let's go to some football news now and in the boondocks league has a friday night game shocker and stood guard to battled it to a one all draw malika shower opened the scoring for shall go after half an hour the youngster hitting the target with a beautiful a diving header for his 1st ever been to sleep a goal in just his 2nd match. but strich are equalized with a penalty early in the 2nd half you can ask onside as with some slick footwork to shock a keeper. you're watching me clarify things thanks for joining us. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and news. hour corona up to. 19 special next on d w. it was the 1st international tribunal in history.

the number of trials. 75 years ago high ranking officers of the nazi regime were indicted by the allied forces. they were the 1st war criminals to be held accountable for their crimes. our 2 part series. in the dark starts nov 12th on d w. community has been on everyone's lips since the pandemic began now it's more pressing than ever as infections are rapidly rising pots. depends on antibodies proteins in the bloodstream that fight pathogens and viruses. production depends on the severity of an infection. but immunity from coated may only last

a short period the elderly show is significantly faster reduction in antibodies than the young. there's also evidence that some people don't develop immunity at all. to waiting for the science to see how long of unity lasts in the meantime some places in the world view it as a health passport for tourists on the law and in south america will only let you win if you can prove you've already had the coronavirus. my trips to brazil's island paradise of fair none o.j. not only was completely stress free. actually i had to do a blood test 1st pretty high then spotted these always do i need these lab test results for my trip to paradise here it says antibodies i.g.g. 5.78. that's more than 5 times what i need even though i've had coded 19 i'm

allowed to travel. i quickly packed my things so i can set off the next morning. my camera man one pablo and i probably became infected with the coronavirus right at the start of the pandemic when we were filming we were in mn now swear the health care system had collapsed this is the only flight this week that takes off for the island. sitting next to me is some pio a business woman she's been there 50 times. my life is starting again. i not know jane onya is the most beautiful place in the world. she may be right. like everyone else on this flight carolina has had the coronavirus. we must now

stand in line and pay an environmental feat strict rules for entering paradise. the island has been virtually cut off from the outside world since march 2 to the pandemic according to our guide. we're now the 1st tourists and want to say is an absolutely coronavirus free part of the earth one big plus the beautiful beaches are empty. before the island was dick's. or a nature preserve it was a notorious prison camp and before that a base for war ships built on into volcanic rock. when the pandemic started in march and their own year was cut off from the rest of brazil a curfew was also imposed. only the fishermen were allowed to go out. in order that no one starved. islanders felt

a new sense of solidarity. who . gave us diesel fuel we used to go out and fish in the end we gave away our entire catch to the islanders for free. now known years crisis management has been exemplary thanks in part to random checks the island has not had a single case of coronavirus oh i ask you right even if more tourists come we probably won't have a corona virus outbreak we've taken a lot of preventative measures. such as allowing in visitors who have already had coven 19 they have this picturesque coast almost all to themselves. a privilege that at least somewhat compensates for what they've been through.

i survived to the coronavirus it wasn't easy now it's time to make up for it we have the island almost all to ourselves i'll probably never again experience a paradise like this. but moments like these the pandemic feels far away. but just how immune are you if you've had the coronavirus ditto about a child joins us now from the university of arizona college of medicine he's an associate professor in immuno biology what are your results on immunity shot our results. for at least people with mild infections the course of the immune response seems pretty much as we would expect for most types of acute viral infections where after you clear it just certain period of immunity our study fall without antibiotics and especially protected and bodies out of the course of about 7 months and our studies show as many others that those antibodies continue to be

produced for as long as we've been able to look is there any indication that it could be more than months it could be years. yeah i mean when i say 7 months i don't mean up to 7 months i mean at least 7 months you know the pandemic hit our state fairly late and so we just don't have any participants who are infected any earlier than 7 months but if you look just by parallels to the 1st sars coronavirus which is the most similar virus we've seen. those antibodies people who saw 1st sars kind of are actually continuing to be produced now 17 years after the fact i don't know if this will be quite that long but you know i think a year or 2 seems like a reasonable minimum estimate that sounds quite optimistic though because of the coronaviruses have shown that immunity can drop off after you yeah i mean i guess the question is what's the best prior what's the best analogy

