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how much force can really do. with the how time to our ongoing. success. of subscribers like this. so far very few children have become seriously ill with coded 19 to the point of being hospitalized about a 3rd of them have a preexisting condition made worse by covert such as a lung disease the other 2 thirds of premature babies or children with down's syndrome. and a sauce close to infection can also trigger the so-called pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome p i am as a disease that attacks various organs in children whether they have to via my. or

even no kogut symptoms at all which makes you wonder shouldn't children be higher up on the priority list in fighting the pandemic. welcome to our coverage $900.00 special i want to get johnsonville and good to have you with us and we all tend to associate old age with frailty and illness right so when it comes to prioritizing cover 1000 backs a nation we all say the old and vulnerable should come 1st but what about the young and vulnerable is the struggle of a family that feels abandoned by society as sir there. is a loving partner to her husband quest suffered from spastic paralysis since she also looks after her son felix the family could really do with some outside help but that's a risky prospect in times of covert you can feel. the

scrutineer. it is very difficult for me to wade through luck because if we catch it it will be very bad for the boy and for me to. prove food. for. the family has been living in almost complete isolation for a year catching covert would most likely be fatal for the boy and his stepfather getting vaccinated would change all that but it's been 3 months since the vaccination rollout in germany and the family is still waiting. yeah i understand of that right now the pandemic clearly shows where the rights of the severely disabled are not exercised seen at all or at which point the un disability rights convention is once again just on paper a lot of published it. felix shows us his room he suffers from chronic muscle weakness so he has to be artificially ventilated

when he sleeps his mother looks after him around the clock every night is the night shift she tells us. so how is it sleeping with the ventilator is that all right. and mostly it's difficult for him to fall asleep if he gets a c. then it's not a problem. for the past year felix has taken all of his classes online his parents would like to have them vaccinated so he can go back to school once the lockdown is eased it would be a so-called off label vaccination because the vaccine has not been approved for children but says they can't find any support for that either as. there's no one out there who says please contact us now we will take care of it for you you have been in the safe my dear hunt. mr kuchma also hopes that the needs of

people with disabilities be put in focus moral. or on hope i hope this interview will make us the move visible to everyone barry proved wrong with truth. until that happens the family will continue best struggle. and professor marcus kloof is director of the clinic for children and adolescents and here's dr hostin it clinical in responding good to have you with us as a pediatric intensive is still critical care physician and in fact yalit just would you say that children have received enough attention so find this pandemic. so far the focus of the pandemic has been on the air dually especially those older people always years of age in particular risk of fatal causes and that's why

the. demick is a pandemic of the elderly let's say overall children do not have a very high risk of becoming seriously ill and that's probably the explanation for the fact that the children are not in the middle of the activities around dependent the fight against the pandemic a process worldwide so. your question. we want sound and no children to not have received enough attention during this pandemic process yes specially now with the new variants we see a rise in infections among children but why is that. well. we really do not really know what happens if children are in touch with 2 and the mutations so probably. the previously introductory virus

is more or less similar to a corona virus which is more or less frequent and look show them population now but the mutations are something new for the immune system and that's probably one reason why the numbers are going up but it's not good honest there's not a good understanding of how how this this works so do we then know whether all children equally at risk right now are especially those with a special precondition. well good news is that most of the children do not have a very high risk to to become seriously ill but. there are also complicated. some complications especially in those sure don't which are risk and those sort of on your bones of pre-term infants or those was underlying.

diseases for example comes under the hot deficiency or immunodeficiency is as well as those children which were treated with immunocompromised medications. in terms of hemet on corrupt ecole a disease and so on there is a relevant number of children with a high risk and one prominent. group of diseases that the down syndrome those children of very high risk of the and fatal outcome you choose to children with let's say. in bone era of metabolisms or assume drums for example like your rose or rosa some of us and these children why they react differently mostly to the virus than adults who are elderly with me thin flamm atory reactions of various organs i mean

how worried should we be about the so-called t.i.'s or and i.s.p. . you have this implement or emotive system some drum is. it's not very common so we do half also asians of the sun drum and hospitals especially in my hospital as well but of the muscle our overall overall the muscle and oh so there is not really a mandatory it i'm on this but at least there are some sure don't which are affected by these mass and there is an assumption but genetically to to mind. to billet he is responsible for all of these cases so this means it's not random child the facts it's

a prescribed by. and genetical determined debility. truth as a canoe fan thank you so much for your time. so step by step we learn more about covert 900 children and about school with 19 in general it's time for your questions now over to our science correspondent eric williams. do the different vaccines protect people from the long term effects of covert 19. many patients who contract code 19 become what are known as the long haul hours or people who have long kovac there's currently no way to predict who that might affect although there isn't really an accepted definition for it having long coded basically means you don't return to your previous levels of health even months after sars kopi to falls below detectable levels in your body it's

