Angela merkel drops her longstanding resistance to the e. U. Raising the joint crisis funding. Im Claire Richardson welcome to the show the u. S. Biotech firm moderna is reporting promising results from the 1st clinical tests of an experimental vaccine against the coronavirus early results from the trial showed that participants develop antibodies a similar to those in people who have recovered from cove at 19 the u. S. Government has invested half a 1000000000. 00 in the research meanwhile President Donald Trump said hes taking the antimalaria drug hydroxy chloroquine trump has repeatedly touted the drug as a treatment for cofa 19 despite medical warnings well lets jump right in. 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 th
A trillion Euro Rescue Fund for europes battered economies german chancellor on the american who dropped her longstanding resistance to the e. U. Are raising joint crisis funding. Im Claire Richardson 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 of brazilians have been infected and here the 17000 have died the government is calling and 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 the narrow has fiercely criticized lockdowns imposed by brazils Reg
Germany and scientists are developing an app to improve Contact Tracing in south africa as it races to contain the corona virus. Im sorry kelly wild to the program u. S. President donald trump has threatened to cut funding to the Worlds Health organization permanently unless it implements substantial improvements over the next 30 days in a letter to the director general of the w. H. O. Trump says that the organization gives quote terrible advice for fighting the coronavirus and accuses it of being too close to china the us president has also said that he is currently taking the anti malaria drugs why trucks a cork plant what it does not trump has repeatedly tells of the drug as a treatment for covert 1000 despite warnings. Medical experts about its potentially dangerous side effects 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 your project for about a week for about a wee
Unless it improves its function within 30 days. From. The. Welcome to the program judges are germanys high court. Spying on them by germanys foreign intelligence agency. That surveillance of journalists violates the. Rights to privacy and freedom of the press the challenge was brought by 6 foreign journalists. And the Advocacy Group Reporters Without Borders a court is giving the spy agency unto the end of next year to change the way operates. From on this im joined by hans brandt from our parliamentary studio here in berlin hans it was john listen journalist organizations that brought this complaint to the court what does the verdict mean for journalists lawyers and Civil Rights Networks from all over the world basically it means that they have have the same protection under the german constitution as a german journalist in germany or german lawyers in germany would have in other words what the court has ruled is a very fundamental basic principle that the german agencies the German S
With bags of gold. In front of. Us president. Out of the. Funding. The director general of the. Improvements based on his criticisms within 30 days he accuses the u. N. Agency of being too close to china beijing and. It accuses him of shirking of responsibilities to support a global. Final decision and call it the fun of the w. Even before trump issued his in century letter to the World Health Organization it was clear he was about to attack. And i think theyve done a. Very sad job in the last period of time. And again the United States pays them 450000000. 00 a year china pays them 38000000000. 00 a year and theyre a puppet of china. China centric to put it nicer but theyre a puppet of china those comments at a white house event were quickly followed by a trump tweet he links to a letter accusing the w. H. O. Of making a series of missteps over its response to the pandemic in it he warns that if the World Health Organization does not commit to major substantial improvements within the