greatest cultural treasures will be returned to nigeria next year. well that's it you're up to date up next is our covert 19th special mind that you can find much more news on our website that is w dot com and there will be more world news at the top of the hour césar up like. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update nineteen's. on t w. n u you may know years years we can hear you and how last year's german chancellor will bring you an angle a man called as you've never heard before surprise yourself with what is possible

who is magical really what moves them what also who talks to people who follows her along the way admirers and critics alike how is the world's most powerful woman shaping her legacy joining us from eccles law stops. maybe it's a pill. or a spray. a liquid medicine. an easy and safe treatment to target sars curve to. it would be given immediately after diagnosis ideally it's available over the counter in a pharmacy a cheaper antiviral tablet with bearable side effects. we have maxine's we even have drugs that help with the most serious symptoms of code 19. in the hunt for drugs scientists are exploring many different treatments. but where are we in the

search for a pill. good question welcome to our kobe 19 special i want to johnsonville and good to have you with us and wouldn't it be wonderful if we could just pop a pill in coburg 19 would be nothing more than a nasty cold science is working on a variety of therapies but it's somewhat slow going. how do you switch off the coronavirus render it harmless german scientists co-write therapeutics set themselves this task a year ago 12 months later they seem to have achieved their goal. most drugs currently in development target mild cases of covert 1000 illnesses i. drug is special they designed to cure serious illnesses as well. because. their research and initial clinical tests which have been running for a few days were primarily financed by private investors and government funding from

the state of lower saxony. but now the company needs more funding. to deal of course we want to be ready to meet market needs and our goal is to get the emergency approval by the end of the year. then we would have to produce in sufficient scale that we can supply patients with the necessary medication. currently the german government offers funding of $50000000.00 euros which is split between several companies. this compares with over 740000000 euros in funding for vaccine research. we need tens of thousands of volunteers for testing that's what costs a lot of money and where you simply need larger sums. by money to live. when you vaccinate healthy people you need a lot more healthy people then when you're testing a drug that is targeted at the sick. bike. recently however the

federal government appears to have rethought the issue and further funds have already been announced. we lost many many months because the financial resources were simply not available for the drug developers we can no longer afford to keep wasting time. kora therapeutics says it needs 50000000 euros to reach the emergency approval stage german government funds won't be enough for this so the biotech start up has been speaking to international investors. now antiviral treatments attack the virus and stop it multiplying but the virus doesn't fight fair using our own cells to reproduce and finding a treatment is difficult at the best of times let alone during a pandemic. so far the only antiviral drug approved for the treatment of covert 19 in germany is rendez severe studies show a 33 percent reduction in the duration of the illness. there are other treatments

being developed. american pharmaceutical giant marc is working on a similar drug called new pair of air and pfizer has also started human tests on an antiviral drug. if the immune system overreacts in a later phase of the disease steroids such as dex a method zone come into play it's the cortisone the curbs the immune system in germany 2 decks of metazoan is used in severe cases that is when the patient receives additional oxygen. there are also preparations for antibody treatment which helps prevent symptomatic infection the drugs from us pharma giant re general health former us president donald trump. antibodies are also found in the blood plasma of recovered covert 900 patients there affected pans on the severity of the illness and how long ago it was germany's public health body the robert cock institute says deployment in severe cases is possible.

needham state a man is a senior id physician of the department of infectious diseases and respiratory meds since at university in berlin as a very good to have you with us especially because you are now offering the use of monoclonal antibodies in short in a b. or mab in the so-called cold map outpatient clinic in berlin what exactly does this therapy offer. well we offer treatment with one of the to avail of mono clone the antibody product. these mono clone a n t a buddy's tag a protein off the farce called 2 viruses and they have a potential to prevent. the progression to cvo disease and elevated symptoms and limit the progress in patients with maya to moderate

cold but these particular the we know that in those who have not developed yet. in the genus antibody response we know that there is potential that these patients benefit from this kind of therapy and who are these patients that are actually illegible to benefit from it is it available to everyone. well. there are some criteria which we look at to. finding the right patients. we look for patients who have new or positive tests so we. need to. test p.c. our reside which is not order then 72 hours. to provide. that security that we only treat patients in the early course of infection. and

