An outgoing administration. But of course, you know, a symbolic president and the line to know whats admissible in international law. Courts, there was a quite a close relationship between the Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu, outgoing president , donald trump. What is the feeling about joe biden . Well, i think you have to see it on different levels. President elect, joe biden is known in israel for many years. He himself describes himself as a friend of his well yes, met every Prime Minister. Since 90 seventys, he still speaks about his meeting. This golda meir, one of the Prime Ministers then, but it will be a different relationship. I mean its no secret to say that the current israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had a very close relationship with u. S. President trump. He always said, you know, he had the doors to the white house, but there is a major concern here now, especially among the right wing. You know, what will happen to all the policies and the power meters, the T
Odonnell good evening, odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. We are going to begin with breaking news and another sign of how dramatically and quickly a new wave of Coronavirus Infections is sweeping across the country. Tonight, the nations Largest School system, new york city, says its closing all of its schools, sending more than a quarter of a Million Students who had been in classrooms back home for Virtual Learning tomorrow morning and creating chaos for working parents. That abrupt decision comes as the infection rate in new york again. Nce the epicenter of the and while clo pandemic, is rising once again. And while closing schools might be one of the largest indications of just how dire the crisis is becoming, it is far from the most devastating. As we come on the air, coronavirus has now killed more than 250,000 americans. Tonight, a recordshattering 76,000 more americans are hospitalized because of it. And one out of every five hospitals now says there just aren
As the number of coronavirus cases remains above 20000, growing numbers of migrants arrive from strains, canary islands, quote from africa 10 times last years time. , im still gal. Welcome to the program u. S. , secretary of state mike pompei, or has visited the Israeli Occupied Golan Heights disputed area on expired israel in 1967 and then occupation that is still not recognized by much of the International Community. He became the 1st american secretary of state to visit a jewish settlement in the occupied west bank as part of his visit to israel and breaks with previous u. S. Policy on disputed regions. Straight to jerusalem then rejoined d. W. Correspondent, tanya crap. Welcome. Clearly a lot of symbolism involved in this message. Yeah, this is achieved by the u. S. Secretary of state. My company has been labeled at least in israel as a fair though to about one with highly controversial stop to over as he arrived this afternoon on the Golan Heights, the occupied Golan Heights. And
U. N. Secretary. Thank you. Thank you for having us. Were delighted to have you both. So, let me start with you, if i may, doctor. Could you give us a global snapshot of Energy Poverty, where things stand, what populations are affected and what kind of repercussions are for gender equity and employment in the areas of the world that are most affected. Thanks again for having us. I think to just talk about what the Rockefeller Foundation has done and under the leadership of secretary munoz is looking at how we can end this Global Partnership and Energy Poverty. And as you ask, and rightly so, what is the global landscape. Let me start with my own continent. Africa accounts for only 2. 3 of the 270,000 hours of electricity generated. Asia is only 7. 8 . Its africa but also south and central america, its 4. 9 . When you look at those three, africa, 3. 2 , india, 5. 8 , and south and Central Africa america are just 4. 9 , you see theres still large swaths of the global space that is energy
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