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Today the drug maker finds her and buying on tech announced promising news about their corona virus vaccine early Analysis Shows that it is more than 90 percent effective in preventing coded 90 it comes as the number of new infections in the u. S. And here in europe continue to reach new highs tonight good news a ray of light just before the pandemic pushes countries on both sides of the atlantic into what is being called the darkest of winters im burnt off in berlin this is the day. That we just received positive news news for you to nose with theres been progress made for success and rushes off a student this is a National Problem to some semblance of health to use. This farce its clear that this vaccine even if approved will not be widely available for many months yet to come the economy will come back because people will start to eat normally challenge before us right now is still mens and growing hopefully we have someone in office who can help us get rid of the pulpit crisis and bring jobs back to its not like people are not working because they dont want to they are having a tough time going to work. Also coming up after 4 years of Donald Trumps america for us president elect joe biden is promising americas european friends a Foreign Policy that puts partnerships and allies 1st and he is someone who has a long and deeply value our partnership with the United Kingdom with the e. U. With new. And with other nations that share our core values so i think youll see a significant shift in terms of u. S. Foreign policy. But to our viewers watching on p. B. S. In the United States and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day with a glimmer of hope the 1st Scientific Data pointing towards the end of the corona virus pandemic today the u. S. Pharmaceutical giant pfizer and the German Company buying on tech reported that their vaccine to prevent coded 19 appears to be working early Analysis Shows the vaccine is 90 percent effective with no serious side effects stock markets on both sides of the atlantic soared on the news hitting record highs on wall street but both Companies Made clear today that even if all trials go well the earliest the vaccine would be available would be next year between now and then europe in the u. S. Face what political leaders are calling a dark winter the virus is spreading as quickly as ever with more and more people hospitalized and in intensive care. Germany is in Lockdown People in business is a facing tough restrictions at the moment strict controls are the only measure to keep the pandemic at bank one way there could be a return to Something Like normal life is if a vaccine becomes available german beyond tank has announced it is trying a medicine that could protect many people from the virus thats why upis until basepoint it was unclear whether a vaccine could be made that would actually reduce the infection or actually prevent infection now it looks like it could work and that is encouraging and is German Health minister i may say that im very pleased its a german developed country said as an tortures of the name is Health Minister says to beat the pandemic at least 55 percent of the population would need to be vaccinated theres no question of making it compulsory but who would be often the vaccine 1st. Public facing jobs like medical workers and police seem certain to be near the front of the queue because of their level of risk. The elderly will be protected as a priority they are especially likely to suffer serious effects if they catch corona. But there are also suggestions that teaches and even the homeless should be among the 1st to be vaccinated the Health Minister wants white discussion about who should be 1st in line. For president whats important also to me personally is that this debate is not only a Parliamentary Political and scientific one but that we take this discussion to every lunch table to every workplace to every circle of friends and acquaintances and that is discussed in gemini. And the debate about priorities has begun and can continue until a corona vaccine is actually ready. And for more on this Major Development im joined tonight by Mohamed Munir hes a viral a just in lancaster in the u. K. Its good to see you again mr mini i want to ask you how significant is this news i understand that even at pfizer in bio on take that they were surprised that the results so far are this good oh yeah absolutely thank you very much for having me on the show i think it is really incredible news particularly when our expectations are really low i mean if we look onto the expectation of if we dont regulate the body like of the 8 you actually have been expecting 60 to 70 percent action and now its having 9090 percent action in the interval community as i think this is merely incredible news although this 90 percent house can kind of make it based on a small number of infection in the wall and yet yeah this is a really really since talks and i understand that we have to wait for the trials to continue incentives and basically pfizer in biotech are waiting to see if anyone gets sick right. Oh yeah absolutely so. The total number of people that are involved in this trial there are 40 sweet fellows and at least 164. 