she's a global health expert at the university college london. >> this is a long game. so we shouldn't look at the fact that these vaccines are beginning to be rolled out and can fix the current problem. these will not necessarily save the lives of people who are already getting infected and this is why we need to continue these public health measures alongside more aggressive vaccination rollout. and that requires ensuring that we have upscaling of staff, and more resources dedicated toward this rollout. but again, this is not going to be something that even here we've had some -- the prime minister say that we should be able to get enough protection by easter 2021, but at the current rate of vaccination, that's actually not a realistic estimate. >> so what's also your take, then, on this mix and match vaccine regimen the uk is now saying it's going to be okay to cross use different vaccines? i mean, this contradicts u.s. guidelines. is this a sign of desperation or is this the uk being the wild west of vaccinations as is being suggested by some. >> i think there is so

brian klaas is associate professor of global politics at university college london and a washington postasked him how much power president trump would have in his remaining 11 days in office. well, he is still extraordinarily powerful. i mean, he has the formal authority over the most powerful country in the world and that matters. and we are in an extraordinary moment we are the president has been deemed unfit to manage the social media account, but is still for 11 more days in charge of the world's most powerful nuclear arsenal. and so, you know, i think this is why there is a lot of calls for trump to resign, and barring that, which is unlikely, for trump to be removed from office — either from the 25th amendment, which would result from the vice president and the cabinet taking action, or from a second impeachment attempt led by the house that will be launched early next week. and just on sort of how much military authority he still has, we have been reading it is perhaps unwise to say it is a nuclear button because that is not how it works and there are many, many steps before any m

now bring it alive one of the authors of that study dr amitava better ga crayolas just at university college london so one in 8 recovered patients die within months of leaving the hospital in the u.k. is that a figure you would expect. thank you very much hermie i do i think given what we've been seeing in both intensive care and non intensive care patients. the these are people who are unwell and it's but it still is still surprising to see this proportion of people dying on medium term follow up after 4 months is there any indication as to why this is happening. this isn't analysis using. large scale national data we we're continuing our analyses we haven't been able to look at the causes of death and looking at the people's. long term past medical history but it does seem that certain underlying conditions such as hypertension and diabetes the same things that put you at risk of severe illness acutely also put you at risk in the medium to as they were mentioning earlier the report also highlights some severe long term effects of coping 19 like heart problems what more can you tell us about that

for more i'm joined by mark commute dominic from the university college london where he's professor of materials and society and project lead the plastics waste innovation hub good to have you with us let's start 1st of all writing things into perspective how big a global problem ah single you masks single use masks in comparison to to plastic bottles and backs of force. so it's a very significant problem simply small so it's getting bigger so in the u.k. we did a calculation that over a year it creates 124000 tons of single these plastic waste recyclable that's just in the u.k. with 65000000 people now if you think that well boy you know you've got a 1000000000 people and more wearing single use mosques than you realize it's an enormous amount of the waste and it's growing every day of course i mean as long as the pandemic is with us we'll probably have to wear masks but why do single use mosques need to have components that are made of plastic. is there any all the material available. well yeah i mean so it depends what use are used in a mass flow for the general public the mosques o

. >>> i want to bring in our global health expert at university college, london, good to see you. you heard our correspondent on the ground outside the excel center, these preparations to reactivate field hospitals, indication of how bad it's expected to get. do you think this will ease the burden on the health care system in the uk? >> in the uk and england in particular, we're seeing the worst part of the pandemic has hit us now. and that we could see another 100,000 deaths by june 2021. and that it would actually exceed the first wave, the number of deaths. the staffing shortage, how to man the larger field hospitals. despite having the space, there's going to be struggle in order to treat the patients with people who have appropriate skill sets for ventilation and other aerosol-generating procedures. >> important points. that's obviously something that's going to concern many people. one of the positives as we were talking with selma about is this astrazene astrazeneca/oxford university rollout. how quickly can the uk and places like the u.s., which is also lagging, catch up w

