Language no not this snoop and make up but you need to interact with the thing you want to do their story. Thats perfect and reliable information for margaret. Parts of latin america are finding a new normal amid the pandemic 1. But tragedy remains a reality for many. Brazil has seen the highest number of corona virus cases in the region officials there say the virus is under control and are even closing temporary hospitals like this one. But more than 130000 people have died during the pandemic so far in brazil why has it been a hotbed for the virus. The pandemic is also putting the squeeze on latin american livelihoods can governments help their citizens make ends meet. Welcome to georgia fellows cover 900. 00 special im Stephen Beard and its good to have you with us and we begin with a look at brazil where a lack of government response has devastated the most vulnerable groups in particular those living paycheck to paycheck often in the informal economy left to try and fill the gap or community groups. People angry angry about president also now rules right wing politics about exclusion and racism about the many cobbett 19 deaths and about the fact that nothing is being done about it in this country the protests are led by alto football fans of the comment in football. There was nothing the. Every fan today the fans cook meals to help the poorest people those who have been hit hard by the pandemic today alone they will distribute 1000 meals on the city streets they deliver the food packages in their private cars they head for the center of sao paolo in a home boy. Of yours. For these Homeless People the free meal is a blessing with its rice past and sausage they have only been homeless for a few weeks they could no longer pay their rent due to the coronavirus prices they have brazils new poor. Little. Thing. The government should come out of its palaces and see with its own eyes what is happening in this country. Brazils president also narrow who usually appears without a mask continues to downplay the coronavirus risk he has also been criticized for not always pub. The number of victims. The number of unreported cases is especially high in the favelas so in Rio De Janeiro residents have started their own count. Many victims of the virus when called by the help authorities we have a few examples of that among our circle of friends the volunteers talk to their neighbors and know the case of. Part of the unreported number. Here there are some call that 9000 cases here. Some survive others dont. With the help of residents the volunteers compile they only lists for their poor district. They also collect data on sick people via whatsapp something the city council does not do. So. Since the appeared the government is conspicuous in its absence we always have to reinvent ourselves and break new ground. Even. As other football fans in sao paolo hear under a highway bridge at 10 pm. Where hardly any others would set foot. Cars drive across the bridge above all down below families in need of build a place to live they too are among the pandemic for. This family brought a Kitchen Cupboard a bad and a stove from their rented apartment just a few weeks ago now they can only hope for better times and that was important help not stop. During the crisis i could no longer pay my rent my wife and i became unemployed we have 3. 00 children only option was to come here i built the shelter myself. With poverty comes fear of the virus and of being. Behind join the pandemic. Im joined now by money shes director of the institute for latin american studies and homburg where shes joining us from money because good to have you on the show the lack of government help for brazils poor during so much of this pandemic has that been by design or by omission well i mean actually the brazilian government overall hasnt been completely attentive to the needs of the poor. And thats been actually not by the design of the executive government but the opposition back in late march so right after the pandemic started the opposition and Civil Society came together and pushed through emergency cash assistance and the government did not veto it and thats a result actually about one 3rd of the brazilian population currently receives emergency cash assistance from the government which is the highest level of any latin American Country however of course it doesnt need all basic needs well its relatively sufficient enough to buy food it doesnt necessarily cover rents and such and so still people for example in sao paulo who lose their jobs are still in dire economic straits so there is a social protection floor in brazil but of course it doesnt need to get all the devastating effects of the economic crisis and this is being pushed through by the opposition rather than the government why have we seen covert really take off in latin america seems like in comparison to some other regions there was a bit more of a delay before cases really took off and still things have been pretty bad in countries like brazil. Policies or on any or no what do you see. Well im not an epitome ologist but i can tell you this that part of me and humans are vectors of transmission and so social distancing measures have really helped to mitigate the spread of the virus however if you implement social distancing you absolutely have to also especially in quarter countries make sure their families have the means to feed themselves while they stay at home and in countries that cant do that you cant expect people to stay at home a star or watch their kids go hungry or not go out on the streets and try to make an income and so thats one of the key challenges that latin american