brought against the personal doctor in that sense the investigative quarter is in my opinion small and many will know that this is more or less an isolated case. both parties have a week to appeal the verdict or call it special is up next make sure to stay tuned for that. thanks for joining. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update. on t w. life on earth one of a kind and. gigantic coincidence.

where the improbable happened. was the creation of our solar system with our planet is a bit like winning the lottery. what is good for unique starts feb 11th on d.w. . one of our most basic human needs 6. coronaviruses make something as simple as a kiss or a hug to boo we're so used to interacting with people and having touch and without that right now you know we're really at a loss so how can we get the physical intimacy we need experts have offered advice from who we should be doing it with to how we should be doing it for many of us 6

has become a burden for others a real problem. someone once told me purple means sexually frustrated desperate times call for desperate measures but which measures are the right ones is some advice from my colleague and 6 but kaz at the 77 percent figure we use you to show for africa. because i could traffic is crazy but what is it what's going on what's happening talk to me i honestly can't take it anymore josh is driving me crazy eh ok the tale was happening well you know we've been together for like almost a him and everything was going great but once the lockdown started things just started to change with him especially after he lost his job. sounds like you grieving and i complemented what you're going through is easy but i see what you think if you're just saying i've i've tried and tried to make him comfortable about the situation i'm still able to cover the bill but i just don't get it he's become

so death and he sits in front of the t.v. all day we haven't had sex in months. i just don't know what to do more have you tried having an open conversation with him couldn't get him to tell me why do you have what do you think you have got a bob. that's a tough one but also quite common i mean i think josh might be depressed. maybe a form of intervention might get someone professional me preferably come to use it have a conversation between the 2 view you know because you know some men struggle to open up because they think it makes them look we can we have the patriarchy to thank for that maybe even feel like he can no longer act as the provider which also traditionally is expected of men. but he needs to learn that he still sat like given time and opportunity to heal i think that's the best you can do but what if nothing changes oh only if you refuse to listen then it's on you you have to decide

if it's the kind of environment you want to foster relationship is going to happen next time things go tough you need to take care of your own mental health too. i suppose that makes. but what about this. diary. well after i write if it is totally normal to the effect that i would have separated from depression believe me but we patient with him you know but in the meantime you can meet your own me. ok ok yeah ok that make that that ok enough about me how about you that when you do really oh i'm going late. for such a raquel pill joins us from my hometown brisbane raquel good to see you there tell me is your best sexual partner yourself during these difficult times blue depends are you a single person looking for someone you are or are you already in

a relationship so if you're single but you reckon well you just single then you've really got to consider the safety issues we've depend emic so i guess for me it doesn't necessarily mean that you why your best partner if i want to have sex with someone i would be wanting to have that conversation about safety have they been checked for coronavirus would they consider getting checked prior to engaging in sexual activity but isn't that something that will scare people away. look when it comes to law in relationships anything with care is a way for willing to go away but i think you feel if this is something that you want and i think that conversation is warranted if the same conversation around safe sex wearing condoms we need to have that conversation what about what the terrence higgins trust advised in the u.k. back in august last year to avoid kissing where

a face covering and choose positions that are face to face during sex that sounds a little complicated. it really does and i think it the dead fives that i would give is have a conversation it's a lot more logical to talk about safety to be open with your partners around whether you've been tested around the really you would consider being tested those considerations to avoid intimacy that's just not feasible it's not something that we can as human beings do for too long we aren't truly much better to connect and i think the better advice is let's connect in a safe manner how long is it healthy to abstain from sex. look i don't have that number for you i would just say look again as humans we are intrinsically much abated to do it so being told that we can't do it i don't think that's the right thing the right thing would be how do we do it raquel what about cyber sex

why not seem to see it key element is intimacy we can be intimate online so i think that's a good alternative especially for couples to have been separated by the pain that make to keep up the intimacy 'd i would say online sex but also conversation so it's a way to keep connected any i have actually heard from people who have been kept apart the found other ways to connect that their relationship actually got better. how did it get better can you give me some examples yet if you go better because well one they had to be a little bit more creative we've how they connected a lot isn't it just sex but also communication and in that human occasion they were able to tell each other what they like and don't like and sometimes in that when we act together in the heat of sex when we might not be a particular minicab all we want but in that online environment they had an opportunity to communicate and say well i like this i don't like that more on