. >> i want to bring in a global health expert at the university college london. good to see you. you heard our correspondent on the ground outside the excel center. the preparations to reactivate the emergency field hospitals, rarely an indication of how bad it's expected to get. do you think this will ease the burden on the health care system in the uk? >> here in the uk and in england in particular, we're seeing that the worst part of the pandemic has hit us now, and that we could see another 100,000 deaths by june 2021. and that it would actually exceed the first wave, the number of deaths. so the reactivation of the field hospitals is necessary, but, of course, the problem we face is the staffing shortage and how we're going to be able to man these larger field hospitals. so despite having the space, there's still going to be a struggle in order to treat the patients with people who have the appropriate skill sets for requiring ventilation and other aerosol-generating procedures. >> yeah. important point. that's obviously something that's going to concern many people. one of

earlier, i spoke to professor deenan pillay from university college london.accination roll—out. it is clearly a huge advance, great news we now have three vaccine is licensed or approved within the uk, very good news and demonstrating what we can do in the scientific world. of course, again, vaccines are only one part of the solution. there remain two some vaccine hesitancy, particularly in some groups, so we have to role out at speed, but at the same time involving the community is with this. the promise of 2 million vaccines per week is great. and i hope that is achieved. clearly, we are moving to these mass vaccination centres. i worry who is actually going to do this vaccination, at the moment we have gps, practice nurses, pharmacies involved in doing immunisation — they are already overstretched with the health service and knock—on effects on to primary care. it is important we have some transparency about who will undertake this mass vaccination. and explaining that to the population, to those people less willing to be immunised, many of whom are at hig

these images from london's university college hospital give a sense ofjust how much strain hospitalsengland's chief medical officer is warning that if the virus continues to grow, many hospitals will face real difficulties soon. members of the government's virus group agree. it was bad in march — it is much worse now. we have seen record numbers across the board, record numbers of cases and hospitalisations, record numbers of deaths. we are now in the eye of the storm, so to speak, and people need to take this very seriously. there are differences between the message now and last spring, some people conform support bubbles, and in some parts of the uk places of worship and nurseries are open. that has led to some scientists advising the government to say there is too much room for activity, but the main concern in government is that people are not being a strict with the rules now as they were last year. labour has said the government should have acted sooner, and its leader warned further measures may be needed, possibly closing england's nurseries, for example. he had this to say o

moderation requirements julie norman is a lecturer in politics and international relations at university college london joins us live by skype from london good to have you with us so how crippling is this social media ban on the president's ability to reach the public well sammy ever since trump took office and even before that twitter has ben his main megaphone he had over 88000000 followers and really used it quite readily tweeting often dozens of times a day and that included until and through the events that we saw on wednesday at the capital so right closing that account as well as restricting terms ability to tweet from any other accounts it certainly does not feel that make a phone however terms messages are really going out very far there are many other apps and groups that have taken up his messaging and so even though this war much of the effects of that many of trying to messages will continue to get out and you will still find other outlets to continue his rhetoric when you talk about rhetoric when you listen to what some of those who stormed the capital were saying like antelope man or the

for more i'm joined by mark commute dominic from the university college london where he's professor of materials and society a project lead the plastics waste innovation hub good to have you with us let's start 1st of all you putting things into perspective how big a global problem ah single you masks single use masks in comparison to to plastic bottles and backs of force. it's a it's a very significant problem simply small so it's getting bigger so in the u.k. we did a calculation that every year it creates $124000.00 tons of single these plastic waste and recyclable that's just in the u.k. with 65000000 people now if you think that well you've got a 1000000000 people and more wearing single use mosques then you realize it's an enormous amount of the waste and it's growing every day of course i made as long as the pandemic is with us we'll probably have to wear masks but why do single use mosques need to have components that are made of plastic. is there any all the material available. well yeah i mean so it depends what you say use them as full for the general public the masks ought

. >>> and let's bring in julie norman who lectures on politics at the university college of london. thank you so much for joining us. i want to pick up where manu raju left off, the decision over whether to remove liz cheney from republican house leadership. how big are the stakes not necessarily for her but for the party? will that be a bellwether of sorts predicting whether this will actually be the party of trump? >> i think it will. next week we'll see for the first time how the impeachment votes and the ten republicans in the house who voted for impeachment and against trump, how that vote will affect them. it will be first and foremost of course for liz cheney and her leadership position. even if she is not removed from the position, just the fact that she is being challenged which requires 20% of the conference to do that shows the blowback that might be coming. and at the same time, we've seen other trump supporters already on the primary trail attacking liz cheney in wyoming. and so it is a bit of a forecast for what we might see in 2022 and trump's power and grip over the

