it's less than 20 kilometers north of the city of goma readings at the crater a vital elements to the early warning system but funding cuts in research just can't pay for an internet connection to run remote sensors or fuel to transport them to the volcano 250 people died when the volcano erupted in 2002 and experts fear anything worse tragedy well you can find much more on our website including that breaking news of the u.s. covert relief well stay with us all headlines are coming up. the top stories on al-jazeera u.s. secretary of state and blinken has called out china as the country's biggest rival and plans to meet top chinese government officials next week it will be the 1st person to person meeting between senior u.s. and chinese representatives since joe biden took office is a time tensions between the countries are at new heights lincoln says they will

discuss a range of issues including ones on which they have deep disagreements in particular the treatment of ethnic minorities i think would be very important if china claims that there is nothing going on that it give access to the international community to the united nations if they have nothing to hide show it to us show show the world and so we'll be calling for that and then i think there's a series of practical things that are very very important for example we should make sure that we are not exporting and others are not exporting to china any products that can be used for the repression of their people and their minorities similarly we shouldn't be bringing into this country products that are created by forced labor including from changing. the u.s. house of representatives has passed a $1.00 trillion dollar covert 19 relief bill is one of the largest spending plans in the country's history the bill will provide $1400.00 checks for millions of americans as well as extended unemployment benefits and tax breaks $10000000.00

people in the u.s. on employed many of them joining the jobless queue since the beginning of the pandemic more than $100.00 countries led by south africa and india are appealing to the world trade organization to temporarily waive peyton's on covert 19 vaccines they all give it will be an inequitable access to saving vaccines that case is being heard at a 2 day summit in geneva the u.n. says at least 67 people have been killed and hundreds injured in me and protests police on wednesday once again he's firearms to disperse protesters in the city of mandalay people fled the shots were fired the u.n. security council has agreed on a statement that condemns the violence against protesters restraint in the military . while the stream is up next asking how covert 19 has changed the way we live to stay watching.

higher for me ok and your in the stream it's nearly a year since the world health organization declared what has turned out to be a devastating covert 19 pandemic today we ask our global panel how the corona virus has changed us and you can join in the conversation to obviously i'm going to be focusing on family work and community tell us about your pandemic experiences in a live you tube chat.

more than a 117000000 people worldwide have been sickened by covered 19 and 2600000 people have died that is the most deadly since 918 and it has changed our lives in ways that would have been on finkel just over a year ago joining us to reflect on this challenging year is to russian i do she is a clinical psychologist in durban south africa rather sidhwani is also a clinical psychologist she joins us from mumbai india and erika felix is a psychology professor at the university of california santa barbara hello everybody i am going to give you ladies one word i want your instant reaction this is my mood tracker i want to know where your head is right now. covered 19 1st thought i think for me the word unprecedented really defined what over 90 prime numbers president taylor tar covered 19

heroes and i'm certainly. ok erica review a lot of the. ok now i know where your moods are at right now let's start with family life and how it's changed for you in the past year here's jason story. i was one of the 1st people in the united states to get covert 1000 i had it last march and that up in the hospital when i couldn't breathe without oxygen had to go back to the hospital 6 weeks later with painful complications and my lungs wasn't till about mid july when i really felt better took about 4 months to get over it took a huge toll on me physically also mentally took a huge toll my wife wanted to take care of me the whole time and one of the biggest ways it impacted me and cost me some friends people who even after they saw what i went through still think this is all overblown or fake which i still don't understand erica's chasing misspeaking that i can see you nodding it was obviously

resonating well he went through and the level of grief in the united states as the u.s. keeps counting the number of people who have died from it what is that done to the country to living in. yeah the impact on family has been huge but the people most directly impacted your gas and just having to adjust and adapt and take so much more armor plate but also the families having to change and adapt in living with each other like i am a university professor are students and had to go home and so families are welcoming back adult children that have moved out people have been moving from urban cities to back home to their family of origin just to be able to pour into you know or shelter in place in places where they get a little more outdoor space so it's just been turbulent and the grief. just how

