originated at this now closed market into hand which sold fish and wild animals such as that imperial college london suspects the rate of infection may be much higher than the official figures they estimate that could be 1723 cases in new hampshire says it's taking this situation seriously. regarding our measures to prevent the epidemic spreading i can say that the government is now checking everybody who leaves the city. who hands train stations have been equipped with detectors to screen passengers for fever and medical personnel on standby neighboring countries have also introduced checks at ports for cases of the virus have been detected in people travelling from . thailand and japan 3 u.s. airports are also screening passengers but there have been no confirmed cases so far. professor he's president of the robert institute here in berlin good to have you on the program let me ask you should people be worried about how quickly this virus is spreading well actually i have to say 1st of all i'd like to think you have to give me opportunity to talk about this virus here you know there are 2 other vi

this night close to market in will happen which salt fish and wild animals research is that imperial college london suspects the rate of infection may be much higher than the official figures they estimate that could be $1723.00 cases in new hampshire says it's taking the situation seriously it's really going to go with regarding our measures to prevent the epidemic spreading i can say that the government is now checking everybody who leaves the city. to do only you know you. who hands train stations have been equipped with detectives to screen passengers for fever and medical personnel are on standby neighboring countries have also introduced checks at apple it's for cases of the virus have been detected in people travelling from will hand to size to thailand and japan 3 u.s. airports are also screening passengers but there have been no confirmed cases so far. with correspondent have been christmas in china we asked how worrying the spread of the new coronavirus is for if you talk to people they're not really panicking but they are worried and the reason is they don't feel really accurately inform

at this now closed market in will hand which sold fish and wild animals research is that imperial college london suspects the rate of infection may be much higher than the official figures they estimate that could be $1723.00 cases in new hampshire says it's taking this situation seriously if you're going to go with regarding our measures to prevent the epidemic spreading i can say that the government is now checking everybody who leaves the city. who hands train stations have been equipped with thermal detectors to screen passengers for fever and medical personnel on standby neighboring countries have also introduced checks at airports for cases of the virus have been detected in people travelling from will hand to size korea thailand and japan 3 u.s. airports are also screening passengers but there have been no confirmed cases so far. now to some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. president donald trump is on his wife to the world economic forum in switzerland as the impeachment trial against him at home is due to start on tuesday his team of defense lawyers say the charges

at this now closed market in will hand which sold fish and wild animals research is that imperial college london suspects the rate of infection may be much higher than the official figures they estimate that could be $1723.00 cases in new hampshire beijing says it's taking the situation seriously now on standby neighboring countries have also introduced checks at airports for cases of the virus have been detected in people travelling from will hand to sized thailand and japan 3 u.s. airports are also screening passengers but there have been no confirmed cases so far. well a deal where you were earlier spoke with correspondents at sandown christian or in china we began by asking him how concerning is the spread of this new coronavirus if you talk to people they're not really panicking but they are worried and the reason is they don't feel really accurately informed by the government and they're wondering whether the authorities are downplaying the severeness of the virus outbreak why because many people feel reminded of the times in 20022003 when the sas pandemic was going on and a 350 people die

are much higher that's also you know in the line with estimates from scientists from the imperial college london or the city university of hong kong they assume that farm boy has been affected and the reason many people here they still remember the saucepan demick in 20022000 at that time the parties try to cover up the real threat of the part is obvious thank you very much for bringing us up to date there correspondent probably in christmas invasion. now some of the other stories making headlines around the world today 3 american firefighters assisting with the bushfire crisis in australia have been killed in a plane crash south of the capital canberra the premier of new south wales state said the hercules aerial water tanker like this one from file video outfitted to battle bushfires crashed in the mountains of the snow we will narrow region. in the impeachment trial of u.s. president all the impeachment managers from the democratic controlled house of representatives presented opening statements in the republican controlled senate is charged with abuse of power in his dealings with ukraine. w

an international team, including researchers from google health and imperial college london, designedarly 29,000 women. in the guardian business pages, google's parent company, alphabet, has bowed to pressure from international tax authorities by announcing it will no longer use a notorious tax loophole known as the "double irish". on the front of the times, more than 800,000 people in the uk cut back on eating animal products for at least a month last year, contributing to a steep fall in sales of red meat according to research. and finally also in the times, doing a good deed for others could help keep aches and pains away. a new study has shown that altruism makes you less susceptible to pain, leading scientists to suggest that it could be prescribed by doctors. with me is eileen burbidge who's a partner at passion capital and a technology entrepreneur. let's get stuck in. i have to say, some of the

