this is the w.'s live in from berlin tonight in germany there are growing fears of a 2nd wave of the coronavirus health authorities say they are worried over soaring new infection numbers they say people are becoming complacent possibly with disastrous consequences also coming up tonight in the garden the search for madeline mccann leads police to a garden here in germany the 3 year old banished from a holiday apartment in portugal back in 2000 software and

a big step towards the ultimate clean energy its nuclear fusion and it needs a reactor that is now being built in france as. i bring cough it's good to have you with us tonight germany is bracing for a 2nd wave of the corona virus the country's leading public health institute says new infections have soared in recent days the institute blaming negligence among the population for driving the surge in new cases at least $58.00 people have tested positive for coverage 19 after attending a funeral service at this mosque in southwest germany among them at least 12 children leaving this school to test an entire great in a daycare center to shut down. khurana cases are searching again here in germany that at the institute for infectious diseases warned that germans happen come next

legit you know it's not even if it's the latest results show that the population has become less concerned about the risk of co but 19 and not the public's acceptance of health and safety measures such as social distancing and mask has deteriorated i would like to be very clear how this situation develops is very much in our hands. bought into how. it seems like this that if health experts sounding the alarm people in hamburg's famous red light district openly flouting social distancing rules officials have responded by introducing a temporary alcohol ban in parts of the city attorney was one of the 1st european countries to return to something resembling normalcy but officials warn that the continued carelessness of a few puts those heart one freedoms at risk. i've told my interior minister if the numbers keep searching we have to re-impose tight restrictions. by the

unsung we have to make people understand that this virus has not playing around contrasts. the summer holidays have added to health officials headaches is popular travel destinations like spain are seen huge bikes as well raising the questions of whether germany will have to re close its borders if every conferee was in the european union is taking responsibility i guess we can award it so if you have local hotspots off i guess we have to fight against those local hotspots and not too close bought us for now testing has been rammed up at german airports in the hope that the freedom to travel won't turn into a 1st class ticket for code that to wreak further havoc on a country. go for more on this now i'm joined by our correspondent kate brady good to see you are in bavaria tonight in the telling of many where there has been

a significant corona virus outbreak a form i think there were more than $170.00 migrant workers who tested positive for the virus help or authorities there dealing with that situation where the farm has for the last few days now being under quarantine it's completely fenced off and the 24 hour security in place there as well no one's allowed to leave or and to the site without the correct authority and in the meantime to test senses attestations have been set up now here close to where that farm they said that locals and the 3000 more than 3000 people that live here manning can also go and get tested and say well so far it has been a very localized response and it seems that that might be the way that authorities move forward as the numbers seem to be creeping up in germany is that what we can glean cage that germany will respond to a 2nd wave local walk downs instead of a nationwide lockdown. that certainly seems to be the case and there was

a positive bit of news today from the press conference here in miami and because of this local response the local council here said that they had quarantined that far and as a result the tests the test results from the locals that have so far come back of all being negative and they said that was due to quick action at a local level and so that's certainly something that i imagine we can expect if we see similar cases like this in the coming weeks you know we heard today from public health authorities that they're worried about people becoming negligent and complacent. what is being done what can be done to change that. well of course within germany you have the 16 states and already down here in the various today where i am the local cabinet decided that the current rules on how many people can meet in a public place and social distancing rules they are going to continue and those are

in the hands of each individual state here in germany so that's something that each state can take into its own hands as well and that i can imagine will remain in place for some time and that's something we've heard german chancellor angela merkel warning of as well that we need to make sure that we are daring to the rules that are currently in place or otherwise they may become stricter and then in the meantime as well we're seeing voluntary test centers pop up at various essential train stations here in germany and several airports as well and as of the beginning of august there will be some voluntary test stations available for people traveling back into germany from austria into the varia and there are all calls as well for those to become mandatory for people returning from high risk areas but there's still some legalities to iron out. measures enjoyed the role of. strong public support is it going to stay that way if we're talking about

new walked. well this is the big question and you have to remember as well that germany got off very lightly not only in the number of cases of that 19 but also the number of deaths and also the extent to which there was a lockdown in place here in germany we never saw measures like in neighboring france where people were only able to leave if they had a valid reason to do so and have to carry a piece of paper to state that and so that could be a shock to the system if things were to escalate here in germany but of course that during the summer months as well even talking to locals here today the idea that they could even face a local lockdown that that could still be a possibility that's just not something that people want to envisage right now particularly during the summer months but it still could become a reality that's right some are complete cincy keep brady in the town of miami in bavaria in southern germany kate thank you. police here in germany are

searching a community garden plot as they investigate the disappearance of madeleine mccann the british girl was 3 years old when she vanished on a family vacation in portugal 13 years ago now despite the trunk doing global attention the case has never been solved. a 13 year trail has brought them here a garden in hanover germany. investigators may be breaking ground after over a decade of dead ends as they search for madeleine mccann. the prime suspect in her case a 43 year old german man is already in prison serving time for a separate crime. the search for mccann began in 2007 at this holiday resort in the algarve and portugal the 3 year old girl disappeared from her bed while her parents were eating dinner at a nearby restaurant. the mccann's spent years publicizing the case urging

