so yes we have to take action now to stop it from getting a lot worse dr should the focus according to the w.h.o. and according to your expertise be on developing a vaccine and drugs to treat the virus or should instead the emphasis be on covert testing and tracing the emphasis should be on whether that letter saying is do or don't hold say your side has to racing i 1247 i mean my belief in humanity has. every day when i think of what the scientists are doing but we ourselves every one of us have to be responsible for stopping the transmission and yes and health systems and health authorities have to be increasingly testing ensuring that they are tracing every person making sure every person who is infected is put requiring teen and k. through making sure everybody has a contact itself isolating and following those people and making it possible for

people to take the actions we know and stop the transmission now of course one of the biggest problems is that we rely on individuals to show you know some civic responsibility because the decision that an individual makes is one that affects an entire community so i mean how difficult has it been to see that in many places around the world 19 has become a hot button political issue. it is difficult because this is been going on for a long time and in many people's experience epidemics just come and go quickly right most people only experience a the flu or they haven't lived in a long serious pandemic like this nobody in that generation really has so people are tired they thought they did very good things they put up with the knock downs but now it's really a marathon we all have to take responsibility we all have to look after each other

and yes government south argues have to listen to what people are concerned about respond to that but also help people to understand there are things they can do there are things that we should do and we need to stop the transmission now dr harris in conclusion this has been a very difficult time for your organization the world health organization it has come under attack by most notably the united states which is on track to leave the organization in 2021 what can you do as an organization to restore relations and restore confidence in the w.h.o. . we'll do our work that's what we're here for we're here to protect the health of every person on this planet so regardless of all the fighting weight here is to protect your health my health everybody's health and and to help people do the things to tell people the things they can do like washing wearing the mosque greeny be serious about physical distance saying don't go into crowded places don't

go into closed rooms with poor ventilation and if you have to go to those places where a mouse dr martin margaret harris spokesperson of the world health organization in geneva we appreciate you thank you very much. and many people here are concerned about a spike in corona virus infections during the comer winter months so just how prepared is germany for a 2nd wave the news visited one doctor's office and the center of berlin that's hoping to get ahead of the curve. 12 meters long and growing. that feeling of today's line at a medical practice from berlin. people have come here to get tested for corona through the window no appointment necessary. i think it's a really nice option doesn't take so much time and it's it may be safer than going

to oak hospital and sitting in the close space where patients can be sick but here everything everyone is wearing masks and that's just for the window so i think it's really nice that the doctors ability cuts and runs the practice she's bracing herself for a harsh corona winter with many more patients to deal with it important event my i don't want to be a prophet of doom and gloom but the numbers are clearly going up we all want to prevent another lockdown so we don't want to have to close the schools again somehow we've got to get through this winter. to prepare for what's coming germany wants to set up more testing stations they would receive people running at a high temperature or with other corona symptoms additionally the public health office which tracks infected people was promised more personnel but that has yet to materialize. the quality shots have pledged to bolster the health authorities over

the next 5 years this requires the creation of 5000 new jobs but now as october and november approach the jobs don't yet exist in the health offices this is a problem that urgently needs to be addressed. but instead of relying solely on germany's health care and tracking system dr katz and don would rather make testing at home possible. to misinterpret critical have to be given the chance to do a test without a doctor to go to the pharmacy and buy a test although they do not guarantee 100 percent accuracy when they provide an excellent indicator and are absolutely adequate from an epidemiological point of view because. the swab test involves taking a sample between the nose and mouth it shows the results within 15 minutes without sending the sample to a laboratory in germany though only doctors and pharmacists are allowed to order

them. should infections start rising sharply in winter they might be an alternative to long lines in the cold all german chancellor angela merkel has announced new measures in response to local spikes in covert 1000 and fiction race and she vowed to avoid a full national lockdown instead and now sing what she called a hotspot strategy after meeting with the leaders of germany's 16 federal states. i think all in all this was a very important conference in which we discussed the seriousness of the situation as fall begin. we are not alone as we see from the very dynamic infection developments in our european neighbors. our goal is to allow public and private life to go on as much as possible without leave. that that means when infection rates rise we need to react quickly to get them under control and there's always on

a specific regional basis that's something we've learnt that we don't need to do the same thing for everyone but that we can intervene in a measured localised way and i think that's good news. in the region. well earlier i asked to do his chief political editor mikhail a call for how chancellor merkel plans to avoid another national lockdown in germany. well she says the top aim is to avoid such a doctor but she won't catch her completely ruling that out at the same time t.v. parties have shifted the top priority is to keep the economy going keep businesses open and to keep schools open which is a very very different scenario from 6 months ago when the initial shock of the crisis also hit germany and brought public life to a standstill germany it seems to work with formulas now it was the state premiers that sat around the table with angela merkel today who has no legal control to tell them what they do so they found a compromise where if there are up to 35 infections or if it hits that mark then

