times of politicising sure oh stigmatised must be rejected what a contrast there in the speeches of president donald trump and president being unlikely we have here richard walker our chief international editor to shed some more light i mean it was at times very offensive what president trump said i mean i'm just quoting here what he just unleashed displayed on the world were free to china what did you make of the contrast there yeah well it is the kind of message that he has put across many times in campaign rallies in the united states to his supporters but of course is one thing to do that. in a rally surrounded by thousands of adoring supporters it's quite another to do it in an international forum like this to throw it in xi jinping face essentially. but we should bear in mind that there are questions being asked about china's handling of the early stages of the outbreak in particular in december or january. whether

it was fully transparent with information with the world health organizations and with other countries around the world so that there are definitely concerns about that investigation's ongoing of course she's in pain throws that right back and says that implicitly that donald trump is trying to politicize this of course the kind of context in which we're looking at this is on the one hand there is there's an election coming up very soon in the united states donald trump needs to get his message across which is blaming china essentially for what critics would say is problems of the united states on handling of this virus but then the big picture is that the united states and china are on collision course and we're just seeing kind of you know parts of that playing out here at the u.n. today the other very conspicuous elements of president trumps a prerecorded speech it echoed a certain the magica themes that they're emphasizing national interest i suggest we take a listen and then we continue our conversation. as president i have rejected the

failed approaches of the past and i have proudly putting america 1st just as you should be reporting your countries for his speech was very short 567 minutes i thought it was very brief very the tone very bellicose now urging everybody to you know protect their act within their national interest what did you make of that yeah i mean he has had that sort of message at the united nations before but it was very compact very kind of punchy in this case. every time he said it is just so striking isn't it because it is absolutely the opposite of the whole idea of the united nations that you can only put your own country 1st because there are common interests around the world which countries need to cooperate to work towards don't have a cause is kind of abandoned that he said no this is the wrong way to go he's walked out of the paris climate agreement he's walked out of the world health organization he's walked out of the deal to try and limit iran's nuclear program. what some

people would say is it can serve as a bit of an on goal because what afterwards she jumping speech in xi jinping speech he came across as the as the sort of calm proponents of multilateralism of working together saying we should work together to create a better world through these multilateral institutions whereas china's role a masseur multilateralism is highly questionable as well multilateralism where it suits it but very aggressive behavior way that suits it so to an extent people might say that you know the trump tone played into xi jinping is handsome particular because he jinping used his speech to say that china was going to be more ambitious with his climate change goals some people will be coming away from that and thinking well but china looks like the more reasonable partner study in contrasts sincerely richard walker our international chief international editor thank you so much for your thoughts. i want to tell you now about some of

the other stories making news around the world european council president shall michelle has gone into coins you know after one of the security guards tested positive for covert 19 the surprise announcement means that a summit of e.u. leaders due to begin in 2 days' time has now been postponed until october 1st a court in pakistan has sentenced to former political activists to death over their will in a deadly garment factory fire the 2012 blaze killed more than 260 workers the court says the men started the fire as part of a political extortion scheme. in the us the republican senator mitt romney has said he supports holding a vote to fill a vacancy on the u.s. supreme court before the presidential election only now sman to all but ensures that president shop can have a vote on his nominee just by democratic objections trump says he will announce his

choice saturday we're going to do that through this bird and staying with the u.s. where the death toll there from covert 900 has reached the grim milestone of more than 200000 that's at least according to johns hopkins university that's the highest number for any country so far accounting for more than one in 5 cova deaths globally is putting president on john's handling of the pandemic in the spotlight as he campaigns for a 2nd term in office on average the u.s. is now losing around 800 lives every day to the virus turns of a credit rival joe biden says what he calls trump's allies and incompetence are the main reason and it states has seen so many deaths from the fires from a very grim milestone indeed let's bring in dr peter drawback hughes a public health expert to oxford university in the u.k. a survey good to have you aware this you know this is just such

a fluid situation with this pandemic there's no playbook there's no rule book and i i wonder you know is it fair of course this milestone is horrific 200000 people have died from govan 1000 but is it fair to blame the administration for you know having to deal with something that we haven't seen before. the united states has 4 percent of the world's population and about 20 percent of the world's deaths from cope at 19 it wasn't the 1st to be hit it's the wealthiest nation in the world with perhaps the greatest experts greatest concentration of medical and public health expertise anywhere in the world there is no reason that it should be this way and i think a lot of what we've seen over the last couple of months this tragic toll really has to come down to failures of leadership ok it's a failure of leadership where you know the fall already here in europe the winter approaching i mean you know do you expect this to be a lethal fall lethal winter which countries are you most worried about.

