we have a doctor who is a consultant at the university of southampton hospital. ed him to explain the importance of ventilators. about one in 20 people infected with the virus will require some form of enhanced or critical care. some of those will need help breathing. that is where the ventilator comes in. a ventilator is an assisting device for helping gas get into the lungs and for it to get out too. are you at all surprised by the figure that was announced today that at present the uk has around 5000 ventilators available? it doesn't surprise me. we have not been in this situation before. 5000, for what we would be currently using them for is probably a surplus. but of course the situation has changed because we have a virus that attacks the respiratory system and people who need intensive care. so we are short and will need to do something about that. i don't know if you can answer this, but i will put it to you and you can tell me if you can't. is it possible for manufacturers of other goods of this kind, which are basically electronically operated, but also

informed the public what impact if any has this had well we know from a study you're from the university of southampton that it's china would have to 2 to 3 weeks earlier they could have prevented 95 percent of all cases just inside the country and it's in the chinese government it's more like a black box to many observers we don't really know the slope information but what we do know is that the 1st case of this corona virus can be traced back until it's far it's the 17th of november and in december there were already many doctors whistleblowers some media called them who would try to inform the public and also try to inform their superiors but they were silenced and we don't really know whether this decision was only made by the local government off the province all whether actually beijing knew much earlier about the victim about the virus epidemic i mean what about the narrative surrounding this outbreak we've seen beijing and washington blaming each other for this i mean what is the latest accusation yes i mean i would call it a full blown propaganda war that we're seeing here. recently president

university of southampton and she consulted on the parenting book what's my child thinking welcome to you dr many parents have instincts of trying to shield their children not just from the virus but also from all the bad news about is that the right approach. it depends really i mean you don't want to shield them and pretend nothing is happening because children are very very clever and they figure out that things aren't quite the same as they usually are but you do want to overload it with too much information either because children think things differently to adults and they worry about different things so whereas they may not need to know that biochemistry of how current viruses past pesantren and what they do want to know is like you showed when i was going to my dentist and when i said we have to go my school trips so we need to give them enough information that they understand a little bit about what is going on but they don't need to know as much as we do adults right and the reality of the situation is often when schools are closed or when the kids are not at school that go

water is an excellent preservative scientists take their findings back to the lab at the university of southampton new tests in carbon dating to figure out how many thousands of years ago our ancestors lived on this for sure. there's evidence that the wood was worked on by prehistoric man to make a flat surface they could be a resin that was applied. 5000 years ago maybe to protect it from the water as the sea level was coming up discoveries have signs of prehistoric settlements artifacts and even food give the archaeologists an idea of what life would have looked like. that. we found quite a few of these so you have to bear in mind this is over 8000 years old they found d.n.a. from i'm corn an ancient grain dating it to 8000 years indicating early trait. we don't know too much about our prehistoric ancestors and their struggles with rising sea levels but the more we learn could help in our own approach to climate change jessica baldwin al-jazeera hampshire england. your child is there with me so rob the robot of our top stories european leaders are due to hold an emergency meeting to discuss ways

we have colleagues at the university of southampton that did it paper called for internet anintranets and it's about the european internet which is prematurely around sort of social and humanistic norms and the american internet which is commercial, the chinese which was top down and indian switch who knows how it was going to go, that was still a question tn that was open. my question to you looking at that paper and many of the things that have happened if seems to me the eu has a moment in time. it's like if it could get over r an inferiority complex that it has it could take the lead and create a way to go forward with the things we want for this technology and all the things to work for the global society. i wonder if you think the eu has that kind of guts. >> i'm going to work on that. next week i'm going to brussels and i will be meeting with a lot of people trying to convince them of the power they have. i explai explained how this emad from the internal goal to build the market. you see a shift in the communications over the last ten years where it understands it has the oppo

