Appears to be under control but at what cost. Im british banditry welcome to news asia glad you could join us china has the Worlds Largest population of lesbian gay bisexual and transgender people yet the vast majority of them have to conceal their true identities fearing discrimination at various levels within their families schools and workplaces of 2016 u. N. Report found that transgender people face the greatest forms and levels of discrimination and its something the protagonist of fun next story has experienced 1st hand. Say oh ma is the woman who stands. For the warners. Boy shes been living as a woman for many years and being 180 toward strongly built she still gets a lot of attention to how this has happened a lot ever since i was a child as a kid i was called a sissy boy and now people keep telling me i look like a man but they ask a man or a woman ive got used to the looks i get i do this while i say oh mom is in nickname shes still not comfortable showing her face on t. V. Its been 2 years since i underwent gender reassignment surgery shes also legally a woman china allows people to change their id card after surgery her decision was the result of a long struggle. For them a few shots sounded out when i was young media usually shoats transgender people less show girls who worked in bars or a sex workers they never showed normal people with normal jobs really there were no role models for me back then. Finally about. When i went to thailand for surgery she told me from a job at a Media Production company but when she returned she was laid off officially because she had been late for work. There were many people at that company who were frequently late for work but they were not fired only i was i took a walk. She made headlines as one of the 1st transgender people in china to take us through my employer to court there is no comprehensive anti discrimination law but several labor related knows do have clauses against discrimination even so shall model lost her case. Progress in the legal system depends on experts legal scholars who push for it and each case is an occasion to raise Awareness Among them to help people understand the needs of transgender people the circumstances of our lives question peter your challenge i think you know john thats in the. So maz former employer refused to comment on the issue but her case is part of a wider trans gender fight against discrimination recently another woman wants to sit. In the meantime mom has found a new job as a photographer francis more room and lives modest the kind of ordinary life she never thought shed have insurance looking invade roadmap. Joining me now for more is for america beauty activist. Paul walker how common is shabazz story of discrimination in china. I would say is still quite common now in china does this mission at 16 nation are to be teaching many tea for example a lot of my park and protect myself my docking tree has faced challenge facing she went to females khalids when she was at and fire herself as transgender woman and also such events like this almighty paramecium working place has also had a lot because i decided to really like offer a way a new sound gender diversity and also there is no law to protest protected their rights but is it only a matter of a lack of awareness or is there something more behind the discrimination that youre devoting to. I think an advancing. Media and there is really any image specially from a positive way presenting l g t and this is a highly regarded to the censorship in china and there were revelation against. The contents in film and t. V. Way in china so this is make a lot of filmmakers. Very difficult to present any character or scene those films and this is on but you have 1st hand experience or dont trip over or you know from a mama rainbow or also came in for censorship but it was also removed from various Online Platforms because of the content of the film exactly so but that lawsuit even was very complicated but also brought a positive result for me myself even the regulation hasnt been changed to beats us because of mike and i lost you case but. Gifted people very very is that well we can use the all as a as a told to to change is trying to change to society even it hasnt changed hasnt happened immediately but we become stronger of itself and there will be more possibility and we make people making more people noticed this thing because now is to be Community Still very invisible you speak about laws and then bring about a positive change in society not just talk about them laws for example homosexuality that has been legal in china for more than 2 decades yet you have this juxtaposition where the society is actually not that open so it doesnt all go to prove that you might even have the laws but that does not necessarily translate into a positive change in society. I think in china is a society that is still very patriarchal honestly a lot of families stews seeing. The children their children there as part of their. Poverty and they dont see them independently so this Strong Family while you still give a lot of the impact to people all secondly the root scenting of the media had to giving a lot of. People in this is. Negative and certainly it is really like protection from from from legal and then when you cant even work. In a stable state tubes and in a state stable. Situation it is so hard to fight for you only right what needs to happen for things to change i think firstly we need to promote a more diverse type of family a family doesnt necessary has strong traditional well all day out choosing family and they are also different. Type of off of marriage defun type over russian shit and. Secondly of course we need to remove this awful censorship because of these down to down people want to see us and. Also we need to see into intersectionality and because even everything that has to be community not only have the label of bt we also have different challenge easing of a life and for example clos age and. And and also what you have may have changed by the us auriti for all of the other life work or related so different topics has to be together talk with the transgender issues is to jaimee be related to a lot of differences issues in this is citee means to see that we live there with our being without so much for coming in from america. Where the global debts from covert 19 around the 1000000 mark in the city where it all began life appears to be to tony to normal. In Central China was the epicenter of the virus at its peak. City of around 11000000. 