we look for certain risk factors in the patients. which are for example age or immuno. suppression for example are purely patients who are on to shimon therapy because our. cancer. patients who are are going to transplant patients and therefore immunosuppression are candidates for the treat men and other patients for example who have received medication or just quadrate took similar patients who suffer off aids are candida. people with down syndrome are patients kidney. patients patients on chronic him or dilates those patients with obesity with the

see the. elevated body mass index over 35 and you probably have to probably you probably need to go to your own g.p. and basically prove that you are one of those patients who who actually can get to this kind of treatment but could this therapy also help prevent an infection. well there are some. preliminary results showing that it could prevent infection but the results from randomized controlled trials are not published yet so we do not use it as a prevent shoot let's say as opposed to exposure prophylaxis when you assume infection so we so far only use it for patients with a provan infection which is their p.c. our results are. now of course i have to remind you that we're all dreaming of

a simple cure or as we said in the beginning of the program a pill a spray something like that to help us through infection how realistic is that notion. of course that's what we are green heart so we do not agree have anything read the clothes coming up closely for example just a pill of course as the trials going on and we're looking for treatment options but so far there is no serious saying the pill for example. which we can hope to be the future easy treatment of this document from the sherry to england thank you so much. let's get back now to the root off our troubles and that of course is the virus and its variants time to hand over to eric. is it possible that the same variance

a rose independently without travel in different places. the answer to this touches on one of my favorite evolutionary concepts called convergence it's basically the idea that when different species face similar environmental pressures in different places then nature can come up with remarkably similar solutions to cope with them a good example of convergence is for instance the the protective spines that are embedded in the skin of both porcupines and hedgehogs the trait didn't arise just once in a common ancestor and then get passed down it evolved independently in both species because a spiny outside is clearly a good defense against predators if you're small and slow and just want to be left in peace the ija leaves and then sets viral genomes also change

constantly and it happens a lot faster than with animals because by iris is replicate so quickly and abundantly the vast majority of those changes will be neutral or even harmful but a tiny number of them will give a virus an advantage for example a mutated gene might change the spike proteins on its surface in ways that allow the virus to slip into cells more easily and because the source code be to genome is is actually pretty small the chances of specific identical mutations like that occurring in different places at different times. it's actually fairly high so we are seeing some of this sort of genetic convergence but because variants also collect many other highly individual mutations as they evolve

genetic sequencing still allows us to tell them apart. there it williams there and he'll be back again tomorrow to on some war of your questions just post them on our covert 19 you tube channel for now that's all for this edition of out of the night in special thanks for watching. crypto currencies more than just an experiment. and it is a. result counseling commodity. how just bed cloning. how do you use it and how secure is virtually money made in germany. next on d w. to the point of showing the pain of clear physicians

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i haven't invested in any yet myself i should cryptocurrency is playing an increasingly important role in the economy companies like tesla accept a bad call as payment even some fund managers recommend investing in digital assets but how do they work what are their implications for everyday life cryptocurrency

are they worth the ride our topic today and made welcome. it was one of the hottest i.p.o.'s of the year driven by the cryptocurrency bull market call in bass made a huge splash on wall street with many industry hopes pinned on the u.s. as biggest digital currency trading platform and bitcoin the world's most popular crypto currency seems unstoppable it's just reclaimed the $50000.00 mark recouping some of its losses following washington's plan to raise capital gains taxes for wealthy investors now that was a tiny set back but then bitcoin bounced back again are cryptic currencies indestructible or just a fun gamble for those with money to burn mr schmidt to went to find out. i believe in because and i hope it will become the most important currency in the ruled nothing is more real than. ok we weren't being entirely serious there

but belief and trust do play a role in that currency my ability let's consider the process of cans. of it i think the coin is revolutionary so there is no fear of inflation because there is a limit only $21000000.00 because are allowed to be mined and people have a transparent process the whole time ended safe and secure and it's cool i think. well most big corn is still sort of your chill for me it doesn't have any better you basically it's all feared and if you think it's like bubble yes admitted in the 1st years after its launch in 2000 months value increased only gradually and its image was spent think about how many bit quiet strength actions were used for illegal for example drugs where all of the criminals use bitcoin