00 people need to be infected to nearly conclude the face trial and as it stands now 94 people have been infected and this 90 percent of it is he has been calculated based on those 94 people who when in fact its so this mean roughly we are halted it will be basically a trial im all goods in the beginning but if this figure of 90 percent even if it drop to 70 percent or even 60 percent that is good enough to really break its last mission of the infection in the community this vaccine uses a new technology thats called messenger r. N. A. Technology explain that if you could to the layman i mean how does this work so this is a relatively new technology its been around in the market for like 20 years but no vaccine has been yet for just 30 years and this particular technology how it works is that he takes the genetic material off the virus and fold it in into nano particles as a carrier that take the messenger alternate d nature of the genetic material of the virus into the body and that it was sent in to be immune cells and the other body then senses it and use that one as a savior and start d producing new monoclonal antibodies as well as planning the t. Cells so both t. Cell and the antibodies are d prepared in case anybody get infected with the actual coronavirus that would be neutralized by applying the effect of this vaccine so were training the cells of the system here with this vaccine. Yes thats absolutely right so i think this i mean system is really the core part of any vaccines and different platforms are being used for example in addinall virus the the clone the carrier of they antagonists defend its supported chimpanzee virus but when it comes to the modern day based vaccine. Theres maybe they are d based on that technology and that if the carrier often had to continue injecting into the body and have the body to hold that and start producing want a body. So its the size it needs to taming and planning the immune system so that it can tackle the natural infection working effectively so were you are using this new technology and the sex scene is being developed very very fast i mean a year ago no one was even talking about this new coronavirus they usually takes 7 to 10 years for a vaccine to be developed before it can actually do to market are you concerned that in our haste here that corners have been cut i mean would you trust this vaccine now. You know that is a really important question and i think one of the main reason that weve been waiting so long d for the call to be completed was needed to look into whether these vaccines theres a records because you tested and proven to be safe and effective although that seems to take a long time to really be at the stage near a chemical is going to be deployed in the field this time of course the climb has been significantly short but that isnt always what he implied because there are definitely areas where you can pluck the time short by overlapping. Phase one and phase 2 and sometime merging phase one phase 2 trials but the actual critical step is really this phase 3 trial and thats why i always speak about the optimistic cautious ness about the reserves that we are being presented with in the phase 3 trial so i know this is. An insane but yet a lot more need to be seen before we leave we can conclude on to the data and also the data that we are having is basically just based on the press release we dont have assessed to the actual that out until that theres another level it will if we are difficult to make an independent assessment so lets watch. In the whole community the trial of the phase 3 before we will be in the position to really conclude explicitly melissa so yes 3 minutes over the sort that we have positive news to talk about then as well mohammad moodier barbarella just lancaster in the u. K. Mr meir as always its good to see we appreciate your insights tonight thank you and very much that will. Canada in the United States have a unique relationship and this bond will always be the Strong Foundation on which we build our shared future. I also want to take a moment to reflect on the historic milestone reached in this election but i congratulate president lecture i dont use one with. History and you know should we congratulate vice. President elect howard should be the 1st woman to hold out a landmark achievement on both sides of the atlantic there is hope that president elect biden will reverse american Foreign Policy the u. K. Perhaps the closest ally with reason to worry biden is not a fan of breaks and especially the complications that breaks it brings to the peace in ireland now here in Continental Europe it is a very different story the leaders of germany and france were among the 1st to congratulate joe biden and come away here as on saturday when biden was declared winner of the president ial election german chancellor Angela Merkel said a message that was noticeably warm and welcoming for more im joined tonight by the german lawmaker andreas nick mr nixon serves in the German Parliament hes a member of the chancellors conservative c. D. U. Party he also sits on the Foreign Relations committee in Parliament Mr niggas good to see you again what did you think when you heard that joe biden will be the next u. S. President. I think that the dominant reaction here in true germany is clearly a major relief especially after the suspense of the last week. I think the ultimate. Feeling is that we will not face a 2nd term of President Trump which which probably would have gone from disruption to destruction of the International Order and transatlantic relations. And