to the best connections, sophia, road and rail, located in the out of europe. you are connected to the whole world of experience, outstanding shopping and dining offers and try our services to be our guest at frankfurt airport city managed by frappe waterloo. ah, ah, this is news live from berlin, alma cron, tidal wave. the world health organization predicts that half of your population could become infected with the contagious corona virus variant by the end of the

winter. that's if serious measures are taken to slow it spread. plus an ominous report from climate scientists. the past 7 years were the warmest on record. and european experts say urgent action is needed. and a fraud legacy. the u. s. military's infamous guantanamo b. prison still open, still highly controversial. exactly 20 years after the 1st prisoners arrived. aah! on layla wright, thank you so much for joining us and we start our broadcast with a dire warning from the world health organization. the amok on corona virus variant has become dominant on the continent, and at the current rate, over half of all europeans will become infected by the end of winter. here is what

the world health organizations, europe, director said. 60 of the 50 countries in europe and central asia have no reported cases of omicron. it is quickly becoming the dominant virus invest in europe and this know spreading into the balkans. at this rate, the institute for health metrics and evaluation forecasts that more than 50 percent of the population in region will be infected with mcclung. in the next 6 to 8 weeks haskell there, a speaking moments ago wanna reach out to kayak a freshman. he is a science journalist and molecular biologist. welcome to the w, sir the w h o warning that we should brace ourselves for a tidal wave of infections. we surprised by such a stark word wording. no, i think we've kind of seen this coming in the last few weeks. i think it's

important to remember that with all the kron we are in a slightly different situation than we were a year ago, because both of virus have changed and, and humans have changed. so on the one hand, i think we are seeing is that we are not living under the same type of covert restrictions that we lived under a year ago. so, for instance, you can go to a club in london, madrid, you can go to a restaurant, most places, which wasn't really the case in the last winter. and then of course the virus has changed. and one thing that's becoming clear is that with all micron, one infection follows the next one, the effects with chain much faster than it did with other variance. and so even if one person ends up infecting the same number of people on average, if they did with other variance, we do see a fast arise. and then on top of this, of course, the virus has learned to evade some of our antibody response. and so, while people with 2 shots of vaccine us go protected from severe disease or death to a large extent, they have very little protection from infection. and all of this together leads to

this really, really rapid rise in these estimates of, you know, a large proportion of europe being effected in the next month. we're on the curve. are we with the on the con surge in germany? i mean, if there are a timeline that you can detect already, are we in the middle of this it's really hard to me. remember that this is going to play out differently in different countries because it depends on the restrictions on the contact. the behavior of people and crucially on the immunity that i've built up. so both in terms of vaccination, but also in terms of natural immunity. what we see in germany in the netherlands is that because we have picked measures in place, we have slowed down the spread of our microns. so we haven't seen these huge spikes yet, that we've been in france, spain in ireland and many other places. but they are likely to come and i think what countries like germany are doing it to slow down the spread, which gets a little bit more time to boost more of the population and to try and not accrue

all of this debt. all of this illness in such a short time because it would just overwhelm hospital from this point in time. it doesn't look like covert is going away anytime soon. how do you envisage? how does our future look like? we have to live with cove it and what might that look like? i think it's too early to know what it's going to look like. i think it's very clear that we're going to have to live with cove it one way or another. but remember, again, that all of these barriers that we've seen so far have essentially evolved independently. so it's very hard at the moment to really read a clear pattern into what you normally see with a virus that's and damage that after a certain time point, it becomes a little bit more predictable. how much it changes in what direction it changes into. and so a lot will depend on what barriers we see come up next. that could very well be that after when we get to varying the closer to delta again in terms of severity. and so we're gonna have to wait and see and just prepare for the spectrum of

possibilities for the moment can accomplish that is a science, that journalist and molecular biologist. thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us thinking the european union's climate monitoring agency has released a heroine new report showing just how much global temperatures have risen in the past 7 years last year was the 5th warmest on record and extreme weather events had every continent on the planet. scientists warn we have to prepare for even worse. the last 7 years were the world's hottest on record, and by a substantial margin, according to the use, copernicus, climate change service. in 2021 global levels of c o. 2 and methane reached record highs. while in the same year. wildfires devastated parts of grace north america and siberia. floods reaped through towns in

west, in germany and droughts across africa lead to what was called the 1st ever climate induced famine in madagascar. but as the climate changes, so to does scientists ability to track and predict it, thanks to more advanced modeling except how we are able with more precision true we're, we're determined depending on, on different project to resolve emissions or what would be the outcome for the atmosphere the good news is because of that, or we can show that if michelle, val taken we expect her the atmosphere to or not to go, we're too far into were unchartered to retreat. drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions is widely

