to reverse agent, researchers and scientists all over the world or in a race against time. the dna molecule, though, has 28000000 different our glasses. they are peers and rivals with one daring gold to outsmart nature. one of the most insightful discoveries in the history of mankind more life starts may 28th on d. w. with this is the, the other news a share coming up today. china's crack down on hong kong has meant a sharp increase in political prisoners in the city than in general says the number a little over a 1000. now, what message is being sending and move the situation to get worse and white washing

the past? that's what some fair in the philippines, as fed men marco's junior begins his presidency. he's, he's trying to sanitize the legacy office dictator father. ah, by british energy, welcome to d, w. news, asia. glad you could join us. your and human rights chief, michelle busha lays in china on a tour that will see her visit detention camps for wiggers in northwestern. she and junk province are about it's unclear how unrestricted a bachelor's access to these camps will be the u. s. forest concerned that she had failed to secure guarantees on what she would be allowed to see. the u. s. is among governments that have condemned as a genocide. china imprisonment of up to a 1000000 muslim wiggers in what it called vocational training centers.

a bachelor's visit is important also for the place she won't be visiting hong kong rights groups have condemned beijing's assault on human rights in the city through a draconian measures such as the national security law. the angio, hong kong democracy council says in a new report, the result of beijing scrap down is visible in the number of political prisoners in the city. 1014. this includes prominent activists such as joshua wong and media magnet jimmy lie. the n g o c s political, the rest of it increased in just 3 years and convictions stand at 67 percent. and joining enough more is kelly hall from the hong kong a free press, johnny kelly. there's more than a 1000 political detainees in hong kong. right now, i mean with statistics like that, what is the message? beijing is sending. one of the most high profile cases right now in full 47.

pretty well known, pretty political figures. it is the $747.00 democrats subversion case where the group, which includes a former law professor benny ty, after this, joshua wong former lawmakers, i'm former district counselors. they been accused of taking part in a conspiracy to commit some version and or by being detained for over a year. they still haven't had a trial date yet, but they are appear in court next week. so hopefully we'll see some updates. and i think going back to your question, this a rest figures and the statistics related to people now in incarceration. sh. it goes back to how the government repeatedly held the national security law ass, restoring stability in order in the city and looking at the law enforcement action over the past 2 years in the law took effect on june 30th,

2020. it shows that the local authorities and aging, they are really keeping what's on stabilizing hong kong with security for and meanwhile, human rights chief fair michelle, partially in china today. and she'd be visiting a, we're just in detention camps and changing. was there an expectation in hong kong that she might be or should be visiting hong kong as well? well, many activists would like to see a un inspection, but the more important issues it has to be noted that the chinese government would be the one responsible for handling all the diplomatic matters. an arrangement, so such as it by organizations like the un, it was 3 to 3 or into this particular situation. and the international community has always concerns over the fact that fits of the un right cheese

to china. and there have been rumors of speculation saying that the chinese authorities may not front or full and transfer an access to the relate effects in the tea's and so i think it is too early for us to, for anyone to read the comments or drug completion on whether the trip would be in china would be for the full or effective. and the effectiveness of this is like whether it be to sion, john, or to hong kong. it should be, it has to be looked at with the perspective that it would be on let me close asian with china. it has to remain to be seen or discussed by the international community and the public or the 5th. it would be a factor. we'll leave it there for that. i mean, thank you so much for joining us. kelly. home from the hong kong, free press channel. the

philippines elected a new president nearly 2 weeks back. ferdinand, macos junior or bon bung, as he is commonly known is the son of former dictator, fed and mac was now his rules. so disappearances and torture. i made a crack down on human rights in the country under martial law, which is why his son's election is president shocked. money. now these very people are determined to insure the philippines. democracy isn't crushed, as it was once before. oh, a warning to burden morris. do you not to follow in his father's footsteps? but while protests like this persist, his election suggest history has already been written in the minds of many filipinos. never again, never forget. block mark was and then there are those who have been warning for years against forgetting artist theory. delana has made

a name depicting protests photos from the dictatorship rural. i'm with the slogans removed as though they had never existed in 3 sure. but at the same time, i was sorry, the anxious about the eraser of history to the marcus as were already inching their way back to power. when it finally happened, the full restoration of the marcus as to the highest position in the land. it was, it was heartbreaking to say the least. the words of past resistance collected in small books. but such remembrance can come at a price. the last day saw the country's intelligence chief accused vis children's publisher of selling books to radicalized filipino children against the government. books about the dictatorship,

