i want to give them options to use pluto. to go. to the w. a little. place . oh. this is g.w. news that live from far away promising results from our corona virus vaccine test us biotech firm of much air and us has 8 people showed an immune response in 1st clinical trials of an experimental vaccine i'll ask an expert could this be the breakthrough the world has been waiting for also coming up president donald trump says he's taking an anti-malaria drug to ward off the corona virus even though

there is no consensus it works and it can even be harmful. to germany and france to set out how truly in a euro rescue fund for europe's of battered economies german chancellor angela merkel and drops her longstanding resistance to the e.u. raising drawing to crisis funding. i'm claire richardson and welcome to the show the u.s. a biotech firm is reporting a promising early results from the 1st clinical tests of an experimental vaccine against the corona virus early results from a clinical trial a show that participants develop antibodies that might make them immune to infection the u.s. government has invested half a $1000000000.00 in the research meanwhile president donald trump revealed he's taking the anti-malaria drug hydroxy couric when trump has repeated they touted the

controversial drug as a treatment for covert 19. well let's jump right in and bring in dr peter hotez a vaccine ologists at the baylor college of medicine in houston dr hotez stock markets are up sharply on the news that a 1st clinical trial for the vaccine has been successful but how optimistic should we be at this stage in the testing. well it's still pretty early on in the testing there we only are only seeing information about 8 individuals and remember this is through a press release from the company there's that's not even published data so so we don't actually have any doubt and to look at all we have is the opinion of the company so it's not a lot to go on what they're saying is that the 8 individuals handled the vaccine pretty well there were no immediate serious reactions one individual had some severe redness at the side of injection and some of the ones with the really

highest dose may have had them or more so what we call a systemic problems of. sin and and and malays and that sort of thing but overall they handled it pretty well so that's good news and they also report that they developed antibodies which we would expect and they also developed what are called neutralizing antibodies which of the type of antibody need to protect against the virus the big question that we really haven't seen is the amount of neutralizing antibodies because we know from laboratory animal experiments including ours for the vaccine we're developing you need a lot of that neutralizing antibody and all we know is they're saying it's roughly equivalent to the amount that's found in patients who are unfit previously infected with the virus and terms of neutralizing antibody and there's a report coming out from the week before from my colleagues at the rockefeller

university in new york saying that's not a lot of neutralizing antibodies so it's a little bit of a confusing muddled message and it'll sort out once we see the published out of but for right now the vaccine looks like it's well tolerated whether or not it's going to work we are really know until we do those large phase 3 clinical trials which will get underway in the summer in the fall. well pharmaceuticals have been making news elsewhere as well u.s. president donald trump claimed earlier today that he is taking the anti-malaria drug hydroxy chloroquine listen to us but i get a lot of tremendously positive news on the hydroxy and i say hey you know the expression i've used what do you have to lose ok what do you have to lose that i have been taking for about a week and for about a week going to have every day at some point every day i take a pill every day. at some point up what i'd like to do is i'd like to have the cure

and or the vaccine and that will happen i think 1st of. all this currently no evidence that hydro hydroxy clark plan is effective in treating cofa 19 and it could be serious a risk associated what would you say it's a trump or others who might be considering taking a strike. at this point i've not seen any compelling data supports that it does anything you know we are at this stage about a decade ago for influenza it worked in a test tube and there was a big study showing that it did not prevent you from getting influenza and it looks like it's probably going to be the same for kovan $1000.00 so i would say the risk of heart disease and arrhythmias and others out weigh the end need potential benefits so i think there are better things we could do if he's seriously concerned about earth as doctors are concerned about him being exposed to kovan 19 or if he has been exposed we have convalescing the antibodies plasma that we know has

a much better record both in service one and we're doing clinical studies now for this new one so as to that would be a far better option for dr perry hotez thank you so much for that analysis thank you. the un will most likely ask the world health organization to conduct an independent inquiry into how the coronavirus pandemic began today $120.00 countries including china gave their support for the investigation which would also look at how the w.h.o. handled the start of the outbreak the overwhelming a show of support came at today's a global meeting of the world health assembly several world leaders appeared via video link and most stressed the need for international cooperation to fight the pandemic some countries led by the u.s. have criticised the w.h.o. for mistakes made back in january and february u.s. president trump has suspended a u.s. funding for the organization accusing it of being too lenient on china where the

virus was 1st detected coburg 19 has tragically taken hundreds of thousands of lives impacted millions of people and to deep damage to the world economy we must be frank about one of the primary reasons this outbreak spun out of control there was a failure by this organization to obtain the information that the world needed and that failure cost many lives in an apparent attempt to conceal this outbreak at least one member state made a mockery of their transparency obligations with tremendous cost for the entire world we saw that w 2 failed at its core mission of information sharing and transparency when member states do not act in good faith this cannot ever happen again. while germany and france have announced a half trillion euro plan to help europe weather the worst crisis in decades the proposal calls for a rescue fund to boost the sectors of the economy hardest hit by the pandemic and in a 1st german chancellor angela merkel ended her long standing resistance to the e.u.

