as of patience so the commission grounds are struggling to cope with the rising number of deaths. the funeral pyres a burning day night. delhi is one hot spot of india's covert 1000 emergency maharashtra state in the city of mumbai is another here vaccination centers run out of supplies on wednesday india is one of the biggest producers of vaccines but it doesn't have enough to vaccinate the next 600000000 people who will become eligible for the job. yeah but that they're telling us that injections are not available as vaccines have not arrived i registered to come here 3 days ago i came all the way across the city and now they tell me so they've given me a helpline number and told me to try again tomorrow. at one but all well also bad mel amid the frustration and suffering this 105 year old man and his 95 year old wife has survived a covert 1000 infection the family says they want that story to give hope to others

for many fighting the disease hope and prayers are all they have to help them straight to d.w. is delhi bureau chief amrita cheema welcome reason let's start with a situation where you are in the indian capital and feel the situation is still remains very grim the number of cases has been rising the debt still is at a record high and hospitals are treated to capacity it's not just hospital oxygen supply some of the larger hospitals have now steve oxidant some of the smaller hospitals are still sending out distress signals saying that they're running out of supplies and services are still not there are running out medical staff is running out of medical staff is just think of the positive so they can come to what he sees a fairly grim situation. and so what are the options for people when they know the hospitals are full but their loved ones are stills nonetheless seriously ill. we're

eating doctors charging people to stay at home and this their patients are really critical and this is 99 percent of the people who have who did not critically in but now given the daily has a population of roughly 20000001 percent of 20000000 is still a threat number of people and of course when people have and up ones who are in a critical condition because against hope and they rush towards hospitals some tend to just don't get in and get languishing at outside the hospital hoping to get some medical attention someone knocking that most are not and trying even lose their lives to sweeting ahead. critics say that this crisis out was avoidable avoidable is the indian government taking responsibility for a situation that appears to be out of control. the indian government says it's doing all it can prime minister not in the will these has several high powered meetings the last few days he's announced the setting up of some 500 oxen

generating plants the local government in delhi has also announced small events will be available in a couple of weeks which are the beatles were back in the eye of the storm at that will it all this comes too late and you see critics feel that this 2nd we've got the government completely unprepared that it did not use to line up the trust we have to bolster capacity to strengthen the infrastructure the health infrastructure and now we're in a situation where the ask roundly for measures which are coming forward to lead this in a lot is still the work by vaccination and as of today everybody over the age of 18 can't register to get vaccinated from the 1st of many authorities believe and cool that this really has break the chain of transmission and let a number of cases and take the street off the head and head into structure so those are given up. in the future is a feeling that the best crisis is peaking or authorities expect some words to come

. well i think what the medical profession is he's saying they're expecting this to make the 2nd we do peak sometime by the end of the 1st week of me all middle of me and he only start really the field by june and july still i think 5 days ahead before we see any improvement in the situation. in delhi thank you so much when european parliament is debating this response to the increased tensions between ukraine and russia moscow is now withdrawing its troops from the joint border region forces of massed over recent weeks for no obvious reason western governments condemn the military buildup and have voiced their support for care with tensions between the 2 countries high since 2014th the troop withdrawal is unlikely to signal a lasting peace. tens of thousands of russian troops along ukraine's borders

aircraft and missile systems in place for unannounced exercises have an unprecedented scale and all of them within striking distance of ukraine russia's military made no effort to hide what was going on as the reports piled up day after day ukraine and its western allies group palpably nervous all the while the kremlin remained silent and then suddenly as they appeared officials announced that the troops returned to their bases what was this show of strength meant to achieve and what is it the vladimir putin actually wants from ukraine water water rushing is becoming part of everyday life in crimea the region russia seized from ukraine back in 2014 climate change and a growing population of made things worse but the main problem is this canal what remains of it much of crimea is water used to come through here from ukraine's new program. but after russia's annexation of crimea ukraine pulled the plug moscow is now demanding kiev restore supplies this is victim edwidge chook

a multi-millionaire ukrainian politician media mogul and crucially a personal friend of let him in putin's in recent months he and his partners have faced investigation over allegations of illegal business deals with pro russian separatists reason enough for ukraine's government to take medved chooks pro moscow t.v. networks off air analysts agree that saving made which you can prosecution and return his networks to the airwaves is a key kremlin priority if selenski wants progress on donbass putin insists he should go and talk to these to the leaders of the separatists in eastern ukraine financed and armed by russia it's all part of the kremlin line that russia is just a mediator an internal ukrainian conflict not an active participant or selenski were to agree to direct negotiations with the separatists russia would be off the hook diplomatically and ukraine's president would himself being extremely hot water at home potential win win for putin. in the un secretary general antonio

terrorists is holding meetings in geneva with the natives of a divided island of cyprus to try and find common ground between the 2 sides the island's been split along ethnic lines between greek and turkish cypriots for decades the hope is to use this summit as a springboard to resume peace talks that have been stalled since 2017. time seems to have come to a standstill and for russia it's largely greek population of fled during turkey's invasion of cyprus in 1974 the once popular tourist destination has been stripped of life ever since. in a nearby village. east out a living from the arid landscape the farmer is disappointed that peace talks between the turkish and greek parts of cyprus have been unsuccessful only serious. we want the same opportunities that the e.u.

