Subway in stores and shopping on the streets i have no difficulty breathing. Not to north which you cant him even. Here i think everything is centerpiece being everything that he wants and what you should bring is the corona machine the next corona go late it shoots a laser beam corona away and. Go on to. Some of the other stories making news around the world Tropical Storm has battled the us state of florida forcing profiting and Property Damage earlier the storm left a trail of destruction across Central America hitting panama guatemala and honduras dozens dead and many others a miss. Johns been celebrating after the countrys president announced the capture of a show a key city in the disputed region. As a by johns been fighting Armenian Forces since late september to retake territory it lost in 1904 and mean it denies that gesture is now in. Place in the georgian capital tbilisi have used Water Cannons to disperse thousands of protesters demonstrating against last months parliamentary elections the Electoral Commission says the building Georgian Dream party won the vote position is rejecting the result according to new elections. German chancellor Angela Merkel has described ties with the United States as a neutral treasure that should continue for generations she was speaking on television for the 1st time since joe bidens election victory by end the friendship of our 2 countries is one that has stood the test of time you know for many decades many people here and there live in this german American Friendship it is a treasure that we must preserve that we must cherish and we must pass on to new generations of europeans and americans of germans and americans we are allies in nato we share common values from the dignity of the individual from the rule of law and democracy and we have common interests as well i mean the United States of america and germany as part of the European Union must stand together to tackle the make sure challenges facing us in this day and age we must stand side by side to cope with the test that is the pandemic we must fight against global warming. We must fight against terrorism stuff and stand side by side for an open Global Economy and for free trade with this is the foundation of our prosperity on both sides of the atlantic. And america well americas president elect has signaled that he wants to get to work on forming his administration immediately is expected to start with name your 12 member Coronavirus Task force later today tackling the pandemic would be joe bidens 1st major task is team says the new administration plans to do more nationwide testing americans will be asked to wear masks the other by. The economy tackling racism and Climate Change which means rejoining the paris climbers agreement President Trump has yet to concede defeat and the lawyers say they will launch legal challenges a to the Election Results later today. Greeted by chance. The u. S. President ial motorcade weaves its way to Trump National golf course for the 2nd day in a row. Donald trump taking a shot at forgetting that i lectured los. He spent the morning in stubborn denial of his defeat refusing to concede to Democrat Joe Biden and giving air to disproven theories of Election Fraud several prominent republicans in congress have made supportive statements saying the elections not over yet. Theres a lot of shenanigans going on here if our President Trump i would take all this to court fight back and from a Republican Point of view mellon balloting is a nightmare for us the post office is now the new election center. Now more than all the republicans have expressed confidence in the electoral process while saying trumps legacy. While he is without question the most powerful voice in our party. He will have an enormous impact on our party going forward. I believe the great majority of people who voted for donald trump want to make sure that his principles and his policies are pursued with the Trump Administration planning multiple legal challenges over the voting process and concession speech still seems far off lets go straight to washington where we join bureau chief in a spa welcome in this lets hear more about the president elect of bidens copied 19 strategy rochelle i mean mr biden obviously is not waiting for a concession of donald trump he already as you just said unveiled his official transition website. Is preparing a serious executive actions for his 1st day in office i mean he stressed the fact through the come pain that he wants to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord for example i think this is important to know for our International Audience but most and mainly he will moving aggressively to confront the covert and we just learned. Name from him and doctors like rick bryant and luciana go to hell. With 19 advisers so he proves from day one on that he is taking this pandemic really very very seriously and that he will work very closely together with doctors and scientists so science and facts are matter ring again here in the United States and that is a shift from the last 4 years and what about the current president how much longer can donald trump realistically hold out before admitting defeat. Well phil thats really difficult to say some experts actually say or see the possibility that he might have not concede at all i mean he has done so many things no other president has done before so its really impossible to answer that question at this point in time so what has been the republican reaction to the president s refusal to concede. Well thats interesting was some really prominent republican figures including the partys only living former president george w. Bush. Called mr wyden to wish him well and congratulate him most elected officials stayed silent in the face of mr trumps spaceless claims. That he won the election and that the election is stolen from him that leaves trumbull little bit in a tricky position because on the one hand with this silence you just kind of keep lying about the results on the other hand he is all alone in the battle to fight the Election Results so it is a little bit of a difficult spot for mr trump not having the full support office party. In his poll in washington thank you in football sunday so leverkusen get the better mention gladbach does league clash packed with goals be in full winners now sit for in the table remain unbeaten this season. With 2 on 4 heavyweights going toe to toe this buddhist league a boat was always likely to pack a punch. Drew 1st blood on 18 minutes after. I. Await the resulting penalty. For leaving prison on 27 minutes. After he was played in inadvertently by. Verts. 