raising joint debt to fund relief efforts. it's wishful thinking to hope europe's economies could bounce back as easily as these provisions after months under lockdown even before the e.u. commission presents its aid package berlin and paris are rushing through a joint initiative for economic recovery in a bid to put this crippling face behind them. in a joint news conference with the french president chancellor angela merkel stressed the coronavirus pandemic is in danger in european unity. most that is why the fund has to help ensure that all countries in europe can react appropriately but. this requires an extraordinary one off effort which france and germany are ready to undertake provided it if this is the result of bilateral work in cooperation with our partners i'm convinced that this plan provides the groundwork to revive our lives our economies and our societies. to offset the

drastic decline in production transport and tourism across europe this development fund will get an injection of 500000000000 euros e.u. budget funds will be made available to the hardest hit regions and sectors the overall plan is designed to strengthen the e.u.'s future viability of the in these resources will of course surface purpose will invest in digitalisation and the green deal to cope with the climate catastrophe this will inspire a new dynamic for the future am in the field of health we will aim for cooperation to apply all be flown from the crisis to get them by their design tight that sounds like support for the e.u. commission whose economic recovery plan is being drafted the commission's president is expected to present it next week. so more money potentially available but as the chief political editor tells us it won't be

a handout well they want to put those $500000000000.00 euros extra on the table but that comes with some terms attached i've got the paper here they want to see europe a much stronger from this crisis now and arguably everybody does want to see their own country emerge stronger but also the whole question of whether that could lead to more responsibility shifting towards brussels is a debate they want to have notably the whole euro bond debate is off the table certainly that particular what many in france have been on the opposite end of that debate for a long time now they demonstrate unity and the willingness particularly of germany to put more money on the table because after all 27 percent of everything that's decided upon within the e.u. budget would be balanced hair let's go now to egypt how would you feel if a multilane highway was under construction right outside your bedroom window for some residence in cairo that's become a reality we have more now on

a bizarre bridge project that's too close for comfort. it's a construction project that is a battle the twitter verse and the residents living in this apartment block the overpass is meant to connect the northern and southern parts of cairo ski's a district but for people who live here it's simply bypasses common sense. and it's dangerous and now the sunlight but after they completed my apartment will turn to something that resembles a grave or a warehouse. the 1st 2nd and 3rd floors will never ever see sunlight again. and he and his neighbors say the project disregards their privacy and safety it brings traffic up close and personal with some residents being able to reach out and touch the overpass from their balconies but that's not all. the myth that. we were on many occasions to find burglars trying to break into some of these

apartments with this and it is the nation's transportation minister believes the bridge is vital to accommodate an estimated 750000 cars daily and says it will link to a train station all fine and good says given youssef who why couldn't cairo avoid losing the road through an already existing building she wonders for again but we have a letter apartment when it was still expensive 2 days ago the minister of transportation says those 10 or 20 apartments don't matter you know it's important how we're not living in a random place you can't speak to us like this at the can with 3 at the marina. still construction for the road not yet traveled is a go the ministry says there's no other alternative but the agency will offer compensation to those who want to move. sports now and the quiet stands and stunted goal celebration seen in going to sleep matches recent days maybe strange

and unfamiliar but there's nothing new about the goal scoring talent of leverkusen a star youngster i have he scored. u.s. leverkusen returned to action on monday night with a 41 victory away from home against rattlers fat abandon. the closing act of the reopening weekend underneath a visa study on like this much about the blues league in the strange times like the sight of teams emerging separately from the tunnel that makes the match day feel like a training exercise and it was with training ground ease that labor queues in breeze through brakeman's defense to net the opener in the 28th minute mussa g.r.b. charge unchallenged to the touchline and picked out an unmarked car i have a to put the guests in from braman were back level just 2 minutes later when leon gets in courts corner was turned out by a crafty tito gave us a lesson back but just 3 minutes after that laver couzens lead had been restored

yet another free header for one decayed whose 2 goals gave his side an advantage that they carried into halftime. they drew further in front on the hour mark when mitchell visor profited from some serious confusion in the brain and back line to make it 31. and in the 78th minute carrying demi by was able to put the result beyond doubt after a small crew pool from covering better robbie and an early dive from keeper years you pavlik. both teams pick up where they left off before the break a dream restart for later cruisers and a nightmare one for impact with brain. well a night at the museum it turned into a morning in court fred german student 25 year old has been granted bail after being accused of breaking into an australian museum and taking selfies with a dinosaur c.c.t.v. captured him are roaming around the closed museum at 1 in the morning before

allegedly stealing an artwork and a cowboy hat said to belong to a member of staff. this is g.w. news remember you can keep up to date with all the latest news on our website at www dot com and you can follow us on twitter and instagram as well and kyra should send in berlin thanks for watching. can do it or. what do they dream of at night. as cleaners they see the face of. their job since root for the social media industry. in the uk there are thousands of

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