the china is promised partners rich in europe, there's a sharp warning you want wherever, except money from the new super power will be dependent on in china's gateway starts july. first on d, w. you're watching d. w news, asia coming up today. what happened to taiwan once, a paragon of how to tackle the pandemic? it now faces covert tara, with most of the population, unvaccinated and living under locked down. we take a closer look. and in indonesia which resources is more precious, 10 or fish? that depends on who you ask as miners and fishers based off plus preserving pakistan's peacock how concert conservation is managed to save the 1st one population decline. the

news i melissa chance, thanks for joining us. tie one, why is such a success story throughout the 1st year of the cobra pandemic at the start. c of 2021. you could count the total number of deaths on your hands, and then things went sideways. the country of 23000000 has seen a spike this summer with more than 14000 cases. and based on the latest information on thursday, 599 deaths, less than 7 percent of people have had their 1st vaccine injection, which means hardly any one is fully vaccinated. d, w 's when you li, has more running in and out every day. 39 year old mister chan delivers 300 orders a week. the reason koby the outbreak in taiwan house brought him more orders, but he had to take more risk. think over 90 percent of the population on like him,

have a think about the made it? well this, i know i live with my 5 children, my wife and my mother. you asked me if i'm worried about them. of course i am. i had so many children and i worry that i might get them infected play to live johnny or the father of 5, he have no choice but to go out and make money. those are good to i hope the government can offer food delivery drivers, vaccines as soon as possible. we're in contact with so many people doesn't. it's not hundreds every day. you too many are still waiting while the vaccination program for elderly started rolling last week, vaccines that taiwan has received to date can only cover one 5th of 23500000 people would get an email. there isn't enough vaccine support. i mean, we have an a vaccine. what can we do?

mass vaccinations, that's the 1st layer of protection for all of the people that something that she wants to continue the virus. and the insistence on developing domestic vaccines. my have delayed is vaccine acquisition strategy. and it was our mis judgement last year, not being able to, for seeing that there will be such backing shortage. and we might have being a bit too confident about what we could do in terms of our own dramatically develop the vaccine. at least $1.00 to $1.00 is fasting company has finally reviewed its phase 2 clinical trials this month and has apply for taiwan. emergency use authorization, it could be taiwan hope, whether it's applications or not still remains the open question, but at least sufficient scientific

data to think it might be efficacious in such regards. it just to have it approved in case of need to so we can use it. while the pony back thing is still waiting for authorization, the government is trying to secure more overseas jap, so that people like mister chang, will no longer need to worry that they and their families could get infected. joining us as d w when ye lee and ty pay, who filed that report when he, let's talk about this domestic vaccine and trials. how advanced and robust is highlands farm industry? i mean, we hear about the big players in europe in the u. s. and generic production in india, but taiwan. does it even have a reputation for cutting edge medical r and d? so actually a high, why now, how your company is developing domestic. coby nightenback things. one is measure mentioned in the report. another one is nike bio medical. these 2 companies are

relatively small, but companies like manage and you have some experience working with leading organizations such as the us national institute house, for example, at how thing go developing vaccines against gay. and oh, so it's just now a successful re child of the and true virus last week. so this time this company met a manager is developing the call the 19 back thing also with in collaboration with the us national institute of house based child data looks really good. the expert space, however, is how protective it is still needs to be examined. now given tie one strategy to bed on a domestic farm, a producer, as well as getting too comfortable with its cobit it. free status. are people

demanding accountability from the government? so yes, 2 people here and i want to criticize the tony government for not getting enough vaccines from overseas. think that's how why high, why is still developing its own colby? nice thing. we still haven't gotten things from overseas as well. but if we look back in march or april, there was actually a modem out of the come back thing coming in and it's oh, it was open for public to get the native for people who were willing to pay for themselves. how ever, during that time we all knew that there was actually no cobit, almost no covey hearing. i want to people feel the urgency and also didn't feel the pressure to get vaccinated. and some people even feel that thing was not

protective enough and they would rather wait for motor, not vaccine or 5 or vaccine. so that's why we cannot only live for the government here in taiwan people. oh, so how's the entire atmosphere here that there was no urge and people and the government back then also told, told the public that taiwan had time to wait when he lee. thank you so much for joining us. thank you. the whole to industries are clashing around in island in indonesia where lucrative ting mines have moved off shore, threatening the areas rich fishing grounds activists are trying to stop the mines, moving out to sea, but in a place for good paying work is hard to find the mines have their supporters as well. a cluster of boats like an offshore village,

but this is a mining operation. the work is the boat. they've pontoons, dredging, the ocean floor in search of tin indonesia, the world's number one exporter. but for many, it's now too tough to find 10, assure the dollar they will and i'm getting harder to minus 10 on land. so i have to mine and see, but there are no more 10 resources left on the land that you will each point. so uses a pipe to suck up sand from the sea bed. it's been sifted to trap the glittery black granules of 10 or but local fishermen say they catch and their livelihoods a suffering because of the mining. they say it's destroying the underwater fish habitat and polluting that once proceed. waters and it done by young coming at us.

