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on the 77 percent be told. this is where. the 77 percent this weekend on d w. before you open that pack of chips numerous studies link obesity to a higher risk of serious illness from the new coronavirus you can double your chances of hospitalization and increase the risk of landing in intensive care by even more. in me he called me into mexico preliminary data shows that the severity of coated increases by 44 percent over white people or seen the sun asked in an obviously that obesity can also be to heart. seats and diabetes both of which also

increase the risk of developing a severe case of covert 19. if you eat 5 crispy pigskin tacos then you have to push yourself to burn some fat. it's time to talk about your waistline could this crisis finally convince you to join that gym or start eating healthier fast food loving south africa is the 3rd fattest nation on earth and it's complicating the nation's fight against the buyers doctors say overweight south africans straining the health system. just cardiologist jeff king has been kept busy since coded 19 reached south africa's shores. to. do. with over 20 percent of the

population living with hiv there were initially worries that millions of immune compromised south africans could cripple the country's fight against covert 19. but there are bigger problems because africa has been known to be the mc of hiv we were concerned that the immunity responses that patients here do you know hiv would result in a great a pandemic on the contrary we actually filed be exact opposite that the biggest factor that we have related to a debating covert infection was the city and south africa and heaviest nation in the world 1st is america and 2nd to the u.k. . like many worldwide dr king 19 was primarily a respiratory disease. experts like these are the virtual 2020 european society for cardio. congress has identified obesity as

a major factor. it is. a serious ask is it a potential obesity. east's all exceeding 4 percent. as the virus to lift rates around the globe and more is learned about its effects on the body they are realizing this co-morbidity could mean the difference between life and death being very responsibly actual obesity causes in hans's the quite aggressive complications and the diabetic complications of patients remaining overweight 1st will eventually need to further lung problems or at least to decrease option nation which ultimately becomes the major limiting factor in terms of overall mortality. with high instances of diabetes hypertension and cardiovascular diseases among the general population due to obesity south africa is a particular risk for as long as there is no cure for covert 19.

meanwhile the overweight need to seek solutions. is personally now drink men didn't because. i think i need to because there were sort of drug cases i didn't factor. and i also feel like this is an opportunity for exist bergen bracing in a healthier lifestyle. and amid high rates of poverty and inequality affordable and popular staple foods in south africa are often high in fat and processed carbohydrates. white can actually be done to make the situation better is to avoid processed foods to eat 3 meals a day and make sure that we cook our own meals at home and the other problem is

a lack of physical activity and what we can do is to exercise it was ease of the week as much of a challenge that covert 19 presents to global health it also offers an opportunity for many to adopt. healthier lifestyles. the world health organization refers to obesity as a global epidemic in itself since $975.00 the numbers have nearly tripled in the united states almost a 3rd of the population is overweight in russia some european countries and south africa more than 20 percent are considered obese canada of south america and australia also make up the top 20 well a team from the university of north carolina took $75.00 studies from around the world including nearly 400000 patients it concluded being obese increases the risk of dying from coated by nearly 50 percent by popping lead that study from the department of your tradition and joins us now what surprised you about the findings

barry. quero 2 things 1st the proportion being hospitalized you're more than doubled of likelihood of being hospitalized with it if you're a person with obesity greece individuals are 113 percent more likely to be hospitalized and then the mortality statistics both of those were far beyond what anybody had expected far higher than we see individual diseases like hypertension or diabetes and why is that what's the explanation. that when you're obese. south you have a large immune just pearman so her immune system doesn't work as well and then on top of that many of the other metabolic changes just make it more likely that you'll catch koeverden that you'll get more severe covert because you don't

have the antibodies to fight it. and then on top of that if you're obese which is about 25 percent of germans and more than 20 percent of every country in the world you find that you have sufficient logical impairment your lung capacity is limited and we need to do special things just to play in hampstead and this virus attacks the lung system so just add to the problem and the reason for markel you mentioned a weaker immune system is that the reason why as some a warning a vaccination as acts a nation may not be as effective in be stable. exactly we know from 2 corona virus vaccine the flu vaccine and all the experimental work with the sars sexing that they don't work as well in fact the u.s. for the 1st time will have a booster vaccine for obese individuals and the elderly so that you'll have

