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a weekly. show is called spectrum if you would like and need information on the crawl along or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast so you can get it wherever you can get your podcast you can also find us at. science. millions of people are at risk of hunger because of the covert 19 pandemic even in the u.s. and europe more and more individuals are relying on handouts just to get by as the coronavirus crisis hits their livelihoods they're going to have to come to these places or the my door says can eat is what saves me. going to the meanwhile the disease doesn't discriminate the way it impacts the disadvantaged people feel society's inequalities. this is did w.'s coded

19 special i'm joined on the pandemic has a racist years of economic progress in many countries like in spain the country is in its worst recession in more than 80 years and that's weighing heavily on its people. seemingly endless queues for food in madrid working class district off by your cash some people have been regulus at this food bank at a church for years but others are near. the been damaged has brought them here. some are too shamed they hide from the camera so others speak for them. if you give up that people here have been waiting to get minimum state subsidies for ages. and that people who apply for furlough in march and still have been paid. by one of europe's worst coronavirus outbreak suspends economy has been left chanted people know incomes migrants and casual workers have suffered the most

maria worked as a had dresser for the past 17 years that was until the pandemic as she her husband and their 5 children have hit rock bottom up almost there's no not made of money before but we always had food never in our lives did we imagine we'd end up like this you know a lot of our. movie i was entitle to apply for furlough payments that she has had to waste to long for the money to construe to. be a settler family i should think about the families we don't have food. please don't forget us that the system is at a standstill and house situation is very bad m m one month on march the government says it will extend the fellows scheme it has rolled out a basic income program but the process of getting benefits is highly bureaucratic and lengthy. and even with the money food the donations remain essential demand is soaring many people awful in through the cracks and have little to no financial aid

the spanish food bank federation's latest figures show just how many people now depend on their help. it was almost nobody made up on the 1st part of the pandemic we had $1000000.00 beneficiaries. the now we're looking at 1000000 890000 you know me don't you think the hole in the bush involvement there will be out of the implement them in. their warehouse on the outskirts of madrid supplies 70000 killers of food every day that's mainly paid for by government and e.u. aid these schemes have been extended and a recent can painful donations should ensure that the warehouse doesn't run out of store back at the church rather than santa needs more volunteers to fill the many trolleys and reduce waiting times they go from empty to full within seconds before they get to the waiting hungry. or if you're so gay that it's infested on some days that you're into it and then if i thought i'd make it home because there were but i

was working at the speed of a person who had aged 40 years of age but that doesn't stop him. one fool truly contains food supplies for a month including treats that families cannot afford. over that on when the children see the cocoa or chocolate it's a very happy year i never thought about it because i can only buy the essentials for one thing that i must never said. the pandemic has hit spain's already battered economy hard it's unlikely it will recover quickly enough so people may have to rely on food handouts for some time to come. now as we saw in the report there the car brought in a virus pandemic has pushed many around the world into economic hardship now we want to look at the link between the coronavirus and social inequality. here to help shed light on that is nico dragon no he is a professor from the institute of medical sociology at heinrich heine

a university and a design dark welcome to you now your research has focused on how social phenomenon like poverty affect one on a biological level what has the coronavirus taught you about coven 19 and existing economic divides it shows that. the crew up on damage has social inequalities mentioned when we look at the epidemic launch good date we see that poor up people or poor countries oh poor area us says' a high of. intentions and we also perform some studies unsymmetrical disease and found that people have a higher is to have a soviet. cause of the disease when getting infected it so

we clearly see a social gradient in the curled up condemning so basically we're looking at a situation where if you're poor you're already more at risk for the virus and if you do get the virus you may face even more economic pain is there a health policy answer to that kind of vicious circle. some. debts hard to answer because this is a structural problem we see it has inequalities in. each disease we study it so we see it in cut us killer diseases we see it in psychological 'd disease and it's always there and we haven't found a proper response yet i guess it's quite important to notice that and saying strategically how can we handle this problem in the acute pandemic in the situation we are into now but we need

a long term strategy to reduce hats inequalities in all diseases in the long run but given these long existing inequalities and society how much a strategic handling that you speak of how would that look like in practical terms . so i guess and the w.h.o. hats on ization gave us some good advice is this a strategy called townson or policy is debt means that the countries should implement. ideas and strategies to improve hallett's and all the policies and in particular to sing about how it's inequalities in discotheques for instance when you look at educational policy it's all right tex policies where the root of the inequalities lie you should consider that and you

need to implement this kind of sinking at this kind of strategy in all the policy years seas which shape it does so should determinants of habit so there are some ideas but we need to implement them. can you give us any examples of strategies that one can employ in order to integrate the social component and fighting the pandemic what 'd seems to be promising and in my view is to focus on area neighborhoods because they. have to participation of the people who are mostly affected and you can change settings for instance in germany we observed that the ring discussed ways to demick many structures which help poor people who were closest so.

