pretend to her native hungry. she was one of the last of holly with golden age renowned for her love of her exotic i might have been filled with the one as we have time for. but don't go away. i'll kind of special is our next room, and you can always find much more of the latest headlines on our website. that's the w dot com. i'm rebecca written in the thanks for watching the news. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection in developing? what does the latest research information and contact the corona virus? because the 19th next on t w a little guys,

this is the 77 percent. the platform is used to be issues and share ideas. you know, we are not afraid to young people. we have the solution. the future is 77 percent now every weekend on the w me o. strict locked down, save lives. that's new villains philosophy for dealing with cove at 19. i want to avoid them. prefer tests, quarantines, and mosques to contain the viruses spread initially, both islands enjoyed success. but that changed for taiwan.

what happened and is one government's approach better? oh, the welcome to the show line, benches all and today will be talking to the co author of the report. assessing the outbreak responses of new zealand and tie one it was recently hit by the alpha variant. it hit hard despite the government's expertise in dealing with outbreaks of other diseases like saws running in and out every day. 39 year old mister chan delivers 300 orders a week. the reason copied outbreak and tie one has brought him more orders, but he has to take more risks since nearly 85 percent of taiwanese population isn't vaccinated. well, this all high. no, i live with my 5 children, my wife and my mother. you asked me if i'm worried about them. of course i am. i have so many children and i worry that i might get them infected to lose johnny bravo. as a father of 5, he has no choice,

but to go out and make money. so i hope the government can offer food delivery drivers, vaccines as soon as possible. we're in contact with so many people. dozens, if not hundreds, every day. many are still waiting. the vaccination program for high with group started rolling in june so far, just 15 percent of tie ones, 23500000 people have been vaccinated. there isn't enough vaccines. portal, you know, we have an vaccines. can we do mass vaccination? that's the 1st layer protection for all of the people that some face excess containing the virus. and the insistence on developing domestic vaccines might have delayed high ones vaccine acquisition. and it was our mis judgement last year. not being able to,

for seeing that there will be such a vacuum shortage. and we might have being a bit too confident about what we could do in terms of our own dramatically developed vaccines to taiwanese drug makers, revealed phase to clinical trials in june and applied for emergency use authorization. but their effectiveness still needs to be examined. whether it's applications or not still remains the open question, but at least there's sufficient scientific data to think it might be efficacious in such regards. it just to have it approved in case of need. so we can use it while the town, when the vaccines await authorization. the government is trying its best to cure more jobs overseas, so that people like mr. chan no longer need to worry that they and their families

could get infected. amanda closer it is an epidemiologist at the university of taco, wellington, what went wrong in taiwan? in your opinion? it's been very hard watching time long struggle to contain this very large upright someone has done so well. so hard in the panoramic haven't strong have to count instruction and the public response connections in this offer. it's been interesting to see how different ones response has been compared to museums in museums. when we have our breaks, we react very quick and they decisively to extinguish them straight away. and sometimes that means going straight into the short shop, locked them. taiwan, on the other hand, has avoided using, locked down as

a pandemic response. and that may have kept going a little longer than it's needed. and a matter of what i find striking when we look at the numbers is that outbreak. you mentioned in taiwan, in comparison to new zealand numbers, the spike is really sudden and then tie one manages to bring those numbers back down, but not to the levels new zealanders been enjoying the whole way through this pandemic . they've managed to keep the numbers down so low once it's done, right. i think the most important thing that museum has got right is to have the right strategy and hands on it. and it's the the limitation strategy . the strategy centers population, how we don't tolerate cases in the community. we react to even just one positive case in the community by moving to extinguish that outbreak as quickly as possible

