cool at this euros. it wasn't a total disgrace. they were knocked out in the round of 16 by english. so what remains after yogi lives 15 years that the whole one shiny piece of silverware. just the one that the biggest one of the lot for now you're up to date. stay tuned for the latest edition of our cove. it's 19 special golf release for me and the entire team here in the berlin newsroom. thank you so much for your company. ah, the me for the fight against the corona virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection in developing what goes the latest research thing? information and contact the corona virus, not because it's 19 special next on d w. i wanted to show when i arrived here,

i slept with people in a room as are nice to me. it was hard. fair. i even got white hair learning the german language. help me a lot of kids to me. critical question. to instruct you want to know their story. verified and reliable information for migrant me, which drug help against covey 19. it's the top goal for medical researchers around the world. we have already developed several effective vaccine, but a cure has not yet been town. why is it so difficult? so far doctors have tried dogs that have already been used for other viral diseases

like a chevy impala, sars and influenza. sometimes they can help, but they are not. the breakthrough medical experts are hoping for. ready what we do know is that how well a drug works depends above all on when it is administered. in the early stage, when the virus enters the body and multiplies or a later face and body reacts with inflammation and immune defense. problematic because if you have a patient, you don't really know what to do and everybody tries to this and they observe the patient and it helps off the symptoms. but there is no stem that recommendation so far. hospitals around the world are gaining experience with covert 19 and gathering data, and the hope that it will soon be possible to do more than just protect healthy people with a vaccination. hello and welcome tara covert 900 special. i'm chris kolber,

berlin vaccination programs around the world are the strongest defense against the spread of the current of ours. but treating patients who have fallen ill has been a lot more challenging. some doctors, i've used existing drugs against over 1900, but the medical evidence of effectiveness is off like nothing possibility is to use antibodies. events to guy pharmaceuticals has applied for regulatory approval of a corona virus treatment, but combined 2 antibodies. it follows trials in japan. earlier i spoke to clemons ventnor head of the bobbing clinic in munich. and before we talked about the current treatment of cove in 1900 cases, i asked them what it was like handling germany's 1st corona virus patient almost one and a half years ago, patient 0 was without any excitement. so we just did what any

doctor would have done. so the patient got a little bit oxygen, a little bit inhalation, not even a real infusion. so at this moment, we just use supportive care and the best sense, but did not treat the patient is pacific way. actually the disease weaned off by itself for a couple of weeks and looking at how you treat patients today with covered 19 infections. how is that changed? i think we have made some progress based on the tries. we also participated. so the one thing is in the early phase of the 19 disease you can interact by using direct like run here. but we also have the neutralizing anti bodies. so spike directed antibodies like the famous rank of,

to dawn from god it ends in the later phase of the disease or 2nd week. and so further on the principle is to suppress the inflammation. so that's the reason that's actually the, the prime time was derived the prime time for i, 6 antibodies took the little not for example, and they're on new developments like gym says f, and the bodies are cetera, et cetera. so you see the material is broadened and, but still some work to be done. not the queue for every patient at this point. now on that the antibody treatment a company in japan says and applied for regulatory approval for an anti body treatment for covered 1900. is this approach the most promising one i think. and then make times you have to react in a very timely and quick manner. so i think the approach that has been used in

germany, but also in the u. s. was more efficient. so we have excess to be 70 bodies without an official labor. because this will take month and sometimes also a year. so you, but you don't have time to wait. so we're just using the down the bodies and without labor, we tell patients about this. but we have some data from tried that they can even reduce mortality. so that, that's reason enough for us to apply these new drugs now called the patients have been treated with drugs for other viral diseases. what can we draw from that? actually we also did this in the 1st week, so typically the drugs cetera. i mean, that's the tried arrow in the 1st days of this and then make time.

