it's you know but i'm with what it took and i said i'm not going to turn. this you know i mean in your mind not a single you are getting in when you cry i don't want to. me number and unanimous. the show could go because i see friday i have said. i should be honest when i've only said what i thought of going on with her being funded. by mackenzie it gets as if to say i said. this kind demick has shown us how vulnerable we all are whether it's india where the number of cases is currently skyrocketing with over 300000 new infections a day. or in europe which has reported the highest death toll for a long time and where vaccination is still very slow. everywhere in the world

resources to fight the virus are limited that is why there are priority lists for vaccination 1st we must protect those most at risk but are we really doing that what about children their way down at the bottom of any priority list besides there's not even a vaccine available for them yet. that leaves children with special needs especially vulnerable. welcome to our coverage and in special i want to get johns in berlin good to have you with us and you just have to admire kids and their ability to deal with new situations i see kids every day on their way to school or in supermarkets with their parents and they're wearing their little face masks with such ease as if it was the most natural thing in the world but not every child can adapt easily and for some this virus is an additional risk to an already challenging life. physical

exercises are important especially for flavia the 14 year old has down's syndrome normally she doesn't do that with her mother but her physio therapist but since the coronavirus pandemic started the family has severely restricted their contacts because for flavia covered infection could be fatal. and infect your own booked by mention madonsela of people with down syndrome an infection has much greater risks than. additionally we know very little about long term effects of this illness so even if she were to survive an infection you wouldn't know what would come after that. this is after the 1st family and how. therefore the family keeps to themselves physical contact with others is restricted the children are only ok finally allowed to play with. school happens online all of

this puts a strain on flavia. go bye bye i cried quite a bit because school was closed so we had to do it digitally and that was stressful . if you didn't massive our flat. top $1.05 we've noticed that flavia suffers enormously from this loneliness she sits in her room for hours she talks to herself more and more she makes noise she just isolates ourself. want a cup of thaw. getting flavia are vaccinated against covered would help the family but no vaccine has yet been approved for under 16 year olds in germany clinical trials are still ongoing in test ride as it was on to. explain these

trials different age groups are tested and the close observation that that way the research is congressionally find out how the drug reacts with certain groups but they haven't finished that yet so using the pixie now is a bit like walking into a dark forest so to speak and don't invite good villains of it. the family hopes that this dark forest will clear soon they don't know when the vaccination will be approved for children until then they will do everything they can to protect their daughter. of a more i'm joined by dr who's she's assistant professor of epidemiology and environmental health of the ronan school of public health at emory university in atlanta good to have you with us. please tell us 1st of all how much do we actually know about kopek 19 in patients with d.s. and monica thanks a lot for having me and yes actually you know we. mentioned she was

a society conducted last case study on and you just have done some poor man. and what we found when investigating more than 1000 and you just doesn't and probably 90 is that it is 1000. much more likely to die after having killed 19 than the general population so for example individuals with down's syndrome and korea and she and so there were talented rates out when they are cardiac comparable to those from the general population who are 70 so and their mentality we're just as much higher than the general population why why is that what puts them at such high risk. so there's still different reasons one thing is that he does with down syndrome in general often south of harm premature aging so for example interviews with down syndrome are cowards or very

likely to develop dementia at a very young age so in their forty's many of them already have been mentioned and the reason is that they also often suffer from immune dysfunction so as an example individuals have found some aren't so they are known to be most vulnerable to all the other kinds of especially disease and not knowing when you're quite sample so it's unfortunately it's not surprising that they are some honorable actual code 90 right so when when the mother in this report that we just saw says she's she's terribly worried about her daughter you just basically agreed that she has every right to be that worried how can she better protect her. yeah so 1st of all i really want to highlight that the high mortality rates that. among it was down some who are had securely present for the new years was down syndrome

about the age of 40 so we only found very few. deaths among children with down syndrome so was really really rare but just similar as in the general population so that's at least one good thing i'd have cause nevertheless that doesn't mean that parents of us with down's syndrome don't have to worry because as i already mentioned death is not the only at us are come of this disease and we still know so little about the long term effects of cold 19 and also. other. complications might be more prevalent in my circumstance and them than in my shoulder was out on some cost and as a part to protect them but the other problem is that it's arsenal. yes that's a hot thing to do and have to certainly cause especially kids with downs and grown they as we already so saw in the video and we they really need special care

