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hello guys. that is a 77 percent. the platform is used to be issues and share ideas. you know, on this channel, we are not afraid to copy. young people clearly have the solution, the future the 77 percent. now, every weekend on the w o . nurses have been on the front lines of the pandemic since the very beginning. every i'm going to, we're working in a state of very high stress in shown in the psychological tension has gone through the roof of secret all their lives. many paid for service with their life.

the world health organization estimates that 115000 nurses worldwide have died in connection with a corona virus infected is the nurses hard work being given. the appreciation of deserves. many are still waiting for the financial flaws. 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 brain, 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

building the w. young. philip shots reports from valencia in eastern spain, laura, almo. deborah has been told her services are no longer required here on the cove at 900 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 overnight. many of her co workers were informed that they've been laid off in a text message. and so there's a lot, i think it's shocking to find out your employment has been terminated like this for somebody they get. it shows 0 respect for the people who gave everything during the pandemic. it could be at the time they were urgently needed for the system to keep running. asked me to go out of now, it seems as if they were just disposed of from all. but you know, they will try to be that 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 here and the volunteer region in the past few weeks alone for thousands more professional future uncertain. within a few months, they seem to have gone from heroes up the panoramic to redundancy personnel. the layoffs have led to furious protests here. most of those who have been sacked 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 stuff only have short term contracts, and many clinics have been privatized. during the pandemic, the government promised improvements, but instead the situation is 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 mean, i know that got, i mean, then the doors for nurse lauer, 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 gone on vacation. that's good morning. this with howard captain. he 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 0, respectful, the people who gave everything during the pandemic as one nurse called the sacking of health care workers in the report we 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 have 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. have co workers do have a huge leverage particularly now in the panoramic. if protests grew, if 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've 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 impact of long copays. the last thing we can afford to do is to lose our nurses, our hospitals, all clinics, without stuff, without nurses, that just empty buildings. it's the people that matter and we should be investing in them and protecting them. now the and then it gets at a different stage in different parts of the world. do you see situations improving for health care workers and 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 bars 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 a solidarity and cooperation around the world. and then i see in

a report published earlier this year, it says studies across region suggest that deep and demick has exaggerated the stress and anxiety of 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 now and stress, but also the emotional burden of being away from your family looking after people, more people who are 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 who've 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 the children as well. and nurses being subject to the covey denies who was

saying this whole thing is a host, we corpus a mass traumatized ation of the nursing workforce. and that's why we need to be focusing on the recovery of nursing and health care workforce right now. how are captain of the international council of nurses? thank you for your thoughts and keep 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 paul, 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 countries 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 vaccines means making choices that are at odds with each other. the most obvious that those children rural 1st or to 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, went for the 1st option. they decided to prioritize the elderly group this most at risk if they contract over 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 bear which focused on getting elderly the shots 1st that it saved over 30000 hospitalizations and, and 10000 lives so far. but that's also left a large segment of the pop lation, 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 900 sections on the buck w dot com for now. thanks for watching you. next time they say the screen sustainable and trendy. many companies are rushing for green solutions because they're popular with the customers. just how green are these solutions made in germany.

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and all the actually as green as the peer? the green economy can work, that's our topic, this week unmade, when it comes to the things that are essential to us, pretty much nothing goes without water and looking at the planet. there's plenty of it just not the kind we can use right away. most of it is salt water and less than one percent is drinkable, w, kristen, carla, on the tradition of dissemination and whether a berlin startup could have falls a global water crisis. in 2015, a series of drought started to dry up this dam. the source of almost half of the water available to cape town, south africa in this satellite time last, you can literally see the storm water decreased month by month. in 2018, the city was approaching day 000. 0 is fast approaching shorthand for the day. the taps run dry and people would have

to to, to get water ration cape down was the 1st major city to risk running out of water. but it's not going to be the last jakarta, london, beijing. tokyo could all face their own de 0 in the coming decade. most parts of the world, or at least 24 months a year are experiencing some way to stress those or discuss the gap between demand and supply your water is netting. but how can that be? our blue planet is washed with water. more than 1000000000 trillion leaders to be precise. the problem is that 97 percent of the earth water is faulty and most of the fresh water is frozen, an ice cap. less than one percent of the earth's water is drinkable that makes one solution, especially promising elevation you sell a nation these how a nation,