a stronger flu vaccine for those who have who are obese. so what about all these people who have been shot up in their homes for so long some not even allowed to go outdoors to wait the size are we going to see an increase in obesity because of this pandemic yes we're seeing that across the globe in all the countries who work we're finding in activity combined with buying especially among the poor buying cheaper. ready kedar ready to heat alc highly processed junk food buying more sugary beverages all are adding to the problem and we're seeing. unhealthy eating increasing among low and middle income populations across the globe very surely this would have to be a wake up call for people to change their habits changed their lifestyle. it would be but i think this has to come from a governmental regulations and other changes we can't change the food environment

and without changing that we're really going to have a very difficult time getting effect septa few individuals to change their in behavior and activity behavior. balkan day he headed up that study on obesity some very interesting and surprising results there as he mentioned you were listening thank you very much for joining us barry my pleasure bye bye. now if you've got questions about the coronavirus feel free to get in contact with our science correspondent eric williams on al you chub channel here it's. dogs are being trained to detect covert 19 when they're in places like airports detecting ira thank travelers could the dogs contract the virus from a lot of. dogs having credibly sensitive noses some estimates say up 210-0000 times more more sensitive than our noses are and they can be trained to

sniff out illnesses that's been shown in a range of diseases from from malaria to cancer and and there are a number of teams all over the world currently teaching them to detect coded 19 with various degrees of success if in fact carona sniffing dogs have already been deployed in dubai international airport they can do it because like an other illnesses sars cove to influences your metabolism it in certain signature ways in other words covert 19 will cause someone to have a very specific scent and some canines at least can be trained to recognize it but you're right that it's a little tricky to keep the dogs from potentially catching the virus too i mean we know that they can catch it at least in certain circumstances although it doesn't seem to affect them as badly as it does us but to avoid any transmission risk in

dubai the sniffer dogs are physically isolated from the passengers who who randomly submit arm pet swaps which hold the scent but not the virus it sounds like kind of a clumsy system but it's one that protects the animals and and their accuracy rate is reportedly over 90 percent but don't expect troops of. of canine covert 19 snuffers to become common in airports any time soon because training them is apparently a pretty expensive and time consuming process. there are programs there borders is still closed in many parts of the world so those countries that depend on tourism have been trying to boost domestic travel like saudi arabia creative minds have been looking for new ideas to lure people out of the hots like sand boarding on the jews of the saeed desert it's about an hour's

drive east of the capital riyadh and it looks like fun. there we go. so you get into the boat. would. have you flown lately. everywhere in greece you see the corona virus pandemic it has flown to airplanes worldwide. the entire industry has to reinvent itself. it's now careening between 1st optimism and just wanted me to enjoy. details. to the point of strong opinions clear positions

international perspectives. a geo political storm is brewing in the eastern mediterranean and strangely enough it's 2 nato allies that are stoking the tensions in turkey versus greece is our no one willing to risk war that's our topic on to the. top to the point. in 60 minutes. w. . they've been robbed of their soul that's what a people experiences when their heritage is taken from them. countless cultural riches were brutally stolen from africa and carted off to europe by colonialists. each artifact has blood on it. that have yet to heal.

what should be done with the stone or from africa. this is being hotly debated on both continents. going so far september 7th on g.w. . a 99 percent drop in paying customers the coronavirus pandemic has been wreaking havoc in many sectors of the economy but the airline industry has been feeling the turbulence even more severely than most and even with some of the fleet returning to the skies the impact on airlines and access makers is set to be long lasting

ground it over 19 and the airline industry that's our focus this week on mate i'm chris kober it's good to have you aboard when covert 19 had europe earlier this year it didn't take long for airlines to react as one country after the next imposed lockdowns flights were canceled all over the world take a look at how the crisis affected the aviation industry the 1st slump came as early as february by may and june there was a 70 percent. freeze and global air traffic compared to the previous year it still hasn't recovered even in mid august air traffic was only at 50 percent of its pre-code $1000.00 levels now the pandemic marks a turning point for this trillion dollar industry carriers and many factors are in freefall putting the x. on jobs and former prestige projects take airbuses giant double decker a $380.00 for example the 4 engine jet was always a fuel thirsty undertaking now without paying passengers to fill a seats airlines have lost interest in the world's largest airline are now airbus

