Our correspondent on the ground. Im bring coffee its good to have you with us the lockdown is coming to germany partially today german chancellor Angela Merkel announced a limited National Lockdown for most of the month of november the goal is to contain an album control rise in corona virus infections bars restaurants or tells in movie theaters will close beginning next monday the government is making available up to 10000000000 euros in Financial Support for businesses hit by this shutdown. The deserted streets of the spring are about to become all too familiar again in germany for 4 weeks from november 2nd the entire country will be under a partial lockdown faced with another record high of daily coronavirus cases on wednesday chancellor Angela Merkel in the country 16 state premiers quickly found consensus. Theres a. Lot of today is a difficult day for policymakers i have to emphasise that because i know how much were asking of people but we have to find a way to ensure that we dont fall into a National Health emergency but at the same time to the greatest extent possible ensure that the economy stays upright. With 3 courses of new cases now untraceable the measures of far reaching cultural and Leisure Facilities as well as bars and restaurants will close with the exception of take out social contact in public will also be limited to just 2 households with a maximum of 10 people schools and daycare however will remain open with new hygiene protocols ahead of wednesdays announcement concerns about the economic effects of a 2nd shutdown were on everyones minds not least of all the thousands of protesters from germanys Hospitality Industry who demonstrated against the closures in central berlin. Event bans would be dramatic for us because then wed have nothing already the cancellations are rolling in if even a small events like birthdays arent allowed then we really have nothing imagine and say to you there are hardly any artists left because theyve had to find another job that will have an emergency in the culture sector. We need help were not allowed to work were hoping for some positive talks with the government. Finance minister shuts however has prepared a 10000000000 euro coronavirus aid package to compensate businesses hit by the strict measures the height now is to flatten the cuff before the Holiday Season but it will be a costly feat by for the economy and society and for more now im joined by to be escort hes an epidemiologist and director of the institute for Public Health at the sheraton hospital here in berlin professor kurt its good to have you on the show let me ask you that the german chancellor she warned the country several weeks ago that we would be in this situation because the measures she said were not strict enough stringent enough to slow the virus and that is indeed what has happened partial walked right action at the right time i think its the right time its about the right time maybe a little too late to implement these measures as you said since the merkel has predicted as others have predicted this development and we are not surprised to see this so right now is the time to really react because if we wait things will get worse and then we cannot do it with a lock on all 3 to 4 weeks to really solve the situation and to reduce the number of inspections its not a complete lockdown and its also not going to be a 2 week short period that had been predicted were talking about any type probably with this partial walk down is that enough time. I think its well you can argue that 2 weeks would be sufficient but we know that we see the result of a 2 week lock down after another 2 weeks so i think 4 week is the right time because otherwise we would not be sure whether the measure actually think its important to keep schools and Child Support open because thats a very important aspect understand its measures a very hard for some people and we all have to support these businesses to to really keep their their function over these 4 weeks and after really to hopefully go out in jordan again but if we dont do anything right now we are in a situation where its getting much worse and we see other countries west of germany and also use of germany where the situation is really bad and then you cannot really have a lockdown in place for 4 weeks it will be much much longer than the decision to force restaurants to. Do you think that is. A wise decision the media is there proof that restaurants are places where the virus is being transmitted. Well its indoor people sitting in the door and obviously you cannot wear a mask while youre eating the ventilation situation its also sometimes difficult to understand that it may not be a major force of infection and most of the infections may be happening elsewhere but i think its the only way to really make it make a sort of measure of that that we is accepted i also think its important to have it all over germany in just not regionally so i think unfortunately its the right decision to close dressed wrong as much as i had it myself how did we get to this point maybe youre familiar discuss we can do police here in berlin had to break up a party that had 600 people attending despite all of the Restrictions Mean has our behavior made the situation worse difficult to say im not a friend of accusing a specific part of the population of have done something wrong i think its a diffusion faction situation where many of the