And the hong kong. Thanks to where they belong. Im british welcome to be double musician glad you could join us. A controversial overhaul of School Education to bring it in line but the national to go to law implemented last june the changes will see children as young as 6 being taught about National Security School Students but a visible part of prodemocracy protests that gripped the city in 2019 the changes are being seen by many as an attempt by beijing to solidify long term control over the city. What is National Security. Cartoon to explain a crackdown mr al is helping children understand the power relations between hong kong and china as well as the need to maintain them. National Security Affairs are of utmost importance to the whole country. Hong kongs new education guidelines would teach children as young as 6 about the security law and its main offenses they require teachers to beyond god for anything deemed subversive including books in libraries and flies on school noticeboards their reaction has been mixed so you see im a little worried about the independent thinking abilities of primary School Students in the future. I think its ok to teach National Security within the country but my concern is about the reduction of good content in general education. Is a good start no matter who you are or where youre from you have to love your country. A decade ago another attempt to bring hong kong schools in line with china triggered protests and spawned a generation of activists in 2012 tens of thousands of students stage marches and sit ins to demand an education free of communist influence. Then student activists such as joshua wong and agnes chao and on to become leading figures in hong kongs wave of mass protests and increasingly violent unrest against chinas tightening grip on the territory. Both joshua walling and agnes chao have now been jailed in a widening crackdown on dissent. China is now trying to reassert its influence on hong kong classrooms its new curriculum both the lesson and the warning they are law abiding and responsible. Joining me now is calling liar an executive Committee Member of the Hong Kong Professional Teachers Union welcome mr lie these changes to the curriculum that have been ordered would you call them an attempt of brainwashing or education. You know it certainly put a lot of constrain on what we can teach we used to emphasize Critical Thinking in our curriculum we allow the students to have different positions on social issues and some National Issues as as well but now the early introduce National Security education has put a lot of limits on what we can discuss and the standpoints that we can hold Education Bureau has said in the past that court fostering students sense of National Identity is done in other countries as well that sounds like a reasonable argument doesnt it. Yes theres our position as well we never say no to National Education we we know that of cause now we are under the rule of china aging government of course we we have to learn about our identity as a chinese and we need to care more about our National Security but we might be thinking that maybe the government is a bit too sensitive about these issues in schools thats what we are worrying about as a teacher you serve how do you think this sort of change in education will affect the with students act and think. Yes there are actually putting a lot of constraints on what we can teach and talk about and they also have fairy specifically defined roles for Different Levels in the school hierarchy up from the Founding Organization of the school the school bought to the principal did it teaches you to students theyre all fairy strictly defined so for example one of the things that current to the new regulations is that if they are students sane sols with political message just as schools their parish to report to the police so that certainly limits the freedom us expression in the school and also it breaks down the mutual trust between a school and its students so from the way youre describing it mr law is the choice in hong kong right now between another generation of georgia or wands or communist party acolytes. In the past year or soul obviously we see a lot of youngsters coming joining me for input who activities send off cause theyre also a lot of challengers. By the government in in the freezing out in ages and we as educators we think that we should talk about these issues in schools freely because it is useless for us to indoctrinate to give them a certain political stance and austin to believe so now the new curriculum and the new regulations are limiting freedom to do so. Relieve a bear for the time being but of course a lots more to discuss potentially or to me to be appointed so much for joining us today as i think youll have me. Remembered freedom of expression shrinking in hong kong its found a place to boom a lot in taiwan especially at a traditional pneumonia or market in taipei where hong kong has a free to purchase and some political much and something that was quite common in hong kong but things have changed drastically since beijings heavy handed crackdown in the city. The smell of hong kong time some walk through this taipei alley this is the Chinese New Year market told hong kong us who have gone into exile the wrong home. I hope the hong kong people can get a taste of home to encourage them to support each other as we struggle to survive in a foreign land. This is the 1st Lunar New Year many hong kong thats in taiwan are spending away from home most of them are stuck here because of the pandemic and the political turmoil back home. Before beijing imposed this National Security law last year you can frequently find political much dies in the chinese syria markets across hong kong now with that tradition can only be continued in democratic taiwan. Free hong kong revolution now these slogans have been banned in hong kong how ironic is it that we can still chant them as much as be like in taiwan why has hong kong become like that. Go along with. All the above sear our Yellow Ribbon stores indicating their support for the prodemocracy movement in hong kong some so products made by hong kong designers some of the revenue were flown to needy hong kong was in taiwan. The market attracts a few 100 festus mostly hong kong students in university in taiwan. The whole the whole dalai. Lama weve been studying here for many years. We never had such hong kong peoples gatherings