where the improbable but. the creation of our solar system with our planet is a bit like winning the lottery their missing. limbs earth. starts feb 11th on t.w. . the pivot. the digital world is the big winner in this pandemic watching from online shopping education live streaming the internet is growing stronger lockdowns of forced firms into digitizing ad it's giving us newfound freedoms like flexible work and the chance to keep in contact with family and friends on a different level but it all comes at a price the 2 faces of digitalisation topic today are made well it's

game over for a number of top level e sports professionals the so-called athletes have hit on an incredibly lucrative business opportunity over the past few years which we've reported on before but this young stars have also found out all those hours in front of a screen and the global pressures of the entertainment sector can fast become a health hazard emilia hemphill reports. streaming is fast becoming a go to activity to relax and socialize and escape from the pressures of everyday life. this is me hanging out with some friends there's no way any of us could make it to the professional that will jump again at x. but for a growing number of people playing video games is providing a golden ticket to saying and legions of fun. sports is moot. into

ophelia the industry. game is all around the well to pursue a shot at the big time but what price when you look at the stats of today's professional players the average retirement age is between just 23 and 25 years old . physical and mental burnout is a growing problem for professional players it's not something that's widely acknowledged within the industry. finally starting to speak out and cool for a change is. better known as. gaining fan you'll already know who he is born in sweden and playing professionally since the age of 20 he's a gaming legend widely regarded as one of the best counterstrike global offensive players in history. 2015 he helped power his former team fanatic to weld number one and was awarded the title of most valuable player will m.v.p.

i've been gaming my whole life of course all of that but there was also some kind of escape you could just. escape in another world and you don't have to think about anything else but just the game and think that's something that i really enjoyed but following a wrist injury and 2016 the pressures of real life and the grueling competition schedule started to become overwhelming and everything was just a low figure for tournament for pressure like normally when it's not corona we were with travel oak ridge travel like through on a plus they say year if not more and it's kind of stressful for your mind because you always have something where you have to perform and one of the times for some. people analyze what you did wrong and everybody has so many opinions in 2017 he took a short leave of absence to to personal reasons i just couldn't sleep good i was just thinking about the game trying to force segment on like being. stress almost

every day all times all of came back refreshed but then in may of 2020 shocking his fans he announced in a tweet that he'll be taking an extended break from professional gaming due to fatigue strain on his mental health and lack of motivation to compete it's so hard because if you see a team playing 8 hours a day that are better than you they want to play my an hour today because you want to be the right that it just keeps going like that then you have like 12 hours practice plus like 5 hours individual you could do that for every day i think it can be good for you with the covert pandemic adding even more pressure to train around the clock a number of the best players in the sports or announce career breaks this year citing burnout and stress. medical professionals in the gaming industry have been concerned for years about the health impacts of overtraining sleep deprivation and players taking unregulated energy supplements we're seeing so much burnout we

unfortunately had a couple deaths in the community this year people need to be addressing the mental health people and to be addressing the physical health of these athletes or or were seen repercussions are any a lot of the reasons are we're pushing these gamers well beyond how far we should be pushing anyone let alone an 18 year old kid and we're not giving them the correct support you know gaming is a pastime in sports as a career and with so much money at stake professional gaming teams like excel e sports are starting to make more holistic changes to safeguard the health of that play as we are doing blood tests we're having nutrition companies supporting us you know working out we're focusing on sleep with citric us a using and the m b a my name is head of performance or my status as really quite surreal that i have to tell the players to play less if people have a bird or have issues they're just getting replaced and in my point of view the

organization is responsible or mainly responsible why is this effort has this large started a growing number of top the sports teams starting to build support for their players health into their contracts providing team houses and personal chefs fitness and performance coaches physios and mental health training but industry wide and for smaller teams don't have many official regulations that are actively safeguarding professional players they are sleeping too that they're having not a structure at all so they go to bed at 3 at 5 pm they are not having enough sunlight they're looking at right i'm meant to be their nominee don't have to cook so the nutrition is really bad in football for example will be off the echo. we have coaches and so on any sports there's no coaching no sense yet and the end it's nice to be successful not a lot of money but it's a really really disgusting when

a person is $25.00 or 30 and has to stop what they are doing because it's really unhealthy for them and they have lifetime issues with. one of my state is now back playing professionally again with his team face plan but the road to recovery has been a challenging one i've been working out a lot more and tried to eat a lot more healthy think that helps me there are a lot more players are a lot more stress than they would like to admit to the public without people saying anything to schedule your spitta same man it's not good for people solve these forces delivering industry but as the tournament's in the prize money get bigger protecting young professionals from physical and mental burnout is going to become an important challenge. the pandemic has bankrupted countless businesses and continues to do so millions are out of work but then you hear the experts saying that there's no better time to start your own business than

