we've passed $4000.00 deaths a day by the end a month it's going to be average $4000.00 a day and it could go even higher than that so it's not good right now which way do you think it's going to go to i'm sure that depends a lot on the messaging that people are receiving from their political leaders in the government yeah and that's the big thing i mean since the very beginning as we just heard in this report president bush not has been denying this is a problem he's been fighting the pandemic from the very beginning especially in fighting lockdowns from governors he just had this last week he said listen you need to lift these lockdowns we need to get people back to work that's the only thing that's going to get us back to normal and of course that is the exact opposite direction from what all health professionals and what all researchers are saying last week he was also denying the the numbers of people on wait lists in the i.c.u. has basically said they were that according to what he understood there was no shortage of wait lists but actually at the exact same day he said that there was more than a 1000 people on wait lists for ice use all around the country so this is a big problem of this mixed messaging now the one bright spot we do have is the new

health minister he has been telling people to wear a mask to clean of this over this easter holiday he told people listen don't get into crowds so he's been really pushing the vaccination campaign he's actually said that he wants to be vaccinating roughly a 1000000 people a day here in brazil and it's heading in that direction back scenes roughly tripled over march so that's a really positive sign but getting this the the negative message the opposite message exactly from president wilson and is not helping the campaign to try and get this thing under control michael what are you hearing about the brazilian variant of the virus the p one variant i mean is there anything about it that makes the outbreak in brazil particularly more severe than we would have another countries. well absolutely this very at least according to what researchers say it's 10 times the viral load of the original corona virus it's roughly 2 times as contagious and could be 2 times as as deadly and so what we're seeing is this is

this is the main virus that's really spread around the country here floating off in the south of the country worse far as you can get from where this thing began yam is on and as as much as roughly 85 percent of the cases here now are all this amazon p. one variant the problem too i've been talking with with doctors and in fact all just here in the state in southern brazil and they're saying the big problem is that many of the people who are coming into the hospital now are in their twenty's they're in their thirty's they're in their forty's they don't have preexisting conditions so it's really impacting people in a much different way it has this ability to avoid even some cases where people have already been infected by the original corona virus and i will avoid that to get into the system and some people say it could be those cases that really spike back in january my mouse as much as 60 percent of the people that got that virus would reinfection it so that's a major problem the and the issue is that this thing is spreading not just in brazil but elsewhere we're seeing chile cases are spiking and even their vaccinations have been high and now there are some cases even the united states and

elsewhere so that's major concerns for not just brazil but what this means for the rest of the world market about 3 seconds let me ask you what about the presence of these south african variants in brazil what does that mean. so there's a lot of questions and this is the big thing researchers have just found 2 new variants in new research that they found so these variants are all over and it's dozens of variants that are all over the place and of course it's concerning it's concerning because as the virus spreads around the country it opens the possibility for even newer variants to happen in this is why many people are saying brazil needs to get this thing under control not just for brazil but for the rest of the world all right michael fox in for enough was brazil tonight michael we've reset your reporting thank you steve. well contrast the situation in brazil with that in portugal almost mirror opposite portugal has started easing its coronavirus restrictions after a strict walk down that lasted more than 2 months back in january portugal had one of the highest corona virus infection rates in the world t

w xian phillips olds went to the capital lisbon to see how they flattened that curve sitting in a cafe with friends still a dream for millions possible again in portugal nearly everyone spent the last 2 months at home this was forbidden but now shops primary schools and cafes are open again and people are delighted. but it feels almost euphoric simply to be able to sit here and watch people walk past. and so quantum i was in no way against the lockdown it was very important. but i think we now all really need to be able to enjoy life again. instead of just going to work and then looking at our own 4 walls. since my father what i missed most was just looking out of the water and drinking a beer yeah centralist been looked like this for the last couple of months everything was closed the government or that most people to work from home i read

it in response to a disaster portugal at the world's highest corona infection rates the health system couldn't cope intensive care units were overwhelmed lockdown took daily infection numbers from more than 12000 at the start of february to fewer than 400 just 9 weeks later. here outside lispunds largest hospital more than 40 ambulances had to wait in line in front of the emergency ward during the worst days of the pandemic now only a few covert patients have to be treated in the intensive care unit and a field hospital on the other side of the street was close to weeks ago some observers are already talking about the miracle of parts about but the newest believes more in science than miracles and if you're damn ologist he's a member of the portuguese government's coronato advisory group he says one of the most unpopular lockdown measures could have been decisive. when introducing

