do you feel more eating. a meal on the greens. and to me it's clear. solutions to. join me for a deep dive into the green transformation for me. this is. coming up today. from those away from. india. to the country. with the devastating 2nd break we report on a group of indians in the netherlands who couldn't stand by and do nothing. and talk preparations race ahead despite. the public opposition.

safety. welcome to news that you could join us in just devastating 2nd wave of corner virus infections has prompted a flood of international relief at least 40 countries have pledged help and aid deliveries from major world powers including the united states germany the european union have already arrived but the crisis has also spied its overseas citizens into action with some 18000000 citizens such as myself living beyond its borders india has some of the largest export organisations of the world here's a glimpse at how some of them in the netherlands are sending help back home. becoming a mother during a pandemic thousands of miles from home. challenge for

a conscious stuff. but watching a covert crisis unfold in your home country india from where she now lives in the netherlands has proved unbearable for the business analyst i've started getting news from my friends my relatives relative that people are dying and you know my friends and their families are suffering they're not getting oxygen you're just denying because you just hear such news and you're like what do we do a conch shell is among 45000 people born in india you know live in the netherlands desperate to do something she looked towards others in her community. in nearby amsterdam software developer and cricket lover wrote it was raring to go he knew others with high paying jobs who wanted to play their part through local organizations indian ex-pats sprung into action. we all came together we donated money so they're doing deals in india or $1.00 is supplying most of them

concentrated so we send about $600.00 for millions to india and also we give funding for. these families were affected but i can just imagine what they're going through just trying to help more there will be they've raised tens of thousands of euros no more cricket talk after training no it's all about sourcing and sending more vital materials. here in the hague say we're down temple dutch people of indian origin like hindu priest to be cast of adi are also stepping up. the seal the impact whatever is happening in india has a direct impact on our community here as well to value wants to send positive energy to do those who are suffering. or. do feel in different ways so whether it's whether it's material support whether

it's fundraising. with the pay or the different ways of reaching those people they're. taking a break from the headlines instead filling her screen with faces of faraway loved ones who are yet to meet her baby found in person she knows the funds and resources she's helped collect are just a drop in the ocean india's staggering covert crisis but for 9 hopes of saving even one life back home. a petition to cancel the torture and embrace has been submitted to games organizers on friday 350000 people signed the petition in just 9 days it comes as the country faces a full wave of course on a virus infections the capital tokyo osaka and other prefectures are already under

state of emergency but the government appears committed to opening the olympics on the 23rd of july a series of test events have been helped to track safety protocols and organizers say a spectator free olympics is also a possibility none of that has however dampened the growing public opposition to the games. almost nothing has gone as planned ahead of what is still called the tokyo 2020 olympics at a wednesday news conference even by your question please a man posing as a journalist staged a cancel the olympics protest for the olympic committee's spokesman. anywhere no olympics anywhere. we don't want the olympics and use turning off some of. that great know i'm sorry to disappoint you that it was me not the president today obviously would have probably made that stunt

a little bit more interesting was the stunt though voiced the same disapproval the japanese themselves are voicing in small protest groups and in big polling data that shows 59 to 65 percent favor a canceling the games in light of the pandemic. well i was surprised that the number of people who are against the olympics have increased this much but i guess that reflects how bad the situation of the coronavirus this point. but olympics organizers are moving forward and one thing that did go according to plan for them a dress rehearsal of what the track and field competition could look like. a mostly empty stadium safe for athletes and officials who've been placed into a virtual bubble. for time olympic medalist justin gatlin won the test 100 meters and was a few sivan his praise despite living in a locked down room to sleep to watch netflix to dine and then he was let out to

train and compete. this competition here was a precursor to see exactly how you know the olympics can go off. maintaining a bubble for the athletes to be able to stay healthy and also the citizens of japan to be able to stay healthy when foreign athletes foreign athletes come into the country i think it was 6 a success. definitely different it's going to be hard to adapt but the caution is definitely needed. should the games go off as imagined or imagined this could well be the look world class competitors inside the venues and the athletes olympic village. protests on the outside. michael pattinson. news agency tokyo micro the parent being able to cope with the rising costs of the coronavirus. well i think the answer that's