. that's meant that we've had very few cases when she deaths. health services have continued to operate its protect me, it's protected us of the credence and a lot of things that come right just from that initial impulse to protect the population. what i think is also really important to point out is that both countries a slow to immunize which is a problem in taiwan, but not for new zealand. when you can argue that on both sides, actually, on the one hand, yes, you doesn't need vaccines. that can should be used in classes we're still occurring, that should be used in cases where they can immediately save lives. on the other hand, we do feel vulnerable. we know that we get some our break most of our population. still, i'm fascinated, but couldn't, and even more virulent and infectious strain pop up at any time and hit new zealand

to that's right. and worried about that. in fact, he weeks ago an australian travel to new zealand. i spent the weekend in wellington on holiday, went australia and on monday they started to be on well and tested positive delta barry. now that pissed me during the weekend had visited a large number of places around wellington museums, restaurants, shops, all the places actually now watching experience for us. we were waiting to hear whether we got to have a, have a large upgrade. as it happens, we've got luck camera difference. that's it has been a warning sign for us of how badly things could go wrong to the warning signs of their what is the best way in your opinion then of containing, not only closer,

but also all of its variance. well, the interesting thing about this pandemic is something that we in the asia pacific region is that the panic is control. it can be stopped. we have so many tools in the toolbox. now we have protections, we have a public health infrastructure. that's that test and tracing all of those measures and we have many but can keep our community safe. optimizing ventilation, one of those things wearing a mask to protect others. supporting people to stay home when they're sick. we've learned so much in the last 16 months. how to stop his father's actually confident that it's not really a question of henry dude, but all me going to choose to do it. interesting stuff from a man call tweak epidemiologist at the university of chicago. wellington, thank you very much for being on the show today. a brief look at some other corona

wire stories making headlines. malaysian officials have been forced to temporarily close a covert vaccination center. nearly half its work is tested. positive. malaysia is struggling to deal with a surgeon. infections the country recorded 11000 new cases on tuesday. it's most in one day and for president manuel, my cause says getting vaccinated against covert will be made mandatory for all health care staff and other workers who come into contact with loanable patients. it's part of the latest measures to contain the pandemic in france, where the delta variant is taking hold. that was that part of the program where we put one of the questions to our science correspondence. derek williams. paul, will manufacturers need to modify vaccines define perience. this is really just another way of asking whether storage to be to will mutate so much that modifying

vaccines makes sense. so. so let's approach this question from that angle. the answer is, we still don't know, but. busy a critical moment experts say will be if large numbers are fully vaccinated, people start contracting a serious enough case of covered 900 anyway, to land in the hospital. that's not happening, at least not yet. even if some variance are infecting more vaccinated people than earlier versions of the virus dead in trials, none of them is viewed as what's called an escape variance. in other words, immunity and people who had the disease or who have been vaccinated appears by enlarged to be holding up pretty well. but if that suddenly changes, then, manufacturers will indeed have to tweak vaccines to help manage the threads and

they're already doing so. the good news is that this isn't a new problem, it's one that we've had to come to grips with in the past. for example, with flu viruses and flu vaccines have to be updated regularly because flu viruses evolve really pretty quickly. so the background that we already have in redesigning vaccine fast to meet that constantly evolving thread that will come in handy. now, according to the vaccine alliance, garvey, updating messenger r n a vaccines, and viral vector vaccines is still uncharted territory. but it shouldn't prove to steve of a challenge. manufacturers are also saying that they can tweak vaccines to provide protection against emerging threats within weeks rather than months and, and trials with tweaked vaccines are already going on. but some experts don't think

that escape variance will develop so. busy the question of, to what extent will actually need modified vaccines? that's still up in the air. me, derek williams. they're on painful and thanks for watching. stay safe. i see you again say by the ego africa willis from the national park in congo. the gee and his family would love nothing more than to live in peace . but poachers and farmers hunting and threatening the species

ah, to be done to protect africa on dw, the great power, just a handful of chemical to dominate the industry, manipulating plants and the markets. however, they please because of them. some cars that are thousands of years old are almost 15, but farmers and consumers, whether he's 45 minutes on the w, ah, the news or we can carry the climate change while people are in the

rain forest continued carbon dioxide emissions have risen again. young people all over the world are committed to climate protection. what impact will change doesn't happen on its own use to make up your room minded. w. me for mine's me. the hello and welcome to echo africa. whitley environmental magazine produced the legal, kampala, berlin. i am christa lens and legal. i'm being joined by my colleague sondra

