ExaVibes AI-driven robot Mayflower recreates historic voyage

 

News Hub: a ship with no crew or passengers but a robotic captain driven by artificial intelligence to navigate the vessel the autonomous ship is set to embark on a transatlantic voyage retracing the formers of the famous voyage by the mayflower board about 400 years ago our next support tells you more 400 years ago mayflower made a famous voyage across the Atlantic carrying pilgrim settlers to America and making history

now its namesake a sleek robotic vessel is aiming to recreate the Atlantic crossing only with a modern twist the ship will be captained by a robot trained by IBM designed artificial intelligence the one million pound ship could become the largest ever autonomous vessel to cross it's the ocean as ready

 as it's going to be from a mechanical and electrical and a power and propulsion perspective and now we just want to continue to implement the autonomy and stress it and test it and throw things at it that it didn't see before make sure it's all working validate it and then yeah I think we're getting close everything seems to be working right now so armed with state-of-the-art tech vessel

 will be able to independently scan the horizon for possible hazards make informed decisions and change its course based on a matrix of live data warning hazard detected rather than having so many scientists on board trying to do lots of different jobs you can compress that down into a small payload like

this it really takes the stress off the scientists they can get focused on actually analyzing the data back in a comfy warm office whereas this is expendable it can go out there you can swap it out for different payloads later on if you want to and it's also you

 could you could cover far greater areas you could make lots and lots of these boxes and do lots of lots of experiments on many different ships whereas you've only got one scientist you can only do one thing at a time the creators of the ship are confident that the vessel could herald a new era of automated research ships we really need a huge amount of data to be able to actually

 understand what's going on with with the world's oceans and that's that's so important and using just traditional methods alone isn't going to allow us to actually really scale up how we do that so so together those traditional methods and the more recent innovations are really going to help enable us and give our scientists the information they need to really do those important tasks of around research and scientific breakthrough here after completing the six months of sea trials ibm's mayflower is all set to sail from the UK to the united states around april 19th on a course closely echoing the 1620 crossing bureau report we on world is one

Mars rover begins search for alien life on Red Planet

 

News Hub: NASA has just successfully landed its most ambitious ever mission to Mars after a seven-month journey through space the rover called perseverance survived a perilous high-speed plunge through the martian atmosphere and made it safely onto the surface of the red planet confirming its arrival an hour ago with a tweet these images the first sent back within moments.

it's existed billions of years ago tonight's landing is all the more impressive given how much could have gone wrong here's our science correspondent Rebecca Morell and a warning her report contains some flashing images perseverance is going about one kilometer per second a nerve-wracking weight at mission control then celebrations as a signal is received from mars its touchdown for NASA's perseverance rover and these are its.

first images a view of its landing site before it starts to explore the rovers even started tweeting too I'm safe on mars perseverance will get you anywhere what an amazing team to work through all the adversity that goes and all the challenges to go with landing rover on mars plus the challenges of covid and um and just an amazing accomplishment it survived a fiendishly difficult landing.

burning through the atmosphere at 12 000 miles an hour before a complex landing system brought it down in an area with some of the oldest rocks on mars it's amongst the most ancient uh crust on the surface of mars capturing that period of time between three and a half and four billion years old which isn't a period of time that's particularly well preserved in rocks here on earth so we have a chance to find out about a period of the solar system.

that we've never studied before this mission is all about finding signs of life and the best place to do that is here the zero crater today it's dry and dusty but billions of years ago it was a huge crater were once beaches on the lakeshore and the hope is any microscopic creatures that once lived there are still preserved perseverance is the most advanced rover that NASA's ever built and it's jam-packed with instruments.

its robotic arm is equipped with a drill to collect rock samples so what forms of life could they contain I am not talking about martian little green men probably not even fish we're looking for microbial life or maybe microbes that have made a little mat or a slime of sorts that you might find on the bottom of a pond those are the types of things that are likely to well they did exist on earth three and a half billion years ago.

the question is did they exist on mars at the bottom of lakes for the first time NASA will also be testing a mini mars helicopter to provide a new bird's eye view of the planet and back on the ground the rover will store some of the rocks a future mission will bring them back to earth and some will be heading to the UK there will be the most precious samples that we have on earth the most exciting and scientists around the world will be absolutely fighting and clamoring to study them getting to the red planet is just the start now the hard work begins this is NASA's most ambitious mission and our best ever chance to know whether life ever existed on Mars.

