A supply of p p. And after 9 months of fighting code the very notion of the International Community looks frankly pretty tattered and we know that we simply cant continue this way and listen we get our act together unless we unite and turn our fire against our common further we know that everyone will that is the inevitable outcome will be to prolong this calamity and increase the risk of another now is the time that for here what i devoutly hope will be the 1st and last ever zoom under. Humanity to reach across borders and repair these ugly rifts lets heal the world literally and metaphorically and lets begin with the truth because as someone once said the truth shall set you free. And with nearly a 1000000 people dead with colossal economic suffering you already inflicted more to come there is a moral imperative for humanity to be honest and reach a joint understanding of how the pandemic began how it was able to spread not because i want to blame any country or government or to score points i simply believe as a former could be patient that we all have a right to know so that we can collectively do our best to prevent a recurrence and so. The u. K. Supports the efforts of the World Health Organization my friend ted ross to explore the etiology of the disease because however great the need for reform the w. H. O. The World Health Organization is still the one body that marshals humanity against the legions of the disease and thats why we in the u. K. Global britain are one of the biggest global funders. Of that organization contributing 340000000 pounds over the next 4 years thats an increase of 30 percent and as we now send our detectives our medical detectives to interview the witnesses and the the suspects the bats the pengelly whoever we should have enough humility to acknowledge that alarm bells were ringing long before this calamity struck. In the last 20 years there have been 8 outbreaks of a lethal virus any one of which could have escalated into a pandemic bill gates sounded the alert in 2055 years ago he gave that amazing prediction bill almost every word of which has come true how do we respond to a persistent microsoft error message by clicking ok and carrying on. Humanity was caught napping and weve been scrambling to catch up and with agonizing slowed is we are making progress. Epidemiologists at Oxford University identified the 1st treatment for cave in 1000. 00 they did trials with the National Health service and found that a cheap medicine called dixon medicine reduces the risk of death death by over a 3rd for patients on ventilators the u. K. Immediately shared this discovery with the world so that as many as 1400000 lives could be saved in the next 6 months by this one single advance and as i speak there are 100 potential back scenes that are trying to clear the hurdles of safety and efficacy as if in a giant global steeplechase we dont know which may be successful we dont know that any of them are going to be successful the oxford vaccine is now in stage 3 of Clinical Trials and in case of success astra zeneca has already begun to manufacture millions of doses in readiness for at the disposal of distribution and theyve reached agreement with the Serum Institute of india to supply 1000000000 doses to low income countries. But it would be futile to treat the quest for a vaccine as a contest for narrow National Advantage and immoral to seek a headstart through taine. Research by underhand means the health of every country depends on the whole world having access to a safe and effective vaccine wherever a breakthrough might occur and the u. K. We will do everything in our power to bring this about were already the biggest single donors the efforts of the coalition for epidemic preparedness to find of that scene and it is precisely because we know that no one is safe until everyone is safe so i can announce that the u. K. Will contribute up to 571000000 pounds to kovacs a new initiative designed to distribute aid could be vaccine across the world of this some 500000000 pounds will be for developing countries to protect themselves in the u. K. Is already the biggest donor to gaby the global that Seen Alliance in june we helped raise almost 9000000000 dollars 9000000000 dollars to immunize another 300000000. 00 children against killer diseases jab he also stands ready to help distribute a coded that see that even as we strive for a vaccine you must never cut corners slim down the trials sacrifice safety to speed the goods it would be an absolute tragedy if in our economies we were to boost the the nut jobs the anti vassars dangerous obsessives who campaign against the whole concept of vaccination and would risk further millions of lives. And now is the time above all to look ahead and think now about how to stop and do it from happening again how can we stop another virus from coming along and again smashing that precious mean virus of International Cooperation how can we avoid the mutual quarantines the brutal balkanization of the world economy. I dont think theres any reason for fatalism of course again the dangers can never be wholly limited but human ingenuity and expertise can massively reduce the risk imagine how much suffering might have been avoided if wed already identified the pathogen the became coby 91 it was still confined to animals i suppose wed be able to reach immediately into a global myths and chest and take out a treatment what if countries have been ready to join together from the outset to develop and trial a vaccine. That become much strength would have been prevented if the