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Is this the end for President Donald Trump? The election’s just five months away and America is going through an incredibly dark time. Whichever channel you’re watching you’re either confronted with the pandemic, which has killed over 100,000 Americans, or you’re watching cities burn following the killing of a black man by a white police officer. Many of those channels are highly critical of President Trump’s response to both crises and as always he fights back with Twitter. With over 80 million followers, he’s able to bypass hostile news channels and reach Americans directly. But things are changing, Twitter started censoring Trump’s tweets late last month for the first time, and it’s now happening more and more often. With an election coming up, Trump is in a hurry to make sure Twitter can’t interfere with his most powerful form of direct communication. This is becoming a crucial legal battle which will embroil Facebook, YouTube and others and if you care about free speech and the election in November then it’s a battle you need to be watching.

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Hydroxychloroquine has been used for decades to treat malaria, lupus, and other conditions and no-one’s batted an eye-lid… until now. Last week President Trump suddenly announced he was taking it to prevent getting Covid-19. He’s actually been touting its benefits for months.

A number of political opponents, medical professionals and journalists immediately railed against the President’s advice but scientists around the world are currently trialling the drug as a preventative medication… Is it useful or not?

You may have noticed that whenever China is criticised, their diplomats, who used to be a quiet, subtle bunch, now pop up immediately on the counter-attack.

Especially Zhao Lijian, who claimed, erroneously, that the virus may have come from America. Another diplomat, in Venezuela, tweeted people should “shut up and wear a mask” And they’ve threatened to boycott Australian goods for demanding an international investigation into the origins of the virus. Collectively, this new younger cadre of diplomats are known as “Wolf Warriors” and they relish the comparison. Is this new, assertive China a country the rest of the world should embrace, fear or confront?

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Milton Leitenberg has decades of experience when it comes to biosafety and biosecurity and he outlines the evidence for the Wuhan lab leak theory for Nexus.

Did this whole coronavirus disaster begin in a Chinese laboratory? President Trump and his secretary of state Mike Pompeo, believe it probably did.

So today we’re focussing on the top-security lab in Wuhan at the centre of those accusations. What kind of work goes on there? We know they study bats - but why? Also, how safe are these kinds of laboratories? This wouldn’t be the first leak. And ‘virus hunting’ in caves who is China’s ‘Bat Woman’? We’ll be hearing from former UN weapons inspector Tim Trevan, plus lab-designer and inspector Steve Robertson. We’ll also hear from virus hunter Luis Ruedas who can tell us how dangerous it is to track down bats in the wild.

Is it time to end the lockdown? Many of us would prefer to stay at home rather than risk getting the coronavirus - but there are plenty of people arguing we should go back to work and back to normal. Two doctors in California say they have the data to prove the lockdown’s been a total waste of time and does ‘more harm than good’ A video of them presenting their findings was viewed over FIVE million times on YouTube, before the site took it down. Conservative influencer Brandon Straka isn't paying much attention to social distancing advice and will continue to attend 'Reopen Rallies' around the country, is that responsible?

It's a national scandal that around one third of all daily Covid-19 deaths in Britain are now in care homes. That’s a massively high death rate compared to the rest of the population and it’s not just the UK, it’s a similar picture in many other European countries. Is this high death rate just because care residents are elderly and vulnerable? Or is partly because governments and society more broadly just don’t care enough?

President Trump is blaming the World Health Organisation for this crisis. He believes the WHO failed to protect us from the spread of the virus, largely because it was afraid to offend the Chinese government. But the W.H.O’s director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has batted away that criticism, warning the world not to politicise COVID-19. So who do you find more credible?

As we watch the number of cases and deaths from coronavirus rise, we want to make sure that you are prepared. And whether you’re in a so-called vulnerable group or not, there are some things you need to know; for example how bad do your symptoms have to get before you call an ambulance? Is it more dangerous to go into hospital than to stay at home? And how are the doctors going to help you - assuming they have the equipment? We speak with a consultant dealing with patients at a London hospital and two women who beat COVID-19 last month - one in Lagos, the other in New York.

Like millions around the world the Nexus team is still living and working in lockdown. It can be lonely, it can be tedious, but we have to remember it is still the best way to beat Covid-19 and that for some people - including millions of migrant workers in India - life is hanging by a thread. We’ll find out how the world's biggest lockdown is going and getting tips on how to handle isolation from NASA astronaut Clayton Anderson. We’ll also be comparing “lockdown living spaces” - it’s alright for some - but what if you don’t live in a castle?

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