this is d.w. news live from berlin that potential breakthrough treatment for covert 19 for searches in britain have found that a low cost widely available steroids reduces deaths 5 to one 3rd among severely ill coronavirus patients also coming out of china scrambles to contain a new corona virus outbreak in beijing schools are closed and residents told not to leave the city. and behind muni when they can see if you need one just leave your

full pull taj hold of the varians crossed the finish line with the steam cleaning of the brain and. great welcome to the program it's been called a breakthrough in the fight against the corona virus researchers in britain say they've identified the 1st drug that significantly reduces the risk of death in some of the worst affected patients the local steroids method was found to cut deaths by up to one 3rd expected to stop treating people with the drug immediately . hospital staffa struggling to help severely covered 9000 patients in the u k. though these images were recorded several weeks ago scenes like these are still being played out around the world every day brings more death but now

a glimmer of hope the worst hit country in europe is hailing a major breakthrough scientists set up through the university say they have identified the 1st strike that can save the lives of covered 900 patients next m.f. his own is a widely used steroids and randomized trial showed it reduced death rates by a 3rd in patients on ventilators and by a 5th in patients receiving oxygen. it really is showing quite a significant effect and it's really important because the drug itself is very widely available it's on every pharmacy shelf in every hospital it's available throughout the world and it's extremely cheap so we looked at the numbers and if we treat 8 patients in intensive care with this drug. will save one life and the total cost of treating all $8.00 patients is only about 40 pounds 40 pounds as about 50 u.s. dollars the drug works by reducing inflammation in the lungs the study results are

still to be peer reviewed but the u.k. lost no time in approving it for use in the country's health service we've been stockpiling it since march so we now have $200000.00 courses that are ready to go and we're working with the n.h.s. so that the n.h.s. standard treatment for covert 19 will include dexamethasone from this afternoon. as a generic drug dexamethasone is readily available in iran to well it's not a cure for covered 19 but with no vaccine yet available and infection rates rising in many parts of the weald its potential is welcome news. so what exactly do we know about dexamethasone and how the steroid combats kovac 19 well we put that question to jason kindred choke he's a professor in virology at kind of his university of manitoba so one of the things that we tend to look at with these different types of emerging viruses is the fact

that they tend to basically increase the immune response so he's actually get an over stimulation of the immune response which in most cases actually is protective for us but in many cases can actually increase disease verity so the hope was something like dexter methods own is that rather than acting directly on the virus and trying to reduce the ability of the virus to create more copies of itself what the drugs are trying to do is essentially reduce all that damage that is part and parcel of a note or active immune system we're trying to learn about this in real time and we know that some the initial data that had come out at the very start of this pandemic it suggested that steroids actually made exacerbate disease in in those that are in the early stages so i think one of the concerns right now with with dex about the zone is that there are you know would there be the potential that if you treat patients too early they might actually end up increasing the potential severity of disease because it actually acts as an anti inflammatory so i think

that we have to look at this as a potential game changer for those patients that are actually in severe disease distress but we are still lacking for some sort of a therapeutic that will ultimately help reduce infections in the very early stages of disease. so i think indra took their world the chinese capital beijing is reimposing coronavirus restrictions restrictions after a cluster of new cases the city has ordered all schools to close and banned people from high risk areas from leaving the new upgrade has been traced to a large wholesale food market there have been over 100 cases over the course of 5 days and this is fears of a 2nd wave of 19. beijing residents thought they'd put this behind them but here they are lining up in the hot sun for mass coronavirus testing after nearly 2 months a new outbreak is causing a lot dozens of cases have been traced to this sprawling wholesale food market it's more than 20 times larger than the went to market in wu han where the virus was 1st

identified. pictures from state television show the response in the surrounding neighborhood residents here are not allowed to leave or 40 say they are in wartime mode as they aim to contain the spread the tangs diety has already made its way to other parts of the city. i'm very worried for now i don't know what the situation will be in the future because we are getting much information we don't know if the virus will spread again if it does we should worry. i'm in shock it was supposed to be nearly over and then we suddenly get another wave of cases. of closed schools as one of the sports and entertainment venues only residents who have recently tested negative are allowed to leave the city and only if travel is essential the measures fall short of a full lockdown but the world health organization says beijing is doing enough. the

cluster like this is a culture and it needs to be investigated and controlled and that's exactly what the chinese authorities are doing. but other provinces are concerned many have imposed quarantine requirements on visitors from beijing and a country that had declared victory over the coronavirus is forced to confront the ever present risk of a fresh break. here's some of the other stories making news this hour north korea has confirmed it is blowing up an office that was set up to improve relations with south korea the explosion was captured in surveillance video pyongyang is furious at seoul's failure to stop activists from sending propaganda over the border. u.s. president donald trump has signed an executive order to encourage changes in policing it provides incentives for more training and restricts the use of police calls but critics say the order does not address charges of systemic racism in departments. here in germany the trial has begun in frankfurt of

