Middle of a pandemic students in india no choice but to take College Entrance exams despite safety concerns. Welcome to news asia its good to have you with us protests have erupted in northern china over a new education policy that replaces mongolian as a medium of instruction with mandarin the you know mongolia also enormous region borders mongolia and russia ethnic mongolians comprise about 17 percent of its 25000000. 00 residents on monday before the start of the new Academic Year the local government announced schools would have to use new textbooks in mandarin the changes extend to 3 subjects literature politics and morality and history that will gradually be taught in mandan instead of mongolian the changes are typical in schools where mongolian is the principal language of instruction parents and students say this puts the future of the mongolian language at risk and is an attempt by beijing to promote the majority hun culture or the ethnic mongolian one. A rare scene in a mongolia a protest over chinas new education policy for this ethnic. Language is their cultural identity something they cant bear to loose. Across the border in independent mongolia people have also taken to the streets to show support. Is the last region in the world which keeps using the traditional mongolian scripts. That is why mongolians all over the world a 1st rate hit about chinas new policy of cutting the language from to school program. Under the new policy schools in the chinese autonomous region bru gradually replaced the teaching of course subjects from mongolian to man during many fear that the Younger Generation would gradually lose fluency in their monotone. Proud of our brothers who were very few but fighting hard against a 1000000000. He knew at that that is why we have to send them our love and support. Im afraid that they might get endangered. Thats why were here to not let it happen. China says the concerns are unfounded. To haarlem in the constitution of the peoples republic of china or regional autonomy of ethnic minorities and the education law or stipulate that citizens have the right and obligation to learn and used in the shin of language. Guarantee the freedom of all ethnic groups including mongolian to use and develop the languages of all nationalities and. And assurance that could be a hot sell for a minority determined to protect its cultural tradition. For more im joined by anger but tacho hes director of the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center its an exile group based in new york mr touchett welcome what does the try these government want to achieve with this new education policy so what the Chinese Government is trying to achieve is a total eradication of long on their Language Culture and identity. The socalled bilingual education is in fact is monolingual education where all the subject will be taught in chinese and the mongolian will be taught as a foreign language. So the official documents issued by the Inner Mongolia autonomous region edgett department of education already. Laid out the 3 year plan to replace mongolian entirely with the chinese. And the mongolian language will no longer be the medium of education and the document also said that by 2022 day everything will be taught in chinese but if its about propagating the mongolian language it is not being entirely banned it will stick to still be taught as a language. Are you not satisfied with that. Well. Dee as i mentioned earlier. Among millions will be taught what. Foreign languages for them going as students so the mongolian student and parents are not accepting that because they think the mongolian is their native language and they have been. Learning mongolian and learning on the subject subjects in. The mongolian as as a medium of. Instruction in among all the schools you referred the parents and students and there are no actively protesting as we hear you know mongolia and now police are reportedly offering bounties for information about people who are involved in these protests and what effect do you think that will have on the protests. Well yes the many. Different areas in in many different areas the Public Security bureau us are starting to post. The post asking people to report about the suspects who were involved in what is authorities called. Involved in it picking quarrels and provoking charles and at least a few 100 people were listed and we can see there it is as the start of mass arrest and consider this as the. Starting start of the the harsh crackdown. Where do you see the protests against this new policy headed in view of this harsh crackdown that you are expecting. And. The protests have been a very good example a textbook example of nonviolent noncooperation still civil disobedience resist moment and we believe it will remain so there in the entire course of the moment. What chance do you have of a success do you think when similar changes to the curriculum have been instituted in other ethnic minority areas such as tibet and shin jiang well noam no matter what the met that the authorities use and no no matter how harsh the government crackdown on be a protester protesters. Mongolian will not give up and they are determined to continue the the mass Nonviolent Resistance Movement and. So we believe we believe. There is still some chance. Of success even though the government is using Excessive Force even if there is some possibility that the government all crack down on the under protest entirely or this time but. We are among millions will continue to resist through widespread none cooperation and civil disobedience in the years to come. Whenever they are there for the time being angry about the truong director of the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center thank you so much for speaking to us. Thank you for having me. Despite protests and legal wrangling india is going ahead with crucial Competitive Exams that will determine the future of hundreds of thousands of students the annual exams are taken by those wishing to enter prestigious engineering and medical universities but with india fast approaching 4000000. 