size is on the needed to be session oksana is a saying electra and global health advisor at university college london school of pharmacy she says chronic covenanting symptoms will put long term pressure on health systems patients have to be seen over a period of 6 months or longer due to complications of contracting the virus that means that we're going to have even less capacity less health care workforce available for treating these individuals and that will have a knock on consequences on cure for all sorts of chronic conditions cancer care it's so this is going to even truer there are put all what we see globally health systems are under extreme amount of strain here in the u.k. there have been as a result. austerity measures for many years even just coping with flu or the winter has led to a shortage of bed so you can imagine now london is an 8 of essentially emergency nearly with a major incident was declared by nayar because of the lack of hospital beds but when we look at sort of the in right now we're not even discussing the long term consequences that this very important study has highlight

earlier i spoke to a professor at university college london who was a member of the sage group. she said, hospitals simply can't cope with the number of patients coming through their doors. it isjust really bad news. the thing with hospitalisations is that we have seen, especially in london, the nhs is already overwhelmed. the people need to go to hospital of the next ten days already have coronavirus. we know that because case numbers are going up, that number will keep going up every day. we had one small snapshot of what this means in a very simple way, which is a hospital in south london which is now moving its coronavirus patients who don't necessarily need intensive care but do need to be properly monitored, at least indoors, some of the homeless patients are now being moved to a hotel in order to free up some precious capacity. i think on your twitter feed, you've put precious capacity. i think on your twitterfeed, you've put up precious capacity. i think on your twitter feed, you've put up some kind of graph which gives us a sense. perhaps you can help us interpret what

and for more i'm joined by mark commute dominic from the university college london where he's professor of materials and society and project lead the plastics waste innovation hub good to have you with us let's start 1st of all you putting things into perspective how big a global problem os tingle you masks single use masks in comparison to to plastic bottles and back so forth. so it's a very significant problem simply small so it's getting bigger so in the u.k. we did a calculation that over a year it creates 124000 tons of single these plastic waste under cyclable that's just in the u.k. with 65000000 people now if you think that well boy you've got a 1000000000 people and more wearing single use mosques then you realize it's an enormous amount plastic waste and it's growing every day of course i made as long as the pandemic is with us we'll probably have to wear masks but why do single use mosques need to have components that are made of plastic. isn't there any all the material available. well yeah i mean so it depends what you say use a mouthful for the general public the masks or

well to the norman is a lecturer in politics and international relations at university college london she says she believes trump will continue his rhetoric to spites the twitter ban. ever since trump took office and even before that twitter has been his main megaphone he had over 88000000 followers and really used it quite readily tweeting often dozens of times a day and that included up until and through the events that we saw on wednesday at the chapel so by closing that account as well as restricting trans ability to tweet from any other excellence it certainly does muscle that make a phone however trump's message is already going out very far there are many other apps and groups that have taken up his messaging and so even though this will muffle the effects of that many of trump's messages will continue to get out and he will still find other outlets to continue his rhetoric trump himself throughout his term has criticised the social media site as cracking down on him personally and restricting free speech and so this move while perhaps constraining trump in keeping some of this

like several major hospitals in the capital, university college london has had to rapidly increase criticalrge and covid-19 to cope with a surge and covid—19 patients. is caring for more than 200 numbers rising by the day. staff can't a lwa ys rising by the day. staff can't always provide 1—to—1 care. what we are having to now do is stretch those ratios, so intensive care nurses are looking after two, three, at some places in the peak they we re some places in the peak they were looking after four or five patients at a time and that puts a phenomenal amount of stress on the team. pressure to, at south end hospitals not bea to, at south end hospitals not be a shortage of staff saw the trust declare a major incident on wednesday. some patients have had to be transferred to cambridge, another sign of the unprecedented pressure hot dogs are under. staff are already stretched. they themselves are suffering from the effect of covid-19 suffering from the effect of covid—19 through being ill themselves and being work and having to self isolate because of exposure, so there is a real risk of health

