set to respirator 15. .. 18 from the university of oxford in kings couege university of oxford in kings london have quickly designed what they think of the workable ventilator which could go into production right away called oxvent. it was presented to the uk cabinet and made two special over 19 regulations that the government published. inside the box is a standard ambulance bag, these are normally compressed by hand to provide air but in this case we compress it using the pressure from out compress it using the pressure from ourairsupply. compress it using the pressure from our air supply. the device is made from a0 components, 90% of which are off—the—shelf, meaning they are already in the nhs supply chain and theoretically easy to procure. oxve nt theoretically easy to procure. oxvent will now be tested in birmingham and may cost less than £1000 per machine, compared to tens of thousands of pounds for those in use in hospitals now. we want simple and that can be built, and sure i can make a ventilator as fancy as you like, but they will get it to you like, but they will get it to yo

samuel ramani is a research of russian affairs at the university of oxford and he joins us now by skype thank you for your time so russia saying it can't guarantee the safety of turkish planes flying over what should we read into that well i don't think this certainly russia's going to be shooting down turkish planes anytime soon i think they're probably going to honor the remit the church said that they're not going to target russia we're not going to target them i think it's meant to send a message to us that the u.s. after the jews you go yes we shut down yesterday you go in damascus we're frustrated with the fact that the russians and stepped in it was as a stronger way i think it also was a sign of reassurance to the russian defense ministry which limits are going to show you which is the in the ante turkish foreign ministry even south and wanting a stronger military response so this kind of a statement is different and also as you know. that was my ex question how is russia's lack of follow up to the turkish strikes on syrian targets being received in moscow in damascus so it's no

activity and we are joined by peter, a global health physician from a business school at the university of oxfordere on bbc news and i think you were listening to that press briefing as well. that might inform some answers. we have had so many questions and i will start with one from doctor william byrd. abby asks if i am a parent of children who cannot exercise, am i allowed to exercise once a day? am i allowed to exercise once a day for myself in addition to taking out my children for some fresh air and exercise? " thank you, and not going out is the one thing we can really do to make a difference. if we want to keep the nhs, we can keep fit. our immune system is boosted when we take exercise and it helps us deal with the coronavirus so it is important we take that exercise outdoors or indoors. as far as the question is concerned, we are told only to do it once, that is strict guidance, so if you can do it with your children in one go, that will be guidance we expect. i know you will probably think you want to go for a run. if you go out together with the children, that will be the most importa

scientists at the university of oxford say they have developed an ultrasensitive test that can work injustdoesn't need the kind of machine used in the other tests and can be deployed to rural or remote areas quickly. they also say it's sensitivity means it can detect when someone is in the early stages of the virus, which could help slow down transmission. detecting the virus in the early stages in an asymptomatic carrier could indeed be game—changing in halting its progress. getting more tests out to as many people as possible as soon as possible could provide the data needed to accurately track the virus. that wasjen and it will be fascinating to see how that story develops. pretty quickly, i would imagine. now, with countries around the world battening down the hatches and locking down huge swathes of the population, everyone is having to make a plan for how they're going to live through this. technology will play a massive part and stephen beckett has been meeting the pop—up groups who are trying to do their bit. following in the footsteps of china and other countries around the world,

sciences at the university of oxford say they have developed an ultrasensitive test that can work insay it doesn't need the kind of machine used in the other tests and could be deployed to rural or remote areas quickly. they also say its sensitivity means it can detect if someone is in the early stages of the virus which could help slow down transmission. detecting the virus in the early stages in an asymptomatic carrier could indeed be game changing in halting its progress. getting more tests out to as many people as possible as soon as possible could provide the data needed to accurately track the virus. that wasjen, and it will be fascinating to see how that story develops. pretty quickly, i would imagine. now, with countries around the world battening down the hatches and locking down huge swathes of the population, everyone is having to make a plan for how they're going to live through this. technology will play a massive part, and stephen beckett has been meeting the pop—up groups who are trying to do their best. following in the footsteps of china and other countries around th

a team from the university of oxford and kings college london have quickly designed what they think iskable ventilator which could go into production right away, called 0xvent. it was presented to the uk cabinet this week and was made to special covid—19 regulations that the government published. ..and is driven into this box. inside the box is a standard ambulance bag. these bags are normally compressed by hand to provide air to a patient, but in this case, we compress it using the pressure from our air supply. the device is made from a0 components, 90% of which are off—the—shelf, meaning they are already in the nhs supply chain and theoretically easy to procure. 0xvent will now be tested in birmingham, and may cost less than £1,000 per machine, compared to tens of thousands of pounds for ones in use in hospitals now. we want something that's simple and that can be built. and sure, i can make a ventilator as fancy as you like, but i'll get it to you in october, if that's all right. that's not an option. in france, a collective have created what they call the minimal universal respirat

