we're joined live by robert roberts a senior lecturer in critical digital media practice at lancaster university the margin you've been busy. sharing your expertise the last few hours without robert this is clearly an embarrassing episode for the democrats to what extent do you think it was forseeable who's the blame for the technical theater. well you know democrats and having been a reporter in the states for a long time again i can say that the democrats at the local level tend to be the worst at organizing it very difficult to communicate amongst themselves they don't do a good job pushing out the vote too too much and we may have seen a rise with brock obama that was different because of the use of social media which hadn't been there in the past and so it isn't user prizing that democrats without the republicans help we're trying to solve figured out a way to to kind of group this out you go to normal voting polls in the united states for general elections or primaries you'll see the same types of mistakes being made by by the government so these 2 things together just really put into ques

a time of great to see to not have stopped and then it is strange mr a senior lecturer at lancaster university thank you. and it is just coming up to me even here must have a back end with morphy at the top and. i'm going to fulfill the repeated promise is a possible to the people and come on you know we've all pots to. break free from. now you want to. know. so the politicians have basically stuck the american public with the bellotti to negotiate for drugs and both parties who are financed very heavily by the pharmaceutical industry have done this so when your own people vote they should look at how much does this politician get from the power pharmaceutical industry. greetings and sell you take a shit. as the rolling stone spray mostly saying. you can't always get what you want hawk watchers but if you try sometime you'll get what you need and you know what happens if you don't try it all well you get what you deserve and after tuesday night's state of the union speech i think we are definitely getting what we deserve this year is 78 minute long annual public relations speech by the preside

just mohamed we're near at lancaster university thank you sir for sharing your expertise with us play to be here when i bring up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world turkish president. has threatened to launch a military operation in syria as a liberal one says an operation is only a matter of time unless syrian forces pull back behind turkish military positions russia meanwhile has warned turkey not to attack syrian forces. prince harry and his wife megan are to carry out their final duties as active royals in late february and march that's according to british media reports their decision to step down means they will no longer have an office at buckingham palace as of april 1st . scottish singer louis chapati and london rapper dave are the big winners at the u.k. brit awards last night to paul you took home the prize for best new artist and song of the year album of the year went to a very was your 40th year of the british pops a biggest award show. thing or songwriter billie eilish captivated the audience at the awards ceremony with her debut lik

just mohamed we're near at lancaster university thank you sir for sharing your expertise with us play to be here. i want to bring up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. court in turkey has postponed its verdict in the trial of a group of human rights activists accused of aiding terrorist groups a german citizen peter a start there is among the defendants who were detained in 2017 while attending a digital security workshop while they've since been released pending the verdict now expected in early april. meanwhile the turkish president are accept tayyip erdogan has threatened to launch a military operation in syria's is live region everyone says an operation is only a matter of time on the syrian forces pull back behind turkish military positions russia meanwhile has warned turkey not to attack syrian forces various media reports say the royal family may not allow prince harry and his wife megan to use the grand sussex royal afterward drawing from active royal duties one problem is the word royal on the couple's website the couple is moving or has

well you know we spoke to dr mohamed lanier of our ologist at lancaster university in the united kingdom and we asked him how close scientists are to develop think of vaccine whenever we talk about availability of a vaccine for human application we talk about 2 components 1st is the construction of a vaccine and 2nd is the validation construction is not really a big issue with an amount of x. you tend to be mate and then the construction of the validation part is really the main thing we are any mother testing is required to demonstrate efficacy and be a minute in a city so for example if we talk about even ebola virus is started into poland 14 and only november to the 19 the 1st vaccine so that is what the time frame we are talking about infectious diseases corbett 19 with a name that is proposed today is a little different because we have some information on related code on our business i just saw us and mers so that information can be x. exploited to sort of shorten the duration for the construction of this vaccine so we have some of the wanted years so let's hope that we can make it

