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who were tears today how for future. g.w. dot com made a serious film it didn't get. the culture. of . the 2nd wave is crashing over europe and intensive care capacity is close to breaking point. germany could hit its limit next month france and switzerland my crack by mid-month. belgium could overrun capacity this week or next. what seemed like huge investments to expand hospital capacity now look totally inadequate. warning bells should have been ringing in early july.

day after the spring lock downs were east but only a few recognized the vibrations that heralded a tsunami of new cases. experts warned us and for many countries the 2nd wave is already most savage than the 1st health systems of running at a limit in parts of eastern and western europe in belgium doctors and nurses struggling to keep up the incidence of coronavirus cases there was the highest in europe at $3956.00 per 100000 people. this used to be the recovery room for patients who've had surgery now it serves as a makeshift intensive care unit for cope with 19 patients on life support hospitals of the belgian province of lea is are no the epicenter of europe's 2nd wave and struggling to keep up we are not able to admit one new patient any more so if a patient comes in the emergency room with a 3 we have to transfer him to another or be done in belgium and. both of them will

be old food deveau tells us his team is not only short of beds but also personnel one in 5 nurses in the region have tested positive for the virus themselves but the pressure is so high that those who don't have symptoms continue to work under strict safety precautions doctors and nurses here are working tirelessly to take care of covert 900 patients some of them are even infected themselves but despite all efforts the health care system here in belgium has reached its breaking point as the overall number of infections continues to rise the actual number of infections is likely to be higher than the official figures across town at least as university hospital testing is ongoing. i can't smell or taste any more and i have a headache. after medics year can conduct 280 tests every day but these

tests are strictly for those who have a doctor's prescription family members friends or coworkers who have been in close contact with them but don't show any symptoms cannot get a test for them or as the moment we have so many positive cases the problem is there are far too many contact persons given the huge number of people who have symptoms we'd be unable to test them as well as all the people they've been in contact with at least not with the amount of tests we have currently if we had more tests we probably could back in the covert ward doctor duvall fears the lax handling of the crisis in summer will put him and his colleagues in a very difficult position very soon when you have only one bet and 10 people out of a thing for the same bit you have to choose between the team but which one you. know a doctor one who does one thing it's like you know we are not doctors who do that kind of thing we all looked up to treat patients with which patient treating germany has started to take patients from belgian hospitals with infections

expected to continue to rise here in the coming weeks the medical staff already at their limit will need all the help they can get. so you want to is with st joseph's hospital in the hardest time what sort of capacity does germany have to take on patients from other countries right now. well we haven't ever it's nearly twice as much as you bet spec up it out and the rest of europe. and caribbean germany are on 75 percent of the german ice you bet. so there is still a place room to move and we could take patients especially in. regions in germany from other european countries but they are regions also in germany where the free capacity is below 10 percent and intensive care patients have to be moved to other hospitals and that binds intensive care physicians which

is a very scarce resource so when you think of a creek a besa tease you have to keep in mind that the peak i.c.u. utilization we 2 weeks after infections have peaked and there they haven't yet so there's still a marathon to go with when could they be well nobody knows. it depends on how good the people. bind themselves to. the things. to stop being close together and to wear masks and stuff like that we have a new high. value today in germany too with 20000 new infections this day how practical is that flying around coated patients from one hospital or country to the next. it's not very practical especially when they are intimidated so you have to plan that in advance and try to bring

patients who are not that's that severe ill who haven't been on ventilation yet so it's not easy to plan that because patients we know that it's not good for patients being ventilated and they have to be brought on on the long term the stuff shortages we hear about in belgium and the netherlands i've seen nursing homes and hospitals aust doctors and nurses to keep working if they tested positive but asymptomatic is that safe i think that should only be done in a worst case scenario because the my r.t. of i.c.u. patients still do not have cold but other serious diseases and when these patients contract the guy iris from and checked it stat they are grave dangers so you have to keep in mind s. of to mattick people that doesn't mean they are healthy so we think we

