what is mass psychogenic illness? and the other is more mass suggestion, because what happened is after the initial report of what happened in cuba, the state department issued an alert to diplomats and intelligence officers around the world to be on the lookout for anomalous health incidence. and then the department of defense recently contacted all of its $2900000.00 service personnel and contractors to also be on the alert for anomalous health incidents and those incidents of havana syndrome. as you mentioned before, things like difficulty concentrating, insomnia memory problems. there are so vague as to be experienced by just about everyone who has ever lived in any given week. right. and so now people all over the world who are military personnel, or intelligence officers or diplomats working for the american government, are now on the lookout for these anomalous health incidence. and literally, people are getting up in the morning and sneezing and attributing it to van a syndrome a mean because it's so vague. no

or mass hysteria? will think of mast psychogenic illness as the placebo effect in reverse and psychology, it's known as the no cbo effect based on negative expectations. this entire case can be summarized in one sentence. when you hear the sound of hope beats in the night, 1st think horses, not zebras. the doctors at the state department went for the most exotic hypothesis early on. they went on a search for unicorns when they should have stuck to mundane explanations. and people say things like, well the u. s. government's been experimenting with microwaves for years. that may be true, but the u. s. government also experimented for 20 years, trying to develop psychic soldiers doing remote viewing. and how did that work out? it didn't work out very well just because they're experimenting with it. doesn't mean it's true because there's something called the laws of physics. and the other thing i'd like to point out here is that this shifted from cuba to other parts of the world later on, because the stat

or what is commonly known as mass hysteria. 2 of them wrote this book together. havana syndrome mass at psychogenic illness and the real story behind the embassy, mystery, and hysteria. and tonight i've got both of those authors with me. i'd like to welcome robert w bala. he's a meritus professor of neurology at the ronald reagan, u. c. l. a medical center. he joins me tonight from los angeles and robert bartholomew. he's honorary, senior lecturer in the department of psychological medicine at the university of oakland, in new zealand to both of you gentlemen. it's good to have you with doctor baller. let me start with you. it seems the c i a now agrees that there's less to this story than some believe what's your take? well, thank you for having me, brent the law. my take is. this is what we've been saying all along. certainly, we expected that this would be the final conclusion or if it is the final conclusion, are all obviously this report is are considered preliminary. there's a lot of backlash the, there's a lot of political implications. but i certainly agree with what they con

a mass protest took place in amsterdam. the government imposed the nation wide locked down 2 weeks ago, shutting all non essential stores, bars and restaurants that is expected to last until january 14th. when well, in bangladesh, a campaign has been launched to vaccinate 14000000 people every month. the country hopes to inoculate. 70 percent of the population by april, less than a 3rd of people are currently vaccinated. conver chowdhury has more from docker. fearful of the new on the conversion bank. those governance stud and major vaccination drive all across the country. it is targeting $40000000.00 people to be vaccinated by january this year, and it also wants to vaccinate 80 percent of the population by june this year, by day a good day by day people taking the vaccine has slowed down a bit. now the government is undertaking a major campaign to encourage people to take their job. jericho mother should, with the high, the government also started a booster program for senior citizen and the front line workers. it has al

robert: no one is immune to mass psychogenic illness because mass psychogenic illness is based on a beliefink of it as the placebo effect in reverse. if i give you a sugar pill and tell you you're going to feel better, often you will. it's the power of framing. but if i give you a sugar pill and tell you you're going to feel better and someone rushes in and says that sugar pill i gave you has been contaminated with rat poison, there's a good chance that within a few minutes, you'll get a headache, stomach pain, nausea. you might even vomit. but there's nothing physically wrong with you. think of it as a software problem, an overstimulation of the nervous system. peter: but the reality, glenn in boston, shirley is this. russia, the united states, and china. you mentioned this. they all researched microwaves as weapons. and i don't mean they went to a supermarket and they bought a microwave and threw it at somebody. i mean they tried to come up with technology that used a microwave gun or a device or something that could point microwaves at an individual or any building. . glenn: yes, that's

