He is definitely no longer this countrys president and that as a result the countrys Security Services were under no obligation to follow his orders tonight were expecting big protests here in minsk the police has closed down effectively the city lots of police and police vans on the streets ready to make arrests people being sent home early from work in the expectation that the police will need to get their streets emptied to deal with protesters and journalists have been arrested doing their jobs out in the streets of mints today so really a sense that events are accelerating here and its now in the 30 seconds that we have together is this going to galvanize demonstrators or is this really such a big blow to their efforts. I think it will defeat galvanize their efforts this is how scared this regime is how its feeling the pressure that it needs to basically do this in private without any real legitimacy or guests on hand to see whats going on so i think if anything this will bring more people out in the streets nights and well see how they react to the police facing off against them and they come and they come labor porting for you from belarus thank you very much. I want to tell you now about some of the other stories making news around the world. The eiffel tower in paris has reopened after it was evacuated because of a Security Threat also 100 people were let off the landmark following a telephone bomb threat officers searched the area but said they did not find any explosives the eiffel tower is a frequent target of the hoax says brother. In brazil flash floods have hit the city of Rio De Janeiro blocking roads and leaving car stranded residents have been struggling to make their way through battle log streets after torrential ways that neighborhoods to the south of the city. More than half of the pilot whales stuck in australias biggest stranding on record are believed to have died or skewers or have been struggling to free the nearly 500. 00 mammals beached off tasmania the stranded pod was 1st believed to be about half the size before further aerial searches spotted another group of around 200. 00 nearby. The core of our respondent that has caused massive losses of income for people for people all over the world according to the International Labor association well workers lost almost 11 percent of their income in the 1st 3 quarters of 2020 well thats a total of 3. 00 trillion dollars long term measures and closed factories and offices have affected almost everyone but lower middle Income Countries have been the hardest hit more and more families have been arriving and fell palos new 5 a month bringing everything they own gilmer gone salvias job and is building a temporary shanty for his family prior to the corona virus pandemic he worked as a daily burner and construction. The downward spiral began when he stopped receiving job offers. Your problem our landlord wouldnt let us pay the rent later and because we couldnt pay on time he kicked us out then we found out that a lot of people who are going through the same thing were building shanties here so now were moving in. The International Labor organization estimates that in the 2nd quarter of 202017. 3 percent of working hours were lost worldwide due to the coronavirus measures including the closure of construction sites factories and offices in terms of employment that means a total of 495000000 jobs have been lost. Government measures including stimulus packages and short time work allowance have somewhat mitigated the financial consequences but the ilo says its mainly developed countries that can afford this emerging economies have limited possibilities the results are poverty and desperation. The u. S. Has begun 3 days of tributes to the Late Supreme Court justice and liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg also day her coffin was taken to the Supreme Court building where the public will pay their final respects for 2 days then ginsburg will lie in state in the u. S. Capitol a bitter political debates is playing out over president trumps intention to nominate her replacement before the election in november as the nation pauses to remember her remarkable life. For days people have been a legend at the Supreme Court. And in Brooklyn New York where Ruth Bader Ginsburg grew up in the 1930 s. And fortys the daughter of jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe she lived in a modest house in an ethnically mixed neighborhood. Career was a life long battle against sexism despite being one of a handful of women to attend Harvard Law School in the 1950 s. She was rejected for training. Because of her gender she was paid less than male counterparts in university appointments. She eventually worked for the American Civil Liberties union and in the 1970 s. She went on to argue cases in front of the u. S. Supreme court to advance gender equality. President jimmy carter selected her in 1980 for an Appeals Court seat in 1993 president bill clinton nominated her to be the 2nd ever female justice on the u. S. Supreme court. There she made a name for herself as the leader of the courts liberal wing and later in life gained unlikely famous r b g a celebrity justice who inspired countless women and girls. Worried about you know her i had a i have recently a track. It is amazing that at my advanced age 85 and so many people want to take the patient with me. With ginsburgs death the Supreme Court has lost an iconic liberal and her replacement could tilt the court in a conservative direction for decades. And with me here on the set is peter for me that was us Election Team to talk more about this a huge its a political fight has erupted over our replacement to fill us in on the latest where were at right so were expecting trump to make his decision on saturday thats what he said at a rally and we assume that he will pick a woman thats also what he said today so were at a washington is that its really its down to the 2 candidates right now the clear favorite is Amy Coney Barrett she is a very young successful lawyer and judge 48 years old shes current currently on the