a grade to be the best defense against further human induced warming, along with protecting and rehabilitating k ecosystems. but we, the extreme weather events already heating, adapting is vital to protect life. changing that happening with the stream, whether many times were not prepared by his increased severity and extremity of extreme weather. and so we need to be better prepared. last year, global temperatures were more than one degrees celsius above pre industrial levels, leaving only a tiny margin to avoid 2 degrees or more of warming, and a catastrophic effect. scientists say that would have on the planet. let's get around now. some of the other world headlines for you, a man accused of setting fire to south africa, parliament building has been charged with terrorism. officials say the suspect was

arrested at the scene with explosives. he denies the charges crit, explain these being made a scapegoat to cover security things. the fire on january 2nd, cost extensive damage to the parliament. the u. s. means has begun rolling out quarter dollars depicting late american author and civil rights activists. maya angelou. the engraving depicts miss andrew with her arms raised and abode in flight behind her images. inspired by her poetry, miss angela was the 1st black woman to feature on a west coin 20 years ago today. the 1st prisoners arrived in guantanamo bay. the detention camps set up by the us following the 911 attacks. and he, and suing invasion of afghanistan in a clear breach of human rights. most prisoners were held indefinitely without trial, did abuse oliver salad went to the u. s. naval base on guantanamo. and the camp

some say, has come to symbolize one of the biggest us moral failings in the so called war on terror. mm guantanamo, located in a tropical paradise. but the u. s. naval base in cuba stands for human rights abuses and torture. mohammed to old slaw. he was held cheerful, 14 years, suspected of involvement in the $911.00 attacks, but never charged for a crime. he was brutally tortured and suffers from post traumatic stress disorder until to day one. through 4 nights ago i woke up and i was shaking. so skin because i saw my, my jacket was a dog and i thought it was someone coming to get him. and he took me a very long time. some time i wake up, i cannot breathe. defense counsel anthony natalie represents an alleged. okay, the terrorist who arrived here in 2006 and since then has been waiting for his trial. guantanamo has been seen internationally as

a stain on american history. so where does that place here put the united states? we're ashamed that every thing that made this country one that we could say was a free country that had equal justice for all has abandoned all of that. and that sat, it said, and i, i don't know how we're going to be able to recover what animal was built after the $911.00 attacks. is government aimed for a forceful and rapid response. united states will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts. in the war on terror, america and its allies invaded afghanistan. the u. s. naval base at guantanamo bay, served as a prison for a ledge war criminals, and tara suspects a place where the constitution of the united states does not exist. ever since. it was opened, human rights activists argue guantanamo is where the u. s. lost its moral authority,

a place of torture and double standards. that is mostly of limits for a camera. but there's also another side of guantanamo a place where 6000 inhabitants try to go about their everyday lives. in a bizarre contrast to the infamous prison residential areas resembled small town america. some normalcy in a place. full of contradictions. rady you get more, delivers the soundtrack for guantanamo, and she is get most voice. give hello, hello. well, boma to your morning show with the day candles. otherwise one is petty, i'm the analysts court trial in the prison are not part of their coverage a it's not really part of like the culture here. you now that's a, another side of the base. here on this side we have a whole different type of operations going here. the new school allows its students somewhat of a normal childhood,

5 kilometers from the notorious torture prison. good. okay, what are some other things that you know, about native that's actually the message that the one that always said to the whole world. they said there are 2 kinds of people in this world. people who don't deserve a lot of law, muslim young people and people who deserve the low, out of almost 800 former detainees. 39 are still incarcerated in guantanamo only to have been convicted of a crime. in a medical 1st, us surgeons have successfully implanted a genetically modified pig heart into a human patient, a transplanted place. last week, the 57 year old patient was too ill to be eligible for a human heart transplant. this is the hart used to give dave bennett a new lease on life. in a 9 hour procedure surgeons transplanted the organ, taken from a one year old pig. it was gene edited bread and killed for this purpose. following

friday surgery, the 57 year old patient is breathing on his own while still connected to a hot lung machine. he simply didn't want to die, doesn't want to die. and he felt that if he had no opportunity and he was pretty well convinced by multiple doctors who had told him he had a fatal disease. and he was unlikely to leave the hospital because of that as a background, as, as an alternative. he said to me, 2 very important things that i want to die. and he said if i do, maybe you'll learn something to help others. prior attempts at so called zeno transplantation, largely failed because patients bodies rapidly rejected the animal organ. most countries rely on an opt in system for donation requiring express prior consent to use the organs of dead people in the usa alone, around $6000.00 people die every year, waiting for kidneys, hearts,

or lungs. it is a game changer because a, you know, now not a v will have these are guns are readily available if you have their technique of a genetically modifying. so if they're more cute tweaking, required for, for modifying the genes, we can review the, the, will be able to do that. and, you know, again, can, you know, customize basically the hard for, are the argon for the patient. the experimental procedure raises ethical and animal rights issues and as far from being declared safe. but for now, dave bennett's new pig heart is still beating of next retro electric car is on route of ease auto and mobility shout. and i'll be back at a time with ah, what secrets lie behind these walls discover new adventures.