Who were tears today how for future. G. W. Dot com made a serious film it didnt get. The culture. Of. The 2nd wave is crashing over europe and intensive Care Capacity is close to breaking point. Germany could hit its limit next month france and switzerland my crack by midmonth. Belgium could overrun capacity this week or next. What seemed like huge investments to expand Hospital Capacity now look totally inadequate. Warning bells should have been ringing in early july. Day after the spring lock downs were east but only a few recognized the vibrations that heralded a tsunami of new cases. Experts warned us and for many countries the 2nd wave is already most savage than the 1st Health Systems of running at a limit in parts of eastern and western europe in belgium doctors and nurses struggling to keep up the incidence of coronavirus cases there was the highest in europe at 3956. 00 per 100000 people. This used to be the Recovery Room for patients whove had surgery now it serves as a makeshift intensive care unit for cope with 19 patients on life support hospitals of the belgian province of lea is are no the epicenter of europes 2nd wave and struggling to keep up we are not able to admit one new patient any more so if a patient comes in the emergency room with a 3 we have to transfer him to another or be done in belgium and. Both of them will be old food deveau tells us his team is not only short of beds but also personnel one in 5 nurses in the region have tested positive for the virus themselves but the pressure is so high that those who dont have symptoms continue to work under strict safety precautions doctors and nurses here are working tirelessly to take care of covert 900 patients some of them are even infected themselves but despite all efforts the Health Care System here in belgium has reached its breaking point as the overall number of infections continues to rise the actual number of infections is likely to be higher than the official figures across town at least as University Hospital testing is ongoing. I cant smell or taste any more and i have a headache. After medics year can conduct 280 tests every day but these tests are strictly for those who have a doctors prescription family members friends or coworkers who have been in close contact with them but dont show any symptoms cannot get a test for them or as the moment we have so many positive cases the problem is there are far too many contact persons given the huge number of people who have symptoms wed be unable to test them as well as all the people theyve been in contact with at least not with the amount of tests we have currently if we had more tests we probably could back in the covert ward doctor duvall fears the lax handling of the crisis in summer will put him and his colleagues in a very difficult position very soon when you have only one bet and 10 people out of a thing for the same bit you have to choose between the team but which one you. Know a doctor one who does one thing its like you know we are not doctors who do that kind of thing we all looked up to treat patients with which patient treating germany has started to take patients from belgian hospitals with infections expected to continue to rise here in the coming weeks the medical staff already at their limit will need all the help they can get. So you want to is with st Josephs Hospital in the hardest time what sort of capacity does germany have to take on patients from other countries right now. Well we havent ever its nearly twice as much as you bet spec up it out and the rest of europe. And caribbean germany are on 75 percent of the german ice you bet. So there is still a place room to move and we could take patients especially in. Regions in germany from other European Countries but they are regions also in germany where the free capacity is below 10 percent and intensive care patients have to be moved to other hospitals and that binds intensive care physicians which is a very scarce resource so when you think of a creek a besa tease you have to keep in mind that the peak i. C. U. Utilization we 2 weeks after infections have peaked and there they havent yet so theres still a marathon to go with when could they be well nobody knows. It depends on how good the people. Bind themselves to. The things. To stop being close together and to wear masks and stuff like that we have a new high. Value today in germany too with 20000 new infections this day how practical is that flying around coated patients from one hospital or country to the next. Its not very practical especially when they are intimidated so you have to plan that in advance and try to bring patients who are not thats that severe ill who havent been on ventilation yet so its not easy to plan that because patients we know that its not good for patients being ventilated and they have to be brought on on the long term the stuff shortages we hear about in belgium and the netherlands ive seen Nursing Homes and hospitals aust doctors and nurses to keep working if they tested positive but asymptomatic is that safe i think that should only be done in a worst Case Scenario because the my r. T. Of i. C. U. Patients still do not have cold but other serious diseases and when these patients contract the guy iris from and checked it stat they are grave dangers so you have to keep in mind s. Of to mattick people that doesnt mean they are healthy so we think we should prevent this and our staff has to say l. C. And get a quick l. C. And this is very important because if you have to let these people work with the virus its really not sick why then is the e. U. Not coordinating a concerted a joint approach where we see countries helping out each other but not everything having to be dealt with on a bilateral level well we could have that done that. Methods lets say with the corona happy we could have done that from the beginning all together. We didnt do that i dont know why would have been better