scenario conjured up by quite a dramatic scenario conjured up by professor niall ferguson at imperial college londonit is not as deadly as some viruses can be and therefore, if you do get it, it is probably not very pleasant but it is not absolutely catastrophic, insta ntly not absolutely catastrophic, instantly but i guess that remains to be seen depending on what your health is like at the time. it explains why despite all the extraordinary measures chinese authorities went to lockdown a number of cities, they have not managed to contain the spread. they acted too late because people were not showing symptoms so it took quite a long time for chinese authorities and authorities around the world to realise how infectious this virus is and to take precautions. if there are potentially two weeks summer walking around contagious without symptoms. the effect across the world could be high. that is the issue we are seeing now at the moment. as you said, there is a trade—off with a viruses. the more deadly they are, the less contagious and this one is quite contagious. 2000 people have been diagnosed and

there are nearly 50 confirmed cases, but experts from imperial college london believe the realfigureorjohn oxford is a virologist at queen mary, university of london. he says a lot is known about the coronavirus family which could help halt its spread out of china. we know a lot about the family and that gives a lot of information. one thing we know about the coronavirus family they are not global, they‘ re not pandemic. if anyone thinks this is going to develop into a bass pandemic, sweep around the world and affect millions of people, that is a wrong interpretation. these viruses don't act like this, they're much more circumspect. as you said, the sars outbreak, the biggest very bright tarmac ——biggest outbreak we have had, there is only eight thousandths... 8000 in the world. we don't want that but we are dealing with one here that is not hugely global. we may get one coming to england on a plane, or a couple of cases, that is what's happening around the world. a case here and there. based on the knowledge of the family from the past, we can project this virus can be contained wit

originated at this now closed market in new han which sold fish and wild animals researchers at imperial college london suspect the rate of infection may be much higher than the official figures they estimate there could be $1723.00 cases in will han beijing says it's taking the situation seriously really wanted to go to vote with regarding our measures to prevent the epidemic spreading i can say that the government is now checking everybody who leaves the city if you take your lot. who hans train stations have been equipped with thermal detectors to screen passengers for fever symptoms and medical personnel are on standby neighboring countries have also introduced checks at airports the virus has been detected in people travelling from move on to south korea thailand and japan airports outside asia are also screening passengers. and joining me now from sydney australia is dr raina macintyre she's head of the bio security research program at the university of new south wales and she's an expert on infectious diseases and epidemic control thanks for talking with us dr mcintyre what makes this virus so d

the study of 650 women led by imperial college london found a month after their loss, 29% of women showedd to 18% after nine months. it is estimated as many as one in four pregnancies end in miscarriage, symptoms include nightmares, flashbacks and intrusive thoughts. zoe clark coates runs a charity providing counselling for women who have been through miscarriage, she has had five herself and says women need more support. you hear from so many people who are suffering from ptsd and sadly often gps and medical professionals tell them it is just grief, so they are not offered the appropriate treatment. so it is great news this study has been done, because it can mean for so many people they get offered the treatment they need. the researchers say the support women receive must improve. they suggest after a miscarriage women should be screened to see who needs the most help, and for specific treatments for ptsd to be made more widely available. laura would certainly welcome better support. i think it is very easyjust to dismiss it as one of those things, and you can try again and it will hap

is emeritus professor at the grantham institute for climate change and the environment at imperial college londonr assessment of the president's these are prophecies of doom, gloom mongers and when you more optimism. he's talking about science as if it is some sort of ta rot science as if it is some sort of tarot card reading or crystal ball gazing, it's based on good evidence and well—established scientific practices. and scientists have all clinical persuasions across the world a re clinical persuasions across the world are now pretty much agreed that global warming is due to human activity and release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. and he is wrong that we got the predictions wrong, since about the mid—19 70s the forecasts of global temperature increase have been pretty good and sometimes a bit low or a bit higher, but overall the trend has been very well predicted. so in your view that's an error or if fact. so what about the climate change lobby want to control every aspect of our lives? it's quite serious the impression that he gives of a controlling micromanaging agenda. impressio

