Going to a country could lose control of the coronavirus pandemic unless. The chancellor of the countrys largest cities it clears range of new measures for those places where case number has increased. The 1st time. They have the World Food Program express is joyous the agency was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Im for welcome to the Program Germany is marking the 1st anniversary of a deadly antisemitic attack on a synagogue in the eastern city of how the attack took place on the jewish holiday of your poor assailant failed to breach the synagogue front door but gunned down 2 people outside speaking at the ceremony in the city german president. Said he felt sadness shame and anger over the attack and over the recent riots in anti semitism and racism in germany is more of the president s speech. And i meant that as i said in gentleman it is not and not like to condemn an attack like the one in hamas targets and then to return to business as usual. We must take a clear stance on this we must show them that we will not tolerate any form of them until something says no more than its old or new left wing or right wing they are too freakin more than that that we will actively combat it and this is a fight that every one of us must fight because anti semitism is a canary in the car mine for the state of our democracy because in more overtly it is expressed the lore our values of tolerance and respect for Human Dignity are under attack. While they dont do correspondent kate brady was in the house for the ceremony it was a somber day here in the city mark one year since the terrible attack it was a day not only to remember the victims of the shooting but to also show a sign of solidarity with the Jewish Community both here in helena but also across the country so Memorial Services took a more critical stands highlighting again the faily is made by police in the investigation after the attack but also the blind eye that have been turned towards far right extremism in germany for many years during his speech at a Memorial Service in this concert hall behind me german president from files a steinmeyer reminded German Society that it had a responsibility to protect the rights and values that germany stands for to stand up as well against any kind of hatred in the country we stand together we are strong he said. Came brady reporting german chancellor Angela Merkel and the mayors of 11 of the countrys biggest cities have agreed a package of new measures to hope the spread of corona virus germany fears a growing 2nd wave of the pandemic after infection rates in several cities including balin and frankfurt passed a key threshold and triggered tighter restrictions from her office in berlin Angela Merkels Video Conference with the mayors of key cities sent the message germany urgently needs to prevent corona spreading in urban centers the other spirit other things we arent sense that the big cities there have been areas and now the area now where we will see if we can keep the pandemic and control in germany as we have done for months so for if we lose control status precisely where we are right now it cannot be important than. To contain the virus the mayors agreed a tough new framework it could see experts from germanys armed forces and the National Disease control body sent into cities if the 7 day infection rate rises above 35. 00 per 100000 residents their job would be to focus on content tracing cities where that infection number is above 50 will require people to wear masks in public spaces and there will also be limits on alcohol sales and socialising berlin and frankfurt have already reached their threshold and experts are worried the situation could deteriorate as it has in some other countries the experience in other cities its like. Look into the future if we are not ready. To act on the problem now especially in cities and the element of this activity is to inform the general public to avoid mis information and to rely on the corporation of off the general public including the younger people many young people in berlins bars of not yet change their behavior from saturday people in the capital will only be able to socialize in groups of 5 more if theyre from only one or 2 households. Its club of your home you know we have a rule which allows us to take action very quickly because were saying very clearly these places must be closed from 11 pm its easy to see if a bar is still open or not if it is action can be taken quickly to get young people may find it hard to take a break from their social lives but as the chancellor appealed to them to observe the rules she also offered reassurance. This fits in with everything the return parties nights out from without corona but what matters now is something out some respect and solidarity is on my side and if the rise in infections is not halted within 10 days the mayors have agreed to impose even stricter measures. Will take a look at some other stories making news around the world now the spanish governments declared a state of emergency in the capital madrid because of a rapid increase in the number of coronavirus cases the government overruled regional offices in order to enforce a partial lockdown of the capitol and surrounding regions the countrys Health Minister said the measures were necessary to prevent madrids high infection rates affecting the rest of spain. The Foreign Ministers of azerbaijan and armenia have met for talks in moscow following nearly 2 weeks of deadly clashes over the disputed region of new corner kyra back to the mountain on klav is as near a territory but under International Law under International Law but is populated and governed by ethnic armenians. Kurdistans of president saddam by gen backoff declared a state of emergency in the capital bishkek and sense troops in to restore order in the us when it came as protesters took to the streets for the 5th day following