host: welcome to "global 3000." this weeeek, we meet a fashion expert who proves it's possible to be stylish while keeping step with orthodox jewish dress codes. first forest fires, then the coronavirus. australia has had a very rough few months. how are people there coping? now though, we head to south korea, for many, a role model when it comes to tackling the pandemic. it'sreparing f for a second wave. in march, this graphic shot around the world.

flattening the curve is all about slowing the coronavirus infection rate to avoid crippling a country's health care system. so far, inin germany, that sees to have worked. other countries have had a harder time. and what happens next? experts see three possible scenarios. one suggests there mightht bea second and possibly a third wave of infections, both similar in intensity to the first. the second predicts another fafar worse wave around six to nine months after the initial one, like withth the spanish flu of 1918. and the third anticipates a series of smaller waves, with the worst behind us. south korea dealt well with the first wave of infections. its death rate was comparatively low. now, the infection rate is rising again. reporter: hanam is a satellite town near seoul. in the municipal library building, a walk-in clinic has

been set up. it should help prevent or curtail any second wave of covid-19. park eun-sook of the city health department says the key policy goal is swift action to halt the spread of the virus. park: some patients are sick but don't have the coronavirus. we don't send them to hospital because they could get infected there. it also takes the pressure off the hospitals, their facilities and staff. but if somebody does have the virus, we quickly establish that here, and then minimize the risk of further spread. reporter: upstairs, there are facilities to quarantine 10 patients. if the virus might be in the air, there is equipment in place to remedy the situation. park: if the room is contaminated, this device lowers the air

pressure and also filters the air. reporter: the government is setting up 1000 clinics like this one across the country, to be as well prepared as possible. the seoul metropolitan area is home to 26 million people. swift containment of any outbreaks has been and will continue to be key. kwon jun-wook of the korea centers for disease control and prevention says a second wave is inevitable. kwon: the government thinks it will be in the autumn and winter. but we are already concerned right now, in the light of what happened in the nightclub district. there can be an outbreak of coronavirus at any time. until we have a vaccine, the korea centers for disease control and prevention are rather pessimistic. reporter: a man who later tested positive had visited several clubs in that part of seoul and has been linked to a cluster of cases. the clubs were shuttered, and through contact-tracing, 35,000 people tested.

the outbreak was brought under control. if an upsurge in covid-19 coincides with the return of flu in the autumn, that could represent a diagnostic challenge, as symptoms can be similar. so testing will be key. and indeed, there are more and more places where one can just turn up and get tested for the coronavirus. kim: we also have a lung x-ray machine. that tand we have space for hospital wheelchairs.partments. we can also deal with people brought here by ambulance. compared to the early days of the outbreak, this representns significant progress. reporter: because of that cluster of cases linked to nightclubs, the return to school for 12th graders was delayed. getting into school now resembles going through security at an airport.

some students still feel nervous. >> some people just don't follow the rules. so you can never feel really safe. >> i d don't feel good about th. i don'n't want to go in. reporter: while south korea has been prepared at high speed for any resurgence of covid-19, at least some people remain nervous ababout resuming life s normal. host: 100,000 square kilometers -- that's roughly the surface area of south korea. and it can be a useful comparison when considering the devastation experienced during australia's harrowing summer. at least 100,000 square kilometers of australia -- so, the size of south korea -- were destroyed during the last forest fire season. all states were affected. in p particular, new south wals and victoria in the

southeastern part of t the country.y. the fires peaked in december and early january, by which time many were out of control. a total of 33 people died, and, sasaestimates,s, around a bibin mamammals, birds, anand repti. entire harvests were destroyed. and then came the coronavirus. how are peoplele there doingng? robertrt: so this s is a small b batch or the remainders of a small batch of pinot noir. reporter: inececembe 2019,9,obert coleman's vineneyard came clce to b being destroyoyed by a bushfire. the flameses were just 1 100 ms fromom his vines. the grapapes survived, b but e badly afaffected by smsmoke ta. robert: didisgusting. rerepoe: cocoleman's vineneyard is in e blue m mountains, wewest of sy. sociation estimas s that60,0,0 l haesest. t wine e stralia grape op have en lost. robert

