now on bbc news — three years in wuhan. wuhan, china's economic heartland. and the epicentre of a global pandemic. the city at the heart of a public health crisis in china is shutting its public transport network to try to prevent the spread of a virus. in the spring of 2017, we set out to follow the fortunes of two companies as they fought to establish themselves in the city's 0ptics valley. a dedicated zone for new technology enterprises, it's part of the move to transform the city's economy. this is the story of some of the people who live and work in the city. and the story of wuhan before and after the arrival of the coronavirus that would change all of our lives. previously on three years in wuhan, robotics ceo xujishui and his business partner, zhang zepang, clashed over the direction of their company. and a start—up founder, huang tiesen, struggled to raise more capital to support his struggling tech business. summer in wuhan is intense and oppressive. the scorching heat and high humidity can continue from may to october and it's often difficult to

this man came to wuhan to make his name. his start—up company is trying to market software that will enable fruit retailers to adjust their stock and pricing according to real—time demand. but after a year, there has been little sign of success. there has been little sign of success. staff are becoming nervous. this man is a front end programmer who has been with the business since it began. he chose wuhan to set up his company, hoping to break into this major new technology centre. he turns to his technical director to discuss finding a replacement programmer. but the cream of the crop has been snapped up by all the big players. pearson lives with his girlfriend who is in charge of operations at another company. the business premises are also their personal residence. there is a visit to the distillery to offer a personal apology to his planned after one of the young technicians was caught breaking health and safety regulations. in china, sitting down over a meal is the best way of clearing the air. the client is appeas

six months have passed, and it's autumn in wuhan. temperatures have fallen, and there is much less rainfall than during the intense summer months. people are preparing to celebrate the mid—autumn festival, a time of thanksgiving. wuhan is a major transportation hub, with a multitude of railways, roads and expressways, linking it with other chinese cities, and many people will return home for the celebrations. tiesen and menghua are reconciled, at least for the present. although money is tight, tiesen decides to move his office to the heart of optics valley, where graduates can get preferential rental rates. the change of environment has boosted staff morale. the sales team spent the entire summer promoting their software to fruit sellers and have had some success. the sales team will now cover ten cities in the space of a month promoting software to retailers. for tiesen and the team, this is the moment they have been waiting for. even this programmer is encouraged to stay on. as the delivery deadline for the distillery looms, xu h

xujishui came to wuhan to pursue his education. a former university lecturer, he now heads up a fenjin robotics in the city's 0ptics valley zone. xu's company began working in car assembly. the competition was tough. and the company is now automating the distillation process for a local white liquorfactory. for xu jishui and his business partners — zhang zipeng and li yi — there are constant challenges. one of the young technicians was recently caught breaking health and safety regulations. and it's not the first time. huang tiesen also came to wuhan to make his name. his start—up company, senguo, is trying to market software that will enable fruit retailers to adjust their stock and pricing according to real time demand. but, after a year, there has been little sign of success. staff are becoming nervous. this man is a front—end programmer who has been with the business since it began. tiesen chose wuhan to set up his company, hoping to break into this major new technology centre. he turns to his technical director to disc

were the wuhan wetmarkets where the outbreak started? just some of the key questions who scientist will try to answer when they arrive in the city next month. their goal is to find the truth about where the virus came from and how it started. what we know so far is that on the third ofjanuary china investigated a virus infecting dozens of people in the city. a week later, chinese media reported the first known death. september saw worldwide deaths past1 million, half of which were in brazil, india, and the us, which in november became the first country to pass 250,000 deaths. finally this month, british woman margaret keenan became the first person in the world to be vaccinated outside trials. the truth about the virus‘ origins has been somewhat elusive. last december a chinese doctor warned his colleagues about the spread of a new mysterious disease but was told by police to stop making false comments and was later investigated for spreading rumours. he died a few months later after contracting the virus. but china's initial attempts