Election Commission announces polling dates of 5 states; Why are these elections crucial?

News Hub: it's going to be a very exciting politically sizzling summer of 2021 the election commission, today announced dates for assembly elections in four states and one union territory so elections will be starting from the 27th of march and resulted will be the second of may it's the states of West Bengal Assam Tamil Nadu Kerala and the union territory of Puducherry going to polls.

so all in all over 18 crore voters will be voting in 842 constituencies let's tell you why these elections are exciting the big battle undoubtedly is the one, in west Bengal 294 assembly constituencies it's an eight-phase poll and here you have two-time chief minister a very strong regional leader Mamata Banerjee,

who is going to try and stop! the bjp juggernaut the bjp on its side has been campaigning heavily with prime minister Modi uh home minister Amit shah leaving no stone unturned to bring what they say will be barbarian in West Bengal they aim to win 200 seats in a state where they have never won.

 so they want to conquer new territory let's come now to the state of Assam also very interesting with its 126 assembly seats here in 2016 the last round of these elections the bjp had won and formed a government in Assam, for the first time ever so chief minister sarban sonowal has the tough task of holding down the fort his biggest opponent will be in the congress that has traditionally ruled Assam and its tallest leader in.

 the state taran Gogoi passed away recently the congress meanwhile has tied up with a i wf but in and will try to rest back Assam from the bjp let's go across to Tamil Nadu where you don't have the congress and the bjp facing off directly but it is in a way a proxy battle because the two big players are the aia DMK in the 234 assembly constituents seat assembly the aiadmk has tied up with the bjp while the DMK has tied up with the Congress party

 the x-factor here is Sashi Kala close aide of former chief minister Jaya lalita we have to see what impact she has on Tamil Nadu polls let me come to Kerala another very exciting battle 140 assembly seats over here and traditionally the government has been alternating between two fronts every five years so on the one side you have the left-led coalition which is in power right now and then

 you have the congress-led coalition and by that arithmetic, it's the turn of the congress-led coalition but uh the current government the incumbents want to change that pattern and hope to retain power here the interesting twist in the tale is the bjp which does not really have a large presence in the state at all but is trying to make headway uh with a very interesting.

 the new leader in their party is the former bureaucrat metro man e Sridharan let's see if he manages to help the bjp make a dent in Kerala and then, of course, 

you have the union territory of purucheri just 30 seats there remember in 2016 this was the only victory that the congress had uh in this round of elections and they lost Puducherry that government fell because of defections just a few days before election dates were announced so the congress will try and take back Puducherry as well so if i were to sum it up these elections the summer elections of 2021 has the bjp, on the one hand,

 trying to conquer fresh territory as they have been doing politically for the last few years and the congress fighting for survival

Kerala New Cyber LAW by CM Pinarayi Vijayan | Kerala’s new law curb fake news?

Big Breaking News: coming in as far as the free speech Rao is concerned in Kerala the chief minister has responded says there is no curb on liberties not curbing the freedom of the press so opposition, while hits out at the Kerala chief minister here, is a statement coming in from the chief minister of Kerala is responding on the free speech raw and he claims that the state government has no intention to curb individual liberties and freedom of press remember the left government, in fact, as amended

the Kerala police act empowering the police to arrest or find anyone responsible for offensive social media posts and not just the opposition but some activists also has slammed the government for this let's go across to vivekarindalam who's joining us with more details and amidst the controversy here comes in a statement from the chief minister says there are no curbs on liberties exactly chief minister pindavijn says that you know certain media houses are misleading the people he says 

that even though section 118a has been inserted uh into the new amendment uh there is no such, uh you know means of uh scuttling the voice of people who are dissenting or opposing the views of the government but the question here is that the section 118a and the provisions are very very clear it 

