cache ammunition and documents, in surprisingly good condition. the box was in the pedestal of a statue of confederate general robert elite. that stature was removed in september after becoming the focus of protests against racial injustice. and you're watching t w t v. i merge hilton berlin, remember there's more news at the top of the hour until then take care, and i'll see you soon. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection been developing? what does the latest research say? information and context? the corona virus updates because 19 special net on d w,

and many portions of lunch for now in the world right now the climate change very hot. the story. this is my blessed the way from just one week. how much was can really get we still have time to go. i'm going all with what? 5th, subscribe all morning with oh, nurses that are on the front line in the battle against the pandemic. the new on the chrome variant is a much more infectious form of corona virus, and it's making the job of health care workers even more demanding. and they're at

risk of infection every day due to the large number of infected patients. the world health organization estimates that at least 115000 nurses world wide have died from covert 19. and there are staff shortages and burnouts. the pay is generally low and working conditions are harsh. in many countries, nurses are fighting for better recognition. but apart from applause, as a thank you, they often get very little return. welcome to your covered 19 special. i'm daniel winter. the jobs of health care workers were already demanding even before the pandemic. but once the virus struck, they took to the front lines and saved millions of lives around the world. came an outpouring of appreciation. but did anything really change? many doctors, nurses care as and hospital workers believe their work has once again fallen out of

the public's awareness, leaving them worried that things will never change for the better. to hear from the people themselves, we travel to spain, india and germany. working as a nurse has always been demanding even the full curve. it 19 struck, but the pandemic has success abated. the problem katherine bag can feel the impact on her everyday life. the i see you nurse from berlin is one of many who take care of covey patients day in and day out. it's a back breaking job. as little as eco strain is enormous. it's a huge strain working in this protective suit. and a psychological part also plays a big role. we take care of critically ill patients. that's our normal work, what we've been trained for. but now we have critically ill patients who can also put us at risk. this is really stressful and washed with as to pandemic. hit nurses received a lot of praise for their efforts,

but they're working conditions didn't change. all the beds were full and then there's constant stress for far to little money. many also complain about like of recognition nurses and spain, especially dissatisfied, hundreds of them were recruited to help out during the height of the pandemic, only to find themselves jobless again, when the infection numbers dropped, they were informed by text message. and so that a, if that the boy they come, i find this way of informing people about their dismissal, really inappropriate. i can find that and it shows 0 respect for those who gave their role. during the pandemic bellow, it could have a higher up in grantville. what we've got to locally were desperately needed to keep the system working. and now it seems like they're just staff who are disposable there. when i'm on it, i ask them all, but shall i? they will tell you the data, but the importance of having enough health care professionals is now clear to many countries, especially as the pandemic continues. spain has also changed and must hitler

currently putting in a lot of effort to create more permanent positions and ensure that fewer staff have to work in unsafe conditions. last history, we hope the situation will continue to improve in 2022. i let me rent the doors for lease women in india. the nursing problems in europe opened up new opportunities for them. the caregivers and nurses gained a lot of experience during the pandemic. now they want to also help to european countries ban miguel gander in india compared to the west indies, especially the u. k. so i guess i know that again, do the same for them also. we, how many stu contained the band to make in the 1st few months? it was, it was a model for the whole world. and i, we believe that we can do the same in the, or in all the other countries as were cut and burger in berlin. with welcome such support, the world may have to brace for a completely new era after all. for now,

what we're talking about the cone, a virus, me stay with us permanently. and we have to develop strategies as a yarmouth. we have to strengthen our health care system with enough staff, with enough equipment, with all the necessary tools. corona is not leaving us any time soon. warner philosophy may subtler creating better conditions for the caregivers. this will remain one of the key issues in 2022 and we're now lucky enough to be able to speak to christian career needed, who's a long specialist, an intensive care physician. thank you very much for joining us, kristian. so from your personal perspective, how are healthcare professionals coping with the pandemic right now? i guess it's a, it's more less a routine now over 2 years. but most of our nurses and also doctors, we shouldn't forget them. are very tired at the moment. and you mentioned that before that there was a lot of applause in the beginning,

