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we look at the race to reach survivors of typhoon roy in the philippines. hundreds of people have been killed and half a 1000000 driven from their homes. ah irish remedies welcome to deed up the news asia. glad you could join us, members of the organization of a stomach corporation or oh, i see will fund humanitarian aid in afghanistan through a trust at the stomach development bank. the move agreed to in islam above over the weekend seeks to answer a fundamental question. many countries are facing, with sending financial aid to have gone is done. how does one send money into the country without appearing to legitimize the dollar bond, or was still inadvertently funding it? the dilemma isn't lost on the militants either who believe they are being wronged. here's, it's acting foreign minister on the issue of thought bonds,

digital music across the world. it is accepted that if a government has people and if it has a power over its people and if they can maintain security for their people, then this government has the right to be officially recognized your home at the moment because our government is not recognized. this is an act of oppression, a and that prevents countries from directly sending money to have gone is done. but there have been calls to release the countries overseas assets. i've gone on. central bank has around $9000000000.00 and reserves, mostly parked in the united states. but they've been frozen since the thought about takeover and washington shows no signs of budging. for now, they have gone on reconstruction trust fund, which is administered by the world bank has agreed to unfreeze $280000000.00 for monetary and efforts, $180000000.00. go to the world food program and

a 100000000 to unicef. getting money to your organizations, that unit is one thing using it to deliver. 8 to people is another, as we report enough longest on today, aid the delivery is its own mammoth challenge. the only road leading into this remote area along the border to pakistan has been partially destroyed by mines. we're driving to an area where the afghani army and the taliban font. for decades. the people who live in this village were caught between the 2 sides. now they suffer from extreme poverty. women and children have been especially hard hit by the situation midwives sent by unicef are trying to help the desperate mothers. oh, i need medicine, but the streets are blocked her and there has been a drought for years. there has been no rain,

our children are suffering or whatever. i hope they give us something. i need food for my 2 grandchildren. they are sick and don't have enough to eat. we have identified the tele, been used to shoot at the 8 workers, but now the women are allowed to enter the village. how you most of these a hawaii has to bring more medicine here because every day more patients come did get us. a leverage is more, so we're having problems getting supplies, but i thought of the teacher, the problem i'd come with be that go with the fact that women speak openly with us . anger's, the taliban. i could one of us love of a man. our women must cover their faces from let's do that. did that duty was? they push us back up about and we have to stop filming only after we are joined by the unicef communications team and their accompanying taliban. does the situation calm down? they drive with us to the next village. it went to think this woman is

pregnant. the mobile units have health team examines her. the next hospital is 2 hours away. her children are malnourished. a woman wants to show us how she lives and invites us into her house. her family has many children and little space, no heating and nearly nothing to eat. but this is what i will cook today. i will give it to the little ones so they can have something warm to eat. it's a small bowl of corn meal. that's all we have. oh, i can work. more and more people crowd around the unicef, edward personally, they don't have enough of anything including food the needs are so immense and because we're not only providing basic humanitarian assistance, we are also having to support a system from collapse the taliban riding with the unicef workers. are heavily

armed, they repeatedly make it clear that in afghanistan, the un organization can only help people in need if they allow it. and john me now for more from istanbul is journalist ali, let the faith leap. what are people in the valley san telling you how bad is the humanitarian situation on the ground? the situation is really bad because what's happening is that prices of basic stables, unit staples, we're talking, you know, rice, cooking oil, things like that. continue to go up. people still don't have proper settled incomes that they can rely on. and obviously the foreign aid isn't coming in the way that it needs to. a lot of what's happening right now is a lot of it is being promised, but isn't able to be distributed to the people either because of logistical reasons or pretty soon they'll be issues with the winter where a lot of the country, especially most impoverished parts of the country will become increasingly cut off,

so it's very important that before all of the snow and all of the rain hits that the actual humanitarian aid reaches the most remote parts of the country. you know, those were the parts of the country that even under the former republic didn't get much assistance, didn't get much aid, didn't get much money. and now, you know, they're suffering even more and getting to them is going to be even more difficult . but let's talk a bit about this distribution process. i mean, particularly when it comes to the taliban and the territory that they control other tolerable, helping or hindered in agencies trying to reach the people who need help. it really depends on where you're talking about, you know, there are provinces and there are, for instance, couple months ago people were talking about and my don't why lack province when they were trying to distribute who managed terry and aid where the current governor of the province was saying actually, all that money and all that

