Not not alone one has to say is that in the current process the parliaments of the regional parliaments and the splendors talk the central German Parliament have played. No role at 0 or a very very reduced row they have not really been consulted and they feel that this contravenes german practice the rights and the. How shall i say the powers that the separation of powers of the parliament should be involved as one of the cries we heard out there now early in her speech on the macro pointed out that these measures do curtail our freedoms and our rights and that they do harm the economy but she said they are nonetheless very necessary right now what did she lay out as in terms of the reasons for these measures well i think what she repeated about 4 or 5 times in her speech which i think for her. Character was quite impassioned in fact and emotional. She repeated several times that it is no longer possible to trace the source of all the infections that are taking place in germany today we have a new record of close to 17000. 00 cases in the last 24 hours under the circumstances the Health Authorities who are meant to track and trace these cases are no longer able to do so so the chance of all of infection from one person to the nickname next can no longer be interrupted and that means that the virus is spreading uncontrolled in an uncontrolled manna through society stressing this she said it its absolutely necessary to reduce the number of cases again so that there can be traced again and so that the chance of infection can be broken again she also sounded very concerned about the possible threat to hospitals to i. C. Use to intensive care units and and the threat that hospitals could be overwhelmed as a result of an exponential increase in infections exactly what shes saying is that if the number of cases increases with a certain lag of about a week or 2 the number of cases of London Hospital and the number of cases in intensive care also increases exponentially and there at the moment we have a doubling time every 10 days in other words every 10 days and none of cases in i. C. U. Doubles and if you look at the capacity of intensive care thats available that fact means that within about 3 or 4 weeks the i. C. U. Capacities will be exhausted and will be in a an emergency a Health Emergency where people will die without help being available along with a Health Emergency were also seeing the chance or in the speech talk about the economic emergency some protests yesterday specifically from the areas that are affected by this restaurants bars gyms the Entertainment Industry lets listen to the chancellor talking about her being aware and being concerned about all the people who are going to be affected. By these measures if i should be forced out soon i understand the frustration under the despair in these areas so many hygiene protocols have been worked out and those affected are asking themselves if it was all for nothing. I repeat no it wasnt these hygiene protocols will be used again. But with the current exponential spread of infection hes hygiene protocols are no longer effective. Yet we cannot trace 75 percent of infections and we must produce stop to this situation as quickly as possible this. Whole thing. Ok that was the chance were talking not about the economic but the Health Impact being aware that the measures taken so far must be continued so that all of the progress is made isnt risky in terms of it not being helpful yes indeed you know as far as the economy is concerned what the government is trying to do and what she explained is that large parts of the economy will continue there will not be a lockdown a shop dahlan or factories there will not be a grounding of airplanes that kind of you might say serious work is continuing that the government has tried very hard to impose restrictions in areas of recreation in areas that in some sense are not essential theyre essential obviously for the people that are running these businesses that are running these restaurants and bars and clubs and attainment centers and so on but in terms of society operating as a whole the economy operating as a whole theyre not that crucial so its an attempt to shut on sections of the economy while leaving Everything Else running and there will be economic aid for the industries affected for people in the Restaurant Branch mainly Small Businesses thats correct theres a 10000000000 d euros have been provided for that and. Basically its 10000000. 00 euros for one month you can say so it is a substantial amount of money that can be distributed to these companies in the hope of in fact lessening the blow to them and possibly. Helping them through this try so that they can continue in the hope that in december once of embers of things will get back to some sort of no monetary ok no she also mentioned in this address the necessity for a critical debate what was she referring to there theres 2 aspects of that well obviously there has been a debate going on in society all the time and in fact as she refers a lot to scientific facts and to scientific inquiries and so on there are obviously differences of opinion among scientists as well and doctors here recently in germany you had a group of doctors and scientists viral or rather just and if you did the other tourists who were saying that these measures in their opinion were too strict and that one should be a lot more focus and that one should put more emphasis on personal responsibility on appeals to society to every individual every citizen to do his part in this but there are other scientists who have a different opinion she has been stressing that this debate has been going on the other aspect is that there is a debate in parliament amongst politicians amongst Political Parties and here there has been criticism even from the side of her own party within the governing coalition that parliamentary process has not been respected enough that in Parliament Many of these measures have not been allowed or have not