necessary protocols covering quarantine data sharing p. P. So much else had been so far as possible ready on the shelf for humanity to use so we in the u. K. Were going to work with our friends when they use our g 7 presidency next year to create a new global approach to Health Security based on a 5 point plan to protect humanity against another pandemic. Our 1st day in should be to stop a new disease before it starts about 60 percent of pathogens circulating in the human population originated in animals and let from one species to the other in zone or transmission. The world could seek to minimize the danger by forging a Global Network of zone Arctic Research hubs charged with spotting dangerous animal patterns pathogens that may cross the species barrier and infect human beings the u. K. Is ready to harnesses scientific expertise and cooperate to the fullest extent with our Global Partners to the set of the billions of pathogens the great mass are thankfully incapable of vaulting the species barrier once we discover the dangerous ones our scientists could get to work on identifying their weaknesses refining antiviral treatments before they strike we could open the research to every country and as we learn more our scientists might begin to assemble an armory of terrors a global pharmacopeia ready to make the the treatment for the next code a 2nd step should be to develop the manufacturing capacity for treatments of vaccines so that the whole of humanity can hold them but missiles in silos ready to zap the avian organisms before they can they can attack but if that fails and a new disease jumps from. Animals to human beings overcomes our armory of therapies and begins to spread then we need to know whats going on as fast as possible so the 3rd objective should be to design a Global PandemicEarly Morning system based on a vast expansion of our ability to collect and analyze samples and distribute the findings using health data sharing agreements covering every country. But as far as possible we should aim to predict a pandemic almost as we forecast the weather to see the thunderstorm in the cloud no bigger than a mans hand. And if all our defenses are breached and we face another crisis we should at least be able to rely on our 4th step and have all the protocols ready for an Emergency Response covering every relevant issue along with the ability to devise new ones swiftly never again miss we wage 193 different campaigns against the same enemy. As with all crises its crucial not to learn the wrong lessons after the struggle to equip ourselves with enough ventilators with countries scrabbling to improvise like them or astronauts of apollo 13 there is a Global Movement now to uninsured manufactory thats understandable. Here in the u. K. We found ourselves unable to meet globs a true aprons enzymes which is an extraordinary position for a country that was once the workshop of the world we need to rediscover that latent gift and instinct but it will be insane to ignore the insights of adam smith and David Ricardo we needs a pure secure supply chains but we should still rely on the laws of comparative advantage in the invisible hand of the market many countries imposed export controls at the outset of the pandemic about 2 thirds of which remain in force governments still target their trade barriers on exactly what we most need to combat the virus with terrorists get this on disinfectant often exceeding 10 percent. For so tariffs of 30 percent so i would urge every country to take a 5th step 5th step and lift the export controls wherever possible and agree not to revive them and cancel any tariffs on the vital tools of our struggle gloves protective equipment thermometers other conveyed critical products the u. K. Would do this as soon as our new terror regime comes into effect on the 1st of january and i hope a new independent tariff regime i should say and i hope that others will do the same. But in the world is still in the throes of this pandemic all these steps are possible if we have the will they are the right way forward for the world and britain is the right country to give that lead and we will do so in 2021 as we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of this great United Nations in london in january and through our g 7 presidency and as we host at the worlds Climate Change summit 26 in glasgow next november. The coded pandemic has been in the minutes psychic shock. To the human race global fears d have been intensified by the immediacy of round the clock news and social media but the service because we face a virus a small package of nucleic acid that simply replicate is not even technically alive. Tragic as its consequences have been its been nothing like as destructive as other plagues let alone the influenza of a century ago and it is absurd in many ways outrageous that this microscopic enemy. Should have rotted the unity of the human race code that has caused us to cease other vital work and im afraid it made individual nations seem selfish and divided from each other if we definitely people were openly encouraged to study a grizzly reverse a Little Big League table and some how to take more beads and totally mistaken comfort in what seemed to be the greatest sufferings of others we cant go on like that we cant make these mistakes again. And here in the United Kingdom the birthplace of Edward Jenner who pioneered the worlds 1st vaccine we are determined to do everything in our power to work with our friends across the un to heal those divisions and to heal the world. That is a bus transfer the