Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. Lets start with the news that broke in the past few hours a top Us Government Advisory Panel has recommended the authorisation of the countrys first vaccine against covid 19. The committee agreed 17 4 that the known benefits of the vaccine, developed by pfizer and germanys biontech, outweigh the risks in those over 16 years of age. The formal approval from the food and Drug Administration is expected to follow very soon and the first patients in the us could receive the vaccine as early as next monday. Heres what the head of the fdas office of Vaccines Research and review said as the meeting concluded. I just wanted to thank the committee for voting on this very complex topic, i wanted to thank the committee for the discussion and their suggestion, we very much appreciate their input on this very important topic and we will take what we have heard today into consideration when deciding on, not only the eu issue here but als
It is already here. Fauci also is set to receive his first dose of the vaccine in just about an hour from now. So you will see that live on camera. This comes, though, again, with devastating news in terms of the cases rising across the country. 190,000 new covid infections yesterday alone and nearly 1,700 people in this country died yesterday from covid. This just days before christmas where icus like this one in california are still at a breaking month. And in washington just days before millions of americans were set to lose key benefits, congress has finally acted on a relief bill set to be signed by the president. But we do begin this hour with more on this covid variant. We have team coverage, Fred Pleitgen is in moscow. First lets begin with our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. Walk us through the latest. What have we learned about this since yesterday . Good morning, poppy. This is moving so quickly. Lets get sort of a grip on what we know who far about this varian
And a Chinese Space capsule has successfully returned with the first samples of moon rock in more than a0 years. Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. A court in paris has found 1a people guilty of being linked to the three islamist extremists who carried out attacks on the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, and a jewish supermarket, nearly six years ago. 17 people were killed. The longest sentences, of 30 years, were given to a close friend of one of the attackers and his former girlfriend who is believed to be in syria. Our paris correspondent, lucy williamson, has been following the case. This trial has struggled to match the scale of the events behind it. Those in the Public Gallery today better known than those in the dock. Arriving for the verdict, surviving staff from a jewish supermarket and the magazine Charlie Hebdo, the two key targets in the attacks. The harshest verdict was for ali riza polat, sentenced to 30 years for complicity in the attacks. Mo
Hbo max. Thanks for watching. Our coverage tcontinues. The breaking news, tonight. There are now two covid vaccines approved for emergency use, in this country. The fda gave the green light, just moments ago, to modernas version. We are now just waiting for the cdc to sign off on it. John berman here, in for anderson. We will talk more, in a moment, about how important this is with the pandemic now projected to claim 562,000 lives, by april. First, though, the president s silence, or even worse than silence, in the face of this largely avoidable, human tragedy. Nearly, 2,300 new deaths rort d reported so far, tonight. Covid is now the countrys leading cause of death, according to the university of washingtons institute for Health Metrics and evaluation. They are the folks behind that 562,000fatality projection which, itself, is up by more than 60,000, since the last model. Whats more, this new one predicts that, between now and april, 49 states will experience high or extreme stress on
Boys kidnapped from a boarding school in the country last friday. A Chinese Space capsule has successfully returned with the first samples of moon rock in more than forty years. A court in paris has found 1a people guilty of being linked to the three islamist extremists who carried out attacks on the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, and a jewish supermarket, nearly six years ago. 17 people were killed. The longest sentences, of 30 years, were given to a close friend of one of the attackers and his former girlfriend who is believed to be in syria. Our paris correspondent, lucy williamson, has been following the case. This trial has struggled to match the scale of the events behind it. Those in the Public Gallery today better known than those in the dock. Arriving for the verdict, surviving staff from a jewish supermarket and the magazine Charlie Hebdo, the two key targets in the attacks. The harshest verdict was for ali riza polat, sentenced to 30 years for complicity in the attacks.