authorities to keep looking hoping to find their daughter alive. finally in june a glint of hope investigators announced a suspect a german man who was in the mccann disappeared german authorities however said they were no longer and best to getting madeleine mccann's disappearance as a missing person case but as a murder. the persistence of her parents is uncommon so are the resources both private and public that have been poured into this case investigators hope they are finally writing the last chapter of this unhappy story. we'll hear some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the former prime minister of malaysia. has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after being found guilty of corruption the judge granted a delay to the sentence it was the 1st of several trials faces over the looting of billions of dollars from a state development. in pakistan heavy floods in

a day in karachi have sold at least 5 people. urban flooding on poorly designed development clogged drainage systems and climate change which is affecting one soon sees in pat it's. americans are bidding farewell to congressman john lewis his coffin lines in state outside the capitol building in washington d.c. today earlier u.s. lawmakers from both parties praised their veteran colleague in a solemn ceremony lewis a civil rights leader and protege of dr martin luther king jr died of cancer earlier this month at the age of 80. bidding farewell to a political giant long lines of people formed outside the capitol building in washington d.c. as members of the public paid their respects to john lewis the 17 term congressman from georgia was a pioneer of the civil rights movement remembered for is unwavering pursuit of the

quality for all. to be. who. he was. so many of our generation nowadays needs to look back and learn. how he helped to realize the ideals that this country was founded on that all men are created equal hopefully we as younger people will comment gather and continue to walk in his footsteps and carry on that mantle. those who worked side by side with john lewis pay tribute to his life and legacy on monday in the capitol rotunda. house speaker nancy pelosi remembered louis as a man revered and beloved by both sides of the political aisle. they would all john was a person. who also was a person of great humility always giving credit to others in the movement. john

committed his life to advancing justice and understood that to build a better future we had to acknowledge the past. arriving in washington on monday representative lewis took a final tour of the u.s. capitol escorted by police his motorcade made a symbolic drive down black lives matter boulevard at a time of heightened racial tensions in the u.s. mourners lined the street to honor the late congressman. c a recording of the civil rights icon was played one last time for his fellow lawmakers. one people i want to thank you very much. words he wanted the world to live by. at the age of 80 well it is the great hope for generating clean power nuclear fusion today

scientists in france began assembling an enormous international fusion reactor known by the acronym it's already taken 10 years and a global scientific effort to get to where we are now the idea is to create energy not by splitting atoms like nuclear power stations do but by fusing together. for decades scientists have been trying to tap into the power that drives the sun nuclear fusion the hope is that it can be used to meet tomorrow's energy demands the basic science of thoughts and conditions like those spent in the sun such as very high temperatures hydrogen atoms will fuse creates helium and release a lot of energy the hydrogen could be extracted from seawater making use of practically unlimited resource. is basically the opposite of.

splitting a heavy element and that releases energy where you end up with the products afterwards which are required to handle. a chain reaction so there's no possibility for it to run away which is what causes a meltdown. scientists at this start up in the u.k. are working on nuclear fusion one of the biggest hurdles they face is how to get more energy out of the process than they have put in. researchers in southern france are also working on fusion the international project easter is building a giant experimental reactor it seeks to use hese to cause hydrogen to fuse. the reactor design is what's called a toke a mock a huge hollow tone us filled with super hoss hydrogen plasma that flows through us like a ring of lightning held in place by powerful magnets. this is proved to be

a major technical challenge and it's still hard to predict how fusion energy can be fed into the power grid many think it could take at least 2 more decades before this problem can be solved. amazing you're watching from berlin i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. ground information and news. hour carona update. that 19 special next on d.w. . 2 2

2 2 2 today as well to hepatitis day every year more than a 1000000 people die from liver cancer and said roses which of course by viral hepatitis the numbers are staggering for a disease for which vaccines under treatment and now have a. nable. globally. but i do see when you're under sea of 325000000 people but only one in 10 of those people have been tested and only one in 5 of received appropriate treatment. the world health organization

wants to eliminate hepatitis by 2030 but some experts are now asking whether the covert 1000 pandemic could derail that goal. welcome to you covered $900.00 special here on the news i want to get jones and be with us sars coast to isn't our only enemy amid the coronavirus pandemic viral hepatitis continues to claim thousands of lives every day worth remembering what we're up against. their own main strains of the hepatitis virus referred to as types a. d and. according to the world health organization millions of sufferers unaware of the disease but slowly creeps up on them with an inflammation of the liver unbeknown to them all habitat is pathogens except for c.

