professor kwok—yung yuen was pa rt professor kwok—yung yuen was part ofan professor kwok—yung yuen wasation team in wuhan injanuary and says they were gaps in the actions taken and a reluctance to acknowledge the number of cases. carrie gracie reports on why china's response of the crisis contributed to the global outcome. last december people started turning up in hospitals in wuhan with a mystery pneumonia. for three weeks, from the end of december, chinese state media played down the risks. they said there was no reason to suspect the virus was transmitted through humans, and no medical personnel had been infected. on the 12th of january, hong kong doctor, kwok—yung yuen, diagnosed a family with coronavirus in shenzhen. the eminent microbiologist knew family clusters signalled human transmission. i have the experience of diagnosing cases in shenzhen and i know how efficiently the virus was spreading and i know that it is acquired from hospitals, and i know that it can go with people by flights, on one city to thousands of miles away with people. professor kwok—yung yuen immediately

professor kwok yung yuen was part of an investigation team in wuhan injanuary. and a reluctance to acknowledge the number of cases. carrie gracie reports now on whether china's response to the virus contributed to the global crisis. last december, people started turning up in hospitals in wuhan with a mystery pneumonia. for three weeks, from the end of december, chinese state media played down the risks. they said there was no reason to suspect the virus was transmitted through humans, and no medical personnel had been infected. on the 12th of january, hong kong doctor kwok—yung yuen diagnosed a family with coronavirus in shenzhen. the eminent microbiologist knew family clusters signalled human transmission. i have the experience of diagnosing cases in shenzhen. and i know how efficiently the virus was spreading. and i know that it is acquired from hospitals. and i know that it can move with people, by flights from one city to thousands of miles away. professor yuen immediately alerted officials in beijing. but china didn't tell its public, or the rest of the wo

is an existential crisis let's get you the reaction now from one pro-democracy legislator mr cockey kwok a member of the civic party a political party that was disqualified incidentally on july 30th for taking part in the now the spawn election a very good day mr kwok 1st of all let's get your reaction to today's decision please oh we were right i think the whole people incentives actually looking for is less well you know when you look at what changes in the composition of the city council all the ones we have lost all my you know the amendments should be should be used and then secondly i'm not sure if it becomes full actually really much on the democratic you believe home. we have some trouble and we should see in final effects of this year to see this cause. if you or all together i think the message is going to be someone else if you want to commend. the outcome of the let's make sure that some kind of expected outcome of the u.s. will keep. on this year the next year so the message to most of the people on set your heart or. may not even want to be ladylike to make sure that they c

on the 12th ofjanuary, hong kong doctor kwok—yung yuen diagnosed a family with coronavirus in shenzhenignal human transmission. i have the experience of diagnosing cases in shenzhen. and i know how efficiently the virus was spreading. and i know that it is acquired from hospitals. and i know that it can move by people, on flights from one city to thousands of miles away. professor yuen immediately alerted officials in beijing. china didn't tell its public, or the rest of the world, for a critical week, in which the virus was free to spread inside the country and beyond. on the 18th of january, professor yuen joined a team of experts in wuhan. he learned the market initially blamed for the outbreak had been disinfected before samples could be taken from all the animals. when we went to the wuhan seafood market, of course there is nothing to see. because the market was clean already. so you may say that the crime scene is already disturbed. because the seafood market was cleared, we cannot identify any of the hosts, which is giving the virus to humans. professor yuen helped to identify t

for democracy legislator mr cockey kwok member of the civic political a party sir thank you thank you. want to tell you now about some of the other corner of ours pandemic related developments vietnam recorded its 1st coronavirus death on friday as the pandemic rebounds there while the country had previously been praised for containing the contingent on meanwhile british prime minister abhors johnson says he is putting the brakes on easing lockdown measures and will instead be imposing new were strictures on this after a new spike in corona virus infections in the u.k. and germany has that 3 northern spanish regions to its list of high risk destinations any want to arrive in from those areas will have to show a negative virus test result or well into quarantine for 2 weeks. while with the pandemic closing economies doubt it was always expected that there'd be damage but just how high the toll will be is only now becoming clear at least in europe a stream of g.d.p. figures has shown that many economies that experience 2 years of growth are now deep into the red the euro zone as a whole

january, in the city of shenzhen, a family was diagnosed with the new coronavirus by eminent doctor kwok—yung of them had been to wuhan. professor yuen was one of the scientists who identified sars 17 years ago. he knew family clusters signalled human transmission and that a pandemic was now a real danger. i have the experience of diagnosing cases in shenzhen. i know how efficient the virus was spreading and i know that it is acquired in hospital and i know that it can go, er, with people by flights from one city to thousands of miles away. but china didn't tell its public or the rest of the world for another critical week, in which the virus was free to spread inside the country and beyond. tv: thailand has reported the first case of the wuhan coronavirus found outside of china. once there is a case abroad then the whole propaganda has to deal with that. it's going to come out. if it's going to start spreading abroad, then the game changes. on 14th january, beijing convened an urgent teleconference. according to a leaked memo reported months later by the associated press, health bosses natio