but in the world something is changing countries like germany do force because it uses to verify themselves before they enter the big called world so it's not that anonymous as it used to be over the next few years confidence grew as bitcoin's technology proved stable and the price even hit $902.00 universe but the crash was just around the corner at some point in price the cryptocurrency had been stolen several $1000000.00 euros worth was lost in a false on a trickle a tip but think about it if someone would steal your money take a look at my own crouse coins were already stolen in the post where is the guarantee that it will happen to your bit clients actually the infrastructure of has never been hacked so it's safe and we're talking about 12 years and some big guns have been stolen i agree but the reason is those people do not care to

have it in a safe place interest must prove that boosted after a few celebrity support of the venture. could read by kanye west and the think of foster brothers. and it was the big question. first. bitcoin isn't good for every day purchases let's listen to my expert. then if that ever happens it's still decades away heiko rome runs the cryptocurrency consulting firm he has been following bitcoin for years. obviously there's the volatility of the coin to consider which discourages people from spending it. and there's always the question why should i spend money today when it may be worth more tomorrow it is time to get some help and some support is going pretty well already then please leave our managers a fund worth billions and he advises investing in bitcoin. i

suspect that acceptance will grow in the next few years partly driven by greed because the prices are clearly going up and up that's when people say now i want in on this but also because it's simply becoming socially acceptable there was a months long period where the price of going soared due to investors discovering its potential as a financial investment. in terms of bitcoin i'm very much in a speculative realm i see it as more of a security than a currency. my behind i'm on for a bit coin has also led to massive energy consumption to keep the system going to look at the server in china. one beat kind transaction releases as much to you as 100000 credit card payments. let's think about climate change and you said here are eco friendly but if you

think about how much an artist consumptive to produce to keep the whole system of bitcoin alive it can be compared with the whole country oh you've got me ok maybe your argument most of the energy that is needed for the corn world is concerned in china about 65 percent and they are shutting down companies. that work with coal power and they would like to have war companies using hydro power and would its value continue to rise because bitcoin is limited in quantity and there's a certain cap on the number of bitcoins that can ever be produced but the demand for bitcoin hasn't been met there are a lot of people who have not even invested in it yet it's likely big corn prices will continue to rise significantly over the next few years as more people become familiar with because. so now have i been able to convince my colleague of

merits but it's still not recognized by so many countries i think never it's more we get. more clear what is it about. and it's 1st hand it's more real it's more. in terms of criminal. the problem was the climate change. then i might. be for the. i believe. we do not have to believe in the old common currency our parents did it so we have a new. super cool currency that's ok.

i guess the last word and trip to currencies has yet to be spoken but in the meantime you can try your luck by investing in them bitcoin if area near all they can all be loaded on to your smartphone in exchange for local currency and you can use them to buy many things online there are thousands of such digital currency switch makes it hard to see the wood for the trees so here's a look at how they actually work. 100. almost any.

10 minutes. international bank. accounts and fees can add $25.00 euro. banks and. that's why i could.

want. so what can you buy with that perhaps a piece of ott forget about buying a traditional painting or sculpture something that you can perhaps hang up at home on the wall or display in your garden come on it is so yesterday in today's online well it's investing in art is also ditch a toe welcome to the world of and if tees that's long fungible tokens which are also stored via blocked chains and of course you can use crypto currencies to buy them now is this the future of the world or just

a passing fad you decide. the mona lisa seen in the movie perhaps the most famous painting in the world worth around $700000000.00. this is a mona lisa of the digital off won't attend 2nd clip sold for 6600000 that anyone can watch free online the cap mean you've seen before downloaded millions of times sold for 600000 dollars this image sold a 0.5 feet or about $650.00 at the time just a short time later it was worth another $1000.00 think that this song well welcome to the world of n f t's digital twitter cryptocurrency. and to the oh well even christie's has now joined the game for seeing the 1st of the f.t.l. . but hold on why would anyone pay that sum for a cat mean that they can share and download for free or discounted or is the future