i just got to get with us next to the printer our risk on disaster reduction of university college london david alexander thank you for joining us on the program david a to what extent should the wealth artie's have seen this coming. well we've had riots before in this long emergency in the last 10 months so this is not the 1st time but it's important not to get it out a perspective lockdown does work out what doesn't seem to work so well is communicating lock down and the reasons priorities and the necessity for it. some people of course maybe people the majority will behave as they should and others perhaps will behave against the law oh we need to understand the role of social media in this we need to understand exactly why people feel that they can be irresponsible about this because it is their responsibility and those are things we really need to understand quickly in order to develop a strategy might help us to stop this kind of thing happening. do you feel the leaders underestimates the will perhaps not giving enough consideration to the level of impatience people feel lost almost

for more i'm joined by mark commute dominic from the university college london where he's professor of materials and society a project lead the plastics waste innovation hub good to have you with us let's start 1st of all you putting things into perspective how big a global problem ah single you masks single use masks in comparison to to plastic bottles a box of force. so it's a very significant problem simply small so it's getting bigger so in the u.k. we did a calculation that every year it creates $124000.00 tons of single these plastic waste recyclable that's just in the u.k. with 65000000 people now if you think that well you know you've got a 1000000000 people and lot wearing single use mosques then you realize it's an enormous amount of the waste and it's growing every day of course i mean as long as the pandemic is with us we'll probably have to wear masks but why do single use mosques need to have components that are made of plastic. isn't there any all the material available. well yeah i mean so it depends what you say use and also for the general public the masks ought to pr

christina pagel is a a professor of operational research at university college london and a member ofup of scientists scrutinising the government's handling of covid. thank you for being with us. what strikes you most as you look at the latest information we have, bearing in mind there is a lag between the figures we see on the point at which people would have become infected. it is just really bad news. the thing with hospitalisations if we have seen, especially in london, the nhs is already overwhelmed and the people who will need hospital over the next ten days already have covid. so we know thatjust because case numbers have been going up that number will continue to go up every day. we had one small snapshot of what this means in a very simple way which is a hospital in south london moving some of its covid patients who don't necessarily need intensive ca re who don't necessarily need intensive care but do need to be properly monitored and at least indoors, some of the homeless patients are being moved to a hotel to free up some precious capacity. what more are we seeing around l

and for more i'm joined by mark commute dominic from the university college london where he's professor of materials and society and project lead the plastics waste innovation hub good to have you with us let's start 1st of all writing things into perspective how big a global problem oz single you masks single use masks in comparison to to plastic bottles and back so forth. so that it's a very significant problem simply small so it's getting bigger so in the u.k. we did a calculation that over a year it creates 124000 tons of single these plastic waste recyclable that's just in the u.k. with 65000000 people now if you think that well boy you've got a 1000000000 people and more wearing single use mosques than you realize it's an enormous amount of plastic waste and it's growing every day of course i mean as long as the pandemic is with us we'll probably have to wear masks but why do single use mosques need to have components that are made of plastic. isn't there any all the material available. well yeah i mean so it depends what you say use them as full for the general public the masks o

is a global health advisor and lecture university college london school of pharmacy she says despite the latest data she would not rule it out in the fight to protect against the virus. well currently we have limited data and it would show hasn't had the full picture received by chinese scientists so at this point it can if you can picture house emerge because the trials that run in different countries with the corona back in chinese back scene have been quite different on the surface of things it is disappointing to see that it is only 2.8 percent effective however we also have to consider that this does the u.s. f.d.a. even said that they would approve of any vaccine over 50 percent i think if i think you see so i think in some ways we have almost. forgotten the significance of this scientific achievement because there have been so there have been several vaccines that have higher thinking level but we really need to break it down to more. how effective is it in pieces that are severe in the ones that need medical treatment and are clogging up hospital systems and in this is just a

is a senior lecturer in global health at the university college london school of pharmacy and she says a pandemic has been used as a tool by various lobby groups to put a royal society. i think we see that this virus itself has become politicized and not to have the appropriate strategies people were supporting lock down hers and the lockdown has also been mixed in with particular ideologies and that has absolutely confounded the response and i don't think that everyone fits into that category but i think it has fueled some of the aggression that we have seen in these protests that are occurring i certainly it has not been easy but i think that reporting on the successes that we're seeing so far including this statistics are on a vaccination rates alongside the very sad it's of deaths and cases can also really reinforce that this will have an end date it's going to take us sometimes we get there but we can if we have better measures particularly you care and in your around or we can probably get there sooner as for being frustrated with mistakes in the past what we have to do is look f

