A divided country. Ivory coasts hugely reelected president meets the main Opposition Leader. After a tense election, ukraines president has become the latest lead it to contract covered 19 bottom is it in ski, has been hospitalized. And is countries and governments across europe struggle to contain a rapidly spreading 2nd wave, the World Health Organization is warning them not to lift restrictions too fast. The agency says that could result in, a major spike in cases and are seen as revolts. For the u. K. , its another landmark in the spread of covidien, and its causing a lot more than 50000. 00. People who tested positive have died. Britains total of dead is now the highest in europe, nearly 600 deaths wednesday overtakes figures since may in the 1st wave. Every death is a tragedy. I mean, we mourn everybody whos gone and, and our feelings are with their families as and friends as well. Were not out of the woods yet. It does still require everybody to follow the guidance elsewhere. In
Antidoping agency accuses the us. d of double standards after the Senate Passes a bill to jail those doping in sports except in american leagues of broadcasting live there, of course it is in moscow. This is our international. Im sean thomas with us as we recap. The weeks top stories with our weekly program, a friendship bill intended to protect the police, has sparked outrage and several days of rioting in paris. The new measure, criminalizes the filming of officers, if it is done with malicious intent, it has been passed by the National Assembly and will later go to the senate for approval. Holderness. As you can see, Police Vehicles are moving down and pushing the protesters down that the street protesters whove come, im cant to Global Security lure to draw. 7 from real thats being discussed in the National Assembly on tuesday evening. This is a rule which includes an element which if cost could make it illegal for people to disseminate to record and publish images of Police Officer
And branded a traitor over the new go to care about ceasefire deal. The future hangs in the balance for his Prime Minister. Us president elect joe biden has named his white house chief of staff despite Donald Trumps refusal to concede and allow a smooth transition of power. Ron klain served as chief of staff to both biden and Vice President al gore during the obama and clinton administrations. However, bidens been unable to move into federal office space or use Government Funds to hire staff because of trumps refusal to accept the election results. The us state of georgia has announced it will be recounting all votes by hand, which was requested by the trump campaign. Joe biden secured the election without georgia, but hes also leading there by just over 14000 votes. Officials say the recount will begin at the end of the week. The current margin stands at 14111 between the president and senator biden, Vice President biden. My office will continue to investigate each and every instance
95 percent effective. Its the 2nd company to announce successful trials after fires there and biotech last week, and still take time for the actual vaccine to be certified. But already there is the question. Will there be enough to go round taken pfizer and madonna are both hoping to distribute a 1000000000 or more doses this year. Huge numbers when you compare it to the likes of germanys cure back with just aiming to produce up 240400 1000000 doses in 2021 and the prices well, theyre very massively u. K. Based astra zeneca is planning to charge the e. U. Perhaps as little as 3. 00 per dose. Johnson and johnson is a bit more expensive, but the 2 frontrunners pfizer and madonna are expected to charge significantly more. Mostly because there are more expensive to produce is yet to say how much the can do that will cost. Now despite positive preliminary results from a 2nd covert vaccine candidate, medical experts are urging for caution and patience. Many, many questions still remain. d ab
To be buried. Thousands of people lined the route to watch the procession. U. S. President , all trump says that he will leave the white house of the Electoral College confirms a victory of president elect joe biden. Its the closest trump has come to conceding defeat. Michaela has more from washington d. C. Your. The electors in their respective states will confirm the votes, which at the present stands for 306. 00 Electoral College votes for joe biden, 232. 00 for donald trump. Now at that point, a president saying he will accept the Electoral College is a decision. Although it, he considers it as a fraud. Well, thats not strictly true. He has got no option, but to accept that decision that is a constitutional point at which the next president is confident by the Electoral College. The next step is for congress to certify all of those votes. And then the inauguration on january the 20th astra zeneca is considering running another global trial after it admitted its Coronavirus Vaccine