phasing out production and we went to say of what the last of its kind. whenever one of these huge planes was to be assembled at the nearby abas plant sections of the fuselage had to pass through a living yak villages turned out for the festive procession and to say hello this time in june it was also to say goodbye. number 270 was the last 8380 to be built that's when the series was unveiled 15 years ago it marked a revolution the world's biggest passenger plane now it's being discontinued. i think that people would have loved to to have the sec rough you know being produce for a longer period of time anyway again i think that everybody is very proud about the aircraft and what it means to help us to know how the skills that we developed

along those is very important then to pave the way for the future innovation like. for example. a $380.00 is so extravagantly enormous it's positively the inspiring. people have grown fond of it even if they don't work for adults. i think it's a it's a mixed feeling between a bit of sadness. but also a lot of a lot of pride and and again i'm very proud to have been part of this journey i think that you felt the passion of all the people i think that help us would not be a bus without day. even though it worldwide i mean anybody is able to recognize the ficci and this is not a given for any aircraft flying around the work. a

380 was designed to hold as many as 850 passengers on its today but times have changed and the lines. no longer aim to cram as many people as possible into huge planes smaller fuel efficient models the call for now. the end of the road for the a 380 came too soon for any of us the development costs less huge and can hardly have been offset by sales at the same time the pandemic is devastating the industry a large part of the global commercial air fleet remains grounded airlines that were doing well and now facing bankruptcy the german state had to rescue love to answer with a 9000000000 euro bailout orders for new planes have been cancelled or have failed to materialize. production advice has been cut back sharply thousands of workers are working reduced hours. as they are still

a big cliff both of course we've been hit hard as a manufacturer and we have to respond appropriately we've studied past disruptive events such as 911 and sars they all had a negative impact but not as great as the pandemic as we have to find a way to emerge from the crisis swiftly rise up from this low point given the enormity of the crisis we're talking about years not months we won't get back to where we were until at least 202035 there will be no return to normality before that. you know material. and it had to go here and clear corporate europe with europe for what could of course. ever since pinning its hopes on it's a 350 series introduced in 2015 it's quiet fuel efficient and state of the art. piloted this one on its 1st flight at a bus in toulouse his and lines of time so ordered it some years ago and this was

the acceptance flight back in the middle of the deepest crisis and of tenses history. if you. before you fight an open mind a colleague and it's an important gesture for my colleagues at home on short time work. if it's been free of applied on this is a difficult time but it's important to look ahead. the 1st time you have been there 5 years doesn't like a few. tense or inspectors check every detail of the plane windows seats safety features. everyone tree sit down fasten your seat belt secure. the list price of an a 350 is 300000000 euros before a purchase or paste the full amount is pilots put the plane through its paces. right now love tenser is in the process of shrinking its fleet buying

a new plane was controversial within the company. for the meissen is a sign of most see it as a glimmer of hope of course colleagues are asking why why now and why couldn't delivery be postponed but most appreciate as a contract is binding he can't just say i don't want the plane now it's a sign that we're getting going again i should of all that it's. a glimmer of hope for the airline and for the manufacturer of us pilot thomasville henn says every plane that gets built help secure jobs. that wins a switch to it's important for us to maintain production albeit at a lower level so it's a good feeling and a positive sign that we continue to deliver such big planes it also shows that lufthansa and the aviation industry and air bus are confident that things will take off again even if the steps are small and slow. doesn't lead to all threats. on

this but this is up to ms m is all well and good. but nobody actually knows what commercial aviation. well look like in the future for example love tensors switching some planes from carrying passengers to freight and has therefore removed droves of seats social distancing may be with us for some time and passenger planes too might be facing a redesign less sardine tin more limousine and of look at so designs cabins for and us he says it's crucial to make passengers feel safe so they're willing to fly even jaring the pandemic i'm here in the ventilation system exchanges and filters the air in the cabin every 2 or 3 minutes. it circulates downwards to help ensure the air is free of viruses. on the air quality is comparable to that in