federal appellate judge and a former law professor now she was a finalist on the spot for the Supreme Court that eventually went to Brett Kavanaugh back in 20 team and she has a really strong track record as a staunch conservatives he said about catholic she is opposed to abortion she has defended gun rights and is also defend it restrictions on immigration so a lot of issues there where she would be in staying with the trump ministration and republicans are large of service say that if she were to get picked theres virtually no doubt republicans would have a good shot at trying to challenge a horse in. Even obamacare next year shes expected to be a shoo in among republicans who now it looks like have a pretty solid majority when it comes to confirm her in the senate so it looks like trump is all but sure to get a big win going into election day this would be his 3rd Supreme Court justice appoint in just the 1st term thats only happened twice since world war 2 right now for the uninitiated who are not very familiar with the situation in the u. S. Why is this such a contentious issue right its a great question and it really is because a precedent he can only serve a maximum of 2 terms so 8 years Supreme Court just as they serve for life and this really essentially means that theres an opportunity for president s to leave their mark essentially decades after they leave office and it matter because you know the Supreme Court makes some of the biggest most impactful decisions in the country it was the Supreme Court that have put an end to racial segregation it was the Supreme Court to legalize same sex marriage it was the Supreme Court legalized abortion and you know before the death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg the balance on the court was fairly even you had 4 liberal leaning justices 5 more conservative justices now with her gone this means essentially that that balance has tilt it in the conservatives favor so its now a 6. 00 to 3. 00 balance it means that its going to be very difficult for liberals to you know essentially get anything or it means that conservatives have a very good shot at you know getting confirmation on stuff like abortion that they want are overturned as a look ahead and so. It sets of republicans even if trump loses you know in a very strong position going into the next year so its a momentous decision 10 seconds left this is happening 40 days to election day yet and. A day trump does not spend talking about corona or anything else is a great day for him this as i said would be a tremendous win for trying and it will really help mobilize not just his base but also mean that people on the fence about from can hold their nose and still vote for get over that thank you thank you. Youre watching the domain news coming up next in the w. News asia rising tensions between china and taiwan after another show of military force from beijing. And the families of 12 hong kong out to those arrested at scene fear for their loved ones safety in chinese custody. Those and a lot more coming up with melissa chan after the break oh dont forget you get all the news and information on demand by heading to whats supposed to be dot com or you know follow us on twitter our handle is it w. Burton software lochinvar like i hope to catch up with you at the top of the hour again. A Little Society and im a labor market diversity is called morning gender and little background each Summer School or new. Patient health of military should be the deciding factor in career success. We talked to Human Resources director is diversity Just Lip Service loreal are seeing made changes. In 60 minutes d. W. Eludes. Lead. To live. Live. Live. Muslim women in between there for himself determination. I dont want anyone to tell me what the right where headscarf. Women are striving to reform. The way traditional prejudices. Start september 24th w. Youre watching d w news asia coming up on the program tensions between china and taiwan continue to grow well this turn into a flashpoint in the greater strategic rivalry between china and the United States. Plus an update on the 12 hong kong activists who tried to escape by boat china now holds them under detention we take a closer look at family members who want their loved ones back. Im melissa chan welcome to news asia tensions between china and taiwan have hit a high not seen in years most recently chinese warplanes crossed to the median line the Narrow Strait separating the 2 sides over the past week thats according to taiwans president would the United States plays a role in all this as taiwans main supporter the trumpet administration plans to sell taiwan billions of dollars in weapons from missiles to Surveillance Drones in order to shore up its defenses against any potential attack by beijing taiwan is a democracy with a separate government but president xi jinping considers it a part of his peoples republic of china. Over ousting reception for taiwans leader as she meets air force offices at one of the territories most important to military bases. President sighing when he was there to deliver a special message following a spike in tensions between taiwan china so where thank goodness as a commander in chief of our National Armed forces i want to assure the people that our National Army officers and soldiers are absolutely capable and determined to defend the country and safeguard regional peace. It was from this base that pilots scrambled jets to intercept nearly 40 chinese warplanes and bombers that had entered taiwans air defense zone. It was not the 1st time this had happened as these images of chinese fighter jets earlier in september show. But analysts say last weeks intrusions were an unusually Large Display of force by beijing. Taiwan for its part is determined to prove its prepared to defend itself. This Live Fire Exercise in july is 1 of a number this year simulating a response to a chinese invasion. Relations between beijing and taipei have become strained since the election in 2016 of president sighing when in part over her rejection of beijings view that taiwan is part of one