couples lots of couples are in crisis right now it's a pressure cooker scenario happen you save a relationship in times like these. yeah it's look couples who are in conflict right now are couples who are already had conflict in their relationship and because of the pain that makes those conflicts sort of came to surface one thing that i often say is to watch for the ratio of interaction that you have with your pov then so it should be a ration between $5.00 to $1.00 so for every one negative thing i do if interaction that you have of your partner that you need 5 positive interactions so bad bounce tractions of your pattern of thinking about how you communicate with them mean that instead of using you statements so you don't do days or you make me upset about this use i statements talk about yourself and how you few turn things around so you can address conflict. can you just leave us with one more piece of advice that will

get us through this crisis make us perhaps a little less frustrated yeah one piece of advice. i think. i think is safety is the feeling that it's a ball drain bothering you have a conversation with your partner about safety i often hear people talk to me about how how do i be safe how do i change things have a conversation for what it is to be safe change over 18 if need be because if you are going to be locked out you need to start communicating a lot more you know different help heal thank you very much for joining us today a look at some of the numbers now and where around the 2000000 mark of officially record cover deaths worldwide that's according to figures from the johns hopkins university the united states accounts for nearly one in 5 deaths globally as you can see there. it's followed by brazil and india mexico and the you kate.

and looking at the countries with the highest proportion of deaths in a population san marino has more than 1900 deaths per 1000000 belgium is next and slovenia. easily and both india and heads of government your questions on the coronavirus over to our science correspondent derek williams . should pregnant women get these new vaccine. i've often been asked how dangerous it 19 can be for a pregnant woman or her unborn baby and i've talked about that topic a few times over the last 10 months but i've never discussed this aspect of it whether trying to prevent catching the disease could pose

a danger so so let's look at what reliable sources are saying about vaccines and pregnancy i think the most important thing to be aware of is that we just don't have as much information on pregnant women receiving approved covert 19 vaccines as we do for other groups because women who knew they were pregnant weren't included in the large scale trials that led to emergency vaccine approvals of course so women became pregnant in the course of those trials and i found no reports indicating that they or their unborn babies suffered any ill side effects attributable to a vaccine candidate but the fact is we still simply know less about what might happen to a pregnant woman being banks unaided then we do about other groups so so so that's quite rightly causing health care authorities to to adopt a conscious approach the general consensus among leading organizations including

the w.h.o. and the c.d.c. is that there's still just not enough evidence to recommend coated 19 back scenes to pregnant women on a wide scale but they also make exceptions for women at increased risk of exposure for example frontline health care workers those women may consider being vaccinated after talking to an expert about everything we know. so far about covert 19 and pregnancy that's because we also know that pregnant women are in more danger of developing severe forms of the disease if they catch it if women from those high exposure groups choose to be vaccinated and agree to be tracked their data will flow into further studies which should in the near future tell us a lot more about any possible dangers many experts currently seem optimistic though

that the benefits of that scene's will outweigh any risks for pregnant women too but the jury is still out. thanks for watching stay safe and see you next week. this is the current actually she has been dead for 22 years the current is a clone of replicated from frozen genetic tissue. and providing hope for endangered species. using the cloning to preserve biodiversity providing species from beyond the grave is this the future. moral to do. next to tell you. these things we need for her own modern time here's to you

at last honest i'm feeling a conversation with the star violinist about star wars her career close coronavirus and why classical music is cool. meet the artist honest or female with. 30 minutes w. . it's about billions. it's about our. kids about the foundation of the border the silk road. trip comes to expand its influence with this trade network also in. china promising its

partners rich. but if there's a sharp warning to never accept money from the new superpower it will become dependent on a. chinese gateway to. start feb 19th on d w. h a has blessed us with an amazing array of flora and fauna. and researchers around the world are committed to protecting that biodiversity replenishing vital ecosystems and the species that inhabit them means we all have to do our pops. scavengers can play an important role. as can animal droppings small and lunch. what is scientists doing to counteract the dramatic loss and biodiversity that's our topic coming up.