i think this is a place party also the feeling in the United States and in my former professor friends who are young tweeted that it feels like a collective exorcism. That is. The reflection of the relieved that is there but to be sure i think it will be also we will be facing some troubles of the plains once we have that emotional connect will be on. That collective exorcism that is what i have not heard today i want you to take a listen to what the german chancellor Angela Merkel what she said today about the new administration by end the friendship of our 2 countries is one that has stood the test of time for many decades and 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 generation whose europeans and americans of germans and americans we have allies in a town in india 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 earth in union must stand together to tackle to make jack challenges facing us in this day and age we must stand side by side to cope with the test and that is the pandemic we must fight against Global Warming this month we must fight against terrorism stuff. And stand side by side for earthen Global Economy and for free trade i think this is the foundation of our class spat the science of the atlantic im assuming that you know it was a long soundbite but we wanted to play the entire thing because the german chancellor today she made a point to emphasize what used to be a given when youre talking about u. S. German relations does that speak to the damage that the relationship have sustained under President Trump. I think it is no question that. Everyone who is. Keen advocate of the Transatlantic Alliance was wrong footed over the last 4 years it has been a challenge and so rationally and emotionally and its partly ongoing in terms of reflecting the deep divisions that weve seen in the american electorate and so far as who would also have to closely monitor the progress that President Biden can we can achieve on the internal reconciliation of the United States we have to also face was all there really is that we created the feel at the moment that was a trump was not reelected trump is and has not been rejected as clearly as we might have all hoped and so europeans will have to monitor a lot of quite carefully for the next 4 years where the turtle development of the United States is flowing and you know thats a very important point you make more than 70000000 people voted for donald trump as you say america did not reject reject trumpets and will germany ever be able to trust the u. S. Again as it did before the error donald trump. Well i think there are some fundamentals that are also moving forward in a world that is changing and. We have to. Accommodate to a situation where we have a governs in washington d. C. Europe is no longer the prime focal point in the prime seat of u. S. Activities there is much more. Perspective on asia pacific and its official europeans as a take more responsibility for their own security and also it was the billet in the neighborhood and i think that is true i think even in a much more positive cooperative transit denigration was a put the biden at ministration and it may be even more so if one day in the future we face a more challenging partner in d. C. Again you speak of security on saturdays flight after biden was declared the president elect vote on issues tweeted an invitation to mr biden to attend the next Munich Security Conference that takes place in february of next year and this really speaks to how much europe is yearning for a return of u. S. Involvement in u. S. Leadership again would you agree with that. Absolutely and i think given that the Minute Security conference this year would probably only be able to take place in a virtual hall that it would maybe make it even easier for the President Biden to address this audience American Leadership is indispensable in this world but i think it is also absolutely a that we as europeans have to take more responsibility our selves not in confrontation with the United States but incorporation and theres certain division of labor and it would be i think europeans and germans would take to draw their own conclusion if they felt this was an invitation to complacency and but it is an invitation i think too strong a corporation based. On shared values on call interests but never less will so we have some work to do for example regarding the whole china issue to find Common Ground on the strategic challenges Going Forward. We know that president elect biden plans to rejoin the paris climate agreement one of the 1st things he plans to do he wants to restore the Iran Nuclear Deal and he says he wants to refocus on u. S. Ties with europe i mean this is what you have been wanting for the past 4 years is it enough to pick up from where relations were 4 years ago. I think you you you you know if it take a step in the same route again after 4 years but it. Its clearly a return to what we have been relying on for many decades but again we should on both sides not underestimate that we are dealing with different challenges Going Forward was slightly different perspectives but what is reassuring that was a fight an administration with a 4 policy team that will be coming in that we know pretty well it will be a different quality of dialogue a different quality of mutual appreciation and that i think is a good basis to Work Together on on dressing these challenges in the next 