this is much less the way from just one week. how much was going to really get we still have time to go. i'm doing all the subscriber or more like ah, what a difference a year makes football fans follow the european championships. in some places, even without masks the bands are playing before live audiences and people are traveling again. but it's all of that. a good idea. just over a year ago, the corona virus made the world shut down,

brought death and despair. i'm seeing young patients, old patient, people of all age ranges, who are just incredibly sick and you can even hear it. now that as i'm walking through patients rooms in the hallway, you just hear oxygen. now, there are vaccines and countries where many people have had them more than half the population in the worst country, the u. s. in britain, that's even 2 thirds. after more than a year of code 19, we've become familiar with complex medical terminology, difficult biological concepts. but we also realize it's not going away that easily . britain and the united states are having trouble convincing more people to get vaccinated. jo delta, very, and spreading rapidly. and vast regions like africa, still lack of actions. is it really time to celebrate

in the welcome to your coven, 900 special? i'm chris, kolber, and berlin. life is beginning to return to normal and main places as the worst of the condemning looks like it might be behind us. but there are spots in the world where it's a different story, like an australia where several cities are reintroducing restrictions to try to contain new covered $900.00 clusters. some linked to the delta varied sidney darwin have begun. you locked up while other cities are re introducing mask, where are the 5 percent of australia's population have been fully vaccinated? now the shows dealing and living with the virus is still necessary for now covered 19 isn't gone. that's good. more on this from julian tang, he's a vi ologist and

a clinical micro biology professor at lester university in the u. k. welcome to the w julian for more than a year. the current of iris has determined the daily lives of people around the globe. now you've been researching respiratory virus for years. how is this virus different so this far as is not really behaving much differently from a typical pandemic virus entering a totally sexual human population, i think was different about this far as now is the way we can actually study it in real time. and also track all the different computations as well as the case numbers. death rates, agents, matic, vis symptomatic transmission and infection. also, the vaccine development, anti virus child being developed for this pandemic that the current of ours is not as badly as a bowl, for example, nor is difficult to combat of h i v. nevertheless, it has triggered an unprecedented global crisis. how exactly?

so h or the tensor talked to certain group of the population and the bell again is very geographically confined, whereas the, my team is really affected. everybody from every country are socio economic status, that individual and also including the health care work in them. so this is a facet spreads and very much one of the vein of influenza. the measles, for example. we also term cause a infection and it's very transmissible preceptor magically which is different from the previous saw as far as back in 2003. and also different from things like small fox and, and the bowl as to some extent. because it can actually be transmitted up to 5 days before some to onset. and some people never develop symptoms at all and kill prince those for the virus. and i was seeing a penetration into the, in the population in primary school, secondary schools where these children mixing classes of 20 to 30 every day, 5 days a week and bring the vice home to the parents so that i don't care is and i was

seeing much, much more of a focus with the population who haven't been vaccinated yet. now the younger population being more affected by the current of ours is one of the things that has many people worried when it comes to the delta vary. and how worried are you about this mute? so this are the reasons why this is actually breaking through the double dose vaccinated individuals in the population to come at a time when the vaccination of the older people had been mercy, completes it. so there was still seen some breaking infections there, but now is focusing on the younger people and the young people are the ones who are still working and driving the economy as well as in full time education. and also seeing an emergence of long coded in a greater way than previously. conspiracy was obscured by deaths and hospitalization cases. but now we see a lot of long emerging fish,

50 people having hard kid to get long term with this become a chronic, helps a burden on the society doing when the current virus started developing these various word among scientists was, well, variance are more contagious, but probably less deadly or less likely to trigger severe cases. is that still the case when it comes to the delta vary? so it's hard to say at the moment and now we've got, you know, delta plus with the delta a y won carrying the south african for 17 and mutation. if these parents keep emerging and changing as we tried to assess. and it's very hard to find severity in a very different way. but one aspect we haven't really picked upon now that we did, especially last year, was this idea of antibody dependent enhance. but i just wondering whether the previous community given by vaccine or national question to the original who had virus, might be wrapped in a different way to these new a variance that may actually allows me to have severity of illness based on that

baseline of immunity induced by the previous one, virus immunity or the vaccines which are based on the original virus. that's something that we need to look into. now scientists have learned a lot about the current iris in just the course of one year and quickly develop effective vaccines as well. what are the things that researchers do not yet know, and that they're specifically looking into ok, so there's just some news come out from you about the mixed vaccine regimen. which shows that if you give one of the actors and then a 2nd, those are the 54 weeks later you get a very good level of community to this mix and max vaccine seems to work quite well . and even the reverse order seems to be quite effective. so that will help hopefully, broad the vaccine options globally. but of course, the money will actually have to try and this. the other thing is whether reinfection or break transactions also have a,