countries as well as all developing countries have had is how to make sure that people can actually get here to the social distancing measures and in a region with very high levels of informality in the workforce about half of the workforce is employed informally and you know if they lose their jobs from one day to the next that means their income disappears so you need to get help to them very very fast and that was a significant challenge in pretty much every single let American Country except that had a Strong Social Protection System going into the crisis perhaps more comparable to what you see in germany. And they were able to get that assistance to people but otherwise it was a real challenge and that was one of the factors that made it very hard to tamp down on the virus as well what we see when we look at this countrys Health Care Systems as well we know that with other regions thats also been a challenge. Or Health Care Systems that have been investment invested in rather. Overall yes because one of the key characteristics of latin america is the tremendously high levels of Socio Economic inequality and so you have an underfunded Public Health sector the majority of the population and then you have a better resource private healthcare sector however neither were prepared to confront a pandemic of this magnitude and now you see the result. Is interesting in that piece seeing how the Community Comes out on one hand the clubs on the other hand some volunteers in the favelas im guessing that might be nice but perhaps not enough to really make so much of a difference when youre talking about a pandemic thats correct i mean Civil Society help hes always important but if youre dealing with a shock such as a pandemic you solute we have to have a state that is to be paired to confront these kinds of social risks and unfortunately most latin american countries. That weeks they capacity has come to the floor with this crisis and many governments are recognizing that now and seeking to invest more in it i want to ask you before we go about believe it has the highest mortality rate in the world from coven still any reason for that. Well i think the factors that i mentioned. Prue is a country with very high levels of informality 80 percent of the workforce is informal and so when the pandemic hit they depended on the Informal Sector for their income and the social distancing was quite brutal and they couldnt sustain it at the same time the government had a really hard time reaching the entire population and still in august 5 months later many people were still waiting for for cash assistance help from the government so in those kinds of circumstances its very very hard to effectively implement social distancing. To that simply lots of People Living in pretty bad Housing Conditions in urban slums where social distancing is very difficult some people dont even have fridges so they cant prepare for example meals for an entire week they have to go out every day and buy food. For latin american studies in hamburg thank you very much. And now its time for your questions to our science correspondent. How long does an asymptomatic percent or one who has overcome covet 19 remain a possible source of infection. Regardless of whether you have symptoms or if youre asymptomatic if youve been diagnosed with coke at 19 its important not to leave isolation until your local Health Authority says you no longer pose a danger to others and its recommended guidelines the w. H. O. Says that on average positive patients who show symptoms could be infectious for up to 10 days after symptoms 1st appear it also says patients should wait at least that long plus 3 days after their symptom free without any medication so a person with an average case of coke at 19 if there is such a thing should isolate a minimum of 13 days for asymptomatic people the w. H. O. Recommendation is to isolate for at least 10 days since your last positive test various National Health authorities have interpreted those recommendations in different ways there is no 0 risk scenario but as a rule of thumb people who test positive whether there are symptomatic or asymptomatic are no viewed as being no longer infectious after 2 weeks. And thats all from biscoe 1000 special you can find out more online at the w. Dot com as always thanks for watching. Clearing mines in ukraine one step at a time many young highly qualified. People want to free their country from land mines and booby traps. Theyre even retraining to do it on the job 6 days a week away from their families. Whats driving them close up. Next on g. W. India. To trim a living get this. Is n. G. O. S has already planted 5000000 trees and hopes to reach 50000000. His mission is to fight the effects of climate change. Hes inspired many followers. To. 60 minutes on w. Closely. Carefully. Dont seem. To be a good. Match. To discover who. Subscribe to the documentary. Let me let me move this is our Little Museum the most important thing to know is that they are very very. Dangerous. D. Minus like jelena search for and remove hidden explosives 6 days a week ukraine has one of the worlds highest numbers of civilian deaths and casualties linked to landmines on the like children here from a very young age. And mines. And what are they. Thats right bullets. Or a mine did this to me who. Listen chomsky is a town in Eastern Ukraine yana cherish came here 2 years ago but 29 year old theres a lawyer by training. It is 8 in the morning and as usual shes getting ready to go to work. Or think. The much i put my hair into a ponytail so i can work with the visor otherwise my hair gets in my face when i put it on. The so what did. I want in the Civil Service before going on Maternity Leave and then the conflict started and i had to flee my home in the water there. Yellen now works hand to gather with 22 other ukrainian colleagues they have also been living together here under one roof for almost 2 years her employer is an International Mine Clearing Organization called the Danish Demining Group. Lissie chance cause briefly in the hands of pro russian separatists at the beginning of the war in 2014 today the town is back in the control of the ukrainian government. 