Germany and france and set out a half a trillion Euro Rescue Fund for europes battered economy german chancellor Angela Merkel dropped her longstanding resistance to the e. U. Raising joint crisis funding to. A i. M Clay Richards and welcome to the show brazil has overtaken britain and has now recorded the 3rd highest number of coronavirus cases in the world more than a quarter of a 1000000 brazilians have been infected and nearly 17000 have died the government is calling in more than 150 doctors from cuba to help contain the surge in cases. Brazils hospitals are running dangerously close to capacity rio de janeiros famous maracana football stadium now serving as a makeshift over spill facility for covert 19 patients. Shantytowns are among the hot spots residents from one of the biggest in the city of san paolo marched to protest against their plight with no space for social distancing and lacking medical care there especially at risk. President jaya both scenario has fiercely criticized lockdowns imposed by brazils Regional State governors because of the impact on the economy but they insist there is no alternative. To beat the economic crisis we have to beat the coronavirus the enemy of the economy is not quarantine it is the pandemic and that is why we have to provide all the necessary support for science for medicine for health. Many brazilians are angry they say they are the ones suffering because the authorities acted too slowly but i feel that brazil in this in a bad state and is behind in its response. Should have been done a long time back in getting. People into work people need to eat what theyre seeing the government playing politics so nobody is taking it seriously despite the seriousness of the problem. The seriousness of. The government says the worst of the crisis should be over by july and the economy will be able to pick up from oldest. Not everyone shares that confidence. The u. S. Biotech firm moderna is reporting promising results from the 1st clinical tests of an experimental vaccine against the corona virus early results showed from the trial it showed that participants develop antibodies is similar to those in people who have recovered from covert 19 the u. S. Government has invested half a 1000000000. 00 in the research meanwhile us President Donald Trump has said hes taking the antimalaria drug hydroxy chloroquine trump has repeatedly touted the drug as a treatment for covert 1000 despite medical warnings. Lets jump right in and bring in dr peter hotez a vaccine ologists at the Baylor College of medicine in houston dr hotez stock markets are up sharply on the news that a 1st Clinical Trial for the vaccine has been successful but how optimistic should we be at this stage in the testing. Well its still pretty early on in the testing there we only are only seeing information about 8 individuals and remember this is through a press release from the company theres thats not even published data so so we dont actually have any doubt to look at all we have is the opinion of the company so its not a lot to go on what theyre saying is that the 8 individuals handled the vaccine pretty well there were no immediate serious reactions one individual had some severe redness at the side of injection and some of the ones with the really highest dose may have had them or more so what we call a systemic problems of. A sudden and and and malays and that sort of thing but overall they handled it pretty well so thats good news and they also report that they developed antibodies which we would expect and they also developed what are called neutralizing antibodies which of the type of antibody need to protect against the virus the big question that we really havent seen is the amount of neutralizing antibodies because we know from Laboratory Animal experiments including ours for the vaccine were developing you need a lot of that neutralizing antibody and all we know is theyre saying its roughly equivalent to the amount thats found in patients who are unfit previously infected with the virus and terms of neutralizing antibody and theres a report coming out from the week before from my colleagues at the Rockefeller University in new york saying thats not a lot of neutralizing antibodies so its a little bit of a confusing muddled message and itll sort out once we see the published out of a for right now the vaccine looks like its well tolerated whether or not its going to work we are really know until we do those large phase 3 Clinical Trials which will get underway in the summer in the fall of pharmaceuticals have been made. News elsewhere as well u. S. President donald trump claimed earlier today that he is taking the antimalaria drug hydroxy chloroquine listen to us but i get a lot of tremendously positive news on the hydroxy and i say hey you know the expression ive used what do you have to lose ok what do you have to lose that i have been taken for about a week for about a week and a half every day at some point every day i take a pill every day. At some point ill stop what id like to do is id like to have the cure and or the vaccine and that will happen i think 1st of. All theres currently no evidence that hydro hydroxy clark plan is effective in treating cofa 19 and it could be serious risks associated what would you say it to trump or others who might be considering taking a strike. At this point ive not seen any compelling data supports that it does anything you know we are at this stage about a decade ago for influenza it worked in a test tube and there was a big study showing that it did not prevent you from getting influenza and it looks like its probably going to be the same for kovan 1000. 