they started to find your ways for instance online counseling or it worked was it was there they opened certain facilities only for for children from disadvantaged families and i guess this focus on area as neighborhoods and local communities. can be one chance to react quickly in the moment thank you very much nico johnno there for us he is a professor from the institute of medical sociology at heinrich university in design thank you very much for your insights thank you. and now we come to that part of the show devoted to one of your sent in questions about the coronavirus our science correspondent derrick williams has an answer for you. after you receive a vaccination for kevin 19 can you still transmit the virus to at that's. the short

answer to this is that we still don't know what the moment but it's an issue that both drug developers and health care authorities have on their radar trials appear to have shown 90 percent or higher efficacy with at least 3 candidates so far that means that after tens of thousands of test subjects were given either the vaccine can do that or a placebo 9 out of 10 people who later caught coke at 19 were those who had been given the placebo and importantly at least with one candidate vaccinated subjects' who who subsequently caught the disease they only had mild symptoms that indicates that vaccines can have positive effects even if they don't prevent infection completely and that really touches on the crux of this question we somehow have the

idea that it's all or nothing with vaccines i mean either they protect you or they don't right well wrong it's actually better to think about it more like a sliding scale remember in trials around one in 10 people who contract it coben 1000 later had actually received the vaccine and they might well have been infectious maybe others were as well and that's known to help powerful the immune responses and whether or not it can provide what doctors call sterilizing immunity which is whether the body can wipe out the virus before it really starts to replicate if a vaccine does. and prevent the virus from replicating but just neutralizes or or mitigates the effects of the disease then at least some vaccinated people could in theory i'm still spread it how many and how often we don't know yet but experts are

hopeful we'll have a better idea in the next few months. now if you have a question for derek to send an email to feedback taught english at the dot com an expert in the subject line or leave a comment on our youtube channel thanks for watching. let's talk about drugs. it's a huge business worldwide. we need one of the 1st illegal cannabis farmers in china . and pioneers in growing medical marijuana in denmark plus we want to find out is the east cigarette hype a lot of hot air. made. on d w. to the point of strong opinions clear positions international

perspectives. falling terrorist attacks this fall french president jacques rogge wants to crackdown on radical islamists will they succeed in stopping the cycle of violence or further divide the country find out on to the point. to the point. of being 60 years on the t w. you know that 77 percent last week are younger than things. ah. that's me and me and you. think you know what it's time your voice is. on the 77 percent talk about the issues. from the parties to

flashes from cars like to feel good time this is where it was. welcome to the 77 percent. this weekend b.t.w. our. society has a complicated relationship with drugs cocaine or heroin use generally frowned upon by caffeine and alcohol are deemed mostly acceptable clearly the standard shifts depending on what we're talking about but there's one almost universal truth when it comes to drugs that there's money to be made from the business of drugs that's

or topic on today's edition of made. let's start with one drug whose image has undergone a major make over in the last years cannabis in fact just recently the united nations commission on narcotic drugs removed marijuana from its most dangerous drugs category now it took them just 59 years to make that move but it's one that could trigger more research into cannabis is medicine all properties for this next story we take you to denmark where our reporter max sanda managed a rare visit to a cannabis production facility. and they have colorful names like. pink kush or del a nice but what's grown in these greenhouses near the danish town of wooden won't end up in amsterdam coffee shops this is medicinal cannabis for an up and coming

here in market. it all started here just a few greenhouses down the road much speed as a family business is scandinavians largest producer of tomatoes and cucumbers now he's branched out into cannabis what drives him creating a product that can help people. for me personally was a personal story for a living your boy who had seizures and simply no miss him didn't help him and out of this race and his parents bought illegal cannabis and and he tried that and after 20 minutes she just ups. and that was really what triggered me to look into this because i knew we could do some of the some of the notice we had in this climate we can transfer it to and it is a look at it as well it has and has decades of experience planting tomatoes in denmark's harsh climate he's channeling all this expertise into his new product on the climate on the way you meet it's here to control all these things we really

