and the international aid group global citizen european commission president or sort of underline hasstressed the need for affordable and accessible treatment. and indeed we will only end this pandemic when it has been ended everywhere and that means every person in the world having access to tests treatments and vaccines no matter where they live and where they are from or what they look like we need to invest in producing vaccines at unprecedented speed and scale and a task of this size can only happen if the words unites we need our best scientists to work together we need a global health organizations to join forces and we need governments business and philanthropist to step in and provide funding tens of billions are required. all right d.w. chief international editor richard walker joins us now from brussels with more on that you coronavirus fundraiser hello to you richard so tell us what can we expect from today's fund raising summit. yeah well it's the latest in a series of events that have been aimed at raising money but also awareness for the importance of the global corpora

there's a big summit happening tomorrow, the global citizen's summit, it's organized partly by the european commissiongoing to set out exactly how this is done and how you might combine it with things like a registry of everybody who is vaccinated, so that we know exactly who's got the vaccination, what their disease status is. and then you can start to build up a picture that's going to allow us to handle this disease over a long period of time, because we're going to be living with it. we're not going to be eradicating it anytime soon. >> and everyone should read that report that's coming out of our institute about where we are with the global race for the vaccine. but in terms of seizing the opportunity now, in the middle of this crisis, do you have confidence in president trump's leadership to do that? >> look, i will say, i have enough problems with my own politics without interfering in other people's. but the only thing i can say is that if you look at the countries that have done well through this crisis and, you know, germany, for example, south korea, for example, you can look at israel, oth

the international aid group global citizen the goal is to make potential vaccines tests and treatments affordable and accessible worldwide. a short while ago european commission president. talked about the need to expand access to potential vaccines we need to invest in producing vaccines at unprecedented speed and scale and a task of this size can only happen if the unites we need our best scientists to work together we need all global health organizations to join forces and we need governments business and financial faced to step in and provide funding tens of billions are required. and you know you chief international editor richard walker joins us now from brussels with more on the e.u. coronavirus fund raiser richard before we get to the money what's the political significance of this event. you know well of course i mean the money in itself does have significance in fact the total just over 6000000000 euros has been raised with 5000000000 coming from the european commission and sums of money coming from other donors to germany pledging just under 400000000 or so and you know going to a variety of different aspects of this attempt to coordinate internati

international aid group global citizen the goal is to make potential vaccines tests and treatments affordable and accessible worldwide. for a short while ago european commission president or slow funder lyon address the need to expand access to potential. vaccines we need to invest in producing vaccines at unprecedented speed and scale and a task of this size can only happen if the world unites we need our best scientists to work together we need our global health organizations to join forces and we need governments business and philanthropist to step in and provide funding tens of billions are required. all right d.w. chief international editor richard walker joins us now from brussels with more on the e.u. coronavirus fund raiser hello to you richard so tell us what can we expect from today's fund raising summit yeah well it's the latest in a series of events that have been aimed at raising money but also awareness for the importance of the global corporation in the fight against the coronavirus and today's event is something of a hybrid really we've had politicians taking part we just saw from the line in the clips there from the european commission but al