the you have been carrying out policies that mileage the human mart, someone who tie people for more than 60 years, and you intensify them in the midst of a pandemic. and now you want to present yourself of the big savior. lift the blockade left and 243 measures and we will see how we get along. one more attempt to silence the voice of people or cuba clients for ton to the streets of havana on monday. but the call was forced, not free security forces patrol the capital in large numbers. mobile internet outages were frequent throughout the day, and access to many social media sites was blocked. or i'd like to welcome now my colleague isaac reese, go, who used to be based in havana, cuba. so good to have you with this. you were based there. how significant a moment is this for cuba? hillary, the how are you? think this are the biggest protest we have seen in cuba is the beginning of to

revolution because cuba is an authoritative regime protest like these are very rare in cuba. we don't, we don't see just a lot. i mean, we just have see a protest similar brought a protest in 199494. and then it was a protest all in have and when in heaven and then you have from a precedent, people, castro, going to me to protest to humanity, dissuade, to come down broad. now you have a project that is all around the country and, and fidel castro. it's not a life anymore. and you have an another leader that don't have to correspond that used to have fidel castro. well, let's talk about this relatively new leader present. me go the can now, how much room does he have to maneuver, especially taking into consideration these very onerous trade embargo is still imposed by the u. s. kenning, do anything to turn things around without the us doing something. i don't think he has

a lot of things to do to. he's just going to ask with repression. the truth is he would need to dialogue with whiskers, the united states. no, it would be wise from the bible and registration to go to, to meet at to do go towards yes. can. there is no tried to to loosen descent is again bad and asking for, for something respond, for example, the repression to that repressed the opposition anymore. to add qualified for elections? no, i don't seem to get yes. can it is going to square because he's really new. he doesn't have to support a he doesn't have to support a party. like a he said that he sorta castro and it's going to be difficult to him. i think, i guess he's going to ask a question. so if he goes along that route, i mean, is the genie out of the bottle? i mean, people going out on the streets. i mean, they don't, there's no fear. there's no fear or any more or any more because of the difficult state. the cubans are suffering. now. multiple factors behind this boat

is you have dis, food and medicine charges. the cubic. so for a not since a couple of weeks at 4 years, you have dependent nick, did they lose him for the 1st time since the beginning of the pandemic, the cubes are loose. indeed contra demick and they have hospital collapsing in some towns in some provinces in cuba. and, and you have to did the us sanctions and it from titan is the sanctions. and this is for sure, are recent for the, for the, for the trouble they are, they are living now nor depend israel gloves his hand under reason for the stroke of 40 struggles. tell us a little bit more about that. how does that play into the, the current interest? yeah, that is for us is still a, be a big, the biggest political ally from cuba. and the reason they used to be important, an important economic partner for cuba. del and they don't have to possibly just

have to, to have stemmed away the use to and you have to pay damage to rents. depends on the tourism industry. and the last year. big manage to, to, to manage the pandemic. but they, they suffer a lot under economic crisis. that's other reason for these challenges are not new. so i'm just wondering why is this happening right now? obviously, the hardships. i mean, they're, they're the worst they've ever been. but still, there seems to be something that has sparked it off. is there an event that you can point to? i think just a mix of this, of this multiple factors. so you have to, the crisis, economic crisis is getting worse. you have to shorter shifts that are getting worse all the time because of the sanctions because have been the switch you have to condemn make, you have to regime. and so we're, we're with repression after day in november, small protest last year and obviously since together. but to mix for this,

i'm present, protest now, making for a valve very volatile situation in cuba. isaac, we go, we're from dw, so thank you so much for being with us. good to have you here, and i thank you. now we're back to europe. lithuania is accusing a bit of using my words as political weapons and it's ongoing dispute with the european union. it says the bill of russian government is helping thousands of mainly iraqi refugees illegally cross its border into the european union. well, if, when your foreign minister will fly to iraq later this week, in a bit to diffuse, a crisis he believes has been made by misc waiting for the fate to be decided. these migrants hoped for a new start in the european union. for now, they're housed in temporary camps, like this one near the bellow, routine border. they've just crossed the body. god service says more than $1500.00