seafood does not come from wuhan. perhaps there are some deeper origins prior to wuhan that need to be looked into. >> for the 11 billion people of wuhan, life is largely back to normal. they have not had a locally transmitted case since may. for most of the rest of the world, life is anything but normal. millions are suffering, locked down, wondering how this began and when it will end. >> the united states is set to have its first native american cabinet secretary after joe biden's latest nomination. deb haaland is his pick for interior secretary, the 60-year-old is in her first term as a congresswoman for new mexico. she will had a department that has had an uneasy relationship with native americans over environmental issues. russia's president held a media conference on thursday but made no mention of claims by the u.s. that moscow was involved in the hacking of american government computers. the agencies are rushing to tightening -- to tighten security after being hit by a sophisticated hacking operation. the pre

he has worked closely with the wuhan institute of virology and dr. shi. their collaboration was crucial in discovering the origin of the 2003 sars outbreak. the world health organization assembled a team including daszak, shi, and wang, considered one of the world's top emerging disease experts, to find the source of the deadly outbreak. these virus hunters were pursuing a theory that bats could be the origin of sars. the team headed to the hunan region of southern china to try to solve the mystery of sars. >> shi and other researchers started exploring caves in southern china, looking for bats that could have been the origin of that first sars outbreak. >> dr. john epstein was a researcher on that expedition. >> when we go into an environment like a bat cave to catch bats, we have to protect ourselves. that includes gloves, we wear a respirator, like a mask. and we'll wear eye protection. >> we're walking into caves that could carry the next pandemic. that's a risky thing. what we do is we go in during the day to scope out where the bats are and try and

wuhan, don't say st not from china, it may prove to be wrong. >> at wuhan's hold oldest cemetery newly etched headstones reveal some scope of the tragedy. across wuhan there are at least 16 cemeteries just like this. >> tao lu has questions, his 69 year old father died from covid in february. the government sent about $600 as compensation. >> it felt hallow. i still don't know where the virus came from. if you ask me who to blame, i don't know. and he doesn't believe the government's death toll. officially fewer than 4700. now so many graves, row after row stand as monuments to lives lost. in the scared city, synonymous with outbreak, loss and now one year later, recovery. ramy inocencio, cbs news, wuhan. >> duncan: still ahead on the cbs weekend news, how the most trafficked mammal in the world could hold a clue to surviving covid-19. 6 >> duncan: the world's most trafficked mammal the pangolin has been hunted to near extinction because of a false belief in its power to heal. in our series eye on earth cbs's deborah patta shows us how the create you are could hold clues about how we b

epicenter,e original the city of wuhan. wuhan,re in the heart of there's lots of restaurants and breweries and bars. people are out and about, socializing, eating. lots of people wearing masks. [speaking foreign language] >> talking to people here tonight in wuhan, it's really interesting to hear their stories one year on from what triggered the world's first really harsh lockdown in the first really intense virus wave with lots of people dying and a real onslaught of cases on the hospitals here. people still talk about being infected economically. [speaking foreign language] >> behind me is one of the two temporary hospitals that were built here in wuhan shortly after the lockdown started. more thanere took in 2000 coronavirus patients. half of them critical cases, and they were treated here in inporary buildings built quite famously under two weeks by chinese construction workers. anymoree not being used and haven't been since about april when they were shut down in the pandemic situation. nobody we have spoken to thought

, china, cbs was the first to go to wuhan before it went in to lockdown. we will see what life is like now, in the area where the first covid cases were discovered. in the city of 11 million, harsh lockdowns have given way to a hard core night life. at wuhan's central market, a food vendor tells us business is back and he is proud and happy. that sense of optimism is shared by students coming to see the massive new government sanctioned exhibition called people first, lives first. in the same space as one of the biggest make shift covid hospitals. it hails xi as heroic and it highlights front line health care workers but mentions of those who died are hard to find. >>> attendees told us it was factual and comprehensive. beijing have are declared victory has opened new fronts, trying to pin the origin on other countries including the u.s., italy and india. although china was the first to report cases said is the foreign ministry spokesman, it does not mean that the virus originated in china. >> this is believed to be the origin ofcovid-19. we tried to inter

