The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from vik ers like you. Thu. Laura i am Laura Trevelyan in washington, d. C. , and this is bbc world news america. The president relents on the transition of power to joe biden isnderway, but donald trump i not conceding. Even as biden introduces his cabinet picks. That america is ba. En a team once again sit at the head of laura stay home toave grandma is the message urom t. S. Health officials who warn there will be tragic consequences if americans traveled this thanksgiving. North dakota has one of the highest coronavirus mortality rates in the world. Is starting t still question regulations. Ople plus, we go behind the scenes withnd fins Prime Minister a the bbc finds 100 consequential pushing for equali in her firs year. Laura welcome to bbc world news america. The u. S. President elect joe biden has been introducing his first choices for theabinet. Guny of them are mr. Bidens coll from his years in the obama administration. State. Secretary of President Trump accepted a formal transition of power should begin, tweeting it was in the best interest of the country, but he has not conceded yet. Ericans our north editor to turkeys, corn and cob and there n only be one winner. One could end up on the white house dinner table this thanksgiving, the other will be pardoned to roam free. Present trump i hereby grant you a full pardon. Corn lives to fight another day. If only all headtohead battles connected to the white house were that easy to resolve. The president sounding defensive today. President trump we send our love to every member of the armed forces and the Law Enforcement heroes risking their lives to keep america se, to keep america great, and as i ayy, america first. Should not go awrom that. America first. De donald trump has mahe most significant move to acct the resul of the election. Announcing the transition process could get underway. Urtweeting, case strongly continues. We will keep up the good fight and i believe we will prevail. Nevertheless, in the best recommending emily and her team do what needs to be done with regards to inial protocols. I have told my team to do the same. Emily murphy, the head of the obscure General Services administration,fa which litates the transition of power to joe biden. T as more key states are certifying the results, last night michigan, today pennsylvania and nevada,bl rean leaders have been urging donald trump to accept the inevitable. Something he is reluctant to do, the legal routes have alldi but ppeared. Just as president Richard Nixon of watergate gave us the nondenial denial, trump given us the nonconcession confession. Nghe is voo fight on, but hes running out of road. And joe biden is taking the steps that would ensure he would become the president on january 20. And joe den is forging ahead. Formally unveiling the people who played the key foreignpolicy and National Security roles in his administration. President elect biden if the fact that america back, ready to lead the world, not retreat from it. Once again sit at the head of the table. Ready to confront our adversaries and not reject our allies. There has been one unexpected flurry of activities. With no notice the president announced he would give a briefing. Would this be the formal confession . The offer of congratulations to joe biden . No, he came to take credit for the stock market reaching a record high, then walk o out after ju minute. Laura jning us now for more on the new biden teamny is ant zurcher. What is joe biden saying about the direction of the sticks . These are thed of picks of someone who has beein american politics would make. Joe biden has that depth of valuesiend he bureaucratic and political experience. These are not flashy names, butm they are people who have been in government often on through much the obama administratio picking john kerry as his climate ambassador and former president ial nominee. Former secretary of state, is ndevating Climate Science addressing Climate Change in a way that previous president s have not he is focusing on refugees. Picking alejandra is the homela security secretary, who is a cuban refugee. Anony antony blinken. Miation will be big for joe biden and he wants to put the message out early. Laura what about the president himself . He did not concede, but he did allow the transition to move foard. It almost felt like donald trump was trying to get out of a trade get out ahead of the train that is already leading the station. As john mentioned, the gsa had already said that s w going to release transition funds of donald trump when he said that tweet out monday month monday night. Murphy said she was not influenced by anything the president did. As you know, donald trump does not have to formally c tcede for all s to take place. Butl the procedustacles are disappearing. The legal challenges are being his legal team will give and hearings in pennsylvania, arizona and michigan, but that is more for public relations. There is no teeth behind it that could change the outcome. Joe biden is putting himself in sa position to assemble cabinet and to begin taking the role of president january 20. Laura joe biden willecve the daily president ial intelligence briefing. How will tt help him prepare for what he will do with the coronavirus and the vaccine . When i was in delaware last week and someone asked joe biden about these president ial daily briefings, he said its not all that important because his running mate, future Vice President , kamala harris, is getting the things as a senator. Joe biden knowtia lot about al security and Foreign Policy given his role as Vice President. I think its important in health plans and the behindthescenes numbers on dealing withhe pandic, details about the vaccination rollout. I begins yet real contrast as far as preparations go for new administrations. What jill biden is doing here, and announcing his Foreign Policy team, where donald trum to the middle of december 2 announces secretary of state. Different priorities. Laa thank you for joining us. Millions of americans are on the move for thanksgiving thisth we, even au. S. Surgeon general bakes people to keep the holiday small bs people to keep the holiday small because of the coronavirus. More than 160 now thousand cases in the u. S. On monday 69,000 cases in the u. S. On monday. Could indoor gatherings lead to aigger spike in cases