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story trying. to understand this new culture. you want to. platform for a lot. of. this is. coming up today. thousands of. the fact. the legislation's interests the governments they are how does this end and the people of.
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welcome to. join us for almost a month now thousands of farmers in india have been camped just outside the capital delhi protesting against the government of prime minister narendra modi famo say 3 new agricultural laws passed and september make them worse off the government says the farmers are wrong these opposing views have led to a deadlock despite several rounds of negotiations between both sides. these farmers for they view on what's at stake. 3 weeks out in the winter cold passions are still running high at this protest thousands of farmers have occupied this mean highway to delhi with
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a simple ultimatum repeal the new farm laws or the vilsack put. it in the record has worked tirelessly at a free kitchen to feed the protesting farmers. she sees the blockade as an opportunity she wants to teach her young daughters what it means to fight for their right of neighbor to what we've come here to show our kids how to protest to struggle when they grow up they should know we are sikhs we are farmers who belong it is our duty here modify one fact beyond saying believes the new farm laws will likely slash margins on his sugarcane crop the new legislation allows farmers to sell to corporates but sing believes this will eventually undermine the security of the minimum support price guaranteed by the government. he is also frustrated that farmers were not consulted before the laws were passed for him it is an unwanted gift or got
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a home the government is trying to explain to us why these laws are for our benefit listening to us the government things where ignorant we don't understand the law they don't understand is that a farmer who takes a crop from seed to harvest knows everything. and it is this determination to make the government listen that has made this protest and crowing force to reckon that back in the water of delhi and this 12 kilometers stretch peppered with free medical and food kitchens and the temporary home for powders of farmers this is the part of 2 minutes i didn't dream affairs journalist beside not is out to talk to the farmers in his view the negotiations collapse because amending what he calls fundamentally bad laws won't change their content. he also says this government's lack of consistency on promises made to farmers over the years has increased the distrust he acknowledges that the current system needs reform but he feels these
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laws failed to do that. with your feel. you have already a grammy and. we've known for years you know 300 of them. don't want to live for now the young and the old have come together don't mean to make their voices heard. despite the bitter cold and the deadlock their spirits are high. for 69 years worth of one thing she did this protest is a celebration she mom has since childhood and he says the time has come to teach the government a much needed less. we've been protesting in punjab for 3 months now the prime minister could have said something to us then now that with come to his home he's run away mine is that how you treat guests ready to stay for 6 months this isn't
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even the beginning we're just getting started it's only the government insists that the farm was a misunderstanding the intent of. however the farmers seed they haven't faced what to cannon and baton charges for a cause they don't pass they are adamant they will not give up the more the government backed down. and joining me for more now is david drucker he's a farmer himself and chairman of the christian farmers organization in india good to have you on the program now despite assurances from the government to the contrary farmers are still convinced that they will be watched sort of under the new farm laws why is that. so you areas governments over the last many many years in a bid to keep food inflation in control have artificially suppressed farm gate prices for years and literally for decades and now the majority of farmers who are
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not getting the short prices want to short answers for their produce while the few farmers who get a short prices are worried that they will lose the benefits now these fears are not unfounded in the run up to these 33 acts that have been formulated by by the parliament there have been many indications from government functionaries and government offices about limiting or doing away with support pricing mechanisms as they exist the c.a.c.p. which sets the support prices or the central bank the reserve bank of india or a union minister have all said and some what their terms about the possibility of how support prices are not sustainable and that's why the fears actually exist but the overall argument coming from the government so as to be that farmers will have more choice they will not be voted by the government marketplaces where they get these assured support prices that you're referring to and you know that sounds quite reasonable doesn't it see now i just give you an example of what these
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combination of the these 3 bills do now imagine a stock exchange which are without a regulator where share transactions are not recorded where data is not collected where they grieved party in this case the farmers are being denied redressal recourse of civil courts no farmers have a choice if traders come to one platform this is a great gated markets don't increase competition but they increase the monopoly as even price discovery becomes impossible for farmers in such a situation terms of trade will become worse for farmers and over the longer term the choices will vanish. no there is there is a think one point of agreement at least between the center and the farmers and that is that indian agriculture requires an overhaul and the government is adamant that these laws help to do that so what you are saying is that that is not the case and the government's intentions are perhaps less than noble no not at all i think the
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government's intentions are very noble they want to do good for the majority of the people but the way the bureaucracy has gone about enacting these laws the trust deficit between the government and farmers has increased these officers have not only misled the prime minister's office they did not consult farmers all state governments before notifying these ordinances so rather than focus on processes they have been fixated on outcomes and whenever that is done. the end result is never is never a good one but there have been at least 5 rounds of negotiations with the government and the government has assured farmers that look these minimum prices of support will be available yet the farmers don't seem convinced no it's not about just minimum support prices very small portion of the farmers get minimum support prices it's it's farmers feel that these bills will take away what
