out as the executive director of the world health organization's emergencies program dr michael ryan talks to al-jazeera. dr mike ryan thank you for talking to al-jazeera dr ryan in the past few weeks i heard you say that you believe that we were in the beginning or possibly the middle of this pandemic what do you think now any predictions on where we might be in all of this and when it might be over. actually think predictions are extremely unhelpful at this moment potomac is evolving rapidly all over the world. there is no accurate way to predict. the future in the coming weeks we have to deal with what we see now and we have to plan for the situation deteriorating in a number of countries in which it already has in many many countries or not in that situation many countries have a low number of cases and they need to to work as hard as they can to contain this fire so that they don't progress into the situation that other countries find themselves in now where do things stand right now when it comes to potential vaccines and treatments vaccines are. a long way out at this point and you know clear wit

al-jazeera tokyo where dr michael ryan is helping lead the world health organization's response to the virus he told our june that vaccines coming it will take some time. it's going to take at least a year to bring vaccines into the fight against this white house there are at least 30 can that it actually is currently being developed are already under under under trials in fact trials are started last week in the united states and further trials will be starting in china and other countries in the coming weeks that's a massive effort it's going to require a coordinated public private partnership to do that we will get vaccines but it's going to take time dr ryan there's a lot of conspiracy theories out there right now especially due to the rivalry between the u.s. and china has the w.h.o. been asked to investigate claims that covert 19 was manmade we tend to look for these explanations in situations when we've such a. horrific event but the reality is and this has always been the reality is that we human beings have behaved in a way over the last number of years we've globalized the pl

but they stay where there's a here and al-jazeera talked to our desires up next featuring dr mike ryan from the world health organization to. google's. covert 19 has killed more than 18000 people and infected at least 400000 worldwide and counting. it all started in december last year when cases of an unusual pneumonia were reported in the chinese city of war haun. most of those affected by the unknown virus seem to have something in common they were working at a local seafood market. at the chinese health authorities were trying to investigate the causes of the illness for the numbers kept growing on january 7th the world health organization announced it had identified the new virus 4 days later.

importantly deaths amongst those we love well you can watch that full interview with dr michael ryan on talk to al jazeera which as for the 1st time in a few hours at $1630.00 g.m.t. on thursday. well it appears there is more rain ahead for southern italy as the storm that continues jenny yeah you're right we've had some very heavy amounts of rain in styles and there is more in the 4 calls so let me show you 1st of all on the satellite this is always a subtle eyes of all of europe and this massive cloud exists but if you give us where the rain actually has be but will continue to be me want to cross much of mainland europe to the old it's actually very nice but i want to show you this because this is what they'd be doing in slovakia to protect the crops from the freezing weather we've had recently what they do they sprayed with water they freeze it instantly and this actually protect these actually apple buds it protects the fruit from any frost that does come so we've got some good clear skies across much of mainland europe to the north the northwest but this is the area we're following very closely alre