be on the virus was brought into wuhan may beona the virus was brought into wuhan may be on a wildlife traffic animal or a farm animal. and then it may have exploded in wuhan. that obviously is not from wuhan but a different place in china. that's going to make detecting the origin that bit harder. it is going to be a tough process. but i have confidence that my colleagues in china and they who tea m my colleagues in china and they who team that will investigate this will doa team that will investigate this will do a good job. do you need the origins in order to prevent something like this? we are seeing these vaccines being rolled out at record—breaking speed. is the actual origin really important or can we prevent this virus or other forms of it in the future? i think it's hugely important. it matters at the moment. they've taken an amazingly less tha n moment. they've taken an amazingly less than a year to develop was up at has been a year in that year has obviously turned the world com pletely obviously turned the world completely upside down. the future we need to try to prevent

bloomberg travels to wuhan where covid-19 was first reported. we asked how it appeared, how it spread and how the city's coping months later. we will start with breaking news out of south korea. . we are getting the latest consumer price inflation numbers for the month of december. month on month, acceleration of 0.2%. this is faster big celebration -- a celebration that was expected. it is coming after contracting the last two months. the pressures we have seen on south korea. the numbers coming in at a big of half a percent. this is in line with estimates at a slight slowdown of the previous month. we have seen inflation pressured by the latest coronavirus outbreak. not to mention that those cases have jumped to a thousand a day in recent weeks. also adding downward pressure on south korean prices has been the strength of the korean youan. we are seeing the cpi numbers holding steady with core you're on your numbers at .9%. a slight deceleration from the previous month. paul: australia and new zealand are on partial trading days. closing at ab

. >> it was one year ago wuhan, china, became the first region affected by the virus. as we know well, those initial infections developed into a global pandemic as the rest of the world are struggling to contain the disease. chinese officials claim the city of wuhan has reported zero new cases of covid-19 since june. >> it was ground zero of the global pandemic, but a year on from when the coronavirus was first detected, authorities say wuhan has so far avoided the resurgence seen in other parts of the world. the city and its residents have largely moved on. >> wuhan did not act badly but not great either. later he got better. compared to the united states, we have done a good job taking control. >> officially, wuhan has not reported any new cases of covid-19 since june. there do remain widespread suspicions about the local government, given how it mismanaged the initial outbreak last year. this woman lost her son in that outbreak. >> if the wuhan government, the authorities was known -- had known this virus was transmissible between humans and told us to protect ourse

kurt owns 2 apartments in wuhan and knows the city well, he only came back to us in september to vote in the november election and to tend to some business here. but while in wuhan over the summer he watched scooter bike rentals and car sales soar, public transportation is back but it's still not preferred by locals yet he says the yangtze river bridge during the lockdown last spring, an open road by summer. >>it was just packed, i mean huge crime you need when i was there july we go down that bridge because it's like a street fair every day. >>especially on weekends when i say packed, i mean there's ballroom dancing those roller blade or skateboard hers people plan with these cia's top toys guys playing music people shuffle dancing those squares are packed lot of people wear masks, you know, no gloves. >>no hand sanitizers just lots of masks there was no such thing as a super spreader event. >>0 oh just just didn't happen because everybody was cooperating it was over by really mid-march. >>he said well how does not back to normal when it comes to traffic on the roads but china could

that's when i scrambled to leave wuhan. a documentary shows what it was like then inside wuhan's hospitals. >> it feels so long ago. but at the same time the images, the stories are still really present. >> reporter: this man lost his father to the vaccine, now he's a handful of citizens trying to sue the local government. if i keep silent, nothing will change, he says. china has long tried to contain criticism, this week censors a video. her lawyer seg she is did nothing cruel, she's innocent. the world health organization is still waiting to get outside experts to wuhan. >> the purpose of the mission is to go to the original point where human cases were detected, and we fully expect to do that. >> reporter: and the seafood market at the center of it all, where chinese officials say they found traces of the virus is now fully hidden behind new walls that surround it. the w.h.o. team is scheduled to travel here next month. they'll work alongside chinese scientists and they'll look at anything that might help explain how and

he returned home to wuhan in january when his father broke his hip. the elderly man received free treatment and this is where he caught covid and later died. >> his father would still be alive if the authorities in wow hahn had not covered up the early stages of the outbreak and trying to file a case in court against the government. >> i have been very upset since i came back to wuhan. i'm sad and angry at the same time. that's my current state of mind. i can't stand all this propaganda about the achievements in the fight against covid. all the people who died, the innocent people who left this world have never been paid proper respect. >> but few people speak publicly. many others have put the experience behind them. life is back on the streets especially young people enjoy their newly returned freedom. while many places in the world still struggle with the pandemic, the city where it all began is moving on. >> let's look at some other stories making headlines. bangladesh has started moving a group of muslim refugees to the offshore island. groups ha

