climate change is a story this is my placing blame for. how much worse can it really get. we still have time to. think. this is the. infectious 2nd wave of the. health infrastructure. the prime minister of. our nation is once again fighting a great battle against coronavirus. intel a few weeks ago the situation was under control. but this.

storm. that you could join us just. thought it had beaten the us but now the country is one of the worst in the wild it's experiencing a devastating resurgence of the pandemic but the number of cases breaking records almost daily. also means more. and more families have to cope with the loss of loved ones. some states like. to control the rise in cases thousands of migrants. to flee to cities for their little homes. and the country's fax. rollout now appears sluggish many vaccination

centers are reporting a shortage of stocks. from minister narendra modi and other political leaders have been accused of allowing the virus to spread out of control they permitted huge political rallies and the hindu festival to go ahead when it was clear infections was more the is now calling on the public to abide by destructions to save the country from an economically devastating nationwide lockdown. we have to save our country from going into a complete lockdown i. urge the state governments to consider lockdowns only as a last resort. our nation is once again fighting a great battle against coronavirus. until a few weeks ago the situation was under control. but then this

2nd pandemic wave came in like a storm. and it's a storm that's being that you're. dealing with the oxygen and. the hospital with health infrastructure on the verge of collapse the city government has announced. deserted roads shuttered shops. looks just like it did in 2020 at the beginning of india's harsh. except now. the daily beast mode is much worse. the national capital has been put under a 6 day lockdown and silence reigns again. but delhi's largest over the hospital is a different story even while it is stretched to capacity patients continue to be.

many delegates of those admitted here to camp out right outside the hospital they prefer to be close to their loved ones instead of traveling around during the go few these women have spent the last few days together they met on saturday when both their husbands were admitted with symptoms. pretty dubious set out at 9 am looking for help after being turned away from 3 hospitals she finally found a bed for her husband here 18 hours later. he's not that old he's only $33.00 and even someone like him developed such severe symptoms so suddenly that we thought he'd stop breathing so someone with preexisting conditions will be much worse off. than was told her husband could not get the dialysis he needed because he had called the symptoms. she struggled to find a hospital which could treat him for boot as he ran out of bread. this is i'm not

worried about myself i just want my husband to be well like he was i don't want anything i have nobody other than him and my 2 children doing. what men are doing better now getting admission to a hospital is all the deal with tree during this is in the air is part of the reporting over 200000 here for every day several states are reporting a shortage in hospital beds oxygen and even medicine believe it's probably the worst hit 50 in the country. the delhi government is now converting stadiums and schools like this one into covert facilities to combat the shortage of beds each of the $125.00 beds in this government school they'll be supplied with oxygen $1500.00 more beds are planned doctors here tell us that these are not for intensive care the hope is that if patients who are stable can be shifted off for observation and

monitoring critical care beds in hospitals can be freed up to yet struggling to believe still is trying very hard to maintain the pace with the infection is the speed of the spirit and i don't i think. plan is to control the speed of it so that the infrastructure of the health care facility can match up with the old and the lord is clearly immense this 1500 bed hospital is full yet this man suffering from vet listeners needs help he's asked to wait. in delhi's fight to help people like him the next few days off lockdown. may be critical. for more i'm joined now by dr rajan chair mark he was the president of the indian medical association recently and joins me from near delhi in yemen and dr shah my but come on now you've seen the impact of the coronavirus in india up close why are

we seeing this surge in cases. people so fall. of 'd you know we've got going on the writers and frankly we let down people tarp i don't fault sense of security that it is not something and elections happening and big big rallies and it just got to be. and made a mouth for being led to the surge and we have seen such big for delucchi. and also mutations of a lot of situation with his ratings can you talk a bit about these mutations we've heard about these double mutations that are being detected in india are these more infectious then earlier versions of this virus yet this claim will be more that if it didn't know

especially when they use time the super spreaders last year that you thought not much effective but this time of year to year mortality did in the younger people mostly and in some cases even in children. and. didn't have an effect really to be done about one meeting didn't elena. and later the footage be able to detect it. from religion actions to state elections as quanta were to begin big week. you were talking earlier about people letting their god down are wondering if the government to let its god down given that you were talking about these various elections also and religious gatherings that were allowed to progress my 1st pavement was we let our guard down we thought we had police. and. we were not really meeting and we have