when can there be a mass adoption? >> study show over and over that price is the number one obstacle for mass ev adoption. it is interesting, we did a study recently this past fall, and range and infrastructure, charging infrastructure were concerns but the concern for that had dropped a little bit. that is largely due to the big improvements in range and we are seeing more infrastructure built. there are is a lots of promise of more charging infrastructure. now it is priced. that comes down to bringing battery costs down. i don't know when the turning point will be. there is all kinds of speculation, mid decade, and of decade, but that will be key. taylor: can we talk about infrastructure? there is a plan but is it coming soon enough? where people are confident ordering or even buying now, when we aren't sure if the infrastructure will 100% be there? >> it is a chicken and egg. early tech adopters have less concern about that, but for the masses i think we need to see more infrastructure come into place. as people see

so that doesn't mean it's mass psychogenic illness. a number of these cases are people simply waking up in the morning having a headache or feeling unusual and attributing it to this new condition. havana syndrome were done about telling me, let me just ask you that. what, what do you think prompted these physicians when, when these cases were 1st reported? what made these physicians think of the zebra instead of the horse? ah, incompetence really and look that you have the national academy of sciences. our panel, no one invited us to present on that panel. you had a panel that was essentially loaded with believers and not skeptics. this is a clear case of politics being mixed with science. and whenever that happens, the outcome is not good. i'm sure professor baldwin, i would love to speak before the senate foreign relations committee and explain more as to what's been going on here. and the other issue here is the symptoms of havana syndrome are so vague as to be experienced by any human being who has ever lived at any weak of their

use mass that's about one for every person in the country. so we all get our mass. we use them one day because they are one day use and then what i mean, none of the things that they're doing now that are supposedly going to be the correction other than to quote cheap the promises. the president made of 500000000 test kits and 400000000 mass. nothing is actually carrying forward in a way that, that is truthful or, or trustworthy. and i think that's what's gonna continue to handle the economy if we can't trust them on basic science. how can we trust them on economics? well, and that's the question i thought if i were to you real quickly at one meant like the segment. but also i want to talk about what's going on with again, rising gas prices. people are angry, there's nothing in the store shelves. it, when, when it was sponsibility to divide ministration, have for this kink in the supply chain. in fact, i'm any, the kink underneath president trump. i think at this point if descent grading and there's no real healing of how they're going to continue to bring it back i

no one is immune to mass psycho genic illness because mass i could genic illness is based on a belief. think of it as the placebo effect in reverse. if i give you a sugar pill and tell you you're going to feel better off than you will, it's the power of framing. but if i give you a sugar pill and tell you you're going to feel better and someone rushes in and says, oh my god, the sugar pill i just gave you, it's been contaminated with rat poison. there's a good chance that within a few minutes, you'll get headache, stomach pain, nausea, you might even bomb it, but there's nothing physically wrong with you. think of it as a software problem, an over stimulation of the nervous system. but the reality, glenn call in boston, surely as this russia, the united states and china, you mentioned one or 2 others. they have all researched microwaves as weapons. and i don't mean they went to a supermarket. they bought a microwave and they threw it somebody. i mean, they tried to come up with technology that used a microwave gun or a device or something that could point microwaves at an individual o

so special ed is that it was also a mass extinction event. the asteroid impact caused the death of a very large number of organisms in a very brief periodic leading to the extinction of those species. of a most mass extinction and our planet history take place over longer periods of time and hundreds of thousands of years. not long in geological terms though it is for us don't. so you don't tend to notice changes happening around you and it's very possible. and there are strong indications that we're currently living in a mass extinction event given the high number of species disappearing within just a few generations. if our blood is red, why i gave you a, do you have a science question you'd like us to answer? when you send it to us as a video, text or voice mail. if we feature it on the show, you'll get a little surprise from us as a thank you. come on just on for more fascinating stories, head to our website, d, w dot com slash science or check us out on twitter. the world health organization forecasts that within the next 10 years, 6 out

so special ed is that it was also a mass extinction event. the asteroid impact caused the death of a very large number of organisms in a very brief periodic leading to the extinction of those species. the most mass extinction is in our planet history take place over long periods of time and hundreds of thousands of years when not long in geological terms, though it is for us. of course, you don't tend to notice changes happening around you. it's very possible and there are strong indications that we're currently living in a mass extinction event given the high number of species disappearing within just a few generations. if our blood is red, why i gave you, do you have a signs question? you'd like us to answer? send it to us as a video, text or voicemail. if we feature it on the show, you'll get a little surprise from us as the thank you. come on, just ask for more fascinating stories, head to our website, d, w dot com slash science or check us out on twitter. the world health organization forecasts that within the next 10 years, 6 out of eve

