Supporting the occupation and pakistans Prime Minister visits afghanistan for the 1st Time Since Taking Office and pledges to help promote peace there. And joining us go with sports, as leno messi returns to spain and says hes tired of always being blamed for the problems of oslo. No thank you very much for joining as we start this news hour with the coronavirus pandemic 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 aged over 70. The vaccine is being developed in partnership with oxford university, and its now in the final stage of human testing to confirm those findings that a positive news on the vaccine front comes as cases continue to rise. More than 2000000. 00 cases have been before today in africa, but low rates of testing means the caseload is thought to be much higher across the continent. In the past cases of increased compared to
And chair, eddie junior. A conversation on the u. S. Military readiness and the Global Threats we face. Defense Program Senior research fellow, served two decades in the marine corps. Assessing u. S. Military strength, a pretty major undertaking. How does the Heritage Foundation try to do that . Guest we gather all publicly available information we can come across, official testimony from the pentagon, acquisition reports on major programs, general news reporting from the defense reporting community, our own personal contacts in the services and the pentagon and on capitol hill, and we gather all that all year long, go through a several month analysis and writing process, compare last years information to this years information, and then basically issue a report card on the military, and this year on a scale of one to five, we would give it a three, or in the words we use, we call it marginal, and we feel that the u. S. Military writ large is marginally able to meet the demands of u. S
Theyll inherit. Tension, issues posed by dprk, china, and interpreting all the signs around the region. Our guests this week, john brennan is perfectly positioned to address this critical and evolving set of issues an we are lucky to have him here today. He needs no introduction but let me go through it. Former director of c. I. A. , former director of former principal advisor assistant to the president for counterterrorism and Homeland Security in the white house to president obama, former director of the National Counterterrorism center, career c. I. A. Officer, arabic speaker and author of the bestselling and i would add having read it myself, very interesting book undaunted my fight against americas enemies at home and abroad, he is someone who sits at the nexus of intelligence, Foreign Policy, at the white house, abroad and at langley, also knows a Little Something about northeast asia, the pride of hudson county, i should also add he holds a masters degree from the university of
And tearing this global pandemic. We look at another threat. Putting the lives of millions of women at the risk we begin in northern ethiopia, where after nearly 3 weeks of fighting a deadline imposed by the government for the grand forces to surrender, is set to expire in just a matter of hours. The federal army has surrounded to graze capital mckelway that is threatening the use of artillery on the city of 500000. People to grand leaders deny claims of their fight is a begun to surrender. Reports now from tikrit province. You know, on the riot front line in Southern Federal reinforcements arrive and helicopters, hover above fools. As the Ethiopian Government has maintained that this is a Law Enforcement operation against what it calls a treasonous group. You know, then youre going to get, i dont know much about the not show up, our morale is high. Were ready to enforce the rule of law for the sake of the fallen. We will prevail over those who had betrayed them. We have another missio
Also in ethiopia, where the government says its moving forward on its final offensive against fighters around to graze main city and palestinian leaders condemn the u. S. Secretary of states unprecedented visits to an illegal israeli settlement and the occupied Golan Heights. Welcome to the program. We begin with the latest on the coronavirus pandemic and the race to find an effective vaccine. British, a pharmaceutical giant astra zeneca says its phase 2, trial show promise in protecting the most at risk groups. It says people over 70 who have been tested have shown a strong immune response. The vaccines being developed with Oxford University and its in the final stages of human trials. Now in the last 10 days, 2 other drug makers, pfizer and madonna, reported their back scenes are more than 90 percent effective in late stage trials. Well, globally cases have surpassed 56000000. There have been more than 1300000 deaths worldwide. 250000 of those in the u. S. Making it the worst affecte