i got the minus impact on us is incredible. what you can tell by our shrinking catch? we used to get 10 kilograms a day. now, only to kilograms at all, forgot to work it all by while most fishermen, a sympathetic to the mine is plight, they still demand an end to the activities. but i got so much, we know those miners are fighting for their lives and we appreciate that. but what they're doing is wrong that i didn't fell off years of land mining has ravaged many of indonesia islands leaving craters and highly acidic lakes behind. but despite the damage and the difficulties, the rising price of tin is even bringing many people back to the business somewhere. hey, miguel, my motto is as long as there is mining, there's hope because this place is heaven. as long as sand exists, 10 will always be there. but i think it,

if international demand for 10 remain high, indonesia will likely have plenty of mine is out at sea and on land. in a remote and dry corner of pakistan near the indian border, a wildlife sanctuary has protected a complex ecosystem for migratory war birds. it's a place for flamingoes to stores to pelicans live and it's where conservation is. have made special efforts to save one rare bloom of a bird. the splendor as display of the indian blue peacock fanning out his feathers, trying to attract the attention of some near by hints. the striking birds live in the wild in just a few remaining places. and this is one of them. the rent of coach was love century in pakistan's remote pac, our region. but deforestation and recurring drought threatened even this last habits had already said

margaret got to the coaches. the birds will try to leave when they don't find enough water, 70, or the to migrate to find, to get the last and many on table to return what my company up us. so you see a major crisis here. said the, the boat. i'm gosh, gotta be but now the p fell coming back. thanks to the efforts of wildlife conservationists who provide water for the birds all year round. lucky bunny, joanna, we bring tank is full of water for me. see. and we distribute the water here for these birds funding up in we're trying to return this place to the p felt natural habitat. so we can keep them here, you know, will up, it's all day. locals are also playing a part in ensuring the p. f. l survival as new villages and hamlets encroach onto

the century. they've also increased the inviolable food and water. the many that i came here 6 years ago to karen and saw these birds in a miserable condition. but there's nothing to eat or drink money. they cannot. i used to live in miffy, but left my work there to come here and feed these birds with dana strong seasonal rains of also help the p fell population a decade ago and hit its low point of 200000 birds to day conservation and can barely count them in shallow luck, i'm sure we have millions of people. we're protecting them and god willing in the coming years the results will be even better than orbits emilita. so sites like this a clearly on the way back a success story for peacock conservation in pakistan. that's it for today. we leave you with pictures from tokyo as the city prepares for the summer olympics,

which kicks off and just under a month, it's been a fraud and delay journey. thanks for watching and see you tomorrow. the bye with the news. the fight against the corolla virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection in developing? what does the latest research say information and contact the corona virus, not because it's 19 special. next on d, w. turn to 16. that's a good bunch of clean cars. the want to see if germany was for me the last few years have been quite right, getting in touch with the cabinet averted on my home when it comes to germany. and

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hello and welcome to kirby 900 special. i'm monica jones and i am a vegetarian it's true. been one for more than 30 years, even though my family then insisted. but it's important to eat, need a common notion in those days. so now there is a study that says vegetarians could be in better shape to deal with a co, with 19 infection. let's find out why. the idea that diet has a role in preventing disease has been around for decades, as has the victim to eat a range of foods, including fruit and vegetables. today, the outcome of a covey 19 infection appears to be the latest in a string of ways in which vegetarians may fare better. in terms of health. recent us study published one of the british medical journals publications looked at helping predominantly vegetarian impacted the severity of a covert infection. people who mostly followed

a plant based diet with found to be 73 percent less likely to develop a moderate to severe case of cove. it if they did get infected tough compared to those who ate the high protein, low carbohydrate diet. it's sort of embedded in a huge discussion of how the help the big problem here is how do we find this out? and this is a interesting study because they use a population which is likely to, to be effective as co it. and i'd like to, to expose to cope with that. that is really interesting because the participants in the study were from line health care workers in france, germany, italy, spain, the u. s. and the u. k. more than 2000 doctors nurses was to record what they ate, whether or not they got it. and if they did, how low and severe their illness was supposed to follow. predominantly plant based

diets were much less likely to get seriously if they became infected. even when age an exercise, habits were taken into account, what we eat also reflects who we are more broadly. in western countries, vegetarians are also more likely to be well educated, health, conscious, and female. these factors all have a bearing on the outcome of a covert infection. a minute crucial point of view is always, i think it's worrying about attrition is generally not a good idea. it's, it's, in most cases the diet is fine. if you sort of get it some a balanced and they'll go to one extreme or the other. i think that there is to push people into eating disorders is often worse than the benefit one because of the for years. that's been a debate about the relationship between lifestyle choices and disease. privet is just the latest reason to do so. and it shows that a healthy diet doesn't necessarily protect against disease,