in a crisis you have to learn how to scrimp and save when financing dries up you have to find customers when there's no demand and you need a really good idea last year i met the founder of a tiny start up in spain that's created an eco friendly healthy and affordable beacon state from a 3 d. printer a year on the company continues to grow and continues to wow the skeptics reading even tastes pretty good to tell you the truth. well well my colleague to sound bites on the bus of the biotech for some tips on how to develop a successful stop. people thought there was a very good beginning we have a few of the bird really prepared plans big. i'm going to fish on sci fi oh i have found that i love my meat which is up at startup in barcelona working on the future of land based meat it is my advice for you to give that like pull start. to develop your idea you have

30 acres if that's what keep your passion what you are now and i come from a tie or the 50 i will fight for if you're nearing because i've been working all my life i have made it clear that building organic for human rights all for biomedical purpose so the beginning i want it to be secure never at the top of the war but we created a new technology and once you created your technology you want to find the feedback from the safety in my case for example i went in with check if this was a crazy idea or if the mayfair and warmth are very interesting or many people would set up a period tell you that because nothing they did yeah then you have next. for the drive if you go forward. very important think that buying that sector right would be the ball that probably the

bank was proud of but that we need to find a better way to bring the problem could market so you could buy the right $550.00 and that right that at most for example upbeat to speak to feeding people would meet for example you know our fate that direct plan or both retail and if you're nothing without the right people at the right. the market. starts at the very 1st big as. it's not a complicated and even in the case that something doesn't go well you you think and bible meaning that you can take another direction and here. it is very hard to find better telling the people so you one more time and that is very important because it seems. to stay with you for a long time so you don't want just to put another tidemand on line and look for the people to come for you you really banks want to be the right people so going to

find the right people at the right places and not i mean to physically we have to be in one means the technological the recall of the performance in and then we have to be interested in which we call the back when the performance the. people that got to talk with some technology the business amy profit is done through that investors and the client but it's the partner. you want to find the right team but my own strategy was to look for v.c. beating on the media so that. would come back me as a reread certainly want to be our building we should poking about it and i feel that if you don't feel that your county europe for example for me but you've been paid already believe you cannot find the right but that you have now or you'll be you have guys you're going to people from all over the ward investing in your company. the next step is to

scale meaning that especially in our case where we have a very long mission a very strong region which we want to create a sustainable future. well you need to scale up to bring that product and these are about advances internationally so the next step is to raise more money he says 2000 the fields of production he said our then allows our hold on a lot to be a baby the boat all over the war the next 5 to 10 years i hope that by 5 or so many mission as you're starting your business there. good tips for business there but how about some tips in organizing our daily lives in the pandemic social distancing to avoid the coronaviruses change so many things paradoxically resulted in better health fuel communicable diseases like colds and flu but everyone gets sick some time out to visit the doctor in times of limited access if you medical consultation

online. took a look at the growing field of tele medicine she started by booking a virtual appointment herself. i need to see a dermatologist at short notice. except the next available appointment is in 4 months time. but then i discover a doctor offering online consultation. after entering a few personal details on her website i find myself talking to her just a few minutes later. the next day yes i do get tired my hands have been really really dry for quite a long time now and the chip it to talk. washing your hands more frequently might even pages skin is natural protective barrier this can lead to a kind of eczema so the 1st thing you need to do is apply hand a lot more often than. the on line consultation costs 30 euros i consider

that a price worth paying if i had a problem i was concerned about as i get help quickly and easily. in many cases we can look at the patient to make an assessment based on the severity and extent of the problem and then also determine the degree of urgency of course that's no substitute for personal contact you still need doctor's surgery for physical checking all for certain technical equipment needed for a more precise diagnosis. yet. the video consultation serves as a preliminary finding for diseases where a visual. by the doctors enough this form of tele medical treatment has only been permitted in germany since 2019. in the coronavirus era patients are happy for the opportunity to save time and avoid risk of infection and demand to soar. like so many other areas of life medical care is now also becoming

digitalized. people with chronic conditions can for example have their blood pressure monitored remotely by staff at a clinic. next i talked to a health care management expert feel the unkind thing and says patients in germany have become increasingly receptive to the concept of telemedicine this is led to greater willingness among investors to provide funding that enables young companies to acquire new technologies carbon dioxide can get a lot of firms in germany of insufficient funding. that's especially the case with startups but that's no changing in some areas we're seeing many parts of the health sector getting a lot more capital that's enabled us to catch up with us for example our companies now have a better set of all round with competent teams so they can develop a broader scope. the digital boom has benefited and given birth to a lot of startups swedish company crew has developed

