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a tree different story. faces watch closely when photos one week. how much work can really get. we still have time to our. success. but subscribe like this. alaska is populated and known for its harsh to write in which some places only accessible by plane boat or snowmobile yet it's being hailed as a vaccine success story. every 3rd alaskan is fully vaccinated nearly half of the population has received one shot. good planning and working within to. gena slate

is. alaska became the 1st u.s. state to offer covert 900 back scenes to whole adults in monch tourists will be able to receive shots at the airports from june. welcome i've been physical and kids from the age of 12 can now get their shots in alaska and right across the u.s. but it's alaska in particular one of the remotest places on earth which is showing the rest of the world how to fight off a pandemic. final preparations for a flight near the arctic circle in alaska kimberley and has with her 50 shots of the month and the vaccine she hopes they'll bring an end to the pandemic which has hit rural alaska hard. one person gets it here that's you know that's 5 percent of the population almost so that one household pretty much can cause for the whole village to shut down that means nobody hauling water

nobody hauling fuel nobody you know you're not leaving your house to go get stuff that you need ok is going to do it despite its remoteness a lot has ruled out called in 1000 back seems faster than any other state in the u.s. today the team of health care professionals will be visiting several indigenous communities in the arctic wilderness. the village of in a tie has no mobile phone coverage no supermarket and no permanent doctor all goods have to be flown in. today's air freight is the call 1000 vaccine. the village of around $200.00 inhabitants has only 2 cards one of them is the ambulance. snowmobiles are the most important means of transport here a quick ride takes the team to the local health care center. inside

around 20 villagers awaiting for the shot. i don't like most of the villagers lawrence roberts belongs to the question tribe for many years has relied on his strong constitution but in times of a pandemic he wants to play it safe. this is pretty important i mean. you know from the word you know the senate you would have to get sick or you know if it will prevent possible decision that's good. on his quad lawrence takes us to his home at the edge of a forest. for a year he wasn't allowed to leave the village. the tribal government imposed strict rules to protect the community from the virus. lawrence says it's the modern way of life that makes people so vulnerable to cope in 1000 like group who

don't have also eye contact and we're always going to just basically travelling with ballparks and that here and there and graham probably should move or something that's where we settle down for a month. in private yes it's. much healthier lifestyle you know for the new experience never get certain you know what you don't get sick of. take off to the next village it may be one of the world's remote places but when it comes to the program alaska is leading the way. planet is executive director of the association of immunization managers and joins us from the u.s. what's behind alaska's success considering the huge geographical hindrances it's had to overcome. well last year has a lot of experience getting vaccines out to their remote areas one thing they have

done with cold at 19 vaccine is they have really john their communities together and you know informed and educated about the facts they have gotten the vaccine out to their remote villages they've actually gone toward you or in some of these villages getting people vaccinated and they've just done a really cool war needed just getting the vaccine to everyone that wants to get it how did the us manage to go from free 1000000 vaccinations administered in the whole month of december 2022 over $3000000.00 per day just back in april. right well i mean a couple of important things the one is the production and the supply and you know this is the sort of seduction the supply of production were kind of up and down in december we didn't have a real steady out come of you know doxie doses coming off the the manufacturing plant we have that now supply increased and really we're getting 20 of $30000000.00

doses of the vaccine out per week to the states so that's made a huge difference and in addition to that the states have done a large scale vaccination sites as well as getting it to smaller sites community health centers and retail pharmacies so really getting more supply more steady supply and getting the vaccine out some more availability sites that's been the key at the same time though since the middle of april the number of daily vaccinations has been going down to more or less 3000000 per day why is that. so we have kind of picked up point where a lot of people who wanted to be vaccinated have ben vaccinated you know 50 percent of people have gotten at least one dose just about and so you know we're really getting to the point now where we need to work harder to get people to assure people to get information to people we're still there actually eating about 2000000

people per day so that's really good we have about 10 states that have vaccinated over 50 percent of their population but about 10 states for only about 35 percent of been vaccinated and that's really the difference by region of you know people with regard to their skepticism or you know they're cautious about getting the vaccine so it's let me get it as of michael's possible what working hard i mean because you mentioned in alaska going door to door which of course is risky in itself i thought about all the states giving out free cannabis free beer. there they were giving out free beer in new jersey you know alaska's sleeves up 1st some are having block parties for vaccination getting ready for tourist season giving vaccine at the airport. you know i think states are just doing anything they

can we see businesses giving incentives mostly to their employees krispy kreme is giving free donuts to people who get vaccinated you know really just trying to get everyone involved everyone to feel good about getting the vaccine about getting us back to a place where you know we can have fun and be safe and protected from the disease what would you say this is something the rest of the world could could learn from. i mean i do think the rest of the world can learn from from what we've learned here in the united states 1st of all the large vaccine sites getting the vaccine out as as quickly as possible was really successful for us and the more people were seeing other people getting vaccinated the more they felt safe getting vaccinated themselves on and also information information is really the key the population right now that says there has a tent or doesn't want to get vaccinated we see that many of them have not received