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they were little benefits they have off the markets i think so it's the government's responsibility to be magnanimous to listen to the farmers to win their trust have empathy it's necessary that farmers return to their will it is not feeling that they have lost a battle but with the reassurances that the central government is working for their benefit and not working for lagos and corporate houses i think the ball is in the central government's core to win the hearts of farmers are there how do you see these protests ending do you see this deadlock continuing. i hope the government stops listening to their bureaucracy i hope the government starts listening to the people who elected them and i think it's in the hands of the government now where and when these protests and as i said the government has good intentions now it needs to find a way to draw those intentions into into actions are david drucker
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a pleasure talking to thank you so much thank you. year round in the chinese city of the river banks of the young sea river attract a steady stream of visitors 2020 of course changed all that a lockdown and fear that waterways could be cutting the coronavirus kept feeble away but china's massive surveillance and contact tracing efforts have outbreaks on the wane the crowds have now flocked back to the river banks and even over the edge . warming up before a bracing daily ritual in. these are the riverside regulars refresh by a frigid plunge into the young sea river many credit their good health to a vigorous swim through its murky brown waters. do
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you all there's a difference between swimming in winter and swimming in summer but as for winter swimming i can say after you try you may not be able to change the habit and will be addicted to it. a famous figure from china's past popularized the practice chairman mao founder of communist china in 1966 a stage women the young see helped melt launch a political comeback nearly 50 years on his strong men image has remained afloat among the river swimmers. and i now was still swimming in the young sea in his seventy's so we learned from chairman mao to swim in the big waves of the river right having such a good source of water we must learn from the practice we must insist on swimming in the young sea river. while a funded version for strong swimmers the mighty young sea also poses a drowning hazard
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a volunteer lifeguard squad some 2000 strong make it their business to be ready so far they've chalked up 700 rescues. where we swimmers saved people from the water before we formed an official volunteer squad but we did not have scientific rescue skills so we decided to get organized and train with each other to carry out scientific rescue operations from withdrawal. as winter sets in a steady flow of swimmers slices through the water another sign of the city coming back to life and its people going out to seize the day. that's a figment of the 1st mall on all fours less than facebook and twitter as well really are now with a look at south korea's young dog but lantern festival celebrating. its not
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a good that's full of cultural heritage recognition we're back on monday windsor that by. the by. the because. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection in developing what does the latest research. information and contact the coronavirus update. on t w. e the back of his wrist band.
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the law boosts. the buddhists love and respect. physically draining and emotionally exhausting. health care workers on the front lines of. pushed to the brink too often their work is only for. the w.h.o. says there is a. fall of some 6000000 nurses it's an especially big issue in poor countries because qualified workers tend to move abroad for better opportunities. but even in richer nations the worker isn't especially well paid in germany for example nurses
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earn 20 percent less than the average wage. coronavirus has brought their experience and faces to the fore. how big a toll is the crisis having on health care workers. welcome to your covert 19 special. they already tough job for healthcare workers has only become more challenging in the append regardless of which part of the world hears the w's all over salads with this report from the u.s. state of south dakota. south dakota one of america's least populated states but yet the virus has spiraled out of control here like nowhere else in the u.s. . in the city of sue false a mask mandate was put in place recently without sanctions many citizens remain defiant i think it's
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a good idea that people wear masks but some people ball get the idea of being told to do so i think with some of the shutdowns are doing and the picking and choosing that they're doing is making it a lot of businesses like most of the people nowadays like even ehlers are not right now but i think it's for the best like there's happy. south dakota now sees the highest hospitalisation rate of the u.s. and there is no relief in sight here at the a very i'm a kenyan hospital the intensive care unit is at capacity patients are dying from cold on a daily basis putting a big strain on nurses and doctors who are increasingly overwhelmed by the amount of patients they're seeing every day. out of schroeder is one of them he and his colleagues are working 12 hour shifts trying to save those who are at the brink of death. a task which comes with the personal toll we deal with a lot of dying right now unfortunately not everybody is recovering you know we'd
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like it a little harder every day people are coming in typically requiring much oxygen a lot of them end up getting a breathing tube. and from there you know it's just a battle for their life if you talk to their families we do that's one of the tougher things right now is especially for code patients who are not allowing visitors so. talking with families on a daily basis updating him on what we're doing and how the patients doing that's a really big thing right now are going to see it at his weekly press conference mayor paul 10 hakan of the republican party updates his community about the latest developments the mayor has been criticized over his handling of the pandemic has its head in the 1st place with a mask mandate why is it such a challenge for you to convince your sentence and necessary in this part of the
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country i think there's a fierce independence a lot of people have made the mistake of calling a cowboy country at one point and people didn't appreciate that but the point of that term meaning we're independent we don't like people telling us what to do. christina bjorkman wishes for more government action against the pen demick told her she lost her husband took over at 19 after a 30 day long struggle at the hospital her ordeal. where. she says his death could have been avoided with stricter rules. the whole mask mandate got political and should've never been political and should have been a medical thing. and i think it just got so blown out of proportion and. i think maybe it came from our president he started it. christina bjorkman is pinning her hopes now on the president elect and