sundays disputed the heart of entry elections president has said he is ready to resign once a new cabinet is appointed. The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize has been won by the World Food Program the Norwegian Nobel Committee praised the u. N. Agencies work in fighting Global Hunger and the use of hunger as a weapon of war the committee described the award as a call to the International Community not to underfund the w f k. Its perhaps the most prestigious award in the world the Nobel Peace Prize is craved by World Leaders including one of this years nominees stunnel tramp but the jury decided to honor an organization not a politician for promoting peace the prize came with an urgent appeal here with this years award the Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to turn the eyes of the world towards the millions of people who suffer from a face the threat of hunger. The world the World Food Program plays a key role in multilateral cooperation on making Food Security an instrument of peace last year the World Food Program fed millions of people at risk of starvation. The u. N. Body is active in 88 countries. This has made it an agent of peace says the nobel committee. The link between hunger and Armed Conflict is a vicious circle of war and conflict can cause Food Insecurity and hunger just as hunger and Food Insecurity can cause latent conflicts to flare and trigger the use of violence. As the winner was announced in oslo there was joy and surprise at the w. F. Page. Oh this is the 1st time im oh i forbid speechless like. This is a little well talk about the most exciting point in time with your wife is the Nobel Peace Prize it is because of the the family there out there in the most difficult complex places all in the world with this war on fleet climate extremes it doesnt matter theyre out there and they deserve this award and well well well market will even that wont be much time to celebrate 135000000 people suffered from a key tanga in 2019 the most in years challenges that the coronavirus conflict and Climate Change ensure that the work of the World Food Program is not about to get any easier. Will the restraint poor speaks for the World Food Program in latin america the caribbean and she joins us from panama city welcome to day w. 1st of all congratulations how does it feel. Many thanks it is an enormous surprise for us to wake up with this marvelous news exciting and joyful as our executive director said at the same time we know that not so people are suffering this has been a difficult year for everyone so we also celebrate with the communities we serve around the world and in latin america and the caribbean as well im what difference will winning this award make to the work of the w. F. One thing that is really important is that hunger is really driving coffee and it its also a cause and effect as well so it when theres a lot of turmoil whether its conflict or Climate Change or economic shots including coal. As well we tend to forget other things and we see hunger really increasing dramatically have crossed the world in latin america in the cave in specifically 400 percent compared to last year and we hope that this shifts a light on the needs that we have to really feed those people those millions of people who are really really struggling right now. Perhaps you could give an example of one of the projects but its not but youre most proud of there in latin america the caribbean what are you doing. Differently we working 12 countries and sub regions for example in Central America where helping out subsistence farmers whove been struggling for the past 5 years with Climate Change droughts heavy rains the Hurricane Season as well that started very very strongly in june this year and we dont have any hope and essentially we are assisting them together with governments with International Donors other partners including in the private sector to really be resilient to learn new skills to have access to markets and in times of emergencies when they really ran out of food to give them that assistance so thats one of the projects that we have we also work very closely with migrants in south america who are struggling who are more vulnerable than regular population with also a voucher is another type of assistance to help them out in this very difficult time how much is the covered pandemic affecting your work. Its really exceptional ie hard to work in these conditions. As you know left in america has been hard hit by the pandemic 22 percent of global cases are in this region also more than 50 percent of the population have informal jobs that means that because of this whole torso konami problem generated by the economic they have nothing they lose their job they dont have any social protection programs to support and so in that sense we see that not only is this a problem in rural areas but also were seeing an increasing problem in urban areas. So thats an increase compared to last year from point 0300000 people food insecure severely insecure weve seen now 17000000 people so this is a dramatic increase. And we are scaling up our programs in order to respond to that in the books what we say can for for joining us and congratulations again. On the World Food Program. Thank you very much. Its time to remind you of our top story here on d. W. B. Eastern german city of dallas has been marking the anniversary of a near of nazi terror attack on a synagogue that left 2 people dead german president bush said. Was the canary in the coal for the state of the countrys democracy or it was expressed a lot of german problems. As if youre up to date im presuming because ive covered 19 special effects with. Combating the corona pandemic. Where does research stand. And. What are scientists learning. Background information and news. Hour corona updates. From the coded 19 special next on d w actually written or just shows number but it