friends who we can no longer predict the morning game it's always on our minds when we make decisions in this pandemic. vaccine rollout in germany has been much slower than hyped to the opposition it's an obvious failure of the government. form funding we've gone from masters of the pandemic last spring to europe's vaccination stranglers today our vaccination centers have been empty for weeks millions of citizens stuck in queues for hours on end and you say nothing's gone wrong we're behind remain behind greece behind slovakia on vaccinations to work. even though here so loans will begin reopening in a few weeks they'll be subject to strict hygiene measures many other businesses that will just have to wait for better times. we get more on this from d.w. political correspondent simon young welcome simon why are schools and daycare centers and hair salons being allowed to reopen before the end of this seemingly

never ending lockdown you know phil i think with schools and kindergartens it's the same point that has been made in many countries are children are missing out on their education and also on socialising outside their families and there are real concerns for the welfare of children for their mental health as well also parents are looking after kids at home are under a lot of strain as well so i think there's the idea that opening up the schools is a key step towards getting back somewhere closer to normal with hairdressers i think it's a less strong case what the government has been saying is it's about personal hygiene and also a sense of personal dignity having a proper haircut is important especially for older people. does the chancellor still have public backing for a longer lockdown. well increasingly not from business

leaders and from business owners they're really angry they wanted. easing of measures but i think if you talk to the general public they're still broadly supportive of the corona restrictions but if you talk to people on the street they certainly are struggling let's listen to what some people in berlin told us i would love to just go out and you know go to a cafe or museum or visit friends or travel freely and take a trip somewhere and just to get out of my apartment i know that some people are not that stable some of the real problems at the moment especially the young people with depression it's really tough for them because the counseling centers are closed it's probably also have to stick it out and see what comes it has to be over eventually by summer at the latest or even this spring you need to support it i'm enjoying time with my child but i'm a freelance musician sir from that point

a few times i'm not so good i'm going to. really have nothing to do but the state is also supporting us so. it's just like a long vacation really. strange. so i'm in the chancellor's target is an infection rate of 35 cases 400000 people over a 7 day period how far is germany from the. right the target is 35 the current number is 64 that's down from about 197 on the 22nd of december when that number hit its peak now the idea of 35 new infections but 100000 people over a 7 day period is what the government says any given municipality will need to achieve before they can be a general reopening of shops and businesses there's been some confusion around this because the previous target was at 50 but it's been lowered because of the

danger of these more contagious variant me taste shin's and that just shows how difficult it is a task of a government to communicate when it's having to adjust policy on the basis of new medical information that's coming in all the time and a quick word on germany's slow vaccination rollout how is that affecting the decision to ease the lock on briefly if you would sign yeah germany has now delivered 3600000 doses of vaccine that's about 2 and a half 1000000 people who received at least one dose 8 slow compared to other places there's still just isn't enough vaccine the decision to reopen schools will no doubt increase pressure for teachers in particular to get it at the same time as i say you've got these contagious variants which some of which may mean that vaccines are less effective so there are new vaccines coming on stream that's the

positive news but it's a mixed picture and back to nation is an important part of the answer but not the only thing thank you so much simon you. to the united states where prosecutors in the impeachment trial of donald trump of revealed new video footage showing the violent mob breaking into the u.s. capitol building the former president is accused of inciting the riots in january and which 5 people died. on the 2nd day of the impeachment trial democratic prosecutors wasted little time to make their case. they used security camera footage to reconstruct in painstaking detail how the rioters worked their way into the inner sanctum of u.s. democracy coming within touching distance of the politicians inside. as the riders reached the top of the stairs they were within 100 feet of where the vice president was sheltering with his family and they were just

a feet away from one of the doors to this chamber where many of you remained at that time you concede vice president pence and his family quickly moved down the stairs the vice president turns around briefly as he's headed down. other footage leaves little doubt about the mob's violent intent. recordings of police radio calls show how the embattled officers lost control of the situation. we were doing there. where are. you going there are no here. or what are true here no you're up there. were 33rd your. reviews are when you walk up when i was going to work. the writers did finally manage to breach the senate floor prosecutors say they

acted at donald trump's behest. this was not a coincidence none of this was donald trump over many months cultivated violence praised it and then when he saw the violence his supporters were people of he channeled it to his big wild historic event democrats hope these dramatic images will convince some of their republican counterparts to vote to convict the former president. with millions of americans watching the televised proceedings the intensity of the prosecutor's arguments has reverberated far beyond the senate chamber. straight to washington then where would you join t.w. correspondent stephanie seaman's who can talk us through day 3 of this trial welcome stefan what are we expecting. we expect about up to 8 hours

