Attempting to rally in support of the opposition politicians and for running into local elections and protesters by the mere putins government were also coming up on the World Hepatitis Day we ask why more than 300000000 people are still affected by a disease thats treatable and to prevent. Im carl kasell and welcome to the program hong kong citizens are marching in the city center today defying an official ban as they seek to protest the Police Response to their prodemocracy rallies last night solved violent clashes between police and demonstrators with dozens arrested and injured authorities fired tear gas and rubber bullets as they attempted to disperse the crowds the protests are part of a weeks long. Campaign for greater democracy at home on and autonomy from the land china. And joining me now is our correspondent much longer hes been covering these protests since the beginning in hong kong now the ts today is the 3rd straight day of demonstrations that seem to be escalating can you just bring us up to speed on what we can expect today. As you mentioned it todays march has not been approved the assembly in the beginning has been approved by the police but the march was considered too risky by the police and they have not approved protesters are going to march anyway and this is basically what weve seen yesterday as well the police trying to stop the protests and the protesters marching anyway this is the mixture that makes tensions rise during these days in hong kong weve seen 3 straight weekends of clashes between the police and protesters and ive talked to some of the protesters they were saying that they were still hoping that today might be peaceful but they had little hope that this might be possible protesters of course blame this and tiredly on the police but we see anxiety intentions on both sides right hes. Now police are being criticized for a bloody crackdown yesterday on protesters in the exact same train station where armed thugs attacked protesters last week do you think in the end of this weekend will be seen as a turning point in these demonstrations. I think the turning point has already happened 6 weeks ago when the police 1st used massive amounts of tear gas and rubber rubber bullets against the protesters this was something at the time that had never happened in in Hong Kong Police had never used this amount of violence to disperse protests and since then. The situation has been hardening and the Police Tactics have also been hardening police into fear much earlier now and with much more violence there have been doing things that were not seen before like chasing people into buildings and then gassing them into in side these buildings and this is what what has made protesters stance also harder. Now the protests are basically about police mylan to the man to investigate the actions of the police much more than about the initial extradition bill that would allow extraditions to china that was at the beginning of this protest movement were watching those dramatic pictures of clashes between police and protesters i mean after seeing that where is kerry lanna why hasnt hong kongs leader addressed protesters as this situation seems to be coming becoming increasingly unstable. This is something many people here asked themselves many observers many citizens of hong kong the government has basically not seen the only times curry goes out and meets the press is when she wants to condemn violence but this is always weiland by the protesters she has not distanced herself from annie off the Police Actions of war although some of her. Ministers or secretaries theyre called in hong kong one of them house police has interfered too late when tribes attacked protesters this is the only thing that they have admitted so far and its an example of an extreme bad handling of these protests a government that disappears when hundreds of thousands go to the streets is a government that gives the impression is basically not able to handle whats happening in this city and this is of course fueling the protests for. Us in the heart of things in hong kong today more people taking to the streets thank you very much. All right lets take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world President Trump has been accused of launching a racist attack against black congressmen and democrat comics shot fired a volley of tweets calling cummings district of baltimore a quote rat infested mess cummings said criticize conditions for migrants on the Us Mexico Border top democrat nancy pelosi said trumps insults were racist. Under us has deployed its military in a giant operation to combat evil young break has affected more than 28000 people and killed at least 58 officials of call the National Emergency the find to be dengue carrying mosquito and launched a fumigation program in homes and public buildings. 2 american teenagers have been charged with killing an Italian Police officer in rome the men allegedly stabbed the officer 8 times after he and a colleague confronted them on friday night over a bank theft italian media report that one of the suspects as. Well prosecutors in sudan say 8 military officers will face charges for attacking a peaceful protest camp in khartoum last month 87 people reportedly died in the incident but civilian opposition groups say the death toll was much higher theyre demanding an independent investigation. Right to moscow now where the number of people arrested in yesterdays opposition rally reached over 1000 they were attempting to rally outside the mares office to protest the banning of opposition candidates from upcoming local elections activists say it is the biggest crackdown on dissent in many years. A show of force from Moscow Police facing off against an unauthorized demonstration as people took to the streets to demand free minutes apolo elections one protester after another is arrested. For the people taking part here a sign the authorities in flooded near putins russia fear their dissent could spread. What you might want to do you cannot be indifferent if we dont start with these local moscow elections when will it ever begin russia is a big country and i hope people will see what were doing. And with scenes like these thats what authorities seem determined to prevent as the protests began police stormed the offices a. Opposition leader alexina felony who had been streaming the demonstration live on the internet they arrested his studio head they also raided internet t. V. Station. And ordered its editor in chief to undergo questioning. For now the strategy appears to be keep the protestors and their anger against the ruling party contained. Well today is World Hepatitis Day and although the virus is preventable and treatable it still kills more than 1000000. 