but actually we discarded the thrust because we learn very quickly that they have more side effects than effects. and when you're trained as a physician or physician, also participating, they tried to know what you have to do. and so this is also the story. you know, that we didn't use a drug any more. but sometimes you just take the stuff that's at the bench. if you don't track a lot of things to offer, and this is how it happened. also in this pandemic. now i have to find effects outweigh the actual benefits. how far along are we then when it comes to developing a medical cure for covered 19 make years before it for, for comic 19. i think we can help patients in a very early phase of the disease. the. the problem is when the patient comes to

the emergency room after 2 or 3 weeks after 2 months it. so these are the real heavy cases. and sometimes even we are not able to help young people. i think this is a long path to go. we have a lot of things about vaccination, but the medical treatment is still let's put this way under development and we and others, we are actively participating for this reason in clinical trials using new drugs for this disease. meanwhile, if you are very old, patients are being hospitalized. how does that change the work of the doctors working in the hospital? in the 2nd and 3rd wave of the been dam make, we had a lot of elderly patients. you know, so the point was that we also had high fatality rate because many of these only ones 80. and i didn't want to go on the i see, you know,

we have few patients, but the majority is quite young. so we do everything for them and, but we have also a non copied way. let's put this way. we have 2 patients to postpone the surgery, etc. so of the still a lot of things to be done in the clinics. and let's hope that the delta wave will not know, present of many young patients that we have to treat in the colonies in the i. c. u was claim as if we had one wish that would improve the treatment of cove it patients. what would that wish be? which will be that there is the metric pill. so an agent that can be used by the infected peeper before the disease really starts to make complications. so that the pill, the anti covet pill that can be taken at home. this will be my wish or,

or the future infected patients, but probably 20. let's see how long it takes until we have that pill clemons. then ahead of the swab in clinic and munich. thank you for your time. while research for a drug to help cover 900 patients continuous, several vaccines have already been developed to prevent people from catching the current of ours. despite high effectiveness, people still have questions about the jap, like the following one for science correspondent derrick boys. oh, are there any ways to mitigate your chances of developing it through bosis if you're vaccinated with astrazeneca? oh, i'm going to start this answer by saying something i've already said many times before, which is that both trials and hundreds of millions of recipients show the astrazeneca vaccine is highly effective by preventing future infection with coven 19. and the chances of developing the blood clots that have been associated with

the vaccine are extremely rare. the exact numbers are kind of hard to interpret. but the european medicines agency says that over the course of both doses, about one recipient in 100000 developed the side effect. so it's a very uncommon occurrence that chances so much smaller than the chance of a serious outcome if you can track over 19, certainly for older people that there's a very clear benefit and getting the astrazeneca vaccine. because the vaccine induced thrombosis is so rare, we're still learning about it, but we think we figured out the mechanisms that cause it. and that, coupled with simple awareness, is now playing a big role in reducing the dangers for those who do develop the condition. because it can be treated if doctors recognize it quickly. symptoms of it can include

severe headaches or blurred vision, persistent pain, and an extremity or in the abdomen. shortness of breath, or the development of unexplained bruising around the injection side and those symptoms usually occur between $4.30 days after vaccination. i couldn't find any advice about how to mitigate your chances of developing the rear side effect, which there's no surprise there since we're still unable to predict even who might be vulnerable. but being aware that as one bows, this can occur and vigilant about how it presents that can go a long way towards helping you. if you turn out to be one of the very few people who are affected me. i've been down this route that a lot of lives that has also shown some unusual example of people help each other get through. like in bangkok where the took took motorcycle taxi is

a tie national symbol, but with our tourist, many drivers fear for the future. to the rescue, hands of south korean pop star jessica show they paid drivers to carry advertising for our latest music, helping them a little during the crisis. and of course, helping build bigger kate pop fan base in thailand. that's our show. thanks for watching. the news. you go to africa, look the farm helpers out pocket. they are helping appeal oil on this old pair. darned if completely and now we're putting all of those nutrients back in the soil from what we call leverage. successful models for

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lagos. today will be chris crossing the african continent and also check it out on the you cause a vision project in germany. let us to crease, and one of the project is generating a lot of buzz. you will see what they mean in a b. i am sandra tree novia with a one will come from compiler, hit in uganda. this is take a look at what we're going to install for you today. what can we do with because it doesn't produce enough food in there will be kenya. people coming up with solutions and south african farmers are embracing more sustainable farming. we'd be helpful, sweet, and friendly creatures from abroad. if we want to assure the world being of people on our planet, protecting resources and food security, keep whether it is water, land, or by the varsity every last least in balance. how with a minor it, we seem, extreme weather events in the countryside, for example,