whlike, very hea peated whiso ten peop associa it with rt of flor and sforth. it's notike thatt all. you havbad smoktaint, it's likpicking a dirty ashtray a pub a licking the a. it's notike thatt all. it just acd and relting. porter: vintner borry gartrell alsooe a. lost most t of his harvevest to smoke taint, even though the 0 kilometers from his neyard. ininitially, he e thoughhiss grapes were not harmed. borry: the nearest bushfire was a cocouple hundreded k's away. and so, itit was just hahaze,d we said, "well, wewe're going o be alrlright." so, wewe soldiered o on and lavished care e and attentioion the bubunches right t down till wire, and d then there w was a suggestition we shouldld, perh, send them m off for teststing. and d when they were tested, ty werere nasty reporter: new south wales was hardest-hit

by the bushfires that raged in several parts of the country. slowly, nature is recovering. but australians are still dealing with the aftermath. this is all that's left of the lawrence family's home. there are six of them, now living in a shed. anita lawrence had to tap into her savings. to make matters worse, she lost her job at the local school when the covid-19 pandemic broke out and australia went into lockdown. the family is living in limbo. anita: it's embarrassing, you know, when you're a parent and you cacan't provide for your kids. but for us, it's just been so -- the upheavals have been so huge that even getting the dinner is difficult. reporter: neighbors came to their rescue. david crooke and his crew built the family a bathroom and a heating system, with the help of donations and state assistance. that should see them though the winter. david: they've lost everything, likee

this one who is lucky enough to still have that shed. but there's places that are completely wiped out. our next job we go to, the ladies have a little two-man tent in a shipping container right now. you know, and it's frereezing. reporter: across new south wales, communities arare struggling o get back on their feet. in cobargo, re-building and clean-up efforts have been hampered by the pandemic. mathew hatcher runs a donations logistics team. many large organizations had to pull out volunteers when covid hit,t, even thouough their hels urgently needed. many people around here lost not only their homes, but their jobs as well. it's a tourist region, butut visitors are staying away. mathew: we were churning along a very well-oiled machine. covid hit, and it kind of -- it stopped the donations, it stopped the money flowing in. we know there was hundreds of

millions of dollars donated from the world to this region, or to australia for the bushfires. our group saw none of that, realistically. we've gone through private donors, corporations. rereport: borry gartrell hopes that lessons have been learnt. he's's optimistic.c. borry: i think in a australia, wewe'e beenen accustomed d to bushfis anandroughts and floods. you alwaysys seem to sololdier. i think it's just rmers or people growiwing this alall ovr the world.d. they knonow you've got to o cot on thehe chin and kekeep smil. repoer:: he's hoping for the best. he wowouldn'te a a vintr if h he onweren'n't resilient.t. host: and d now from ausustralia's vineyards, we head to the colombian andes to check out a very popular local snack. reporter:

welcome to silvia, a village in the colombian andes. 3000 m meters above e sea leve its ol c clima makeses ia popular tourist destinatio visirs also comeo enjoy local specialty. josé gilberto londoño makes delicious buñuelos. josé: i'm gog toto show you u how to make buñuelos so you can me em at home. reporterer: buñuelos are dough fritters. they can be sweet or savory. they a are popular a across ln america. josé says s they are eataten t most mealsls in colombia.. josé: i use a lo of buñuo baking x. i add aound of stch and ur eggs.eporter: ong with sugar, salt, and

baking powder. josé: nene. ideaeally it shoululd be milk , queseso cuajada. bubuwe also ususe traditionall cocombian cream cheese, eso costeño. now adddd milk. you add d it to the dodough vy slowly becauause it shouldldn'e totoo wet. repororter: the e dough is reaeady when io nger sticks to the hands. rmrm smallallsls, anthen d dun themem in hot oil.l. josé: you deep-f-fry thefor r about 5 nutes untithey're goen own, the cor of cinnon. buñuelo.osé chargesr > comi'm a regular.town, but i i co herere arly evevery d.