infections this happen at home or like at situations where you dont even expect to get infected so yes we have to pardon situation certainly that is that is not a good thing doing on a pandemic to do because he would increase the likelihood of of infection but overall i think that nothing really went wrong we as a population may not have listened carefully enough and we may have focused too much on on the on a discussion off of that people argue against it and not support the people actually following this measures and recommendations since many weeks a month and now were facing this lockdown and we all have to Stay Together otherwise it wont work. Difficult to say its all a question on the vaccination there will certainly be another way for her its almost impossible to to keep this and know and if we have a situation like like now what hospitals like getting full again with the i. C. U. Thats like getting filled with 1000 patients we will face another locked out of the fusion and in the future hopefully sorts and intends and then hopefully we can open up again. To be escorts the director of the institute for Public Health at the surety hospital here in berlin professor quirk we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you thank you for having me or lets take a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world australias 2nd biggest city melbourne is celebrating the end of a lockdown that lasted more than a 100 days restaurants and cafes are now allowed to reopen melbourne in the state of victoria had been less successful in containing corona virus infections than most of australia nurses in poland have joined a nationwide strike against abortion law swimmin are protesting against a court ruling that bans terminations in cases of fetal abnormalities the new measures restrict abortion to keys of rape and incest or where the mothers life is at risk. Turkish president try a pair to one he has blasted french satirical weekly charlie abdo for mocking him in a front page cartoon everyone is angry you with french president emanuel microloan for defending a teacher who was murdered after showing pupils droids of the prophet mohammed. By john his accuser meaning of killing at least 21 people and wounding scores more in shelling near the disputed region of newborn okara book the media has denied carrying out the attack in the city of barga it has also excused sizer by johnny forces of carrying out deadly attacks on civilian areas 3 separate attempts at a ceasefire that so forth still. Alright lets bring in now our correspondent julie hunch she is in pfizer by john tonight good evening to you julia you have been at the site of the a tank a day what have you seen what can you tell us. Weve witnessed some very chaotic and disturbing scenes there in a bar that today when we arrived the dad and the severely injured had already been taken to hospital but we saw quite a number of ambulances ambulances rushing past as as we approach to the town center now at the site of the attack we saw several buildings completely destroyed and burned out cars one of the buildings for example used to be about chess shop another one a store selling clothing so clearly the locations and places where civilians would go i spoke to one man who witnessed the attack when it happened to god injured himself heres what he told me for stuff. Thats when the rocket hits there are explosions this is where i was standing next to my car but i didnt move an inch because i was afraid i could be hit by shrapnel i saw that the cars were burning into as such a shock. Bit of a bit of a. Now i should mention that barda is a town some 20 kilometers from the front line in a corner and it used to be considered to be relatively safe there we have been filming there in the past days speaking to people to refugees people from villages very close to the front line who actually fled to barda seeking safety there in emergency shelters now this attack today i think shows that this conflict can escalate any time and into any direction and that the fighting here has 70 become part of everyday life here for people not only here but also on the other side of the front line. By johnny. Media for the attack they claim that theyve used. On our media denying the attack. Well its nearly impossible to independently verify the claims that are coming from baku or year avan right now because this is a war these 2 countries are at war its not just a conflict on the battlefield its also an information war and a war of words now the allegations here are particularly heavy azerbaijan says armenia has been using our army and forces have been using socalled missiles Cluster Munition which is a particularly devastating and deadly type of weapon banned by many countries around the world now armenia has also level similar allegations against azerbaijan accusing them of having used this kind of a weapon against residential areas and civilian targets as i said its not possible at the time when such an attack happens to understand what was fired only from where it exactly was fired but such an attack makes any attempt at a peaceful diplomatic solution to this conflict even more elusive. To this conflict between. Media do you think you. Well heres a reminder of the top stories that were following for you tonight german chancellor Angela Merkel has announced a partial walk down to slow a big surge included 19 cases starting on monday bars