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this is deja vu news live from berlin experts warn that it could take weeks to dislodge a huge cargo ship blockade in egypt suez canal authorities are using diggers druggers and tug boats to try to free the vessel more than 150 ships are waiting to pass through the channel causing a major headache for global trade. also coming up yes prime minister says eritrea will withdraw its troops from t. grad people displaced by the fighting in the region have accused eritrean forces a brutal attacks on refugee camps. and meet russia take talk activists their
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support for opposition politician election of only hasn't gone unnoticed at the kremlin tied to its grip on social media platforms. i'm sorry so much gunboats good to have you with us experts are warning it could take weeks to dislodge a huge container ship blocking egypt's suez canal its owner has denied previous reports that the aim was to free it by saturday more than 150 ships are waiting to get into what is one of the world's most important shipping routes and others have now been diverted to take a much longer route well the suez canal is a critical choke point for supply chains as it connects asia and europe around 30 percent of the world's shipping container volume transits daily through this can now a prolonged suspension of traffic in. the suez will almost certainly impact global
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trade which has already been hit hard by the pentatonic. dredging teams worked through the night to try to clear the canal bed around the $200000.00 ton ship and no wonder the stranded ever given is holding up around $10000000000.00 in trade every day to stock. diggers tugboat dredges and a crack team of dutch men nor does the special forces of salvage operations have been drafted in to help. it still contain as may have to be offloaded to lighten the vessel the one mistake could spell disaster. the barrier is basically in asia the sterns in in africa and the middle is in the middle of the canal and what you can do is take a lot of weight off the ends and put a lot of what they call a sagging stress on the vessel you conceivably crack the whole cause an oil spill but worst catastrophic li fracture of the vessel and
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a half which would close the canal for months if not years more than $150.00 ships are caught in the traffic jam each passing day piles on the pressure for global trade route already struggling with the coronavirus pandemic a hiccup like this that it's that. everyone with a ready scrambling to get back to normal and what have been quite strong demand. and then the lay on top of everything out. just how important and how the whole system is those involved have warned it could be weeks before the vessel is freed bad news for those stuck in the world's longest mada time tailback . let's get some analysis on the story now we can speak to lars yes and he's the c.e.o. of sea intelligence consulting which advises the shipping industry and he's joining us from copenhagen lars welcome put this into context for us how big of
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a deal is this for the world's cargo companies. this is a very big deal it's a main artery everything that moves in containers between asia and europe goes through the suez canal and quite a portion of the cargo from a ship to the u.s. east coast also goes through the suez canal putting it in context in europe every day we receive $50000.00 containers that have come through the suez canal that's daily. and we've seen what happened now you have ships stacked up on either side of the canal and they can't get anywhere so what can they do what are their alternatives at the moment the alternative at the moment is to bite the bullet and sailed a long way around africa that is easier for the vessels that are not yet caught in the queue the vessels that are just now departing north europe or asia for example some of those have already now diverted they bypassed to the mediterranean and are heading for south africa it's going to take them a week longer it's going to burn a lot more fuel but that's basically the only other viable option what about the
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reason that this ship got stuck in the 1st place can gusts of wind blow such a big ship sideways because that's what the owner of the ship said happened. i have a hard time seeing that that should be the only reason if that was the only reason we should have seen this happen many times before it is a no a normal common occurrence that you have wind it's a normal common thing to move the ships through the suez canal could wind have played a part that is stiffen at the possible but it is very likely that this has been the confluence of multiple different elements conspiring at the same time ok so the shipping industry has been very profitable in recent years and us ships have gotten bigger and bigger was this an accident waiting to happen which you say. no that's not what i would say you have had vessels of this size go through the canal for many years not just complain of a suit but also say listen all this the canal is very well designed to actually
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handle this of this size as well so no i would not say that this is an accident that was waiting to happen and lars how confident are you that this can be resolved sooner rather than later. for every day that has passed now my confidence sinks if this was an easy thing to pull off we should basically have been there by now so for every day that passes fortunately i'm also getting more pessimistic that this will get resolved lars and some from c. intelligence consulting thank you so much we have some breaking news that coming into us now egyptian state television is reporting that a trade crash has killed 32 people and injured $66.00 others the health ministry says 2 trains collided north of the city of so hog that city that story rather is still developing and we will have more details on it in the next hour for now let's move on to our other top story ethiopian prime minister abi ahmed says eritrea has
