w.'s crime fighters are back africa's most successful radio drama series continues this season the stories focus on hate speech prevention and sustainable charcoal production. all of the zones are available online and of course you can share and discuss on g.w. africa's facebook page and other social media platforms. crime fighters tune in now . ok. in india some covert 900 patients are developing a rare but dangerous infection dubbed black fungus you call my cosas. typically starting in the airways it spreads through the body affecting the sinuses or lungs then bones and body tissue the fungus can also attack the eyes and brain. if left untreated it can be fatal. and been fizzle and nice to have you along it's

important to note that black fungus is extremely rare in india it only affects around $100000.00 people a year according to one study that's less than one percent of the population but now big hospitals are reportedly diagnosing it in patients every 2nd day in this ongoing 2nd wave of patients are especially at risk because their immune system is weekends and that may be contributing to the rise in cases of black fungus in india . all of a cornelli is from the european excellent center for invasive fungal infections in cologne 1st of all what are the symptoms of a black fungus infection. well the symptoms of you who are closest that infection is unspecific runny nose fever but then it might turn into a specific sign and it is that. gets in the craw dick. will little book

that is why it's actually cold fungal disease it's not really the funniest it's a different class of fungi but it looks black on the skin to explain what actually happens to a patient what they go through what they experience well beth on those all those who really are destroying tissues so imagine that there is a science itis caused by the fungus that doesn't stop there but it actually moves into the bone and it might destroy bone and then move into the next neighboring organ and tissue and it could be the guy for patients report to me and set well i woke up in the morning and couldn't see anything on this one i was actually not painful because it destroys nerves is. ok it's not painful but the consequences a severe i mean can you can you treat it and can you treat it certain off to

prevent something like that happening. well if you feel it you can treat it but it's difficult to get the right point to exactly understand what's happening because the symptoms are specific you could treat it with either surgery or with antifungals that's the end of all tics directed against directed against fungi or you combine both but you need to be really really fast that all of us tell me why it's such a problem in india right now. i guess there are several reasons why this is one respect before you become a hostess which is a well known respect or is diabetes and specifically the diabetes means that very high levels of blood sure that your blood. that triggers the invasion of the tissues of the of the phones. in india and the region

of message number of patients with diabetes who are at risk or mentally even without her own another reason i say is the exposure to the fungus the fun those lives is soil dk material. you'll will be more exposed to soil in the rule area of the india that you are for example in the area and journey with climate is completely different. another reason. that i envision. for my colleagues in india and other countries is that they use steroids that medicine for example to get cope with 19 under control and nation. increase the lot of sugar

they mimic a diabetic situation. that the pounds will take advantage of so all of us should people be wired in other parts of the world where coronavirus case numbers are also high. in other parts of the world the real problem is not that large as we see in these asia india. the reason might be that fungal infections are not that frequent in other regions north america europe for example south america has a different pattern of fungi and you can like who says as so far only been diagnosed in a tiny minority of patients we don't know what africa actually. trail be very similar to of the world with a lower number of your sil is different regions of the planet have different

funnily infections and all of it just lastly this was something i'd never even heard of before the show is that something that makes your work difficult i mean getting the funding to research. something that's quite fascinating it's something that's not frequent but. something like that. yeah that's true it's infrequent and for these. infections there's only there's almost no way to get funding so it's heavily underfunded that's one reason why we only have basically 3 drugs that we can use against these fungi which is wait a while a number that's too little and it's toxic drugs quite some of them ok we'll have to leave it there thanks for your time today all of a camilli and the european excellence center for invasive fungal infections thank you very much. time to as

a more of your questions now over to our science correspondent eric williams. why aren't injected vaccines manufactured as a single unit instead of having the vaccine in the syringe separate this is a great question one that i've never really actually considered before right now most vaccine manufacturers are are filling and shipping multi-dose vials of vaccine that contain between $5.15 doses on site at the vaccination center or at the doctor's office staff then have to painstakingly draw them into syringes in a complex time consuming series of steps where were a lot could actually go wrong due to human error and and there are a lot of other issues with the vial system not least that once the seal on one has

been broken all of the doses in the bio have to be used quickly leftovers can't just be stuck back in the fridge for use later so so since everyone is getting their own syringe anyway why aren't machines just pretty filling them directly as a single unit instead of putting large batches of doses in vials 1st prefilled single shot syringes are already the norm in some parts of the world for vaccinations against other pathogens but that there appear to be 2 primary reasons why the older vial system has been the method of choice so far for the mass 19 vaccine rollout the 1st is speed with manufacturers churning out hundreds of millions of doses it's simply faster for them to squirt 10 a time into a single vial that it is to fill 10. separate syringes with