and so you know genetically and in terms of the nucleotide sequence of the virus it's really most similar to the 1st sars coronavirus so i think maybe like the best way to hedge your bets is say it's probably going to be something in between you know a year or so which is what the common coronaviruses induce and the 17 years that we've seen with the from the 1st sars proud of our you know ultimately you know the crystal ball and so there's really no way to take a shortcut here there's no way to know until we just start to follow it out. the people who get the virus badly though have have shown that they have more antibodies and they have them for longer what's that tell us. well yeah i mean there's a lot of things that go wrong people who end up with severe disease in the early stages an immune response there's a huge amount of inflammation and uncoordinated signals the kinds of things that we don't normally see so there's something strange going on presumably the levels of virus certain are on the amount of the antibodies for the use are also higher and

so you know it's going to come take a little bit longer for those antibodies to come down in people who have very mild disease and if you are in a box you know whether or not the people with severe disease will actually be immune for longer is that something i think we still need to see because again a lot of things don't really work right in the severe phase and so it could affect some of the long term antibody production we just don't know what's this all mean for a vaccine because a vaccine provokes an antibody response of course yeah i mean it we are actually very optimistic about the africa see the potential of the vaccines it has seen so far so you know one of the things that we have noticed is that you know that you get this nice stereotypical pattern of antibodies and they settle in are pretty low level and based on the epidemiology we've seen so far i mean it seems to be protective i'm sure you want to get to re infections in a little bit but it seems like pretty low levels of the other bodies are still protective the vaccine to be seen so far i mean all the ones that are these 13 tested here in the u.s.

all exceed the normal immune response to natural infection and so if the natural infection can induce immunity i'm pretty optimistic that these vaccines will as well many things we still need to find out how long will the vaccine immunity last for and what are the safety effects all those things but all of the early indications i've seen so far make me very optimistic about the university of arizona thank you very much thank you and bring you up to date here of the latest data for more than 200 countries and territories on covert infections. the numbers show new cases doubling in 39 nations and increasing in another 94 countries they've stayed at the same level in 8 countries 55 nations have seen their new profit of covert 19 cases decline another 9 are down by at least half and 6 countries have reported no new cases for 4 weeks in a row here's the bar graph showing that statistics of past weeks the fight against

the corona virus will be over when that whole chart turns blue so it's going to take some time. now it's up out of the show where you get to us the questions to our science correspondent eric why. doesn't proving ventilation make confined spaces like restaurants will be safer to operate because we know believe that aerosols play a role in covert 19 transmission at least in enclosed spaces adequate ventilation would appear to be a key aspect of lowering risk in public spaces like restaurants and bars but also schools but what's adequate exactly well that's pretty hard to nail down but because we tend to spend longer periods of time in those spaces than we do for example somewhere like a corner shop the general consensus among buy raw legis and airflow experts can be

boiled down to the more outside air you can polish and the safer you can make those environments so instead of asking whether improving ventilation can make restaurants and bars safer it's more accurate to talk about what's called the air exchange rate which describes the number of times that the air is replaced in a room over the course of an hour i read a quote recently from one of the experts on air flow who said by. using the german government on keeping schools open that really opened my eyes about the complexity of this issue he said that it doesn't matter how effective air exchange strategies are if someone who is infectious is in a room the earth can only really be cleaned if they leave it in other words transmission risks in spaces like bars and restaurants can only potentially be

reduced by air replacement systems and even then they have to be pretty high performance to make much of a difference but those risks rise again the moment more customers come and spend time in those spaces because the chances rise that one of them might be infected and shedding virus. that will covert 19 special for more information go to our website www dot com and click on one of ours but. treasure lies hidden deep under the earth's surface. one that is vital for human groundwater. but how much do scientists know about it. and is our most important thinking water resource in terms of. we get to the bottom of the