public parties gatherings of up to 50 people will still be possible $55.00 only up to $25.00 and if that goes up 250000 infections per 100000 people per week that would then mean that public gatherings could be top $25.00 people private ones 10 and she recommends that germans don't travel a lot sounds very mathematical but that is the compromise formula germany is living with right now has launched today it's more specific than before and that everybody can agree on. their reporting tensions are flaring over the disputed region of nagorno occur with both armenian and azerbaijani forces accusing each other of attacks on their territory armenia claims turkey has shot down one of its warplanes which the turkish president and his johnny allies deny all renewed fighting in

recent days has left dozens killed and many more injured prompting calls for a cease fire from around the world. these scenes have put the international community on edge. but for the residents of both mania and as a by shun they have been a long time coming. it was a little the as i by johnny ami will win this war and we will return to our historical lands a lot of good as it is for the jury is out as if my country needs me as a soldier i am ready even at my age. of course we are afraid of a long war but the civilian population and the military must be ready for it although it is better to be free later than to continue this false pace. the focus of the fighting is the goal in a car back region the dispute itself is decades old beginning in the early 1990 s. when the ethnically armenian region declared independence from us of i shall and

that independence has never been recognized by the international community which is urging for calm from both sides the secretary general strongly called on the sidestreet mediately stop fighting deescalate tension and returned to meaningful negotiations without preconditions or delay world leaders fear the fighting could lead to full scale conflict which destabilizes the south caucasus region a kargil for pipelines carrying oil and gas to world markets regional players like russia and turkey also at risk of becoming in broiled in the conflict and escalating it further. and that is the us today we are at the side of our azerbaijani brother and in the defense of the homeland mania must immediately cease its attacks and send back the mercenaries that have brought from abroad to. dozens of people have been killed so far including civilians and hundreds more wounded at

the request of germany and france the u.n. security council is expected to hold emergency talks on choose day but with both sides accusing the other of starting the battle and of continuing to use heavy artillery a quick and clean break from the violence seems unlikely. well earlier i spoke with the disputer region's deputy minister of foreign affairs are mean. and i asked her if there are any efforts underway to mediate a solution well i guess as you know in 1904 the cease fire was signed between the sides it was the motivation of russia and the mediators and this was the only tangible progress with average that in that negotiation process and this was the time when current of steak was part of the negotiations unfortunately for the last. decades there by john has been ignoring kyra back and

pretending that it does not exist as a site and as such a car bomb was not at the negotiation table so i think if we want any progress to be made and any real advance in the negotiation process all sides to the conflict should come at the negotiation table with the help of many others and discuss possible solutions. the end of this thank you so much for watching. combating the pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and. our corona update. 19 special next on d w. is for me. is for.

beethoven is for. beethoven is for. beethoven is for. beethoven 2020. 5th anniversary here on you know. it's the largest disruption of global education systems in history. when the pandemic 1st his around one and a half 1000000000 students around the world were santo ma schools closed their doors. and some have since reopened but class isn't in session for hof of the world school children. the lucky ones were able to pursue their studies

online. but for many even in developed countries that is not an option. the world was already struggling to come to grips with educational inequality now the united nations warns the covert crisis is making it worse disproportionately affecting the most fun rebel threat. decades of progress for this generation and possibly beyond. this is 1000 special i'm kate ferguson thanks for joining me at the height of the pandemic schools in some 190 countries closed their doors many have since reopened but the experience of lockdown heightened major inequalities in education and even richer countries like germany have struggled with the challenges of going to.

pencils a shop and books are out and students are back in the classrooms but it seems not much of the digital learning put in place during lockdown has survived here at the sleds causeless school in berlin. teacher says many of the challenges involved in digital learning for main. the foundational problems are still there a lot of parents don't understand technology a lot of families don't have internet or digital technology at home but the schools are much better prepared so we are able to have clouds and messenger services and email that is all. in accordance with data protection laws which was not the case before the corona crisis has made schools realise how much still needs to be done and in most classrooms teaches and students still use analog tools and learning materials to change that the german government has put aside 5000000000 curios to

digitalize the classroom money desperately needed says co-principal sure nuff said when looking at her quit and this is. it is definitely the case that teachers and parents are investing their own private resources to digitalize this course have been initiatives by the state but that always comes with a lot of bureaucracy which we see now as well with the current funding so in the end you have to make sure you take all that you can get the one can come. until now only one of over 1200 students at this school has received a tablet financed by the state students our way of how slowly things are moving and want to see change. if you tell if you go as room for improvement in the digitalisation of our school to say the least there's not enough equipment for all students it was not enough to make proper home schooling possible. but some

students think that they are now better prepared in case of another lockdown. and learn from us which i don't know at the beginning it was new for all of us the system the computer is working at home now i think that it look well better than the 1st time. but the ideal classroom that can switch effortlessly from the school to each student's very unfair means that distant goal. that's talking to professor fernando reamers he for director of the global education innovation initiative harvard university professor reamer thanks for joining us he said at the current disruption to learning could cause the biggest educational setback in history could you expound on that for us. absolutely i'm delighted to be with you the currency has to be set in the complex of the fact that over the last 7 decades the world experienced the most remarkable silent revolution in the history of humanity as a result of the expansion of boxes to school which went from including about one of