of the world and it sounds been on fungible to. known fungible when something is known fungible it means it's not easily into changeable because it's unique or scads take a dollar and if you have a $1.90 don't mind trading it with someone else's 1 dollar 90 it makes no difference. the most money so on the other hand if he make. a piece of digital off his fungible it's not unique almost guess because it can be downloaded and copied infinitely. but when you created an f.t.p. for it a process called tonight single minting it becomes just that trace of legal center and unique. how to put it simply and then have to contains a specific set of data because there's information stored on the token about to be created the content for how much it was sold and the owner is that way the token represents a certificate of ownership. chain technology ensures that all that info is on

changeable and for. pray for so long the digital object may still be all over the internet blindly and see you by the city because ownership for it. so who is buying based things. energy market right now it's really nice arab think a lot of people who are buying. really early may have a lot of it they don't want to cash it out. just the way but. i do think that the energy market in general has a lot more and. more are so trading cards on the market maybe small but in the digital something and it's nice i revolutionary to allowing digital artists to authenticate their work and easily and in a foolproof way for the 1st time and all scientists a teeny little one has been announcing the actual work itself even the physical

bank isn't necessarily where it was held so you may have the most valuable out work in the world who are now being able to a friend's case it. can potentially have a value of 0 or some collectors may value it but generally speaking you're not going to be able to get it into a tree house like some a b.s. or something like about the technology also allows artists to collect a percentage of their revenue every time that aren't lucky salt that's not the case in the traditional markets and they can sell their are more direct. any artist with a computer and photoshop and a dream can get on and start making money from their off and start benefiting from it and it really doesn't power the individual and empower the masses to get involved with the art world in a way that has never really been done before when it comes to the n.f.t. market as a whole and many involved in watching it good question and they want if the potential for down the markets and the high environmental costs of benefit takings

because for now that creation and transactions consume a lot. amounts of energy plus some predict the sky high sums currently paid for certain items are a bubble waiting to burst. we see people understand the concept of earning their true assets i think we'll just see this grow as a generation of people coming generation is going to grow up and they're going to be much more interested in buying something this digital than they are buying something physical teas are still pretty nice for collectors but they could become a global trend again why do i feel as an investor. and i'm moving on to perhaps more pressing issues what could a covert 900 test have to do with crypto currency or the verification of a vaccination certificate quite a lot actually there are

a lot of instances where this technology that seems abstract to the average consumer is already at play in our everyday life so take a look. the day begins as it does for many others in germany with a coronavirus test. the pandemic is part of every day life you need to take a test to go shopping see family or go to work if it's negative you have a sudden if temporary sense of freedom here it is the cover test result negative fortunately but is such a certificate really trustworthy. can such documents be faked yes they can a quick search online soon reveals there's a flourishing market for fake negative test results it's not all that surprising it's easy to scan a test report tweak it with image editing software such as photoshop printed out and write in any name you like another photoshop expert but that even i can do. you

purchase a start up in cologne devoted to ensuring data security and integrity it's the old stefano. email can you open it. we start with a little surprise. negative test result thank you could you make it secure going to salute leo that's why we've developed our technology in a case like this we would attach a q.r. code to the result is a digital seal of authenticity. you can think of it as a kind of digital notarization as soon as the test comes out of the machine. it is generated and it digitally signed by the lab. if you then present the results somewhere else it can all be checked and verified. if you purchase worked on the certification of test results in the health care sector using technology from the iata foundation cryptocurrency developer based in

berlin now it's developing a fake proof of official german vaccination certificate in cooperation with ivy. yoga is a readily accessible public block chain that fulfills all requirements. it's been built for precisely the kind of things we do namely the internet of things measurement data and such rather than transactions involving value. it's about the persistence of data. that means the availability of unchanged data over a long period of time. is a co-founder of field and develop this technology given a little surprised. very convincing negative. of course he was joking so we both take another at that coronavirus test and just like with block change we verify each of us result. that's been confirmed by both parties trust has been

established. as probably the problem is that i can't trust the systems currently in place. i can't trust this piece of paper because the signature could have been faked. i can't verify that the text is legitimate. or not the same problem exists in the virtual world. the foundation's mission is to make data and a digital trust with. any health should enable the secure sharing of medical data that was 1st authentic aided by responsible authority or doctor encryption ensures that they can't be tampered with control of the access would be in the hands of the individual. however this only works if the data actually authentic. as we've seen with photoshop you can easily change a test report on paper. you can also manipulate data in the virtual world.