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it's their complete devotion that makes them the best while most are childless at the most. recent meeting and. confrontational instrument. 5 adventurers. one goal. the preservation of our climate. starts november 6th on g.w. . this is was here so is this. and this. all the or sit in on and above our planet amounts to about 1400000000 cubic kilometers almost all of it more than 97 percent is salty less than 3 percent is freshwater and most of that is in snow and ice and glaciers and in the arctic and antarctic so the

amount easily accessible to us humans is relatively tiny. it's in rivers and lakes and under alfy eat groundwater that usually hidden from view is vitally important. hello and welcome to tomorrow today the science show on g.w. . the vast amounts of water on our planet. bill but in motion in a perpetual cycle heat from the sun mexico's evaporates and rise into the air as it condenses it forms clouds and eventually precipitation in c. is in the form of rain snow or hail. some of that was he that breaks again directly some is taken up by plants flows into rivers lakes and sea is seeps into the eth

and replenishes the ground water some of that in turn makes its way to the surface . this is the upper rhine valley in southwest germany. there are places here where something valuable and increasingly rare couples up to the surface. to clear pure groundwater. pike feel right at home in it as too many other species of fish. some are facing extinction the european is a critically endangered species. oh fish need clean water and groundwater is a crucial source of that. the places in this region where the water rising from the depths is so pure this is not the rhine river itself but naturally occurring ponds

fed by springs. here the water temperature is 11 degrees celsius all year. the springs and ponds are important and need to be protected. it looks like they can be found anywhere unexpected holes in the ground even in the middle of flattering. the groundwater that feeds the springs some of which ends up in the. and river itself is the result of a complex process. rain that falls in the fuss because mountains to the west and the black forest up plans to the east feed streams. or seeps directly into the ground through soil and wherever the rock is porous permeable or cracked traveling downwards through sand gravel or other formations

it's filtered and purified while also picking up minerals along the way some of them of great value. when the water reaches impermeable rock it flows along the top of that layer and into the valley. if it feeds into the river it mingles with what was once groundwater in the alps to the south. there is a huge aquifer beneath the upper run valley. in the valley groundwater bubbles up to the surface in spots where the rock and ground are permeable. that's how such ponds are formed. in the clean groundwater many life forms flourish . kike like the temperature and the oxygen and nutrients levels in the water not too much and not too little. here some male piker chasing after a female after a bit of a song and dance one couple make. these

pristine ponds are under threat. intensive farming means insecticides pesticides chemical fertilizers and slurry can all pollute groundwater. and thus the springs that feed the ponds. nitrate from nitrogen fertilizer causes al jewel blooms which use up all the oxygen in bodies of water. various chemicals are bad for aquatic animals and plants. they also threaten the supply of water we humans drink. the level of nitrate in groundwater exceeds the permissible level in more than a quarter of germany. groundwater carries nitrate and other chemicals down into the

valley. contaminated groundwater endangers bio topes it's meant to sustain. where the ground water is clean it feeds bio topes rich in biodiversity. lakes. read beds. woodlands and also manmade lakes. such as old gravel pits as they fill up with water life returns. are young great crested green biz looking for food. it finds a fish hiding in vain among the plants. dragonflies and damselflies thrive here too.

they all need clean water to reproduce like these common blue damsel fives. a female heads down into the water. her male concert accompanies her. she climbs down the stock. the plant to make a hole in it and to posit her age. at this depth the age should remain safely moist even if the water level drops. then she lets go and rises to the surface. a male helps her out of the water she wants to mate with her.

none of this would be happening word not for clean water from underground sources it's a precious resource we need to do our utmost to protect. we also need to protect that was when it's still in the ground. round course it is in a way like the ocean depths mysterious little in the dark it's cold today it may not be cozy but all kinds of weird and wonderful creatures live down there. they've adapted to the harsh conditions. they merit close attention they are fascinating and we actually need them as well. since time immemorial tiny creatures have lurked in the depths of our groundwater most

are translucent and blind and they're perfectly adapted to their desolate habitats whether there's no light almost no food and little oxygen. in hand is a groundwater ecologist he's fascinated by the subterranean animal species which unknown a stick a foreigner. around was or is the deep sea beneath our feet it's never been properly researched but it's teeming with exciting form of the play a key role in purifying the water. and therefore the quality of the water we drink for millions of years the habit. that has barely changed but now groundwater temperatures are rising and that poses a potentially deadly risk to stick a foreigner as hans fielding hon has demonstrated in a comprehensive scientific study. and to put him simply that is when they cheer is still intact the ground water is well protected and its temperature remains stable between 8 and 12 degrees celsius.