a pandemic in full swing getting as much vaccine as possible out there has been vital and the 2nd factor is cost until now single dose prefilled syringes have been more expensive to produce but but many manufacturers say that's changing and that that pre-filing syringes is actually more efficient because then you don't need millions of medical grade glass vials so so when demand for 1000 vaccines begins to slow i think that you can expect prefilled syringes to grow in popularity because they have so many advantages. the u.s. centers for disease control is no longer recommending face masks for fully vaccinated people but the c.d.c. says mosques are still recommended in crowded settings like buses planes and

hospitals and anyone who isn't fully vaccinated will still have to wear one over half the u.s. population has received at least one dose against the current buyers. dancing is often about intimacy getting close and connecting foreign concepts in times like these but not impossible as these creative guys explain whether online or in the open it. urged each one downs that home hold everything. in the world but since the summer of 2020 there's been meeting at the former temple hold airfield a huge public park not far from the center oberlin. nights are a big field. that can be a lot of people and we can feel. close north which retail felt here today it is really beautiful there is really kind of a connection no. there's

a neutral connection. it was here the 1st moment of court on either but he didn't know. what school is going on so we were complying you know what place is that useless read me. that would be me sad to say clear with my mind and redox to save the. euro land based choreographer alvin calderon just came up with the idea for the on line down sessions he calls a duel so pleasure. who's been staying with his family in canada also down since along with the participants from around the world. music and are streamed online so anyone from anywhere can join in and. do the about their their own journey and then because we tap into their research

together we tap into the music together we create the community so this is what i really enjoy is that we're all taking ownership of where we are and then we need to gather with the music and the guy that. what they're hearing in a berlin park elsewhere in the world they are dancing together. the pun demick. i want to know where alpha got those shorts thanks for watching. we've got some tips for your bucket list. corner. for some. and some great cultural memorials to boot.

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all these moments. have left deep banks in my memory. they had hoped for more security more freedom more dignity. have their hopes from settled. on years after the arab spring the rebellion starts june 7th on d w. coming up here on arts and culture with sea levels on the rise and architects designs schools homes and whole neighborhoods that float. and germany's 75 year old rock star who isn't calling it quits the legends of who don't want him back. just as soon as. but 1st the national arts and

history museum of the netherlands the rights museum is opening its 1st ever exhibition on slavery the exhibition shows the dark side of the netherlands so-called golden age the period when dutch traders started transporting enslaved people from africa to the america the show includes art and artifacts from that time as well as new animated films also looking at the brutality of slavery in the dutch colonies in south africa and asia this tuesday becoming of the netherlands well i'm alexander is opening the exhibition to school groups in amsterdam the show will also be available to visitors online. and my colleague d w reporter michael krueger is here to tell us more about this groundbreaking exhibition for the netherlands micah the netherlands had centuries of history of exploiting slavery on several continents how do you tell that story even begin to tell that

story with one exhibition well that's of course nearly impossible so they focus on examples and give us 10 different biographies to make the injustice k.m.r. understandable what happens if a human being becomes an object which can be sold and without any rights and any hope of freedom but the exhibition not only tells the stories of the inflation people and he made a movie it's also takes a look at those who benefited from slavery in the lot for example martine stillman's the owner of the sugar refinery and we know his family today because they were painted by them beyond one of the greatest artists of all time so 1st time in the history of the museum they take a look at the outrages and examine them for their connections to slavery and there are also several artifacts i believe $100.00 over $100.00 objects including ankle shackles here we've got a clip with a volley because smolder sees the head of. history department at the rights museum

and deja vu we have to be sober for how at times in the election front of me james . persona close came from some a new means for outer deck to overthrow my shooting mama and that he had a pot out. of it and for folks made hay for him and that neighbor long. long back from the house hedonist to vadra. 'd micah it seems like for a long time many dutch people were able to see slavery as something that happened far far away how big was the dutch role in this system of oppression what it was huge because the dutch took nearly 600000 people from africa and they invented this triangle trade they started in the 17th century they bought in slave people from the west coast of africa brought them to the americas some markets in exchange them for sugar tobacco and coffee for example and with

this they come back to europe and got really rich and this is the reason why so many historians of today say refused to name this era the golden age of the netherlands because it's based on the true and injustice system do you think of this new exhibition at the rights museum could mark a new chapter for the dutch in terms of examining their own history but it is a 1st step in that direction but also in this year the dutch prime minister marco to refuse to apologize full his possible those countries passed because he said it's too polarizing and some people think it's more about the fear of paying compensation well michael krueger thanks so much for that examination of this new exhibition. well the netherlands also has a long history of fighting back sea tides about a 3rd of the country is actually below sea level and now with climate change and

rising sea levels threatening coastal areas and islands around the world that's architects have stinks he has a solution to help cope with flooding making new cities that float. the future will be wet says. a pioneer of aqua architecture he designed for and climate change proof buildings we caught up with him at his water studio and in the hague via video link. i think this is what lives all about. and what it's exactly what it is almost everything for me it's i think it's my own my life work. it's in my veins it's in everything we do for most 2 decades he's been developing projects on water all over the world houses on pontoons the rise and fall with the tines

pillars that moved like boats. floating in leone as a native of holland oh to see knows about floods after my studies not understanding the living it is completely crazy fighting against water only pumping water out and i thought how can there be no living on the water i don't live with what they can use the water. at the beginning of his career he designed floating houses for wealthy clients his water boarding were found all over the netherlands. and most are not really satisfying and when i started travelling around the world we saw all the statistics of what they suffered for so many more problems and we changed our perspective it was. no longer about building the film it's really about understanding programs you know what it can be our own. solutions.

