if you would like any more information on the crawl of virus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast you can get your podcast you can also find us at. science. hungry is easing it's down but doctors a sounding the alarm death rates are among the highest in the world still stores are reopening with the government praising its vaccination campaign. at the same time as batting journalists from hospitals. coronavirus wards a feeling to capacity but that's not the message the state wants to broadcast like it or not the 3rd wave he's hitting i. agree has the highest number of people

vaccinated in europe and one of the highest covered related death rates relative to its population health care workers say restrictions should have been in place sooner and should stay in place. access to hunger in hospitals for independent media to verify what's going on is almost impossible. one doctor who dared to speak on camera about the situation inside our correspondent funny reports soldiers. checking into his hospital treating patients when we start to film the building they are. over there they ask us to film the parking lot according to staff inside the hospital is that capacity. one doctor has to take care of 10 patients and all is in short supply these are just some of the claims to be hearing from inside the hospital from a doctor but we cannot verify these claims as all sorts of barred independent media

from entering that doctor is. we need him after his shift 120 hour working weeks on the average now he says but the hungary and government says everything is under control. all of them out of any we've heard a lot from the prime minister that those who get sick shouldn't worry that they will be cured that we have extra medical staff but where are they every day we're left wondering what to do we not have time for today what did i forget. that most of his colleagues don't want to talk in public because they're worried about repercussions. we need to reach the people not to create panic but to say people this is what this is about and this is why you need to follow the rules. in an open letter to the government a large number of journalists requested access to hospitals prime minister viktor orban responded in a televised interview. with now most of this is not the time to go inside hospitals

and produce bogus videos and fake news. is a photojournalist he too would like to show what's happening in hungary right now. stop filming the hospital it's a public space or it's a very common situation says martin was a sign not a share of the past this affects the people who want to know the real situation inside the hospitals. we know that more than 300 people died today. ok for me is it it's our job to tell the story behind those numbers. meanwhile many young people in hungary are starting to shed their masks without knowing what's really going on in hungary hospitals to them it might seem as if the pen demick is already over. to shine a light on the situation in hungary to what you know secret joins us she's a senior researcher at the center for social sciences in budapest is it time to be

easing restrictions or is the crisis only getting worse. oh my destiny is that the crisis. you know must not completely have its feet and hungary we have extremely high mortality rates a copy of that was the word that we gave you. that day so that was. not. yet. what is the part of your in the saucer why if i can jump in there when when the government's doing so well with its vaccination drive. effect with us the other thing we have a very high lux and they have a have the same time people get into hospital they they are in the really terrible situation current say hungary and these maybe 2 to see factors i would say . one of them as. the. is

that the public institutions such as. independent have been stopped in 2017 and since i'm seen under was because of controls so this means that we are not getting enough information and. cannot really tell know their ideas their expertise into this is some so far because the citizens are sick of the problems the other if you may be the center of cuts to the host expenditure in hungary recently not only yourself but. under the your boss government and the sir is the most of my great. care stuff from hungary and in the fast the a. how is the situation with the hospitals on the military bill why

is that and what that affecting the situation. well yeah because i have been put under military rule the other the other assess the situation and this means that there is i have. to. buy that public because that is where we console over the course and also that they send up. their opinions in the media really and the media is not let into hospitals this was not going. to ace and you know how people are here or the photos or the stars of the earth is are doing going to amazing top. but it limits the information that the of the we and the media make that is you know worrying whatever the situation may be if. we don't offer from

a cell usually what's best for the citizens what's the situation like a regular hungary and i believe this is one of the only countries in the world to refuse any sort of extension of unemployment benefits in this pandemic. yes to fund them make us when no does not only have tests related consequences but also really severe social consequences so in hungary just like in other parts of the herd many people hundreds of thousands of less. but i suppose other countries including our fellow sense always looking kind of serious in hungary no accents and ringback so the unemployment benefits this summer maybe this week's loss. was the recess that's only in the developers before that and them away with 3

months of a must must a moment of lying months in for the benefit that means that after that 3 months is gone you can or cannot face some sort of a less this at a very low amount. and instead of. a both come up. people are not registered at all in the state system so they're left without any properly assessed. when they are low for unemployed and this. rate before especially those who were in and best are in a certain 5 stories and so on and so forth i also believe the government's use the crisis to push through a motion to see measures to make life harder for the l.g.b. community. you know some of the m.o. since the measures have not much to do with coffees itself but rather the

government's political incense and through. constant basham measures including. the best. think of 1st those who get out and this is to come for gay couples. and the other one is. that sexual people over to change their sex and their ids with the game does not pass. anything with them but rather an idealized. went. to. celebrate. it was estimated that the hijab she cried on the latest developments in the past thank you very much. well. on the topic of mass vaccination campaigns a mutation is his our very own deron williams with today's real question. is