should prevent this and our staff has to say l.c. and get a quick l.c. and this is very important because if you have to let these people work with the virus it's really not sick why then is the e.u. not coordinating a concerted a joint approach where we see countries helping out each other but not everything having to be dealt with on a bilateral level well we could have that done that. methods let's say with the corona happy we could have done that from the beginning all together. we didn't do that i don't know why would have been better i think so yes how foreseeable was all of this. the 2nd wave was clearly foreseeable people travel they socialized they enjoyed

themselves and the sun and we have tried to do as much as we could by building and buying respirators by training people but especially i.c.u. nurses. in all in all in europe a scarce resource and it takes 2 years training on top of the regular nurses training so kind of we have to work with what we've got and we have now in germany especially we have it's very simple up to take away paperwork from them so that they we need can spend all that time. with the patients and the other thing we could do is childcare you know to improve childcare in hospitals so especially during off hours what about high risk groups what else can be done to protect them so that they don't end up in intensive care in the hospitals.

it's you have to reduce a little context use of as a p 2 masts up possibly and it gentle yes possibly but these measures make me sense when used together one is no substitute for the other and when you when we are talking about isolating risk groups we have to be an mind that. that in germany i know the number only for germany around 20 percent due to the demographics and due to the illnesses of our population belong to a risk group so targeting only risk groups with a color on astro city will not work so sunny on a pleasure having you on the show today thank you very much thank you have a good day. if you want to hear more about europe's fight against code 19 in belgium you can download our weekly polka science unscripted actually traveled to the corona hotspot of the edge to bring you the latest time for our science

correspondent derrick will you look into your questions on the coronavirus keep sending them in on our new church and. what impact is the parent to make having on the hunger crisis. predictably qubit 19 is making it a lot worse according to the united nations world food programme which is the organization that was awarded this year's nobel peace prize the number of people worldwide who suffer from crisis level hunger could almost double by the end of this year it also says that the region hit hardest so far is latin america that's followed by central and southern africa and and oxfam estimates that if we don't do more to limit the social and economic impact of the virus up to 12000 people a day could soon be dying from the effects of undernourishment just to compare even

on the very worst days for mortality so far in the pandemic there have never been more than 10000 tats attributed to the virus in 24 hours i think that the most this has aspect of this crisis is that with the exception of the few countries food is actually available in many of the places that are suffering most of famine isn't being only driven by a lack of food but also by the simple fact that people no longer have the means to buy it the hunger crisis is not only expanding rapidly because of disruptions in supply chains although that's certainly contributing to the problem it's also due to dropping income and many of the world's most vulnerable the poor who simply. can't afford to buy food for themselves and their families anymore and the crisis isn't just limited to regions that faced problems before the pandemic began tobit

19 is now also impacting food security for people in middle and high income countries from from india to brazil to the us. turk williams there for any other developments of our spiritual website it details you dot com slash coded 90. 6 the title fight for the heavyweight championship. the challenger rising star with a huge ego. the reigning champ. established successful and confident. tesla vs german car manufacturers to show them the future of mobility. in germany. next on d w. to the point strong opinions clear positions international

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from super good seats to. have their each course is put into active exercises hurricane of on the d w dot com slash dogs land on facebook in the uk still. german for free devaney. it's been said that vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others and a great deal of progress is indeed driven by visionaries people like a lot musk who dream of colonizing another planet or zipping around in shoes like the jetsons but his dreams are paying off musk is a very successful businessman one of the world's richest people is. also the c.e.o.

and product architect of tesla known for its sleek electric cars but those cutting edge cars everything they said to be tesla what's behind the hype that's out of it today on made although he didn't stop the company the name most closely associated with tesla is of course it all must himself invested millions in his business is before becoming its c.e.o. and although tesla has experienced its share of ups and downs over the years investors love him despite his success and numerous ventures apparently it's not money that interests mr musk he wants to save the world. a rocket to mars traveling through a tube mind reading who could be behind these projects. musk entrepreneur billionaire inventor.

