Vaccines for the u. S. Before sending them to other countries it coincides with reports that his administration actually rejected an early offer from pfizer to double its order of the vaccines more on this from washington with mike hanna. Its clear that this executive order comes from the differences between pfizer and his administration and the refusal of the administration to commit to buying more than 100000000 doses at the time that it could the executive order ports to insist that all americans must be treated before any doses go internationally well this is simply an in forcible it would appear has signed a large number of International Contracts as has the other company but these companies contracts already in place in some cases doses have already been shipped internationally so certainly this is something that would be very hard to legally enforced president tran claims that he may invoke the National Procurement act seldom used. To force companies to actually comply but its v
That bag has more from tehran. This parliamentary vote was instigated after the assassination of irans leading scientist more in fact resulted. Now this conservative parliamentarian to hold a majority in the parliament, they control parliament. They put forward a motion. Theyre calling on the government to stop inspectors. Currently i. A. E. A. Inspectors can access Irans Nuclear sites without any prior notice. So its unrestricted under something called additional protocol. Now these conservative politicians are calling on the government to stop that. Theyre also calling on the government to increase enrichment to 20 percent currently, its just over the limit in the 2015 nuclear deal, roughly 4. 5 percent, not 20 percent is concerning because once you get to 20 percent, it doesnt take much effort to get to 80 percent which is weapons grade, but iran says it doesnt want a nuclear weapon, but what essentially is playing here is that the conservative parliamentarians that grouping has a d
An emergency approval so yes it is quicker than normal but the European Union has been quite critical of whats been going on here in the u. K. Saying that but some corners have been cut that the regulator here has been far too hasty in the e. U. s way of doing things is the best way of doing things obviously thats hugely debatable but also has to be found the United States has chimed in with interviews on u. S. Television also accusing the british regulator of just simply rubber stamping all of the research that was done by pfizer not going deeply or rigorously enough into approving the vaccines efficacy and safety as we heard there he quickly backtracked saying that he now does have confidence in british scientists and regulators and has always had confidence in all of this was just a simple mess understanding is could be a difficult backtrack though but nevertheless he has tried to explain his position by saying well look things are just different done differently in the United State
Imposed is that when. The regions hospitals fall below 15 percent of intensive care unit capacity then these restrictions kick in and here in Southern California which includes Los Angeles San diego and many other cities the i. C. U. Capacity has been dropping steadily on saturday it was 12. 5 percent on sunday it was 10. 3 percent we dont have the figures for monday yet but it looks like thats going to that trend is likely to continue there were 10500 new cases of cold 19 on sunday so with hospitals being overwhelmed they have no place to transfer up patients and if i see you capacity runs out its not only. 1000 patients that were talking about anyone who has a heart attack a stroke you know be ill with cancer or anything else an auto accident they need to be transferred to the i. C. U. And if the i. C. U. Is full. You know its its obviously its a its a Health Disaster as well as an Economic Disaster for many people in this part of the country in other developments the u. K. Is less t
And i do think unfortunately before we see february we could be close to form 50000 americans have died from this virus the u. K. Meanwhile has become the 1st western country to approve a covert 1000 vaccine for public use those most at risk including Health Workers and care home residents will get the inoculation from next week Prime Minister bars drugs and praise scientists for their work but also said people still need to be cautious Hong Kong Media tycoon and prodemocracy advocate jimmy lie has been refused bail on fraud charges this is seen as part of a growing crackdown on dissent its just a day after 3 prominent activists were jailed themselves. U. S. President giving a speech or cast on social media repeating his unfounded allegations of Election Fraud facebook and twitter post warnings on the video statement a day after trumps claims were contradicted by the attorney general himself from alan fischer. It was remarkable this may be the most important speech ive ever made more f