go beyond as we take on the world. i guess we're all about the stories that matter to you. mind. policeman, i don't know who we are. your is actually on fire made for mines. ah, ah. the pandemic has been hard on all of us in different ways, but some experts say it's children who suffered most an important phase in their lives when they learned how to interact socially has been interrupted. in parts of

the world, kids have spent months doing lessons in front of a computer and developing countries. many children have missed months of school altogether. how will a generation of children who grew up in the pandemic hope of the future? will it teach them resilience or weaken their development? welcome to your coven 19 special. i'm chelsea delaney, in berlin. in many countries, children are now able to receive cobit 19 vaccinations. health experts said that's a crucial steps for protecting children and their families, as well as keeping schools open. here in germany, children ages 5 to 11 have been eligible for jobs for just over a week. we had a look at how things are going here in berlin. i was with julia was lucky. the 9 year old girl was one of the 1st children under 12 to get a cove at 19 job here at a vaccination center in berlin. i jojo

knows why she has come my leg and fact loudly well, because it chases away corona and i think it's just good for jojo vine. please. julia was a premature baby born 3 months early and very, very often they were in the hospital with pneumonia. oh, she had to be on a ventilator, and we don't want to experience that again. we have no meta, which virus mcnees. i am a liam. a guy mcveigh can be auth, just like julia all children from the age of 5 and now able to get vaccinated in germany and vaccination lines set up, especially for children. they receive a lower dose than the regular one of many parents have been waiting for this stamp given the high cove at 19 cases, among 5 to 11 year olds across germany. we

hadn't, we have the highest rate in this age group and berlin, it's between 70800 and other german states. it's much higher and that is a great risk of infection taken and the cause of the disease among children is not always mild. hello. felicia and special occasions have been found to make getting the jap more attractive for kids. here in berlin's nature museum, children get a free ticket to see the dinosaurs after being vaccinated by including younger kids . politicians hope to finally get out of the pandemic. here maggie, in the more vaccinated people we have in germany, the better we will be able to fight the coven, 19 pandemic. that applies to all generations and vaccinated children also offer protection for their family at home. it done a house of beaten julia and her parents chose the jam because it makes them feel safer. the government hopes that many other families will now follow suit.

now for more or less, i'm joined by your touch from the german society of pediatrics and adolescent medicine. so yours, after being in this pandemic for almost 2 years, how are our kids coping well actually at the very moment they are doing a little better because the school has been, has been, has not been on and off as it used to be at the beginning of the year, but there was a certain degree of persistence of interrupted possibility to meet other children and to his teachings. perience. so we actually know from the enquiries doing better than they did the beginning of the year. so there is some stability now. but how has the pandemic hit different age groups differently throughout these past 2 years? well, there are certain things that have to be put into consideration of 1st of all,

lessons. they are very keen on getting in touch with adolescents in the age group. where is younger kids, they have more contact to family environment certainly. and they can more easily be stabilized by, by the families but by the parents. so it's actually in particular the lessons that we are concerned about. and another, the big concern is those family that hadn't got all the means of supporting their church. that, for instance, don't have access to to, to, to why fi, they don't accept have access to laptops and everything you need for a while for getting in touch apart from, from meeting each other. so,

so it's not only a metal age, but it's also a matter of access to technique. you mentioned that there, but there has obviously been a lot of concern about the impact mrs. having on children's mental health. what should parents or adults be looking out for in their kids? while there are certain things that we have learned so far to a depend demik on the one hand, they should have been keeping an eye on the eating be off their church and they are getting more obese. not eating too much. and they moving to the actual or is the opposite. then on the other side they have to take care of their children not getting depressed, not not being said throughout the day or not losing their degree of activity. and finally, they have status of near to,

to take care that children really still are in touch with their environment that they ask questions that they well stimulate. they approve that they even criticize their parents as long as they do this. this is time when they, when they stop talking and when they stop getting in touch with the environment, one has to worry about that. so we're at a point now where children are eligible for vaccines in some countries. do you see that as a game changer? i've possibly not a game changer, but it's extremely good news, especially for the goal that we saw in the in the movie that you just head you who have risk factors for more sci fi call of covert 19 infections. and for those children, it's extreme. the good news, as well as for children that have that have relatives, that families,

that previous potent for, for more severe cost then again and other children. parents may be quite convinced that destination is the right thing to do. and we, we absolutely stimulate those parents to have children next united. but at the same time, we don't argue with parents. i'm not sure about the actual state of that explanation whether they should vaccine it or not. i have to to fix it or not because they are not yet sure about the side effect. and we don't want to, we don't want to stigmatize these parents either. so it's up to the parents. the parents should try to keep as well informed as possible by what they can read, but also talk to the pediatrician today assembly doctors to get more information