migrants have a legally entered lithuania this year, most in the last month and many from countries in the middle east and africa. some say they flew to the valerie in capital minsk and then paid for help across the border from i think to get somebody working on that. but me to those. i think it was that about them. showing me the way told me, go from this way, or then i will listen weighing in government. and critics of the bella ruffian regime, say, days migrants are being used as a tool to put pressure on the you. they say the bellow roost authorities helping them legally cross into a territory. achieve fiercely an attempt at revenge by alexander lucretia cruz regime on lithuania, and the whole european union for the support of civil society in ballard. to go out

. on friday lithuania started building a razor wire fence along the bela routine border. the government says this is the 1st stage before they build a board, a wall. while that's when your foreign minister claims that the razor wire fence along the russian border is necessary to counter the what he calls hybrid threats post by illegal crossings into the european union. well, there really is landsberg. this is spoke to the brussels bureau chief alexander phenomena minister landsberg is in recent weeks. lisa, when you have seen a growing number of migrants from the middle east, from africa, coming into the country from belarus, and you say that location please using migrants as a weapon against the european union. what evidence do you have? we have to take into account that during the last year after the stolen collection, luca shanker has been credibly abusive towards. this is

a distance to the point where people are no longer able to wear clothes, white, red, and white. so with that alone we can a certain we can be certain that that for people to travel from baghdad or stumble to 2 minutes, stay several days and minutes and then to travel to the european border while the living and polish latvian without the knowledge of validation government would be simply impossible. we have evidence concrete, evidence of belarus and border gods who facilitate the travel of a group of refugees and even tried to disguise their, their footprints on the ground are the entering that living in territory. so it is rather clear that this is a hybrid weapon of thoughts using used against european union in order for europe to, to change its policies. and people actually are just as i would say, as

a human shield for the regime in order to force its policy on to europe. and those migrants are apparently, as he said, boarding flights to men's from iraq from turkey have authority. there are been turning a blind eye to what's going on. i'm traveling to, to baghdad in, in a few days in order to find a solution. and solution can, has to be, to way 2 ways. one thing is that we need governments and use actually support in order to inform people that they are being lied to, their being promised and easy passage to europe. where to free life in europe. this is not going to happen. the 2nd thing is we need to find a way for people to come back. it is very important because if the route is not stopped, then not only seen it but other countries that germany would be, again, facing waves and waves of refugees while legally traveling to answering europe. and

you country have to close a state of emergency and its now building away the wire broke and its border to be loose instead necessary. with this we yes, because we have to take into account that not only this is a hybrid through to fanny european union, but in few months, lithuania, and while european union will be facing a extensive military exercise that will be happening in bell russian territory where russian and bella, russian troops will, will have an exercise for form that holds up at 2021. so we consider this is a very dangerous mix, having it regular migration that is forced on to europe by, by the regime as well as military exercise. and the mix of that is a very prone to any source of provocation. therefore, we think that increase security of the border barriers military presence. i think they are necessary, though, if there were any foreign minister speaking to the w news,

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beginning with taiwan. after months of delays and political intrigue, it's residents are finally going to get the biotech pfizer vaccine, but not through the government, but do it's 2 biggest tech companies. why? small businesses and still feel the pinch as the south korean government imposes new restrictions to fight in cases and the way covey 19 is shattering traditions that once come for the families who lost loved ones in thailand, the british manager, welcome to the w news, a shark ledger could join us to taiwanese tech giants have done what the islands government could not secure over 900 vaccines made by germany biotech,

d s m. c. that was biggest contract chip maker. and fox gone, which assembled apple phones will donate $10000000.00 jobs to taiwan. after securing their supply from biotech, a deal under the year between the german company and taiwan flounder at the last minute taiwan government alleged it was at the behest of china. and teddy cool found a fox con, said this of the new deal. this batch of vaccines delivered directly from the german factory, i believe, will help tie when the society to increase confidence and offer respite in the face of the pandemic. and from all, i'm joined by the w correspondent, william gang from ty pay, william a teddy was in his statement, stressing on direct delivery from the german factory to taiwan. why is that important? well, that's basically due to the existence of a time when he law up the, and all the vaccines and other kind of medical substance to actually be imported

