the exclusion hatred and violence issues surrounding the l g. b t q, community on the political agenda. so low possible and how can we create divers future find out on to the point of choice to the point dw, in the nurses have been on the front lines of the pandemic since the very beginning. every animal to d were working in a state of very high stress and shown in the psychological tension has gone through the roof, stay late, many paid for their service with their life. the world health organization estimates that 115000 nurses worldwide have died in connection with a corona virus infected is the nurse's hard work being given. the

appreciation of deserves. many are still waiting for the financial applause and they are demanding better working conditions. how can it be that the heroes of the pandemic are still struggling for recognition? welcome here covered $900.00 special. i'm chris kolber, and berlin. despite their heroic efforts, health care workers around the world are now learning that they are subject to a rather unforgiving system. takes pain, where more than 80 doctors and nurses themselves fell victim to the corona virus. the government promised to improve working conditions, but instead with infection rates, declining thousands of health co workers have already been laid off, or soon will be w young. philip shots reports from valencia in eastern space, louder almo. deborah has been told her services are no longer required here on the

cove at 1900 ward. but she still has her hands full. many of her colleagues at the valencia clinic argon in the surrounding region alone, hundreds of nurses were let go over night. many of her co workers were informed that they've been laid off in a text message. and so that a, if the people, i think it's shocking to find out your employment has been terminated like this for the somebody they could show 0 respect for the people who gave everything during the pandemic. they could call up at the time they were urgently needed for the system to keep running. multiple asked me to go out and pick up. and now it seems as if they are just disposable from all. but there will be a standing ovation for health workers, the heroes of the pandemic. when spain was particularly hard hit by corona virus, in march 2020 thousands of nurses were hired at short notice. many fell ill. some even died of the virus. but now that covert 900 numbers are falling across the

country. these nurses are no longer needed. more than 1000 nurses have been laid off year and the balance their region in the past few weeks, the loan for thousands more professional future uncertain. within a few months, they seem to have gone from heroes of the damage to redundancy personnel. the layoffs have led to furious protests here. most of those who have been fact are afraid to speak to us on camera. only one person is willing to speak anonymously by telephone. he tells us that he and his colleagues feel abandoned. when the virus happened, we were short of everything we needed to fight it. we were brutally overloaded with work. we couldn't even take care of our own health, and that had extreme effects in our private and family life. now it all seems like exploitation to me. the soda. in recent years, spain has made massive cuts to its public health system. more than

a 3rd of medical staff only have short term contracts, and many clinics have been privatized. during the pandemic, the government promised improvements, but instead, the situation has worse and, and get those in charge, haven't changed their tune. and most had to we are currently making great efforts to create more permanent positions and to ensure that fewer people have to work in unsafe conditions. we hope that the situation will improve and 2022 i'm i said, i mean, i know they gotta move and do those for nurse laura, almo dever and her fired colleagues, there could be some good news, at least for now, many of them will be reinstated, over the summer to fill in for others who have done on vacation. that's good morning, this with howard. catherine is the ceo of the international council of nurses. i c n. and he joins me from geneva and switzerland. welcome back to our show, howard. they're respectful, the people who gave everything during the pandemic as one nurse called the sacking

of health care workers and the reporter just seem. do you agree? i think this is a shameful way to treat nurses and health care work is these are the people who have put themselves ahead of everybody else who gone to work. knowing that there's a greater risk that they might become infected, haven't had the personal protective equipment that they need, has often separated themselves from their family. so as not to present a risk to them who have stepped into the shoes of relatives. they are not disposable. they are indispensable, they are the heart of our health care systems. we're seeing around the world. nurses who are angry at this lack of recognition and respect and increasing strikes in european africa and pacific region as well. on that note, i have coworkers do have a huge leverage particularly now,