what sets him apart is his willingness to take risks and that he uses his own money . because experience as a serial entrepreneur gives an easy access to venture capital in the u.s. that's obviously a huge advantage and that combination makes him dangerous to establish players like say the german auto industry. started tesla without any industry experience at 1st it met with derision as almost everything went wrong but eventually it evolved into a very serious rival to prestigious german carmakers. when there's something he can't do or something that's not working like in his car manufacturing processes he hires people or teams to fix it. before he acquires companies and integrates them into tesla's manufacturing

processes. and now they no longer have as many problems as they had in 2015 the leader of a. mosque is celebrated as a visionary nowadays and is emblazoned on many a t. shirt his fans seem to think their idol can solve the world's problems. musk is even said to have inspired movie heroes he even featured albeit briefly in a film. some of this is definitely down to his personality extrovert always forging ahead maybe even managed and i don't know. he also. likes to indulge his own myth. when he visited germany there was a lot of showmanship. he cultivates the myth himself i think for there to an awfully lot of. us who was born in pretoria south africa in 1931 the son of

a model and an engineer he devoured books at an early age was fascinated by technology and even as a child was already interested in rockets. he says he used to be bullied at school. he and his brother set up a company as teenagers and even made money with it. must studied physics and economics in canada. then he moved to the usa and got rich one of the startups he was involved with was the forerunner of the payment service pay pal. he started a ph d. at stanford but soon dropped out. mind reading is one of his dreams so he started by having chips inserted into pigs brains but his mind reading a good idea. how do people living near his factories feel.

and how does tesla treat its workers just as real and that's a difficult issue because these serial entrepreneurs like say steve jobs aren't always the nicest people. they're usually quite a mix they're often fascinating but they also put people under pressure and expect a lot from them. who are lost. with hard work and probably a lot of pressure some of musk's. seemingly crazy ideas have become successful companies space x. for example may not be taking tourists to mars yet but it is working with nasa. intervention and learning fast go together he's adopted the principle fail fast learn fast from american startup culture. when you see how big his companies have

become it looks like that's something he's passed on to his employees. the question is what idea will come up with next to change the world. well in the meantime a prolific innovator is busy getting a huge manufacturing plant built close to berlin that will produce batteries and power trains for use in tesla vehicles some of which will also be assembled their construction started even before final planning permission was granted but politicians are excited about all the new jobs being created especially in a part of germany that structurally weak not everyone's rolling out the red carpet however many locals have serious concerns about the impact the production side will have on the environment. haida is

a small community just outside burlington with less than $9000.00 residents. city dwellers come here on the weekends to stroll. this is a water conservation area and home to over 100 birds varieties. and it seemed to be home to europe's biggest factory full electric cars work on the new test that plant is on the way although a regional forest he said not yet granted final funding commission stephan show and his colleagues are dead set against the factory and say approval should not be granted they say the forests and freshwater ecosystem are at risk section 8 a of the federal emission protection act allowed tesla to make an early start. they're just hoping nothing gets in their way with the huge and nobody knows what

the impact below the surface will be it's environmental russian roulette. that. these opponents of the factory often meet here in the woods a couple of kilometers from the construction site they say the location is entirely unsuited to this kind of development. the freshwater ecosystem here is complex and so far it's been protected from industrial development. we now suddenly mr musk wants to build here and only here. this was presumably the only site that appealed to him and the powers that be are doing everything in their power to oblige him. the fear is that the enormous new plant will use so much ground water that the lakes and streams will just dry up and that more trees will be cut down to make way for further facilities test and wants to set up an industrial park around this plant. tesla aims to start producing cars here at what

he calls a gigafactory by summer 2021500000 a year further details are in short supply we asked for an interview with a company representative but never got an answer tesla project manager alexander dick testified before the brandenburg state parliament offering a reg limps into the company's plans. to have cutting edge casting systems an extremely efficient body shop and the next generation paint shop and a 1000000000 color tone depth and complexity never seen before in volume production cars it's just the beginning. but that's not to i'm fun. many objections have been raised the water issue is one of the most important. according to official filings tesla says that to build 500000 cars it'll need $1400000.00 cubic metres of drinking water that's about as much as the town of

sirte he found and uses in a year. volkswagen by contrast says we've built 250000 cars a cheese factory in sicko in 2018 and used 300000 cubic metres of water less than half as much per common test. but there are also people including haida who are big fans of tesla while the company is tight lipped about what's going on at the site these fans have taken to documenting every little development. today they want to find out what a q.r. code spotted on a wall is all about and it's nothing special but checklist of course this is all rather nerdy. for them monitoring the site has become a hobby they come here every day and post videos on you tube they find it all very fascinating and are evidently not so troubled by the objections.