and to troll decision. and at the end of the day, it's most important not to stick with parents that don't don't mix and 8 and need the terms that the site for the information that you're in touch from the german society of pediatrics and adolescent medicine. thank you so much. thank you very much for the interview. now it's time for you to ask and for us to answer. here's a viewer question for our science correspondent derek williams. oh, can you tell us more about the effects of lung cove? it in kids? 0, $1.00 of the few upsides if you will, of source covey to is that at least during the act of infection, children are largely spared serious outcomes like hospitalization and death. but that doesn't mean that some of them won't eventually pay a price,

an estimates for what percentage of children suffer symptoms associated with long covered in the weeks and the months following an infection. they're kind of all over the place, but most researchers in the field seem to agree now that it's significant, although recent data indicates, thankfully, it might not be as common as we once thought of some early research postulated that post coven symptoms might have fact up to half of all the kids who got that estimate has brought considerately with a larger recent study, roughly finding more like one and 7 kids are still reporting symptoms on over 3 months after a covert infection. just like in adults, those long coded symptoms have also been very wide ranging. and kids of the most

serious reported a fact is called multi system inflammatory syndrome in children or m i s c o which can lead to oregon failure. it's fortunately, pretty rare. there have only been around 5 and a half 1000 cases of it reported in the u. s. so far, for instance, more common effects are sometimes, but not always similar to those reported by adults like fatigue or labored breathing or head aids or changes to the sense of smell and taste. neurological symptoms like brain, fog, or, or difficulties concentrating are also widely reported. some studies show that vaccines appear to help cut the risk in an adult of developing long coded if they experience a break transaction, maybe by as much as half. but there isn't enough data yet on whether they also

reduce the risk of it. in younger kids, we just haven't been vaccinating them long enough to know. and finally, pakistan's lockdown may have been tough on humans, but it's been a great opportunity for sea turtles to breed. they used to lock down to return to their birth places and huge numbers reclaiming the once polluted but now serene corruption. beaches to lay their eggs. their numbers jumped from around 802019215000 last year. thanks for watching lulu. we love europe. we love diversity and anything unusual? no mountain is too high and no road is too long. in search

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but we began in ukraine. there is international concern about the deployment of russian troops on the countries east and border how i residence in the border region handling the threats this muddy track years to be an international crossing from ukraine to russia for elena and her neighbors with family and friends on both sides, it was a lot like that. yeah, no copper all cook. i want to check what kind of wire they've put up. oh yes. yes. it's bob's why i call you j tucker fish. and they were allowed this strip. but oh, to catch people's we try to cross with with lower su signs, some fencing and some barbed wire. or was it might not look like a particularly well defended frontier between 2 countries in conflict. but it's certainly a big change of people in this part of eastern ukraine, though, until a few years ago could drive across the border without as much as showing

a passport. what a nice yet it was, my neighbor has his elderly mother down there on the russian side. it's only 6 kilometers from here. but now he has to do a huge loop and travel 10 times that to pass through the board to post them or g, as in use in the border fence was 1st built few years ago. helena tells us relatives would come and stand on both sides to talk over the barbed wire. it's this closeness, these personal ties that mean that many here aren't ready to believe that armed conflict with russia is even possible for us on the gym. but usually we hear all the scary things in the news, but i just can't imagine it affecting us here. there's no animosity between us. nasha met him as a milligram. that may be the case, but the tanks in the troops are definitely there. even if they're still some 200 kilometers from helene as border village with u. s. defense sauces, warning invasion could be a reality within months. very atlas, taurus is gulf, don't. we've been expecting of russian innovation since 2014. so they're always

flex in their muscles and, and i think this is just an attempt to win political concessions, probably $20.00 to $3.00, but then in a politician are in, in the border town of mill over. there's not much of that shield evidence with russian and ukrainian border guards barely a metro part along the boundary which runs down the middle of the main street. but even here, women, the locals can see russia from their windows. it's cold and economic worries rather than russian tanks for now. a still weighing most heavily on people's minds law last year. how can we be in danger if the board is right there, we would have seen something already. jo, i've only seen those russian tanks on t v, but we can't see or hear them here yet. no tensions here. so as negotiations between washington and moscow to resolve these tensions go into overdrive people on the ground, this new crane seem unwilling to believe that the threat of war is real till they see those russian tanks with their own eyes. ah, the only chron variant is causing a surgeon corona,

virus infections, especially in south africa, where it was fast detected. the mayor of johannesburg wants to do everything she can to stop it from spreading farther. johannesburg at night is a party town. there is no social distancing, no masks, no registering of guests at claps. local may am pull, pallets is not happy with the situation and is taking part in a police rate on the complaint of clothing 19 isn't looming. 4th wave of call, then i'll number the we very concerned about compliance. he called the regulation the music is turned off and the club closed for these guests. the party was over long before the midnight curfew. but palatez job is just getting started. she is the 1st black female mayor johannesburg city that was once the dream destination