clearly not very well no they're not. you know the the situation in the the 4th wave here has not quite hit the the record for the country but it's it's certainly threatening to do so many of the smaller rural prefectures outside of japan are hitting some pow totals of cases which they do receive before and the number of critical cases of people you know people who are on life support that number is higher than it's ever been to spend them extraordinary so japan's in pretty deep trouble you know compared to its previous record in terms of the pandemic and what is a country with the 2nd if you could general public. well as i think it's been well reported japan among advanced industrial companies countries is right at the bottom of the list i believe that something like 3 or 4 percent of the country so far has been vaccinated. you know at least once that's

a very low number compared to most countries in this class but at the same time the numbers have been rising recently in but i mean recently i mean the last week or so and the government believes that most elderly people will be vaccinated by the end of july but this is really going to be too late for you know the olympic situation which should start. in july. given all day and the fact of the large majority of the public appear to want the games can also full and help us understand why the government insists on going ahead with the olympic. well there is a bit of a mystery there but they have been so adamant and you know not just to the japanese government but to the international olympic committee as well as and so essentially come out and said directly oh you know we don't care what happened doesn't matter

what happens we're definitely going ahead 100 percent and you know this line have taken some people by surprise exactly why they are doing so well we can speculate you know it would seem that they've put a lot of investment missions probably a lot of money riding on it all the facilities the stadiums everything were built over a period of $8.00 or 9 years so they want to at least make some use of it but there's also the prestige factor which is of course. you know important for the government itself especially the super government they don't want to be the one that pulled the plug on the olympics and which failed to hold them so i think that's also a very big factor. much doug come down to it who gets to decide whether the japanese government what is it the international olympic committee that gets to decide in the olympics go ahead and. well that has been in dispute in fact prime minister yoshiro suga has said that the final say it's with the

international olympic committee but this these statements have been widely disbelieved and and even mocked by the opposition parties you know it is japan and proper nation to have to follow the orders of the international olympic committee they they question that and i think that you know the real answer obviously is the state have the final say you know if prime minister who has said ok we're not holding them there's no way that the international olympic committee can force them to do so but at the moment how a total truth exactly plans to make the olympic. athletes but also potentially. they don't know yet in fact they don't even know if fans are going to be able to attend the events this decision is still pending they're probably going to make it last minute. you know they are trying to do their best to to create a bubble around the athletes to try to you know keep them as separated from the

general public as possible and they're also talking about vaccinating most just not all of the athletes. head of many of the citizens of japan in fact so it's it's a question it's a question have been answered convincingly and in fact you have to say that the japanese public doesn't believe that they believe that to be holding lympics will be some kind of super strength or event with you know 1000 of people coming in here from all over the world with who knows what covert variance so you know the government has a safe most japanese don't believe it. michael. thank you so much for that update thank you. and there's of course further updates on their debates preparations on our web site it up a dot com for what you shout and we end this week with this a huge ocean liner being built in landlocked sichuan province in china why you ask

well it's a replica of the titanic being built for tourists to spend a mountain we leave you with that and see you on monday by. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection in developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts the coronavirus update. on t w. kids that you love for weeks

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a real and they communicated subconsciously through body language. considering how. well the coronavirus has robbed us of our most meaningful ways to connect with each other it's a little sad it can be stressful to having to take so much into consideration every time you leave the perceived safety of your own 4 walls. the coronavirus has turned the world upside down how has it affected us since the lock down in march researchers from the university of basel have been using cameras to document how we adapt to daily life how we behave and how we act and moved during the pandemic. i must constantly decide with my body where to stand and these micro decisions the

bodily movements should i sit here 5 centimeters federal way these are the things that way recording these are seen. since the pandemic began our body language has gained new meaning every day behavior is suddenly risky must be renegotiated or even dropped a lot of nonverbal communication is going on between us all the time. and sure here is a good example of how they have placing themselves naturally in a way in which they can also take their distance and these a micro decisions constantly. where studying the activity of paper. distancing themselves how they really delay moment by moment and one second day times smarter than. me. a few days later the experts analyze their findings at the university of fossil they discuss and try to

interpret every dialogue every action and every tiny part of the movement. one scene at a time image by image. we saw with. the findings from the 100 hours of video material should one day help to better understand humans are social beings the coronavirus pandemic is almost a stroke of luck for this unique research project. we've hardly had 2 waves now that's what's really going to happen will there be if there are a 4th wave constants they were changes that will remain in the long run. that's what's interesting about human interactions. they've already discovered one thing in basle we constantly adapt our interactions to a given risk situation and we do it quickly that's