directly from china. so in order to fulfill the 27th requirement, these, the very specific negotiation neetha fulfill the fact that the vaccine will have to be manufactured and delivered directly from bio text factory inside germany rather than coming from the distributors factories inside china. and so that also makes one of the most a tricky aspect of this whole negotiation which took a few weeks in order for them to fulfill and get everyone at 3 like stakeholder and the tony go station on board. i suppose the rude person hers. how were 2 private tech companies successful where the government wasn't so if we remember back in january, there was actually a revelation by the 20 government stating that some outside forces obstructed the

process of their negotiation with bio tech directly. because as we know, most of the negotiation of the vaccine acquisition is actually between the government and manufacturer themselves. so because of some political interference coming from, not directly naming china, of the government decided to bring in 2 of the most high profile international companies coming from taiwan to represent the government to directly deal with both the chinese distributor. but at the same time, the german manufacturer and because of the status of one of the particular company, t. c, which is one of the biggest chip makers and around the world. this whole negotiation immediately get the interest of the entire world. and that also put a lot of, i think pressure on the german government to get also involved to ensure that this whole deal and the negotiation will not fall through again because of any of the potential political interference. and that vice versa. put also pressure on the

chinese distributor, which originally was basically putting a lot of the messages directly from b jane onto the initial negotiation with fox call. one of the companies that are involved. but once she has, since he got involved, this whole negotiation needs to be raised to a level where political interference cannot be viewed or can not be seen as the off the code to prevent anyone from getting the 10000000 back thing. right. but the politics offer it, but when these vaccines do arrive in taiwan, will they be enough to help with ty vans a vaccination program? and when do they arrive in taiwan? yeah, so, so far the media and also the experts are expecting government officials are expecting this batch of the vaccine to start arriving maybe in early september. and there are also plans a rival of more astrazeneca vaccines from japan,

and also time with border and also more mature. and i've seen that is based on how one on order. so if we adding up to 10000000 with the a couple, little millions that are coming in between july and september, that should also increase the overall back nation rate for time one to more than half of the population by the time of the, the 10000000 batches the ride and that is certainly going to help improve a lot of time wants to keep ability of defending itself against the possible outbreak that is going to happen in the future. and i want to also right now in the process of actually coming down in containing the current outbreak that we're seeing here did every corresponding william young interpret. thank you very much for that update. meanwhile, south korea is reporting an increase in corona virus infections. for 7 straight days, it's recorded more than 1000 cases, mostly attribute it to the delta variant. first identified in india,

it forced the government to impose its toughest restrictions yet in the capital. so all the center of the outbreak nightclubs have been shot. new rules introduced in james and private gatherings, limited to 2 people after 6 pm south korea. as late as cove in 1900 wave has hit the country hard. the government has clamped down with new guidelines, including social distancing that of especially, affected small businesses. these for rent signs tell the story in terms of the economic impact of the cove at 900 pandemic, no neighborhood in sole, has been quite so stricken as to why this one's bustling, multicultural, entertainment and shopping district suffered a cluster outbreak in may of 2020 infecting about 250 people and causing a significant drop in visitors and business.

young young man opened a cafe, offering a variety of drinks in her own blend of coffee beans. just as the pandemic arrived in early 2020, soon her business would really feel it. could all you got? my cafe is close to it's one. so last is outbreak there affected our sales as well . we hardly, so any customers. it was like a ghost town here who had that's all since monday, gatherings of more than 2 people other than family are banned after 6 pm in the capital, sol, where 80 percent of new cases are located. rule breakers of this and other restrictions face stiff penalties and fines. we need to be very careful. we disinfect the store every couple of hours and disinfect tables meticulously after customers leave. we give out hand sanitizer and ask everyone to wear a mask as well as registered with a q r code. so crew has been pray for its early success against the virus only to have