temperatures dropped 10.8 degrees. there were searches find snails and worms and faults of shrimp like the fungus. these creatures that live in the groundwater have evolved over millions of years to suit their environment they've perfected the art of surviving with very little food thanks metabolic and reproductive rates and eggs with an extremely high yo content to ensure the young survive. there are some 250 types of stick a foreigner in germany including then if august schellenberg it hasn't changed in 30000000 years and nor has its habitat creatures that can survive being groundwater have adapted to a severely limited food supply the water louses selous aquatic us for example can go for months without food it copes by barely moving and expanding little energy if august belair eons and muscles feed on bacteria plant and animal residue in the

process purifying groundwater of organic matter and germs preventing tiny pores in rock surfaces from clogging up and allowing the ground water to keep flowing. stick a foreigner can only continue to perform these valuable time asks if their habitat remains unchanged but now groundwater temperatures are rising especially in urban environments do partly to climate change and partly to the fact that subways underground car parks and pipe systems heat the ground and therefore the groundwater. in the long run the tiny creatures of the deep won't be able to survive higher temperatures. temperatures such as here in cars. point one degrees that's high. about 3 degrees too high but in many cities no longer unusual. for. the groundwater habitat is clearly at

risk but unfortunately green technology poses an additional threat to stick a foreigner. and then it's not in recent years as climate change progresses groundwater has increasingly been used for geothermal energy either to heat or cool for air conditioning for example and that of course heats up the ground water but this is happening primarily on the outskirts of cities and where industrial zones are being built a new developments are going out it's suddenly getting warmer in exactly the places where the former is still relatively intact. but perhaps not for much longer then this figure for now would no longer perform their vital role in purifying the water we drink it isn't always that interest you know that microorganisms bacteria will change but there will be greater diversity more species effects the rate of growth will increase and therefore there will be greater challenges to the supply of clean water it will be harder to keep the microbes in check and our sources of water as

us interests of all. more to purification in treatment plants will become harder and more expensive there's little awareness of this problem germany has never set a limit on ground water temperatures there are no regulations on protecting subterranean fauna. a lot of attention is paid nowadays to protecting bodies of surface water but not to the infallible water beneath our feet. not according to e.u. law and also the german water resources law the ground water is a body of water just like a broker let it go on it's a college you must be protected this is not happening it's seen as a resource and nothing else. that. the ground will take is all most important source of drinking water and that's partly thanks to these tiny creatures who subterranean for now that time forgot. they just

off. our protection. less than one percent of all the water on earth is in the ground so we should be careful what we do with it. in many areas the ground was level is dropping because we pumped up so much of it about 70 percent goes to farming and a lot of the rest to industry. so how much water does it actually take to grow out and make health is. what is virtual water. let's take genes as an example it takes around 8000 liters of water to make one path that's $53.00 bathtubs full how come growing the cotton uses most of the water

it's a very 1st the plant if the rains fail cotton fields have to be irrigated. and if the cotton is to be spun into jeans it also needs coloring rinsing and bleaching that pollutes a lot of water. virtual water is the unseen water that goes into the manufacturing of our product. nearly 900000 liters for one kilo of coffee 184 liters for a kilo of tomatoes and over 15000 liters for one kilo of beef. in a country with adequate natural water resources high consumption isn't a problem unless of course a lot of it gets polluted but in many regions water is scarce or supplies have been depleted by producing certain goods the water level in the aral sea has dropped 18 meters because of irrigation in cotton fields it's turned parts of those breakfast on into a salty toxic waste land. tomatoes are cultivated in the parched reaches of southern

spain using water piped into enormous greenhouses. and in brazil where there's a shortage of drinking water the country's huge coffee plantations are never short of a dry. up coffee is a major export for brazil. europe import these water guzzling goods and by extension all the virtual water needed to produce them seen from this perspective someone living in germany uses free 1900 liters of water a day slightly over the global average but cooking showering and laundry make up only a small part of that most water used here is virtual water hidden in the products around us. is a finite resource of fresh water is especially bad if it exists and if the petrol cycles like the rest of nature did in carbon and nitrogen for example the atoms and

molecules that make up everything on their origins billions of years ago. the cycle of emergence growth and decay is eternal and nothing goes to waste at least in nature but when we humans get involved it's another matter entirely. millions of tons of building waste and global are produced around the world each year. much of it and up in landfill. but what if it were possible to transform trash into new. insulation in this house i mean from plastic bottles tetra packs. and potato peel. and that's just one of its many features. this is a test facility the temporary residence of students who are spending several months

