A room. It was hard i was free. I even got white hair. Language head telling us this gives me a little but you need to interrupt the flight you want to their story lines are fighting and reliable information for margaret. A double epidemic is coming as covert cases rise and influenza wave is heading to the Northern Hemisphere what if you get dont fit the same time. To corona virus is already in your territory its a combination with influenza equally unknown. Winter will be a challenge. The big problem were facing is that cove it can look a lot like flu but thats going to create a lot of problems for our hospitals so one of the most support things we can do is to prevent flu in our community and one of most important tools we have is the flu vaccine whether it impacts the behavior of the coronavirus is another thing but a flu vaccination could narrow the diagnostic options when flu like symptoms occur. Doctors say its more important than ever to get your flu shot this year facebook has launched a Vaccine Information campaign its also banning ads that discourage people from getting the jap as they reportedly only for found out demand is surging experts say this could be a test run for an eventual coronavirus vaccine. A little pinprick that protects against the flu and helps make sure the Health System wont be overwhelmed doctors are worried about a widespread flu outbreak alongside a new wave of covert 19. The the demand for flu vaccinations is higher this year than usual and people are a bit alarmed and scared and that means that they are much more willing to get vaccinated. A flu jab is usually recommended for those over 60 pregnant women people with preexisting conditions and medical workers but this year of the vaccination is available to everyone who wants one. German Health Minister says anyone who wants to have themselves and their children vaccinated should and can do so but if everyone in germany decides to get a flu jab there wont be enough of the vaccine to go around. If we just vaccinate anyone who wants to then its quite possible that the people who really needed may not be able to get a vaccine at all in the end would be ethically and medically wrong. To avoid that outcome the Vaccination Commission recommends that high risk patients be vaccinated 1st then the rest of the population germany. Has never used up all of the vailable vaccines never the less this year the flu vaccination will serve as a test run for an eventual corona vaccination and we can learn how a covert 1000. 00 Vaccination Program might work from how influenza vaccinations go this year well probably vaccinate the same risk groups 1st will have much less of the vaccine at 1st compared to the influenza vaccine so well probably have to vaccinate gradually starting with those who need it most in this respect you can see the flu vaccine as a kind of test for the population boom for people focus on the outcome want to see in the states and the medical profession are hoping to learn valuable lessons from this years flu season and how to prioritize future vaccinations. Nucular petrus it all joins us from italys National Institute for Infectious Diseases in rome. I got my flu shot last week was that a good idea that well somebody very good idea i did the same just 10 days ago and was also vaccinated against there are no cocoa infections this is a very very with a good because we have decreased. The number of flu cases. Firstly because florrie its. The infection that should be prevented before in scotland patients secondly because we have to avoid fresh during the winter season or in the hospital for. Me to. Tell me this there are studies that show that it could actually protect me against the corona virus is is that can you substantiate that. There is no evidence that. The vaccine national gas fuel can protect them against. Collider still different viruses and they belong to different families they snowy interactions between the 2 viruses and the Facts National against flu does not protect against coronavirus there is scope to be seen aided. By another important. Risk into the system that can get. Worse the course of a confection with coffee or will increase the pressure in their hospital does. Mission and intensive care mechanical ventilation cases of what if i do get the flu and corrado at the same time we dont have a box you think a sick or how. About of also busy 5 so for your question no no. Reply i just can say that if we have all the vaccine come in at the same time they could be done and maybe next year when in. All the vaccine. About it wont need to be done to get. New zealand has a 99. 8 percent reduction in flu cases following its code 90 response it is that because so many people so much more vigilant about washing hands wearing modest. This is a possible explanation the most likely explanation that the measures to reduce the spread of the current of i can reduce also the spread of through all this is correct and in my view. If we use proper masks wash and sand and we have a physical distance if we can avoid bot fuel and. The the fact that new zealand the number of cases of flu is is so dramatically decreasing at my m. P. The due to the debt up to their under arrest of the people who gave the commissioners for whats your Research Reveal on geographical differences on the spread and sabera here of the flu and coated. The buck through end of the earth does need to be the same way it is there is already there is get all the way to the outlets and the contact oa cobbett. Bashan can just meet the infection dual to one cog passion to 2. 