including in wuhan, where the first case was reported. our crew visited the city on monday. full restaurants and bustling shops. one place that remains off limits is the market linked to many of the first cases. in recent months, the government has gone to great lengths to change it. officials are trying to focus on how they contained it. part of that strategy is that wuhan emphasizes -- while it appeared to have some success among citizens, not everyone is convinced. nhk has spoken to some critics who say the government was too slow to respond. one of them is a wuhan resident, who blames beijing's strict control on information for causing the outbreak. >> translator: only the government knows what's going on in wuhan, and they don't share it. we have to believe what the communist party says. all news must be based on state-run media. no matter what we say, it's meaningless. >> reporter: he is now under surveillance, but he's faired better than three ofis friends, who are detained after criticizing the governmt on social media. >> well, the government may be able to silence

janis mackey frayer, nbc news, wuhan. >>> in just 60 seconds, the national park service under fire after a park officer repeatedly tases a man in a confrontation at a national monument. what that man is saying tonight >>> a native american man in new mexico claims a park ranger used excessive force against him at a national monument. a video of it went viral, and a warning tonight, that video's disturbing gadi schwartz has the story. >> reporter: in albuquerque's petroglyph national monument a confrontation between a national park officer and a man who had gone off a trail >> go on i.d. yourself >> i don't want to i.d. myself. i'm in the trail now >> reporter: what happened before and immediately after the recording isn't clear. but another video captures the park officer repeatedly tasing the man [ screaming >> what are you doing? >> reporter: 30-year-old darrell house identifies as oneida and navajo. in a phone interview with nbc station kob in albuquerque he says he was out on a hike to pray at the ancient petroglyphs. >> i go there regularly. i go there to pray i burn my sage >> repo

the first covid-19 death was recorded in wuhan on january 11. a month later, the disease had killed more people in china than the stars are break -- the sars are break. wuhan went into full lockdown. drastic social distancing measures allow china to contain the virus. but by now the pandemic had long spread beyond its borders with europe becoming the next hotspot. by the end of march, italy had overtaken china is the worst hit country. the army was called in to cart off the coffins of those who perished in hospitals. when they ran out of ventilators, doctors had to choose who was to live or die. on april 9, a grim milestone -- 100,000 covid-19 deaths worldwide. two days later, the u.s. registered the most coronavirus deaths in any country. a status it maintained for the rest of the year. in new york, bodies piled up in emergency storage outside hospitals. here, too, they were no longer able to cope with the caseload. as a lockdown sought to bring down infection rates, the city that never sleeps ground to a halt. the spread slowed over the summer

today marks one year since symptoms of the new coronavirus were first detected in wuhan, chinese. the chinese government rejects claims the virus originated their testing across reports, those who lost loved ones accuse officials of a cover-up. life is moving again in wuhan, china. 12 months after it became the world's first epicenter of the coronavirus. the city of 12 million is not seen a spike since last spring pin at the central market the food vendor says business is back and he is proud and happy. nothing will return to normal for john. her son died after waiting two weeks to get a bed in an overcrowded hospital. >> she says every day i suffer from a measuring the pain he went through. how he struggled and cried all alone. official figures of the virus killed nearly 4000 people in wuhan but skeptics believe the true numbers are much higher. many families accuse the government of initially concealing the outbreak in pressuring doctors to keep quiet. beijing has declared victory in its war on covid-19 and is looking to pin the origin on the virus on other countries including t

i asked what were her hopes for the who mission to wuhan. it is great that it is happening, i'm hopeful that this will help us get some more answers into the origins of this pandemic. i think it's great that they have so many diverse researchers and scientists in various fields, that will help us understand more about the origination of the covid pandemic. with all that range of expertise, what knowledge will they be hoping to come back with? their hope is going to be to understand how this evolved. so, we believe that the original coronavirus came from bats, but what we are trying to understand is what the intermediate animal host is that led to spill over into humans, and so there is going to be a wide range of scientists from epidemiologists, veterinary doctors, food researchers, virologists, infectious disease doctors, all who have great expertise that will be coming together to really understand where the origins of this disease came from and also understanding how long it may have been going on for before it really showed up into the p