been discussed and so being in parliament she spent a lot of time actually respecting the role of parliament and do you think parliament will be brought in there is the expectation that a number of these many measures are going to see legal challenges possibly all the way to the German Supreme Court will parliament be brought into the Party Process since i think all Political Parties are demanding that in effect and they will be some way the parliament will be the parliaments one has to say in regions as well will be put into this debate into this process they would then have. 2 obviously pos laws or a mentor was so that these measures either made possible also would then be able to be defended in courts possibly also the details of the measures could be discussed in parliament thats what parliamentarians look like the problem is that that takes a lot of time and thats something we do not have and the situation is ever on screen to have un thanks for being with us. While france will be seeing a much stricter lockdown president Manuel Mccraw has been laying out his new guidelines for that country shops bars and restaurants there will also be closed that starting tomorrow friday travel between french regions while that will also no longer be possible recall announced the restrictions a day after france reported 500. 00 deaths within 24 hours. The anxious wait for president mccombs speech to the nation. Predicting can hardly believe his ears hes going to have to close his bar again on a pole we cant understand and were having to make a huge sacrifice the economic consequences are definitely worse than the virus itself you said you could eat another lockdown from friday people will be allowed to leave their homes within a one kilometer radius to buy essential supplies or in emergencies but this time there are exceptions let it go to us to all of it schools will remain open people can work and people can visit care homes. Infection rates in france are exploding more than half the 6010 ths of care beds in the country are occupied by covert patients the government is responding with the same tough measures it had wanted to avoid predict will not be serving wind again until december at the earliest. Lets get you up to date down some of the other stories making in the news at this hour the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in india has now passed 8000000 but data from the countrys Health Ministry well its showing the average number of new delhi infections is beginning to decline. India has the 2nd highest number of confirmed cases in the world after the united states. And hong kong a teenage activist has become the 1st political figure to be prosecuted under a sweeping new National Security law imposed by beijing 19 year old toni chong is a former member of student localism a small group that advocates on kongs independence from china. Fighters in california are continuing to battle major wildfires near los angeles which have been raging since monday thousands of residents in some areas were allowed to return to their homes however after calmer winds helped firefighters be back to the places. Well thousands of people of taking to the streets of numerous polish cities capping a week of delhi protests thats started after the countrys top car Court Decision that effectively bans abortions the ruling means abortions are now only legal if a Mothers Health is at risk or if a pregnancy is a result of rape or incest protest organizers say they will stay out on the streets until the law is rolled back. A silent protest against a decision many see as a scandal polish workers across the country went on strike to protest the toughening of the countrys abortion laws. Were here to fight for our right to choose were not advocating abortions we just want to be able to decide for ourselves if we want to have control over our own bodies. Yet we dont have a choice now we are showing how we feel. That they shouldnt have taken our rights from us this is the 21st century where in europe it cant be we have to fight about it last week polands Constitutional Court toughened the countrys already strict abortion rules even further the panel of judges declared abortions due to irreversible congenital defects in the fetus illegal the ruling sparked a massive uproar the majority of polls disagree with the courts decision and even many conservatives have joined the protests frustration has been focused on the powerful Catholic Church which favors the new rules Church Services have been interrupted and. Trues vandalised but most criticism has been directed at the governing Lauren Justice party which many polls believe has ended the high courts independence the party says the protests must end due to the coronavirus pandemic. We have a situation in which those demonstrations will certainly cost the lives of many people. She. Those who are calling for them and also those who participate in them bring a common danger and so they are committing a crime a serious crime. Rights groups are warning the government could soon declare a state of emergency and revoke the demonstrators right to assemble meaning and end to the protests. Lets get your reminder of our top story at this hour speaking just moments ago and addressing the German Parliament on the announcement of new coronavirus restrictions german chancellor Angela Merkel said the new measures were necessary and appropriate she warned it was currently impossible to trace the source of 3 quarters of new corona virus infections. This is the deputy news live from berlin im brian thomas for the entire team thanks so much for being here. Combating the corona pandemic. Where does research stand. What are scientists learning. Background information and news. Hour corona. 