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when few have heard of the. life of the crew and when. the video. shows. to keep playing while maintaining distancing. there may still be no cure. but the search for a vaccine is gaining momentum. around 70 vaccines in development worldwide and that 3 of these are all. brady being tested on people

a 4th being developed at the university of oxford in the u.k. is due to begin human trials on thursday you can government has been criticised for its handling of the pandemic which has led to more than $17000.00 deaths. a country scrambling to deal with a coronavirus pandemic this convention center in northern england has been turned into a makeshift hospital the transformation took less than 3 weeks the u.k. is racing to increase hospital capacity to cope with an ever increasing caseload the british government has been heavily criticized for failing to prepare for the outbreak it's now hoping to beat the virus by investing heavily in vaccines being developed at universities in oxford and london trials on humans are set to begin on thursday in the long run the best way to defeat corona virus is through a vaccine after all this is a new disease. this is uncertain science but i'm certain that we will throw

everything we've got at developing a vaccine the potential vaccine is based on research into previous viruses when this new virus emerged that was already working on here in oxford the mothers crying a virus and it actually was being trial humans and so what happened was that genetic code from the new corona virus was discovered in january of this year and it was possible to go back to that genetic code make these new vaccines very rapidly but even if the human trials prove successful they offer no quick fix similar tests are already being conducted in the united states researchers there say it's likely to take more than a year before a vaccine is widely available. just some more coronavirus related news from around the world researchers in switzerland are saying it's possible that moss vaccination

could begin as early as october if trials prove successful and approved procedures fast tracked the united nations is warning that the corner of august and demick could trigger a famine in vulnerable countries the u.n. says the number of people facing acute hunger could double to more than 250000000 this year the u.s. state of missouri has filed most suit against china saying the government tried to cover up the danger posed by the virus and badly affected spain sees it plans to begin gradually phasing out strict lockdown measures starting in need me. placing great hope and so-called tracking apps for smartphones to help get the co know how to spend under control singapore and south korea already have tracking apps but data protection regulation are not as strict as they are a german company is now working with 130 specialists from. wired up in compliance

with your protection standards the program's anonymously recalled the users location data via bluetooth to detect and change of infection if any user is positive all users receive and. for more i'm joined by chris cohen the shooter of this european initiative called. preserving for exhibit a tracing or p. e. p. p. p. t. mr blues welcome. but this initiative that you are the co-founder of is advocating and. also advising the german government on it how will this work. i'm totally amazed that you could speak the name this is what happens when scientists tweet me. they're doing better than us most of the time. let me 1st say something very important we're not creating an app because a an app itself has to fit in with the local health system of a country because every health system is

a little bit different every legislation around is a little bit different the services are organized differently so the apps will have to integrate with that to offer the best type of integration with all the measures and restrictions that a country takes what we are offering at that p.t. is is a layer under the apps that does 3 things basically it gives good measurement so that you know that how far are you away from somebody that is x. exact no point in measuring like 2 meters distance when your accuracy is only 10 meters the 2nd is privacy preservation with different models the idea is that there are different privacy models but there is a common denominator which for europe at least is g p r meaning that the simply the only thing that could reveal a person's identity is the person itself and the 3rd one is interoperability because it's important if we loosen restrictions in one country we still have closed borders so the infection but if you trace infections has to go beyond other

countries and for this no data is used that actually would allow anyone to track back a person location data is not use wife i data is not used your sim card i.d.'s are mac i.d.'s and all these things are not used it's always stays on the private level right i love talking about technical data to use it i really do get them but that the similar absa been used in. so what you are saying how is that different to what's happening in asia. well in asia where societies need or want less data protection what the. basically what was implemented was external surveillance or face recognition that was used for publishing the location of sick people so other people around that could be one and. i don't think that just this type of surveillance would be acceptable in any european democracy so our question was he was obvious that this way this could be

a key building block in quelling an outbreak and the example is will hunt in china or china in general but then now in order to leave your house you have to put your app down and at the end the house will hold of the door but only open if she if the access you're not in danger of spreading infection so that i think it's completely out of the order for europe so our question was can we do something that would allow people to still have privacy preservation i mean the whole point is until there is a vaccine we will have to manage this pandemic and managing it while we still have a life and not all stay at home managing it means that we have to go and find an infection and get the the people that possibly could have been infected a very quickly so the infection can spread and that's the whole idea of having a nap instead of doing interviews who did you meet last week with someone who's been festive positive apps the way appears to be the where chris blues thank you very much for joining us thank you for years

a look at some other stories making headlines around the world u.s. president done trump says his new immigration battle will last for 60 days and affect those seeking green gods for presidents he had said he would sign an executive order to suspend all immigration in response to the cut on obama's outbreak and to protect jobs. the u.k. parliament has gone back to work after some 3 weeks under lockdown destructions where a few lawmakers were physically present in the chamber on tuesday and they sat far apart instead many others joined for the 1st time ever by a video conferencing. iran says it has successfully launched the country's 1st ever military satellite the revolutionary guards say the satellite lifted off from a central desert region and reached an obit more than 400 kilometers above the earth they reported launch follows months of failed attempts and comes amid tensions with the united states. netflix's $16000000.00 more