here to find out what shapes up as 100. it feels good to know that you are living in a place that is going to be the future because now cities are turning to to mind and they are living in this environment with these materials and you know that you don't miss anything and it also provides you with fixed i mean to use. one man's trash is another man's building materials expert enrique marchese calls it in mining practically everything in this apartment is recycled over recyclable oyster not the other sources temple our material resources on earth are limited. and. there's only so much copper building sand and so on that's a fact so we're slowly reaching a point where there's not that much left we need a solution and the only one that works is

a circular economy and yet the shit out of it off hand they so for example the rooms are fitted with carpets that the manufacturer can later take back and refurbish into new carpets they closed small was then called if they pick somebody you don't buy the car big you just rent it because the manufacturer will want you back at some point so. they already have it see most of the materials here can be fed back into the system so that the same product or something different can be created from the old of it into the piece now is tools. but to maintain this kind of cycle the buildings need to be designed in the right way. that all of you have to be able to just assemble the building into its individual components that means everything can be just connected it's all they were screwed or slotted in as. i like to exaggerate a bit and say it has to be possible for 2 people to take the entire building up argue with just an electric screwdriver for the noncom the way that. this bronze

door handle once belonged to a punk that was demolished these kinds of high quality components often go to waste . a swiss online platform now sells building elements from demolish buildings for very low prices. it was founded by architects alleviate the pain. in the mine so. we have around $3.00 to $4000.00 demolition permits a year in switzerland so more than 10 buildings are torn down every workday in their lives. and it's really surprising what gets demolished. and then i'll stick. buildings that were completely renovated just 10 years ago marked for demolition. and you ask yourself is that normal is that really the way we should be proceeding

to mom moved. the online platform has a diverse clientele some of the items listed on the site and look through in switzerland. it was a stroke of luck for architects bustin told around. this official style i just searched the platform for window to get good food and i found these ones these are photos of the original building the windows i wouldn't frames. i bought 25 of them for hardly anything because they would only have been thrown away otherwise. a. book that's good because you know what about that i use them for this partition wall between people who have a rather. still very few components like these get recycled storage is a problem also not everyone in the construction industry is convinced. although there are already countless extraordinary example was about cycling around the

world. why is recycling not yet come of makes and construction. these building materials are available and affordable so why don't more people make use of them. it's about taking the plunge into patiently we notice that people are just unsure if because there are a lot of unknown factors like legal and planning aspects in the way it's been on the blog and as is often the case if something is new then there's uncertainty. uncertainty holds you back and we see that as the biggest reason we don't wish. other countries have made more progress like the netherlands these bricks are made of waste products they're manufactured in this old brick yard south of on sit down by him just as the conventional brick seems to be.

the main product of the startup. he already does a beautiful colors it doesn't necessarily look like waste anymore. the bricks are mainly made from shredded building rubble and industrial waste. another funny one. that also tells like a nice story is. so what i'm holding here on my hands used to be toilet vaults sinks tiles like a kitchen. tiles. the market for them has grown well over the past year although these particular products are expensive sales are improving. so this is the shoulder pepper there's just there's the middle one is you know guys this is this a lot of me. but it's always a combination of just this idea of sustainability combined with the side i think

people really like to buy beautiful things and it's it's a win win if it's sustainable and beautiful and india and nobody wants a really building even if it's sustainable the colorful bricks cannot be seen in many new and renovated buildings across. the netherlands is a pioneer in such you know economies of the country wants to recycle all of its waste by 25th state and it's aiming for 50 percent by 2039 patients planned. i think there's only one solution to speed up the transition to a circle our economy is just. make it policy and not policy in terms of tax incentives and that's a nice 1st step but actually starts handing out that multis as people don't use reuse materials for instance seed to meet the time for change is now it makes sense

and people know it is and it won't cost a great deal it'll just take time and our construction industry has grown to what it is over the last 150 years it's the world's biggest economic sector. it's not something we can change overnight to be a tough sweet science and i think that all the data but it does need to change so you know rather than like all resources are running out. if outlet is red white i mean a lot of them even if you. do you have a science question you'd like us to answer. send it. you know if we feature it on the show you'll get a little surprise as a thank you. come on just ask. you'll find us on the web at d.f.w. dot com slash science or check us out on twitter.

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