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your time we have to leave it there ronan leave there are author and visiting scholar at queen mary university of london. if european officials are being accused of carrying out a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing cleansing in the region have to agree the allegations are in a u.s. government report obtained by the new york times it says fighters who backed prime minister of the op ed a moving from town to town pushing out to gran's using intimidation and violence ethiopia launched a military campaign against separatists in november both sides have been accused of atrocities and separately amnesty international says hundreds of civilians were massacred by eritrean soldiers and accented grey back in november the rights group has released a report saying that the killings could amount to a crime against humanity has malcolm webb. eritrean an ethiopian forces began their attack on the town of back with indiscriminate shelling according to rights group amnesty international. it's released these videos and the report it says on the 28th of november last year to grain militia and civilians tried to fight
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joining me is dr deepti gurdasani, a clinical epidemiologist and senior lecturer at queen mary university of london science thank you forjoining us. the science behind this and a more nuanced assessment of those who should shield. but it is almost the same numbers. 1.7 million and haven't we known about the risk factors of these people include in this new assessment?— factors of these people include in this new assessment? yes. it is long overdue and — this new assessment? yes. it is long overdue and i _ this new assessment? yes. it is long overdue and i think _ this new assessment? yes. it is long overdue and i think many _ this new assessment? yes. it is long overdue and i think many groups - this new assessment? yes. it is longl overdue and i think many groups have been asking for the government to address the risks associated with deprivation with the ethnicity and it has not been done so far despite knowing about these and i know it is being taken into account because clearly it is important risk factors for severe covid—19. 0ne clearly it is important risk factors for severe covid—19. one of
joining me is dr deepti gurdasani, a clinical epidemiologist and senior lecturer at queen mary university of london science thank you forjoining us. the science behind this and a more nuanced assessment of those who should shield. but it is almost the same numbers. 1.7 million and haven't we known about the risk factors of these people include in this new assessment?— factors of these people include in this new assessment? yes. it is long overdue and — this new assessment? yes. it is long...
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in bangkok debbie stothard is founder and coordinator of the see on burma network in london ronan leigh is a visiting scholar at queen mary university of london international state crime initiative and in vancouver just mean a lot is president of the rohingya human rights network a warm welcome to you all yes ma'am let me start with you today the reading go are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world how concerned are you that they could become even more vulnerable both inside and outside of me and more as a result of the coup. it is really really worrisome especially. because the general milling actually appeared on a state t.v. just a few days ago and he was actually mentioning. the attempts that he's going to make in order to repatriate going back from bangladesh and he's looking forward to working by a lot fully with the country in order to bring people back but there isn't really any details that were given and i believe that this is this is to to do with easing off some of the international pressure that he says feeling some of the heat that he's feeling from staging the coup and if the international community actua
in bangkok debbie stothard is founder and coordinator of the see on burma network in london ronan leigh is a visiting scholar at queen mary university of london international state crime initiative and in vancouver just mean a lot is president of the rohingya human rights network a warm welcome to you all yes ma'am let me start with you today the reading go are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world how concerned are you that they could become even more vulnerable both inside and...
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coordinator of burma a network of asean organizations working to support human rights and democracy in myanmar in london ronan li a visiting scholar at queen mary university of london and author of me and mars we're going to genocide in the cab illinois therapy associate professor at the department of world languages and cultures at northern illinois university a warm welcome to you all debbie let me start with you today now that curan has cut ties with m e h l that's the conglomerate with ties to me and mars military do we expect that more companies or at least more foreign companies are going to be doing the same. i think any company that so understanding its obligations for human rights due diligence should cut its ties with any military owned companies the military these military companies are notorious for some of the worst human rights violations including wide scale then grabbing in the country and it's time that the retiree's didn't make human rights violations a profitable business running could you tell us a little bit more about me and more economic cold ings public company this is this conglomerate with ties to me and more is military what do
coordinator of burma a network of asean organizations working to support human rights and democracy in myanmar in london ronan li a visiting scholar at queen mary university of london and author of me and mars we're going to genocide in the cab illinois therapy associate professor at the department of world languages and cultures at northern illinois university a warm welcome to you all debbie let me start with you today now that curan has cut ties with m e h l that's the conglomerate with ties...
