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could join us ambitious commitments to reduce carbon emissions are expected as u.s. president joe biden hosts. a climate summit today the aim to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees celsius to avoid catastrophic climate change the u.s. china and the e.u. are set to announce a significant reduction in carbon emissions by 2030 to make that happen india to made pledges in the past but is campaigning for. from bolivia missions to help

build alternatives to coal plants india's coal based energy economy plays a large part in making it the world's 3rd largest emitter emitter of greenhouse gases after the u.s. and china and while government action is slow younger people in the country are already a week to the need for immediate changes. it may look like these young people are having fun. but they had to join to national attention to a problem they say is threatening their future and that of their home state of goa in india. their leader is activist pereira. how my stick my phone is going to be destroyed i just want it to do both something and to do it. care has been campaigning for months to prevent the government from going ahead with 3 infrastructure projects she says will devastate

a protected forest in goa. local authorities have already begun clearing the national park the aim is to expand the railway tracks build new power lines and widen and nearby highway in future as many as 60000 trees may have to be felt here . scientists say the damage the environment and the habitat of many wild animals will be immeasurable. we have a lot of. lot of unique species dwelling wheel of. fortune i haven't discovered has a now in such oh i'm in such a unique habitat and such so rich cabbage that you see so much of and go it's going to why though. development the rich. but the government say the projects are vital for the development of the economy they needed to accelerate the transport of the thousands of tons of coal from australia indonesia and south africa that are

unloaded every day it goes port and then taken through the national park to neighboring states for use in the steel industry the activists accuse the local right wing b.g.p. government of caving into the interests of billionaire businessman and wanted to turn the site into a call home they deny such allegations we have 60 was all of our land gold would forest 5 different and nobody has a little of what google has goals and go we have really have all really done out a bit of keeping history and keeping glamour immigrant group from now it comes to those governments are leaving. and when resistant to the living why should we not be in part of it other people. that parent and others say local people stand to gain little if the national park is destroyed and vowed to keep the fight as long as it takes for a mortgage or knob or environmental activist when the national rushes

a scientist and author of many books about the damage humans are doing to the planet i mean you sure are welcome in the reports the people there we see how economic interests are protect against environmental interests particularly when it comes to the use of course for example in india do you think it is possible for the 2 sides to walk together for the future of our planet well in a meeting on thursday and i laughed at least we should wake up to the fact that there are no 2 sacks there's only one side the i course that ecology. is the science of the oil because economy is the organizing and management of us since deep years ago a movement began in my region where women came out to stop the logging and destruction of forests it was called the chip will help the people 50 years ago we knew when we cut the trees. but there is to build reliance for cold all it is just

to extract and we are creating a recipe for floods droughts and poverty and every one of these pressures has got really to even more because of climate change this is a agreement that has become so blind to nature's laws nature's limits and ordinary people are being the price and that's why the young people are rising and who are the good the go on rain forests the saudis that forest projects you know these are all mountain ranges that reach of the sea you will have no tourism and what if these forests go you will have absolutely no economy left my research of 50 years it's shown that the real economy is protecting ecology we start lining in my valley do mareeba come from because the supreme courts are steady and said leaving the limestone in the mountain is

a big economy because the water creates many more livelihoods i think that's our decision dualism and clarity has to be all right to suspect him of a young people because you mentioned them do you find that in india today when it comes to the climate movement younger people are generally more aware. well you know i've done this work for 50 yes we won many battles which of course we stopped the logging we got by safety and by the worst the laws in place we got in mine until after the place all of this meant that for 20 years an entire generation lived in each only logical security and as neo liberalism dismantled the in monitor protection laws and destruction isn't fast forward the generation today is living under the threat of ecological haven't they have agents like the dismantling of their mom and protection act and then monitor the impact assessment

they're having to fight to stop coal been given priority well of course and right now today on after president biden is holding a climate summit where some of the world's major carbon emitters when pledged drastic reduction to emissions by 2030 what are you expecting india will do. well the tragedy is that you know the climate treaty was signed in 9092. summit after summit has fallen by 2009 the goal in a 2 climate summit was destroyed we then got the barest treaty look at the commitments they made in paris they met nothing nothing everyone is emitted much more in the rich countries a couple responsible for 90 percent increased emissions sadly this year we build a lot of double speak for nature half how can you leave a half a meter which gives you a light day cyril reads we will keep polluting we'll just live you're not

accounting tricks and control a few more trials in foreign lands and pretend that we have balanced out assets you know fake science and fake account accounting will not start this problem of climate change we need to return to the follow the laws obey has cycles and my books on our toes saw an auto shows that the solutions lie in the bias they live in the saw and they cannot be offset by pollution continues and you just control society even more through lawsuits in those argument has been the critter nation the need to fund developing countries to change over from fossil fuel use for example that sounds like a reasonable argument doesn't or. can i go back to 9092 where i minister of this speech in rio at the un summits if we are 90 percent renewable energy