today in london we have andreas capas a social psychologist and neuroscientist at the university of london in oxford we have yarn emanuel the nerve director of the wellbeing research center at the university of oxford and in leeds amir khan a doctor with the u.k.'s national health service welcome to you all andreas let me start with you there is such a collective sense of anxiety and panic right now what are the main steps people can take to reduce that. well i think thanks for having me 1st of all i think that in genoa we've should expect people to be anxious a little bit uncertain to subvert the whole situation to situation is severe and this is a serious and cherish and so it's very perfectly fine to feel a bit of anxiety and a feeling of the uncertainty and most of us will kind of the same design it will go away just as you get used to the new situations to said we see that we will be ok and anxiety goes down but for some of us i think we have to kind of believe that we can try to control this anxiety but excessively burning about it consuming more and more information and that might actually fe

visiting professor at the university of oxford. welcome to democracy now!tor, can you start off by talking about why you think iran has been so hard-hit at this point? >> as you know, iran undermined the reality. -- from china to iran. not only did they not close the direct flights, but in some occasions come the increased the number of flights. they used iran as a kind of transferring p point. were twome time, there other important occasions. one was the anniversary of the revevolution. after that, in pararliamentary electitions. the e main concern of the government was that. discourage the p population to come to participate. amy: i want to go to secretary of state mike pompeo speaking on friday before the house foreign affairs committee about iran's response to the coronavirus. >> their health care infrastructure is not robust. to date, their willingness to share information about what is really going on inside of the islamic republic of iran has not been robust. i'm very concerned t that it is iran not sharing information. amy: so here is pompeo express

but now engineers at the university of oxford can assemble a basic prototype in less than two hours. they just successfully tested it on a medical dummy. there so-called no-frills design uses just a resuscitation bag. a few valves and electrical circuit. it cost about $100 to make. >>> this is something you cannot together in a weekend. mass-producing it will be simple.>>> we have gone back to basics. we've gone back to probably the state of insulators 10 or 15 years ago. >>> the oxford engineers hope to soon get government approval so they as a mother and a wife, i understand how challenging this moment is for our families and our communities. that is why our state is responding at every level of government to slow the spread of covid-19, while ensuring our most vulnerable californians have what they need. but we can each do our part. and it starts by staying home. i know this is a big sacrifice for so many, but staying home saves lives. learn more at covid19.ca.gov. >>> your top coronavirus headlines six bay area counties are now extending the stay at home order until may 1. it com

julie fisher associate research professor of microbiology and immunology at georgetown university medical center in oxford in the u.k. dr peter drove cofounder and 1st executive director of the university of global health equity in rwanda and also in washington d.c. adam goodman republican strategist and partner at balad partners welcome to you all julie let me start with you just how bad is the situation currently in new york specifically in the hospitals right now do your kids seeing cases of coded 1000 double every day so it is on a very high trajectory and the number of cases is growing more quickly than the health systems are able to accommodate there are already facing dramatic shortages of intensive care beds and dental it is for the people who are most severely ill and we're still seeing the number of cases rise with the expected peak still about a week away so it's a pretty severe situation right now adam president trampas expressed optimism about the federal government's ability to provide adequate coronavirus testing but that's very different than what we're hearing from state governors right.

kendall a senior research fellow in arabic and islamic studies at pembroke college at the university of oxford welcome to you all elizabeth let me ask you 1st is the timing right do you think now for people to heed the u.n. secretary general call for a cease fire my conditions on the ground mean there could be one i sink there is now an opportunity in this awful adversity now really is the time as the united nations secretary general and the special envoy have both said to lay down the weapons before an even greater catastrophe in goals yemen if ever the 2 main warring sides needed an excuse so to speak to starts to pull back from their very entrance of positions this is it and they could be statesman like they wouldn't need to make excuses it's very clear that the urgency of the moment gives them an opportunity to really behave in a way that for once puts the people of yemen 1st now i don't think that this is at all an opportunity to solve the long term issues of yemen's war which are very complex none of which have been really addressed but it does certainly give everyone an excuse to get ar