seen sharp with our brother. oxygen and. again the government has wanted to do more dangerous makeshift hospital. but what is the reason you think that the government did not take the last time if i can call it that between some time last year and this year in march when the cases were not so much as now why didn't the government take this time to prepare i think something over a little confidence that they didn't manage never letting that once it rains it is no families it's a huge community spirit. people are getting on. but a lot of people are declaring all of this unlikely reality to

a spot of hope with the. give me your honest opinion doctor and this is something i ask of you because you've worked in india for so many years and you also are headed it's a body of doctors can india fight this current wave over a definite. seen boat in just a state of india is that. i was a little and now in the private sector a lot would jump in last year it was the fear take was it and only going sort of with this guy but i would take the time when people are not a big bed and are already working overtime and picking call would be. sold on immediately i think it would be $2.00 to $6.00 weeks we should still be there and looters decontrol of medicines and vaccines. because that everything was delayed nor actually you need to before yesterday in

a meeting the plan was to the lazy that seemed drug to the spirits allowing more spirits to have put it to them about and believe that it is available off the shelf at a cost. but then a lot of the vaccine supply stocks are running out and many vaccination centers or they're given our keys by eminent you can reason to all of it. and then come to company that even under good candidates of actually sole. mission of the divine or you don't even know age group has been the word we. what would you say is needed most at this time in india to fight the 2nd bridge. what is most needed is whatever you might do that you must not forget or do one might more do. and people how to relate to that mosque in and hand hygiene

is still the best medicine. or. prevention is better than cure what sort of further do we leave it there for the time being thank you so much for speaking to a doctor about and showed my boss the president of the indian medical association. and that's all from news are you sure for today when even though would some images from india as we have this kind of thing the severe weather of the court all the others found them circled all the sort of them. i'm sure the robots the model of them by.

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undergarments but on closer inspection they're all made of solid wood. welcome to arts and culture cinemas theaters and concert halls may still be closed but one thing can be said of berlin the cameras are rolling as a film location the german capital is positively booming the historic production studios in books booked out months in advance and that despite the otherwise chaotic handling of the 2nd and 3rd waves of the pandemic in germany. the backlog. looks quiet but behind the scenes we were not allowed to shoot things are as busy as ever production is in full swing a year after cold in 1000 shut down everything at berlin's biggest film studio. that year ago we were stunned. every production was this and the international

filmmakers who were here fled the country. and we were full literally every square centimeter of the studio was filled and suddenly there was nobody there and of course no one knew how things could continue. but while the berlin government stumbled from lock down the. albert was able to press restart and finish production on big blockbusters including the 4th matrix film starring canada reads there are there is a welcome. this. summer. and for that i mean we have at least 3 big films this year and 2 big series or streaming services which are great for the workload because they stay a lot longer to the for the toys and was a pleasant feeling. there's no escape for me and canada reads is coming back to berlin the summer promising to shoot up the german capital in the 4th film in the

john wick action franchise. is a need there's never been so much in production as there is right now we can't find cruise this year because there's never been as much filming in germany as there is right now the moment. you can't walk 2 blocks in berlin these days both stumbling over a film set like this one for german t.v. epic battle on berlin. the show's producers had 3 series on the go when covert at the. german romantic comedy i'm your man even managed to shoot a packed and maskell scene in both house berlin the city's 1920 s. dance club. ah ha you had 80 extras dancing with each other flirting kissing each other plus a crew of at least 30 people plus the actors but we did it under strict corona conditions. but in the towns and.

producers think what's worked for film and television could work for the rest of the city's cultural sector if the government gives theaters cinemas and clubs the chance to reopen. politicians maybe they do not have the time to hear the card for the sector right now just because you know the cinemas the theaters everybody has. a concept to go back to work right now. for the moment fans of berlin's legendary nightlife will have to make do with these small screen versions but for the city's film and television industry the party is just getting started. very impressive indeed and joining me to talk about this is our film guru scott roxboro great to see you scott some incredible activity there how have film and t.v. industries in germany managed to get back to production levels that actually exceed

prepared to make standard. yeah well i mean i guess you could say the film industry probably enough got creative the film and t.v. industry in germany i mean they were the absolute 1st industry to really apply scientific coded safety measures across the board so we're talking about testing about the the latest in that using the latest medical knowledge and applying it to sort of work protocols and then they did it in the way though that without restricting the type of stories that they wanted to tell so they didn't make any compromises on the narrative so if you take a sample that film we just saw i'm your man that opens with that amazing scene in ball house berlin with people dancing kissing and and flirting and that's without mass without social distancing and they were able to do that one of the creative things the producers did in order to do that under coach it was they cast actual couples to be the dancers dancing extras so to restrict the number of total households they had and their more reduce the infection rate describe for us the