i am joined by a virologist at lancaster university. it is good to see you again. the who's director general told a news conference vaccines could be ready in 18 months. it sounds like a long time, but it is also superfast. how w realistic is t this? >> it is realllly complicated because whenever w we talk about availability of a vaccine f for human applilication, we talk abt two compoponents. first isis the construction and second is the validation. construcuction is not t a big i. within a month, a vaccine canane made. the validation part is the main thing. animal testing is required to test efficacy. if we talk about the ebola virus, it was started na 2014. in november 2019, the first virus -- that is the timeframe we are talking about. with cobit 19, the nand that is proposed today, it is a little differenent because we have some information on the virus. that information can be exploited to shorten the duration for the construction of this vaccine. we have some advantages. let's hope we can make it possible. brent: loeb we are waiting, if we have to wait these

to have mohammed many are with us now a lecturer of their ology at lancaster university joining us on skype thank you for your time today i have a very basic question for you and that is what is quarantine or more to the point is everyone's quarantine the same this is what i keep thinking with the way this is spreading people say oh we're going to quarantine these people here that everyone's going to have different levels different capabilities and surely that will affect how effective it can be. but seriously it couldn't gain medical isolation or social distance off more vulnerable people to more need to sort of a certain length of time in order to see if they've come up with some of that you need to sign for the virus as they are being cut and for who could coronavirus which is not us our c.e.o. he too is having a span off i don't 14 days off incubation period so therefore we now decide that fortnight according to him for this white house is sufficient to identify if a person is carrying an infection or not ok we're just looking at some pictures there of people who are presumably in

s in the diff partment of biomedical and life sciences at lancaster university in the u.k. thank you for talking to us i just wondered how worrying is it the development of we've heard the virus has been confirmed in a new born baby the baby is now at 36 years old and sorry 36 hours old believe but it has been confirmed that the baby's got the virus how alarming is that. it's not particularly surprising really there are some viruses that can cross the placenta by here and and infect newborn infants so that that in itself isn't particularly surprising unfortunately and do we need to discover exactly how the virus was transmitted because of course the baby could have been could have been infected just being in close proximity to the mother or via the womb. it would be surprising if it had been infected after birth because 36 hours is that is a very short time in the incubation period is the period of time between the virus entering the body in for symptoms appearing no we know in the case of this particular virus that the incubation period can be quite short it can be over 3

clear from the infection i think is scientifically innocent brawler just mohamed we're near at lancaster university thank you sir for sharing your expertise with us play to be. well to the mediterranean now in the migration crisis the rescue vessel ocean viking is for trolling just off the coast of libya and has been carrying out its 3rd rescue mission in 24 hours thousands of people are still trying to reach europe by making a perilous crossing of the mediterranean and small overcrowded boats well didn't your correspondent who was on the ocean a viking when more than 80 migrants were spotted off the libyan coast and here's this report. from the deck of the rescue ship ocean flanking nicholas romaniuk is scanning the sea for a boat with migrants on board. the ocean viking is about 130 kilometers off the libyan coast that means it's in international waters but. we have a look for a possible whatever boat with knives or acts of war i would worry if you have a visual border control pilots are in radio contact or are terrified of the border patrol is searching the area with small aircraft or helicopter

art i'm joined now by dr mohammad near he's a viral a just at lancaster university it's good to see you again doctor the wages director general told a news conference that vaccines could be ready in 18 months it sounds like a long time now but it is also you know a super fast how realistic is this. well that actually this is really complicated because whenever we talk about availability of a vaccine for human application we talk about 2 components 1st is the construction of a vaccine and 2nd is the validation construction is not really a big issue within a month of x. and to be mate and then the construction of the validation part is really the main thing we are any mother testing is that it demonstrates efficacy at the a minute in a city so for example if we talk about even ebola virus it started into poland 14 and only november 2 to the 19 the 1st maxine. the a softer 5 so that is what that the timeframe we are talking about infectious disease is cool of it 19 but the name that is proposed today is a little different because we have some information. related quote on this i just saw u