before we used to be scattered across different schools but because of the prodemocracy movement and the political upheaval we gather together and spread the word that youll be arrested if you speak up in hong kong only. Talked i would guess why as well as that are they to be honest we can experience firsthand what happened in hong kong we feel more or less guilty we come here today as a group of guilty hong kong nurse hoping to do something or simply to support each other. You know at the high home. Tens of thousands of hong kong ers have already fled their home town in fear of beijings crackdown those now overseas are trying hard to keep their traditions alive but i applaud this event has a spiritual meaning there are things we can no longer do in hong kong that we can still do elsewhere in the world we cant stop what were doing because of the oppression we must keep going wherever we are. These hong kong most dont know when they can go home but home its always in their hearts. Have you ever heard of snake in hong kong turns out theres quite a few of them for generations theyve caught the slithering reptiles from across the citys bogs and green space is traditionally theyd be handed over to restaurants as an item for the menu but a new generation of catchers believes in conservation more than just trying to me. Catching a 3 metre berm is python by hand all in a days work for ken lee. His hong kongs youngest registered snake catcher. He was saying that. The challenge of catching that snake was that it hid under fallen tweaks and leaves. The lot so i had to remove them before i could catch it. I mean. Many older hands at cannes job earned money by turning their catch into snake soup shops. But ken does it because he loves reptiles so much that hes become a conservationist when he saw the creatures being harmed he felt their pain. I got me. I owed it but there were ok before i actually arrived at the scene people had already caught the snakes some of the 4 but unfortunately some of them were killed or had fatal injuries. Some people caught the snakes bravely but actually it cost tom too bad life. Instead of ending up in a cooking pot all the snakes come by can. Before being released back into the wild. That way it protects not only human beings but wildlife as well. 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The soul to see a freshly cut grass danger a sense of smell is something many of us take for granted but what if it wasnt there. 1000 infections often lead to a loss of smell the impacts can be serious fires may burn and noticed a virus may lose interest in eating or fall into a deep depression. Lets look at the strange ways kogut is tied up with our noses and neural networks. Out of all the senses most people say they could do without smell but have you thought about the consequences for your life and job about 60 percent of those infected with the coronavirus will have had problems or tasting. For current starglider falling ill with covert 1000 was a professional disaster the 53 year old did not have severe symptoms what was left on able to smell or taste anything as the owner of a confectionery shop she needed to test the quality of her cakes and chocolates. When he can buy something and i think if i have a glass of wine for example at the same time how to taste a glass of vinegar i couldnt tell the difference but just that this is tied to both of them taste acidic but i couldnt tell you which one is vinegar and which is the wine. Alessandro book says or symptoms are typical. Smell loss occurs when the corona virus infects cells that support neurons in the nose. Prescribe smell training as therapy in which patients rely on prescribe sense such as those of roses and lemons. Now. After losing their sense of smell patients can do to smell training to stimulate damaged nerve cells and start the process of healing or regeneration so the more you would. Want to live. Current stargazer has been using 4 different sense of day to reactivate her sense of smell coffee cinnamon chocolate closer vanilla are her favorite fragrances its a slow process but she hopes smell training will bring back her ability to smell and taste things and lets talk about losing your sense of smell with your of scientists rachel herz what id like to know 1st of all is if it could be permanent. So small loss with coping 19 we really dont know what permanently so its only the end of 90 years though that weve been into this crisis and its certainly the case that with upper respiratory Tract Infections loss occurs but there is hope for regaining it in those conditions and i think that probably will be the case here as well and there are different methods that can facilitate that especially things like small training some people are being experiencing this learn from months and months and months i mean a year can be a long time how how traumatic can that experience be emotionally and psychologically well its extremely traumatic and one of the problems being in this idea of permanence how long is ringback it going to last is it going to be forever you dont know and so that uncertainty even adds murchu and at the very traumatic to lose your sense of smell which people unfortunately dont realize because our sense of smell is connected to everything people assume its connected to can i smell fire or the gas that you know danger or the pleasure of food but actually is connected to our emotional life in very intense ways its connected to our social life its connected to our personal intimacy its connected to our sense of self and our memories and our sense of where we are in the universe with respect to other people on the whole world so it can be extremely ungrounded in and very very disturbing for people to lose our sense of smell so i reckon is this a side effect of something youre a logical. So would come up with 1000. 