any vax any information about the vaccine or have only seen negative information about the back seat so getting information out you know getting all the information you can about how the vaccine works its value its c d its effectiveness doing that ahead of time makes a difference and then high volume logistically. out of there from the association of immunization managers thank you so much thanks thanks very much for having me. let me put you in the capable hands of my colleagues eric williams now to look at your questions on the corona virus. have been vaccinated and feel some side effects and i contagious to others. pretty much all of the vaccines approved so far and various parts of the world are fairly reactive genet which means they often cause mild side effects like pain

and swelling at the injection site as well as things like like fatigue or headache or fever or chills or aching joints by and by some estimates about 2 thirds of all recipients report those sorts of effects soon after having a shot they generally disappear within a day or 2 side effects appear to be more common in women than in men and also seem to happen more often in younger recipients then in the elderly but but side effects aren't caused by live virus replicating in your body because the vaccines in use don't actually contain any live virus instead they employ a number of different tricks to pull your immune system into believing you've caught the virus many vaccine platforms work by delivering genetic instructions

into your cells that cause them to build sars kovi to proteins these harmless components teach your defenses to recognize the virus without really exposure to it the available chinese vaccines accomplish the same goal by using chemically inactivated or or disabled virus to put the immune system on red alert but but because vaccines don't expose you to live virus they can't give you the disease her . you can't be contagious assuming of course that you didn't catch 1000 for real from someone in the days between vaccination and the ramp up of your immune response the sometimes unpleasant vaccine side effects experts say are actually a kind of confirmation that your immune system is reacting as it should.

and we leave you with pictures from romania where dracula is taking a bite out of garbage 19 at his mythic home brand castle medics have set up a vaccination center a transylvania his main attraction visit is can get a free jab every weekend this month without an appointment also included a vaccination certificate and free entry to the consul's torture chamber. romania and many other places are looking for creative ways to boost their backs in asian rollouts be creative and stay say see you again so that. here comes godling time. news stations and health clinics. in woods has been in short supply. now it is flowing from top.

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and i am so glad to know video coming to you from compiler here in uganda a big hello to everybody today i will be taking you on a trip all over you to for continent as we investigate some of the many environmental problems that we face here among the topics on the show. how hygiene is what to use clinics. just. how many games to grow. and the house of africa's breast. and people's lives. with time. passed away had to it's what what is that you may be asking not everybody knows that is what is the name of swaziland adopted in 2018 the small landlocked country lies between south africa and was in the less than. most of its clinics did not have access to clean water when the corner virus seemed to become more than ever

before to remedy the situation thanks to an international initiative things are suddenly an old bit. anyone wanting to enter. must 1st. peppers only a recent development. i mean. it's clinics the water is heated using. both for the patients and stuff. they come with a lot of microbes. so it's best they wash and so. they eliminate most of the bacteria on their hands. in the south african country office where the average life expectancy is slowly around 59 yes that's

among the lowest in the well a lack of clean water it's part of the problem livestock agriculture and see which contaminate the water making it's unsafe to drink until now. and it's probably only this water to depend on it comes straight from the river and now his head that a clinic's is safe alternative for now when we need water very clean water and water for free we go down to the hospital long queues for outside the clinics each person is allowed one cholesterol clean water a day to make the water have been heated to 90 degrees celsius enough to kill most jams and bacteria. is also here to receive the brush. is becoming an increasing problem because of climate change that water level in the

reserve was dropped and groundwater has also been affected the station has been set up to monitor the water table we need to understand what to present to our water table. with new changes in terms of for the patents and to introduce work that it's a sure way it's still safe to extract groundwater sofa 10 such observation sites have been set up across the country a central 7 trucks the status of each aquifer in real time south africa's water management institute as part of the project and keeps a close eye on what the security in the region groundwater. pollution and once you pollute ground what it is not. is it true. purified better easily state so that is be concerned so we absolutely have to put in place mechanisms to assess and protect the quality of groundwater is well is also monitor

is what section the water hit in project was called financed by germany's development bank k f w it's what team is prime minister masuk or says improving public health as a major party for his government he believes it's key to the country's development when we put health. we have to build the clinics we have to build infrastructure and in that process all apartments were tapped into that relationship and they said we can come and help you and that is the essence of. development corp the clinic project was implemented by a german australian company 10000 people already have access to safe water every day and soon schools will also be provided with hot water to accompany its

construct and a large solar plant in is what tina. you can. do it now truest dick deeds by alternately not directly but indirectly you can get a final commission out of that that's good business good sense but also it's being a good corporate citizen as well. meanwhile. he says that makes the job easier independent thanks to the new hype in measures it's also much safer for head and time to survive just in time. when time it's now approaching the swat team. that is great for you what to cut to see the sun it's energy is just one of the many natural resources we kind of use used to make the. lives.