13000 people have died so far in the conflict and many flat. Yelena fled from a town that is now part of separatist controlled territory. Im from have all my school i decided to come here because of the conflict my town was under heavy bombardment and it was too dangerous to stay there. It was a big shock for all of us none of us ever thought that Something Like this would ever happen to us. As they go there. On their way to work the mine clearance have to pass through one of the many checkpoints it is closed to separatist territory therefore i am sensitive subject to strict surveillance. Based on driving through fields the socalled contact line or the front as the people here call it is just 15 kilometers away suddenly placed on the back. Of our team leader power of a check 1st to make sure everythings ok. But. Thats one of the safety routines every day they monitor whether anything has changed the area against the all clear and the team meeting can start here at line one to 2 and that line 3 to 4 is where sergey is working. If youre warm or hes got a few metres to go and this is where we will start working please make sure you would hear to the safety rules and keep the prescribed distance apart author and thats very important abortion was the voter. The area where the mining claras are working was once farming land but in 20163 soldiers were killed an hour after they drove over an antitank mine and it hasnt been used since that. Red mark show where youre not allowed to travel for safety regulations are very strict the team members communicate using hand signals radios and whistles. Yelena is starting whats known as the humanitarian mine clearance she is combing through every centimeter of ground to completely rule out any danger. With a piece of wire jelena is searching for trip wires that could trigger an explosion. Now the graphs can be clipped so metal detectors can be used to search for mines and unexploded ordnance. The detector can locate antipersonnel and antitank mines as well as any other unexploded combat devices made of metal. Detectors sounds on i love it its imperative now to be as cautious as possible. Yelena is marking the spot the triangle shows where it is safe to stop digging. Most land mines are concealed with their detonators pointing upwards so you only ever try to start digging for them from the side. To meet a pavels signals its time to take a break. Theres a 10 minute break every 15 minutes to ensure that everyone stays focused. Sometimes you can advance 20 meters in that time sometimes just 2 thats not up to us it depends on what we come across some would get done with a girl. And her colleagues have been working for almost 2 years on these fields an area thats about the size of 130 soccer pitchers. The equivalent of 1000000. 00 soccer pitches are believed to be contaminated in ukraine and that doesnt include the separatist held areas. Yet ukraines economy is heavily dependent on agriculture many farmers just ignore the danger and work their land nonetheless. It remains very difficult to pinpoint where mine sent to unexploded ordinance could be located here near lissie chance the Danish Demining Group is trying to find that out the dogs show where people have already been injured by my the greatest concentration of mines lies along the red line of contact. We set off for star need see a lot on scout. Yellowness colleague tatyana validation our heads for a checkpoint that leads into the pro russian separatists controlled area to raise awareness about the danger of mines and unexploded ordinance. And theres a why isnt there as many words of course these events have turned my life upside down and yet of what the low body for the conflict i was employed in a bank was a project manager. A little bit so now that i was also responsible for personnel. No i had an interesting job that is a look of fear but then my town was occupied and i had to leave they always follow. But this is the checkpoint where people cross into territory controlled by the pro russian troops. Hannah and her colleagues come here 3 times a week. There are many places where it is possible to enter or leave separatist town territory thousands of people cross they strike point daily to visit their families or to pick up their ukrainian state pensions. All done about this checkpoint is just for pedestrians cars arent allowed here people can only cross on foot i think i. Many come from far and wide and often have to wait in line for hours before they can cross this is where the territory controlled by the ukrainian state and and the selfproclaimed peoples republic of begins the Ukrainian Defense ministry believes that contamination by land mines and other remanent from fighting is even higher in separatist held territory the blown up bridge marks the current contact line a minefield start right by the side of the road according to the Danish Demining Group 145 people have been killed and injured here since the start of the conflict. Back unless it chanced its the end of the working day a yellow. One went this is my little son he likes collecting leaves and he really looks forward