in wireless communications and kids college london. great to have you with us. all right, so much to do 3 g. 4 g. . i mean, i don't remember any of them creating such a sensation as 5 g. networks and they say that 5 g. is truly a game changing set up in the quality of connection. why is it so, i mean, with that grates to speed and upwards to really be later before. why now, why, why such fuzz? yes, that is a good question you're raising and then it's, it's really, it's really curious to see of consumers will react really to the speed improvement of 5 g. . because you know, if we go on with a generation from 2 g. to 5 g. every time we improve the download speed and the upload speed by a factor of 10, sometimes 100, which is really great. but what consumers care that they can download. now it, you know, and it flicks movie whatever and 3 seconds rather than 10 seconds. i'm not so sure . you know the bad with this really good and 5 g., . but i think what is really the exciting feature of i.g.s. the very low lock in c. . so it's the time y

college london. this is bloomberg. ritika: with the first word news, i'm ritika gupta. pfizer and biontech are asking u.s. regulators for emergency use authorization for the coronavirus vaccine. if the fda says ok i'm of the vaccine could be available next month for high-risk populations. earlier this week, the drugmakers reported that clinical trial data showed the shot was not if i percent effective in preventing the disease. inther legal step back president trump's bid to overturn joe biden's electoral victory. to a hand recount completed wednesday, biden won georgia by more than 12,000 votes. president trump is now reaching out directly to michigan lawmakers to try to overturn the state's vote. the president will meet with republican leaders of the state legislature today. some trump allies have urged him to persuade legislatures in states he is contesting to overrule voters and give him the state's electoral college vote. one of america's top chocolate upending the new york market. hershey is ta

we'll continue talking to misha dollar, professor in wireless communications at king's college london, talking about the 5 g. and the prospects it holds for us. stay with us. it's been decades since the fall of spain's fascist regime, but old wounds still haven't healed all of us at the source me note of that i wish that the scene question which we know of newborn babies were torn from their mothers and given away and forced adoption to this day mothers still search for grown children hope for their birth parents. called a member of the board with the news new york city 4 times to meet you. yes. one of those, it is the feel of the local one with your leanings, there's just a little bit there is you'll be a reflection of reality in a world transformed what will make you feel safe, isolation, little community. are you going the right way, or are you being led by what is true? what is right in the world corrupted, you need to descend to join us in the depth. already made in the shallowness. and we're back with misha dollar professor in wireless communications and king's college london, t

back, we'll continue talking to misha dollar, professor in wireless communications at king's college london, talking about the 5 g. and the prospects it holds for us. stay with us. that's interesting. ministration comes one. then those who dreamed up in executing the russia gate hoax ever be held accountable. will the media ever be held accountable for the role they played and should be now assume the deep state is truly belong to them that he will go on or yours will pull you out of the mouth and say what about and i didn't do it will always be good, is it also on a competition to keep it or don't or don't let you people come up to the group on 10 min about the law and move on. i'm mad at them and the minimum time because i'm not bad with the internet, but oh, november bit. if i say i love them, they're down to the point about anonymous and it is about kind of financial survival. john, today was all about money laundering 1st. go to visit this question to 3 different . oh good. this is a good start. well, we have our 3 banks all set up here. maybe something in your something going to ameri

and we're back with mischa dollar professor of communications and king's college london, talking about this 5 g. since we started talking about the the bartik not logical breakthroughs. let's talk a bit about the darker side of the internet. and what will happen to that part that, once we have 5 g., i mean, do you feel like we're going to have more sophisticated surveillance systems in the internat, whatever it is, it was. we're fighting it right now, right? we will know that we lost our privacy was going to happen with 5 g. as it is, it is a good question and i think, you know, the consumers in general of the general should be concerned about this. and they have all the right to be informed. now as you well know, maybe you don't know that, but you know, the ability for a legal access to the infrastructure has already been there. so if you as a governmental, as a judge or as a police or any other investigators have a legal war and to access the data in a freeze you for your 5 g. system, this was always possible. in fact, this is even standardize trade. so it is no secret there. now in