the diesel a nation seems like a pretty straightforward solution. you take that undrinkable, salt water, remove the salt, and end up with an unlimited supply of fresh water. so why are we not building more desalination plan? the cell a nation is a natural process, has been known for millennia. the ancient greek philosopher, aristotle noted the sun turns ocean water into vapor, which then condenses again and falls back as rain. compatriots took note greek sailors boiled sea water on long journeys. roman used clay filters to trap salt. these are still the 2 basic principles used today. thermal dissemination uses heat falls, boiling point is a lot higher than water. so if you boil salt water,

only fresh water will evaporate, leaving all the salt behind. membrane desalination uses pressure. salt water here, colored in red for clarity, is present through a membrane that is only partially permeable. fresh water can pass through here, colored in blue, but the salt is trapped on the other side. the technology didn't improve much until the 19th century when industrialization and population growth encouraged more research. population growth is the means driver far increase in water escapes. there is an environmental scientist with more than 30 years experience in water management, different stance, middle east, and north africa. that region has population of about 5 percent of the word population, but just as one percent of the global water resource. and soon,

another factor could make the foundation even more crucial global warming. the as the climate warms, more water will evaporate. and as aristotle noticed more vapor equals more clouds people's more rain. but that rain won't call evenly map shows how precipitation, especially in the last 20 years you've seen a big it's hillary from edward jones, the ph. d candidate who has put together a state of the art outlook on the status of desalination. nowadays we have around $16000.00 deceleration plans which are producing more or less a 100000000 meters keeps water per day. but take a closer look at this map. if you look at so much the selling needed water we produce on this bill. currently, 71 percent is produced in high income countries. that's because desalination is

very costly. the wireless billions of leaders of water takes a lot of energy, middle east, the availability of, of oil and especially fossil fuels makes the thermal persistence cheaper than for other types. it could be, i think, $25.00 or 30 times more expensive, but that energy doesn't have to come from fossil fuels. the start up in berlin has a sustainable alternative. my name is kim, i'm the co founder and ceo of the company bought a light. so i moved from west germany to bernie, to see you and also solving your water, if you like, yes, please me. so the water come back from the home phone to the system and after that is gone through the

boost the bomb would 14 bomb, the water is fresh to the membrane disseminated water. re enter the green energy. that's the key to the company's success. this is one of their plants in kenya's, the solar panels keep the cost of water low in villages like this, where electricity is not available, ah, the water for free electricity from the solar wind for free. so we can now produce $1000.00 retail for $0.50. this price is actually competed to clean water from the river from the bow. but there's another problem. what do you

do with this water that's left behind? so we thought this was to produce fresh water, but now this is still contained within our substance, but it's just a smaller volume. so it's most of the water is called brine. what we produce more brine than we produce needs to be for your pipe with this coming out of the discipline, discharging the move in as it flows out because it's more than 20 in the temperature and also the pete, the oxygen available. and this is what's causing actually the organisms more damage, just a lack of oxygen. they're basically suffocated. ah, bryan can also contain chemical harmful to see life needs to be a better plan for the industry of dealing with this bribes. were producing more

waste with no plans, but what of this waste could become a resource? tomatoes, seaweed, and certain fish can tolerate high salinity. morial life uses brian to cultivate them. in tubs like this is also the opportunity for the soul recovery of the metal recovery and the modem and the technologies auto, a boat fire brian management. but those are very small scale. the challenge is that all we can transform those small scale technologies into a large scale operations. desalination is not a magic formula. the process must become more efficient before low income countries can afford it. nation plans must convert from fossil fuels to renewable. energy is to limit emissions and the whole industry needs to come up with a plan to deal with this. brian, with facilities like this, already

a lifeline for many communities. it's very important to realize that the simulation is here to stay really need to work towards solving the challenges in the gradual process. again happened overnight, but i could see that data that had the same time also to harvest the prevention of sending it to the watcher or a town is doing a lot better and the dam is full. the city was rushing to build desalination plants to avoid a 0, but the solution wasn't desalination or any other technology. no one should showering more than twice a week. i said the flush was only when you really need to flush made it to a fit in trying to use possible and have to have water. if your life depends on and