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agreed to withdraw its troops from the ethiopian region of to agree on that says he feels his military will take over the guarding of border areas i mr nat amnesty international has accused eritrean troops of committing atrocities in the region thousands of people have been killed since fighting began last november between ethiopian government troops and the region's former ruling party they take great people's liberation front which is also an enemy of their tria. let's get some perspective on the story now with william davidson he's a senior analyst for the international crisis group an independent organization that has been monitoring the fighting in ethiopia thank you for joining us 1st of all this is a very complex conflict can you explain what era trained troops were doing in the region. the eritrea and troops a century have been assisting the federal government and its efforts to overthrow overthrew the regional governments interior a the war started november november to grace governance was overthrown in late
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november but that government is now commanding essentially record forces and fighting has been ongoing since then so every trained troops have been involved in that campaign to essentially eliminates the settlement leadership but it's a great government as a political force and those are a trencher it's also being accused of systemic losing of public and private property and it's a great rampant sexual violence and or same atrocities against civilians including mass and mass killings now we should mention that eritrean and the opium troops have been accused of these atrocities and we've seen reports today that 2 refugee camps and take have been completely destroyed so what more can you tell us that's confirmation or something which is essentially been known for a while the problem or one of the problems this complex verifying information
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there's still a telecommunications blackout almost a total internet blackout across to grace at the heart people to get information out it's be very hard for any sort of independent actor to visit those 2 refugee camps reports have come out of course but now we have confirmation because you might say that is in there that the refugees are being displaced we don't know where one of those refugees have gone some of them will be displaced in stingray some of them seem to be captured and taken back to eritrea and others will have fled further afield and hopefully their whereabouts and yes safety will be exposed and in due course if this is indeed a withdrawal by eritrean troops what does that mean does it mean an end to the conflict and take away. the day that you apply that you know if this is indeed a withdrawal is very important because this is a stated commitment which all those troops that is there a mission that the actual engagements over eritrea is troops in this country which
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is very significant and the understanding is that as the conflict has intensified in the last couple of months so has the eritrean engaged. given that it seems that if indeed there is a complete withdrawal or french troops. in short order that would have a major impact on the conflict dynamics it could lead to increased strengthening of the armed resistance and degrade and it is hard to imagine that you could spread to government entirely crushing this rebellion if eritrea troops withdraw there for easy give us federal government looking to pursue some sort of negotiated solution to this conflict well that follows from this announcement but there has been no sign of the government seeking to go shake it's fiction so far william davidson from the international crisis group thank you very much for joining us thank you very much now to some other headlines from around the world police say 4 people
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have been shot dead in bangladesh as clashes between officers and demonstrators turned violent many are protesting the arrival of the indian prime minister narendra modi in bangladesh this capital dhaka to celebrate the country's 50th anniversary of independence it's his 1st foreign trip since the pandemic began but critics in bangladesh accuse him of stoking religious divisions in india. north korea has confirmed reports that it test fired a new type of guided missile according to state media the pair of weapons accurately hit a target 600 kilometers away it's killing yanks 1st major provocation since u.s. president joe biden took office. and british prime minister boris johnson has condemned china after it sanctioned several british politicians and organizations now sanctions from beijing are a response to london's criticism of china's treatment of its weaker muslim minority the chinese said sanctions imposed by the u.k. e.u. u.s. and canada were based on quote lies and deceit information. and russia the
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kremlin has been tightening its grip on social media platforms this month the country's media watchdog threatened to block sites like twitter if they fail to remove banned content and now the video sharing platform to talk is on the kremlin's radar as well during opposition protests in support of election of all the site was flooded with political content and as sure when reports that been scrutiny for the sites 20000000 russian users. time could be ticking for these bloggers the unlikely new enemy for the kremlin. the social network is mostly about entertainment with videos of cranks and downs routine. but this month at a meeting with the police russian president vladimir putin made it clear he wants the authorities to be watching anyway. unfortunately we all know what the internet is and how it is used to promote unacceptable content it's critical for you to
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unite with other government agencies in order to monitor the web and be more proactive in identifying people who are dragging minors into committing illegal actions the fact that minors are being dragged into illegal on authorized street protests as well is of course the violation of the law. to talk in particular has been on the authorities radar since the return of opposition politician i like see not by me to russia his arrest in january caused a wave of opposition protests across the country and a sudden explosion of politics on tick tock. teenagers filmed themselves at schools replacing portraits of putin with portraits of. another ticked off trend was videos of teens getting ready to protest and telling their parents they might get arrested. russia's media watchdog responded by calling on to talk to