but it can support immunity. but for more i'm joined by she now crookshank. she's professor off a bio medical sciences, and an immunology is of university of manchester, a very good to have you with us. and going by this report, i suspect that you are a budgetary and perhaps of egan. actually no, i am no terran or a v can i do me a predominantly based diet so, but i do enjoy concessions as well. okay, so it's not all that bad but died related health issues. they suddenly have been quickly recognized as a huge risk factor. what exactly happens to our immune system when our diet is not healthy? well, it's not really surprising that guy has an impact on our system. because if you think about it, the ability to find infections and the ability to get nutrition from the face that

we are really fundamental for lice as a very, very, into trying way. know very typical western diet, it's high and low in vegetables can call something called met, inflammation. this is where you are immune to balance and you have a kind of a low level inflammation, which surprisingly makes you less able to deal specifically with infections. so you are more vulnerable to cope it. so it is well known that our western style diet is famously unhealthy. lots of sugar switches, you name it all boosting as we just said, our inflammatory levels, which is bad for our immune system. but why then, has cobit 19 costs such havoc, income trees like india, where a vegetarian diet is so much more widespread? well, you've got to look at all the different factors that come into play there. unfortunately,

we've got a lot of poverty in jail. got a lot of overcrowded, so that means it's very easy for the inspection to spread. you may have people who are malnourished, you make people who have other infections, make them less able to fend off the disease. and we have issues around am, a lack of treatment, resources, oxygen, etc. so there's an infrastructure issue there. so cove, it's not just about having a di is also part looking at the other ways you can mitigate your risks. looking at how ventilated your spaces are looking at how much close compacts you've got with people and the activities that you did right now. now if people watching this start to panic can sink. oh my god, i have not been eating healthily. i have to change for last year. british prime minister boys johnson launched and eat healthy campaign as part of the united kingdom fight against the pandemic. how long does it take to have any effect and

anything you can report there already? well, i'm not sure how much you're having in the u. k. broadly. i'm not aware that he's looking at that, but certainly we know the in, in just for the 6 weeks time, you can really see a huge impact on your immune system. print, changing your lifestyle, just bringing it a bit more variety into the food that you eat. looking at how you kind of get to the right size, a little bit more, not sitting at your computer screen all day. those sorts of things can have a really quick effect. i'm just so simple to do that we can all do it. it sounds very easy, but i'm just wondering, is there a one size fits all healthy diet and lifestyle? i think the good, well, the variation because some people are more predisposed to conditions than others. however, the very simple that such is looking at the variety in your diet and looking at

just being a little bit more mobile. i'm not talking extreme exercise looking at your stress levels. these are things that we can all do and the very least they improve are wealthy. and obviously, i mean to, to have a healthy diet to exercise. all of that is fairly much common knowledge and certainly in parts of the world where people can actually afford to have a healthy life style. they still don't all do it. i mean, if this doesn't make us change our habits, what will well, i think that we have actually seen some positive steps into changing our habit because we've seen a lot of people know that they were forced to stay in doors. they really salt the times that they could go outside and they've been exploring their neighborhood. they've been trying to find the green areas. there is more curiosity about what we can do to stay healthy. so there is more of an interest in that. so i think

optimistic actually that maybe now we can start to make a difference, but we need education campaign so that people know what to do, what to eat, and how to get those things that can make them feel better. what did you have for lunch? just to follow up. well that's, that's one way to learn way to do it. she know she crookshank, the professor of biomedical sciences and immunology, just as much as the university. thank you so much for your time. thank. so if a healthy lifestyle protects us from getting seriously ill, what about some less healthy habits? time for your questions now, over to eric bull, is it true that nicotine protects you from cooper 19? 0, a little over a year ago. what's called the nicotine offices made headlines when, when

a couple of studies suggested that tobacco's best known, active chemical might help to protect you from getting cobit 19. the hypothesis was based on what the researcher said was a disconnect between the number of smokers coming down with the disease and the number of smokers that should have been coming down with a disease. since then, however, there's evidence from other studies that when adjusted for other factors, smokers likely do get cobit 19 as often as non smokers. and what's clear is that when they do get it, it's more likely to take a serious turn that really shouldn't come as much of a surprise, i mean, pandemic, or no. pandemic smoking is just terrible for your health. and at least the groundwork for many of the co morbidities that are associated very clearly with

more severe cove at $900.00 outcomes. there is an interesting aspect to this question. however, that still being pursued, which is what effect nicotine might have when given to people directly, rather than by having them inhaled smoke from from burning tobacco. there are a couple of different studies looking at things like whether for instance, nicotine patches applied to non smoker patients. and hospitals might affect the course of their cobra. 19, some researchers think the chemical might interfere with or, or block the receptor that the virus uses to enter cells. and that it could therefore contribute maybe to a future treatment in some way. but the studies i found looking into questions like that are pretty small scale and they haven't yet released findings. so i wouldn't count on

a really convincing argument for it anytime soon. mm eric williams there and he'll be back tomorrow. of course, that's all from this addition of our cobit $900.00 special. thank you so much for joining us and to stay healthy. ah, the news? the news? news, the news, the, the who's? who's

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