Pleading guilty to charges related to last years democracy demonstrations, his face would likely long chill sentences. They say they have no regrets, and also on the show, france moved to protect its police, but will a new bill. And up, you wrote a press freedom, and the country will look at a controversial proposal that would make filming Police Officers on duty a crime on will hard. Thank you so much for your company. What we start this broadcast with some encouraging news. Drugmaker astra zeneca and the university of oxford in the u. K. Say their corona virus vaccine could be up to 90 percent effective in preventing covert 90 all researchers there say the vaccine that was most of active when patients were 1st given a half doz, followed by a full dose one month later, while crucially the new job can be kept at refrigerator temperatures, and does not require extreme cold storage. Unlike other recently announced vaccines lusters and a says it will have 200000000 doses available by the end of the year Encouraging Development there. Lets get you more on mohamed, were near joins me now. Hes of all interest and vaccine expert at Lancaster University in the u. K. Very encouraging news there. Dr. Murray, near what distinguishes this vaccine from rival vaccines. Well, thank you very much for having me on the show. This is certainly very encouraging and more vaccines. We would have acted, would it be because then weve been having choices, but particularly speaking about the last as any cox for the vaccine it has certainly you want to do is as youve been saying before, as the story transportation of this is really a big challenge for the vaccine, particularly going into the lower and middle Income Countries going into the tropical countries may have the temperature meant, would be a nightmare. And on the top of it, this vaccine is very cheap compared to us. Compared to madonna and 500. 00, it cost only 20. 00 pounds for the whole of those in the gene which is incredibly cheap or compared to the size of government or not. And then the part of the issue that any other vaccine at the moment is the skill ability. But this also shows any guy has over to plenty different partners in different countries, those that are in the position to manufacture and scale it up. So scalability isnt an issue and they have already promised that tattoo 2000000000 dollars is what for exactly a 1000000000. 00 as will be available by the end of 2021. Which has really the total of the pfizer and might have come by. So all in all, this is certainly encouraging, and we really, really something that was made into the vaccine ology. Right . So youve outlined very neatly and terms of the advantages of this vaccine, but this vaccine still needs some fine tuning. Yes, absolutely. I think one of the concerns that we are having now im going to being debated is a vote the efficacy. Because the efficacy of that dummy if youve been calculated is that one building the team has 60 percent and other has 90 percent. And then they took the average of 70, but basically you cant really say 70 because only person can get one regina, you cant have to leave genes, you can have 2 doses, but not to have genes. So this means that at the efficacy is either 60 percent or 90 percent depending which doses it take, but whatever those david choose need to be fine tuned and we tested 40 people into the market. Now obviously weve heard this is the 3rd promising vaccine that has been announced in the fight against a covert. 90 weve heard of course from the vaccine from biotech and pfizer mcgurn, are russias sputnik obviously, also supposedly very effective on so many vaccines in the pipeline. You know, is there a rivalry there . Is there a competition, there . Is this good bad . Is there room for all of them . Well, this is a very important question and to be honest, this is a business for pharmaceutical being very clear. And this is certainly a market, for example, if you remember to birds of flies or a c. E. O. , it clearly stated that they are not going to subsidize any vaccine just because thats not in favor of the company, but on controls to ostracize any clearly stated that this is a nonprofit vaccine and therefore the cost is, you know, its going to go so there is certainly a rivalry, there is a race. But as it asserted, my concern is more to build a safety ethic, ac and the transparency of this. So if i understand correctly, i mean theres room for all of them that could you see in the near future, each vaccine being kind of tailored to specific areas in the world. Our specific demographics it. Yes, absolutely. I mean, really important to, to discuss this one. I mean we, if we have to vaccinate the whole world at our own 60 or 70 percent of the herd population, this means that we need actually, 11000000000. 00 is to be immunized at that scale. You know, want to back scene would be sufficient enough to scale up and to immunize of this mean. We need motive axioms and having more vaccines. Mean, we will be able to categorize each wellner ability would be more suitable for particular vaccine or reach demographic areas. Are maybe my suit given for the vaccine . As i said before, last was any cause or effect for more than a good lawyer and middle Income Countries and going into the 12 people countries, a hot areas of europe, the death of each patient would be a problem. The size of government or not are based on and on and it based vaccine probably mostly given for him, you know, compromised people. People are. d already on the street art therapy on a cancer treatment. So different vaccine would have a different suitability for this very poorest. So therefore im old bit and encouraging more vaccine. We would have it better. Would it be because i believe every vaccine would have a tool to me to curtail their spending. Dr. Mohamed merah of rolla, just a vaccine expert at Lancaster University in the u. K. Thank you. Yeah, and germany is also optimistic about its timeline for coronavirus vaccinations. The countrys Health Minister now says Vaccination Centers could be ready by mid december, while the minister stressed the importance of cooperating with multiple vaccine developers. Meanwhile, the government is in talks about how to stop the virus from spreading even more over the upcoming holiday period. A glimmer of hope in germany. The 1st car on our virus vaccinations could take place within weeks but we want to quickly begin to offer back to nations as soon as a vaccine is available. Unless theres a reason to believe that we can start at the latest, at the beginning of next year, maybe already at the end of this year. And that is in the backs in a sense, will be rolled out in 2 stages, starting with vulnerable people. The need