oh. this is today obvious news coming to you live from berlin a breakthrough in the fight against hiv for only the second time ever and hiv positive patient is insisted remission from the virus that causes aids it raises hopes that the disease could one day be cured for the coming up france's president in money look role makes an impassioned plea to voters ahead of crucial elections in may he says that would defeat nationalism europe needs to make big changes.

and in the champions league talk more need a miracle tonight they're looking for a big win at home against an english side talking home with desktop there harry came this give decides who moves into the quarterfinals. hello and welcome i'm a touchy mug good to have your company we begin with a breakthrough in the treatment of h.i.v. only for the second time ever doctors say that an each hiv positive patient has been cleared out of the virus that causes aids this new case raises hopes that the disease which affects almost thirty seven million people worldwide may one day be cured. it's the second time someone has been shown to be free of the virus off the stem cell treatment but is transplant therapy a cure for the pathogen that can cause aids research and our aging caution.

so we were now eighteen months in and we're confident that this will be a long term remission but it's too early to say as to whether this is a cure. the treatment works by transplanting cells from people who was naturally immune to asia to the infected patients but finding a donor who has a gene that makes them immune is like finding a needle in a haystack more than ten years ago to a few brown also know when a bone marrow transplant and was killed of hiv yes i'm advised i'm going public i would say take your time if you if you want to become public. it's been very useful for science and for giving hope to. profit people. to people with being with a katie some researchers have held a new development i was emphasizing that the procedure has little to offer for the

almost forty million people living with hiv that in itself is it is not a treatment that one would want to give to somebody who was living with hiv on the current medicines and is very healthy all patients have it a new normal life expectancy and we would never want to give somebody treatment that could potentially threaten for now drawbacks of the treatment mean the search for a cure to each id is set to continue. for more on this we're joined by jonathan bull he's a biologist from nottingham university what's come to you an awful lot in ten years it was a patient in berlin and now we have a second the bondra mission in hiv patients can this be cool it actually a kewl. we can't say for definite this is a cure all we know the virus has the ability to to hide away in various places within the body. once we can check whether or not the patient is producing virus all the test so far in both the timothy brown the so-called berlin patient and

indeed the. reports of patients today from london suggests that there's no virus that you can never be never be absolutely sure. st was going to law just on each i b patients is it cost effective. it's not cost effective and of course the other thing is that it's not without its own risks as your report rightly stated then we've got very very effective treatments for hiv that means that you can keep the virus a bad way and people who are infected can have a near normal life expectancy but what it does do is show that firstly the berlin patient wasn't a freak it wasn't an anomalous result but it also gives hope that we can somehow genetically engineer the cells of people living with hiv and somehow make them not really all resistant to virus by manipulating their own cells but just such as also looking at other potential each i'd be treatments can be expected to be

a breakthrough. it's very difficult to say certainly for most of the people who are living with hiv around the world these are people who are living in very resource poor areas and i think even the prospect of genetically engineering the cure or long term remission for these patients is remote at best and so that's why the w.h.o. for example are focusing their efforts on trying to bring the epidemic to an end through treating people very effectively because we know that effective treatment brings the virus under control that means that the virus isn't easily spread from one person to another and of course the other hope that many researchers have is that we develop the best means for eradicating a viral infection and not development of a vaccine that's not very easy and we've known about each of you for about half a century why is a killer so elusive. cure for the virus. is so

elusive because of these what we call long term reservoirs of virus so once a virus infects it can actually become part of your own genetic material becomes part of your own d.n.a. and then whatever your own cells divide to multiply divides the multiplies the virus itself unfortunately your immune system the thing that fights the virus can't see the virus when it's hidden so it's this long term latent reservoir that is the particular challenge and of course in terms of eradication and killing the virus on a population measure the fight the virus mutates greatly means that development of a vaccine which is what we'd normally rely on is incredibly difficult. johnson boller after university of nottingham thank you very much for sharing your expertise with that. let's now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the violent counter-terrorism police in the u.k.