college london. great to have you with us. all right, so much to do 3 g. 4 g. . i mean i don't remember any of them creating such a sensation as 5 g. networks and they say that 5 g. is truly a game changing set up in the quality of connection. why did so, i mean, because we've had great speech and upgrades to really, really to before. why now, why, why such fuzz? yes, that is a good question you're raising. and then if it's really, it's really curious to see of consumers will react really to the speed improvement of 5 g. . because you know, as we go on with the generation, from 2 g. to 5 g. every time we improve the download speed and the upload speed by a factor of 10, sometimes 100, which is really great. but what consume us have that they can download. now at, you know, netflix movie whatever and 3 seconds rather than 10 seconds. i'm not so sure. you, know the bad with this really good and 5 g., but i think what is really the exciting feature of i.g.s. the vary a lot in c. . so it's the time you know between you typing a website and pressing enter and then get

mischa dollar professor in wireless communications and kicks college london. great to have you with us. i should be here. right, so much to do you 3 g. 4 g. . i mean, i don't remember any of them creating such a sensation as 5 g. networks and they say that 5 g. is truly a game changing set up in the quality of connection. why is it so, i mean, because with that greats to speed and upwards to really be later before, why now why, why such fun? yes, that is good question you're raising. and then if it's really, it's really curious to see of consumers will react really to the speed improvement of 5 g. . because, you know, we've gone with a generation from 2 g. to 5 g. every time we improve the download speed and the upload speed by a factor of 10, sometimes 100, which is really great. but what consumers care that they can download now at, you know, netflix movie whatever and 3 seconds rather than 10 seconds. i'm not so sure. so you know, the bad ones. it's really good in 5 g., . but i think what is really exciting feature of i.g.s. the very low lock in c. . so it'

oxana is a senior lecturer and global health advisor at the university college london school pharmacy. she says, not everyone resisting the vaccine, subscribes to conspiracy in anti science movements. this group in the middle may be pro-vaccine, but just uncomfortable with the current timeline of development in human history. we're not being able to develop a vaccine within 10 months. but one thing i would point out is that also a history that we haven't had this type of emergency where all countries in the world who are halted to screech and for every pharmaceutical company, the industry coming together, researchers, scientists, to focus on a singular problem. there are or were 210 getting candidates in development, so it just shows what's possible when we have urgency and the resources to fund a specific problem. so that 10 year usual timeline is under usual conditions. and i think we all have experienced a very unusual 2020. and this isn't what has led to absolutely historic scientific innovation, but for others to hear that it sounds like well, something must have been skipped. sa

we can speak now to the epidemiologist, professor tim spector, from kings college london, who's developedracker app, which tracks over 4 million people in the uk. thank you very much for being with us on thank you very much for being with us on bbc news this lunchtime. first of all, can i ask you what your data from your sample, which presumably isa from your sample, which presumably is a sample of people you choose to register on the app and get updates on how they are feeling and whether they subsequently get a test and so on. what is your data show? yeah, oui’ on. what is your data show? yeah, our data, which is, as you said, from millions of app users, it is slightly different to the other surveys being done. and it is showing similar levels of infection that the government ons survey is showing, which is when they are getting a swab, people in their homes, whereas ours is swabbing people, testing people who are symptomatic every day and giving a similar number of positive swab tests. our data tends to be more up—to—date, about a week ahead of the ons survey and what we are showing is

this king's college london study suggests 15-24 college london study suggests 15—24 —year—old our showing they would definitely get covered that vaccine. some people ask why they should get one if they are low risk and this has the world health organization worried. young people are an incredibly important part in ending this pandemic. it will be really important for young people to be vaccinated because we know what is going on now is lots of transmission is going on among young people. where is this concern coming from? partly it is about the volume of misinformation we are exposed to. wrongly suggesting the vaccine could be dangerous to us. vaccine could be dangerous to us. in some people are worried at which things are moving. us. in some people are worried at which things are movinglj am having some trouble trusting the federal government and believing that anything pushed out in this short timeframe has had a rigourous test supplied to make sure it is safe long—term. to make sure it is safe long-term. we are concerned that there are some people questioning whether vaccines are safe.