a team from the university of oxford and kings college london have quickly designed what they think iscould go into production right away, called 0xvent. it was presented to the uk cabinet this week and was made to special covid—i9 regulations that the government published. ..and is driven into this box. inside the box is a standard ambulance bag. these bags are normally compressed by hand to provide air to a patient, but in this case, we compress it using the pressure from our air supply. the device is made from a0 components, 90% of which are ‘off the shelf', meaning they are already in the nhs supply chain and theoretically easy to procure. 0xvent will now be tested in birmingham, and may cost less than £1,000 per machine, compared to tens of thousands of pounds for ones in use in hospitals now. we want something that's simple and that can be built. and, sure, i can make a ventilator as fancy as you like, but i'll get it to you in october, if that's alright. that's not an option. in france, a collective have created what they call the minimal universal respirator. they're confident

scientists at the university of oxford say they have developed an ultrasensitive test which can workd the kind of machines used in the other tests and can be deployed to rural or remote areas quickly. they also say its sensitivity means it can detect when someone is in the early stages of the virus, which could help slow down transmission. detecting the virus in the early stages and in asymptomatic carriers could indeed be game—changing in halting its progress. getting more tests out to as many people as possible as soon as possible could provide the data needed to accurately track the virus. that wasjen, and it will be fascinating to see how that story develops. pretty quickly, i would imagine. now, with countries around the world battening down the hatches and locking down huge swathes of the population, everyone is having to make a plan for how they're going to live through this. technology will play a massive part, and stephen beckett has been meeting the pop—up groups who are trying to do their bit. following in the footsteps of china and other countries around the world, many p

a medical solution to the coronavirus epidemic because well we mentioned that the university of oxford as well was working on trying to find a cure for this. and that they are working and doing experimentations with drugs already alyson and antimalarial drugs as well in a bid to try and find some kind of shorts to go says well but looking ahead as well i mean there are also issues with trying to find the different components of the equipment that they need as well and this is one challenge which they are going to be facing as they try to prepare for the patients which thousands of patients which they're already preparing to receive entails hospitals which they have been building up until now that all right sunny thanks very much indeed. as the with the ongoing a press briefing from downing street with michael gave the go just kind of our status in the united states have exceeded the number of fatalities in china the u.s. now has a 3rd highest death toll off to italy and spain with 3393 people killed by the virus with more cases than any other country is scrambling to build hundreds of

the theory being that swallowing the virus will kill it sadly professor treated like at the university of oxford says there's no evidence to back that up you can't wash away or spirit virus while it's good for overall health to be hydrated drinking too much water can also cause health problems to. the piracy is mutating. with 19 will act like all viruses in the fact that they all accumulate me tensions over time create a virus is no different a recent public study suggested that it had already me take to twice into one more aggressive strain and one milder form but some experts on convince all viruses might like. people of old over time as you say in the case of viruses like into and so they need to. change. over the seasons but also even within any given season next year will be variations within a population. and this is this is what the virus does to me and she walks all over it so she could extract the crude virus will will change. as of tomorrow says do news as the humans do. it will be gone by the summer summer months can mean fewer transmissible illnesses but that's often because in the w

rises by 27 percent to 9 british woman virus it 10 or even hotel test positive a covert 19 university of oxford chinese and other asian students and staff are isolated yet you know there's a lot let's talk about the stigma of this 1st of all there is a lot of there are a lot of people that feel that they're being ostracized if they're even going to a country that may have this kind of thing is it a how much of a problem is it you think 1st off. well i think i think there is a problem with people being stigmatized i think it has been some references for example to the kind of yellow peril i kind of resurrecting the kind of old anti communist anti chinese concept of this kind of virus spreading around the world from china and i think it's. you know that is potentially quite dangerous because it is setting up different people as being seen as as the problem when you know we are dealing with a medical problem yeah it's not a it's not a. with your hand law it is a moment how much off guard i guess is the best word for our countries or around the world you hear there's no one size fits all way of try

and also peter drobac, a global health physician from the said business school at the university of oxfordews and i think you were probably listening to the press briefing which may inform some of your answers. we have had so many questions and i'm going to start with one for doctor william byrd if i may from abbey. "if i am a parent of children who cannot exercise alone, am i allowed to exercise once a day for myself in addition to taking out my children for some fresh air and exercise?" thank you, and not going out is the one thing we can really do to make a difference. if we want to keep the nhs, we can keep fit. our immune system is boosted when we take exercise and it helps us deal with the coronavirus so it is important we ta ke the coronavirus so it is important we take that exercise outdoors or indoors. as far as the question is concerned, we indoors. as far as the question is concerned , we are indoors. as far as the question is concerned, we are told only to do it once, that is strict guidance, so if you can do it with your children in one go, that will be guidance we expect. i k