a digital health app that allows users to consult with a doctor of life after registering online patients answer a series of questions about their symptoms and can then request an appointment. cruise network now extends to 900 doctors across europe covering all manner of medical conditions. to viral infection inspect terrio infections headaches many different types of pain diarrhea and vomiting eye infections everything that normally a general practitioner would deal with at short notice. try putting your head down said your chin meets your chest. painful yes yes i feel it on the right side of my head where the pain was. the service is available in scandinavia france britain and now in germany too it's doctors speak

a range of different languages and germany consultations are offered in german or english. prescriptions sick notes and referrals are all issued electronically but doesn't that raise data privacy concerns as a lot of our a lot of people will have questions because it's all so new and data privacy concerns are always great when it comes to health matters. we're seeing people getting used to it pretty quickly because they know that it works and the doctors who have tell you medical treatment training are able to find out a lot by asking the patient questions and his if you also for. digital applications are now commonplace in the health care world in addition to remote consultations they now also enable aftercare for acute and chronic diseases ordering medication compiling patient data and even psychotherapy services. when it comes to serious or life threatening conditions there is no substitute for

a proper visit to the doctor but telemedicine can offer supplementary help and in germany for example health insurance companies now cover both types of treatment. now all that digital work during the pandemic has highlighted the need for a new generation of computer savvy specialists children these days tend to be immersed in a digital world right from the very beginning but what about us older people if you're looking for a job and can afford the training i.t. bootcamp software to bring you up to speed in just months it could be worth it because companies are desperately looking for professionals who can drive digitalisation. the global economy is in trouble supply chains spanning the planet have been disrupted the pandemic has highlighted the limits of the present economic system and the importance of digital technologies noire fisher is an outfit in hamburg that describes itself as

a school and pool for digital talent. we are seeing a growing interest in training in digital professions because of the crisis. for short courses it calls boot camps to train people in computer related fields. 3 months course in data science for university graduate costs a little under $9000.00 euros. training as a web developer costs just under 8000. digitalisation combined with coronavirus being forced to deal with these things no . flexibility and the willingness to go new ways are more important than ever that holds for training courses to remote learning is the order of the day. we see people who want to change their lives some have been working in their

profession 15 or 20 years and now want to change course. they spent 3 months with us doing intensive training so they can work in an entirely new field. the need for many more digital professionals to start with the pandemic but it has made it greater. the problem we are addressing on a small scale with our boot camps is the lack of qualified personnel there are 124001000 vacant seats in germany right now on average it takes 150 days to fill a vacancy so there clearly aren't enough qualified. digital publishing is one industry in need of more people. are publishers magazines the print runs of its paper editions have been falling for years its online presence has been growing fast its online publications now account for

a 3rd of its revenues. to work on the future viability of a company all the time and that involves finding qualified staff we have an arrangement with whereby we can contact its recent graduate student. so we can recruit good candidates for digital business. export driven manufacturing base is taking a battering because of the coronavirus crisis while digital developments are not up to speed. if we don't manage to include groups and make them more. digital technologies play a key role in just about every sector of the economy nowadays there's no way around the need to people's digital skill sets. i love working from.

my back. isn't as good as in the office the good. old times of the day. you can get a little too much time. out. that's working from home for you too much sometimes for you to be based on call select skype what is a. chat call. and you're expected to be available $24.00 seventh's would you react immediately to messages and form calls. what if somehow managing to do some actually i'm. sorry but i can't talk to you right now i'm shooting a video in. how

can we get through this jungle without going crazy. i've got a few tips for you. define when you want to do something and for a long if possible plan ahead when you want to do a certain task and how much time you'll need that way you can focus better on the task at hand. interruptions and be near to the typically killers research has shown that it can take an average of 23 minutes to get back into a subject after you've been distracted which brings me to my next point to. set priorities when someone contacts you think whether you have to obvious by the way or if it can wait for someone we should. hold that's how we should put that.

on the other hand though whenever we start to do that we're starting her own school or progress in our words which might detract from this huge progress from the prime goal is where those 2 things obviously they are sometimes matters so urgent that they need to be resolved immediately. shooting a video. i'm going to call you back in one hour ok but if they're not all of them and focus on your current task. choose the channel of communication you feel the most comfortable with what would you prefer writing or speaking i know it's not up to you to dictate the means of communication. other. i've read some fascinating articles about how these tools are more difficult for women than for men. in part because

a lightning strikes things that bases for every comedian so for many of us we might type stroke for us a lot better we might say you know i want to do things right in the hour by slack her some other single. answer is something about as we're remembering to some calls because immediately takes the pressure off the video one white thing about the maids try to get out of as many mating list as you can we spent 2 to 3 hours every day checking our maids wouldn't it be great if we could get down on this earth or. take breaks nothing new about that. but seriously take a time out. that's imperative for your health and productivity jeff clegg and undisturbed cutting off ties.