welcome to tomorrow today the science program on t.w. . the cells of every organism have a genetic origin which is passed on to the next generation in the case of identical twins to 2 people. when individuals are produced with identical d.n.a. they are called clones. 1906 saw the 1st successful attempt to create a genetically identical copy of a living animal dolly the sheep today researchers hope to use cloning technology to promote and preserve biodiversity. meat caught who's technically been dead for 22 years. you may have guessed it kurt is a close. and he's the 1st white horse ever successfully. which makes him quite

a big deal. and he wasn't just an experiment scientists are now cloning endangered species to slow down the rate of biodiversity loss and even improve entire ecosystems. in one word it's just wow. of a species that we've. been how exactly would that work and how realistic is it welcome to the very weird world of wild clones gene banks and bringing species back from the afterlife. cloning has been controversial around the world. with legitimate concerns about us playing god or creating endless copies of species that wipe out biodiversity.

coughed up this is the exact opposite to bring diversity back to this population of while should evolve skis hasse's. so how is a clone which is an exact genetic or b. of another animal supposed to bring back biodiversity well bear with me. on 2000 horses alive today have descended from only 12 wild ancestors to clone could. researches use a unique gene that was frozen years ago that would have otherwise been lost from the pool and they use a domestic horse as a surrogate mother. kurt is not the 1st endangered species to be cloned and there has even been a clone of an extinct species but with limited success the barony in ibex was cloned 3 years after it went extinct using all frozen skin samples researchers impregnated over $200.00 domestic goat only 7 making pregnant one made it to term

but the baby died minutes off that was born. less than one percent of wild clones ever survive and the lack of research and access to wild animals makes the entire process especially difficult. with cut looking healthy scientists thought he would be the 1st clone to directly increase the genetic diversity of a population in the wild. and this is really cool because it's this represents a paradigm shift in conservation where we're no longer reacting to crisis but we're getting out to be preventative. that's been know that one of the scientists who cloned could and has been pushing the idea of cloning for conservation. the idea behind it is that we can use cloning in multiple ways to help endangered species either by increasing the size of their populations or by using it

strategically to maintain genetic diversity let's take a closer look at the increasing population numbers can help species recover but scientists only have a limited gene pool to choose from. but the method being use here is to add to the strength of the genetic pool by bringing back genes that would have otherwise died out this good to make populations more resistant to the effects of inbreeding and disease and even make them better at. ducting to climate change. biodiversity loss is an existential threat we face. basic resources from pollination water and food at severe risk and poor countries are likely to be the worst hit at 1st. species numbers are in such a freefall that since the 1970 s. species populations have declined by around 60 percent today we could be losing up

to $150.00 species each day. geneticists around the world have taken notice i'm not collecting and preserving whatever genetic material they can in labs zoos and gene banks. i mean today it's too late for many species. i mean storing the d.n.a. is like a resort before they're going to. have the genetic. ed louis call founded a british gene bank run by public universities museums and zoos there consortium has collected over 48000. while the main cloning experiments are taking place in the western world especially the u.s. governments around the world have ramped up their d.n.a. collection. from india to china and in the amazon where researchers like collecting

samples of endangered species banking on the technology to catch up. least having any information they're. saving any species. worth. owning is only one part of assisted reproduction which also includes artificial insemination. in vitro fertilization and more recently gene editing. over thousands lose and research institutions around the world are working on assisted reproduction of wild animals including for projects devoted specifically to cloning for conservation. raised chickens of genetic diversity on cloning may well save some species but would cause a long term effect on conservation leslie it is much more sensible to focus on

protecting the biodiversity we still have how. could we ever believe there is all the losing now. such questions need to drive the technology that is most likely here just being. rather than trying to save single species it's better to protect in time ecosystems knowing which plants animals and ecological communities need special protection because regular monitoring until now such monitoring could only provide a momentary snapshot of conditions in a set place and time. but a new method might soon allow us to monitor an entire ecosystem in one fell swoop. this is the airport at the german aerospace center and the near munich adorning 8

to 28 is ready for takeoff. it's carrying a hyperspectral camera. ecologists hope to use the device to help identify the species of flora and fauna and their distribution in a particular ecosystem from the air. after a 90 minutes. the darnay has reached its goal. the varian forest national park in southern germany the ecologist get to work. the hyperspectral camera registers the visible light and other electromagnetic radiation reflected off the forest below something like a regular digital camera. but