i‘m joined now by professor deenan pillay from university college london.y group on covid testing. thank you for being with us, let‘s ask you about testing, do you think the expansion of testing to those without symptoms could be a real game changer in this crisis? first of all, we have to get away from thinking anything is a game changer. the one thing we have learned over the last year since this virus was known about has been we need a multipronged approach within the uk to deal with this. an announcement today about mass testing based of course on the liverpool pilot will be one bit of this whole approach. coming down to the mass testing, of course we did learn a lot through the liverpool pilot before christmas. what we learnt was that these tests that are going to be use oui’ these tests that are going to be use our 50% sensitive at best, in other words half the people who have the virus are not detected through this. those who are poor, disenfranchised do not take up the testing. and in fa ct do not take up the testing. and in fact the main worry is t

like several major hospitals in the capital, university college london has had to rapidly increase criticaly to cope with the surge in covid patients. it's caring for more than 200, with numbers rising by the day. staff can't always provide one—to—one care. what we're having to know do is stretch those ratios. so one intensive care nurse is finding themselves looking after two, three. in some places at the peak they were looking after four or five patients at a time. that puts a phenomenal amount of stress on the team. pressure too at southend hospital. a shortage of staff saw the trust declare a major incident on wednesday. some patients have had to be transferred to cambridge. another sign of the unprecedented pressure hospitals are under. staff are already stretched. they themselves are suffering from the effects of covid—19 through being ill themselves, being off work or having to self—isolate because of exposure. so there is a real risk of health services becoming overwhelmed because of lack of staff and inadequate number of beds, and because of the pressure everyone is under at the mo

i'm joined now by dr mark galeotti, honorary professor at university college london and expert in moderncs. fees protests today, they happened after alexei navalny called for them to happen. how significant is that and how much of a game changer is this? we and how much of a game changer is this? ~ , ., ., , and how much of a game changer is this? ~ ,., ., , this? we should always be careful but on assumptions _ this? we should always be careful but on assumptions about - this? we should always be careful but on assumptions about the - this? we should always be careful l but on assumptions about the game changer. if these protests turned out to be a nonevent, that probably would have been a game changer in undermining navalny, but given they have been so extremely successful and particularly given that it has reached out to different constituents in different cities and regions, what it does show is not so much anything about navalny�*s popularity but about the level of dissatisfaction that is in the country as a whole.- dissatisfaction that is in the country as a whole. from different u

with normand with us now, the university college london. we have done a number of things here.t to look forward with you to the new gridlock. democratic president, democratic senate, democratic house. why are we even talking about gridlock? julie: well, i think there is always going to be a bit of gridlock in washington, but provide an especially, yes, he does have a majority now in the senate after the georgia runoffs, but that is an extremely slim majority, with the senate being 50-50, and just having the vice president as a tiebreaker, and only a four-seat majority in the house, the slimmest in recent memory. it will be tough to get legislation through, especially in the senate, when meaningful legislation requires 60 votes. there is some surmising that having a close house and a close senate increases opportunity for comfort my and bipartisanship, it is actually sometimes the opposite. often, the minority party is even less likely to compromise in those situations because they don't want to give the majority a win. tom: if we somehow get beyond our national catastrophe, how

a recent study from university couege a recent study from university college london found more than aate for the right number of days, while less than half of people with covid symptom said they had requested a test. a £500 payment is available for the lowest earners, but it can be difficult to get. some want to see a universal payment being made available. the see a universal payment being made available. ., ., ., , ., available. the amount of people who under claim — available. the amount of people who under claim is _ available. the amount of people who under claim is about _ available. the amount of people who under claim is about ten _ available. the amount of people who under claim is about ten times - available. the amount of people who under claim is about ten times as - under claim is about ten times as many as those who over claim, so by focusing on those who might cheat the system, you actually make a system that doesn't work. point is, we want to isolate quickly, immediately. if they wait for several days, wondering whether they will get a payment, it will be too late. ,.,

