President of the European Commission ursula fund arline welcome to the program and thank you so much for joining us thank you its good to be with you. On monday the European Union is joining forces with Global Partners to raise 7500000000 euros in a worldwide pledging initiative to support coronavirus diagnostics and vaccines what is the top thing that you hope to achieve. Well for us its important that we give a strong answer to the corona virus because we know it knows no borders it knows no nationalities and we can only defeat that virus by a vaccine and for that we need a global coordinated action because we want to prevent that there is a run to the vaccine once we have it for those who can afford it so we need to coordinate research on the vaccine when we have it and we start right now already we have to build up capacities to manufacture and zillions of those and then we have to make sure that we can deploy to every corner in the world right now fear and affordable price and tha
There and South Africans get some exercise as they celebrate being allowed to leave their homes theyre locked down one of the strictest in the world is being teased. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program but European Union aims to raise 7500000000 euros next week to Fund Research into a vaccine for the coronavirus as well as developing new treatments and more efficient testing the e. U. Commission says that the goal is to develop a vaccine treatment and tests that are available to all who need it and at an affordable price the hope is that the donors will continue to stump up funds in coming months so that the effort can be scaled up and help to pay the cost of distributing the vaccine and medical equipment. And i am now joined by the president of the European Commission ursula fund arline welcome to the program and thank you so much for joining us. Thank you its good to be with you. On monday the European Union is joining forces with Global Partners to raise 7500000000 euros in a worl
Saudi arabia cant hide from a 911 victim lawsuit that a judge said last week is going to go forward by a fair and cousins with me editor of the trial lawyer magazine what a great ruling i mean this judge all the way along the way has been very methodical about this case and its going to take place give me your take well you know this is a case thats been fought for well over a decade at this point almost coming up on 2 decades and its still having to work its way through there because again theres a lot of intricacies in this case theres a lot of things that have to be proven just for it to be able to move forward but whats so significant about this particular ruling is that the day before this judge in the United States ruled this you had officials over in turkey that issued an indictment to 20 saudi nationals for the death or murder of Jamal Khashoggi so now were. Finding out a little bit more about how could show him self was actually connected to this 911 victims case yeah well you
Victims case yeah well you know whats interesting about this story the man in it he was talking to the lawyers who are bringing this case he was given them he was kind of a whistleblower deep throat source of information months before he was murdered by the saudi royal family there ive said it that it was the saudi royal family it was these 5 knuckleheads that theyve now said were responsible there was a secret trial that they had closed doors a secret trial the interesting only enough no mention of the royal family been involved the royal family was a huge part of it theyre the ones that arranged for the saudis to leave the United States after the 911. 00 attacks right and so hopefully as this thing plays out which is probably going to take years you know anybody whos expecting rapid results on this this takes time but. But its going to be worth it because we still have to flush out saudi arabias complete role we know you know most of the hijackers and 911. 00 came from saudi arabia t
A new guidelines to help fight the coronavirus including a recommendation that people should avoid large social gatherings no discretionary travel and staying away from past restaurants untrimmed course. I want to go jones good to have you with us france is just hours away from a nationwide lockdown president amount of course as the country is facing a Public Health war and that it will take an all out mobilization to slow the spread of coronavirus coverts 19 has killed 148 people in france and infected more than 6600 all citizens will be required to stay home from midday the restrictions will stay in place for at least 15 days. On the frontline the caregivers at Lille University hospital when patients arrive with lung problems theyre taken to a special unit but its also important to keep the medical staff healthy. Here with the priority is really to protect ourselves we use protective closing where we are with of patients. The Emergency Response center in the city has since 5 times as