people signed up for its services during the 1st 3 months of this year is the streaming platforms fastest ever rate of user growth and it's largely because of coronavirus lockdowns netflix now has more than 180000000 subscribers worldwide one of its biggest hits of the past few months tiger has been watched in more than 60000000 households globally. business reporter rob watts is with me in the studio to break this down further for us rob welcome our viewers really surprised by these numbers well i don't think anyone is surprised to hear that this is really of boom time for streaming services they've got a captive market at the moment almost literally with lockdowns around the world you know there's only so many ways you can get it to tame and you're confined to your home but what we can take from these ficus is just the sheer scale upon which

coronavirus is effecting how people are consuming television and films you know at the start of the year netflix said they expected to at 7000000 viewers joining the period in which they've just added $16000000.00 so it's a huge revolution another good example is the relatively young disney plus has any been around for 6 months but last month it said it had reached $50000000.00 users now we see that's much less than netflix but disney's aim is to add $60000000.00 altogether by 2024 so they have potentially 4 years ahead of shuttle we could possibly because that time it's been immaculate and they launched in western europe just as this lockdown was getting underway but it's a massive thing for streaming services what's happened over the past few months what do these numbers say than about how entertainment companies have been adapting to this captive market of people staying at home or other being forced to stay at home well what we've seen is some major block the. does being put back you know

we're expecting to have the latest bond film that's now been put back several months coming towards the end of the year also disney's moulin film has also been postponed but on the other hand we've seen films become available to as sooner than they would have done otherwise because they've been pushed on to streaming platforms ahead of time no movie would expect to wait 2 or 3 months after something was in the cinemas but for example jane austen adaptation emma that was in cinemas just as the lockdown was getting underway and you can already watch that online if you want to now and there are other examples of films like the new trolls movie trolls world told you haven't seen but i'm sure is a classic which has gone straight on to streaming on the day when it was supposed to call in cinemas and what about the actual production of phones rob i'm in with all these lockdown and specially social distancing rules in place well a lot of filming simply isn't happening in our studios it close you can't have that

amount of people working together in you know hot spots like hollywood and in parts of europe but you know that there is some production starting to happen in other areas for example the netflix started doing more production in south korea and also there are all productions like animated films that can still be made because that requires someone to be sitting at a computer also the new series of the crown for netflix that has already been filmed and that just polishing off the post production on the computers now creative solutions from the creative industries from what's thanks so much for coming in. now here's a look at some other stories that are making headlines around the world international oil prices have fallen to their lowest level since 1909 deepening fears of a global economic downturn brant crude dropped to 12 percent to $17.00 a barrel this follows 2 of the wildest days in oil trading history as the world braces for supply to outstrip demand for months to come. south africa has announced

a $26000000000.00 relief plan aimed at supporting the economy and the. lock down the support package amounts to about 10 percent of the country's g.d.p. south africa has the most confirmed cases of the virus in sub-saharan africa. lebanese lawmakers have voted to legalize cannabis farming for medicinal use the government hopes will be a lucrative export and bolster the troubled economy lebannon had previously banned the growing selling and consumption of cannabis even though it is openly. justin trudeau has vowed to ban the sale of military style assault weapons as the death toll from a shooting spree in nova scotia rose to 23 canadian police are investigating the 16 crime scenes that were part of that spree some of them homes. greece. housing asylum seekers after 150 people tested positive for the coronavirus

almost 500 live in the building the nearby town of the greek mainland is also being put on. the german container ship as an express started its journey from your back in january before the corona virus and spread around the world the crew started becoming aware of the seriousness of the outbreak. closer to its epicenter now several months on they still don't know when they will be able to set foot on land. 366 meters long with the load capacity of 13000 containers the essen express runs between europe and asia are regularly kept and to be as common and his crew took off in general from the italian city of genoa back then the corona virus was not yet a pandemic few people had even heard of it. of the crew and.

what the crew experienced in the following weeks and months was like a chronicle of the pandemic. in egypt for. travel to a. series of really. they passed through swiss canal in early february the days on but the ship changed little it was impossible to impose social distancing restrictions the company asked them to take body temperature staley and sent the crew protective gear the captain stashed away some extra food. leaving. to minimize

the risk of infection contacts with staff at the ports were reduced to the essential and just as dependent make reached its peak the essen express arrived in china pilots were working with food protective gear the crew was not allowed to go ashore and the change of crew was impossible. because many ports. and there aren't any. to get them on board. the penn demick spread quickly across europe and the s an express crew was trapped on board captain common orders extra sim cards so the crew members could stay in touch with their families their next stops were in barcelona. and genoa where the crew had to stay on board only the cargo of medicine and medical equipment unloaded it. does make you feel a little proud because you are helping people. by bringing groceries or maybe even