so let's bring in a global health expert at university college london. good to have you with us. >> good morning. >> so as we've heard and we know, of course, most countries are struggling with administering vaccinations on a massive scale. appointment computer systems have crashed. supplies haven't met demand. it is a daunting task given everyone needs to be vaccinated. so how does this get done better and faster? >> certainly. and this is not a surprise, really. we have had a turbulent start in the u.s. and in the u.k. there are some lessons that we can learn from other countries as well. but that is to be expected given that this is the largest immunization program in history. i do think in the coming weeks and months these problems are in doubt and learning from that experience on the ground and particularly ensuring that all hands are on deck and that we are leveraging existing public health infrastructure. and in the u.s. there is a significant plan to scaleup the participation of large community pharmacies, the cvs and walgreens, et cetera who hav

and for more i'm joined by mark commute dominic from the university college london where he's professor of materials and society a project lead the plastics waste innovation hub good to have you with us let's start 1st of all you putting things into perspective how big a global problem ah single you masks single use masks in comparison to to plastic bottles and backs of force. it's a it's a very significant problem simply small so it's getting bigger so in the u.k. we did a calculation that every year it creates $124000.00 tons of single is plastic waste a recyclable that's just in the u.k. with 60 people it made it equal now if you think that well you know you've got a 1000000000 people and lot wearing single use mosques then you realize it's an enormous amount of plastic waste and it's growing every day of course i mean as long as the pandemic is with us we'll probably have to wear masks but why do single use masks need to have components that are made of plastic. is there any all the material available. well yeah i mean so it depends what you say use them as full for the general publ

like several major hospitals in the capital, university college london has had to rapidly increase criticalcapacity to cope with the surge in covid patients. it's caring for more than 200, with numbers rising by the day. staff can't always provide one—to—one care. what we're having to know do is stretch those ratios. so one intensive care nurse is finding themselves looking after two, three. in some places at the peak they were looking after four or five patients at a time. that puts a phenomenal amount of stress on the team. pressure too at southend hospital. a shortage of staff saw the trust declare a major incident on wednesday. some patients have had to be transferred to cambridge. another sign of the unprecedented pressure hospitals are under. staff are already stretched. they themselves are suffering from the effects of covid—19 through being ill themselves, being off work or having to self—isolate because of exposure. so there is a real risk of health services becoming overwhelmed because of lack of staff and inadequate number of beds, and because of the pressure everyone is under at

well, students at university college london have been told not to return to campus until at least the its decision, saying it's "the most responsible course of action in this complex situation". well, as a sign of the times we're in, police fined a dozen people for playing dominoes. police found the group hiding at the back of a restaurant in whitechapel to play the game. it's said the owner had initially claimed those inside were workers, before admitting they were playing the game. let's take a look at the travel situation now. the london 0verg round has a reduced service between richmond and stratford. that will stay that way until friday. 0n the roads, the a13 is closed into town under the beckton roundabout for emergency repairs. traffic is on diversion. expect delays all this morning. and in south—east london, there are four—way temporary traffic lights on shooters hill road at the south circular road. now the weather with kate. good morning. well, it's another very chilly start out there this morning, with temperatures widely just above zero, so should be frost—free. that's all

politics at university college london, joins me now. it's good to see you, thomas.hat do you make of these reports that donald trump and vice president pence have not spoken since the events of wednesday, which of course included rioters yelling out "hang mike pence." it seems incredible. what does it say about the state of affairs? >> well, good morning, michael. it's great to be with you. i think when mike pence looks comparatively like a voice of reason you know washington is turned upside down. clearly pence is getting a taste of what it feels like to be on the receiving end of trump's wrath. just like so many before him, bill barr, jeff sessions, countless names. trump expects absolute loyalty and fealty to him, but trump isn't loyal to anyone in exchange. if there is one individual throughout his administration has shown deference to the president, it's pence. at every turn he has given trump his full backing. then at a moment, pence won't support trump's unprecedented and anti-democratic bid to overturn a fair and free election, and trump immediately turns on

because the process does not have a permit a bed noble is electra in russian politics at university college london and he says it's clear the crimean views nouvelle me as more of a threat than they're willing to admit. we shouldn't forget that today is an incredibly important moment that both sides of the kremlin that wants to show that not only doesn't have the support that. but the steam they want to show that in fact a large number of russians are willing to brave the cold to defy the restrictions against these protests to show their support and i mean we know from polling data from september 2020 that 20 percent of russians approve of his activity what the credit doesn't know is with his increased visibility now including in response to how the kremlin has treated him since he returned from germany whether that think it is likely to go up or not found he does suffer from the fact that state controlled media does not paint him in a positive light and so we always have to treat these that a certain degree of caution that the kremlin really doesn't know what could happen to him and his approval r