yeah we always knew that winter was going to be a difficult time we know that this virus spreads much much more easily an indoor especially poorly ventilated indoor settings and so as the cold colder weather push just indoors as influenza and other things you know make hospitals already busy this was going to be a difficult time we're seeing this surge more aggressively and more quickly than i think many of us had had hoped and it's really concerning right now obviously spain and france are are seeing very dramatic rates of infection right now and they haven't slowed enough even with some of the measures put in place the u.k. announced some fairly sweeping new measures today to to try to stave off the surge in infections that we've seen over the last couple of weeks but there's still a long ways to go the vaccine is still some ways away and i think we have to understand that this is you know some of us felt that in the summer maybe this was behind us in some ways the virus is still out there it hasn't changed so we really need a long term approach right now i mean that makes it so difficult doesn't it dr i

mean life has started to trickle back for some people this has become almost an abstract thing being living through this pandemic so what i'm wondering in terms of you know how difficult is this tradeoff between lives and livelihood that many countries have to grapple with at this moment. obviously there's been a tremendous economic and social toll that goes beyond just those who have been infected or lost their lives to the virus however we have to be careful not to fall into the trap of saying it's either or it's either public health or it's the economy i think one thing we've learned is that the best way to keep the economy open as much as possible is actually to suppress the virus as much as possible and that's why aggressive public health measures are so absolutely important and i think the countries that have recognized that have done the best right to dr peter drawback of oxford university thank you for joining us. well in an effort to to

suppress a surge here in germany strict measures against the virus are now returning to the german state of varia while the glue tighter limits on how many people can meet more mask wearing an earlier closing times for restaurants will bavaria currently has one of germany's highest infection rates new coronavirus cases in germany have been on the rise after a drop during the summer new infections have now been growing for 2 months. the daily infection rate is lingering around the 2000 mark levels that were last seen in mid april still far from the peak of over $6000.00 new cases per day reached at the height of the outbreak in germany but high enough to cause concern around the country. munich is emerging as a new hotspot with this infection rate among the highest in germany the city has announced new restrictions starting on thursday gatherings will be limited to 5

people or 2 households people will have to wear face masks in busy outdoor spaces. i have no problem with masks but it's difficult to implement a lot of people don't wear masks properly. yes i'm in favor of wearing a mask so that the virus doesn't spread and we contain the epidemic were right there. with the colder months approaching germany is preparing for a further increase in cases test strategies and quarantine measures are being discussed health minister announced plans to open so-called fever walk in clinics where people who are showing symptoms of corbett 19 can receive care without coming into contact with other patients efforts are being put into developing a vaccine which germany's government expects will be widely available by mid 2021 the vaccine would not be mandatory in germany. the vaccine will be on offer once it

is approved. it will be a voluntary vaccine and in my opinion this is enough. we only need 55 to 65 percent of citizens to be willing to get vaccinated to stop the spread of this virus. a vaccine would be the ultimate game changer in the battle against 19 the hope is that once it is available enough people in germany will be willing to get vaccinated. basketball legend michael jordan has a link to up which champion stock car racing driver denny hamlin to form a new nascar cup series team while the duo will have a bubba while us as their driver while a successfully campaign to get the confederate flag banned from nascar races the 3 men aim to create more opportunities for black people in racing. and the rush hour commuters on an illinois highway were held up on monday not because of an

overturned truck or a car accident bought by a man and his horse well the local chicago activist who goes by the name of the dred head cowboy said he was campaigning for the rights of children but state troopers swung into action just to the highway and arresting a drug head cowboy for reckless conduct and promoters. that does it for a song they are akim brought you watch you are you stick around got lots more coming up. combating the pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and news. hour corona. 19 special next on d w. gemini with. at any time 5 plays

easy names video that you have at the end of the class so nice to sing along to you . from super. for. interactive exercises. everything is online and interactive then german to free with d w. around the world the race to develop a vaccine against the new corona virus continues apace. the world health organization is now tracking more than $170.00 candidates banksy. in the preclinical stay true search as test if the vaccine triggers an immune. response in the animals in phase one testing the vaccine is given to a small group of people to see if it's safe place to involves

a somewhat larger research group to test dosages and in phase 3 the vaccine is given to thousands of people to make sure it's effective. so far there are no successful candidates. back scenes normally require years of testing and time to build up production volume the w.h.o. said it doesn't expect widespread tax nations against coronavirus until mid 2021 but even that is optimistic. germany's tough biotech companies and clinics are rushing to come up with a vaccine to defeat the novel coronavirus some are already carrying out human testing after the lengthy approval process was speeded up the stakes are that high and so let's take a look at how the trials work. a little pinprick but it brings high hopes with it inside the syringe a vaccine from the cure

a fact company it's designed to imitate the corona virus in the body to provoke an immune response about 200 people have volunteered to take part in the trial. so this way i can do my bit to help defeat the virus. 10 companies in germany are currently working to defeat the virus by developing vaccines. to or already testing their vaccines on humans in trials that generally consist of a number of phases. after discovery in the lab there preclinical tests then comes phase one which is mainly focused on whether the human body can tolerate the vaccine and the reaction of the immune system face to look at i will hide the dosage just to be in phase 3 tests effectiveness whether the vaccine offers protection in everyday life normally approval takes about 8 to 10 years but now the process is supposed to go much faster. here at the university of tubing and