people came water wise, they radically changed their water use. we use it consciously and mindfully trying to save valued water for the essential and be replaced with substance that it is. and that's how it should be. by the way, you can watch videos like the one you just saw on youtube channel planet aid, which also has lots of other content on sustainability. now we are a business magazine and we do have a liking for numbers and bees. they are really alarming around 820000000 people are suffering from hunger around the world. and at the same time, about $1300000000.00 tons of food go unused every year. due to the lack of proper logistics or food gets wasted. because pears and peaches don't look as fresh as we would like. increasing shelf life could improve things. and here's an idea for how

to achieve that. fruit and vegetables rotting in fields or during transportation to consumers. according to the un food and agricultural organization or f, a o, some 14 percent of food is lost after harvesting. and before it reaches the market retailer. if you go to a particular country or particular, you are likely to see varying levels of food losses. and these, depending on the situation, would go up even to 50 percent. if you're talking about, let's say fruits individuals, for example, if the firm does not find the market for that particular food product in a timely basis. now this is huge amount of food. and if you, you convert it into monetary quantities, this is a lot and if you read it as well into a loss to the environment or the environmental impact that is close to huge.

when that happens, water, pesticides, and resources used for transportation or all waste is some 7 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions can be traced back to food loss and waste. the chief causes include problems of transportation and refrigeration. the power from harvest, the kitchen table is a race against time. a california based company appeal sciences might be able to help founder james rogers and his team have developed a liquid that could extend the shelf life and fruits and vegetables appeal is a little exactly like it sounds peel and we apply to the surface a fresh produce you can't see it, you can taste that you can't do it,

but it slows down the factors because the fruit to age help even without refrigeration appeal as a liquid coating that dries into a kind of edible skin. the coding helps the produce last up to 4 times as long that buys time, time to transport, the produce to storage, and to eat it before it's spoiled. appeal is based on lippitt and other natural compounds found in fruits and vegetables. they're extracted and blended into a taylor made solution by combining them in the rate ratios when they dry a dry into an arrangement that allows us to control the factors that cause fruit to age, which are basically water going out and oxygen going. yeah. so same materials were just teaching them a new trick by finding the right formula to apply to different kinds of praise,

in order to give them the same kind of protection that you have on women. on a cucumber or on a dutch wholesaler nature's prize cell, some 120000 tons of fruits and vegetables a year. they import from 59 countries, especially latin america. in rotterdam, the imported produced continues to ripen before it's sorted, packed, and shipped to the retailer sportage a waste of the common problem in the industry. but the company hopes to minimize these losses in the future. pros food away, they actually bought it and they don't use it and that costs money. so in the chain, if we don't throw it away, you don't spend that money wrongly with a b, we can reduce the weight, was 50 percent at the retail level. food that used to live in the trash can now be sold every day. nature's pride treats 6 tons of cars with appeal before sending

them to supermarket shelves across europe. the main customers are in scandinavia, germany, and the netherlands. natures prizes the 1st company in europe to use appeal are planning to start treating other kinds of fruits and vegetables. soon i started coming by air by using a few, we might give them the possibility to go by boat. and that is, of course, the same reasons. so there's lots of opportunities so far. the new technology is mainly being used by large companies. smaller ones can't afford it. but a few says it's planning to change that with a new business model in which retail chains and supermarkets pay smaller producers and farmers to install the necessary set up in return they receive longer lasting produce farmers in places that haven't had access to national international markets could also benefit and so the opportunity is to be able to use appeal to

reduce the transport cation cost and increase the quality. so it's not a, it's a way. ready for a some, a small producer to grow something that's intrinsically valuable to collect. some of that about extending the shelf life of projects will help. but it won't end the problem of food. lawson waste for the transportation and refrigeration systems will also need to be improved and expanded and consumers will have to stop throwing threw it away and start only by what they'll actually ease. but if we buy more food then we can actually eat it doesn't take long until flies and other creatures starts warming. the football most people don't feel particularly drawn to insects, which could be one of the reasons why pesticide the sales here in germany have been at a steady high. while the recent studies show the flying insects in german nature,