affected millions of people who have a wide spectrum of longer term symptoms with with chronic fatigue for example a really regular complaint there are 2 big theories for for what might be causing it one is that long that happens when the body can't clear out all of the virus or viral fragments left after infection that basically the virus is able to hide in some people somehow and then the body goes into a kind of of a trench warfare mode the 2nd hypothesis is that lone cove it is an unchecked auto immune response so so an off the rails immune system in some patients experts say it could be a combination of both but there's no doubt that for people suffering long coated symptoms the prospect of getting vaccinated must be pretty terrifying i mean could

getting the shot actually make you feel more years well although i emphasize that we still can't say anything for certain there. or a growing number of anecdotal reports that getting vaccinated appears to be actually helping at least some people with long covert we don't know why. one small study and peer review also at least indicates that more long haul worse feel better than feel worse after being vaccinated the problem is to find out more we would have to conduct trials where so long haul words get coated 19 back scenes and and others get placebos masquerading as covert 19 back scenes i don't think that's going to happen to be honest in the current climate right now i can only say that the general consensus seems to be that long haulers should also be vaccinated

and some anecdotal reports say it might help with sometimes. terry williams then he'll be back on some more a few questions tomorrow that's all for now thanks for watching stacy. do young visionaries. with a dream. on a graduate so you can just social innovation economy talent to come here to learn how to extend their ideas into successful businesses and him a new that's what i'm doing this big i am now i think you make time. for go. w. . welcome to the city of the future.

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great books of the 20th century. present day hoaxes. upgrading the world manufacturing ignorance may 3rd on w. welcome to echo offer the vironment program brought to you from the large area uganda and germany us always take a look at some of the ideas out there for protecting the environment both in your rope and in africa i'm chris celebs in lagos nigeria but 1st up for a while well counter by co-host sunshine. hi chris and hello everybody i am sundra

to you know good news in kampala uganda and yes a week of a lot in store for you so do stay tuned and in childish chill here's a quick preview of what is coming up shortly. the simple market's minds we see how it ends in kenya who's protecting both elefant on the forest. we need an artist in ghana please bring a new life into the ground recycling company. and thinking be how young and to bring us here in your gunned down in the ideas into the young to. laws of floating in water are unlovely sight bought a point to lunch can be something of a pissed when they turn up in the wrong places we've caught a few reports on the trouble what to hyacinth opposed to some communities now on lego income on their local residents and of course of ation it's a block island with another invested species and that is posing

a host of problems there. paddling through lake also has become more of a struggle since the subtle venia plants altered his ecosystem sees richard heene goalie a fisherman who grew up in a small community on the shores of the lake the 1st screwing we block sunlight and depletes oxygen from the water suffocating aquatic life. nice to have him own 70 a is giving us a lot of trouble. it is affected my fishing. activity long period in the past when i went out to fish i would have a good catch for me and my family by me and i thought now it's become really hard for. this morning a group of local residents from designedly have come together to clear the invasive plants from the main entrance to the lake the villages are worried it will spread

to other sections that have not yet been affected lake also is cameron's largest natural lake with a total surface area of nearly 40 square kilometers but it's now infested with water most all salvina nearly 40 percent of its surface is covered as a proliferates the plant also threatens the locals livelihoods. a local neighboring model comes a russian organization i'm cool regularly organizes the cleanups for 5 years now the team has been striving hard to protect the link from the aggressive wheat to find a more efficient solution by receipts to cu cam has set up a research site in the village he wants to find out if they can use a biological weapon to destroy the water most on a large scale you have a political issue there. this small bug feeds on slovenia tests from last year showed that it can completely eliminate plans cover

in a matter of months i'm cool is already negotiating its deployment with a community government but they have been concerns in the community due to fears the bug also eats their crops. biological can crawl using this salvia weaver has been used in many countries around the world including in 15 countries in africa and the best example is that of senna god they were able to get rid of their sort of e-mail within a year using the biological control and the way this weaver works is that if it's specific on this sort of ina what happened after eating salvia it just died because they have not had it twice a month the researcher makes the trip from cameroon capital young to work at the leak accompanied by colleagues and students i'm cool also collects data on the african manatee the least studied large mammal in africa they're shy by nature and

activity nights so site hundreds i read in order to detect the creatures location and movements to kuka muses specialised equipment including. the information gained is critical for the conservation of the graceful animals so the reason my team and i working so hard is because we want to save the african american which is being threatened by portraying which is illegal hunting of this species and also creating by accident capture in a fishing net their population over or raising and even especially here in lake also where this threat of sudden vina has combined to the whole thing making the population to even decrease faster the conservation group regularly sends out volunteers to speak to the local community the purpose is to inform villages about the importance of put. the leak and all its natural resources including the