>> they'y're so light t and fl, and you u can taste ththe egg. rereally delicioious. well do. repoerer: lilike everyone e in silvi jée cacan't wa untntil t coronarus pandic is ov. thvillage the and can get ally bus especiay arnd carnil and eaer. host: clean water -- we all need it to survive. but millions of people have no access to it. before the corona pandemic, our reporter, thomas hasel, visited some informal settlements in kenya's capital, nairobi. there, he met residents

determinined to turn things around. reporter: freeing the nairobi river from never-ending battle. the name nairobi com froromke a kekenya's massai t tribe, and s "cooool and refrfreshing watate" but these dadays, the coolol ws arare littered w with refus. coconcerned residedents from e nearby s slum no longeger wano accept thehe environmentntal didisaster rightht at their doorstep. lylydia: whwhen we were y young, the rr wa't't as diy. so we decided to c clean it. in the past,t, we went swiwimg in thehe river, but t that's t possible a anymore becauause e water quality has chand. want to try to tuturn ito the way y it used to be. r repo: lydia wamboioi is one of a abo0 reredents from the korogocho sl i in eastn nanairob who rks with the organization komb green solutions. ththey've dicacated emselvlveso protectingng the environonment. wamboi knows that ththe pollutn in the riviver is now ththreatg those who o live there..

phphistus: the water of nairobi river has becomeme dangerous.. the chilildren play ththere, d bebecause they h have nowhere e to swim, t they also go into t e water. but it's f full of unheaealthy stufuff, and the c children gett dikekenya is suffering from more frequent droughts due to climate change. people here depend on the river for water. they use it to wasththeir clothehes and irrigagate their people here fields.on the river the kenynyan authoritities have bebeen slow to react t to te pollutioion problem in t the r. the sidentnts there fefeel they'v've been left t to deal h it on theieir own. fredrick o okinda, the chairmn of komb green solutions, felt that way too he decideded to take advdvantaf a rarare visit by a government representative. frededrick: we are not cleaning the river becaususe we want recognitn.

we're dodoing it becauause we a to. wh thehe govnor ststard to recognize our work, we had aladady stard dodoing . you see this rubbish thawewe ha colollect here?e? we've asked for machines to llllect it, but t they never co. we wanted toto raise concecer. lawrenence: i understand thaththere e allenges to get the equipment i'll make an eort t toetg for. thosose reurces s we have totou yoyoung people. rereporter: the activiststs are still l wag for the government t tfinally keep their promise. at the riviver, the mainin soe of the pollulution is cleaear. in the adjoining slums, there's no system in place to collect garbage. fredrick: we d don't haveve any specifific collectition pnt foror the garbages. so p people insidede the comni, they j just collect ththeir gagarbages inside there. at nightht, when we arare nt araround, they a are just dumg

themem into the ririver. repor: and becacause only halalf of the sththe river, untntreated. miteter ischristher:r:ly intnto at is the nairobi?sibility ofn i think itit is to worork on e sewer linenes and at leaeast to mamake surthatat theare nonot being g directed intnto nairobi river, so o thate mighght ing backck the life ofof the river.. reporter:: but the nairobi river's life is already being compromised at its source, which is located in the ondiri wetlands in the western part of the kenyan capital, around 50 kilometers from thehe korogocho s slum. the e wetlands arere the only t g in the country. they're vital for thbibinding of climamate-damaging g carbon didioxide. but i in the formerd sanctuary, there are hardly any animals left. naftftali: the pollution stararts right fm here, , because it i is now surrrrounded by greenhouses. those who have done greenhouse

farming know that it is chemical intsive. order toto protect theheir cr. from wherere it breaks, , youn see that the water is already polluted. and by the time e it reaches nairobi, i it is a complpletely toxic river. reporter: people like nanaftali mungaiaid his teamam are trying g to save river atat the souource. and ththey're gettining a helg hand from m mother naturure her. david:d: we are plalanting bamboooo trs along this wetland. theyrere very good t trees whn itit comes to sisipping in thehe metals t that are comiming ouf e greenhououse farming rereport:: freeing the wetlands of poisons and filth is essential if they

wantnthe wildlifife to return. now, the g government hahas top its promises. david: the vevernme seemsmso be in are serious aboucoconserng coming uwirobi river.hat d you see how werereat o ririrs is a reflecti of f wh we are as s a society. when i looook at the amamazingm of volunteers we at the frndnds ondndiri tland,d, a when ii hear aboutut other commumunity grououps downstreaeam, i see at of h hope. reporter: the people of the nairobi river have takaken on the chchallengd wa thehe riv to ononcegain bee worthy of its name.: nairobi -- cool and refreshingr water. host: and now to israel, home to the world's largest population of orthodox jews. many are deeply religious. prayer, marriage, raising children, seeking to live in harmony with religion, adhering to the holy scriptures and the words of the rabbis.