a needs to come to me and then i will decide how it spread, how it's distributed. and that's a very dangerous thing because you know, this had happened in the past as well during the republic where you would have officials where you would have police, where you would have, you know, the sort of self appointed and a lot of ways, hawkins. the leaders of an area thing, i will be the one to distribute the aid. and what happens then is you don't know if it's really getting to the most vulnerable orifice is getting to the people closest to the people. this was notorious in idp camps at the time, and this is something that people are worried about that if the taller bond take too much influence too much power over this process, they will do that. you know, that they will essentially repeat this current process. now the taller boss have in the past, they have tried to distribute aid in terms of food aid in terms of money, in terms of back wages across several provinces. but of course, they don't have the funding and the capability to do it on a large scale as it could have been done previously. so it's really important that

the u. n. u. other agencies find ways to either work with the taller bond or have the taller bond allow them to work and really distribute the things in a systematic manner. because as i said earlier, as much as you know, the winter advances, the more difficult it becomes to reach a lot of areas of the country. a major concern among countries has been attending aid to have gone in on either legit promises or partly funded the volleyball. and do you think these sounds are legitimate? well, i mean, internal legitimizing, the taller bond these countries are meeting with a taller one. you know, the, you had sent representatives, germany has some representatives, the u. k, the u. s, you know, they, they flown to dollars to meet with them. so this is part of the question is if you're meeting with them and you're talking with them, how it, you know, is that not one step towards legitimize ation. if not actual, legitimize ation. if you are, whether you call them the de facto, you know,

foreign minister or the defect or whatever minister, you're still sitting with them and talking with them, right? so there's that. and then in terms of ok, if the money goes to the taliban government, i think then it becomes even more important for these countries to have some kind of engagement and some kind of oversight to a list. and this is our money. and we want to be sure that it's actually distributed to the people in need. this is something that they couldn't really do with the former government. you know, they kept whatever they were these different aid conferences and things like that. they kept trying to put boundaries, limitation say that, you know, you have to curb corruption by this amount. those benchmarks are never really hit. so now it's important for them through not only do something like that, but to try and see if they can implemented this time. we leave it there for the time being, but thank you so much for joining us today. in the tv the troops in the philippines have been raising to deliver aid to regions devastated by super

typhoon ry. at least 375 people have been killed and hundreds more injured. after the massive storm hit last week, half a 1000000 people have been forced from their homes. the red cross has already launched an emergency bill. many survivors are desperate. i am hungry, have mercy. that's what's written on this man's shine as he tries to flag down help surrounding him. a fallen power lines, a mangled mass in the carnage. survivors of super typhoon rye have been left and begging for food and water. oh, but what is the liam for bud? what is really important during this situation is water and food. the people are under stress and they need water. when that oh, they are so thirsty, loanable began. oh no,

i hope we can fix the supply. lemme then it will give you the president, rodrigo der tirty, has promised about 36000000 euros in funds i to help with the recovery from samuel mago, but reaching the people who need help is no easy feat. many areas are still struggling with down communication lines, power outages and blocked roads. the anger and desperation a palpable people here feel abandoned because the linen guy, well they should've at least given us one fire truck for water that but there is none. none. no one showed up. i don't know where the politicians an election candidates are double in the. let's see what happens when election time comes around. when they come here next, they'll see that they'll be hurt by what the people here will say,

except that lemma bonus himself had been on what ball. so brussel at the monotony. wonderful. the red cross has appealed to the international community for 19000000 years to help victims of the disaster. but with scientists warning that climate change is making typhoons like this deadlier, that amount of money may just be a drop in the ocean. that's it for today. there's of course more on our website, the debbie dot com, forward slash asian as ever you can follow us on twitter and facebook. can see you here tomorrow of uh ah, ah, the fight against the corona virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection been developing? what does the latest research say? information and context? the corona virus updates the coded 19 special next on