00 coronavirus cases in total there have been concerns about holding their exams in the middle of a raging pandemic. Examinations during a pandemic and the rights to some colleges remain closed as India Records the highest rise in cases in the world. These students are appealing for a crucial test. And its just like never before. Mosques assigned at the exam center constant sanitization and repeated calls for social distancing. The years that parents and students here are reassured by these measures these see they cannot afford to lose any more time to the pandemic. Playing hard. All big because as all the measures were taken so that. They could have conducted this exam and he probably. But they pushed it to july and now that they cant afford any more delays yet not everyone has been sick about that many of the Competitive Exams held every year in india have default position this time students have protested online against the risk the family are being forced to take and have even approached the Supreme Court all of the students took to social media to trend the hashtags rise against exams and quit while the Supreme Court has rejected their demands didnt say forcing them to appeal for the exams is cruel its probably a good while an aspiring doctor is expected to travel 150 kilometers next to meet. To the test center she hasnt stepped out in 5 months and start a fight to do so she her dream was over social media but another exam led to dozens of call with 19 deaths in 01 i know many students whose parents are asking them to skip exams this year it is far too risky to go for them nothing is decided for me either my family is scared they dont know whether i should go for the sick someone not just opposition parties have taken up the cause as well as the accuse the more the government of being and i student protesters insist they dont want exams stance and but simply postponed until it is safe for work on the new console that students of in their county and of their parents. Because of all of the you can only question the Prime Minister of india. For time being these students however intend to get on with their plans this yr their careers will have to be formed within this new normal. Thats a phenomenal show to check out other stories on dot com for what. Facebook and twitter are really even now with images from in thailand off of all of that exhibit sculptures that look like theyre made of frost when in fact theyre made of white Sand Sculptures that inspired by characters from tie for crawl back to monday. Combating the corona pandemic. Where does research stand. What are scientists learning. Background information and. Our corona update. 19 special and next on d w. Life on earth one of the kind and. Coincidences. Or the improbable happen. For us were going to the creation of our solar system of the planet is a bit like winning the lot of races. For your unique start september 18th on d w. Aids tuberculosis and the plague some of the worst diseases came from animals. The new coronavirus is just the latest. Scientists believe it originated in bats. And that it spread either directly to humans or via pangolin. But how exactly. If the virus is actually in food and we have no examples of where this virus has been transmitted as a food borne where someone has consumed a food product and the viruses can be killed like viruses or other viruses as well can be killed if if the meat is cooked wildlife and the corona virus. Its not about pointing fingers but we need to know where the disease started with us or with our friends in the Animal Kingdom and how exactly do these diseases move between hosts scientists are trying to work that out but have to be careful not to make matters worse while in the field. Who. Our closest relatives in the Animal Kingdom are keen communicators just like us the similarities are not surprising given that we share almost 99 percent of our genome with chimpanzees but what is a common cold for a human can be lethal for a chimpanzee and as the animals are a highly social species an infection can wipe out an entire group so researches are very cautious when approaching the apes here at the thai enough tional park in ivory coast germanys Max Planck Institute for evolutionary anthropology has been studying the behavior of chimpanzees for many years its experts have seen all too many infections have a devastating consequence for the animals they examined diseased apes to determine their cause of death and identify any pathogens also because potential viruses could pose a threat to humans to. Take for example the last major outbreak occurred in west africa between 20142016 taking the lives of 11000 people it is believed to have spread to humans through the consumption of infected wild animals such as apes and fruit bats they typically carry a range of viruses but are not necessarily affected by them if an ape eats fruit contaminated with fruit but saliva it can become infected and the virus can then be passed on by human eating infected ate meat in the case of the virus is deadly for both humans and apes scientists are investigating those modes of transmission among the chimpanzees of ivory coast and among lowland gorillas and in the rain forests of Central Africa and the congo basin they too are under acute threat from humans who are encroaching deeper into the Natural Habitats of the primates cutting down trees to sell the timber. A