That is a memorial. She will be for the artist working to one of the hundreds of thousands of americans who died from covert 19. So the ethiopian Prime Minister has ordered a final offensive on the Northern Territory region and says that a humanitarian corridor will be opened to help those fleeing the conflict. It has warned residents to stay indoors after ordering the army to move in normally regional capital of mecca. The government imposed deadline for to Ground Forces to surrender expired on wednesday. That has been nearly 3 weeks of fighting with hundreds killed and tens of thousands displaced. Well, the u. N. Is warning of critical aid shortages in the region. It says that fuel cash and food are all running out. And many of those displaced have already fled over the border to neighboring sudan, where him or his right now, where we are is a camp thats not far from the sudan, is here border. And its where more than 15000 refugees have arrived over the past 3 weeks. All of them sayi
Vaccines for the u. S. Before sending them to other countries it coincides with reports that his administration actually rejected an early offer from pfizer to double its order of the vaccines more on this from washington with mike hanna. Its clear that this executive order comes from the differences between pfizer and his administration and the refusal of the administration to commit to buying more than 100000000 doses at the time that it could the executive order ports to insist that all americans must be treated before any doses go internationally well this is simply an in forcible it would appear has signed a large number of International Contracts as has the other company but these companies contracts already in place in some cases doses have already been shipped internationally so certainly this is something that would be very hard to legally enforced president tran claims that he may invoke the National Procurement act seldom used. To force companies to actually comply but its v
An emergency approval so yes it is quicker than normal but the European Union has been quite critical of whats been going on here in the u. K. Saying that but some corners have been cut that the regulator here has been far too hasty in the e. U. s way of doing things is the best way of doing things obviously thats hugely debatable but also has to be found the United States has chimed in with interviews on u. S. Television also accusing the british regulator of just simply rubber stamping all of the research that was done by pfizer not going deeply or rigorously enough into approving the vaccines efficacy and safety as we heard there he quickly backtracked saying that he now does have confidence in british scientists and regulators and has always had confidence in all of this was just a simple mess understanding is could be a difficult backtrack though but nevertheless he has tried to explain his position by saying well look things are just different done differently in the United State
Imposed is that when. The regions hospitals fall below 15 percent of intensive care unit capacity then these restrictions kick in and here in Southern California which includes Los Angeles San diego and many other cities the i. C. U. Capacity has been dropping steadily on saturday it was 12. 5 percent on sunday it was 10. 3 percent we dont have the figures for monday yet but it looks like thats going to that trend is likely to continue there were 10500 new cases of cold 19 on sunday so with hospitals being overwhelmed they have no place to transfer up patients and if i see you capacity runs out its not only. 1000 patients that were talking about anyone who has a heart attack a stroke you know be ill with cancer or anything else an auto accident they need to be transferred to the i. C. U. And if the i. C. U. Is full. You know its its obviously its a its a Health Disaster as well as an Economic Disaster for many people in this part of the country in other developments the u. K. Is less t
Coming up we could have had 19 cases spiking top level crisis talks are being held in germany on sunday a tough lockdown could be imposed within jackets. And a scandinavian comedy featuring teachers who take to day drinking sweet to european feel boys will get the latest from al film and culture correspondent. Im jarred raid thank you for joining me the United States is about to begin an extraordinary vaccination rollout as it struggles with skyrocketing cases of covert 19 now the country has reported a record rise in daily coronavirus deaths with figures exceeding 3300. 00 the increase comes as millions of doses of the covert 19 vaccine is it to be just tributed across the country. On monday the bio intake flies a job received the green light from regulators on friday to you with leads the world in confirmed corona virus cases that 15900000 and nearly 300000 deaths. Lets speak now to talk to always to ronnie hes an emergency medicine resident physician in San Antonio Texas dr dirani i