restaurants entertainment good news will have to close for a month the government is promising Financial Aid through business its impact. If youre watching the news ill be back at the top of the hour with more from the world news followed by the day to see the. Combating the corona pandemic. Where does research stand. What are scientists learning. Background information and news. Hour corona update. Covert 19 special next on d w. A there im david and this is Climate Change brags that sex. Happiness concrete books. For your. Children smarter birth free books on. Theyre our best friends and very old friends indeed theres evidence that humans began to domesticate dogs some 30000 years ago long before we tamed the horse or started keeping livestock. And this is the nose that always knows the dogs the sense of smell is about a 1000000 times better than that of humans dogs also inhale up to 300. 00 times per minute in short breaths that means theyre all factory cells are constantly supplied with new odor particles and its because of that amazing organ that dogs are being brought into the frontline in the fight against corona virus. Welcome to this studio where you covered 19 special on rob whats in berlin its great to have you with us we know that testing is crucial to trying to control coronavirus millions of people the world over have already received a swab to the mouth or nose in the name of stopping its spread but researchers in finland are trying a new way of sniffing out of it 90. For a treat preferably cathode this snout can be programmed to find it just about anything more bed bugs cancer now it could change the course of corona virus detection meet. Rescued from being euthanized as a puppy in spain hes returned that favor for years sniffing out deadly disease for the wise new smell Detection Association and then learned as coded 19 began to spread to see was asked as an experiment to try to detect it took it 7 minutes to figure out that this is what they want it to look for so that. You know dog be able to change training sense in 7 minutes. The team quickly learned canines can detect a coded 1000. 00 infection even 5 days before symptoms appear with almost 100 percent accuracy helsinki airport is hosting a Pilot Project through december that will include cross referencing a canine results with those for medical devices if you pop the skin so here it just takes a simple swab from a restore neck here and there it is there oh yes and couple of seconds a dog can tell immediately if a person has contract it coronavirus. So i received a negative as a wrote the voluntary tests are proving popular but no positive signal yet from the finnish government about scaling up the program so since dogs are incredibly more effective much less expensive and far less intrusive than other ways of detecting the virus why arent public authorities everywhere rushing to use their noses instead of ours we found one who is. Is deputy mayor of vaughan the site of the airport i course he did it in 2 minutes took me 2 minutes out and get this budget covers the free tests offered to all arriving passengers he allocated 330000 euros total to the 4 month dog study meanwhile he expects it will cost up to 300000000. 00 euros per month for the medical option the nasal swab its quite expensive operation of course but the docs are like 75000. 00 a month. To says the data from this study should help bring in federal funds for expansion of canine testing as well as legal adjustments to upgrade the virus sniffing dogs authority to that of their counterparts working in customs because i write about i took speech like they can. Assist and they go to man because both on a human bjorkman is thinking far beyond. Airports we could train dogs with the same samples with the same training areas to open up. You know the concert halls or or being fair is or go to big working places hospitals or elderly homes football matches whatever both york man and bobby line and warn if dylan doesnt harness the potential of the dog program itself theyll unleash it elsewhere we can well because theres still a lot of warm. She says Health Authorities from all over the world want to learn what these noses know well im delighted say we can speak to professor holga folk who is chair of the small Animals Department the university of veterinary medicine. Thanks a lot for joining us can you just explain to us what exactly it is that the dogs are smelling during these tests. And thank you for the question its quite interesting i mean at the end of day we dont know because the virus doesnt smell but we do know that the virus needs a cell and they hijacked that cell and then they changed the medical reason in the cell and that actually is something the dog can smell so how can we be confident that what they are detecting is corona virus. So thats a very good question to ask what we have done in our study is that we compare people who had an infection with corollaries and actually have clinical signs to work over 100 patients to our control. In those groups we were able to find a difference in 94 percent hit rate saying that what we didnt have that was people who had personally friends of virus because at that time when we did the study there was no influenza season so thats what were doing at the moment to see how it was the dog also to be able to discriminate against other viruses like influence our or also other medical one of ours us the