of medicine and in liverpool we have dr mohammad minea he is electra and buying medicine at lancaster university thank you oil for all for joining us on the program so dr hotez i want to start with you and i want to ask you about these dots that we've been looking at on this map because they're worrying not necessarily because of this size but because of where they're located so not necessarily a direct link now to hanoi china we're seeing travelers from a wrong now turning up in 11 on and canada testing positive for the virus are we now in a new stage of contagion here. well it's certainly a possibility and 1st of all thank you for having me on and this is but dr ted gerson the world health organization has been worried about in the reason they call the public health emergency of international concern because as as this unfolded it became clear that this virus does have pandemic potential because of its of its easy transmissibility so the fact now that we're seeing clusters of cases now in korea and south korea in iran and singapore it doesn't mean that we're seeing sustained viral transmission

near is of are all are just on a lecture in bio med center at lancaster university in the u.k. he says the information available has been helpful in diagnosing the virus. one thing is pretty clear since the start of this outbreak that the information that we have been given in the international community is unprecedented we have lot of information that help us not only to initiate the vaccine development but also to carry on revising other diagnostic as that however the number of cases that are being reported or definitely lower than what we can anticipate or predict from such an outbreak with the world health organization delegates and use it in china i think that would be really helpful to sort of understand the actual situation going on in on the ground and would certainly help to not only gather the information but also to streamline the communication with the international community when we talk about so strong about this back in 2002 and 23 it was a very short lived around a year. and it has a quite high fatality 8 so then there were the bodies have a high patella to date

have each reported one death from the virus early i spoke to dr mohammed near who is a viral lancaster university he says fs so long don the city of new han were not successful but there are still pressure on the chinese authorities to do more. in the majority of the cases those been our own the word they are directly or indirectly associated with the horn or the who bay provisions and because probably that was the reason that the majority of the efforts were really to contain and to isolate and to lock down the people in that peruvians and since the application of those approaches the overall number of cases that we see. are in their own the word start to decline and all those cases that appear off the record were through indirect routes to light from singapore or from other countries where infected people have transmitted the virus so overall it appears that the control measures that were put in place they started to work and therefore the overall impact is decreasing day by day however as we have seen the number of cases are not declining within china so this also indicates that there is still

storyry we can go across to robert goucher senior lecturer in the sociology department at lancaster university good evening thank you very much for joining us here on fonts twenty four. how is it that michael bloomberg has managed to surge in the polls nationally given that he's never been been on a debate stage. well you know this is a good indication that money talks- and that was the approach that. he told us he was going to do is get a flood- the news stations- local news stations with money- cable news stations with money for with his with his *-*- and get his name out there. the difficultlty isis that that he isis going toe seen for that. hey middle america as spending lots of money coming fromm the r richesf nenew york city. so he may be getting his name out there and certainly to bring democrats to the table to his side- but he'ss also representing for many. middle americansns- competing against all the time big. in a fancy so and t that's going to e a challenge to choose to sway them so tonight isn't going to be a show between- you know bernie sanders and michael bloomberg or is it go

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talk about this developing story with richard johnson joining mefrom lancaster england, at lancaster university. good morning to you, richard. >> good morning. >> well, it's been white the whirlwind in the justice department. and what is going on with attorney general william barr with the president and the public and not public? >> i think what we're seeing is an erosion of important but formal norms that existed. one of those is a sense that although the attorney general is appointed by the president, of course. and is part of the president's administration, that there are certain things that the justice department has to do 245r somewhat at arm's length from the white house. and certainly, when we're talking about the sentencing of previously close associates of the president. and the president trying to put pressure on the attorney general to recommend a certain sentence, that really does seem to cross one of those important norms in government. you know, in one sense, yes, it is technically true that the president could put this pressure on his attorney general. but that really then starts