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asia in bangkok phil robertson is deputy asia director of human rights watch also in london ronan lee is visiting scholar at queen mary university of london and author of me and mars genocide welcome to the program let me start with you today the military in me and more already wields so much power why do this now and what is there in game. well i think the after 2 election cycles the military has figure out or discover to their dismay that they cannot play this democracy game with san suu kyi and her most popular national league for democracy anymore because this is the 2nd in the 2nd election cycle that was held in 2020 in november 11 day before the us presidential elections were held up. the the verdict was so crushing that the military's proxy party union solidarity and development party was almost put out of business out of existence you know it won only $33.00 seats out of a 476 parliamentary seat and where a suit each party me took a nearly $400.00 seeds that crushing defeat. triggered the realise ation there with sujit and l.t. they could no longer play this game and win it that is one of the explanation they're also you
asia in bangkok phil robertson is deputy asia director of human rights watch also in london ronan lee is visiting scholar at queen mary university of london and author of me and mars genocide welcome to the program let me start with you today the military in me and more already wields so much power why do this now and what is there in game. well i think the after 2 election cycles the military has figure out or discover to their dismay that they cannot play this democracy game with san suu kyi...
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mcmanus a little earlier who is the director of the international state crime initiative at queen mary university of london and he studies a lot to do with me in viruses since unsung search he defended the military against genocide charges i no longer had any use for. her reputation has been tarnished internationally because of her lisicki with the top model the mime our military in the persecution of the right hand just pacifically the genocide there and also with other ethnic groups and she has used your political capital she built up over the years to protect the military so her reputation internationally has been tarnished her reputation inside burma is not started at all and the burmese people still revere her and when it comes down to a choice between her and the military they're going to choose her i would say. and so this pressure that the international community is putting on not because it is about democracy and we're not sure what her motivations were for providing cover for the military but she has become closer and closer and it seems now she has i believe her usefulness for the military or so
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hi thank you so much for that update from bangkok were only is a visiting scholar at queen mary university of london international state crime initiative he explains what could be behind the military's increasingly heavy handed tactics. it's a sign that the military is threatened by the protests and by the protesters i think the military is probably surprised at the injured of the protestors think the military's expectation was that as with previous coups in me and ma they could arrest the civilian leadership of the country and that then that would be difficulties organizing opposition to the coup this is different the protesters have a diversified leadership. much more difficult to take out just by arresting even i mean the arrested 400 but the protests still getting organized i think the military are concerned that these protests continue in the long term and that's why we've seen such draconian changes to the whole test is that they risk 20 years in jail for calling a coup. is not something that the protesters i think are going to accept that they've made their decision to protest the coup and th
hi thank you so much for that update from bangkok were only is a visiting scholar at queen mary university of london international state crime initiative he explains what could be behind the military's increasingly heavy handed tactics. it's a sign that the military is threatened by the protests and by the protesters i think the military is probably surprised at the injured of the protestors think the military's expectation was that as with previous coups in me and ma they could arrest the...
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territories were only is a visiting scholar at the international state crime initiative a queen mary university of london he says the legal responsibility is to help people rescued at sea to be taken seriously there in dire straits i mean the situation that they find themselves in highlights the dread for humanitarian circumstances that in myanmar have found themselves in and consequently those in bangladesh where they face genocide or crimes within me and ma and then those who managed to flee across the border to bangladesh find themselves in limbo there permanently in camps the prospect of return to me and now seems very slim and their life opportunities are incredibly limited i mean access to to education or or industry or any sense of a meaningful future is genuinely limited for them so it's understandable in those circumstances that people will become desperate and will try to escape they'll try to go to somewhere where life can be better that the situation today though is that the 80 people are in danger at sea and whether or not india or bangladesh have signed the refugee convention becomes irrele
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let's talk more about this with thomas mcmanus joining us from london director of the international state crime initiative at queen mary university of london thomas thanks for your time 1st of all just acutely what's happened today with unsung suchi being detained on actually. a violation of an import export laws something like that it seems like a very minor infringement but i guess this is a law being used against terrible what she could have repealed when they were in power. yeah that's right this is a law that has been used in the past to target activists and as you say it's a it's a very serious charge that charges that you have a walkie talkie so if you charge for importing communications equipment or possessing illegal communications equipment and it is it is a charge that is not based on the rule of law and we didn't have you know a very good rule of law before monday and we certainly don't have any now so these are these are literally trumped up charges on behalf of the military as a way of as a way of justifying tension but there's no justification ok so detention for 2 weeks at this stage though i don't think would be
let's talk more about this with thomas mcmanus joining us from london director of the international state crime initiative at queen mary university of london thomas thanks for your time 1st of all just acutely what's happened today with unsung suchi being detained on actually. a violation of an import export laws something like that it seems like a very minor infringement but i guess this is a law being used against terrible what she could have repealed when they were in power. yeah that's...