00 persons on average whereas trust me c. B. D. For flow is low at around the one a 1. 00 and case fatality rate is around 5 percent up to 1520 percent they know people older than 80 are sold for coffee whereas. For through the more case but i hear a lower than one percent and this is the big difference between the. Terms of epidemiology you know patricio thank you very much for joining us today. A brief look at some of the coronavirus stories making news. Another setback for hopes of a vaccine anytime soon johnson and johnsons Clinical Trial of its code 19 vaccine is on hold after a volunteer came down with an unexplained illness. Nearly has also posed a Clinical Trial of an antibody treatment. To Taiwanese Companies have designed a covert rapid test using electronic chips a coating on the bios into a tracks and binds with the are in a of the virus in the flow of electrons through the semiconductor changes showing a negative or positive result in a few minutes and researchers in japan have used a supercomputer to show how humidity affects the dispersion of corona virus particles the findings suggest contagion risks are high in dry indoor conditions in winter they say unifies could help limit infections when window ventilation is not possible. Of to our science correspondent now Derek Williams for another book shelf installment of his q. And a view as he says. How do you make a vaccine for something that mutates. I get asked this a lot to answer we have to look at the process of evolution not just like with living organisms the genetic code that governs how a virus is made changes from generation to generation sometimes in small ways sometimes in big ones the progeny if they survive eventually will become separate strains that are distinct from their common ancestor their genetic code has changed and and that can change how they look at their structure and also how they interact with potential hosts for example whether they can cause more or less severe illness whats key to creating a vaccine is the speed at which these changes occur in viruses like the ones that cause influenza for example which have genomes that are less stable or the rate of change is so rapid and random that we need a new vaccine to fight them every year we have to play catch up with flu bugs all the time fortunately due to the way that sars makes copies of itself its genome remains relatively stable as far as we can tell a worldwide there isnt a lot of genetic variation yet among all the Novel Coronavirus is circulating in different parts of the planet and because those groups are so homogeneous theoretically a vaccine that can prevent one should be able to prevent them all whats interesting and kind of scare. Is that is that when we start to prevent infections with a vaccine will also start forcing sars cove to change in ways that will allow it to get around the vaccine but but thats a different question. Finally the pandemic has been let down for live music lovers many concept holes remain closed to prevent the spread of the virus. Certain members of the new York Philharmonic have decided to take their music to the public and now staging performances of the citys streets and in pots the setting is a hot cry from there for them on excuse will bail you out it gives the musicians a sense of purpose and is likely to attract strange facts and also. Good to have you along for another about specials. See you tomorrow. Into the conflict zone to survive. A deep 3 divided america is heading for its election my guest this week from washington is Ken Cuccinelli reacting number 2 of the problems of Homeland Security which caused uproar all through reports of these agents used Excessive Force during recent protests in Portland Oregon counties Department Keep the peace conflicts. Next. To the barricades in defense of cultural autonomy. In brooks kentucky part of the countrys top Arts University the far right government wants to impose a government wanted more to the school. The student protests. Strongly oppose this measure. The cultural war in hungary is heating up. Focus on europe. In 60 minutes on d w. Every 2 seconds a person is forced to flee their home. The consequences have been dishonest or as our documentary series displaced depicts dramatic humanitarian crises from around the world. Fuck it then we dont have time i think i didnt go to university to kill people and i thought it back to that. People feel for their lives and their future so they seek refuge abroad but what will become of those who stay behind. Displaced starts october 16th on g. W. I. We have some states whove made sudden changes to their elections systems at the last minute and that is never a good idea isnt perhaps the biggest threat to your democracy being favored by the president to commit to accepting the election result if you lose it you know thats a stupid question really a deeply divided america is heading for its election with the polls showing many people are afraid of violence after the vote my guest this week from washington is Ken Cuccinelli hes the acting number 2 with the department of Homeland Security which caused uproar after reports of its agents used Excessive Force during recent protests in Portland Oregon can these departments keep the peace in this critical period. I. Can cuccinelli welcomes