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and let s dance. a new album of previously unreleased david bowie tunes is due to be made public. we talk to the records producer. welcome to the programme. they could be a breakthrough in the way we treat covid i9. interim trials suggest a new experimental drug for severe covid cuts the risk of hospitalisation or death by about half. if authorised by regulators, the new drug, which comes in the form of a pill, would be the first oral antiviral medication for covid i9. this is the first covid pill. trial results suggest it can cut hospitalisations or deaths by half. the news of the efficacy of this particular antiviral is obviously very good news. the company, when they briefed us last night, had mentioned that they will be submitting their data to the fda imminently. the data are impressive. pills were given to 775 elderly or medically at risk patients within five days of them showing coronavirus symptoms. the data from a phase three trial showed 7.3% of patients on the drug
he though. hello. there could be a breakthrough in the way we treat covid 19. interim trials suggest that a new experimental drug for severe covid cuts the risk of hospitalisation or death by about half. if authorised by regulators, the new drug which comes in the form of a pill would be the first oral antiviral medication for covid 19. our health correspondent james reed has more. on the surface, these are very positive results, and they ve come through much earlier than we were expecting. so the way that these trials work, you give half the people in the trial this medication, you give the other half a placebo or dummy pill, and you compare what the outcomes are. and in this case, 7% of people in the trial that were given this medication that had covid or had just been infected with covid ended up going into hospital. in the placebo arms they hadn t had this medication it was twice that, it was 14%. so that s where you get that really positive result it cuts hospi
time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. not so long ago, western powers viewed georgia as a trailblazer for political and economic freedom in the troubled caucasus region. there was talk of the possibility of eventual eu membership or maybe nato. now, well, the talk is of darker trends authoritarianism, repression of opposition and nagging questions about russia s influence. my guest is georgia s president, salome zourabichvili. does georgia currently have more in common with belarus than belgium? president salome zourabichvili in tbilisi. thank you for having me on hardtalk. it is a great pleasure having you on the show. let me ask you a question about your own past. not so long ago, you were the french ambassador in tbilisi, representing france. in that position, what do you think you would have made of the politics of georgia today? first of all, it was 15 years ago that i was the french ambassador to georgia, after having been a daughter of a georgia
it is 4.30 in the morning, time now for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. not so long ago, western powers viewed georgia as a trailblazer for political and economic freedom in the troubled caucasus region. there was talk of the possibility of eventual eu membership or maybe nato. now, well, the talk is of darker trends authoritarianism, repression of opposition and nagging questions about russia s influence. my guest is georgia s president, with belarus than belgium? president salome zourabichvili in tbilisi. thank you for having me on hardtalk. it is a great pleasure having you on the show. let me ask you a question about your own past. not so long ago, you were the french ambassador in tbilisi, representing france. in that position, what do you think you would have made of the politics of georgia today? first of all, it was 15 years ago that i was the french ambassador to georgia, after having been a daughter of a georgian emigre family in france and havi