discrimination inequality or sort of everyday life. for many we ask why? because the life is diversity. to make up your own mind. aah, b. w. need for mines. the o. o keeping schools safe from covered 19 vaccines, one defense. but most kids are still waiting for the job. in the meantime, testing is critical. children often don't develop severe cases of the corona virus, but they can spread it, putting teachers and families at risk. androgen tests so far made the grade. but is there a better way to stop the spread of the disease and benches all and welcome to the show, some german schools and now using the lowly pop test. sounds like fun. not all pupils

so enthusiastic about it, but better than a long swab up the noise. die down to provide you already in 30 seconds. go. then it's been loading the 32nd. the susan at this elementary school in cologne. second, which was the swabs. and then go to a lab where they are tested, that's a cover this you method names to make testing easier for young children. and it's quite good. it's definitely better than no test test. a shouldn't in our guns pack, i find is quite handy because afterwards i feel safe about whether or not i have corona me over the smokers they can have up. but the taste is disgusting. i always tried to think of lollipops and after was still doesn't leave my mouth from the

camp takes the cotton swabs to the lab, logistical challenge. because another 500 schools, i'm bringing their test here in the lab. the swamps are tested using what's known as the pooling missile. this means all cotton swabs from one class evaluated together in one test. this is because the only test is expensive to save pays around 50 euros per analysis. each month, if you take 20 swap or presenting 20 students and divide them by 50 euro's then you get a good price. additionally, we would have to add the cost of the logistics and the materials that use on that i think what absolutely competitive with the repertoire if the pool is positive, individual retesting is required. generally,

the left doesn't deliver the results until the next morning. but that would still be early enough to break a potential chain of infection set and then click sod for the semester. yeah, we are multiplying the genetic material of this virus by effect of 30 trillion. this means that you can recognize a virus activity and it is very low fee and not only when someone is highly infectious and already spreading that virus load among. animate mentioned sometime . here at the elementary school, several infections have been detected and an early stage using lolly test. although covet cases are currently declining in germany. kids will continue using the test at least until the summer holidays. and who is head of the to berkeley closest program to find the foundation for innovative new diagnostics, a global of lines for the sector in some places in the world,

kids are being tested before, all adult, fully immunized, but only in some in the meantime, tests and alternative in preventing the spread of cobra. would you say? definitely testing is really one of the most powerful tools we have to control discredit because we can use to test to diagnose new variance and it protects those who are not vaccinated. and you know, to control outbreaks, you need to test to trade control isolate and a lot of the kids are not protected by the max. seems we need these accurate, affordable in child friendly testing strategies. and we saw some more effective or efficient ways of doing it there in cheap way. this is testing children though, any more challenging than testing adults. definitely the challenge is i mean many as one of the kids said today the year the natal swaps they are very unpleasant and it's often not easy to be with the kids to or to get tested. so if the child is

uncomfortable with his attrition and runs around and then the sample quality might be below and then the test is is unreliable. so the lot about testing approach is really an efficient way to get a lot of kids to the same time. so it makes more sense than, than the usual nasal and throat swabs of the other any other alternatives and development? well, many different ways to to test and we are constantly looking for, for less invasive methods like the nasal swaps not than the ones that go further. and we also look at new innovations and through funding from the german government . and we looking into work, for instance, face masks where we capture the virus in the mosque. all the groups are looking at fish intelligence where you, where you coffins or your smart phone, and then you have an interpretation. you can use smart watches to monitor

temperature. so that's a lot of things in the pipeline. so i work a lot on testing for children in regular basis. and one of the challenges we have here is that rely on the students about the stuff you caught up from the long. and it's really difficult for children. so here we actually have to sometimes put a shoop into the nose and into the stomach and it stays there for 3 days. then you wash the stomach for for the back and get the bacteria. so we've used stool or the proof the child tended to sample and it works quite well. so there's some procedures have different challenges and children are always the hardest group and we need really new reasons, research and development to make that happen. but i'm sure a lot of people, including kids, would be quite enthusiastic about the multitasking mask can. can you tell us more about that, how effective that would be? well, it's early days and there's

a lot of research being done at this university of lesta and you can buy other groups and it's already being explored in humans as an adult at the moment. yeah. so we think are covered, we are starting to see the best new results coming up also for, for tv. so it's an opportunity to potentially test for multiple diseases using this approach. and you know, once we out of code, it might be useful for us virus or flu, that kind of thing. but more than whether or not we're talking about little big human beings. the thing about rapid tests is that they're quite likely to deliver those false positives. we've often spoken about on this. so is there any way around that? well, you know, they are, we are looking at trying to find implying affordable tests and it's very important to always have evaluations that compare different tests against each other. so to