sample size is a needed sign of his it is a senior lecturer and global health advisor at university college london school of pharmacy she joins us live by skype from london good to have you with us so looking at all this darters now coming to light do we know how long it will take for those who've had coded 19 to completely get over or all of the symptoms. i think it's too premature to be able to give a definitive timeline of that especially because there's going to be so much individual variation depending on underlying medical conditions age gingery than what we are seeing here in the u.k. in this approach long 2nd way we are now in our 3rd lockdown is that the demographic of the people who are being hospitalized is quite different to what we were initially seeing so there are younger patients that are coming in there are more women where it's previously what we saw was a pattern of affecting the largely elderly and particularly male patients so we still have quite a lot of research that's required to better understand long coded and post coded syndrome that she really quantify and differentiate

dr tina isaacs is an honorary associate professor in educational assessment at university college london'swhat i have just been discussing with my previous guest. how can fairness, consistency, be achieved, do you feel, when deciding what grades youngsters should be awarded this honour? i don't disagree with anything the previous speaker has said but i do want to say, and people probably will not want to hear this, but the system cannot be absolutely fair. no system can guarantee that across every school, every individual pupil, that every pupil gets exactly the grade here she deserves. what we need to create isafairenough, she deserves. what we need to create is a fair enough, the fairest system, that in this time of crisis we can rally around. so, to answer your question, sorry for the long preamble, but i think it's really important that we recognise that we can't put a perfect system in place. so yes, teachers need to know exactly what evidence they can bring to bear. i would argue that as much evidence as is humanly possible, which is one of the reasons why i was hopeful, but now it w

connection with an official let's take this now though to thomas skift he's the director at university college london center on u.s. politics joins us by skype from oxford good to have you with us so let's start with what's going on in georgia right now who do you think is going to be able to claim those remaining 2 seats well i think that it's going to be very tight historically republicans have had a competitive advantage in georgia and conventional wisdom for some time has been that it would be an uphill battle for democrats this year to win both senate seats georgia is a southern state it's quite culturally conservative and it's predominately voted for republican presidents although it did go for job biden this year but as we approach election day the races look extremely close and according to recent by $38.00 data democrats john also and raphael warnock have had very narrow leads over the republican incumbents less than 2 percentage points separate the candidates in both races so i think it really could tip either way at this point more than 3000000 georgia citizens have already voted early and

global health advisor and lecturer at university college london school of pharmacy she says despite the latest data the vaccine has still showed that it is effective in preventing severe cases. well currently we have a limited data and show hasn't had the full picture received by chinese scientists so at this point it can if you can picture house emerge because the trials run in different countries with the corona back the chinese back scene has been quite different on the surface of things it is disappointing to see that it is only 2.8 percent effective however we also have to consider that this does the u.s. f.d.a. even said that they would approve of any vaccine over 50 percent i think if i think you see so i think in some ways we have almost. forgotten the significance of the scientific achievement because there have been so there have been several vaccines that have had higher thinking level but we really need to break it down to a war. how effective is it in pieces that are severe in the ones that need medical treatment and are clogging up hospital systems and in this is just actu

for major changes surely norman is a lecturer in politics at its national relations at the university college london she says that both countries are eager to keep a pact. this was the last nonproliferation treaty between russia and the us it was set to expire next week i'm february so there was urgency behind it obviously with nuclear weapons a nuclear agreement the whole idea is to be protecting against long term risks but the fact that this agreement went forward is notable it is important and it's important both russia and the u.s. to put this out it from the beginning that they don't want the arms race to x. other any further the kremlin reached out to the biden team last week saying they would like to have this conversation it did take place we've heard that it was put in quote frank which means there was probably pretty direct conversation going back and forth but it did take place and what we understand and what you would expect in the biden administration is saying look we will take any action necessary to protect u.s. interests but we're also not looking to provoke or looking for a fight a