to improve it or losing a family member to kobe but also missed last school. changes in jobs a lot of businesses it's been massive somehow when i think about i think about how powerful those connections are with both the families so cole connecting with your family call them what happens when you have a cell phone helped out and some like how with 19 how was indian family life changed. so i think that are 2 important aspects you know you know initially with the lockdown coming in peace all 3 generations of family rebuilt staying together in very close new tools so the levels of trust ration angle were very high because there were space constraints and with the lockdown prolonging for couple of months we saw a lot of you leaving this happening so yes we lost the connectivity we lost there

was a lot of grief coming in there was a sudden panic in the atmosphere we didn't know what was quoted 19 to a large population in india is also you know not had the former school so for them to understand what the slightest use it's very transparent you can see it you know is it actually true or no and so there was a lot of panic and chaos in the community so it took a lot of trying oh for the government to sort of you know help through social media is to yes this is the widest rioja to save your life that i'm awfully quiet but the entire process was you know took a lot of lot of time families you know went into children men into online schooling more stores the kids do not have formal gadgets you know i bet schools were not equipped to go into a 9th goulding so unlike the us and on and around the world you know it cation system in india is very big sort of a personal level and so a lot of schools took

a lot of time to start the education back on. i'm just thinking about life and right now compared to life in devon and you're looking at the family what's changed . well i think mostly it's been shifting roles though moms that have to be home school teachers dads that have to do different things but very much the same as erica and and others experiences people have had to change but i think the difference with south africa is that this is not our 1st huge social destructive experience in the sense that the pandemic is just probably in living memory that there had destructive experience we've had as south africans we've had a whole hiv pentatonic in south africa which destructed our lives and shifted family roles and then most people in living memory have lived through a transition in a party so i think south africans are kind of adaptable and can do things on the

run but even this pandemic has. i think shifted and challenge people's less ability how they are able to change and ship between community whole family and their different roles i think i think it's the shifting and changing of roles has been the most challenging i would love ladies for you to listen to must hear that decide as shutter listen to me here and then respond right off the back of her she speaks about greece has taken that there has been a dramatic increase in complex khalif here in this garden pandemic one out of 3 americans has lost someone beautiful with 19 globally traditional mullett she would have been disrupted if you do poorly did precautions many even battle guilt of having transmitted corbet 19 to the deceased still left the social support required

during these trying times the the some of the factors that have complicated because already difficult grieving process. yeah i think i completely agree but tell you no because you need india we are you which country would get to the chills to the guys different religions and each state and each religion has its own way of grieving and that the long process over 20 the process of leaving is extremely important and i think with what we did we lost that initially you were not allowed to accompany you know the disease to the morgue and that was extremely distressed would go up and the people say oh you know people there was a lot of stigma not to touch the body you know what are the last rites to the body and i think this led to a lot of trauma you know a lot of lives so i think you would think that and i of ritual which helps the community to born sharing is healing and i think we've lost that. i am

going to talk about what's next because working in a pandemic and a lot down heart it's an understatement economist diane lim is particularly concerned about the impact on women. so a lot of women their market work has been disrupted by the pandemic because women tend to work the human intensive types of jobs in the human intensive industries so leisure hospitality housing education services those jobs are fortunately are also for fortunately tend to be hard time jobs women choose those jobs especially working models for the flexibility of schedule but those jobs don't tend to come with benefits because they're part time so they don't come with how the insurance is they don't come with a paid leave. one of the shocking stats that's come out of the impact of covert 19 on our lives is how many women go all the way up and kicked out of what they've

lost their jobs this has happened from the u.s. to sap and south this is happening around the wealth erica he saw what happened yes . kids went back to school a mom about to look yes many moms have chosen or feel that it forced choice honestly to have to take care of their families in a way that does not allow them to work anymore and just yesterday our vice president was talking about 2500000 women and having left the workforce in the pandemic started and how that will affect our economic recovery we've all tried to be very flexible and we'd like through the woods and trying to just work schedules but the ultimate reality is is that the cure given world disproportionately burdens women and they especially ones that are in that sandwich generation as we used to call it in terms of having to take care of children at home and also have

