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ah, yes, to be radical. that's a radical mean. go back to the ruth. he is the son of jewish holocaust survivors. how lucky that i was able to build to jewish museum berlin. his architecture is a celebration of democracy and one building. the biggest thing in the world is the spirit of an architect of emotions. this kid starts december 25th on d w. i did have renewals aisha coming up to date. china's battle with covered and does uncharted territory. beijing has relaxed it 0 covert policy and cut back on reporting efficient case numbers. it's left people confused as to the true scale of the situation facing them. and a girl in a remote region of pakistan are given
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a rare opportunity to learn to write a bike. why awesome local men, so angry about it. ah, i british manager, welcome to beat up the news. asia ledger could join us confusion reins and china a week up to being relaxed. it's stringent, 0 coven policy. the government has stopped reporting on asymptomatic cases, and public testing has been scaled back. the result? no one is quite sure of the scale of actually covered infections in the country. it's why the streets of the capitol, beijing are largely empty, as people stay at home rather than risk infection by going out. at the same time, cues are forming outside pharmacies with people for choosing cold and flu medication, some because they have covered others preemptively. as you can use with,
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i'm worried. i'm definitely worried that i'll be infected too, because after all, a virus is spreading so fast, especially now that the whole country has already opened up a hell. they are human, there are really a lot of positive cases now. basically if you have a cold and you're positive, did have a reporter for conan joint been out in the studio for more context. clifford welcome. so what is happening here? our case is going up and if they are, is this a new outbreak in china? well, i think the cases are going up, according to chinese health officials, they've been, they've risen more than 5 fold and they're growing rapidly. and so there are indications that it is dead. infections are growing fast and, but they're w h o is telling us that it's not a new i break that there were existing cases there. and what instead is we're just seeing more of them. and we seen them missing more of these cases, but you're also seeing some pretty concerning images or of people receiving ivy
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drips in their cause. and this was outside of clinic in shall gun in central china's whole bay province. what's going on then? what does that say? about the scale of covered in china. well, i think what it tells us is that the health system isn't ready for this for one. and what we, what we're seeing is that people are taking these measures and people are suffering from so many people have symptoms which are similar to cov, it, we don't know how many people actually have cove. this is actually still a big factor. we know that there are a lot more sick people out there. and a lot more people are merging now that the 0 coven policy has been lifted for we're still not sure if, if, if they actually have cove itself. and i think a lot of this has to do with the family doctor system in china's to very under developed that basically if you're sick, he go to a hospital, people are encouraged to go to the hospital. so suddenly you've got all this extra strain on the existing resources. and the response to that has been things like the i v m, the drips in the cars, which are disturbing images. and,
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but you've also seen people turning to chinese medicine and because they, the, the resources aren't there to deal with this up upsurge in in illnesses. so they're all basically a result of china effectively opening up but without a reopening plan. correct? yeah, i think that basically it seems to have happened. you see the language everywhere, even on this very tightly policed, sat as social media, you see words like flip flop and you turn and whiplash. all these words, the people are just so shocked by the speed with which everything has turned around and, and that's causing all kinds of problems. it's cool and this logistics issues and, and it's, it's basically the fact that there wasn't a plan in place. it just seems to have happened. we auto group plans are therefore i have to ask you this because china was already lagging behind in vaccinating it's most vulnerable, particularly it's elderly. now that this reopening of sorts has happened. is there
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a plan to address this shortfall while they are talking now by doing more about vaccinations? and if you look at other parts of the world and compare china where it's had this 3 years of 0 coverage, whereas the rest of the world, it's emerged that the kind of the best way out of it is to have a brief period of 00 covert and then look, be more selective as so i think china is using vaccinations as part of trying to implement up process as well. and we've got a very low number of debts in china so far. which ad the government is claiming that as a success. but i think what this new measure measures are showing is that there's just no way or by removing the measures. they're showing that they're, they're not able to control it. and, and now these forecasts of up to one or 2000000 people dying by some models. and show that they're really pushing things like vaccination and maybe even looking to foreign vaccinations, which is another aspect of this that they go beyond the traditional chinese vaccinations and maybe start using foreign m r n a vaccines. but for now,
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definitely the pro set the, the focus is on getting the most vulnerable in society, vaccinated this all seems a bit of a knee jerk reaction doesn't. did i mean, oh, what prompted china to suddenly do this 180 degree turn so soon without an effective plan? well, i think we've had these protests, so the white paper protests, we've had dad at the fox con plant in central china. you saw people and taking to the streets because they're worried, like catching covered and not being adequately protected. and we've had a lot of different areas in society where the 0 coven band policy just wasn't working for people. i don't think it's just the protest. i think that the government was certainly trying to loosen certain areas before the protests took place, but it's hard not to see their protests as, as, as a catalyst for, for bringing about this change. we'll leave it there for the timing, but thanks so much for coming into this. do, do break that down for us? give it couldn't. ah,
