A 13 year legal battle. Im still going to welcome to the program the European Commission has approved corona virus vaccine for use across the e. U. Brussels signed off on the drug after the european bed since Agency Approved the drugs used in people over the age of 18 the e. U. Is facing a stove of criticism for the slow pace of its vaccine rollout astra zeneca this is the 1st to gain approval after those from biotech pfizer and medan. Straight to brussels that we find correspondent teri schultz welcome terry millions of people in the u. K. Have already received this vaccine why is the e. U. Been so slow. Thats right phil but despite all the pressure and the criticism that European Medicines Agency is not in the business of apologizing for taking whatever time it feels is necessary in a life or death issue like this so today in our briefing e. M. E. A. Officials said that the astra zeneca data was very complex and despite the fact that it was the 1st one that they started looking to ap
Calls for calm along the India Pakistan border after new delhi revokes the special status for the disputed kashmir region. Welcome to the program theres been a new escalation in the us china trade war washington is accusing beijing of manipulating its currency after it lowered the value of the one stocks have dropped nearly 3 percent on wall street beijing says it will stop Chinese Companies from buying u. S. Farm products allan fisher house wolf in washington d. C. Well donald trump said he was going to call china come see manipulator on his 1st stay in office its taken until now you certainly were expecting from the treasury sexist evolution some sort of ruling on whether or not he thought china was a currency manipulator in october its been brought forward just in the last few hours donald trump said on twitter that he believed china was manipulating its currency to try and gain an unfair advantage against the United States now when they made their surely they could have years one o
A man was not defending his home from a German Exchange student when he killed him. Governor cuomo bans fracking in his state, hailed by environmentalists, but criticized by the gas industry. More fallout after a massive sony cyber attack. The u. S. Knows who was behind the breach. The u. S. Has strong circumstantial evidence that the north korean government ordered the attack last month. Sony is dropping that film. The interview has been pulled from release. Theaters wont show it after threats they will be attacked. A lot of developments in the last 24 hours. We hope to learn more details from federal officials later today. This movie is about the u. S. Government recruiting a talk show host to assassinate the leader of north korea. Its a comedy with big name actors who have been promoting it for weeks but now seems movie goers may never get to see this film on the big screen or any screen for that matter. Hello, north korea. Two hollywood heavyweights and one major security controver
They say they have taken high ground. It is also close to the mountains are thousands from the Minority Community flee because of lets get more from sue. On the face of it a significant victory, but what do we know for sure . We know for sure there was a military build up. We drove through right from the mountains across to the length of northern iraq, just two nights ago. And we saw a build up of the military hardware, of various troops along that rout. However, it wasnt an enormous amount of military build up, and this is why you have to be slightly cautious as to what the president and the peshmerga are saying here. They are saying that 8,000 peshmerga are pushed a distance of 700 square kilometer whose is just south of the dam area, all the way to the syrian border. They are taking towns and villages isil have controlled for a long time, along the way. They are saying they have taken the mountain range, which is where the main military base is. And that they can issue down on to th
Today there is new hope that cuba and the United States might just begin mending a prone relationship. It all began with the release of an aid worker, alan gross. A officially he was released often humanitarian grounds but it was part of a bigger Prisoner Exchange between the u. S. And cuba. To me, cubanos, or at least most of them, are incredibly kind, generous and talented. It mains me to see them treated so unjustly as a consequence of two governments mutually belligerent policies. The deal had been in the works for months but it wasnt finalized until tuesday when barack obama spoke on the phone with cuba president difell castro. This decision deserves respect from our people pl i would like to recognize the support of the vat an and especially that of proep francis. The u. S. Released three cubans, part of the group known as the cuban five. They were arrested in anaheim in 1998. And convicted of espionage for gathering intelligence for cuba. An unnamed intelligence aid was also fre