Hello and welcome to the programme, which brings together some of the uks leading political columnists, bbc specialists and the foreign correspondents who file their stories for audiences back home with the dateline london. This week a promise of relief from the pandemic a vaccine that works. Asjoe biden tries to trigger transition, President Trumps first admission that someone other than donald trump may soon be in the white house. And has beijing hastened hong kongs transition away from Accountable Government . Joining me this week henry chu, london editor for the los angeles times. Steve richards, who hosts the podcast rock n roll politics. Hes been reporting british politics since the days of madchester and britpop. And with me in the studio is celia hatton, the bbcs asia pacific editor. Welcome to you, and to both of you, henry and steve, joining us remotely. Lovely to talk to you all. Now, mondays announcement of a vaccine, said by the Drug Companies to be effective against the c
Pennsylvanias Election Results. With a threejudge panel saying the campaigns claims of voter fraud, quote, have no merit. President trumps lawyers are pushing forward, promising to take their fight to the Supreme Court. David spunt is live at the white house when. So, david, would this be oral arguments before the Supreme Court like bush v. Gore in 2000 . Reporter arthel, many people wonder that. Not in the traditional sense. In fact, President Trump just tweeted about appealing that pennsylvania decision about five minutes ago. His attorney, jenna ellis, tells me that theyll have about ten days from yesterday, that decision from the Third Circuit court of appeals, to file with the Supreme Court. That means its going to be an application. Justice samuel alito, he is assigned specifically to that jurisdiction of the Third Circuit court of appeals, so he has several options when hes looking at that case. He can look at it himself, he can make a decision on his own, or he could potentiall
State and globally the outbreak impacting more than 60 countries. They are nearly 90,000 cases and more than 3,000 deaths worldwide. The president reacting during a meeting with pharmaceutical companies earlier. We are working hard to expedite to the longer process of developing a vaccine. We are also moving with maximum speed to develop therapies so that we can help people recover as quickly as possible. We have a lot of recovering going on. We want to see if we can advance that. It is likely that therapies will be available before the vaccine is actually ready and we will seek to bring all effective treatments to market as soon as possible. To some very good work has been done on the vaccine however. Dana that was the president who met with pharmaceutical executives. It does take a while to get a vaccine done. You cannot just snap your fingers and get it done. Jesse they have to make sure that it does not kill people and that takes a year to get it to the market prior to the presiden
Some of those in fear that going back to normal too soon would then drive those numbers back up. Thats right. Still, cnn has learned that the president s aides, some of them are in talks about potentially reopening the economy more broadly as soon as may. Those discussions happening as we see more news of a crushing week for the american economy. 646 million americans filing jobless claims last month alone. If you add up the last few weeks, its 7 Million People filing unemployment claims. Lets turn to athena jones. Another record of sad deaths here. Reporter he came with that press conference yesterday when he released these numbers because there are deaths that are increasing. New york yesterday reporting the highest single day death toll for the second day in a row. And this is something that the governor and other Officials Say we can expect to continue to see in part because deaths from coronavirus are a lagging indicator. People who ultimately die of the disease may have been hosp
But right now we see devastation in the American Economy with Small Businesses that wont come back because these programs are not doing what theyre supposed to do doing. As opposed to the selfcongratulations we see every night, there ought to be honest admissions about whats working, whats not working, what needs to be fixed. And we dont see that. But thats not the purpose of these. The purpose of these events isnt to inform the public. Its a political rally for the president who cant go do the big maga rallies anymore. And the company is subjected to it. Its about his selfinterest, not the national interest. Strongly put. I want to play for you Governor Cuomo. Take a listen. The states are in desperate shape. And everythings being left to the states to do the reopening, reopening, reopening. And then they dont provide any funding to the State Government. So the president seemed very open and understanding of that. What do you make of these two today, new york, the epicenter of the cri