i with learning respects ah, this is the dublin years aisha coming up to date, cambodia as opposition leader back on trial for treason cam. so cars facing 30

years in jail, if convicted of charges many see as politically motivated is cambodia sliding into a one party dictatorship. we lost opposition. carlita sam rains iep plus all how come patch up selling camps does like this one happy not at the shop and hand or the hand says over the authority. it's not telling a precautionary move off that a pet shop employee and 11 hamsters tested positive for over 19. so what really is the risk of animal to human transmission? ah i'm british manager, you're welcome to dig up the news. a sure glad you could join us a trial in cambodia dubbed a charade by rights groups resumed in the capitol dome pen. today he,

after the 2 year hiatus due to the covert, pandemic opposition leader can muscle how 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 ha, had this message for the court. i hope that i will drop my case today, or i can look a lawyer at 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 a long time prime minister once and his ruling party to run virtually unopposed houghton, has held power in cambodia for 36 years and is now grooming his eldest son to succeed him. and joining me now is exiled cambodian opposition leader sam ramsey.

mister in the co 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 predict was the predicts. do these over the only credible obligation party so this opposition party the see in our feet that you go funded with them. so does not exist anymore effectively. cambodia does not have an opposition. and parameters on san has already been in power for about 36 years. does that make sense? and a dictator? yes sir. because sir cambodia has a gun back. dodie 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 are your party. the c r p was banned in 2017 as research and board yet does not have an opposition party. do you see that changing in the near term? as low as a mr. hutton, san ina power. there is. liter cheney at chance. offer any change. because now mr. hutton san zera party control, so 100 percent of the seats are 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

a arbitrary dissolution. so you have one party rule. horn sound appears to be clinging on to power. what chance do you have or does the opposition have of restoring democracy to cambodia? it is sir the popular will because sir d a popular discontent isa growing, especially among the usa. those who are under $36.00 a year older. they have not seen any leader, but we still hadn't san 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 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, real poacher 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. i receive any signal so father, country like germany are using that influence to bring about change and come border . yes sir, we have, i seen a german de german ambassador in cambodia visiting the circumcision car when he was in detention and he's still not 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 leader to the organization of free and fair election. and then we definitely will have a change antibiotic change in cambodia are wanted to talk a bit about or position unity i mean, or your colleague kim. so car between you go funded the keyboard to national rescue party the c and r p. he's facing jill time in cambodia while you are an 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 binder same strategy. the strategy become and saturday is to push for free and fair election so that we can have her democratic changer in a peaceful route in a non violent manner. but now we have to consider some practical tactical approach a. so a how can are we are pusher 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 you was stopped in thailand or do you have plans to go back? yes. so when dad isa a knee or opportunity that out the op will you send beaters who are now in exile?

can go back, they will to do soul sermons ever leave there with the timing, but thank you so much for joining us to better. 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. our 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 the bad shrub. the animal color 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 authorities say they can't rule out any multi human transmission. we can nights with possibly debt on the sha killers was in fact and was,

are actually infected from the am the hampshire's. only the little balls pet shop seems to have been affected. but authorities now want to cold thousands of hamsters, rabbits inch and chillers 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 sparked outrage a petition to stop the coal gathered more than 20000 signatures. on the 1st day. some experts say the calling a sensible responds, but say the fear of infection in homes was overblown. millions of people around the world have been infected by south come to millions of people around the world, have pets, 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. the hong kong pursues a so called 0 covert strategy that keeps cases low, but as left many wondering at what price and the dallas phoebe kong has more on the reaction in hong kong. the must calling has about criticism and outreach among animal welfare group and patch, own it urgent that government to seek for alternatives such as score and team. critics are also concerned that such a measure what even prompt, more people to append in the past is by criticism government isis and some local experts. back that the session to kill the animals as they say, it's nearly impossible to isolate and upset every single hand one by one, while preventing cross infection among the animals and jeremy for more everyday me ologist. 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 over 1000.

we think that the risk of a human getting infected from the pat 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, like when humans have cost 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 that hamsters have been infected. so her, the pet owners be what it, that their pets could transmit the corona about us to them. well, i don't think so. i think it's one of many different ways that we face in most parts of the way we know on the corners around cove, it is around we could get infected in many different places. and now we can, we can why 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 in bound, hamsters in the future, then we need to be aware of that risk and try to minimize that or mitigate it. but i think it is one of the limitations of a 0 covert approach. and now that we have back scenes available, i think we can look at maybe relaxing some policies. but in hong kong, the, the government's 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 well. there's more on our website, we'll see you tomorrow. but with

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