a normal digital camera has sensors that are only sensitive to visible light in 3 bands. red green and blue. the hyperspectral camera captures a much wider range dividing it into $250.00 spectral bands it collects lots of images of the same area every substance has its own pattern its spectral signature . taken from a plane or satellite hyperspectral images can already reveal how much chlorophyll or water there is in a forest canopy or whether pasts have infested the trees. but scientists want to do more international research projects in the bavarian forest is taking the next step. as you just put it does this is to we want to identify the range of species on the grounds windows and then investigate whether the reflection of sunlight on the ground could be used to identify the species that would lead us

most biodiversity from space if you thought also. first team of biologists from the netherlands france china and australia will try to identify all the organisms living in the forest a gargantuan task they take samples of soil which is full of bacteria and other microorganisms and fun guy. snails worms spiders and many others. species of animal also leave their trace in the soil in the form of d.n.a. . all of these traces will be brought to the lab where they'll be subjected to genetic analysis. then just a few months the team hopes to compile in. entire ecosystem and especially its microorganisms. down

the road degrading their leader leaves the dead. there are. recycling. plans all the trees grow so. prisons are really important and we can predict and see how. scientists are also using laser scanners to study 16 distinct areas within the forest different conditions allow different species to thrive so the species will bury if there's a lot of dead what for example. if there's mainly connex or deciduous trees. the biologists are also very interested in leeds. just look forest canopy is also home to insects fungi and microorganisms.

the mix of species living in the canopy can reveal a lot about the health of the forest and the leaves themselves are a kind of mirror of the health of the entire forest ecosystem. the chemistry of the leaves is a presentation of the condition of the tree and quality of the tree is a presentation of the quality of the ecosystem because everything is related to each other and by understanding those relations understanding how to change 1st locations 1st force 1st the forest is a porch understanding. how diverse a forest ecosystem is. hyperspectral imaging could help identify the chemical composition of leaves in a particular patch of forest. and be not so good at predicting individual species but that's not our goal we want to predict the range of species in

a forest and if we could do that from space identify species by their spectral fingerprint then we could map biodiversity overlarge stretches of land and also observe changes in that biodiversity. and the health of large scale ecosystems can then be monitored from space in real time in this very in forest is an ideal testing ground although it will take another 3 years until all the data has been gathered and analyzed. grieving insatiable and cruel in many languages someone who behaves like a vulture is someone who is ruthless a true predator. that does a disservice to the staff which make a big contribution to healthy ecosystems. but in recent decades africa's vulture puppet. action has fallen by some 90 percent bringing them to the brink of extinction. a kenyan conservation group has launched an initiative to protect the

birds. over half of africa's 11 vulture species are teetering on the brink of extinction the environmental n.g.o.s kenya has been observing the development in east africa. it's distressing because without these scavengers dead animals would rot wherever they dropped and that could upset entire ecosystems. which is a very much important in. cleaning the environment we call them the. undertaker the clean the environment all the dead carcasses and by doing these they stop the spread of diseases diseases like. lazy and all of that nature kenya introduced a vulture conservation program in the muscle i'm our a nature reserve and 2014 it's a mr spread awareness of the crucial role vultures play. by this

group of my so i work as nature can use vulture ambassadors explain to villagers that when a dead cow will go to his poisoned with acar chemicals in order to kill predators that threaten their livestock all of the animals that feed on the carcass of poisoned and that includes a lot of vultures. so as i'd like to volunteer i want to go. for example in my location. i mean one of the conflict when there is. that issue before it's place and we we actually sometimes take the carcasses of those. and we've put them aside and you can. actually talk to the or know that i'm not always with. support from villages and leaders is key to the ngos campaign. the assistant chief of one village tells us that battles between humans and animals

are ongoing issue in the area. there's a lot of conflict animals are being killed. or left but people are getting killed by elephants and lions in your present a serious. conflict incident. but all too often the main victims of these conflicts are vultures and that's the environmentalists message to put an end to their agonizing deaths nature kenya also cooperates with the ranges from the mara reserve. i think the biggest challenge is the shoe of reporting. poisoning we normally don't get a lot of reports from the community because they know that it's a crime and so a lot of this go unreported. but reporting the cases would give the conservationists a chance to save the birds. that's why keeping communication channels open