howard jones is a co—author of the report at imperial college london, hejoins me now.t of people will have heard what a placebo is, but what's a nocebo? good question. as many people know, the placebo effect is where you take a drug and evenif effect is where you take a drug and even if you think it's going to help you, and even if it is a sugar tablet, you do feel better. the nocebo effect is the opposite, and we wonder if this will be a problem with statins, because when people pick up their newspaper in the morning, they learn to expect that statins will get them aches and pains, and we wondered if we give them a sugar tablet, would that give them a sugar tablet, would that give them aches and pains? and what did you find? we run a trial where, for a third of the year, people took nothing, but for two thirds of the year, they took statin or placebo, and it didn't know which is which, and it didn't know which is which, and we find that people did feel worse when the took statins, but felt 90% as bad when it took sugar ta blets. felt 90% as bad when it took sugar tabl

ok, thank you very much for your time, professor paul elliott from imperial college london. people and their families, according to researchers. four care homes in england are taking part in a trial where their staff are trained to carry out and analyse the tests, providing results in under an hour and a half. it's hoped the pilot, along with another starting next week involving 30 homes, could pave the way for closer contact between care home residents and their visitors. 0ur social affairs correspondent alison holt reports. glimpses through windows and closed doors, barriers that keep the virus out of care homes, like this one in nottingham, but here they hope rapid testing could be the key to allowing more visits. i think its three or four. i think it's number four. at the moment, 96—year—old janet can only see her family through the glass of a specially built pod. they cannot touch but it is a step forward from lockdown, which she found difficult. it felt as if you'd done something wrong and you had to be kept in prison. and you knew you hadn't. and not to be able to see

jonathan portes of king's college london.loomberg. ♪ ritika: time for the bloomberg business flash. a look at some of the biggest business stories in the news. in france, amazon and other major retailers have agreed to postpone black friday. rivals have been campaigning to reopen physical stores this fall. the shopping holiday has been delayed from november 27 until december 4. france's current lockdown is said to end december 1. the ceo of booking.com is pessimistic about travel during the holiday. he spoke with bloomberg's emily chang. >> the summer was not bad at all. people feeling optimistic about things. as the infection rate started going up, not just in the u.s., it is even worse in your. we see the infection rates go up. we see cancellations go up. until people feel safe, we will not see a rebound. ritika: that is your latest business flash. guy: thank you very much, indeed. the cdc has kicked in its opinion. it is advising people not to travel. if you are in the travel business, that is not a great piece of news. i

politics at the university college london. we will get his insights on the relationship between the u.s. and the eu, carrying on the conversation. this is bloomberg. ♪ guy: breaking news out of the u.k. the u.k. government raising the terror threat level in the united kingdom to severe. that means an attack is "highly likely." this following the terror attacks we have seen over the last few days in vienna, near paris, and in nice, spread across europe. the u.k. now responding to that and raising the terror threat. this against the backdrop of the u.s. election, which we are continuing to cover today, and the implications for europe. let's carry on the conversation. we were just talking to holger schmieding from berenberg. ,oining us now is thomas gift director of the center on u.s. politics at ucl here in london. thank you for joining us today. let me just get your take on your sense of the timeline that we are working with here. financial markets seem to be pricing in the idea that we are going to get a result. the inflation

