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cultural leaders commemorating the past taking creative risks and building community 700 years of jewish life in germany. this week on sin culture on t.w. . back scenes of stealing the headlines at the financing that's the main complaint of scientists in search of a kopek therapy. treatments still elusive despite hundreds of drugs being developed already published but thousands of people are dying from the disease every day. preventing it from killing people is vital but doing so can take many full. research as a working tirelessly to find an effective treatment to prevent severe symptoms from

the illness or death a leading expert on covert therapeutics of home care told the w. we could see a breakthrough soon with so many medicines of various stages of development. some of them already tried tests with patients on and up are true stage and we see some good interim results which lead those to think that we can see improvements within the next year and he says the virus could well stick around after the pandemic so there may always be people who need treatment here's a look at some of the most promising therapies being worked on you may know the name hydroxy chloroquine it was often uttered by former u.s. president dan trump who had hoped it could help win the fight against copa 19 say she was let's see if it works it might and it might not i happen to feel good about it but who knows but science disagreed with that feeling after studies showed that

the decades old anti-malarial drug was ineffective against the new virus u.s. authorities revoked its emergency use authorization. now a year into the pandemic researchers are getting a clearer picture of what works and what doesn't back to trump and this time a success story. when the president himself ended up in the hospital with covert 19 he was given a drug cocktail made by the company regenerate. trump quickly recovered and became a walking advertisement for the treatment. the region cove to treatment uses artificial antibodies that bind to virus cells and prevent them from replicating. so far studies have shown promising results now the german government has ordered 200000 doses of antibody treatments from a general on and competitor lilly at a price of around $2000.00 per dose. another promising prospect interferon beta

it's a protein produced by the body when it gets an infection and early findings suggest that when it's inhaled by an infected person it could keep 80 percent of hospitalized patients off the ventilator. and this rare sea animal off the coast of spain has become an unlikely source of hope a substance extracted from it is being used to create a drug called put to depths and or applet in which can slow the spread of the corona virus in the human body. early studies show it to be 30 times more effective than the ones hyped rendez of year. one problem all of these treatments are expensive and will likely only be available in the world's wealthier countries demand for widely available drugs like ivermectin has surged in latin america and sub-saharan africa ivermectin is an inexpensive anti parasite drug but scientists warn its effectiveness is still in doubt some doctors in developing nations are instead putting their hopes in affordable steroids treatments like decks and

methods but for the world health organization the focus is still clear vaccinate enough of the world's population over the next year to put the pandemic behind us. versus treatments here's our science correspondent derrick williams with another of alfio questions. why when it seems is the. most of the few medications being used to try to treat cove at night like those we just saw are water known as repurposed medicines that means they originally planned for something else. rendez appear for example was originally developed as a possible therapy for ebola when the pandemic hit researchers started testing these existing medications 1st because they'd already fulfilled

a crucial criteria they've proven safe to take around 400 drugs for treating covert 19 are currently in human trials many of them also repurposed they can be split into 3 broad categories 1st are medications like monoclonal antibodies which are aimed at keeping moderate cases of coppa 19 from getting worse if they're given to patients at the right time by blocking the virus that can sometimes stop the body's immune system from going into this dangerous tailspin that can ravage the lungs and and the heart and other organs if that happens anyway doctors start employing the 2nd type of drugs which are antiinflammatories like that some episode they come down that hyper immune response that can cause more damage than the infection itself the 3rd group of medications

which are at the top of doctors wish lists are antiviral drugs they attack viruses directly in a variety of ways rather than just trying to block them or treat their consequences but for a number of biological reasons including the facts that they replicate in our own cells and that they change constantly viruses present a difficult target for drug developers developing new antivirals is a long painstaking and expensive process so to answer your question many of us are still looking at vaccines as the only solution because we still simply don't have the kinds of tailored knockout therapies that we need to keep people from dying but that hopefully change soon. scott bergman is follows the coordinator of the and he microbial stewardship

program at the medicine let's start with repurposed drugs because there was a lot of hope placed in those that a year on doctors still only have a handful of options none of which have proven convincing why is that. that's right. in 1000 still very difficult to treat and that's because corona viruses are more complex than other viruses their genomes are larger than most are name irises and they have a way of double checking viral replication there's been a lot of mixed results with these repurposed drugs and i think that's because disease presentation matters so much at what stage they're at when they come in and really and past their piece we try to use balancing that immunosuppression and that fighting inflammation and we really have to be cautious about that so that virus doesn't increase replication if we start too early is that the same reason for antivirals why it's so difficult to tailor those treatments to this disease with

anti-virals we really want to start those earlier and most patients don't come in to seek care of these to the hospital until 7 or 10 days of illness now with testing being more available we are seeing them earlier we just don't have good drugs yet that work on the virus antibodies are really are our best option when we find out if i early why is it when vaccines are here in just 10 months. yeah the development process for anti-virals and is very difficult it often takes 10 years for really any drug to be developed and we're trying to do that and 10 months with vaccines there were multiple platforms that could be used to and search target for 19 to develop antibodies with drug development you really need to have