hello piece and hello everyone out there. very glad to help you with us. again. i am sandra to be coming to you from compiler. here in uganda. today we'll be looking innovative bumble houses in the area and plenty of other interesting stories. the one here how months this is opened almost inputs for now protect the lights on the house of african land own. it can get a tough break by protecting the environment. and find out what you've done and foremost we thought we show in the democratic republic of congo, a country often modern conflict as a result for a long time, little attention is paid to the environment. but that is starting to change. we went to a jose vega, national park, where people i know devoting time and effort to protecting the nature. they're not

only is the good for the tropical forest, but the local people and the white lead to which include good, we love the this family of guerrillas lives in a tropical forest. they don't get nervous when people are nearby. so not interested, but you know, we are now in co who's the be a good national parks. and right now we're in the presence of monsieur bone. any monsieur bonner and me and the members of this family in the day weekend to be who's a be a good national park is a national conservation area. and the democratic republic of congo grows all eastern lo land guerrillas having a major tourist attraction for decades. the main source of income for the park are the admission fees for visitors pay $400.00 us dollars each because of the pandemic

. there's no visitors right now, but the ranges still go out on patrol. they want to keep track of several gorilla truce and usually know where to find them. even though the pump is huge. it covers 6000 square kilometers. so, vs device for each family of guerrillas, economy on point one to the forest to check on them. we also collect data, and if we find chimpanzee tracks, we report back to on. if we find evidence of illegal activities such as travel, we dismantle them and coordinate. and i said that you're probably going to days is being used for scientific research. the number of low land guerrillas here has declined by half over the past 3 decades to just a few 1000 research as estimates. the ranges with comments holiday is august

impossible. see, he has promised excesses a non profits dedicated to promote research and conservation. he says, poachers and that traps are a continuing threat. this guerrilla is lucky to be alive. here we just see the silver back move about when he was 4 years old, he was caught in a snare, and unfortunately he lost his right hand. but despite that hearing is and he's with his family, my good, the rages, not only petrol the park to collect data, but they're also on the look out for poachers. that's why there aren't lose what it is that we have security issues in some parts of the party. there are poachers out there every day. and the rangers tried to track them down. people from the surrounding communities also sometimes damage the park. they cut down trees or

bamboo. what you'll find in the park is the unesco world heritage site. but this part of the eastern d r. c is densely populated and there's no buffer zone between the park avenue by villages. people live at the be the facility. some work can see plantations or in the park, but most are small hold of farmers. premise, expertise not only seeks to show conservation of the guerrillas, but also to improve the livelihood of local communities. it is also launched a project to replant areas of forest that have been cleared illegally, almost impossible. se says working closely with local people, it's very important. he hopes they will come to cancel the environment as much as they respect. we will go to the plaza and for some time now and we'll go, luca has been seen much more often at the edge of the park. consider what pleases

us as scientists and conservationists take is that the communities respect me, go to like nobody has been throwing stones at him or threatening him, even though we often see him passing from their field at around 100 villages. opposite the pacing and the reforestation projects a project that will help preserve the forest for the good of the gorillas and the local population. let us know upon from preserving weighed life on the forest to creating good, sustainable housing. africa was big cities are crowded, some overcrowded in a weekly series, doing a beat. we meet on a jury, an entropy new inc. i do know who build houses from a material phone there in abundance. the, the nigerian population is rapidly growing. and with the need for

affordable housing, ibrahim, somebody who came up with the idea he construct houses in cardona made entirely of bamboo, which grows naturally in the area. most likely this last longer than a house built with ordinary wooden. bam, blue is better when it comes to withstand, like labs and erosion, and you and your family can live in a house like this for a very long time without having to worry that is my last exam. and then, boom, which is actually a woody grass from light and environmentally friendly. it grows incredibly quickly without having to be planted after harvest is much cheaper than most other construction of material, but it should be treated or leached to eliminate the sensibility to insect attacks

. and whether, where not all bamboo varieties have the same quality. but if a suitable variety is used for him. so lisa says a sizable house can be built in less than 20 days. how about you? if you are also doing your bit, tell us about it. visit our website or send us a tweet with hash tag doing your bit. we share your stores. here's a note to one of the one key environmental troublemaker slattich every year. around point 25000000 pounds. the read ends up in ocean truck. old every single minutes you've plastic consumption continues to live on, the present rate will be discarding. so truckloads, minutes within the next 10 years, and 4 percent by 2050. why is this happening? one reason is that only a small proportion of plastic with this recycled?