clearly says that those people who question the government any of the government functionaries you know will face the law uh three years of imprisonment and rupees 10 000 is fine now that's very very clear and the government is still not willing to go back on this now uh 

what I

 understand is that a senior cpi leader has also condemned this decision he says that the government should look back and you know change certain provisions of this law but you know the ldf government has still not decided uh to do anything right now the government is sticking on to this provision and they say that this amendment will stay now whatever the chief minister says that the amendments the points the main points the fundamental provisions of this amendment remains the same it clearly stipulates and it clearly states that uh you know those people who are questioning any uh the government authorities or any deliberately 

commented against any person for that matter you know he or she will be arrested and be put in where and will be uh stay on with us because we're also getting some reactions and both the

 bjp and congress have lashed out at the Kerala government over this issue let's listen has been clearly noticed of the press and the freedom of the people and now they have brought this law and they are implemented this is the real face of left parties amendment made in the Kerala police act through an ordinance is illegal and it is a clear violation of the fundamental rights for freedom of expression it is to bypass the supreme god decision by removing the section 66 of the i.t when the provision of an act passed by the parliament had removed by the supreme court how can a state government made legislation in the same line the government is trying to impose police raj and trying to make silence those

 who criticize the government the so-called champions of freedom of expression and freedom of media the left parties in India has shown their duplicity and their hypocrisy once again by amending the Kerala police act the new amendment in Kerala police act actually gives powers to the Kerala police to arrest anyone who criticized the government in social media or in media this is nothing but uh but a clear move to implement police raj in Kerala to prevent all kinds of criticism against the government the left government in Kerala is in panic mode from last four-five months after the gold smuggling case has exposed their connection with the anti-national elements well we have more breaking inputs 

coming in on the broadcast before that let's go across to shazad punawala is through with us now shazad we were just talking about the statement that is coming from the chief minister of Kerala while the opposition both bjp and congress say that this is the real face of the left government they want to curb freedom of speech uh the kerala cm says there are no curbs that far as liberty is concerned you know there are attempts being made by the left government now to backtrack on this draconian move but it's nothing but a backdoor entry for the dreaded section 66a which was struck down by the supreme court and trying to push that across would be blatantly unconstitutional in fact contempt of the supreme court but here is the point I have removed a statistic which shows that till

 June 2019 119 social media activists were arrested or booked by the Kerala government so how can they say that this will not be misused even if some sops were in fact put in place so clearly uh it looks like an attempt to muzzle free speech it looks like a police raj kind of a situation and it looks like the left party or the Vijayan government has been afflicted by the emergency mindset and nothing less than scrapping this would work because clearly, those who cry about freedom of speech day in and day out those who call Modi fastest day in and day out their silence on this issue would be very very troubling so

 I would hope that the Antifa activists of India would awaken themselves and take notice and cognizance of this attempt to muzzle free speech in Kerala right in fact at this point in time the government is attempting a face-saver we have breaking inputs coming in the Kerala dgp has said that a special standard operating procedure will be prepared before taking action on the amendment to the Kerala police act where Karen Allen continues to be with us now, of course, uh the government is realizing fully well that uh this is not going down well with the opposition neither with the people the activists another government says a sop will be prepared exactly the dgp has come out and said that a standard operating procedure will be there uh before uh you know taking any action to remember this according to 

this particular new ordinance that the police can so motor register a case against a person you do not have you know a third party or any person to file a defamation case earlier we have a defamation case, uh you know will be filed against a media house if at all they find that there is anything uh which is against the government or if at all they find uh that is it is malicious now there is no need of a defamation case that we find so the amount of case can be registered now against which now a large number of human rights activists and opposition party leaders have raised their voice and it's at this juncture that the dgp himself has come out and said that you know the set of uh you know protocols 

will be followed and only then that the action will be taken now this is clearly a face-saver at this point of time remember the CPM's ally the cpi uh you know the theme and the other party uh which is an ally in the ldf government has also come out against this particular ordinance um issued a statement saying that the government should recheck this, uh you know uh ordinance and then come up uh with a renewed, uh you know ordinance where stringent laws uh are not uh against uh put against the ordinary citizens of the country all right Vivek thank you very much for joining us with those details we'll keep coming back to you for more updates