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when you go to sun is a clinical epidemiologist and senior lecturer at queen mary university of london she joins us now by skype from london thanks very much for being with us so that phrase mutations of concern was what is the big worry here. i think the big worry is that we're seeing really in some lodging in different parts of the world with mutations that make them more transmissible in some cases and in some cases give them some art of escape from antibodies directed towards penis made ends which raise concerns about back to ineffective nests in places where these variants have become very common and what we're seeing in different parts of the world is this sort of convergence towards the same adaptations of the virus suggesting that these confers and so on i did that just a virus so i mean how quickly can the current vaccine that have been approved be modified what's the threshold that you need to reach in order to get to the point that he right now we need to modify. i think many madman factions are already working on what if i go back to target is new radians because that the d
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with ron lee who's a visiting scholar at the international state crime initiative at queen mary university of london he's also the author of the both mean mars rolling and genocide history. yes in london thanks for your time with us on al-jazeera we'll get on to the subject of bangladesh and among the 1st let's look at the situation for the one who gave me a large self so the military is accuse the genocidal intent in the past against the rohingya and the u.s. has sanctioned the man himself who is now in charge of the country so what does this mean for the rowing. well it's bad news for those really good who are still in myanmar and it's an important distinction to make that this just over 1000000 in refugee camps across the border in bangladesh but a similar number are living in their ancestral home in northern rakhine state mean much that this situation as of yesterday was was already pretty grim 120000 really there have been but our concentration camps since 2012 but when the military is in power and the complete control in myanmar the really good situation is always worse myanmar's military is a
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station or room in li is a visiting scholar at the international state crime initiative at queen mary university of london who says there's a legal responsibility to help people rescued at sea. they're in dire straits i mean the situation that they find themselves in highlights the dread for humanitarian circumstances that in myanmar have found themselves in and consequently those in bangladesh where they face genocide or crimes within me and ma and then those who managed to flee across the border to bangladesh find themselves in limbo there permanently in camps the prospect of return to me and mar seems very slim and their life opportunities are incredibly limited i mean access to to education or or industry or any sense of a meaningful future is genuinely limited for them so it's understandable in those circumstances that people will become desperate and will try to escape they'll try to go to somewhere where life can be better that the situation today though is that the 80 people are in danger at sea and whether or not india or bangladesh have signed the refugee convention becomes irrelevant the law of
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renee's a visiting scholar at queen mary university of london's international state crime initiative is also the author of a book on in laws genocide and joins us now from london thanks very much indeed for being with us how serious would you say this escalation is in man with these reports for instance of a protest is being shot at well it's a significant escalation it's a sign that the military is threatened by the protests and by the protesters i think the military is probably surprised at the insurance of the protesters that the military is expectation was that as with previous coups in myanmar they could arrest they civilian leadership of the country and that then that would be difficulties organizing opposition to the coup this is different the protesters have a diversified leadership much more difficult to take out just by arresting even i mean they've arrested $400.00 but the protests are still getting organized i think the military are concerned that these protests could continue in the long term and that's why we've seen such draconian changes to the goal so draconian for in
renee's a visiting scholar at queen mary university of london's international state crime initiative is also the author of a book on in laws genocide and joins us now from london thanks very much indeed for being with us how serious would you say this escalation is in man with these reports for instance of a protest is being shot at well it's a significant escalation it's a sign that the military is threatened by the protests and by the protesters i think the military is probably surprised at...
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al-jazeera thomas mcmanus is the director of international state crime initiative at queen mary university of london he says since suchi defended the military against those charges of genocide they no longer had any use for. her reputation has been tarnished internationally because of her lisicki with the top model the maya moore military in the persecution of the right hand just pacifically the genocide there and also with other ethnic groups and she has used your political capital she built up over the years to protect the military so her reputation internationally has been tarnished her reputation inside burma is not artist at all the burmese still revere her and when it comes down to a choice between her and the military they're going to choose her i would say. and so this pressure that the international community is putting on it is about democracy and we're not sure what her motivations were for providing cover for the military but she has become closer and closer and it seems now she has i believe her usefulness for the military or somehow been seen by many on the head of the military to beco
al-jazeera thomas mcmanus is the director of international state crime initiative at queen mary university of london he says since suchi defended the military against those charges of genocide they no longer had any use for. her reputation has been tarnished internationally because of her lisicki with the top model the maya moore military in the persecution of the right hand just pacifically the genocide there and also with other ethnic groups and she has used your political capital she built...
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myanmar we can take this all we can here from run and lee who's a visiting scholar at queen mary university of london's international state crime initiative he explains what could be behind the military's increasingly heavy handed tactics. it's a sign that the military threatened by the protests and by the protesters i think the military is probably surprised at the injured of the protestors think the military's expectation was that as with previous coups in myanmar they could arrest the civilian leadership of the country and that then that would be difficulties organizing opposition to the coup this is different the protesters have a diversified leadership. much more difficult to take out just by arresting even i mean the arrested 400 but the protests a still getting organized i think the military are concerned that these protests continue in the long term and that's why we've seen such draconian changes to the test is that they risk 20 years in jail for calling a coup. is not something that the protesters i think are going to accept that they've made their decision to protest the coup and they know w
myanmar we can take this all we can here from run and lee who's a visiting scholar at queen mary university of london's international state crime initiative he explains what could be behind the military's increasingly heavy handed tactics. it's a sign that the military threatened by the protests and by the protesters i think the military is probably surprised at the injured of the protestors think the military's expectation was that as with previous coups in myanmar they could arrest the...