have launched an investigation after a small improvised explosive devices were discovered at three of the captain's transport hubs they were found at heathrow and the london city airports and the country's busiest rail station waterloo no injuries were reported. and elderly couple in austria have had a lucky escape after a truck crashed into their living room. we call period into their home in a station house near a brewer now after it was hit by a train while crossing the tracks the couple are in shock their house will be torn down. the north korean leader kim jong un has arrived back home to a carefully choreographed welcome young this following the failure of last week's peace summit with the us summit president donald trump kim's four thousand kilometer journey by train from vietnam took sixty oz the meeting with trump ended up. properly without

a deal on denuclearizing the korean peninsula. the former german foreign minister klaus kinkel has died he was eighty two kinkel was a veteran member of the business from the f.t.p. party he also held a number of other ministers posts on the chancellor which go on. to france's president. has called for a far reaching uniforms and warned against the dangers of populism three months ahead of european parliamentary elections or laid out his vision an open letter addressed directly to the citizens of europe the letter was published in newspapers in all twenty eight e.u. member states he said we are at a pivotal moment for our continent a moment when together we need to politically and culturally reinvent the shape of our civilization in a changing was it is the moment for european renew it. so what does

this mean in concrete terms let's take a closer look at some of what the french president is proposing a new european agency for the protection of democracies which would have shield member states and elections against cyber attacks and manipulation mccraw also proposes banning foreign funding of european political parties and harmonizing laws on internet hate speech another hot button issues like creation here the french president wants to reform the schengen border free area to set up a common border force and a european asylum office it would give all states the same acceptance and refuse a rules for refugees the letter also proposes a social shield for all workers this is aimed at guaranteeing the same be in the same workplace and a minimum european wage appropriate for each country and finally a conference for europe with citizens palace mccool wants to hold

a major european union convention by the end of the end of the year before that he wants politicians to engage with citizens of representatives of societies now here's more on the cross big ideas and how they have been received. a man with a vision for europe french president manuel mccollum convinced european cities the continent is in danger in his latest pro european initiative the french president has addressed europeans directly in major newspapers across all twenty eight a few members states the raft of proposals is directed against nationalism and calls for a european or thore to protect democracy a statement by german chancellor angela merkel spokes person said berlin supports the quote lively discussion about the orientation of the e.u. of the german parties were notably more critical but welcomed micron's principle

campaign. is tight i don't you go into every sentence or project but the core idea is that we need to change europe to maintain the peace project that's essential and we see that just like mccrone and with just three months to go until a new citizens head to the polls the proposals have been widely well received including in germany but just tossing to. this is really about the preservation of europe and as i see it our democratic structures are also in danger of populist parties over this to share. in my home country to. do i think my call wants to urge europeans to work for the e.u. for human rights and for democracy and i think that's important. because usually. critics however claim that mccrone the pill aims only to fuel his personal campaign . elections. and now to sports and some news from the german

national football team which has surprised many coaches yok him live ispahani for the future without three of his longtime gregg gillis movers informed. and. that they will no longer play a role in the squad preparing for a clash on the twentieth of march the move indicates intends to make radical changes after his team's debacle at the was in russia last summer. we stay it's foot full of a return to the champions league round of sixteen with listening dortmund face an uphill struggle against the english side tottenham dortmund suffered a bruising three nil defeat in the first leg of the tie and they've recently for turd in the domestic league as well still the german outfit plays at home tonight and a miraculous comeback could get their season back on track. and are about to face their toughest test in what is being an increasingly dramatic and difficult season

if they're to come through their champions league tie with tottenham they'll need big performances from every one of their star players. foremost among them marco royce who's returning from injury. it's really important that we believe in ourselves we need a top performance we have to be it out best. and i'm told that if i get a gold in of course it's going to be very difficult for the whole team and everyone around us to laze we can do it and we have to keep the faith. tottenham have their own returning star in striker harry came spurs managed to defeat dortmund three nil in the first like without the england international they'll be even more deadly with him back in the squad tottenham know they're in control now but they won't be sitting back on defense. we got. in the first little into

for good if you can so you voted on. the start of the game you know that it would live in. to be out to see if we must too far from the game in dortmund then we'll have to be at their best if their defense can shut out tottenham and their attack can produce goals that they could still be in with a chance. of a killer just in mexico have made an exciting new discovery at an ancient mayan site at the church and its rooms and the yucatan peninsula they have an earth a cave containing some two hundred well deserved ceramic vessels inside they found bone fragments seeds and burnt materials presumably placed there as offerings signed to save the artifacts could be over one thousand the as though and many of them bad alike this to an ancient mexican rain god and it will probably face there to ask for rain. washing the devil is coming up ahead of rugged electric cars

designed and made for the african market is becoming a kitchen in europe as well but can't the production team ramp up production and need to mop. first month business jets will have that and other stories coming up next tuesday with if you get. to. sleep. carefully. don't move these should be nice to be. discovered.