british Prime Minister addressing the Un General Assembly saying that the very notion of the International Community looks tattered by the effects of covert 19 humanity needs to reach out across borders he said saying that alarm bells are ringing long before this pandemic struck and said the moral imperative now is for humanity to be honest and find out what happened and deal centuries press support of the w. H. O. And talk of lessons to be learned and to preempt the disease from passing from animal to human lets hear now from james bays i think we can cross now to james bases there in new york and james evoke is soley on the global struggle against 90. Yeah it was all about the virus and the potential vaccine in that speech this is a leader who is controversial at home he talked at the end about League Tables of Different Countries and how they cope with covert 19 well most observers believe the u. K. Has not done well but even though its controversial at home here on the world stage he certainly known for his unique rhetorical style and you heard that there for example talking about those who are opposed to the idea of a vaccine and wont take a vaccine as anti vaccine is a nut jobs there were some important bits of information in that speech with regard to the u. K. s position and notably more money 570. 00 over 570000000. 00 pounds going about 700000000. 00 going to kovacs that is the group paying other funding to develop and distribute about seen worldwide other proposals from the british Prime Minister to increase zoonotic Research Research into the transfer of diseases from animals to humans and also. In this way to try and get a vaccine to everyone trying to reach to remove certain of the u. K. Going to remove tariffs on vital medical supplies between countries in the age of covert as you say he was very critical of the lack of International Cooperation and that in many ways has been the theme of this General Assembly trying to get everyone to Work Together to defeat the virus but when weve actually seen it even this week in the Security Council a nasty spat between the u. K. Sorry the u. S. And china so as you say his words i think what will echo from that speech is the very notion of an International Community now is robert somewhat tattered origins live there from james bays there at the United Nations lets speak now to Nile Gardiner whos the director of the heritage foundations Margaret Thatcher center for freedom joins us on skype from washington d. C. And now what did you make of it and theyre talking of how the world has been knocked sideways by this absurd microscopic enemy as you put it. Well thank you for having me on the on the show today and have to say i think this is actually a very strong speech by by the Prime Minister a very robust british leadership the 1st speech by the british pm in the press city or since the u. K. Left the earlier this this year and clearly i think Boris Johnson wants a person leading on the world stage with regard to the response to cohabit 19 and this was a powerful call today for International Cooperation in the face of the the biggest global virus challenge certainly sense. Since 19919 in about a century also what i call the promise that a very good job actually outlining the british case for Global Cooperation and the fact that the world needs to to Work Together in terms of addressing this this challenge and the British Government is moving forward investing least 570000000 pounds in terms of collective efforts to to develop a a global vaccine out of the same time British Company is behind the scenes of working extremely hard in terms of developing a code 19 vaccine and were seeing also the university in particular in collaboration with with british pharmaceutical Companies Really on the forefront of developing a vaccine for for coated cycle you know this was a this was actually a very very strong speech by by the pm it was also i think a very powerful defense of free trade in the code 19 era and a call for calm congress to drop trade barriers in efforts to to Work Together to collaborate to fight against the virus and certainly the u. K. I think will be leading the way the right person the ok because one thing it was certainly a robust speech oh very colorful and perhaps. Rating robust british leadership and would certainly put it that is the focus of much criticism we must not forget as james bays our correspondent in new york alluded to much criticism at home in the u. K. And the perception that he has not done well in terms of leadership in the domestic fight against covert 90. Well i think you know if you look at the overall british response to it over the past you know few months might i think it has been almost all over the response of most European Countries so i mean i think germany is the is the leader in europe in terms of combating the virus at this time but i think the you know the british response being so he could clearly have to put that has been criticism the prime as is handling the whole of the virus has been criticism every single year indeed as. Well the code 19 response but i think that you know overall the u. K. s doing as well as a pulse beat could in the face all unprecedented challenges on the new Prime Minister on bail a series of new measures to be taken in the u. K. Following his announcement this week i think most of those measures were supported overwhelmed by the british by the British Public lets not forget the Prime Minister himself is a survivor. He faced a life and death situation several months ago he came through that and i t