Bollywood Actor: Rishi Kapoor Death

Bollywood Actor: Rishi Kapoor

Bollywood's original chocolate boy as he was fondly called veteran actor Rishi Kapoor is no more he passed away after a two-year long battle with leukemia at the age of 67 at Mumbai's HN Reliance Foundation hospital known for being active on social media his candid personality and his versatile role if you look at his last message on the social networking site Twitter it was about how India should fight together against coronavirus in that last message he had spoken about the doctors nurses medics and police personnel who are fighting against Co bid 90 now there's a statement

that has come out from his family as well after his demise where the family has requested that everyone should follow the lockdown rules they also said that Rishi Kapoor remained jovial and kept doctors entertained till the very end as an ode to someone fond of life the family says remember him with a smile and not with tears now Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself has tweeted in remembrance of the legendary actor the Prime Minister and the tweet has said and I'm quoting him multifaceted endearing and lively this was Rishi Kapoor ji he was a powerhouse of talent I'll always recall our interaction even on social media he was passionate about films and India's progressed now anguish by his demise condolences to his family and fans ohm shanthi that is the message coming in from the Prime Minister himself my colleague shilpa Rathnam is joining us so on the broadcast getting is all the very important details on the story Shilpa as you just some time ago had put out that statement from the family any other details that you're hearing about the last rites of the actor that will be conducted come here

all requested for privacy at this time they said they will be sharing as much as they can they know that you know fans of the Act are eager to be a part of the last rites to be a part of his original journey our to the end and it said they will keep trans updated but it has requested that time do not flock to the hospital not even calling do not flock to the hospital - beautifly said are pouring in currently for the actor you have Prime Minister Narendra Modi who has treated you have option cut Sutra who was one before to treat Amitabh Bachchan was


 the first one to treated he was one who broke the news Rajnikant has said hi he's heartbroken now Gandhi has also expressed his condolences to his family friends and fans from from the kinder for Abascal who's all spoken about the activation pacific andhra has also taken to social media to many many of them perhaps a kind of absorbing the news first and also they talking about their association with disaster this extremely depressing news for Rishi Kapoor passing really been battling cancer the two years and succumb to it this morning all right sugar thank you so much for getting us all the very important details the family has issued a statement and requested for privacy now tributes are pouring in from his fellow Bollywood actors filmmakers listen in to the reactions Rashidah a body bubbly a body pra a body confident how many romance kabocha muntaha hardke some care all Haruka some gay characters you Tribune on a film a key was some home go yadda sex pay sets Qahhar William Aegean give a tacit she and I chin to and I shared a very long back relation you know when we were 22 anyone together and nobody in all

but he is one day younger to me I was born September 3rd he was born September 4th and develop in times when these to cut cakes together and we've got cakes together in our case to do we cut cakes together in Shambu when he was staying in Chambal bungalow so we used to order for two cakes and third night we have to cut both the cakes are you I was third September the 4th September and one day younger to me so we go way back the families move together we are holidays together there was the hill God through healthier suffered a lot but he suffered it and very bravely in all the couples you could find the similarity but there's equal one collector who had no similarity with alcohol up it's likable Shammi Kapoor our sessions over are

 beautiful I remember when we were shooting a note even better on Joker he used to only walk alone that six of their rocky astral told me care will you be with him and they tried to know his mind what is going on within him hard to see and he has voted many many many brilliant he'll given brilliant performances listen I tackle producing any cattle per community she's elusive the tanky are not at all we were not only relatives we were great friends he was a wonderful lab I have everybody knows no opinion it was a wonderful

