mr. peaches drinking short delay. this is going to get me to come. a streak of black coal oil, thomas. it starts december 4th, this coming up fast, the joy and the misery back. well, if you wasn't a demi a day off for the festival of the body and it isn't for the 1st time, why is devalued pollution becoming an annual fee trust in the indian capital and southeast is battered by a powerful storm. the 7th in just over

a month is severe weather, the new reality for the region. and british welcome to glad you could join us. over the weekend the over the indian capital delhi look like this. residents bursting firecrackers to celebrate the hindu festival of the bali ensured the city recorded its whilst equality in 4 years. conditions still won't have been so severe had residents of the had to a government ban on 5 bikes. but for many, that is the very essence of the rally. celebrations in delhi firecrackers traditionally mount the start of the hindu new year. but this time the fun was also an act of defiance. she is over soaring air pollution

prompted a city wide ban on fireworks. but across daly river, liz refused to little spoil the party but a day off to do while he came to hand over the festival of lights left, a thick blanket of smoke hanging over northern india. residents of the bustling capital used to severe air pollution. but the weekend's 5 week frenzy has only added to the crisis by little likelihood that the pollution was already there, but the fire crackers have made it worse. now we're having difficulty breathing and the children of coughing, trying to find the kids and and sometimes it is very difficult need management. i don't smoke, but it feels like i'm smoking 100 cigarettes every day. the scientists say every lung full of the toxic air can cause long term damage to people's health. small

contains dangerous fine particles known to increase mortality rates. the world health organization has put safe levels at just $25.00 micrograms per cubic meter after delhi was a chance recording well over $900.00. more than 36 times the w.h.o. limit. for some a health hazard that should have been avoided. but i know stubble burning is causing pollution, but we need to be more aware of the problem and do more from our end. people and children sitting on fire crackers is harmful to us. yeah. delis ban on fireworks is in place until the end of november. but as saturday night's tea, while the celebration showed without public support, it's a ban that's difficult to enforce. and it's not the 1st time that such a ban has been instituted in delhi, but almost every time they come to naught. i asked the reader from the center for

science and environment in delhi. why that is you know, because this decision is that it can't just a few days before the rally, and there's never a long term strategy on how do we want to deal with firecrackers, especially on these occasions as they shouldn't during the winter. when we have great eusebio pollution and there is not equal as you can through more pollution to get at it. so therefore, i mean be serious manacles. you have to understand that this is have christian beliefs. you a considered leash, so therefore you cannot interest the sea. she only read the mountain control and you require public support for this kind of. now at one level we have seen by vehicle ram most agree to some extent, but then not to people who are similar to crack us. and yet there is also not

section of people west still not to be willing to accept this idea. and then when you are bringing this guy, don't come under control. it is enforce he and will because this is don't know how to because beverly, what it means is that you need to bring up poor lucy on productions she licensing the firecrackers months before the body. if you have an out of 5 crackers she remains to be sorted and is why do you belive in this plan to get burns sounding? and that's where, but that's how we tap and work or less than a speeding considering how important firecrackers are toward their volley. with any government of risk making a policy that bans the production of firecrackers crack crackers and the sale of firecrackers during the holiday. i think yes, it's isn't very difficult question and i don't think there's any on the city that and government just right. not only bans to have come up with other district of

policies they're trying to find out when you can bust crackers. way to going bust crackles beige. you cannot get tried or look at what you just saw on insulin. so we have to figure it out to what extent values very possible, but it is on some occasions we do have to understand that we don't know going. i think nationwide that go beyond that other cost of the country raise. you have the pollution levels are not that c.b.s. and you have more favorable be too large. she may be districted fire crackers is possible maggie, but did not mean just specially to day to you nancy, out and watch you have would just not a few days. this is getting the huckabee out in this is window and want to do that in bush and her standing. there is no range to blow the pollution a rate and really don't want j.t. in that secret has got to goody. you know, we have to dig not what exists of action to control. this kind of shocked a man insistent burning of practice celebrations that make an already existing

problem fall was that was one of the thought i'd throw that away from the center for science and environment and very days off the causing devastation and getting a feast. 67 people in the philippines, typhoon vanco has made landfall in vietnam from god already weakened when it hit, but still caused serious damage and injured several people picking up the pieces quite literally in the northern vietnamese city of who way. the storm destroyed many buildings there. blowing off roofs and outreaching trees, it lost rent since moving on from the philippines, but still caused significant damage. the authorities prepared people for the onslaught as the storm approached, evacuating nearly $650000.00 people in coastal areas to higher ground is the latest