because i'm going to name this a company that for years has been promoting a radical shift in the energy industry. people 0 bytes of felling 300 acres of woods is by comparison a minor issue. so wouldn't disneyland would have been cleared anyway. just consider what the factory is going to make because cars that don't emit any c o 2. could not find the ecological argument about the tree is hypocritical because of course at a local level it's a pity to see woodland disappear but it really is the lesser of 2 evils. this is this climate of. outpost curler is optimistic that other problems likely to emerge for example traffic congestion around the haida can be solved by technical all the just tickle means according to official paperwork tesler expects

a maximum of 1200 $57.00 trucks to roll up every day and $6300.00 of its workers to come by com infrastructure will need to be upgraded to cope with that all takes time. local people will likely be facing traffic jams and worsening appalachian. tesla basilan mask is something of a star in germany. tesla says it will employ $12000.00 people at this gigafactory labor unions generally welcomed job creation and must may be a visionary but in the united states tesla is known to play hardball when it comes to workers' rights. you know this is a very top down company so what do you on most want iran mask usually gets and he's been very clear that he does not want does not want a union address like here in america my hope is that the laws in germany

are better or stronger and will out for a better relationship between the unions and castro to keep cattle and check to make sure that they're following safety protocols and they're not cheating workers out of wages and stephen smith tells me that yes it's factory in fremont california test that pays workers on the assembly line between $15.00 and $25.00 an hour whereas other comic pay $3.00 times as much whether the fans including high don't know about that or not they're certainly impressed by the speed with which the new factory is taking shape. just 3 months ago the site looks like this. testing of his pressing ahead in the hope the state will eventually give the final green knight it's that paragraph 8 a that lets you get a head start and obtain provisional approval bit by bit if in the end the state

says no tesla will have to knock it all down again and complete the site. those who oppose the development would be pleased if that was to happen. they say there are 2 big loses in the process the environment alongside democratic procedures and accountability. back into the factory is going up and the politicians are all cheering it on the greens the social democrats and the christian democrats to get the planning authority is under immense pressure and facts are being created on the ground so there's no way that mission will not be granted for a project of the scale it's absolutely unacceptable starting construction on smaller slices of the praja. under paragraph 8 a is making a mockery of our democratic rights and a. good moment at absolute truth they say they don't understand how a company that wants to save the world from carbon emissions can be prepared to

cause serious damage to the environment. so the project is highly controversial in fact the whole topic of emo billet he divides opinion here in germany to some is on musk is a crusader a hero challenging german combat actress to trade in their combustion engines for batteries to others he's a false prophet brazenly leading the mobility sector down a dead end. tesla is the dumbest form of the mobility you could imagine. because a megalomaniac. stamp act of tesla on the image of the mobility has been detrimental if not disastrous.

what's wrong with the cars the of 0 exhaust are good for the climate surely there are good thing. about making cars with huge ranges except that those cars are carrying batteries which are almost one turn in weight 900 kilo batteries and batteries have a very dark side. the production of those batteries involves a lot of electricity generated from coal. but of the. different suction requires so much c o 2 that you need to drive a car for years before it starts to become a net c o 2 saver. if one really needs the mobility and battery powered cars you 1st have to check that those batteries are small and light and the other cars are too you can't model them on combustion cars. but do german manufacturers fare better with their e-car.

i've talked to lots of major german car makers. and it's actually depressing to know how for years. they've looked at tesla as the standard to follow. uses his bicycle as often as he can he wants to see more small vehicles like this one but many drivers aren't convinced people often want big cars and status symbols how can we stop that have it. but it's something that has to end there are sound options out there that are modern and now enjoy widespread acceptance like car sharing. the former greenpeace activist even says certain gasoline powered cars could be an option like this he had converted to low consumption 30 years ago.

