Melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us weve reported on the hundreds of detention facilities across the shing general and in china where the government has rounded up some 1000000 weekers a muslim and ethnic Minority International condemnation has not discouraged beijing it appears that the system put in place inching jang is being installed in tibet once again china says these are voluntary Vocational Training centers but if whats happened in any indication its more about forcing Chinese Culture on unwilling to batten. Deliberately given to the nearest fence trying to seize control of the land they live on tibetans have complained that their religious freedom and traditional way of life are being actively cotyledon now it appears the situation is getting was. Evidence that beijing is closing hundreds of thousands of tibetans off their land. And into socalled Vocational Training centers that are set to resemble labor camps traditional farmers and herders that being turned into factory workers and other low paid labor and maids to relocate to other parts of china. Those are the findings of a report by u. S. Based Research Institute findings chinas governor in tibet denies. There are no forced labor transfers as the Party Secretary and i explained just now people have a strong desire to travel for work and people have a strong desire to learn new skills. The government has followed their wishes and needs. But the information gathered by the Jamestown Foundation tells a different story it says the rural tibetans are coerced into militarized training regimens in facilities like this one and subjected to quote slow transformation patriotic and Legal Education and chinese language teaching. Its aspects like these that are causing comparisons to jan province where beijing is accused of indoctrinating ethnic week is and socalled reeducation camps. Theres no evidence that tibetans are facing the same level of persecution as the week as the International Community is taking note on october 14th washington appointed a new coordinate a full tibetan issues and had a message for beijing. One of the core challenges that we were identified from the Chinese Communist party there a consistent violation of the most basic and fundamental human rights for their own people whether its in john whats taking place there whether its tibet we talked about that a little bit earlier this morning well work hard to do everything we can to build out a coalition all across the world comes to understand how important it is alongside of us and works to impose costs on the Chinese Communist party when they act in ways that are inconsistent with those basic fundamental human freedoms. Beijings onset the us should mind its own business. Surely so with the establishment of the socalled special coordinator full tibet and is used by the us is totally out of political manipulation aiming to interfere in chinas internal affairs and undermine the development and stability of tibet china has always opposed this position and has never recognized that. Tibets government has said that some 15 percent of the regions population have received locational training in just 7 months and the program is ongoing. Rights groups worry that with every person that some are old tibetan culture is being further eroded. Joining us is Kate Saunders a specialist and writer on tibet kate the report documenting this just came out but i know youve monitored whats been happening in tibet for years what have been some of your own findings. Yes this that this report. Important indication of the very rapid social economic transformations taking place and to bat and what we found is that this combination of intensified securitizing militarized. Before sion jack came to that in which dystopian police state was set up in which emerging from chinas economic and strategic objectives on tibet and with the ultimate aim of. An official document put it breaking connections breaking lineage breaking roads and what we found is that this goes beyond the superficial measures now so tibetan buddhism a loyalty to the dalai lama runs very deep into people and so the measures need to go very deep to so weve seen the party using new language a new focus on ideological control and focusing really on a literary conduct collective memory of what it is to be to that raising the alarm or influence this this further emphasis on sinusitis ation and even while we may not understand fully what sinusitis ation means its linked to the objective of creating compliance citizens in the way that and with a focus on not only recitation of party slogans but but really the emotional buy in of of to that tends to an ideological remolding only why rank which is very of course right you mentioned that its a police state im curious what is different this time do you think that theres going to be an expansion in tibet of what has taken place and she jang with the detention camps is there more systemic thing that theyre going to try to import into tibet this time. Its very different in that we have monitored the same mass inter monks being seen and shen jank. But all over the house they in a large scale expansion of prison in some ways notice the deeper institutionalization of this ideological agenda with the construction of a new Party Building facilities. Incenses research they seem to be centered on the military style training in many cases also taking tibetans off their land so this is linked to. Drive that weve seen since 9992000 those are the socalled western development counterpane which tens of thousands possibly many ends of tibetan herders have lost their traditional livelihoods. In the whole program of mass. And this is one of the elements that is most important in the latest research because tibetans are being removed from their lands linked to these massive social