you are watching dw news alive from berlin omicron arrives in china. authorities begin mass testing after 2 cases of the highly contagious corona virus variant are detected in a city near beijing. less than a month before the chinese capital is set to host the winter olympics. also coming up on the show, a baby boy separated from his parents during the chaos of the us evacuation of afghanistan is reunited with his family. by any means, heartbreak for those who looked after him. ah, hello, i'm claire richardson, thanks so much for joining us. authorities in the chinese city of jen, jen have started testing. it's nearly $14000000.00 residents after 2 cases of the omar kron corona, virus variant were detected and tangent is near china's capital beijing, which will host the winter olympics next month. and with the major new year festive period approaching, china's authorities have imposed a strict lock downs and mass testing to contain outbreaks of the corona, virus. police offices, and protective gear. outside an apartment block in the port city of t and gin. health officials found to people

midnight mass. main midnight montessori at christ, the savior cathedral in moscow was to persuade, required to wear mass and observe social distancing. while russian president vladimir put, attended a mass alone at his residence outside moscow, new chile, we'll begin offering a 4th shot of the corona bars vaccine from next week. it's the 1st country latin america to offer the extra dose. chile has one of the world's highest vaccination rates at 85 percent of the population and about 57 have percent have received a boost. well, tennis number one nova joke, which is facing another 3 nights hold up in a detention hotel in australia as he awaits his moment in immigration court. that after border officials rejected his coronado, his medical exemption documents and ordered him to port it back home in serbia. his family aff railed against the superstars detention. this humble hotel is where superstar novak chuck this is clinging on to his dream, of becoming the most successful tennis player of all time. re

as russia continues to mass troops on the ukraine border, the pentagon puts thousands of us troops on standby for a potential deployment to eastern europe. a coup in burkina faso. the country's army removes the president, closes the borders and suspended the constitution. so exciting! really? and assessing the temperature in beijing — how do people there feel about hosting the winter olympics amidst some of the world's toughest covid restrictions? live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it's newsday. it's 7am in the morning in singapore and ”pm in london, where the prime minister's office has admitted that staff at downing street gathered to wish borisjohnson a happy birthday during the first pandemic lockdown injune 2020. it's the latest in a string of revelations about parties held there or in other government departments during coronavirus restrictions. a spokesperson for mrjohnson said he'd been at the gathering for less than ten minutes. mrjohnson is facing widespread public outrage and calls to resign, including from some within his own conservative party. with the

as its troops continue to mass or ukraine's i continue to mass or ukraine's borders. 0n land, airandass or ukraine's borders. 0n land, air and sea russian forces are training and preparing. but for what? russian forces are training and preparing. but forwhat? some western powers now fear the worst. the intelligence is very clear, that there are 60 russian battle groups on the borders of ukraine, the plan for a lightning war that could take out kyiv is one that everyone can see. invading ukraine from a russian perspective is going to be a painful, violent and bloody business, and it's very important that people in russia understand that people in russia understand that this could be the new chechnya. that was a reference to the war russia fought in its southern republic of chechnya in the 19905 were thousands of troops died trying to fit defeat rebels seeking independence. the prime minister and the foreign secretary have been criticised for not focusing enough on ukraine. well, it seems they are trying to change that. the foreign office is releasing intelligence and they say russia i

of a most mass extinction in our planet. history take place over long periods of time and hundreds of thousands of years. not long in geological terms, though, it is for us, of course. so you don't tend to notice changes happening around you. it's very possible and there are strong indications that we're currently living in a mass extinction event given the high number of species disappearing within just a few generations. if i was let is read why i gave you a, do you have a science question? you'd like us to answer? send it to us as a video, text or voicemail. if we feature it on the show, you'll get a little surprise from us as a thank you. come on. just ask for more fascinating stories, head to our website, d, w dot com slash science, or check us out on twitter. the world health organization forecasts that within the next 10 years, 6 out of every 10 people will live in a city population density is based on the number of residents per kilometer squared african and asian cities tend to have the highest levels. the trend is

ah, this is debbie news line from berlin. alma cron officially arrives in china. authorities begin mass testing after 2 cases of the highly contagious corona virus . marion are detected near beijing less than a month before the chinese capital is sent to host the winter olympics. also coming up african leaders me to discuss the situation of molly or military rulers want to postpone elections. that would put civilians back in charge. and in the buddhist league adornment came from behind to beat frankfurt and close the gap. i'm leaders, buyer music ah, i'm william bluecross. welcome to the program authorities and the chinese city of tianjin have started testing its nearly 14000000 residents after 2 cases of the omar chron. corona virus. barion were detected there. john jen is near china's capital beijing, which will host the winter olympics next month. and with the major new year festive period approaching, china's authorities have imposed strict lock downs and mass testing to contain outbreaks. police officers in protective gear outside an apartment block in the port city of tianjin. off