a hospital surfaces in the washrooms have antibacterial coatings and there are no touch controls so that is a very good starting point a strong basis for ensuring hygiene safety in the air. as it had to flee. the maiden flight of its new a 315 may have gone well but abbott has announced it intends to cut 15000 jobs worldwide. there. are tens of thousands of jobs on the chopping block that's been one of the results of the dramatic decline in international air travel giant fields of unused aircraft have become an eye catching indicator of the problem here are some more facts to illustrate the full extent of the industry's crisis. before the coronavirus an average of more than 1000000 people were

traveling by plane at any given time the pandemic reduced the number to less than 100000. the u.s. and britain have been especially hard hit by the aviation crisis. the industry accounts for 3 percent of their g.d.p. . it's estimated that up to 64 percent of commercial aircraft were grounded lines attempts to sell off aircraft are usually unsuccessful carriers all over the world have declared bankruptcy a few received government bailouts germany's love towns that was given a rescue deal of 9000000000 euros. hong kong is cathay pacific received 4500000000 the us bailout plan for airlines is worth 42000000000 euros but it may not be enough the international air transport association has warned that the crisis could last years. especially if rather than sending staff to their

customers and business partners around the world companies continue to hold more video conferences instead. radio conferences are something we hear w. have also been getting used to they help us stay on the air. for staying in the air freight business is the one bright spot for abuse and right now it's booming and no wonder as a result of the pandemic people are shopping online like never before our reporter chris and paid a visit to leipsic airport where logistics trying d.h.l. operates an international air freight hope. d.h.l. freighter arrives crammed full with express packages. manager evo inside it

is in charge of unloading and rerouting. his planes just arrived from zagreb. the ramp team has just one hour to unload and reload the plane. the number of flights has definitely risen this year and there are more known night landings. on the numbers going up to 65 and sometimes there are more than 70 and croft. expressed in livery service d.h.l. is international business in the eastern german city of leipzig for years business has continued to improve from what is the world's largest logistics company. during the pandemic it specialists have to use every centimeter of available cargo space in their dedicated transport planes. as the coronavirus crisis broke global passenger flights screeched to a halt vastly slashing capacities for air freight as well that's work to do you

charles advantage if you're saying we've been experiencing growth for years but especially now you're in the coronavirus crisis we've seen all the airlines reduce their capacity and if you consider that 60 to 70 percent of freight volume is normally transported in the holds of passenger planes you can imagine that if the airlines disappear and that capacity goes that things will start piling up elsewhere instead. tonight's assignment involves sorting 400000 express packages and bulky items. after arriving in my position the packages are then loaded on to other planes for the next leg of their journey. 2000 employees work the night shift here.

pay to be current is in charge overnight they have 2000 tonnes of parcels to process on this shift that's my god we have to make sure that no parcel is left behind this is a trans shipment hub goods come in and they go straight out again all over the world you know it's one. sends out freight to more than 500 airports every day using the main commercial flight routes flying 1st to major hubs and then on to smaller airports. but pace of work is fast 30 containers have to be unloaded from the whole of the plane. and groans idle deals with 8 planes a night. yet we detach the clock to the plane and it's counting down the aim is to empty it in that time it's often thought that the

machine at the end. she has 30 minutes to do that. the night shift is the busiest here and goes from 9 pm to 6 am. that's when the largest number of staff members work. because most of my bucket people pay good money to have beds in livery by 6 in the morning or by noon we are in charge of making sure everything moves as fast as possible especially if a typical delivery looks like this at 2 pm some $100.00 or says she wants to send a parcel to rome an hour later it's collected from the customer the truck takes it to the d.h.l. gateway airport. by 7 pm it's on a d.h.l. cargo plane to hong kong for sorting in the d.h.l. hub. around midnight local time it sets off for leipzig.

and arrives at 2 am central european time. and loaded onto another plane and sets off at 5 am for baggage in northern italy. and gets there at 7 am. then the parcel is taken by a truck to a sorting office in rome were a d.h.l. courier collected. the courier delivers the parcel to the recipient at 10 30 am. but back to life. once cabin container loading has been completed he runs idle has to monitor the loading of the planes holds this work is done by hand. and then you are loading so-called blue straight into the belly here the same way passenger baggage is loaded in passenger planes because this plane only has 15

