Possible, who is manacled really, what moves. And also who talks to people who follows her along the way, admirers and critics alike. How is the worlds most powerful woman shaping her legacy . Joining us from eccles last stop in the race for a Coronavirus Vaccine is not just a matter of saving lives. Its also a matter of saving face for some world leaders. As news broke this week, the 2 vaccines have reached 90 percent. If we can see the incentive to speed up trials is growing. Russia and china are already rolling out their back scenes to the public before final testing. Is that safe . What if you could see rate is high enough level of scientific says acceptable separating fact from fiction is challenging. Its becoming like a bidding war 1st, the it success of 90 percent reporting the same figure for its 1st candidate that was monday. Then the vaccine is actually 90 percent effective, protecting people from it. Its raising eyebrows among skeptics. But its also raising hopes that well h
Years at the helm of siemens and activists point to massive human rights violation in violations of western china. Volkswagen plant their welcome to the show. Im Stephen Beardsley in berlin. The used to largest economies are signaling more help for business. As rising covert infections keep their countries in lockdown, french finance minister, bruno la, saying thursday, hes working on an aid package for small and midsize businesses, including rent relief and new tax credits. His german counterpart told reporters he will do everything necessary to cushion the economic fallout in germany. The government in berlin is currently working on a 10000000000 euro package to help restaurants and bars, among other businesses get more from chelsea delaney, our financial correspondent in frankfurt. Chelsea, how hard is this 2nd wave hitting european businesses . Were definitely seeing big divergences between european economies. If you look at germany, for example, what weve seen so far is a hit that
Melissa chan. Welcome to news asia. Thank you for joining us. Hong kongs legislature now has effectively no opposition. Prodemocracy lawmakers have announced they will all resign. Its to protest against beijings new bill passed today. Wednesday, the law would allow the Hong Kong Government to expel legislators without due process. And as soon as that law went into effect, the executive expelled for lawmakers. The opposition called the act quote, ruthless and said it quote, sounded the death knell of the citys democracy fight. Joining us is holmes chan. A political journalist in hong kong holmes. Im a little curious this decision from beijing did that come as a surprise . Now the decision actually came as a result of chinas top law making Body National Peoples Congress standing committee. And the reason why i came as such a big surprise to people in hong kong was because this was not announced on the agenda beforehand. It was announced very rapidly and passed very quickly and taking eff
With riot police in warsaw as thousands rally to mark poland, independence. And hong kongs prodemocracy legislators resigned in mass graves. 15 lawmakers walked out after 4 of their colleagues were sacked under a new law, all banning representatives who are deemed to be threats to National Security. Im burnt off. Its good to have you with us. The European Commission has signed a deal to secure up to 300000000 doses of a coded 19 bank seen developed by germanys buying on tech. And the Us Pharmaceuticals giant pfizer. The e. U. Health minister announced that the easy was setting up a health union to improve the response and coordination of Member States in future health crises. A vaccine is seen as the best chance to break the chain of coded 19 infections. The German Pharmaceutical Company buying on tech says that it could start shipping the vaccine to e. U. Countries by the end of this year. Hard to talk more about this. Im joined now by you to go to learn from the european parliaments
Well, one of the most controversial parts are there, this qualification is that beijing has taken and chosen an extraordinary path to achieve its 8. So if by making a decision and resolution in beijing itself, late levon the matter be resolved in a local level in hong kong. And there has been actually there is existing the can. Is them in hong kong to unseat a lawmaker . But now the resolution as simply and power as the whole whole noko and ministration to unseat anyone. They see this and they enjoy National Security. So thats why some of the legal experts and also politicians are physicians that are there saying that this is arbitrary rules. And thats why we hope stands course, that it could be anyone in the future to b. And c. To either governments and carry them, deny such accusations. And saying that this is totally constitutional and legal because the Nations Health legislature has the power to interpret and to our clarified the law. And given him her despite the fact that she act