kirill dmitriev, the ceo of the russian investment fund, joins us now.alk to me about the effectiveness of this drug developed with the backing of the sovereign wealth fund. you are looking to ship it out to hospitals in weeks. what does the data show you about how effective this could be? kirill: we believe it is one of the first effective drugs, the first antiviral against covid in russia. it is only one of two drugs that work against covid in the world. from ninegets reduced days to four days when people are using this drug. you also have 65% of the people that have no virus up to four da ys. we have lots of positive results from this generic version, which was originally a japanese medication for the flu, but we also made some changes to the medication, doses, and proved for the first time in the world that this modified drug works very well in not allowing covid to replicate within human cells. taylor: do you think it will be more effective than some of the rivals out there? i'm thinking of gilead's remdesivir. kirill: there is enough of a problem o

russian court is due to hand down its verdict in the controversial case against russian director kirill. he's accused of forming a criminal group with his colleagues and embezzling public funds for a theatre project the trial has sparked international calls for his release. tressell rain has brought flash flooding to south and central eastern china is central and eastern chinese provinces including junk she and long she beijing has urged more than a dozen provinces to take precautions with more turbulent weather forecast a massive cloud of locusts has ravaged crops in argentina the insights came from paraguayan and are expected to spread across regions of south america but ortiz in parts of brazil are preparing emergency measures to suppress the swarm if it enters the country. and some football liverpool have been crowned premier league champions clinching their 1st english league title in 30 years liverpool weren't playing on thursday but they secured the top flight title after their closest rivals manchester city lost to chelsea the victory was made you're getting caught the 1st germa

the russian orthodox patriarch, kirill, has consecrated a cathedral dedicated to the armed forces, ad. the church dropped a plan to include mr putin in a mosaic of religious and secular figures, reportedly at his own request. the cathedral was built in less than two years in a theme park outside moscow, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of victory over nazi germany. a reminder of our top story. a court in the philippines has convicted the prominent journalist, maria ressa, of libel. she and a former writer with her news website, rappler, were found guilty by the court in manila. both now face up to six years injail, though they've been released on bail pending appeal. the case has been seen as a test of freedom of the press in philippines. hello there. the broad weather pattern is going to change very little over the week ahead. it will be a week of contrasts in the uk, as it was over the weekend. many places in the south of england having a warm and sunny day on sunday. a dramatic skyline, though, in the north—west of england following those late in the day thundery showers, and a