But is accused of turning a blind eye to egypts human rights record. And lives torn apart by war poverty and the pandemic and the urgent appeal for funds to help millions of children in the middle east and africa. The hope of imminent Vaccination Programs is doing little to reduce the devastating Global Impact of the coronavirus Record Numbers of people are now being admitted to hospital in the u. S. And tougher restrictions are coming to force around the world on monday more than 33000000 people in Southern California are in the San Joaquin Valley were hit with stay at home or does restaurants are close to in person dining and other places like hair and nail salons museums and playgrounds have been completely shot in germany the chancellor Angela Merkel has hinted that harsher regulations will be required she said existing measures of partial lockdown and social distancing rules wouldnt be sufficient to get the country through the winter and then theres been a 3rd wave of infections i
Schools in wales could re open to all pupils after half term though the nationwide lockdown will continue. Thousands of volunteers helping the nhs with the Vaccine Roll Out will be prioritised for a jab. And no glastonbury for us, but in new Zealand Music lovers can gather for concerts. We hear from what could be the biggest live act in the world at the moment. Coming up in the sport on bbc news, a worry for tottenham and england after a double injury for harry kane. He only lasted half the match in their defeat to liverpool. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. A new Coronavirus Vaccine has been shown to be more than 89 effective in trials, and is the first that has proven to be effective against the new variant identified as circulating widely in the uk. The novavax jab is made by an american company, and it still has to be approved by medicines regulators, but the government has already ordered 60 million doses, much of the manufacturing is being done in Stockton On Te
Theres the tend to look at data that have provided by the manufacturers and analyze principally by the manufacturers and dont do a lot of reanalysis of data so its culturally a little different than the way our fda doesnt. Britain as part of the eu has as part of year to the end of the month. Has the ability to pull away from the eus regulatory. Agency and authorize things on its own. For Emergency Public Health reasons so vast that lawn under which this. This falls. So they were able to authorize review unauthorized quickly, the european unions. A European Agency has been or review it next. Tuesday and were going to review it next thursday. So in the grand scheme of things were talking ever difference of about 8 or 9 days. Doctor weatherford as you know a lot of people here say all i want to be first to take the vaccine. So now weve got the people in the uk taking. The vaccine with that kind of a test run for us here in the u. S. To see what the side effects are what happens with them
The announcement. Unprecedented that there should be a rich abundance of approaches, all of which rich abundance of approaches, all of which are rich abundance of approaches, all of which are essential. And new data shows another covid 19 vaccine developed in the us that may only require a single dose is 66 effective. In other news, primary schools in wales could re open to all pupils after half term though the nationwide lockdown will continue. And thousands of volunteers helping the nhs with the Vaccine Roll Out will be prioritised for a jab. Hello, and a very good afternoon. The European Medicines Agency is expected to approve the Oxford Astrazeneca Covid Vaccine for use in the eu this afternoon. The uk has been using the Astrazeneca Jab in its Mass Immunisation Programme for weeks now. Meanwhile, the European Commission has published a redacted version of its contract with the pharmaceutical giant in a continuing row about supplies of the vaccine. A contract was signed in august fo
Hsbcs turnaround picks up speed. The bank surges in hong kong as speculation grows around a return to Dividend Payments. Good morning, everybody. It is wednesday morning, just over an hour away from the start of cash equity trading. Lets look at futures. European equity markets, u. S. Equity markets of by more than 1 . And, of course, we have touched the levels key levels. The dow at 30,000, and the s p touching an alltime high at the close as well. Real strength coming into today, in futures suggest we have some upside to play for. Futures all point higher. European futures also to the upside. Ftse futures up by about 0. 3 . Broadly speaking, it is the same as the last couple of days. We are talking about vaccine optimism. The news about janet yellen picked up the appetite. It is into just stocks. We can look at what has happened through the asia session. Some of the markets in asia have turned increasingly negative as we have gone through the session. Parts of asia now retreating. Th