choose the best kind of test in each class, we're working here with, with apartments across the world to, to make these independent evaluations. for instance, the university clinic and heidelberg and shoving to berlin and, you know, some tests up better than others. and well, we basically need to, to try new approaches and yeah, for me, the lollipop approach really seems to be a great invention with for the situation right now in germany with, with a relatively low incidence seats. the right thing on the whole of their head of the tuberculosis program at find the foundation for innovative, new diagnostics with some innovations and testing and the importance of testing for children. thank you very much. thank you. he'll turn now his derek williams with you a question on vaccines and variance call the current

vaccine scooting selected variance to search. oh, this is another of those internet rumors that gain some traction in the last few weeks, because somehow it sounds like it might be kind of plausible, but it actually isn't to explain why i have to go over some of the basics. again, all viruses evolved randomly over time as they replicate. and the minuscule number of those mutations will prove advantageous. let's say that one of them makes a mutant a lot more transmissible. and humans, while are a potentially dangerous new variance. over time, that variance offspring could start to supplant earlier versions of the virus, simply because the variance spreads to more unprotected people in

a population within a short period of time because it's more transmissible. so when you start to look for that very specifically in that population, you see increasing numbers of people getting a search. but that's an effect that can be traced back to the variance ability to spread faster, and people with no immunity, not something that's caused by or driven by vaccines. what vaccines do is turn unprotected people into protected people with immune systems that are quickly able to shut down any subsequent infections with source code to whether that infection would have been with a fast spreading berry and or, or a slower spreading one. in other words, they keep us from turning into factories where the pathogen can replicate a lot, and the less the virus replicates,

the fewer chances it has to mutate. so in the long run, vaccines will actually help prevent other potentially dangerous new variance from arising by slowing and stopping the spread of stars covey to and drastically reducing the number of times that it's able to make copies of itself. me. finally, we asked children aged between 6 and 15 in dozens of countries to take part in a project, recording their impressions of the crisis. we leave you with their drawings, that normally convey the sadness and loneliness, but also the admiration they have for doctors and nurses. i

use the case and above all how it feels jewish life in europe. that's what film producer and journalist goodman are exploring, delving into history and the present. i would never have thought they could believe . so. i didn't say i constantly remind myself because i grew up in

a completely different way. fraud, early jewish in years. the 2 port documentary starts july 5th on d w. i me, oh oh, i can't because you're in this. oh, oh, no, no. no.

the the the, the berlin international film festival is more than just red carpets, star power and glamour. it's also one of the world's most political film festival. and one of the very topical films in this year is line up is the documentary courage about last year's crushed protests against fraudulent elections and bell roofs ahead of the screening bell, russian opposition leader spedlari ticket knob sky. i was in berlin speaking out against her countries. authoritarian leader, alexander lucas shank,

she told reporters that lucas shank of political prisoners were no longer living, but merely existing. she also called for more international support for bella, russian civil society and a free media. took enough guy and other opposition figures are supporting the release of the documentary courage and the film director alex a poly on follows the fate of 3 actors who joined last year protests ah, scenes of peaceful protests in fellow roofs last summer. caught in the documentary courage today, they look like images from another era. it's so painful for us to see our, our, our cpr, many so beautiful desist. how to tell the people of the streets with our wives arrayed, wiped the flags, and to understand that we lose this digital. when in over 2020, the film follows 3 actors turn protestors, dennis paval, and marianna. last summer,

they were full of hope for change. now all 3 live in exile. me. they decided to leave battles because it was not possible to walk and to live in this fear feeding. and they decided to moved to key if and right now, all of them are in exile and give the have to their participation in band demonstrations against dilution. present, alexander luther shinkel both possible and dennis were arrested and detained for 15 days at a prison in minsk. the person plays a central role encourage. here is where families gather to find out the fate of their love once arrested or disappeared by the regime. as soon as they were released, dennis and puzzle left the country. marianna was the last to go. but she too saw the riding on the wall after a case of rain, air,

slight romano percentage renown decided to take the flight from him to kia and she escaped. with her husband and her son in san to kia ah, ah, even before the recent crack down, the actors were banned from performing after staging plays critical of dictatorship . making art inside delarue seems impossible at the moment, but beyond believes his country needs its artist. now more than ever, his speak not only about the theatre artist, but also about about painter, about a writer, filmmaker it's to it's a to try to help people to or can their fear or can

their trauma really depression trauma and to say, please not lose hope you chose the sight, notes of resignation and despair. hope shines through. encouraged and a key seen. a young police officer fix the flower into his riot shield as a sign of solidarity with the protestors who cheer him to hear the film shows convincingly that the vast majority and bella, ruth reject, alexander lucas shank. and that despite the violence and repression, there is real momentum for change. and when you hold that was curious to see him will show me the whole truth of

this pitiful fight from speller was in society again, this sorts of monster and will cry aloud about this topic. and i'm really sure this will changed as a political situation. ah, censorship is also growing stronger in hong kong. the government there and now it's new measures banning any films it considers subversive. earlier this year, hong kong authorities stopped a sold out premier of a protest documentary and pulled the opening film from hong kong international film festival. it was also the 1st time over 50 years that hong kong television didn't broadcast the academy award. a film about the islands protest was one of the nominated well after sexual harassment allegations put his career on