to autumn when he says mama look how beautiful they are and hes visited me a few times he always points to me and says my mama works there thats her and blue but of course he doesnt understand what i do for a living. I tell him im doing it so that you can run around again without us having to worry about you. Never mind if i get the way now because that russian is i what. Just as those numbers that the number of times that i overnight here depends on my work of course i want to spend as much time as i can with my son but on some days its just not possible thats why my mom looks after hannah by the most im on my own why did. d you now have free time the mind clear is trying to distract themselves from the harsh realities of the conflict it is a fact of the mold. In our apartment block was hit and badly damaged it was a 10 Story Building with lots of apartments shells hit the top floor and the building next door the top 7 floors of the block just folded in on themselves ok watching movies and i like playing piano but i cant at the moment i had to abandon my piano but almost. 7 am the next danny. Glover recorded we have breakfast together but everyone comes to the table when it suits them gold. Mine clearest come from different regions and have very different professional backgrounds. Alexei erase co is 32 and used to work as a psychologist now he works as the project coordinator here. He retrained as a specialist in the identification and defusing of explosive devices when the mine clearance finds something its alexei who decides how they should proceed. What will. Suddenly present faria activity you know when you see if theres anything inside. Its an open wooden crate. Ok what your position would. Act line to. Can you see me. Alexei goes to take a look for himself on all this is what we found. Theres the back with the tools. In the famous door at the yes you can maybe possible move more weve just decided that well have to remove the crate 1st from a considerable distance on the. Door then we need a rope in the caribbean or cliff to do that going to be we will all move 50 meters away and then it could be able to trap of the most. Years ago most of the hood you create might be concealing a grenade or a landmine or Something Like that if one of the sure. Whos coming with me more than me. Alexei needs as many details as possible. To the metal detector b. By the crate remember that youll follow the rules with oh yes but i didnt go any. Further just up to the line. Lets take off our advisors. More tools are needed for the next step. Just 7 kilometers away children are attending school. Its 10 am morning break time for during the night and the other children. In School Number 23 the dangers of mines and unexploded bombs is also a topic. Children are particularly at risk when they are playing outside in the field songbirds thats why tatiana is hand to give a talk. I just got a dog good morning children. Because it really is tell me what you can see on the picture here. You nation canadians and what are they. Right bullets. And what you quoted so tell me what do you think happened here. It was awful their mama told them that they werent allowed to go there because they were landmines. But he didnt listen and he stepped on a mine helpful but. He just wanted to look him play the big guy a bit. But he didnt watch where he was stepping on a mine exploded. And he lost a leg and eye and an arm even. If theres a lot of it even if he. Oh is that what over here tatiana often uses store is to get across the danger of mayans to the younger children. This week does a little bit of boredom we do most of the sessions with the children before the long holidays but it is so they know how to behave when theyre playing outdoors without their parents instilled in you but i would have thought i did it. In Eastern Ukraine about 200000 children have to walk through land contaminated with land mines and explosives on their way to school yes. Im not scared but i wouldnt like to see a sign like that because there could be landmines right next to it and. According to the United Nations unexploded bombs im climb mines but the most common cause of death or severe injury among children in ukraine. Are destroyed weapons warehouse 100 kilometers further solve of lissie charts. In june 2800. 00 enemy fire scattered munition and explosives around the area. A tragedy waiting to happen to elena and her son sasha. He told me he founded when he was Walking Around and you saw it somewhere amongst the plants that he picked it up and took it home with him. This month in. The relevant way the only times my son was sitting there his tablet was plugged in the t. V. And the lights were on and he said he was just looking at the thing when it exploded from one minute to the next. And then everything looked as if it had gone through the shredder. He said himself that he had no idea what had happened to me born for him. It was the place i was standing outside and had to crawl in through the window to get to him he was lying against the inside of the door and i even had to fetch our documents otherwise he wouldnt have been treated even in a case like this. There was broken glass everywhere hospital came. To him one of his hands was blown off and the splinters went through his eye and one in his forehead. As they couldnt save his i was the best of it give a. Good woman. Well thats the whole show gosh. In the meantime yelena and alexei have called the rope and the kind of been a clip that they need to examine the crate more closely. Everyone else has gathered at a safe distance 50 meters away. By overweighting down. Id say is now the only one near the cracked. That