the numbers went down somewhat when we 1st closed the shops and made remote working compulsory. but it was only when we close all the schools that the infection figures really started to fall. into you know. he says despite the progress the danger is not over and the pandemic will continue to affect people's lives even into the next year and the lockdown was tough on the economy pushing unemployment up by a 3rd right now though many portuguese people are enjoying a moment in the sun. amnesty international says the coronavirus pandemic amplified massive global inequalities in 2020 and its annual report amnesty also accuses many world leaders of using the pandemic to limit human rights amnesty singles out 3 groups that have been disproportionately affected 1st among them women they suffered an increase in

domestic violence they've borne the burden of home schooling and in many cases they've lost their income because they had informal jobs that they could not do during the lockdowns 2nd are health care workers around the globe and they have suffered more fatalities than any other single group chronic under investment in public health care means that many hospitals remain understaffed and that the workers in those hospitals are not sufficiently protected against the virus the pandemic has also worsened the already precarious situation of refugees and migrants lockdowns and border closures have left some trapped in squalid camps without access to vital supplies or amnesties report also focuses on russia earlier this year amnesty stripped dissident leader alexina volley of the designation prisoner of conscience citing his past nationalist comments in february

the organization accused of felony of advocating hatred in the past now activists have been have accused the organization of falling for a kremlin smear campaign. while amnesty has told the w news that it is reviewing this controversial decision amnesty also says that of all these incarceration may be slowly killing him the secretary general of amnesty international told d.w. news that her organization is stepping up pressure on russian authorities to guarantee of all these receiving medical treatment while he is in custody. well you know the 1st think that we need to send a clear message that the fact that alec signed have any is now the high end. that the war of the prison does not mean that the attention is going to go away on the contrary we know that he is of the truly detained because of the position he has espoused and because of the fact that she's a vocal critique of president putin so all of those reason to teasing comment upon

all of us to stand up and to ensure that the all sorry t.'s of russia understand that the i tension is not a go away we're going to campaign for him we're going to do everything we can to ensure is freed and 70 immediately that you received a medical care the igi zones or as i mentioned a moment ago amnesties report details how the pandemic has worsened inequality and abuses of human rights in poland activists are raising the alarm over the erosion of women's rights what makers there have to the only approved withdrawing from a european treaty which seeks to end violence against women that treaty is known as the is stamboul convention the measure could open the way for a total ban on abortion in pope. when polish doctors told paulino that her unborn child had new kidneys and would die upon birth she had few options as of january new legislation has come into effect

allowing abortions only in cases of incest rape or a threat to a mother's life. is one of the very few women in poland who has since found a team of doctors willing to attest that giving birth was a threat to her health and her abortion went ahead. but the symbol had been these people are heroes. that they are afraid of the consequences of the sick country that they live in. they're brave and they're here to help people and not to serve politicians. and women's rights are under even further threat in poland lawmakers have approved a draft law ordering the country to withdraw from the istanbul convention on combating violence against women paving the way for an alternative treaty that

would ban abortion and gay marriage critics say the move would legalize domestic violence does not affect the troops if you let's compare what you decided just a moment ago is home violence permission this is a green light for torturers this is a permission to terminate an international agreement which protects the victims of violence you say to the girl don't use the jail when you see adama. one in 3 women has been a victim of physical or sexual violence a recent w.h.o. study finds the istanbul convention's primary task is to prevent violence against women but although the text of the convention has never changed populists in countries like poland turkey and hungry have been politicizing the convention for their own political agenda. in poland last year hundreds of thousands of women took to the streets against the new abortion law and the curtailment of their rights

those protests have continued despite the threat of covert and a heavy police presence. i went to the protest together with all my friends because we knew we had to show we did not agree with what's going on. but none of us ever thought that just a few months later i will be in the situation. yep and if turkey some recent the weather. as long as the situation for women in poland continues to deteriorate paulina will not stop fighting what she sees as restrictions on her basic rights. well that is almost done the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either you news or you can follow me aboard go off t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you then everybody.

