Vaccines for the u. S. Before sending them to other countries it coincides with reports that his administration actually rejected an early offer from pfizer to double its order of the vaccines more on this from washington with mike hanna. Its clear that this executive order comes from the differences between pfizer and his administration and the refusal of the administration to commit to buying more than 100000000 doses at the time that it could the executive order ports to insist that all americans must be treated before any doses go internationally well this is simply an in forcible it would appear has signed a large number of International Contracts as has the other company but these companies contracts already in place in some cases doses have already been shipped internationally so certainly this is something that would be very hard to legally enforced president tran claims that he may invoke the National Procurement act seldom used. To force companies to actually comply but its v
Japans capital faces a state of emergency after reporting a record rise in corona virus cases for the 3rd day and how a ban crops levanon is struggling to keep its children from going hungry. Police in hong kong are demanding the arrests of 6 prodemocracy activists living in exile they include former british consulate workers simon chang he says he was tortured by chinese agents to give information about antigovernment protests also on the wanted list this prominent opposition figure nathan law if led to london in fear of persecution under the new National Security law imposed by china it sought to be the 1st time police have using new legislation to target activists outside of the territory they go palin is in hong kong she says beijing is cementing its position on the law. From the start china had asserted that hong kong unrest dissent was also a mentored from abroad it was jus to foreign interference so this is china underlining that fact the National Security law was they say was i
Minister says an election will be held a year earlier than planned. Thank you for joining as we begin with the latest developments on the coronavirus pandemic as a global number of infections continues to accelerate so does the global race to find a vaccine russia has announced that mass vaccinations could begin in october the Health Minister gave no details about the vaccine to be used and its not clear if the treatment produces an immune response it comes as japan faces a resurgence in cases tokyo confirmed a record 472 corona virus infections on saturday and the capitals governor says a citywide state of emergency may have to be imposed as a step thats a ready been taken in okinawa where an outbreak is suspected to have originated at a u. S. Military base and in greece 6 ports have been reopened for cruise ships the global cruise industry has been one of the hardest hit by the pandemic after the ships had major outbreaks early on. Now derek gatherer is a virally just said director a
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Im all out like a welcome to the program polish president may be heading for a 2nd 5 year term following sundays election the latest projections shows that the conservative incumbents who is backed by the ruling law and Justice Party has a slight lead with 51 percent of the votes his rival the warsaw mare. Secured 49 percent due to has already claimed victory but official results are not expected until later a monday at the earliest has more. A lot was at stake in this president ial election in poland but at the end of election day it was still unclear what direction the country will take early exit polls showed incumbent president do that ahead of his challenger with a wafer thin majority but even though the final vote count isnt in yet dude ready began celebrating his Victory Party president here with me in president ial elections with nearly 70 percent voter turnout this is fabulous im very touched thank you very much. But some of his followers prefer to wait for certainty. Coming u