global ideas is on its way to bring you more conservation. how do we make cities green. how can we protect our towns. we can make a difference. in the wind do environmental series in 2000 on t.w. and almost. $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 officer gen. 2000 people died on wednesday of bone. 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. ice cases explode hospitals that are at breaking point. some patients are forced to share at that and there's an acute shortage of oxygen. this is the chief minister says the system has reached its limits.

the bets the 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 delhi. authorities in delhi had already imposed a lockdown 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 are 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 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 are fuelling cases as participants return to cities like delhi are still being allowed to go ahead. for tens 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. rushing to school to is chair of the center of social medicine and community health a naval university just how tragic is the situation and what have you been

experiencing well in short this situation is extremely distressing but to go live for those who require bad or oxygen support or intensive 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 living of a 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 behaviors of

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 arise with coinciding with the import of the u.k. strain 1st. identified in the last week of december really significant leader it led to rise in the northern indian state of punjab as well as i did vacation of local homegrown variance to be 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 allowed 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 $500.00 person a study of the park 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 isn't force there's a very detailed standard operating procedure for various congregations whether you whether it's

a reading that they whether it's the cremation. how much how many seats for example can be occupied in a cinema hall on many seats can be filled up in a bus how many have to be emptied in a coffee and so on and so forth so there is no doubt of these details of these procedures. what happened to lessons learned from the 1st wave and from so many other places that have had their 3rd or 4th waves this is only the 2nd wave and we're talking about the biggest rise in infections while wide. well the experience both from this pandemic in other countries as well as other influenza pandemics is that the 2nd wave will most inevitably is very big and there'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 an indian state including the financial capital mumbai in some of these states the

test positive the rate has been as high as 50 percent in fact 50 percent plus that goes on to show. that it is the variance treading very fast and not though not necessarily fatal though not necessarily more fit to 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 well the the state and the courts have often taken a contrarian position of life versus livelihoods the 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 state and central governments and local bodies back to the

drawing boards but it could still take a couple of weeks perhaps to offer some sucker i think desk 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. is the 1st dose of a vaccine different from the 2nd one. the most all of the dozen or so vaccines now coming 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 very some are based on messenger r.n.a. that causes your cells to make this ours kovi to spike protein others

smuggle 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 a 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 colts although 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

base 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 panties 80 independent underway to stores want their businesses classed as essential allowing them to stay open during lockdowns owners say as most of their business then 60 bed where well fitting for outs 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 so. how does a virus spread. why do we. just through the top. radio. if you would like me working for missions on the coronavirus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast so you can get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us at . science. gemini

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water. because no one should have to. make up your own mind. w. . made for mines. welcome to arts and culture on this earth day 2021 which is the backdrop for a virtual global climate summit and as the world focuses on the necessity of climate action we explore how the issue is not a festering in popular culture also coming up to add a bit of pumps and power to the program we'll meet a dutch architecture firm that quite literally takes words at face value. climate change is arguably the most urgent and polarizing issue of our times and

it's also one that many people find just too vast and frightening to contemplate in any depth which is perhaps why johnny off his novel whether published last year struck such a chord how connected can we feel to this supposedly imminent crisis when we're dealing with the foibles and crises of daily life and how can we asked the questions a growing body of climate fiction tries to answer. milton icepacks cleaves influence thousands of kilometers away. one finds because of drought. is about life in the premier populous. catastrophe to people. success in 2020 and in recent months has hit the shelves of many european countries 2 with the fall of the university library and he lives in new york with

a hospital in sun. she reads text books on climate change obsessive lee. and also some comfort wisdom. busy also nuisance to those she makes people concerned about the future looking for alternatives there on board facts in the times of need print the wisdom is both tragic unfairly funny in the beginning i think she's in a situation that many of us are where we've course no this is happening we look at it out of the corner i but we don't look at it too directly because we have so many other things that we're taking care of in our present life i also was trying to see if there was a way to make it funny because you know so much of the world of prepping and imagining disaster is actually sort of strangely funny. through writing whether often herself has become an activist. she's involved in the environmental

group extinction rebellion and has started a blog called a beauty train out of hard. places you find in young people and they're the ones fighting for change in organizations like friday sue future make some moves to lose . one of the reasons i think years ago i started to think about writing weather was that i noticed that my students. out. so luke. felt this in a visceral way the ruin of the world the sense that the world that was being handed to them was. was going to be terrifying without it is a cool which is funny book about a deadly serious subject. of camp at the end of the novel experience by both writing it and its regions it was important to jenny often filled with to maintain a sense. of the times reading can still function change. i think that

writers are i don't think we're meant to morally instruct people but i think we are meant to. perhaps create a space for more empathy. because i think that that's one of the great things about about reading a book is that you get to enter into another world and explore it in a way that is. sort of secret and interesting and you get to wander around. and scott rocks for joins me on the line now from our studios in bonn good to see you scott so we're going to talk a little bit more about this phenomenon that is climate fiction it's as johndroe that's really been gathering speed for some time now so how would you say classified differs from the traditional dystopian fiction that that's really been around for many decades. yeah i think the big difference is i mean with traditional