shows. The smart way to kill. A strong testing regime plays a key role in slowing the spread of covert 19 but getting tested can be a major challenge. C and then waiting for the results the sample has to get to the lab and back that can take up to 4 days that is much too long to stop a pandemic and. Several nations are developing rapid tests that turn out results within minutes. But experts are concerned about their accuracy c. Well no one wants to be ushered into a full sense of security thinking they havent got the corona virus but spreading it and its a pain to think you do have it when you do it and go to all the trouble of total quarantine thats why these new rapid tests could be a blessing but could they also be a curse. As a journalist i meet quite a lot of people and some of them maybe corona positive so today i want to try out the new antigen test. For why theyre really good and i would like you to buy an antigen do it for time afraid i cant show you the test as things stand it can only be given out to medical staff so you dont qualify you cant test yourself you simply have to go to the doctors and its kind of. After this initial setback i find a doctor whos willing to let me do the test myself not the standard procedure here. In this is this is the packet containing the antigen quick test i only does it a week ago so i had to read the instructions to and this is also a small sterile swab here. But you know if you cant get your tongue time far enough you can use a stick to help them or you can to hitting the road is ok. Not that easy but for me definitely doable have you done both sides yes left and right afterwards the swab goes into the liquid which is then dripped on to the test. One line means negative 2 means positive. So its pretty clear the test is showing a negative result. Sibylla katzenstein things everyone should have a test like this at home. It would be great for a mum for example whose child wakes up feeling sniffly but she isnt sure and is wondering whether she can take the child to school and go to work herself. If patients have access to a simple test they could do at home that will do use the pressure on doctors and laboratories and it would help a lot of people to decide what to do. But critics say the test is not sufficiently reliable heres how laboratory and tests compare. When a person gets infected with coverage 19 the virus load in the body starts to flow increasing rapidly in the 1st days and then decreasing as time passes irregular lab test can detect the virus early on but very little virus load the entered in test can only detect the virus later and the load is higher so does that mean i could actually still be positive despite having a negative result i asked a lab expert when he was asked if the viral load in the throat is not high enough to begin by the test that might result in a false negative and its the same if this was not done properly. And is intense and fast way of testing. That the test is a sensitive matters and can completely. And to do tests can replace tasks that they can be of great help in the fight against cold 90. Martin burke has been helping develop an antigen based test at the university of illinois he says it allows for fast and frequent testing on a large scale and is safe 1st of all how does it work. Thanks just to clarify the test that were currently using is a p. C. Rbs test a saliva test at the university of illinois that was developed to skip arnie isolation so its fast and scalable results are within hours and i think its important to point out this is different than the antigen test or working on antigen tests here or not roll those out yet in the laboratory. Is it also completely different to an Antibody Test which would only tell you if youve had an infection no if youre actually infectious correct our test is looking for the virus in your saliva so we look for 3 genes from the virus its a quick direct from saliva to p. C. R. Assaye so allows us to detect whether that tell you the number of copies per milliliter of the virus in your saliva what makes it safe so the key is that the little detection is very low so we pick up 5028000 copies per mil weve been now testing about 50000. 00 people twice per week over the course of the last several months more than half a 1000000 tests have been performed and what we see is that people go from negative negative negative and then when they flip positive we can see it at very low viral loads so we think we can catch people before they infect others so it sounds extremely accurate or precise how how accurate would you say it is. Thats very accurate were looking at 3 genes at the same time and for the positive test we go ahead and repeat them very quickly just to make sure so we believe we have a very high level of accuracy both for positives and negatives which is critical when applying on scale with 50000 people we can have a lot of false positives or false negatives otherwise its very difficult to make the system work exactly because false negatives of what will implode any testing system and and weve already seen examples in countries where theyve stocked up on these rapid test sets but theyve been antibody based tests and thats basically backfired on them well i think what we need to learn to do is figure out how to use each type of test in the right setting right so this is a very challenging problem and we have to figure out the best way to use different tests in different situations to maximize protection against spread in a community we think now that we have a system working with the saliva based test comparing that test directly to these new imaging tests head to head would be a really good way to find out whether they could provide the same level of protection of the test that were using a month and i guess the question everyones going to be honest in themselves is is this going to be a game changer i hope so and i think we need to