00 what seems to be going on is that the stars kovi to virus needs to enter cells in order to infect the host that has the human and the nose has a patch called be able to actually if feel again thats where all factory censoring their arms are we to tex melts also contains 2 other kinds of cells these all cells and what are known as supporting cells and these supporting cells have a high number of the kind of enzyme thats needed for the state protein of the sars virus to enter in this case 2 receptor people may be hearing about so that their virus can bind very easily to these cells and what happens is it causes disruption and creates inflammation which seems to be the reason why your factory sensory neuron shut down because thats where were normally detecting smells and then thats the 1st port of entry into the rest of the body so thats the basic mechanism so one of the things i have a kind of a pet peeve about is people really need to cover their nose with their mouth because thats the primary route of entry or the stars virus to get into you know just came across one of those callings in the car as before tell us when does this happen this this loss of sense of smell is is it an early symptom is some Health Care Workers have experienced before even testing positive i mean it could be a great warning in stopping the spread of the disease just like you were saying warnings of a bad smell of a fire of gas. Yes so what weve been involved in ive been involved in research that conducted with the el healthcare workers and what we found was actually that disturbance in the sense of smell preceded getting a positive test by the p. C. Ari her normal method of detecting you know biologically whether or not youve been infected by 2 whole days so this is actually a tremendous finding that smell osprey seeds getting a positive diagnosis and also preceded sort of feeling sick in other ways and actually is involved in about 86 percent of people who feel very mild symptoms or could otherwise be asymptomatic so have snow loss is a very very important signal to the individual to 1st of all get tested and secondly to self isolate to quarantine themselves then because you want to be avoiding transmitting it into the population so if you can sell florentine at the 1st sign of notice things now last thats really important and not only smell the hospital also alter the smell 8 whats known as rosin you know so if you smelling things but they dont smell right you know one person said to me everythings not like the nigger and so thats also something thats really important signal Early Warning signs could be 19 and we saw that in about a 3rd of the people who reported small dysfunction in our study of i dont know if its also a signal of all time as of bach and since disease but is it also a symptom of the new covert variant. So just to clarify the paralysing the other alters sense of smell is not really so much as far as we know involved in alzheimers or parkinsons disease in those things where small loss occurs that is decades before we see other symptoms but if you ask a really good question about the other variants and i have to say that i dont know the answer to that yet there hasnt been any research that ive seen that specifically looked at what variant of the cove a virus is causing this the star is virus red thats causing the illness and whether or not and how thats connected smell us thats a great question i unfortunately dont know the answer to that yet like so many questions in this crisis my last question can you fully breed train your sense of smell. So the good news is that because of the fact that its about the respiratory tract infection that causes small loss you havent had neurological damage to the way that the neurons can get into the brain for detecting smell and so forth so generally speaking in these cases there is hope for recovery and the best method to date is actually exercising your nose where what you want to do is get a set a very distinctive smell so things thats not really different are that you remember still believe differently and then a mint and you know some of her fume her cloves and things like that and smell those sense multiple times per day smell each for like about 10 seconds and repeat that over and over lets say 3 or 4 times per day for about 3 months and then switch to another step and the good news is that although its not 100 percent effective many people start to see improvement in their ability to smell through doing this sort of smell training exercising of your nose so there is real hope you know and it doesnt take that long you suspect is that you know a few minutes a couple of times a day and just have to keep keep up with ringback it and it seems whats happening there is its both training your brain and potentially causing your receptors to become re stimulated again reactivated to bring in more abilities actually its not i advice there from neuroscientist rachel herz thank you very much for being on the show today thank you very much for having me over to Derrick Williams now our science correspondent has been looking into your questions on the coronavirus. To sammy and his Team Acquired from the vaccine vary from person to person. Yes it does vaccines never provide 100 percent protection although a few that weve developed for other Infectious Diseases have come close but but everyones immune system is difference and will respond to particular vaccines in individual ways trials showed that even after being vaccinated some people who were exposed to sars kovi 2 ended up contracting symptomatic pilfered 19 but the vaccines being distributed now have proven to be pretty effective at preventing symptoms caused by most variants in most people and and some vaccines have proven extremely effective at doing so a simplified way of putting it would be to say that trials in some back scenes showed unvaccinated people were nearly 20 times more likely to develop symptoms of coke at 19 during the trial than someone who got vaccinated. But the really interesting point is that and trying to return to Something Like normal vaccines dont actually have to prevent at 19 and everyone if they can just stop symptomatic disease in most of us that would ease the strain on Health Systems and what would be even better is if that seems could help slow or stop transmission of the virus so if they not only prevent the disease in most people but also keep people from catching it having no symptoms and spreading it subsequently unknowingly theres new evidence that with at least one approved back saying thats the case that aspect really is key because it would break infection chains of to do that right now were still relying mostly on on blunt instruments like black masks and lockdowns and finally there are strong indicators that even if you do catch covert 19 after getting the shot at least some of the vaccines are limiting its severity so in other words the people who get the disease even after being vaccinated are rarely end up in hospitals. 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