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a nationwide mass mandate once he takes office before then thousands more could die from cold at 19 in south dakota and the rest of the united states. now one indicator for how prepared a health system is to battle the coronavirus emergency is the accessibility of intensive care here's a look at the mail ability of i.c.u. beds in selected countries germany has 33.9 critical care beds for every 100000 people in the united states there are 25.8 and 10.6 intensive care beds for every 100000 people in korea in india that number is at 7.3 and finally mexico 3.3 beds the number of intensive care beds is only one factor having excess capacity is less helpful when there aren't enough personnel to tend to them and that's exactly the problem in many cases let's talk to someone familiar with
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the challenges. as the head of the german nurses association he joins me via skype welcome to w. now the germany and europe are stuck in the 2nd wave tell us about the experiences that nurses and other caregivers are reporting back to you. nurses and all health professionals in germany have a heavy vote in the workload these days because of that and they make it has reached unprecedented levels and they have to chair take care of many many patients seriously ill patients we know that many patients die violence they have to be admitted in i.c.u. and in particular at the nursing homes the residents are severely ill quite often and many of them have to fight and this is puts a lot of pressure on all health professionals and into the on the nurses in particular. here in germany there are complains that there are not enough nurses to handle the rising number of covered $1000.00 patients could one also argue that a pandemic simply is such an extraordinary event that hospitals would be
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understaffed in any case. both is true to a degree but primarily it's that we do not have enough nurses to take care of patients in normal times so outside and then make compared to other european countries we have a much higher workload some more patients per nurse than others and in of course in a situation like this now and then week where we have extreme situations this shortage reaches and you will level and. verse and by that. end where is the shortage coming from. for many years our governments haven't invested in more nurses so we had cut off nurse positions in nurses in the hospitals over the last 15 or started 15 years ago with a new way of financing hospital cost and that has never been revoked and we have
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been arguing for more than 10 years that we need more nurses and we have in addition we have an aging workforce so many nurses are going to retire within the next to tell them to rev years so nobody listens to blades and we hope this will change now some say it's all about the pay which is too low for such a demanding job what more money solve the problem of there not being enough health care workers and money alone wouldn't be the solution if we ask nurses what they want most is that they say i want to ask my colleagues so i want to reduce my workload and then of course on the 2nd or 3rd place in what they want is a better salary we have variation between salaries in germany a difference between regions and different between hospitals and nursing homes for example so an increase would be called and our association. is asking for $4000.00 euro as a starting salary for each knows that during the 1st wave of the pandemic people
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start on their balconies and applauded frontline workers we don't see any of that right now does that bother you. not really because you know it is a pleasant pleasant sign or a symbolic gesture. getting some applause applause but to be honest i have more benefits if you get better payment more positions for nurses so this is only a kind of a token evens and sounders is there really and up by that because they said oh yeah now in this situation where you are afraid you are getting up close but in every day when we have difficult situations when we are complaining about clothes we don't listen we don't hear anything from you from talking out of the german nurses association thank you for your insights. time now for your questions about the coronavirus here is our science correspondent to requite. can we achieve her demeanor see if you can get really in fact it. there are plenty
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of questions about this pandemic where we still don't have really clear cut answers like when your immune memory of the virus wanes so much that you could catch it again that's happened to a few people but as far as we can tell not really very many so far another of studies now indicate that at least in most of us the average immune response to sars cove 2 remains active for for at least 6 months which is positive because the average duration of immunity in individuals either after they've had copd 19 or have received a vaccine against it that will play a defining role and health fast we reach a herd immunity however even if we do begin seeing greater numbers of re infections relatively soon it would make herd immunity impossible to achieve just harder
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because it's going to take years though to pin down the average duration of immunity i'm discussing it now means that you have to make some assumptions if we assume for instance that the duration of immunity and someone who's vaccinated is short say just a year or 2 then herd immunity will be a lot tougher to reach to get there we'd have to vaccinate populations really really quickly and on a wide scale because without a booster shot many people will start getting sick and transmitting again pretty quickly experts say in that scenario if coverage doesn't advance fast enough then sars flu too could become endemic and seasonal like the for. lou but least in some places if we assume a more positive scenario that the duration of immunity provided by a vaccine is much longer and and importantly also that vaccinated people can't
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transmit the virus to others then herd immunity will be easier to reach because in a manner of speaking once people have been backs and needed they'll stay back summated. that social thanks for the company stay safe and see it so.
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in the far north. beyond the inhabitable world. it's lonely. barren and breathtakingly beautiful. the arctic. powerful expanse of bitter cold. and the sound of global warming. take a journey around the north pole. profiteers talk with people experiencing a changing environment. or the ice disappears earlier and it keeps retreating. our future depends on those here you move the moon. fragile ecosystems of. northern lights like the arctic circle starts december 21st g.w. .
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