My. The worlds most promising covered 19 vaccine faces its 1st academic hurdle but optimism is hollow. Given all this is all just there a live from doha also coming up. A long night of talks but not resolution e. U. Leaders to come back for a 4th day as they debate an 857000000000. 00 the saudi arabias king saul man as admitted to hospital 84 year old one ark is having medical checkups. The race is all divided vaccines for covert 19 and the pressure is mounting for governments to be able to provide those treatments as soon as they become available the u. K. Has become the latest to lock in millions of doses of those that look the most promising britain has announced to deal securing 19000000 doses of 2 potential vaccines they include the bio intake Pfizer Vaccine had one from the French Company and a report is expected on a vaccine being developed by astra zeneca and Oxford University its in phase 3 of large scale human trials lets get more now from paul brennan who is in oxford for us
Leaders remain divided over how to implement a massive covert 19 recovery package and britains plan to encourage weight loss to lighten the impact of the coronavirus. Hong kong is tightening coronavirus linked restrictions after recording its highest one day increase in cases since the pandemic began the territories leader kerry lamb announced the measures after more than 100 new infections were confirmed on sunday she described the situation as critical and says theres no sign of it coming under control lets go live now to hong kong to aljazeera as adrian brown so adrian until now hong kongs low infection rate made it the envy of the world whats gone wrong. Well its interesting isnt it adrian if this was the United States india or brazil an infection rate of just over 100. 00 a day would be considered you know a good day but thats not the case in hong kong because of course up until a few weeks ago hong kong was recording a 0 infection rate but now in the past 2 weeks weve had more th
Bangar what they see as political bias protests in the democratic republic of congo over the appointment of a new Electoral Commission change. And washingtons n. F. L. Team drops the redskins name and logo off to criticism or offensive to native americans. So then a strategic stretch of water is a new source of tensions between the u. S. And china u. S. Extra state might pump poses that beijings claims to the South China Sea are completely unlawful and it will not be allowed to treat it as its maritime empire its rich in oil and gas and fishing resources and china is Building Military bases on several assholes the 5 Southeast Asian nations also claim parts of the sea and last week the us navy held military exercises. Take a close look at it you can see that china claims about 90 percent of the South China Sea including going to ship the Spratly Islands and thats disputed by the philippines and vietnam and others discover a reef thats claimed by china and the philippines and that partic
Listen. Travel and we meet with global news makers the stories that matter 0. Youll support the. Troll or. Not no good on you to not give them an. Alarm or to give birth in your watch in the listening post working from home here are some of the media stories were covering this week poland reelect its president after the government turns back the clock to the good old days of state controlled television he won the Nobel Peace Prize last year but now the ethiopian Prime Minister has shut down a Major News Network and jailed its founder rahsaan kanafani the palestinian voice that like so many authors got his start in journalism. And disney world in florida lays out the welcome mat. Through a video that goes spectacularly wrong. Polish voters have reelected their president on jury duty to another term in office but only just duda who is aligned with the ruling law and Justice Party scraped in with 51 percent of the vote and the governments control of the public broadcaster televisa opposed
This half hour how could with 19 will mean higher costs and longer production times for the movie business. Who begin in brussels where e. U. Leaders are meeting for an extended day to hammer out their budgets and a coronavirus bailout package the budget is an unprecedented amount of money about 2. 00 trillion u. S. Dollars look at all those zeros that includes 857000000000 to help countries recover from the pandemic but the leaders can also agree on how the funds should be distributed to countries who need them the most live now to any barker who is following that story for us this half hour so neve is it beginning to look as if no ones going to blink 1st and say yeah we can all get go with this and get on to the same page. Well i mean thats the hope. In the last 20 minutes or so the austrian chancellor suggested that he did feel that some progress was being made and the possibly by the end of the day this the 3rd day of talks they might well be in agreement but all of that is very mu