can lead to food shortages in fittings and with more people moving to urban centers, the push to provide food for the growing population is increasing. now an africa white initiative is to get things going in the streets themselves. here is an example from nairobi, the a forest of vegetables driving in a small courtyard. vertical farming makes it possible. so this improved food security and urban kenya. levine, sal cage grows, produce invincible plants and socks. when a small farming gets in gala on the outskirts of nairobi, she calls of a spinach and kill for both household consumption unfulfilled. what was plain testing about it is how like you can find one suck can hold up to 150 plan. so that was a bitter calling economy for me. and it something that if you late don't,

can cover like a big 5th. but here you see it has just taken up more space, but how many she use it less was and spends less time and money on weeding. she was introduced to the new method by mary mighta of urban green farm. the organisation sells vertical farming bags to interested parties, and as also teamed up with local n g o to sets of gardens in informal settlements on the compact spaces available in urban areas. mostly what we do, we help mostly people to, to set up their kitchen garden using the small space that they have and also their balconies. that is, we are trying to help people to embrace a been farming. and because mostly people are moving to the urban areas and they cannot be able to access a healthy vegetative,

was mine. so i was trained by the african association for vertical farming. the non profits initiative helps to promote climate friendly agricultural practices. associations can you coordinates? i'll tell ya saying wrong training courses for young people and some of the techniques that work vertical guidance, hydroponics upon x and pony. so basically we see the youth of the future of africa and also the women to convey the big portion of climate for security in africa. so we see that if empower these to the africa with the for security move deck into the next level over the last 3 years. this will station the street more than 1500 women and young people around can. the cost is cover everything from crop management and watering me to pest control and the use of bio for allies. this vertical gardens has its own training facility. here,

emphasis is placed on ways of saving the planet from carbon emissions and excessive energy use. people. i encourage to grow food close to hill to help cut down the use of feeling during transportation. if i can grade myself, then it's better for me to better for the environment as a whole. reduce the amount of cars on the road, the amount of carbon emissions, the amount of transport needed from the supplier to come to this market from this full market, being a hefty electricity bill in terms of power and, and refrigeration services. foot security is a major problem in kenya. produce last is often reach up to 50 percent. it's supposed to have a storage problem. an initiative called the g saw use group came up with a way to help another grow as get more value for the pot up and cut down with stage . they also pay $3.00 times more per bunch than brokers. the freshman anessa

dried, crushed and processed into a fortified flower pot that fetches good prizes, which also means more money for the farmers. using the mortar, we have 4, but none of this can be used in different food types of food. so these can improve their food security on the, for the storage. so of a, your hunger will be really eliminated. there is your food waste and will be administered. there is your pharma going to at a loss, will be eliminated. now wants to increase its drying and storage area. accommodate more bananas. it also wants to stop milling in bulk and expand sales nationwide. the fly can be used all stores will several months on this. well, i've been so cage. vertical side is doing so well. she's already thinking about adding more vegetable varieties. one of the many advantages of vertical phones is our independent or natural pulling. it is,

but there is still plenty of food going in the great outdoors. and for that we still need help from e. 6. think the butterflies and the big bad colon nicolai is a serious problem around the world. and environmentally friendly solution is really needed on this. when doing a bit is definitely in the right direction. it's the same distressing site. year after year, when barrow might infiltrate to be colony, the result is devastating. in response, many beekeepers, teresa hives with 4 mac asset. it kills of the parasites, but it also causes some be used to tear out, but own and 10. i said, industrial designer, philip put huston a few of his friends wanted to see if they could solve the problem in a more natural way than of

a 100 research studies that outline how be creat hives in nature. colonies do very well in 3 hollows of involved wound in yoga the even though to keep the vero am i to day without the nature will make as it didn't work. so the team constructed an artificial tree hollow from recycle plastic lined with him. poland. play the honeycomb fit from top. the dry climate inside is not favorable to the mites, so they stay away. after a year of testing, the time has come to move the bees into then you home. the project has been financed through you funding so far, but the inventors have applied for a patent lawyer and we definitely to start a company. at some point, our aim is to help solve the problem and we think that will only really work if our idea is backed by a business model that can support itself with that. hong kong,