00 residents was placed under the Strict Lockdown new hospitals were built overnight critics and whistle blower was silenced including this man dr new one year and who was one of the 1st to report on the deadly disease but 9 months into one has a different story to tell. Its the story of a reenergized metropolis recast as a heroic victim of the coronavirus thriving again. Traditional opera for example can be found outdoors in the crowded and well to do central city. China shows off hahn as a city reborn and save the government media says by chinas efforts to fend off and almost send off the coronavirus that emanated from here. Now that everything is so good what risks can there be. On as the place where the epidemic broke out in the 1st place and i believe it must be the best managed. Things are so relaxed they put together a massive pool party not long ago attended by thousands of masked last people a viral video led to International Criticism of recklessness beijing countering the party showed its success in taming the coronavirus. Has restarted life has returned to the kind of flavor we had before so everyone living in will hand feels at ease. That easy feeling required a massive lockdown of millions han was a near ghost town from all appearances last winter. This well after a would be hero the late dr levy when liang sounded the alarm on the virus and mohan but was quickly censored by the government he died of covert 900 since then a 1000000 more people have died worldwide thats. Looking at it from chinas point of view theyve really done badly maybe they never really comprehended how serious this thing was. Back then many people left this world because of it and. This virus is terrible to have been as a make up what maybe every country like us never imagined it would break out all around the world i never imagined it background. Beijing though maintains the world can learn from its handling of the coronavirus triumph it says even as it faces bitterness overseas from covert 19 and the initial attempt at covering it up. Thats it for today theres more forward slash even now with images from india as it crosses the 6000000. So that. Combating the pandemic. Where does research stand. What are scientists learning. Background information and news. Hour corona. Special next on d w. Is for me. Its for. Beethoven is for. Beethoven is for. Beethoven is for every. Beethoven 2020. 5th anniversary here on you. The coronavirus pandemic has put the spotlight on the often difficult relationship between science and politics. In the scientific world researchers tried a slow and methodical path in the search for truth but for some politicians the rush to deliver quick and easy answers to complex questions has made Scientific Research into a political football. How does the virus spread. To mosques really protect their where it. Is most at risk from the pandemic. Researchers are still learning about the virus trying to understand how it behaves and devising strategies to fighters. They need politicians to turn their findings into Public Policy but that collaboration is often far from straightforward. This is news covert 900 special ferguson thanks for joining me here in germany chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that the number of corona virus infections could rise to almost 20000 a day by christmas if the current trend continues she says the priority must be to bring numbers down while keeping the economy alive throughout the pandemic shes been shaping her policies around the latest advice from germanys scientists and researchers among the experts that have her ear is the countrys most well known for. Austin. Where a mask wash your hands and maintain distance people in germany are accustomed to following the safety and hygiene guidelines yet despite years the rate of infection is climbing with more than 2000 new cases in a single day the highest count since april germanys most prominent virologist christian sees the development critically he recently spoke at a conference in berlin. And detailed some of his concerns in an interview with georgia vella. And other countries look at france the u. K. Spain what were seeing there is what we will see germany. If we dont react very early on. In a way that needs to be adjusted that needs to be. Lets say bearable for the economy and at the same time target and this is a very difficult task to find the right point of time thorsten has praise for germanys coronavirus policies and the response by the countrys leadership during the pandemic he says germany has been efficient and measures have softened the pandemics impact but he also says the government could do a better job of explaining why certain decisions are made it is not sufficient to impose rules that people dont understand so that cooperation off the population especially in the coming weeks and months. Over over of autumn and winter. Is probably one of the most important functions in the whole concept 2 to intervene thorsten says from a global perspective current developments in india particularly worrying the virus is spreading there almost uncontrollably and he says the situation in many western countries could also become more threatening there are areas including in europe where there is little control where countries already go into autumn with a high. Background incidence i believe. There are countries including europe. Will have to impose stricter measures very soon as germany and the world prepare for a likely 2nd major wave of new covered 19 infections in the coming months now more than ever politics and science need to work hand in hand. Thats bring in professor or they d. N. I. Go hes a neurologist at burren insanity hospital on the founding director of the quest center for transforming Biomedical Research professor dan i got thank you so much for joining us how has the coronavirus changed the relationship between science and politics i dont think this relationship has changed in principle scientists provide evidence and politicians may or may not act accordingly but what i guess is different for example to the Scientific Council because i think Climate Change is that it is in the nature of an emerging pandemic that the visual evidence is often tentative new evidence leads to new into patients and new recommendations potentially even reversals so in general politicians dont have a good track record to be following sound scientific advice i mean Climate Change again is therefore no big surprise to me that politicians have difficulties in following scientific advice is it is based on preliminary evidence and reckoning by statistical models now as