in a series of storms to cause destruction and misery in be it. now. at least 159 people have been killed in floods and landslides. in the last 6 weeks in the philippines, storm vanco has exacted a heavy toll with a high number of casualties expression in the north of the country authorities. and they are setting the scale of the damage. some communities are describing it as the worst flooding in 4 decades. many villages were swamped, crops, destroyed, and hundreds of thousands left without power. as in vietnam, the philippines has also been battered relentlessly by storms over the last 2 months. is the 8th to hit the country in the last 8 weeks and the 21st this year. that all the drama of the last week,

the hope in the philippines is that the worst is over, at least for now, until the next storm hits. and joining me now is dr. or merrill, paul, from the university of oxford, part of dr. paul gans research includes climb richer and its impact on communities . dr. hold on. welcome. what is causing these increasingly devastating storms in the region? yes, thank you very much for having me here today. so a, i think there is a connection. we climate change. why there direct again link has not been get quantify and i think that we've got to have it clear, it's a lot of that as well. a temperature increase, so divorcement temperatures, so yet, and then warmer oceans are expected to aggravate the thanks jenny, but so, so because of storms as we are seeing now. well, i would also like to make it clear that unfortunately the connection between

climate change and frequency of a storms is not very strong yet. so when you say that the ocean or waters of warming want to essentially saying, is that stallman's in the future are going to get more powerful? yeah, i did that. that's it. and that's what climate science he's telling us at present. so we have a yeah, we're expected to see that in the coming years. storms and more intense, but it's also important to, to see to it. we will also expect to see changes in the global water cycle due to climate change or basically their way that it rains. so climate models and climate science for their reach. i mean, generally agree that the region we expect that to see more plots for morning things precipitation events not just from from, from tropical distant storms. so well, i think this has been very evident during these last months where we have seen, where we have seen a very tense or unusually strong monsoon season. and so yeah,

i would also like to express that even though we're expected to see more flooding, people shouldn't be surprised if in the next year is anything the next year we just see among some see somebody relatively weak or rain comes late in general, i would say that climate change needs a more viable and a more or more and expect climate buttons. right down of these unexpected climate patterns and storms getting more powerful. what does this mean for people? is there any preparation that governments and communities can do or to avoid the devastation from these storms? yeah, definitely. so in general a there should be all there all. 'd to what the strategies that they look should look at in a secret and the receiving end of not just the infrastructure. you can start your

systems. that's right, the green infrastructure in among girls for its etc. but also, this is the look that they received as a community people. so that means that people should get a sort of that the moral beast and expect again, what are climate bottoms and then at them at the greater risk. and i would say that institutions a, i think government level, they're all color and that's my labels should be more prepared to face the cycle of challenge. it's really even though at the time being dr. paul donnelly. you know, mr. fox, thank you and that's it for today there's more on our website. i did have a doggone forward slash and you can follow us on twitter. i've got news news. as we said earlier in the inside, a bit of the volley of the 1st of all of flights over the weekend, really, even now with images of celebrations from across the country are back more of the same time. see you there about

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when too many people get sick, all of once getting the right care, maybe out of reach hospitals better prepared this time. well this next belgian hospital has reached its limit. it's transferred at least 40 patients to other hospitals within the country and abroad. the hope is that other european nations remain in a position to help out, and that health care systems aren't suddenly over well. the start of a journey that could help safe life's this, babson covert 19 patients is about to be transferred to a hospital in germany. 1st patient for 3 days, quite easy for us because he's never going to be to say that is. so he's grieving, but you have to money for everything. part fills the car to prevent the blood pressure on the countries and some of the patients and everything off. so that's

a little bit challenging us. such a small of the 359 year old. freddy needs intensive care support with the wards filling up here. and yes, he volunteered for transfer to minster in northwest germany, because he can speak german and he gets how are you on 5? thank you for your transferred friday. whereas the breathing mask this plastic covering his mentor, protect him and everyone around him. belgium has become the epicenter of europe's 2nd, coronavirus space. yashin, the french speaking part of the country, has been hit especially hard that too many sick people. not enough bat's doctors here. fear that soon have to decide who will get treated and who won't go on the air european countries. and we normally have all they need to say should patients, we don't want to do worse than we usually do at the moment we're still managing, but our biggest fear is that in a couple of weeks,

we'll no longer be able to cope to help prevent such a situation belgium has asked germany to take over 1000 patients like freddy at the moment. infection rates are much lower in germany than here in belgium. but the situation is unpredictable and could change at any time. we have very happy that we can help at this moment in time was to have to pass at the end belgian capacity because there is an earring, a possibility, so good that we can have known as an ascent perhaps in the future. germans have to come to belgium for the question of europeans for the veritie. it's good neighborhoods and it's really close cooperation. in just over an hour, freddy and the crew will have arrived on the other side of the bullet or providing some relief for the hospital here in the yash, which is now able to take in another covert 900 patients. the death toll is still rising in belgium, but there are fewer beds,