figure out how to use the antigen tests so that we are not giving ourselves a false sense of security i think we have to understand the limitations every test has limitations and we just need to i think better understand when is the right time to use which test and to understand the limitations so that we dont give ourselves a false sense of confidence but one thing i would just say no matter what test were using we have to wear masks and social distance no interest will allow us to stop doing that and thats really important and the limitations in this case that you need actual Trained Personnel to conduct these tests these on tests that one can do just at home. Correct our test is done in a laboratory and other saliva collection is done intense you just walk through in 5 minutes and dribble saliva into a 2 but then the rest of it is done absolutely you know in a laboratory setting. Even mention this wont be the only solution in fighting off the corona virus is it going to take other types of tests and other approaches to see that we do battle this Battle Office or fight off this pandemic absolutely i think we need all hands on deck and we need to continue to innovate and find new ways to detect the virus obviously we need a safe and very effective vaccine we continue to need better and better treatments to make sure that people who get sick dont actually die or have long term secretely in the hospital and we all need to continue to do our part obviously 6 extraordinary challenging time we need to hang in there and continue to be safe and make smart choices about how we socialize and wear masks and social distance it works and we need to keep those vigilant in place and before i let you go what sort of timescale are you a timeline to youre looking at because we are now heading into winter in the Northern Hemisphere its going to be a very challenging time i expect. Absolutely so were in this for the long haul the university of illinois as i mentioned weve now performed half a 1000000 test last several months are delayed Positivity Rate is 0. 24 percent and but we are not letting our guard down so we figure in this policy for a couple years and i think we all need to just kind of adapt to the new normal where we do very safe thoughtful things to help us get back to thriving as a as a society and as our commies need to you know thrive as well so its just really important that we of course think holistically thats my most Important Message its got to be a holistic approach i think in order for the store excellent thanks for joining us today thanks for having me on. Derrick williams turn to take the reins science correspondent has been busy looking into your questions about the pandemic. Once dangerous is the pneumonia why not find a cure or treatment for the knee manuf instead of the virus pneumonia is a blanket term thats generally defined as a more or less serious inflammation of tissue in your air passages and or your lawn it can be caused by a number of different pathogens both both viral and bacterial pneumonia that cove in 1000 can cause is generally an issue you needed by the virus and cant be treated for example with antibiotics which only kill bacteria when theyre infected with sars cove to the cells in the small sacks in their lawns where gas exchange occurs what are called the alethea why begin to die and clog the lungs up and that can eventually lead to whats called an acute respiratory distress syndrome as the pneumonia progresses the situation can be exacerbated by the immune system causing massive inflammation which is which is supposed to help get the infection under control but which can actually make things worse so so treating or curing coronavirus pneumonia means either addressing the problem at its root which is the sars code to infection itself or somehow toning down the bodys immune response to when it goes over the top. And now to the latest done to from over 200. 00 countries which showed new cases doubling in 26. 00 nations and increasing in another 83. 00 countries they stayed at the same level in 10 countries 71. 00 nations have seen their new positive coverage 1000 cases full another 11 huffing and 8 countries have reported no new cases for 4 weeks in a row. His the biograph showing the statistics of the last weeks the fight against corona is over when that whole chart turns blue thats going to take a while. d to have you along for another of alcove and specials ive been for so and by finale. Now i know b. Is going green. Kenyas capital city is transforming illegal dump sites into public parks alameen what you wish was a new make it a place where people want convenience and come from. The path to becoming an environmentally friendly metropolis. Town nairobi is bringing nature back to the city africa. Next on. Every 2 seconds a person is forced to flee their home nearly 71000000 people have been forcibly displaced. The consequences of been disastrous in our documentary series displaced depicts dramatic humanitarian crises around the world you know. Forget them i didnt go to university to kill people that i want to have my boss come to me and tell me to kill someone having in many and if i dont theyll kill me. Cheeky things for their lives and their future so they seek refuge abroad is about building a vasquez me the most about their status seem to rise is that someday we wont even see the roots out. But what will become of those who stay behind its a way my husband went to peru because of the crisis. If he hadnt gone there we would have died. Longer. Plans and went on down the. Stretch october 16th. When the sun is beating down in the city high noon what could be more welcome than the last shitty tree offering a break from the heat on a nice wrist welcome to this weeks equal africa i am sundered 3 nobody here in kampala uganda today in the environmental magazine will be looking out how green little promises come be right neither to