Hello, im azadeh moshiri. Welcome to the programme. We start this hour with the latest on the electronic Pager Explosions in lebanon. Multiple reports say that israels mossad Spy Agency placed explosives in thousands of hezbollah pagers, before they detonated across lebanon on tuesday. So far, Israel Hasnt commented. And given the simultaneous explosions, hospitals in lebanon have been overwhelmed with casualties. The Countrys Health ministrys says at least 11 were killed among them an eight year old girl. Thousands more were wounded, with hundreds in a critical condition in hospital. Some were blinded, others lost fingers or required amputations. The context here is hezbollah, which is a proscribed Terrorist Organisation by The Uk and other Countries, had been using the pagers instead of Mobile Phones to communicate with each other. Thats due to the Risk Phones could be hacked. A senior lebanese Security Source told the Reuters News Agency they were brought into the country months ago
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That is a memorial. She will be for the artist working to one of the hundreds of thousands of americans who died from covert 19. So the ethiopian Prime Minister has ordered a final offensive on the Northern Territory region and says that a humanitarian corridor will be opened to help those fleeing the conflict. It has warned residents to stay indoors after ordering the army to move in normally regional capital of mecca. The government imposed deadline for to Ground Forces to surrender expired on wednesday. That has been nearly 3 weeks of fighting with hundreds killed and tens of thousands displaced. Well, the u. N. Is warning of critical aid shortages in the region. It says that fuel cash and food are all running out. And many of those displaced have already fled over the border to neighboring sudan, where him or his right now, where we are is a camp thats not far from the sudan, is here border. And its where more than 15000 refugees have arrived over the past 3 weeks. All of them sayi
Vaccines for the u. S. Before sending them to other countries it coincides with reports that his administration actually rejected an early offer from pfizer to double its order of the vaccines more on this from washington with mike hanna. Its clear that this executive order comes from the differences between pfizer and his administration and the refusal of the administration to commit to buying more than 100000000 doses at the time that it could the executive order ports to insist that all americans must be treated before any doses go internationally well this is simply an in forcible it would appear has signed a large number of International Contracts as has the other company but these companies contracts already in place in some cases doses have already been shipped internationally so certainly this is something that would be very hard to legally enforced president tran claims that he may invoke the National Procurement act seldom used. To force companies to actually comply but its v
Covert 19 but in mexico theres a mammoth task as authorities outlined a strategy to immunize over 100000 people by the end of this year and in other news ethiopia says a u. N. Team visiting particularly the region is shocked that after not stopping to check its. In the United States code 1000 cases have now passed 15000000 with no slowdown in sight even with the Pfizer Vaccine rollout beginning across the atlantic in the u. K. Any response in america is a long way off however the countrys leaders current and future are promising a way out starting with president elect joe biden he says hes going to get a grip on the pandemic once he is sworn in on january 20th he has announced a medical team to tackle it and hes got a plan for the 1st 100 days of the. This team this team will help get at the latest at the last 100000000 covert 19 vaccine at least 100000000 covert vaccine shots into the arms of the American People in the 1st 100 days 100000000 shots in the 1st 100 days now the u. S. Has