all next story of all protecting the lives of wild animals every year 25000 elephants fall prey to poachers in africa most and yeah i don't really consider that sport for poaching there were times people felt they had no other way to make a leave it. so gently a thing you know used to come to the forest of my job to kill animals now he comes to protect them parts of the forest became a refuge and the poacher has become a ranger he and his colleagues are documenting the traces wildlife leave behind and any destructive human activities now that poachers traps like this one are being removed there are more and loads here again.

it's like that with the. flick of the ice. thanks. to. the documentation he works on enables inferences about which species live in the only pony endangered species refuge for once a month he replaces the batteries in the camera traps. the photos will help with the creation of a more detailed census of the forest inhabitants. the total slippery frog which only lived in this region is one of several species here that are critically endangered but its population is growing much to the delight of the ngos founder. when we talk about just the scully way you leaves when your house in your neighborhood be destroyed you cannot survive nothing why they call knew he

was going to this frogs so this is how we resolve that one would become pains to reduce the consumption of this frog us foods and the 2nd thing though we've done so very well one will sue provides boreholes sources of water for their people so that they don't need to come in boston wash a used this stream in a month surely the higher thought of the flood. the only pony endangered species refuge has recently been expanded by an area the size of 16000 soccer fields thanks to neighboring landowners in church is a significant achievement considering that ghana has lost 20 percent of its forest cover over the past 2 decades. so we've already heard the baltar using energy from the sun to prove vijay in our next report is about harnessing the wind to generate electricity in germany the country's the tell me to leave it there to cool and dangerous nuclear reactors behind and produce energy in

a clean way that is quite a challenge to supply a large population and lots of energy hungry factories are part of the answer is to build ever bigger and taller wind turbines this huge ring of concrete is just one small part of an incredibly tall tower that's going up near munster in worcester in germany. it will support a wind turbine. the segments are so big they have to be put together on site. we're going to help we began with the 1st prototype in 2010 since then we've built in erected more than 2000 wind turbines we even built the world's tallest in 2017 with a hub height of 178 meters. at the moment 13 wind turbines are being built here the energy they will deliver will be needed especially once germany's last coal power plant shuts down in 2038 but the expansion of wind energy is not going fast

enough in many parts of the country says we're on each. he's managing director of the company that operates this wind farm which faced pushback from locals that's part of why it can take 10 years for a project to be approved banners like these are one sign of local resistance some people in the region complain that wind turbines are a blot on the landscape. this village is home to an active citizens initiative makes chilled arning is already annoyed that her house is surrounded by wind turbines now they'll be joined by more less than a kilometer away from her farm. you have who i don't talk you can hear the wind turbines from a kilometer and a half away you hear them turning it's annoying when i'm fucking. other residents feel less disturbed. as a minister they don't bother me i don't have any nearby and i only see them in the

distance. that i work in a green job myself so i can relate. it's good that we're working toward renewable energy. and getting good bye to fossil fuels and i can foresee also bought a 5 c. there are ways to get communities on board meet on each get talk to residents beforehand and had a good experience on this project he offered them a share in the wind farms profits. this year my home is this because i what we do is raise the capital for the project from local residents essential to give us a loan and we give them back interest that a fixed rate i'm going to give you know that could be 5 percent maybe 6 percent of the money for food with that much money that's quite a lot compared to the interest rates of banks offer nowadays and there are few. and experts say the environmental impacts especially on animals are less than many

assume. if. bird strikes are not such a big problem compared to the number of birds killed on highways or killed by cats . if we really wanted to do something for birds we should consider the impact of domestic cats or the speed limits on the highway that would probably make a much bigger difference for moody's if you. nevertheless the industry is working to improve the turbines so they're more environmentally friendly even with blades over 18 meters in length as a valve on impact on which to make the turbines quieter we use flats that help reduce turbulence and reduce noise to help protect the environment we have sensors that register any bats flying nearby. then the turbines shut down automatically. if all the older when parks in germany were replaced with more efficient ones like these the country could meet all its current electricity needs but not for long because these needs might soon double with more electric vehicles on the road and

further digitalisation of the economy would have. been called wind along with solar and biomass are the renewable energy sources of the future. but every wind turbine is an intrusion into nature so this electricity comes at a cost. and that cost is much more than a certain number of cents per kilowatt hour. so this power must be used sparingly. electric cars shouldn't consume 20 kilowatt hours per 100 kilometers if we can get that number down below 10 and we can. it's technically entirely possible. of course it should be standard practice to use energy wisely and without waste in industry on the roads and at home this winter park will deliver green power to $40000.00 households. white sound

a bit beautiful law it's always us clean house the look study found that many bridges in novel side for us are highly contaminated with micro plastics also in june decided to take action against states for the sake of the island's future. and paradise. cypress is a jewel in the eastern mediterranean boasting greek and roman ruins dating back to intimidate. you from beaches and a lot of trash where it doesn't belong in the natural surroundings and intransigents are cleaning up after him except via very inspirational initiatives say feel good cleaning up beaches and neighborhoods. this am check here he wasn't left by the residents it's amazing all the rubbish

that can be found in the natural area. to volunteer garbage here is pick up.