6 prodemocracy protesters in exile and chiles president received a frosty reception during his state of the nation address following months of political crisis and is for the owner of the Milwaukee Brewers says the Major League Baseball season could still be cancelled the warning comes as more games are postponed due to players testing positive for corona virus. Welcome to the news we begin with the latest developments on the coronavirus pandemic because the global number of infections continues to accelerate so does the global race to find a vaccine now russia has announced that mass vaccinations could begin in october the Health Minister gave no details about the vaccine to be used and its not clear if the treatment produces an immune response it comes as japan faces a resurgence in cases tokyo. You confirm the record of 472 corona virus infections on saturday and the capitals governor says a citywide state of emergency may well have to be imposed is a step thats already been taken in okinawa where an outbreak is suspected to have originated at a u. S. Military base over in greece 6 ports have been reopened for cruise ships the global cruise industry has been one of the hardest hit by the pandemic of the ships had major outbreaks early on well joining me now is derek gatherer hes a viral or just a lecturer at the university of lancaster in the north of england good to have you with the search on the program one might sort of start by saying where has this vaccine come from in terms of russia you know we never knew anything about it developing one considering there are been other high profile vaccines sort of the research and trials stage. Yes the russian vaccine its been reported by a task news Agency Official news agency in russia is an add in a virus based vaccine so thats a Similar Technology to the one thats being developed here Oxford University which is known as the child or vaccine so a child stands for chimpanzee and in a virus or expert the basic principle is that chimpanzee advice doesnt produce any pathology and humans or you can be invented with that and have new symptoms a troll and then that genetic range near so and have protein from the virus that you want to me nice against is inserted into the chimpanzee identifiers genome and then your immune system when it sees this common and vaccine virus will produce a lot sign to bodies to the protein that you want to immunize against and in the case of covert 19 that despite protein which is the protein on the surface of the of the group in 1000 virus in order to get the immune system a good chance to produce lots of antibodies against that and. Produce resistance and who is that see the vaccine so although we dont know anything about the details of the russian vaccine the fact that theyve announced its identify this piece suggests to me at least that its going to be a fairly Similar Technology to the oxford want to move probably work in same way. Of seeing whats going on with your. Scientific colleagues around the world in your opinion where all the most encouraging trials for a vaccination actually occurring a should we be looking to for vaccine you might see a breakthrough. Theres over 200 scenes that in development in some stage and several dozen know that are in the Clinical Trials phase in fact that the russians have as well as announcing that this vaccine is very near to being being launched as a public Vaccination Campaign in russia also have another 22. 00 vaccines of their own in various stages of development and 4 of them are quite near approval of the russian vaccine initially it will be russia although apparently they are seeking International Approval from there from internationally to the boards which would enable them to to sell a vaccine or to codevelop vaccine with other countries but it would need to gates and international privily needs satisfying and World Health Organization and other boards that is actually more safe and if you keep. And so on there are there are 4 or 5 quite high profile accidents at the moment where i mentioned the china expects in which is being developed in the u. K. Theres also a. Vaccine thats been developed in the u. S. C. And the french fraxinus where they all have slightly different technologies that some some of the vaccines are killed and activated virus youre actually injected with with it with a date coronavirus are those are based on because they didnt take knowledge it right they had invited for chandra x. Type vaccines and there are those that are are in a vaccine which means inject it with with vytorin any which itself is it will produce proteins that you can form an immune response against but can what. Causes disease so there was a sort of 4 or 5 talk contained doesnt want to move and so in terms of the russian vaccine to be theyre talking about less production in october in the old but sort of the u. S. Infectious disease expert dr anthony felt she has already wall that there has to be stringent testing it has to be successful before less about sedation theres always a worry is there not about side effects. Yes vaccines take a long time to develop and if you go back to the last pandemic that made the news nothing which is equivalent of spiking 2016 we still dont have a surprise thats ready for what we used to the some some of the early crossing results and in complications of rules the same that weve devised which is your vital storms are a difficult subject to develop vaccines against and we have a problems with other flu viruses so if you find a spike season past with current highest maxines weve never tried to develop a vaccine to immunise humans against group of viruses that are some and move axes that have been developed vaccines against humans and for criminals is this this is the 1st one so this presents what problems under normal circumstances a b t several years for this to get