at christmas . Joining us is dr. William shatner at vanderbilt founiversity, thank yobeing with us. Do you have confidence that americans are listening to the advice of the Surgeon General to stay home and save grandma . Laura, i think there are two groups of people in the United States. There are the listeners, the careful people having a small and smart thanksgiving. Thothers have thrown care to the winds. They are going out, they areri traveling, gat in large groups. They are to t y are pretending it is last year and hoping its next year. Im afraid they will fuel a further c outbreak id down the road. Give it another two or three weeks and we will have a spike upon a spike, im afraid. Laura given that christmas is coming too, by january, what our hospitals could see in the United States . I am not being frivolous about thatt all. I think hospitals across the stressed. Ld be enormously so far, influea is quiet that it might wake up and add to the difficulty. I think we will have a very, very difficult winter in our trhospitalng to care for sick citizens here in the United States. Laura what advice do you have efor peo who are sll thinking, should i travel for grandma from a distance . I would say dont travel, keep thanksgiving small, use facetime, use zoom, and get together virtually with the ynotion that ner will be much better. If we all get ourselves ated, as we hope, we wi have that opportunity. I think next thanksgiving will be a nearnormal thanksgiving. This year, for the reasons of safety, we shoulan keep it small keep it separate. Laura er in the United States, do you think we haveny real prospect of controlling the virus now or ar we will lying are we relying on the vaccine . I dont see a national somparative to control t the new Administration May provide a different tone. In the moment, i think there are many people who are bullied buoyed up by the news of the vaccine and says we will hold on until the vaccines are avaible. But for most people that wont be for many months. That reality check has not settled in y. Its not just until the end ogi december or ing of january, many people wont be eligible until february, march, april. Lothis is haul. We are trying to vaccinate 33 million people, they each need two doses of the vaccine. We cannot do it half. Ek and a laura thank you for joining us. Su my pl. Laura well, just as new york city was overwhelmed by coronavirus cases in the spring, w Rural America is seeing a similar surge. November is on track to be the deadliest month yet in north dakota. Joining us is larry who is in jamestown, north dakota. Wh are you hearing about hospitals there and what they are seeing . Larry the north dakota state depart the number of hospital beds available and icu beds available, and the entire state is on the verge of running out of hospital beds. If this keeps growing, they may run out of beds by december, even though fewer people are dying andore are recovheing. However,umber of cases of coronavirus is at an alltime record of 74,000. The states pulation is less than San Francisco county, whic ve times here deaths. 14,000 cases compared to 83 people dead in north dakota and 74,000 cases. Laura does it feel as though you are in the middle of a Public Health emergency, are people taking it seriously . We have gone to a lot of the small town here towns here. We have been to places inar. A lot of people don trust it is as serious as it is one person told us, i am young and him, maybe, but i dont think is is serious. As a weather has become colder, more people spend time indoors. People like to go to church. Today it 27 degrees fahrenheit. It is a heatwave for north dakota standards. E alth care workers are terrified of what could be a new search. Surge. Laura what are people tellinth you about ho will spend their thanksgiving . Larry people understand, some of them, that they need to stay older people who are more likely to have chronic illnesses. Younger people want to celebrate. They think they have spent too much time apart. The government took too long they think to put in a mask mandate. There will be younger people who will still be celebrating, seeing their family. We went to one hospital where all of the people at the hospital are older people. Some of whom cannot stay home anymore and they will have to go to aursing home because they will have trouble believing trouble breathing. Laura hank you so much for joining us in north dakota. In other world, a trial of the man accused of murdering the saudi arabia journalists Jamal Khashoggi two years ago resumes in turkey. Mr. Khashgi was suffocated and his body dismembered. Saudi arabia has refused to pedite the accused and said they are being tried. Russian scientists have alnounced more positive data from tris of their sputnik five covid19 vaccine. They say it has shown over 91 efficacy one month aft an initial vaccination. A claimant lowcost wit less than 20 to vaccinate one person. O russia plansmake more than one billion doses, about 50 tuntries have expressed interest in buyim. Spain has started a 10 day quarantine period after being in close contact. The monarch suspended his Public Engagement after having a scientific meeting. Spain has registered more than 1. 5 million covid19 cases. Western europe second highest tally after france. Thailand has revived a controversial law against criticizing the royal family in an attempt to stop months of antigovernment protests. Several activists will face charges, which carries a sentence of up to 15 years in prison for e youre wching bbc world news america. Still to come on tonights programn. From her crystal meth,n hy afghanistais becoming one of the Worlds Largest produces producers of illegal drugs. Laura the vaccine being developed by astrazeneca and Oxford University is highly effective agnst covid19 and has raised hopes in india, the second worst affected country. Bbc has more. All eyes are onhis factory of the institute of dia. Currently manufacturing tens of millions of doses astrazeneca vaccininside there. It has really raised hopes here in india compared to moderna and pfizer vaccis. It could be stod at regular refrigerated temperatures, which means its the only feasible optionor country as vast and populous as india. 