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the corona virus made the world shut down, brought death and despair. i'm seeing young patients, old patients, people of all age ranges who are just incredibly sick. and you can even hear it now that as i'm walking through patient 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 cobra, 1900. 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 in your delta vary and spreading rapidly

and vast regions like africa still lack of ac scenes. is it really time to celebrate in the welcome to your covered 900 special? i'm chris kolber and berlin. life is beginning to return to normal in many places as the worst of the pandemic. it looks like it might be behind us, but there are spots on the world where it's a different story. like an australia with several cities are re introducing restrictions to try to contain new coven, 1900 clusters, some linked to the delta varied sydney, and darwin have begun. new 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, coven 19 isn't gone. let's get 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 the term of the daily lives of people around the globe. now you've been researching respiratory a virus for years. how is this virus different so as far as is not really behaving much differently from a typical pandemic virus, anything 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 of different complications as well as the case number, the death rates, the agent matic, this symptomatic transmission infection plus also the vaccine development and the anti virus trials are 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 started. everybody from every country are socio economic status individual and also including the healthcare work in the trap them. so this is a facet spreads very much one of the vein of influenza. the measles, for example. we also turn cause ace inspect 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 folks on the boat 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 until since those spread the virus. and i was seeing penetration into the younger 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 the 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, vaccinate individuals in the population to come at a time when the vaccination of the older people had been mostly 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 the emergence of long have it in a greater way than previously. conspiracy was obscured by deaths and

hospitalization cases. but now we've seen a lot of long emerging 50, some people having hard coded to get long term with the say become a chronic, helps a burden on the society doing when the current virus will 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 death of area? so it's hard to say at the moment and now we go down to plus with the delta, a y one carrying the south african for 17, n mutation. if these parents keep emerging and changing as we tried to assess. and it's very hard to actually find severity in a very different way, the one that we haven't really picked up on. now we did discuss it last year, was this idea of hunky bodies dependent enhance. but i just wondering whether the previous community given by vaccine or nation impressions, 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 virus, but she 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 virus and 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 the system is coming from you about the mixed vaccine regimen. which shows that if you give wanders astrazeneca 1st and then a 2nd, those are the 54 weeks later you get a very good level community. so this mix and max fact seem 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 of course, the many with actually to try and this. the other thing is whether reinfection or

brakes infections also have a kind of higher risk or lower risk of long have it. this is just natural section to 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. do, 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 europe and north america realized that they could have acted earlier and will dramatically from southeast asia and in australia, new zealand locked down the virus earlier to give time. so the fact seems to be developed and distributed the product when instead. so i can just like australia, new zealand, and talking to asian countries. got it right. the 1st part, the pandemic. but now what we seeing is a increased degree of action hesitancy. and refusal in those same countries did

very well control the virus because they see the price is less of a threat than the vaccine. perverse effects. and that change in that mentality needs to be made to place every body from ongoing reputation virus on the generation of new variance. julian tang of less than versity. thank you for your thoughts. and now it is time to put one of your questions to our science correspondence that are williams. oh, new code 19 variance just grew stronger and stronger over time. oh, this is a tough 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. and 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 yourselves 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 in the environment, hence increasing its chances of infecting someone. so very different reasons. same effect and 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 an evolutionary advantage of some kind and, and it's hard to see how it would a lot of biologists say, a more optimal combination of trace 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, sorry, cubby to variance will look like. many experts expect them to spread more easily, but cause less severe disease. they 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 covered $900.00 special for more information about the pandemic. you can check out the covert 900 section on our website at w dot com until next time. thanks for watching ticket. who's the worst nightmare of the drug get? the most powerful mafia group in europe, prosecutor, me go look at his victory. i'm not the trial against the criminal organization for which the witnesses and the victims. families are eagerly waiting . one, prosecutors battle against the mafia. close up,