clothing, too, is highly regulated. men often wear traditional hats, like the large, round shtreimel. women's outfits tend to be more modest. but there are some here with more extravagant tastes. reporterer: bet shemesh is 35 kilometers west of jerusalem. it's home to many orthodox jews. shops arare reopening as the coronavirus lockdown eases, but anyone with a fever won't be allowed in. devorah golan is both orthodox and modern, and she is a fashion stylist. some may be surprised that that is possible in a community where women's clothing is supposed to be modest. devorah: i really haven't been able to work at all. obviously the stores were closed completely for two full months. trying to rebuild the business that was on pause for two months, but i'm trying. reporter: shortly before the coronavirus hit israel, we went to meet devorah in jerusalem where she

mainly works. bet shemesh is not a hotbed of fashion. devorah: hi. thanks for coming on our fashion tour today. my name is devorah golan. i am a personal stylist. i've been doing styling. i love jerusalem, it's my favorite city. and today, i'm going to show you some of my favorite boutiques around the city. reporter: devorah was born in the united states, is 38 years old, married, and has five children. back in february, business was good. her outings to the shops were well-attended. her clients are also modern and orthodox. as married women, they cover their hair. but they say they can choose to use caps, head wraps, scarves, hats, or wigs. aviva: it is difficult. i only wear skirts or dresses. i don't wear pants. so that limits a whole section of clothing that might be in a

regular store that i'm not going to wear. so i definitely like to find brands that produce a lot of dresses that are closer to the knee and skirts that are closer to the knee. sharon: i don'n'have a senense of styl. i like very comfortable, easy clothes. i also get very overwhelmed when i go shopping. so i want to get a sense of what's out there, maybe. reporter: the choice is greater than the clients had expected. fashion by israeli designers, selected with devorah's help. devorah: you can just chop it off and then you can save the rest, and do like a turban headband situation. matching. sharon: you're totally redesigning me. devorah: instead of hiding flaws like we're taught to do, and so i always say, confidence i is te best a accessory. so, no matter what you're wearing, if you fefeel good, f you look good, and you feel like yourself in it, that's going to really come out. reporter:

some of her clients prefer home visits, where devorah checks out their wardrobes and recommends ways to become more stylish. karina doesn't want her face to be seen on television. but she is ready for a fashion make-over. stage one, what devorah likes to call wardrobe editing -- clearing out the closet. devorah: this one i feel a little mean. i enjoy it, but people like -- sometimes there's tears, you know. but she's been very good. she's being very nice. reporter: during the coronavirus crisis, shopping trips and visits were suspended. ultra-orthodox communities came in for a lot of criticism for allegedly not following the rules about social distancing and wearing masks. devorah: i don't understand this kind of behavior, and i can't explain the behavior, no. i can't. from day one, we've been social distancing. my kids didn't even play with their friends for almost seven weeks because of the rules, even though they were miserable. yeah, it's disturbing when people don't follow the rules, but what can we do? reporter: now, things are getting back to

normal. the family, including her four sons, are proud that she has become an influencer among modern-orthodox women. devorah and her one dadaughter may be outnumbered at home gender-wise, but they know how to assert themselves. devorah: this actually looks much prettier in-person than it does in the camera. reporter: for now, consultations are via social media. face-to-face meetings with clients will be resuming eventually. devorah: there is more than one way to be a modest, orthodox woman. still l be covered i in a cern way, but look amazing. and be able to go into any store, not just religious, modest stores, and buy things off the rack, and really be creative in the way you dress. shalhevet: some boys think that they can do more stuff than girls, or that they're better and all of that. but they're not. not that girls are better than

boys, but boys and girls can both do things. devorah: i have a lot of clients who do that.. that have to either check with their husband or make sure that their husband approves before they get something. yeah, i i do, and it b bothers, because i think that you should wear what you like and what makes you happy and feel comfortable, and that's it. reporter: devorah's husband backs her business venture all the way. he works in a bank in tel aviv. he says he doesn't have a clue about fashion. he takes his wife's advice and shows us the gaudy socks she chose for him. whoevever wears ththe figurate pants in t the family, only me wear trousers in thehe orthodx jewish community host: that's a f from a at "global 3000" this week. what did you particularly enjoy about the program? do tell us. write to global3000@dw.com, and

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