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block videos calling for unauthorized protests and last week threatened to block social networks completely if they don't comply with russian laws. but these moscow tip talkers want to keep dancing to their own tune without thinking about politics every week the bloggers meet at this so-called to talk house with their producers to consult about their accounts and collaborate with each other to stay on trend talkers like that i need. of a film $2.00 to $3.00 videos a day the 17 year old thinks the videos about politics were just a short lived trend. there's too much politics on tech talk i went on there during the protests and there was none of the usual content in my feed it was all about politics not viney and putin for whom it freaked me out i stayed off to talk for a few days. in this blog. also says she doesn't want to
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talk to become a political platform. talk is a social media platform for self-expression there's so much negative stuff around us already on state television and so on if that stuff is on tick talk as well then we'll just drown in all these problems something has to stay neutral. but being neutral may soon no longer be possible according to maxine potential he's one of the owners of the p.r. agency promoting these bloggers which is. most bloggers are not for point in are against him they're just doing their thing but when they're told they're freaks when they're stigmatized these bloggers start feeling they're outsiders in this country and that's what makes them feel angry at the government. for now these 2 talkers are steering clear of politics but even they know that the kremlin will be watching closely if they
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ever get out of step. right now to the coronavirus pandemic let's take a look at some of the latest developments there india has recorded its highest number of covert 19 infections in 5 months there's been over 59000 cases in the last 24 hours argentina is stopping incoming flights from brazil mexico and chile after rising culvert $1000.00 cases were reported in those 3 countries the new restrictions come into force on saturday and romanian authorities have announced that easter celebrations will go ahead despite a surge in covert $1000.00 infections prime minister florian kitsu said worshippers would be allowed to attend religious services while respecting health and safety rules well passengers on flights to germany will likely have to produce a negative covert 1000 test before being allowed to board as the country struggles to contain a 3rd wave of the virus the move which still has to be approved by chancellor angela merkel's cabinet follows concerns after german tourists rushed to book
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flights to the spanish island of majorca for the easter holidays currently only passengers entering from designated high risk areas are required to show proof of a negative test upon arrival. german health minister ian spawn and public health officials have been speaking about the latest pandemic a pandemic developments here in germany let's bring in our chief political correspondent melinda craving for more details hi melinda the head of the infectious diseases institute here has said that not only is germany in a 3rd wave but this could be worse than the last 2 that is troubling tell us more about what was said. that's right both he and the health minister warned in no uncertain terms that we are already in the midst of a 3rd wave that cannot be halted but at best tempered they said that because of the new variant of the virus which is both more infectious and more dangerous we
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are seeing rising numbers of cases and rising severity of cases in basically all age groups in the population including people of working age and also and also children and young people's so they both said that this has very serious implications for the german health system and they called on all germans to essentially take every precaution at their disposal saying if you are offered a vaccine please do get vaccinated wear your mask limit contact to other people and get tested more frequently and as you mentioned there is also now a new rule in place that will require all travelers to germany to get tested let's hear a little bit more from the health minister. at least by the middle kind i'm under no illusions this entry regulation alone is not a game changer for the easter period is he to asian is too serious for that and the
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infection rate in germany is too strong the numbers are rising too fast at the moment and the virus variants make the situation especially dangerous. if it continues this way and checked we run the risk of all health care system reaching its breaking point during the course of april. so serious words there indeed from you and also from the head of the german center for disease control and yet this week we saw the government pull back from a decision that had taken at the beginning of the week to essentially extend a harder lock down over easter and the chancellor essentially giving responsibility back to the federal states and cities saying that it was up to them to develop more innovative testing strategies if they want to open up more so a somewhat chaotic and for many people confusing picture in terms of how to fight
