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w dot com. what happens in a nation where wearing a face mask is seen less as a weapon against a virus and more as a weapon against your political opponent people die lots of people die in the united states more than $500000.00 people have lost their lives to cohabit 19 it took just one year it took just last month for the death toll to rise from 400002 half a 1000000 tonight the worst public health disaster to hit america in 100 years when the world's superpower becomes the world's super spreader i'm brick off in berlin this is the day. 500007 you want to. get something off the bat or a movie born in america emigrated to america you know there's people behind the

numbers took their final breath of. honest behind that we have to resist becoming numb to the sorrow. i must do so to honor the dead it was good for you. equally important care for the living goes left behind. also coming up israel could become the 1st post pandemic country in the world being banks unaided and having a green pass to prove it means more social and less distance. i feel like at this point i am free i mean just to be able to talk to people you know it's wonderful. and to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of your around the world welcome we begin the day marking a moment that many say did not have to happen the united states accounts for only 4

percent of the world's population and yet it is home to 25 percent of all cope with 19 deaths last night the number of wives lost in the u.s. since the coronavirus pandemic began last year surpassed half a 1000000 more than 500000 dead in the span of just one year now that is equivalent to the entire city of atlanta georgia or the city of vancouver canada or braman germany dine the number itself is outrageous even more so because those deaths occurred in the richest country in the world prior to the pandemic most people would not have placed the us in the list of most vulnerable countries to the virus one year into the pandemic america tops that this. a son the president joe biden and the fast lady commemorated the 500000 victims of the pandemic on the unknowns of the white house along with vice president come in the

house and a husband they called on the nation not to forget the individual stories behind the numbers. that's more americans who died in one year's pandemic. than a world war one. war 2 in the vietnam war combined that's more lives lost to this virus than any other nation on earth. the president has ordered flags to fly at half mast for 5 days across the country. according to the chief medical advisor to the white house the previous administration is partly responsible for the high death toll in the country but i don't think it's you know all donald trump or all this or all that is a combination of things and certainly the lack of involvement at the very very top of the leadership president biden has made the fight against the

virus a priority the good news is that the number of infections is forming but the fear of yet another wave is growing due to the new variants of the virus. and my 1st guest tonight is dr william schaffner he is professor of preventive medicine and health policy at vanderbilt university in nashville tennessee by the schaffner it's good to see you again this number 500000 deaths as one of the highest deaths to death tolls per capita in the world do you agree that this could have been prevented. you know this number is so high it's so devastating i it's painful and yes i believe the majority of those people in fact the substantial majority of those people could still be alive today if we had had a coherent nationally directed science based policy about coated from the very

beginning with that gift of hindsight dr schaffner i mean what were the biggest mistakes. i think from the beginning there was the mistake of not accepting this virus for what it was not understanding that the virus was in control that it was not going to disappear number 2 putting political considerations before scientific and public health considerations and number 3 not communicating clearly and in a sustained fashion to the public what needed to be done to contain this virus we needed a national policy not one that was sent out to the states where the states had then a crazy quilt of different approaches that was clearly the worst thing that could have been done and then now we have the flipside the u.s.

is one of the leading countries when it comes to the number of vaccinations around 13 percent of people have received their 1st shot in the u.s. how is this changing things on the ground. well i certainly think people are more optimistic they see the light at the end of the tunnel and indeed cases are coming down hospitalizations are being reduced that's not just from the vaccination i think another reason is that there's been so much spread of this virus along with the texas nations that has created a decree of so-called community immunity or her own protection so that i hope these cases continue to go down as we continue to vaccinate and for a period of time continue to wear our masks and do social distancing numbers i mean is it possible my understanding you're right is it possible in local communities that they may be reaching

a local level of herd immunity because so many people have been backs in aid. i think that we're reaching a herd immunity because this is a virus itself which can be so readily contagious and transmitted and makes so many people without symptoms after it infects and so we don't really know how far this virus has spread and so you take that along with of that scene and i think together they are beginning to turn the cases down but we have to continue to vaccinate and that was i want to get your opinion on what we're seeing a with the pharmaceutical companies and their production problems we've got pretty production problems that modernity astra zeneca also has problems here in europe i mean how do you explain that is that something that we should have seen coming. well you can't count on everything going right you could hope for the best but you

have to prepare for difficulties and these are some of the difficulties i think the companies themselves wifely were overly optimistic in telling everyone at how many doses they could produce and now that they're really in the sustained high production phase they're finding it's not as easy as they hoped if we're looking forward now can we say that the u.s. has passed the peak of this pandemic and how concerned are you about the viral variants creating a 3rd wave. well i'd be cautious about saying we're past the peak that's my hope but i'm a cautious optimist and so i'm not ready to tell the public that because if i do that they'll start taking off their message the other thing is the variance of very important the british strain the british variant which is here is even more