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ah, ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, omicron officially arrives in china. authorities begin mass testing after 2 cases of the highly contagious corona virus barrier are detected near beijing. less than a month before the chinese capital is set to host the winter olympics. also coming up, it's the end of a long search. baby boy, separated from his parents during the chaos of the evacuation from afghanistan is were united with his family. but it means heartbreak for those who care for him. and your chance for a peek into help make soon be over. we look at efforts to put out a natural gas fire and central asia that's been burning for 50 years. ah wayne book of welcome to the program. authorities in the chinese city of tut, gene have started testing its nearly 14000000 residents after 2 cases of the omicron corona virus variant were detected. their judge in is near china's capital beijing, which will host the winter olympics next month. and with the major new year festive period approaching, china's authorities had to post strict lock downs and mass testing to contain outbreaks. poli

not only you had a combustible mass come together but donald trump's speech. i'm not saying whether it reaches the level of prosecutorial meaning in incitement, i'm talking about political violence in mainstream. around the world, when you bring that together and leaders give speeches, they are sparks that can touch off that mass of combustible material and that would set them ablaze. we see that in serbia, we see that in india with the rights there. we also see this in 1990's in russia. these are examples we do not equate to america. the basic logic is still the same. the problem for us is a social scientist we cannot predict the lightning strike. i cannot tell you weeks in advance whether there will be this political speech. none of us knew, not even the fbi what the speech was going to be before donald trump gave the speech. knowing who wrote that speech, this is a very different kind of speech for donald trump. this is the key i think to understanding what happened on january 6. who wrote that speech? that is the lightning that then spark and ignited that

it was the mass gatherings that actually exacerbated the infections. so you don't need to have locked down, is need to not have mass gatherings. the government has tightened rules for international arrivals. they now have to quarantine at home for a week that follows hundreds of passengers from italy testing positive at an airport in northern india, with relatively few versions of hospitals, particularly among the north lated. the vaccination drive is being increased for total jobs crossing one and a half 1000000000 this week on top of that health care workers, and those above 60 with underlying health solutions will start getting the booster shots on monday. partly with al jazeera, you daily, and the u. k education minister says producing the period of isolation, people who test positive recovered 19 from seventy's to 5 would ease staff shortages as well. micron spreads businesses, schools and hospitals are struggling to find enough workers. it would certainly help mitigate some of the pressures on earth schools on critical workforce at ubs. but i wou

i'm standing is i does not use the mrna technology to be mass-produced in india. one of the other things i've heard is that they did not like the way that the internet and pfizer did it their way. had to do their research and development in a very small amount of money. >> what was the name of antivirus? >> it came out of texas university and it was approved in india and their starting production on that. it doesn't use the mrna technology. andrew: i'm glad you brought that up, because what you are referring there is from baylor college that talk to them both about this pandemic as far as this being a remarkable deal as far as what they have been doing down in texas and dulling their own vaccine. they were working on sars back in 2003 trying to develop a vaccine back then. one of my first topic -- conversations was with maria in 2020. denting to get funding back then . once the pandemic -- it is pretty amazing 20 years later they stuck to it. i think the vaccine is called covax now -- we will see how far that makes it around the world and it is encouraging as far

it's not like mass just stopped working. they never have work. they do help some transmission from a sick person to a well person, but they don't really help from if you're well to help prevent you getting it. so i don't think these new rules are really going to do anything. one thing that i've been predicting and i stand by it is this, i'm a con, barian being so transmissible and infectious is actually a lot less serious of it provides a lot less serious disease. so it could be the answer to the and that providing national immunity and has, and her community. and i have to ask you, doctor, because as we're looking around, as the cases that are coming up, people are past testing positive not only for a virus or coded, but also the flu or it's partnered with strep. they're not there now. and we've been fighting the kids that are in the hospital right now. they're not going in for co, but they're going in for something else and testing positive. is there something more likely with this oh, micron barrier that attaches itself to other viruses that w