we'll continue talking to misha dollar, professor in wireless communications at king's college london, talking about the 5 g. and the prospects it holds for us. stay with us as the drug administration comes in, those who dreamed up and executed the hoax ever be held accountable. will the media ever be held accountable for the role they played and should be now assume the deep state is truly out of it. people come up with the truth on the money but it is about and we're back with mischa dollar professor in wireless communications and king's college drescher talking about this 5 g. . since we started talking about the they did down solace of arctic not logical breakthroughs. let's talk a bit about the darker side of the internet and what will happen to that part once at once we have 5 g. . i mean, do you feel like we're going to have more sophisticated spy and surveillance systems in the internat? whatever it is, it was we're fighting it right now, right? we will know that we lost our privacy was going to happen with live as it is. it is a good question. and i think, you know, the consu

she lectures on politics at university college, london.d to see you, especially trying to distill what the president said a few hours ago. there is not one shred of truth in what the president said, and that's not because his opponents, the democrats are saying that. it's because republicans are saying it as well. what's at issue here? and perhaps more important is the vast majority of those who voted for donald trump believe him. how dangerous is that? >> well, paula, i think that is the issue right now. and it was really encapsulated in what we heard yesterday from the president. so far his refusal to concede has had two elements really, a procedural in terms of actually trying to overturn election results through recounts or through lawsuits, and the more political, which is just continuing to state that there was widespread voter fraud, and really keep sending that message to his supporters and to his base. i think it's clear now that the procedural route has pretty much failed. all the lawsuits not gone forward. there hasn't been any

committee on covid-19, and in london, a senior lecturer and global health advisor at university college's london school of pharmacy. a warm welcome to you all. i'd like to begin in the u.s. we hear so much about people being concerned, frightened, suspicious of taking vaccines, but we also are talking about perhaps making covid-19 mandatory. do you think mandatory is the way forward? is that the way to go? >> given the current climate we find ourselves in the united states and the difficulty we have had in getting standardized leadership and therefore for the public to follow the public health guidance, it will be very difficult to mandate this vaccine without a lot of pushback. unfortunately, this has become a highly politicized issue. mandatory in my mind will make half the population feel like their freedoms are encroached upon. imran: but this is a public health issue. surely it is up to the government to explain this properly and suggest guidelines, if not making it mandatory, but at the very least, if we want to get out of this, we have to take this vaccine. >> as you know, the timing coul

drjennifer rohn from university couege drjennifer rohn from university college london.on the bbc news channel this afternoon. do send your questions using the hashtag #bbcyourquestions or email them using yourquestions@bbc.co.uk. we‘ll be putting them to our experts at 3.30pm. gmt. in australia, a long—awaited war crimes report has found credible evidence that some of the country‘s elite soldiers murdered 39 civilians and prisoners while serving in afghanistan. the head of australia‘s defence force said the investigation had uncovered a "shameful record" of a "warrior culture" by some soldiers. 19 service personnel could face prosecution over the allegations. 0ur australia correspondent shaimaa khalil reports. the defence chief‘s language left us in no doubt about how grave these alleged violations in afghanistan were. general angus campbell used words like toxic, appalling and shameful when describing the actions of members of these special forces. and it wasn‘t just that these alleged executions occurred, but it was also the culture of impunity in which they happened.

julie norman from university college london. thank you. thank you. and shortly after the announcement about the troop withdrawals was made, several katyusha rockets landed in baghdad's heavily fortified green zone. at least 7 rockets were fired, some of them landing at the u.s. embassy. the u.s. air defense system crown was deployed to intercept and destroy the rockets. one child was killed is much more still ahead for you on this news hour from london. the u.n. warns its agency for palestinian refugees is facing a financial crisis after its biggest fund. the u.s. cut all funding in 2018. people in the philippines take stock of the death and devastation caused by typhoon. and then later in sport, new data confirmed from the public, well come in, caps out. now if you know of his government says troops have achieved significant victories in its conflict with forces in the northern 10 region. and national army is carried out as strikes near the region's main city of mccalla. a is the primary base for the 10 great people's liberation front or t.p.s. left

