Makes another attempt to repair its broken migration policy and overhaul has been unveiled but will the 27. 00 Member States of the e. U. Be able to find unity with his plane and kremlin critic alexina vault is released from a berlin hospital after being treated for poisoning his case triggered a diplomatic crisis between russia and the west what will mr know vaulting do next. Its good to have you with us it was a display of cowardice or contempt its hard to tell which but president Alexander Lukashenko of bell the ruse has been sworn in to another term of office in a ceremony that was kept secret from his people when they heard about it today protests. Once again took to the streets and police used water cannon and tear gas against the liquor shaker was soon his 6th consecutive term with hundreds of officials present the protesters and the opposition say the president ial election last month in which he was reelected was rigged. When he wus Nick Connelly hes in minsk for us hes covering the story for us good evening to you nic people have been coming out to protest again this evening whats going on where you are. Getting pretty well i am in the heart of downtown minsk and indeed has been very very noisy up the last few minutes here people basically looking from the main road. With flags trying to kind of interest that person whats going on today and basically fighting running battles with the Police Police coming in he says and with once again another bout to to using pepper spray and take gas and every time the police counted off 101520 people to jail new people turning out but just a very volatile situation no real clear when this is happening we know that being taken in something that has been a feature the last few days or so a lot of police and unmarked uniforms they can be just you know your cages playing with the likes of us and back on doing their best to intimidate these people and get them back up the street. Nic do you get the feeling that the situation it just in the last 24 hours has become worse. Its definitely more volatile one of the most people say that it was we got into a kind of almost a kind of scene of protest session the weekend then during the week that other activities but for the people going going about their daily lives in the process now it feels like by. Violence the searching his decision to stay in power and refuse to engage in dialogue with this extraordinary. Day out of the blue without any gas not even the Russian Embassy for them it feels like people about the for. It feels like people here is a very angry and feels somehow not a community but it and i would think the rich will complete the police to make the well what recourse does the opposition have right now nic i mean this week the European Union failed to agree to slap in the same chins on the government of lucas shane go and the opposition really it doesnt look like they have a lot at their disposal is that the case. So i think these potentially all white isnt just average kind of demonstrations weve seen in the last few weeks or weekend that people come out and kind of interact with their kids and their pets with them system and now you have people in the neighborhood making nightly so my politics hang out flags like the government tries to pull down and then every day they come back you have University Students organizing you have doctors refusing. To treat the policeman kakas have now published the personal details at least of this as a kind of form of retribution given this asymmetric pound and balance between all the police and im on but just this i dont get a sense from the people here that theyre willing to go home and stay quiet again and i think this is a country where people yes have seen the keep out of the quarter century but i think people like having to have with jack and i dont think that this kind of gets that because theyre really going to work and the people who critically brave old women young young teenagers will lead dreaming of them tearing down i think its a very difficult evening but i dont think the field but. He never used a connelly but the latest 9 to bulbul situation on the streets of minsk in belle ruths nick thank you. The European Union is trying once again to create a coherent and humane way of dealing with migrants those who seek asylum and those who seek a better life today it unveiled a plan by which e. U. Member states such as hungary in poland which refused to accept migrants would instead offer money equipment or personnel to help patrol borders European Commission president of underly and appealed to all Member States of the e. U. To show solidarity with one another and to rise to the challenge of migration account on the greek island of some most fit for 500 people it houses 5000 it was meant to be a transit point but a backlog migration system has turned it into a whole new for so many. Routes on the 2 years ive been here not good open on conditions are squalid this place and these people are why europe is finally confronting this crisis presenting her proposal the European Commission president called on Member States to rise to the challenge. This package we flex a fair and reasonable balance between responsibility and solidarity among Member States we all share the benefits we all share the burden. The migration pact includes compulsory pre entry screening with fingerprinting on the health check a foster 12 week asylum processing target and a sponsored return scheme that would see Member States take responsibility for returning migrants on behalf of other Member States. The plan abandons previous efforts to relocate new arrivals or run to 27 Member States something opposed to by the likes of hungry im paul and n. G. O. S see that could create havoc in the mediterranean. Member states from play Member States like italy greece and. Will be reluctant to cooperate if there isnt any sort of mandatory relocation and then they might not disembark our ships that have been rescued and then migrants are remain stranded so a lot will depend on the willingness of either Member States rights