the authorities _ aggressive mass. the authorities of - aggressive mass.. the authorities of ravana saying that they control the city known some jobs like these are already opening up, there are more people on the streets because they are less afraid of going outside. but of course it will take time before things can go back to normal. what many people are now asking, is whether the president will offer political changes to prevent new protests. abdujalil abdurasulov, bbc news, almaty. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: no celebrity ceremony — the golden globes are announced online. we'll take you through the big winners. day one of operation desert storm to force the iraqis out of kuwait has seen the most intense air attacks since the second world war. tobacco is america's oldest industry, and it's one of its biggest, but the industry is nervous of this report. this may tend to make people want to stop smoking cigarettes. there is not a street that is unaffected. l huge parts of kobe were simplyl demolished as buildings crashed into one another. thi

i love it. mustn't the 4th of this was one of the 1st mass deportations of german jews fund. i'm halley, kentucky, and all of this took place in broad daylight, what we can believe was, and as the responsible officials, julie reported back it went off for the main without incident. i'm destroyed, i good day to day. the restored synagogue in keeping time is a remembrance, education and meeting center. i think it is run by citizens on a voluntary basis for i'm, this is officer for di and it is also thanks to the dedication of a local group that the house of in our, by his grandparents in yemen with house. and i was able to be preserved and i and that to day it is part of the path of remembrance, commemorative, former jewish life in gulping. and you will come as a representative of all the dedicated local people. i would like to welcome the mayor of gripping him mister alex maya. no good being on the influence woodward is now culture of remembrance in commemoration is reliant on initiatives like this is given to a gun in these active citizens and associations which take care of

it was evidenced by what happened during the mass shooting were 50 people also lives in his evidence by what carol and goodman did on the scene. an interview with anderson cooper, the deadliest mass shooting and us history became one of the most forgotten. most of the american public, fairly remembers that it happens that just shows you the power of money in las vegas. ah, it's a town that was built by the mob built on corruption and with corporations in charge, it's just a different kind of corrupt phase was a different town. i mean, don't get me wrong, lamar went away angels, these guys were savages. but when the town was less corporate, it was a much better town. i think they're challenged out what it should be and what it was green is what's ruining los vegas. where else does that happen? where it entity with see the victims because they dropped the ball all in las vegas . the corruption came when the mob left as far as i'm concerned. ah ah with i was diagnosed with cancer in 2000 lives when the doctors told me the cancer was incurable. i knew i had to make a change. so i decided

i think you are right, a critical mass _ gets to a critical mass?rtists like taylor swift or drake or ed sheeran who power the streaming economy to join in and take part and i suspect spotify was wary that that might happen over the next couple of days. i am sure there have been discussions behind the scenes between managers of some of the bigger artists about their concerns over covid misinformation on the platform and that they have driven what spotify released as a statement today but of course that is all speculation. i do think that really the bottom line for spotify is that if you play a joni mitchell or neil young song, 70% of the money that generates has to go to the artists and the record labels and the publishers when one person plays the joe rogan podcast, spotify keeps all of that money and that will very much be behind the business decision here. it’s here. it's interesting because other social media _ here. it's interesting because other social media platforms have - here. it's interesting because other l social media platforms have gr

health agency, the cdc is urging americans to wear the most protective mass that are available to them. and brazil has begun vaccinating 5 to 11 year olds after weeks of delay due to the ball. so narrow governments reluctance to endorse child immunization. some of the other stories making headlines. now, the united nation says at least a $108.00 civilians have been killed. this month in a series of government air strikes in ethiopia as war torn to guy region. the un is calling on ethiopian authorities to better protect civilians saying failure to do so. could amount to war crimes around 30 migrants have been rescued from the english channel after their boat capsized in icy waters. but one man died from hypothermia. a growing number of migrants are attempting the dangerous journey. last year, more than 28000 people crossed from france to britain in small boats. the use of pesticides in agriculture is on the rise worldwide with dramatic consequences. nearly 400000000 people fall ill every year from pesticide poisoning. environmental groups in germany have released a new report saying, pe