physic is a senior lecturer and global health advisor at the university college london school of pharmacy. and anna blankly is a research fellow in the department of infectious diseases at imperial college london. good to have you both with us. so if we could start with oksana is the resistance to the vaccine in part, at least being driven by the fact that these vaccines are being developed in record time. i certainly think that is at least a part and saxon has it since his story and more so not those who are traditionally antibacterials, but this group in the middle may be pro-vaccine, but just uncomfortable with the current timeline of development and in history. we have not been able to develop a vaccine within 10 months, but one thing i would point out is that also in history that we haven't had this type of emergency where all countries in the world have halted to screech. and for every pharmaceutical company of the industry coming together, researchers, scientists to focus on a singular problem. there are or 210 gotten candidates in development. so it just shows what's possible when

a study run by imperial college london has done just this, and it gives us the most up to date pictureng with covid—19. the researchers swabbed more than 100,000 people between the 13th and the 24th of november while england was in lockdown. they found that during this 12—day period, cases of coronavirus fell by 30%, compared with the last time the imperial team carried out this research. they tested people between the 16th and october 25th, when the country was under a three—tier system of restrictions. and at that point, cases were doubling every nine days. it's not the same across all regions of england. so we've seen some of the northern higher prevalence regions have had larger drops than some of the midlands and the southern areas. but overall, we've seen a pretty substantial drop over the period of lockdown. the health secretary, matt hancock, has described imperial‘s findings as encouraging, but he says the country can't take its foot off the pedal yet. the government plans to bring in a new three—tier system on wednesday, this time with tougher rules, and more areas have been

the latest survey of a virus case rates in england by imperial college london suggests there has been decline of 30% since the end of october, just before the lockdown. the biggest cause ween in the northeast having them, down 62%, andom the northwestdown 57%. there was a fall of 35% in the iryork region. other parts of england also saw declines apart from the east and west midland's come where there was little change. everyone wants to know what further progress can be made. about how we got to where we are in this pandemic. >> we need to put health at the top of our agenda. reporter: the u.k.'s covid death rate remains higher than many others, and a former government chief medicaldvisor told me that underlying health problems left people here more vulnerable to the virus. >> i thinkr our pblic health, whether it is deprivation, overweight, or alongside cramping in urban area -- crowdg in urban areas, have led to a much-increased death rate over what we could have hadi f-- had if we had a healthier basic population and dlerivation. reporter: ministers essay community testing with rap

school and from london, the lead at university college, london's global citizenship program on out ofounds of infectious diseases. welcome to you all. moderna's figures are based on the first 95 participants who fell sick. 90 of them had received the sleebo so is that -- placebo. is that enough for people to confidently say the vaccine is 94.5% effective? >> this is based on a smaller event size so the company has announced it will continue its trial until they have reach it would preview specified number of events, when they then will do the final analysis. once tough final analysis, you can really look at the entire number of participants and look -- have a better look at efficacy and safety. also in some populations like the older or those with core mobalts. but the inner analysis do look promising. >> and do you think it looks promising? >> i think so. i think basically because the vaccination vaccines, a lot of them went through the fails one, that was the toxicity. the fails two, showed some etch cazzie that was really good and now showing very good results. 90% of the populatio

of laws and the director of the center on international courts and tribunals that university college london. mr. science, thanks for joining me. these trials were groundbreaking on so many levels and given the unique circumstances. what exactly was unique about the trial? well, it was the 1st time in human history that any international criminal trial had taken place. so it truly was a 1st and they literally had to invent new crimes to apply to these defendants. you mention crimes against humanity, but of course it was on this day 75 years ago that the word genocide was 1st used because it was created as a war crime. so it was a wholly original process untried, untested completely new waters. and i want to talk to you further, but before we continue, let's listen to 2 men that spoke to one, and that's survivor. and the other, the son of a nazi deputy, they told us about the impact that these tribunals had on their lives. in 1904 peter guard was 14 years old. when he, his mother and his sister, were deported to the auschwitz concentration camp. one year later, at the nuremberg trial, he reco