actor and but I tell you personally was wonderful human being actually and big loss it was a very personal loss to us and I too old or his red food abou simple and reverb everybody I wished them to me to specially I met him I met him when he came back from America we went to his house we were sitting with them and we were together for quite some time but then he was there he would just I thought it would you take a rest view is absolute looking good even looking very good so tributes have been pouring in from different quarters joining us on the broadcast is patron actor Satish Kaushik he's with us on the broadcast at ishii thank you so much for speaking to us clearly a very

unfortunate bit of news coming in this morning the Kapoor family sees that he was jovial when alive in his last few days remember him with a smile and not a tear your thoughts and your memories of the wonderful departed soul he fought it like a warrior you know he fought it very happily his initial and great guy great yoga guy who was always happy who was always effervescent and who was always mad about cinema acting performances scripts you know I had I was shooting with him for sure a machinima queen you know two months back when he suddenly fell him he was into his into his charming note all the time you know and his his passion for for work for being an actor and we have it is a great you know to be

 with chintuji was always a treat you know because he has so many kisses so many many gloat about about film industry about about life you know and spending evenings with him was over the gray treat which I have you know kind of spent with him you know he has been I have been like like a sand to him because when Bobby released we were in polish that time you know and we came to Bombay then he was a star for us but worked with him as an actor I fought with met him he was a director you know I acted in about about actually a blood Chile which was again it read mean means a kingly sighs man you know if a man who was was a king all the time it's very very sad you know about he was a happy man and very jovial man and that will air of romance with him is all because he was icon of that you know he played so romantic rules one after another one after another and yet he was he was so charming every time that is that was his inner built personality all sorts you know very positive and very jovial

we will miss him but listen badly because he was a great friend he was a great Co actor you know great director um I had the chance to work with him and Omar cabañas film yeah so very very sad and uh and friends and especially the you know co actors the directors who have worked with him as they remember him all of them say one thing that stands out that he was very honest about what he was communicating he would speak his heart out he was never worried about whether it's going to you know really trouble someone or not sound very pleasant he always spoke his mind and expressed his views however controversial or politically incorrect they were saved yes lately he's been like that that he speak he started

speaking his mind very honestly and he was fearless he was not he you know without any fear he used to say what what he believes but then he used to do at shooting also you know he he will say what he feels about the script and he were very vocal about it you know whether it is it is criticizing the director or co actor or a scriptwriter you know and and he was adapting himself to the current cinema so when

 you know because people like him and we we belong to another era and today young writers are different but I remember him last time when chintuji Jewish habla me and when directed by a new you know he came for the father for the reading for the for a you know cast reading all the actors were there and he you know kind of he said you have to move the Botero so North arrow thick enough but he was part of that you know throughout two hours three hours he sat there and had a reading with reading with the co actors that it was his passion for work you know he was a kingly size man in every

why I remember him like that he always always very jovial happy and episodes and so the most I think heartbreaking part especially for close friends and relatives is that they won't be able to see him for the last time that is that is that is devastating because you you you live for you know that people are with you especially people eyes into that people are with you but this pandemic has stopped us you know sadly you know and we have to take care you know even the family couples family has requested you know

that so many people cannot go but when he was sitting at home you feel sad because that is like you know giving respect large respect to a person who has lived his life on his own terms and very positively very jovial early and very you know he worked until his last breath he was working he was working human since last two month too much before you know so I you feel very sad that you had to be part of for part of his last journey that is that is worse that is worse I mean whenever you lose a close one a friend or a family member you

 do want to say that goodbye you do want that closure I think this is the most most brutal part about this pandemic that many people who have lost their family members friends are not able to say their final goodbyes we try and remember himself with a smile and you know a lot of emotions we all feel as you as you shed those tears what is the one memory that he has left on the silver screen or his role that he has played that you would always share cherish I'm sure it's very difficult to pick I have so many favorites but what is that perhaps one role that will define Russia for you last time when I you know used to keep on meeting after he came back from