19 special next on d w. How does a virus spread. Why do we panic and when will. We just threw the topics covered and the weekly radio show is called spectrum if you would like any information on the phone a library or any other science topic we should really check out our podcast you can get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us at. Slash science. Theyre our best friends and very old friends indeed theres evidence that humans began to domesticate dogs some 30000 years ago long before we tamed the horse or started keeping livestock. And this is the nose that always knows the dogs sense of smell is about a 1000000 times better than that of humans dogs also inhale up to 300. 00 times per minute in short breaths that means theyre all factory cells are constantly supplied with new odor particles and its because of that amazing organ that dogs are being brought into the frontline in the fight against corona virus. Welcome to this studio where you covered 19 special im rob whats in berlin its great to have you with us we know that testing is crucial to trying to control coronavirus millions of people the world over have already received a swab to the mouth or nose in the name of stopping its spread but researchers in finland are trying a new way of sniffing out 90. For a treat preferably kathy this now to can be programmed to find it just about anything more bed bugs cancer now it could change the course of corona virus detection meat. Rescued from being euthanized as a puppy in spain hes returned that favor for years sniffing out deadly disease for the wise no smell Detection Association and then learned as coded 19 began to spread to see was asked as an experiment to try to detect it it took him 7 minutes to figure out that this is what they want me to look for so that totally blew our minds you know dog be able to change training sense in 7 minutes. Its the team quickly learned canines can detect a coded 1000. 00 infection even 5 days before symptoms appear with almost 100 percent accuracy helsinki airport is hosting a Pilot Project through december that will include cross referencing canine results with those for medical devices if you talk to skin so here it just takes a simple swab from a restore neck here and there it is there yes and for a couple of seconds a dog can tell immediately if a person has contract of corona virus and. The only received a negative is a lot of the voluntary tests are proving popular but no positive signal yet from the finnish government about scaling up the program so since dogs are incredibly war effective much less expensive and far less intrusive than other ways of detecting the virus why arent public authorities everywhere rushing to use their noses instead of ours we found one who is argue is deputy mayor of vaughan the site of the airport i pods he did it in 2 minutes. Took me 2 minutes out and get this budget covers the free tests offered to all arriving passengers he allocated 330000 euros total to the 4 month dog study meanwhile he expects it will cost up to 300000000. 00 euros per month for the medical option the nasal swab its quite expensive operation of course and the docs are like 75000. 00 know a month. To says the data from this study should help bring in federal funds for expansion of canine testing as well as legal adjustments to upgrade the virus sniffing dogs authority to that of their counterparts working in customs we can i write about iraqs future like they can. And they go to jail because of on a human bjorkman is thinking far beyond airports we could train dogs with the same samples with the same training areas to open up. You know the concert halls or or being fair is or go to big working places hospitals or elderly homes football matches whatever both york man and bobby line and mourn if dylan doesnt harness the potential of the dog program itself theyll unleash it elsewhere we can well because theres still a lot of warm. She says Health Authorities from all over the world want to learn what these noses know well im delighted to say we can speak to professor holger folc who is chair of the small Animals Department at the university of veterinary medicine. Thanks a lot for joining us can you just explain to us what exactly it is that the dogs are smelling during these tests. Yeah well thank you for the question and its quite interesting i mean at the end of day we dont know because the virus doesnt smell but we do know that the virus needs a cell and they hijacked that cell and then they changed the medical reason in the cell and that actually is something the dog can smell so how can we be confident that what they are detecting is corona virus. So thats a very good question to ask what we have done in our study is that we compare people who had an infection with corollaries and actually have clinical signs to work over 1000 patients to our control and in those groups we were able to find a difference of 94 percent its rate saying that what we didnt have. Was people who had put something on the grounds of virus because at that time when we did the study there was no influenza season so thats what were doing at the moment to see how it was the dog also to be able to discriminate against other viruses like influence our or also other medical one of ours the stakes are pretty high if the test comes back and the result is is wrong so we know how the reliability compares with more conventional coronavirus testing. You know its quite its quite comparable i mean you should never forget that the dog will never replace a p. C. R. Test so its just a very fast weaning mechanism and there think you where else and you have a point where you could see how fast these doctor actually able to sniff out that people. So when you look at the pew look at and you have a 96 percent specifically an 83 percent sensitivity so its probably more comparable to the antigen test result and then obviously for us the Gold Standard test was the p. C. Archosaur all our patients were confirmed but if you see out of so if we were to roll this out further maybe nationwide worldwide indeed would have a strain of dogs to detect corona virus to actually carry that out. I think you know one of the challenges we are facing is that we often simplify our world