robin shattock, head of mucosal infection and immunity within the department of medicine at imperial college londonning us. how worried should we be, and how much should we expect cases in the uk?|j think should we expect cases in the uk?” think it's pretty inevitable that we will see some cases in the uk at some point, but we need to keep a level of proportion about how worried we should be, given that there are relatively few number of infections so far, and with some fatalities. to some respect, the co nsta nt fatalities. to some respect, the constant updating of the number of fatalities sounds dramatic but, if you think about influenza season in the last few seasons globally, there we re the last few seasons globally, there were about 31,000 deaths from influenza, so 42 is a relatively small figure at the moment, but the situation needs to be monitored very carefully. the reason for the concern, then, we are seeing this lockdown in china, is because it is new and we don't know enough about how it is spread? that's right. we know there seems to be person to person spread of the virus. the lockdo

joining me now is professor andrea rockall, clinical chair in radiology at imperial college london andhave you with us. i know you want is directly involved in this study, but ai involved in diagnosis is something that you are looking at rigorously. yes, a really exciting time in radiology at the moment, because the clinical radiologists can be working together with computer scientists to develop algorithms for early detection and, you know, in the uk and across the world, we are short of radiologists, so having tools that can support us and help us with accurate early diagnosis is really exciting, this isa diagnosis is really exciting, this is a good news story for the nhs. absolutely, and in terms of machine versus human, what do we know about how the two compare? in this study, the machine has performed extremely well, and it is reported in the publication. i would say, in this particular case, we have what is called narrow ai, looking at x—rays of the breast, looking for breast cancer. things get more complicated and difficult in al when we start looking at whole—body scans, where

colt's officially there are only 45 cases in china right now but the scientists from the imperial college in london have simply calculated based on the number of cases that have been discovered of brode that's false 3 cases to be discovered in thailand and jeff and that must be more cases in china and the estimate is that 1700 people might be carrying the fear virus at the moment so as we mentioned before the lunar new year is basically about to happen there in china how is this affecting people and their travel plans for. so far it's not i mean issues believe the official numbers that only 45 people are in fact there's no reason to read you warry however china has been known for covering up situations like that in the past for the question it's. actually possible for this virus to transmit between people person to person if it is the case then yeah it's another story this morning thanks so much for covering this for us. it's a race to stop a deadly virus from spreading passengers touching down in the u.s. on flights from central china now face a medical check health officials at airports in new yo

outbreak of a new virus in china could be far longer than officially reported a study by london's imperial college suggests there may be 100000 sorry about 1700 cases of the new corona virus strain the chinese government insists only 50 people have been infected. us president donald trump has unveiled the defense team for his upcoming impeachment trial in the senate and among them 3 high profile lawyer is ken starr led the last impeachment investigation into president bill clinton he was also part of the legal team for convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein well robert w. ray has also joined the team and he succeeded a star as independent counsel and he negotiated settlements with clinton as he left the white house and then there's also celebrity lawyer and former harvard law school professor alan dershowitz his clients have included o.j. simpson mike tyson and harvey weinstein but our correspondent gable elizondo is in washington d.c. and he says trump is not taking any chances with this legal team. trump is taking this very very seriously i mean these 2 lawyers that he brought in to be part of t

nathalie macdermott, professor, imperial college london. she has treated patients with the ebola virus. virus, we know about the and if we do not know much, when do we find out? these things take a week? how bad will it be in two weeks? dr. macdermott: we are learning about the virus all the time. observing what is happening in china and clinically with patients, this is a coronavirus, a family of viruses. , it is a different species has a different genetic makeup to sars. it spreads through droplet transmission, so when people sneeze or cough and you breathe in or have contact with it, you can become infected. we are determining that it is possible to be infected from someone who is not showing symptoms. are not feeling unwell, you could be infected. areoportion of people causing an inflammation in the lungs and is causing pneumonia. francine: how quickly or slowly can antidotes or vaccines be made? think it is possible to make a vaccine relatively quickly. we heard the scientific officer of johnson & johnson talk about that. the issue is

