Just witnessed the driest winter in 100 years followed by a dry spring these conditions allowed wildfires to burn it relentlessly in northern ukraine whole villages that were consumed by the flames a lack of water made putting out to the fires challenging clouds of smoke and dust that traveled hundreds of kilometers engulfing the capital kiev in small. The area surrounding the town of chernobyl has also been affected although wildfires are nothing new in this part of the country they were particularly sivia this year many families have been hard hit they lost everything they had within an instant. Pile of bricks where once there was a home these tall stoves all thats left of wooden houses the 2 just minutes disappear from the flames yvonnes was one of them. It was a thursday before easter. All of a sudden we saw smoke rising in the sky over there. All the men drove over to the neighboring village to help. But once we got there the minimum there was nothing left to put out of those who
A vaccine directly from a potentially deadly pathogen you have to be certain that your vaccine is going to be safe and not do more harm than good the only bees we use now for diseases like like polio or measles have been through many many years of extensive safety testing we dont have that kind of time with coke at 19 which is why according to a list of vaccine candid as published by the w. H. O. Just 3 out of the over 100 candidates in testing at the moment worldwide involve live attenuated viruses. Is it possible that just like with h i v we may never find a vaccine. Back in the mid 1980 s. When hiv was identified as the pathogen that causes aids experts predicted wed have a vaccine for it within a couple of years but skip forward 3 and a half decades and were still waiting. Could that happen with covert 19 too possibly but there are some fundamental differences between the 2 viruses a really major one is that source close to appears to mutate at a much slower rate than the thats goo
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Breakfast at st. Anthem chej in manchester, new hampshire, live over on cspan 2. You can watch online at cspan. Org or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Next, a discussion on the political situation in afghanistan, and the role that taliban and other power brokers like the u. S. , china, russia and pakistan may play in future peace arrangements. From the Brookings Institution earlier this week, this is just over an hour and a half. Welcome. Im mike owe han lon briefly playing the role of mc to say hello and welcome you before i hand it over to tom bowman. Tom is a very distinguished and accomplished npr reporter. Thrilled that he would join us. He spent time in the field in afghanistan, embedded with u. S. Combat units and other parts of the broader effort there that no of course is approaching the end of its second decade. Before i hand the baton to him ill introduce laura miller, who was the acting special representative for afghanistan and pakistan at the state department, ha