not only for their physical health but also apply katar of that mental health so it's always an act of balancing and benefits and. at the moment our highest chance to really protect them as suspects a nation vaccination i know that in the united states teenagers at least from the age of 16 on words can now be vaccinated does this include teenagers with down syndrome. yes absolutely so in december the students include a dancer on top sounds of promise a high risk medical complication 19 so and then and january right and the rollout started at most states including the beat it was with down syndrome and there for 1st and 2nd priority group so and since march early april the whole country the whole country and it was down syndrome can be

vaccinated against cold 19 and that includes. yeah lots of teenager starting at the age of 16 and i know that most european countries now are not now it's a vaccine ageing interviews with down syndrome as it does now well known that they are at a higher response to be a community so so many european countries are so bax natan is down syndrome starting at the age of 16 all right so now we have to look forward to that and of course to vaccines for children that are even younger than that but for now thank you so much dr phil's from the road school of public health at emory university in atlanta thank you so much for your time thank you for having me. and of course we all hope that vaccination will bring back the freedoms we've enjoyed before the pandemic some sooner than us perhaps time to us derrick.

germany or the e.u. be implementing a covert vaccine passport. yes though it won't be called that as it will also document people who've had the disease or have recorded recent negative tests the e.u. is moving forward with what's being called a digital green certificated to facilitate movement within the bloc though it's still not yet clear exactly what rights it will confer there's opposition of course but but but proponents say governments currently really have few other options and after all long before the pandemic hit tourism had become a key pillar for for nearly every economy on earth and the last 15 months have just cut the industry off at the ankles europe relies on tourism heavily and desperate attempts to to restart it somehow someway have been going on since the

very 1st days of lockdown over a year ago so so what are the issues well there are many ethical questions but a lot of critics think the most serious is that a certificate could lead to discrimination against people who for whatever reason haven't been vaccinated or or at least not yet especially if the documents are used to limit their activities and their own countries by their own governments there are also big practical and technological barriers to overcome in implementing certification systems especially when it comes to to data privacy and secure. the potential fraud is another big issue despite the many hurdles the plan is to have the program up and running by june in order to make travel between e.u.

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a whole new era of post-modernist design. well under normal circumstances the soundtrack of berlin is a pulsing score of electronic bass lines and it's one that continues into the wee hours of the morning as techno lovers the world over can attest but with the capital still in lockdown due to a coronavirus restrictions the city's legendary club scene is mostly quiet and doing its utmost to avoid dying a slow death. people just don't. seem has been quietly hibernating for over a year due to the pandemic the photo book harsh captures the atmosphere for talks. visited more than 40 clubs for the book. and. is meant for noise to see fun letting go now they are just empty

silence. and harsh is the title of the book. before coronas the crops were magnets drawing people to the parts of. reputation countless people claim to many people make their living in this. town says promotes passed off for the night shift workers shifting the club's. money troubles but also much more furious and for many people it's just a place where you feel good family colleagues guess there's a family atmosphere and it's a bit like home and. many cops want to remain home for people even if only digitally the community stays in contact through streaming platforms like here at the club correction the scene faces an unimaginable crisis says club owner pam

and i show best who also heads the further in club commission social media interactions help keep hope alive. on a facebook posting recently said he had seen that we are fighting that we are still here making an effort doing our streams believing that we will survive and he said he also believes we will and that has helped him. and that in turn helps us. you know. but the scene has been hanging on for 13 months now and they know by now that streaming is no replacement for the real fame. sting feeding the community out there while playing i know people are watching but the main thing is missing feeling closeness berlin's clubs will remain sharp for the moment but the working on new ways to party join the pandemic a trial event with limited numbers in mass and with social distancing took place

recently all attendees also needed a negative test which may be not lost in a concert with people or even if you aren't allowed to move you know i'm happy to get dressed up and go to a cultural event again. germany has now hold to discount a test event because infection numbers are too high the clubs hopes that open events could take place in the summer. the couple really do understand the theory of the confined space is not compatible with the pandemic due to the aerosols and. at the moment the only possibility is to go out of scientists and it would be a blow if iran seems likely this is all taken away from us and even though we know events like this and the problem. could be running out for. and joining me to talk about this situation

is my colleague like a clue going like oh when and how will billings club scene be able to resume its activity there are 2 possible scenarios 1st that will be a very very long way back to what we have before because celebrating in a club has something to do with enjoying the loss of control not thinking of tomorrow but when the gaps do open again we will have lived on the corona conditions for at least 2 years because no club would be expected to open in berlin this year and then there was the hygiene concept you'll need to have a negative corona test you have to be vaccinated and that doesn't sound at all like hey let's let our hair down but this 2nd scenario is maybe exactly like this you know the comeback of rory's trendy attitude and we'll have parties like we never had before in this decade. hope this will be the case. but