are preventable by a vaccine. the lack of testing also means many cases are discovered too late. and that for a disease that spreads easily and through poor food hygiene dirty water and lack of sanitation. the rest c. and d. are all spread via blood semen and other bodily fluids. i for more i'm joined by him care the spokesman of the german association off research based pharmaceutical companies good to have you with us as a place tell me how is the fight against covert 19 affecting the fight against hepatitis. it's affected in 2 ways really one is that the vaccination campaigns get interrupted in quite a number of countries be calls. and the health care system is so occupied with dealing with covert 19. the all the problem is

that patients are afraid to go to the doctor because they are afraid to contract covert 19 in the waiting room really. if they suspect that they may have got infected of some kind of appetite teas they don't seek diagnosis and on seek treatment of course that is a phenomenon that we see a lot of illnesses heart attacks and so forth. at the time just how well that is also known as the silent epidemic what actually do we need to know about how does it differ from co with 19. well have a tie does this actually not one does the at least 5 different diseases and they all calls by viruses of that have a different coles so. dangerous one so really the most dangerous ones

b. c. and d. and. these appetite is especially b. and c. and i can be really silent that is you are in fact it. for you if without noticing you have no symptoms you'll feel well a ripping fine and only off to a year if when the virus of really. how much harm to your liver you'll start to feel sometimes that's why it's called fila right and of course there is no vaccine against hepatitis c. yet but there are certain drugs to treat patients as well talk about that in a moment don't go anywhere but let's just have a quick look at where we stand with the treatment for hepatitis c. and how this could perhaps also help 19 patients. around one percent of the world's population 71000000 people have hepatitis c.

. the virus is transmitted through infected blood for example from shared syringes toothbrushes razors and through unprotected sex. unsterilized equipment in touch to studios there's also a risk that causes 3 to 4000000 new infections every year. the virus attacks the liver and causes an infection which can have serious complications such as liver cancer also ross says there is no vaccine but there are medicines to treat the infection for decades researchers have given intense study to the hepatitis c. virus that could help in the search for medicine to fight cough it 19. researchers at the university of mines in germany a fed reams of data into the super computer the computer simulates the effects of

$42000.00 substances tested in hepatitis research against the corona virus the result for hepatitis medications contain active ingredients which could hinder application of a. virus that discovery could accelerate the time to development of the drug. of the german association of research based pharmaceutical companies i.d.d. we find a therapy that helps hepatitis c. and coby 1000 patients but what are the chances well it would be absolutely fantastic if one of those trucks what do you really suited to treat covert 19 because we know them well we know about the side effects are minimal so these are the kinds of methods you really want to have. it just takes time the supercomputers right at the beginning then of calls you have to verify

those results in cell cultures for example because of the t. and a logical flow system is not a level of complexity above supercomputer and if it turns out that you can use them in clinical trials so at the moment. from dramas actually different drugs. which contain antibodies which have been copied from antibodies found in the blood of x. patients xcode with 19 patients so they seem to have the best chances right now in order to. cure well 900 patients is that one of the best shots that we're having right now. it's suddenly one of the best shots and it's an approach which you

can pursue fairly quickly we know how to handle end it all days we know how to produce them mass produce them with biotechnology and so if this turns out to be a good approach we can have a mass production of them and handling in the clinics quite quickly but these are just some of the many many approaches we have we have stopped counting at something $200.00 plus madsen's actually tests that all the suitability against go with 19 among them some hepatitis mithun's right well that sounds promising and hopefully very soon we're lucky and find the right there with before all those diseases well think of from the german pharmaceutical industries association thank you so much for your time. oh you're welcome thank you.

now then how are animals fairing and the pandemic well that depends of course on where they live and how they kept to penguins young ones at the brookfield zoo in chicago are visibly enjoying being pumped that spot the zoo staff they had just about a month ago and this is this they are thriving and growing fast brookfield susa indoor animal buildings of course have been temporarily closed to guests due to code 9000 pandemic. and the reason we show you this well we thought we share those pictures with you because many of you keep asking about animals and 19 in fact that is the question that our science correspondent williams is going to answer now. what are the optics on infection in pets. this is a question i answered back in march based on a pre-print study that has since been peer reviewed and published but because it's asked over and over i guess it's time for

a general reminder the authors found that of the common pets challenge with the buyer us ferrets could be infected but weren't very contagious cats appeared most at risk of both developing disease and passing it along to other cats dogs on the other hand didn't appear to be very susceptible but other animals might contribute to outbreaks a lot of mink have been called on fur farms and denmark from spain and the netherlands in the last few months animal welfare groups a say well over a 1000000 after the discovery that they could contract and pass on the disease not only to other means but also very likely to pets like like cats the fear is that further forms could act as a reservoir for the fireworks and thereby contribute to future outbreaks in general though current thinking is that the chance of transmission from. it's or other

animals to people that it's quite. infected mean cold on the fur farms in europe probably constructed originally from the humans who work there. the coronavirus pandemic has also changed the lives of millions of goats sheep and camels normally they now get sold at major markets ahead of. the festival of sacrifice this year fears about catching the virus to keep in customers away and faced with deserted markets livestock breeders and traders turned to websites absent social media to showcase their animals the festival of sacrifice is one of 2 major holy days observed by muslims across the world including some 600000000 in south asia. that's almost all for me tonight in special today of course remember that you can post your questions to derek on our you tube channel and if you'd like to keep up with the latest developments on

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