Still boils with anger over the president ial election despite calls for karm from the opposition candidate. Hello those 5 pm here in moscow youre watching r. T. International now more than 20 countries have placed orders for russias Coronavirus Vaccine just a day after the country claimed to be the worlds 1st with. I hope that the russians have actually definitively proven that the vaccine is safe and effective i seriously doubt that theyve done that it is not about being 1st it is about having a try to students a vaccine which will be given thats the important part to hundreds of millions maybe even billions of people the problem is that we know very little because the russian authorities are not being very transparent and so i am very skeptical about whats happening in russia. Our foreign colleagues who probably want to kind of competitive advantage over the russians are offering judgments that are to our minds completely groundless in fact many countries have taken excel already de
We established the commission in 2018, it is extending its work in the midst of the intimate through the fall of 2022. These issues are central to the work. We are undertaking. Peggy, one of our commissioners, will be presiding. She recently stepped down from the National Academy of medicine, and was the president of the American Association for the advancement of science, and the former fda commissioner, and former Health Commissioner for the city of new york. We published an analysis that is a companion to this event. S it possible to avert chaos in the vaccine scramble . It is available at csis. Org. The proposition is nationalism dominates the scramble for vaccines. And there is a certain highrisk that low Income Countries will be left out, subject to great delay and uncertainty commander this will have destabilizing consequences. Paper have in our examined operation warp speed, what china is up to, and we have put focus on a Promising Initiative that we will hear about in a moment
Chairman shelby and his staff for letting us try this and see how this kind of information gathering works for appropriators. Its not a markup. There will be no voting today, but were going to get some really important information. Yesterday, the new coronavirus cases passed 50,000 for the first time, making it a single day record. This morning, 128,000 americans have died and nearly 2. 7 million have tested positive for covid19. Of course, the thoughts of myself and everyone on this committee are with those individuals and those families whove been affected. I called this hearing really to look at an update on the efforts that the administrations put together and, frankly members of this committee were very involved in to see if we couldnt establish a new way to look at responding to pandemics. I think we have the chance to actually write a new important chapter in what that response looks like. Developing the right vaccine, the right therapeutics, the right testing is important. And
Congressman roy blau learned, clark, rankingn member cole, Ranking Member harris, congressman congresswoman butler, congresswoman mullen are, congresswoman gray. The subcommittee members participating remotely are congresswoman lois frankel and congresswoman Bonnie Watson coleman. Before i give an opening to offer ai require brief explanation of how the markup will work. Configuredm has been to maintain the recommended six foot social distancing between members, staff, and the press corps in the room. To usembers have opted secure video teleconferencing which allows them to participate remotely. For those on videoconference, once you start speaking, there will be a slight delay before you are displayed on the main screen. Speaking into the microphone activates the camera. Displaying the speaker on the main screen. Do not stop your remarks if you do not immediately see the screen switchover. If the screen does not change after several seconds, please muted. Re you are not to minimize ba
Plans as it joins the list of countries suffering a surge in coronavirus somethings wrong with donald trump ph the Republican Campaign thats working to get a democrat elected its u. S. President. Irans Atomic Energy organization has acknowledged that a fire at the Natanz Nuclear facility has cost significant damage said the blaze could slow down development of centrifuges used to enrich uranium but that iran would replace the facility with more advanced equipment as the report. What exactly happened at the Natanz Nuclear facility last week its a question people in iran and around the world have been asking since a fire was reported at irans main uranium enrichment facility on thursday a fire incident like this at the centerpiece of the countrys Nuclear Program is easily a cause for global concern but iranian leaders downplay the incident latest satellite imagery however seems to show the scale of the damage whatever the cause is bigger than initial reports seemed to suggest on sunday t