Today to discuss the next steps. Damini and civilians have found in the district see to azerbaijan as part of a ceasefire agreement, many toys, their homes to leave nothing for as they are seeking to reclaim long lost last time. Phil gayle welcome to the program has been another breakthrough in the race for a vaccine against covered 19 u. S. Pharmaceuticals. Company medan says its experimental vaccine is 94. 5 percent effective. Its been tested in a late stage trial involving 30000 volunteers. The treatment involves 2 injections and does not have to be stored in ultra cold conditions, but expects to have enough safety data for us, regulators to approve and roll out the vaccine this year. The European Commission says its working to sign more supply deals with the vaccine manufacturers. So lets find out more about it. Ive been speaking with dr. Erica feigele doing. Hes an epidemiologist and senior fellow of the federation of american scientists. I asked him what it means when, but says t
French soil are likely. Protesterstaged a rallyn warsaw over the near total ban of abortions. The latest from the polish capital. Im phil gayle. Welcome to the program. A strong earthquake has struck in the aegean sea causing extensive damage in greece and turkey. Turkish Authorities Say at least 12 people are dead with more than a hundred injured. The epicenter just north of the greek island of szabos. Rescue efforts are ongoing. This woman was almost buried alive. Rescue workers are racing to free her from the rubble of a collapsed building, one of many that came crashing down in this turkish resort city on friday. I thought that the ground had shattered. You cannot think in that moment. All you can do is try to get out. Everything was collapsing around us. Luckily, our buildings stayed intact, but we were really panicked and managed to get out at the last minute. The earth shook for at least 25 seconds according to some witnesses. After the quake struck deep in the ground deep in th
Hello, im christine one. Boy, its good to have your company. The recent news off a potential breakthrough in the search for a Coronavirus Vaccine couldnt come soon enough reported cases in africa are nearing 2000000 with the infection rates. Exin orating in some countries, kenya has reported its highest state that so from over 1000 with 24 people succumbing to the virus. Now this number pales in comparison to other parts of the world, but its the increasing number of deaths comes as the rate of new infections, spikes across the country, mostly in nairobi and the number of people infected with the coronavirus in kenya is shot be rising. Its a worrying trend in a nation where intensive care beds are in short, supply or farts. He says started scaling up the countrys testing capacity, reporting more than 1300 new infections on tuesday with out of work seen without any cure in sight. Weve probably been looking at most people peeks over the next coming months. Kenyas government brought back
Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us as coburn 1000 cases climbed around the world once again we take a closer look at the government that has most successfully tackled the pandemic in asia taiwan just 7 people have died of the corona virus there with a total of 570 cases ever recorded as of this tuesday some people have pointed out its island geography as one explanation but take one look at the u. K. And that should dispel any myth about an island advantage in fact taiwan was especially vulnerable in the early days of the pandemic with hundreds of flights going to china every week making its success in the fight against cove it all the more remarkable. Massive. Joyful faces this year taiwans private rate was more than a showcase for the islands liberties but also its achievement in containing coronavirus it seems to relate to many others around well as do severing from the outbreak but here has never been any kind of lock down people have gone through more th
A Coronavirus Vaccine that appears to work safely so is this the turning point in the fight against the pandemic. The world health organization. Im phil gayle while comes to the program. Russia has begun deploying troops to the disputed region of nagornokarabakh to hold a cease fire between azerbaijan and armenia the 2 former soviet republics agreed to stop fighting after more than a month of bloodshed the russia brokered deal and allows azerbaijan to keep its territorial gains at least a 1000 people have been killed since its longstanding conflict broke out again in september moscow says this latest truce will enable a permanent end to the fighting. Were a peace deal signed but this was the reaction in armenia. Protesters storming the Parliament Building in get a demanding Prime Minister nicole passion young resign of the several government offices were ransacked and the local media report the parliamentary speaker was attacked and beaten and im Prime Minister pushing the uncalled for