it's the result of work by researchers at google health and imperial college london.ould eventually mean faster and more accurate diagnosis. here's our medical correspondent, fergus walsh. reading a mammogram is highly skilled work, done by specialist doctors. two radiologists analyse every woman's x—rays but now artificial intelligence, a machine learning computer designed by google health can do it just as well as humans. compared to a single radiologist working alone, artificial intelligence was actually more accurate at detecting breast cancer. ai produced i.2% fewer false positives, where a healthy mammogram is incorrectly diagnosed as cancerous. and there were 2.7% fewer false negatives where a cancer is missed. this study shows us that in the future it might be possible to make that screening programme more accurate and more efficient, which means less worrying time waiting for patients' results and better outcomes overall. helen edwards has been clear of breast cancer for 15 years. she was a patient representative on the panel which approved google health's ac

than to doctors using mammograms this according to a study by researches google health and imperial college london researchers found that ai reduced the number of women wrongly told they had abnormal results or false positives in the u.k. by 1.2 percent and the number of women wrongly told they were cancer free or false negatives by 2.7 percent doctors say the ai system can improve early detection for one in 8 women affected by breast cancer globally are a dozen is the executive chairman of the world innovation summit for healthy says the ai breast cancer diagnosis system could be used to ease doctors work load. we tried to train the machine in seeing whether they would perform as good as the radiologist or the human readers and the conclusion of the study which was published in nature yesterday the machine the ai algorithm was as good as the 1st reader so in u.k. we have 2 readers we have one radiologist who looks at it and the 2nd one to confirm it and if they disagree it goes to a 3rd right so the machine was as good as the 1st reader in actual fact it was better than the 1st reader because the

diagnosis of breast cancer that's according to a study by researchers at google health and the imperial college london researchers found that artificial intelligence as they say reduce the number of women wrongly told they had abnormal results this is in the u.k. by 1.2 percent and the number of women wrongly told they were cancer free by 2.7 percent doctors say the ai system can improve early detection for one in 8 women affected by breast cancer globally very pleased to welcome our does the into the studio today executive chairman of the world innovation summit for health wish as we call it here in doha nice to see you i think the 1st thing we need to deal with is what are we actually talking about with a i think this is such a catch all phrase can you simply explain the technology for us and how. sure well it's not a machine not ok to say machine learning it's about teaching a computer in developing an algorithm or some mathematical modeling that recognizes after training what is right what is normal what is normal and in breast cancer we know as you part highlighted that mammography x. ray of the

doctors using mammograms that's according to a study by researchers at google health and imperial college london researches found that reduce the number of women wrongly told they had abnormal results or false positives in the u.k. by 1.2 percent and the number of women wrongly told they were cancer free or false negatives by 2.7 percent doctors say the air i system can improve early detection for one in 8 women affected by breast cancer around the world. still to come here on the news for you again transform following the death of the former n.b.a. commissioner david stern a look at how he gave today's global stars the chance to shine. al-jazeera. every. time this was news his poll. thank you very much new york yankees pitcher domingo german has been suspended for 81 games under major league baseball's domestic violence policy the 27 year old dominican has been on administrative leave since an alleged incident involving his girlfriend in september germany has agreed not to appeal the punishment which is the longest to be handed to a player against him criminal charges have not been filed he's a

it's the result of work by researchers at google health and imperial college london.lly mean faster and more accurate diagnosis. here's our medical correspondent, fergus walsh. reading a mammogram is highly skilled work, done by specialist doctors. two radiologists analyse every woman's x—rays but now artificial intelligence, a machine learning computer designed by google health can do itjust as well as humans. compared to a single radiologist working alone, artificial intelligence was actually more accurate at detecting breast cancer. ai produced 1.2% fewer false positives, where a healthy mammogram is incorrectly diagnosed as cancerous. and there were 2.7% fewer false negatives where a cancer is missed. this study shows us that in the future it might be possible to make that screening programme more accurate and more efficient, which means less worrying time waiting for patients' results and better outcomes overall. helen edwards has been clear of breast cancer for 15 years. she was a patient representative on the panel which approved google health's access to the a