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this new 3rd wave of despite that somewhat chaotic picture as you said we saw the chancellor also calling on germans to look ahead with optimism how much optimism do you think is left in germany right now not a lot of people really are very confused and if we look at public polls that have been taken in the last few days they show that an ever smaller share of the population is saying that the measures currently in place are just about right around 31 percent think the measures are just about right 37 percent would like to see them tightened they would like to see stricter measures put into place and we're also seeing a slight uptick in the number of people who reject the current set of rules we're also seeing declining trust in the government so in fact this is very much taking a toll on people's confidence in the situation our chief political correspondent reporting for us there thank you very much. now germany has extended its military
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deployment in afghanistan by another 10 months german troops have been serving there for nearly 2 decades as part of a u.s. led mission but afghanistan is still plagued by violence and some soldiers have deep doubts about the intervention and the path to peace there that you spoke to one combat veteran who has been struggling with sissoko and mental scars since his appointment. what miller has been to afghanistan 3 times as a soldier in the german armed forces he was 1st deployed at the very beginning of the u.s. led to intervention just months after the 911 terror attacks. with his service dog eager were task was to track down mines and diffuse them as far as a person an atmosphere of a new beginning was in the air like we can make a difference here we can bring the afghans the security they deserve an explosive detonated 2 weeks into his mission as this team was handling. 5 i said soldiers
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were killed instantly melissa vive seriously injured and traumatized. 160000 german soldiers have been deployed to afghanistan since 2000 to 59 of them have lost their lives it was meant to be a short intervention to stab allies the war torn country. almost 20 years later despite progress made on women's rights and democracy the security situation in afghanistan is worsening. more than half of the population still lives in poverty. and the militant islamist taliban are pushing their way back to power while months of intra afghan peace talks have made little progress. islamic scholar. lived and worked in kabul for 3 years she's now observing the peace negotiations from berlin if you want to really when peace close an agreement you have so many root
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causes of it's not clear what kind of government you want to half what kind of constitution you want to have what role women should play in their society how you do power sharing. how do we expect to have such a peace agreement being cost in a couple of months or even a couple of years it will take a long long time. his deployment will stay with him for the rest of his life he feels the war has come home with him. calm about it at night the comrade who died next to me who died in a very horrible way came to me and i could hear him calling for his mommy and yes i had to help myself 1st because there was no psychological and no therapy in any form or on the contrary one of the doctors even said it's best that you go back on a mission again that would help me and so i actually went back to afghanistan in 2005 with a diagnosis post-traumatic stress disorder. eventually the trauma caught up with me
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he had trouble sleeping suffered from flashbacks and suicidal thoughts it took him years of therapy to get better and a long struggle to get financial support from the bonus where. today seeking his own peace he wants to leave the bundeswehr and work on this apple farm. afghanistan mission will never end for me never. when i look at the media today and i see that afghanistan is once again ruled by the taliban that peace treaties are being signed with the taliban then i ask myself where the seriousness where is the promise that we made to the afghans there's not much left of it. hopes that someday they will be peace in afghanistan so that his sacrifice was not in vain. sports now and the 2021 formula one season starts this weekend with the bahrain grand prix last year lewis
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hamilton won a 7 title tying the record set by german racing great. this year hamilton is seeking a record 8 championship but he'll have to get past another schumacher to do it michel son nick is among the combat competition. the stage is set in bahrain for the return to formula one of one of the biggest names in this sport history how was driver make sure america will make his debut this weekend. and i'm happy to be here i'm happy to grow to have brought back the name into formula one you know obviously done it with chairmanships on my back so you know we've proven that i'm able to drive race car 22 year old schumacher is last year's formula to champion and before that he cut his teeth in formulas 4 and 3 now he's arrived at the highest level of my past and is like you know the proper read one passes just like
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well you know it's amazing i remember seeing my dad having one and i was like always i want to one but i was heading get one but anyways i have one now and it's amazing and i'm really looking forward to schumacher cvo was also 22 years old when he made his debut 30 years ago he went on to win a record 7 if one championships a record that was equaled last year by the driver of this car and now lewis hamilton is looking to go clear with an 8th title. arrived more excited i think than i have been a long time. for the setter going to succeed as they get going we're going to have a real great battle one way or another. that's what i've always loved but the ball drain this weekend all eyes will be on the edge of the schumacher dinner state as he takes his 1st steps on the racing's biggest stage. i love get
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a reminder now of our top story experts say it could take weeks to free a container ship blocking egypt's the west and now over 150 other vessels are waiting to pounce through the shipping lane. up next our health and wellness show in that good shape.
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it's a constant companion. and it makes us ill. headaches dizziness and tonight is just some misses that can be caused by noise. and what can we do about it. in good shape. next.