really good at controlling that's the same we can use both in the tomatoes and just look at this in partnership with the canadian business all right incorporated peasant found at the joint venture or rural nordic since then the mother company has acquired 100 percent of the shares. we're about to see what it's really like to grow medicine all cannabis here in denmark medical director mahayana news and takes us with her into the facility. the plants growing and processed here are not ready for market just get the feel need to undergo a series of tests before they reach pharmacy shelves or hospital patients. to show that you are in control and you are able to control every single step in your productions so you are able to control your whole process and also trace back what you have done in your process if something goes wrong after roughly 2 and

a half years of preparation aurora is just a few steps away from being certified nielsen tells us. that makes our role one of the 1st movers in this markets denmark offers fertile ground for this budding business a danish government trial program is making it possible for companies to grow sell and export medicinal cannabis but reservations remain and that's something dr tina hawse of knows all too well she uses cannabis products to treat chronic pain sufferers and terminally ill patients it's because doctors not only in my body chip in all their concepts. and we are trained. in evidence based medicine. cabinet pieces that slide it in space night clinical beast this means there is little knowledge from studies on medicinal cannabis most comes from one in one experience with patients like yeah. he's been suffering from severe headaches since a car accident now he travels here from sweden once

a month. so 3 years ago. and it was found. out in my head and my journal went today it's from the home it's just it's been a working good assessments like these are invaluable to other businesses that help denmark's trial program will be expanded or inspire similar schemes elsewhere in europe since market entry comes at a high price and laws differ across the continent competition is rare but not speed doesn't believe this is about to change we were among the piety yes so we set up offices and most your. to make sure that we also try to push. the market in the right direction it's still a long struggle but i always see in u.k. . now and. patients come in that top 3 is actually waiting quite fast.

and this is what they've been preparing for all along production capacities at this site are far from exhausted and then additional facility nearby is under construction ready to take on the european market. the dose makes the poison that's a saying attributed to paracelsus a 16th century physician noone as the father of toxicology but with cannabis it's the active ingredient that counts are we talking about t.h.c. or c.b.d. in china not knowing the difference can land you behind bars our correspondent mathias burning now has this report. the scent is comforting and fresh. once you smell it you feel energized and when the wind blows from over there the air is just full of the scent of cannabis it's a very special fragrance you can show it.

lives in a small village and you know on china's southwestern border province he's one of china's 1st cannabis farmers. the world market for a count of the dial products is estimated at 1700000000 euros a year analysts expected to grow almost 20 fold over the next 10 years. the new which is the 1st year i planted 20 had tears but we've gradually increased the area for cannabis now i'm already planning 40 had tears in my land with cannabis it's much more profitable than. other crops that all. that were in china were being caught smoking marijuana can get you a lifetime entry into a drug offenders database and possession of large amounts of hard drugs can get you executed. shushan feature. our country has a very strict drug prohibition policy john. which. the police in the n.t.

narcotics agency closely monitoring licens the whole process of growing and processing counterterrorist. china wants to be a major player in the global cannabis market without producing a single gram of marijuana here is how the female cannabis flowers contain 2 main substances one is kind of a dial or c b d c b d is what china wants it's believed to have medicinal benefits but it's not intoxicating the other is tetrahydrocannabinol or t.h.c. that's the one that gets you high and the china does not want. business is entirely legal as long as the only plants in government approved low

t.h.c. scenes and he can only sell his crop to a licensed company. michael huang as an investor in cannabis products he's one of china's 1st cannabis entrepreneurs. people still can see their canopies is some truck industry so you know the my family friends and even those legal in here and they told me some priest do not get involved with chalk business . china has a long and painful history with narcotic drugs in the 19th century britain forced china to open its borders to opium imports into your new none people still remember how heroin from the golden. triangle flooded the province the region is still one of the world's major heroin suppliers and you non shares a long border with it. in the ironic glee but not without a reason nunan is now the 1st province in china to allow cannabis production wango

she is a former narcotics detective and now a top advisor to the government on drug policy. renounce always since you none is on the drug border with the golden triangle the province was the frontline where drugs came into the country is that when all the decades of fighting against drugs the authorities in you know have gained a lot of experience and built up a powerful anti narcotics agency. michael hwang's business is entirely under the control of that agency he distributes the seeds to the farmers and buys the harvest then his company extracts the c.b.d. from the crop we're on our way to his factory but he gets a message from the police telling him he's not allowed to bring a foreigner to his own factory so far china and our government steal one to want this industry to grow slowly and don't get too much attention from around the world . so that is the one.