more deliberation more democrats and house impeachment managers in this case prosecutors if you will make in their case narrowing in on the length of remorse of donald trump which he showed after the incursion occurred on january 6th this is their main effort today and of course with this also again narrowing in and making sure everybody understands that donald trump played what they say absolutely central and critical role in all of this not just on generally 6 withholding speech but also before long before by denying that the election was up to par and saying it was raked or stolen and so on egging the people on to actually do what they then did on generally 6 we saw in the report prosecutions showing sentences disturbing footage of the riots and what else he do to try and convince republicans

to back them and to vote to convict. that's basically it by today also showing that there is actually physical damage to the capital left behind so and then again those senators who sit there those republican senators who the democrats want to convince to vote with them for conviction of donald trump that they were so so so close to actually really good physical harm the house impeachment managers will also focus and with that that is of course also the same effort to make those republicans for each side and convict all trump they want to show how many many people staffers support teams in the capitol who work there every day how much of psychological emotional damage they are suffered from what happened on january 6th so again it is going to be a very factual and very very detailed presentation today we expect but also very very emotional this is for it to democrats i think and for the house of pietschmann

managers they think the key to get a few republicans to vote with them right and how is this the american public taking this washington psychodrama. well it depends on what channel you're watching here if you are subscribing to be a watcher all for example fox right conservative right wing. then you will sporadically check in probably if you're all watching other networks c.n.n. on them all the middle of the left c.n.n. has received then you will watch this if you can all day long no doubt there is high interest in what's going on there and you know yesterday was critical because for many many millions of americans that was hard to watch it was hard to watch for me this footage yesterday we were there on generally 6 to relive this kind of was tough so yeah american public is interested millions are watching but i wouldn't say that it's for the entire country on. the 1st stove so to speak it's not on the

front burner entirely fall of american spot for a large large large number of them of course stephens ilands in washington thank you we're going to end this of the also because i've announced a very different looking award sediment initiate the movie industry continues to grapple with the pandemic economy of motion picture and sciences says they she's event will be live and in person from multiple locations including its traditional venue and they would still be seen as a decision to decentralize the event is aimed at prioritizing public health. it's reminder of our top story this hour german chancellor on the battle has admitted to failings in dealing with the 2nd wave of coronavirus infections she was jeered by the opposition in parliament actually defended the decision to extend the lockdown until march the sets. of the 2 up to date are

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without smell but have you thought about the consequences for your life and job about 60 percent of those infected with the coronavirus will have had problems smelling or tasting. for current starglider falling ill with covert 19 was a professional disaster the 53 year old did not have severe symptoms what was left on able to smell or taste anything but the owner of a confectionery shop she needed to test the quality of her cakes and chocolates. and by if i have a glass of wine for example the same time had to taste a glass of vinegar i couldn't tell the difference but. this is why it is both of them taste acidic but i couldn't tell you which one is vinegar and which is the one . her symptoms are typical. smell loss occurs when the corona virus infects cells that support neurons

in the nose would you prescribe smell training as therapy and which patients rely on prescribe sense such as those of roses and lemons. now i'm voice after losing their sense of smell patients can do to smell training to stimulate damaged nerve cells and start the process of healing or regeneration. and i. want to. current stargazer has been using 4 different sense of day to reactivate her sense of smell coffee cinnamon chocolate closer vanilla are her favorite fragrances it's a slow process but she hopes male training will bring back her ability to smell and taste things and let's talk about losing your sense of smell with your of scientists rachel herz what i'd like to know 1st of all is if it could be permanent . so small loss with t.v.

we really don't know what permanently so it's only been 2 years though that we've been into these places and it's certainly the case that with upper respiratory tract infections loss occurs but there is hope or are we gaining it in those conditions and i think that probably will be the case here as well and there are different methods that can facilitate that especially things like training some people have been experiencing these 3 for months and months and months i mean a year can be a long time how how traumatic can that experience be emotionally and psychologically . well it's extremely traumatic and one of the problems being in this idea of permanence how long is ringback it going to last is it going to be forever you don't know and so that uncertainty even as mortuary at that very traumatic to lose your sentence now if people unfortunately don't realize because our sense of smell is connected to everything people assume it's connected to can i smell fire or the gal's that you know danger or the pleasure of food ringback but actually is connected to our emotional life in very intense ways it's connected to our social

life it's connected to our personal intimacy it's connected to our sense of self and our memories and our sense of where we are in the universe with respect to other people on the whole world so it can be extremely and grounding and very very disturbing for people to lose our sense of smell so retro is there's a side effect of something you're a logical so with company 1000 what seems to be going on is that the stars kovi to virus needs to enter cells in order to in fact the host that is the human and the nose has a patch covielle factory if it feel again that's where all factories censoring their arms are we to text mels also contains 2 other kinds of cells these all cells and what are known as supporting cells and these supporting cells have a high number of the kind of enzyme that's needed for the space protein of the sars virus to enter in this case 2 receptor people may be hearing about so than their

