ah, people and trucks injured one trying to feed the city center more and more refugees are being turned away. order families. the reason for these correct only thing is with people seeing extreme dreams. ross, getting 200 people around the world. more than 300000000 people are seeking refuge. yes. why? because no one should have to flee. make up your own mind. d. w. made for mines. ah. this is the dublin years aisha coming up to date. cambodia is opposition, leader,

back on trial for treason game. so cars facing 30 years in jail, if convicted of charges many c as politically motivated. is cambodia sliding into a one party dictatorship. we lost opposition called leader sam rains eve plus all how come patch up selling hands does like this one have in order to shut and hand all the hand says over to the authority. it's not telling a precautionary move after a pet shop employee, an 11 hamsters tested positive for covered 19. so what really is the risk of animal to human transmission? ah, i'm british manager, welcome to the dublin news a shirt. glad you could join us a trial in cambodia, dubbed a charade by rights groups resumed in the capitol, non pen to day after

a 2 year hiatus due to the covert. pandemic opposition leader came a saw her stands accused of conspiring to overthrow the government of prime minister homes sin if convicted. he faces up to 30 years in jail earlier today. so had this message for the court. i hope that i will drop my case today for a lawyer that the new national reconciliation, the case against cam so has been widely condemned. as politically motivated, he was arrested in 2017 and the opposition party he co founded was dissolved in the run up to national elections the following. yup. that left long time prime minister once and and his ruling party to run virtually unopposed houghton has held power in cambodia for $36.00. yes. and is now grooming his eldest son to succeed him. an journeyman. ours exiled cambodian opposition leader, sam renzi,

mister ins. eco founded, the now band cambodia national rescue party, the c and r b with came so ha, who is facing trial in the country? mister lindsey, welcome, not human rights watch says that this trial is politically motivated and is about ensuring no one can challenge. prime minister one sen at the ballot box. do you agree? yes, i do agree because they're tired of me stuck on so car, east a just a pretext was the pretext do does over the only credible obligation party. so this opposition party the c and our fi that you co funded with them. so her does not exist anymore effectively. cambodia does not have an opposition and prime minister once and has already been empowered for about 36 years. does that make once an a dictator? yes, sir. because cambodia has a gun back duty period and a like a comedy series,

even where there was only one party. it is a one party state. actually, it is not only a one party rule, but a one man, a rule, not since your party, the c and r p was banned in 2017. as we said, cambodia does not have an opposition party. do you see that changing in the near term? as low as a lisa wooden sand, even a power there is. liter cheney and chance of for any change. because now mr. hood and san zera party controlled so 100 percent of a deceit, sir abner parliament and the east. no rear opposition party it is. we are fighting for the restoration of the only opposition party, which a user to our control nearly half of the parliament before it's an arbitrary

dissolution. so you have one party rule one sir, and appears to be clinging on to power. what chance do you have or does the opposition have of restoring democracy to cambodia? it isa the popular will? because a d, a popular discontent isa growing, especially among the usa. those who are under $36.00 a year older. they have not seen any lead here, but we still couldn't sign. so the same man in power for 16 for 36 years a. it's a bit too long. it is why the vast majority of the cambodian people are want to. busy do see new leaders, new face, and a more democratic regime, but we're able to express this discontent when the rule is so absolute. how do you

see this situation changing? we hope that the international community, including the european union, including germany, will push for free and fair election in cambodia because the international community donor countries are such as a germany or do have a leverage here to our pusher, mr. hood saying that to organize a rear election so that the people can express themselves in a free way. have you seen any signals so far that countries like germany are using that influence to bring about change in cambodia? yes, so we have a seen a german de german ambassador in cambodia visiting be still come so car when he was in detention and he's still not

a free. he cannot leave the country. so germany and the european union continue to our press to pressure. we sell homes and to open up, he's the regime and especially to respect the human rights in a more convincing manner. this should lead to the organization of free and fair election. and then we are definitely we'll have a change. any marketing change in cambodia or one of the talk a bit about or position unity i mean, or your colleague kim soccer with whom you go funded the keyboard to national rescue party the see an r p. he's facing jill time in cambodia while you are in exile in france, has thus led to differences between your 2. no, because we continued to share the same goal. good. same goal is to bring about a change in a change in the regime a democratic change. this is the common goal,