all cute hired by covert patients than during the peak over a week ago. you would,, factions are rising in the u.k., but they stay constant in italy and spain and even fallen slightly in germany. and by a lot in france, let's bring in get moxon anesthesiologist and head of the pop out of intensive care medicine and intermediate carrot and university hospital. based on those trends, would you say europe's 2nd lockdown is starting to work? yes, i think this is fair to say because we had to do rise this in the, at the end of the week, but it's not an exponential rise anymore. so we have sort of a plateau and we have to see the next days. but obviously these are the 1st on the grounds of the successful lockdown. and what about the hospital situation is, is europe doing a better job that had lng hospitalisations in this 2nd wife? it is more difficult this time because we have more stuff, you know,

almost sickness and current seeing. but yes, i would say so because we are trying to be open and ready for taking any patient but also due to the other operations which are necessary as well. so it's sort of the other way around, is that not? not as bad as far as the patients situation goes, but as far as stopping goes more of a challenge, is that what you're saying? i mean they were the patients. i mean, in the immortality of our ventilator. he said jenny was 50 percent in the 1st wave . i mean, we have done a lot of research and we have now a lot of experience how to handle these patients, how to protect our stuff. so i do hope that the, the outcome of the 2nd wave, it's got to also we have some medication out xom it as oh and then daisy via,

we do more anticoagulation and if hopefully less and some both us but still have very sick patients and it's very difficult to treat them and they always need very long time to treat. so the duration of treatment is it's really weeks in i.c.u. . so this is very unusual. we'll come to triology again in europe like in back of the italy. well, i am happy to on does that for at least for germany, i do not expect that we will have the situation off tree os because we have still a couple of thousands empty beds available. we have 12000 emergency capacity evade ago, which is then obviously needs stuff from other parts of the hospitals. but having now this flatten current and lie, and i mean i do expect that we have a lot and we have today 3400 i.c.u.

. patients was called at 9000 treated in germany. i do expect more, but we will not be in the situation of 3 hours because our politicians, our government has done the knocked on measurements early enough. so germany is in a good position. would you say to help out other countries when it comes to taking patients? and that's where this way, i mean it's not that we have even the largest get, the city has an end. but obviously in europe we need to support it. and for an example, yeah. and also hysteria. there is that the only us, you know, as we do in minsk that there's no coordination center for dutch and belgian patients. so whenever these 2 countries need support, they go to directly to this, to our colleagues and then,

and they're looking without haitian bet capacities available. and these patients to these hospitals, which make sense along those border areas, of course, here in europe and in germany, tell us what the doctors and nurses learn the 1st time around whether 1st time around was quiet. and i'm using a situation because it was a new virus and you disease. it was basically everybody was afraid of getting devices ourselves. keeping in mind that in italy, for an example, in the 1st wave around 50 percent of the head of the stuff in the hospital is infected. and so we had to learn how to protect ourselves and what are the specifics of these patients. now we are basically in a more robust and experience situation and i really our teams are doing and super job because they basically that just finished their 1st

month then. and now then the middle of the 2nd one and they, so it's really tough, but they're doing a super job and treating these patients day and night 24 seventh's. and it's really great. it's good to hear and also good to know that hospitals themselves, a safer places. what, what do we need to do to be ready for the next pandemic? i know it's very early to ask, but what do we need to do? we've learned a lot of lessons already from this pandemic. yes, you're right. we learned a lot and react to make sure that when the pendennis, although we, we still remember that we, we had to learn our lesson and bring this over and reality. so one example is that we need more stock basically fall the protection gear for fall and medication and jock's. we probably need in europe at least

a production side of all these very in cotton and crucial stuff. and not only a production side to end the world, maybe in china already. and also what we need more and more network. so i think to spend and make really point out that we need to make more out of the potential of the digitization. so we need it for an exam and intensive care. we need a national and european networks and supporting each other, like we do it here with telemedicine for an example. to make it really happen that the same quality of care is basically delivered elsewhere in europe. and university hospital. thank you very much for your time today. my pleasure. take care. the u.s. says its experimental vaccine is 94 and

a half percent effective in preventing the new coronavirus. a late stage trial involves 30000 adults including many high risk or elderly people. in alice is based on 95 infections among the to spencer received either the vaccine or of those only 5 infections occurred in those who receive the vaccine, which is administered in 2 shots about a month, the pot. and that we now have to go over to our science correspondent, eric williams has been looking into the questions you've been sending us on our you tube channel. what about long term complications over 1000 disabilities in the future? doctors are especially worried about the impact of heart damage in patients. tissue, death and storing. there is permanence and poses lifelong health issues. we'll obviously only know the long term effects of covert 99 survivors when much more time has passed. but there are already indicators that those effects will be

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