and they've been demick. if protests grew more nurses went on strike, that would create enormous pressure for their cause, wouldn't it? we went into this pandemic $6000000.00 nurses, short a globally. we got aging nursing workforce in many countries. we've got nurses who have left because to burn out because of anxiety. we don't know the impacts of long copays. the last thing we can afford to do is to lose our nurses are hospitals, all clinics, without stuff, without nurses, they're just empty buildings. it's the people that matter and we should be investing in them and protecting them. now the condemning is at a different stage in different parts of the world. do you see situations improving for health, co workers in areas with high infection rates because of the lessons learned earlier elsewhere. we are seeing many places where nurses are taking on increasing leadership positions there at the

forefront of the public health messages organizing systems of care as, as well. and the situation is improving. but we are also seeing areas where the virus is resurgent and there is a huge issue at the moment with the in equity of access to vaccines for nurses and health care workers. there are nurses and health workers in some parts of the world still waiting to be vaccinated, whilst younger people are being jobs in other countries. we all know we're not going to win this race against the virus on our own. as nations, it is a global race and we need to see much more sharing and solidarity and cooperation around the world. and then i see in the report published earlier this year and studies across region suggest that the pin demick has exaggerated the stress and anxiety felt by nurses and other health. co workers. what do these people suffer

from? in particular, we have seen huge physical and psychological impacts on nursing and health care stuff. physical exhaustion, insomnia, burn out and stress, but also the emotional burden of being away from your family looking after people, more people who is seriously ill, who are fearful. more people who are dying on top of that, we have also seen examples of discrimination and violence against nurses. people who may be ignorant or fearful. but you know, nurses have not been able to renew their tendency because their landlord is worried that they're spreading the far as nurses having difficulty accessing child care for their children as well. and nurses being subject to the covey denies who was saying this whole thing is a hoax. we call this a mass traumatized ation of the nursing workforce. and that's why we need to be

focusing on the recovery of nurses and health care workforce right now. howard, captain of the international council of nurses. thank you for your thoughts and cute getting the right jab has for many people been the most promising way to protect themselves against a severe corona virus infection. vaccines have been subject of many of your questions. here's one and our science correspondent, they're going call. every country has a different strategy to prioritize vaccines. what does the science say about how to best allocate them? oh, we're still in the middle of the biggest vaccine drive in history. so evaluating the moving data on this topic is really a pretty tall order. to be honest, i don't even know if looking back in the years to come. if will be able to say

anything with certainty about whether a country might have prioritized the right groups for vaccine allocation in the right order. that's because demographics are so different in different countries that, that making blanket statements about what works past can i think provide, at best just rough guidelines. there are just too many variables. the big problem is that allocating back seems means making choices that are at odds with each other . the most obvious that those choices is whether to cut down on the death and suffering caused by the disease as quickly as possible by vaccinating the most vulnerable 1st or 2 instead, try to vaccinate those who are most exposed so so those who will catch the disease most often, and hence,

really dr. further transmission countries with aging populations, like many here in europe. when for the 1st option, they decided to prioritize the elderly group this most at risk if they contract covered 19 and that choice seems to be working at preventing death and suffering. a british health care authority, for instance, has estimated that the campaign there, which focused on getting elderly the shots 1st, that it's have over 30000 hospitalizations and, and 10000 lives so far. but that's also left a large segment of the population, younger people, unvaccinated for many months. and of course, as the group that's most regularly exposed, they're now fueling a new outbreak there. so what's the best prioritization strategy?

i don't really know if you can put it that way. i'd say that there are just strategies with different outcomes. me and that's i shall fall. more checkout are covered 1900 section on the w dot com for now. thanks for watching you next time, stacy. ah . was right in front of them. we're all for this one moment. suddenly, we agreed to postpone the or didn't the game central care with 2024. 21. from off course, during the qualifying ground. not least for sports heroes, actually, it was a slap in the face, but now we just have to fight their mobilizing superpowers. i'm fired up and