andrew pollard is a professor of infection and immunisation at the university of oxford. u do make herd immunity first of all. it means that we end up with a lot of people in the —— in of people in the population that has the virus immunity that it stopped spreading. that will happen sooner or later, and if it happens, it means that... if we are to stop transmission of the virus to have everybody stay at home, at some point, we are going to have to come out again and the virus will continue to transmit at that point. the answer is that there is a balance when we don't have any other way of controlling the virus so far. the balance is between having some transmission that allows immunity to build up, so eventually the virus goes away, but not completely stopping it so that we just have a bigger wave later in the year. so the balance that has been taken by the balance that has been taken by the government at the moment is around trying to find what was described as the sweet spot which is where we have some transmission going on. we are able to still maintaina going on. we a

drjanet smart is a reader in operations management at the said business school at the university of oxfordre. how do you feel about the current stance of the negotiators! i would be concerned because i think people have not really thought through the implications, about whatever kind of deal could be negotiated, and how it would be put into place. there would be quite a lot of adjustment which would have to be done, with new arrangements which would have to be put in place at the border, especially notjust going across to europe, but also with what happens on the border with ireland. because there would have to be checks which have to be done between great britain and ireland as a result of this. and when the two sides talk about their red lines, we have been through this for years now, do they really mean it or are we back in the territory that we have been in since 2016 with people talking about red lines that actually weren't red lines at the end of the day? that's going to be difficult to tell right now, because we have seen the published stance, but the things that are being said and

pad here got some graphs which we put together from our world and data which is run by the university of oxford these graphs show us days are for any single country from the point where they reached 100 cases so that's why on this 1st slide using a lot more date of the china because they've been reporting cases for longer simple now in interpret in any of these graphs the things to remember these trajectories this line here shows a rate of infections doubling every 2 days and this line here shows that right doubling every 3 days so just remember those angles as i go through the rest of these slides so yes of course in the early days china was doubling its write every 2 days it was the epicenter of the outbreak but over time that is changing that point then moves to every 3 days and now at this point here we're only getting a comparative handful of new cases every day and as china says most of those are coming from outside the country contrast that with there is a strong trajectory there of every 2 days doubling that rate of infection every 2 days and while we still continue to see really bad nu

prompts an assertion do you think we must be drawn down you know down this this part of this rabbit hole. now oxford university has banned the society that cancelled a speech by the former home secretary with just 30 minutes to spare. speech to u.n. women oxford u.k. was stopped following the vote of the society's committee which some claimed was due to her role in the wind draft scandal in 2018 some of the wind rush generation who came from the caribbean to help rebuild post-war britain were branded illegal immigrants despite having lived and worked in the u.k. for decades later the former home secretary said such treatment was rude and badly judged and called students to stop hiding and start engaging well in response commons leader jacob rhys marks said oxford was being was being snowflake central and education secretary gavin williamson urged the university to take action later oxford proctors in charge of university discipline ruled that the cancellation breached their guidelines we have determined that the cancellation of this event was not carried out in accordance with the university procedures codes o

commons leader jake a response at oxford was being snowflake central and education secretary gavin williamson urged the university to take action later oxford proctors in charge of university discipline rules but the cancellation breached their guidelines we have determined that the cancellation of this event was not carried out in accordance with the university procedures codes of practice and policies in particular that of the freedom of speech therefore the society will be deregistered with the proctors edition the proctors have directed the society to issue an apology. lawyer and free speech advocate nick get asked told me the universe his reaction to the situation should have been different well i think no platform going to rob was a mistake and i think it's right to raise it as a free speech issue and it's right that this is now been recognized recognized as such but i don't think that the response should be to limit the activities at this particular student society i think the response of the proctors arguably speaks of a kind of legalism around free speech you know the objection that they've raised is that this breach certain procedures with regards to c

a benefit to the rest of society but universities are now at the mercy of market forces with huge sums of money going towards marketing and management the vice-chancellor of oxford university made headlines for earning $520000.00 a year the average vice chancellors pay is $6.00 and a half times greater than the average staff member one of the main target of any teacher is to help steer people into work and to illustrate that education at the end of the day pays but it has societal value but the reality is some of the brightest brains in britain and now struggling to make a living. to go she ations between universities and lecturers over pay and working conditions are ongoing meanwhile frustration among academics is growing with the university's accuse of putting profit before people neve al-jazeera london. well i say for me just forget there's always more on our website that is of course that al-jazeera telecom and the web scene are providing live updates on the coronavirus. here on al-jazeera i'll be back in just a short while with more on our top story which is the democratic i mean as they were this. march on al-jazeera after their oscar nomination witness br