positions for securing launch containers up in the cabin. and within the allotted hour the plane is ready to take off again this time for frankfurt just one of $65.00 takeoffs and landings on this one night at airport. one way or another the aviation industry is going to have to reinvent itself not only because of the demick with more and more traffic clogging up streets of cities all over the world urban air mobility is no longer the stuff of science it's airbus is just one of the companies hard at work on a design for a flying taxi with it hopes will be ready for takeoff within just 3 years. there you go 3 to. the new airbus flying taxi performed its 1st public flight demonstration this summer or italy or even. the fully electric city air bus reaches

a cruising speed of 120 kilometers an hour and can carry up to 4 passengers. it's currently operated by joystick but is that to fly autonomous late later on. right now it can't go that far the battery is only enough for 15 minutes of flying time. but team of 30 engineers is working to change that. rule for the day but it could still be a while before the city air bus goes into regular operation in europe there's no legal framework for that yet still airbus expects to get certification by 2023. every corner the aviation industry is reeling from the coronavirus crisis including the 10s of thousands of people who work in europe's airports for the last few months to have felt like ghost towns all report

a militant schmidt went to frankfurt airport to find out how retail concessions the shops and food service outlets that normally thronged with people buying snacks and last minute gifts have been fairing since the pandemic hit. it's great to be up in the air again this is my 1st flight in many months before the pandemic and the lock down i used to take a trip every 2 or 3 weeks. the mood on board is surprisingly good when the coronavirus crisis started most passengers were really nervous flights are a lot more expensive now. i've come to frankfurt to find out have the retail concession shops and food service outlets at the airport have been fairing since dependent make it and. this is kind of i think it's not change so much this place used to be a hive of activity always crowded

a mass of people from around the world well it isn't anymore. almost half the shops in terminal one are shut or the other trying to go closed down in april. sales at the shops that are open have slumped many people from the far east and the united states were keen to buy lots of products made in germany but they're nowhere to be seen now. head phones for a 1000 euros 1000 or the manager of the 9 shops here tells me they don't stay open all the time like they used to different sides and opening hours are matched to arrivals and departures from. the airport management tells us about flights and how many passengers are on board and we open accordingly i'm calm and. that means there are certain times of day when we're closed. here we tend to open at midday and in other sections we are open in the morning and evening but closed

around midday there's no point worrying whether it's all going to be over soon that would just hasten the end better to stay positive and focus on the progress we're making. on department of. there are almost no long haul flights at the moment almost all are within europe. but the last german sausage used to sell like hotcakes at this fast food stand 500 portions a day that is prepared demick the airport made the sausage stand stayed open throughout the lock down it's been losing money for months. he's a fozzy monkey people keep saying every crisis presents an opportunity when you've just been hit really hard by a crisis that sounds really offensive. that's how i felt. on the other hand there is something to it the clyde. business think it helps if you. understand

closes that right he produces a cookery show with a friend they're getting donuts will soon be on you tube. for such concessions to stem the bloodletting and make some money again many more people would have to come and buy something but passenger numbers are not expected to rise either fast or soon or wouldn't calling it a day be a good idea. to get to the for one thing there are contracts that say i have to carry on. with the verse i have also invested hundreds of thousands of euros in this place. i can't just walk away and. i still think frankfurt airport is one of the very best locations in germany. and things will eventually get a lot better on the kits that i construct of. the airport operator

says it's going to reduce the rents for the shops in the food outlets to help tide them over but it hasn't done it yet negotiations. there are still underway i wanted to ask the operator about these plans. but the press people are all working reduced hours and none were available for an interview which is a pity. nobody has a clear idea how things will develop it's a scary situation recovery scraping by for a while longer or bankruptcy it's anybody's guess. looking at things from above often gives you a new perspective and some space something that's very these days my colleague or nothing i like to share his view on life's challenges and here he is to tell us

what getting a bird's eye view from a full size glider. limited freedom. i have total freedom the words he said my feet. but what direction should i take this way or that way. where i'm headed

what should they do. people make up to 20000 decisions every day so much pressure every day do i even want to do this my job hopped off. why am i doing this to myself who am i trying to prove something to all these possibilities all these choices don't make it any easier. if i know i want to go that way. once all in our compost would show us the way we just have to trust it all. on top and then we can all fly and each of us knows where. i'm. just in this climate i'm coming up yeah.

that's our show for this week thanks for watching stay healthy.

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