engineering policies that weve seen over the years is right that appears to be chinas endgame kate sanders thank you. In hong kong it has become increasingly difficult for School Teachers particularly those in history in politics to do their jobs recently one Primary School teacher was banned after a lesson plan about free speech and democracy and the government has warned it would root out other quote black sheep from the Education System. Preparing for classes know a struggle for secondary School Teacher tell me he teaches wont history and some of the concepts have become politically sensitive. When we talk about ideas like social contract people have the right to overthrow a corrupt government will tyranny. But now under the political atmosphere and especially the National Security law we have to be very careful about these topics. We dont know what the socalled red line is. That creates a white tara among teaches. He now has to self censor every word he says in the classroom fearing that students with a different political stance would secretly report him. You dont know if the students a progovernment oprah democracy so anything we say could be used as an excuse for a complaint against me and i may lose my job at any time so its very tiresome it gets very tiring day after day like that. Beijing imposed the National Security lawful hong kong in july just 2 months later a Primary School teacher was banned from teaching for life after giving students worksheets about independence and freedom of speach. The initiative was backed by the probating cam in hong kong newly formed to parents groups recruit 100 falling tears as an anonymous spies to report teachers on their list of problematic teachers reasons of complaints include expressing prodemocracy fios in school. I. Mean youre fighting for a lot its wrong to have an Anti Government stance in the Education System but its very clear if you hold an Anti Government stance on your teaching is problematic i thought into guys look at all the violence on the streets last year what went wrong and who caused it the teachers should not encourage students to take part in illegal events by put away 5 prosy since the Antigovernment Movement broke out last year the education period has received over 200 complaints against teachers dozens of educators have sought Legal Assistance from the Hong Kong Professional Teachers Union the union things it is a systematic approach. In the high court over the pro beijing camp refused to admit hong kongs problems are caused by the wrongdoings of the government or Police Brutality who do what they need an explanation for the social conflicts and they make teachers the scapegoat down accusing them of educating the youngsters because ego will go with you later. Under their political pressure some teachers have already left the industry tommy has also thought about quitting his job but he doesnt want to give up yet if all of us leave the teaching profession who will there be to teach the next generation even though there are things that i cannot say in front of my students i hope my students can understand. And they would know that i havent quit. If these teachers are still trying to keep our core values of hong kong i wish that i could give them a little bit of hope that theres still a good future for them. Thats it for today theres more on ford slash asia well leave you with pictures from tibet where human rights observers say the culture is under threat thank you for watching and see you next time. Combating the pandemic. Where does research stand. What are scientists learning. Background information and. Our corona. 19 special next on d. W. And you know yes yes we can hear you and how the last 2 years german stocks that we bring you im going to im out or as youve never had to have a surprise yourself with what is possible who is medical really what moves i want. To talk to people who follows her along the way i admire those and critics alike now as the worlds most powerful woman shaking her legacy joining us from eccles law stops. Weve been told what to watch out for fever a loss of taste or smell a dry cough just some of the symptoms. But the effects of covert 19 on the body can go well beyond those and run much deeper a disease that begins in the lungs can have a profound impact on many parts of the body for some the effects can be long lasting. Their old many people show symptoms of what we call the long range where people are having health holes which is after they are special Republican Leadership most covert patients recover within weeks but some have been living with the effects for months exactly how long it can last we have yet to find out could cope with 1000 be a disease from which some of us never fully recover. And this is the w. s covert 900 special hello and welcome to the show im Stephen Beardsley in berlin 26 weeks thats the typical Recovery Time for a covert 1000 patient at least according to the World Health Organization but not for all researchers are trying to figure out why some Patients Experience the disease more seriously and suffer more long term consequences heres the story of one such case. Eric alderman is struggling to return to normal life the 51 year old was infected with cove at 19 in march it started with a cold and a bad cough and then a trip to the emergency room he was in an artificial coma for 2 and a half months now hes being treated at a neurological rehab clinic in the southern german town affair now and he has to relearn everything walking talking even how to set up all the things i have there for had no preexisting conditions. Nothing. You know why it came straight out of the blue. Oh ive been abroad i havent been on a ski trip. My friends were fine. I just dont know how i got it. Hall. Outman is a Sports Reporter for a newspaper helping him get through all this is positive attitude and the support from his family his wife and his 4 children. 