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this is the end of the news not from germany's leaders meet to consider the coronavirus lockdowns despite folding case numbers chancellor mckelvey said to be keen to extend its of the 16 states meet this not all for the headquarters project also on the program i mean miles military tightens its grip on power and breaks the party headquarters of us to the to our son since she defines protest this return to the streets for a 5th day. donald trump's 2nd in peach french trial. goes ahead despite his lawyers insistence that it is unconstitutional democrats say the former president must be held accountable for last month's deadly storming of congress.

times will go welcome to the program so many federal and state leaders have begun a virtual summit to decide on the next steps out so they coronavirus prime time a chance for a man who has made it clear she wants a national lockdown that began in december to be extended for several more weeks at least but some of the 16 states are expected to resist. alaska d.w. political correspondent nina hoss welcome nina talk us through the main measures and indeed sticking points on today's agenda. well before before i do that i think it's important to recap where germany's standing at the moment so we've been in a nationwide lockdown essentially for 2 months so that means public life has come to a standstill schools are closed gardens are closed and of course the infection numbers

have gone down over the recent weeks because of those measures say scientists so there is a lot of pressure lot of people calling for the restrictions to be lifted again but at the same time politicians are extremely scared by the news from the corona virus mutations that are of course a lot more infectious so there is a big fear of a sudden spike in new numbers again which is why i'm going back on the state premiers seem to agree that now is not the time to lift the restrictions yet which is why the draft paper that we've seen that is the basis for those talks going on in the chancery and via video conference says that the current restrictions will probably be extended until the 7th of march at least until america is said to want them to be extended until the 14th of march that there's going to be a debate there and then the draft paper also says that the issue of reopening schools and kindergartens and just when and how it's going to be up to the states

themselves to decide and one thing seems to be clear already that headdress is might be able to reopen as early as the 1st of march now. germany's federal system has worked for and against this crisis is that this prompted people to say that things need to change. well most people do seem to agree that germany did do fairly well during the 1st wave of the pandemic last year last spring because of its federal structure because of calls local clusters of new infections were easily identified locally and then what targeted locally so that means restrictions were imposed regionally without having to drag the entire country into lockdown but now during the vaccine rollout the federal structure has added to the fact that it's been extremely complicated it's been extremely slow germany is still not in a position where it can safely say that

a majority of people are necessary for the virus to go away i've been vaccinated it's far from that situation and so of course there is a big debate about just how good this federal structure is at the same time of course when it comes to issues like education the state premiers say we need a federal structure we need to have the ultimate say about which measures to impose and which not. only correspondent you know and i thank you. well researches in the u.k. have discovered that a common ask for treatment appears to reduce the need for hospitalization under recovery time for covered 9000 patients the month long study bias from university scientists was inspired by the fact that patients with chronic respiratory disease we hailed steroids as part of their treatment were under represented among hospitalized covered 900 patients. trial was led by oxford university is

a professor mona buffet all who was cold so coauthored a study welcome to day w this sounds like a big step forward given that aspirin medication is widely available and inexpensive. yes i mean it was. quite fascinating that the study was suggestive of a positive outcome with this inhaled medicines. and we are quite. pleased with that but obviously with the understanding that it was a small limited study and so last results would be suggestive of that and we look forward to hearing from. investigators who are also looking in similar fashion similar medicines ok so as a small study we were able to identify what it was about v.a.'s ozma medications that makes them so effective against common symptoms it's so studies already in the process so early on in the pandemic and from last year showed that in the

bowl that tree the asked my inhale medicines could reduce virus replication in the lung knighting so but this is experimental studies and our findings that actually chronic illnesses with respect she mentioned such as asner and chronic struck to become a disease was not a big feature of people who got admitted to hospital from the chinese data for example back in march to last year kind of supported us to to test that. hypothesis that research question as to whether this medicine could perhaps help people in early on in a disease and illness as well as it's important to know that what we are talking about a treatment for people who have contracted covered rather than as a preventative measure that's correct yes. so. what happens from here that do you wait for more scientists to do more research do you