hospital scientists are working on phase one. from the data so far we can see that the vaccine is well tolerated and safe and we also hope that the 1st signals of the immune defense which are becoming apparent are also very positive see a post gives. another company from germany is already testing its vaccine on humans biotech based in the german city of minds is partnering with the u.s. pharmaceutical company pfizer. they are already combining phases 2 and 3 testing whether the vaccine actually protects against coronaviruses in everyday life biotech has around 30000 volunteer test subjects worldwide it hopes to have an approved vaccine before the end of the year the head of germany's medical regulator e. body thinks germany is on the right track. german vaccine developers are well advanced they are in a global premier league these are modern platform technologies for vaccines i

expect that even to vaccines could possibly come from germany if there are more so much the better. a vaccine for everyone by early next year an ambitious goal that will require a lot more pinpricks. well i speak to professor alric to noddle he's an your ologist and founding director of the qwest center for transforming biomedical research thanks for joining us this search for a vaccine is all about trading off speed and safety how regulators manage to quicken the approval process without compromising on safety because that is the $100000000.00 question and answer. in principle those. are. all it's fundamentally and so one has to make a tradeoff here this is about risk benefit and i think it is at the

moment it's very much at the discretion of those agencies where they are accelerating they are prostrate approving drugs particular vaccine is now or not and a lot of this obviously is not really transparent so we don't know much about those processes and i think what a lot of people might be wondering is whether or not we can be certain that any vaccine that does go through this streamline process is totally safe. i mean there's nothing that is totally safe in particular not with the product development and there are certain risks certainly with vaccines and they may even be late be delayed those risks so that is obviously a very. difficult decision and at least i and i think i'm in the community home with many others would argue that we should not sacrifice safety for

speed. because too much is at stake but in principle although there are these rules and you mentioned the phase 123 and so forth. in the end it's at the hands and in the decision of the regulator as to phosphoric and so we can only hope that there is good evidence and the evidence will be weighed so far it's hard to tell whether we're on the right track but we all know that there have been drug trials that there are trials that have been halted one particular and there are concerns about the phase $12.00 trial from from russia so this just shows that this is very sensitive and the public has to really follow this in fact right now over the weekend i think we had the release of protocols from the 3 major drug companies that are running those face retrials which is unheard of and i think is

a good development because it allows experts and also the public to scrutinize what they are doing speaking of scrutiny we should talk about russia which it just mentioned back in the old as they said that they had approved a way back same sputnik 5 as they're calling it but the international community is doing i tears basically rejected that all we any closer to knowing whether that is an effective vaccine. no not at all i mean there was a publication in the law only recently i think listened to weeks ago. but it reports on a face one slash 2 trial that is open and that actually has no true if you can see and point it just looks at immune response it does not look at whether it prevents actually those infections and it's a very small study and it has raised concerns in fact there is a letter of concern about. the data and in fact lancet has contacted the authors to respond to they have not responded they have said that

they are going to respond but they haven't done so yet so we don't know it's very unlikely that in such a short time period any nation could determine safety and if you can see it such an approach continues to be controversial that one do you think what will come out of this pandemic is perhaps potentially a different model for approving medication do you think we will have a swifter process going forward. well we will see where the bet. will materialize and where these past developments actually payoff that will certainly push it in this direction but the whole issue of accelerated approval is actually not a new development in fact in discussions of this topic for many years now especially from haitian communities for example children parents of children that see the diseases who argue that they don't have the time to wait for love or

a large clinical trials and that they want almost experimental treatments right now and we should be aware of the fact that 16 percent of the f.d.a. approval was right now already are on an excel aerated mode so this is not a new development it's an ongoing discussion and many experts ethicists but also biomedical research are concerned about this because we are lowering the bar and this certain must certainly increase the associated risks so also not ahead least i say thank you very much that's today it's our afraid we've run out of time we could talk about this all day of course professor or extend thanks for joining us. thank you. and now it's time for your questions to our science correspondent eric williams. why has the coded 19 mortality rate dropped so much i answered this a few months ago but what was a fairly 10 u.s.

strand back then has turned into and to an undeniable one today so i'm going to answer it again 1st of all i need to emphasize that that mortality rate which is our best guess of the percentage of people who will on average die from the disease if they contract it and that's only something we'll really be able to calculate with any accuracy after the pandemic is over what we can look at now during the pandemic is what's called the case fatality rate which is the proportion of people who have died from among the people who we know beyond doubt have had it at the ones who have tested positive for the disease and as you rightly say that number has fallen pretty dramatically over the last few months by around half in some countries the experts say there are a couple of reasons why 1st and foremost there's the experience factor the more

medical professionals all over the world treat severely ill patients the better they get that knowing how to save them then of course there's the fact that the number of tests being carried out on a daily basis is rising continuously which means we're catching a lot more positives than earlier in the pandemic when testing was was limited mostly to people who were severely ill in hospital settings and now we're also confirming a lot more cases among those who have mild or no symptoms and that's related to the 3rd factor the experts say which is that the rise in testing means that we're now also detecting covert 19 much more frequently in young people and as we all know by now they're much less in. likely to die from the disease then older people are finally some experts have expressed hope that the case fatality rate is maybe

falling because maybe the virus is now mutating to be to be less virulent but that's still pretty highly speculative. science correspondent eric williams that's all from this 19 special if you do want more from us check out the dedicated section on the t.w. website you know we dot com thanks for joining us. to.

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