outside the factory the authorities have built the police station. the officers monitor all wrong materials coming in and processed goods going out the extraction of c.b.d. is the most sensitive step because it also yields a small amount of the forbidden something since t.h.c. . police have instance or violence cameras at the production line so they can make sure the t.h.c. is destroyed. i will regulate your body understand that the i mean the stand the function the canopies. and we also want to assure part the industry so at you until we get this supervisory procedure but meanwhile we have a really good relationship. most of my output goes abroad but chinese customers are also slowly discovering c.v.t. products. cosmetics is one of the newly emerging companies in the market they make

lotions creams and face masks containing the soothing and anti inflammatory substance. but if you look for the term c.b.d. on their packaging you won't find it because officially c.b.d. does not exist in china. that the government has not fully open the market to these products so many companies don't dare to go into this business but we've discovered that there's a workaround in the official list of pharmaceutical substances there is something called kempley for extraction and that is legal many businesses haven't realized that yet but we decided to go ahead with it no wonder if. it's a gray area and many c.b.d. products are still to blue in china the only permitted use for c.b.d. or hemp leaf extract is in cosmetics its use in food products and pharmaceuticals is strictly prohibited but as c.b.d.

blooms in other countries chinese customers are also slowly catching on. calculation is simple there's plenty of potential for growth in a country of 1400000000 and even a small share of the market represents a large number of customers. while mary wanna grows in social acceptability and even legality that change hasn't come for cocaine anyone who's seen popular television shows like norco's and el chapo is familiar with blood soaked tales of drug cartels made powerful by corruption and violence. and by billions of dollars in profits here's a look at the anatomy of narco capitalism. how does the global cocaine trade work. must go bar was once the world's most famous drug lord. until his death in 1903 he headed the notorious med a huge drug cartel. it was

a huge supplier of cocaine to the u.s. but that was almost a modest operation compared to today's global complex of criminal gangs which supply $19000000.00 users worldwide. they produce more than $700.00 tons of cocaine a year with total estimated sales a 1000000000 euros. trade methods barely differ from the global trade in legal goods. they require manufacturing facilities a logistical network for distribution and a sales network to supply the drug to end consumers. the coca plant is cultivated in colombia bolivia and peru it's the raw material for cocaine . its leaves are softened in kerosene than filtered resulting in coca paste from as many as 40 different chemicals are used to refine the substance into pure cocaine. cocaine the estimated value in the producer countries is $2500.00 euros

a kilo that's 2 year olds 50 grams. the finished product is transferred via brazil or mexico as well as southern and western africa and then smuggled primarily to north america and europe. it's carried in vehicles as varied as many subs aircraft containers on cargo ships. and couriers who smuggle smaller amounts across borders. the logistical effort and the high risk factor drive the price up. on top of that the price also has to cover losses for confiscations bribes for politicians and authorities as well as outlay for hit men. by the time it's reached its destination market the cocaine now cost up to $60000.00 euros per keep up. but it still has some way to

go until it reaches the end consumer. in europe a network a wholesaler sells it to some contractors who then sell it on to small time dealers . to boost profit margins the cocaine is stretched or cut that every stage of the supply chain using baking powder pain medication even warming powder for animals. depending on the level of purity a kilo can now cost as much as 150000 euros the war against the illegal cocaine trade is a losing battle it's merely a question of supply and demand. the failed war against drugs is one of the arguments for decriminalization the idea is that the regulated sale of drugs but decimate the illegal trade and bring in revenue how big a market would that be well look at one drug that's perfectly legal in many places alcohol sales are expected to reach $1.00 trillion dollars by 2024 but the

social costs of alcoholism have many wondering if there should be more rules governing alcohol like with regard to advertising i mean no one mentioned 3000000 people a year die as a result of their alcohol consumption and for whom are you able to create advertising for an alcoholic beverages with a clear conscience i am. this is. it's obviously tragic it's terrible but this is the fault of advertising if someone uses alcohol as a form of escape a way to escape reality or for entirely personal reasons reasons of fate is advertising responsible for that is the difference with this. time has been helping clients promote alcohol as an advertising executive for 30 years. the more advertising people see for alcoholic beverages the more they consume there are