i think so yes how foreseeable was all of this. The 2nd wave was clearly foreseeable people travel they socialized they enjoyed themselves and the sun and we have tried to do as much as we could by building and buying respirators by training people but especially i. C. U. Nurses. In all in all in europe a scarce resource and it takes 2 years training on top of the regular nurses training so kind of we have to work with what weve got and we have now in germany especially we have its very simple up to take away paperwork from them so that they we need can spend all that time. With the patients and the other thing we could do is childcare you know to improve childcare in hospitals so especially during off hours what about high risk groups what else can be done to protect them so that they dont end up in intensive care in the hospitals. Its you have to reduce a little context use of as a p 2 masts up possibly and it gentle yes possibly but these measures make me sense when used together one is no substitute for the other and when you when we are talking about isolating risk groups we have to be an mind that. That in germany i know the number only for germany around 20 percent due to the demographics and due to the illnesses of our population belong to a risk group so targeting only risk groups with a color on astro city will not work so sunny on a pleasure having you on the show today thank you very much thank you have a good day. If you want to hear more about europes fight against code 19 in belgium you can download our weekly polka science unscripted actually traveled to the corona hotspot of the edge to bring you the latest time for our science correspondent derrick will you look into your questions on the coronavirus keep sending them in on our new church and. What impact is the parent to make having on the hunger crisis. Predictably qubit 19 is making it a lot worse according to the United NationsWorld Food Programme which is the organization that was awarded this years Nobel Peace Prize the number of people worldwide who suffer from crisis level hunger could almost double by the end of this year it also says that the region hit hardest so far is latin america thats followed by central and Southern Africa and and oxfam estimates that if we dont do more to limit the social and Economic Impact of the virus up to 12000 people a day could soon be dying from the effects of undernourishment just to compare even on the very worst days for mortality so far in the pandemic there have never been more than 10000 tats attributed to the virus in 24 hours i think that the most this has aspect of this crisis is that with the exception of the few countries food is actually available in many of the places that are suffering most of famine isnt being only driven by a lack of food but also by the simple fact that people no longer have the means to buy it the hunger crisis is not only expanding rapidly because of disruptions in supply chains although thats certainly contributing to the problem its also due to dropping income and many of the worlds most vulnerable the poor who simply. Cant afford to buy food for themselves and their families anymore and the crisis isnt just limited to regions that faced problems before the pandemic began tobit 19 is now also impacting Food Security for people in middle and high Income Countries from from india to brazil to the us. Turk williams there for any other developments of our spiritual website it details you dot com slash coded 90. 6 the title fight for the heavyweight championship. The challenger rising star with a huge ego. The reigning champ. Established successful and confident. Tesla vs german Car Manufacturers to show them the future of mobility. In germany. Next on d w. To the point strong opinions clear positions international perspectives. America has followed suit but the outcome of the president ial election is posing more questions than answers above all who could reunite in reconcile these bits of a divided nation move on to the point. To the point good to see him 60 minutes d. W. Germany with deafening anytime anyplace. The news video never. Had the benefit of pop. Songs to sing along to come down to this to come from super good seats to. Have their each course is put into active exercises hurricane of on the d w dot com slash dogs land on facebook in the uk still. German for free devaney. Its been said that vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others and a great deal of progress is indeed driven by visionaries people like a lot musk who dream of colonizing another planet or zipping around in shoes like the jetsons but his dreams are paying off musk is a very successful businessman one of the worlds richest people is. Also the c. E. O. And product architect of tesla known for its sleek electric cars but those cutting edge cars everything they said to be tesla whats behind the hype thats out of it today on made although he didnt stop the company the name most closely associated with tesla is of course it all must himself invested millions in his business is before becoming its c. E. O. And although tesla has experienced its share of ups and downs over the years investors love him despite his success and numerous ventures apparently its not money that interests mr musk he wants to save the world. A rocket to mars traveling through a tube mind reading who could be behind these projects. Musk entrepreneur billionaire inventor. What sets him apart is his willingness to take risks and that he uses his own money. Because experience as a serial entrepreneur gives an easy access to Venture Capital in the u. S. Thats obviously a huge advantage and that combination makes him dangerous to establish players like say the german auto industry. Started tesla without any industry experience at 1st it met with derision as almost everything went wrong but eventually it evolved into a very serious rival to prestigious german