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oh boy oh. boy. we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. the magic corners just. hot spots for some sunshine and some great culture memorials to boot. w. trouble awfully good. more than a 1000 years ago europe witnesses a huge construction boom. christianity from established itself. both religious and secular leaders or eager to display their power. to trace began. and create the tallest biggest and most beautiful structures. stone masons
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builders and the architects compete with each other. this is how massive churches are created. a contest of the fields starts. on d w. it's . easy. to. stop. ok wouldn't it be great if you could silence noise just like that we all know this only works on t.v. let's face it if i would sit here every single day i would presumably be deaf or
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sick in any case especially road traffic noise is a risk to your health and well being headaches dizziness and tonight is just some illnesses that can be caused by noise. a moment of quiet nothing but. blissful. but unfortunately. our everyday lives are usually different when confronted with all sorts of noise 24 hours a day closing out isn't an option sounds become noise when they disturb us often when they're very loud but it's not just a question of volume psychologist crystal says noise can't be described in purely physical terms. noise isn't an acoustic property it's a sensation but it is related to the acoustic properties of the sound. the louder the sound the more likely it is to bother me so it also depends on the situation.
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it's my favorite bands playing a concert i won't mind it being really loud but if i want to sleep my favorite band hopefully won't be playing in my living room an important factor is whether or not you have control. a sound that i can turn on and off is less likely to disturb me than something like street noise or aircraft noise because i can't control those. noises in our environment can especially become a problem when we're completely at sea it's no wonder that lots of people are affected by traffic noise and noise can cause illness even if we've become so used to a soundscape that we no longer consciously perceive it noises can still affect our health. for example scientists are studying the connections between noise pollution and mental illnesses such as anxiety and depression. and immense as to noise pollution is
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a huge factor in stress especially if it persists for years. we just companies or the new study were able to show that noise pollution can predict the onset of anxiety and depression even 5 years later as well as insomnia as bit of. but not everyone can choose where they live and work for many the only option is to cope with noise as best they can he should interfere in. and i would advise people not to limit themselves because of concerns about noise but to continue with their activities and do the things they enjoy stress up to pawn that's an important way of reducing stress and then you can avoid the vicious circle of noise pollution and possible anxiety or depression that heartened. these days away seas of quiet are rare and therefore precious. the important thing is to seek them out. as the philosopher friedrich nietzsche remarked the greatest events are not on
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noisiest but our stillest hours. and next spring at the technical university of berlin since january 2019 he works at the institute of fluid mechanics and technical accused of breaking research his noisy face and noise assessment among other things. hi hello of those appearing tight oh i see through i see media what's he doing here i measure the top of the level also your traffic noise at this very busy street yeah so it's quite noisy isn't it yeah as expected it's. much lower than 70 to be an average so it's very loud so it would be very appropriate to live here yes i would like to. me to ok so what about if you go to something more quiet great ok. it's a very very busy street it's very noisy is there
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a difference between noise and just sound yes there's a difference and. it's noise as unwanted in the eyes if you think it's in appropriate it details it's a noise and therefore it is a psychological phenomenon it is not the physical event it's in the printed auditory event this makes sound to unwanted noise sary depends on my perception of what i do about this. yes yes and therefore it is difficult to measure if such a device unwanted noise because it is it is your perception. a lot of engineers tried to reduce noise from cars but it's still noisy so so why is this there's a simple reason because we have so many cars on all our roads so i think of it as a single car is quite up then and up parsed but we have much more cars on the roads
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and therefore the road traffic noise is quite high in all of our cities so but when you take a look at all the capitals in this world the megace cities are getting bigger and bigger and more mobility more mobility so can we do anything about the noise there are some approaches to promote develop being in cities to reduce noise on the technical side but also to offer submits torque to places like parks green areas because we can observe that it is quite quite beneficial for the for the health and life satisfaction for people living in cities but be divided say well i love this noise here it's great it's a booming city and i like to watch all the cost and i like it here and there's still some net negative effects i mean. i would say it helps if you have a positive thinking in a positive attitude towards the noise over city then it might decrease to
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a certain extent potential health effects but we caught close our ears sylvia always listened. and therefore he cannot really adapt to noise it always produce stress and therefore you can't avoid any health related risk. even with a pink that to the so nice all and even if i like the lawyers even if you like the laws better it's quite simple if you listen to a lot of music over a long time then of course you will. have hearing impairment of their soldiers it's not exposure so let's 1st have a look at how our ears work and how they do this 24 seventh's. call this is how dangerous prehistoric times when you shut your eyes for some while and the rest of the not even knowing it you're on the dinner menu from competing species. bum's. that's all it takes