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and getting there isn't even that expensive at least not compared with the early days of manned space flight nasa is apollo missions of the $960.00 s. cost nearly $330000000.00 euros a shot at space x. round trip cost a mere $43000000.00 the economic boom in space is our topic today. here on made the business magazine on t. w. . now long before space was recognized as a higher dimension for investors people saw the universe as a mysterious and often menacing realm it was the origin of asteroids that frequently blazed across the sky and sometimes even fall to earth causing huge destruction now we know that these celesio chunks of rock are incredibly rich in valuable resources that are difficult to mine here on our planet forward thinking entrepreneurs are looking beyond earth because a lot of it out there here's chris color on mining metals in space.

on the 15th of february doesn't 13 an asteroid entered earth's atmosphere over russia all. created a fireball brighter than the sun hankie and. its shock wave injured more than 1000 people. for. it is like these show white asteroids balls a great threat to life on earth but they're also the reason why some see them as a golden opportunity this clip was watched millions of times on personal computers and smart folks. such small and powerful devices contain metals like gold silver and platinum all. these resources are not just breaking down in the most conductive durable and my level of elements. are highly

important for medicine. and aerospace. naphtha and technology. but the painting them is an ugly process. mining destroys in dyer's eco systems displaces communities. in creates toxic waste . and there's a tragic irony. is used to make solar panels hydrogen in winter bins so the more the wall goes green the more toxic mining meets. our planet is not the only source of the special elements and. the key to spearing earth does have a stake in miami may lie in the planet's ultimate threat from. asteroids. this guy certainly is no longer living. his krystle reeky

he was the co-founder in chief asteroid miner off planet are you resources. the 1st company formed with the explicit goal of mining asteroids has he been ever an asteroid named after him so i'm very grateful to have. some of the celestial bodies close to work i'm credible treasure troves. golden flocking all are very heavy and over time the sinking to a private school. that's why they're so rare on g.r. it's cost. but again because the actors don't have much gravity that did that but i'm asteroids and in some cases there are 100 times as. much as a 15 for example i'm not sure the best clothes for a planet was this thing needed to have more platinum than it's ever been mined the earth. takes 16 cycle. which wald

said to be worth 700 soft on the books until now these were just your right to call because space travel was just too expensive but that's changing. a seat on a space x. walk at least 3 times cheaper than it was in the space shuttle started then you call to rush. dozen and 12 larry page the co-founder of google put this wealth behind planetary resources that you're after and you company joined the race to mine our stories and in 2017 nasa announced he would pay a visit to say. we want to get there. she's in the i can stand she's the one leading the commission. thank you. but although the program is not about the asteroid mining it could lay the groundwork for a more sustainable future. crazy

as he sounds mining asteroids might not only be feasible but also much more sustainable demining earth. one which is interesting. and is a researcher who has actually crunched the numbers. actually it turns out the answers seems to be yes he estimates that there are fewer necessary to go and bring back one kilogram of plotting no one would release 150 kilograms of c o 2 into the earth's atmosphere terrestrial mining generates 40000 kilograms of c which you saw stored mining could be hundreds thousands less polluting essentially the main reason there's almost no other substance you can mine which generates that much greenhouse gases outsourcing mining to space could decrease pollution on earth

but there is an economic problem. long term. in terms of economic problem a problem if you mine like 5 times of the platinum you have on earth right now means that the market prices were in the crash you can sell of the much more price which means that you are diminishing your profit margin so your operating your infrastructure their loss and that makes it really unattractive for investors carbon taxes in new technologies could change this equation but it would still take several years for space mining to become profitable. investors decided to not wait for the for long the world doesn't quite support a business model that takes more than a $100000000.00 and more than 10 years to to make a return on that investment and maybe a trip. if you just company field to tweeze enough funds forcing you to abandon its

call of mining asteroids. we. just like in california both large space miners do not realize their dream of out of the small 12. planetary resources didn't succeed in their ultimate goal to mine asteroids but i think it succeeded in a lot of ways the steps to get there there wasn't much gold in california after all yesterday said they're succeeding something else. in the rush to get to different period they created the infrastructure that accelerated the development of the west. today space miners are doing something similar. we are as a world a lot closer to using resources from space than we were when the company was founded in 2009 degree. there. and i think in some ways.

new inventions can make space mining economical just a few decades ago to ferry technology you're using to watch the speed seemed impossible. now we can use satellites to beam the internet everywhere on the planet . 101520 years a lot can happen one day girth may seem a. bit like using candles to the top you. must search galactic business prospects will inevitably result in competition between companies and between countries who do the many treasures floating around in the universe belong to my colleague and noise house has been looking into that question and he's discovered that the matter has been regulated so it's off.