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figures let's speak to dr deepti gurdasani, senior lecturer in clincical epidemiology at queen mary, university of londonme because all the things are going in the relatively right direction in terms of seeing a daily number of about 10,000 cases a day that are confirmed, in terms of hospitalisations, we are now below the peak, but not a lot below it. so there is still the potential for things to get worse once we start opening up. things to get worse once we start opening up-_ things to get worse once we start o-eninu u. ., ':: i: i: i: , , opening up. you say 10,000 cases still at the moment. _ opening up. you say 10,000 cases still at the moment. do _ opening up. you say 10,000 cases still at the moment. do you - opening up. you say 10,000 cases still at the moment. do you have l opening up. you say 10,000 cases| still at the moment. do you have in your head a figure, an idealfigure where you would feel, yes, ok, now we can really start to think of a more normal life? i we can really start to think of a more normal life?— we can really start to think of a more normal life? i think for me that figure _
figures let's speak to dr deepti gurdasani, senior lecturer in clincical epidemiology at queen mary, university of londonme because all the things are going in the relatively right direction in terms of seeing a daily number of about 10,000 cases a day that are confirmed, in terms of hospitalisations, we are now below the peak, but not a lot below it. so there is still the potential for things to get worse once we start opening up. things to get worse once we start opening up-_ things to get...
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figures let's speak to dr deepti gurdasani, senior lecturer in clincical epidemiology at queen mary, university of londonaf in the safe zone. as we heard, even our hospitalisations are about the april peak. the highest prevalence seems to be in primary school children and young adults, and this is not an isolated study, the office of national statistics also suggested drops have been low in primary school settings and this is consistent with children in the setting, one in five are still attending primary schools versus only two in secondary schools. data tells us outbreaks are still happening in primary schools even with the lower level of attendance. this suggests that if we push ahead with school openings without adding any additional mitigation efforts in place, we are really in for trouble and it is likely those infection rates will shoot up. we have made huge sacrifices as a country over the last year and it is very important that we don't squander the sacrifices made in the last month that the letters to these declines that the letters to these declines that we are seeing, by opening up to early —
figures let's speak to dr deepti gurdasani, senior lecturer in clincical epidemiology at queen mary, university of londonaf in the safe zone. as we heard, even our hospitalisations are about the april peak. the highest prevalence seems to be in primary school children and young adults, and this is not an isolated study, the office of national statistics also suggested drops have been low in primary school settings and this is consistent with children in the setting, one in five are still...
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figures let�*s speak to dr deepti gurdasani, senior lecturer in clincical epidemiology at queen mary university of londonted broadly theirfirstjab. i�*m interested broadly in your assessment of where the vaccine programme is, how well it is or isn�*t working. i the vaccine programme is, how well it is or isn't working.— it is or isn't working. i think the roll-out has — it is or isn't working. i think the roll-out has been _ it is or isn't working. i think the roll-out has been a _ it is or isn't working. i think the roll-out has been a huge i it is or isn't working. i think the i roll-out has been a huge success. roll—out has been a huge success. it's roll—out has been a huge success. it�*s very clear that we have met our vaccination target uptake in the populations that are most vulnerable and has been very high. we have kinda vaccinated more than 13 million people from the vulnerable age groups which already have a huge impact on hospitalisations and disease and deaths in the coming weeks. ~ ., disease and deaths in the coming weeks. . . ., . , weeks. will have an impact there, is it fair to say — wee
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of. genocide and a visiting scholar at the international state crime initiative at queen mary university in london thank you for joining us it's the 1st time we've heard from the military what do you think the demonstrators made of the message. well they would have found me no lengthy speech today possibly time and if they obviously prostration an anger that's been demonstrated in towns and cities and villages across me and mark for the last week hundreds of thousands if not millions of people have been protesting about the coup and on lange's response astoundingly seemed to blame the democratically elected government for not being. appropriately committed to democracy as one cause of the coup he then suggested that the economic environment for investment would be a good under the military i mean this is this is during a week when multinational corporations are running away from me and mine and then astonishingly something that certainly won't be won't be believed by the international community or the rich she suggested that the repatriation of refugees in bangladesh would continue or could contin
of. genocide and a visiting scholar at the international state crime initiative at queen mary university in london thank you for joining us it's the 1st time we've heard from the military what do you think the demonstrators made of the message. well they would have found me no lengthy speech today possibly time and if they obviously prostration an anger that's been demonstrated in towns and cities and villages across me and mark for the last week hundreds of thousands if not millions of people...