oh is that dan leave is kent constructs are more than just buildings. he is the son of jewish holocaust survivors. how lucky that i was able to build to just museum berlin. his architecture is a celebration of democracy and i and architect of emotional daniel news starts december 25th on d, w. and months since the russian invasion began ukrainians continue to endure daily attacks from the sky. rockets targeting the power grid, knocking out lights and heat, turning a winter itself into a weapon against innocent men, women, and children, and yet ukrainian forces continue to shock and embarrass the russian military. tonight, a moment to recognize what ukraine is achieving europe, acknowledging

a nation's determination to defy the odds and defeat the invaders. i'm burned off in berlin. this is the day. ah, 2022. a higher price for freedom of thought. belongs to the brave people of ukraine . this is not just to war between 2 states. i greet you on behalf of all those who are fighting. and i was working for ukraine and for freedom and let it be dedicated to all those great, your brain, it women and men on the ground. now we know thousands of names of the dead. unfortunately, there may be many more. plenty of people are not just, i think the war of independence fighting a war of value. this is similar to being to systems authoritarianism and democracy

. also coming up the head of the w h. joe says that he is optimistic that sometime next year he'll be able to say that the corona virus pandemic is no more in china right now. that may sound like wishful thinking. chung morton protein, concent fever, clinical have been opened in hospitals. and more than 33000 clinics have been set up in community healthcare institutions. toggle us and our son long which of our viewers watching on tv as to the united states into all of you around the world. welcome, we begin the day with an award for a nation under attack. today the european parliament awarded its annual secor all prize for freedom of thought to the people of ukraine almost a year since the russian invasion began to days. prize acknowledges the bravery

ukrainians, soldiers and civilians alike have shown and continue to show an end to this war remains as elusive as ever. and there are no guarantees that those responsible for the atrocities committed against civilians in ukraine that they will ever be held accountable. that said, there is no doubt ukrainians are counting on a victory and on justice being served. i want you to take a listen to the words of the head of the ukrainian civil liberties group that just last week received the nobel peace prize. we must break this circle of impunity, which russians enjoyed for decades in chechnya, in moldova, in georgia, in my lee, in syria, india, in our, the country. so that world we must establish international t bmo and hold putting lucas anchor. and, uh, there were criminals, accountable. well, until they can bring those leaders to justice ukrainians have to bring all they

have to holding the lines in this war lines that are being violated almost daily by russian air strikes in the capital. keep ukrainian forces say that these shot down 13 iranian, made drones to day. it was a scene played out in other cities across the country. this president of he cleared the broken glass from her window like her many of her neighbor with whom were shaken this morning as thrashing launch stones at the capital. the windows shattered as cold wind brought freezing temperatures like winter is coming to hearken. people survive, my lord, what do they want from us? they did not like training and live soccer as his own. let the russians know latrete and di lockers of what i didn't do. i went to him, but it is this to me is wrong. on the, on the, for all,

a nearby building has been badly hit and guys crushed you clean faith, the damn it with didn't as ukrainian air defenses shot down it on made russian jones still enough to shoot terrorist began with the launch of 13 shot had drones she didn't, all 13 were shot down by ukrainian air defense, but well done. i'm proud of you. she busher fresh air has recently been using long wrench, methane attacks on residential areas. it called them military attacks. keith called the russian strikes war, grind thing. moscow is intentionally targeting 70 or it looks good or corresponded only connelly and key. believe me to you, nick. let's start with this morning's drone attack on key. what more do we know now? this was a surprisingly small attack by the standards of the last few months,

13 drones down. as you mentioned there, that is significantly short of what we've seen in previous weeks. and there's definitely expectation we're hope here in ukraine that basically russia is just running out of these drones ran out of missiles. these turned on themselves would be a, these are fairly cheap weapons, but $20000.00 each. their only hope for success is basically by overwhelming ukraine's defenses. through sheer number now doesn't seem like they're able to do that. and largely key of went about another day. during wartime, without much of a difference, power stayed on the water, stayed on. there wasn't any noticeable impact on people's everyday life taken care of. so a sense of this is a country that is just getting use these attacks and is getting increasingly better at dealing with them. you know, that's one point and it's a country that would like to have patriot air defense systems to defend itself with . we know that the united states has said that he plans to send patriot air defense systems to ukraine. how would that change? you creeds, defense capability i mean this really is kind of the holy grail to something that