a kind of higher risk or lower risk of long kaywood. this is just national infection for the 1st time. we're not sure what the consequences of reinvention would be, because a lot of infections of milder we don't know whether that actually increases or decreases the risk long have it as well. doing, in your opinion, have mistakes been made in research that might have contained the extent of the pandemic briefly if you would. yes, i think all of europe in north america realized that it could have acted earlier and will dramatically from southeast asia and australia, new zealand locked down the virus earlier to give time. so the fact seems to be developed and distributed or product ministered. so the countries like australia, new zealand, and soc is, is in countries the got it right, the 1st part, the pandemic. now what we seeing is a increased degree of action hesitancy and refusal in those same countries that actually did very well controlled the virus because they see the process less of the threatened, the vaccine effects. and that change in that mentality needs to be made to protect

everybody from ongoing reputation virus on the generation of new variance. jillian tang of lester and versity. thank you for your thoughts. thank you. and now it is time to put one of your questions to our science, corresponded or williams paul new code 19 variance just grew stronger and stronger over time. oh, this is a test question to answer because it assumes that evolution is predictable which it isn't. mutation happens randomly and virus genomes, as they replicate, and the physical changes that those genetic changes end up causing the virus is what we mean when we talk about it evolving a tiny fraction of those mutations by just by sheer dumb log,

they'll provide variance with evolutionary advantages of some kind, a big advantage, as we've seen, for instance, with the alpha and the delta variance, as far as covey to is. if a variant becomes more transmissible for some reason, but trans miss ability can increase for a range of reasons. one is say that a variant is able to get yourself to make a lot more other than your average work day. sorry, cubby to virus can. another would be if the variant were able to remain viable longer and the environment hands increasing its chances of infecting someone. so very different reasons. same effect, see what i mean about predicting the stuff. so when you say stronger and stronger, which i assume means causing worse and worse disease, then you have to start by asking whether doing so would provide

a variant with evolutionary advantage of some time and, and it's hard to see how it would a lot of biologists say, a more optimal combination of traits for a virus is to grow, eventually more transmissible, but at the same time, less deadly. because if a pathogen doesn't kill people, they're going to be around to spread it to others, and they're more likely to let down their guard. and in fact, each other with it. so though we can't predict with any certainty what future stars toby to variance will look like many experts expect them to spread more easily, but cause less severe disease. could well be that within 10 or 20 years, getting over 19 won't be any worse for the average person, then say, catching a cold is today. but because evolution isn't predictable, that's just a hopeful guess. me,

evolution isn't predictable. well, that's all for this edition of code 900 special for more information about the pandemic. you can check out the code 900 section on our website at www dot com until next time. thanks for watching ticket. the news people in trucks injured was trying to see the city center more and more refugees are being turned away. the families claim to be crated. and the people seeing extreme dreams getting 200 people around the world. more than

300000000 people are speaking with you. why? because no one should have to flee the make up your own mind. w. need for mines. the how they view of the well the where i come from the all that glitters the go to just like with chinese food, that measure where i am all with your minds me of home. after the case of living in germany, chinese food is one of the things i miss the lows. but that taking a step back, i see things a little differently now mental fluids 1st, i think regulations that exist as a part of the world haven't been implemented in china. and lots of chinese wondering if they're saved. but if people have arrived to learn really is,

this is the job and assume how i see it. and this is why i left my job because i tried to do exactly this every day. my name is adding to and i work at the w me the, the greetings from balmy berlin and welcome to arts and culture. the psychological pressure cooker of a world, a wash in information inspires new work, fine german artists know about this key. and also coming up efforts to preserve the ancient libraries of ching get tea in more retain. you may be in vain as the sahara desert encroaches at an alarming rate and durham, and also jenny, often back to the 3rd novel visitation. as this week's pick for a summer must read,

but steeped in history or normal sky is one of germany's most successful. contemporary artists he exhibits worldwide, but his current solo exhibition is right in his home town. awful. i pick, this infotainment explores how the pandemic age specifically has in many ways diminished our space of experience to the screams of our many technical devices and how a world ruled by digital technology echoes other forms of oppression. me know that biscuit takes artifacts from the past and uses them to comment on are complicated present. the result is an organized chaos of computers, doors, and fluorescent tubes, almost all of which originally came from the exhibition building. in so doing, he combines the design vocabulary of the 1900 eighty's with his art

and the finished bottles and put on i think it's incredibly interesting to have this sort of bracket from the antediluvian 1900 east german robot. tron computers where they tried to collect people's data, but didn't really manage it to the current situation where our life is completely determined by algorithms and machines cycles. and everyone's got one of those things in their hand and stare that a smart phone, a laptop or some other monitor, laptop and wanting to please our systems, find that the light to burn, biscuit has arranged in front of his paintings and what i'm mistaken in them isn't imprisonment within digital world being confronted with hatred and the insistence on self presentation, even against a backdrop of danger. biscuits painting is not suggestive. it makes direct even bold statements to the viewer in garish colors. the exhibition touches on teams of information, overload, entertainment, and misinformation orient always. if we have an incredible flood of

information, we have an incredible flood of misinformation or as incorrect absurd theory of conspiracy fears and theory. and on the other hand, over the past months, we've unfortunately not really had any new impulses in our real life. kind of noise and poison, obviously for biscuit, who was socialized in east germany, the lights, the concert hallo, offers an intriguing location for his flourish of the seas. this building has an interesting history. it was built of an extension of lights, the state owned data processing center. here as and other such centers in east germany, the socialist republic was to become more digital with enormous computers. but the end of socialism put an end to those plans and the computers never arrived. not a biscuit uses this historical legacy, old robot tron pcs and other remnants of the place and arrange