is urgent. The latest partial lockdown has failed to cut infections, or the weight hostile belies the daily rate. We have not yet managed to bring the numbers fact to a low level. We have basically only managed to get past the 1st step so far. Studies to stop the exponential increase of infections and we are no stable, but our numbers are very, very high. But its healing time. For some patience is wearing thin, leading to entail a down protests and fears the far right is instrumental izing tensions. But many of germanys 16 federal states are doubling down, saying the partial lockdown must be extended and intensified with tighter curbs, on gatherings. With christmas, just weeks away, the pressure is arm. Chancellor angle America Needs state leaders on wednesday. Then if this isnt time, well, lets have a look now at some other developments in the pandemic on global virus cases are approaching 16000000. Thats according to a tally by Johns Hopkins university. The global death toll stands at almost 1400000. Meanwhile, india is planning to put off the winter session of parliament to sow the rising number of virus cases in the capital delhi and china is testing millions of people. Imposing local law down south are multiple new cases were discovered in 3 cities across the country. Last week 3, prominence, hong kong activists have been detained after pleading guilty to their involvement in last years prodemocracy protests. Joshua wang ivan, lamb, and agnes cho are due to be sentenced next week and could face up to 5 years in prison. When they arrived, knowing it could be their last moments of freedom, it would not raise surprising if im sent to the me they made haitian today. And that proved correct. This prison vehicle, transported to hong kong democracy activist, joshua long agnes child, and ivan lam, into custody after they face trial of a very role in massive prodemocracy protests in 2019. Perhaps the uproar, this wish me to stay in prison. But im persuaded that neither person both know election baez, nor any other arbitrary power will stop us from activists on the 3 were charged with organizing and taking part in an authorised assembly, which carries a maximum sentence of 5 years. They decided to plead guilty after consulting with their lawyers, knowingly accepting jail time, hoping to draw global attention to what they say is a Justice System manipulated by beijing. China denies this insinuation, but says it supports the hong kong Justice System. Knew when they do the bush is not a diplomatic issue. We support the relevant departments of the Hong Kong Government to perform its duties. But accordance with the law. After pleading guilty to the charges, told supporters he would not tell it to beijing or surrender, saying he wanted to demonstrate the value of freedom to the world. And our correspondent so much he is doing or has been following this story here for you from beijing. He says the trial of the 3 activists is part of a Wider Campaign against hong kongs prodemocracy movement. Weve seen quite a number of arrests and processes in these past few weeks. It looks very much like you can pay him to intimidate the participants. And the activists of last years protests, joshua long and the 2 others are most likely going to jail next week we will have the results, the final verdict of this process. They have, however, been tried under the old colonial laws under the hong kong laws by a more or less independent Hong Kong Court and not under the draconian new Nation National security law. That introduces the arbitrariness of chinas legal system into this city. This would have been much worse for them. It is the link there were reporting from beijing and news asia. Well have more on this story coming up right after the shows to stay tuned for that. If you can. Lets now 1st take, a look at some other stories making news around the world. In the u. S. , joe biden is pushing ahead with preparations for Office Despite president Donald Trumps continuing refusal to concede the election on media reporting that mr. Biden will nominate anthony blinken. As secretary of state, when he announces the 1st of his cabinet picks, lincoln served as deputy secretary of state and deputy National Security adviser during the Obama Administration to try the Foreign Ministers of germany, france and britain have met in berlin to discuss the future of the iran nuclear deal, the 3 countries have spearheaded efforts to keep the 2015 agreement alive after u. S. President donald trump abandoned it. Germany has expressed hope that the new u. S. Administration might revive the your court. Turkey has accused germany of breaking International Law after german soldiers boarded a turkish cargo ship without requesting official permission. The soldiers intercept at the ship overnight on suspicion. It was carrying weapons to libya. They abandoned their search after turkey protested to the mission. We turn our attention to france now where the government there has proposed a sweeping new security bill following a series of recent terror attacks. While among other things, the new law would make it a criminal offense to publish images of Police Officers with intent to cause them harm. Or its sparked a National Outcry among journalists, unions, and free speech campaigners. Well, asuna phonic are reports now from paris. French documentary, the monopoly of violence is a hard hitting examination of Police Brutality in france released earlier this year. The film focuses on the yellow vs potus, as well as allegations of police abuse in the suburbs. Filmmaker david differend related footage, provided by journalists as well as ordinary citizens, posting on social media. But making a film like this may not be possible in future with the french government proposing a new security law. Part of which cracks down on the broadcast and sharing of images of Police Officers. Differences, the law erodes basic freedoms and puts france on a slippery slope. Police violence has existed in france for decades, especially in the suburbs. Today its well documented, its filmed. Social media allows for the easy broadcasting of these videos. What lawmakers want to do is stop the circulation of these images, and at that point, youre not in a democracy any more than it is on the upgrade. On a democracy, the French Parliament has been debating the controversial law. One of its provisions, stipe relates jail time and a fine of more than 50000. 00 for anyone broadcasting or sharing identifiable images of Police Officers with the intention of harming them. Its in large demonstrations here in paris as well as in several other french cities. Journalist unions and Rights Groups are up in arms
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