Im annemarie green. Well, a formal president ial transition has been finally authorized to begin 20 days after the election. Yesterday the General Services administration told president elect joe biden its ready to start the process. Mr. Biden is set to announce his National Security team today. President trump says hes not giving up his fight to challenge the election. Bofta yimam is in washington. Bofta, things are moving forward, thats good, but what about mr. Trump, any sign he might concede any time soon . Reporter good morning, annemarie. No signs of that right now, but bidens camp is moving full steam ahead to get millions of dollars in transition support and briefings. They have ascertained joe biden is the apparent winner of the election. The move gives the biden team access to prepare for the white house. Gsa administrator emily murphy wrote she came to my decision independently and was never directly or independently directed by any branch official. Minutes after that was re
90 percent effective. Meanwhile u. S. President elect joe biden unveils his covert 19 task force he warns itll be months until a vaccines widely available and says the u. S. Has a dark winter ahead. And as things go downhill for amusement parks because of the virus in japan one venue is mixing pleasure with work. Im rebecca richs welcome to the program protests have erupted in armenia after the Prime Minister agreed to a pace deal with as a vision on the troops end the fighting in the disputed region of nagornokarabakh and allows as a vision to kape its territorial gains at least a 1000 people have been killed since the longstanding conflict erupted again in september russia mediated the states fire which moscow says will enable a permanent end to the bloodshed. Thousands of armenians demonstrated outside government headquarters in the capital yerevan to show their displeasure over the countrys peace deal with azerbaijan that also includes russia as a peacekeeper hundreds of the protes
A president ial debate. And yemens largest prisoner swap finally takes place its being described as a milestone in efforts to end the 5 year old conflict. Recorded corona virus infections a reached a new daily high of more than 380000 worldwide numbers are surging particularly in europe italy set a one day record for infections and its highest death toll in months germany also saw an unprecedented spike with 6600 new cases in france 12000 police have been deployed to enforce curfews in paris and other major cities where infections are rampant and from saturday more than half of englands population will again be subject to strict rules and where they can go and who they can meet the reports from london. This city of 9000000 is moving into high gear to have a 3 tier system meaning no one can meet indoors with anyone outside their household is the governments latest attempt to rein in a runaway infection rate which is doubling every 10 days we must act now delayed action means more deaths
And joe biden appear in rival question and answer sessions on the night they were supposed to face each other in a president ial debate. Yemens largest prisoner swap finally takes place its being described as a milestone in efforts to end the 5 year old conflict. Recorded corona virus infections have reached a new daily high of more than 380000 worldwide numbers are surging particularly in europe italy set a one day record for infections and its highest death toll in months germany also saw an unprecedented spike with 6600 new cases and in france 12000 police have been deployed to enforce curfews in paris and other major cities where infections are rampant and from saturday more than half of englands population will again be subjected to strict rules on where they can go and who they can meet charlie annual reports from london. This city of 9000000 is moving into high gear to have a 3 tier system meaning no one can meet indoors with anyone outside their household is the governments lat
Melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us the Catholic Church has renewed a deal it made 2 years ago with china which is an officially atheist communist state concerning bishops there the agreement now gives the pope a file say over the appointment of them but beijing is the one who gets to come up with the choices chinese authorities had previously selected bishops without the say of the vatican and a division formed between state sanctioned clergy and underground bishops who operated outside state control the former bishop of Hong Kong Cardinal joseph dan has spoken up about this a prodemocrat he has expressed concern over the churchs engagement with china heres the interview with cardinal to china and the facts occurred recently renewed a secretive agreement signed 2 years ago it allowed the. With beijing and the holy c. S. A. In appointing bishops in china salma Hong Kong Bishop Cardinal Joseph sand accused the secretary of state cardinal pyra lynn of betraying the