thank you. >>> going back to the source of the pandemic, wuhan, china. new findings from china's cdc suggest that the covid-19 cases in wuhan could be 10 times higher than the recorded number. this means up to half a million people in that city may have been infected. this as an independent chinese journalist who documented the pandemic in wuhan was sentenced to four years in prison overcharges of quote, picking quarles and provoking trouble. here to help us understand the headlines, steve forbes, forbes media chairman. steve, always great to see you. you and i have been following china for years. we've been seeing them manipulate numbers when it comes to business, statistics, all kinds of things that have to do with the markets and the economy. does it shock you that it is possible they ma nip mated covid case numbers too -- manipulated. >> not at all. the numbers they reported nobody believed when you look what happened in the rest of the world including parts of asia. that 10 times number is shocking but doesn't surprise anyone. we see what they did w

francine: bloomberg's emma o'brien reporting wuhan. we will continue tracking covid 19 and figure out what comes next. langford,eak to aisha an assistant professor. this is bloomberg. this is "bloomberg surveillance." we are delighted to be joined by an assistant professor at new york university school of medicine department of population health. thank you professor langford for speaking to us today. we see a lot more lockdowns in europe. we also have a vaccine. what will the first six months of 2021 look like? prof. langford: i hope it will be very inspiring with the vaccine rollout. that what we have learned so far in terms of getting the vaccine to the will provideuicker hope for us in the next few weeks and upcoming months. the new variant of the covid strain, it is important for people to remember that so far we don't know if the new variant will make people sicker or if it is more deadly. it is important people will wash their masks and -- foster hands, wear masks, and practice social distancing. francine: do we know it is easier

millions of people in wuhan lived under strict lockdown for 76 days. nearly 4000 people lost their lives to the virus. six months after wu han's lockdown was lifted the city's local government has launched an exhibition to mark the fight against the covid—i9 pandemic. the three—month exhibition hails the of the government, frontline workers, and volunteers. this man was among the volunteers who fought against the pandemic by giving free haircuts to frontline workers. his volunteer work has had an unexpected impact on his business. recovery has not been as smooth for everyone. a year since the outbreak began, wu han's strives a year since the outbreak began, wuhan's strives to return to normality, but these because of the pandemic will run deeper. but for now, its people are trying to move on. the former italian international footballer, paolo rossi, has died at the age of 64 after a long illness. he was one of the stars of the italian team that won the 1982 world cup. he was the competition's top scorer with six goals and was given the golden ball

across wuhan, there's 16 cemeteries like this. he has questions. his 69-year-old father died from covid in faeb. the government sent about $600 as compensation. >> it felt hollow, i don't know where the virus came from. if you ask me who to blame, i don't know. and he doesn't believe that the government's death toll, officially few er than 4700. now, so many graves. row after row, stand as monuments to lives lost. in a scarred city, synonymous with outbreak, loss and now a year later, recovery. >> cbs news, wuhan. >> there's morenews ahead on the cbs overnight news. how the most trafficked mammal in the world may hold a clue to sur is viviving covid-19. hey! yeah!? i switched to geico and got more! more savings on car insurance!? they helped with homeowners, too! ok! plus motorcycle, boat and rv insurance! geico's got you covered! like a blanket! houston? you seeing this? geico. expect great savings and a whole lot more. did is locatedhat 70% of youin your gut?tem to boost your immune system: try align gut health & immunity support. align's quality

to -- miles away in wuhan. the lead scientisthen asked by the bbc whether she would welcome a formal investigation, replied by email. i would personally welcome any form of visit based on an open, transparent,re trustingable and reasonable dialogue, she said. buthe specific plan is not decided by me. she is correct, forourse. with wuhan now back to normal,t the governm busy promoting another idea that the virus did not come from china at all. it's unlikely to have much appetite for a lab investigation. but nor, it seems, to some mbers of the w.h.o. team. >>ye i havto see any eviden involvement in this outbreak. and i have seen substantial naturally occurring phenomena, driven by human encroachments of wildli habitat, which is clearly on display across southeast asia. giporter: many scientists agree that a natural ois the most likely. with the bat virus perps passing to humans via another animal in a wuhan wet market. but some are starting to wonder why, one year on, china has published so little about any studi

