Expected to hit 20,000 by weeks end. Also coming up, Amy Coney Barrett is sworn in as a new justice on the u. S. Supreme court, a boost for this record for the Supreme Courts conservative majority. Im brent goff. To our viewers in pbs on pbs in the eight states and around the world, welcome. We begin tonight with the backlash around french president Emmanuel Macron. Anger in the muslim world is growing after controversial comments he made about islam following the brutal murder of a French School teacher. Since then, a number of french countries have criticized the president and joined a drive to boycott french goods. The target of their anger is clear. Here in pakistan, protesters in karachi and islamabad accuse the french president of attacking islam. The behavior of the french government is actually an insult to billions of muslims across the world. It is open terrorism and an attack against the muslim world. We should boycott french products. Muslims should boycott their petrol sta
Thousands rally to mark polands independence. And hong kongs prodemocracy legislators resign en masse. Together, we stand. Brent 15 lawmakers walked out after four colleagues of theirs were sacked under a new law banning representatives deemed to be threats to National Security. Im brent goff. To our viewers watching on pbs in United States and around the world, welcome. The European Commission has signed a deal to secure up to 300 million doses of a covid19 vaccine. The vaccine, developed by biontech and pfizer. The eus health minister, saying today the eu is setting up a healthy union to improve the response of coordination of Member States and future health crises. The next scene is seen as the best chance to break the chain of covid19 infections. Biontech says it could start shipping the vaccine to eu countries by the end of this year. To talk more about this, im joined by the European Parliaments Public Health committee member. The eu has a population of 450 million people. This i
Youre watching the weekly here on our team a recap of the biggest stories from the past 7 days so im donald quarter thanks for joining us. Now peru has decided not to buy doses of a potential Coronavirus Vaccine being developed by the british firm astra zeneca lima cited a lack of data from the company after the death of a trial volunteer reports claim a 20 year old male doctor in brazil died while taking part in advanced stage 3 trials run by and astra zeneca and Oxford University its not known whether he received the actual drug or a placebo meanwhile the us has now permitted trials to resume after they were temporarily halted and other countries have also restarted them in recent weeks more of gaza has more on the race for a cure. There is always the risk with any vaccine any Clinical Trial that statistical improbability that point not one percent risk that someone dies at someone reportedly was a brazilian doctor he was part of an Oxford University Vaccine Trial Group and is believ
Watching the weekly here on our team a recap of the biggest stories from the past 7 days im donald quarter thanks a lot for joining us. Now peru has decided not to buy doses of a potential Coronavirus Vaccine being developed by the british firm astra zeneca lima cited a lack of data from the company after the death of a trial volunteer reports claim a 28 year old male doctor in brazil died while taking part in advanced stage 3 trials run by astra zeneca and Oxford University its not known whether he received the actual drug or a placebo meanwhile the us has now permitted trials to resume after they were temporarily halted and other countries have also restarted them in recent weeks oregons d. S. Has more on the race for the cure. There is always the risk with any vaccine any Clinical Trial that statistical improbability that would point to nor one percent risk that someone dies at someone reportedly was a brazilian doctor he was part of an Oxford University Vaccine Trial Group and is b
A lot in america a prominent supporter of bolivia is ousted president evo morales triumphs in the countrys president ial election according to preliminary results. Its just gone to 11 am here in moscow watching out international which i had to read a new larger picture shows also rather today well thats a dive in the need to all of a power a small apologized for publishing a video which called for a campaign against a french history teacher the same teacher who was later brutally beheaded by a terrorist for showing character shows of the Prophet Muhammad to his class. In hindsight given what happened we regret having published it we are now exploring how in the future we can take a step back before getting carried away with things like that meanwhile some french t. V. Channels have started airing those controversial cartoons in defiance of the freedom of speech and dozens of raids have already been carried out against suspected islamists but ordinary french muslims now fear they will b