Kidnapped students say hundreds are still missing after gunmen attacked a school in northern nigeria. We begin with a look at the global race for a Coronavirus Vaccine 3 western cabinets are getting much attention now those made by madonna and astra zeneca are reported now to be close to approval and a vaccine developed by us from pfizer and germanys biotech has already been arcade by some countries the 1st patients got jobs in the u. K. On tuesday and vaccinations may begin in the u. S. On monday russia began administering it sputnik vaccine several weeks ago and out that many governments are still wary as moscow has shared very different data on us and 3 chinese vaccines are also reported to have received approvals one of them is already being used in the u. A. E. But its uncertain how widely these are being distributed elsewhere millions of doses have been ordered by governments around the wild but its not clear who will get them fast and when or even if poor a hard hit countries ca
And then move. On that shows that this is a very generous support package and i want to say i think it is absolutely justified he does if you are absolutely. Retailers and consumers what they are facing in these last couple of weeks of the year it will be an exceptionally quiet Holiday Season but the hope is that that will also be true for hospitals. Well for more on this im joined by our Political Correspondent. As you reported there. State of almost full lockdown has been announced as expected at one of the main takeaways. I think one really has to emphasize how quickly and comparatively smoothly this agreement was reached between chancellor merkel and the 16 regional leaders that is unusual because in the last 2 or 3 months they have met several times and these have been meetings that have been characterized by real infighting by acrimonious exchanges by trying to push through or to encourage strict measures and by the regional leaders refusing to accept those measures and wanting e
Its really just a milestone. We have a lot of work ahead of us knowing the vaccine is going to be effective is great news, but we still need to complete the regulatory process, which involves completing the study, generating more to follow safety. And then of course, we need to get busy manufacturing and the New York Stock Exchange has just opened in the last minute or so, and its up one and a quarter percent already, 366 points improving numbers on that vaccine news from a downer if europeans government is sending reinforcements to its rest of Northern Region forces are appealing to the International Community to condemn the offensive, but the government has ruled out mediation efforts. Armenias, foreign minister has resigned after days of protests against a peace deal with azerbaijan, but Prime Minister and they called refuses to step down. He has defended the decision to hand back parts of not going to cut about, but has taken responsibility. Talk about libyas future of ended withou
Underline that no agreement is feasible if these issues are not solved. And whilst recognizing the seriousness of these differences we have we tried a further effort should be undertaken by our negotiating teams to assess whether very can be these issues can be resolved russia has begun its mask over 1000 Vaccination Program medical workers and teachers are 1st in line for the sputnik vaccine but some scientists are warning the process has been rushed. The leader of ethiopia has to agree regions says his fighters are still battling Government Forces local leaders say government soldiers have bombed one town while fighting is underway outside the regional capital of caylee. Declared victory a week ago. U. S. President donald trump is in georgia to campaign for 2 republicans and one of those that will decide which Party Controls the senate this is 1st losing the president ial election the candidates will face off next month and our White House Correspondent Kelly Holcomb has more. About
Access to british fishing waters would be reduced the European Union have been saying no that is not going to be a problem there is somewhere we can meet in the middle but perhaps a bigger problem is the idea of unfair competition european diplomats have been Briefing Journalists that several countries not just france but belgium spain denmark and so on have been unhappy about the prospect of Michel Barnier giving ground on the rules of what they call the level Playing Field on state aid for example to British Companies and also on what say what happens if one side wants to move away from the common standards on workers rights on Environmental Standards and the like so these are clearly sticking points it will be seen by some people as good news that the talks are going to resume on sunday negotiators being asked to get back together in brussels on sunday and sort of underlying and Boris Johnson talking again on monday lots of people did predict that in fact the whole file would be han