what caused the outbreak in wuhan? the world health organization will investigate, but how much will they be allowed to see? >> i have heard from diplomatic voices who expressed pessimism about the investigation, they fear it will be tarnished from the outset by political interference from beijing. >> there is hope that u.s. could become the first country to authorize a second coronavirus vaccine but across america, there is opposition to getting jobs -- jabs. new york may be down but it is not out. the city is showcasing its creativity. ♪ welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. a team of scientists will travel to the city of wuhan in january to investigate the origins of the virus that causes covid-19. beijing has been reluctant to agree to an independent inquiry and it has taken the world health organization months to negotiate access. here is our china correspondent. >> it has taken almost exactly a year, so long that wuhan, the city with outbreak began, is ba to normal. people are not packed in

clearly, that would have had impact on how much the virus spread in wuhan, in hubei, in china. and perhaps, to the rest of the world as well. >> reporter: strikingly, the documents reveal one possible reason behind the discrepancy in the numbers. a report from early march says it took a staggering, 23 days, on average, from when someone showed covid-19 symptoms to when they got a confirmed diagnosis. that's three weeks to officially catch each case. >> as information seems to be very surprising to me because, normally, it would take, you know, just a couple of days. >> you're making policy, today, based on information that already is three weeks old. >> reporter: perhaps, the most remarkable revelation concerns early december. the moments when covid-19 first emerged in china. >> startlingly, these documents reveal there was an enormous spike in influenza cases in hubei, right when studies have shown the very first-known patients were infected with covid-19. 20 times the number of flu cases, compared to the same week the year before. >> reporter: experts said it could have flood

. >>> and wuhan china actually had ten times the amount of coronavirus than officially reported. ten times. >>> plus another vaccine looks set for approval in the uk. details on that, just ahead. cold coming on? zicam® is clinically proven to shorten colds! highly recommend it! zifans love zicam's unique zinc formula. it shortens colds! zicam zinc that cold! of china shows that the number of coronavirus cases in wuhan, original episode of the outbreak may have been ten times more than reported. check in with some of our international cnn correspondents. >> reporter: nearly half a million people in wuhan may have had coronavirus. nearly ten times the official figu figure. the study used to study people in china, researchers found antibodies prevalent in 4.43% of the pop la city of wuhan. officials only reported about 50,000 total confirmed cases of covid-19 there. under-reporting is a common problem faced by health authorities around the world, often due to a lack of capacity and resources, but in china, there's also the question of transparency. leaked documents from the based c

giant leap for pandemic diplomacy, the world health organisation is given the green light to visit wuhan in china to investigate the orgins of the virus. nigerian officials claim they will not pay rent them for the boys kidnapped from a boarding school in the country last friday. a chinese space capsule has successfully returned with the first samples of moon rock in more than forty years. a court in paris has found 1a people guilty of being linked to the three islamist extremists who carried out attacks on the satirical magazine, charlie hebdo, and a jewish supermarket, nearly six years ago. 17 people were killed. the longest sentences, of 30 years, were given to a close friend of one of the attackers and his former girlfriend who is believed to be in syria. our paris correspondent, lucy williamson, has been following the case. this trial has struggled to match the scale of the events behind it. those in the public gallery today better known than those in the dock. arriving for the verdict, surviving staff from a jewish supermarket and the magazine charlie hebdo, the two key targets in