a target for that treatment or for that virus you know when they come in and it's much more difficult and complex to coordinate these clinical trials in and human volunteers where with vaccines there were is thousands of people lining up to try to be protected and co the 19 was so prevalent in the community it was easier to measure that response and nobody's in the protection from it and we just don't have the anti-viral sitting around that were super effective rhonda severe was mentioned as a little bit of activity. even with other viruses we don't have a lot of good anti-virals like influenza for example there's only a few drugs that work on it we have to target it in the cells of the body and it's more difficult to belt drugs for that than it is for say antibiotics maddux you can grow in a lab on their own and get

a relatively good shock of whether it's going to work in a patient with viruses have to be developed in cells in the lab even in animal models it doesn't always predict whether it'll work in a human because of the differences in sol type. disease prevention of course is one of the main goals but that doesn't help someone who contracts the virus today help how much longer will patients have to wait do you think one expert we heard from a reckons within the next off yet. you know i could say maybe within 6 months but i'd say more likely it'll be years that we're going to wait for our very effective treatments i think you know and a lot of our resources were put into vaccine development try to prevent it the next phase should be. in drug development as i said it's very difficult to target that maccan as i'm up. for viruses and especially corona virus what is the

main focus when it comes to producing medicines against. there are a couple different strategies one of them is to deliver the drugs earlier at the site of infection run best appear for example as an inhaled formulation that is being studied there's another oral anti-viral money if you're career that is being studied that's an oral option that could be given earlier in the community in an attempt to terminate these spiral replication pattern inside the body and in a different way so that that proofreading ends i'm with in that 19 doesn't recognize that there's a change and that the aren and falls are trying to replicate. from nebraska medicine thank you very much for being on the show today pleasure thank you. finally most libraries remain closed which is a pain for kids sad readers and scholars but they found

a workaround in budapest the biggest library set up a swap point it's proving popular with patrons making a reservation online and receiving the folks at the library gates all without entering the building the books though have to be quarantined to 72 hours after a time. thanks for watching stay safe and see against an. eco africa. when you combine mission to bomb way that makes eco friendly transportation and a berlin startup that recycles batteries from electric cars what you get are emissions free cargo bikes for women who live in the countryside. the mobility for zimbabwe could go for go. w. . 2 only. real or not to own. what

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hour we'll be showing you some amazing environment ideas from europe and africa here is what is going to shipley. in kenya tories maybe staying the lead box of the totals aren't. planting trees can be done as well as an eco friendly nation. i need to wear a helmet to fungus. with reporters a lot about electric cars and the reduced impact on the environment it is certainly far better to drive electric in the fossil fuel part of a close bond what happens to the electric batteries once they used to simply throwing them away isn't a sustainable option now a german company has found a way of giving the batteries a 2nd means of life and some of which will be used by projects in africa to commit .

driving a 3 wheeled electric honda is a major step towards independence for these women and wants in zimbabwe. it allows them to take their vegetables to the market on their own. the start up to mobility for africa rents out the many electric transporters for a reasonable price. our home but is environmentally friendly it's doesn't pollute the air nor noise pollution as it's. as it doesn't have those exhaust and those fossil fuel engine at the moment the homo's are outfitted with standard lithium ion batteries which are often discarded when they run out of power the same holds true for those in the around 4000000 electric vehicles worldwide.

we are all very happy that you mobility is finally taking off but if you know carefully regenerator the next problem in a couple of years from now millions of lives use batteries will come on the market was no home we said can we find a way to give these batteries a 2nd life it's at that point that to start ups came together simple ways mobility for africa and batteries in berlin its founder i know who dick has years of experience in the automobile and airline industries says that he wants to see discharge batteries return to service for another 7 to 10 years wherever power supplies are patchy. these batteries when they come to us or have around 70 percent of the initial storage capacity so they are way to where to store them and wait we actually can do this better a perk where we have 48 modules can build 6 of our bed repacks each of an hour is $48.00 battery modules is tested for capacity and then. 6 are bundled together to create

a battery brand battery pack the modules may not all be in the same condition but the berlin based company has come up with the technology for i am going out the difference. this electronics controls the safety of the bedroom pack and make sure that we can handle slight differences this in the aging and in quality of the modules it's taken 2 years to develop better is blue and gray casing the new battery packs are watertight and thus proof and user simply have to remove the on power pack and plug in the new one which can be charged with solar generated energy . the honda is ready to roll on zimbabwe's roads to boost the women security and prevent theft the recycled packs are fitted with smart technology that allows mobility for africa to track them anywhere and battery gets real time data on the state of their power packs as well. we can see

in the bedroom in zimbabwe dust so we can manage it we can all or at the customer say no it needs a bit of repair or maintenance so we build more than the ecosystem around the battery to optimize its usage and make it is easy for the customer as possible the goal is to go into mass production and to take back use packs to prevent them from landing and electronic waste in africa or ensure they are properly recycled. for we work with partners residing specialist logistics specialists we have regional operational centers to make sure we can guarantee the brought but it's hoped the experiences gained in zimbabwe will transfer to other economically weaker regions in africa asia and latin america the use case but the main other use cases would. for. primary power

