A dutch court finds shells nigerian subsidiary responsible for multiple pipeline leaks and or does it to pay damages to farmers. And we look at why namibia is government is auctioning off 170. 00 elephants despite the pills by conservationists im 7 asked with sports event is that cage and perrier refuses to criticize christiane around his top scorer faces a Police Investigation for breaching coded 19 rules by going on a ski trip. Alone welcome to the news hour we begin with the race to vaccinate the world against 19 and fears the poorer nations are being left behind and richer countries are rushing to secure supplies johnson and johnson has become the 1st company to announce trial results for a single dose jab it says its vaccine is 66 percent effective in preventing moderate to severe symptoms of covert 19 and plans to seek emergency authorization in the United States next week thats just a day off the American Company novaks said its vaccine was 89 percent effective in u. K. Trials b
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Continues. Good afternoon well can you watching our see international now in america people are waking up there to find their president ial election race is stuck on a knife edge the results are hanging in the balance in a few key states and as it stands right now joe biden has a narrow lead with 224 Electoral College votes compared to Donald Trumps 213 the victor will be the 1st to reach 270 biden claimed overnight on cost of victory went 1. 00 step further saying that hes already won and is threatening legal action to get more on this now were joined by murray gas if hes in and also with the market he joins us from new york so lets go to karen. As i said waiting for us in new york. Hanging in the balance not all the votes are in still everything to play for. Well at this point its down to a number of key states it was widely anticipated that the morning after the election in the United States we would not yet have the results and that is what occurred at this point we are waiting for
Turkey will not have a place at the negotiating table. Why more and more migrants are risking a dangerous new atlantic route by the Canary Islands. A u. N. Report says World Leaders are failing in their duty to stop climate disaster. We start in the United States were a divided senate is pressing ahead with the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett just three weeks before the president ial election. She was nominated by President Trump and her confirmation would increase the conservative majority in the Supreme Court. Aaron fischer has been following events on capitol hill in washington, d. C. The goal to have Amy Coney Barrett on the u. S. Supreme court before the president ial election. The first up, the janet senate missionary judiciary commission. Senator graham the bottom line, justice ginsburg, when asked about the several years ago, said a president serves four years, not three. There is nothing unconstitutional about this process. This is a vacancy t
The coronavirus pandemic and judicial reform. The high cost of families more loved ones as on the diplomatic front a cease fire between azerbaijan and armenia fultons. The us President Donald Trump has resumed campaigning after being forced to suspend all events when he tested positive for covert 19 hes been rallying supporters in florida there is back on the campaign trail he just wrapped up a speech after talking for about an hour it took the stage just hours after the white house thought to confirm that he had tested negative for the virus. All right so lets get to i got to get used to following the events of that rally as donald trump greets his adoring supporters behind in the polls is seemingly with is all to do and the florida very much a key state. Yeah and he was in Central Florida nic which is a really key part of the biggest battleground state in this nation but if youre watching this right tonight as a medical professional someone from the center for Disease Control and pre