoms like fatigue, shortness of breath, headache. how long do those usually last? well, that's a very good point. we don't really know. we are, you know,

at this point only a year and a half into the pen demik, but we are seeing in our own medical center and we have a long coded clinic. numerous patients that a year out are still seeing symptoms. the fatigue seems to be one of the greatest ones. there are of course, patients who have long term lung damage that have come from having had the co and that causes scarring that we don't know if it's going to reverse. but it seems in very severe cases, unfortunately, that it persists. and we're now starting to be concerned that that may actually progress to the point where patients may actually require long transplantation. as the disease progresses and the neurologic symptoms of the many patients complain of a fogginess or a little bit of mental clouding. that persists for a long time. we don't know exactly what the causes of these things are, but we do know that exercise and that having patients participate in our therapy

programs, the rehabilitation things that we would do for patients who have other causes of either neurologic or pulmonary or chronic fatigue or muscular skeletal symptoms do seem to have effect as well for this population. so we're having benefit and we're actually making them feel better. but we still have a problem with not understanding fully the long term time course because it's just too early for us to know the long term effects. okay. we know that high age being overweight and other symptoms at the risk of a severe covert infection. do these conditions also contribute to the risk of long coping? it appears that the folks who had a higher risk for having coven seemed to have more symptoms. but it's not just only those patients we have young, otherwise active and healthy patients who are presenting with long coded symptoms. and so it's pretty broad spread. but they do see,

it does seem to be that very severe patients seem to have more of a pulmonary and cardiac symptoms that persists. whereas we're very surprised to see a lot of patients who are never admitted to hospital and who were never in an intensive care unit or on a breathing machine who are presenting now with long coded. so they had a relatively mild initial, of course, but are still presenting with the fatigue and some of the mental clouding. and that is very interesting and kind of concerning because we don't necessarily have a handle to say, oh, you are definitely going to be free of this because it happens to everyone is the fact that we've just quote, unquote just been one and a half years into this 10 demik does this fact make it so difficult to do proper research on long over? well the, the research, there's some things that are progressing rapidly and because so many individuals have had long. this is a disease and have at coping. we're actually getting

a much better categorization of for the long terms, the quello or the long term side effects of this condition. it's difficult for us to actually tell because we don't have a long term yet. so we don't know yet to say what will happen to people 51015 years from now. but the other challenge that we have is a lot of the symptoms of long coven overlap with symptoms that we can see from other kinds of syndrome, such as chronic fatigue syndrome or from mild dimensions or from other kinds of metabolic conditions that may cause some brain abnormalities which cause people to have some confusion. and then as you resolve those underlying metabolic conditions, you can resolve the underlying problem. so we, we really, at this point are looking at such a constellation of so many symptoms that it makes it a little hard to focus in because it's not like long over it is just causing one thing. causes a whole constellation of symptoms which may actually be either enhanced or worse

and by other conditions, or may just be the other condition and we're thinking it may be long proven. so it's a bit challenging for researchers to actually tie it, get it tied up in the play bundle because we have so many complexities that are actually in there. but the knowledge that we're getting now is moving forward. for example, the blood study that you just mentioned is one of these things we're now starting see the physiologic background right when you're bartels, professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation. thank you for your thoughts. thank you. and from the feeling that cove had never left its now onto the worry of catching it again. here is one of your questions for a science correspondent williams. paul, i had coven 19 recently and recovered. then not long ago found out i was exposed again. could i have been infected again? the data we have indicates that although it's not impossible it's,

it's highly unlikely. a lot of researchers have looked at this question and come to that conclusion. for instance, a recent large scale study involving over 25000 healthcare workers in britain showed that having had cobra 900 ones had a dramatic protective effect for at least 7 months after an infection. the strength of the effect was close to the one observed and people who had 2 doses of our most effective vaccines. additionally, this study showed that people who had covered 19 then tested positive again for it a few months or weeks after convalescence. the chances of developing symptoms were also much lower than and those were infected with the 1st time. but if you have the disease and recovered, it's still doesn't mean that you can just sit back and relax completely. you still

really need to follow it up with the vaccination. that's because although recent studies into the robustness of long term immune response in people who got the disease, although they've been very encouraging, we still don't know whether that response might wayne over time. in fact, a growing body of research now indicates that people who recovered and were subsequently vaccinated, that they could very well have the best protection of all. some experts believe the immune response after that double whammy will be so powerful and so long lasting and those who recovered and been vaccinated, that they might never need future booster shots. but for those of us who've only been vaccinated, a lot of experts expect a booster shot will be necessary at some point down the line. me. and that's all for this edition, of course,

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