we have colleagues at the university of southampton that did it paper called for internet anintranets and it's about the european internet which is prematurely around sort of social and humanistic norms and the american internet which is commercial, the chinese which was top down and indian switch who knows how it was going to go, that was still a question tn that was open. my question to you looking at that paper and many of the things that have happened if seems to me the eu has a this is a moment in time. this is like the eu if they could get over kind of an inferiority complex it has could really take the lead and create a way to go forward with the things that we want for this technology and all other things to work for a global society. i'm just wondering if you think the eu has that kind of guts. >> i'm going to work on that inferiority complex next week. i'm going to brussels and it would be meeting with a lot of people and trying to convince them of the power they have, if they're not fully internalized it. the eu is internalized it. it's interesting in my earlier conversatio

epidemiologists, you talk to the experts, these critical, early three weeks -- i mean, there is a university of southamptonthat shows there'd be 95% reduction in cases in china had it been three weeks earlier. the chinese authorities often say don't intervene in our domestic policies. this is an example where chinese policies have harm on the rest of the globalized world. we're talking about death on a scale we can't yet imagine, let alone the economic impact. the three weeks is the responsibility of journalists to really investigate that. >> let's go with this because you had a rare interview this week with china's ambassador to the united states. that's going to be airing on this sunday's episode of "axios on hbo." what'd you learn in the interview? >> so the chinese communist party don't often allow european offici or western interviews. i interviewed the ambassador to the u.s. there will be a 40-minute interview as well as the short one. you'll see, they don't really have good answers. we went through in great detail the timeline of the cover-up and also some of the things they've been spreading to try

university of southampton and she consulted on the parenting book what's my child thinking welcome to new dr many parents have an instinct in trying to shield their children not just from the virus but also from all the bad news about is that the right approach. it depends really i mean you don't want to shield them and pretend nothing is happening because children are very very clever and they figure out that things aren't quite the same as they usually are but you do want to overload it with too much information either because children think about things differently to adults and they worry about different things so whereas they may not need to know that by a chemistry of how current virus is passed will pass internet what they do want to know is like you showed when i was going to have my best day and when i still have to go my school trips so we need to give them enough information that they understand a little bit about what is going on but they don't need to know as much as we do is adults right and the reality of the situation is often when schools are closed or when the kids a

when this photo was taken, she was a lecturer at the university of southampton. her field and nationally was mathematics. until she discovered something now we thinkext about it in the context of the world wide web. hypertext was the larger study of connecting ideas, images, computer systems. ideawas already a utopian in a way. hypertext grew ever more complex. put ita that we might together in a dense web became a utopian concept. she had been turned on to hypertext in the mid-80's. through this totally an acronym take system called the doomsday project. it digitally documented british life. it was released as to video laserdisc's. were full of something multimedia. it is all available online. it had virtual walks through the british countryside. images of british studies. maps and first-person accounts. . whatitish schoolchildren made this interesting to her was not all of this material. . . but how it was navigated this is a glimpse of what the interface looks like. this was before the web taught us to point-and-click get images in recognizable areas. this was

water is an excellent preservative scientists take their findings back to the lab at the university of southamptonere they didn't do tests in carbon dating to figure out how many thousands of years ago our ancestors lived on this for sure it was cuttin there's evidence that the wood was worked on by prehistoric man to make a flat surface they could be a resin that was a ploy to put on 5000 years ago maybe to protect it from the water as the sea level was coming up. discoveries of signs of prehistoric settlements artifacts and even food give the archaeologists an idea of what life would have looked like also hazelnuts and his allies his wallet. and we found quite a few of these i say have to bear in mind this is over 8000 years old they found d.n.a. from ein corn an ancient grain dating it 8000 years indicating early trade we don't know too much about our prehistoric ancestors and their struggles with rising sea levels but the more we learn could help in our own approach to climate change jessica baldwin al-jazeera hampshire england. live to philadelphia e.u.s. where former vice president joe biden

