maryland's eastern shore were certain that president trump would make a full recovery. course i was worried about our president we love our prize and home i think he's in the best that he and he's got a great doctors and i think you'll be just fine he's strong healthy me and so i don't think the timing is good but it sounds like he's recovering and getting through well i don't think i have too much of an impact on the election. with the election just one month away trump's camp is struggling to push his campaign forward pulls show that joe biden's lead in the presidential race has grown since last week's debate under quarantine the president can't hold rallies to fire up his base and his coronavirus diagnosis has made it even harder to divert attention from his much criticized handling of the pandemic. i've had straight over to washington now where our correspondent is standing by my trump's chief of staff says the

president could be released from hospital today what can you tell us about his condition. well frankly we don't know as we've heard we've seen a lot of conflicting information over the weekend with doctors painting this very sunny outlook like we've said who might possibly be released today but then off camera once reporters were able to ask more questions off the record both doctors and trauma staff are saying actually his oxygen levels have dropped twice we know that he's on these drugs that are usually used to treat very severe cases of coded and it's just really hard to parse what is the real information on his condition what is the white house in this is a white house that throughout his presidency has never been very forthcoming on trump's physical medical state and since we've seen throughout this pandemic they have also frankly gasless the public a lot about the severity of the disease itself it's very hard to know what's real

and what's not right will trump at least to a video that he's really said he's learned a lot about coded 19 through this ordeal and then he left the hospital to dr supporters how did that go down in washington. well certainly his supporters loved it especially those ones who got to see the president we do know that according to a white house spokesperson he was medically cleared to do this little dr but we have to understand for clarification walter reed is a medical hospital and most of the staff attending to him as a military hospital rather most of the staff attending to him are military doctors and trump is the commander in chief of the military if your commander in chief says he wants to do something chances are you're going to find a way to let him do it now among of course the president's detractors among democrats this is been seen as nothing but political theater putting people at risk for the sake of being able to wave to his supporters so reactions kind of going

down party lines but trump has focused on personal appearances at mass rallies to get across his message does his code of pictures mean he'll have to change strategy in the lead up to the election well certainly we can look at this drive that he took by his supporters as kind of a mini replacement for some of the campaign rallies he was supposed to have over the weekend that of course got canceled or postponed i'm sure we are going to see a big push from his campaign in the couple of weeks and very few days that we have left until the election to try to get him out there because as we know these campaigns are the the rallies these big impersonal terence's this is what his supporters love this is what he loves doing this is where he gets his energy this is where he gets his message across most effectively and i can i can very much assure you that we are going to see as much of this as possible in the lead up to what will be a very contentious election day or what about the other side then the democrats

what's been the reaction from the biden tame to all of this. the biden team has been projecting the calm that biden has been trying to bring to the situation they've been publishing his negative coded tass they removed attack ads against the president while he's been in the hospital but biden is still out there campaigning hard and he is now able to draw a very bright line between him and his policies his emphasis on health care his plan for the pandemic for economic recovery for. spreading more health care giving it to more people in the u.s. and between the trump campaign in the trial than ministrations much more lax approach to the pandemic. thanks very much for the update. for us in washington. let's get you up to speed with some of the other stories making news at this hour the white house press secretary katie mcinerney has become the latest member of president in

a circle to test positive for corona virus she said she received the result early on monday and then he spoke briefly with reporters sunday evening but insisted that no members of the white house press corps spent enough time around to be considered close contacts. the famous cafes and bars of paris have been ordered to close their doors completely for 2 weeks following a surge in corona virus infections the move comes just months after france lifted a nationwide lockdown for the rules to ensure social distancing in the french capital go into force on choose day. several people is said to have been injured during clashes at a rally in the kirk as capital bishkek demonstrators were protesting the official results of a parliamentary election held in the former soviet republic at the weekend they accuse the 2 winning parties of vote buying and forward both parties are close to the production president. germinal thora he's have launched an attempted murder