china. Yet tensions have also been fueled by the presence of this man in taiwan in august u. S. Health secretary of exes are became the highest ranking american officials who visit taiwan since 979. His visit comes as a Trump Administration increases its support for taipei its ties with beijing sour chinese reaction was furious. That they do congress as a political provocation to china it encourages the arrogance of the separatist forces to Taiwan Independence and undermines sino u. S. Relations and peace and stability china firmly opposed this im strongly condemns that. Taiwans leader has warned china to back off but theres little sign that beijing will comply with her wishes. Joining us is Dexter Roberts he was formerly Bloomberg Businessweek correspondent in beijing and his latest book is called the myth of chinese capitalism the worker the factory and the future of the world before we get into the economic angle to all of this because there is definitely an economic angle but do you think the characterization is correct that tensions between china and taiwan are at their worst in yours. Yeah im afraid that they are were seeing a situation now where china is threatening taiwan both virtually through its state media which is openly talking about war and of course in reality with the p. L. O. Air force doing this on slot of flights across the unofficial midline in the Taiwan Strait in recent days the Foreign Ministry spokesperson in china responded to the the concern in taiwan by saying there is no medline in the Taiwan Strait because all of it the strait and time on included belong to china and of course there is a complex economic component to all of this taiwan china and the United States all do a tremendous amount of business with each other right. Thats right yeah the relationship between those 3 places the u. S. China and taiwan his ex is extremely close economically you have a situation where some of the very top products by top u. S. Companies apple i phones i now call i pads dell laptops the list goes on they are produced in china by very very large type hes Suppliers Companies like foxconn packet tron and wish stron in very large factories there in china at the same time you have many of the top u. S. Multinationals Companies Like intel micron General Motors qualcomm starbucks the list goes on that are deeply reliance on the Chinese Market for their growth so they would simply be much Smaller Companies if they did not have this very significant market in china and then the final thing is you have literally tens of thousands of mainly Business People from taiwan that are resident in china and you have a tens of thousands of u. S. Citizens also living there is an extremely extremely close and in twined economic relationship so how does this matter to regional neighbors. Well i think that. You look around the region and almost anywhere you everywhere you look you see the sources of tension already already very much alive between china and its neighbors if you look in the South China Sea if you look at the East China Sea around the same kaku islands or the deal you tie if you look on the indian chinese border theres already real tensions there almost every one of indias chinas neighbors rather it is already involved in some kind of conflict with china if you look at again vietnam in the South China Sea japan in these trying to see that we saw the bloody violent clash on the indian chinese border thats really has been threatened by china i think that theyve already got plenty of problems the last thing they want to do is be pulled into a situation where theres a real conflict between the u. S. China and taiwan and theyre being asked to take sides i think theyre in a theyre between a real rock and a hard place on the one hand theyre deeply reliant on the chinese economy on the other hand they dont want to be told and certainly dont want to be sort of put under the thumb of this newly assertive china so the neighbors are all watching and as they watch the situation continue to terry and will this change if the u. S. Elects by now as president and thats of course assuming the premise that the u. S. Is what determines relations and not what president xi or president hi tess. Yeah i think melissa you bring up a very good point were only going to see an election as you know in one of them in washington and were not going to see any change of leadership in beijing xi jinping the Party Secretary has made it very clear that he has no intention of moving on and i dont think that china under xi jinping theres no suggestion that they want to abandon this newly assertive. Role in the region and g. And globally including militarily so thats not going to go away that tension is likely to continue to be just as just as a just as much a problem as it is now i think the other thing to keep in mind is that what weve seen in the u. S. Is is really the emergence of a bipartisan consensus that is deeply skeptical of chinas motivations globally and very worried about what comes next Dexter Roberts thank you. 12 hong kong activists who tried to flee to taiwan by sea last month did not make it instead of chinese authorities intercepted detained them and since then weve had little word about them because the government has denied them access to their families and their lawyers. Has the latest. These old album is one of the few things connecting jason new and his younger brother luke the man who has lost contact with his family over the last month the High School Student was among 12 detainees ranging in age from 16 to 33 intercepted by the chinese coast guard while allegedly by speedboat from hong kong to taiwan they were then sent into custody in Mainland China for what was termed illegal Border Crossing jaysons brothers spent his 80th birthday in detention. We feel helpless my dad gets drunk when he looks at our family photos ive enjoyed numerous sleepless nights because im worried my brother could be facing unfair treatment in Mainland China the worst scenario we can imagine is that we wont see my brother for a decade or more. His brother and most of the detainees