00 people globally each year now its hi this is an inflammatory condition of the liver and of course without a healthy liver toxins build up in the body causing serious illness and death. Hepatitis is mostly caused by viruses but it can be triggered by poisons or alcohol consumption. 1. 00 im sorry habitat is b. And c. Are the most severe varieties the World Health Organization says they kill 1400000. 00 people every year thats more than hiv aids or malaria scientists estimate more than 300000000 people worldwide are affected by have otitis but the majority of them are on aware of the World Health Organization has started a campaign to raise awareness about hepatitis their goal is to eliminate the disease as a Public Health threat by 2030 many forms of hepatitis can be prevented treated and even cured unfortunately though in many countries there are still not enough testing or treatment services. Well for more were joined now by michael p. Mans he is the president of the hun over medical school and has spent much of his career researching liver diseases and Viral Hepatitis thank you so much for joining us 1st of all we just heard those shocking numbers why do you think this disease is not get as much attention as Something Like hiv for example we have been fighting for this all all the years i really do not understand why a disease that causes live a can so the course is death from the death toll you mentioned it is more than 1000000. 00 per year thats a shocking number 3 number and you mentioned a moment the new age of young tuberculosis we have more than 300000000 chronic carious and this is caused by various viruses have because b. C. And d. So its not understandable why we dont diagnose the disease because we have treatments available now. Hepatitis as we heard there its preventable its treatable whats holding us back then why theres still so many people dying from is why cant we really get a handle on this disease 1st of all we have to distinguish it because being limited to see it but that is b. We have a vaccine and we have therapies that control of ours we cannot cure the virus have a time to see we do not have a vaccine but we have therapies that cure the disease the other question is access to therapy its costly however there has been a change in recent years there is high prices in high Income Countries but they are generics in low Income Countries but in countries like germany where access to treatment is available for almost everybody the problem is to diagnose these patients and therefore the world to have a tie to stay is it has a model that we have to find the millions if we dont diagnose the disease we cannot treat the disease that leads me to my next question a lot of us are wondering ok so 9 out of 10 people affected by have otitis theyre not aware that they have it how can that be how can it be that people dont know that theyre infected only a minority experience is symptoms when they get the acute disease and the symptoms of liver domino pain are jaundice but others have only for tea and discomfort but the majority doesnt experience any symptoms the just developed chronic infection with b r c and they only experience symptoms when its too late when they have end stage disease and therefore we need screening programs to diagnose the undiagnosed. In your opinion where should we be putting more of our resources we should not put resources into diagnostics and screening programs in germany for example we have not included liver enzyme testing the check out 35. 00 we test for cholesterol for Blood Pressure but not for liver enzymes and the 2nd step has to be that we have to educate general petition us that they if there is elevated enzymes that they dont think its caused by alcohol not elevated enzymes of the liver is always caused by alcohol very often that are treatable infections like Viral Hepatitis behind it now we heard that the World Health Organization as a pretty lofty goal they want to eliminate hepatitis as a Public Health threat by 2030 do you think thats a realistic goal we have to look at the nation by nation for iceland its very realistic that or around 1100 people that have been identified and that would be cured very shortly we have other countries where very efficient programs are in place like in portugal georgia and even in egypt the countries with the highest prevalence but other countries including germany we are dropping from the list we have been listed greenlight by the w a job 3 years ago but we dropped to yellow because people are thinking we will not achieve the goal of elimination by 2030 because we dont diagnose the item and in a place like germany even in a place like germany and its prevalent in the migrant population in the i. V. Drug abuser everybody who had blood transfusions before 92 is at risk but we now have to have 3 d. Programs in place interesting stuff michael p. Mans from the the president of the one over medical school today and on the national Day International day of hepatitis thank you much thank you very much. All right changing gears now no pun intended we move to cycling a gun barrel now is set to win this years Tour De France after he held onto his lead through the penultimate stage the colombian held off his closest competitors on the steep climb up the volatile runs as italian of inch and so the bali one that stage that simply means though that theyre now only has to cross the finish line in the shot at these a in paris later today as tradition dictates that the race leader is not to be challenged in the final stage. 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