everything else with bombs. and i take on all that madness and like a child, i sit down among it all and rearrange it off. i think that's something i also do on the canvases with annoy or cut things up and glue them down again on mirrors or on campuses. i take a similar approach with the installation here and playing with the materials i find for him. and he stacks the objects layers and arranges them in front of his paintings which are from various periods of his career. but put together, they express a feeling of turmoil, supposedly innocent, vulnerable faces. disc is beautiful, young men disintegrate, explode, or scream, and rage, ah,

falling into an abyss. this light motif as biscuits can be seen in a large scale painting, which can be read as a reference to a fear laden world whose downfall is being invoked. yeah. it's pretty quiet. i find 2 aspects interesting about this. one is the permanent fear mongering that the world will end. that's something that's been going on for ages. the world has been ending for centuries. and on the other hand, the question of how we isn't our fear. and how do we actually imagine that the world is going to end dollar and the stand yield on each for dusty very don't again build ditton. so tainment shows norbert bisk is apocalypse, including unrestrained media consumption and the overwhelming flood of images. we struggle to process that has colorful paintings. the artist conveys both dreamily and clearly the restlessness inherent in our time. and in other

news, the 2021 b. e. t or black entertainment television awards on sunday gave the impression that life was back to normal in tinseltown. megan the stallion car, the been and queen latifah were among the winners at an all out in person event that lived up to its chosen theme, which with year off, the black woman and the image will mel brooks creator of popular genre, spoofing films, such as blazing saddles and young frankenstein and the broadway and movie version of the producers turns $95.00. on monday, the actor for doing their director and eternal comedian is one of the few people who is achieved. an e got. having won an emmy, a grammy and an oscar tony unesco world heritage sites and get tea in northern mauritania, has long been

a gathering place for pilgrims on their way to mecca. founded in the 8th century, the desert away soon became a major center of science and religion in west africa. and the books and manuscripts left behind by travellers were gathered and preserved into a network of libraries full of the nearly 30 original libraries. only 5 remain today, but political instability, climate change, and the encroaching sounds of the sahara. mean basics, language, islamic treasures are in jeopardy. oh, i will use the ancient to teaching. give you more attain. you has woken travellers speaking by blistering. you ah, the city has served as a caravan star for both pilgrims and scholar alike from behind, priceless striking that is de house in libraries like this one. if you lose here we are in my house. that good, excellent,

for me is the collection of my family. my mom was exec told the oldest states from 1699. i've erica jim. safe is a proud custodian for the trophy, collected by his ancestors. many of these ancient works were left behind by pilgrims on their way to mecca. the moon is 11. you have a famous arabic book. you have the scientific astronomy, and here we have a cash mamma. on the small, the smallest my collection for a travel pocket book, i mean, you know, she had a stretch in the region. the tourists way has receded in recent years. but there are plenty of other changes for those guarding the manuscripts. the biggest threat as the blistering heat of a sahara de la glum, owns one of the most renowned libraries here. his collection over

a 1000 works many with no gazelle skin and lined with gold, is being eaten away by termite. catering trough never sudle. some little brother to marty's, in this hotel. yes. considered a p and imitative nobody needed to set out ample time to come outside another problem to get his time. such remaining library is the aggressive expansion of this with frequent sandstone, into the local home with them and will take you to the, to the home at the mean in charge of library maintenance. in order to get in the 1st way this month,

the you have to move in to move like this house was built in 1993. the full there was no brainer sand now the rises to 50 centimeters here. but i think of something already said there was a level of the roof of building for me that cost extra, which is $3.00 community will note that the rows of trees planted for protection have proved no match for the encroaching deserts. the now least can get his time captured. libraries are still the most part standing. the jenny alton back was born in east berlin in 1967. and she was originally a theater and pro director before she turned to full time writing. meanwhile,

her works have been translated into nearly 20 languages and in our series on german books in english, we feature her 3rd marvel, visitation, which the british guardian ranked number 90 on its list of 100 best books on the 21st century. a quiet here in the german countryside. now every corner of this country, even cute little lake houses, have seen some of the darkest chapters of history, especially in the last century. jenny alban beck's book, visitation, is inspired by her grandmother's lake house. and it's many different owners who displaced each other. busy busy a jewish family forced to flee before the nazis murdered their relatives,

an architect his wife is raped by a red army soldier in the closet. he built for her, who later runs away from the east german communists. a pair of riders returning from soviet exile. you've heard the expression, there is no place like home. but what happens when there is no way you belong? when you've arrived, can you still be said to be fleeing? and when you are fleeing, can you ever arrive in visitation? the characters, fates are all tied together by the brutality of the 20th century. whether or not they realize it. it's a quiet little place in germany's not so very quiet history me. ah, i finally and yet another sign that live entertainment is resuming bruce springsteen returned to broadway this past weekend with a reprise of his offer biographical sho springsteen on broadway. it was an emotional appearance and so will leave you with that. and until next time go. well,

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