contagious in the parents trade and is more likely to cause serious disease the masks help reduce protect and so does the vaccine the vaccine is covering it so there's a possibility of another surge but i think we can stay ahead of it and prevent it yeah i certainly hope if you are speaking the gospel truth there dr williams after vanderbilt university as always doctors after it's good talking with you we appreciate your insights thank you my pleasure. if there is a success story in this pandemic it is israel the country's vaccine rollout has become the global standard more than 80 percent of those eligible have now received at least one shot the result israel is now reopening its economy many shops and services are back in business again but they're not open to everyone some only allow customers who are fully vaccinated with

a so-called green pass to be used tanya kramer reports that since september classes at this television studio have been held online because of the pandemic now people can attend again and christian but only those who hold a green pass the kindness issued by israel's history of hers that is given only to vaccinated people or those recovered from calls at 90 so it's an amazing feeling and everyone needs a vaccinated so there's no fear and it feels like and apparently we are broadcasting the classes that are taking place here we are broadcasting them for people who still did not vaccinate on sunday is rare for the east restrictions after prolonged lockdown malls museums and stores have been opened for you but jim so those cultural and sports events would be made

accessible to cream pass holders over 4000000 people have received at least the 1st try and take place there so it's really it's one of the 1st countries trying to get life back to normal opening up has also opened a debate over a variety of legal and moral questions of limiting personal liberties as there are someone not rushing to get the vaccine we are limiting few people and i believe this is balance we are not. doing that for good you can really enjoy if you were in joe's vault you would enjoy you know going to the gym but in this time only temporary base on the show we will let only people being vaccinated covets from corona to have the green beans it remains unclear whether international travelers could also be willing to the green pass for now is spend googly on at

poetry remain closed for another 2 weeks to keep virus variants at bay travelling is not yet on the mind of this group if long term friends into recent memory aged between 84 and 95 they had to play that favorite chinese board game a zone on line for the cost you after their vaccinations they feel safe again to meet i feel like at this point i am free i mean just to be able to talk to people you know and it's wonderful very nice to see everybody's ok and remain pretty healthy throughout the year but very lonely and. it really is a wonderful feeling it's a 1st but cautious step back to some kind of snow man a team. are in for more and tonight i want to bring in dr arthur caplan he's the director of medical ethics at the medical center in new york university are one is

going to have you back on the program let's talk about israel they're issuing green cards to people who have been backs unaided so that their lives can return to normal do you think that's a sensible path forward. absolutely there are some downsides you have people saying look i shouldn't be forced or coerced into vaccination and the green card de facto does that i can't go certain places if i don't have it there's also likely to be some fraud and forgery created as people who really don't want to get vaccinated for whatever reason take 2 alternative past but overall a way to beat back the virus is absolutely to try to control environments where it's highly contagious and vaccination doesn't and proof of vaccination will i think is inevitably it all our futures we know are that people can still possibly transmit the virus and even if they've been vaccinated so isn't it ethical to

demand that everyone should at least have a chance of vaccination before these freedoms are given back to the public. but i think you can control environments there may be areas within cities within particular populations where we know that the vaccination rate is very very high at my medical school almost everybody is going to be vaccinated i think we could meet and certainly use dexa nation certification there in that environment to open it up so it is true that the more people that are needed the better we don't really have great data yet on transmission i'm pretty willing to bet though that the vaccines are going to help reduce transmission as well in any event i think we're going to see the passes or the certification of vaccination take place before we get complete herd immunity people are waiting to get out there waiting to travel

waiting to go to work waiting to go to the gym we saw what it meant to the israelis in the news clip i think it is the same sentiments are out there worldwide. the british prime minister bores johnson he is looking at what he calls coded status certificates take a listen to what he had to say yesterday about that there are deep and complex issues that we need to explore at the cool issues about what the role is for government in mandating all the people to to have such thing or indeed banning people from doing such a thing there are there are complex issues we need to work out we can't be discriminator e against people who for whatever reason contact the vaccine started happening you've got johnson there saying that there are people who can't have the vaccine or won't get vaccinated but whatever the reason there should not be any discrimination what is at stake here. well it's really liberty and freedom some people can't