a conflict zone 3 weeks to polling day in the u. S. Can americans have faith in their electoral system yeah absolutely this is the most well protected election weve ever had and at the federal level the federal government has different responsibilities than the states we focus on Cyber Protection and dealing with nation states and people attacking the whole system weve got better surveillance than weve ever had before on the system and unlike 4 years ago we have great communication with all 50 states and the district of columbia about what were seeing in the threats that exist that didnt happen 4 years ago so all of us care saylor is we have all of our states participating in our surveillance effort unlike only about a 3rd of them 4 years ago so all the scare stories about massive vote by mail fraud are simply untrue is that right now let me. Careful i said the federal government focuses on the Cyber Threats what youre describing the kind of mail in voter fraud those sorts of things that ill call more Traditional Voter fraud are still possibilities and the states are responsible for policing that the federal government does not participate in that except to provide them intelligence that we discover on the subject as part of our work but that is a state responsibility and every single state system is different from every other states system so fraud takes place in one location at a time one stated at a time and obviously we do everything we can to support our state partners in policing that well the f. B. I. Said last month the agency has not seen evidence of any coordinated National Fraud effort whether its by mail or otherwise you see any reason to doubt what the f. B. I. Has told you certainly not at a National Level of course a month ago voting hadnt started voting has now started and you know we all see news stories about one thing happening here or there in different parts of the country and you know were paid to be worried about that but so far nothing large scale that we have detected so what is it the president chart knows that you dont when he says repeatedly this is going to be the greatest election disaster in history the most corrupt election in the history of our country the greatest fraud in the history of elections where did all these predictions of a massively rigged election come from or did he just make them up i think hes concerned about particularly states that automatically mail out ballots to every registered voter and theyre concerned that those could be collected up and sent back in by people to whom they were not mailed to they were intended to go to and we have some states who have made sudden changes to their aleck. Systems at the last minute and that is never a good idea i dont care what party you or or or anything to be essentially trying out a new system including your security in a president ial Election Year the biggest turnout year of them all thats the concern but what youre telling me is very different from his predictions the most corrupt election in the history of our country this is what hes for costing very different from what i question yeah its very different from what youre saying. Well im a den of fining them just wondering if youre on the same page and their and their entire and their entire states that are operating as i just described. Your threat assessment talks about the russians trying to sow distrust in americas democracy they dont really need to do they because mr trump is not good for them how could the russians possibly so mistrust in the democratic process that he has by predicting the greatest election disaster in history well Hillary Clinton was you has used similar language in describing her well heard vice to her follow on campaign or joe biden and in terms of after the election and so forth candidates operate differently than everybody else and they have a role to play in the process and people will judge. Their votes based in part on the shorts of things the candidates say for russia to use your example they have no such role and they have no such right to participate unlike the candidates themselves so its a very very different situation but the fact is that on the back of all this incendiary rhetoric america is being self to the teeth in advance of this election isnt the f. B. I. Says firearm sales had a monthly record of 3900000 in june how concerned are you about that people are buying guns people in your country youve never bought guns before in advance of this election yeah i think thats more tied to the civil unrest it has nothing to do with the election weve seen that spike since the civil unrest began in the spring in may and i will tell you that in my state of virginia where i used to be the attorney general ive heard from friends who used to be supporters of gun control and suppressing gun sales that theyre buying those guns and theyre changing their perspective so the civil unrest is really whats driving the desire for self protection particularly when you see the attacks on Law Enforcement in this country that have taken place on such a wide scale and the fact that in some places and all you. Again my home state richmond the capital city of virginia where the police have not necessarily responded to calls for help so people realize that to a certain extent theyre on their own and theyre preparing themselves for that this critically was also causing concern is a survey this month which found that around