professor deirdre hollingsworth is an infectious disease modeller at the university of oxford. f emphasis from the government seems to be on the cards this afternoon. just explain what the options are? has your correspondence were describing the main thing that happens as we move into a more widespread epidemic is trying to flatten the curve. so if the epidemic is allowed to grow unrestrained then we would have a very high demand for basically nhs beds, all concentrated in a very short period of time so we have a very rapid, very high peak at what you want to do is flatten out that peak, make it lighter, lower, so that the health services can manage the demand from cases, severe cases of the virus. and how do you do that? it's stopping public gatherings, basically and shutting schools? social distancing is a very broad term which covers a lot of different interventions but generally, if i don't have many contacts and i'm not likely to acquire the virus, and also i'm not likely to spread to many people so it's about reducing the number of contacts and also hand washing plays a pa

a benefit to the rest of society but universities are now at the mercy of market forces with huge sums of money going towards marketing and management the vice-chancellor of oxford university made headlines for earning $520000.00 a year the average vice chancellors pay is $6.00 and a half times greater than the average staff member one of the main turn any teacher is to help steer people into work and to illustrate that education at the end of the day pays but it has societal value but the reality is some of the brightest brains in britain and now struggling to make a living. to go she ations between universities and lecturers over pay and working conditions are ongoing meanwhile frustration among academics is growing with the universities accused of putting profit before people leave barca al-jazeera london . this is al jazeera and these are the headlines the u.s. says it's been taliban positions in southern afghanistan following attacks on the armed groups in helmand province the u.s. is calling on the taliban to keep to the commitments they made in a deal signed in cutter last week in northern afghanistan 3 separate attacks have killed at least 19 soldiers an

i'm joined by katrina lythgoe, an epidemiologist at the university of oxford. nd it can spread if someone coughs or sneezes on to us. if we are sitting in a room with people, cannot just be are sitting in a room with people, cannotjust be spread through the air droplets through normal breathing, even if nobody coughs or sneezes? yes, just through speaking with each other. droplets are going to go into the air. typically, they normally spread around a metre, a metre and a half. that is why we have this two metre distancing. the more enclosed spaces than were those droplets could circulate in the air before dropping on the ground. the advice would be, if you can, to open up advice would be, if you can, to open up the windows as much as you can and the room. that will dilate the amounts that will be circulating in the room. if you are an air—conditioned environment, for those of us still working here, does that help or not? i don't know the data on that. i think the more arid you can get into the room the better. let me move to a question from peterjohnston, who sa

welcome, crystal donnelly, professor of crystal epidemiology at university of london and professor of applied at oxfordw, we do not have massive community spirit in the uk. at the moment, that social distancing... if we had have to be busy work force down with it, that would probably apply more... there is some community spread, we know that no. chief medical officer says he thinks it is likely. once you get used to this. you don't want to wait until have to be more radio, it will spell a lot. and you can listen to the bbc news coronavirus podcast right now — in its entirety — on bbc sounds. rock band genesis are reuniting and have announced their first tour for 13 years. the bandmembers — phil collins, mike rutherford and tony banks, who are all 69 — will be joined by collins‘ 18 year old son on drums. david sillito reports. # she seems to have an invisible touch, yeah... # genesis, from ‘70s prog rock to ‘80s and ‘90s chart success. # i can't dance # i can't talk... # they've been around for more than 50 years. but a reunion was, according to phil collins, highly unlikely. ill health had stopped him

of the sit in 2 d. platform an oxford university professor who was shuttled to speak at a woman's festival feminist historian selena told told us it came after organizers were put under pressure she says by trans activists. some members of a group called feminists fight back and some transactor best had said that they would not appear at the conference if i was there so they asked me if i would like to disinvite myself and just not come and i said no i'm not willing to do that partly because i was there in a professional capacity as a professor oxford my faculty had given the conference a great deal of support and they just myself and the head of the history faculty to speak there so i said no and i said please let me know as soon as possible what you intend to do about this and would you like my advice and support on how to deal with these police and they declined that and rang me back at 6 pm and said we've got a compromise you can come but you're not allowed to speak you're not allowed to say anything while slithered towards ties to the firmest organization women's place you thought to be one of the reaso