investigation in the case of a 26 year old jewish student who was attacked outside a synagogue in hamburg initial findings indicate the assault was motivated by anti semitism the victim was seriously wounded when a man in military style clothing struck him on the head repeatedly with a shovel. the 1st of the 2020 nobel prizes was announced today and this is prize for medicine went to a trio of uralla just for the discovery of hepatitis c. . chiles rice and michael horton were honored for their groundbreaking research dating back to the 1970 s. the nobel committee says their discoveries have saved countless lives around the world. 71000000 people that's how many suffer from a chronic hepatitis c. infection as estimated by the world health organization they have to try to see a virus is transmitted through blood it often goes unnoticed for a long time slowly and silently attacking the liver infection can lead to diseases

like liver cirrhosis or liver cancer a major reason people need a liver transplant the discovery of the virus led to huge medical breakthroughs really in the way of saving discovery you know so it's critical to go to the to do beginning to really understand the basic. original discoveries that he really enabled there's so much. that has happened so many. advances in european center but that's made possible this initial discovery of the action. when harvey alter discovered the hepatitis c. virus in 1909 it was the 1st step towards fighting dangerous and until then mysterious liver infections the 2nd nobel laureate michael houghton then succeeded in isolating the d.n.a. of the newly found virus and finally charles reiss prove that it is the virus alone that causes liver disease these 3 scientific discoveries also made it possible to screen donated blood making blood transfusions much safer if. after the discovery

we were able to test all the blood donors and sort out the ones with hepatitis c. one could also develop treatments with which we could successfully fight the virus . there's still no vaccine for hepatitis c. the research for that is ongoing but today the world health organization estimates that over 95 percent of hepatitis c. patients can be successfully treated against the disease thanks to the work of today's nobel prize winners. coronavirus continues to take a heavy toll on the entertainment industry today the world's 2nd biggest cinema operator city world announced that it's temporarily closing more than $700.00 theaters across the u.k. and the u.s. city world says the delay in major film releases such as the latest installment of the james bond franchise has made the cinema industry and viable.

not for the 1st time hard double 07 been expected to come to the rescue this time in an industry thrown into crisis but no time to die itself fell victim to the virus its producer is delaying its released until next spring. the last of a crowd puller like bond has made the movie theater industry on a viable according to bosses and it comes after a miserable year that force in your world lose $1600000000.00 because if you don't you. we were leading the march big. growth. will be like also a shock was not screwed with 45000 jobs now at risk british prime minister barak's johnson is calling for the public to help out. would say to people is that. the most animals do now have ways of letting their shows go on in

a they could be secure way and i've encouraged people to go out to the cinema enjoy themselves and support those businesses it may be too late for the silver screen without the lure of blockbuster releases anxious consumers are perhaps even less likely to flock to the cinema for some of cape is them no matter how much they need . professional cyclists at the top level rarely make a beginner's mistake but that's exactly what happened at a one day classic racing. belgium well champion june in philly was involved in this sprint finish with 4 other riders he thought he'd won the race and raised his arms in celebration the problem for the french been though he hadn't yet crossed the line allowing to add a front runner up emotional road which to beat him by half a wheel. well if i stay with powerful jewels on an infamous

graue these guys now 3000 years after their extinction on a strain is mainland tasmanian devils a back in the wild conservation has released 26 of the tiny terror is into a protected area 3 hours north of sydney where they can settle in and prepare for breeding season in february it's believed the devils were wiped out on the mainland by wild dogs i haven't fed too well either on the island state of tasmania where a contagious disease disease has ravaged more than 80 percent of their population. as a reminder of the top stories we're following for you the white house says doctors will decide later today whether to discharge donald trump from hospital where he's being treated for cause that 9 taint the u.s. president is already under fire for venturing outside to wave to supporters on sunday and while white house press secretary katie mcinerney has become the latest person in trump's budget to test positive for the virus. and the 2020 nobel prize