dystopian science fiction i mean you know in 1904 brave new world the worst possible future that's imagined is a peek a future of sort of political dictatorship of with the rise of the climate catastrophe as a sort of the greatest fear of mankind you've seen writers respond to that end and start to imagine what this fear could look like if you realize so so books about the climate catastrophe or imagining a future climate catastrophe become real bestsellers like like mylan does the history of beanies or or a giant cook's of the new wilderness which was just nominated for the book or was interesting because it seems to me that the tone of some of these novels has has changed if you will what's your sense are they more or are they less pessimistic. yeah i don't i think there are there are more fatalistic really i think a lot of the client climate fiction writers now are going from the starting point that climate change even climate catastrophe is inevitable and so instead of giving

us horror stories to scare us they're more imagining what this future this climate change future will look like and that means there's more humor more irony in a lot of these books now and also a little bit of hope so their magic maybe the world that we know it is goal is gone or is going but what could a future for humanity look like so perhaps i'm implying that we're that we're a bit more that we are adaptable of course i'm wondering have climate fiction stories. changed to keep up with the changing science of course that we're seeing. yeah definitely literature of course they they always try to be on the cutting edge but i think that even see it in climate fiction in the movies i mean way back when nuclear war was considered the worst climate disaster we had all those movies about nuclear bombs creating monsters you know godzilla movies as climate change start to come into the public consciousness you had you know environmental disaster movies movies like the day after to morrow you know which imagines rising sea levels in

new york and the gulf stream reversing causing a new ice age all very over the top stuff but a lot of based on 'd real climate science and those have environmental disaster movies also films like snowpiercer or mad max fury road in some ways they're meant as warnings of the worst possible scenario of what could happen if we don't change course so scott what do you think can can these kinds of of books and films actually help people to understand the problem of climate change and perhaps even motivate them to take action. i think motivated to take action is a big big ask for any form of fiction book or film but what i think a lot of these works of fiction can do is maybe change the way we think about climate change the way we relate to nature and there's a really interesting book fun jeff funded me or called annihilation which was also made into a movie i'm and it imagines nature becoming conscious and plants and animals starting to mutate in new ways and it provides us this book and this work provides us with a new metaphor for nature so nature not as an enemy not as something we can fight

but something that's beautiful and mysterious and strange and something that we we just don't really understand yet and i think it's really kind of a message that really resonates particularly today on on earth day thank you very much scott so certainly a lot of good reads there 1st on climate action inspiration and thanks for those insights scott roxboro in boston. and in other culture news from the german capital after accusations of discrimination berlin state ballet has reached an agreement with french ballerina chloe lopez gomez the company's 1st black dancer took legal action last fall after learning her contract would not be renewed after she reported experiencing racial slurs and discrimination in court has awarded her a contract extension of one year and $16000.00 euros in damages. and british fashion brands burberry live streamed a show of its upcoming winter collection from london on wednesday capes helmet like hats and full furred dominated the collection that paid tribute to the indomitable

force of mother nature on topic and to the tradition of britain's early 20th century. designer ricardo t. she described it as a modern armor that celebrates the incomparable strength of women. of this next report will appeal to word geeks like myself and fans of what we call on a mass of pia or words that imitate the very sound that they're describing they're typically used in comic books words like bam bunk or power and one rotterdam based architecture firm has built them into a prize winning design that's causing quite a stir in munich. that expresses its 1st so it's the creation of the renowned dutch her teacher from n.p.r. and recently won his architecture award in german the written word it seems

a somewhat different function is being. used by various companies and institutions. they display they're losing big letters and. we didn't want that years and. the building itself into the background the way it is. no notice can only play a very minor part at all. the former factory site has been a scene for creativity for years now. the architecture firm called home local artists to think of works that would look insane original on the building. together with your coworkers christian engelman and his colleague came up with a couple of snappy ideas. they wanted to approach it with real sort of coding for example. who every time short 3 times long and short time of the stimulus didn't work it was 3 times the

length of the original in fact most coding is wrong but in the real. looked at law . but we finally arrived at the language of comics that was a long process i mean quickly realized that was what we like best and only does it see something that expresses a feeling and that was important to us and the. letters are seen on other sites as well on this gas receiving station and another when they represent a chemical element on this library and called who's eastern germany the letters overlap one in. on this former chapel in the portuguese capitalist been the lettering expresses blessings. and this design center in mckinney friends invites visitors to dine and read and dream. comes from a combination with a letter architecture can take on another meaning and normally the only words in

a building are advertising and not of shines the architecture. we should approach it differently and integrate it better that he did for you here. to see that still from person he's an unforgettable impression. the words from comic culture are as intended unique attention grabbers. and finally the iconic rolling stones album sticky fingers turns 50 this week a regional cover artwork was conceived by none other than andy warhol who incorporated a real working zipper that opened to reveal a pair of white underwear. a cool idea but it of course damaged the vinyl record so was discontinued but it's considered to be one of their best since it will leave you with one of its hits and hope to see you again next time until the end and bye bye.

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this is g.w. news live from berlin tonight america's promise in the fight against climate change u.s. president biden pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by the end of the decade by made that pledge at the white house where he began hosting a virtual climate summit today with more than 48 world leaders can biden deliver on his promise and what about showing up india and brazil.