Confirmation in the senate, where republicans still hold a narrow majority. For now, at least with the transition poses officially under way, some of the uncertainty and turbulence of the past weeks seems to be settling down. Peter joins with the studio now for some analysis, peter, after 3 weeks, this transition is can finally begin about time. Its a big a big deal. Is this right on a normal set circumstances . This would not be a big deal. I mean, this is something that usually goes very smoothly in the mallets, you know, just days after the election, we see the, the 2 teams come together and start the transition. But in this case, it is a big deal for exactly the reasons that were 3 weeks in. Were looking at competing crises, we have a pandemic. Theres an economic crisis and experts are really said, you know, if every day that this transition is delayed, means that more american americans could be dying from the co bit because the governments are just not ready to handle the price a
Restrictions known as lock down like germany is seeing a surge in new infections and patients in intensive care. Im Kyra Phillips and welcome to the show starting now with some breaking news of the austrian capital vienna has been targeted in what Authorities Say is a terror attack with multiple armed gunmen 6 locations were attacked in the city center close to a synagogue at least one person was killed and several others wounded the austrian interior minister says the attackers are still mobile police have ordered the public to remain indoors. A local rabbi said he witnessed a part of the attack from his window. Upon hearing some shots downstairs i looked out the window and i saw the attacker running into various bars and restaurants lined up on our street. And people running away and. Want to attack us chasing them or of the street and in front of the bars and restaurants they have tables its a woman night we have. Close to 20 degrees and people sitting outside and he was shooting at
That actually will be the next big triumph for beijing or is this perhaps just ahead a dose of propaganda. I think its a dose of propaganda i think what weve seen so far has been this wolf socalled wolf warrior diplomacy which has been extremely aggressive characterizing. The equipment that was being sent as age when in fact it was being paid for the criticism of the response by the french government for example has been a lot of of the senior diplomats in europe of being chinese diplomats in europe are being behaved very badly in the recent survey by the pew Research Body show that the majority of well western companies have a worse opinion of china than they did before the coronavirus i think if the vaccine comes out as it could be does a lot of questions about the vaccine whether theyve gone to stage 3 testing if it can happen so quickly. How all of this is happening. So often with china you come up against a brick wall where the questions stop you know like how did that how did the
God is 58 seem. To subsist. On. Love and respect. The brace continues for a Coronavirus Vaccine still the highest hopes of treating infections with the medicines that already exist approved for other diseases or in development. Its called repurpose saying. You want to go with the things they do know that work such as severe appears to be. So you want to drugs like that. Its important to know at what stage a treatment is most effective medicines helpful early on when the infection is mild when there are no breathing problems could be affective or harmful to a patient. Continue to scour their portfolios for possible solutions the world has never faced a pandemic of these proportions in a moment ill talk to an expert from the European Medicines Agency 1st a look at some of the drugs that are being repurposed. Antiviral medicines were originally developed for hiv ebola hepatitis c. Influenza and 2 other coronaviruses sars and mares theyre designed to stop the disease from reproducing or en
Economic winner thats our topic. And welcome to to the point we have a great roster of guests to answer that question its a pleasure to introduce Clifford Kuhn and he was a Foreign Correspondent for 15 years in beijing and he says chinas success in dealing with the coronavirus shouldnt distract from its emergence as a challenging strategic rival and im very pleased to welcome more its a little piece an analyst an expert on china at the german think tank s w pete and he says china has been partially successful in gaining International Discourse power by revealing an ugly side beaching has failed to profit more significantly from the covert 1000 crisis. And were very pleased to have with us she is a freelance journalist from china and she says compared with the financial crisis 2008. 100 Recovery Plan is greener more domestic and it digital oriented. And so when we start out by asking you rudolph china has reported Economic Growth of nearly 5 percent in the 3rd quarter of this year thats