Melissa chan welcome to d. W. New asia thank you for joining us thailand is facing another weekend of antigovernment protests and demonstrators have been Holding Daily rallies to with tens of thousands of people turning out the activists have 3 demands theyre calling for the Prime Minister to step down for a reform of the constitution and a reform of the monarchy theyve been keeping momentum up with some inventive events such as this a terrible fashion show held earlier in the week meant as a criticism of the elites and is specially of the royal familys tast well. Joining us now to what kind of fellow who has been out on the streets over the past few months and a critic of the government since his University Days you know what i remember the protests earlier this summer and then to see people still out now why do you think this movement has gained momentum i think that. You would not have been given moment because of the fairly Economic Situation is thailand the government condon manage the economy to cope with 900 happening and is also about the political structure that have some rope him since the coup detat in 2014 that make up a lot. Of news that can be Good Progress by. The use being seen it does. I mean it does seem that the 2 do you know make up over many a Prime Minister so you make a lot of. The statement about among young people and equality from because we make people think its better go now to leave you. Have im not a new. The cost structure new constitution so people are going to straight to the man changes. And when it comes to monarchy why do you think so many thais especially the younger people you mentioned want to see a reform of that institution. Monarchy have many will choose but it also have a lot of these and live to explore chile when it came to about her lead after days step that you know make maybe defy the last really good but sidon my not in people expect so i think the king now is so all i have a lot of strength to behave all and i saw he was hes lived great luck to lead in germany and is to be selected so people are now in very poor Economic Situation if they dont they use a lot of taxes they have to spend a lot of money for the king and hes not silly so people you know people want to cheerlead and also i think that the monarchy play really put that low in politics for some time so now people are seeing that becoming chand if they want out you still you know behave like you saw a young now spock the movement and many people questioning this endeavor my father the long path also charging the young people. Now nothing seems to happen without the approval of the military in thailand so do you think things can really change. Military have to be in a pod and know very much since nike for the say britain. Since they you know who are democratic government at the top and have been. A lot of the problem since then and they change a lot of things its a fair obviously such as i said at the culture of the society to be more are made to lie station. It have not been challenge its probably long but i think that when people are speaking truth. When theyre speaking for what is the only happening and admit that the in thailand it means that the militantly is strong is good having quits in the exchange yeah now to which apply sell thank you. Chinas video gaming industry makes more money than hollywood and bollywood combined and its latest hit is a real winner the game is called an impact and players both in and out of china have become big fans in just the last few weeks the action adventure game has already outgross to the countrys other text Success Story video and social media at tick tock kenshin impact is just the latest example of chinas growing multibillion dollar industry. Enter the world of chinas new hit video game its only been a few weeks since going impacts release but the multiplatform game has already captured the hearts of play is around the world. According to Research Firms the action roleplay has already entered the top 10 list of most popular Adventure Games in many countries a new record for the chinese industry. Well it may seem to be the great moment for Chinese Developers in fact the country has already been quietly expanding into the industry over the past decade one Chinese Firm Tencent is currently the Largest VideoGaming Company in the world making up nearly 15 percent of global revenue in 28. 00 it has shares in the 2 most popular games fortnight and players announced battlegrounds. Meanwhile china is one of the worlds most important gaming markets and is expected to reclaim its number one spot from the u. S. This year with more than 600000000 active gamers china is a clear winner of firms. But it isnt all fun and games Daily Reporter when lee joins us to explain lets start with the basics tell us a little bit more about this industry the gaming industry is to foster scrolling sector of the media and Entertainment Industry according to Market Research and news to the industry generated 115000000000 euro last year and hollywood generated 30000000000 euros thats just a fraction of gaming x. In fact the whole lot catch general the whole market generated even more money than music and the Film Industry worldwide combined and china is a big player in this industry and in fact really is just the latest example of how china is infiltrating in the industry now their issues are also we wouldnt be talking about