get their acts unaided they may have to mask and continue to distance because there's nothing more they can do to protect themselves and they may be too nervous and even the slightest chance that infection could hurt them other people may choose not to be vaccinated that's ok but they're going to be restricted in where they can go to go where they can go to work where they can travel of i think by the way we're likely to see private industry start to mitigate that summation passports of certification before government look at the industries airlines hotels cruise ships restaurants they're going to say come in we're safe our steps are safe and the people you're traveling with are safe that's what they're going to use to get back in business i don't think they're going to wait for government to start making those passport decisions yet travel is interesting travellers to some countries they already have to provide proof of it's

a yellow fever an ocular nations where are the problems going to be with co good night t.v. when we're talking about travel requirements. you're right so we have a history already of immunization requirements to countries that have things like deal fever you have to show cord to get in this is building on that but we never head if you will in the developed world this kind of certification passport decimation system required some people are going to say again it's too risky it's too dangerous and i trust the vaccines will be swinging toward a situation where rather than scrambling to get the accident it some people are going to still demand to opt out i think they're going to be able to do it but i think they're going to see their freedom severely restricted severely limited and that will be the price that they're going to wind up paying in these these covered $1000.00 passports i mean how how long are they going to there to have to you have to be valid because we know that this virus can you take in change quickly. well

are worried about mutations that lead to new strains that lead to things that are more infected and so on keep in mind what we need is a vaccine that present prevents us not so much from being infected but prevents us from dying or getting severely ill that we have to go to the hospital so far the data looks good on that it may not stop infection but it may stop us if you will literally from dying i think that's a tradeoff a lot of people are going to take even with new you changes and strains at the same time that the vaccine only works for a year you're going to have a booster certificate program we don't know yet we don't know how on this protection at the very sad scenes are out there going to afford us so we may wind up having to update our vaccine passports periodically let's say every one or 2 years or i talk to her arthur caplan director of medical ethics at the medical center and new york university dr happen as always it's good talking with you we

appreciate your insights tonight thank you and if you have a. a public outcry by anti-gay voices in gonna has forced that country's 1st community center to temporarily close its doors the center opened just at the end of january in a ceremony that was attended by european and australian diplomats now it has been forced to shut down after a hostile campaign by churches politicians and homophobic organisations e.-w. met with the man who opened that center. he lives in this apartment alone in a crowd away from his family he hutch to relocate after coming out as gay into into 17 that decision hasn't been easy he says since most of his relations who oppose his sexuality and lifestyle complaining of constant threats of our time x.

fears for his life. does the mere fact. that somebody points with nicky. actually need to mean being ranged. and. committed you know. and yes but i think. that i go through anything. but on people who didn't play a huge presence in ghana also good through the experiences according to their rights group right notes rights i think 40 percent of. the community peasants have suffered a tot's don't race worry about the level of a trait for people based on their sexual orientation it is unfortunate that some. would treat differently because. and it made him feel like if they think left. right it is unfortunate so it is not.

who a purported india mind to discuss needs against the pistons and for the go ahead to abuse them volley into. same sex relationships and not spend metered by law in ghana companies i guess the movement see this wants change anytime soon due to ghana's scorcher oh i'm truly just moments. we will be the rules that govern the states that will leave and for that mater if you ask me personally i abide by the rules or regulations in the country so i am for one a government to say what the laws are saying what a traditional believers are saying and one of christian courts i say. gazing on lesbian isn't a what i call it's for. reform i believe that the. and we

will who recognize that. 100 that's a common view on the streets of our crime and elsewhere in the country. don't we all to condole sidestepped because i think it's for outs or on our knowledge on our traditions it's allowed on our hard to call it our customs is something that we deem grew up with it is not an african thing we are not into this alliance those that did not in islam to decide and it is a taboo so we don't need to feel it would limit it don't go and others like him and to relent in. the rights activists he also more places like minded people to discuss issues affecting them and to 2nd solution us finned that would make it any length of county and we need to talk about that with the community and we need to

leave with the proper authorities to make sure that term the have been put into we were removed from day dunkel is hoping for acceptance within the game in society soon not but that's hope i.p.s. from a distance for now. we know for a moment meant to be shared on capitol hill this week senators questioned and listened to a man who was a moving portrait in patients and granted to despite having with reasons not to be in 2016 president obama wanted to nominate merrick garland to the u.s. supreme court but republicans blocked his hearing it was a disappointing and a bitter moment for garland well now u.s. president joe biden has nominated him to be u.s. attorney general yesterday during his hearing garland was asked by a senator what motivates you why do this this was his answer.

