The most successful driver makes Lewis Hamilton the most in the history of f1. Successful formula 1 Lewis Hamilton wins his 7th world title, racing driver ever. Good evening. One of the scientists behind the first Covid Vaccine to emerge from early Clinical Trials with high levels of success says it wont start to make a significant difference until next summer. Professor ugur sahin whose Company Biontech developed the vaccine with the pharmaceutical giant pfizer told the bbc today that normal life should be resuming this Time Next Year if mass vaccination programmes had taken place by then. Our Health Correspondent Sophie Hutchinson reports. Tiny vials of the new Biontech Pfizer vaccine, which hold the worlds hope for an end to the pandemic. But today, one of its creators from the husband and wife tea m creators from the husband and wife team warned there are still many months to get through. This winter will be hard. We will not have a big impact on the infection numbers with oui impa
A master and his slave. California is to begin a night time curfew in an attempt to curb a surge in coronavirus cases. Its latest figures are now worse than the previous peak in august. The us now has more than 12 million confirmed infections. Its the worst affected country in the world and is experiencing a surge in the virus, setting records each day for the number of new infections. About 187,000 new cases were recorded in the latest figures released on friday for the previous day. The daily death toll linked to covid 19 has passed 2,000 people for the First Time Since may. Over the past week, there has been an average of almost 170,000 cases per day. Thats an increase of 67 . And according to covid tracking project, more than 80,000 people are currently hospitalized across the country. President trump has repeatedly played down the severity of the pandemic in the us. On saturday, he skipped an event at the 620 summit on covid preparedness instead deciding to play golf. Heres our no
By the state of the economy shrinking 11. 3 in 2020, not recovering for a full two years. Indeed, five years from now, itll be 3 smaller than had been expected. Stefanie bolzen, when you look at those figures, we are told that the british economy has not shrunk this much since the great frost of 1709. Not sure how they worked that out, but there you go. The government has a lot more power now than it has in those days to shape the economy. What do you make of rishi sunaks response . Well, it has been very interesting to see how the chancellor, who was also supposed to be one of the possible successors of borisjohnson, and who is highly popular currently in the uk, how he is trying to bridge the situation. So on the one hand, protecting people and we have a kind of new lockdown coming on in the uk on the 2nd of december which is called tier system which, in the highest tiers where cities such as manchester will still be in, is quite stark. Pubs and restaurants cannot open. But on the ot
Capital of mekele. Its the third week of open conflict between the Central Government and regional leaders that has forced thousands from their homes. Prime minister abiy ahmed has also said that he wont let African Union envoys to travel to tigrye for mediation talks. Government troops have warned civilians living there they would be encircled by tanks and subjected to artillery fire. Abiy ahmeds federal troops have taken a string of towns during Aerial Bombardments and ground fighting, and are now aiming for the tplf stronghold home to some 500,000 people. Let me bring you some breaking news. This is coming into the last half hour from the united states. This is coming into the last half hourfrom the united states. Reuters news agency reporting a little bit more on that court case mentioned earlier, the one in pennsylvania, which tojudge earlier, the one in pennsylvania, which to judge throughout. Interestingly, a republican judge who was appointed to federal court in pennsylvania by
Now on bbc news, dateline london. Hello and welcome to bbc news. Hello and welcome to the programme bringing together bbc specialists with the foreign correspondents who file their stories to audiences back home with the dateline london. This week england emerges from lockdown only up to a point. Why has ethiopias man of peace turned to war . And in washington, transition begins, but isjoe biden too invested in the past . To discuss all that, were joined by stefanie bolzen, uk and ireland correspondent for germanys welt. The author agnes poirier, who writes for the french weekly news magazine marianne. With me in the studio, mark urban, diplomatic editor for the bbcs Daily News Programme newsnight. Now, after the good news about vaccines, a harsh reminder this week that covid i9 will shape our lives for months notjust the restrictions that almost everyone in england will be under when the current lockdown ends next week, nor the christmas rules agreed for once between all four countrie