logistics of how a production like bobby and frank berlin for instance also with hundreds of extras actually operates. yeah it all sort of comes down to sort of isolation and testing so everybody on set gets tested every day and then your big stars and the most important part of the crew like this in a photographer they're quarantined in a hotel for the entire shoot then what they do is they have sort of isolated groups for the crew a little bubbles that don't mix at all so if one person in the bubble gets infected they can isolate that bubble but the whole production keeps going on is a really incredibly effective way to keep producing but it's incredibly expensive i talked to one producer who said producing other code that adds another 10 to 15 percent of the budget ok one can imagine so germany is in industry has things more or less under control how does this compare with other film industries around the world scott. yeah it's very different country to country so in countries where the

covert levels are really lower or nonexistent so new zealand australia china now they've got back to business as usual the picture in europe is quite mixed it's still very very difficult to produce shows that cross borders because of differences in different countries but some people financial do it still know who produced babylon berlin they just finished a t.v. crime show that they produced with a company in norway and they were able to safely get the shows called furia and they were able to safely go back and forth across borders between scandinavia and berlin with their past and crew and to do so successfully they did it right in the middle of the 2nd big cold wave in europe in last winter very very impressive hollywood they've got safety measures in place but the problem in hollywood is the producers are finding it difficult to get into private insurance to cover them so they're coming to germany to get where here in germany they have health insurance the government's coming to support them thanks very much for that background hopefully other industries can learn from this success and thanks for bringing us that back story scott roxboro in boston. well on

a sadder note the death of prince philip on april 9th has left a huge void in the life of britain's queen elizabeth the 2nd and after 73 years of marriage how could it not thoughts go to her on her 95th birthday barely 4 days after his funeral and still within the 2 week period of official mourning traditionally celebrations of her birthday are held in june but all public festivities seem to have also been cancelled for the 2nd year in a row. a life devoted to the crown born and 926 senate the throne and 952 since then she has ruled with a constant hand queen elizabeth the 2nd is britain's longest reigning monarch. for the queen. seems to be a busy lot. of these days and prince.

were raised with this is what the. prince philip companion and supporter for more than 7 decades they had 4 children scandalous recessions and devastating losses together. this is. did. before. i don't think she'd think of. losing her husband goes beyond the queen is expected to resume. as early as this week ability to keep calm and carry on with the emotion she is most certainly feeling. well on a different note now chain saw is nothing that you usually associate with a piece of lace or even. with

a swath of leather but when jesse strix takes her machine to a block of oak or la tree would that's what you get or at least that's what you're led to believe. underwear and ejected. they all belong to jesse street so. they might look like wheaton deceptively realistic but in fact they're heavy and totally unaware of all the items are in fact made of wood and the jefferson movie we still have. to close the film to see and main point is that making extra art materials. and that makes me happy i just love to talk recreate lucian that it's a black art but. it's really not stuff that's worked with. the german artists a little bit in garments not only in the teeth the fabrics texture. the banal and through their simplicity. to complete this wrinkle.

she starts with a block of wood and some piece of paper. you could if you were holding these approach to how can i convey object into this blank what how will it end up painting how does the trick down every fabricates differently the raincoat is marge a kit and only in its trade i can't just invent folds the viewer wouldn't stand there and think the folds are incorrect they would just look and say that something's not right. there must be. galleries are beginning to take notice of 29 year old jessie street even if her with precision is doing all this is an enthusiastic response from the public in particular her underwear. once i had a visitor who came into a gallery when i was present and she was just outraged saying what kind of an installation is this because she. i thought it was real underwear she was so

embarrassed that she even got to see it but i thought it was a fantastic it gives me satisfaction in my work that she thought it was real i don't wear i take that positively and not negatively. the streets knows we didn't garments of new funding new purpose. the concrete sculptures by german artists. were dressed with her collection for an exhibition i wore that's a gallery and i'm sure. and it's very hard to believe but april 21st marks 5 years since american music legend prince passed away after an accidental overdose of fenton l. well the anniversary will be marked by a select group of fans at his paisley park estate in suburban minneapolis but will leave you now with some memories of the days when he was unstoppable all the best from us until we meet the next time and she's.

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