We see how the pandemic has changed things onset. Oh, my lord. Everythings changed. First of all we have to be tested every single day. Warm welcome to our viewers on pbs america and around the globe. New scientific analysis seen by the bbc suggests the goals from the Paris Climate Agreement are coming within reach. The Tracker Study looks at the latest promises from countries including china as well as the plans of the us president Electjoe Biden. From the uks wettest february on record to raging wildfires in california. The fingerprints of Climate Change link to Human Activities have become increasingly clear this year. But efforts to curb Greenhouse Gasesis but efforts to curb Greenhouse Gases is the root cause of Global Warming has so far had limited impact. When countries are signed the agreement in 2015, they undertook to limit the rise of damages to well below two celsius this century. But when scientists added up all the pledges made to cut carbon, they mounted to around three
Daily covert 19 death toll since the pandemic began. At a different type of exam season half a 1000000 students in south korea tackled the most important day in their academic calendar. Police in hong kong have detained media tycoon and prodemocracy advocate jimmy lai the outspoken government critic has been charged with defrauding government owned businesses he remain in custody until a court case in april earlier this year lai was among 10 people arrested on suspicion of violating beijings National Security law and the japanese government says that it has grave concerns about the jailing of 3 hong kong activists joshua wong this child and ivan lamb were found guilty of Unlawful Assembly on tuesday they received 1310 and 7 month jail terms respectively agnes cho is fluent in japanese and well known in japan says that its conveyed its concerns to china several times lets go live to Hong Kong Aljazeera to vehicle pollen is that lets start with jimmy lai whats alleged. This is quite an a
Possibly be given the truly crazy world in which we live at the moment. Im scott henkel, im the director of wyoming institute for Humanities Research and im so happy to welcome you to tonights think and drink. The topic of which is, pandemics in historical perspective. So, im so happy to introduce dr. Melissa morris, who is assistant professor of history and american studies here at the university of wyoming and a member of the Humanities Research institutes steering committee, who will be our moderator tonight and who will introduce our speakers. So, please, welcome. Thank you, scott. Thank you to all of our panelists for agreeing to participate, who i know are in later time zones. So, thank you for sticking with us. And, of course, to all of you out there tuning in in some form or another. Im just going to do a brief introduction to our panelists and then ill let them each talk for a couple of minutes more about how their work intersects with our theme tonight. First we have Michael
A final assault on the city of mechanic. To graham forces refused to step aside a little begin here in the u. K. With as well good news in the race to find a Coronavirus Vaccine. This time from the drug company astra zeneca working in partnership with Oxford University. Late stage testing shows its candidate vaccine is an average 70 percent effective in protecting its current 19, but that increases to 90 percent depending on the way it hits administered asters and it has a vaccine is the least expensive so far. And crucially, it can be stored in the fridge, which makes it easier to distribute other boxes need to be stored at much lower temperatures. The firm says it can have up to 200000000 doses ready by the end of the year. Possibly 3000000000 by 2021. Tryna holla reports. Its being hailed as a vaccine for the World Pharmaceuticals firm astra zeneca in partnership with the university of oxford says interim trial results will be sent to regulators immediately in the hope their product
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