some face masks. like. now they're on the way back to asia perhaps the crew will finally be able to disembark in singapore or hong kong. a major issue for many countries during the crisis is a shortage of protective equipment for health care workers in west africa is one of those countries face masks medical scrubs and other essential items for. one famous business woman is now turning her global fashion empire into a production line for protection. nora but no man has been a fashion designer. she's well known for his sleek designs. sleek garments. it due to the currents. he's now moving into the production office now

protection equipment including face mats straps and hospital gowns. at full capacity. to meet audience from ghana africa europe and america. possible. to a team set up by. to protect. and to protect. so there are some countries across. all these things. 60000 face mots hospital gowns and medical produce at this factory all made from breaks. spent. at the factory

makes the job stressful but it's gratifying since the country an extra income during this crisis. and then all. the people you can live. on the phone that doesn't look we're going to. look at some of the family here. who don't have self employed who claim to have that because they're in the facility in the polls. get his vice president. is visiting banamex factory the government is one of the company's clients procuring thousands of the items produced here to be given to frontline health webcasts the vice president wants this company and 3 are this contracted to produce p.p. . to continue with this even after the pandemic from this day on i

think that one's production capacity ramps up to should be. come fully we will not have any need to import these items. this is the part of the pool school that you take. the bottom on now wants to add to the production of people to have clothing line to help prevent any future shortages of these items so we foresee through this. one factory to manufacturing. and it's a lifetime. opportunity for. down. for now main task remains producing enough people to protect health care wickets in ghana and to beyond to win the battle against corner fireless.

colombia is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world with an enormous variety of wild birds and reptiles confining people to their homes has not only stopped the rise of covert $1000.00 cases but has also allowed the forno of the capital city bogota to take a break a new project called. is helping introduce residents to the neighbors they never realized they had. the empty city is a testing ground for some of bogota its inhabitants many people seem to forget that the colombian capital is surrounded by mountains grasslands and wetlands using their cellphones several people have captured images of wild animals they never knew lived close by wildlife is closing in on the city a phenomenon explained by jorge molina an ecologist at last sunday's university. so the presence of wild animals didn't used to be very noticeable in the city and they were close to the city in the eastern mountains. but as human activity slows down

while the animals are sensing the chance to extend their range a bit. your documentary filmmakers carlos wrinkle and our 100 counter on launched a massive project follow now and have collected the wildlife footage the message this habitat is for everyone you know in this case has a crucial function the main idea is to think of a future where people get used to observing and filming wildlife is now closer to their home in their backyards and on the balconies so they can learn about it just a few days after it was launched i mean my fallen or garner the support of institutions and the active participation of influential locals who feel that the project helps people stop and think. we inhabit the same territory as a species we arrived much later than many of the wild animals that live for us we're not the center of the universe you know so much. most of the people capture

the images from their windows but some use drones to film the changes in the city without leaving their homes. it's me but i think it's important for us to be aware that we're not the only ones living in this area that there are many living beings they're always there even if we can't see them they respect us so we should respect them because of the newseum 3 kids. all the footage captured for has the same objective to use the lockdown as a tool for learning about our shared habitat. but just for germany's bundesliga is expected to restart matches on the 9th of may in empty stadiums dutch football officials now say the present season is effectively over because of an extended lockdown and a further ban on major public events that's prime minister announced extension on tuesday specifically pointing out that there would be no professional football

until the 1st of september football officials say they will speak with you if the governing body of european football before confirming their decision. there of course following in the footsteps of neighboring belgium which had already come from the rest of the season but run into criticism from. staying with sport and the story of 2 young tennis players in italy what challenged by their coach to find a way to stage share during the lockdown they hit the rooftops and now their efforts have gone viral. on one side of the street 11 year old carola is itching to go. on the other side 13 year old victoria is getting there working her way to the roof top of her apartment building. once there a pause it's raining. carroll has been hitting the ball on her indoor court she is ready. and now so is victoria serious social distancing but stay clear of

the camera guy. another day and lock down another rooftop to rooftop practice and it's a good chunk of time since you missed playing tennis so much carolyn my neighbor my close friend and my classmate we decided to try to play from one building to another $500.00 and on some tough times. i never thought we'd manage to play it but it is so much fun. to keep it moving and unseen ballboy tori's dad sends miss hits back up to the roof . these 2 drew a following when a video posted by their coach was picked up by the association of tennis professionals the a.t.p. former number one tracy austin tweeted her admiration of carroll and vittorio indeed in these times it may take younger minds to help us determine what is

possible and what is not. wrong. it's a good avenues in berlin a quick reminder that you can get news and features around the clock on our website at the double dot com but the and twitter at the news i'm going to spend it if you want the difference.

kutner. point 3000000000 people. all need electricity. where does it come from caldicott conscious is the energy supply in the country. and it's high cost thanks for the book and.

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different walks of life. some are pumping. oddly trying to block all of that comes straight from the heart of the explorer c.e.o. even when there's no more dilution the marsh will enjoy coming. from most of the logs to their final resting place the russians are g.w. documentary. this is all would be wonderful landscapes for years and animals to think that all this is threatened by climate change is distressing we have to change how we if we want to see it up that it many discussions take he has

a different levels of society to address exactly this high level meetings and international climb.