and the rest of the world offer the greek cypriots the sanctions against us should be lifted and we should be recognized as an independent state. the president of turkish controlled northern cyprus arison tar and turkey's president to one both want a 2 state solution that would formalize the depression of the island the un and the e.u. favor a federal solution with 2 states under a central government. to. take a different position. based on a 2 state solution. we have been negotiating. but leftist groups recently took to the streets to demonstrate for a federal system they want to see cyprus united and ankara sway over the island curbed the turkish cypriots in the north are divided. the

few border crossings between the north and the south are closed because of the coronavirus pandemic un peacekeepers have patrolled the ceasefire line for decades . anger over deadlock negotiations is also evident in the greek part of the island. government has. from corruption to environmental destruction to. peace talks then. people on both sides of the divide are united in their frustration with their leaders. and of course the. disillusionment has grown over the past years and expectations are extremely low for a few people expect the cyprus dispute to be resolved many don't even know that talks are being held. but those talks will have to be successful for life to return to the abandoned streets of the russia. a man in the tech industry outnumber women

$3.00 to $1.00 and not gap has widened during the pandemic when men are twice as likely to have lost their jobs as programmers tech consultants or other i.t. jobs one is if in japan is hoping to encourage them not to give up. a laboratory for smartphone apps but what you see here is rare the developers are all young women. 23 teams design software to solve social problems in a competition organized by the japanese nonprofit woful. women make up only a small percentage of the country's tech industry japan also has one of the lowest shares of female graduates in science and technology fields among developed nations . this competition is about balancing the scales. currently only about 20 percent of people working in japan's i.t. sector are women but i only. want to narrow the gap we need to increase the number

of female students who choose such a career path as to when they could get 1st prize goes to an app that helps new immigrants settle into life in japan offering help on everything from visa paperwork to language skills. but it's not game over just yet the top 10 teams will advance to a global competition scheduled for august right. now michael collins the american astronauts who took part in one of the most famous space missions of all time has died at the age of 90 he flew the apollo 11 command module while his 2 crew mates neil armstrong and buzz aldrin became the 1st people to land on the moon in 1969 because of that michael collins is often called the forgotten astronauts died after a battle with cancer. looking as if you're up to date on a more world news up top of the up next here on the news when i can just as october

19th special. good day. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection in developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update 19. on t w. grappling with such. expressed feelings i am not very creative yet but i would love to be considered an artist one

day looking for new perspectives on the door and not to be replaced but with the camera doing things differently. come to the place where we reflect on society in general. on the job. if you think the profile of the patient that we have at the moment is a young patient between 30 and 50 years old with a period of stay in i.c.u. have been longer if this is it is the only case of doing something either this disease knows no age it is very sad unfortunately from one day to another it can take you away it is so sad we took the reason. we are more scared this time and there are many young victims so to me this way looks more dangerous than the last one. indeed our feeling is that the patients are younger than they were during the

2 previous waves a year ago and in october and november a new form of. welcome to occur is not in special i want to cajones and berlin and all of a sudden i'm also in that age group that's and risk remember when we were told to protect the elderly because the by. this is especially dangerous for them and that was right of course but it loads many younger people into a false sense of security the result even though older people are mostly vaccinated by no hospitals continue to work at the limit like here in berlin. we're at the intensive care unit in the hospital half of the patients here suffer from cope at 19 dr thomas kuhn and his team have their hands full and the beds are filling up. their lungs

puzzles lowly you can see that there is an increase at the moment we're not yet in a situation that brings us to the edge of what we can do with your crown but we know that if the numbers continue to rise because certainly have problems with has a hellish agreement. in recent weeks the number of covered patients in germany's i.c. use has been rising sharply again by now at the peak of the 2nd wave of the pandemic has almost been reached intensive care beds are becoming scarse and the workload of staff continues to grow. intensive care nurse tim cook has also noticed that. i'm on methadone how to manage now in this 3rd wave it is particularly noticeable that the patients are getting more seriously ill and they are ill for longer and also they need a lot of care that means the situation is very challenging and very stressful for us you really need time to relax when you're off work. but it is not just the sheer

increase uncovered patients that worries the teeth that patients health is deteriorating fast and this 3rd wave of the pandemic they are also an effort to get them before probably also because most people over 80 years old have already been vaccinated. the average age is now much younger compared to the 1st or 2nd waves and we see that very clearly we don't really have any patients who are over 80 years old anymore they're almost non-existent if you would you know to what extent german hospital could pass. these are breached varies greatly from region to region some are already completely for others are still coping one thing would help more vaccinations. we won't get out of this without back scenes they are very important but it is also important to stick to hygiene measures to keep that distance and observe current coverage for structures each and everyone must take has been demick seriously and can do their part to make get out of this is quickly