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the magic, the discovery around the news . subscribe to the w documentary on youtube. the me bring here many terms of cocaine or smuggled into the board of julia total in it at least collaborating a region. the illegal drug trade have made that i get rich and powerful. it's now one of the most feared mafia groups in the world was comprised of europe. they invest in buying up important company. they,

brian politicians and officials into working for money. and that means everyone to re record that, that you dish re and calabria is fighting back with the largest mafia trial in 3 decades. it's tapping the rise of the get i regional chief prosecutor nicholas penny leaves preparing the case for trial being held in collaborating town of limits here that patty has dedicated his life to fighting the mafia. named burton felt it was especially important to arrest members of the mancuso family as they are the most dangerous. the number of arrests has been impressive. we have more than 450000 political hits. we've achieved the

breakthrough and are now further along in our fight against the enter on gator than ever before. near contrast, the, the so called max the trial began in january and is expected to last 2 years. a huge warehouse has been converted into a 45 court room or bunker. the trial involved 600 lawyers more than 900 witnesses are due to testify. the list of charges is long, murder, arms trafficking, drug smuggling, money laundering, extortion, and more. the defendants, a group that includes politicians and officials, are all from the province of vito valencia, prosecutor nicholas. terry has been under police protection day and night for more than 30 years. he hasn't been to the movies in 3 decades. he can't go to a restaurant or take a walk, the risk of being killed by the getter,

just to great be a pain. so can be sonya. you have to take a sensible approach to death. rationalize. mean just you could, okay, so you have to convince yourself that what you're doing is worth while. then you have the strength to carry on. you can't be afraid of death if you have to be rational and cool. devious to understand that you are in the right could be to thousands of people believe in. you give me a your, their last hope it gets the sales to get when the trial opened in mid january and then get the land of calabria. it will track daddy biggest success today to rounded up in late 2019 in coordinators, braids involving 3000 police officers. the police arrested more than 350 people,

seize 50000000 euros worth of goods and shut down dozens of businesses. law enforcement agencies in switzerland, germany, apple, gary, and we're also involved. crap daddy. what did the rest of politicians, lawyers, business leaders, crucially, members of the mancuso clan, the family, dominate the leadership of been there and get to this area. the serve as the linchpin in the cocaine trade between latin america and europe. klan boss, luigi mancuso, and his business affiliates are accused of infiltrating all levels of power in vivo, valencia, dealing with opponents, with breathtaking brutality the most they think they demonstrate their power through murder. and they don't just hill and they used to streamline. brutal method get found. was anyone who makes a mistake, or is disrespect at home in their eyes, senseless, or has their livelihood and destroy them with everything they interpret as

a lack of respect or damaging to their interest. it provokes a swift response that outweighs any disadvantage. they may have suffered to. ready split them, then this would be the in recent decades, $170.00 innocent victims have been murdered at the hands of them that i get in calabria. the small town of loudy and anybody yellow, which section that was where enchant so came nemo sister lives. she disappeared 5 years ago. it's clear she was murdered, but her body has never been found. the entire family is still traumatized by what happened. a oh, they don't put the dent calling for a while. i couldn't even come to my shop to work, and i couldn't bear to look people in the eye because i was afraid i might be looking into the eye of my sister's murderer. and with every handshake,

i thought i might be touching the hands of my sister's murderer. maria was a, we do know venture and so his wife and his mother are bringing up her 3 children who we just couldn't believe that something so terrible could happen to maria. but someone would attack her and even take away the body, which is what the drug get to cleanse. do that and get them. and maria never had anything to do with them on my part when i was there and it was successful and outgoing. part of a well respected local family. she went to university, got married, 3 children, and founded a small agricultural business. 10 came her shocking death. ah mention so drives as to where she used to have her business on that fateful day, 5 years ago. one of money has employee found her empty car here and immediately

called lynch, and so we got a boat rushed straight over here and arrived less than 10 minutes later maria calm with right there almost makes to this one. but i was calling blood at the engine was running, but there was blood on the ground to kill us angry. and it was all b as maria had been the victim of a brutal attack. since then, there'd be no trace of the queen not shut up till the police arrived with a forensics team question. the neighbors seized the car and recorded all the evidence. it could be leaking, request a quote, for on vent channel. so on the other side of the road is acquainted with the security system that has a camera pointing this way, but i don't think that it will. it should have recorded everything you know. but the care of been year discovered that on that particular morning at the system wasn't working probably acting on the lynch and so still doesn't know what happened