00 so i would say the risk of Heart Disease and arrhythmias and others outweigh the and need potential benefits so i think there are Better Things we could do if he is seriously concerned about earth as doctors are concerned about him being exposed to cova 19 or if he has been exposed we have convalescing the antibodies plasma that we know has a much better record both in service one and were doing clinical studies now for this new one so as to that would be a far better option for dr pear hotez thank you so much for that analysis thank you. Germany and france have announced a half a trillion euro plan a to help europe weather the worst crisis in decades the proposal calls for a rescue fund to boost sectors of the economy hardest hit by the pandemic and in our 1st german chancellor Angela Merkel and her long standing resistance to the e. U. Raising joint debts to Fund Relief Efforts its Wishful Thinking to hope europes economies could bounce back as easily as these provisions after months under lockdown even before the e. U. Commission presents its aid package berlin and paris are rushing through a joint initiative for economic recovery in a bid to put this crippling face behind them. In a joint News Conference with the french president chancellor Angela Merkel stressed the coronavirus pandemic is in danger and european unity. More steps by the fund has to help ensure that all countries in europe can react appropriately but. This requires an extraordinary one off effort which france and germany are ready to undertake provided that if this is the result of bilateral work in cooperation with our partners im convinced that this plan provides the groundwork to revive our lives our economies and our societies. To offset the drastic decline in production transport and tourism across europe this Development Fund will get an injection of 500000000000 euros e. U. Budget funds will be made available to the hardest hit regions and sectors. The overall plan is designed to strengthen the e. U. s future viability of the in these resources will of course if this purpose invest in digitalisation and the green deal to cope with the climate catastrophe this will inspire a new dynamic for the future i am in the field of health we will aim for cooperation to apply all be flown from the crisis to get them by their design tight. That sounds like support for the e. U. Commission whose economic Recovery Plan is being drafted the commissions president is expected to present it next week lets take a look at some other stories making news around the world a group of labor unions has filed a complaint of systemic Sexual Harassment against the fast food giant mcdonalds the unions say workers were abused at restaurants in countries including the us britain and australia the chain insists it does not control working conditions and franchised outlets. Members of the Extremist Group boko haram have killed at least 20 people in a village in northeastern nigeria eyewitnesses say the islamists stormed the village and began shooting just as people were preparing to break their ramadan fast at sundown boko haram has now been waging its insurgency for more than a decade. While germany is slowly easing out of coronavirus restrictions breathing life into the hard hit Tourism Sector beaches have reopened in the Northern State of time a welcome boost for local businesses. The season may be beginning 6 weeks late. But the beach shares are out. The coronavirus shutdown cost this beachside cafe 200000 euros in lost revenue owner hi now back in myer is keen to get back to business in the field that traditionally we had to remain closed over easter when the weather was excellent that saying come when now missing. Luckily customers are returning believe me we like to have breakfast here its nice here especially when the beach chair is close to the water finished one cup size. But while restrictions are scaled back new rules apply the distance between the chairs is carefully measured and adjustments are made on a minimum distance of 2 metres is required. Well continue. This he doesnt get to become a dame stunt or was he the Authorities Say beach chairs have to remain in exactly the same place people can turn them to face the sun but they cant be moved even by a few metres. High now back to my own hopes that his customers stick to the rules another closure would mean bankruptcy. Sports now and the quiet stands and stunted goal celebrations seen in this League Matches in recent days may be strange and unfamiliar but theres nothing new about the goal scoring talent of leverkusen young star that has courted to at leverkusen return to action on monday night with a 41 a victory away from home against strugglers better brendan. The closing act of the reopening weekend underneath the visa study on lights theres much about the in the strange times like the sight of teams emerging separately from the tunnel that makes the match day feel like a Training Exercise and it was with Training Ground ease that leverkusen breezed through brakemans defense to net the opener in the 28th minute. Charge unchallenged to the touchline and picked out an unmarked car i havent seen he put the guests in from braman work back level just 2 minutes later when leon gets in courts corner was turned by a crafty tiered ok bruce alessi back but just 3 minutes after that laver couzens lead had been restored yet another free header for one decade cause i have a tz whose 2 goals gave his side an advantage that they carried into half time. They drew further in front on the i will mark visor profited from some serious confusion in the brain and back line to make it 3 want. And in the 78th minute carrying demi by was able to put the result beyond doubt after a small true ball from covering better robbie and an early dive from keeper pavlik. Both teams pick up where they left off before the break a dream restart for later accuser and a nightmare one for embattled break. Well a night at the museum that turned into a morning in court for one german student thats when a 5 year old has been granted bail after being accused of breaking into an Australian Museum and taking selfies with a dinosaur c. C. T. V. Captured him roaming around the closed museum at 1 in the morning. Remember you can keep up to date with all the latest on our web site dot com im Claire Richardson and by len thanks so much for watching. Its a deadly sin. And the women of nature. In the face of the. Drums to. Greet. Me should be desire to. Move the dr stockmann