40 million doses have already been made. Th a compas at making one hundred million towards the end after thatts trying to make 100 million every month. Laura as is afghanistan was not enduring enough, a new report warns the country is becoming a significant producer of the dangerous predict drul known as crysth. Provides most of th world heroin, but research by the drug monitoring body predicts production of method become a bigger industry. Addiction, squalor and misery under this brie broken by for years heroin use has been a major problem here. O but now many are turning new entry new cheaper fix, crystal meth. [speaking foreign language] afghanistan already produces wothe vast majority of thd heroin, used made using these poppies. Now its emerging as a major producer of crystal meth, another dangerously addict is, yolegal drug. It has been fueled by the discovery of this plant. It can be used to make the key ntingredie poor afghans in ruralie co can produce it in makeshift labs like this one before sending it on to beaver using satellite images, a team of researchers has been tracking the growth of the labs. They found more than 300 and one district alone. Theealization that you can produce methamphetamine from a wild crop in the mountains has been a fundamental game changer. You have gone from the use ofve importedthecounter medicines at a high cost to being able to use a low price commodity that is growing in its abundance. And simple chemist. In the past, theca u. S. Has ied out airstrikes on suspected drug labs. The taliban believed to charge him taxes, but the labs are so easy to read build the Campaign Soon spped meth with suspectgh links to afanistan has been discovered as far away as australia. Here, it has a street value of one of 50 million. Dissolved in minimal mineral water bottles. Ph what we are seeing is an increase in methamine coming from afghanistan and the surrounding countries. T forensic analysis done on the map, does it suggest it was produced using this plant . The profiling we have a sees we have received is this plant. Obviously for us that yields pretty cool information. Meth may be exported around the world, but its causing misery bachere. Continuing instability means the amount produced and the number rise. Ruined is likely to laura so much for afghanistan to deal with. The youngest serving Prime Minister is in finland. She has the coalition of five parties all led byomen. Bbc had exclusivehi access the scenes to explore how the coalition works in practice as the Prime Minister pushed forward the new equality program. These were the images that went viral around the world in december. Finlands new centerleft female lead coalition government. With four leaders in their 30s. Awithin months they fac pandemic. Like new zealand, taiwan and germany, finland has been praised for its quick and decisive response to coronavirus. Cntries led by men have also done well. I dont think it is a genderbased, iss think we should more focus on how the countries that have done well, what they have done, what they have learned, and that we also have responded together, becau it is a global pandemic. They and active the emergency rs act, which allowed th to restrict movements and getting control over peoples lary. Finlands Prime Minister, thed, 35yearol raised by a sink hole mother, was the first in ly to go to university. By a single mother, was the university. Family to go to d they askethem honestly. With only one black female mp, h critics sovernment may not be as representative as it looks. Its something the Coalition Leader agrees with. R i think tresentation with five white educated females isot very representative in if we really look li the eq, it does not show yet. Gu [speaking foreign le] the cid crisis has been very tough on many people. The most important thing is mthat we are trying toe decisions in a way that helps ordinary people in their ordinary lives. In crisis and also in normal times. Ambitious decisions made all the more challenging by the pandemic. You can find out who else is on the bbcs one hundred women list. Go to bbc. Com 100 women and you can see the full interactive face wall. Showing you has been nominated and why. The old saying about one mans trash is another ones trllsure is espectrue for this group of hikers inside hikers in south korea. The group called clean hikersdis decated to picking up trash from mountain parks and turning the llection into art. Aher latest creation collage of a crying cat togged with the save the world. Other images are a fish, bert, butterfly and a boy. E thgarbage is thrownwa a or is taken to be recycled. Finally, a retired military dog has received the highest honor in the u. K. For animal bravery after saving soldiers lives in afghanistan. You are shot by. Ckling a gunm the belgian dog ran through gunfire to intercept and al qaeda insurgent. He had part of his body amputated. They are making the most of his retirement things to a pair of prosthetic backeg that is something. I am Laura Trevelyan, they queue for watching bbc world news america. Narrator funding for this presentation of this program is provided by. Language specialists teaching spanish, french and more. Raymond james. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station fr viewers like you. Thank you. Nat the height of the conflict. Into vietnam he became a single parent of two young children. We mov a lot. We slept in rest areas. We slept in our car. I didnt realize that we were actually homeless. It makes your world really small. If we happened to stay in a motel that happened to have a tv, it was ally special. We loved nova. Especially when it would be about space. We would talk for hours abt the universe watching nova, i felt big, like, my mind was big, my ideas were big. The trajectory of my life changed. I could see a world outside of our poverty and i fego like ings were g to get better. Pbs opened up a world i didnt know existed. Dyju good evening. Im judy woodruff. On the wshour tonight, the transition moves ahead. President elect bin moves quickly to make up for lost time, introducing key leaders of his National Security te. Then, the troubling surge continues as covid19 cases and deaths spike across the country, we examine one wiscsin hot spot. And hungry in america. The coronavirus exacerbates widespread Food Insecurity in the United States as the focus turns to thanksgiving. I just needed to come here and get food to make the rent basically. And ive known about this place. I used to volunteer here. Judy all that and more on tonights pbs newshour