cases linger and grow soon, harsher restrictions returned. what would i don't have to me as a business owner? i'm not happy about the new rules, but trying to reduce the number of daily confirmed cases by maintaining social distance. thing is better than more people getting infected for me. and that wasn't, that wasn't y'all, i don't see several hospital dr. young men overseas covey, 900 testing. but he says the more infectious delta very. and now makes up more when 25 percent of south korea is new cases. eggs is this, delta variance starts to spread in the general population that will encounter other variance and create a new variant. and this continues. the virus would be able to create a variable that resists the vaccines. so we should try our best to prevent delta from spreading further on pending, and i still go just 11 percent of this green population is fully vaccinated,

and officials hope heard immunity will be achieved by november. the new guidelines are set to be in place for the next 2 weeks, at least. and here's a few more updates on the current situation across asia. a 3rd wave of over 900 in india is inevitable and imminent, according to the indian medical association. in a letter to government leader of the i'm a call for strict cubs of mosque gatherings for 3 more months and ramped up vaccinations to mitigate the impact benevolence or director general hazard. the world's vaccine disparity is driven by greed. he has drug make us to prioritize vaccines for poor countries, rather than lobbying rich nations to buy booster shots. and in thailand, health workers already vaccinated with 2 chinese made. some of our jobs will not get an astrazeneca booster. a study that has found the son of ac was less effective in fighting the delta variant that come just ireland imposes new destructions. in

the midst of soaring cases, the numbers of death is also going up and as be report one temple in a sub of bank or is struggling to keep up with the demand for commissions. it has also had to rethink the way it conducts its funeral services. cove 19 is changing everything, including death. these volunteers are doing their best to give this person a respectful send off. but the risks of handling the body mean funeral services have to be quick. this is unusual in thailand where relatives traditionally spend days, think of byte their loved ones before they are created. the buddhist ceremony held by monks at this temple for the family of the deceased also has to be much shorter than usual. but officials, they're there,

they're facing an extraordinary situation walking on the vehicle well, in our areas, there's so many deaths, and we don't know if they'll be more arriving today. i'll crematorium isn't working well because it's overheated from the continued use. if we place the coffins inside, it will just burn without pushing any button on. the daily employees are working hard to keep up with the demand pie with suit true leads the foundation that offers funeral services, the free for the less well off. he says they've managed to raise funds to build a new crematorium, but he's afraid of what is to come up. maybe one. we don't know what will happen now. my, when, when my hope is that everyone will be cautious of have tried to avoid this disease as it destroyed everything and pass way long and hard. and i think

for now it seems the death from coven 19 in thailand, unlikely to increase before the situation improved? leaving now with pictures of one man's vaccination story in malaysia, fitness instructor, kenny thea says he carefully chose his outfit for the day both for protection and to give a few laughs. we'll see you tomorrow about the

the fight against the corona virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection in developing what the us, the latest research information and contact the corona virus. because 19 special next on dw, this is to understand the world better. we need to take a closer look at the experience, knowledge in a strict look down,

save lives. that's new zealand philosophy for dealing with covered 19 taiwan. avoided them, preferred tests, quarantines and mosques to contain the viruses spread. initially, both islands enjoyed success. but that changed for taiwan. what happened is one government's approach beta ah, welcome to the show and all. and today will be talking to the co author of the report. assessing the outbreak responses of new zealand and tie one it was recently hit by the alpha variant. it hit hard despite the government's expertise and dealing with outbreaks of other diseases like size running in and out. every day. 39 year old mister chand delivers 300 orders a week. the recent copied outbreak and taiwan has brought him more orders. but he has to take more risks since nearly 85 percent of taiwan population isn't

fascinated. little this. i know i live with my 5 children, my wife and my mother. you asked me if i'm worried about them. of course i am. i had so many children and i worry that i might get them infected, please. john, you. as a father of 5, he has no choice but to go out and make money. so i hope the government can offer food delivery drivers vaccines as soon as.