Civil war history president s on the brink of another humanitarian disaster. Faires of the pandemic shut down there as famous speeches but travel surface contradicts the pull of the way. Im so gal welcome to the program u. S. Senator Bernie Sanders has ended his bid for the Democratic Partys nomination in novembers president ial election is announced one class of Ifa Joe Biden to challenge President Trump is 78 year old have performed well in the primaries but then fell behind biden who has built a substantial lead in the race for delegates. I wish i could give you better news but i think you know the truth and that is that we are now some 300 delegates behind Vice President biden and the pain of point victory is virtually impossible so while we are winning the ideological bow and while we are winning this award it was so many young people and working people throughout the country i have concluded that this for the democratic nomination will not be successful and so today im announcing this inspection of my campaign. Straight to washington correspondents jeff and siemens welcome staff and how surprising was this decision not really surprising to many many many had hoped for that to happen a little bit earlier than now but Bernie Sanders took his sweet time went to his most senior staff and prominent supporters financiers of his campaign and they had a long think and a long talk and now they have it the math just didnt add up impossible for him to get the delegates in the remaining primary votes which will or will not happen in one way or another due to the Current Crisis here so. I think there are great party is more or less very very relieved that its came to this not because now the full weight of the entire party and every wing in every section of the party can go behind the Biden Campaign to have gave him the best chance in their view of course to stand out against donald trump in november he seemed to start really well but then run out of steam why. Bernie sanders had always a way with very young with very enthusiastic voters with young voters who came new to politics so sander stands for the progressive wing of the Democratic Party the problem was a the young people he was so proud of having gathered in his campaign and supporting him didnt really show up in big numbers at the at the. Primaries number one number 2 biden really capitalized on the moderate democrats and on the africanamerican vote they went in droves to joe biden because they thought joe biden and do think joe biden is more electable than Bernie Sanders in a fight out with donald trump and they have it Bernie Sanders didnt get the numbers biden has the broader support biden is the candidate so joe biden clearly pleased about this but will sanders supporters necessarily flock to him. Yeah thats a little bit thats a very good question there is a big question mark about this i think they will maybe well largely hopefully at least hopefully in the sense of that by the needs to reach out and needs to have all all wings and all different sections of their great party under his wing so to speak of the progress its have to kind of if biden wants to have a solid chance against donald trump in november have to go in his direction and have to support his agenda by nobody reacted to Bernie Sanders announcement and said you are important your followers are important and you can see in the last few weeks that joe Biden Campaign made a lorries and affair through. What Bernie Sanders stands for the more progressive ideas that the will and and. Significant change in the society so this is going to be very very interesting in how much and how well joe biden can capitalize on the centers campaign and the scent is left over so to speak thanks for that stuff and siemens in washington lets turn to the corona virus a pandemic and bring you up to date with some of the latest developments and the global death toll is now more than 83000 in the early a 1000000 and a half confirmed infections since the outbreak began you finance ministers or fails to agree a joint plan to ease the pandemics Economic Impact the biggest stumbling block is the issue of socalled corona bones favored by southern Member States like spain and italy but opposed by northern countries led by germany the number of confirmed cases in africa has passed 810000 according to figures compiled by the World Health Organization and gaza as reported 13 cases of corona virus infection all of them quarantine facilities Palestinian HealthOfficials Say theyve run out of testing kits and there are fears the virus could spread rapidly amongst Young Players 2000000 people. Well there is growing concern that the pandemic could set off a humanitarian disaster in a blip last battlefield in syrias civil war the shaky cease fire has been holding but aid organizations are warning that the province which is home to more than 3000000 people is wholly unprepared for a break has been keeping in touch with People Living there and this is their story. Whats it like to live in it live in constant fear of assads approaching forces in constant fear the Aerial Bombardments will resume. For weeks now 26 year old students are hazaar tour has been sending us their impressions images from the last rebel held city in syria where the coronavirus is on everyones lips of us and im taking it seriously but its difficult when i go outside i try to wear a mask and gloves i worry that my family or i will get infected im not any the cease fire has been holding and it led for 4 weeks now the city is coming back to life and the streets and markets a bustling but just as people savor the sweet taste of freedom the threat of the coronavirus is looming. In other countries but the coronavirus people are cocooning the town here in nobody is taking the danger