as possible the truth. if the number of patients continues to rise other important treatments would have to be postponed in some areas in germany that is already the case the situation many doctors agree is serious. the patients are getting more seriously ill their health deteriorating faster and they younger on average than in the 1st 2 waves let's talk about that now with dr indra gupta he's professor of clinical microbiology at cambridge university good to have you with us so let's let's start 1st of all with the average age in this report we heard that it's mainly down to the fact that the older generations are vaccinated by now is that all there is to it. yes i certainly think that there will be an element of the the old to be protected with vaccines of course in the 1st wave the elderly who also very vulnerable so said proportion of the most vulnerable may have

been infected diet so that leaves a small fraction of susceptible elderly individuals and and therefore. that is probably part of the explanation but we can't speak the whole truth because we know that this is a phenomenon that we see in many parts of the world even in pots where the vaccination rate is much higher so there has to be something else to it. yes but of course a priority is of course it is based potentially and it's been a factor because. in previous waves there may have been a disproportionate impact on certain age groups in terms of who is infected and and also what we call a survivor there's course some people who are infected it will have diet and some will have survived. you know the epidemiologist very difficult to tease apart because a lot of this is about transmission patterns circulation of virus within certain

age groups behaviors of course because. all the older individuals and certainly people of a certain ages and those with conditions. in shielding themselves and so minimizing the social contacts whereas younger people have been considering a social context to greater extent so there are many different factors that could translates could get there could feed into this observation and what would explain that those patients that we're talking about are not only younger but they're also getting more seriously ill does this have anything to do with the new baryons. there's nothing conclusive at the moment in terms of the sort of analysis of this but these are very difficult studies to. conduct properly and robustly so i'm not confident that we will get a good answer to this the you know there are there are changes happening in viruses the variants do have mutations in them it is possible that they increase 1st

victory at sea and therefore generate more more parts particles that may. cause great is easy and people who previously would have been less impacted it may induce different types of antibody or so responses which may contribute to damaging inflammation as a result of the infection there are many possibilities as to why. younger individuals on to become to be getting sick and and potentially more sick than they used to and of course i mean you hinted at it it also has to do with behavior and the 1st symptoms of an infection very often they can easily be mistaken for a common cold and people younger people and i'm talking about people who opt to 40 and 50 who go to where. they're at in such an age you don't expect to get that ill do you think that they simply wait too long before they get help. where

it's possible that certain individuals who are younger feel that they are not going to get worse and they've been in that this is the problem part of the part of the sort of rhetoric or the sort of narrative around it 19 was that young people don't get ill they don't die that that's clearly wrong we knew that the 1st wave. last year even that that young people do get ill they do to young children can get sick and have severe disease so there's no absolutes and the other problem is of course you need to know what the denominator is how many people are infected in that age group and that's really quite difficult to understand because many people don't have testing so to actually accurately understand what the percentage of infection is in that age group is extremely difficult. and finally man what are the implications. the health sector because younger people tend to be physically stronger which means they stay longer in intensive care in order to hopefully get

well again and what does it mean for society because we're talking about people who are largely making up the workforce. yes again i think that we do need to remember the percentage of people who get severe disease in across age groups is still very small so most people who get infected will be fine you are seeing of course increasing cases of severe disease in young people but that's probably a reflection on the fact that there is a lot of transmission going on in that age group and the fact that they're not buts and it's so i do believe that extending vaccination to younger age groups is a priority. i think that's clear because of course the number of productive years life lost potentially from young people dying is very significant and these things need to be taken into consideration so a professor got to from cambridge university thank you so much. time for your questions now and it's over to our science correspondent.

why should people who've already had covert 19 also be vaccinated aren't they protected as your body fights off a pathogen that forms what's known as an immunological memory of the disease various vaccines on the other hand deceive the immune system into forming this memory by faking an infection using a range of different tricks to do it in fact some vaccines trick the body so effectively they cause an even more powerful and lasting immunity to a pathogen then a naturally acquired infection does but several studies including one from january that's been cited quite a lot they indicate that naturally acquired immunity in most people who caught covert 19 appears pretty strong even months after recoveries so isn't that

enough well there's a big if involved we still don't really know how long immune memory to sars tovey to will on average last and that goes for both vaccine induced and disease induced immunity both currently look good for at least 6 months and counting but but based on what we know about other coronaviruses there's a good chance immune memory will lapse over time which is why health care authorities recommend giving backs needed even if you've recovered from coverage 19 because it's a safe way to refresh your immune memory and will hopefully lengthen the window of time you'll remain immune in fact if you. studies have shown that in people who recovered from cope with 19 even a single dose of vaccine often boosts antibody response beyond what the 2

doe's vaccine regime causes in people who've never had it so it should make you even less prone to get the disease again at least in the short to medium term. and that's it for today thanks for watching stay safe.

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