professor kwok—yung yuen was part of an investigation team in wuhan injanuary.n australian court has ordered a ban on several black lives matter protests, following police concerns about the covid—19 pandemic. the organisers say they will appeal. several thousand people had been expected at a protest in sydney, against the deaths of aboriginal people in custody. now on bbc news, dateline london. exceptional, existential, expensive, but what does the eu's recovery deal mean? dirty laundry as the british parliament publishes its report on russian influence. and the leader who got brexit done or the one who lost lives and loves the union? we assess boris johnson's first year in downing street. our guests are a correspondent from the economist, and we are having a technical problem, we are hoping for a commentator as well. in the studio we have the bbc chief international correspondent lyse doucet. fingers crossed we can get thomas. last week's european summit on a post—covid economic rescue package was a cliffhanger even by eu standards. germany and france urged ex

a popular protest and for a lot of of people there's been some wild and crazy stuff cuomo but the kwok of them have been people who you care to snatch because you're pretty fit for this or because you don't really know because it's not right people aren't being snatched off the streets who are peaceful i've heard the police make the announcements we're going to start arresting people if you decide to stay please leave the ones who stay are leaving themselves wide open for arrest and they know it when the night gets long and the violence starts and the burning starts and the looting starts in the police saying go home if you choose to stay you know darn well you're risking arrest and if you don't you need your head examined. by the corona virus pandemic russia has announced it has successfully completed trials of a kind of 19 vaccine the 1st of its kind but the western media persisting in raising legal and ethical concerns over the job has been can stand explains. mooste reasonable people would see a vaccine for what it is a panacea a solution to this this awful pandemic scourge that ha

the man that you just heard, dennis kwok, is an elected member of the legislative council, for the civic moderate. but four of its lawmakers, who you see here, are among those disqualified. the others you see here, many are prominent activists, like lester shum and joshua wong. lester shum was elected as a district councillor last november, as part of a pro—democracy party surge in those elections. they took 17 out of 18 districts. and there's some suggestion that might be a calculation here. joshua wong tweeted: i was just disqualified from legco election, despite being the biggest winner in #hk primaries. gwyneth ho is another candidate who's been disqualified — she spoke to the bbc. the hong kong government is denying people who are running and going to vote, they are denying them the right to voice their discontent. let's go into a bit more detail on why the hong kong government says it's done this. it says candidates can't be considered to be abiding by the constitutional duty required of lawmakers if they: advocate for hong kong's independence try and get foreign governments to int

professor kwok—yung yuen was part of an investigation team in wuhan injanuary.hinese authorities have taken possession of the closed us consulate. it was ordered to shut last week by beijing, shortly after consulate staff left. soldiers were seen entering the building. closure is the latest date of the diplomatic row between china and the us —— latest stage. the uk government has said it was absolutely necessary to reimpose quarantine restrictions on arrivals from spain but how much do we know about the source of spain's new outbreaks and how does the world health organization compare spain's infection numbers with other countries‘s? here is our science editor, david shukman, who has been looking at the figures and the differing approaches to board control. a lockdown, strictly enforced, seemed to work well in spain earlier this year, because numbers came down dramatically. but since then, the coronavirus situation has changed. what's happening now is that there are spikes in different parts of the country. in catalonia, for example, home to barcelona and costa

kind of bought their protest in 4 and i have a few good grip on wild and crazy stuff no no but the kwok of them have been through and you can dispatch keep walking because you're pretty fit for this because you don't really know because it's not right people aren't being snatched off the streets who are peaceful i've heard the police make the announcements we're going to start arresting people if you decide to stay please leave the ones who stay on leaving themselves wide open for arrest and they know it when the night gets long and the violence starts and the burning starts and the looting starts in the police say go home if you choose to stay you know darn 5 well you're risking arrest and if you don't you need to head examined. labor unions are now striking alongside black blinds mattering to this not just against racial inequality but also against economic inequality with the coronavirus having worsening economic situation across america leftwing activism has surged in the u.s. and we'll bring you more on this story a little later with them. now at the world gripped by a pandemic rus

popular protest in 4 and a half of people there's a group of wild and crazy stuff well no but the kwok of them have been people who you care to snatch the truth because your friend think this or this or because you don't really know because this is not right people are being snatched off the streets who are peaceful i've heard the police make the announcements we're going to start arresting people if you decide to stay please leave the ones who stay are leaving themselves wide open for arrest and they know it when the night gets. and the violence starts and the burning starts and the looting starts in the police say go home if you choose to stay you know darn 5 well you're risking arrest and if you don't you need to head examined. with countries power lies by the crate of pirates the race has been on to develop an effective vaccine that could unlock the wild well russia says it's fast across the finish line having successfully completed trials although as more and cost have not spain's not everyone's buying into those claims loosed reasonable people would see a vaccine for what it is a

the man you just heard, dennis kwok, is an elected member of the legislative council, for the civic partyrs you see here many are prominent activists, like lester shum and joshua wong. lester shum was elected as a district councillor last november, as part of a pro—democracy party surge in those elections — they took 17 out of 18 districts. and there's some suggestion that might be a calculation here. joshua wong tweeted: i was just disqualified from legco election, despite being the biggest winner in #hk primaries. gwyneth ho is another candidate who's been disqualified — she spoke to the bbc. i would say that currently under control of the asian government, the hong kong government is denying people who are running for election and people who are going to vote in the election 39 of them the right to voice their discontent. to voice a criticism against chinese government in any way. let's go into a bit more detail on why the hong kong government says it's done this. it says candidates can't be considered to be abiding by the constitutional duty required of lawmakers if they: advocate for

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