which are often threatened with flooding due to climate change he's developed a special concept floating containers equipped with showers medical centers. well this floating school container consists about 2 things one is of course the school with all the tablets in it and the other thing is the floating foundation well the floating foundation we make in the philippines ourselves so we collect $15000.00 plastic bottles people bring to us we bring them in that's make a platform on top of it and then complete container will be put on that platform. water is the new building site very fast floating apartment complex g. to be built on wetlands south of the hague this is an office tower he has designed for rotterdam. so it's better to prepare for the future because the fact is we

don't know what you should look like as we get more water. and why extreme ring places growing fear are so as as we don't know what the future will bring you have to be flexible. the architects vision is of a flexible city made up of floating elements that can be shifted adapting to the changing realities and needs of its inhabitants. through it thinking leads to some unusual ideas floating nature reserves for example these were developed for new york to improve. the project fell through at the last moment so although the project is not built it's not that the knowledge is gone it's part of this is growing. the recent kind of tipping point and the tipping point is not to be built war is that there are more architects who are interested in history early years there you see

all the city didn't use the water then we can say. at the beginning. they used to say pods will soon be built just outside new york on the hudson river water is no longer seen as a right it's also an opportunity. the future can be wet. during the time of the berlin wall german rock legend who don't live in baghdad something very few musicians from west germany did while others were trying to crack the charts and western europe and in america then bag campaign for 8 years to play in communist east germany something has fans still remember today now we're getting back is just released a compilation album in time for his 75th birthday. this. month 75 years 75 songs is celebrating his birthday with

a new greatest hits album the man with the instantly recognizable trademark hat his music by turns humorous provocative all emotional. balance have become german and he's the voice of several generations. so the connection between my next and the way people on the street talk no nonsense plain speaking. 50 years ago was a pioneer of rock music with german lyrics a revolution. over the years he has not stopped 36 studio albums selling many in this. his most famous topic was the division of germany as in the song the girl from east berlin.

2 with the song became popular in communist east germany distributed on illegal cassette recordings so i knew i had a lot of friends and of course i wanted to meet them to go there take off my glasses and say good day to you come a little closer. bishan was to form behind the iron curtain he waited a long time for an invitation from the country's communist leader aries hanukah then finally in 1803 a one off performance in east berlin under the watchful eye of the state security apparatus. in the 1990 s. with germany reunited. for a while then the book took up painting depicting german history on paper using

a rock n roll touch paints distilled from alcoholic beverages his paintings were hung in the german chancellor's office is quite an accolade from the world of politics. in 2008 there was a major musical return to form a new album featuring collaboration's with the stars of later generations went to number one fans old and new packed stadiums 1st sold out. the coronavirus pandemic has slowed down for the time being but at 75 he says he's got no time to grow old. and the bag's home town of gore now fans of all ages put on their hats and sunglasses and a tribute to the rock star germany's president frank right behind my ass as it when

i'm back songs shapes many germans more than any class in school although it may be where. you can check out our exclusive interview with don't enter back on our youtube channel d.w. documentary and while you're there subscribe for more documentaries from germany and around the world that's it for this arts and culture see you next time.

he's happy she got a spot at cologne institute for inclusive education. here people like jenny who have mental disabilities are trained to be education specialists they know the issues mentally disabled people deal with 1st hand. academic track for people with disabilities true self. included. are we a well it's a fundamental question of humanity trying to figure out whether or not. life

existed on mars pretty clear water was there and quite abundance while that would be interesting so on mars the atmosphere is 100 of all we have here on earth it's very very cold and at the past it's like antarctica you could imagine bringing some supplies and you know if you do and build a little self-contained pressured vehicle or vessel which will be on the surface there are things like talks and that you can harvest from the atmosphere to help make living possible. if you want to think of humanity if we really want to survive forever we're going to have to move off the earth eventual and i know that seems a little crazy but you've got to start somewhere.

this is g.w. newsline from berlin tonight a 2nd week of death and destruction begins between the israelis and hamas with strong condemnation from the united nations. the u.s. really military continues to pound guns and as international pressure for a cease fire grows israel says its campaign me.