change a couple of bytes and all of a sudden you have a negative test result even though you in fact tested positive. the aim of our technology is to encrypt and secure data so it can't be changed. the. authenticating and securing sensitive data doesn't sound very exciting but it's incredibly important in health care and in the burgeoning internet of things. now own encrypted currency is turning many people's lives upside down just imagine you own hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bitcoin but then you lose the past to access your account your try everything but every password you enter is wrong eventually axes will be denied for good your money gong sounds like a film script but it really happened and to insult to injury to a computer programmer and our last report for today we share the stories off to

coin owners and how bitcoin changed their lifes. i got to a point where i was at my absolute and. i hit rock bottom. and all that will replace the euro and other currencies it's the sound choice stay away from the other crop for now. the value of bitcoin has been rising rapidly for months. and bitcoins for a long time have made a lot of money techies entrepreneurs investors they're being taken more seriously then i met a pioneer as the saying the owner of the legendary bitcoin bream 77 cents 2011 you've been able to pay for bagus and beer here with big calling. your 53 years old and i'm the one who turned this bar into a big coin holding. our standing in front of the 1st venue in the world where

bitcoin was accepted. to the bar got a certain amount of fame and cult status. bitcoin and when i discovered bitcoin known among bitcoin is as the big coin moment you think my god it's finally here. it's time that used to be now we've got digital cash. logical to say ok we want to accept this payment here to be a bit corny put up a sign we accept big here. and then back then no one knew what it was there were maybe one or 2 berliners online also interested so i met up with one of them here then he paid for his burger and beer and bitcoin and wow that was an incredible feeling. we didn't realise at the time but it was also an historic moment because it was the 1st time that i knew when i would use bitcoin to pay for something physical and a bricks and mortar store. became a meeting place for

a big point fans from. another well known 1st generation. tomas. he lives in the us but he story is tragic he lost the possibility his digital big client wants and can no longer access usenet less of me as. it was it was i didn't know what to do but as a developer and a tech person of course i thought about ways to restore the data there are all kinds of recovery options. i spent the next 2 to 3 weeks 24 hours a day trying out different possibilities even hard disk recovery in the end i realized it probably wasn't going to work. now he has just 2 more passed but attempts 8 have already been erased it's about 7002 big points. this composer not working this issue also doesn't so there's still a chance that i'll get access just have to wait and see. but i'm trying not to get

my hopes up too much so that i'm not devastated later if it doesn't work. i don't think it was random. low points the fact that i had such a low point gave me a lot of motivation and clarity about what i want to achieve in life. to give my take every opportunity to talk about bitcoin you know about the financial access to let more people participate in the financial system. i'm grateful for this platform for the use of the platform because the. judge doesn't reveal whether he still lives but he says that 1000000 demond as a big point ex-pat already youngster number of nice guys who drive lamborghinis that's a narrative that i find completely uninteresting to me well that means having enough and that doesn't have to be a cost a little not to be allowed for gaining numbers i don't need to have more than others what's so important with bitcoin it's not that individuals get rich but that everyone becomes better off in

a year i. don't know doesn't always i investigate. this it's closed. because. that's what he believes in. personal responsibility is a huge topic which many understandably also shy away from. because they say a banker has always looked after my money and i was insured and i was supposed to do it myself. and i can understand why people say that's stupid under the law to be middle other people like me think that some toxic is something you should deal with . quite simply that the sooner the better on you from that if the better for. and that's all for this hopefully not too cryptic cryptocurrency edition of made why don't forget of course you can always comment on all of our stories on one of our social media channels we always look forward to hearing from you in the

meantime from me and the team in berlin thanks for watching stay safe.

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