indications that people do drink more that there is a connection does that ever trouble you. i'd love to see that study as far as i'm aware it's not the case that people drink more if they've seen more advertising. you know many are going to be let's compare it to smoking guns and. there are plenty of studies that show that neither the number of smokers or the amount they smoke dropped went to back all advertising was banned for public. the fact is the greater the restrictions on tobacco advertising in a country the lower the number of smokers. there's some criticism that advertising tends to target younger people because they'll continue to consume alcoholic beverages for the rest of their lives but. never will it depends to a certain extent on which brand we're working for. some products are designed to

appeal to a younger clientele in the office to votes and the like those who go to festivals and carnivals people who go out together for the evening once the. regulations prohibit the advertising industry from encouraging excessive alcohol consumption. we would never do that anyway and every responsible producer of alcoholic beverages sticks to that rule there are exceptions no doubt about it but the advertising industry's regulatory council reacts quickly and it goes away very very quickly but there are indeed some black sheep just the drinks industry often sponsors music festival another contentious issue. because when you be sure you aren't also attracting the attention of minors it's going to heal please. no of course we can't be sure of that and something on the festival. and when i handle the sponsoring at

a festival my messages reach everyone at the festival in festivals and. that could be 16 to 30 year olds or 45 year olds depending on whoever chooses to attend the economy also i can't rule it out but i can ensure our message is not specifically aimed at them by making the appropriate choice of model. that means not hiring models younger than 18 or any who look younger than that but there's still some grey area this woman could be under age but she still appears on an instagram account generated by logan stein's agency. that shouldn't happen if you found him sample of someone who looks under-age on a post for any of our agencies clients i'd be extremely surprised to meet those explain swindon. she's $22.00 so she meets all the legal requirements for hiring influencers influence or. as i can see no moral reason for

refusing to produce advertising for the alcohol industry. and we've saved a one drug for last it's so common it's so easy to forget how dangerous it actually is the cigarette tobacco smoke contains more than $7000.00 chemicals including 70 to cause cancer in the last decade or so is cigarettes have been telling it as a less damaging way to smoke but doubts are growing. that was my 1st a cigarette and as a nonsmoker i have to say it didn't taste bad atoll mango flavor. isa carets any healthier than the conventional options. and how big is the industry. if you believe the commercials you can have all the fun of smoking without any of

the risks. the marketing strategy initially paid off the demand for each cigarettes . grew rapidly in germany sales increased 5 fold from 18000000 euros in 2012 to 550000000 just 6 years later but since last year sales have dropped off significantly that's when it emerged that dozens of people have died in the u.s. and canada after using a cigarette for the industry the deaths posed a major challenge 'd. we saw a drop in sales of 5060 or 70 percent among some retailers because of the concern among customers. studies by u.s. health jested many of the deaths were linked to vaporing oils containing t.h.c. the psycho active ingredient in cannabis so called the joint questions remain but

it's still a lucrative industry the united states is the biggest market with sales set to reach 5 and a half 1000000000 euros this year the u.k. is in 2nd place and germany is set to reach 876000000 but not everywhere is open for business the cigarettes abandoned in 41 countries including brazil turkey and india here the particularly strict those caught selling vaporing devices can face up to one year in prison the government says it's just trying to protect young people from getting hooked on a new form of smoking but the decision makes no sense. from the with the benefits. started improving. but doctors warn against downplaying the health risks linked to cigarettes.

information from. a lobby that the oncologist has criticised for years. but not a cigarette so dangerous they need to be banned i asked katz and china of the german cancer research center. there are definitely fewer harmful substances in the paper lisa than into bacco smoke that's not difficult to bacco smoke is a cocktail of thousands of substances. biggest concern is that the long term health effects have yet to be studied. there is what happens if you use these products several times a day over the course of months and years and we just don't know that yet. but one thing's clear the choice of sweet tasty flavors could encourage young

people in particular to take up the habit and so germany is among those toughening up it's. the government here has opted to ban online advertising for cigarettes starting next year. retailers fear that could hit the industry haunt. from 2024 billboard advertising will be banned too so you won't see posters or anything anywhere and we think that's a big mistake. marketing the cigarettes is becoming more difficult and thus to my question of whether there are any healthier than conventional smoking methods. clarity. especially since i still don't know the long term health effects one thing at least there aren't any cigarette butts but there's still not for me i'd rather remain unknown smoker. but sometimes making healthier

choices doesn't come easy the struggle against. addiction is real reach out and talk to someone there's help to be found and that's it for made this week thanks for watching and stay safe.

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