Person faces criticism for its approval of the Pfizer Vaccine raising worries the debate could undermine public confidence. Indias army denies reports it carried out reprise of attack the kashmir after the deaths of 2 soldiers. In the former president of the Central African republic is barred from running for office of allegations of war crimes. The global death toll from the crowd of ours had to make now has passed 1500000 with a 3rd of those in just the last 2 months the United Nations secretary general is once again calling for a unified Global Response to the pandemic which is infected more than 65000000 people a number of countries have been reporting record high record high deaths among them basically despite overall cases dropping just under a 1000 people died in the last 24 hours. The u. S. Is experiencing a surge of infections with hospitalizations and deaths are reaching new heights president elect joe biden says he will ask americans to wear a mask during his 1st 100 days in
Kashmir accuse soldiers of reprisal attacks against civilians. And a bitter winter puts tens of thousands of syrians without shelter at risk of death and hunger. Bought into the program more than one and a half 1000000 people have died of coronavirus worldwide and the 3rd of them in just the last 2 months several countries have been reporting record numbers of deaths among them are italy where nearly a 1000 people died on wednesday the highest since the beginning of the pandemic now new lock down measures are being imposed to curb the outbreak. The inclusion bit is sage in that from the 21st of december to the 6th of january all movements from one region to another are prohibited even to reach a 2nd homes attention on christmas boxing day in january 1st also prohibited travel from one place to another on the whole National Territory there is still a ban on moving from teen pm to 5 am for new years eve however this pressure bush and will be extended from teen pm the night before to 7 am
Country amid a new wave of corona virus infections that are so far less than one percent of the population has received the vaccine Monica Yannick have has will from just narrow on the one side hes saying that hes going to vaccinate brazilians for asked on the other side hes and hes changed his tune with china as well he has been attacked china and try not is working with brazil to produce the corona vaccine here and as well as supplying the material for as presented to produce vaccines in brazil and the president had been tackling china all this time this is change because time was running out brazil was a really lagging behind its neighbors to start inoculation. Experts from the World Health Organization have met chinese scientists and will they continue their investigation into the origins of covert 19 said research is with visit hospitals labs and the food markets that have been linked to the earliest cases of the virus protests in lebanon have been growing as anger rises at lockdo
A decision be made on which to take and what data to trusts also this hour a hong kong prodemocracy activist and media mogul jimmy lie is denied bail as he faces charges of fraud and a different type of exam season half a 1000000 students in south korea tackle the most important day in their academic calendar. And on peoples temple the school says n. B. A. Players get back to training the Houston Rockets trade old stalled home gold Russell Westbrook to the Washington Wizards. Thank you very much for joining as we begin this hour with the coronavirus pandemic in a new phase with countries racing to approve vaccines but in some parts of the world the picture is getting worse with cases on the rise as winter approaches since the start of the pandemic theyve been more than sea. 34000000 confirmed cases and nearly 1500000 deaths iran is now the hardest hit country in the middle east and has passed 1000000 confirmed cases over 1000 has killed almost 50000 people there but the Health Minister
Say is dangerous. And people in indian administered kashmir accuse soldiers of wild scale abuse which the army denies. But we begin with the coronavirus pandemic now in a new phase with countries racing to approve vaccines but in some parts of the world picture is getting worse with cases on the rise as winter approaches since the start so of the pandemic there have been more than 64000000. 00 confirmed cases nearly 1500000. 00 deaths the United Nations is currently holding a special session of the General Assembly on coronavirus diplomatic editor james bays is at the u. N. In new york and james that session is still ongoing but we understand the secretary general has addressed the meeting what did he have to say. Well secretary general was the 1st to address the meeting one of only a couple of speakers who were actually in the room at the General Assembly because of covert 19 most the leaders have submitted their speeches recorded speeches theyre being played out from all of them for