this on the news program what are the problems so concerning engine impact theres been lot of discussion about the controversial Business Model all suspected plagiarism but there is one aspect thats the less the and thats censorship so the Chinese State has a strong oversight of its own gaming industry and developers have to comply with chinese regulations that means words that are sensitive will be censored and some players of tension impact complained that they couldnt actually use words such as hong kong or taiwan in the chat with tested it and as of yesterday we could actually do is hong kong it wasnt a problem but as soon as we type in taiwan or fallen go or even put in then the message will be turned into esoterics or with also tried that with names and well get a message saying that the name contains illegal keratosis now that means. That players all over the world are actually under chinese censorship no matter where theyre based yeah i was wondering about that essentially there and china is exporting its censorship around the world i honestly dont think that developers or Tech Companies want to be involved in politics. But they just cant get away from it we continue to talk for example last year it had to briefly take down a video by a u. S. Teenager because she condemned chinas treatment of we can muslims in america and i think Companies Even if they dont want to be involved in politics they will be because theyre under the watch of the Chinese Government and they just have to be really careful ok so lets flip this around if if a u. S. Video game company or a japanese video can Company Wants to go into the Chinese Market does that mean they have to comply with the censorship rules there yes or you out last year a very popular Nintendo Game animal crossing was taken down from the chinese major market because hong kong activists have used a platform to promote prodemocracy movement and if a game or tech Company Wants to enter the Chinese Market it will have to accept china as well and with over 600000000 active users of course Chinese Market is very attractive and a market really grow further and thats a choice that Many Companies will have to make in the coming years is a very tough choice 100 only thank you. When talking about north korea the news often doesnt go beyond Nuclear Weapons and the cult of personality around kim jong un so well end friday by taking a closer look at ordinary life in one corner of the country in the Northeast Area around. Mt in the Northeast Corner of north korea. Its forested peaks are home to the countrys most prized call unary delicacy the pine tree mushroom there are said to have an almost meaty taste with a chewy texture. Local village under new york is getting ready to set out for a day of hunting. He has into the hills in the peak season of early autumn. Pine tree mushrooms are hard to find if you dont know what youre doing youll just Wander Around all day long but you might even miss them right in front of your eyes but someone who knows what theyre doing can dig up a q. And a day. And knows just where to look. At this is it a pine tree mushroom when the weathers good the might be a dozen of them in the same spot but those are the best kind of days and also takes great care when it comes to digging up the forest delicacy using the proper techniques for villages like foraging for pine tree mushrooms is an annual tradition and a way to supplement their diet. Ordering the specialty an appealing young restaurant will set you back the equivalent of about 10 u. S. Dollars a small fortune by local standards. Pine tree mushrooms from the slopes of mount chilled are so treasured that leader kim jong un once sent 2 tons of them to a south korean counterpart as a post summit present. Thats it for today will begin now with pictures from japan where people are getting into the hollow i mean air it might be an american holiday but its certainly gone global thank you for watching and have a good weekend. Combating the corona pandemic. Where does research stand. What are scientists learning. Background information and. Our corona update. Good 19 special next on d w. Ws crime fighter back africas most successful radio drama series continues this season the stories focus on hate speech prevention and sustainable production. 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For at least people with mild infections the course of the immune response seems pretty much as we would expect for most types of acute viral infections where after you clear it just certain period of immunity our study followed us in specially protected and bodies out in the course of about 7 months and our studies show as many others that those antibodies continue to be produced for as long as weve been able to look is there any indication that it could be more than months it could be years. Yeah i mean when i say 7 months i dont mean up to 7 months i mean at least 7 months you know the pandemic hit our state fairly late and so we just dont have any participants who are infected any earlier than 7 months but if you look just by parallels to the 1st sars coronavirus which is the most similar virus weve seen you know those antibodies people who saw 1st sars common a virus that continuing to be produced now 17 years after the fact i dont know if this will be quite that long but you know i think a year or 2 seems like a reasonable minimum estimate