it would hold like say is going to attach the caribbean or cliff then hes going to leave the area and pull the rope. First he has to take cover well call the rope hole. Were all curious to see what happens then. Theres a secret to speaking everyone has to squat down no one is allowed to stand going to start pulling. The rope seems to have got time. If something doesnt explode splinters and stones can become fatal projectiles and theyre wearing bulletproof fasts for that reason but protective clothing is of no use if a landmine goes off in the immediate vicinity. Theres no explosion or we have to wait another 5 minutes to be on the safe side. Its vital that we always stick to that safety procedure and wait each time one. Mobile not the goal before the normal we can only approach the scientists there has been no explosion up to 5 minutes. Clear relief around. The only thing that ive come across the safety cap of a detonator from a highly explosive projectile. The yes there are probably good needs inside this great. Results appear to use it as a target of that if you want and. Who. Experiences like this bring people closer look at the vertigo anything youre heard of would care weve become something of a Little Family because we spent most of the day together and more. Than a little. Of. The lunch break brings some relief when i leave the minefield the tension of the last few hours begins to wave operate. Back to lizzie chanced. Anatoly and his wife have been living here since 2015 after fleeing fighting in the rebel held territory ana tolly is making a broom out of out plastic bottles but she wouldnt be able to cope without the help of his daughter oksana. Roxanna. Give me the bottles please so i can start to. Order. When the separatists took over our farm and started looting plundering we decided to flee. Packed our things and set off. We didnt get very far. Maybe a 100 meters. There. And then it got us there. As anatoly and his wife were fleeing an antitank mine exploded under that calm hes unsure which side of a counter the brunt of the explosion both of them were critically injured his wife is barely able to leave her bed ringback. Im finished oh yeah. Sure what do i have to show for landmines or i got this from a landmine. And i got this from amman they were here. Thats whats left of me. I was always very active. And i couldnt sit still. I ran i jumped i saying and i danced this is my daughter she lives with us now. And we cried together but. Since 2014 almost 2000 people in Eastern Ukraine have been severely injured or killed by landmines on bombs. After a tiring day its important for alexei to switch off and take some time out from what. This is going to do for your exercise helps to get me in my feelings under control and it helps to make better decisions and on the. Borders that. Are the most notable its dangerous work and its important to stay alert and remain level headed that up with me if you cant afford to be controlled by your fears. Look at that some of the nothing before i came here i had no 1st hand experience of the conflict and ive never seen a real take or munition and i had no idea about any of that alexei worked in a Community Mental Health Center at some point the fallout from the conflict started to become powerful in his town too much of the water from the gulf war a difficult the conflict began many refugees from the areas not controlled by ukraine arrived in my town to. Invite them or yeah i thought to myself i have to do something. The next day and its. Pouring down Yelena Alexei and the team cant venture around its too dangerous when it rains vines or steam up and they cant see whats in front of them so it stands they attend to tasks they dont usually have time for. Me with this is our Little Museum that i label every minute of every explosive device well up and up the mountain and these are the descriptions with information about each particular one a good number of devices and thats the level. Where you do your job people have some praise i dont know theres room for improvement just kidding theres a little. Before what does he know. But this is an antitank mine the t. M. 62. 00 its made of metal and plastic and it detonates when pressure is applied from above. And these kind of anti tank mines were found in the area where ya know wow thanks according to the annual landmine monitor report crane is among the top 5 countries in the world in terms of numbers of deaths and injuries linked to land mines and other explosives more than countries like mali and iraq. Most of the team mining team have known each other for 2 years now every 4 weeks they get a few days off many dont come from the region originally so they often spend the evenings together. In their. Way. Its estimated it could take 40 years to fully clear the areas in Eastern Ukraine of mines for 2 years before the people here can move freely without fear or danger. But everyone who was able to the majority left my hometown they went wherever they could leave my family scattered in all directions so i stayed close by in the hope that things might get better at some point was a bit of that thats my dream in the woods. And then its taking. Cisco india. Used to train man of india vishnu lama. Is a geo has already planted 5000000 trees and hopes to reach 50000000. His mission is to fight the effects of climate change. Hes inspired many followers equal to. 30 minutes on d w. This is a guy just tony. Tony 2012. The campaign against more crimes in uganda. A campaign that took the world by storm. A campaign against just start a war. What is really behind operation county. 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