Settlements and forced from their homes. We need the feel p. And so fled to sudan and are now desperate for help. Im joining us though with Sports Major League Baseball star Robinson Camaro has been banned for a whole season for doping and must fulfill his 24000000. 00 salary. Thank you for joining us. We start this news hour with the coronavirus funday make and the race to find a vaccine. British pharmaceutical giant astra zeneca says its phase 2 trials show, promise in protecting the most at risk groups. A strong immune response was shown in those age over 70. The vaccine is being developed in partnership with Oxford University and is now in the final stage of human testing to confirm those findings. The positive news on the vaccine front comes as cases continue to mount. More than 2000000. 00 cases have now been reported in africa, but low rates of testing means the caseload is sought to be much higher across the 54. 00 country, continent globally cases have surpassed 56000000. 00.
Administration. And the bring troops and libyas war will be live in tunisia on the final day of the u. N. Backs. Fighting ethiopias move into greater region is escalating with the reports of rockets hitting civilian areas. And growing concerns of ethnic cleansing, the countrys Human Rights Commission is sending a team to investigate reports of massacres in my car. Drop, Amnesty International says that its likely that hundreds of civilians were stabbed to death. The government blames forces loyal to, to graze leaders and allegations they deny. Thousands of people fleeing to neighboring sudan lived outside aljazeera have it out. Oh, hes in the city of gonda on the border of the t great region. One of the leaders, of the c. P. L. If im sorry, we cant go to the habits we appear to have lost contact with him. He was there a minute ago. Well move on and well come back and have it out over just a few moments. Actually i had sent us an update a while ago. Heres what he had to say. 2 explosions
Disagreeing over extending benefits for those left jobless by the pandemic. So the race to find a Coronavirus Vaccine just picked up pace with russia saying it will begin vaccinations as early as october but some countries are already raising questions about the safety of vaccines that are rolled out too quickly russias Health Minister hasnt yet given any details about the vaccine and its not clear if the treatment produces an immune response meanwhile in germany the government is coming under increasing pressure as covert 1000 restrictions so far as managed to keep infections down but is now seeing a rise in cases the countrys been easing its lockdown its social distancing rules are still in place and after whats being called an explosive spread in the region of okinawa in japan a state of emergency has been declared there tokyos governor has warned she may follow suit and the city has seen a Record Number of daily infections for the 3rd straight day. Well the dairy gatherer as a vira
Demanding Benjamin Netanyahu steps down over corruption claims and his handling of the corona Virus Outbreak. And the u. S. President says take talks donald trump threatens to ban the chinese own video sharing app of the day to privacy concerns. And then school Major League Baseballs commissioner says the league could be forced to shut down the warning comes as more players all tallaght of the season and they do growing a number of positive koran a virus tests. We begin the news hour in latin america where corona virus infection numbers have doubled over the past month mexico has eclipsed the u. K. With the 3rd highest number of deaths and colombia has over 10000 deaths lockdowns there a plan to last throughout the month of august and the government is expecting the peat be reached at some point in the month hospitals in several cities including the capital bogota have few available beds left in their intensive care units meanwhile argentinas lock down was due to expire on sunday but a
Everwhere. By karen sherman. What a title, right . Each word of the title has meaning within itself and i think you will see that eliminated today during the conversation that karen will have with barbara. I am Marjorie Sims managing director at the Aspen Institute and sly pleasure to step in for my boss pam mosley who is the executive director of aspen and the Vice President at the Aspen Institute. Unfortunately she had a family emergency today and is not able to speak she was heavily involved in the planning and it was her honor to be able to host this book talk because she has been a very close friend for many years. If you know ann you know the personal relationships and commitments are very important to her so only in emergency would have kept her from opening this up. Again thank you for being here and im not going to spend a lot of time because you have the bios in front of you and i think its important to get into the conversation that i am honored to be able to introduce karen