As timing who gets it and when, that is all still to be decided. There is a bit of a protocal for this. Well get into that with a prominent doctor as well. The left and right view on this battle, but first to blake burman on this latest news and this efficacy rate which was higher than both companies originally said, right . Reporter exactly, neil. We knew this Pfizer Vaccine candidate was effective. Pfizer though reiterating that today, in fact raising the effective rate on their covid19 vaccine candidate but just as important pfizer today also reported that they believe their vaccine candidate is safe which is why they say they are going to be applying for the eua. That is the emergency use authorization that the fda gives out. They will apply for that in the coming days. Here is what pfizer said earlier today as part of their news release they put out this morning. To date the Data Monitoring Committee for the study has not reported any serious safety concerns related to the vaccine
Supreme Court Nominee barrett is feeling tough questions on everything from abortion to gun ownership on the 2nd day of her confirmation hearing she said she would put aside her catholic beliefs while ruling as a Supreme Court judge which bar was questioned by Dianne Feinstein who is the most senior democrat on the Senate Judiciary committee on the issue of abortion is a contentious issue which is a no one reason why it would be comforting to you to have an answer but i cant express views on cases or precommit to approaching a case any particular way. Well that makes it difficult for me and i think for other women also on this committee because this is a very important case and it affects a lot of people millions and millions of women and you could be a very important vote the government of the netherlands is shutting down bars and restaurants from weapons day and banning the sale of alcohol past 8 pm after a record daily increase in coded 1000 cases many 7000 400. 00 new infections we
Business aljazeera these are the top stories u. S. Vice president ial candidate Pamela Harris is one of the senators that have been questioned by the Supreme Court nominee amy kenny barriers harris says Democratic Campaign is face lay opposed to an appointment before novembers election she focused much of her a lot of 30 minutes on the issue of health care. An official has more from capitol hill. Referred back to the fact that he has criticized parts of the Affordable Healthcare Act before the care act in the past and suggesting that the reason that she was nominated by donald trump was because she said that she would essentially strike it down it would be unconstitutional in her eyes though as far as the democrats are concerned the reason that this is being pushed through so quickly of course is just 17 days since we couldnt but it was announced as the nominee is that they want to make sure that there is a conservative majority on the court and they will be able to end the Affordable
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Emirates and bahrain made abraham reports from ramallah in the occupied west bank both citizens of long sad that building. Settlements on land palestinians want to be their futures is a crime under International Law and they were actually trying to get International Criminal court to prosecute israel because this is considered a war crime under International Law and for palestinians they see the current Israeli Government is a bold into by the lesions between israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the current us president donald trump. A member of the far right Golden Dawn Party in greece has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a rap artist 70 years ago the head of the party which is now considered to be a criminal organization was sentenced to 13 years fighting between Taliban Forces and Government Troops in afghanistan has been has displaced tens of thousands of people it began when the taliban launched coordinated attacks in Helmand Province on saturday. Israel