a 3rd of americans justifies some degree of violence to advance Political Goals a 3rd you proud that 4 years of double trump has led america to this i think your conclusion is foolish you know them use a simpler survey that just focused on College Students where they believe Something Like a 5th of them and this was several years ago that the same conclusion using violence was ok to stop people saying what they considered to be inappropriate speech it was interesting that overwhelmingly those folks identified themselves as liberal so this is a left wing phenomena in the United States and and it has grown regardless of donald trump this is been a more associated with in teeth the kind of violence that they perpetrate against people that they dont like. You now have the Charm Campaign calling for every able bodied man and woman to join the army for trumps Election Security campaign this from Donald Trump Jr you really want to militarize the election right like this weve already seen the f. B. I. Arresting a far right group from the socalled verein watchman who were planning to kidnap the governor of michigan shouldnt that be a wake up call about these Militia Groups and their actions in advance of this election that actually was not a far right group or initial reports as usual were wrong but the fact of the matter is we dont want to see any sort of Violence Associated with the election weve had months of civil unrest focused in cities where they frankly dont give the police the authority to establish peace where that does happen and we in our country we use the National Guard are sometimes for that that peace has been restored and thats what we want to see in the president himself has been very emphatic about that all over the country regardless of regardless of politics you comfortable about these Militia Groups forming part of the army for term sElection Security operation last month Militia Group one Militia Group set up illegal roadblocks and identity checks in multan im a county oregon do you encourage this kind of lawlessness no you know thats a stupid question really of course not and again your connection between different parts im not quite sure why you want to attack the president so much instead of assign responsibility for these things to the people who are responsible for them but i just dont buy into the premise that underlies your question isnt perhaps the biggest threat to your democracy the failure by the president to commit to accepting the election result they feel loses his answer to the question was will see what happens how does that strengthen peoples confidence in the electoral system in the u. S. Much like Hillary Clinton advised joe biden dont concede no matter what so theyre going to fight it out and theyre going to have an election and you know the way clinton is going to present the following and and if you dont if you dont want me to answer questions im not quite sure why im sitting here and and that will play out and you know you like many others have sort of bid on that and the president has never never given any indication that the outcome of the election wouldnt be exactly what the voters determine what it was last time its what its been every time in the history the United States and thats what it will be this time and the key for us the key for this president is that americans decide that election that we block out the interference of the outsiders and that americans votes are each counted and each counted once and properly and the result will be what it is under our system and well all move on with that on january 20th regardless of whos sworn in as the next president lets talk about the threats you have highlighted the acting secretary of your department chad wolf recently singled out violent white supremacist extremists as being a major concern he said theyve been exceptionally lethal in their current targeted attacks in recent years how do you explain the fight in the 1st debate talking about violent groups the president said almost everything i see is from the left wing not from the right wing is he not seeing whats right when violence is being promised and perpetrated. Are you not showing him those documents no no i mean but in the last 4 months in this country its been just cities on fire and those are overwhelmingly left the base call them protests but really the riots looting and violence thats the problem thats what he was talking about almost everything i see is from the left wing not from the right wing he refused to condemn a group. The proud boys which were described by the Associated Press as a male only group of neo fascists who call themselves western chauvinist in fact he told them to stand back and stand by are you happy that the u. S. President tells groups like this to stand by stand by for what so again you know youve characterized a group and i dont necessarily agree with your characterization the pictures ive seen of members of that are hispanic and black in addition to weight so you know youve got to be a little bit more careful in discriminating in just smearing people like that. You know the president wants people to stay involved in staying engaged he recently in his capacity as president not as a candidate gave federal employees the election day off to work as Election Officials to help bring off the election safely and securely so you know i dont hear you asking about that as a candidate he encourages his folks to