President elect. Joe biden is to announce his 1st cabinet appointments. And he brings in a former Obama Administration official is expected to be secretary of state. So this promising news this monday in the search for a Coronavirus Vaccine astra zeneca has said that late stage testing of its covert 19 treatment shows it can be up to 90 percent effective without any serious side effects. The company has been developing the vaccine with oxford university. Importantly says it can be stored at frigid temperatures, making it easier to distribute the u. K. Health secretary, matt hancocks, is 100000000 doses are on order and it could start to be rolled out next month. John, how in london to talk us through that when it all sounds pretty good. Just one about the word and it can be up to 90 percent effective if you got more data. Yeah, its important that astra zeneca, the British Pharmaceutical Company that partnered with the university of oxford said this morning when they announced these res
Discussion on election 2020 and its implications for u. S. Foreign policy. Obviously over the weekend there have been rapid developments theres now a president elect joe biden after a tumultuous days for everyone and an election that was pretty close for many days, but now looks like we have a clear a clear winner. So we have a terrific panel this morning to discuss not so much the election, but really looking forward to next year to see what the implications are for u. S. Foreign policy for International Order and to pars maybe some of the nuances of last week and what they may mean, particularly the fact that trumpism is alive and well even though the president did not receive a second term and that the senate could be in the hands of republicans. We have eric edelman, practitioner in residence of johns hopkins. And a nonsenior fellow at brookings, and the important china center. Tamara, a senior fellow at center for middle east policy at Brookings Institution and victoria noonen, no
A week amid a serious political crisis. And saudi arabia has bought 17000000000. 00 worth of alms from g. 20 nations since 2015. When look into the oxfam ripples we begin though with a situation in northern ethiopia, where gray rebels have refused to give in to the government. 3 days ago, Prime Minister had issued an ultimatum to stand down or face war attacks. On tuesday he delivered on that threat. The air force says that it carried out the strikes to the regions main city of the. Its the primary base for the tea, great Peoples Liberation front told pti p. L. F. Which governs the Prime Minister. Ill be all bad, says the attacks will continue until the tea p. L. F. Is brought to justice and its leaders are replaced. The un and foreign leaders calls for mediation, a request which has been largely ignored by both sides. The government deployed extra troops on monday, and its more soldiers move in the living that ill sleeping in troops. An estimated 25000. 00 have crossed the border into
As you said there. Secondly, importantly, those people in the large scale trials that have been taking place in this country in brazil and south africa who do still contract the virus with this vaccine. They do so only with mild symptoms. So it seems to eliminate altogether serious instances of disease disease thats important. Its also shown to be far more practical. It seems than those other vaccines in the sense that it is much, much cheaper in terms of scaling up mass producing. Now the news israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made an unannounced visit to saudi arabia to meet crown Prince Mohammed bin solomon. The u. S. Secretary of state mike brown, pale, was also present. And this follows washington brokered normalization deals between israel, the u. A. E. And bahrain. A senior political analyst says this is all about the legacy of the trumpet ministration. Certainly its part of the race with time. I think everyone understands the spiked his trenches and the trump and mr
You cant have to leave genes, you can have closes but not to genes. So this means that the efficacy is either 60 percent or 90 percent depending which does it take, but whatever the build they will choose, need to be fine tuned and we tested before to fall 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 really important question and to be honest, if this is a business for pharmaceutical being very clear, and this is certainly a market, for example, if you remember deferred wiser c. E. O. , it clearly stated that they are not going to subsidize any vaccine, just because thats not in favor of the company,