university college london francisco diego was this test a success or a failed.i would say that every single test is such a success because you will learn and that's exactly what they administrate to yourself so it is a success because he went ok the thing was working fine something went wrong and this is what success comes because you're going to learn from that so this. massively over budget well behind sched joel i thought when the private sector got involved with space exploration the days of being over budget and behind shed were meant to be a thing of the past. well we could say that they. were only kicked of the next think human exploration has been the lead for many years since the obama administration and now in the united states he's trying to recover that time. and yes of course there are delays and there are delays with the with the james webb space telescope for example which is delay probably will be launched these year there are delays for that time and over budget all the time i agree with you it should be easier now but being a lot of changes in

from bradford in northern england many thanks indeed under what sun appears it is lead at university college london is global citizenship program on outbreaks of infectious diseases she joins us now live via skype from london good to have you with us acts on a prime minister johnston said in that press conference hour or so ago i take full responsibility for everything that the government has done we truly did everything we could and continue to do everything we can to minimize loss of life and to minimize suffering but has it how much of the blame for the worst death toll in europe must the british government shoulder. well the government's 1st error was seeing that the modeling would follow a pattern more like flu so they they didn't proceed with the test and traces didn't that was punctuality and bad year all together march however we did not hear a firm professor chris moody admission to this in terms of lessons learned professor berry has seen malo had highlighted lessons around he checked innocent masks and the rule isn't a magic transmission has to break but ernie he also says that we should

we can speak now talks on a page jack who is a senior lecturer in global health advisory university college london school of pharmacy joins us now from london oksana thank you for your time here interesting to see what's going on the netherlands and elsewhere of course motions are running high and you can get a sense of how concerned all thirty's are about people reacting to these covert restrictions people understandably fed up but realistically what other options are they restrictions are the only way to go. yes we have seen where the appropriate restrictions combined with other measures such as an attack to test and train system has lets you. a freedoms being returned and there are many examples within south korea gets high on. your hands who are all enjoying their freedoms once again and have protected their borders through a measure of success is so by criticizing in these protests these protesters are just shooting themselves in the crotch essentially because they're contributing to an ongoing spread a particularly. high i also like to probably highlight that although there are people who di

on a senior lecturer and global health adviser at the university college london school of pharmacy and she says a pandemic has been used as a tool by various lobby groups to polarize societies. i think we see that this virus itself has become politicized and not the appropriate strategies people who are supporting lock down versus anti lockdown has also gotten mixed in with particular ideologies and that has absolutely confounded the response and i don't think that everyone fits into that category but i think it has fueled some of the aggression that we have seen in these protests that are occurring certainly it has not been easy but i think that reporting on the successes that we're seeing so far including this to sticks on a vaccination rates alongside the very sad statistics of deaths and cases can also really reinforce that this will have an end date it's going to take us sometimes we get there but we can if we have better measures particular you care and in your around or we can probably get there sooner as for being frustrated with mistakes in the past what we have to do is look

a recent study from university college london found more than a third of people didn't isolate for thes when they developed symptoms of covid—19, while less than half of people who developed symptoms said they'd requested a test. a £500 payment is available for the lowest—paid, but it can be difficult to get. this new suggestion is that there would be a universal payment of £500 to anyone who needed to self—isolate because they've tested positive. this is one of a number of proposals being looked at to revamp the current system. in the meantime, the government is keen to do whatever it can to reduce transmission rates. and so there was this announcement from the home secretary. today i can announce that next week we will be introducing a new £800 fine for those attending house parties, which will double for each repeat offence to a maximum level of £6,400. these fines will apply to those who attend illegal gatherings of more than 15 people in homes. in northern ireland, coronavirus lockdown restrictions will be extended until at least the 5th of march, the first and deputy first minist

this is actually a study led by the office from national statistics and university lester and college of londonut a third as you said. and 12% or one in eight people dying. and that's with a four to five month follow—up. is this separate from long covid? which we do know a little better but not very much. 0r which we do know a little better but not very much. or is this different? that's a great question. long covid is at the moment a vague definition of persistent symptoms 12 weeks and beyond the initial infection recovering from the acute phase of covid. what we are looking at here is a subset of people with covid. so what we are looking at is people who were hospitalized with covid, recovered and then gone on to either hospitalize or some have died. some have developed a chronic disease and some have not. but we followed a cohort of people 47,000 was up as a large enough sample allowing us to look at her age, ethnic and underlying... in look at her age, ethnic and underlying. . .— look at her age, ethnic and underl in: . .. , ., , underlying... in terms of underlying conditions. — underlying