seriously everyones going shopping nobodys taking any precautions. In the refugee camps around the corona virus seems a distant threat to hundreds of thousands of people live here and die a conditions essential Health Measures such as keeping a safe distance or washing hands are impossible in many of the camps Health Workers are trying to raise the alarm however they can. Require you will have to understand help dangerous the situation is we as doctors have extremely limited means at our disposal to tackle this pandemic. Dr tatar is an anesthesiologist and general manager at one of the few hospitals still operating in a province hes trying to prepare the clinic even though it only has 2 intensive care beds and a single ventilator there are only 95 ventilators for the whole region with a population of more than 3000000 dr tattooist says it could get worse than an italy. There could be right soon we will have to make some really terrible decisions here you who should get a chance to live and who should be let die. Because we have no people there are no gloves and above all no ventilators or no. Clinic stuff posted this photo on facebook will stay here for you you stay at home for us but the appeal has fallen on deaf ears sa too has stopped wearing a mask when she leaves the house she says she cant stand being stared at and laughed at anymore. More tough times are ahead. A report was produced by beckett a soldier who joins me now welcome gator tell us more about why people in their lives arent taking the threat of coronavirus more seriously. To understand that we have to see what they have gone through 3 months of heart aerial bombardment that left 1000000. 00 people homeless and now theres a cease fire and the people have to go out they have to work to feed their families theres nothing like a welfare system in eclipse so the people they have to rely on themself and if they stay home to be safe because of the coronavirus their families will stay hungry but you mentioned in your report 95 ventilators for a region of 3000000 people so what happens if there is an outbreak. The sad truth is that the doctors really cant do much we yesterday talked to dr drew about this topic and he told us that around 75000. 00 statutes will be needed intensives intensive care beds but they only have 200 so that shows that they really cant do a lot for patients but they still they try whatever they can they sterilize their hospitals every day they check on patients when they come in and they try to train their stuff but the doctors are really very very bird about what is place ahead so what needs to happen then to prevent catastrophic outbreak that it lead. 1st of all testing testing and more testing because we all know that the surrounding countries like turkey like lebanon they have already a lot of cases so its quite likely that the virus has already arrived in the province but nobody knows so they need tests and long times there was no testing at all but the World Health Organization now has sent over 6000 tests but the problem is in the whole province is only one lab that can analyze the results of the test thank you for that. Lets take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world the u. S. State of new york has reported a new single day high of coronavirus deaths 800 in the last 24 hours bringing the states overall death toll to more than 6000. 00 despite this government under cuomo says the epidemic appears to be stabilizing. But his Prime Minister baraks johnson is responding to treatment for corona virus according to a government spokesman mr johnson was transferred to intensive care on monday suffering from persistent symptoms hes been receiving oxygen support but hes not on a ventilator. China has ended its 2 and a half month lockdown of the city of where the corona Virus Outbreak was 1st reported tens of thousands of people immediately took trains and buses and planes out of the city so forces a lot more freedom of movement. Got some sand on the risk of coronavirus this is the rationale behind the recent closure of rio de janeiros famous speeches but it stood up debate about how far laws should go in limiting Outdoor Sports and some surfers are fighting hard to resist the lure of the way. Rios copacabana beach is almost empty give them a funny concert to surf despite the states stay at home or to us but his defiance of recently got him in trouble with the police. Unfortunately i was caught surfing surfing is a crime now. If i dont end up with a criminal record or something as silly as that is the patio wasnt find but he now has to go to court to fight the charge that didnt stop the 22 year old from going back into the water just hours later were as president 2nd most infected state the governor recently closed our beaches in order to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Right now is the time to think about the collective of those who. Suppress my desire and i catch that wave metaphorically speaking to serve in the near future to food to process but the surface to find the band dont see surfing causing any more harm than not the soul of sports. My zuko washed. I think that in the sign way that people run they hike could ride bikes somebody can grab a board leave the house go to regularly to the lot of. Your mama walk so youve got. Its a strong argument that surfing does run the risk of overcrowding if everyone had to come to the beaches to set off. Their washing d. W. News from berlin wall world news at the top of the hour but ill leave you now with one more bit of sad news the american folk and Country Singer john prine has died at the age of 73 into complications from coverage 19 he was known face lyrical songwriting which burned on the face of bob dylan and johnny cash and won him 2 Grammy Awards he passed away in nashville tennessee but his music as they say there was a. Woman. Named. Jack. During our life. Combating the corona pandemic. Where does research stand. What are scientists learning. Background information and news. Our corona update. From the covert 19 special next on d w. Tough it is for me. Is for. Beethoven is for. Me to. Beethoven is for. Beethoven is for every. Plane to open 2020. 