ukrainian politicians, ukrainian societal figures have been basically asking, begging, praying for since the beginning of this war. especially those 1st few months where the kind of clamor here from ukraine was closed, the ukrainian skies protect us from the air. what patriot would allow ukraine to do is also to deal with ballistic missile. so right now, all the systems that ukraine has, including western systems, they are aimed at dealing with drones. and also with cruise missiles that fly kind of parallel to the ground. ballistic missiles like a really high up in the sky in the busy fall to earth with huge speed, are a lot harder to deal with. and for the most longest time, most western people, countries decided, were convinced that ukraine just didn't have the capacity to learn to deal with the system at patriot in a hurry. but i think ukraine has now proved those critics wrong, has proved that it's pretty good at dealing with these kind of complex challenges and arts. and let's talk a little bit about money this week. there was a donor conference held in in paris, more than a 1000000000 euros,

and financial aid has been pledged for ukraine to help it rebuild. once this more is over, what, what's been the response there is, is there a feeling that it's nice, but this is a little bit of putting the, the cart before the horse was it? these funds are aimed at 1st kind of 1st and foremost to deal with this winter and get this country through the winter. it's slightly more than the ukrainians asked for. but again, as it was, the question of delivery is, it's actually going to arrive in the kind of time frames promised, or is the kind of bad track record with foreign positions, especially turning up here in care of nice words in front of the cameras. and then the realization takes months, but definitely there is a sense that there's growing understanding of quite how pressing this isn't that people are getting their act together about sending money. but in terms of the kind of rebuilding off to war, i think that's going to be a question of not just tens of hundreds of billions of euro's people here in ukraine. a very certainly hoping that

a lot of that is going to come from russia's assets are frozen when they realize that it isn't the willingness of the capacity in foreign countries to just handle that money over. yeah, so very good point to connelly to like the latest from keith. nick is always thank you. oh, even musk is no longer the richest person in the world. we have seen his wealth cut in half after he purchased twitter this year. but he is by no means short of cash, he's still worth about $178000000000.00. must be lost. the top spot to bernard are no the ceo of luxury car maker car company l b m h, you know it as louis baton. must own car company. tesla is having a rough ride at the moment. it seen it. stocks plunge 53 percent this year alone. he had to sell off billions and tesla shares defined his takeover of twitter. pushing share price is down further. the car maker has also been hit by recalls and

slowing demand for electric vehicles, thanks to global inflation, were days of a radical tweeting by the chief twit, that's what he calls himself. now is feeling suspicious that twitter has become too much of a distraction for musk, pulling him away from tesla at a time when the company needs his attention. on sunday, must tweeted mean depicting a scene from lord of the rings. it shows the white house chief medical advisor anthony found she whispering into the ear of president joe biden saying chess, one more, locked down my king, something like that. an hour later, musk would even further tweeting. my pronouns are prosecute fetching muskets. they are taking aim at a popular practice of identifying ones, gender pronoun after one's name, the tweet, also alluding to a right wing campaign to to charge dr. valgy for his actions during the pandemic. basically saying that he lied about the pandemic on monday. must tweeted this. the

woke mind virus is either defeated or nothing else matters. now that was after he was booed by the audience at a david chappelle show in san francisco amidst a lot of silicone valley types. i want to pull in now ethan porter. he's an assistant professor at the school of media public affairs at george washington university. that is good to see you again. so i'm not going to ask you to go inside the mind of elan muss. well, yeah, actually i am. what do you think? what do you think he's trying to do? just listen to the behavior here is, is he trying to destroy the company that he just spent 44000000000 dollars on? well, i don't think he's tried to destroy twitter. what i do think he's done so far as to taken a sledge hammer to the company he bought in, destroyed key components of it. he's fired thousands of people. he's gotten rid of

the truck safety team. why is he doing this? i think there are 2 possible explanations for his behavior. the 1st is that he's a rich guy, a very rich guy with some really strong political views. and all that we're seeing is somebody who really believes what he's saying. he just happens to be one of the richest people in the world so he can afford to buy twitter and express his use on twitter. the other explanation that been bandied about is that this is all strategic that what musk is doing is trying to set up some kind of new media venture with twitter as a base that will appeal to right wingers in the united states. and the way they talk to these has got it as may be the case. but there what opportunity costs, i mean if we just look at ads, for example, as the count for nearly 90 percent of twitters revenue, musk is risking