is important. the effort is. basically talking we discussed because we don't assume that they don't know they know something so what we do is to add to the divide and basically to clear this. also supported by bird life international the program is focused mainly on east africa because that's where vulture death rates are especially high the campaigns push to improve the exchange of information is now starting to yield results. we're getting reports on one human to live conflict and also responses to. what i mean by these some voters have been saved because there is. a response protocol that is being followed. close off in the.

incident last year an international initiative was launched with the goal of reducing vulture mortality in africa by 50 percent within the next decade. before it to work its final of the local communities are also on board. biodiversity has been in dramatic decline in recent decades. trend that is set to continue unless urgent action is taken. there are various steps we can take to stop that development or even reverse it by completely rethinking our consumer behavior as well as supporting ecosystems. functioning ecosystems can sometimes be found in the i'm likeliest of places. from. those in weight 30 centimeters across and

2 centimeters high that's about average for a cow perhaps a single cow produces about 10 of these a day. so the menu is an excellent fertiliser the spots on the pasture that get plenty of calcutta are especially lush and green. grass. but cowpats are far more than just fertilizer on this meadow in a nature reserve in southwestern germany and to manages to you know who is that and biologist how about nicole looking for fresh samples. as we are here i never hear we've got a slightly older cowpat as you can see the surface is dried out and there's a pretty good crossed and you can see that the 1st larvae are already appearing like here this year because of the obvious thrive in the dawn and their prey for other bugs and beetles. and. here is

a clown beetle. for us is fairly small but they're also much larger species which are natural born predators cause they're got very big mouth parts which they use to chop up the larvae much like a butcher's knife and then eat them so this is a very complex food web that's. cowpats with life the dung provides thousands of small creatures with food and shelter. before it even hits the ground i can't pack starts to attract dung flies they deposit their eggs in the fresh down. and pretty soon the 1st dung beetles mavin they dig tunnels for their own offspring which in turn everything by spiders and predatory beetles about 2 weeks later the worms are rife soon the cowpat has vanished but the entire area remains a hive of activity birds and other medications such as lizards dine on the insects

. beetles predatory beetles birds and then birds of prey for example occupying different positions in the food web so you get a limb norma's functional complexity from one cow pat if it isn't here if the cow stays in the barn this doesn't exist. like. a single free range cow can produce up to a ton of moms. that yields 20 kilos of insects. which can sustain about 10 kilos worth of birds about 3 stokes all search starlings for example. but that only happens when ecological farming methods he used as on this protected spot of land in the midst of a nature reserve. 40

cows live here in an area of 70 hectares of forest and says he had tens of posture the measure was allowed to run wild it's never moaned. her hair. her hair but nicole wants to see what kinds of creatures a living here he uses a modified leaf blower to suck up a sample and finds more than a 100 different species. in these openness we find a lot of cicadas and bugs but there are also beetles and spiders everything that you'll find accompli round on the vegetation it's an amazing thing to see there's a diversity of species you'll no longer find on an ordinary meadow these and if

they can. this is an ordinary pasture not far away the meadow was moved recently. and the biologist takes another song paul. he finds less than a dozen creatures. far fewer species it's a catastrophe for insects and birds there's hardly anything here this is a park estates and what about the count past many farm animals are given substances to control internal parasites that affects biodiversity in the down at the zenith and i think i don't see a single beetle or a tunnel made by one nothing at all. and here. at. the back at the meadow in the nature is a habit nicole says the rich diversity of account in animal life would be easy to

preserve. men beyond our childhood faults and if we had just 5 percent wild you bet oser if sense of year around the country like germany us in said life would benefit immensely on tiny plots of land like this one insect biodiversity can be doubled or even tripled in both absolute numbers and species i've seen it here obviously it is a risk it faces. and all of this wouldn't be possible without cowhands you. would you. pick out what is right why are they flatten anything major. do you have a science questions you'd like us to answer said given if we featured on the show you get a little surprise as a thank you. come on just announced. for

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