that sounds quite optimistic though because of the corona viruses have shown that immunity can drop off after you yeah i mean i guess the question is whats the best prior whats the best analogy and so you know genetically and in terms the nucleotide sequence of the virus its really most similar to the 1st sars kind of virus so i think maybe like the best way to hedge your bets is say its probably going to be something in between you know a year or so which is what the common coronaviruses induce in the 17 years the museums the from the 1st are thrown of ours you know ultimately you know of a crystal ball and so theres really no way to take a shortcut here theres no way to know until we just start to follow it out. The people who get the virus badly though have have shown that they have more antibodies and they have them for longer whats that tell us. Well yeah i mean theres a lot of things that go wrong people who end up with severe disease in the early stages an immune response theres a huge amount of inflammation and uncoordinated signals the kinds of things that we dont normally see so theres something strange going on presumably the levels of virus certain are on the amount of the antibodies for use are also higher and so you know its going to come take a little bit longer for those antibodies to come down in people who have very mild disease and if you are in a box you know whether or not the people with severe disease will actually be immune for longer is that something i think we still need to see because again a lot of things dont really work right in the severe phase and so it could affect some of the long term antibody production we just dont know whats this all mean for a vaccine because a vaccine provokes an antibody response of course yeah i mean it was actually very optimistic about the africa see the potential of the vaccines it has seen so far so you know one of the things that we have noticed is that you know you get this nice stereotypical pattern of antibodies and they settle into pretty low level and based on the epidemiology weve seen so far i mean it seems to be protective im sure you want to get to re infections in a little bit but it seems like a pretty low levels of the antibodies are still protective the vaccine to be seen so far i mean all the onset of these 30 intestines here in the u. S. All exceed the normal immune response to natural infection and so if the natural infection can induce immunity im pretty optimistic that these vaccines will as well many things we still need to find out how long will the vaccine immunity last for and what are the safety effects all those things but all of the early indications ive seen so far make me very optimistic about the university of arizona thank you very much thank you and to bring you up to date here of the latest on a for more than 200 countries and territories on covert infections. The numbers show new cases doubling in 39 nations and increasing in another 94 countries have stayed at the same level in 8 countries 55 nations have seen their new profit of covert 19 cases decline another 9 are down by at least half and 6 countries have reported no new cases for 4 weeks in a row heres the bar graph showing that statistics of past weeks the fight against the corona virus will be over when that whole chart turns blue so its going to take some time. Now its up out of the show where you get the questions to our science correspondent eric why. Does improving ventilation make confined spaces like restaurants safer to operate because we know believe that aerosols play a role in covert 19 transmission at least in enclosed spaces adequate ventilation would appear to be a key aspect of lowering risk in public spaces like restaurants and bars but also schools but whats adequate exactly well thats pretty hard to nail down but because we tend to spend longer periods of time in those spaces than we do for example somewhere like a corner shop the general consensus among by rolla justs and airflow experts can be boiled down to the more outside air you can polish the safer you can make those environments so instead of asking whether improving ventilation can make restaurants and bars safer its more accurate to talk about whats called the air Exchange Rate which describes the number of times that the air is replaced in a room over the course of an hour i read a quote recently from one of the experts on air flow who said by. Easing the German Government on keeping schools open that really opened my eyes about the complexity of this issue he said it doesnt matter how effective air Exchange Strategies are if someone who is infectious is in a room the era can only really be cleaned if they leave it in other words transmission risks in spaces like bars and restaurants can only potentially be reduced by air replacement systems and even then they have to be pretty High Performance to make much of a difference but those risks rise again the moment more customers come and spend time in those spaces because the chances rise that one of them might be infected and shedding virus. That will covert 19 special for information at all website dot com and click on corona virus. Because india. Most of the animals here have experienced cruelty. Under legal parlance never leaves their side. Committed Animal Rights activist gives them a safe haven in new delhi. 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