but at least in germany it was not more so. so we have not more stuff. we even have less than that. 10 to 20 percent less nurses than before. and that's the major problem we are faced with at the moment. so it sounds like you're suggesting that more should be done. what more do you think can in practice be done to support health care work? yeah, one of the major points in germany is that we have really in nursing crisis, and there's nothing crisis began by far earlier than the pandemic occurred. and one of the major problems in germany, it's a germany, is a huge economic pressure on the hospitals. and so that we have to treat many patients and have to last nurses and also doctors for it. and that is one of the major points. and the pandemic really had a huge impact on that because they have to do more and you had to do more and the workload was even higher than before. and that is one of the major points. and

therefore, i guess the 1st thing we have to do is to lower the workload and you can only do that if you have more colleagues. and the 2nd point is that especially the nurses earn more money than they do at the moment in germany. so understaffing is a key weakness. what more should the government should health care companies be doing to bring more especially nurses into the health care system, in your case in germany. now let me give an example, in your case, for example, you have one nurse for one went elated, patient in germany. one nurse has to care for at least 2 ventilated patients during the night, but mostly for 3 patients. and that is one of the major points we have in germany. so we have to, i guess we need in. yeah, let's say, and you're not in your health care system, but we have to reorganize the work. how we do that. we have too many hospitals in

germany, and that means that to less nurses per hospitals are there. and therefore, i guess we have to concentrate for many her nurses in one hospital to lower their workload and to make life easier. i guess that is one of the key points we have to do in the future. ok, so a reorganization, a stronger recruitment drive and more pay. when we look at the, the situation that we're in right at the moment with omicron, how has on the chron affected admissions. so far as you can tell, because we're hearing different messages on the one side, it's far more transmissible that it is already very clear on the other early data appears to show that it could be a more mild illness. yeah, i fully agree with you so, so it's very early now with the, with the army kron and in germany, let's say we have 2 weeks behind the other countries in europe, especially behind u. k, or france. and at the moment,

the numbers are increasing. so in some parts we have $1020.00, and amber, for example, 40 percent of all cases, all me cron. but we have today only 8 patients with omi crohn all over the country on the i c u. so it's very early at the moment, but if you look at fran thought your k, it seems that at least on the i see you, we have not such a search like we expected 12 or 3 weeks ago. and i guess we needs at least 2 weeks more to have a definite idea if it's really less severe than the data. barry and, and that's what we read. we all wish, at least for the use that the workload is low and the pressure is lower because there's plenty still to do. christian, kara g anita's. thank you very much for speaking with us. thank you. and now it's time for you to ask. and for us to answer his view,

a question for our signs correspondent derek williams. oh, who is considered a coven? 19 survivor. is it regardless of its severity? this is really more of a semantic question than a scientific one, but it caught my attention because i've used the term here quite often, but i've never really thought about it before. so let's think about it. the word survivor is a pretty dramatic one. the cambridge dictionary defines it as a person who continues to live despite merely dying. now, that definition certainly applies to the many, many people in this pandemic who contracted severe coven 19, but didn't succumb to it, but not necessarily to every one who tested positive for the disease of the 2 members of, of my immediate family who had mild cases of coven, 19, for example. they told me they wouldn't describe themselves as survivors. in

scientific literature, the term is often but not exclusively applied to people who recovered after having been hospitalized with the disease. but there are also arguments for thinking of those who recovered from even a mild case as survivors. some studies have shown, for instance, that there are increased longer term risks for them as well, of developing the range of symptoms, commonly known as long cove. it and, and online support groups for the condition are full of people who got only a little sick from the initial infection, but have struggled ever since recovering with a wide range of, of ongoing life altering complaints. though i don't know anyone personally who suffers from long coven, i'm certain that many of those who do would also consider themselves. survivors who

have to keep working to survive every day. so, long and short, there doesn't seem to be a really narrow definition of the word survivor in the pandemic. but because coven 19 affects people in so many different ways, that shouldn't come as a surprise. mm hm. and that's a it from the coven. 19 special from me and the whole team stay healthy. stay safe and see you again soon. a small access can inspire big changes to meet the people making it possible on e go africa joined them as they set out to save the environment.