Regulatory Approval but because of the international that you see lots of these processes which would not be run sequentially and over are now running in potlucks of france without that and governments are already placing orders for 4 vaccines and one on the off chance that one of them will pass regular trip brutal and then you know immediately be able to begin production of a large scale indeed well see what happens dont go there from the university of lancaster thanks for joining us from the u. K. Break of the japanese on the japanese island of okinawa has been blamed on u. S. Troops but the force commander says theres no evidence of transmission to the local community the bottom line is our procedures for u. S. Forces and our stringent they are affected and while we have seen a growth in cases in a couple of our bases of them managed they have been contained and there has been absolutely no connection of the that has been proven to show that there has been any spread from the costers on the bases to the local community. Uncle pan is the president of the shin get soon news agency in the capital he says theres been an explosion in cases the rise in covert making cases across the country has been kind of steady for some weeks and it just hasnt and that trend upward trend has just continued on and on and now were getting into more crisis levels in the case open now as specifically the there is concern that perhaps the reason why its hitting that island particularly strongly is because u. S. Forces particularly the u. S. Marines have been able to come in and out of japan without going through immigration controls and until very recently without any covert 19 tests under the status of forces agreement but this link is strongly suspected by both the local government and the residents and now theyre going to have to go into a more sort of a soft lockdown stereo in that prefecture thats for the spike its really been coming steadily so it isnt you know it isnt one thing it is sort of something which has been spiraling slowly out of control over weeks and weeks and what one key thing to understand is that the National Government has opposed any sort of lockdown or any sort of restrictions on peoples movements to even promoted a National Tourism campaign in the midst of the pandemic so what you have going on here is a lot of local governors including governor yuriko toy quite kate of tokyo who are essentially acting against the will of the National Government which doesnt want any sort of restrictions at all. Leader of the south Korean Church has been arrested accused of concealing underreporting coronavirus cases prosecutors say that he hampered the governments anti virus response the 88 year old in ezechias ations and says he cooperated with the Health Department more than a 3rd of south koreas infections have been linked to this church by reports now from and on city in south koreas north young son province. It was by far the most serious outbreak dating back to very nearly the beginning of the epidemic in february and march here in south korea accounting for more than a 3rd of the countrys 14000. 00 plus cases mainly in the southeastern city of daegu but also in neighboring provinces such as here north sang the church says it has hundreds of thousands of members but is regarded by mainstream religions as being more of a sect its alleged that it held on to some of the lists of its members making the process of tracing and testing some of its congregants all the more difficult and in fact some of its offices were raided by the authorities but from the start its leader liam and he and other Church Leaders have claimed that any sense saying that they have been cooperating with your thora tease throughout a spokesperson saying that the truth will come out in court. Agrees is lifted his ban on cruise ships which will now be able to dock with some restrictions will be allowed into 6 major ports including prince roads and call through with but if only all passengers on board have tested negative for covert 19 the industry has been one of the worst hit by the pandemic most Companies Council months of trips and many wont restart until next year several have already declared bankruptcy governments including the u. S. And u. K. Are still advising their citizens against Cruise Travel but some people are afloat in oil passengers of the Roald Amundsen ship are being told to self isolate after 4 crew members were permitted to hospital with the virus douglas ward spent 17 years at sea and is the author of the berlitz cruising and cruise ships 2020 joins me now from lymington on englands south coast could have you with us mr ward on the program lets just begin with greece to start with they have always had very tight covert 19 restrictions and done for a pretty good job in keeping a lid on infections and deaths but like many mediterranean countries with the cruise industry they need tourism revenue and its either now or never. Absolutely and it happened so happens that today is the 1st day when degree ports have announced that they will be accessible to cruise ships however thats only for courting ships which means that the cruise lines and the basting greece can home port and return to their homes so its a greek domestic cruise and it will be full greek nationals at the moment but the good thing is that unleashed shows that countries are now willing to open up to cruising of course is important to greece in terms of that industry how important is the cruise industry unthought modes of transport to that particular country. Well i think greece has so many items there is a huge ferry industry so people going on holiday will take ferries into island ferry but for cruising the good thing about cruising is that they can change the destination for you every single day so you can visit to us reports troops who iowans in a single cruise