reserves have declined by more than 75 percent in the last 27 years. with industrial farming being the most likely cause what some call in sexual get a has been starting to change people's minds. and the business model of a b one pesticide maker off nicely. well i because i put warnings on my product. my banker skeptical me all. yes. so i worry about my future if it can be for comments, things like his father before him. humpty, tree house makes household insecticides the family run. some had been operating in the same way for decades until these 2 artists called its purpose into question

me the made me think to come and look at insect rec house in the artists joined forces. they organized and event to raise awareness for insights that preservation i the village residents ended up collecting $902.00 flies. one lucky specimen even won a prize. the fly, erica was treated to an all expenses paid for the weekend with owners flights. included the dental child will be deaf all day and we've been out and about with erica and not one person has given us funny looks or called us a bit loopy. and on the to get me the event prompted him speak tricks like house to put his company's future on the line. he's invested

around 2000000 new rates in the conservation of insects and other small creatures. the project also include setting up green route to compensate for the animals. his products have killed, debrief with his headquarters. so become a home for insects. me. mine for though my product is killing me, but i don't see a contradiction in making insecticides while at the same time helping insects from keller to save. you really always this just a marketing ploy because these days, products that can boast, environmentally friendly credentials tend to sell better. me me get. this isn't about marketing. i want to see the market reduced as seen in the warnings on my product, called when a product of your product has

a big label about the dangers involved. voice for him, caufield design, some steep tree square house is now introduced alternatives that he feels more comfortable with such a life trap. for fruit flies the, the insect is attracted to the find a vinegar and then trapped in the cylinder to escape unharmed. that's what kind of to move, i'm really going for this product because it's not obvious why you should save fruit flies. it company has seen turnover drop by 25 percent. his profit to fall and even more. so wouldn't simply selling the phone be the logical business move call from that effect, ceiling would mean surrender and giving up responsibility would only benefit my rivals who would carry on with insect decide by them in the car to die, staying in business, i have the leverage to generate awareness and to show that this transformation is

possible to get out onto sagnasti, the continental house is keen to demonstrate his commitment to the message as he paused up, the company called out to create a new inspector laces. but he can't say for sure when his own metamorphosis will be complete. i got to admit, i did it. a couple of weeks ago, took my 1st pandemic holiday flight, along with maybe 20 others on the plane. even without the pandemic deviation, business is facing enormous challenges with sustainable flying. being high on the list, our reporter dan, her shalt took a look at a company that's taking a step in the right direction. almost 7000 leaders of asian fuel have been pumped into the tanks of his cargo plane. and they're not even half full yet. the flight from franklin to shanghai, china is a long one. but this flight is something special that congo subsidiary of germany's

largest airline. lufthansa is operating this as a carbon neutral flight using sustainable aviation fuel. basically a fuel based on the plan oil. so the fuel and that only the carbon dioxide that previously absorbed it doesn't admit any extra c o. 2, it prevented an aircraft operated with sustainable a v ation fuel emits up to 80 percent less greenhouse gases. but the climate friendly fuel costs between $3.00 and $6.00 times more than regular jet fuel. still some freight customers want to improve their carbon footprint and are willing to foot the bill like logistics company, devi shanker, which chartered this flight the climate neutral bio fuel is produced at this refinery in porterville, finland, and hours drive from helsinki for more than 10 years shami ya here has been working on replacing the kerosene in asian fuel with sustainable raw

materials. the production process is using waste and received your types of oils and fats as a raw material, as used cooking laws. for the future, we are exploring new role materials such as municipal solid waste. $100000.00 tons of biofuel are produced here every year. that's a drop in the bucket compared to the 300000000 metric tons that the world's airline operators consume annually. y'all, we are in and says that a breakthrough in climate for the aviation fuels will require government action. what we need is, is for the governments to, to create the market and either create the requirements for, for industry to become more sustainable. other major carriers such as japan's a n a l friends, kale m and american airlines have also started purchasing sustainable asian fuel for the airlines touting their green credentials. is proving to be

a good marketing tool to win over passengers and freight companies. when until the bio fuel will soon be more than just a marketing tool, but a real alternative for the aviation sector. that's our show. thanks for watching. and ah ah, ah, the news,

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