hello. now it's 2022, just around the corner. a sweet new year's tradition in japan has taken on gigantic proportions a rice cake, weighing 700 kilograms has been offered at a shrine into a jacob river jar north of toki. it's an annual tradition marked by prayers for a good harvest. the rice tank will remain on display until january 20th until it's broken up and given to visitors. and enjoy some of that. next up, we've got stephen beardsley with the covey 19 special. i'm william globe crop, as always, thanks very much for watching and we'll see against him. with 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 the 19 special net, auntie w we, europe, we diversity and anything unusual, no mountain is too high, and no road is too long. in search of the extraordinary we are the specialists of lifestyle, europe, euro max. on d, w. 9 o. germany now has some of the worlds strict. this rules for people who are not fully vaccinated against coven 19. the country also has

a vocal minority who refused, gets a job. many subscribed to conspiracy theories, and call themselves squared yankers, or transgressive thinkers. they've been protesting against the increasing rules in germany, and now many or so fed up, they're leaving some anti vaccines are now looking to get away from the lock downs and restrictions of their homeland even to places as far off as south america . ah. hello and welcome to deutsch, those coven. 19 special. i'm see from beardsley in berlin with every wave of cobra 19 illnesses in germany comes a new backlash from those strongly opposed to the health measures taken in response, including vaccination protests and refusal to wear masks in public places or the actions that most commonly take. some however have gone to more extreme measures. olga and vala cone came to hoa now in december 2020. it's

a small town with around $15000.00 inhabitants in the south of paraguay. it was founded in 1900 by german settlers. the cones appreciate the peace and quiet here in the countryside. make me boil the cones emigrated from stuttgart and southwestern germany, to paraguay together with valez brother and his wife. they said they can lead a free life here without coven restrictions. his own for labor, staying healthy for many more years. yama, we have more time for ourselves. that's what it looked like. well, without fear keeping animals growing our own plants by fagin assign plan for. for i live just living friendly. that's to plan more than 1000 people have moved from germany to paraguay in the last year. the cone brothers want to set up a business repairing cars like they did in germany. they hope they can have time for their family life outside of work. i invited

along the alibi there in germany. both of us were employed. we both worked in the long hold act in iraq. the kids were in school and in kindergarten. there were vis . elton olga. we hardly saw each other, but i thought is all wrong sometimes for 2 or 3 days because i had to work more to earn money. pennsylvania and some of those who have emigrated here are turning their back on cove restrictions in europe. vitaly folks who now works as a pastor for the community and whole anal explains the ha, number of migrants with his religious perspective, the lobby didn't parkway, in red, gothic. and then i found paraguay on a world map. coleman and gone said like the time has come and he will be there he was. and as it was said, bob. so it came to pass. i also led an online for a more and my subject was a wave of migrants to paraguay. mine

a team of law. i novilla also on that on the paraguay other members of the german community in holland l. like in a honda who arrived a few months ago from the us, are much more forthcoming about their rejection of the coven measures and vaccines . all of that isn't something paraguay should go along with, she says a cabbage. thus i decided to come here because we noticed that through this harem virus situation, everything was tightening up, becoming more difficult because in word and more people actually had to flee germany, austria and switzerland. i mentioned that they lost their jobs, boyd, and soon they won't be able to go out shopping. if juanita abide stella and now they're announcing a vaccine mandate type. it's couldn't be the sean island info slung and it still remains to be seen just which coven measure is paraguayan will implement in the course of the pandemic until then,

the emigrant families will try to find their new home here. address sick is professor for socialization and conflict research at the university of bill of health. here in germany, professor, thank you for joining us on the show. would you ever have imagines that it would get to this point where people would actually immigrate overseas? because of coven 19 measures? no, the immigration of groups, especially feminine, is not a new pet on members of the protests. f already emigrated and support us live abroad. they have emigrated to reasons of conviction as well that to, to escape prosecution. so we have in class, we have some in class in canada, we're a former journalist office real estate. we know that one of the most critical spokesman is now living in turkey. we know the formation of the us book community historically it's, it's one of the strategies of the protesters and the denial to co hope with the

situation. but what, what is now relevant is to observe what happens in these colonies. is there further radicalization are they producing propaganda so and we need to link it to the multiple forms of protests in the immigration. it's one part of the social media offer a lot of of possibilities to create these parallel societies and communities. you said that it's just one part of this protest. it does it tell us something important about the intensity of the opposition here in germany and other countries, or is it french, how would you look at it? no, we would say that this is one element and may be the last step in the process of radicalization . so the, the one group is leaving the country. the other group are further radicalized in 2 into a polarized ideology and into violence where we speak about radicalization. i speak about a radicalization into ideology and violet and spit this immigration is one part,