you can visit for 5 vote question nations so i think actually cruising is good and theres so much pent up team on. The danger i think at the moment its where. Companies with the launch cruise ships. Try to enter the orient into the market to quickly. But you know i think theres so much tomorrow especially for cruising next year ok well when we say you know wait for example so its interesting norway for example seeing one of their cruise liners infected customers under a scenario of track and trace at the moment because theyve already disembarked its ok for organized trips perhaps organized companies but increased as a safe ships like buses in the summer i mean how could also a tease keep that whole hygiene scenario. On track and also be able to track and trace where there was but one of the volumes is so immense. It is but greece doesnt have a big cruise industry at the moment its been its been waning over the last few years there are less companies now operating out or doing anything its that the cruise industry has the protocols in place all the enhanced sanitation increased air conditioning and all the prescreening so it should be easy to trace person goes if anyone comes down with the virus. However just like any other place where there is an ice skating rink or its golf course or pitch it so the environment where you have in the chamber and tracing everybody is a bit of a bit of a labor job. Weve seen sort of the same problems in the cruise industry as we have in the Airline Industry where they need to try and change the business in terms of hygiene and by a Security Company such as carnival Disney Princess majestical moving forward now if they get to operate again well have to look at the airlines have done in terms of hygiene and bio security because theyll have to cut capacity perhaps and also think about Health Requirements those increased costs for the passenger. Yes they are they all have to be passed on and its not only the decrease in passenger numbers yes we had a german german ship from to recruit this week sailing with 100 passengers instead of the usual 2900 passengers so you can see that the cruise industry really huge complying with all the latest scientific and Health Advice so it just remains to be seen as long as the cruise lines dont jump the gun and try to enter the market too quickly and of course this does play havoc with the economies and the not only the economies of the cruise lines themselves but im always afraid that the crew members need to be resourced a lot of the crew members we have over 200000 crewmembers now that are out of work and many of these crew members and their families rely on the cruise industry to help them find work indeed we will see how that all pans out in the days months ahead for the moments douglas will thanks for joining us from lymington england south coast youre welcome. Plenty ahead here on the news hour including answering protesters demands iraqs Prime Minister says an election will be held a year sooner than planned. And going hungry a bunch of lebanon could soon struggle to feed its very untrue to. Put in support top model when installed as a back playing in the United States for the 1st time since the code of honor small term. Donald trump is trying to use his president ial powers to bar the chinese own social media platform to talk from the u. S. The signal that he didnt support an american takeover of the company amid reports that microsoft is in talks to buy tech talk and we see. Its still latest rift in the escalating tech war between the u. S. And china for weeks u. S. Officials have raised security concerns over the chinese owned video ticktock saying it can help aging spot on americans and now President Donald Trump threatened to fan it all together well look here that we may be bending we may be doing some other things a couple of options but a lot of things are happening so well see what happens but we are looking at a lot of alternatives with respect to. Trump stepped up his rhetoric following reports that he may sign an order forcing Chinese Parent Company might dance to sell the u. S. Portion of take talk microsoft was set to be in talks to acquire it but neither start confirmed any deal in a blog post earlier this week to talks chief kevin mayer says his company is not being treated fairly he says its receiving more scrutiny because of its chinese origins and insists it is not the enemy talks estimated to have 800000000 active users worldwide a 10th of them in the u. S. Experts say banning it would be challenging i think its very unclear what a ban would look like and what it would mean you know its very hard to ban something thats popular among the use its just you know if your parents tell you not to do something it makes you want to do it more in june a video that went viral on tech talk was seen as one of the reasons behind the poor attendance at Trumps Campaign rally in tulsa oklahoma forcing a wildly popular app off the smartphones of millions of americans could prove to be an unpopular move ahead of trumps reelection bid and they sue. Well fine gold is an asia Political Risk analysis is joining us from taipei taiwan good to have you with us ross on the program again how much of a political move rather than one based on the science that talk is a National Security threat to the usa. Well certainly theres a political aspect to this the Trip Administration has taken a series of actions pretty much over the course of the time its been in office but its stepped up these actions within the last few years targeting chinese behavior whether its the corporate world the chinese corporate world or Government Entities individual sanctions. You know this you just the latest in a pattern of actions that the u. S. Government has taken to try to level the Playing Field whether its on trade issues or Data Security intellectual property