 New York and before that round so I used to send a message but I said t2g your passion of acting is so much when I saw him in agony but in a very very you know negative role such a strong role you know and he did it so beautifully I said that is actor mu you have been a romantic hero hero for such a long time and you have played the the romantic lead although all the time but you are doing different kind of roles then when you

 see other things which you have done recently he's so different you know so it was a shocker for us to see him if I'm like a Griffith you know and he was he was so cruel in that picture it was so cruel but that is that is an actor I remember him like that but for me always will be my college days when P we used to throw to Ghaziabad faridabad from our tel University and we will not get tickets and we will not this think for for me always be that old theater used to swoon over and go back much higher today mother I Hasina to say they kept say they Catholics question you are a Chinese it is important so T G yes Aria day home sub kiss a train you need to come key are the sort of personality he was that will always be with us

my thoughts and prayers with the family and to you as well sir take care and thank you so much for speaking to us and sharing your fond memories with your close friends and veteran actor Rishi Kapoor who's passed away well other than mr. Satish Kaushik we also spoke to Ramesh Ravi Kishen and Mukesh part after the demise of Asha Kapoor listening to their reactions yesterday would not recover from Irfan bhai and now this is the news when I've read a mr. Bachchan's twit and quite shocking like full of life or a fantastic actor and the most holding is that I can't go and neither any industry people can go and have large

 Russian if that is going to be a very very painful like I am quite shocked and clapping let's go neeshub monkey up up near senior corps acknowledged legend actor go somewhere chibita Anka taught a dear friend full of heart Tyndall in San Kapoor and Anka Caravan we lost him but is a gesture with to recover wookie was back in hearing the script when he was ready for the next movie you know everything bitch left me completely speechless yesterday us girls trying to recover from the loss of a fan and now addition to Ron King - it was very very very very very close to me and I have shared a bond for it with him for the last 40 years this is something which has devastated me do you on any expression of words I have speechless I'm heartbroken I'm shattered human fungi full of life all the time positive bubbling energetic you know even so he just give so much of positivity all around him and all

the time and love life to the fullest love your life to the fullest perhaps that's the message that Rishi Kapoor leaves behind that is the message that the family has reiterated after the demise of the veteran actor who at the age of 67 lost his battle to cancer for battling it for two years iconic producer and director Ramesh Sippy also a close friend of shikoku is joining us on the broadcast sir thank you so much for joining us this is clearly a difficult time for the family for all the friends all the fans across the country as well because this is a time we won't be able to have a last glimpse of the departed soul it is indeed a very difficult time and we are all very very upset and saddened by this news and so very correctly expressed earlier and we can't be there we can't be there as part of the last rites it it is it feels not right to not be there he was a wonderful actor he was a great guy my association with him has been a very long one because with the whole Camden ever since he started making mites and undoes with Shammi Kapoor G and so as from there on Shashi G joining in on a couple of my projects then now with make

 I made a film with him a very nice romantic film that Rishi Kapoor G and simply and Kamala Santi it was it was a very very wonderful experience and I suddenly I feel such a vacuum that such an important part of my life and people are he is he has done such wonderful work much before shot obviously metal for sagar also starting with Joker and Bobby and then then in recent times he's done some great roles Rauf Lala he played in Agni pot and Kapoor and Sons and absolutely I mean it was an amazing actor and what a wonderful guy to be with to sit with to talk we met often at Pertwee theatres and we shared some really lovely times together yeah and then of course these are indeed very difficult times for the family so and it's absolutely heartbreaking for all the friends to not to be there in his last journey but I thank you very much for joining us on the broadcast sharing your thoughts and foreign memories with the late actor of XI Kapoor some latest news coming in you now Rishi Kapoor's daughter has sought a permission from ma che to travel to Mumbai after yesterday's Guidelines permission could

 come Delhi Police is facilitating this entire process that is the latest bit of news that we are getting in right now Rishi Kapoor's daughter is taking the permission she wants to travel and there are stringent guidelines in place it's difficult to cross the border at this point in time you do require various permissions a lot of people across the country who have lost their friends and members of the family find it very difficult to travel our remise with us on the broadcast are animal give us more details we told her that's written Missoni I was with the daughter of Rishi Kapoor she couldn't meet him one last time because of the logs on this monitor in Delhi but she could say was admitted in a hospital in Mumbai but now that the news of his passing only has come she has requested