to muddy. the police launched an investigation and searched the entire area. one suspect was arrested later released due to insufficient evidence. so when the trial began and then shed some hope, he might learn something over the past 50 years. then the getter has steadily expanded space and calabria authorities and the capital cut on sato are now hoping to at least liberate the province of bebo valencia, the area controlled by the mancuso family. here, the local authorities were heavily infer traded by them and get nicholas paddy. has been hi or less in his investigation. he reached the deal with 60 key witnesses who agreed to testify to avoid a life sentence and present. mancuso mancuso family dominated this area. they controlled all economic activity here that they bought,

vocals and influenced local and regional elections, the global within their territory. they infiltrated all areas of daily activity, economic, political, and social li view, the entire province of bebo valencia as their property, as opposed to a property. the mancuso family is heard of them that are getting the governing body known as the cleaning. it controlled and coordinates all get herself worldwide. rules of the john get are the same all over the world. they just copy them. it's like a brand. they have a structure that's divided into territory so called low colleague william. that's copy to get that. if they set up a new one somewhere on it, they follow the same principle. it's like a franchise whether it's frankfurt deuce board zurich, vienna, or new york. it's the same everywhere me in the district of lin, body,

home to the mancuso clan. the state is now seeking to win back territory. authorities have seized illegally purchase property like this villa belonging to the men to sell family, journalist, mckinley, albany. there have been writing for many years about the criminal dealings and get to the far reaching tentacles of the mafia. clan, he too has a pair of bodyguards constantly at his side. ever since it emerged at the mafia wanted to kill him. just go and course i will tell him that you feed on your s, francesco mancuso had 11 children who in turn, who have 6 or 7 children of their own business. they are all engaged in a lucrative activities like cocaine trafficking. a lot of the they were authorized by the drug get to import cocaine from south america. that's how the mancuso won

the support of the leading and drug to families and moved into the elite leadership on their influences, spread to the whole of italy and the entire world for the responses to the valley. and he's lived under armed guard for 7 years. his work as a journalist, severely limited, and no one knows when things will change. we do remind you never get used to the loss of your freedom without driving a car. as part of your freedom is going for a walk alone. the thing can reflect is another element of freedom, and anyone who opposes them, then getta and calabria risks their life, the mafia control and tire cities and villages a regime of terror. because in the future, even though it's difficult, i don't want to stop reporting the story about my home. i say, i want my people to understand that we could live here in italy like dogs,

that we could have really good lines if it weren't for these criminals. it was all development and progress in police cars for the municipal council and the body has been dissolved 3 times because it was so heavily infiltrated by the mafia. since the mid 19 seventy's leaf skimmed off government contracts with millions of euro's, with almost every investment made by the state and local authorities, and every private business transaction than that i get, i took their car to extort and intimidation while criminals like them. and those grew rich, much of the remaining population were less impoverished. many left the region, especially the young and well educated. ah, vincent hometown of low on the body yellow,

was also controlled by the men to some crime. he hoped that a new maxi trial will also reveal from murdered his sister. ah, the shock of her brutal death and questions about what happened. continue to plague and chance. so, and his wife. ah, he's not going to come in and just have a youngster. video surveillance camera here in the town film to car driving up and down 10 times. they thought that someone in the car was watching to catch the moment when maria left the house. in the low concur last moment to the sheet garza, but so far the trial has not uncovered the identity of the murderer. a thing can indeed be then some believable it trying to crazy to think that the person who killed maria flores assisted in her murder is still free and walking the