participate as volunteers to turn out votes to do all the kinds of things you need to win an election and and he has 2 roles here unlike his opponent so hes playing them both vigorously and effectively so how much of a threat are these when they should groups who may well turn up to the teeth the polling stations to quote observe whats going on how worried are you that people could feel intimidated by that violence could break out you seem very complacent about so. We have no no no no youre hypothesizing with no information there is no intelligence today that a single polling place of our approximately very approximately 100000 across this country. Is subject to any such threat if we get that sort of intelligence the f. B. I. In its role as the protector of Civil Liberties against civil Rights Violations and threatening people voting would be a civil rights violation would take that information and act on it and they are prepared to do exactly that with respect to sort of pop up violence things that we dont see coming state and local Law Enforcement officials are as they have always been responsible for taking care of that we will offer them all the help that they can that were legally allowed but the federal government is actually blocked by federal law from getting near polling places on election day except on very were with very rare exceptions scritching only you know the department is currently under investigation by the House Intelligence Committee off the allegations that do you an acting secretary chad wolf illegally manipulated intelligence to both Donald Trumps interests Department Spokesman has denied these allegations although completely false yes they are they come from a high level was an evil act in fact the yes in fact the same person wrote an email only days before maybe a week before he left his then position. Actually explicitly stating the opposite so you know and then in the House Committee knows that they have that and but they have other interests here that are political so but so far every single allegation he made for which there is information has. Its been proven false and you never had meetings with him in which you told him to modify the section on White Supremacies in your current threat assessment so as to make that threat appear via salute salute. And you never expressed frustration with it very seriously and your ex never expressed frustration with the televisions reports on Central America and you had accused unknown deep state intelligence analysts of compiling you never tell slow they about that. Only how slow they went in your view does this administration play politics with the threats facing the us play them up or play them down from a purely political reasons absolutely not its been a media narrative thats been very popular and as someone who has at least a role in one part of it with the department Homeland Security in a year i have never seen that happen what about the president s dire warnings about the caravan of Central American migrants heading towards the border in 2018 he tweeted that criminals are now no middle east theres a mixed up with those people wasnt the slightest evidence for that was the oh no there was you know its a matter of degree in terms of how many of the most recent caravan had the same but are our allies in guatemala 1st and then mexico broke up that caravan and enforce their own immigration laws in such a way that those folks were returned home or turned away from continuing north. Well trump himself actually walked the whole thing back a few hours after he said it and said theres no proof of anything but that could very well be thats playing politics with intelligence. The well hes a candidate for president so you know we do have information about some of the people who come up in these caravans that varies time from one time to another us to about 28 there are a lot of caravans and 20 there havent been a lot of caravans this year weve had one recently that i was referring to and we do have information about some of the people who gather in those and you know we make use of that we share it with our allies along the way and we Work Together with them to try to avoid large scale illegal immigration and try to stick to legal immigration. You talked earlier about the violence in some cities and your use the president sent federal forces into Portland Oregon during some of these prolonged protests this summer. You were asked about this violence on the radio show on october the 1st then you said one of the worst parts of it is the encouraging courage moment its been getting from so much of the left wing Political Leadership but in saying that you seem to ignore the fact that there have been some pretty blunt and frequent condemnations of violence from senior democrats why didnt you mention that as well. Well how you you ask questions like youre the Communications Department for the Democrat National committee here. I said so many on the left and ill give you examples as i did in that interview i believe the speaker of the house attacking Law Enforcement officers but not condemning those who are committing the violence mayor ted wheeler of Portland Oregon who went out to speak to the violent looters and theyre not protesters theyre rioters and and he thought they were his friends and they shouted him down and began rushing his spaces own police had to declare a riot and rush him out of there Governor Brown of oregon