2 children in school 70 years ago doing clearing just about everyone now this pandemic through 3 mechanisms is going to create a major said by the 1st mechanism is that because schools have to create alternative ways of delivering education in a limited high with limited professional preparation to teachers those mechanisms have not reached of students all students equally well in addition the kind of support that is available to students are home varies depending on the level of education of their parents other source economic level and as a result for the students who have not been reached effectively who do not have adequate support at home they are not learning and they are not engaging in school what that means is that some of them are going to have it very hard continuing their studies window and then he is over and some of them are going to drop out altogether in some cases caused by the memory consumption of these as cause of

children to begin to work to help their families survive and finally the 3rd mechanism is a piece pandemic is creating enormous financial burdens in some states and as a result of that there's going to be less being available for education so those. 3 mechanisms are the ones that are going to cause major setbacks in how many children are able to return to school we're going to see many of them drop out and we're going to see for many children even those who continue there will be significant gaps in their knowledge the schools may or may not be able to help them recover so some huge challenges that and you've spoken to educators all over the world what's the most surprising thing you've heard from them. correct over the last 6 months i have been doing extensive research with colleagues i feel we see the end of the world via what has really surprised me the most are 3 things number one the tremendous concern for education of shock asian e.c.m.

i'm of a pandemic when life is what is at stake as a very very serious concern and that speaks to a major cultural shift in humanity if you think about the last under any cover 1918 education was not one of the top 3 was not even 100 then comes ours and the fact that a.b.s. speaks very well how we as a as a as a global community have internalized how important the development of the talent and skills of the next generation are the 2nd thing that has surprised me is the professionalism of many teachers who have demonstrated to them you creation is not just a job it's a life mission and they have worked extremely hard to create alternative ways to continue to reach their students sometimes with the support of their local governments state governments sometimes in the absence of that support the 3rd thing that has surprised me is the remarkable create the i mean of asia that has resulted from operation collaboration among teachers within schools among schools

collaboration organizations of civil so. i think that some of those innovations have been facilitated by the teachers who are connected to networks of people outside their jurisdictions that communication extensive communication who's a teacher in touch with others in places are on a weight has created the equivalent of a marriage of fact and marriage effect is a term used to refer to what happened in florence several decades after the and then when lawrence of the many dreamed up cd iraqi of art and intellectuals and sigh. rb. i felt like machiavelli and out of dot com virgins are great minds in a small ways. the ross house and i think there is a pecan pie for some schools these communication these collaborations going to

really bring about summer songs in some schools but sometimes legit and on and on a hopeful note that professor fernando rist thank you so much for speaking with us because our computer thank you very much heartening time now to answer one of your questions about the koran a virus over to our science correspondent eric williams. how do you decide which parts of the population get vaccinated 1st. there is a lot of worry at both the national and international levels that when a vaccine does become available it won't be distributed to the people who need it most on an equitable basis but who does need it the most while lawmakers are already coming up with lists of of who should be at the front of the line and with some variations that's what health authorities around the world will hopefully carry through on in assuming that politicians are able to grasp the idea that this is a global issue that won't be solved by that scene nationalism which is

a big but supplies will also be limited initially at least so there needs to be a framework in place to maximize benefits. the vaccine alliance or gobby which is the international organization that plays a vital role in vaccine development and distribution all over the world it's come up with guidelines and they're providing the most benefit for the most people worldwide even with limited resources over $150.00 countries have now signed up to its kovacs initiative it recommends that the 1st people to get a vaccine should be those most exposed to the disease which are the health care and and social care workers on the pandemic front lines thousands of them all over the planet have died from covert 900 already next in line would be older people

over 60 five's alone with those at high risk if they catch the disease like like people with with underlying health conditions most countries will probably also prioritize professions that are deemed to be essential people like caregivers and rest homes or police officers or those who work in and key industries like food production what's already clear is that children will be far down on the list and not only because of it 19 is less deadly in general for them but also because it'll take more time to produce and test vaccines that are specifically tailored to kids . and finally for many adjusting to the new normal means avoiding social gathering of not setting foot in restaurants but that's not good enough for one company in japan they've

unveiled a new robotic way sir and they hope will help people enjoy while keeping their distance soft on from posix says the ai driven robot and designed to keep customers on restaurant staff safe. i don't know every food and drinks with a little risk of infection the ai driven robot will be alone dash to select restaurants and hot this winter. and that's all for me thanks so much for watching take care.

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