street. and you can be not caught me, but i mean they miss me. i miss maria. so much you know, she was the legal witness at my wedding as i was at home. i love to maria deeply. i love her so much. i can combine it with him and he bought anything. my nieces and nephews deprived of a pen store in another day by day, and not because of the not for this business, it's a cruelty, another agonizing and pains me deeply thought i would like them to have the same life as my children. my sister got to give me one moment. yeah. she was, i got the yellow house. so there is where maria lived and the car drove up and down

here 10 times back and forth. she's the one where the nation has already emerged from the trial, and a key witness said, while he was in prison, he heard that many, a body was driven over repeatedly with attractor, and then fed to pigs, to remove the evidence. he said he was killed because of a dispute over land, then ran getter often disposes of victims bodies for the families. it's a double tragedy. there is no closure and their loved ones can never be laid to rest. the we leave southern italy and travel with the kilometers to meet with a former member of the mafia. luigi donovan, toward a canopy on camera. he's another key witness at the trial. information from him has

put many criminals behind bars in recent years. his life is in constant danger. he and his family live in hiding his father and uncle were powerful and get up. in calabria. when luigi announced he was leaving the mafia, his father tried to kill him. the meeting and i didn't need that as a child. i experienced an extreme amount of violence and it was rooted not just physical violence, but also psychological in you're still a child a little, but they show you how to kill an animal. they force you to slaughter and godaddy. then they force you to eat the raw flesh to fund. certainly step by step. he was groomed for life as a killer much of this job, and you smell the stench of a blood, the stench of death. and then later,

when you're in action, you feel everything. you're intensely aware of. all the smell is not the ground. it's all your senses are sharpened. your knees, especially while you're committing the murder. what's your name? yeah. louise smuggles cocaine and weapons, and committed a number of murders on behalf of his family. at the age of 30, he was made a couple of powerful regional leader. but in 2005, he threw in the towel, agreeing to tell the authorities what he knew about the mafia. he served 6 years in prison and was then relief. for a few. first, you do everything like, you know, bill getting senior just like you've been taught to pull them out. it's all precise . plan. ice cold without emotion, but it's just something technical. yes you follow precisely as though you've done

it a 1000 times versus you feel nothing. you do, but then when you fire the fatal shot, at least this is what happened to me. you realize that at that moment something inside you changed to something is different, did us. and after i returned home from my 1st murder, the 1st murdered that i had committed with my own hands. i told my uncle who was the boss at the time. he thought that everything was okay. so he looks satisfied and said sit down to see there's a meal waiting for you. and that was the last word on the subject incident for you . on the day after our interview with luigi prosecutor nicholas at terry questioned him in an online meeting. his family did business with the mancuso klein so his testimony is also relevant to the current trial. both families were heavily

involved in drugs and trafficking contacts in latin america. the andro get specialized in importing cocaine to europe. they have their own men in columbia work. there is agent legal and can get cocaine for a minimum price of good luck. ok. ok, makes up 70 percent of the john, get us activities and say use extortion mainly to stake out and control their territory. not to earn money directly when the big profits come from drugs. profiteering and then money laundering and re investing money investing in to the jewish mikaela albany, has watched the rise of various mafia families over many decades. the more successful ones quickly invested their profits from criminal activities in legal businesses. as well as a lack of concern quarry over there,

made the men crew so clean what it is today. then from there, the family supplied construction materials on a grand scale to build the port of julia tower over the market. it was lucrative and at the same time did a huge favor for the drug who controlled the building of the ports, partly power and wealth of many of that and get their families increased rapidly. they not only profited from the construction work, they also placed their own people at the port, which the largest container terminal in italy that allowed them to build up a bigger business smuggling cocaine from latin america. in putting vast amounts of cocaine into territory under their own control, soon made and get far more powerful than the cars are enough in neighboring sicily . but only now they use not only julia tower,

but many other port to vanish and french port at all. antwerp rotterdam humbug, grandma g, italian ports of genoa, live on the tree as unless spits here are my. these say they send the big consignments of cocaine to wherever they expect control to be the least strength. but the 2nd control is that me police specialized in our clinic. now conduct daily checks of julia total to try to intercept the drugs. there are 2 main shipping roof out of latin america that go directly to julia total . so the port and calabria is a strategic importance to them and get $2000000.00 containers arrive here each year . the chance of police or customs officers finding smuggled goods, it's relatively low, but at times they do get lucky. every they go,