. ♪ >> so we are in one of wuhan's popular going out areas, restaurants around here, breweries. people are out at about, they are socializing, they are eating. lots of people wearing masks still. >> talking to people tonight in wuhan, it is really interesting to hear their story one year on the first really harsh lockdown. left of people dying, and a real onslaught of cases in hospitals here. people still talk about being affected by the lockdown both mentally and economically. >> behind me is one of the two temporary hospitals that was built here in wuhan shortly after the lockdown started. now this one here took in more .han 2000 coronavirus cases half of them critical cases. they were treated here in ,emporary buildings, built in quite famously, under two weeks by chinese construction workers. they are -- nobody that we have here in thes central chinese city. it must have come from somewhere else and there are a variety of theories, which shows it is really still a mystery as to where and house -- where and how this virus pandemic started. but one year on from where this all

wuhan is the safest, he says. but one year on questions linger here about how it began. one doctor told us that hospitals had noticed a busier flu season last december. it became widely known that some doctors flagged a sars-like virus but were silenced. december 30th, this alert from local medical officials to hospitals about unexplained pneumonia became the world's first warning. 12 months later the world health organization is still waiting to get a team to wuhan. it still isn't clear whether the market was the source of the virus though outside experts believe it was a starting point for the outbreak. it's highly politicized. china's government claims the virus could have come from somewhere else. it's also tried to contain criticism, sentencing a video blogger who reported from wuhan to four years in prison on charges of spreading false information. her lawyer says she did things that are beneficial, she is innocent. chinese vaccines have started to rollout for emergency use here where a makeshift hospital used to be there's now a huge showcase of props and displays

a chinese journalist who reported on the early days of the coronavirus outbreak in the city of wuhan has been sentenced to four years injail. and coming up, it's the most watched scripted limited series of all time on netflix, we'll be speaking to the screen writer and producer of the queen's gambit. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world. all 27 eu ambassadors have unanimously approved the provisional application of the eu—uk post—brexit trade deal that was agreed last week. on wednesday the president of the eu council, charles michel, and president of the eu commission ursula von der leyen are expected to officially sign off on the trade agreement. but this has to be ratified in a european parliament vote early next year. also on 30th december, uk mps at will vote on the deal —— on the 20th of december. in a special sitting of parliament. it all means that tariff—free trade will be provisionally allowed after britain leaves the eu single market at the new year. borisjohnson has described the trade deal as "a new starting point for our relations

because many of the samples were taken back to this laboratory, almost 1,000 miles away, in wuhan. suggestions the virus leaked from here have so far been met with angry denials. but now the lead scientist, professor shi zhengli, when asked by the bbc whether she would welcome a formal investigation, replied by e—mail. she is correct, of course. with wuhan now back to normal, the government is busy promoting another theory, that the virus didn't come from china at all. it is unlikely to have much appetite for a lab investigation, but nor, it seems, do some members of the who team as they prepare to begin their mission. i've yet to see any evidence at all of a lab leak or a lab involvement in this outbreak. and i have seen substantial evidence that these are naturally occurring phenomena, driven by human encroachment into wildlife habitat, which is clearly on display across south—east asia. many scientists agree that a natural origin is the most likely, with the bat virus perhaps passing to humans via another animal in a wuhan wet market. but some are starting to wonder why, one

because many of the samples were taken back to this laboratory, almost 1,000 miles away, in wuhan. suggestions the virus leaked from here have so far been met with angry denials. but now the lead scientist, professor shi zhengli, when asked by the bbc whether she would welcome a formal investigation, replied by e—mail. she is correct, of course. with wuhan now back to normal, the government is busy promoting another theory, that the virus didn't come from china at all. it is unlikely to have much appetite for a lab investigation, but nor, it seems, do some members of the who team as they prepare to begin their mission. i've yet to see any evidence at all of a lab leak or a lab involvement in this outbreak. and i have seen substantial evidence that these are naturally occurring phenomena, driven by human encroachment into wildlife habitat, which is clearly on display across south east asia. many scientists agree that a natural origin is the most likely, with the bat virus perhaps passing to humans via another animal in a wuhan wet market. but some are starting to wonder why, one y

in february this year, zhang zhan travelled to wuhan to report on the,, at times to wuhan to report on the, at times chaotic, early stages of the coronavirus outbreak. blending activism with journalism, she focused on the failings of the government's response to the pandemic. officers shout. it wasn't the first time she had come into conflict with authorities and she knew it was potentially risky. she has now been sentenced to four years in prison for picking quarrels and provoking trouble. a crime often used to silence dissidents in china. lawyers say they are worried she will now resume a hunger strike behind bars. translation: after we left the courtroom we saw her mother, she was crying uncontrollably. she is such a determined person. she believes she is innocent. she is probably more determined than ever to continue her hunger strike. i am worried about her health, her life. the chinese government has been pushing the line that here, unlike so many other countries, the coronavirus has been brought under control. and it certainly does have a good story to tell in this regard. but i