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you see the right hand side of their drug enough. my name is jenny purse and i work at b, w ah, the the, the welcome to arts and culture. well, summer time in europe is always a bit if he, these days with severe weather warnings in many places, bots acclaimed new documentary called summer of sol. does hit some of the appropriate sultry notes, also coming up. an exhibition at the show, a memorial in paris, shed light on the persecution of gays and lesbians in nazi occupied europe. and her work is more than what meets the ice british artist. debbie lawson creates

captivating sculptures that emerged from the surface of traditional persian carpet with 906. 9 was a pivotal year in terms of the counterculture movement in the u. s. and the summer of love that saw woodstock is certainly well documented. but what many people don't know about is the harlem cultural festival, a music extravaganza that took place that same summer and marked a turning point in black life in america. i'm mere quest love thompson, the drummer and co leader of the hip hop group. the roots has combined compiled previously unknown footage in the documentary film, summer of sol. so let's hear his take on this extraordinary project. after the silky voice of nina simone. ready, black. the be ready? the voices, the way moving,

and my name is amir request. love thompson. i'm a musician and a music lover, and we're here to celebrate in talk of my directory or do you summer of sol. nobody ever heard of code just as before. nobody would believe that. have said that the people off i got admitted. i've never heard of the problem. cultural festival. my producers is robert and joseph patel and david dennis dean. they showed me that footage. this was real. i was nervous. i didn't crowd something very important. i wasn't sure about the limit. 69 is just full of social change

energy, the black panthers there, the young, the lord setting up shop. the last poets are born a year earlier. there's as much happening on stage musically as there is happening socially off stage. and we could ignore that. we need it now, we have a responsibilities and not only get this film out there, but we should also show the people, the social and political circumstances with poverty. how the government treats its citizens, how the police treated citizens, the idea of protesting and letting your voice be heard. go stop. wow, well, what a film and joining me to talk about it now is my colleague, adrian kennedy, an amazing cultural event. there adrian was started like nina simone. smokey robinson. stevie wonder,

and it's being resurrected 52 years after the fact. i guess the big question is, why have we not heard about this? but yes, that's why some people say it's a miracle that this material has survived over the years. but of course it is also a big scandal that it didn't get more attention or more public airing earlier. now, the full title of the documentary is some of sole or when the revolution could not be televised. so this is also a theme that runs through the movie tv better and how to direct the recordings of the performances at low 6 free shows that comprise the holland cultural festival. in 9069, he subsequently trying to sell the material, but there was little interest. the materials languished in the basement for decades a crack. first of all, of course it had to be pains taking the restored frame by frame over several months

. okay. that obviously was a big job and the results that we see there are, it's just spectacular material. we got a glimpse of some incredible performance is here's a look at one more and this is the last night. and the pips, the, me, the wonderful stuff there and fear in that so he can really get from this material. what if it's really just isn't a simple documentation of the event of it. now it's over also a film about the political and social upheaval of the time the festival took place just one year after the murder of civil rights activists. doctor martin luther king

. now the director of quest love felt obligation to restore black history that had been raised. he wants to feel what he calls a cultural voice and says that back then, this could have been as defining for black america as woodstock was full white america. if it had been picked up, he says the film shows the flowering of black consciousness and the black is beautiful cultural movement. and now 50 years later that the movie has finally been pieced together from this treasure trove of material. he is hopeful that the film can still have its moments and in the context of black lives matters can now inspire a new generation of activists who are continuing to struggle for equality. and we can see that on hulu, i think, and it's starting in cinemas on july 2nd, the documentary summer of sold by quest glove and his directorial debut. thanks very much for bringing us that wonderful story. adrian kennedy. could you look now

into the darkest period of german history and just as the nazis forced jewish people to wear a yellow star of david, they also force anyone labeled as gay in the prison camps to wear an inverted pink triangle in the wake of pride month an exhibition of the show, a memorial in paris, puts the nazi regime persecution of gays and lesbians into a european contracts. then both bears witness to the varying fates of l. g. b, t, q. people at the time paragraph 175 of the german criminal code introduced in 1871 condemned sexual relations between men. the nazis amended it to be even more repressive and use it to keep records on some 100000 homosexuals. $50000.00 of them were sentenced either to be education, prison or for sleep. between 501-5000 were sent to concentration camps. but unlike the persecution of jews, this repression was not systematic. the nazis believed homosexuality could be cured

