Settlements and forced from their homes. We need the feel p. And so fled to sudan and are now desperate for help. Im joining us though with Sports Major League Baseball star Robinson Camaro has been banned for a whole season for doping and must fulfill his 24000000. 00 salary. Thank you for joining us. We start this news hour with the coronavirus funday make and the race to find a vaccine. British pharmaceutical giant astra zeneca says its phase 2 trials show, promise in protecting the most at risk groups. A strong immune response was shown in those age over 70. The vaccine is being developed in partnership with Oxford University and is now in the final stage of human testing to confirm those findings. The positive news on the vaccine front comes as cases continue to mount. More than 2000000. 00 cases have now been reported in africa, but low rates of testing means the caseload is sought to be much higher across the 54. 00 country, continent globally cases have surpassed 56000000. 00.
Lives health system, and the death toll in uganda rises to 16 up to protest against the arrest of Opposition Leader bobby wind and palestinian leaders condemn the us. Secretary of state, unprecedented visit to an illegal israeli settlement on the occupied Golan Heights. And he just came in to go to a sports returns to spain and says hes tired of always going to blame for problems at barcelona. Good to have you company. Welcome to the news. We start with the corona virus pandemic and the race to find a vaccine for tisha pharmaceutical giant astra. Zeneca said its phase 2 trials show promise in protecting the most at risk groups. A strong immune response was shown in those aged over 70. Now the vaccine is being developed in partnership with oxford university. And its now in the final stage of human testing to confirm those findings. The good news on the vaccine front comes as cases continue to rise. More than 2000000. 00 have been reported in africa, but low testing rates mean the actual
Finally, vaccines are being produced that might help us return to Something Like the lives we had before covid. Here in the uk, over 10 million doses have already been given out, but at the same time, the virus is Mutating First here in the uk, then in brazil and south africa. So, scientists are turning their attention to how to adapt vaccines to make sure they work against all new variants. Astrazeneca and Oxford University say they plan to have a Next Generation Covid Vaccine ready for the autumn. Our medical editor fergus walsh reports. The scientists at oxford who created the astrazeneca vaccine are continually monitoring how coronavirus is evolving. The current vaccine is thought to give good protection against new variants, but theyre working on tweaking the jab to make it future proof. The scientist whos leading the Research Says its relatively simple to redesign the vaccine. Its not difficult to put a different Antigenic Insert into the vaccine, so we dont want to panic and say
The chicago fed president australia heads into earnings season amid the worst recession in decades and a pandemic crippling the economy promises to be one of the most challenging periods on record. Shery u. S. Futures opening flat. This after they finish mixed on the friday session. We had u. S. Stocks falling with the s p 500 flat after five sessions of gains. We have escalating u. S. China tensions. Some positive data. We have the dollar inventing after u. S. July job dated beat estimates. The nasa composite was led lower. Composite was led lower. We had small caps leading the gains on those better than expected econumbers out of the u. S. Here is how oil is trading. We are seeing oil gaining ground above 41 a barrel with brent coming in around 44 a barrel. This after the biggest loss in a week. Not only u. S. And china tensions but the outlook for the u. S. Stimulus. They saw the biggest advance since early july. See some are going to of those uncertainties, the lack of a deadline w
D. W. In exile in london she says hell continue to speak out against chinas crackdown of the territory. And 76 years ago i dont hitler survived an assassination attempt now germanys armed forces on our pounce upon shouting about the man who tried to kill hitler. Im sumi so much kind its great to have you with Us European Union leaders have taken a break after their tense summit over a proposed to 750000000000 euro coronavirus recovery package went into a 4th day members are split over how much money should be distributed as handouts or as loans that will have to be repaid and whether strings should be attached to enforce the rule of law and some countries hard hit Southern States including italy and spain want to see substantial aid payments but a group of self. The cleric frugal Northern European countries want loans and more checks on how the money is spent. Lets go to brussels our correspondent marina standing by for us hi marina there is still no deal take us through what happened