responsibilities for all their parents and so there are just such a strain on their ability to keep up their job and so if they're the ones working part time they might leave and hopefully have a partner in that house but it affects our economic outlook too much to pick up. i think it's interesting we've come across a term recently which describes this really well and it's called sci fi session literally recession of women from from the environment and it speaks a lot to moving women and diversity issues back economically and socially but more than that i think again the shifting of roles for women and the gains that women have made in terms of gender diversity and a lot of research shows that women if they're more educated and better off to raise children better these and these are again that we are losing as as a species as

a as a population but in my own work which is mostly with with health care workers who are highly trained professionals i've seen. then having to cope with great grief and what erica mentioned of there being the sandwich generation having to i've heard stories of of healthcare workers having to put their their parents in a hospital and then go to their own hospital and take care of arc over patients so it's not just the work button but it's the emotional burden as well in going back to the issue of grief as a psychologist dealing with healthcare workers and mostly women are presenting for for a mental health care at the moment i have to say they need literally have to rewrite the book as archaeologists as mental health care professional which really write the book and grief most of our work that we no one treif comes from from war or from learning about grief post war or learning about grief in terms of terminal

illness but pandemic related grief this kind of global pervasive grief is something is something new and and as erica mentioned women suffer the greater burden it's it's really an unsocial social economic spiritual all sorts of levels and there is a town for it's a well known term that we've that i've researched in in hiv in south africa it's called the burden of care. it's really the burden of care when you say you haven't to rewrite the book what hooping in the book what will be in those chapters that we've learned in 12 months. what will be there is eric is going to suggest that we go once and also in chapter one. gosh no i didn't hear it interrupt that i was just thinking greed is so many different levels of course we've had to deal with. that

intentional basically members getting sick or or losing loved ones but people have also had to grieve losses so losing a business can cause grief to the economic loss the loss of dreams like delaying education or other things people wanted to do to grieve over the last like events like we had students missing their graduation missing. grief over not being able to get together over holidays so it's just it cuts across levels and so we all can be grieving different things are different ways of course the people who've lost loved ones have the most. permanent big words we have hope that some things will be restored really cuts across a variety the different losses to which i'm not letting you off the hook yet i do want to know what's in your when you're rewriting the book on how to treat us as

a global community what would be in that but i'll give you some thinking time here by cheney shot at i'd love you to respond to some of this cat. small businesses are shutting down in sweden a lot of people are losing jobs this homelessness mental health is staggering drug abuse governments are not coping this rainy talking about how cold it is affected all parts of our lives not just our working lives she hasn't been back home to see her family in the here and then talks about the long lockdown having impacts on mental health children and young people it's like there's no part of our life that we can calm the cup of putting a little box. hasn't been in the tate by totals thoughts yeah i think that's a very it's a very touching story because i think we can all relate to it i've been seeing

a lot of patients through the pandemic and of course being and had chemical we physically had a comforting sessions and i primarily opened my clinic because we were getting very very high rates of being it's your site and you know there was nothing that was buhl be done in the of course there were some headlines but you could see their depression angle on longer kids raising the rates of addiction have gone high also i want to point out your domestic weiland are initiating the pandemic i think that some point that we need to highlight. and you know and when you're looking at disparity in domes of gentle women did bad and do bear a lot of that part of the while and so i think that's where especially in india we have a lot of noise supporting the women but that goes rates have significantly going on in doing some drug abuse me have seen very very high rates of drug abuse among the joints and this is big huge maples they haven't gone back to school for single be

wrong the pandemic has started they don't know how to cool they have mental health programs through school but i think that isn't enough so i think there's a general loss all you know would be a hoot and i want to point out to you it is you know as a society we look and mission then we had better ones of living and all that i think she'll call up at a i think different the will quote in different ways so to readapt to you know everybody had a different groupings die. just disfavor the 1st chapter in this new book that really. writing so how to cope with mass. what would be that chapter titled. i think it will be about dealing with multiple levels of grief all at the same time it's been an emotional to experience the loss of a loved one loss of a job loss of a style of living all at the same time and it's been quite common will also have to

