to the point, opinion clear positions, international perspectives, up to 80 percent of people in japan say that are opposed to the upcoming tokyo olympics. among other problems, the health risk is far too great. so our joint events like the olympics, the thing is the past. it will go against sense to say on to the point to the point, the w. mm. oh, this isn't a desert island. it's poor kid, famous speech. normally it's overflowing with taurus, but the pandemic put an end to the tourist must been on hold for a year, leaving millions without a livelihood. the government had hoped to welcome tourists back on the 1st of july . that's looking increasingly unlikely. the

number of new infections is skyrocketing and the country's vaccination drive is only making slow progress relying on china sino vac vaccine. but reports of severe side effects and even some death, a keeping many ties at bay locally produced astrazeneca jobs are also available. and a nationwide mass vaccination rollout is due on the 7th of june. no, who is wanting by one. take home with her enough. we'll have to wait until october . but if case numbers continue to rise, it'll probably be too late for the many hotels and beach whistles. what kind of code 900 special, i'm wanting to johnson berlin, which is getting ready to open up starting tomorrow. cafes and restaurants will be

able to welcome guest indoors again. all this, however, i mean, falling case numbers and, and accelerating vaccination rates worldwide. we're actually getting close to 2000000000 shops now. but it is still a race against time, especially for countries such as thailand, which currently faces its worst corona virus outbreak around 80 percent of all cases. since the start of the pandemic, i've been reported there within the past 8 weeks. of particular concern to authorities is the arrival of variance believed to spread faster. security forces control of road and thailand, southernmost region behind the barbed wire village under locked down cases of the very interest discovered in south africa, where detected him after a person infected with a very and leave to cross the border from malaysia and more bonding will look now knowing the villages in the tucked by district,

the district officials on how many cases we have in each village. this regional cluster is part of a nationwide rise in cases, infection rates and thailand, imaging new peaks. less than 3 percent of the population of been vaccinated so far while getting his 2nd curve it shot prime minister prior channel check. so to lay is what we have to assess the situation of the news with areas of high risk. moderate, and you have to adjust our vaccination plan, but i can assure you that everyone will be vaccinating and national vaccination campaign won't kick off until the 7th of june. the government says 70 percent of the population will get vaccinated by the end of the year. meanwhile, bangkok, public transport workers have been queuing for their shots at the cities new re away hub. their 1st in line at this new vaccination center that will soon open to

the general public catch drugs runtime is professor of medicine and director of the coby 900 maxine program at long. com university in thailand. and he isn't content to see thailand, wait in line to buy vaccines from another country, but instead built up highlands own vaccine production capabilities, and he joins us now. professor kia, good to have you with us. case numbers in thailand, arising now, isn't that a bit late to start working on a new vaccine now? yeah, i think this is a great question. i think the answer is yes it we, we have be too late. but if we consider that this is just for the 1st generation vaccine, again, why tied to cutting by time? but i would go it really for the 2nd and 3rd generation lexi and also for the future pandemic. so we believe that by the time that we went in,

ready make it a while ago, i think most of type people probably got to put in ration. maxine, so we anticipate that a, we're wesley will be a booster of you know, took into it. the new residence. so when you talk about the kind of back seen the next generation, what type of rec, seen you actually working on the, to the technology we're working on right now is the m on a rec, seen platform in collaboration with a friend in, in a you can professor to weisman. he's one of the pony of money backs in technology. yeah. and human trials, i believe they're starting now. so when do you think the vaccine, the booster shots will be available to the public in thailand?

yeah, it, it really depends on whether we didn't have to do face pre trial or not at the moment that we, we were actually in candidate need to go to the right, go to phase one, phase 2 and, and the 5th tree efficacy trial. but what we anticipate in the next few months is that either to the w h will consult him or to the us or the international scientific consortium. we should be able to identify or as to be would be quality of neutralizing protection level so that the kids is mean at what level of the protect protection tighter going to be and, and that the kid the where the current new doping maxine might not need to go to

phase 3, so we just have to do face one. i didn't find the right dose, the end of the 50, and then go to phase 2, right, and look at the and, and look at the set it up to look at the efficacy. so in that case, we should be, we should have the 2nd generation vaccine at the booster to be a while or well by q one. if you don't need to do face tree is going to like you, i keep my fingers crossed, that you can skip phase 3, but nevertheless, it becomes very clear that developing a new vaccine takes time and it also takes money as a vaccine developer, what did you make of this the current an ongoing debate about peyton's waving. yeah, i think that in the whole will really come up with the agreement, which is a dollar poet, right. well the soon in term of whipping that term up in the patton