there a link between mass vaccination and mutation of the virus. like other pathogens sars kovi to mutates constantly and vaccines do have an impact on its evolution but a less direct one than for example a theoretical antiviral treatment would because the to work in different ways drugs work by wiping out an active infection while vaccines work by preventing them from occurring in the 1st place wiping out an existing infection with a medicine applies a kind of spore earth selection pressure the only pathogens that survive are those like these with mutations that make them resistant to the medicine and only

they go on to spawn the next generation that's why drug resistance is such a common problem nowadays because we put pathogens under massive pressure to evolve quickly in a very particular direction which is to grow resistant to a medication by deploying vaccines on a wide scale we're also having an impact on virus evolution but a more subtle one by making a lot of people resistant to infection we can drastically reduce opportunities for a virus to spread so we're also upping the selection pressure but in a different way when the supply of potential hosts grows limited because many people are vaccinated viruses that have for example mutate. to be more infectious they'll have a clear advantage and will on average infect more people that's why more infectious

variants can supplant less infectious ancestral ones over time and there are indications that this is happening in many places now with sars that we too thanks for watching stay safe and see you again 6. people in trucks injured one trying to flee the city center more and more refugees are being turned away from the border. to these critics only simply look at the demonstrators in the field sleeping screen troops on the road killing 200 people. around the world more than 300000000 people are seeking to.

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welcome to arts and culture the 74th bafta film awards have been virtually handed out from the royal albert hall in london there was no red carpet no live audience and the windows excepted from home but there was plenty of buzz the prizes were hotly contested but in the end no matt bland almost swept the board winning best film best director and best actress joining me to talk about that the rest of the night is off the experts course roxboro. scott welcome now that was very strong competition for best film this year but the winner wasn't really a surprise nomad has been cleaning up this award season at the golden globes produces scales etc etc but school it's was it the results you were expecting. very much i mean no man's land has been a huge favorite of mine since i saw it at the venice film festival when it premiered last year and it's been sweeping all before it this is

a really an incredible film i mean in some ways it's a classic american road movie but it's done in a completely different style of frances mcdormand who won a best actress at the bafta as she plays further who was a woman who's lost her husband she's lost her job and so she packed up everything she owns into a camper van and she becomes a modern day nomad traveling traveling the earth it's a very poignant movie that looks at poverty and at the failures of the american dream but does so without any form of judgment and with just an unbelievable overflowing of humanity it's really i think my favorite film of last year even though the director. directed it cost it also included a lot of nona playing themselves showing just how innovative as a director but she's also made history. yes definitely she was the 2nd woman to win best director at the back after kathryn bigelow and the 1st woman of color to do so but i think i was getting kind of accustomed to being such

a pioneer i mean she's already been the 1st woman of color 2 and a best director at the golden globes and various other awards ceremonies and i'm pretty sure she's going to break back glass ceiling at the oscars as well later this month now after last year's award scott buster was very heavily criticized for a distinct lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the awards that year this is all changed beth has made a really big effort to make the awards more inclusive. yeah basically what they did last year i mean there were no people of color nominated in any of the acting awards and so back to took action and basically changed things top to bottom they diversified their voting base they changed their voting rules to allow people from less represented communities a better a fair chance to get in and it seems to have worked i mean this year we had 4 of the 6 director nominees were women and 16 of the 24 acting nominees were people of color including the 2 best supporting actor were. what many of the other winners

and nominees still have a chance for the big prizes at the all schools which of course take place later this month but let's talk a bit about the others. yeah i mean there's a lot of very interesting winners in the back does that have oscar chances i mean my favorite looking at them is probably promising young woman which won best british film and best original screenplay and this is a really clever story it's sort of a meet to revenge tale it stars the british actress carey mulligan and she plays a traumatized woman who basically entraps men by pretending to be drunk in till they take her home and then when they try to take advantage of her she snaps back awake and turns the tables on them very powerful film with a lot of interesting twists and turns on and i think it's got great chances at the oscars as well later this month 2 other times i'd like to point out 2 winners from the past as with the supporting actor nominees daniel british actor won best supporting actor playing black panther in judas and the black messiah and credibly