another is that around half of all, plus the goes the product that i use just once, and then through the weight. now some young german activists are cleaning up local rivers and working with scientists to calculate how much a plastic and stop in to see an idyllic location on the who river in west in germany bus take a closer look. and it's not as beautiful kevin noah and the exhaust nights have come to do some fishing, but not the usual kind. it's trash. they're fishing for, plays, litter everywhere. they look. and there's plenty of plastic. quite a few glass bottles to the students attend to local high school and taking part in an initiative called plastic pirates. it's a research project where young students get to do the work of real scientists. they

take water samples and measure count and record the pieces of trash. they recovered from the rivers and river that scientists in queue use the data to generate a garbage map of german rivers and calculate how much trash ends up in the sea. the teachers are happy to do. they pause to inspire the budding scientists. it's something i care about myself. it always bothers me when i see people leaving rubbish behind, especially when they have small children with them and are supposed to be setting an example. the work of the plastic pirates shows that on average one piece of trash can be found for every 2 square meters of riverbank in germany. france also has a project aimed at tracking down the trench. it's called plastic origins and goes a step further, using artificial intelligence and an app. we want to move it as much as grown tips

and citizens, as we can to go on the rebus. so you can create data actually getting working with the bank and using the data. using the video footage of the river bank, we will be able to analyze the video detect liter items and use the data to map prevail, plastic pollution. the aim of plastic origins is to get stricter legislation introduced on plastic waste and regulatory limits for the amount of plastic in european rivers they garbage, math is intended to identify especially polluted areas. we, we know that most of the pollution we find in the ocean is transported by rigorous right now we don't know which read us the most for me to the pretty one. but the app contract micro plastics in germany alone,

full kilos of micro plastics per person per year end up in the environment. the main sources particles from vehicle ties, industrial waste and household garbage. it's difficult for waste water treatment plans to filter out the tiny particles. but immune extol have called echoes zario is showing how it can be done using a simple but effective method. this is how it works. the waste water is pumped into the filter. a powerful vertex is generated in the pipe, putting the water containing most of the micro plastics to the top. the company says 95 percent of micro plastics for municipalities and industry could be filtered out in this way. the young plastic pirates agree that more needs to be done to combat plastic pollution after just 2 hours and this idyllic location, they found more trash than they can even carry. now we had to south africa to find out how with tax break helps to promote conservation. the country is famous for its

wide life and vast areas of almost on pause to land. and then geo that come up with a way to encourage people to set up your reserves on the property. 88 percent of land in south africa is not suitable for agriculture. it's too rugged to dry and chew uneven. but everywhere you look, you see life in abundance. the country boasts rich biodiversity. but how best to preserve it in south africa, environmental protection is chronically under financed. ah, me. that's where kansas stevens comes in. she's a tech specialist at the n g o wilderness foundation, africa. she wants to encourage landowners to turn their holdings into nature

reserves. the government offers a tax incentive to do so. to see what you're doing here is looking off to some africa, his natural wealth in the public good. and so there is this unique tax incentive to benefit that by diversity. this man is already converted his land into a protected area. he can right off the cost of the purchase over 25 year period photographer, cause funder lender purchase the land 5 years ago. and it's taken count those pictures of the area since then. it rarely rains here, but when it does, the landscape is transformed into a pageant of color. another special feature about this area of land is that it could act as a corridor for wild animals since it's located between 2 different protected areas . we standing year round about in the on the northern border of it

get to the, to the waste and east south stretching down. macklin national park and then to the north east hook up provincial nature. and you know, you can see the proposed colorado linking the to protect it. and the crew region of south africa is home to more than 5000 species of plants. and some 40 percent of them can only be found here. once upon a time, this area was farmland due to global warming and the rifle diminished quite a bit and it just became impossible for these people to, to make a living with kettle and agriculture and eventually there to sell. and that's why we bought into folks for conservation with climate change, threatening biodiversity, candice. stevens has not found it difficult to persuade other landowners to follow

suit doesn't have signed up to the scheme. her 1st experience of him.