we saw in that report there here in germany and hes become a household name how much influence would you say individual scientists have on politicians. I just have to ask the scientists generally downplay the influence but for us observers it appears that some scientists are indeed highly influential i guess its obvious whos on sweden with the stated understating who has the say or officially on Anthony Fauci in the us although he seems to be marginalized by problem. But take the u. K. For example its quite likely that new focus meant his model of the potential death toll triggered a policy reversal in the u. K. And led to the lockdown what is problematic in my view is that its and its not the scientists who are the people aim for that Scientific Advisory supposedly not guided by 4 relevant principles Advice Research be inclusive in preventing sources expertise stakeholders it should be rigorous thats comprehensive free of bias independent review and transparent that its a deeply it conflicts of interest assumptions limitations gaps and which are also be accessible that is freely available in a plain language and we dont see that at the moment in any country and expanding out what youre saying they do you think find that theyre under pressure to advance a certain political agenda and all this. Well in every country politicians not claim to act according to the best available science but what is this best available science someone has said that its a case of survival of the ideas that fit so politicians tend to favor the kind of science that alliance with existing preferences what special to political actions or inactions in the pandemic just that they are felt immediately in viscerally by everyone its days instead of years as the Climate Change so is a prominent demolishes recommends closure of schools and the government indeed close the schools the scientists becomes an immediate target for those opposing this measure so i guess this puts tremendous pressure on scientists giving advice. And im not hold that what you say the attention they cloned a virus is getting right now is good or bad for science. I guess a little bit of both and the jurys still out where the positive or negative effects will prevail science hopes to contained eventually a predicate a threat this will reflect positive on on science i hope on the other hand many of the measures taken have unintended consequences harming many people and as i said just now therefore as its straightforward to blame scientists for all the negative consequences even within science because its not black and white on the Positive Side are new forms of disseminating evidence scientific discussions which are currently popular us think for example preprint. Scientific collaboration also gets a push but on the other hand we see whats been called a calling these ational Research Resources and expertise is funneled away from here is with the surf equal attention t v there are a cancer and theres increasing noise making it harder to focus on the signal thats robust and Relevant Research results plus we see what has been called research exceptionalism and thats on the bed not bad data is better than no data and thats clearly dangerous especially in the conditions of a pandemic some pros and cons f. F. S. They are they cannot go from very emphatically thanks so much for speaking to us thank you very much. Time night on through one of your questions about the coronavirus over to our science correspondent eric williams. If i think i had the virus but couldnt be tested could the vaccine actually be dangerous for me. Well we dont know at least not yet but presumably the ensor to this question and others like it will be provided by the extensive phase 3 testing that a number of vaccine candidates are going through now they involve tens of thousands of volunteers and some of them im sure will have already had covert 19 and most other diseases there arent mechanisms that would cause someone who had them to react badly to subsequent vaccinations i think the assumption most experts would make is that with covert 19 vaccinating someone who has already have the virus will generally act more like a booster shot reminding the immune system that sars co 2 is still around and putting it back on high alert which isnt to say that potential vaccines wont have any side effects in fact reports so far imply that some if not most candidates are pretty react oh genet which means they can cause discomfort ranging from from headache to soreness at the injection sites to fatigue or fever but the big question is whether those side effects are seen as acceptable in terms of tolerability if some people get a headache for a couple of hours the day after a vaccination that would probably be considered an acceptable trade off if their temperature spikes dramatically then it wouldnt thats at least in part what what phase 3 testing in vaccines is about one thing its meant to do is identify as many rare. Adverse events as possible in a big test go work to evaluate as many potential dangers as possible before you give a vaccine to the wider population. And we leave you with this spain has been one of the European Countries hardest hit by covert 19 over the weekend activists placed thousands of spanish flags in a park in the capital madrid to mourn the over 30000 people whove lost their lives to the disease in recent weeks the city has become one of europes coronavirus hotspots the secret auction was also meant as a sign of protest and a call on the government to do more to stop the spread of the virus. And thats all from this covert 1000 special if you want more of the dedicated coronavirus section of our website from maine the team is good by take care. Its quite as simple as it seems. To understand why. We need to take a closer. Experience knowledge to judge. The truth. 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In so many different walks of life. Some are. Awfully strong but all of them come straight from the heart to the former c. E. O. Even when theres no money dilution the mushroom inches. From the logs to their final resting place the russians on t. W. Documentary. This is really news live from girl and bombshell report present lashes out at allegations that he avoided paying taxes for years good news to shake loose faith in your time says the self described billionaire claimed heavy losses across his Business Empire and so paid hardly any income tax also coming up struggling to flatten the covert curve in the courts the worlds 2nd highest number of infections exceeding 6000000 cases of covert 900