virus can bind very easily to these cells and what happens is it causes disruption and creates inflammation which seems to be the reason why the all factory sensory neuron shut down because that's where we're normally detecting smells and then that's the 1st port of entry into the rest of the body so that's the basic mechanism so one of the things i have a kind of pet peeve about is people really need to cover their nose with their mouths because that's the primary rule of entry for the stars virus to get into you . you know just came across one of those callings in the car always before tell us when does this happen is this loss of sense of smell is is it an early symptom is some health care workers have experienced before even testing positive i mean it could be a great warning in stopping the spread of the disease just like you were saying the warnings of a bad smell of a fire of gas yes oh well we've been involved i've been involved in research conducted with the el healthcare workers and what we found was actually that

disturbance in the sense of smell preceded getting our positive test by the p.c. ari her normal method of detecting you know biologically whether or not you've been infected by 2 whole days so this is actually a tremendous finding that smell osprey seeds getting a positive diagnosis and also preceded sort of feeling sick in other ways and actually is involved in about 86 percent of people who feel very mild symptoms or could otherwise be asymptomatic so having small loss is a very very important signal to the individuals who 1st of all get tested and secondly to self isolate to quarantine themselves then because you want to be avoiding transmitting it into the population so if you can self quarantine at the 1st sign of notice things no loss that's really important and not only smell loss but also alter smell what's known as rosin you know so if you're smelling things but they don't smell right you know one person said to me everything's not like

bigger and so that's also something that's really important signal early warning signs who in 1000 and we saw that in about a 3rd of the people who reported smell dysfunction in our study of i don't leave it's also a signal of old simers of parkinson's disease but is that also a symptom of the new covariance. so just to clarify the per hour is nearly all your sense of smell is not really so much as far as we know involved in alzheimer's or parkinson's disease in those things where small loss occurs that is decades before we see other symptoms but you ask a really good question about the other variants and i have to say that i don't know the answer to that yet there hasn't been any research that i've seen that specifically looked at what variant of the iris is causing or this star is virus red that's causing the ellice and whether or not and how that's connected smell us that's a great question i unfortunately don't know the answer to that yet like so many questions in this crisis my last question can you fully breed train your sense of

smell. so the good news is that because of the fact that it's about the respiratory tract infection that causes small loss you haven't had neurological damage to the way that the neurons can get into the brain for detecting smell and so forth so generally speaking in these cases there is hope for recovery and the best method to date is actually exercising your nose where what you want to do is get a set a very distinctive smell so things that's not really different or that you remember still believe different like lenin or mint and you know somebody's perfume or cloves and things like that and smell those sense multiple times per day smell each for like about 10 seconds and repeat that over and over let's say 3 or 4 times per day for about 3 months and then switch to another step and the good news is that although it's not 100 percent effective many people start to see improvement in

their ability to smell through doing this sort of smell training is exercising if you're not so there is real hope you know and it doesn't take that long a suspect is that you know a few minutes a couple of times a day and just have to keep keep up with ringback it and it seems what's happening there is it's both training your brain and potentially causing your receptors to become re stimulated again reactivated to bring in more a little ability to actually snuff i advice there from your scientist rachel herz thank you very much for being on the show today thank you very much for having me. over to derek williams now our science correspondent has been looking into your questions on the corona virus. does the immunity require from the vaccine vary from passing to passen. yes it does vaccines never provide 100 percent protection although

a few that we've developed for other infectious diseases have come close but but everyone's immune system is difference and will respond to particular vaccines in individual ways trials showed that even after being vaccinated some people who were exposed to sars kovi 2 ended up contracting symptomatic covert 19 but the vaccines being distributed now have proven to be pretty effective at preventing symptoms caused by most variants in most people and and some vaccines have proven extremely effective at doing so. a simplified way of putting it would be to say that trials in some back scenes showed unvaccinated people were nearly 20 times more likely to develop symptoms of pope at 19 during the trial than someone who got vaccinated. but the really interesting point is that and trying to return

to something like normal vaccines don't actually have to prevent at 19 and everyone if they can just stop symptomatic disease in most of us that would ease the strain on health systems and what would be even better is if that seems could help slow or stop transmission of the virus so if they not only prevent the disease in most people but also keep people from catching at having no symptoms and spreading it subsequently unknowingly there's new evidence that with at least one approved back seen that's the case that aspect really is key because it would break infection chains of to do that right now we're still relying mostly on on blunt instruments like like masks and lockdowns and finally there are strong indicators that even if you do catch covert 19 after getting the shot at least some of the

vaccines are limiting its severity so in other words the people who get the disease even after being vaccinated are rarely end up in hospitals. so this is who most thanks for watching stay safe and secure cancer.

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