we have colleagues at the university of southampton about a year ago did a paper called "for intranetsas about the european internet which is primarily around sort of social and humanistic norms and the american internet, which is commercial, the chinese, which is top-down it was sort of played, that was still a question it was open. looking at that paper and many things that have happened in the ensuing year. it seems to me that the eu, it's like a moment in time. it's like the eu if it could get over like an in for your already complex it has could really take the lead to go forward with the things we want for this technology and all the things to work for global society. i'm just wondering if you think the eu has that kind of guts. >> and going to work on that inferiority complex next week i'm going to brussels i will be meeting with a lot of people and trying to convince them of the power that they have it they have not fully internalized it. i think the eu is internalizing it. it's really interesting in my earlier conversation with one of the questions i explained how this brussel

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of more than 500 people should be stopped this week. thank you very much. dr maxjonas is a consultant in intensive care medicine at the university hospital of southampton. me now from southampton. thank you very much for being with us on bbc news. let me ask you first of all if you can explain to us the value that a ventilator might have in treating somebody with severe symptoms from coronavirus? of course. about one in 20 people who are infected with the virus will require some form of enhanced critical care, and some of those will need help breathing and that is where the ventilator comes in. the ventilator is just a sophisticated device for helping gas getting into the lungs and helping it to get out as well. where you at all surprised by the figure that was announced today that at present the uk has about 5000 ventilators available? today that at present the uk has about 5000 ventilators available7m does not surprise me. we have not beenin does not surprise me. we have not been in this situation before. 5000, for what we would be currently using them for, would probably be a surplus but the situation has changed because we have a virus that attacks

are also going to talk to a doctor who is an associate professor in public health at the university of southamptone your son who is 11 has a high temperature, a cough and shortness of breath and a headache. what did they say to you? initially, the first two questions, i spoke to two operators, the first one asked me if he had been abroad in the last 1a days to which i said no. and that they asked if he had had direct contact with an infected person and i said not to the best of my knowledge. i explained his symptoms and they said, when it does sound as if he could do with a test. but the problem is, because i had a nswered but the problem is, because i had answered no to both of the questions, they can't really order one or arrange it. it seemed quite odd, really, but given that we know it is in the community now... they put me through to another operator who gave me advice about how to manage the fever and the symptoms. thankfully, this morning, he is very much better, his temperature has come down. but it left me feeling really concerned that if people like me are phoning, eitherfor myself reall

of ventilators needed to treat people who develop severe symptoms. dr maxjonas is a consultant in intensive care medicine at the university hospital of southampton.im to explain the importance of a ventilator. about one in 20 people who are infected with the virus will require some form of enhanced critical care, and some of those will need help breathing and that is where the ventilator comes in. the ventilator is just a sophisticated device for helping gas getting into the lungs and helping it to get out as well. were you at all surprised by the figure that was announced today that, at present, the uk has about 5,000 ventilators available? it does not surprise me. we have not been in this situation before. 5,000, for what we would be currently using them for, would probably be a surplus but of course the situation has changed because we have a virus that attacks the respiratory system in people that need intensive care, so we are short and we will need to do something about that. i do not know if you can answer this question but i will put it to you and you can tell me pretty sharply if you cannot. is it possible for manufacturers of other good

there has been a study at the university of southampton that shows if china intervened three weeks earlierthere would be 95% fewer reduction of cases of the coronavirus and far less geographic spread. instead of that, they arrested the doctors who were trying to blow the whistle about this and made them publicly retract it, censured social media, any reference to the virus and put out false information saying it wasn't spreading between humans. this was two weeks after, three weeks after doctors were blowing the whistle about this virus. >> jonathan, we need cooperation with just about every country in the world for this are we going to be able -- do we need to worry about china subverting our efforts to deal with the virus at some point, whether it's medical equipment or precursors to pharmaceuticals? do you think it could get to that point >> well, there have been threats in some chinese state media. my understanding from talking to people who follow this closely is it's mostly from the real proce provateurs and shouldn't be taken as a threat from the chinese government the relations are