are facing charges in hong kong relating to the n. T. Government protest last year the charges include arson and rioting one of the detainees was arrested last month under the sweeping National Security law imposed by beijing chinese authorities havent allowed any of them to meet lawyers hired by their families instead assigning government appointed lawyers to detain these families have been trying to get hong kongs off guard he used to help but in fact they became even more anxious when the chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman labeled a 12 separatist jayson sets the lawyer hired by his family has also been pressured to quit what the authorities consider to be a sensitive case. Its far fetched and irrelevant to call illegal Border Crossing separatism i think for 12 of them fled hong kong because they were losing confidence in the independence of the judiciary. Hong kong authorities have been indifferent to our demands perhaps because those in custody are activists. For you and Human Rights Office and the u. S. Secretary of state have both called on china and shortening the process and legal right is also concerned whether the issue will be asked diplomatically thats one of the detainees if the partner gets national. Post good wishes is perhaps the very least the portress can do the mainly fortys have to decide whether to formally arrested tang east by 1st of october which is the chinese are too fast to fall and the traditional they are Family Reunion opposition lawmaker added to following the case but thats not optimistic theres a major reason why holcombe people came last year to protest against. Their special. Nightmare come true they would definitely be used. To pay. The whole. Truth years to become a parking chip as u. S. China tensions gets worse. Thats it for now be sure to check out our other stories on d. W. Dot com for asia or on facebook and twitter well see you tomorrow thanks for watching. Combating the corona pandemic. Where does research stand. And what are scientists learning. Background information on. Our corona. 19 special the next d. W. And you hear me know. Years and years we can hear you and how the last years german chancellor will bring you back or as youve never had have surprise yourself with what is possible who is magical really what moves back and what author who talked to people who followed her along the way admirers and critics alike how is the worlds most powerful woman shaking her legacy diners chemicals last that. African countries poor Living Conditions are in demick and diseases such as malaria diabetes and tb her widespread. Health care facilities are generally underresourced and often decrepit. And yet so far the continent has avoided the worst of the problem there make. d there were fears that Living Conditions in urban communities in south africa and beyond would accelerate the spread of the virus for some experts are now asking what if those sane crowded conditions also offer some extra protection against coffee 90. Some scientists thought a useful population might be behind africas relatively low infection rates but as the pandemic continues analysts are more and more reluctant to put the continent successes down to demographics. Some researches have also hypothesized that the presence of certain parasites in the body are contributing to higher survival rates. But theyre still trying to unravel the mystery. Africa has recorded her little over 1400000 cases of corona virus thats less than a quarter figure of the figure for the United States alone almost half of the continents confirmed cases where in so. Africa but even there the death rate is surprisingly low and the country scientists are pushing to find a vaccine. To search for a lifesaving covert 19 vaccine is back on in johannesburg. Anything christians know that some of the k. Today we dont want to teach some right amendments to make sure that you can understand the text discussed this pools and that this 10 years to get canned. Tuna versity partnered with South African blacks and ology experts in june to begin producing a locally effective serum to vaccinate against the corona virus which was halted when a sister trial in the United Kingdom saw participant take ill. You. Think you can pick up a stick and i just i know when i had thought someone was in england i was worried because they didnt know what being closed called a book at least involved with this. Vaccination. But after a few days i understood what it was about and im here to continue to try. To even notice the very case the efforts form part of emergency measures to deal with the coronavirus pandemic in the worlds most Unequal Society its very important for us to know that these vaccines are safe and effective in a South African population who may differ greatly from from populations in in other parts of the world. South africa much like the rest of the continent has not experienced the covered 900. 00 death rate seen in parts of the developed world i. Dismiss baffle some experts as to how a country with poor Living Conditions a high burden of diabetes tuberculosis and hiv aids is not overwhelmed by the pandemic. South africa has a much younger population than many European Countries and younger people are less severely affected than older people in addition about 40 percent of those young people we estimate had a symptomatic infection and that might be because theyve been exposed to other coronaviruses that cause the common cold early on. Indigenous communities have a simple hypothesis and claiming south africa whether the covert 900 storm through the power of Traditional Medicine that is widely used throughout the country. For them to search for a modern vaccine in africa is futile and offensive. So we feel insulted that. People who come with me at the damages from the worst could come and mend in our shores in want to think that we can just be vaccinated is problematic with that recognizing the fact that the insurance systems of healing that exist and theres a need to know in our midst. Amid this opposition the vaccine trial continues with fears a 2nd wave