the Ministry of Home Affairs grant her permission so that she can you know participate in the last rites and also be with her family what he had told by the Ministry of Home Affairs of the dedica leases were even yesterday we saw on the show promises came up to the guidelines allowing people who were stranded eTools my energy was taking the most humane approach so I think that also would come to the rescue of these families the river might get to travel very swing to be because with her family there but the only hitches that she'll have to take the rhogam flights and trains are not working with Delhi Bombay by a fire road we will take a little time all right Thank You Haruma for getting us all the details our thoughts and prayers with the family the daughter wants to be with her father in the last journey all right.

Coronavirus: major drugs trial offers hopes for treatment

Coronavirus: major drugs


say that around one in three patients admitted hospital in the UK with Kovac 19 have died and that underlines the need for new treatments for coronavirus but several existing medicines for other conditions are undergoing trials in the world's biggest study of potential treatments as our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh tells us now what would the world give for a cure for coronavirus it has turned hospital wards into alien landscapes Stafford Addenbrooke's in Cambridge must be shielded from the highly infectious virus patients like Peter who's 89 must rely on oxygen the one thing known to help fighting for this baby babe that was all about day three oh it's for you the toll on individuals and their families has been enormous peter is part of a national trial which is examining five drugs used for other conditions to see if they work for coronavirus until they get results doctors have limited options so it's extraordinarily difficult to what a large number of patients get so incredibly unwell and know that we have no therapies anywhere in the world

 That are proven to be efficacious it means that there's an urgent health needs to do research in this space so that we can understand what treatments work and what don't drugs for HIV and malaria are being tried to see if they can help stop the virus replicating in the body other patients are being given treatments to reduce inflammation and dampen the immune system which can go haywire Jeff who's 60 has had cancer he can't shake off coronavirus after being infected six weeks ago why something's treated with chemo twice I've had full remission and the last one was only certainly ended last year and then when you get this he signed up for two clinical trials what's the point what's important coming into a hospital be pumped full of all sorts of things and nobody really knows what it was what there is okay probably what helped me but you know but it might help people that followed behind me the first results of the trials could come as early as June it'll be here at

 The big data Institute in Oxford 

that the trial results will be analyzed in a little over a month around 8,000 patients for nearly a hundred and seventy hospitals throughout the UK have been enrolled in what is the biggest clinical study in the world in two kovat 19 treatments at the peak we were enrolling 400 patients a day lessons have been learned from the swine flu pandemic when experimental treatments were not properly assessed the best example is the 2009 pandemic where tens of thousands of patients were treated with drugs outside of clinical trials and we didn't get any results we can't afford to do that again we need to know what works for covered 90 and so these trials 

I think of critically important don't expect a cure but even a treatment that is partially effective could save thousands of lives and pave the way for other better medicines and furgus is with me now clearly and understandably there is intense interest in the progress that scientists and others are making in this area so how would you sum up where we are in terms of the search for a cure well you none of the doctors or scientists I've spoken to is expecting a magic bullet something that will stop coronavirus in its tracks for the majority of patients it's great that the trials are underway but they are training drugs that would develop for other conditions now what we should hope for perhaps is a moderate effect from those if they are successful say something that reduced mortality by 20% it may not sound much but in the UK that could save thousands of lives now in the US tonight there are some early results from an antiviral drug originally developed for Ebola which are being hailed which seemed to suggest that it's cut the duration of symptoms in patients with coronavirus from 15 to 11 days but it comes off the back of some other data that suggested that it didn't work and that's why these trials are so important we've got to wait for them to come through in the coming months and then of course we've got to wait for the dozens of vaccines that are in development so it's going to be a long haul focus once again many thanks folks foster medical correspondent.