for. the classic. situation the battery packs are getting their 1st road tests in zimbabwe driving lessons are booked out and mobility for africa plans to expand. their service providers. because for example. operational. after launching in zimbabwe better wants to go global. to have 300000 units 2030. reusing items like but one thing but wouldn't it be even better if they were offering a project on processes in the 1st place in

a team of young technologists. some really interesting stuff. at 1st glance the helmet by a technologist past and schubert is wearing might look normal but he's hoping that it could spare had agreed revolution. the entire interior of his bike helmet consists of fungus my silly i'm an agricultural waste there for it's extremely sustainable and a very good return it if to the plastic interior of conventional helmets. a helmet made out of might sound bizarre but schubert and his 2 colleagues it makes perfect sense back at the lab in the technical university and all they need to do is to take the cells of the tin the fungus and mix them into a granular culture. this is then added to hemp. a perfect snack for the fungus within some 10 days its roots

the my syria saw the defy the contents of the back. of it's a shock absorbing material that can compete with petroleum based materials in many ways that was our main motivation there are so many products materials that end up in the trash cans such as e.p.a.'s foam expended polystyrene that's the material that we're replacing in this helmet. makes up 30 percent of plastic waste in landfills worldwide that's a lot of. the president's. first tests have shown that the helmet can even outperform conventional ones in safety terms. the team still needs to come up with a sustainable outer shell and to ensure that the product is long lasting once they saw those problems they want to go into business almost one in 4 cyclists in

germany wear a helmet. that time schmidt another by a technologist at the technical university of berlin discovered the novel he uses for fun be cheering a citizen science project that he led. these fascinating organisms on neither animal nor plant they come in many shapes and sizes. they love rainy days like this one and they have lived on this planet for millions of years. a fungus may well be the biggest living organism on earth. when they stick their heads out that's not even the tip of the iceberg but only a very small part you don't see the main body it penetrates the entire forest floor everything here is creating a communication network with other organisms that is constantly in operation the organisms don't always like each other there is fierce competition.

generally this contest for nutrients and territory completely passes by except when it's obvious for all to see as on the street trunk that's covered with the tinder fungus. for trees this means a slow end there are also some of the tufts feeding on the organic material here. the more my sealy of these 2 species meet inside the trunk it would be interesting to see how they interact with each other their competitors after all both want to decompose would. their ability to break down organic material is what gives them the energy to grow other materials that will schmidt tend to steam discovered that the local tinder fungus works best for their big plants for the fungus compas it after the initial growth phase it can be broken up into regrown and molds to create different forms and sizes. but also put them up before i could certainly

imagine that you could build whole walls from funky and the supporting frames from other components like wood if you wanted to remain recyclable i can certainly imagine that you could build a large house with it on board. although the lightweight funky bricks are not load bearing they could replace many of the building materials once they're dried and the growth of the mycelium is halted the brakes could replace polystyrene for example providing a much greener form of insulation. this compas it is also very flexible. at times schmidt and his colleagues are planning to scale up the work working together with architects and engineers to see where the material can still be optimized. it wasn't by park license was on their part we want to make a contribution towards solving global problems of where do we get our resources from how can we switch to

a circular economy and how can we recycle used products and i think that funky material covers all those bases that's working pretty much where i'm supposed to. be grown in a controlled environment funky could just be the stuff to help build the houses of the future. we are all having a tough time doing this pandemic but when nature it has actually brought some bit of relief in many countries including kenya tourism has declined sharply. indeed as has sandra usually the bitches there ought to mean with torres one alternatives have the sound almost to themselves and they've come to next that's prompted locals to pitch in to protect the harshly. making a break for the ocean i newly hatched green sea turtle leaves its nest on to the

beach its journey monitored by volunteers from a local organization the t.v. title police on king and south cost. solaire my company is one of them they need is dedicated to protecting the green sea turtle which is on the red list of and they just pressures he's happy that numbers are rebounding. and this is a whole used to it there were. a few months ago a few matata went ashore near here and laid eggs now as the animals are hutchings so lame a comeback is worried because they're more sluggish than usual and on the away into the sea they face many dangers crabs siegel's beach dogs but also humans. what. here people pose the biggest threat to the tuttles because they used to eat

them but it got mobilized. and turtles and turtle eggs are no longer being eaten but i will say the biggest danger to tuttles still comes from humans. i would love to. deteriorate tuttle police was founded by the owner of a small glitch or turn. in cooperation with the king of wildlife service and the local fishing community they patrol some 12 kilometers off course like monitor nast's and pick up plastic west although the members are all volunteers they're going ization has been helping them during the pandemic. of the turtle program is helping us and we're getting some money but when we are on duty even even go out to sea for 2 days we know that we'll receive some income later we can bend at least use that to. take care of our children. but at the butler to feed them the love. turns to the partridge the tiny reptiles have

a greater chance of survival and more are harshing than before the members of the team we turtle police receive training in total ecology and pass on their knowledge to the community. of seeing what their project has since 2019 we have not heard of any reports of anyone consuming tartars or anyone killing or injuring tadpoles so the number of turtles that are dying has gone down and people have begun to understand even out of the water. what. about. only a few metres separate the baby turtles from the south those who make it will travel .