Evening briefing Monday 4th May

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0:47Local police say they have detained the driver who fled after the incident. It took place in the Grimmyscheurstraße, a street that leads into central Leipzig's shopping area. Two people have been arrested after a fire at a memorial wall in North London's Golders Green. It broke out in the heavily Jewish populated area in the early hours of last Monday. The 46-year-old man and 38-year-old woman are being questioned on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life, counter terror police leading the investigation. Two US-flagged merchant vessels have passed through the Strait of Hormuz, according to the US Central Command.

1:22Iran has called these claims entirely false. It's after Iranian media alleged that a US warship had been hit by two of their missiles. That was rubbished by Donald Trump, who says the US has launched efforts to guide ships safely out of the strait under the banner of Project Freedom. Foreign affairs expert and author Tim Marshall, says this plan lacks any clarity and doubts its impact, even if it were to be executed. Even if the insurance companies then say, OK, we will insure them to come out, I can't see this being more than a drop in the oil ocean because there was about 100 ships a day coming in and out of that strait.

1:57I think even if you manage to pull off an escort operation, you probably only get about 10 ships out a day. Maybe this is just another Sunday night ahead of Monday morning trying to get the markets to get the oil price down for a while. A tour operator has confirmed it's dealing with a serious medical situation on a cruise ship off the coast of Cape Verde. A Dutch couple and a German national have died after a suspected outbreak of Hantavirus. A British man who's 69 is in intensive care in South Africa, the Times' Africa correspondent Jane Flanagan says Cape Verde authorities are denying sick patients the chance to disembark onto shore and instructing the ship to continue to the Canary Islands.

2:34There is no known cure for this virus. Medical treatment gives people who are infected a greater chance of surviving it. But I mean, it's very bleak news for those who are on board and are sick. We understand there is a British crew member among those displaying symptoms of the Hunter virus. Skir Starmer says joining the EU's loan scheme for Ukraine would lead to jobs in the UK's defence sector. In Armenia today, the prime minister is also reportedly talking about getting Britain more access to the single market. It's claimed Brussels would want a billion pounds a year in return. The NHS in England is introducing a one-minute jab that could help tens of thousands of cancer patients.

3:16The new immunotherapy injection can be used to treat more than a dozen types of the disease. It's being hailed as a game changer for people who currently have to spend long periods on drips to get a specific drug into their system. You can hear more of these stories throughout the evening on Times Radio.

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