because many of the samples were taken back to this laboratory, almost 1,000 miles away, in wuhan. suggestions the virus leaked from here have so far been met with angry denials. but now the lead scientist, professor shi zhengli, when asked by the bbc whether she would welcome a formal investigation, replied by e—mail. she is correct, of course. with wuhan now back to normal, the government is busy promoting another theory, that the virus didn't come from china at all. it is unlikely to have much appetite for a lab investigation, but nor, it seems, do some members of the who team as they prepare to begin their mission. i've yet to see any evidence at all of a lab leak or a lab involvement in this outbreak. and i have seen substantial evidence that these are naturally occurring phenomena, driven by human encroachment into wildlife habitat, which is clearly on display across south—east asia. many scientists agree that a natural origin is the most likely, with the bat virus perhaps passing to humans via another animal in a wuhan wet market. but some are starting to wonder why, one

wuhan reported it stores revenue was down 30%. todd: you wrote the book the coming collapse with china, we will see how that jibes with the numbers on screen. gordon chang, happy new year. >> happy new year, thank you so much. jillian: the effort to recall california governor gavin newsom getting a huge boost was a consulting firm donating 50,$000, another 100,000 from a partner, congressman elect darrell isa believes he should be worried. >> it could only happen if the governor continues to go in the wrong direction. anytime, he could choose to start empowering businesses rather than ordering them shutdown. jillian: so far they gathered 800,000 signatures of the 1.5 million they need for a recall vote. new york governor andrew cuomo threatening to take legal action against those who get the vaccine out of term saying, quote, we will not tolerate any fraud in the vaccination process. we want to send a clear signal that if you violate the law in vaccinations we will find out and you will be prosecuted. the state is only giving vacc

for example, with wuhan, people are still wondering what exactly happened, especially after yesterday, the china cdc put out a new study which showed that the antibody prevalence rate is 4.3% and experts are starting to suggest that that means wuhan in the early days there could have been as many as half a million people who were infected so a lot of questions about that and this week another story that has concerned people, a local journalist was sentenced to four years in prison because of her reporting in wuhan and obviously, frank, that indicates that beijing is not happy with any type of reporting which conflicts with the narrative they have with the epicenter. >> yes, definitely concerning there, not only that journalist but the story about the doctor but we are seeing some signs of hope today in the uk, the astrazeneca ox ford vaccine taking a step forward. what is the latest on china's efforts to get a vaccine out >> reporter: well, the latest is about one vaccine by a company called sinopharm they are one of the companies that have come up with a candidate and they say its in

were the wuhan wet markets where the first outbreak happened? just some of the key questions who scientists will try to answer when they arrive in the city next month. their goal is to find the truth about where the virus came from and how it started. what we know so far is that on 3rd of january china investigated a virus infecting dozens of people in the city. a week later, chinese media reported the first known death. two months later, the who declared a worldwide pandemic. september saw worldwide deaths pass one million, half of which were in brazil, india, and the us, which in november became the first country to pass 250,000 deaths. finally this month, british woman margaret keenan became the first person in the world to be vaccinated outside trials. but the truth about the virus' origins has, until now, been somewhat elusive. last december, a chinese doctor at wuhan central hospital, li wenliang, warned his colleagues about the spread of a new mysterious disease but was told by police to stop making false comments and was later investigat

how has wuhan changed? >> millions of people lived under strict lockdown shade nearly 4000 people lost their lives to the virus. six-months after the lockdownwa lifted, the local government has launched an exhibition to mark the fight against the covid-19 pandemic. >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >>bi the three mons exon hills the effort of the rsvernment, front-line wor and volunteers. among the volunteers who fought against the pandemic by giving free haircuts. >> [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign ge] >> his volunteer work has had an unexpected impact on his business. >>e] [speaking foreign langu >> they recovs not been as smooth for everyone. >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> a year sce the outbreak began, wuhan strives to return to normality. the scars of the pandemic will run deep. for now, it's people are trying to move on. -- its people are

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