the author of the trump presidency journalism and democracy is an associate professor at lancaster university in the u.k. nice to talk to you again let's start with the democratic party then are they in state of disarray as a consequence of this rather embarrassing scenario that we witnessed in iowa. you know to move forward from from iowa they almost need to forget that it even happened you know there are some on the far left thinking that bernie sanders really won the day as the democratic socialist but that doesn't go too well for the for the hardcore democrats who want there to be more of a central figure somebody who's older more centrist who can bring in some people from the republican side but where donald trump winning at almost every single downfall he's had that's going to be really hard to support people over no matter how central a democratic candidate is. not your man then going forward looking ahead to new hampshire and cheese day isn't he the man then you can perhaps occupy the center space for a party that has almost 2 choices to either go continue with the establishment joe b

let's break down for dr mohammed good air who's in lancaster he's of religious and lecturer at lancaster university thank you so much for your time teams around the world of working very quickly to get vaccines into the trial stage tell us how difficult or otherwise is that process and then the process going from trial through to production. well one thing i would like to highlight that for such kind of disease is good control mayors and very good vaccine are probably the only solution to really the further spread of these infection so right from the beginning the vaccine efforts have started quite extensively governments have started to put in the money and there are serious efforts ongoing around the word however making a vaccine is not really a big challenge vaccine can be constructed using different approaches within a month or so the major challenges really come from to prove it's a minute initiative which means how good the vaccine is afaik ac and the safety that require a lot of trials preclinical and clinical trials in animals before a vaccine can be make available for a human application s

that one of our top stories the corona virus outbreak dr mohammad is of the role of just of lancaster university and says that efforts to lock down the city of will hon were largely successful but the still pressure on the chinese authorities to do more. in the majority of the cases those been our own the word they are directly or indirectly associated with the law and order who bear provisions and because probably that was the reason that the majority of the efforts were really to contain and to isolate and to lock down the people in that groove ins and since the application of those approaches the what are the number of cases that we see. are in their own the word start to decline and all those cases that appear afterward were through indirect route light from singapore or from other countries where in fact that people have transmitted the virus so overall it appear that the control of europe that was put in place they started to work and therefore the overall impact is decreasing day by day however as we have seen the number of cases are not declining within china so this also indicates that

international relations in the director of sectarianism proxies and de sectarianism or separated at lancaster university he joins us via skype from lancaster appreciate it very much so it was some sort of confrontation like this almost inevitable. i think given the complexity of everything on the ground in syria right now the number of different actors volt 'd the escalation that we've seen over the past few years the number of breaches of deescalation agreements i think it became a very precarious area and in that closely confines face when there are so many different actors involved when there are so we did miller and steersman sections it's very easy for something like this to happen and really an escalation is quite worrying stage and in the war and so when you talk about the potential for for a bigger escalation who is in the position to step out and escalate to conflict this and his best interest as that. well i think given what's happening every war and indians not staging needs to play a role in trying to calm and quarter given that there are 3000000 civilians trapped in that live province right

at lancaster university joins us now on skype good to have you with us what do you make so far of the response to the virus a lot of the emphasis being put on restriction particularly of restriction of travel yeah well this is a virus with month history a completely new virus and we have not seen this one before overall the response has been overwhelming right from the report of the data onto it iris which as a whole of the scientific community to develop a diagnostic assay and all diagnostic assets are not being applied in different countries to money to their disease. about one thing that became very important nowadays is really onto the travel restrictions so if we look really how the virus has surprised from the beginning why this has been surprising clue for travelers 2000 years from china to other countries so anything that is related to money train and also sort of so containing the movement is really helpful too to sort of restrict the sort of the spread of the virus do you think it's time for health checks before boarding an aircraft become a travel standard just as security

derek gatherer is a violet just at lancaster university he told my colleague martin dennis said there's been some surprise that the relatively low number of deaths when we 1st discovered the virus and discovered it was a relative of sars we feared something rather worse because sars is a very dangerous virus was a very dangerous virus back in 2003 with a very high fatality rate the fatality rate for this particular viruses are only 2 percent mark but we have to be careful with that statistic because that's 2 percent of the confront cases and in order to become a confirmed case you have to usually find yourself in hospital and that probably means that you've got pneumonia already and our are already in a fairly severe condition so it's not to 2 percent rest of the general population and have we seen this outbreak of the new coronavirus peak yet it's difficult to say because we don't know whether the containment measures will eventually work or not responded to viruses are extremely difficult to contain we have epidemics of flu every winter and occasionally have flu pandemics and it's gen

