this is bbc world news the headlines... new trials of an experimental drug fer survey covid—19 says it cuts the risk of hospitalisation by around her. the new drug which is a pill would be the first oral antiviral modification for the covid—19. saint warn that the scale of deforestation of the anime son have deadly consequences for people in northern brazil. a retired french police officer who killed himself this week has been identified as a man behind a series of rapes and murders. he is reported to have left a suicide note confessing to the crimes. the mission to mercury is expected to reach the plan in a number of hours. it will take pictures of the planet and send them back to earth as it does.