issue. i think doing depend emmett ideally if licensing issue can be read? i think the waxing develop in particular in the low we didn't income country can be moved where the fast and much faster. anyhow, right now, what we have to do, we have to go with the licensing and it's going to take time, right? right. to take time for sure. you're right. and, and, and partnerships. and so help from what i understand they're in asia, homegrown are in a vaccines already undergoing trials currently in china in india. and japan, thailand is a relative new comma would road you expect tie vaccines to play in the region. yeah i, i think, as i mentioned earlier, that for the 1st generation vaccine is going to be

a lot of supplying, coming out. i think i would say maybe always apply in by next year. so what we m right now is literally we m for the 2nd and 3rd generation vaccine. and we hope that with some collaboration with the regional country that also have the same go to get access to him on the back seat technology. so probably we can work it out to get it and be working with some country district as well. all right, and of course the next pandemic is probably just around the corner. not too soon. hopefully for us i said kids, thank you so much for your time. and all the best for you back. yeah, thank you very much. yes, sadly, there's always a next pandemic. so what can we learn from previous ones? time to ask derek. paul,

how did the spanish flu pandemic, and even without treatments or vaccine, the insulin dependent, to begin shimmering the world and 1918 is thought to have infected around a 3rd of the global population in the space of a couple of years. though it's impossible to pin down exact numbers most calculations estimated claimed between 50 and a 100000000 victims. now that's as many or more as those later killed in the 2nd world war. from then by 920, the spanish flu seem to fade away. the pen damage just trailed off and nobody at the time could really explain why happened in the ologist and historians now believe the beginning of the end of the flu pandemic occurred down. because in the absence of a vaccine, that's how long it took to achieve

a measure of global herd protection through infection. but it came at are for rent, price disease, killing the same percentage of people today would take hundreds of millions of lives. an interesting aspect of this historical narrative is that experts say, even though the pandemic ended in the early 1920 the virus because it didn't disappear on. instead, it looks like in unity and large parts of the population, drove it commute age into a less virulent form. in fact, researchers who analyzed genomes of modern flu viruses have identified genetic traces, linking them to the original 1918 virus, which has been c quest from century old, long south this. so in a way that pathogen that com such devastation back then is still with us today,

it's just evolved into less virulent forms that occasionally been evolve further back into deadlier variance and strains, though so far, never as deadly as if ancestor and, and many experts project something similar could occur with source v to me and that's all for today for me and the team. and glenn, thanks for watching. they say, ah, we're going to go beyond deals yet as we take on the world, we're all about. the stories that matter to you

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little part of the theme, even leave away love on the part that i think of them, i had serious problems on a personal level, and i was unable to live there. and i knew their story into migrants like and reliable information from like the the photographer. and it was good key, makes artworks that question the world we live in and itself for millions of euros . the world's most expensive photographer takes us through a retrospective of his own work coming up on arts and culture. but 1st, the can film festival,

the biggest film festival in the world is finally returning. after more than 2 years, organizers announced the festival line up thursday morning, including the openings film i met by director laos cox and starring adam driver and my young garcia are seeing the festival starts next month and already it's a huge cause for celebration in the film. industry after last year's festival was canceled due to the pandemic. can count wait, that was the message as festival direct has announced this year's cinematic line up another step towards returning the film industry to its pre cobit glamour acre. we've proven that cinema is not dead haul extraordinary and triumphant return of audiences to cinemas and france and around the world was the 1st good news. we hope to can festival will be the 2nd good news. gone. seen him up

before the pandemic, the vessel pulled in 40000 people a day this year. only about half that number is expected. the big difference this year is that you can find a room home on even so the festival is coming back with a bang and a program packed with big names. and d, w reporter micro credit has been following the scoops on this years can film festival. micah, so let's talk about these big names. who are we talking about? you mentioned already. if you go to the foster will be the shown pan, will present a movie as a director home and he starts when they really when they are really coming and they all expect them to come. this will be a big party. another film of the competition is the french dispatch by west anderson and when that cost of that movie will arrive in july,

you will have millions of like friends, smith domino, bill murray or till the twins and, and so on. and so on here. so, so many stars it has movies. absolutely. and the film was inspired by the end of the laugh to the famous magazine, the new yorker, it's a crazy story. very funny, very dramatic. and we've got a quip, the french dispatch loud odyssey the voice of his rowdy generation from the naked cell block j. honda. i want to buy a gun. yes it is to do with his yes. in short pitcher what sensation ah, so that's premier in the can film competition and a lot of people have been waiting to see that movie for over a year. now. mike, i can't wait for that, but some of the directors are really holding back that from us just to to wait and to show them in can tree piano, for example, is

a movie by 90 bullets drama from italy opened the competition. and this is also very charming side of the con, some festival program, because it's always a mix. they're trying to combine the really big names of the movies with the, on the dogs. so it's really a celebration of cinema. let's talk about how this is going to work in the midst of a pandemic. is this going to be a normal can, or how are they going to deal with the virus? the plan is that the audience will really see the movies in the cinema and everything is prepared for the visitors already. of course, they have to wear mosque and need to be tested negative. that will be test stations every land opened the whole day. also, everybody should be dressed up as usual and took fetal and going guns even in july when the sun is burning. so that's, that's one aspect that seems not to attract about all of this. okay. one of the big controversies over the last years has been with netflix can won't show their movies