of covert 1000 infections could arrive in coming months. We need to try and diminish the impact of covert both from a health quinta view but also from a social economic point of view and that can actually only be done if we have a suitable vaccine going forward. Only a few months old the vaccine trial is expected to run at least until the latter part of 2021. Im really hopeful that by this Time Next Year well have a vaccine available the studies are going well and we should be able to achieve. With almost 16000 deaths and over 650000 impaction is in south africa alone productive fairly on her team the arrival of a vaccine cant come soon enough. For corona virus deaths across africa lower than scientists would have expected especially when you consider there may have been many more cases than have so far been recorded a number of reasons have been put forward for that from africas young population to Traditional Medicines there is another more unusual hypothesis some scientists believe parasitic worms could be protecting some africans from the full effects of 19 on this we can speak to dr i came hair off who is a parser taller just Born University thanks for joining us can you please tell us what this hypothesis is all about. Good afternoon. We have been working a long time on the reality of a parasitic disease and the host response of the year moved immune response particularly against warms and one of the dominant features is that there was ensure their survival for 10 years and longer in the body by suppressing the immune response for example take the river of life which is a parasitic one disease it is spread out through the tropical africa of about 14000000 people infected and if you know you have one larning in the skin amounting to some hundreds per square kilometer yet the. Immune response is so darn regulated that there is almost no inflammation in the majority of people and they sometimes dont need nobody have the disease so we know also that there is a spill over of immune response to other. Immune responses for example negative is that some of it seems to not work as well as they should and this is also been very clearly aligned to this immune suppression and the motivation was more as well established and the hypothesis now is that this overshooting immune reaction that occurs with severe cold night in cases might be mitigated because the people are were wars and havent you know suppressed general. Status if this hypothesis does prove to be true other any implications for possible treatment coronavirus. Just long sought to carve out the beneficial parts of the immune response of a. Present mold and voids the total parasitic infections but this is very tricky you have to imagine that the parasite harbors a 10000. 00 different proteins and even more other molecules that it can play with in order to interact and down regulating those systems not to speak about that of the infection of the locality and all these things its very complicated so far. Except for a few molecules that for example have been shown to dog alert now becomes very specific calling receptors in shows of pollen you are in the immune system also playing your partner on septic infections they can be addressed by small molecules but they are still in the brutal developments and we are not yet there are definitely be longer. Perspective coding the idea of seeing which seems to be moralists problem. So we went be relying on the worms just yet stuck to akim her hour from on University Thanks a lot for joining us. Thank you very much. And now is the part of the program where we pose one of your questions to ask science correspondent Eric Williams. If you inhale sars call for to us the number of viruses you inhale make a difference in your symptoms. This is a really interesting question because it touches on a recent comment made by a top American Health official that universally masking up might be more effective than a vaccine at protecting us from covert 19 the idea behind that claim is that although masks dont prevent people from being exposed to the virus entirely by limiting exposure they could help reduce the number of people who develop severe cases of the disease and the theoretical equation is that light exposure leads to more asymptomatic cases ed and theres some evidence to back that idea up from settings like cruise ships and meat packing plants where where people who were required to wear masks during covert 19 outbreaks on average less severe forms of the disease know the exact amount of virus that it takes to make someone really sick is a kind of a slippery concept called the infectious dose or viral and and theres no way to really tell for sure whether a higher infectious those causes more severe symptoms or not at least not in humans thats because if you really want to test the either youre going to run into a major ethical problem youd have to intentionally infect people with varying amounts of the virus and basically wait to see what happens next but we have carried out studies like this in animals for example hamsters and they do indeed showed that there appears to be. A correlation between being exposed to more sores close to and disease severity which is not really a surprise but of course other factors like like age and General Health also play a big roles and ill cop. A science correspondent Eric Williams there and if youve got a question for derek you can submit it through our you chub channel thats all from this college 19 special if you do want more from us check out the dedicated coronavirus section of the d w website dot com thanks for joining us and until next time take a. Close. Thank. You. Theres a Little Society account on the labor market hundreds that he is calling more of the gender and little background each School Orientation held for the military should be the deciding factor in career success. We talked to the Human Resources director is diversity Just Lip Service or reality made in germany. In 30 minutes on d w. Conspiracy of the socalled soulless. Body that will never be found. 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