. except the homosexual was seen as someone who could harm the image of the great germany. they were sent as parasites because it was considered that they could not reproduce. but the idea remained supported by certain medical theories at the time that they could possibly be re educated. even at the same time, the nazi cult, masculinity used homo or roddick aesthetics and propaganda. and st. lou, head of the essay or storm battalion was gay, which was then used to detain him after he was murdered in a per. the anti gay agenda ended the openness that had blossomed during the weimar republic and even targeted lesbians who had been exempt from prosecution under paragraph 175. the paris shallow memorial is dedicated to jewish history. so what was its motivation for focusing on nazi persecution of homosexuals?

what's this exhibition says is that on the one hand it talks about a subject that has not been talked about much, it must be said. secondly, it allows us to better understand it's not the ideology nessie. it's clever that the nazi persecution of gays and lesbians was not recognised until the 1900 seventy's and eighty's. and the pink triangle once used to designate homosexual prison camp inmates became a symbol of gay liberation. oh, well, to finish on a lighter no british sculptor. debbie lawson has a refreshing take on animals. natural ability to commerce laws, working in the space between 2 and 3 dimensions, her carpet creature installations are now sought after 4 exhibitions. the artwork that have you, rubbing your eyes in amazement, a time talk to identify. they sometimes leap out into the room. depending on the

perspective in the studio, in london's hackney district, carpets get a new lease of life as wild animal. british artist, debbie lawson begin creating lifestyle is carpet sculptures some 10 years ago. you start with the past 2 in the middle, which is like a focal point to pull your eye in. and then i carry on the patterns on the legs in the quite sort of symmetrical way and merge the feet into the carpet so that you kind of almost can't see where it's coming out. then i'm left with lots of bits that still need to be covered and i can just use virtually any of little scraps of the same carpet cover those up on your i just pulled it all together. computing structure can take months. 7 lawson usually works and several pieces. technically, almost all of the animals are conditioned. she needs up to 3 fully identical carpets for one school trip. i started using real person carpets,

but they were usually seconds or damaged ones already, but i don't really want to cut up the work of somebody else. so i'm using copies all the time. now. in a 1st step, debbie creates a framework for the sculpture from chicken where she then fixes it for several layers that credit mix until the model becomes firm friendly. she adds carpet to onto the model using hot heaters and then put the material into shape. i'm quite a quiet, shy, reserved person and that's sort of i think that's how i operate. i want to become a flash disguised and disappearance background. i think that might have been one of the reasons behind making fairs because the badge of the talking for me. i can hide in the background and enjoy sort of the conversation that it's happening with people that are looking at it or school or cell for between 13024000 year old. depending on size, efforts involved and carpets quality. debbie had her artistic breakthrough in 2018

or 2 meter tall, red bear sculpture displayed at london, 2018 royal academy. summer exhibition caused quite a stir. everyone seemed to be quite wow, despite it and it became a bit of a celebrity. everyone really loves animals and everyone likes to be up close to something that they've never might not seen in the wild. debbie find gardening, both inspiring and relaxing. she also enjoys making miniature versions of her giant sculptures. it's strange how you can also just a block of materials. you can kind of create some sort of character in the thing. i'm quite happy to sort of put these creatures out for them to have a life of their own. and, and i enjoy watching them from the the curtain. debbie lawson

carpet creatures are a huge success with firms around the globe. i'm thinking one of those barriers would be great company here in the studio it's, i'll have to get on that right away. well, that's all for now. so until we meet again, thanks very much for watching. do stay safe and the the ah cruise, the cruise the cruise

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