manatees they too are struggling to survive. and when the manatee gets caught in the net it eats up all the fish even if it's a 100. the problem is due to the fact that manatees don't have access to enough sea grass choked out by the 70 or so they eat fish. many of these community members have lost their source of income because of. local fishermen have plenty of incentive to do all they can to remove the alien plants and preventing sprigg and they hope that aristide on his team will soon get the go ahead to introduce the tiny bug that will save the leak by devouring its risk of fire. what an interesting project we know to pay a visit to some relatives of the money the elephants look at. me. i'm

a. lot. difficult to move because they. can't even destroy entire. forest. let's take a look. here in the fence and other wildlife are home free without posing a pretty to farm and their livestock little nearby but because they are separated by an electric fence just of. a conservation. human they use the fence and over so it's construction it's solar powered and has proved to be very reliable over sections of the great rift valley. we did about 43.3 kilometers and it's done now. and now we're there walk we're doing now is the meeting now again. and also to be. in the community

so that they can be able to all it must citizen is a forest beekeeper one of many here they belong to the good community which has practiced beekeeping for hundreds of years the bees are kept in traditional wooden hives and the honey is extracted by hand beekeeping is still allowed in the forest chopping down trees and hunting are not. now i am sure. if we took care of where the animal lives in the same way they must look after their cattle or other communities into their livestock crops so we lived off honey and bush meat and live here in the knowledge that this was like our farm. not when you have to do this and you can get in a fairly. one of the to protect the forest the indigenous community has been given land and access to water outside it. has now turned to tom

a little farming. when you have one of his own we don't depend on this is us anymore it used to be the kiss this time of the you wouldn't see any greenery here more than the ground would be patched me so you know what is one of the diggers changes are going to test. now it's green everywhere then vitamin tusk really changed there you member women to me claim that these things are supposed to protect key areas of forest where in full feeds going as rivers the product which receives support from government agencies charitable foundations and the corporate sector has proved a great success and now it is of mountain woodland in other parts of the country are being fenced as will. i know me if you. see. forest being. spared for the animals and for and vironment so and i'm quite happy to see so i send electric fence set up to protect these animals from

going out into the community. and that in turn has protected the community from damage caused by wondering why life. fences are given the forests the animals living here in the nearby communities to feed them to florence . we know in town to ensure our homes still practiced today last moment after learning the technique when you're an artist i'm gonna now create all sorts of new typical things in his workshop. just write songs as soon as there is no professional glass recycling a sorting gonna find a way of clearing off some of the waste by turning it into other useful objects here's this week's doing your bits. will come out the $11000.00 you don't give yourself for fear you were hoping.

the materials used to make this glowing molten blob came from the garbage. you go through that. one everywhere. a lot or wall or glass. governor doesn't have a formal system for collecting and recycling waste glass so a lot ends up in landfills the only certified glass blower in west africa michael take a works exclusively with recycled glass his craft requires a lot of patience and experience. grow a lot though. a little bit of local market will push you to go to some of. whom you've moved to my workroom. numerous steps are required to complete each unique object which takes a makes in a wide variety of colors hatton's shapes and sizes is i catching creations are sold

in a gallery for around 11 year as each. piece is at c.n.n. made you can give them a new design in a specification and he will make it and the color for you also has products. and we like the fact that he's waste into usable at a fun. time to ensure that sustainable glassblowing has a few cheering ghana michael takes a also teaches this traditional craft to young people in his workshop passing on his sustainable methods to the next generation of artists. and how about you if you're also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website or send us a tweet. after doing your bit. we share your story. pretty much the world over

these are known to be industrious creatures in english we've been used to chair busy days but like many other insects they are under threats others are for ticks or still overbought region of kosovo is sold a new rope there calls official is still working to protect again the not true habitat one with important pollinators ple a key role. it's usually men who wear this kind of outfits in kosovo they are hardly any female be keep this in the country sheepish allah is one of them the beekeeping season might be over but she still checks on her charges. regularly. and electric fence protects her hives from the bears that still roam this area near priestman kosovo's 2nd largest city. the shire manton's national park just to the south is

a refuge for balkan links this species of wildcat is critically endangered there are only a few dozen of them left. sheep or shall or has 150 beehives she's the boss and her husband works for her that's quite an unusual set up but it works for them. they all we like to do things systematically. i start from one and. my husband starts from the other. control or include we like to compete. it's kind of a game to see who can check more beehives. today it looks like a tie once the inspections are done charlotte takes care to extinguish the coal in her smoker which is used to come the bees a forest fire could have disastrous consequences. she doesn't have any trouble

finding buyers for her organic honey. it sells for twice the price of the honey sold at street side markets beekeeping sheep breeding and cheese making are an important part of the economy in kosovo the youngest and smallest nation in the balkans. shallow went abroad to study organic farming methods. nowadays environmental activists come to see her to learn how she applies organic methods to be keeping. the aim is to raise awareness across kossovo of eco friendly farming practices. here they're planning i attended a workshop in germany i learned a lot about animal welfare which nobody here knows anything about i'm now giving courses to pass on this knowledge i hope people will come to realise we have to protect nature and that includes being they are so important for the environment.