google ideas is on its way to bring you more conservation. how do we reach cities straight. to my protection habitats. we knew the difference. googling to environmental series including $3000.00 on w. and on. 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 all the same it is the only case of doing some of the this disease knows no age it is very sad unfortunately from one day to another it can take you away it is so sad you could preach. we are more scared this time of there are many young victims so to me this way looks more dangerous than the last one. was 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 or monica jones and berlin and all of a sudden i'm also in that age group that's at risk i remember when we were told to protect the elderly because the virus is especially dangerous for them and that was right of course but it lulled many younger people into a false sense of security the result even though all the people are mostly vaccinated by now 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 this team have their hands full and the beds are filling up. and one of the.

puzzles slowly 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 we could certainly have problems with was a hellish. we have incurred on 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. among mattered in a documented now in this 3rd wave it is particularly noticeable that the patients are getting more seriously ill and ill for longer 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 and. 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 who would you know to what extent german hospital. 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 strips of each and everyone must take has been demick seriously and can do their part to make us 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 ravindra gupta he's a 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 fact that the the outer layer protected with vaccines of course in the 1st wave the elderly were also very vulnerable so said proportion of the most vulnerable may

have been affected diet so that leaves a small fraction of susceptible elderly individuals and and they have all that is probably part of the explanation but they 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 parts where the vaccination rate is much higher so there has to be something else to it. yes but of course priority is of call is this 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 or some people who are infected will have diet and some of survive now. you know the epidemiologist very difficult to tease apart here because a lot of this is about transmission patents 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 continuing social contacts to a greater extent so there are many different factors that could translates could get that 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 variance. 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 of course that may. cause great it disease and people who previously would have been less impacted it may induce different types of antibody or cell responses which may contribute to damaging inflammation as a result of the infection there are many possibilities as to why. younger individuals on now observed 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 is the problem parts of the part of the sort of rhetoric or the sort of narrative around it 19 was that young people don't get their diet that that's fairly broadly we knew that the 1st way for. the last year even that young people do get ill they do to young children can get sick and they have severe disease so there's there's not salutes 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 bucks and it's so i do believe but 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 now a professor gupta from cambridge university thank you so much. time for your questions now and it's over to our science correspondent eric williams.

why should people who have already had covert 19 also be vaccinated aren't they protected as your body fights off a pathogen it 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 back seems tricked 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 kovi to will on average last and that goes for both vaccine induced and disease and deuced 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 native even if you've recovered from covered 19 because it's a safe way to refresh your immune memory and will hopefully that will lengthen the window of time remaining immune in fact a few. 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 have 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. devastated i was this all star weekend we must move cars period. effects of climate change i mean film arrives the forestation in the rain forest carbon dioxide emissions have risen again. young people old the world are committed to climate protection i say what impact will the out of. those change doesn't happen on its own. make up

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your little stars on the big stage. tributes scolds me sometimes. w. . from empty offices and shops to healthier buildings and more green open spaces the coronavirus pandemic is up ending our city centers and we'll look at the opportunities this might bring for urban renewal and also coming up. cityscapes as an arts german artist she really was fun bismark carefully crafted steel and cement to create his noise start a revival of demolished rouer valley architecture. welcome to the show well

depending on where you live your experience of the kovac 900 pandemic will of course be different but i for one can't remember the last time that i went to a cafe or a restaurant or even spent a moment in the shopping district simply because we don't go there anymore with everything closed and most commerce now taking place online well as a result vast stretches of the city have literally pled out and this raises a lot of questions. once the current crisis is over we'll ask cities become more green than gray. we only work or will we continue to live there. empty stores be revived with completely new functions. architect kristoff believes the current crisis is an opportunity to bring diversity to city centers.

the current crisis is actually a catalyst to deal now with the shopping precinct all over germany because change is going to come there's a reason why they're in such a sorry state or differences in shopping precincts like this one in frankfurt were already in financial difficulty before the crisis struck but since the pandemic shoppers tourists and commuters have stayed away whilst online retail and home offices. retail spaces are now shuttered the demand for office space is also decreasing shopping and business districts. functionality is the definite development. draw is the city the european city thrives on social and functional diversity a street like this needs people living and working and doing business. all. together with mike youssef from the frankfurt city council

plans to transform the room a whole neighborhood in the city center it still takes some imagination to envisage the new district the plan includes a generous green area and will serve a range of purposes at the moment it's a commercial and administrative area but the idea is to build $20000.00 apartments close to schools retail sports facilities and commercial estates the aim is to diversify and place more importance on avenues parks and courtyards in this respect the future room a half will be reminiscent of late 19th century urban planning in that we don't want to just recreate that period we want to take the qualities that make up those districts and are very popular and implement them here that's what drives us. people who live in small city apartments need green spaces but how can this work in