are much higher that's also you know in the line with estimates from scientists from the imperial college of london or the city university of hong kong and they assume that far more has been affected and the reason is many people here they still remember the saucepan demick in 20022000 at the time the parties tried to cover up the real threat of the pipes so what earth can authorities do now that they aren't already doing to make sure that this doesn't get any worse. i mean the isolation of one is already a pretty radical step also if you consider that the virus outbreak is still at an early states. i would say that actually the authorities take a different step compared to what they did during the sauce and then make them more transparent i mean they're reporting no more prominent he about the virus outbreak this particular mission from the communist pot his also urged its politicians to not cover up any infection to stand not to you know just for the reputation of the local politicians to you know. they french they call from want transparency and i think it's a big sign and a big any indication t

researchers from imperial college london are now calling for immediate improvements in care and for specificfocusing on women who lose a baby early on in the pregnancy, have more studies being done on miscarriage in later pregnancy? what is new about this specifically? miscarriage is defined as losing a baby before 23 weeks, but most of those miscarriages happen early, before 12 weeks. this study looked at how women were effected by losing their baby early on, and they discovered that even nine months later there were still signs of post—traumatic stress, as they called it, and anxiety, and depression. so, it lingered for up toa depression. so, it lingered for up to a year after they lost their baby. does this study suggest that it hasn't been recognised enough up until this point? yes. it hasn't been recognised enough up untilthis point? yes. i think there has been a lack of recognition of this and experts are saying we need to bea this and experts are saying we need to be a bit more sensitive to how we treat women who have lost a baby early. it may not be something they talk about with fam

nathalie macdermott is clinical research fellow at imperial college london. here? i don't think it will change much because we have been anticipating this for the last couple of weeks and we‘re not surprised we have a couple of cases now in the uk after france and germany have a couple of cases as well. i don‘t think it is going to change anything per se, but itjust means our public health authorities will be tracing any contacts of those individuals they may have had and monitoring them to make sure they don‘t develop any symptoms. and monitoring them to make sure they don't develop any symptoms. the policy previously, obviously quarantine now comes into effect today for anyone coming into this country from wuhan, but previously it was to self isolate. i spoke to james who did that very thoroughly but there will be people who have not done that. how easy will it be to trace the people who have come into this country and the others who have come into contact around them? it is always a difficult challenge to trace people who have come into the country and we

if you look at other estimates for example from the imperial college of london scientists they assume that roughly $1700.00 should be affected but that's of course only calculation models that are based on probability so we don't know for sure but we what we can assume is that the number 60 higher than what the government has told recently and how of some people are on high alert where you are i presume how are they protecting themselves from a contract to this mysterious virus. and it's quite interesting starting from today you can actually see this growing sea of the people because they do work face masks i would say in downtown beijing every 2nd passer by roughly wears a face mask and checked several pharmacies and also online shops and we're out of sales i mean that's definitely a sign but i think the you know a device by a medical experts say actually quite simple washing your hands regularly with hot water and soap and soul and also maybe wearing your face mark and that's enough that's basically simple hygiene and of course that's making this so difficult to contain is that what

scores of infections have been confirmed now attempt at imperial college in london estimates the true1700 cases. while the outbreak is centred in china, there have been two cases in thailand and one injapan. have been two cases in thailand and one in japan. we are not able to... to prohibit people from travelling so to prohibit people from travelling so what we can do is detecting and bring any suspected to receive treatment from our service facility. airports in asia and the united states have begun screening travellers arriving from wuhan. uk tea m travellers arriving from wuhan. uk team said it was too early to be alarmist. the virus is similar to sars which killed almost 800 people and infected over 8000 in 2002.m looks like it is classic related to sars. since sars have emerged, vaccines and drugs have been developed to work against sars. the problem is this virus is different we do not know if those work. chinese scientists says that has been the case of the virus spreading between humans and it came about from animals. but the team from the uk argues that the possibility should

at imperial college in london, worst case scenario they think they could be as many as 10,000 cases ingovernment is trying to do as much as they can, but there is a capacity issue, the hospitals in wuhan. i have spoken to people who have turned up with symptoms and they have been turned away because there wasn't enough space, no bed and not enough doctors. so now china's response is they will build a 1000 bed hospital. in our report we saw dozens of bulldozers building rapidly, a new hospital in wuhan. if people see those pictures in china, would they be reassured by this swift action or scared by the scale of what is happening? it is a very interesting way in terms of how chinese people will see the situation. they have been told that the ruling chinese communist party has their backs, through propaganda. so a lot of people i talk to say they are worried, but they believe the government will solve it. also, there is the different kinds of scandals they have faced in the past. it is a population of 1.4 billion people, who are no stranger to food and health safety scandals, so this is a