stakes are pretty high if the test comes back in the results is is wrong do we know how the reliable c. Compares with more conventional coronavirus testing you know its quite its quite comparable i mean you should never forget that the dog will never replace a p. C. R. Test so its just a very fast weaning mechanism and there think you where else and you have what you could see how fast these doctors actually able to sniff out the people. So when you look at the you look at and you have 96 percent specifically an 83 percent sensitivity so its probably more comparable to the antigen which are out there and then obviously for us the Gold Standard test was the p. C. Archosaur all our patients were confirmed with p. C. I. Was of so if we were to roll this out further maybe nationwide worldwide indeed it would have been a strain of dogs to detect corona virus to actually carry that out. I think you know one of the challenges were facing is that we often simplify our world too much and what i mean with that is i think you need to have different test scenarios for different circumstances if you run a workplace i mean you know also a lot of them and they are part of a doc but if you but if you arent worth place even a hospital run one of the things you dont have its time so until you get your p. C. Our test results by who takes at least a day sometimes 2 or 3 days under then you already have quite a limited workforce so where these underage and hassle theres no dogs coming in is that you can actually do a very fast cleaning and hopefully then get this confirmed by a p. C. Ourselves so i think thats where i could see the dogs being able to fill a gap or if you go to a concert or you go to any other social events you know they out you could actually see the big with your reliable screening tool and just quickly so if its quick its noninvasive testing could be cheaper than conventional tests that were seeing so what is stopping this being immediately rolled out. Yeah thats a good question and i think you probably are asked these my my colleagues in as well i do probably. Im not i to be honest im not one of those and sure i think what it stops is that we believe that docs can be so good in detecting in medical things we totally. Believe when they sniff out a bomb but we. Grasp that they are able to sniff out people who have a certain infection so perhaps we need to trust our 4 legged friends a bit more professor holder folk from the university of veterinary medicine hanover thanks a lot for joining us thank you to. And now is the bow to the program way you get to ask the questions to ask science correspondent Derek Williams. How come there are so many fewer kovac 19 problems infections and deaths in africa 2 africans have better immune systems than the rest of the world there have been some pretty dire predictions over the months about the pandemic and africa the belief was that if the virus has done so much damage in europe and the americas including in in many countries that have advanced Health Care Facilities what would it do to the underfunded systems in many african nations around one in 6 people on the planet lives on the continent so with around 43000000 coated 1000 cases worldwide so far youd expect at least 7000000 of them to have been in africa but there have been only about 1500000 reported its the same thing with deaths statistically youd expect around 200000 there so far there have been only around 40000 reported why. Under reporting could explain some of the discrepancy but the experts think other factors are also involved especially the average age on the continent which is only around the 20 thats thats the lowest in the world and young people are of course less vulnerable and there are also a lot fewer homes for the elderly and africa than in europe or the u. S. Where their facilities for seniors have often turned into deadly hotspots people in many african countries have also often had previous experience with other epidemics and generally seem to have followed the Health Screening and social distancing advice for covert 19 High Committee might have played a limiting role in some countries of the virus seems to spread better and drier cooler. Environments and there are indeed some theories that many africans might have more robust immune responses to sars cove to due to previous exposure to other pathogens but that hypothesis still hasnt been backed up by by convincing evidence. Science correspondent Derek Williams that you got a question for him you kind of course submit one through. Channel and that was your call that 19 special thanks for joining us as more information on our website just go to detail we dot com and click on coronavirus at the top of the page for me on the team thanks a lot for watching. Them. Into the conflict zone. Theres turmoil to say with mounting demonstrations against the Prime Minister fused of corruption and mishandling the spiraling Health Crisis my guest this week in jerusalem is nearby former mayor of the city the leading politician mr netanyahu says he could fancy all the wheels finally coming off the Prime Ministers wife conflicts of. Grappling with some tricks. To express her feelings i am not very creative yet but i would love to be considered an artist one day looking for new perspectives on the door and not to be replaced brake revealed candidate doing things differently. 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