Months into the pandemic. And breaking news from the white house, an historic break through agreement between the United Arab Emirates and israel, made possible by israel for now giving up its plan to annex large areas of the palestinian west bank. Israel and the United Arab Emirates will fully normalize their diplomatic relations. They will exchange embassies and ambassadors and begin cooperation on a broad range of areas. This is a truly historic moment. Not since the israeljordan peace treaty was signed more than 25 years ago has so much progress been made towards peace in the middle east. And we begin today with nbc White House Correspondent and weekend today cohost kristen welker, nbcs mike memoli covering the Biden Campaign, Washington Post columnist eugene robinson. Kristen, the president is hitting senator harris hard and fighting any if ynew funding foe post office. Bring us up to date. Thats right, a lot of people woke up this morning to those comments by President Trump real
Face to face for the first time the covid patient and the trial donor whose plasma helped her to recover. And coming up on bbc news, the three most powerful men in english football are grilled by mps, as they look to find a solution over a financial rescues package for lower league clubs. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Gps have been asked to be on standby from the start of next month to offer the new Covid Vaccination, if regulators say its safe and effective. The governments already ordered enough doses of the vaccine for 20 Million People. This as the number of weekly registered deaths involving coronavirus in england and wales has exceeded 1,000 for the First Time Since june. 0ur Health Correspondent Anna Collinson has more. A possible Coronavirus Vaccine has been likened to a light of the tunnel. The uk may have its first jab by christmas, although unsure how long it will last. This will be a colossal effort to roll this out, which the nhs is leading. We have be
Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Gps have been asked to be on standby from the start of next month to offer the new Covid Vaccination if regulators say its safe and effective. The governments already ordered enough doses of the vaccine for 20 Million People. This as the number of weekly registered deaths involving coronavirus in england and wales has exceeded 1000 for the First Time Sincejune. 0ur Health Correspondent Anna Collinson has more. A possible Coronavirus Vaccine has been likened to a light at the end of a tunnel. It still needs to be approved and there are questions about how long it will last. The uk may have its first jab by christmas. This will be a colossal effort to roll this out, which the nhs is leading. I know that they will rise to the challenge of being ready when the science comes good to inject hope into millions of arms this winter. Early results for the first effective vaccine show it could prevent more than 90 of people from getting covid, with the main
Distribution of vaccines as well as testing for the virus to identify and isolate it and also the manufacturer of personal protective equipment. Right now at the current case of vaccinations it will take until summer 2022 to fully vaccinate every u. S. Adult according to a cnn analysis and even if biden reaches his goal of a million shots per day, it would still take until spring 2022. Biden sources tell cnn that the Trump Administration essentially had no comprehensive Distribution Strategy at all. So the biden team says they will have to start from square one and, quote, from scratch. Given that we know 16 million vaccines have been administered, that claim from the biden team demands a further explanation. And we anticipate reporters were ask about that momentarily. We will bring that press conference to you live. Now, President Biden is eager to break from his predecessors handling of the pandemic, of course. The new president warns this is a, quote, wartime undertaking. Cnns Kaitl
That was the focus of a moment today, everywhere you looked, it was a start contrast. A commitment to clarity, transparency, science and truth. Were going to play you a long portion of the president s remarks, because it is no longer a danger to Public Health to do so. For the past year, we couldnt rely on the federal government to act with the urgency, focus and coordinate we needed. We have seen the tragic cost of that failure. Let me be very clear. Things will continue to get worse before they get better. The memorial we held two nights ago will not be our last one, unfortunately. The death toll will likely top 500,000 next month. The cases will continue to mount. We didnt get into this mess overnight. Its going to take months to turn things around, but let me be equally clear we will get through this. We will defeat this pandemic. To a nation waiting for action, let me be the clearest on this point help is on the way. Our National Strategy is comprehensive, its based on science, no