for medicine has gone to an international trio of for all ages to discover a 3rd form tepper titus at the time to see the stuff on the panel it said their discovery had pave the way to saving millions of lives. watching d.w. news from burnin up next all the latest round of virus news in our covert 19 special filled jail to build play with you next hour and don't forget you can get all we information and news on our website at c.w. dot com i'm rebecca resist thanks very much for watching. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. and what are scientists learning. background information and. our corona. 19 special and next on do you w. . the new year here is yours real new you and how last year's german chancellor

will bring you a map or as you've never heard her before surprised to so with words it is possible to is medical really what moves her and want. to talk to people who followed her along the way admirers and critics alike how is the world's most powerful woman shaping her legacy joined us from eccles law stops. russia calls it relief for the world the shipments contain the back seeing candidate sputnik. 2000 venezuelans will try it out including a member of the presidential family. emitter fossicking equally poor in this clinical trial phase my son nicholas an estimate duro guerra told me of his

decision to be vaccinated with the russian vaccine to join the trial i think it's very good me but if you move him. by the roots was the 1st foreign country to receive batches of the back scene last week india is also interested in testing it . for russia it could be a sputnik moment like the one in 157 when the communists launched the 1st satellite . in august russia declared itself the 1st country to approve a coronavirus vaccine high risk groups been receiving sputnik 5 health workers journalists teachers china russia has been deploying the shots before full efficacy trials are complete the results are promising the vaccine has been met with some skepticism washing his hands multiple times a day just one of a series of hygiene measures gulper in undertakes the doctor doesn't want to take

any chances with coronavirus but he knows a vaccine would offer the best protection against covered 19 that's why his volunteer to take part in testing a new russian one. of those when someone has to do it without clinical trials they are no medicines the effectiveness of a vaccine can only be evaluated in the 3rd phase of clinical trials. the previous $23.00 to $4.00. stage 3 of the trials began a month ago but the vaccine which has been named footnote 5. was licensed already in august before they began mass inoculation in russia is planned for later this year something numerous experts have sharply criticized the russian government rejects the criticism it says the vaccine has been developed from already known substances and doesn't pose any health risks because russia urgently needs an effective vaccine the country currently has the 4th highest number of

corona virus cases worldwide and the numbers continue to rise with around 6000 new infections each day. galperin and other doctors working say they are not worried about the vaccine safety. after role the vaccine has already been tested on several well known public people and they're doing quite well. these public figures include russian defense minister sergei surely google moscow mayor say gays will be on in and one of president vladimir putin's daughters ports and p.r. material. is part of russia's strategic interests to always want to be 1st irrespective of whether it's a revolution or the 1st flight into space now it's about saying that we're the 1st to develop a vaccine internally we're showing that the situation is under control x. journal and it's a signal that russia is still mastering its role as the savior of the world. and.

some young galperin isn't thinking about his country's p.r. plans just now the doctor is here because his hoping to help when the fight against the corona virus pandemic. we are tired they wanted to be over the new vaccine would help calm people and offer a way out of the situation. it will most likely be at least several months until the results of the phase 3 trials known only then can the actual effectiveness and safety of russians put nick 5 vaccine be assessed. know about safe works at the international vaccine access center of the johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health so will the russians be the 1st. and look there are lots and lots of people to achieve a vaccine it's not about who's going to be 1st it's event as many people as can

cross the finish line really to have a safe and effective vaccines we want multiple winners here and there are vaccine is certainly you know doing nothing to phase large scale phase 3 is as a many how this and we want licensure to occur after the completion of those phase 3 is when we have good safety data and good if you can see that out of the vaccines actually work sorry lots of people we want to succeed not just on one group or another on the point of safe they have the russians been fudging the numbers of some of the q.'s and skipping parts of the trials. there's no good solid evidence that there's been any concern about the numbers the detail that was given in the russian papers and it was excellent you know the quality of the evidence was as solid as any of the other published papers the have dane's. lie reports on blogs and so on those really don't hold water when examined fairly and statistically so no i don't have any more concerns about this group than any other