in the last 5 years has not been a very high the Commission Hopes the seams of a funding migrant camp on the greek island of lays post will be the catalyst for change. Morea is of stark reminder we need to find Sustainable Solutions on migration and we all have to step up. Moreas resident know rehabbed in another makeshift camp can only hope that action comes sooner rather than later. Are for more now im joined by our correspondent barbara destroyed force from brussels going to need to you barbara im wondering what really has changed here maybe you could explain to is what has for example how has the burden been lifted for countries such as greece italy and malta the countries that are usually the 1st ports of entry for my. It has fallen the been lifted a bit there are some rules that migrants are supposed to be processed foster and that they are then supposed to take can be taken away from those camps of entry hole ever if you really look at the proposals you can see how that is going to work because so much of this is voluntary there is as we heard no. Real relocation any more and no mandatory relocation everything that happens here is one terry so how is that going to work out why should some countries suddenly say ok were going to take a 1000 and who is going to take 1500 we see the same thing were seeing now after the market has been burnt down so there seems to be no real solution to that problem and the main thing of course is that the Eastern European countries who have been so opposed to relocation and now just being left off the hook now what are the other European Countries going to say to that why should we take people in if you dont take people in so the imbalance remains and it is yet to be seen how this can possibly work out really is diverted as the European Commission has it finally just given. This idea of fairly and equitably redistributing or if you across the entire. Yeah it absolutely has given up they have really kept it you laid it before the these sort of iron will and the sort of glacial demeanor of the Eastern Europeans who whenever you have the word migrant have said no whatever you said how can we sweeten the pill they said no so now theyve given up on it and its left to the other countries to somehow distribute people amongst each other there is going to be is somewhat different mechanism of how people are going to be taken away from the front line states but its not quite clear how that is going to work theres going to be more family reunification which means more people will come to scandinavia and and germany because so many migrants already live there you can see why that should be particularly fair so all of this really doesnt seem to be like that like the great master plan that is going to leave you 8 anything to do with the what used to march from brussels barbara as always thank you. Lets take a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world a grand jury in the u. S. State of kentucky has voted to indict one of 3 White Police Officers for one team in danger meant following the killing of Briana Taylor police shot the black medical worker in march in front of her boyfriend after they forced their way into her apartment with a socalled no knock warrant the u. K. Government has warned of trucking chaos if british businesses fail to prepare for brakes it the minister in charge of preparations michael gove said if a trade deal is not agreed upon there could be hold ups involving thousands of trucks at English Channel ports beginning in january and vehicles could face 2 day wait to enter france with germanys foreign minister who mas has been grounded for now after his bodyguard tested positive for the coronavirus it is unclear exactly how long mohsen will have to remain in quarantine in his apartment here in berlin his initial coded 1000 test was negative. On the russian opposition figure alexian of all he has been discharged from a berlin hospital hed been undergoing treatment you may remember for poisoning since being airlifted to berlin at the start of the month and of all the has made it clear he wants to go home but that still looks away all. Not long ago alexina valen he was at deaths door and this is how he looks today drawn thien visibly aged but very much alive its now just start for a month off he fell ill and 2 weeks since he awoke from many jews coma and the valley is no longer in the intensive ward but russias most prominent opposition politician will stay in germany with wife yulia and his children for now to continue his rehabilitation. He wrote on instagram my doctors have decided that my recovery requires resuming normal life rather than treatment in hospital walking spending time with my family ive already stumbled to the pock in pants 3 sizes too large. 44 year old invalid me got sick while campaigning in siberia last month. He was lifted to believe. And then tests in germany france and sweden confirmed he was poisoned with a military grade nerve agent nova chalk the west holds the kremlin accountable from the valleys poisoning but moscow denies responsibility and says hes welcome home when hes ready. We wish him a speedy recovery. As a russian citizen he has a right to return to moscow at any time. Its still highly uncertain if he would be saif there last week ally said traces of not been found in a water bottle from the siberian hotel but the kremlin still says he wasnt poisoned in russia too many feel its pot wants answers from moscow about who attacked him valmy threatening action if thats not forthcoming if russia is not cooperating i think we should ask any and nato partners who think about what measures should be but 1st we have to said those questions to russia and russia should have the chance to answer but theres little sign the kremlin is ready to cooperate leaving relations between bilin and moscow i ling even as alexina valmy recovers. The french singer Juliette Greco has died at the age of 93. 