Big oil on trial voile dutch shell is accused of not doing enough to protect people and the planet from Climate Change. Welcome to the program, we begin with the race to roll out a Coronavirus Vaccine and the u. S. Drug from pfizer plus its german partner by your own take say that they hope their vaccine could be launched in europe this month. If it gets the sign off from regulators, theyve asked the European Unions Medicines Agency for emergency approval and the review could be completed by december 29th. That could mean at least 2 vaccines approved in europe and the United States by the end of the year. Meanwhile, the u. S. Centers for Disease Control is holding an emergency meeting to decide who will get 1st access to a vaccine. An independent Advisory Team made up of 15 medical and Public Health experts began meeting just minutes ago and is expected to vote in the coming hours. States will that have until friday to decide how much of the vaccine they need. The u. S. Government want
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With Critical Science and active information when those arrive. Dr. Redfield has been one of the nationss leading voices during this pandemic, sharing new information, issuing Public Health guidance, and advising americans about how to safely return to work, school, and daily life. Him at whatto have is sadly a Pivotal Moment in this crisis. Right now, as you know, cases are spiking across the country. As a result, we are seeing some states resorting to different types of lockdowns like we saw initially with the virus. Americans everywhere are hungry for information and guidance about how to navigate the Holiday Season in an uncertain winter. Dr. Redfield will address all of these issues and more and we will take questions from our audience as well. Without further ado, dr. Redfield, welcome. What can you tell our audience about the current state . Dr. Redfield thank you very much for having me. We are at a very pivotal time in this pandemic. Unfortunately, we are experiencing a substa
Community. And is life changing exam during a life altering pandemic thousands of South Koreans to mistake the National University entrance exams under the shadow of the coronavirus crisis. Im british manager welcome to news asia glad you could join us for the 1st time in 1000 yeahs the taliban and the Afghan Government have come to a written agreement just 3 pages long it is a document that lays out the rules of procedures for negotiations between the 2 sides aimed at ending nearly 2 decades of war the Development Ends and impasse after nearly 3 months of talks in doha nato is one of a number of organizations to welcome the move saying theres no alternative to such talks. Im not underestimating the difficulties on the risks for setbacks on disappointments onstream move forward but im absolutely certain that the only way its on going into afghan negotiations and therefore we support them and knowing that it will be difficult from john but that is the only option for all of those who wa
A coming Vaccination Programs possible treatments and rapid testing. Do you think do you feel that these solutions will be spread out to distribute it in an equitable way. Well i think that as you say these are encouraging news especially on the vaccines i think we still need to look at that they dont we need to rely on more than press releases we need to look at very good publications of the results but in the meantime our regulators here in europe and the United Kingdom and the United States are proceeding with emergency authorization process is and thats important and understandable in terms of i could have the access i think its reasonable to assume that wealthier nations those with those advanced deals with companies will be the 1st to get the vaccine and distribute to their populations followed by resource constrained countries professor how long a way is there still ahead of us i mean people are so encouraged by this use of vaccines now are being approved but realistically are w