a huge exodus of advertisers. tesla, on the other hand, doesn't really spend any money on advertising. it doesn't need to is the problem that most doesn't understand or doesn't care about advertising here. i mean, it's almost like he's hurting the baby that is already very healthy. right? sure. he's certainly heard tesla by doing a straight test stock has gone down. it's reputation has taken a hit. any turn twitter, of course as well because it's no longer a safe haven for advertisers. whereas before twitter employed many people who were responsible for giving advertisers a safe environment for their advertisement to appear must because totally got rid of that effort and advertising and twitter is a receipt and risky game. i think he ultimately doesn't understand the advertising . but i think more importantly, he doesn't you advertising as the purpose of what he's doing. so it was clear to be

took over twitter immediately said i want to be some kind of subscription basis for the people to pay the that's what he wants. he views twitter in a traditional advertising in the same way. i think that he views relationship advertising, but he doesn't really want it to define the company. well, i mean, i wonder if he actually understands what he was buying when he bought twitter. twitters capital are it's users the people that are tweeting all the time. and so he just paid, you know, $44000000000.00 for himself. basically. do you do? do you get the impression that he was aware of that because everything he's been doing, you know, you could argue he's been alienate, he's been actually a stranger himself from the capital that makes up the bone marrow of the company. sure. you know, there is consensus in the financial community that must overpaid for twitter to begin with. right? so before he knows any of these changes on people who understand this market

closely, what say this is overpaying dramatically for it? and again, sort of get back to the idea that there are 2 possible explanations for this. one is what this guy just loves tweeting and he has political views of the tweeting about. and he's happy to think to ship. the other view is, there is some game here that he's playing. and what that game is, i think isn't exactly clear. and if anything, if i had to guess, i would say the only 3 sophisticated game he might be playing is constructing an identity or a media company to display fox news. but you know, it's tremendously profitable every year. and the fact that he is tweeting so much now, i mean if you go on twitter, now me now it's become a daily event. you go on and you see that he's trending and you want to see well, but basically he's doing what donald trump did when he was the president. when donald trump was president, he was tweeting all the time. one of the criticisms was how can he carry out the

countries business? how can he carry out the business of president if he's always tweeting well, you can ask even much the same thing. you know, how can you run so many huge companies and still have time to tweet? i think the comparison to trump is an apt one. i think musk is intent on replacing trump in the nation's consciousness, and the world's consciousness for that matter in using twitter to do it. it's possible and in some would argue it's likely he wants to replace trump just because he like famous celebrity. and there's really not much else to at the, on that he wants between get our attention because there's something deeply gratifying for him having that that's certainly possible. and you know, in terms of his ability to run the company and we speak only if he does that question, i think it's important to keep in mind that tro must has historically delegated to the people within each company. and i think what we're seeing now is a version of most where he's a figure, had a celebrity. but you know,

i don't thing is running day to day operations test, which i think it turn it spooked investors. because if he's not running it to exactly and running it, i think that's a little unclear. yeah, there's, there's a big principal factory just outside the berlin here. a lot of people been asking here in berlin, who is running the factory now that he's busy tweeting all the time, i guess we'll have to get to the question porter. it's good to talk with. we appreciate your time to see you again soon. thank you. replace the china says that it will start reporting a symptomatic cases of coven 19 as they are impossible, really to track. it's another step in the dismantling of beijing's 0 cove with policy. this major huge or is bring you with a wave of illness. the world health organization is morning that china is facing

tough times ahead. seems like these were hard to imagine in beijing just a few weeks ago. parents in sick children crowding corridors at this pediatric hospital. but scraping china's strict coven restrictions has come at a cost and waves of illness and now spreading through the city, link the cues forming at clinics and demand for medications. skyrocketing this pharmacy among many, to have run out of flu medicines, and coven teeth. the impact of opening up is still being felt, but this is the bryce b. b for being freer. it feels like it is convenient to go out and go to places. but for myself, i must be more cautious because there is no protection for us outside. not it is essential that we improve our awareness in self protection yaki goal i hold others even within. the cues are in stark contrast to beijing's eerily quiet streets