a claim observer say could set a dangerous precedent. i suspect that that is exactly how it's going to pan out in the years to come. they're going to be using the institutions of the state to deliberately target civil society sociologist jail karnilia says holding bong bung, marcus to michael challenge over the next 6 years. you really put o require a collective effort. i mean, look, a founded in real estate should be afforded to look at what's happened here. you're not going to hear what would enable this new regime even more if, if civil society besides to give up, this is where to insert delusions. do play a crucial role. can the religious sector be that bridge? can the universities be that space? democracy is not an end goal, but it's a project. hos were fought against another marcus president who are determined to continue that project. even without

a leader. many of them wanted when we won't be shake them just because let me read on march, 1st of fight continues. what we have here is worth fighting for the you at the hard time. i guess all ads the death against heartless. now they are doing the same they're saying that they land that good governors them and good like they want honesty and that has fantasy. it might make a generation or even through a generation. but god will not allow it is gone through the good and many here say, nor should the people just after the election, main opposition candidate. lenny debreto told her supporters to channel what had been their campaign fervor into volunteerism, reminding them the past may have been rewritten, but the present and future still have to be made. from all this left doctor john list anna santas. and we spoke about 2 weeks back and you explained how the macos

campaign had use social media to white bush, his father dictatorship. is that a trained we are going to see moving forward with this government barrier? i don't think we can call it a trend. i think it's going to be a government policy under this new administration. we've already seen that one of the 1st things that long bo marcus did. the presumptive president was to say that by president, sorry, that there would peek on the ministry of education. and she had said that her 1st order was to re write the history books. so we see that this is already on the agenda, the writing history and the what the markets had already started, you know, with the white washing of the marsh all year. they're going to continue this within this current administration. we've also seen the red tagging or the identifying as an enemy of the state of a children's or brochure children's book publisher, which we saw in our report. where you can see how the government is reaching so far

to use the laws that it had passed to craft down on descent and its various forms so that they can continue to carry out this historical revisionism. is that going to be any opposition to this? definitely brush, i see that the vanguard of the true, the vanguard of fac, these people is going to be spread out. now, not only to journalists or academicians, but you will see more and more that vanguard of truth. and history would be our historians would be our librarians who are safe guarding our archive. these are the documents that have been, you know, that are test him into history and, and outlined the facts of what happened during martial law that we see more and more are going to be endangered and may be targeted and administration. and this is definitely where opposition going to come from. i think, you know, what we saw in the last month was we talked about how there was

a movement that was a weekend. you know, i think a lot of filipinos are going to see now what life before them the possibility of history being erase and re written as something that is not true. let us look at what does lie before filipinos, because they're both on a journey, marco's junior, had more than doubled the votes of his net, as challenger, linear debreto, who was the outgoing vice president. what does that say about what filipinos want from the future? i think more than what so let me know if you want to leverage. i think it tells us also what you know, the state of democracy and freedom. it's like it's so per careless. right. and it's being rewritten as we speak. so i think that the, the movement that was awakened and what philippines are not saying is that freedom and democracy, they're not desk. and they're not something that you, when over once we've read this time and time again, freedom and democracy is

a project. it's a process, but i'd also like to say, gosh, it's like love. you have to fight for it every single day. many things that stake when fighting for love and enters all are the pleasure talking to you. thank you so much for joining us today. thank you, bye. and that's it for today is of course more from the region on our website, the the dot com forward slash asia, and as ever you can follow us on facebook and twitter. we'll see you back here tomorrow for by with love and batting things away, but i'm not going to have to was my own god and everyone with later holes and every

day getting are you ready to meet the gentleman can join me right. just do it on d. w is the end of the pandemic in sight. we show what it could look like. return to normal. and we visit those who are finding it difficult. a success in our weekly coping 19 special every thursday con d w. ah, a new trade pact. what is it worth you as president vine launch is the indo pacific economic framework. but questions remain about what is meant to be count. we'll wait to china. us dominance also will take you to one of germany's most bio diverse

regions where people are quite concerned of the government's decision to allow offshore drilling and at the world economic forum and doubles the head of the international energy agency tells d w. what it'll take to keep the power running a bit of time. chris and chris cobra. hello, and welcome to the program. joe biden is on his 1st asia, tor as us presidents, having started his trip on friday in south korea and continue to japan earlier today. president by name's to boost america's economic presence in the region to count her china rising influence in japan, widen has been presenting details of his indo pacific economic framework, or i p f. the u. s. as close as allies, japan and south korea are among the founding members. now the philippines, singapore, thailand, vietnam, australia and new zealand are seen.