for gold prospectors. but now, as the city in crisis pallets there wants to stop this trends. but now the pandemic is causing her further concern. she is to prepare the city for a 4th cove at waif. a lot of systems already in place. i have also seen gaps though, that need to be addressed, particularly around making sure that service delivery continues in the covered era . and we need to strengthen performance management, particularly where officials are having to work from home. i've heard rumors of people working from home never coming in and is known real means of seeing if people are delivering am on what they've been deployed to do. and so such things need to be a given attention to ensure that the 4th wave does not hit the city as hot as previous ones pallets is trying to convince people to get vaccinated. only $1.00 and $4.00 south africans is fully vaccinated,

although there's enough vaccine available here in the so wait or township the vaccination rate is particularly low. please see that when you called fox news ted, you'll get some diseases like cove with name to me that some of the cooper room do this. they do, but question they get think the uptake is very love and a research has shown that in terms of cases that are hospitalized that end up with complicated disease, a lot of them are the and vaccinated. pilots is a single mother and a doctor, and she fears the pandemic will take up much of her time. ah, almost all the residents of to later a city and southwest in brazil, a vaccinated against the corona virus. this is despite president paulson our stance . he long denied the pandemic existence

just a few months ago doing the rounds. here was a grueling task for emergency dr. jose f r a c t o, so brow. so now all empty these beds were once occupied by critically ill cove. 19 patients, the corridor at the hospital in the brazilian city of toledo is deserted. emergency beds now in the storage room. it's the result of what might be brazil's most successful vaccination drive. quite a while we used to have 40 into bacon patients here. now we don't have any hot, and it's very rare for us these days to provide that level of intensive care. the cases are also much less severe than before. so we can think more carefully about how best to treat those who are sick and to give them a better prognosis, made up with somebody. no, but tonight in southwestern, brazil is home to some 143000 people. corona virus was right here only

a few months ago, like many other parts of the country. the severe health crisis was followed by one of the fastest and most efficient vaccination drives in brazil. american pharmaceuticals company, pfizer recently launched a long term study and laid out over the course of a year. it's observing what happens when everyone in a city is vaccinated against covey. 19 everyone over the age of 12, including 13 year old anna, will be give them the full dose book in another tells us that her whole class go back to. nathan was no bad side effects . piano that almost everyone continue to go to school. she knew vaccination isn't compulsory. there are just hardly any skeptics here. the city

council president is simply relying on people's willingness to get vaccinated. he'll go via warner, got it. i down than anywhere else in the world has so much expertise. and so many vaccination centers. if we had, you know, faxing before about 100 percent of the population would have been fully vaccinated long ago, we have a tradition of vaccination enough. so the sample sample went to toledo is setting as a test lab for the rest of the world in a year or 2, many questions could be answered here under which conditions do virus variance develop among vaccinated people? and how long does protection last? the distillate hospital, there's growing hope the pandemic is finally coming to an end ah, invoice in a new mine is to be built in a former coal mining region. climate acts with a trying to stop its construction, while many residents in the area, i hope it will bring

a new job. the main jasmine pit. could these soon be back in operation? there's a good chance the could be says the credit. he was a minor for decades and he loves his job. he was responsible for ventilation and all the culprits in white haven, a small town in northern england, including this one. that was the best job i ever had in my life. miners look after themselves on the ground because it's such a dangerous, healthy fish. when i came out of the mines, i didn't find that on the surface. call was last produced in 1986. and then from there that was the last coal mining in cumbria know that her plans to start mining cool again for steal production. the seabed

here is a veritable treasure. truth, an estimated 750000000 tons of coal. why under the water if you want to steal you need call the mileage, tons of it out there on the job. why bring it from broad? when you've got it? many wishes steal, work still use coal. there are new technologies which is hydrogen to pursue production or recycle old steel. and these are constantly being improved. but they have yet to replace cool. the council has already given the go ahead for a new calorie on this former factory site. but claim activist carol would and her husband robin are campaigning against it. the climate change agenda is just so urgent now. i mean we are actually seeing the impact of climate disaster and it's not, it's not in the future,

it's happening now. and we haven't got any wiggle room. we absolutely need to keep this colin the ground. this is the position of the new mine over on the marsh on site. and that's up where that light is on the top just over there over there. but dave credit is where things, yes ticket, but the new plans, every one and reviving the many tunnels of the past the this map shows that mining was ones everywhere in the past, colas shit from here. but now there are just a few private boots. the old industries have died out making the region one of the poorest in britain. many locals hopes the new mine will bring back jobs so that that's what goes on between locals, who hope for return to the old times of high employment and others who want to move forward to a better, more environmentally friendly future. ah

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