this is d.w. news live from her legs the 2020 winner of the nobel prize for medicine has announced the stockholm panel awards to americans and britain for their discovery of the have a tie this is the virus saying that it has helped save millions of lives. also coming up mixed messages as u.s. president donald trump posts another video from the hospital. very interesting journey that i learned a lot about covert i learned in part in really going to school this is the real

school. he then goes on a motorcade ride that many say breaks coded protocol. and britain struggle to halt and influx of migrants crossing over from crowds it's putting pressure on the government which promised to take back control of the borders after breakfast that . i'm sara kelly welcome to the program the 2020 nobel prizes kicked off a short while ago with the naming of the winners of the fields of physiology or medicine this year's is a trio of berber ologists harvey alter michael houghton and charles and rice paddy all at the institute in stockholm award of them the prestigious prize for their discovery of the hepatitis c. virus. the medicine prize carries tickler significance this year with the

coronavirus and democrat alike me importance of medical research for society youth and economies around the world. let's get more with 5 correspondent eric williams who is here with us in the studio so tell us more about the winners and whether you were surprised with this choice well to be honest i'm almost always surprised i mean i've been doing this for a lot of years and there are always predictions everyone always has predictions and most of the time i think i've gotten it right twice in the last 15 years and that's that's 50 different prizes it isn't a surprise in the sense that this is a dangerous and deadly pathogen and the steps that these scientists took him were very important to helping us get on top of that pathogen they were very fundamental and very basic so in that sense also against the current backdrop of the pandemic that we're going through it's not a surprise tell us more about their research and how it's changed actually our daily lives well the hepatitis liver disease is often caused by by infectious

viruses as well there are 3 different strains that we know of and and 2 of them b. and c. are potentially deadly pathogens they can cause they're thinking turned chronic and often silent and they can slowly destroy liver function just just to give you an idea of the scope of the problem hepatitis c. virus alone infects around 70000000 people every year all over the world from among those who are infected around $400000.00 people are going to die and when it reaches an advanced stage the only viable option for many patients is going to be a liver transplant so the 1st step towards fighting a disease is obviously identifying the pathogen if you don't know what you what you have been good deal with then there's no way to go on in for example divel.