and shopping centers. illness has been hitting work as hard, and a shortage of delivery drivers means packages. a piling up the past week has seen a mess of transformation and china's coven management. domestic travel has opened up positive cases can isolate at home. and the government has scaled back its tracing and tasting now or authorities. as scrambling to react, as the virus sprays shall more than 14000 fever clinics have been opened in hospitals. and more than 33000 clinics have been set up in community healthcare institutions. toggle allah, sunday, our son longer and fictions are expected to spread across the country in the coming weeks. as people who haven't been able to travel were turned to home, towns and villages. the world health organization wanting china faces

a very tough and difficult time. is it a just to living with a virus or he's trying to stand pounds or my next guest is is she shed, he's an associate professor of health policy and economics at the old school of public health professors good to have you on the program tonight. much in china's population, we understand lax immunity because so many have not been infected with cove it 19 as the government eases this 0 coven policy. are we going to see an explosion in coven cases? and are we going to see an explosion also in fatalities? i yes louis. see a surgeon the case is as many other part of the world as being experiencing was the dryer search, highness house has, has been more trend is, is honoring where stayed the primary care system. so when people are having any

young is the go to the hospital, which may easily crash the house care system. so we see that the doctors who have been on vacation has been called back to sir, and doctors who are testing the holding deposit. you'd still need to serve in your own roles. and so now we're be a half months ahead for china, especially during this holiday season. and china has a to holiday season wise and new year. the 2nd is a new the new year, which are very close to each other this year. so 2 weeks from now, i know we're be seeing a large flew up population moving from east to west and to return to their home account he home village and which may raise the, bringing the wireless to your parents and the older adults. so this is very, a risky and challenge you were. and so china really needs to get things done in terms of vaccinating old air, doubting to come in 2 weeks. it professor, you know, the rest of the world. it is, it is the attempting to return to some sense of,

of nor normalcy. and we have to keep in mind that here in europe and also in north america, when restrictions were lifted and people started living without the mass, for example, that there were, there was a slight increase in cases. is that what china has to go through now. and is it going to be more extreme in china because they had such a strict policy this 0 cobra policy for so long? right. indeed, as you were mentioning china as being an incrementing 0 co way to which a protector most of people without any exposure to the wires, even if people receive vaccines most often, the latter doves i'll vaccine was received like 11 miles away a year ago. so the erosion of immunity as a result of infection on vaccination is huge. so that will take time for china to

gather ah, population level in unity, back to sea level. but during this time period, these very important to establish are a medical, a try out for a whole whole to a, to keep people safe at home without going to hospital only only prioritize those resources for those. so really need out how and the safeguard of that well, and how's and where being of the order in by china as me, he pit you where people who use the polish satcher policy because there was no nationwide family. doctor assistant, you before the pedantic and let me ask you as a, as a public health policy expert, when you look at 0 coded and, and you see what's happening now with that being lifted quickly and it, with all of these new new cases. what, what was 0 covered about really then, what was it about protecting people? was it about sound public policy?

or was it more about a government or a politician? you know, trying to still hold on to power. i mean, do you see where it was there more politics than public health in this mix here? yeah, i think the key issue is not about a 0 coin is itself 0, where the policy was a successful at the beginning of the pandemic when we knew where later by the wires to keep the huge population safe. but as the wireless gradually you all, it's very important to adapt that policy to the changing wires by china has been very slowing adapting to that had been maintaining there though 0 co, 8 by mast has been quarantine. but that's where painful is purest. because that sacrifice the grammy grows and a social, a well being of but this is a sacrifice china planned to buy time to prepare the housing assistant and the vaccination by the we see that over the last the one year and the more the

vaccination tend ping was very low and even kenneth warehouse for the major part of this year. i've got about a minute left professor, the economic impact of 0 covered in lifting it. now we see reports that the streets of shanghai, the streets of beijing, are still basically deserted. people still don't want to leave their apartments. when is, when is this, this fear? when is normal? a feeling of normal? when is it going to return in, in the next couple months where be very painful and sometimes chaotic, but in the long term. and it's where come the by the international community, because once china is falling, reopen the supply chain. disruption me and gradually recover and vision flu and the talent flu where be like more back to normal. but during the next few months, it would be very painful because china will need to 1st that the always usa new

mean public house crises. yeah. and you know, it's impossible, super spread or events and plus the winter at so bad combination. as you said, professor, she jen from the yellow school of public health. we appreciate your time and your insights. did i thank you. you bet. whether these almost done, the conversation continues online, you'll find us on twitter at dw news. you can follow me on twitter at bridge golf t v and remember whatever happens between now and then to morrow is another day, we'll see that everybody ah ah, with

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