further threat is from poachers who hunt the animals for then meat to feed the rapidly growing population and unwittingly come into contact with viruses and pathogens in the jungle scientists have registered around 200 so not it diseases infections transferred from animals to humans not all a dangerous there might well be more deadly surprises lurking in the jungle for. Joins us from the Institute Just how dangerous are diseases that originate in animals for us. Well in general we have to say that most of these most pictures these leaders or asian aging in any amount. In humans are originating in animals so the more we look molly pine that even the well known means of such as needles come actually from the Animal Kingdom so they are beer and they are dangerous i was also reading something similar to humans suffer from very similar pathogens to to the great apes what why is that now we share genetic and heres your Logical Properties with the great apes our closest relative. Speaking we are great apes astronomically so this is why we share most of the same things the only difference is that we humans are lation all connected and the great apes are not so they have less Infectious Diseases actually circulating among them so how do scientists prevent. Pansies for example apes which whichever animal they may be that theyre researching how do they prevent them from catching something from us. Thats a very important topic actually we carry more diseases and they do probably and we have shown thats research or tourism we can bring our Infectious Diseases to the great apes so we have since 2008 but we become pain where we promote healthy missions just keeping a distance wearing a mask basically everything we are doing now and everywhere in the world to prevent prevent disease wrapped whos carrying around more disease away or the animals because i also read about bats that they carry around thousands of viruses the never actually make them sick but just one of them has spread throughout the human population like wildfire 19. Well if you talk about the jet and the mold in general yeah beret attacks anomic guy whos group so they will have more possible than we have in total looking at one single theses humans happy or property to. Pass a difference permanently among us and then many any male species thats not possible on the National Circumstances because they are not such a big population and theyre not so connected so you know they they dont have to grow any they should problem like we have so what can your research on great apes contribute to protecting humans from future pandemics so from from the triple centric point of view the great apes you know they live in an area with high biodiversity was lost all microorganisms which mean dont even know about and they have thought of as little kill terrorists wherever they catch from the environment which makes them sick or kill them is very very likely also important for us so we can use them as sentinels and. Is the future looking better for your research is it so dire i mean everyone talks about the next pandemic and we havent even gone through this what have. You this is also not the 1st pandemic right we have many have already infected man and client in the past and he is also the peelings are not to give these coming from the chimpanzees right so im very sure the next one will come nobody can say when it will be and where exactly at start of this is where we need more research to identify the risk and the risk factors is it something thats being funded to the extent that youd like to say. I think you will never get a positive reply on that from any researcher. Obviously i think its. One of the few Positive Side effects of this pandemic that there is more attention on these issues and the content on one house where we look at the Environment Human Health and human health and the connectivity both between those that have become again a bird which is even mentioned by politicians so theres hope that it will be better for the future but to hear thank you very much for joining us today thank you have you got questions youd like to ask about the coronavirus getting contacts on our you tube channel and our science correspondent Derrick Williams will look into the subject. Why are diabetics highly vulnerable to getting seriously ill under contract kovac 19. This is one of those questions researchers have been trying to answer for months and theyve really struggled with it and its a critical one particularly for countries that have high rates of diabetes a recent study from from england for example showed that earlier in the pen demick people who had the condition made up around a 3rd of covert 1000 related deaths in hospitals thats a lot estimates in the u. S. Have put that percentage even higher but its its really difficult to to untangle the exact reasons why People Living with diabetes are often affected more severely than the average kovac 19 patient thats because patients who have type 2 diabetes the most common kind often also have other comorbidities associated with severe covert 19 outcomes complicating factors like like obesity or or hypertension for example the exact cause of the often more severe outcomes in patients who have diabetes is therefore still unclear but we know from past research that the metabolic disorder also affects immune response which means it can impair your ability to recover from infections and and covert 19 can also attack some of the same organs like your kidneys that may have already been impacted and someone who has diabetes thats why researchers are now looking at whether diabetic drugs could also maybe play a role in treating tobit 19 even among those who dont have the disorder. 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