4 years and reus nick a member of the German Parliament as well as parliaments Foreign Affairs committee mr nick we appreciate your time and your insights tonight as always thank you thank you tonight. Call them both is out there you have no idea what youre doing. As everybody so we won by historic numbers. And the pollsters got it knowingly wrong they got it knowingly we had polls it was so ridiculous republicans they have voiced their disapproval of the pollsters yet again while President Trumps claims are not based in fact his dissatisfaction with the inaccuracy of preelection polling numbers its shared across the political aisle you may remember in 2016 the pollsters predicted Hillary Clinton would become president in 2020 they predicted a clear biden win even suggesting a landslide victory as you know there was no landslide the one person who did call it correctly is the person who has called every president ial election correctly since 1904 im happy to welcome back to the show tonight the professor of perfect president ial predictions Allan Lichtman mr lippman is a history professor at American University in washington professor good to see you again i kept that title for you and i thought i hope you approve and i guess i should change it at American University im going to title your oh ok well i have to give you congratulations. On getting this prediction right again. President tropico ever hes promising to challenge the Election Results and he wants to prove you wrong how do you see that playing out. Well i think that is the sole purpose for challenging to prove whitman wrong theres no doubt about that now of course the challenges are absolutely frivolous and cornish we have witnessed the worst moments in president ial history since the selection never in the entire scope of president ial elections going all the way d back to the 18th century has any losing president or any losing candidate so you baselessly and falsely undermine the integrity of our democracy by claiming an election was rigged by fraud when there is not a single credible example of any fraud much less widespread fraud even Richard Nixon when he lost by a hairs breath margin in 1960 resisted calls to challenge the election even though it was there was some real reason to do it back then when he said im not going to undermine american democracy and he gave a very. Gracious and noble concession speech as did al gore after he lost the presidency by 537 votes in florida in 2000 i want to talk with you about the polling numbers in just a moment but while were talking about President Trump there is concern that President Trump will not leave the white house voluntarily on january 20th. Do you can you imagine that happening i mean that he that the president having to be forcibly removed from the white house do you think it will come to that. No i dont think he wants truly you primarily because he doesnt want to lose all the protections of the presidency when hes facing multiple possible criminal prosecutions i. R. S. Audit and god knows how many civil suits including one that accuses him of Forcible Rape but look here is a coward he cant even look people in the eye and fire them hes got to do it through others or through twitter he is not going to barricade himself in the white house and call on the white supremacist militias to keep him there he may never concede the election but thats irrelevant legally by becomes president we got less of trumps concessional yes yes he did he fired the defense secretary today marcus where is also by tweet you mentioned you know firing not in in person let me ask you about the polling numbers the polling numbers were off this time as well. What does that mean moving forward what should what should the u. S. Do when election time comes around again and the man for numbers starts to emerge. Not those numbers my advice to all of you my friends in journalism is never again publish or comment and a horse race on that its one candidate against another they were terribly wrong in 2016 when i get my keys to the white house were right and i could trump to win and they will worse in 20200 they claim to have fix their problems they were too unfixable problems with calls one polls are not predictors theyre snapshots and no snapshots change and how do you know they change you keep taking new polls in till you hit the election secondly the errors in polls d are vastly greater and much more systematic than they would tell you they tell you well maybe the error is a plus and minus 3 percent thats cure statistical sampling error that doesnt take into account multiple other types of error the fact that Response Rates are so low that they have to wait their samples to get a representative Sample Response errors people who conceal the truth or hadnt made up their minds really but tell you something and most critically errors and estimating will likely voters vote in 2016 and in 2020 they vastly underestimated trump likely voters these are not fixable areas you should take the calls and do with them what the Great British philosopher david hume said you should do with works of superstition consigned them to the flames and nate silver the great compiler for polls should stick to sports that it will we will see if that indeed happens as we get closer to 2024 professor alan has been joining us tonight from American University in washington d. 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