it's a central element. why? because the distancing the distancing to the former system, the distance thing 2 o 2, the former networks. so the distance to traditional and majority norm syndrome is one of the most relevant elements in this radicalization and it's growing every we saw in the last week we saw around 50000 people in germany in the streets. we have over 33000 right, wingers, who count themself among them. we have network of corona deniers. the study spied by the university of vienna and edinburgh estimate that nearly 9 percent of the population of germany belonged to the steamer. and it's a very heterogeneous group, and the distance is the central element. not too long ago, in fact, we saw a torchlight marching from the house of the health minister in saxony. that's a german state. do you expect to see more violence,

especially as we near this debate on a vaccine mandate in germany? nace lacy clear evidence of her the radicalization when we defined radicalization as extreme ideologies and violence with an increase in public statistics in a group based and and racist based hate crimes. and we see many protests, it's not, it's not that the amount of people is increasing. so. so the corona protests in 2022 that we saw huge protest but, but now it's going very much low color. and uh, the people who are now in this movement become very extreme. and the mandatory vaccination. this, the topic of monetary vaccination was always the bridge to the center of society. so for example, in spring this year we run a representative, sorry, in germany and 70 percent in this representative survey. agreed to the statement

corona's use plus re vaccination and 18 percent party agreed. and this, this mandatory vaccination is not perceived by the protest. us as something which is good to fight the croon lab iris, but it is a complete, complete giving up of their freedom and it's increasing the idea we have to show a resistor. and so right now we are losing all, all rights. all right, andreas sick as a professor of socialization and conflict research at the university of feel a felt here in germany. thank you very much. thank you very much. now it's time for you to ask and us to answer. here's of your question for our science correspondent derek williams. why do i need a coven 19 vaccine if it doesn't prevent me from catching the disease?

oh, i think that this question more than any other illustrates how governments and health care authorities have, have really struggled with messaging in this pandemic. i'm to answer it. let's go back over some of the stuff that they could have probably communicated better. first, i think, is the fact that despite really great efficacy numbers from clinical trials, the vaccines that we have are not perfect silver bullets. and we should never have expected them to be. what they have so far proved to provide is some very effective short term protection from serious illness and death caused by cove. it, it would be great if that protection were indefinite but, but there are indications that it might be less long term. and then we'd hoped one recent model based study that's gotten some attention, posits that if stars covey to becomes and dynamic,

then re infection and people who got once could on average, occur again in just 16 months now. if correct, that obviously has implications for durability of immune response in vaccinated people as well. but that's just one prediction. and over the course of this pandemic, it feels like those have proven wrong a lot more often than they've proven right? so i would encourage people to focus more on what we really do know now. um, like the crystal clear data based statistics published by the c d c and the u. s. they showed that although vaccines haven't prevented coven 19, or it's spread complete, they, they're unvaccinated. people are still 5 times more likely to test positive for the disease than vaccinated people are. and more importantly,

unvaccinated people are 10 times more likely to end up in the hospital. and 10 times more likely to die. so does being vaccinated guarantee you won't get covered 19 or, or maybe even die from it. no. but for at least a while may be a long while back seen. certainly do stack the deck a lot more in your favor. boon or science correspond derek williams. there i'm seeing there's the in berlin. that's it for our show today. thanks watching. they help with a small ex can aspire, big changes to meet the people making it impossible on it go africa

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a mortgage issue and shrinking see gross me dues in portugal, all 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. report in from lagos, nigeria, and sandra to interview hello from compiler. here in uganda. hi there creek, i can name at least one thing, the police, both issues together. they all are related to dramatic ways. our environment is changing. also only show this week. i want the democratic republic upon the is doing to them live up pollution. and how the countries environment minister trying to protect the country for it once symptom of climate change is that droughts are becoming longer and more frequent. according to the word metro, logical organisation drought has claimed over 650000 lives worldwide in the last 50

years. life still keepers, i especially frightened by drought. goats cows and camels can survive without water in somalia. some common heard us have found success by bulking tradition. the it is breakfast time. the bid are coming from on the outskirts of the somali capital market issue. one or 2 animals have found something to chew on, but they are all pretty hungry. all eyes are all the activity at the edge of the enclosure, in the heaps of freshly cut grass leaves and tweet tis to morsels for the english, but also vital to their health. these nothing to graze on the cindy ground. a son of did a man, so b a is the fund manager, a head, his size typically is more room to room,