a portion of lunch and the boy right now the climate change event homestory. this is more closely with just one week how much work and really do we still have time to work on going with subscriber all morning like oh, welcome to your cobra 19 special. i'm chelsea delaney in berlin. travel restrictions are tightening once again in europe. last week, germany classified all neighboring nations as high risk, while france band, all tourist and business travelers from the u. k. this,

as the british government says it's facing a tidal wave of new infections. fuel by omar on the new k recorded a leap of 72 percent and the number of daily cases compared to the week before at over 82000 cases per day. it's more than any time during the pandemic. g w correspondence. charlotte chelsea, toll reports from london. ah. mister cheer on the streets of london once again bringing holly thompson, hospitality may will be open. christmas party still allowed to go ahead as planned . but cov it is costing its dark shadow as the days ahead. experts warm, the omicron tidal wave is coming and it's coming at a phenomenal pace. what we know is that it reproduces very, very fast um, a week ago. so, so we said it reproduces every $23.00 days or 3 times a week and putting it very simply. that means in one week,

you get 8 times as many sections 2 weeks, 64 times as many weeks, 512 times as many says coming up as like an express train. you kay's already recording record cove cases with on the chrome now the dominant variance here in london resisting calls from some for further restrictions. the government's focusing instead on its booster campaign, resulting in lengthy queues at vaccine sites across the country. obviously velva crohn is growing so rapidly london and we just wanted to get in as quickly as possible. so many people i thought of getting over it again from last week out of the office policy 1416 gold cove. it clearly omicron is really spreading quickly. it's very relevant or very important for me to concur today for in 5 hours. not that i want to make an issue of it, but i live with my mother and father who of, in their ages. i want to ideally get it done full. i went to go and see relatives and people over christmas. i can't feel my toes there,

but it's okay. it's okay. the government's throwing the doors open to every adult in england to get boosted by the end of the year. they're hoping to offer up to a 1000000 jobs a day is early data suggests the 3rd vaccine is key to combating on the crop. this is a massive undertaking for the health service they're being asked for another major, maxine push to try and vent hospitals like this one from being overwhelmed with our concerns. it won't be enough. as people here lie, not for that boosters. there are already people in hospital with alma chron, hospitalizations are climbing, and one person's confirmed to have died with on the chron. well, it's not yet clear how severe the variant is. the sheer number of cases alone could prove overwhelming. in the shadow of this vaccine center, a reminder of what's at stake, a memorial wall commemorating the 10s of thousands of lives lost to cove it. and it's with the pain and sacrifice of the past. that this weary nation is now facing

the threat of another worrying winter to come more for more on the situation in the u. k. let's talk to julian tang a clinical ver ologist at the university of leicester julian. i thank you for joining us. the situation in the u. k is already bad, but recent models from the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine indicate it's about to get a lot worse. therefore, casting between $2575000.00 from over crime by the end of april. what will the coming month look like for the u. k? yes, and some questions about those models may have been wrong before overestimating? no, that's in cases that one of the key things about the model is that they're trying to model the severity of illness from, from neutralization studies dark in the lab as well. we know from previous attempts that so most of illness is very hot model, and that way that i suspect that the number infections may be close to the mark the

norm hospitalizations may be less than the most predicts. in the most pessimistic scenario, even the most optimistic scenario where maybe not as many hospitalization, so just to wait and see. and those we know that she's our responses are also very important in keeping people out the hospital and have more severe disease. and teeth responses are not really correlated in the model of the many fixed antibody utilization that results. but no matter what way you really look at this, the u. k, the rest of the world is facing more cases. more hospitalizations, is that avoidable and the u. k. lois difficult as they've left it very long was he stop see the peak of these cases now. she's erma crohn, the if it is actually the horses bolted. so even though you impose restrictions, now, there are lot of viruses to lock people out there who was seating the own con, no very across the population lockers. delta hasn't gone away either. that the restrictions will reduce both the variance in terms of infections and death. and

hospitalizations and death, hopefully. but now it's very late on to do this with christmas new year. already upon us, the says lies, asians now will have increased even as we speak in a even behind closed doors. we've seen in recent days that countries like the netherlands returning to lock down. do you think leisure is that's director a potential lockdown are coming in the u. k. circle a purely various point of view. i think that's probably what's needed if they wanted to achieve that goal of actually reducing was fro, omicron, and not just for 2 weeks. as some of said already, i think for at least 4 to 6 weeks to go out to use that kind of measure to really locked down the virus. but then of course, if the concert ha, slunk hot, the hospitality industry and the economy in a, in a wider sense sort of social, psychological welfare. so it can be really hard to struggle balance between that, those 2 extremes. one of the challenges here