10 percent is loss of lives then outsourcing took place through globalization all the pollution was sent to india and china. of course justice requires us that we have the means but most importantly i think the game leaving played with the planet must stop we know all the laws of the earth that just all colleges we know that the planets involved have been my rate it is so that it fertilizers and species destruction that is the biggest pile it should i do organic funny i conserve by the oversea seeds this is where we must grow the solutions to climate change and stop the emissions we don't need net 0 we need 0 emissions on that or our present or continual thank you so much for that thank you the. robel

it may sound like the stuff of science fiction but a group of researchers in singapore have already engineer venus flytrap plants too much with machines the resulting robel plants can be controlled by a mobile phone and the scientists hope that one day of the technology can be used by farmers to monitor the health of their crops. at the touch of a button this venus flytrap snapshot. scientists triggered the response using tiny and that traits attached to the leaf with a special gel they mimic the electric pulses plant's emits naturally in response to stimuli so the scientists can talk to the plant. and with the help of a robotic arm they can even get the fly trap to pick up a thin piece of wire and to catch a falling object scientists believe the technology has the potential to create robots with a more delicate touch. it was from the nature of what. can be into

the fiscal this competition to get. people to discount hybrids just believe one thing i need is cargo but i just i really should use it so so this. and the plants can talk back to for now i will leave these scientists are listening that they hope one day following this might be able to use the technology and pick up distress signals these signals will reflect the health status of the piles so we hope to study the relationship of these signals and they environmental stresses and hopefully these can instruct. practice conversing with crops could prove to be invaluable as plants face the challenges of a changing climate. but the technology still needs some what the scientists can for the time being only get the venus flytrap to close. his own command getting it to

open again is proving a lot more difficult. than right at the robo plant may still be some way off. that's of the day there's of course many other stories. at the same time about. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update 19 special. on t w. in the art of climate change. is a massive. cuts to people. what

ideas do they have for their future. d.w. dot com megacities the making to get. close to. $314000.00 new infections in a single day it's the worst coronavirus outbreak for any country. india's hospitals are close to collapse they're running out of medication and. 2000 people died on wednesday alone. india had come off relatively lightly during the pandemic but the number of infections has rocketed in recent weeks.

why is the big question some doctors blame more infectious variants others point to loose restrictions and people letting down their guard after hearing about the vaccine or following india's fairly unscathed brush with the 1st wave we'll talk to an expert in delhi in a moment 1st this report. many in india thought they had got the better of the pandemic but now the country is being overwhelmed by a devastating new way. no city is as badly hit as delhi. as cases exploded hospitals there are breaking point. some patients are forced to share that. there's an acute shortage of oxygen. this is the chief minister says the system has reached its limits.

the beds for covert 9000 patients offering up rapidly patients are being admitted to the hospitals very quickly intensive care beds are in short supply and less than 100 i.c.u. beds are available in. both or it is in delhi had already imposed down over the weekend ordering all but essential services to close local leaders hope the decision to step up the measures will help to mitigate the crisis some welcome the restrictions but others fear if they're not allowed to work the consequences could be drastic. it is essential that there's a lot down here because right now the virus is spreading a lot. the problem with a lot of town is a daily wage and as you get 100 to 300 rupees a day well we go how will we eat well when we sleep is the government going to come

and give us this daily wage. but now with one in 3 tests in delhi turning out positive the government say it must act to avert a greater disaster the fear is that the surge in cases is due to a new more infectious variant of the virus they're calling on people to be more disciplined about sticking to the rules. but critics are also asking why religious festivals and political rallies that's a fuelling cases as participants return to cities like delhi are still being allowed to go ahead. the 10s of thousands of families such questions come too late and if current trends persist then many more will find themselves in the same tragic situation. is chair of the center of social medicine and community health a neighborhood university just how tragic is the situation what have you been

experiencing well in short the situation is extremely distressing but the can live for those who require bad or oxygen support during tense of care support. it is also very troubling given that the number of cases are continuing to rise and as the report just said that there's positivity rate is nearly 30 percent that that goes on to show that this trend is going to continue for some foreseeable weeks. the numbers are absolutely awful let's just take a little look at them out of one and a half 1000000000 people have been 15000000 cases and more than 265000 infections a day what's your explanation. well the most common explanation is one of negligence or complacency but that's not the entire explanation because even in the 1st phase it's not that the preventive behavior is