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despite sleep mode the ia is wide awake it's registered the telltale sound and in a flash it transmits the signal to the controls and has a moment later the adrenal gland releases the stress hormones adrenalin and noradrenalin they activate the unarmed systems in all the important organ. the heart immediately steps on the gas to increase the body's oxygen supply. blood vessels constrict blood pressure bryce's digestion is now of minor importance it gets decathletes from the bloodstream maximum blood supply has to go to parts of the body needed for survival right now the muscles a crucial. a rude awakening but at least the internal systems are already running at full speed so phyto flight in this case best to make his speaking except. a few that was close but now it's time to replenish the lost energy. after
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a short delay the stress hormone cortisol is also taking effect fat from the body's deposits is being mobilized. in the liver should that is manufactured and released into the blood. coaches and shows that we don't run out of fuel when fleeing from danger it's an ingenious survival strategy for emergencies. first ever since we traded life in the wilderness for roads houses and traffic has been a problem the alarm system that protected us by peds from saber tooth tigers for thousands of years now seems to have run its course. even though modern sources of noise can be annoying they many signal life threatening danger. but our gnome systems still react in the same way beware of saber tooth tigers to pacify to flight. so stress hormones are released unnoticed during sleep and particular
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cortisol levels a permanently elevated when there's continuous noise we get into a fight or flight mode our blood pressure goes up and energy is quickly made available in the blood. even if it isn't needed. in the long term that can cause health problems too high levels of sugar and liquids in the blood and tight attention can be precursors to cardiovascular disease. sic windows are the only permanent solution to help us sleep soundly and to give our in a a gnome system some rest. even in our modern world there are some loud noises that are somewhat outdated warning system should respond to. when it comes to distinguishing between annoying and life threatening sounds. human evolution still has a long way to go. we've got something
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more listen closely. andrea garcia is getting ready for bed but 1st he setting up a gadget that will measure the noise levels in his room because it's going to be a noisy night. while his asleep he will be exposed to the noise of airplanes flying overhead. tonight or will be turned the planes tomorrow night 60. andrea tries to sleep as best he can. he's in for a restless night. people who live near airports have to put up with a lot of noise often until late at night and then again from early in the morning we're. almost mental has spent 7 years studying what noise does to our bodies the cardiologist is especially interested in the noise of airplanes at night which many
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people struggle with. the idea of studying aircraft noise at night is based on major studies that have shown clear links between insufficient or interrupted sleep and a greater risk of cardiovascular conditions so heart attacks strokes cardiac arrhythmias or cardiac insufficiency. could too much noise be the cause the next morning andrea garcia goes to the clinic to be examined the doctors use ultrasound to evaluate the blood flow through his arteries that will show how elastic they are as a result of his poor night's sleep his arteries are less flexible. because andrea was healthy his body would repair the damage but that isn't the case with everyone . you say i have coronary heart disease for example and i'm exposed to aircraft noise at night then the condition of my arteries deteriorates and before then i have to assume that this noise related deterioration of my arteries will
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lead to more heart attacks or cardiac arrhythmias 5 heart failure and so on that's for sure i mean. so how come noise affects our blood vessels. that's something thomas mental has been investigating in mice when the rodents are exposed to the sound of airplanes their bodies produce more stress hormones they also suffer inflammation of the arteries because free radicals seen here in brown are formed in their cells. usually in those. 100 garcia has now had a 2nd night of aircraft noise again he has not slept well. the cardiologist want to know whether his body has got used to the noise in which case his arteries all to be a little more flexible this time and less affected by his lack of sleep but the ultrasound shows the opposite to happen they are always good when.
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we discovered that once an individual has had exposure to noise at night the deterioration of the arteries is considerably worse the following night stick up in other words your blood vessels don't get used to the noise the damage inflicted on them is actually more pronounced conflicting. studies have shown that aircraft noise at nice not only damages blood vessels but also the brain causing it to age faster the doctors have discovered that memory and the ability to learn are impaired as a result. mice exposed to aircraft noise and this study for example were less able to remember where their rescue platform was in the water. the results of the study can be transferred to humans. we can start speaking of the point is we know that children who live near airports develop learning ability and memory more slowly and we can do in some fashion our research results explain the cause of this phenomenon very well. people constantly exposed to noise at
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night are at increased risk of high blood pressure atrial fibrillation strokes and heart attacks depression can be another resulting factor the scientists are now working on a drug designed to reduce the harmful effects of noise in the body. even though getting a peaceful night's sleep on a regular basis would of course be the best medicine. well i do love my headphones i have to admit and many young people are wearing headphones all over the day this is a problem. this is a problem in fact see that we have several young person's already showing some kind of hearing loss and this might be due to his.

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