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Youre watching t w news asia coming up today joe biden promises a new day to america but what what has biden the president the need for egypt to take a closer look and see how stability and prosperity in the region might be impacted. Plus the story of the new other election people in myanmar voted this weekend and it looks like another win for us im suchi and your party. Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us most major countries in the region have congratulated joe biden as the next u. S. President though china has not saying it will wait its not clear until when but for the rest of asia governments face a new reality for the past 4 years donald trump has shaken the foundation of what u. S. Relations mean for the region with his tough talk and courting of traditional rivals so whats the outlook now for americas allies and competitors in the end of pacific. Joe biden has promised a new day for. But what does biden have in mind for asia the u. S. Has a powerful reach there over security trade and Climate Change but also a rival for economic and military dominance. A confident china which has managed so far to beat back its coronavirus epidemic and now looks to outmaneuver the u. S. As a global superpower. Meanwhile protest movements in thailand and hong kong look to the u. S. As a champion of democracy for the region. In nuclear arms north korea the u. S. Faces the next the central threat President Trump tried cozying up to kim jong un but his personal touch did nothing to rid the dictatorship of its long range nuclear missiles. The trumpet ministration had more success with the quad relationship and alliance of democracies japan india the us and australia as a counterweight to chinas expansionist ambitions like in the South China Sea ties that biden may seek to bolster but as a politician who prides himself on collaboration and consensus in his own style. Joining us is matthew broker hes managing editor of Bloomberg Opinion asia matthew lets start with where youre at in hong kong people have strong feelings there about trump versus biden and who would support the pro democrats more whats your assessment now we know its going to be by. And i think youre quite right there is a very strong support for trump in in the. In the prodemocracy camp and certainly among. The you really see you know i think its a case of my enemys enemy is my friends are they might not be so cheering didnt suit the white. Trump on his home turf play just see somebody whos been very strong you know you know opposing the Chinese Communist party and what theyve been doing in the city here. I see that youre working from home and they can start in the background is something that a lot of people have to deal with these days and not a problem at all but moving on to. Now moving on to china how will binding gates met with china be different. I think you know the very clear difference that youre going to see here is that youre just going to have much more predictable character in the White House Trump obviously sort of very confrontational and very futuristic as it used to china an approach that was you know clearly appreciated by some people in this region i think the downside of that has been. Its very scattershot scattershot approach it so. Many of the u. S. Is around the world i think with biden in place where youre going to see is that islam is a return so much more multilateral approach the 6 to bring in our allies and build a kind of united front now lets talk about india modi and trump had a very Good Relationship do you think that will be the case with biden or will we be seeing americans put a little bit more pressure on india when it comes to Human Rights Violations for example. Yes its an india is an interesting one obviously you have this very quite bizarre love in the swinging. Already the how do you madea sense and then the rich the nothing not just i trump return in india. So in that respect. Well i think you know modi certainly might be not sickly happy to see trump if he says on the other hand of course bidens Vice President has. Indian heritage and i think theres a lot of excitement almost cried in india about that and that you know maybe sets the stage for there to be a warmer relationship in some ways but clearly biden has been more. Vociferous on human rights issues and that is is an area of potential tension in the in the u. S. In your relationship now on to japan how will that close relationship change our well it. I dont think you can see very fundamental change in the relationship i mean obviously japan is the u. S. Is closest ally in asia probably the closest ally and i think by be prepared to work with whoever is in the white house. You know you know i hear that on the on the conservative side of the spectrum in japan. Is so happy to see trump go because from their perspective the obama is were a bit too soft on china. They didnt really see china as being the looming threat. I think. Perceived to be across the political spectrum. In the u. S. Now. But only you know really the same applies for india and china. But its going to be much more predictable and you know i dont think that whoever is in the white house that the. You know china really looms over everything whichever violence relationship youre talking about i think thats going to be one thing thats a key concern to japan and i dont think thats really going to change very much on the biden matter becker thank you so much for your time in the end mara uncensored cheese party embraces victory the National League for democracy says it has won enough seats in parliament for a majority and to retain power is the 2nd time that the country has held relatively free elections since military will end it in 2011 millions of people lined up for hours to cast their ballots but not without controversy and criticism. Celebrations for some sushi stick tree had already begun long before the release of Election Results. Earlier on sunday millions voted in myanmar despite calls to delay the poll because of the pandemic. It was me 2nd election since the end of the military rule in 2011 for many the choice was clear on sunset she and her and the party a symbol for defiance and change. And. I want to know the party to win because they work for the people especially for the farmers it has a good reputation in the International Community. Which was