but space here is limited. there are a lot of the work i'll your are you face so many challenges when you bring candles to the city of kent or not. and also has the animals need to be trained to leave on the small area here callback. so that requires a lot of patience and experience the all the other challenges of finding enough food for the candles in the city bed and ensuring the provided that things build geared from the desert. 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. or what duncan 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. so

largely, no, actually. so malia is one of the country's heat, particularly hard 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. and i knew february we had us talk a lot about how to get our camel's 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 calling in 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, good data. another reason brought us candles to the c. t is to provide fresh milk to the people who live in mogadishu and its surrounding areas. in the past, people have to go to law areas to get it on our now we can deliver it freshly, milt right here in the ne boards. alva is our little bi line, but a lot on is looking is done every day in the bed, a camel from much to the displeasure of the young calls. but business takes presidents. was it i, ari alice low, low halligan element dollar. we sell one liter of all come milk for $2.00, and i saw how the album my head also the i tie we normally produce 900 to 1000

liters of common milk every day of school, the 9 on plane on by the lake. a leasing, normally if demand is high, we increase all new production to meet the needs of our customers in clean unless are currently curbside of all the order 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 with vitamins making popular, not just in somalia with business who me the better criminal thumb 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 or sing plans to move on 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 a 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 their livelihoods, but it's been polluted at an alarming rate due to paul was disposal. as we'll see in the capitol kinshasa more rubbish than water. that's the state of almost all of the con goes tributaries in kinshasa. and every they, the mountains of waste continue to grow. because almost every one disposes of their rubbish. along the small rivers and drainage canals that criss cross the city, organic waste and plastic bottle suffocate life in and around the water and clog the waterways, cause in severe flooding during the rain season. it's the situation that

horrifies elaine, said bella, after learning about the damage caused by plastic waste in his meteorological science course, he founded an environmental and g o 2 plus a teacher. so on are but with the, the rivers in kinshasa, i polluted with run off from industries with plastic ways to share plastic. we plan to clean up the rivers by collecting plastics which are then turned into our object that i intend to start a business that will help to protect the rivers. so me, i business. what would the g liver and he's using a lot of imagination to do it. elaine sir, baylor knows his initiative, can't solve kinshasa, 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, 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 keyboard 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 cibola, r undeterred by the task ahead of them, even if it has to be removed. one sack at a time on that 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 forests valuable cub one 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 this 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 soccer. new communities on the whole need alternatives to burning wood for energy going broke. and that would include was mall and midsize businesses. now with the yeah, they're pretty been why a man could print juniper parley. what you did, i'm like home simply go back to the village where i was born and tell folks they stopped chopping down trees. it stopped burning wood judged they must be given an alternative that, that you're given. we're 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 really good news that we can increase that to 70 percent 3 solar power generated by the sun that shines above us or late, but also from bio mass and wind power is in it as yet did not did contribute that should go a long way towards protecting the forest law or to just if his or my law for a all of our preferred christiane. i left 43 . did your new landmark. we here in 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, oils stay in the ground,

we don't need to exploit to you. 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, they're not gonna walk you through the law. also, ya ski, nevada. we must quite simply act in good conscience nor that. what we know, there's the problem with pollution and we know that for us is can absorb those carbon emissions up. would you say that's reason enough to preserve and protect them? his indivisible garcia, the global north, the, well, the industrialized countries, the g 20 as well as the newly rich possessor, 80 percent of the world's g d p i assume is, are 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, the spirit or the industrialization in the world will lead us in no way that something's on because of temperatures rise by 3 full 5 degrees celsius. will all

cease to exist? existence is not in this rad anthem. in portugal, all gov region researchers, i'm 1st to get in house, see gross meadows can be protected and a benefit that could have in terms of reducing the fact of climate change. oh, conservationists see grass meadows are heroes of the ecosystem. home to many different species. they grow in shallow coastal waters and harbor. huge benefits for life on the water and on land. that's why team of scientists is studying the meadows of portugal, southern algarve coast to day the team is preparing to dive down to the sea grass beds of virginia 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 includes 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 on the carbone that is store in their settlement, they are helping us to mitigate that climate change. scientists estimate that coastal ecosystems like c grosse is.