now they want to set up a crowd funding campaign to enable them to go into mass production. and till now they've been making the hives on the 3 d printer and philip pot has kitchen band. how about you? if you are also doing your best, tell us about it, visit our website, or send us a tweak tag doing your bit. we share your story with ours. here on equal africa, we've talked about how electric mobility can be better for the environment bond. he's something new, an entire motorsports, the we've featuring electrically cause raising awareness about climate change and consequences. it's called extreme. any hopes races, in the most extreme places on earth, in the desert. the ocean even on and touch goes ice. so walked and motor racing do

for the environment in africa to find out what went along to raise hell. the gate is the backdrop of a salt lake. on 70 goes. atlantic coast lot grows located just behind center gold, atlantic coast, and of the daytime sun. its surface turn a beguiling pink color due to the mass of alga and thrive in the lake high salt content. this is one of the locations chosen for a rather unique moderate event. the extreme e. c. reef launch to raise awareness about critical environmental issues. use the area as a platform to inform about the different sites that are ocean globally is, is being faced with recently electric, off the rotors descended on the beach engines here from the 2nd race. and the extreme e theories. it's one of 5 regions chosen around the globe that are under a cute strain from climate change. the cars are fitted with 550 horsepower motors

powered by especially developed hydrogen fuel felt. so be emissions in this case comprise just water. the area around the lake is blighted by waste. animals have lessened less land to graze on the villages between the sea and the lake of putting a burden on the local environment. as part of the racing event, the organizers make an effort to help local residents. the idea was to be the sustainability projects, so the communities were involved on the get go and the idea for them to be able to impulse and keep changing their own neighborhood and community. so they are in charge. they are the steering wheel. after the race, the event organizers take a trip down the river, but not for pleasure. the project also includes a mangrove planting campaign of teamed up with seneca leave n g o n young and local fishermen to create what will be a huge man. go for it. stretching from across to the sea,

i am planting mongers to ensure that both of us to continue and the small fish have a place to sit on before they got into the ocean. and to just help the local plan is to plant 1000000 feelings paid for by the extreme 18 recent decades have seen immense damage to the habits of birds, insects and fish, while fishermen's hold continued to fall. whenever we saw had the majority of the mangrove in, senegal disappeared in the wake of the great drove of 969-1971 the line. and now we want to use the plan to help nature to recover. and so that it can secure the livelihoods of fisher cities. it is made, lucas, i'm the fisher. meanwhile, it's life as usual in the nearby town of yaga few have taken notice of the pro conservation of road race and would in any case prefer it as the financial support you guys you made on it because i just think you were basically around the corner

from lack cause but i don't think the organizers have provided any money here for schooling or health care facilities. my policy, us normally the 1st thing and to think of the local infrastructure. but as far as i know, that's not happening. the n, as in the priority for the event organizers among them, form a model raising champion nicole ross bag is raising global awareness. the raises i held at places where the effects of climate change are especially harsh in debit regions close to areas and the arctic circle. the project partners hope the race and planting scheme here will have a long lasting positive impact. next, it's off to all this country in salt eastern europe suffers from a number of environmental problems contaminated and own treated, which torture are 2 of the more challenging the poor conditions of even prompted.

so, mo, be a farmers to migrate to italy and search of better circumstances. now, a local initiative is hoping to all fund eco friendly solution that will make it easier for families to stay home. o c o lama takes lots of photos. the mountains of northeastern albania are so beautiful. he works for p. p n e a. the country's largest environmental m g o. he promotes sustainable farming practices for the sake, both of nature and local people. so they can make a decent living and choose not to leave. this is the correct nic, massif. at its foot 0 catchy has a market garden. he grows fruit. his operation could inspire others to follow suit, especially young people. he cultivates berries. traditionally, people gathered wild ones in the mountain red one. and if there are,

let's see plantation, socio lama says such market gardens could be a fruitful source of income for more families around here. that's the case you work for several years in italy, you saved up some money, came home and began farming machines will be consumers in almost seen the p started with eroni barry 5 years ago before branching out his venture is proving to be a success in july his product was certified as organic by an agency in germany. and that's something he's very proud of is going to be, i'm going to bought off. if the book i don't use fertilizer, everything is just the same as up in the mountains. the bacteria and the soil about the human because they make the plant strong as a result of the book cache doesn't need to do any marketing. customers come to him

to buy his produce. he's been experimenting with a number of crops and the red love apples, for example.