put in every said proposal the way whites too for the price of us medications to shoot through the roof as the companies realize that i'm to something. well i think what's really important is that actually this is a signal in one in one piece of work in the community there will be i believe lots of other studies coming out quite soon i hope and from across the world that all perhaps slightly different in their design of studies and belief this similar messages are coming through and i guess we will have to reflect as to whether actually and there is potentially a treatment for early illness or right now let's hope that this leads to a lead somewhere thank you so much for joining us professor professor mona battle from oxford university thank thank you very much we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world german vaccine make a bomb attack have started production at

a new facility in western germany a factory based in the city of marburg is expected to boost the news coverage 19 vaccine supply will produce the main ingredient of the drug development u.s. pharmaceutical company. president of the european commission has a good knowledge failings in the blocks fight against the corona virus a sort of fond alliance as the e.u. was late with its approval and rollout of vaccines but she defended the overall strategy of trying to beat the pandemic with a unified plan for all 27 nominations. security forces in israel have clashed with hundreds of ultra orthodox jews protesting against lockdown obstructions police used water cannon to disperse the crowd public anger against the ultra-orthodox a community is a building as it continued to hold large weddings and funerals. rescue workers in india still searching for dozens of people trapped inside a tunnel 3 days after a glass here collapsed and set off

a massive flood more than 30 bodies have been recovered and more than 170 people still missing. and it's of me and ma where the army has raided the party headquarters of detained leader. the international community is becoming increasingly concerned as the military tightens its grip on power a crackdown on nationwide protests but demonstrators remain defiant returning to the streets for a 5th day demanding the release of their elected leaders. it looks like a simple quirky demonstration. but this group of young protesters and gang gone risking their lives. i know your name for this is a protest i.g.f. from the young generation we are always thinking about how to be more creative because we need international attention or not i the group remains undeterred up to tuesday's violence in which police fired rubber bullets and water cannons the

protesters the military leaders who staged a coup on february 1st and declared such illegal there were also reports of large i mean ition being fired. c with at least 2 people critically injured. but again under armor the now we say that the military is taking brutal action against us. but when young people will leave the protests through various groups in every paste away ok simic demonstrators a calling for an end to the military genter and freedom for the nation's elected leader and sunset she and her allies they are also calling for a new constitution and more democratic freedoms they cause has attracted international support with the u.s. a u.n. condemning the use of force we repeat our calls for the military to relinquish power restore democratically elected government release those detained and lift all

telecommunication restrictions in to refrain from violence having gauge with. india do us stralia and discuss this you do a shoot just today with the chinese for a mission. we only agree on the need to create responses the military justified their coup by claiming widespread voter fraud in the november polls which sort of land. victory for searching the claims were not supported by man mosque election commission a curfew under strict rules on gatherings have been put in place but they are yet to prevent fresh protests from breaking out across the country. and the u.s. senate has voted to proceed with a 2nd impeachment trial of former president donald trump chamber divided lives along party lines in backing the democrats' argument that the trial is constitutional mr trump's accused of inciting the storming of the capitol on the

6th of january that left 5 people dead the news for 56 the 40 for a clear decision in a divided chamber donald trump will face a 2nd impeachment trial. perceived withdraw the senate vote affirmed that the trial was constitutional. stop this deal to make their case the democratic prosecutors showed a video as evidence of trump firing up his supporters ahead of the storming of the capitol on january 6th. can vote fraud and through it breaks up everything doesn't it when you catch somebody in a fraud you're allowed to go by very different rules you ask with a high crime and misdemeanor is under our constitution. that's a high crime and misdemeanor. a head of the vote republicans had argued that trump

could not be convicted once out of office this was dismissed by the prosecution. their argument is that if you commit an impeachable offense in your last few weeks in office you do it with constitutional impunity you get away with it. so we're calling on the lawyers also resorted to video are joining the trial was politically motivated and divisive. on the beach with dogs which vote yes or no i would vote yes i would but i would hope. with this trial you will open up new and bigger wounds across the nation for a great many americans see this process for exactly what it is a chance by a group of partisan politicians seeking to eliminate donald trump from the american political scene in a congress still reeling from last month's events it is partisan politics that

makes it very unlikely the prosecution will get the 2 thirds majority required in the senate to convict trump. and finally assume conference is a become the norm for lots of us during this pandemic but not everyone in the stands to technology in this courtroom video for example american lawyers having a few problems leave the filter filter turned on in the video settings you might want to. where to find out where to the number george i can hear you i think it's a filter it and then as you go out of the hood it was not my sister she's trying to be all. of us on here live that's not i'm not a cat. i can i can see that i think if you click. more the software our business updates

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