talk about communal experience crizal not all levels of grief different types of grief experienced as a community or so yeah and also anticipated grief so seeing what's happening to others and know what's coming next and we haven't seen that level of anticipated grief as we've seen with this pandemic but also we'll have to know more how to work below believe as a community and i'm glad you spoke about not start relations but that the particular area of interest of mine and how the world is really the whole globe is retool to to the more rise so all the attention kind of falls to the north so it's it's a term i've used before the northern tilt and we have this whole pandemic as redirected our attention to how the south experiences grief act for instance global compassion is a thing that we have to think about as well how we share the vaccine how we share knowledge

how we worry about other people because the more people that are vaccinated throughout the world the safer we or our so northern tilt global compassion anticipated creative and multiple levels of grief i hope we do you know what joel it is that i find it really intriguing that in the same way that we are having to keep away from each other this pandemic has also in some ways united as as a close let's talk about what kind of virus is meant for our sense of community we spoke to dr compatible have a listen i think the impact has been especially hard on adolescents and young adults in the pandemic is just shock to all the key aspects of their lives from making in meeting friends to completing education and finding a job. this is of course also the key thing is of the life of course when mental health problems and. the most important thing to address young people people's needs is to ensure that their voices are heard and their aspirations are

prioritized when planning how societies contain the epidemic. young children are having an extraordinary time growing up why they're not seeing our friends and not playing with your friends some heart wrenching stories and just thinking about the kids right now erica. so it's. yes i'm a child psychologist and so i'm seeing as many of the same clients i had before and just how it is exacerbating like any existing depression anxiety that they've already had with adolescence we know that the peer group is critical part of their development and as dr patel had mentioned and so not be able to see their friends is taking a huge toll on their mental health and it's taking a toll on family relations because parents are trying to find this savors ways for them to get some social interaction are trying to make up for that but it's training on the family as

a whole and so i just see that families are trying their best they're trying to persevere i hear my my adolescent clients trying to put on a good attitude but it waxes and waves over the course of the pandemic it's a year on out there's weeks they're doing better and there's weeks that there are really struggling and i'm seeing a lot more symptoms you know i just i just wanted to add something on this and you know i think what i really want to add you know to ease them or do they should you know and you can keep popular with relation for a couple of months but having stretched up your motivation without any external that without any extra mental boyd has been a huge huge obstacle. we have now and i've seen that with school sorry but i had. just about like you know when it 1st happened and it was like a global community coming together everybody seemed to be locked down as those kids really worked and there was

a lot of accommodations for academics but now i'm even seeing honor students who their motivation you really hit on that it's like they're now struggling and can barely make it to class and people are like the students are barely waking up or the zooms are missing and it's just hard to be motivated a year on out you know to be motivated for online education that you can have access to that which we know that there's been a lot disparities in terms of the ability to access education and that this is high let's say here's the thing we have spent over 20 minutes talking about our horrible terrible bad year and i am wondering if there is any song in the last 12 months right i will feel like rethinking that we can take away that has been good for us but for our spirit we've adapted i'm going to give the 1st on this to. help where he talks about what have we learned what is the takeaway how the lesson

. one of the challenges that the community that i serve faced at the onset of the pandemic was the loss of community comes in right before the month of ramadan which is like very communal spirit and then as the horror of the pen to make a big end to trickle down led to the deaths of family members and friends and those we love our inability to come together and support each other and be there for one another and although initially that seemed as as a formidable foe i think many of us have come out stronger with a greater capacity to serve greater empathy greater investment greater maturity more wisdom and to take things that maybe in the past we took for granted now that we're coming back as a community to really understand and appreciate their value guess i also for a sentence to start with i'm going to also for a sentence to the ways what have we learned calls attempts.

to russia we. all hope and it got to be. i think oh what specifically mean we have anything but now you've made it has to bend to make we have doctor to acknowledging that compassion fatigue is it real and that we can get one don't you know are a couple halt. i think we've learned that human capacity to adapt to in even thrive in difficult circumstances is strong and i think we've learned thank you lord. thank you so much yes i really appreciate you excellent one thing that i've definitely learned on the street is misinformation and. they like this let me point you into the right direction so you are never misinforms verified partnership championed by united nations you will find it in your search engine and go that

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