author of the presidency journalism and democracy and he's also an associate professor at lancaster university he says to move forward the democrats almost need to forget iowa happened at all. so there are some on the far left thinking that bernie sanders really won the day as the democratic socialist but that doesn't go too well for the for the hardcore democrats who want there to be more of a central figure somebody who's a little more centrist who can bring in some people from the republican side but with donald trump winning at almost every single downfall he's had that's going to be really hard to pull people over no matter how central a democratic candidate is iowa does seem to be historically the place that does push and launch people ahead but that would be in a traditional election year this one is not a traditional alexion year you're seeing the infighting within the democrats become even stronger than than before because they really want to get somebody out there who can take down donald trump certainly people like biden who have decided he hasn't really but his his numbers are show

this crisis adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong home of many it is a lecture in virology at lancaster university in england where he explains what options are available to help beat the virus. there are really only 3 ways by which we have prevented such infections in the past 1st is that people have a genetic the sisters against these infections 2nd is that we have a very good vaccine that can be applied to control this infection or the toad is that people change the behavior so changing behavior is the only option at this moment because the 1st 2 options are not available yet in this lodging face off the outbreak so any leaking has in changing behavior is the major reason that the widest would surprise from one country to another struck in some one percent when other person by changing behavior specifically i mean is that in this current situation the main factor that can either help to prevent the infection or facilitate further suppress is the person who is infected or who who who is well known it will so the person who are well neighbor or in fact it or likely having contact with them they a

dr mohamed monier is a biologist and a lecturer in biomedicine a lancaster university in the u.k. he's joining us by skype thank you very much indeed for joining us on al-jazeera do you think that given that the medical authorities in certainly in in china have been criticized for not reacting quickly enough and not being transparent enough about the origins of this virus do you think that the w.h. toe team that is traveling there is going to get the kind of cooperation it needs. well one thing is very clear since the start 'd of this outbreak that the information that we have been given in the international scientific community is unprecedented we have gained a lot of information that help us not only diminish here the vaccine development goals if we get a young revising other diagnostic out say however the number of cases that are being reported are definitely lower than what we can and these better predict from such an outbreak with a very health organization that we gave the news that in china i think would be really helpful to sort of understand the actual situation going on

is a senior l lecturer and expet on indian politics joining us from the university of lancaster. up there in northwest england to you- what is mody in your view hoping to get from this visit. what is it charm offensiveve from both sids trump is really as more the more the ones just so the indian electorate that up he's a wall leader on the camera called log with the register. well this year in that job for deposit gs in. donald trump so it goes both ways. just get something out of it more is popular has down. in the last couple of months. under there is a kind of revolution of sobs in various parts of india the space about. two dozen same amendment act so more these trying to sort of gonna some of that and get some domestic diva to. bob so the- is to. long other side robinson guy so. the looks of the says go rid involved in this year. and let's n not forget that the united states as a long. for million yes but i indian americans so this kind of job offensive that he has in india isis going to produce. registers back in the united states indeed how trump forms in india may well af

a study by the universities of birmingham and lancaster found that the two towns actually produce about, it estimates that the air in luton is much dirtier than the air in milton keynes. we only used one monitor across a couple of mornings. but we found the same thing. the pollution levels are certainly building up within the vehicle as they were yesterday but to nowhere near the same degree. we are at around 55 micrograms, where if we think of being on the a505 yesterday, we were up at 120 in the vehicle. that's amazing. so, actually, the pollution levels in this car at the moment going into town are less than half than they were going into luton. absolutely. yeah. but how can two places producing the same pollution have such different air quality? design. take milton keynes' much maligned roundabouts. along with its wide boulevards and open roads, they keep the traffic flowing, but led the poisonous gases drift away. luton, on the other hand, with its tightly—packed built—up streets, traps the gas. the author of the study says town planners can learn from their research. mixing up you