a preventive practices are absolutely top order there won't as very limited behavioral surveys and the fact is that this sort of is very limited has shown what is important is that the cases began to rise with coinciding with the import of the u.k. strain 1st. identified in the last week of december which significantly led to rise in the northern indian state of punjab as well as i did because you know if local homegrown variants the b 1617 as we now know which ridge later went on to become a double mutant as it's popularly known as the point is that these 2 have spread incredibly fast and have simply outstripped the end services what about some of these political rallies and festivals turning into so-called super spread or events i mean what's to celebrate when so many people are dying. now the fact that the

disaster management act the national disaster management act remains in force in the country belies explanations why even some of this case actually happening a lot by the admins and by the local administrations in fact several of the medical associations doctors bodies had written have already written to the election commission of india drawing attention to these rallies and it's only belatedly find me the election commission orders for down limiting it to 500 person part congregation so here's the link here is it the government or is it the people the people who decide to go along to these rallies in advance. both certainly because the disaster management act is in force there's a very detailed standard operating procedure for various congregations whether you whether it's a reading that dates whether it's

a cremation. how much how many seats for example can be occupied in a cinema hall on many seats can be drilled up in a bus how many have to be emptied in a coffee and so on and so forth so there is not that of these details of these procedures. what happened to lessons learned from the 1st wave and from so many other places that have had the 3rd or 4th waves this is only the 2nd wave and we're talking about the biggest rise in infections world wide. in the experience both from this endemic in other countries as well as other influenza pandemics is that the 2nd wave almost inevitably is very big and that's largely because young adults. get affected which is exactly the feature here. in the in the earlier phase in february in some of the districts of maharashtra the rest in indian state including the financial got to mumbai in some of these states that test positive

data has been as high as 50 percent in fact 50 percent plus that goes on to show. that it is the variant spreading very fast and not though not necessarily afraid to go not necessarily more fatal but because they're more transmissible led to a bust of cases which completely outstripped medical services and therefore leading to some excess mortality. just briefly and finally can you offer indians watching our show today some some sort of hold. the the state and the courts have often taken a contrarian position of life versus livelihoods these supreme court today also took so much of cognizance of that. the government will consider it as a national emergency and we hope that these emergency measures would be predicted put in pretty fast both state and central governments and local bodies have gone back to the drawing boards but it could still take

a couple of weeks perhaps to offer some suck up i think that's going to thank you very much for being on the show today joining us from delhi there thank you. time to head you go over to our very own derek williams he's got a viewer question on you guessed it maxi. the 1st dose of a vaccine different from the 2nd one. the most all of the dozen or so vaccines now going into arms around the world are given in 2 doses with the recommended interval between them depending on the vaccine between 2 and 12 weeks the ways that different vaccines provoke an immune response that very summer based on messenger r.n.a. that causes your cells to make this ours movie to spike protein others

snuggle the same genetic information into the body panicked and harmless out no viruses that act like taxis into your cells while some of the chinese vaccines employ more traditional platform a full version of the corona virus that's been activated in the early all of the 2 those vaccines the 2 shots administered are identical though there is an exception to that rule the doses of the russians but make the vaccine are made with 2 different ad no viruses that cause colt's although 'd both have been genetically engineered to carry the same sars coby to spike protein genes the vaccine was designed that way to ensure that the booster shot so the 2nd one would work even if recipients developed a strong immune response to the carrier virus in the 1st of those other trials

based on the same principle which is called had a raw legace prime boozed and there are also now going on with other vaccines some of those trials are combining different vaccines in different ways to see whether that might make the immune response to sars kovi to an even stronger or or more lasting. now here's something i would try to harm the french known for their protest culture and that hasn't stopped in the pandemic just take longer a shops which have protested by sending the prime minister their panties in a t. independent under way of stores want their businesses classed as essential allowing them to stay open during lockdowns owners say as most of their business then 60 bad way well fitting for routes are essential for the likes of pregnant women for example they need

a bit of extra support of course they hope an avalanche of protest panties will change the p.m.'s mind. thanks for watching stay safe and see you again sir.

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this is you know we news live from berlin green ambitions u.s. president biden pledges to cut us fossil fuel emissions in half by the end of the decade all the goal sets the bar for other nations a global climate summit hopes are high it could spur big polluters to change track and protect the planet also coming up couvade epi center skyrocketing corona virus infections in india a country sense another global record for them.