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all. gov region. the answer to that question at others is coming up in the next 30 minutes. welcome to echo africa. i'm chris, the lamps, reporting from lagos, nigeria, and, and sandra. twin of you hello from compiler. here in uganda. hi there, chris. i can name at least one thing, the police, those issues together. they all are related to dramatic ways. our environment is changing. also on the show this week want the democratic republic of congo is going to stem real pollution and how the country's environment minister the strength to protect the countries bust forests. once symptom of climate change is that droughts all become a longer and more frequent. according to the word metro, logical organization. drought has claimed over 650000 lives worldwide in the last 50 years. life store keepers, i specially frightened by droughts, goats cows,

and camels can't survive without water. in somalia, some camel heard us have found success by book in tradition. ah, it is breakfast time in the bed at camel farm. on the outskirts of the somali capital, mogadishu, one or 2 animals, have found something to chew on, but they are all pretty hungry. all eyes are all the activity at the age of the enclosure. in the heaps of freshly cut grass leaves and trees tis to morsels for the english, but also vital to their health. these nothing to graze on the cindy ground. i son of did our man so be a, is the fund manager. a head, this size typically is more room to room, but space year is limited. they are either tomorrow or your archival. are

you face so many challenges when you bring candles to the city? gentle or not? and also has the animals need to be trained to leave on the small area we cover. so that requires a lot of patients in experience. the all the other challenges are finding enough food for the candles in the city and ensuring the provided the things they would get from the disease. see the nerve who were all high. finally, the gate is opened year in the enclosure that is more than enough for every one that wasn't always the case when they had had to scrounge for food out on the open plains just as camels here have done for centuries. a warden king good already my dear when the draught struck the countryside where camels traditionally leave, there was nothing to graze on and a short fall offering. it forced us to move our animals here to the city all sir?

legit no actually. so mad is one of the country's heat, particularly hot by climate change. persistent drought is slowly destroying the traditional grazing length. the vegetation is dying back, and water holes are drying out even camels, which can survive long stretches on very little a dying from thirst or hunger. the despair filled there who st. ibrahim was seen in other head as is going by the day, their flocks are shrinking, become old, simply cannot find enough to eat in the bushland of the launch of billy ridge in eastern somalia. runners. i believe we had us talk a lot about how to get our candles away from here and find new grazing areas because it hasn't rained in so long. drought is everywhere. how if it gets worse and we can't be dar camel's, we'll have to abandon them. and go to the city to civil children and ourselves. callaghan, the milan, many somalis are moving to the capital to escape the effects of climate change.

mogadishu population has doubled, 2400000 people over the last 20 years. it was in that growing market that her son abdulla months, abriya recognized in opportunity soft alcala, in turn. cool. dr. another reason we brought our candles to the c t is to provide fresh milk to the people who live in mogadishu. and it's surrounding areas in the past, people have to go to law areas to get it. hold on. now we can deliver it freshly, milt, right here in the board. hello, oliver is our obama ellen on his looking is done every day in the bed, a camel from much to the displeasure of the young calls. but business takes precedence. the seattle so low holligan element dollar. we sell one liter of al cannel milk for $2.00, and i saw hallmark i had also the i tie, we normally produced 900 to 1000 liters of come no milk every day of school,

the 9 unclean on by the nayoka hay, alicia norma, if demand is high, we increase all new protection to meet the needs of our customers and clean unless are commonly term said al, am all the other, the fresh milk if immediately loaded up and taken to the city, restaurants in hotels are important. customers come o milk is very nutritious impact would be to means making popular not just in so many with business who me the better camel from can afford to buy concentrate feeds for the animals. it's an important way of making up for drought related food shortages being the camels to the city. his turned out to be a good move, but not everyone can afford to do the same. so instead, was st. ibrahim, who same plans to own with his camels, in the hope of finding enough food in water elsewhere, or what is a precious resource,

it's essential for survival. so why do we wish so much of it? now think about the mighty congo river in the democratic republic. of the congo. it's one of the words, deepest rivers. millions of people depend on it for the alive ludes, but it's been polluted at an alarming rate due to paul waste disposal. as we'll see, the capital kinshasa more rubbish than water. that's the state of almost all. the cone goes tributaries in kinshasa. and every day, the mountains of waste continue to grow because almost every one disposes of their rubbish. along the small rivers and drainage canals that crisscross the city. organic waste and plastic bottles suffocate life in and around the water and plug the waterways cause in severe, flooded during the rain season. it's the situation that horrifies the lane,

said bailer after learning about the damage caused by plastic waste in his meteorological science course. he founded an environmental angio. she's not that you just saw on a book with the the rivers in kinshasa are polluted with run off from industries, plastic ways to ship plastic. we plan to clean up the rivers by collecting plastics which are then turned into our object. well, i intend to start a business that will help to protect the rivers, only i had business. what would this is lydia? and he's using a lot of imagination to do it. elaine said, baylor knows his initiative, can't solve his shots, his overwhelming waste problem. but he sees the decorative optics made from the plastic waste as a step towards raising awareness of environmental probably decades