by the way they are still parties here very secret very for been a promise never been there. but anyway lots of towns will be opening up ahead of us like london and new york and we will see their work in the future will happen and not without their dangers the secret party is also happening in places like paris i have read about it there but it seems to me mike. about berlin's club scene was was changed irreparably one might almost say before the advent of corona. and covert 19 what do you like what are your thoughts on that you're absolutely right because the times of a semi illegal club nights and dahlan are all there anyway although the people insurance was still coming because of the miss of the ninety's party scene but rising rarely complains from new residents and gentrified neighborhoods have

destroyed this culture we see here and berlin has no empty spaces and email those on the go and places that creative people could use at their playground and last but least the club scene has changed a bit anyway and going to club was getting more and more comfortable with how much so for us armchair small children you know there is no down with ideas to use the club more for a community space was working spaces and the daytime in the dance for the night incredible now earlier today chancellor merkel spoke with people from the creative scene in berlin what did she have to say about the prospects for the cultural industries just just briefly. she did they brought up all their fees complaints and she listened very closely but she made it quite clear as long as the daily incidence rates are as high as they are right now we have to be patient. but she promised to keep on supporting the cultural people it's true that we were almost we

were more careful in the last summer when the situation was was far less critical then and then it has become today so waiting for better times and more people to get moving like a hermit. fingers crossed that things for the club scene and for the entire berlin summer will improve soon and thanks very much for your analysis on the back story mike a clue. and looking further afield to what was making headlines around europe today positive news coming from italy as restrictions their ease and cultural life slowly gets up and running again on monday the capital in museums in rome opened their doors to local visitors as did the famous cola c.-o. right next door and in venice the iconic theater laughingly che held its 1st concert attended only by youngsters between ages 18 and 30 tickets sold for a symbolic price of just 2 euros to bring that generation closer to music.

and now to an exhibition that is temporarily on hold unfortunately but could almost be seen as an antidote to the corona induced culture blues the memphis group emerged in italy in 1980 around architects it totally sucks us when a group of young designers start to break away from the dog was a functionalism that governed modernist design and so for world design day at least we can show you how germany's vittra design museum is currently celebrating its creations. it's an ode to color a tribute to artistic revotes and to life memphis lives. this is a movie to feel like it's always been especially in more depressing times like right now a bit of a wake up call a bit of joys of rules. that bruce sorry state what we desperately

need kick out the corona blues bring in that spring new feeling let's get back to living life again to the full and in technicolor but wait a minute honestly doesn't this just look like a garish kindergarten. that was really a shock that was there when this group 1st appeared. these colors some satins were really something extraordinary. that was 980 a group of junk designers and architects founded in memphis it sounded a little bit like the american wild west but really it came from a land. the italians wanted one thing above all to free design from sober functionality this was a kind of anti powerhouse of the eighty's sorry curry's demanded pop culture and memphis delivered crazy patton's and colors. certainly be said

ok let's see if we design something without thinking that there is a marketing people. that. sounds like a great idea but a plastic laminated shelf in a snake and would look. and is this desk really cracked the code for real life. through holes and i don't want to lose you need a lot of space these things needs lights from operable. somewhere brave enough called log fell furnished his monte carlo apartment in memphis style. and memphis design still inspires imitators to this day this patch of land has got this and much of what's new on the other thing would be unthinkable without memphis to be a scraper goes prove a group for example architectural model isn't this memphis.

what we have done here is a counter design and see more investment because you are planning precisely that which does not pay off. miss rose called. a statement where the of a tory. comey while all eyes also proof that memphis is alive she paints house for starts in london and this is her idea of a bridge in the financial district many underpasses could do with a bit of this kind of memphis. up in the eighty's or just on the facts i don't know if it isn't even for a rules or they create their own rules in the zine i love and it's really yes very vibrant i find that many joyful and his bit of sense of humor i think invest time and self irony is undoubtedly a part of memphis because who designs

a church with ears kitsch and elegance is the name of this memphis exhibition right now designers with a. search of human fear like the breath of fresh air we need. well humor and fresh air are both great in new and boosters to be sure so on that note do get outside every chance you can possibly get and join us again tomorrow all the best until then and do stay safe just. a temple servant was once a respected profession in india. today the so-called devil dozens are being forced into sexual slavery in. their greatest hope is that their daughters will have better opportunities in the future thanks to the education program.

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