who in 4 months of violence has yet to use her own National Guard she has over 7800 National Guardsman whose part of their purpose is stablish in peace in when there are violent outbreaks in her state and she refuses to do it and instead condemns the ministry for protecting a federal courthouse and federal buildings in Portland Oregon thats just to be clear you mentioned adding officers in portland we were doing that to protect federal facilities we dont just go into a city even when theyre violent. The agreement or cooperation of that city unless we have a federal mission to perform so again the 1st responsibility typically in quelling violence and dealing with it is state or local government but where there are federal facilities and where federal jurisdiction is attacked we have to respond to that ourselves and many of those who criticize the actions of your federal officers cited the use of Excessive Force the american Civil Liberties union said in august that your militarized agents use shop shooters to maim people protesters away and im up cause im brutally attacked journalists legal observers and medics with sonic weapons and tear gas they didnt spare moms dads veterans nurses or even the citys mare was this Law Enforcement or punishment so 1st of all the characters ations you recited are false in portland alone our officers incurred over 300 injuries meaning we had they were injured not causing injuries. They were very restrained while dealing with violent protests night after night for weeks on end. With often without the help assistance or support of local Law Enforcement because the local political officials those same ones i mentioned earlier as encouraging this sort of behavior ordered them to hold back so we used as minimal amount of force as we could to maintain safety and to attempt to quell violence as much as possible you didnt beat a navy veteran for simply asking questions doctors were wont to be going as they gave medical support to the injured no no on that one didnt happen thankfully but with respect to the navy veteran youre referring to that was the United StatesMarshal Service in the department of justice that was not. Members of the department of Homeland Security so i cant really speak to the tails of that i can say that when a Law Enforcement officer is doing their job they dont have the luxury of inquiring various job or life status questions like you just described to determine if someone is a veteran or a mother or a father or all the various things you named they dont have that luxury when theyre under attack and trying to protect themselves. So are you satisfied with the actions that your office is carried out then despite the fact that the a. C. L. U. Said d h s is too powerful to abusive and too much of a threat to americas Democratic Values the american Civil Liberties union has proven itself an extremely unreliable and nonobjective characterize or of events so you know your reliance on them says more about where you are coming from than what the facts were we were very happy with how our officers performed they were professionally restrained over months of violence directed at them and the facilities that they were protecting including the people in those facilities and behaved very well as no one is ever perfect we dont expect perfection but they did an outstanding job and part of that unfortunately is shown by the raw number of injuries they suffered over the course of that time while inflicting very few was that was the threat exaggerated President Trump said of portland the entire city is ablaze all the time that was august 31st but it wasnt was it the fire Service Cities fire and rescue service told him that no Uncertain Terms were not a blaze in portland they said theres a very isolated pocket of demonstrations that have involved fire none of which has been substantial enough to need more than one fire engines so that the facts get in the way of your narrative no if you just look at the federal courthouse when they on numerous occasions attacked the courthouse broke front doors you know were tearing wood off and were throwing liquid excel or end into the courthouse and attempting to fire commercial fireworks in to set it on fire so they return to burn down the building and kill everyone in it so you know you you respond accordingly to that and even with that kind of a 3. Yet we never used above nonlethal means to repel those sorts of attacks so that seems very appropriate under the circumstances had the federal officials not been there that courthouse would have been burned to the ground so the citys foreign rescue service didnt know what they were talking about well theyve still got a federal courthouse and they dont have to drive to another state to have their cases heard because federal Law Enforcement officers were willing to commit and protected their been fires all over the city in various days in various places it isnt just the federal courthouse its also Police Facilities for the police Union Facility other local buildings neighborhoods that theyve gone through so you know portland is not a big city thats an awful lot of violence over an awful long time and that includes but isnt limited to the setting of fires and you know again all over the city so i think its accurate to say there have been fires all over the city thats true Ken Cuccinelli thanks for being on conflicts of. 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