100 days. Meanwhile President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to prioritize vaccines for the u. S. Before sending them to other countries coincides with reports that his administration rejected an earlier offer from pfizer to double its author of the medication. Indonesian Officials Say they are imposing Strict Health measures at polling stations as around 100000000 people vote in local and Regional Elections indonesia is experiencing the worst covert 19 outbreak in Southeast Asia some Health Experts are worried a large voter turnout will make matters worse nobody bothered about the money. The United Arab Emirates and egypt have praised new initiatives to end the 3 year blockade of qatar both countries say they appreciate efforts by kuwait in the us of a saudi arabia and else progress had been made on minister has repeated calls for dialogue to resolve the dispute saudi arabia the u. A. E. Bahrain and egypt imposed land air and sea blockade on qatar 2017. British Prime Minis
Racism at a Champions League football match problem both teams to walk off the pitch. Follow the u. S. President elect joe biden has laid out how he plans to bring americas spiraling corona Virus Outbreak under control as infections passed 15000000 is promising 100000000 vaccinations within his 1st 100 days in Office Donald trump meanwhile is touting progress made with vaccine development. Reports from washington. President tran convened what was billed as a proxy summit just days before the f. D. A. Is q. To decide on whether to grant an emergency use authorization for the 1st of 2 vaccines and it appears the president is intent on claiming credit for the unprecedented tapes of the fax seems development were just days away from authorization from the f. D. A. And were pushing on the heart that which point we will immediately begin mass distribution before operation warp speed the typical time frame for development that approval has you know. Could be infinity and we were very very hap
Tiktok launches a legal bid to stop President Trump from imposing a ban in america. He says the app is a threat to National Security and tiktok says the bands peer politics. The president marks the official nomination at the Republican National convention by criticizing mailin voting and saying the opponents his opponents want to steal the election. Shery u. S. Futures are opening flat after solid gains for u. S. Stocks in the new york session. Record highs for the s p and the nasdaq. We had optimism over vaccines and treatments for coronavirus. The s p 500 saw most of the sectors in the green. Small cap biotech got big moves from the authorization of convalescent plasma for treating covid19. Vaccine developers tumbled on this new focus on plasma treatment. The dollar weakness we saw earlier in the session did pervak. Did pare back. Look at what oil is doing. It rallied and gasoline surged to a fivemonth high at the moment under pressure headed to the 42 a barrel level. Laurae storms m
Have your confirmation for spot. And historic return to nasa astronauts crash down in the gulf of mexico for the 1st time in 45 years. Welcome to the Program People around the world are facing the prospect of new coronavirus lock downs and restrictions as concerns grow about new outbreaks of the disease and clusters of cases theres been a spike in infections in asia and now Health Workers and experts from Mainland China have been deployed for the 1st time to hong kong to help control the epidemic all spittles and Testing Centers were already reaching capacity before pads were announced to test all 7 and a half 1000000 People Living there was difficult pollen reports that a rival is also raising concern. Hundreds of beds ready for patients a hole next to the International Airport once used for exhibitions and conventions now converted to a hospital hong kong is facing its 3rd and worst wave of corona virus with daily new infections in the triple digits the government says hospitals are
World. War z. Swedens an orthodox approach to handling the Health Crisis has made headlines throughout the covert 19 pandemic unlike most you members the swedes didnt impose and the Strict Lockdown measures remain business as usual in stockholm and elsewhere even when cases peaked further and opinions became more divided than ever. While the relaxed strategy is expected to ease the impact on the economy sweden has one of europes highest fatality rates and the worst death toll by far in scandinavia. What went wrong and what should have been done differently some of the questions we put to one of the leaders in the battle against covert 19 swedens minister for health and social affairs lena having grown talks to al jazeera. Swedens minister for health and social affairs Alina Helling dan thanks for joining us and for talking to aljazeera can i just begin with the government motto during the covert 19 pandemic which was physical distancing not social distancing was that the best policy co