5th anniversary here on d w. As the death toll of coburg 19 keeps rising scientists are still uncertain about where this deadly virus came from in the 1st place its believed that it jumped from animals to humans so far pangolins and babs it was sold at the way to market in china the most likely candidates for the virus doesnt stay with humans there are signs that its also spreading to other animals a tiger at the bronx zoo in new york city has tested positive for cope with 19 developing a dry cough a couple of lions also show signs of infection. And there are reports in hong kong that dogs have tested positive without having any of the usual symptoms Scientists Say that cats are very susceptible to the virus and you people around the world are now worried about what that means for them and their pets and farmers also want to know how dangerous the virus could be to their livestock pics chicken and ducks at least im not likely to get infected but about the rest. Welcome to our covert 900. 00 special here and news and want to get jones in berlin good to have you with us what role do animals play in the corona virus pandemic which species can get infected which is immune and whats this mean for our interaction with pets and farm animals lets ask professor tomas mitten lighter hes a bar ologist and the president of the free trade lefler institute which studies Animal Health and infections which can be transmitted from animals to humans good to have you with us on the program let us start with pets a lot of people now are wondering whether their pets could transmit the virus what do we know about that so far. Hello phone in serenes what we actually do now is that cats can get infected experimentally and by. Exposure we know very little about transmission because all the instances that we seen so far they clearly hint to infection of the pats by their owners this is bias as one of ours to infect the owners so the the owner is more dangerous for the pet than vice versa what does this mean for the interaction with with our pets i mean we have terrible stories about some owners are ready putting their pets down because of this no there is no reason for doing that at all i mean of course i would stay away from my pet if i am sick myself and as is particularly true if im sick was a coronavirus too so i should really take caution in that aspect on the other hand its still very clear that this is a socalled anthropos so knows this which means that humans are the ones that infect the animals and not in this particular case the other way around so what does this mean for lifestyle i mean we already heard that picks up probably not success susceptible to the virus but what about coulson how would a pharma know that his cow for example is infected we have Experimental Evidence that picks chicken and ducks are indeed not susceptible to infection we have no Experimental Evidence of any other of the of livestock and for producing animals that are colleagues all over the goal h really testing these animals as we speak and we hope that we have more information on that in a couple of days actual so its not knowing everything yet also worries people of course certainly consumers is that any advice you have for consumers for example when it comes to milk. At the moment we have no indication that any foods really presents a risk for contamination or for transmission of the infection as i said before i mean pigs are not susceptible chicken adults are not susceptible and from what we can deduce from the previous sars correlate of ours from 2002 into his arms where he i would be very surprised to see that cattle are indeed in infected this is under experimental. Examination at the time as we speak of course were still trying to learn more about this new coronavirus professor mitten like to thank you for now we have more questions for you so dont go away because 1st we want to look at how scientists a working to find out how the virus was transmitted to humans in the 1st place. When it comes to the transmission of infections from animals to humans the Global Wildlife trade plays a major role. Take pets in some parts of africa and asia theyre considered a delicacy. But theyre also a source of viruses among them the corona virus. One study found that a corona virus found in bats shared 96 percent of its genetic material with the virus behind the current pandemic known as sars kovi 2. But this particular bat virus is unlikely to have infected human cells directly what is more likely is that the virus jump to humans via another animal one prime candidate is a pangolin the corona virus found in pangolins has similar surface proteins which dr receptors to the virus currently infecting humans but other animals are also potential transmitters the search for the source of this pandemic is still in full swing. Back to profess them in light of on the free trade lefler institute an Animal Studies what is the significance of bats carrying so many viruses and how does this knowledge help us deal with a current outbreak so probably bets are a good reservoir for different kinds of viruses not only coral iris as we actually dont know why this is the case that they can control the virus better than other species to might have a special in human system which is able to control the viruses but so far its unclear what the basis of this reservoir function really is i believe