Supporting the occupation and pakistans Prime Minister visits afghanistan for the 1st Time Since Taking Office and pledges to help promote peace there. And joining us go with sports, as leno messi returns to spain and says hes tired of always being blamed for the problems of oslo. No thank you very much for joining as we start this news hour with the coronavirus pandemic 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 aged over 70. The vaccine is being developed in partnership with oxford university, and its now in the final stage of human testing to confirm those findings that a positive news on the vaccine front comes as cases continue to rise. More than 2000000. 00 cases have been before today in africa, but low rates of testing means the caseload is thought to be much higher across the continent. In the past cases of increased compared to
Vaccines wont solve all the problems with the virus. Goes your headlines my colleague nick yarnell be here in just under an hours time with a full and fresh look at news this is our intention national by taking the. Time after time saying were going underground one week since the alleged u. K. You armed israeli assassination of irans top physics professor coming up on the show what was the role of mossad in the assassination of Iranian Nuclear scientist muslim factors a death we ask the organizations former director Efraim Halevy who also served as the head of Israels National Security council and we go to be a rainy inside to investigate the potential scale of the iranian retaliation and president elect biden is already destabilizing the middle east before even taking office only some more coming up in todays going on the ground 1st despite New York Times anonymous senior u. S. Official sources claiming israel is behind the assassination of Iranian Nuclear scientist most of the factor
Revolution has died aged 91. And donald trump praises Prime Minister Narendra Modis efforts on religious freedom as the indian capital with this is severe rioting over a citizenship law that excludes muslims and scored a senior olympic official says the sport of coronavirus is a threat to this years tokyo games dick pound says organizers have a 3 month window to decide the fate of the july effect. The head of the World Health Organization mission to china says the corona virus is becoming a rapidly escalating epidemic in several places cases in china where the virus began have been on a downward trend and cured patients on a returning hog rights of new infections are falling in several provinces but its the spread to. Other countries that has the World Health Organization concerned this is a rapidly escalating epidemic in different places that weve got to tackle super fast to prevent a pandemic i mean its actually what china demonstrates is where this goes is within the control of our
A vacant post for the countrys leadership could spark a power struggle among tunisias Political Party is definitely what candidates who are considered to be quite popular and quite strong but also very controversial. Have been barred from running the president ial elections by parson parliament not too long ago this was not yet been signed by missteps and before he passed away and i think well hear a lot more about this controversy next couple of days president benjy kind a sense be who spent the last few weeks of his life in a not of the hospital was a leading figure in what was known as the arab spring uprising as Prime Minister and then tunisians 1st democratically elected president he helped draft a new constitution guaranteeing freedom of speech. And then to have his accomplishments though were often overshadowed by a weak economy and high Unemployment Rate there is disparate nobody can deny that there is the sense of hopelessness nobody can deny that however in comparison to othe
Possibly happen. And suddenly, bang, what an aboutface. Although the family are clearly celebrating, and i havent spoken to them in the last half hour, i imagine because theyre on the way to the border to meet natalie and judith. They havent got time to talk to me. What you know . What a moment. But i just need to emphasize its not over for this family. Theres they have i mean, i didnt know this, but while my family also buried somebody who was killed in that attack, october 7, that guy was killed and buried today, his wife is now still a hostage in gaza, so its another hostage and its not only my family. Its every family involved, because its such a tiny country, one or two degrees of separation, and everybody who was caught up in that attack was from a certain kind of people, if you like, people who settled on the border with gaza, mostly farmers or working locally, a certain kind of person answered the call from the Israeli Government in 1967 when the government said, go settle arou