thank you so much, professor for global health at imperial college london.rom the united states. let's introduce you to the infectious disease specialist from the university of oxford, peter drobak. loads of questions coming in about the moderna vaccine unveiled today and the pfizer one we heard about the other day. this is from stephen clarke in kidderminster. what is the difference between a recovery from covid with a small chance of reinfection and a vaccine thatis chance of reinfection and a vaccine that is around 95% effective? chance of reinfection and a vaccine that is around 9596 effective? there are two questions. one, how'd you get immunity and, second, how long does immunity last and how complete is it? there are two ways to get immunity, you get infected and recover or you get a vaccine and a 95% effective vaccine means if you get it, the risk of getting symptomatic infection should be reduced about 90%, so there is still a small chance you could get infected. what we don't know yet is so infected. what we don't know yet is so complete that immun

a study, run by imperial college london, has done just this, and it gives us the most up to date picturepening with covid—19. the researchers swabbed more than 100,000 people between the 13th and the 24th of november while england was in lockdown. they found that during this 12—day period, cases of coronavirus fell by 30%, compared with the last time the imperial team carried out this research. they tested people between the 16th and 25th october, when the country was under a three—tier system of restrictions. and at that point, cases were doubling every nine days. it's not the same across all regions of england. so we've seen some of the northern higher—prevalence regions have had larger drops than some of the midlands and the southern areas. but overall, we've seen a pretty substantial drop over the period of lockdown. the health secretary, matt hancock, has described imperial‘s findings as encouraging, but he says the country can't take its foot off the pedal yet. the government plans to bring in a new three—tier system on wednesday, this time with tougher rules, and more areas have b

joining me now is drjennifer rohn, a cell biologist at university college london. see you today. last time we spoke we didn't have news on any of these vaccines and now we have a third, adding to hopes, of course, of everyone worldwide for a solution to this virus. how encouraged are you by these results of the oxford vaccine at this stage of development? well, it is officially very encouraging news. the virus is still out there, it is gaining traction in the winter and we really need solutions faster so it is brilliant that the horse that the uk banks, 100 million doses, is recording safety and good immune response in people, notjust young people but in all ages, that's great news “— people but in all ages, that's great news —— that the uk backs. people but in all ages, that's great news -- that the uk backs. talk to us news -- that the uk backs. talk to us about the significance of the findings so far that this older age group, more susceptible to covid—19, because we are getting suggestions that the oxford vaccine produces a similar immune response in older and

we'll be joined by immunologist professor robin shattock, head of immunity at imperial college londoning your questions to yourquestions@bbc.co.uk or tweeting us using the hash tag bbc your questions. keep them coming in. the prime minister, six conservative mps and two political aides have all been told to self—isolate after a breakfast meeting in downing street last thursday. one of the mps tested positive for coronavirus after the 35—minute gathering in a state room. downing street insisted that social distancing rules were observed. this report from our political editor laura kuenssberg contains some flash photography. the moment you might dread from your phone or inbox — a message from the trackers to stay at home. the prime minister stuck in number 10 too. they pinged me, and i have got to self—isolate, because somebody i was in contact with has developed covid. it doesn't matter that i'm fit as a butcher's dog, feel great, so many people do in my circumstances. and actually it doesn't matter that i've already had the disease and i'm bursting with antibodies. we have got to inte

thomas gift is associate professor of political science at university college london.om oxford. great to see you in good to have you on. talk to us about the timing of this because this executive order that president trump has just signed, executive order that president trump hasjust signed, this will come into effect at the very end of his term? exactly. this order does reflect an aggressive move by the trump administration and and it says that his last few months in presidency will not be a softer approach. the firm targeted, we need to remember as you are noting, the timing of these decisions is only about two months away from trump actually leaving office and the order blocking us investors from channelling money into the securities will not take effect untiljanuary11. so, whether this triggers a frenetic response and amplifies the us—china tech rivalry will intermittently be contingent on how markets predict joe intermittently be contingent on how markets predictjoe biden will respond and willie signal an intention to roll back the order or will he chart more of a