Spanish deaths rise as European toll passes 30,000

we are starting in mainland Europe which is now the continent hardest hit by coronavirus new figures released today show that co vid 19 has now killed more than 30,000 people with three-quarters of those deaths occurring in either Spain or Italy well across Europe almost 460 thousand people have been infected,

with this virus and just have a look at the images from Madrid today the streets continue to be virtually empty as the impact of the Spanish government's even more stringent lockdown have come into effect from Monday all non-essential work was halted the nation coming to a virtual standstill and with sadly good reason the death toll there continues to slow in the nation but that much need to drop

 in the curve is yet to come and you can see today's figures show the country lost 864 lives to the virus on just one day just on Tuesday this is the fifth day in a row that Spain has seen a death toll higher than 800 well whilst the nation has passed that

 psychological 100,000 people marker the race of infection
 is in general continuing to decrease apart from that dramatic increase on Tuesday the downward trend overall continues the infection rate actually today down by 16% now all of this continues to be increasing pressure on spain's already very overstretched health service dr. Rafael Berger a former Regional Health Minister in the Basque Country government gave the his assessment of this situation the peak seems to be beyond the close to being reached it is we're now seeing some positive signals from other indicators we know there's less people infected

 The it's there's a deceleration of the number of people infected the numbers of people are going into UCI you're into acute care units is is decreasing slowly so I think we're beginning to see that we're going to be reaching that curve and we're going to be able to see these social isolation measures have worked at least for Spain let's hope

 so well let's turn from Spain to Italy now because these stringent lockdown measures there have been extended until the 30th of April although families can now in fact take their children outside for a walk if they need to but the signs are emerging that the nation's stringent lockdown is in fact working the,

 Italian Civil Protection Agency has announced the death toll from Kovach 19 had climbed by 727 this is in fact a smaller increase than that on Tuesday now taking the total number of deaths to over 13,000 Italy has recorded more deaths than anywhere else in the world but the infection rate in fact continues to rise around 4700 more cases were reported just today as opposed to yesterday's number of around 4,000 so with

The very latest our correspondent mark Lowe and reports from Rome a glimpse of freedom in Italy's new normal parents are now allowed to take their children out for a brief walk if urgent after three weeks of lockdown it's a breath of Liberty but no more welcomed albeit with apprehension of Ellora we're scared to be outside and a bit spaced out because this lockdown has been our salvation the measures are working I'm happy they're in place and we want them to go on a lot in

Thune and fin they call this eases the tension we're not used to staying inside the whole day we need some natural light and children need some space the infection rate is slowing and there is perhaps a little bit more movement on the streets but the fear is that if the restrictions are lifted too soon people could get a full sense of security and then the numbers could start jumping again because Italy is still far from defeating this virus deaths are still soaring and among them

 Doctors gynecologist roberto miletti died this week one of 66 doctors lost to the outbreak here his friend says the deaths were preventable if medics had proper masks and supplies we were very shocked he much loved and were very angry because we're lacking protection equipment for doctors

we feel vulnerable wars must be organized during peacetime not battle we've been sent in empty-handed in Italy and around Europe so young inventive Italians have stepped in to help using 3d printing to develop a valve that turns a Sport Shop snorkelling mask into a ventilator the blueprint has been downloaded for free a million times by hospitals in need,

across the world aliens are generally following the rules but some frustration is starting to show in the South anger over a loss of money and closed shops it's isolated but patience has its limits today the lockdown was extended to mid-april so the emptiness goes on perhaps never again in our lifetime will we see Rome like this the virus is sucking the life out of Italy mark Lowen rome now let's take a moment to have a look at the markets it is the first day of a new quarter and what goes up well must
come down after rallying

US NEWS
                                 last week stocks from Asia to Europe to the US have all seen drops as the death toll globally creeps higher economic ramifications of the coronavirus becoming very clear just as we came on air in fact the closing bell of the dow so all stocks sharply down for 0.4% coming after president Trump's warning that the US was heading into a painful two weeks investors are also preparing for tomorrow's unemployment figures which are expected to be much higher than last week's number showing 3.3 million has applied for unemployment benefits analysts believe that tomorrow's figures could be anywhere between 4 and 5 million while all of this after both the Dow Jones and london's footsie 100 have seen their biggest quarterly drop since 1987 now there are real fears that the global downtown could.