a suspected neo nazi accused of murdering a german politician prosecutors say volatile was gunned down at his home a year ago because he stood up for the rights of refugees in germany another man is charged with aiding and abetting the crime. the main defendant he left traces of his d.n.a. at the crime scene he confessed to the killing then later retracted his confession he now accuses the 2nd the from meant marcus age of having fired the shot that killed. both are now on trial. the victim or the new president of a district council in germany central state of hessen the classic local politician gunned down in front of his house it's believed to be the 1st murder of a politician by the far right in federal germany since the founding of the state after world war 2. it was an outspoken advocate of

germany taking in and integrating refugees and asylum seekers at a town hall meeting in the autumn of 2015 lucas spoke his mind and was booed the soviet you have to stand up for the values you believe in and those who don't share those values can leave this country at any time. i should. also in attendance were vowed to lukas suspected killers both men had long been active in far right circles and had criminal records but stephanie appeared to have broken with his militant past police had stopped tracking his activities mark his age is accused of brooke hearing the murder weapon a 38 caliber rosie revolver it can be purchased online as long as the official regulations are fulfilled the authorities now admit to having made mistakes. the killing wasn't only met with shock and dismay in far right circles and met with

explicit approval like at this march by the anti islam organization peggy to interest in last summer. you didn't talk do you regret lukas killing but the only regret. is that it's actually a humane reaction what is new are you saying that murder is a humane reaction comes around goes around but he was a traitor to the german people and he told his own countrymen to leave if they disagreed with his refugee policies put it past the solutions like for the. authorities discovered google searches for the keywords luke could dead and shot in the head shortly before and after the murder from several german states an indication of possible accomplices the role of the far right n.s.u. is also under investigation between 200-2007 the group are murdered a total of 10 people allegedly found to lukas name was on their hit list. many questions remain unanswered the trial is set to include 30 days of hearings which

are scheduled to be completed by the end of october. news and by munich have retained the bundesliga title after we know of a bremen gave them an unbeatable lead at the top of the standings is the 8th season in a row that by and have won the german championship. sobyanin coach hands the flick it was time to wrap up the title the reigning champions were boosted by the return of robert leaven ski and thomas miller from suspension for the visit to struggling braman. by and looked to carve open their opponents from the stuff but all too often their attacks lacked a finishing touch. and doggy defending from brain and started to frustrate the league leaders it looked as though by and we're in for a long night as the rain began lashing down that is until just before half time when leventhal ski popped up as he so often does. the poles 31st goal of

the league season put the title within touching distance or tang's perfect pass allowing love and dusky to do what he does best. the 2nd half was uneventful until alfonso davies picked up a 2nd booking leaving by an unmanned down frame and then felt they should have had a penalty after a shot from josh sargent clattered into jerome batanes arm about the referee wiped away their protests. with time running out manuel neuer came to the rescue to secure the win for biron and with it the title. for many of the players it was just the latest of many championships to coach hands the flick it was the 1st and while the rest of the league may be tired of watching it by and are celebrating once again. so by an hour champions again with me here in the studio for use all over moody all the here we are again it sounds like the same old story in the

league was a walk in the park for buying this season not at all in fact back in november by and munich were in crisis they'd had a poor start to the season culminating in a 51 hammering from frankfurt after which the coach at the time nick just had to go he was replaced by hanzi flick a man who had no experience as a head coach in the bundesliga and at that point a lot of teams were smelling blood a lot of teams thought this is our year to wrestle the title off of by in munich but after a shaky start to flex reign they put together an incredible run of form 17 wins in their last 18 games something just nobody can put up with a turn on the can see. didn't see as well as the style and i think after the win over dortmund a few weeks back it was clear that the title was going to be staying in munich for another year at least so an incredible run after a shaky start as you say who were the key feet is in triumph for you absolutely have to look at robert love and the striker $31.00 goals he's now scored this

season scoring at a right of over a goal a game and another goal another win against braman to secure the title i just don't think byron could have done it without him but we have to give a lot of praise as well to the flick because as i said he came in with no reputation or no experience as a head coach in germany and yet he got this group of players this one everything and what was some of the biggest names in football to trust him and trust his plan that is something that is not easy at this level and he fully deserved the contract extension that he signed ok looking to crystal ball for us a year is just one champion can you see that changing next season or it's difficult you know this is the question we get asked every year isn't it at the moment i think credit to dortmund this season they have looked good in stages and with holland being there for the full campaign next year they've got a chance. to look good too if they can keep their team together they look promising but frankly if by and keep going with the kind of form that they've shown since

december i just don't think anybody will be able to keep pace with them and it will be another year of the title staying in munich all right all the media from sports thank you. this is news from berlin there's more news on our website d.l.p. dot com you can follow us on instagram and twitter to get to delve into the news i'm daryn thanks so much. every journey begins with the 1st step and every language but the 1st word published in the. rico is in germany to learn german why not come with help it's simple online on your mobile and free to set d w z e learning course nikos fake german mating see.