who owns outer space. you might think it's easy hop on a rocket landed on some celestial body plant a flag and it's yours or rather the country you work for. you think again when neil armstrong planted a u.s. flag on the moon in 1969 that didn't make it american appropriating land in space is actually banned under international law under the outer space treaty of 1967 more than 130 countries have signed the document it says all countries are free to explore space but not to appropriated for themselves outer space basically belongs to us all the treaty bans weapons of mass destruction from space and says its use shall be the province of all mankind that seems to rule out commercial ventures up there but the treaty is not comprehensive and has been overtaken by developments it

was born of the cold war between the us and the soviet union. nowadays china india and the european union are all drooling over the economic opportunity space might represent for now there are no traffic regulations there is no obligation to clear up space junk there is no international space authority with flight control functions for rockets and satellite launches each country goes its own way the odd entrepreneur just ignores the outer space treaty dennis hope of the united states says he found a loophole and ownership of the moon he sells plots of land up there 50000 square meters go for just $39.00 euros 90 you could get a nice certificate staking a claim is another matter on the internet you can also buy a house on mars for 890000000 euros but you can't move in until 2060.

real estate natural resources tourism business opportunities might soon abound. but what if some aliens turn up and say the entire cosmos is there. well if there is life out there you have got to wonder if we should bother getting in touch the space around our planet is already pretty crowded enough without physics is from another galaxy not only is there the junk left over by human space missions past but it's also becoming overrun with satellites over the last few decades that number has skyrocketed if you'll excuse the pun in 158 there were 2 satellites in orbit and the year 2000 they were almost 800 but last year we crossed the 2 and a half 1000 mark the number has been growing exponentially and it looks set to keep going. 3 to widen. the new era

is dawning as commercial enterprises drive advances in space technology with ambitious projects. elan musk of tesla wants to outdo nasa with his space x. company. and fly people to know not the movie but mars. space technology and space flight are essential to modern life as electricity from the grid we couldn't do without them. and their key to new and future technologies . in the european union 10 percent of economic activity already depends on satellite navigation. the e.u. launched its copernicus program in 2014 it satellites observe the earth from orbit

it's a publicly funded venture. the data of a satellite sent home would enable the development of new applications for example software to enhance the fuel efficiency of ships. new jobs will be created. satellite data can be used to make marketable products. remote sensing solutions is a company based in munich that specializes in environmental monitoring it's not exactly a high margin industry copernicus has boosted revenues here as its data are freely available to all. the company uses them to create valuable information when the dot in the data are free or cheap the entire process of generating information is cheaper and people are more willing to buy in and we have it. so powerful. clients include nature conservation groups such as w w f and

a number of governments. one focus of the company's work is monitoring the impact of land use and climate change on vegetation. satellites can capture images of large swathes of land. vegetation in the site hell can be tracked from season to season the. astronauts say they have a very different relationship to earth once they've been to the i assess the view from a satellite is a bit similar we can see how africa is doing or south america the view from far away enables us to see connections more clearly entry by the victory on. the copernicus satellites are big and heavy they weigh tons it takes years to build them and each is unique. many components 1st have to be specially developed that makes these satellites expensive hundreds of billions of euros each.

unlike many satellites they can be as small as a wine bottle. the advent of small satellites marks a new era. there are a lot cheaper but still provide important services. planet labs is an earth imaging company in san francisco that already uses many satellites to photograph the globe. students throughout europe are learning to build a little devices one class of small satellite nano satellites a team at berlin's technical university devised a project to deploy 4 of them to enable faster transfer of large amounts of data. they were launched 2 years ago by.