daisy and his team check up to 70 containers a day. every year they find more cocaine. the method of a rip off method is the classic one. that's where the banks and the drugs are placed on top of legally transported goods. so they can be removed quickly when they arrive at the court. the court was the amended and looking on. but last year we uncovered another method where drugs are hidden, amongst the good luck with them in the boxes of bananas. for example, the laments are going to send you a couple of the, but on the other and in 2020, we seized a total of 5 ton cocaine drugs with st value of 350000000 euros. but it's estimated that less than 10 percent of smuggle drugs are discovered by the authorities. the same is true of all other european ports where

the amount of cocaine being intercepted is also growing here by here. experts estimate annual sales for them and get to amount to 55000000000 euros. and then i guess i can't get to can buy a kilos cocaine in less than america for a 1000 euro. they sell it on here for at least 70 or 80 times that well, i know that's a huge profit margin rolled, an impressive return in a studio that i change the recent study put the value of illegal funds hill by the italian mafia in tax havens worldwide. at around 3 trillion euros, a part of the scholars, elementary internal meet me out of the world. they can literally by half of europe, compared to missouri robot. if they invest in ship buying up

important companies, they, brian politicians and officials into working for them. and that means everyone is the reason for the call me a former marcia member luigi, but of intruder has brought his oldest son nemo. to meet us, luigi says neither his mother nor his wife came from mafia families. he says their positive influence helped him break within that and get on the commission. when our 1st child was born, i realized that i couldn't teach him the values of the in john gets around with the john k to decide who gets to die with no one should have that right. so i'm fighting for this society, but i want my children to be part of this culture in me see this sort of question

of luigi, but i haven't taught knows his decision to switch sides could cost him his life. he's come to terms with that. what he struggles with more is that than that i get, i could also take revenge on his family. they live in an undisclosed location, and they're in constant fear for their lives. and my family has lived a life of health for 14 years. now, why? why is my family not under police protections? and why haven't we been given a new identity if you need to know that that person, it's all part and parcel of my dentist decision from diane to, to live on. so he definitely made the right decision. and now we have to live with the consequences of testing. but what bothers us and makes us very sad, is that we're not getting any kind of help assist. we'll start the group on the

same state that made you an offer to work with them. then let's you down when you actually start doing it. it's a huge worry for us was to nemo can't go to university because that would be too dangerous. experts say informants like luigi and their families need to be better protected so that more people will be encouraged to work with the authorities. at the trial back in limits, sia, all the talk mafia leaders in the province are on trial. an absolute 1st that's created hope for some things could actually change any daily that only has very many mancuso family. this trial won't solve the problem. i wish it would. but sadly, we need to carry out many more such operations. but in the town of loudy on anybody else, no good people can already feel that the power of the mancuso family have waned to

so kingdom is working with the local organization to ensure that the victims like his sister maria, not forgotten. he's also volunteering as a teacher for prison inmates. he's teaching natural history. right now the lessons are online, only. all ecosystems are linked together. all organisms of a community are linked together and interact that may include my feels he, he wants to provide opportunities for them to lead their life of crime. he also tells them about what happened to his sister and the impact her death has had on his family and on her children. in the past, the number 2, the may need to be meant to come after maria's disappearance, a part of me inevitably changed. i was full of anger at these criminal, attend the waste 30 s corps. now by teaching, i can somehow give vent to my anger

a. and not only that, i can bring my anger and my desire for revenge and my desire for justice and truth, and channel it into something good that i want for this country. gone venica with asthma. the more and more people in calabria are daring to take a stand against the mafia mentioned. so kinda more me kinda uneasy luigi, one of insured for more than 3 decades, anti mafia, prosecutor nicholas, teddy, no matter of price, they're willing to risk everything in their fight against and get to create a better future for the next generation.

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