yes senator so you know i come from a family. where my grandparents fled anti-semitism and persecution. the country took a stand. and. protect us. and i feel an obligation to the country to pay back and. this is the highest best use of my own set of skills to pay back. and so i want very much to be the kind of turk attorney general that you're. saying i could become. and i'll do my best to try to be that kind of country china . finally snow when dice have been causing serious

suffering for parts of the united states in recent days just ask the folks in texas but the big freeze it can also bring great beauty take a look at this parts of the famous niagara falls frozen over creating huge abstract ice formation scored just as the falls spanned the border between canada and the united states they have a vertical drop when the waters flowing of more than 50 meters. well the day is almost done but the conversation it continues online you'll find us on twitter either at the w news or you can follow me at brant goff t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you then everybody.

kurdistan's capital is such a small. reason outdated cooling years. residents and activists are fighting back against the air pollution but within the government

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the history of the slave trade is of africa's history. destroyed homes of greed for power and profit plummeted and entire continent into chaos and violence. this is the journey back into the history of slavery. our documentary series slavery routes starts march 10th on g.w. . welcome to global 3000. this week we had to kick astound the capital bishkek is struggling to get a handle on at pollution. in the philippines climate change is casting a shadow over the lives of fishing families. but 1st we had to afghanistan to meet

some strong women determined to hold on to their rights. after 2 decades of deployment in afghanistan international troops were set to pull out in april this year that was an agreement made that the government in kabul and the taliban but with the country security situation still unstable that's no longer likely to happen peace talks have proved slow to progress large parts of afghanistan are under taliban control many experts fear the government would succumb to pressure from the islamist group should foreign soldiers pull out of the country terror attacks like the recent murder of 2 female judges have left many here fearing the worst. were out and about in kabul with. the city is one of the most dangerous places in the world the taliban carry out attacks practically every day women journalists and tragedies are gunned down

in the street no one feels safe. the 26 year old still drives her car herself but the businesswoman and model knows that she could become a target. i'm frightened of the security situation has deteriorated so much it's become much more dangerous to drive through kabul especially for women if we leave our car somewhere we're afraid that they'll attach magnetic bombs to their attacks everywhere and we're afraid of being kidnapped to afghanistan as a nation at war even city streets are patrolled by heavily armed forces and anyone traveling across the country passes military vehicles and checkpoints. we were only able to film them from the car because the soldiers also fear a rebel attacks. showed up never thinkers on the street long things have to be quick. she's afghanistan's best known

model and appears before the camera without a veil. she bodies. the attitude to life of modern young afghan women. doctors made a name for itself as an influencer and has 223000 followers on instagram. the photos convey an image of women that is unacceptable to the taliban in recent months in particular she's received repeated death threats. afghanistan is at a crossroads and that worries hand. the task of muslim a battle i fear that if the taliban join the government will lose everything that we've achieved over the last few years in this country i studied abroad i came back to open a business to model what if we lose our freedom again and we women are forced to stay at home again then i'll have to leave my country. on sunday i.

practically nothing can be taken for granted in kabul and most certainly not a yoga class. tuss wants to help women achieve in a balance in a country that has been at war for 5 decades. and 201648 montage opened her own yoga studio despite much resistance in particular from religious fanatics now she has more than 100 female students and afghan success story part of my tractor bus what i practice yoga has no connection with social traditions here. i'm more concerned with seeing what people need to hossam yoga i showed them yoga and these people really need your graphic money yes. the women stretching on their yoga mats today are students office workers homemakers

and all rather courageous. the yoga studio continues to receive threats from the taliban who say you. an islamic and afghan women should not be doing exercise anyway. but these women are not frightened away by the threat and from your mom task refuses to be intimidated. by me i am. here to quote show afghan women want to decide for themselves what jobs they do. they want to decide what they learn where they travel and who may marry. afghan women want to determine their own futures. and afghan women are not just same as the ones the taliban faced 20 years ago be selfish and nice. but the only way to stop us is to kill us. even if you know every lunchtime mom turns cooks at home with her family her 5 children and her husband support the 43 year old's work

her mother is also proud of the fact that her daughter is well known even beyond the borders of afghanistan. but the yoga teacher only agrees to be filmed at home or in the yoga studio and not out on the street. we had arranged to meet her once before a year ago but then she suddenly received death threats from the taliban and had to close her studio temporarily. can't that eva on the my session or some other very prominent religious people began to comment on our work. so. i had time for 2 each and on our photos. there's a well known declared jihad a holy war on os x. angle map that i make sank into the a.t.m. . a photo on the wall shows for doing yoga exercises as