3 pastoral it was touch and go oh. There were times when i i almost didnt make it though they are hard. On the new role or just treating aardman dr friedly from rosen diagnosis or rebuild their dysfunction which can be directly attributed to mens cause in 1000 virus he also has car tissue on his lungs and no one knows if hell ever recover from that. We see patients who developed weak hearts which they never previously suffered from we see patients with liver impairment which only slowly returns to normal function we see patients with distinct muscle paralysis due to nerve damage which only gradually heals us to see others whose muscle paralysis quickly subsides so we see quite a wide variety of symptoms affecting different organs. Or gone. Research on the illness is going on everywhere including at the clinic in nuremberg in the meantime its become clear that the virus does attack the brain it can even cause strokes and make a persons immune system overreact. Its an illness that in many respects is unique and we learn new things every week and every month about it and will only be able to look back in a few years in order to say what weve done right and what weve done wrong. 10 percent of patients have a hard time with this disease just like Eric Alderman has 90 percent to recover even if it does take some time. Eric opens wife told us recently that her husband continues to make progress since the story was filmed and can now feed himself again speaking and walking remain difficult however the good news is that he has been relocated to a clinic much closer to the familys home or lets talk about more about Recovery Times with yon hennigs hes a specialist for pulmonary medicine and coleader the post code 1000 clinic at the university of hamburg Medical Center john thank you for joining us is there such a thing as postcode syndrome. Well apparently there is right so we have reports of. Thousands of patients reporting long term effects after the disease ranging. From t. Mental problems but also restlessness so yes we have to say there seems to be Something Like that. Are we talking about the damage from a serious case of covert for example of lung damage your heart damage or are we talking about an ongoing path ology for example some people saying that theyre smell and taste go again months later. Thats the thats the basic paradigm so that the virus is causing cellular damage and these this damage then translate into long term effects and long term problems but there seems to be an additional component to that that is not just explained by the direct cellular damage that we have to figure out and we know from many viral diseases that there are long term effects there convalescence coming along. Might be neural problems so what we really have to figure out now is what specific to the virus what vishal but nevertheless i mean we we have probably thousands it might given the. 40000000 infected people we probably have hundreds of thousands of people with. Patient long covered so thats going to be a real burden to our Health Care Systems and we have to figure out a way to see these patients the clinic and to help them what are the common symptoms or conditions that were seeing that might be lumped under long covert. Well basically were seeing a whole variety of symptoms so you might even call it a syndrome because basically the most commonly reported symptom seems to be fatigue but im sure it is a breath headache joint pain. So muscle pain so theres a lot of things but also we have anxiety we have a Cognitive Impairment so that is really a whole variety of plethora of symptoms that were dealing with and that makes it so difficult to basically. Treat the patients well because it is i mean we need a lot of specialists to really take care of the patients at the beginning of the study a 2 year study i have to ask you even though youre at the beginning do you have any sort of results or any sort of trends that youre seeing right now that are applicable to how we look at long coven. Obviously since we just started a couple of weeks ago we dont have any solid data and that is basically the main problem were dealing with all around the world in. Long covert so what were seeing is which is interesting so the zs in our court is not associated naturally with the severity of the acute infection so we have patients who are totally fine now after as you showed in your in your and movie in had a severe disease with acute london damage and still they recover completely so now the lung function are totally normal the patients are feeling better than ever and on the other hand we have they have seen pym patients with mild disease who are doing terrible right now they cant recover and are really there unable to work so that is a big problem and we dont know how that belongs together but others have shown that basically women seem to be at higher risk to have more severe long it if youre older you seem to be at risk to have long coated but really we have to find out whats going on and thats why were trying to investigate for 2 years how the symptoms evolve and how. How we can help patients best at the beginning of this pandemic 1000 was really described as a respiratory illness based on what we know now how would you describe it. Well it certainly starts in the lungs and we know that in fact the blood vessels and the kidney as a main target of the acute disease but from the long term symptoms the long term effects it seems to be a syndrome so it seems to really affect every part of the body so far the most just system the cognitive system even the psyche is part of it so. It is it is something that we really have to be really have to look into how this. How we can help these patients and really how we actually are able to see all these patien