hold. oper legend, placido domingo is making a controversial come back in his home country, spain. ah, this jimmy go accepted an award at madrid's way or theater after singing the night before standing ovation. conservative politicians have welcomed domingo back to spain while leading feminists say it sends the wrong signal. domingo resigned as the head of the l. a opera amid accusations of misconduct toward female performers, the 80 year old has denied any abusive power. domingo isn't the only one accused of abusing power here in germany, some of the countries, renown theaters are also in the spotlight for alleged incidents of racism, sexism and megalomania. stories about the theatre directors mistreating actors.

and since the pandemic had more and more actors have been speaking out, the germany theatres were closed for months. but while stages were empty, behind the scenes, the debates been raging about sexism, racism, and abuse of power. ah, what's gone wrong, a german theatres. ah, a lot of the similar question might be, what's gone well, because essentially everything's gone wrong as to other world meters going to change and i would be presumptuous if i said i knew what it will look like in the end list of the some who's also i am a debt as an actress in berlin. she says, she's never experienced as much racism and sexism as she did in the theatre detective and from the 75 percent of theaters are run by old white men. i have no problem with white men, of course. i mean that's but it raises the question, how are women being portrayed in the theater? how are certain roles being played?

which women get cas hadn't to toilet the? maxine gorky, theater in berlin from a take him, a debt has often performed a future known for highlighting the role of migrants in german society. but it's director sherman lang half has been accused of angry outbursts and nepotism. some say the theaters dominated by a culture of fear. tanya, best men, women aren't better people than men. this is about a systemic problem that is not about peoples gender or skin color or family background drove us from the whole side. that would have us been hinted to i the gorky theater as seen as giving a voice to the oppressed as a space for social criticism calls a growing for it to live up to its reputation. me escaped floyd to people who have to capabilities the skills and the political know how to take over and lead certain theaters to,

to apathy by name and so life on the other side of the country. just off schulhaus theater husband at the center of a debate about racism for months. critics of the theaters, leadership color toxic and racist. the allegations were brought forward by a member of the company con young says a director targeted him with racist jokes. the theater did nothing until he took the story public before for one danger to see when the incident led to us getting outside help. who and that's via thus, thus we wanted an outside perspective on what happened for an awesome and cooking to compile and document. and make the events transparent nameless, and born, or documented war and transplant. my home born an agency from berlin has been called in to help this we chose once to transfer the theater with the help of

workshops and the code of conduct me the most nice talk to. and then we can look at what, what structure is do we need in place in order to successfully portray interesting societal changes to be in the office and to speak to an audience that's increasingly diverse group. as part of the reason it seems like theaters are having a big racism problem. now that this is the 1st time people are working there, who could even experience racism. assessments as matters to 10 to 15. so the stage in berlin features theatre from a black feminist perspective, one of the creators simone did it, or she considers anti racism workshops, a sign of helplessness. she says the real goal, it's better working conditions. ah. in the day it's least people really shifting nursing. you can introduce anti racism policies,

but in the enter so many different ways to beat someone down. what if it's something not racially motivated? abusive behavior. she says, has long been mistaken for genius speech direction. but i'm room to is what i really wish. what happened the next time, some big shot director starts yelling and throwing the script around is for all the actors in the room to just look at him with astonishment and start giggling and go take their lunch, break, holmes. and if a kid and cooking and transportation done, which is low, but us been against the operator and i think we have to reach a clear agreement to you. yes, there is, are freedom. but freedom shouldn't mean infringing on somebody else's dignity pallets and actors have to learn that there aren't empty shells to be filled with some directors, ideas. and there are people who have to voice their needs in order to do their work well. so notice dimensions, and you can dismiss all question. listening to other matters. ah,

germany theatres have a lot of work ahead of them. the big discussion has only just gotten ah, from news from the art world. now before we go, if you look here closely, you might just make out a face wearing a medical mask. well, this handful of pixels sold for more than $11000000.00 at sotheby's auction of digital art. the buyer will receive the face not as a physical art work, but as a heavily encrypted and f t, a non fungible token the work titled crypto punk $75.00 to $3.00 is part of a series of 10000 spaces generated by canadian software developers. and in case you ever wondered how the rolling stones waved before they were famous, here is the answer. an exhibition in france. reconstruct the london apartment,

the ban shared in the early 1900 sixty's. apparently, even the beatles thought it was disgusting when they came to visit the so called unzip. it also features the stones costumes instruments and all kinds of memorabilia. that's it for this edition of arts and culture have a great weekend. ah, the show issues shaping the continents news africa was gone. men what's making headlines? what's behind the industries to give you, industry reports and insights, all the trends that my time to use in 30 minutes on t w. i cause installation

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