group for the jugular you know. the modified common cold viruses behind such vaccines have been studied for decades but as still not widely used why why is that . there are a number of other vaccine platforms that have we have a lot more experience with the advantage of adding of our very good vaccines ease that they are potentially capable of privilege bring almost a antigen to the need system and so they and they vector itself is designed to be non up looking sort of card causing friction the capacity to do that to get that city to develop these vaccines has been in development for quite a long time but i recently has a really rich lawson shot under the pressure really you know developing a vaccine against all of our us and that's been a success so that's good and we would like to see more of these vaccines going forward claiming a lot more experience with them and particularly around safety and around if you

can see but there's no reason to suspect that they'll be problematic accidents in fact they're likely to be very good vaccines we have a range of potential at and of our civic there is some more frequently encountered by human populations and others then that differences between chile that could arise among the different products and that some of the detail that's coming out from some of the scientific literature but as a platform have you know it's a really exciting platform and we hope that they'll be lots of opportunities to develop this platform that really backs analogy beyond this pandemic into the future also what's the sudden take over the vaccines the past phase 3 will be successful for the wider population. there's never a certain take you know he's built on uncertainty and falsifiability so it's really important and methods as rigorous as they can be and it's important that we continue to evaluate the vaccine even after that it's rolled out and even after to choose licensure and phase 3 phase 3 trials of the trials that demonstrate large

scale you know in terms of tens of thousands and collectively close to hundreds of thousands of people safety and participants and importantly efficacy against disease said it actually protects human beings against disease that's the time that we require philosophia. for a vaccine is very rarely hopeful because as you know a series sound very rarely their society has the right have the pros and cons as we go back since they were potentially harmful but very rarely so but they are very very beneficial and frequently so so it's always a question of balancing the risks and benefits and that correct balance requires good science groups or violence and good evidence going forward beyond phase 3 and beyond licensure wellington any use of hopefully in future use you've said it's problematic if a vaccine is designed to target the disease and not the infection why.

well it's not exactly right about your clothes i mean or vaccines really designed to target disease but clearly we're facing a complex situation currently regarding a virus because we have widespread infection and transmission occurring globally i think the public expectation is that once a vaccine is available we go back to the way things were and we stop mosques and we stop social distancing and that's just judgment of whatever that saying at least in the initial phase can do the end of the vaccine is to reduce disease and to reduce it in vulnerable groups at least initially in the 1st round of vaccination if a vaccine is given to those at high risk and not to everybody clearly transmission will continue to occur you know if you didn't receive the vaccine but a year from now or year and a half from now or 2 years from now when the vaccine is more widely available it will be critical to demonstrate that it actually reduces transmission and not just reduces disease because if it doesn't do that then the idea otherwise to reduce transmission to continue with face masks and so on. one could imagine

a paradox whereby if the vaccine continues to allow transmission and works less well to protect against disease in the elderly that you know paradoxically. address that comes could get worse not better so we need to be very careful about how we deploy vaccines on the basis of the best available science and evidence around what they do what their effort can seize against you know about say thank you very much for joining us thank you for having. and it's that part of the show when we look at your questions of a crow virus is the new science correspondent there are. there any countries testing school age kids on a wide scale to if so what are the results. because covert 19 in general at least doesn't affect children as severely as older people kids in general have not been tested as my best throughout the pandemic it's simply been

a question of resource allocation but the lack of really solid data has also led to a lot of speculation that kids might not be much of a factor in spreading the disease throughout wider society which has in some countries influenced things like decisions to reopen schools but now a big study from india could cause authorities to rethink that idea it focused among other things on contact tracing data from 85000 confirmed cases in 2 states there in total it looked at test results from over 500000 contacts that occurred between people who were infected and the people they gave it to or didn't get to and one of the most interesting takeaways was that it showed kids actually do pass the disease on to other kids especially those in their age group which would include for example kids in the same class at school what the study wasn't able to

clarify was was how often those kids subsequently might have passed the virus along to adults but but even so the evidence now looks pretty compelling it indicates that the idea that kids don't really spread covert 19 doesn't really hold water which a lot of researchers have said shouldn't actually come as a surprise. stopping along for another covert special seizing.

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