vaccine is that it needs to be stored in an ultralow temperature freezer like this one at imperial college londone the temperature is —76 celsius. this is where imperial stores at some doses of its experimental covid jab. vaccines like these can be transported to immunisation centres in boxes of dry ice to maintain the cold chain. pfizer says its vaccine can then be transferred to a normal fridge and will remain usable for up to five days. even if several covid vaccines prove successful, we should not expect a return to normal life this winter. but at least a future beyond coronavirus now looks possible. fergus walsh, bbc news. the number of people who have died in the uk due to covid—i9 is now over 50,000. in the latest 24—hour period 595 deaths were reported. that's people who died within 28 days of a positive covid—i9 test. it means on average in the past week 375 deaths were announced every day. it takes the total number of deaths so far across the uk to 50,365. 0ur health correspondent catherine burns has been speaking to some of those who have lost loved ones in the second wave of the pande

this king's college london study suggest 16 to 3a—year—olds in the uk are twice as likely as 55 to 75e, in the us, one poll by pew research found only 56% of 18 to 29—year—olds they asked said they would definitely get a vaccine. some young people question why they would need to get a vaccine if they're low—risk. and this has got the world health organization worried. young people are an incredibly important part of ending this pandemic. it will be really important for young people to be vaccinated because we know from what's going on now is lots of transmission is going on among young people. so where is this concern coming from? well, partly it's about the volume of misinformation we're being exposed to. hashtags like #vaccinesaredangerous and tiktok videos are wrongly suggesting the vaccine could be dangerous to us. and some people are worried about the speed at which things are moving. i believe in the power of vaccines, but i'm having some trouble right now trusting the federal government, and believing that anything pushed out in the short timeframe has had rigorous tests applie

the latest survey of virus case rates in england by imperial college london suggests there has been ad of october, just before the lockdown. the biggest falls were seen in the north—east of england, down 62%, and the north—west, down 57%. there was a fall of 35% in the yorkshire and humber region and other parts of england also saw a decline, apart from the east and west midlands, where there was little change. everyone wants to know what further progress can be made, but questions are also being asked about how we got to where we are in this pandemic. we need to put health at the top of our agenda. the uk's covid death rate remains higher than many others, and dame sally davies, former government chief medical adviser, told me that underlying health problems left people here more vulnerable to the virus. i think our poor public health, whether it's deprivation, overweight or other chronic illnesses, alongside crowding in urban areas, have led to a much increased death rate over what we could have had if we had a healthier basic population and less deprivation. ministers say community

thomas gift director of university college london center on u.s. politics and joining us in istanbul matthew bryza a nonresident senior fellow at the atlantic council's eurasia center and global energy center welcome to each of you thomas let me start with you it's being reported that joe biden is planning on quickly signing a series of executive orders once he's sworn in as the next president and that these orders would see america rejoin the paris climate accords reversed president trumps withdrawal from the world health organization in the muslim ban reinstate daca i'm curious to know from your perspective how much is joe biden going to have to rely on executive orders to try to implement his agenda and is that something that he wants to do. well i think that the executive orders will be the primary mechanism by which biden will be forced to govern and that simply because it's looking increasingly like he will face divided government with republicans more likely than not maintaining the senate you know any time you have a divided government the

by the drug, but by people believing it will make them sick, according to a study by imperial college londonrugs. nearly 8 million people in the uk take statins to lower their cholesterol. researchers hope the findings will help more people stay on them. earlier i spoke to one of the co—authors of the sudy, dr howard jones, and asked him to explain more about the nocebo effect. people know the placebo effect is where you take a drug and you think it is going to help you, and even if it isjust a sugar tablet, you truly do feel a lot better. the nocebo effect is the opposite, and we wondered whether with statins if this could be a problem, because when people pick up their newspaper in the morning, they learn to expect that statins are going to give them aches and pains. and we wondered whether if we gave them sugar tablets, we could give them aches and pains. and what did you find? we actually ran a trial where, for a third of the year, people were taking nothing, but then, for two thirds of the year, people were taking statin or placebo and they did not know which was which. and we found tha