a seems to be that we don't know a lot about homework on right now. there's still a lot of unanswered questions about how deadly it is. or how can governments, including the government in the u. k. draft health policies. when our understanding of this varying is still quite limited. so this, the issue of the precautionary approach, infection control, if you're not sure about how severe the virus is, how fast it spreads, you put in place measures that will cover those eventualities, even at the most pessimistic level. of course that has a knock on effect for him education or society and economy. but if you pull look and control the virus or some of the sockets, asian countries have done very well as, as cameras restriction of measures that you need to impose early on. and then you can reap the benefits of that later on that when you open up was of ours is down to, you know, virtually 0 them over the u. k. and other european countries, the and it was just far too high for that. so what you're looking for as a mitigation that of the peak and hopefully something we can live with, as well as,

you know, overwhelming your local health services. you mentioned there that net effective measures they've seen in, in south either asian countries. what exactly did you mean by that? can you elaborate a bit on what those have been? yes, so rather than getting the panoramic when they weren't sure about the viruses, well, the original hands tray, the weapons universal masking, and forced isolation, quarantine of effects and contacts. there will be had security taxes on risk ankles and mobile phone apps to track. they've been what he broke, those isolation, quarantine orders that even new friends they had to, that they made. it won't stay at home and they need a written permission slip. so to leave the house for essential business that, that kind of measure, i did actually work very well to stem the tide of carrot in the 1st wave. and i was more people vaccinated and hung had baffling unity and the risk of severe disease and death is much less at the moment. but if you want to reduce the risk of overwhelming health care service because they're dealing with the things that in

the winter winter months that the you may need some kind of locked down or at least something similar to restrict those numbers. that even server that given that lower the 80000. now. so julian taking the long view here many in europe had really hoped his christmas would be different than the last. it doesn't appear that that's going to be happening. do you see a risk and this pattern every winter, just repeating itself and from now on there's a list put a lot to listing some of my colleagues. i think this viruses no doubt, into the human population. the number of spike person mutations, though rapid spread with less severity, from data to we had to south africa and also so early they to know from hong kong and also chambers suggest that the vice wrecked gets better in the upper or lower sparrow to track these or changes i'd expect the see for a virus better adapt his human population that host over the next few years. i think what garcia's and a mother marta from the vice on my spread more rapidly. but for which most you can

wait on the vaccination and that is julian tang, a clinical neurologist at the university of lester. thanks so much for analysis. you now it's your turn. here's of your question for our science correspondent derek williams. oh, my husband was vaccinated then 2 weeks later tested positive for covered 19 could that be due to the vaccine? oh no, but depending on what kind of testy took for different reasons, there are basically 2 different types of diagnostics. the most accurate is called a polymerase chain reaction or a pcr test. now, it works my amplifying tiny amounts of sars, covey, two's genetic material in a sample, up to levels where it can be detected exactly why vaccines can't cause a positive pcr result is complicated scientifically. but more or less comes down to

the fact that most of the currently approved vaccines don't use a full version of the real virus to kick start an immune response. they instead contain short stretches of genetic material that, that don't replicate that the grade fast and cells and that aren't detected or amplified by pcr. the 2nd class of detection diagnostics called androgen tests, they work by revealing the presence of certain proteins that are specific to sars covey to they're cheaper and faster, but also less accurate than p c r. because some vaccines cause your body to produce the corona, virus spike protein to, to kick, start your immune response to the pathogen. it doesn't seem impossible that an antigen test which detects proteins, might be confused by that. however,

to avoid any confusion, most commercial antigen tests are not designed to detect spike protein, but other corona virus pro, am in addition, vaccines are injected into the arm, but detection tests, they swab the nose or the throat, the cells, there are not the ones producing spike proteins after vaccination, so long and short vaccines don't cause coven 19 tests to turn up positive on the presence of the virus. does thanks for watching. ah, ah ah! with

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