and we hatley continue do abida by the same strategy. this strategy become and saturday is to push for free and fair election so that we can have a democratic changer in a peaceful route in a non violent manner. but now we have to consider some practical tactical approach. and so, ah, how can are we are pusher or to have a free and fair election? these isa? just a minor differences that though we may have her, but within the open, you shouldn't be continued to share the same goal and the same strategy. you tried to girl return to can border in 2019 but couldn't to was stopped in thailand or do you have plans to go back? yes. so when data isa a knee or opportunity that her d a will you send beaters who are now in exile, can go back,

they will do sole. sam ramsey relieved there for the time being with thank you so much for joining us today, sir. thank you. ah, hong kong is calling thousands of hamsters and other small pets after a covert 19 outbreak was traced to a pet shop in the city. or shop worker was among 2 people infected with the delta bad and which authorities believe good have been boss to them from hamsters. 11 of the ferry animals tested positive and better up the animal gall has been ordered out of precaution, but it's also prompted a strong reaction against it. this is the pet shop where an employee and several hamsters tested positive for cove. it 19 help authority say they can't rule out any more to human transmission. week. a nice way to possibly get on the shock killers was in fact i'm was,

are actually infected from the am the hamsters only to little balls. pet shop seems to have been affected, but authorities now want to cold thousands of hamsters, rabbits in chinchillas across hong kong. they've also asked people who bought pads from little balls in december to give them back. so they can be put down the decision has spot outreach a petition to stop the coal gathered more than $20000.00 signatures on the 1st day . some experts say the calling is a sensible response, but say the fear of infection in homes was overblown. millions of people around the world have been infected by south called to millions of people around the world have pits, and they have been know cases are proven of pits transmitting infection to other humans. the same theoretical risk is there, but it just,

it just doesn't happen. hong kong pursues a so called 0 covert strategy that keeps cases low, but as left many wondering at what price and the devil's phoebe kong has more on the reaction in hong kong. the must calling has about criticism and outreach among animal welfare groups and patch owners, urging that government to seek for alternatives such a score and team. critics are also concerned that such a measure what even prompt, more people to offend in the past is by criticism. government i says, and some local experts back that the sessions acuity and them also they say it's nearly impossible to isolate and upset every single ham. so one by one while preventing cross infection among the animals. and jeremy for more is epidemiologist . professor ben calling here from the school of public health at the university of hong kong professor, calling, what is the risk of animal to human transmission and vice versa of coven?

19 we think that the risk of a human getting infected from the pep is very, very low. it may not be 0, but it's very, very low. on the other hand, as a number of documented occasions when humans have passed, in fact, it's like when humans are post infection onto their pets. and in this case is not clear which way the transmission occurred, whether it's from hamster to human human to hamster. but we do know the hams does have been infected. so her, the pet owners be what is the pets, could transmit the corona about us to them. well, i don't think so. i think it's one of the many different ways that we face in most parts of the way we know on the coin is around. cobit is around, we could get infected in many different places. and now we can, we can where we a little bit about past, but i don't think it would be a major risk. so given hong kong order to carla, some 2000 hamsters and other small animals, would you say that the territory has gone too far in implementing the 0 corporate

policy? well, i think the government and now looking at every possible risk of cobra getting in because they're very, very keen on getting case numbers down to 0 and keeping them as ever. and that means, but if, as presumed to be at risk of infection in the inbound hamsters in the future, then we need to be aware of that risk and try to minimize it would mitigate it. but i think it is one of the limitations of a 0 cobit approach. and now that we have vaccines available, i think we can look at maybe relaxing some policies. but in hong kong, the, the government still very, very strict about target. progressive calling from the school of public health at the university of hong kong. thank you so much for joining us today. and that's it for today as our others. more on our website. we'll see you tomorrow with

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