a finding that could also benefit coronavirus strategies understanding how people really tick can help devise rules and measures that people will actually follow. and let's talk more in here with. me store in that report. fundamentally change the way humans interact with each other. yes of course it seems to have changed. things now in order to understand these changes i think we have to think about sort of interaction as even though it might seem a bit counting sometimes as having it's all organizational it's all order and what could be done. is the arrival of a lot of external norms. for prevention corps and see if you. want. to change but those are the problem. is that sometimes these

measures molly in. the nominee in the end gotten most organic or other off who are and this is why i'm fascinating things that we're looking are. meeting. what about cultural differences as in the germans are getting way too close to me often invading my personal space . enjoying having space because of the pandemic. yes culture of our usually is is a big. push. on certain these you can make things easy for certain kinds of groups rather than others if you think the example of the readings that we have. in my project which your readings are usually are. but if you look. there's functional aspects you will see that each culture has

the same problems to solve we. go in verse across. and. all going to assume that any interaction you know hoarding even when the final basic principles. greetings in a way make make it possible. for month in which they make many possible mind the subject of huge commissions and so if you will if you will you'll rather in your culture or perhaps form it so far as where you. can close these times you might have more difficulties then i'm not. happy for my time off school. and of the day it's a connection we're all looking for how severe is the impact of social distancing on human connection. yes it was with a sign says we are pretty critical of the notion of social distancing because what

we are witnessing with cooley that is a physical distance which is not always and not. something is of course a sort of us think it's a cultural aspect but we have to think about the fact that this fence is viable in social life there are activities that are naturally something which new unity and the problem with cold lead is that we have these measures. which are perfectly implementable for certain activities much less for orders and the decision how to implement these measures. but this is a let people locally and then generate interest in. normal dynamics people from. sort of this is going to be.

some of this hits a study. well of course it's difficult to say their response is going into different directions one is that could be does mean i've heard that theory experience for us to scientists but also isn't about what is fundamental in sociality we want so we want back to normal. and you know way those values where in these people before and probably does make a. conscious of but there are also all of the things that have emerged during cold it could be those you know maps are laboratory for experimenting and they're not the forms of social life and some of the most creative we. thank you very much. thank you. time to answer more of your questions now over to our science correspondent eric williams. how with

a pandemic and. only when the entire world is vaccinated. when it comes to predicting the future really your guess is as good as mine but if i did have to hazard one i'd say there are a couple of scenarios to choose from the 1st and least likely in my opinion is that will somehow manage to begin coordinating efforts on a hitherto unheard of scale to stymie new outbreaks before they can spend out of control like they have already in country after country any return to anything like a prepared demick normal at least on a global scale will require speeding up and extending vaccine drives in every corner of the planet now all and not later and of course the virus would have to

play along by not mutating too quickly or or dramatically so soon imaginable scenario one that a lot of epidemiologists think isn't going to happen. more likely they say is that vaccines won't stop at 19 transmission completely but they will slow it in many places and off to manage the virus like we manage other diseases just think hiv aids or or measles in that scenario sars could be too would become endemic and possibly seasonal like the flu and would have to be held in check by active measures like like regular vaccine updates and as yet undeveloped medications people would continue to be infected by it and continue to die from it but but over time as large fractions of populations acquire some degree of

immunity for at least a while through infection or vaccines a lot of experts think that disease could grow less deadly at least at the societal scale so instead of thinking about when the pandemic will end to me it now makes more sense to formulate this question as when we get back to something approaching prepared and then normalcy and i think that could happen by the end of the summer in some places like here in europe and many others barring new developments i expect it to take several years that's my guess. finally the games get underway in tokyo in a couple months and organizers have been trying out one of the newest additions skateboarding athletes met at a sports poc to show off their tricks no spectators strict hygiene measures though

to keep it if they concerns about hosting the big event continue to grow 350000 people signed a petition the president of the olympic committee officially. alledged the petition says the committee takes any concern serious like it's unclear though if they'll be any changes to the get. thanks for watching and stay safe i'll see you again very soon here on the w a y. india

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