the inner city how can we create affordable housing space is in short supply and simple tiny asli preserve green spaces. and joining me to hash this out is my colleague mike a clear welcome mike and i'm just wondering do we have any answers to some of those questions is there hope that our inner city or cities could become more livable in the. thing there is absolutely hope because what should we do with all this emptiness and in the cities and not only in the bigger ones also in the small it sounds that the situation is even worse but at this point. the owners of these large store surface stores are still in limbo they're still not willing to lower the rents this is the situation now. as architects as we saw right now are really working on creative solutions also full pocking carriages for example there we have

a good one in back in bavaria space was missing they had to build something new so they decided to use the roof of a car park and now we have one of the most beautiful cannot gardens in town with a huge garden hopefully we see right now and a big wall to protect the children of course yes other planning in the past that was always more like traffic management traffic will disappear with the kommersant of course and it's terrible for all those people who losing their jobs now but it's also an opportunity a very good chance for the communities to reclaim more space ok but you know as we heard in the report i mean this idea of diversity in the city center is bringing the people back into the inner city that's really what typical cities in europe have always been about in the past and yeah you're right we had it all but the

opposite in the last decades and gained over crowded expensive cities disastrous traffic and gentrification of course. everything was focused on consumption but i think it's always in the mix and a very good functioning neighborhood is the one with kindergarten senior hopes with small shops get a response restaurants and all in a small distance and what we have now despite the pandemic would we still have is a housing market housing market that's out of control that's of course not only the case for inner cities but that's also the same for the suburban shopping complexes absolutely the shopping centers the huge small don't have. much of the future here in europe we see the nation and in the united states they know the problem very very well they have a couple of malls and shopping centers and their reasons for being in california they are currently repurposing one there will be shops and offices still

it's also apartments culture and others so what's what you know with what we know now what's stopping us from repurpose ing all of these empty buildings as fast as possible really. yet here in germany for example we have a very difficult building regulations. those regulations were written in the time of course when space was not of issues and of course nobody was talking or even thinking of home offices so there's a clear line between living and commercial space but hopefully this will change very soon well obviously hope is a good thing we've got lots of it and it'll be interesting to see where we are a year from now and thanks very much for those insights micah kluger because of course the transformation of urban centers for the future leads perfectly to the idea of learning from the buildings of the past in german our history was fun

bismarck's his project noise start recreates demolished structures from germany's ruhr valley area for a new kind of reckoning with the architectural choices through the ages. a miniature city on the move. not architectural models but own sculptures of buildings. 21 striking buildings typical of the industrial region for. bismarck the journey from berlin is part of the project there are broncos schools swearing pools and many residential towers typical of the 19th sixty's and seventy's high rise buildings with names like. parent giants all the originals have long since been demolished dynamite should all told down. the our cities destination is. a major

center of the steel industry and europe's largest in the land ports. it's an unusual cargo frank john even though it weighs tons. the structures are perfectly positioned in the new home at the juice book nord landscape park which has been part of the arts trail since 2010. the sculptures reflect into us trail history. is india. public buildings that once belonged to this industrial landscape because they were built for the people who worked in industry here even the churches as worker numbers increased so did the construction of churches and now they are empty maintaining to churches is more expensive than demolishing them. so these

decisions were made for financial reasons. and china the top. team from the burning studio is responsible for the detailed work on the 1st song. and for ensuring their foundations are precise millimeters matter everything has to fit perfectly. going on a building here the north and the put its own front on the in place are not exact images they are our interpretations we try to capture the aura it's not a precise downscaled version there is abstraction certain details remain others are left out when translating into other materials you also have to change things a bit of. business and then after 10 days of construction noise that is

finished the sculptures are intended to provoke debate. kind of architecture we need in 50 years 50 years ago we thought we needed this but now we don't do we need them what are the mistake to tear them down these questions are always relevant they never get old and ideas about what is beautiful and what is ugly constantly change to. the graveyard of a vision of the future these downscale buildings are testimony to term atic structural change in the rule region. and to finish our peers our grab of some of the other culture news in brief beginning with news of one of pop's biggest female stars dozens off britney spears trance demonstrated outside a los angeles courthouse on tuesday to end the pop star's conservatorship case which in 2008 led a california court to place her under

a unique legal guardianship largely governed by her father while spears request to speak directly to the court has been granted for june 23rd. and the best series and programs have been nominated for this year's bafta t.v. of words in britain with steve mcqueen's and followed your film series entitled small acts about the lives of west indian immigrants in a london all of the 19 sixty's to the 1980 s. the. film series leading the way with 15 nominations and of course binge worthy t.v. has been helping many of us to weather continued coronavirus lockdowns so that's a good chance to see how the chips will fall there and will be interesting and maybe even catch up on a series or 2 now on that note it is time for me to sign off so all the best from

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is. from berlin tonight another tragic pandemic in india the death toll. has passed 200 samples that across the country infection numbers are rising and the crisis is being compound by shortages of oxygen medical supplies and hospital staff also coming up tonight grading the u.s. president on.