small satellites have the potential to revolutionize earth monitoring as well as global telecommunications. the start up smart small satellite systems does what its name suggests it's a cube sats can exchange precise information about their orientation so as to point in the desired direction they cost tens of thousands of euro's a piece. in your tooth it's the miniaturization of electronic components that enable such developments to lytton satellites may be getting smaller but that doesn't mean their overall performances are declining either one can deploy a lot of small ones for the price of a big one. but the company has launched 4 of its cube sat so far they're flying in formation to test 3 d. typologies for scientific measurements to do that they have to communicate with

each other negotiate and organize their positioning autonomously. this test is a significant step towards creating intelligent 3 d. satellite configurations. one application could be mapping the ash emitted in a volcanic eruption that would be of great value to commercial aviation. small satellites often put together using standard components. so it's easy to make a lot of them. but also to switch out components depending on the intended use. of space x. is planning to send 12000 small satellites into orbit as part of its startling project to provide internet to remote locations around the world. big projects like that spur the automation of satellite manufacturing it's comparable to what's happened in the auto industry in this regard us companies are far ahead of ones in europe. we in europe shouldn't just give up but aim to be players in these markets

of it's where the future lies the economic and commercial potential is going to be huge after he's put into the i got a sort. analysts say the space industry is set for stellar growth. revenues in 2018 amounted to $360000000000.00. some forecasts say they could reach $2.00 trillion dollars in 2040. rocket factory obs but once a piece of the expanding space pie. it's developing a launcher for small satellites a party to rocket specifically designed for that purpose. until now small satellites have to hitch a ride if there's room when big launches such as the area and set off into space. it's not very expensive but the waiting list can be long.

but in cost launches a big launcher is like a bus you have to wait to everyone's. board a small launcher is like a taxi it to choose where you want to go more cheaply and efficiently that's great for creating a small satellite constellation. about 100 companies are developing many launches many will probably fall by the wayside 3 are based in germany rocket factory aims to offer affordable and flexible satellite launch is 10000000 euros a shot compared to 130000000 for an arianne. to keep costs down its launchers will contain many standard components from the auto industry. but it's designing the propulsion systems from scratch and will 3 d. print a lot of the parts. yet.

big launches such as arianna a very complex and post lots of expensive custom components they take ages to build by contrast our f.a.a. aims to develop and deploy its 1st launcher within just 3 years. be financially viable with one launch a month but we want to see a launch a week the whole thing should be so industrialised and automated that it's no longer anything special flying between braman in munich is not a big deal but it was a century ago we want to see the same thing with rockets and also. small satellite launch vehicles are set to make getting into orbit more affordable potentially opening up the heavens to a whole range of new ventures. the vastness of space presents another problem for any potential business activity there the logistics of covering huge distances in a practical amount of time there was some sort of system like teleportation it

works in star trek but could it work in reality my colleague has been investigating . a long time ago when space ships were made of paper plastic. and its nodes pounded alan minium during the dean materialization process people and things were magically beamed about in star trek films. how nice would it be if we could pin ourselves around the globe teleportation instead of airplanes and c o 2 emissions think about how beneficial it would be for the climate along into basic physics in fact teleportation is no longer science fiction. i'm always surprised about all the weird things that happen for the. money where your heart is

a quantum physicist at the austrian academy of sciences his excursions into space travel are just a hobby work he explores the weird and wonderful world of teleportation of quantum teleportation to be precise as a having watched our trek for instance people imagine that you somehow beam matter or even energy because that's how it's done on the show that people disappear in the transporter and then reappear on an alien planet when. the similarity is that the system rebuilds the object identically in another place. or what's more at the exact same time or instantaneously regardless of the distance involved that's how the quantum world works via quantum entanglement einstein thought it was pretty spooky transferring information faster than the speed of light so does this mean travelling not only with 0 emissions but also with 0 delay.

what happens with quantum teleportation is that really just that you want him information in this system is transferred to another place onto another identical system. with the matter itself atoms or photons or whatever it's made of does not get transferred so it doesn't disappear. but what does disappears the information it gets destroyed. still. so if 2 quanta are connected this way they can exchange information without a moment's delay but not the matter it really is just the information. ok couldn't i just split myself into quanta and send their information to another entangled quantum cloud i mean then it would just need to be reassembled correctly right. let's just say that right now we don't know of anything that would

fundamentally speak against it but it would have to work in a completely different way but. we'll need completely different set ups than what we're creating now. other than fog if i could build a device that could do this and you'd ask me whether i would put myself inside it i'd say no. so mr spock would probably have to get beamed in a glittery shower of aluminum grey like in the old days. and don't forget the enterprise at least spread through the universe powered by an anti matter and hydrogen engine with not even whiff of emissions. by the way a piece of trivia for you the words you me up scotty whenever said precisely in better form of the star trek sirius maybe other work with beam me apart.

and that's all from this edition of may see you next time until then good bye and keep watching the skies.

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