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we'll be joined by peter drobac from the university of oxford and 0ksana pyzik from university college londonsending your questions to yourquestions@bbc.co.uk. 0r tweeting us using the hash tag bbc your questions. borisjohnson has said he is feeling "fit as a butcher's dog" on his first working day self—isolating in downing street. the pm and several other tory mps have been told to isolate by nhs test and trace — after a meeting at downing street where one of the mps later tested positive for covid—19. 0ur political correspondent chris mason reports. this was last thursday morning, the prime minister had a meeting with some of his mps including the man on the right, lee anderson who the day after lost his sense of taste and later tested positive and so the prime minister is holed up in his downing street flat until a week on thursday. the good news is nhs test and trace is working ever more efficiently. the bad news is i have two self—isolate. it doesn't matter we are all doing social distancing, iam fit we are all doing social distancing, i am fit as we are all doing social distancing, iam

by the drug, but by people believing it will make them sick, according to a study by imperial college londonknown as the "nocebo effect" and may account for 90% of the ill health associated with the drugs. earlier i spoke to one of the co—authors of the study, dr howard jones — and asked him to explain more about the nocebo effect. as people now, the nocebo effect is where you take a drug where you think it will help you and even if it is just think it will help you and even if it isjust a think it will help you and even if it is just a shepherd tablet, you truly do feel a lot better. —— the placebo effect. the nocebo effect is the opposite and we wondered with statins that this could be a problem because when people pick up their newspaper and the point they learned to expect that statins will give them aches and pains and we wonder whether if we gave them sugar tablet we can give them makes them pains. and what did you find? 50 we and what did you find? so we actually ran a child for a third of the year where people were taking nothing but then for two thirds of the year they took a statin

oksana peacenik, a senior lecturer and global health advisor at university college london. school of pharmacy, a warm welcome to you, or i'd like to begin the us with dr. davis. we hear so much about people being a concerned frightened, suspicious of taking vaccine, commonly known as the anti vaccines. but we're also, we also are talking about perhaps making covert 19 mandatory to take once it has all this approvals. do you think mandatory is the way forward? is that, is that the way to go? i think, given the penned planet, we find it falls in the united states and the difficulty we've had after 9 months in getting standardized leadership. and therefore for the public to follow the public health guidance. it will be very difficult to mandate this vaccine without a lot of pushback. unfortunately, this has become a highly politicized issue. and so mandatory in my mind will make half the population feel like their freedoms are being encouraged apart. but this is a public health issue. surely it's up to the government to be able to try to explain this properly and suggest guide

the study was carried out by imperial college london and ipsos mori.he virus‘s rate of reproduction is below one, meaning the epidemic is shrinking. in wales, new restrictions mean pubs and bars are to be banned from selling alcohol in the run up to christmas. we'll have more on this on the programme a little later, but this all comes as the pharmaceutical company moderna says it's filing requests for its covid—19 vaccine to be authorised for use in the united states and europe, as further promising details have been given about its efficacy. our health correspondent anna collinson reports. lockdown has been described as a blunt instrument. it can damage the economy, mental health. but new research suggests england's most recent one has dented the epidemic. during november's lockdown, 100,000 people from different backgrounds we re people from different backgrounds were tested for covid—19, whether they had symptoms or not. this is they had symptoms or not. this is the best way to get an idea of how prevalent the virus is and gives us the most up—to—da