we've taken this development a step further and smaller and lighter cars with state of the art combustion engine technology. we can now have small city cars. likely needing just one and a half liters of fuel per 100 kilometers. that would have helped to minimize the problem is still there. but even a leader and a half is too much if we're serious about ending our dependence on fossil fuels and while one of the big selling points for e-cards is that they help reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions it's still a serious to making the batteries to power electric vehicles still involves some not so environmentally friendly processes so how green cars really e-cards use raw materials mined in south america the democratic republic of congo

and china these include lithium cobalt and where earth is needed in their batteries . admittedly extracting and transporting these materials is an environmental nightmare often carried out under inhumane conditions. but their reserves are abundant studies show that worldwide deposits of these materials can meet demand for years to come. one good thing e-cards don't emit greenhouse gases although manufacturing them certainly does. all their parts still have to be produced but the power train only has $200.00 parts as opposed to a combustion engines $1200.00. where their electricity comes from is another huge issue renewable sources also fuels the good news is that the share of green energy is growing which definitely plays in their favor. until now it's been easy to overlook the problems with electric vehicles because they're still in the market

last year and market share in wide cost sales was just 2.6 percent but look at it this way that market share more than tripled between 20112018 china is the largest global market accounting for 1202900 followed by the us germany takes place at just over 100000 followed by norway and the u.k. . the german car maker is a late comers to be mobility now they're trying to catch up with tesla but will they succeed by colleagues. paid a visit to the world's largest combative factory to see how they're coping. it's a fine day for a drive in the countryside i can get this fully electric v.w. i.v. 3 to 100 kilometers an hour inside 8 seconds but i'm not doing this just for fun i want to know whether folks wagons cars can hold their own against tesla sedans.

tesla's model 3 tops the global e-car sales charts this commercial goes so far as to suggest that germans have doubts about their own industries ability to produce competitive models that big parking lots that big. picture. this. is that really the case. let's make a little comparison. test those model 3 is more of a family car and the company's least expensive model though not yet available in europe it costs the equivalent of 43000 euros and has a range of 415 kilometers. this idea 3 compact i've borrowed from folks wagon costs around $7000.00 euros less than its u.s.

rival. charging its empty battery with enough power to drive 100 kilometers takes just 10 minutes longer than charging the tesla. but there's a difference. the id 3 can't quite cover the same distance as tesla's model 3 though again it's a lot cheaper. so how is v.w. preparing to take on the competition. it's speak out plant in eastern germany has been converted to 100 percent electric car production. it manufactures the id 3 and latest. the id 4 it's a global market offensive. throughout and we have to produce $1350.00 vehicles and in the future we want to make $1580.00 cars per day that is then $300000.00

electric cars per year it could soon overtake tesla's entire output but isn't v.w. a bit slow off the mark on the immobility front. side of it in terms of development the timing was just right for us. now we'll be able to produce vehicles in large volume. i remember something similar being said about s.u.v.s people asking v.w. are you a little late but then as now we were spot on with the timing the technology was ready so we could move on to mass production. loves bourg in northern germany is the headquarters of the world's biggest automaker. i have an appointment with the head of marketing and sales. this id for is aimed at the fast growing s.u.v. segment. the i.d.

3 was developed for the lower priced compact market and as a more affordable rival to test this popular model 3. but will focus wagon have the courage to switch from a classic combustion engine car maker to an all electric future. that. produces only economy models we want to make $300000.00 cars here per year and we're already moving forward on the next factory and then we'll also. a collector cars including ninety's which will give us some breathing space and in china there will be even more production factories will soon be popping up all over the place. in her eyes conventionally powered cars will gradually become models the german auto giant aims to be c o 2 neutral by 2050 for decades the car maker has been putting standardized jacey's and its conventional vehicles sharing those construction designs between different

groups brands has been a key factor in video abuse rise to the top spot but will the concept also work with cars is a platform this platform was developed with each car's in mind too so we can offer customers affordable immobility options it's 100 percent volkswagen but of course skoda say out an audi will use it too and there will also be a premium platform so it will be pretty nicely covered with ofsted. toward the end of my adventure with the idea 3 i'm passed by a classic v.w. bug once the best selling car of all china. now the car maker hopes that cars will help them stay in front of the competition. it'll be interesting to see how things develop and of course for tesla once they get that gigafactory up and running it. thanks for joining us for another episode of may see you next time.

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