or maybe netflix won't follow cans rules. what's going on there? have they worked it out? no, no, netflix, no netflix production and come come stick to the rule. and that films in the competition must have a local cinema release and is not, they are not allowed for the competition, despite ongoing conversations. but queen come and netflix they, i'm still not able to bridge the differences. so point, so those ethics movies are going to other festivals than i say, maybe the festival in can. this is what's the most trust again. and the announcement of the program is all about cinema and cinema is not that this is his message. ok? and cinema. not just streaming. thank you, mike. a kruger? well, reality can only be shown by constructing it. at least those are the words of german artist and they ask gorski the most expensive photographer in the world. his

digital manipulated photo cell for millions of euros. and right now they also fill almost an entire floor at the museum of fine arts in life. take the city where he was born or a double look back at the work of the past years and german history, angular medical and 3 previous s as as german chancellor face a red screen. the cooking of the mail from bonded looking at a painting by bonnet, newman, which actually hangs in the museum of modern art in new york is photographed here. that's important. most people don't know it or know it from pictures, but it has a very sick surface that it's important that it's a real painting, not just a great warm hyper on the water beaten such as photograph is cold review. and the entire life exhibition is just a review. i look back at the world capitalist society and the artist

andrea gorski spent weeks putting together and organizing over 60 works from 35 years. each tiny detail is important in the pictures themselves and in the presentation. this time, especially because gorski was born, been right sake too much tonight because this is called, sorry, emotional, exhibiting here in leipzig for the 1st time because my father and grandfather both worked about photographers here and had the studios here. so we researched and discovered many new photos of these all my grandfathers and financially and saw them yesterday for the 1st time, my friend, his own house, these are photos of the models on and so we come full circle because i also had to build things design things all my life. so i had to smile when i discovered these

photos dozens, once in a photo of index. and greatest, gorski was barely a year old when his parents fled communist east germany for the west arriving and sold off in 1955. the father of very girls ski became claimed advertising photographer. his son however, had no ambition to follow his footsteps. ah, that would have been the last thing i would have imagined becoming a photographer. after graduating from high school, i did my civilian service and i still didn't know what to do professionally because i couldn't think of anything. in the end i studied photographer in essence. and then at the academy, andreas gorski studied at the famous academy of becca, who became known for the photos of industrial architecture. even though people

rarely appear in these pictures, it's always about about the traces they leave behind in architecture and in the landscape. mm hm. the spacious mass, it was night and we were talking and often thought idle down a ground and there was a car approaching and the low beams and all of a sudden this image here. and although the images so abstract, you kind of still feel some think of the civilization gorski photograph tokyo from an express train, then contains numerous photos into one st. louis and treeless sea of houses, man and the reshaping of the world. buck skis, main theme, the self importance of this cruise ship, monstrous and lifeless. gorski composes his pictures like

a painter. he removes condenses, straightens. it's not seeming the authentic that interests him but reality. spy hides what is true, what is reality? a writer who writes and crows can also do the world, reproduce it, and you will never ask the question, what are you writing here? did you see it somewhere exactly like that? that was like a photograph from the same position now, and it would look completely different. you know, off the road. there is no one view. i know this girl skis, overwhelming images of the traces of our existence only reveal the view of the world. at 2nd glance to the bottom of the sea. now that's where british sculptor james de cares. taylor clears away trash and replaces it with art. his latest sculptures in the south of france

weigh over 10 tons apiece. mm. all. no cause for alarm. this museum is flooded. the underwater museum on the french riviera is now inviting visitors to dive into the collection. ah, virtue scope. jason, because kayla spent more than 4 years creating his latest project, which is also intended to create new habitats for marine animals. and me. tell you that has been creating hon. it's a scotch apart around the globe for 15 years. the world's oceans already home to over a 1000 of his works,

whose appearance changes over time. within a matter of hours, you can see the small changes starting to occur. a week later you see a film of greenhouse cover the whole piece. then you start to get sponges, you'll get carls forming fish will start to hide within the next and crannies and a lot of the textures and formations that the things that a human hand can ever produce. so detailed essays minute jason, because taylor has plans for many more underwater museums in the red sea for the polar regions. for example, the, you know, i hope working on the water is a way for us to, to look at our natural environment very, very differently. you know, it's, it's not something that we own or commodified, or resource the, you know, we can, so it's actually, you know, natural space,

this interconnected with everywhere on our planet and borders and, and delineations just doing matter under water. ah, the and it's been great having you with us for this edition of arts and culture for more check out our website anytime. take care the next time the, the, the the, the the

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