scores of infections have been confirmed but now a team at imperial college in london estimates the truee the outbreak is centred in china, there have been two cases in thailand and one injapan. we are not able to prohibit people from travelling so what we can do is detecting and bring any suspected to receive treatment from our service facility. airports in asia and the united states have begun screening travellers arriving from wuhan. the uk team behind the study said that, while they're concerned, it was too early to be alarmist. the virus is similar to sars, which killed almost 800 people and infected over 8000 in 2002. it looks like the virus is closely related to sars, which emerged previously. since sars emerged, people have been developing vaccines and drugs to see if they work against sars. the problem is this virus is different. we do not know yet if those drugs and those vaccines work. chinese scientists says there has been no cases of the virus spreading between humans and that it came about from infected animals at a seafood and wildlife markets. but the team at imperial col

now researchers at google health and imperial college in london have developed an artificial intelligenceassessing a mammogram than one radiologist working alone — and as good as two experts working together. as our medical correspondent fergus walsh reports this use of what's called ai could well improve all cancer care. this is painstaking work. it takes more than a decade of training to become a radiologist and have the skill to read a mammogram. in the nhs, two doctors analyse every woman's x—rays. now, artificial intelligence, a machine learning computer designed by google health, can do itjust as well as humans. this went far beyond my expectations. it will have a significant impact in improving the quality of the reporting and also freeing up radiologists to do even more important things. women aged between 50 and 70 are invited for breast screening every three years. the study in the journal nature showed al was actually better than one doctor working alone at reading mammograms. it produced 1.2% fewer false positives, where a healthy mammogram is wrongly labelled as abnormal. and

british researchers at imperial college in london are working on a vaccine and are hoping it would beiddle of next month, then on humans shortly after that. britain is1 then on humans shortly after that. britain is 1 of the only countries apart from china to have a specific test for the disease. we had over 2000 people that have recently returned from that area to britain in the last couple of weeks. now the advice to them is if you start to feel fever, cough, problems breathing, stay—at—home and full your doctor. but no confirmed cases yet. none yet, but surely it is only a matter of time. every time you look at the news that the death toll has gone up and it has reached another country. this does give some hope that there will be something that will be done that will be able to deal with this. the scary thing about the virus is you don't know how far and how fast it has spread. a lot of people were travelling for the chinese new year before this broke out. there is the tragedy of the timing. this is a really important moment in the calendar for people who celebrate lunar new year. t

has so far killed 2 people china says almost 50 people have been infected the research by london's imperial college suggests they could be more than 7800 cases and mexico is deploying hundreds of soldiers to its quite a modern border and efforts to block a surge of migrants and refugees trying to get through to reach the united states those are the headlines on al-jazeera the listening post is next with richard. how jews in. love with your. hair on now size shut down crying in a pasture ok it's up to the house of office if the state protect the trust and often make life for the system i mean i just saw it and i think if i had a crowd chanting the revolutionary guard tactic to. hello i'm richard ginsberg and you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're covering this week iran the showdown with the u.s. and how the accidental downing of a passenger aircraft has changed the narrative there portugal and race.

but a study by imperial college in london estimates almost 2,000 people have been contaminated. >> this is a rapidly evolving situation, and we're gaining more knowledge every day. >> reporter: screenings have started at los angeles, san francisco, and new york's j.f.k. airports. some traveling to china from the united states aren't taking any chances. they have protective masks and anticipate the screening back into the united states. >> it's necessary to go through the screen, to take the temperature, to make sure we're okay, we don't have fever. >> reporter: authorities believe the virus originated here at the large wuhan seafood and animal market when someone was exposed to an infected animal. while it is rare for this new coronavirus to be spread between humans, it is in the same family as severe acute respiratory syndrome, or sars, that killed more than 700 chinese people in 2003. authorities expect some 5,000 passengers to be screened at the three airports in the coming weeks. the last time there were screenings like this one at u.s. airports was in 2014 during the ebola outbreak