a child yoga has become a family rituals she practices with her mother every day. the 73 year old likes to be inspired by new ideas. in the center of kabul. recently opened her own store she's the boss and his stuff. the influencer model and business woman has created her own fashion label she has seized the opportunities that have opened up for women over the past 20 years for her western involvement in afghanistan has been a success story she says a complete pullout of u.s. troops would be a very bad idea. i think now would not be a good time for the americans to leave. the situation we currently face is just totally uncertain. and the americans should at least stay until everything is

sorted. i knows that what happens in the coming months will decide whether her beauty can stay open there is a lot at stake for afghan women at the moment never in the last 20 years has their freedom been so it rests. 2908000000000 tons worth of coal mined globally most was used to fuel the world's 2500 power stations. many buildings are still heated with furnace is and coal is still a common fuel used for cooking but the consequences are disastrous according to the w.h.o. every year around the globe around 7000000 people died from exposure to polluted air. and coal burning is also playing havoc with our climate. kyrgyzstan's

capital bishkek is notorious for its smog on some winter days even merely breathing in the local air can be hazardous. the call is selling like hotcakes in the city of bishkek winter temperatures in kyrgyzstan. capital average minus 6 degrees celsius coal is an essential good because homes in the suburbs aren't connected to the city's central heating network. people buy a lot of these sometimes 20 bags at once. you can see there are private houses all around here and they all heat with. the bishkek made headlines several times this winter for being the number one most polluted city according to an international air quality ranking people here say the smog is a problem every year in the cold season. is just a way in bishkek that the skies like this when you leave the city the skies clear.

it's due to the negligence of the government and public officials no one is monitoring the situation and the smog is a direct consequence of that if there were good i think it's just fog it's definitely because of the winter season it can't really be pollution were. the view from above the city tells a different story lies in a valley and smaug covers it like a lead caregivers authorities admit they don't know why the pollution is this bad the country's prime minister recently said the city's mainly coal powered heating plant could be responsible for up to 20 percent of the missions the government looked into switching to gas but declared gas prices to be too high for now even representatives from public utilities are pushing for change. based problems need to be solved on a governmental level. i think that instead of worrying about the economy the health of our citizens should be the top priority because the smog and particles go

straight into our lungs and can cause respiratory diseases which are very dangerous . these air quality sensors regularly show that the concentration of cancerous particles in the air is several times higher. than the norm and nongovernmental foundation has been having them installed on private homes since the end of last year there are now $25.00 monitors up and running in and around bishkek. people are tired of living with this it's the 4th year the smog situation is like this and there's no solution in sight the 1st year the authorities totally ignored the situation and said the air is actually fine but now they can't ignore the problem anymore by installing these monitoring devices giving people the possibility to complain to the government. but environmental activists feel the city authorities are all talk and no action they're protesting against the city's

latest urban planning projects they say new buildings are blocking the wind and locking the smog inside the city. these projects are only in the interest of the construction of the building contractors. in other countries they would have declared an emergency situation by now but here they just pretend nothing is wrong when you put the. government environmental and safety inspectors regularly check the boilers in the city and the quality of the coal they use today they're inspecting the heater at a local school even many public institutions still heat with coal. ordinary people working or heating with coal that is the most cost effective way. we can't ban the use of coal in the winter people have to live they have to cook. once everyone has access to a gas connection into an affordable electricity supply there won't be smog here

anymore. but kyrgyzstan's gas provider of the russian company raised prices in 2020 and economic difficulties driven by the coronavirus pandemic mean many people just can't afford to switch to gas so for now the move away from coal and this layer of smaug fields far off. the effects of climate change are all focus in this week's global ideas too in the philippines they're becoming increasingly noticeable. the motives islands are home to 100000 people many of whom they're living through fishing with the local ecosystem changing fisherman being forced to adapt and that's not.

well i've been fishing for a long time for more than 25 years and. it's been raining since midnight it's too dangerous to take the boat out. but we fishermen have observed how the weather has changed the strong easterly winds that we see right now should have passed by now. but it's possible they'll continue until march. that's when they stop last year the weather no longer follows the usual pattern. the rainy season used to engine january and february used to be one of the driest months of the year climate changes changed all that fishermen have to be very attuned to the weather and notice every shift in deviation. call in 7 you know has 4 children to have

already left home his wife jocelyn tells us they have managed to raise a family even if food that is fish has sometimes been scarce. and we have. now got what we got from the sea. and a source of income. that we were able to send our children to school so that my son you know. and i'm very proud of that. my husband and i never went to school but it just wasn't possible. later in the morning the weather improved. colleen 7 you know soon caught 2 large fish he'll sell the red snapper. it weighs more than 5 kilos.