carmakers. When theres something he cant do or something thats not working like in his car Manufacturing Processes he hires people or teams to fix it. Before he acquires companies and integrates them into teslas Manufacturing Processes. And now they no longer have as many problems as they had in 2015 the leader of a. Mosque is celebrated as a visionary nowadays and is emblazoned on many a t. Shirt his fans seem to think their idol can solve the worlds problems. Musk is even said to have inspired movie heroes he even featured albeit briefly in a film. Some of this is definitely down to his personality extrovert always forging ahead maybe even managed and i dont know. He also. Likes to indulge his own myth. When he visited germany there was a lot of showmanship. He cultivates the myth himself i think for there to an awfully lot of. Us who was born in Pretoria South Africa in 1931 the son of a model and an engineer he devoured books at an early age was fascinated by technology and even as a child was already interested in rockets. He says he used to be bullied at school. He and his brother set up a company as teenagers and even made money with it. Must studied physics and economics in canada. Then he moved to the usa and got rich one of the startups he was involved with was the forerunner of the Payment Service pay pal. He started a ph d. At stanford but soon dropped out. Mind reading is one of his dreams so he started by having chips inserted into pigs brains but his mind reading a good idea. How do People Living near his factories feel. And how does tesla treat its workers just as real and thats a difficult issue because these serial entrepreneurs like say steve jobs arent always the nicest people. Theyre usually quite a mix theyre often fascinating but they also put people under pressure and expect a lot from them. Who are lost. With hard work and probably a lot of pressure some of musks. Seemingly crazy ideas have become Successful Companies space x. For example may not be taking tourists to mars yet but it is working with nasa. Intervention and learning fast go together hes adopted the principle fail fast learn fast from american startup culture. When you see how big his companies have become it looks like thats something hes passed on to his employees. The question is what idea will come up with next to change the world. Well in the meantime a prolific innovator is busy getting a huge manufacturing plant built close to berlin that will produce batteries and power trains for use in tesla vehicles some of which will also be assembled their construction started even before final planning permission was granted but politicians are excited about all the new jobs being created especially in a part of germany that structurally weak not everyones rolling out the red carpet however many locals have serious concerns about the impact the production side will have on the environment. Haida is a Small Community just outside burlington with less than 9000. 00 residents. City dwellers come here on the weekends to stroll. This is a Water Conservation area and home to over 100 birds varieties. And it seemed to be home to europes biggest factory full electric cars work on the new test that plant is on the way although a regional forest he said not yet granted final Funding Commission stephan show and his colleagues are dead set against the factory and say approval should not be granted they say the forests and freshwater ecosystem are at risk section 8 a of the federal emission protection act allowed tesla to make an early start. Theyre just hoping nothing gets in their way with the huge and nobody knows what the impact below the surface will be its environmental russian roulette. That. These opponents of the factory often meet here in the woods a couple of kilometers from the construction site they say the location is entirely unsuited to this kind of development. The freshwater ecosystem here is complex and so far its been protected from industrial development. We now suddenly mr musk wants to build here and only here. This was presumably the only site that appealed to him and the powers that be are doing everything in their power to oblige him. The fear is that the enormous new plant will use so much ground water that the lakes and streams will just dry up and that more trees will be cut down to make way for further facilities test and wants to set up an Industrial Park around this plant. Tesla aims to start producing cars here at what he calls a gigafactory by summer 2021500000 a year further details are in short supply we asked for an interview with a Company Representative but never got an answer tesla project manager Alexander Dick testified before the Brandenburg State Parliament offering a reg limps into the companys plans. To have cutting edge casting systems an extremely efficient body shop and the next generation paint shop and a 1000000000 color tone depth and complexity never seen before in volume production cars its just the beginning. But thats not to im fun. Many objections have been raised the water issue is one of the most important. According to official filings tesla says that to build 500000 cars itll need 1400000. 00 cubic metres of Drinking Water thats about as much as the town of sirte he found and uses in a year. Volkswagen by contrast says weve built 250000 cars a Cheese Factory in sicko in 2018 and used 300000 cubic metres of water less than half as much per common test. But there are also people including haida who are big fans of tesla while the company is tight lipped about whats going on at the site these fans have taken to documenting every little development. Today they want to find out what a q. R. Code spotted on a wall is all about and its nothing special but checklist of course this is all rather nerdy. For them monitoring the site has become a hobby they come here every day and post videos on you tube they find it all very fascinating and are eviden