Live Lives Profit driven. And globally connected. Or has this pandemic sparked irreparable change. How will we live in the future. After the pandemic. Hello and welcome to the cove in 1000 special im Stephen Beardsley in berlin well this week were taking a look ahead at life after the pandemic for what it means for cities to economies and even nutrition a recent study has linked higher obesity rates with higher Cova Death rates the World Obesity Federation report says covert death rates were 10 times higher in countries where the population was on average overweight further almost 90 percent of covert deaths occurred in countries with high obesity rates the report calls for people living with obesity to have Priority Access to vaccines. I mean while the pandemic itself has increased Hunger And Malnutrition around parts of the world take brazil for the 1st time a whopping half of brazilians dont have access to safe and nutritious food thats according to reddy pence on a local Food Resea
Im Melissa Chan thank you for joining us South Koreas 2 biggest cities and seoul have held their mayoral elections and the results show a conservative sweep this could mean trouble for president progressive democratic party particularly with president ial elections taking place in just under a year Frank Smith reports the election of new mayors for their Capital City saw all here in the Port City of busan might not seem that important because after all theyre just by elections and the numers only hold office for a vote 14 months but they are indicative of a broader Sea Change in so korean politics if we go back just a year the democratic party 180. 00 out of 300 seats at the countrys national assembly and then of Course Yesterday they took a trouncing the question is. How influential will this result be in terms of next Years President ial elections to take place in a boat 11 months are we going to see the conservatives hold on to favorable public sentiment if we do then were going to
fashion designer vivienne westwood turns 80 we take a look back at mother of punk s life trendsetting. i m told me a lot of welcome president joe biden has announced new measures to tackle gun violence acting on the issue was a key campaign pledge for him and the spate of mass shootings has increased the political pressure on the power of the u.s. executive is limited and biden also urged lawmakers to do more. flanked at the rose garden by vice president camila harris and attorney general merrick garland president joe biden didn t mince his words what happened that gun violence in this country is an epidemic he said again gun violence in this country is an epidemic and it s an international buyers. and he sent a clear message to the u.s. is deeply divided lawmakers shoes but there s much more of the congress can do to help that effort and they can do it right now they ve offered plenty of thoughts and prayers members of congress but they passed not a single new federal law to
a pilot i ve liked the technical stuff since i was little so why the metro somehow it drew me in the fact that it s underground i guess it s like flying but underground. before every shift gives the metro train she ll be driving a once over she looks for damage and vandalism and checks that all the fire extinguishers are where they should be a moment of calm before the empty cars fill up with commuters again you rena has a lot of experience dealing with passengers she worked as a station guard on the platform for years now as a driver she tries to get a sense of each individual metro train her connection to the train she s driving feels almost spiritual to her. in russia people say the way a ship sails depends on what name you give it i treat each train like a person and i think each train has a soul to one train i drove had a male soul but most of them are female. the feeling of driving the metro is like pure happiness and happy when i m driving. the rena is proud to be one
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. donald trump s days in power are numbered, with joe biden about to be inaugurated. but many democrats want mr trump out sooner. a resolution has gone to the floor of the house of representatives, calling for mr trump s cabinet, led by the vice president, mike pence, to strip the president of his presidential powers. the house is expected to vote on tuesday. the democrats have also started the process of impeaching the president, for an unprecedented second time. our north america correspondent barbara plett usher has more on the impeachment process and the 25th amendment. mike, these are methods that the democrats are using to try to get donald trump out of office in these waning days of his presidency. they have said he is a threat and he has committed interaction, or he asked for insurrection, against the government and strong steps need to be taken, so the house speaker has said she would prefer this option of