once true despite her popularity the Nobel Prize Winner has fallen from grace internationally due to her response to the will hinge a crisis. In 2017 hundreds of thousands of muslims had to flee and Army Crackdown which the u. N. Described as an ethnic cleansing. We condemn on once or move on we will all want to live to the exclusion of. The bullets and the rule of law and one of. The International Community said those words werent enough they criticised the leaders election. Until today although hinge a muslims for mating in the country are stripped of citizenship and rights including their chance to vote. But at home there is little sympathy for their plight analysts say suchi remains popular and respected. The 1st. Support even many people have in censorship itself well worst irrespective of how big governments of ministration but also the opposition the national thats right there is no major party you know really putting. A credible set of words for the leaders supporters mothers soon is no doubt the one who can lead the country in the next 5 years although peace and reconciliation she once pledged still seem far from fulfilled. So many places where we can be social have closed because of the pandemic including amusement parks around the world many have sat empty when usually they get hundreds thousands tens of thousands of visitors every day in japan one park has come up with a new Business Model that offers a combination of work and pleasure. Things have been going downhill for quite awhile and land the number of visitors has hit a record low since the pandemic struck but the theme park hopes to turn things around with a pivot to office space its. Going to give us a little change to my mood i think anyone who works at the same place every day will run out of ideas eventually. Instead of working from home this i. T. Consultant can now work poolside. For 15 years the day he gets electricity why 5 and loads of sunshine. She just its strange but i can actually concentrate here better than i thought through the cubic yards from us and. The only jury then used to be one of japans most popular theme parks but it had been losing to strong competitors such as Tokyo Disneyland change was essential for survival in the pandemic struck prompting the 50 year old park to get creative. Secada decides to work on a ferris wheel today he can sit and roller coasters instead but thats just too impractical. The wheel is perfect for video conferences its quiet and has an unbeatable view through what i. Consider. Whether youre working near the pool or in a ferris wheel the noise level is surprisingly low and other peoples conversations arent distracting the mechanical noises dont bother me either i didnt expect that its really nice. We need this. For theme parks like yomiuri land the pandemic poses a big challenge but thanks to adventurers Office Workers things may be looking up again. Thats it for now. Be sure to check out our other stories on dot com for more on facebook and twitter leave you with pictures of protests in thailand over the weekend theyre still marching and they have marched in summer thanks for watching well see you next time and if i. To. The fight against the coronavirus tend to have mike. Has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. Information and context the coronavirus update 19 specials. On t w. How does a virus spread. Why do we panic and when will all this. Just through the tax and weekly radio. Show its called spectrum if you would like and the information on the coronavirus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast so you can get it wherever you go your podcast you can also find us at d. F. W. Dot com and slash science. The race for a vaccine continues. For the speed of that race is worrying some. Survey shows 83 percent of americans would have safety concerns if a Coronavirus Vaccine were approved too quickly. Of course the Research Needs to be done but others are totally against vaccines. Expose blame that on rampant misinformation and the fact that many people dont understand the Science Behind prevent. If medicine has. Its exactly why scientists are taking to social media to explain the complex but lifesaving roles they play. Because our lives are on the line. Well instead of petting samples and analyzing data researches a trying to demystify trades by using to talk. Because our lives are on the line. Well instead of petting samples and analyzing data researchers are trying to demystify trades by using to talk. Kind of like he says its a new frontier for them but they came to get across their message that vaccines are extremely valuable even though theyre not the sole solution to this crisis ill talk to an er in a moment 1st incredible progress scientists are making on the back same front in this pandemic. Pfizer and germanys beyond the 1st to show successful data from a large scale Clinical Trial of a corona virus vaccine they say its more than 90 percent effective on ecologist say the vaccine needs to be stored a mine is 80 degrees celsius that could create major logistical challenges for mass treatment outside major urban areas and in low or middle Income Countries but they say the breakthrough is a relief hugely positive and very encouraging doctors say we need to wait for the final results but that this could be a watershed moment its hard but its. Millions of doses could be ready by the end of the year still the experimental vaccine is not the only one being developed there are about 200. 00 of them around 40 are in Clinical Trials and there are different methods being used to make them. Various kinds of vaccine for corona virus are in Development One kind is an inactivated virus vaccine that uses proteins from the virus to create the vaccine viruses 1st stop to be broken down into parts and their infectivity has to be destroyed so its no longer dangerous. But it still has to provoke an immune response in the recipient so that the immune system develops antibodies to it. So what are the advantages and disadvantages. Of this approach is well established. Companies that develop and manufacture vaccines are familiar with it. And the production processes have been perfected. But certainly an advantage. Or disadvantage is that it takes time to grow the underlying virus in large amounts. Of viral vector vaccine uses a harmless live virus up a different kind as a carrier to transport genes from the dangerous virus into cells in the recipients body. A protein gene from the virus is 1st added to the benign one in the case