powerful performance from that period of the political turmoil in the us and best supporting actress went to the korean south korean star. who a one playing a sharp tongued grandmother in the american film minority both those films of both of those actors are nominated for the oscars and i think they've got great chances coming off this bafta wave right let's talk about the show itself scott hosted from london so obviously since it wasn't quite as usual but they did try to make it as much of a spectacle as they could. yeah i mean they did they did did their best i mean these are the shows we're getting accustomed to now these covert shows this was done by the royal albert hall but the guests the hosts were alone on stage presenting the show and presenting the awards to filmmakers who were sitting at home communicating via skype or whatever and not the most exciting thing but then they did have some some moments of magic i mean there were some great live music

performances by liam payne and and celeste and and there was a sort of sense that they were at least trying to put on a show but i have to be honest i'm getting kind of tired of these. award shows i'm really waiting to get back to a real in person awards of at my school we've got about 30 minutes 30 seconds left but quickly would gearing up for the the american academy awards coming up in just a couple of weeks how predictive is success in the box does do you think we're going to see a repeat yet the batteries aren't actually the greatest predictor of the oscars at least for the best picture they don't have a great record in that respect but i think in this case they definitely got it right i think no doubt land is definitely my pick for the best picture at the oscars and close out for the best director i put money on it right now ok scott well it's very environmentally thanks for your analysis and the very latest move see you again in a couple of weeks to talk about whether you also his predictions came true. great looking forward to it. now is what is cinema going locked out of put the brakes on

travelling and holidays so we're all having to spend our leisure time closer to home for us here in berlin one of the most popular places to do that is potsdam once of oil capital the city has a host of architectural gems to delight and we're lacks the senses and more than just a taste of italy. strolling past paluxy and pantry use and enjoying some dogs on the piazza no it's not italy it's germany potsdam to be exact next to berlin the state capital of brandenburg offers a bit of comfort for people in the region who'd really rather be in rome but can't get there at the moment due to the pandemic. the city's italian flair is thanks to the pression king who also yearned for italy art historian or to divest hyder explains that part stems transformation from austere military base to

architectural showpiece began in me 18th century. the president of the seat of royalty was meant to be an ideal city and so inspiration was drawn from italian urban planning and individual palazzi especially in rome and home but frederick the great never set eyes on his strict father forbade him from traveling there so instead he sent his architects to copy the most beautiful buildings and build somewhat more modest interpretations he wanted to give parts to which he called a wretched backwater a bit more splendor. a month and you just have to walk around sas to see a palace and look from there to the hill with the artificial ruins to see that frederick was an italian at heart you know about. a new app offers a virtual or even actual tour through the earth that's rome of the pression kings. 30 locations the app shows a side by side comparison of the original italian structure of the potsdam replica

. some of those replicas look so authentic even to tell us like chris are not 0 and his son almost forget they live in parts. obviously there's more of this kind of thing in italy of course but this wonderful architecture and the flair here are certainly impressive what's important answers this is sean for us. 'd for the perfect vibe chris says his fellow part stammers could take a more italian attitude towards life but otherwise as the saying goes all roads lead to rome in this case with a detour. beautiful now how about a statue of jesus even bigger than rio's christ the redeemer where you guys have

long to wait and new one is under construction in the city of any kind of tahoe in southern brazil that will tower over the iconic one in rio de janeiro this beam in the making since 2019 but until now it was only a torso and legs this week it got its head and outstretched arms the statue is expected to be finished later this year. now to a book that was a surprise success when it was 1st published in german in 2015 inspired by a traumatic almost forgotten chapter in german history it focuses on 2 generations of women in one family and what the concept of home means to them this house is mine by dirt a 100 and is the latest subject of our series 100 german must reads. some nights when the storm came in from the west the house groans like a boat tossed back and forth on

a heavy sea gusts of wind squeal before being dead and by the old walls that's what witches sound like when they're burning the whole thought. this house is mine by delta hines and starts with the creepy sounds of the farmhouse where young and her mother held the guard have found shelter the 2 of them are refugees not from syria or afghanistan they're ethnic germans fleeing eastern europe at the end of world war 2. they try to make a home for themselves in northern germany in a region that's it dilip full of orchards and thatched roof houses but the welcome they receive is far from war. you knew your place in your position in this landscape and it always went according to age 1st came the river and the land then bricks and oak beams and then the people with the old names everything that came after that people who'd been bombed out driven away those weary of the city those

without land and looking for a home land were nothing but wind borne sand and washed out. this scum. were born into a noble family but that's no use now has a god marries the farmer's son to secure her and her daughters existence decades later little vehicle is all grown up and lives on the farm alone and history seems to repeat itself turns up child in tow escaping an unfaithful relationship in the big city where the knows a refugee when she sees one this house of mine is about the illusion of home and about a family of strong women who get by but never quite belong sometimes. deeply moving . and that does sound moving and if you're a book and that's not enough for you there's plenty more where that came from when

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