00 after the 2nd world war greco became part of frances intellectual in crowd of philosophers but it is for her singing that she will be remembered. On. The road. And watching the w. News ill be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the day to see that. Combating the corona pandemic. Where does research stand. What are scientists learning. Background information and news. Hour carona update. 19 special next on d w. Ws crime fighters are back with africas most successful radio drama series continues all of us odes are Available Online course you can share and discuss on w africas facebook and other social media platforms crime fighters tune in now. In african countries poor Living Conditions are endemic and diseases such as malaria diabetes and t. V. A widespread. Health care facilities are generally underresourced and often decrepit. And yet so far. The continent has avoided the worst of the pandemic. 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 same crowded conditions also offer some extra protection against cobbett 19. 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 mcconnachie meeting to higher survival rates. But theyre still trying to unravel the mystery. Africa has recorded a 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 are in south 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. Is this arctic a today we dont think 88. Minutes to make sure that he had to stay there to actually discuss this pause and then the steadiest thinking that. Oxford university partnered with South African blacks knology 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 yo. You. Think you can pick up a stick and i just i know when i had that someone was in england i was worried because they didnt know what being close. At least involved with this. Vaccination try but after a few days i just do it what it was a lot and im here to continue to try. To even notice it but its still very kid 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 covert 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 they have been exposed to other coronaviruses that cause the common cold early on. Indigenous communities have a simple hypothesis and claiming south africa weathered 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 west could come in mindanao shores and want to think that we can just be vaccinated is problematic with that look at measuring the effect that the insurance systems of healing that exist in this innate you 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 coding both from a health point of view but also from associate konami 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 take action. With almost 16000 deaths and over 650000 texans 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 parson taller just out on University Thanks for joining us can you please tell us what this hypothesis is all about. You know get out of. We have been working a long time on the middle of a parasitic diseases and the host response of the human 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 to get rid of live which is a parasitic one disease it is spread through tropical africa with about 40000000 people infected and here you have one large room in the skin amounting to somehow doods per square kilometer yet the. Immune response is so god regulated that there is almost no inflammation in the majority of people and they sometimes dont even know they have disease so we know also that there is a spill over of is immune response to. 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 is more as well established and the hypothesis now is that this is overshooting immune reaction that comes with severe comit 19 cases might be mitigated because the people who 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. Oppressive modes and voids the talking parasitic infections but this is very tricky you have to imagine the parasite horrors of 10000 different proteins and even more other molecules d that it can play with in order to interact and down regulating real 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 dargon lote overcomes a very specific problem like receptor in shows of pollen you are in the immune system also playing a porn drone 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 19 weve seen which seems to be more or less round. So we went be relying on the worms just yet stuck to aqim her hour from phone University Thanks a lot for joining us. And now is the part of the program where we pose one of your questions to ask science correspondent derek will you. If you inhale sa scope does 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 were people who were required to wear masks during tobit 19 outbreaks on average less severe forms of the disease no 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 show that there appears to be. A correlation between being exposed to more stores 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. One and Derek Williams there and if youve got a question for derek you can submit it through our you tube 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 that dot com thanks for joining us and until next time take us. Into the conflict zone with tim sebastian. Welcome to this special edition of conflict over the last 4 years weve interviewed several senior lebanese politicians about the mixer will break down the very cold to me and they state institutions what they told us provides an unusually clear insight into the response for lebanons intractable crisis the conflict of principle. Next on deal political. Stories that people of the world over to g. W. On facebook and twitter to date and in touch follow us. More. I cant sleep because you know. Using. Those long small over. The rules. Is no use no love. For. Gaza or wont work using the. Cant sleep. Sleep. Sleep. Long before the massive explosion that tore into beirut last august lebanon had been following a path that led to only one way to selfdestruction. Also smoke grows over the city around 200 people a day to thousands of illegal victims of corrupt children competent politicians who for generations have allowed their citizens to sink into poverty and despair the explosion was a terrible symbol of back neglect