of conflicts a rapidly growing population. and the lack of investment of all contributed to the cities failure to develop a function in water and sanitation system voice 15000000 inhabitants in 2019 the government launched the kin better projects aimed at making kinshasa cleaner and greener on the last saturday of every month. kinshasa citizens are encouraged to clean up their neighborhoods. $300.00 trucks are deployed to collect garbage and transport it to landfills on the outskirts of the city where it's burned. still, the project only scratches the surface. according to official figures, the city produces 7000 tons of plastic waste every day. but environmental

activists like a lame sevilla, r undeterred by the task ahead of them. even if it has to be removed one sack at a time. all next report also comes from the democratic republic of the congo, which is home to the 2nd largest room forest in the world after the brazilian amazin lost tropical forest covers about 60 percent of the r c. for now that is white grease. it is a disappearing, fust, over 15000000 hits is have been cleared in the last 20 years, partly due to the dubious license agreement. but these forest valuable cowboy, since one you have not only for the year, a see bond with a global climate equal africa spoke to the countries environment minister to find out what is being done to talk with his problem and others with

a pool. let me double cartoon here in the democratic republic of congo. the best way to protect forests would be to provide more people access to electricity and not just private household. second communities on the whole need alternatives to burning wood for energy going broke. and that would include was mall and midsize businesses now through yeah, they're pretty them why and unclear, pretty juniper pi lewis. you did, i'm like home simply go back to the village where i was born and tell folks they are stopped chopping down trees. it stopped burning. wood charge because they must be given an alternative that, that, that you're given. we are waiting on funding to implement the change that will allow us to develop land for large scale, productive agriculture. he knows a lot at the moment, just 14 percent of the congolese population have electricity. lately. it was that

we can increase that to 70 percent 3 solar power generated by the sun that shines above us squarely, but also from bio mass and wind. power is energy, acted like the comedy buell that should go a long way towards protecting the forest or to justify my life. what a all of our preferred christiane. i laugh what things give your new landmark. we here and the d. r. z. sacrifice ourselves if and refrain from exploiting our oil reserves while the good of the environment you and what, what do we get in return? because if we choose to protect the environment, that's not only good for the d r c. it's good for the whole world. since forests store c o 2 emissions and help preserve biodiversity, who yeah. even if someone makes us an offer, we can weigh up our options. if the deals right, we can say okay, oil stay in the ground, we don't need to exploit, do we have other funds, other means of survival, mathee or profit?

but without an alternative, we can't afford to pretend we don't know. it's there on back why we all think the law on c ascii, nevada, we must quite simply act in good conscience nor that what we know, there is the problem with pollution and we know that viruses can absorb those carbon emissions. apaloosa. that's reason enough to preserve and protect them, his indivisible, darcy, of the global north, with the well, the industrialized countries, the g. 20 as well as the newly rich possessive, 80 percent of the world's g. d. p. io 30 is not. couple of they have the means to do something with what is on him. why? yeah, it requires a willingness to comprehend, to realize that if we don't take care of our forest to spin all the industrialization in the world, will lead us in a way that something's on because of temperatures rise by 3 full 5 degrees celsius . will all cease to exist? existence is miss alagood. this rather than in

portugal was all gov region researchers. i'm 1st to get in house, see gross meadows can be protected and the benefit that could have in terms of reducing the fact of climate change. oh, conservationists sea grass. meadows are heroes of the ecosystem. home to many different species. they grow in shallow coastal waters and harbour huge benefits for life under water and on land. that's why team of scientists is studying the matters of portugal, southern algarve coast to day the team is preparing to dive down to the sea grass beds of 30 a formosa lagoon to collect sediment samples in

a time of climate crisis. carmen santos research is more crucial than ever for months to come, she and her team will be coming back to the lagoon. each trip usually spends several days the field work in close mapping the approximately 10 percent of wetland that's covered by c cross, which is one of the lagoons most valuable assets. they are very efficient carville scenes, which means that they can sequester and the store a huge amount of carbons in their biomass. and in the say, the one behind where they roll. and this is very important because when sequestering their seal to and the carbone that he saw in their sediment, they are helping us to mitigate the climate change. scientists estimate that coastal ecosystems, like c grocery store 3 times more c o 2 than forests at no cost.