A symbolic vote asking people if they want president Nicolas Maduro out. And International Aid finally arrives in ethiopias to grey region after more than a month the fighting between local forces and government soldiers. Bought into the Program Advisers for the u. S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention have voted to recommend the nations 1st Coronavirus Vaccine for widespread to use in people over the age of 16 now this will help clear the way for Health Officials to begin the largest Inoculation Campaign in American History the 1st supplies are due to reach states on monday more than 297000 people have died of covert 19 of the worlds worst affected nation and the u. S. Registered another record toll of 3309 fatalities on friday john hendren reports now from washington d. C. In the nation most devastated by the Global Pandemic the 1st doses of the 1st approved vaccine or on the move within the next 24 hours they will begin moving vaccine from the Pfizer Manufacturing facility t
Pandemic. The Biden Administration is deploying 1,110 active duty service members, including teams from army, air force, navy, and marines to support five fema covid19 Vaccination Centers across the country. The first team set to arrive in california in ten days. The Biden White House also says it will soon utilize Defense Production Act in several ways to procure equipment and supplies for pfizer to make additional vaccine, to tap Six Companies to make 61 million at home covid19 tests by end of summer, and built factories to produce Raw Materials needed for nitrile surgical gloves. A billion pairs a month. All of that means jobs. All of that should have been done a year ago. The Biden Administration also isnt ruling out using Defense Production Act to aid in production of Johnson Johnsons one shot vaccine which is currently awaiting Emergency Use Authorization from the fda. That should come any day now. The federal government is set to ship 10. 5 million vaccine doses a week for the n
See more on demand at cspan. Org or listen on the cspan radio app. Your place for an unfiltered view of politics. Joining us this week on the communicators is alan pratt, he is the executive director of the National Rural Education Association and he joins us from chattanooga, tennessee. What is that association and what do you do . Our association is the voice of rural schools and Rural Communities across the country. Thank you for the invite to be on the show and really highlight what we do as an organization. One of the things we do is we advocate for all areas, all issues that involve a rural schools and communities and right now we are looking at a Digital Divide and we are looking at the reopening of schools in a very different way. That is what i a lot of our work has been focused on over the last five months. When you look at online availability for education, where do you see the deficits . I think home access is the biggest deficit and in rural, remote areas or areas outside
Preclear a virus levels. The man tasked with ending the fighting in yemen tells the Un Security Council is a real risk of a prolonged escalation in violence. Targeting a replica of a u. S. Aircraft carrier iran simulates war games as tensions rise with washington. And im a wellings of the sports news as for more coaching of of these cases place the Major League Baseball season in doubt and 500000. Joins an elite club as hes team in the test series against the west indies. It is the trial thats put one nations resolve to stamp out corruption to the ultimate test now a court in malaysia has convicted former Prime Minister on a string of charges and says. Consent to 12 years in prison but he wont go straight to jail and says that he will appeal the trial was one of 5 that budget was facing linked to a scandal surrounding a States Investment fund aljazeera for a slow he reports from kuala lumpur. Was guilty on all 7 counts and sentenced to prison for a maximum of 12 years and a fine of 500
Is out of dock and back onto the high seas. And lots of business are all waiting for that queue up and theres a v. A. Is the 1st drug shown to work against the corona virus but its success could cause an International Round the us has bought up most of the world stock europe is considering issuing compulsory licensing of the antiviral drug. Deaths of years no wonder drug but it has shown promising effects in the treatment of people who fall in severely ill with covert 19th originally developed to treat a bola its attracted interest from countries around the world. Last week the European Commission gave conditional approval for deaths of your to be used to treat seriously ill covert 900 patients it follows similar moves in india in the United States. The company that makes the drug is an American Firm that has faced criticism for agreeing to sell the vast majority of its output to the United States get told e. W. That its space difficulty meeting demand and that its planning to increase