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a group of girls in a remote area of buxton? i've been given a rare treat of learning to ride a bike. females in the conservative region of lundy, corporal are usually prevented from being any type of sport. but professional athletes. some are hon was able to set up the 1st cycling camp there. she said her name was to give girls a chance to experience the joy of this kind of physical activity and also to empower them. there has been some opposition to it and we'll have more of that in a moment. but 1st, here's what some of the goals felt about cycling for the 1st time and their situation. the guy really hard, i'm high, i am happy that this if it was held as women in our area and not encouraged to participate in sports, especially cycling has what i know you at the i have learned today that we shouldn't be bothered about what people say as men and women are equal to charlotte,
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issue are very, so you have your shade, moondog ordered you a rookie dog. i want to get an education, and i also love sports. i want to make my name in the sports. but because this is an honor problem for me and me, so they don't allow us to do sports, moody, english. that is that because of a lack of education, they marry the daughters when male only she 13 or 14. my friend, who is my age is getting married my this month mercado, my really hate you, mark i did with and jeremy for more on this is did of the news reporter news javert, who brought us this story finished welcome. what are the organizers want to achieve with this event? for british this event was organized in a very remote part of pakistan that borders of gunner thought. and although these tribal idiots have been merged with the neighbouring province,
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their phil have buried guns of it. if guston van traditions for usually women stay at home and when they leave there, they're often accompanied by men of their families. and we don't see young goldstein the girls playing on the streets. they play within the boundaries of their horns and education and sports opportunities are very limited. so i think the aim of the event was too short with the world that these girls with doubt breaking their customs. and as we can see, that they're properly covered without breaking the guston big gun gleam optic spaces. they can be on the streets and enjoy their thank you. you are you talk about the discrepancy of the tribal area. so what particularly stands out about this event being held in these so called tribal areas. so for some men and some religious leaders are this cycling event wasn't a dark on their values. ah, so for instance, there was a, there is an influential,
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a muslim cleric in the region. and after the strategy was this event was held, he posted on facebook and saying that all will be done to prevent this from happening again. he coil dis, an enjo sponsored event, a bed of attacking the tribal values, and not only this on our local chapter, awful marcusson's, big religious party. they held a rally against this event in the town, and men were holding black gods saying that a woman's place is at her home. and that a dark on tribal values will not be tolerated at any cost. so and also on social media that have been gone thence are criticizing the event so their opposition has been intense. but why are men particularly threatened by this is just girls riding a bike? what so threatening about it because it empowers them and they can see that they will have a wife. and i think what happened with this rarely,
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but this event was that now these girls have experienced the freedom to have that they have experienced, controlling the bike, learning to bike and dive changes a lot that you talked about this being a particularly conservative part of partisan and you also mentioned that the dispossess tribal area, but what is it like in the rest are focused on, i mean, can a woman cycle freely on the streets and choose when and where she wants to do this? women's mobility in back a song is very district. i'm in urban areas, you would see women driving gas, but only those who can afford it and that's a minority. most women would use public transport, which in most cases is not of him and friendly. that have been thought certain government programs to be i did try to train girls to write motorcycles are, but still you would really see them in writing a bike or order bacon. and i will give you my example. i mean, as a child in bogus and i used to bike a lot, but when i grew older,
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i was not allowed to do that. and when i moved to germany and born, i would bike from my home to office along the rhine river. and for me, i understood the value, it was like a privilege that i had and riding a bike is something that is considered normal in many parts of the world. but for me i, i could i every day and i would never get bored because i knew the value of it and i in love the freedom that nobody is harassed than me looking at me. and i just felt grateful. so i'm, i can feel her why there was so much of happiness and smiles on these young girls, 5th, or as you are fine. the grill yourself right now i have to ask you, was it always like this? and burgersson? was it always problematic for women and girls to ride in the streets publicly? no, it was not always like this when i was in school. i remember my school principal used to tell us that when she was young and she was to go to college, she would bike in law heart. but in my gen edition, that is almost impossible for,
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for pockets and was not all with like that during it. if there was a military dictator, ah, and he, he kind of, i'd read is strict origin for, for parker phone. and i think a generational church for the worst relief of their bernice. thanks for coming in you and that's it for today with suit laura ah. making the headlights and what's behind them down the news africa the show that was the issues shaping the continent. life is slowly getting back to normal. yeah, we're on the street to give you in the report on the inside our correspond,
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in china. so what does this mean for the face of the world? second biggest economy and the remnants of a global forcing event. we look ahead to what will happen to katara world comp. infrastructure wants to go home. this is d w business. i'm paid ferguson, thanks me. another month. another interest rates high as economies around the world bottles soaring inflation. both the federal reserve and the european central bank have raised borrowing rates. once again, in the united states, rates are going up by half a percentage points with the feds chairman jerome powell indicating that further hikes are on the cards. here in europe, the c b 's president christine legard has also a nice to hike by half a percentage point. the policy moves are being closely watched by countries like india whose emerging economies are heavily influenced.

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