we can state is that there are frequent events that viruses actually jump towards humans from the bad reservoir of course were all trying to find a solution to this crisis and your infection studies actually found that ferrets are a good model for humans whys that. I mean ferrets are animals and out being used as a model for human respiratory infections for quite some time and probably they are also susceptible to infection by this asteroid of ours to. The good effect that the propagate the virus they excrete the viruses and they also are able to transmit to other in contact ferrets so we can actually use them for is to see the influence of for example makes a nation or education 2 words reduction of virus replication or virus excretion or transmission. Of identify corona virus to is not the 1st virus to jump from animal to humans how can we prevent this from happening in the future. I dont think we can ever completely prevent this jump from the animal to humans i mean we have increasing contact was animals there and the human population is increasing we are entering habitats usually were prohibited before and then we have organization and we have globalization i mean what we could do is to put more emphasis on discovering these. Spillover events as they call them early and then try to control and contain them as early as possible to award that they actually then continue to expand in something as we see now you know a professor met in light of their from the faith based jealously institute thank you so much for your time. And its time now to turn you to your questions questions you sent us on you tube facebook and twitter or via email our resident corona expert Eric Williams stands ready to provide some outside. Is it safe to dry your hands with a hot air hand dryers after washing them. Like me initially you probably think off the bat that a hot air hand dryer would be a good way to dry your hands during a pandemic after all you are touching anything that could be bearing germs in the air coming out is heated up so maybe that will damage viruses that produce that body temperature it sounds like it makes sense but think again a study i found that was published a couple of years ago by u. S. Researchers showed that the air flowing out of the hand dryer in a public restroom increased the circulation of microbes dramatically compared to ambient uncirculated air in the same room and if you stop and think about that it makes sense after all where did the air blasting out of the hand dryer come from it was sucked out of ambient surrounding air filled with arrows wised droplets and its a public bathroom so where are those droplets coming from. There is still a lot of debate about this and i really cant claim to be an expert on the topic but i certainly dont want to go anywhere near a public restroom equipped with hot air hand dryers at the moment. What do we know about hydroxy clora queen encoded 19. Hydroxycut who are one as a drug used to prevent and treat malaria thats currently also in testing for effectiveness against covert 92 now there are anecdotal accounts of patients who took it and showed improvement and it has so far shown some of the scene again stores to do that and so its in the lab but just because it has an effect in the lab doesnt mean that it will help in the real clinical practice a big reason and theres a lot of hope surrounding the medication is that its been proven safe to use for a very long time for us. And in particular is betting big on it theyve given up whats called emergency use authorization which means it can be given to patients that have run out of other Therapeutic Options drug makers are already ramping up production but real evidence that it can help either cure or prevent a qubit 19 is still very thin on the ground and we dont know things like for example whether if its taken in combination with other medications it could potentially do more harm than good so there are still a lot of question marks. Derek williams theyre answering your questions until be back to do the same tomorrow and that was our coverage 900 special for more on the pandemic to check out our social Media Channels and our websites thats d. W. Dot com which has dedicated to cope with 900 pages in 30 languages i want to get jones and berlin thanks for joining us and before we go heres a reminder there is no need to have your pet put down because of the pandemic also dont abandon your pet as has happened in many parts of the world already Animal Rescue teams from lebanon to bolivia up picking up cats and dogs apparently abandoned by their owners who fear their furry family members could get infected and pass on the virus a big thank you to the rescue teams and hopefully those pets can assume finding you. Enter the conflict zone with Jim Sebastian 16 months to go by since the saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed by agents of his own st margarets whose argo algebra the saudi minister of state for Foreign Affairs why are there still so many Unanswered Questions about the murder and why the most important down on human rights activists inside saudi arabia conflict in the. Next ugly almost d. W. Of the. 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This was a little rough and from that it was not authorized we still dont know what happened with mr question of the callers up possible we dont have a history of movement of citizens 16 months of go by since the saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed by agents of his own stint in is down both but the issue doesnt go away my guess this week here at the Munich Security Conference these are the algebra the saudi minister of state for Foreign Affairs why are there still so many Unanswered Questions about the murder and why the massive crowd