of the Novel Coronavirus its a spike protein gene. Modified virus then resemble sars kovi 2 in one key respect immune system detects the offending protein and creates antibodies in response. To the safety requirements for growing the virus not as strict as within activated whole virus vaccines of. Disadvantages are that it takes a lot of time and you have to choose vectors that are not affected by any preexisting immune response capability. And. Then there are vaccines that use messenger. Or an egg for the Novel Coronavirus is m. R. And a with instructions for making it spiked proteins. Such vaccines prompt cells in the recipient to make such proteins themselves which in turn provoke an immune response although these proteins are not dangerous they are still identified as enemies by the immune system which then creates antibodies and thus immunity. For. One advantage is that the safety requirements are much less stringent. Another is that you can modify the r. N. A. Quite quickly money a factor of say that within a short period of time perhaps 6 weeks are in a vaccines complete produced in very large volumes millions of units you cant match that with vector whole virus or other kinds of vaccine stuff least. So each of these approaches has upsides and downsides nonetheless theyre all considered worth pursuing it is likely that we need more than one vaccine. Bioengineering joins us from london whats the problem here and are if if we totally rely on one or more vaccines coming along to solve this crisis. Yes so really you know we have a lot of different tools that we can use to fight this pandemic so you know if you were being approached by a swarm of mosquitoes and you had the choice to use nat flyswatter and bug spray or something you wouldnt choose to use just one of them so in addition to vaccines and the many different vaccines that we might have available you want to also be using mass and Public Health measures like social distancing as well it even if we do get a vaccine or more vaccines at some stage soon i hope its not going to be an immediate fixes it. No no definitely not so it will take some time to roll it out to the population but even when you receive a back scene depending on the type of vaccine it can take anywhere from 2 to 6 weeks to induce immunity so theres still a little bit of a lag time and though there are a lot of people out there who are going to want to take that vaccine all those vaccines how has misinformation on back scenes made your job difficult. Yes so we often view it as people that are provaccine are anti vaccine and i really think its kind of a gray area in between so im part of a new team called team halo which is an initiative to connect scientists working on coding 1000 axioms directly to the public and we do this through tick tock so were able to make videos about how we make vaccines how we test them and be there to answer any questions that people have so its a really great way to connect with people who are skeptical or critical and you know i dont really think thats a bad thing as scientists were taught to be critical until we see the data and often the public isnt you know proxy to that day but data doesnt know how to interpret it and so its great to be able to get connected and have actual conversations with people you know making all of this process transparent which is important id like to know where all the misinformation on vaccines actually comes from. I think just in general you know there might not be a lot of people that are educated on vaccines or how they work and so when stuff starts to kind of just stew in the internet there are a lot of rumors fly around and you know sometimes people just dont know what to trust anymore so were there to kind of improve that trust and just be a direct source where you can ask questions and get an honest answer from a scientist and all of us lee can you answer this one to try to answer this last question once we get consensus once we do have vaccines and people taking them when could things start returning to normal. Yeah thats a really hard question to answer so i think based off of some of the trials that are really in kind of the final phases in phase 3 of their kind of trials right now those are looking promising so i think we might actually have facts eans possibly by the end of this year or early next year. Its really hard to say worldwide how well be able to distribute those and kind of return to a normal society so yeah im hoping for early next year but im also just cautiously optimistic has crossed bioengineer out of blakely thank you very much thank you. You know questions now on the coronavirus keep sending them into our you tube channel and g. W. Science correspondent Eric Williams will take care of the rest. Can you tell us more about the b. C. G. Vaccine Clinical Trial thats currently underway. Well there are a few studies looking at this but i think the one that youre talking about which has received the most Media Coverage is called the brace trial its being conducted in several countries across the globe it involves around 10000. 00 volunteers and many of the Health Care Workers but before we go any further i need to provide a little more background the b. C. G. Vaccine which has been around for close to a century is usually associated with tuberculosis prevention though it also appears to help prevent or at least reduce the deadliness of a range of other infections the theory is that the b. C. G. Vaccine is sort of a generalist vaccine that helps strengthen the immune response to many respiratory diseases by in hansing your Innate Immunity however its no longer widely given in countries where tb has grown rare but in countries where its still endemic and the b. C. G. Vaccine is still common there are lots of studies showing that it impacts things like Child Mortality rates and and many of those same countries also appear to have lower mortality rates in the code 1000 pandemic the problem is is that its hard to show that the b. C. G. Vaccine is maybe one reason why because a lot of other factors could also be playing a role its kind of hard to filter out all of the noise and thats what the brace trial is trying to do in a systematic way and if we dont have a more specific targeted 19 vaccine. Soon and the study shows that the b. C. G. Vaccine does indeed help lower a covert 19 transmission or severity it could one day be seen as a kind of a stopgap tool in the pandemic but but thats still a big if. 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