President outlines why he believes the election will stop. After months of deadlock a breakthrough in peace talks between the Afghan Government and the taliban. And former french president a very just got this town a key architect of european integration has done. U. K. Its become the 1st country to approve the fall as a borrow and take over 19 vaccine for public use it will be administered to high risk groups within days Prime Minister Abbas Johnson praised the scientist for their work on the vaccine but said people still need to be cautious brennan has more from london. The approval of a vaccine almost exactly a year since coded 901st emerged in china is a triumph for science the final trial data for the pfizer buy on tech vaccine was only submitted to the u. K. Regulator the m h r a a week ago but as a result of a process of rolling approval examining data even as the trials were taking place the regulator has been able to move swiftly and confidently to declare it effective and saf
Governments deadline passes for the regions forces to surrender. U. S. President donald trump has pardoned his former National Security advisor, michael slid. It comes just 8 weeks before he vacates the white house and it takes direct aim at the russia probe that trump always claimed was a political witch hunt in 2017. Michael flynn pled guilty to lying to the f. B. I. About his contacts with the Russian Ambassador. Trouble alst his full pardon on for a number of u. S. Lawmakers have condemned it as a blatant interference with the justice system. A little earlier us president elect joe biden, used his thanksgiving message to urge americans to come together and stop the spread of the coronavirus. He said the grim season of division would soon give way to light. Well, lets bring in rosalind jordan, whos in washington d. C. Roles. Lets start with michael. Flynn, president , had at one time, really tried to distance himself from from, than after the guilty plea. But he came back into the f
Answers and there are many stories make up your double made for mines. , infection rates are rising and so are jobless claims. U. S. , economy, braces for another blow as chase numbers reach, new heights. More states impose business locked outs with the latest from new york. Also on the show deal or no deal. Time is running out for brussels and london to agree to a trade agreement. Before the new year, a coven is complicating the negotiations. And will drop in on the french film industry. Actors and production numbers are bouncing, worked with safety, made a 2nd wave of growth of hers infections. Welcome to the show. Im Stephen Beardsley in berlin. Its good to have you with us. The new figures show u. S. Jobless claims have risen for the 1st time in more than a month. The countrys Labor Department reporting that 740000 americans applied for Unemployment Benefits last week. Thats up about 30000 in the previous week. The rise suggests that climbing infection rates and tightening business
Good morning. The committee has come to order. One thing, i want to thank the witnesses for your testimony. Those appearing in person, traveling to d. C. To give it orally, and, also, answer our questions. The title of this hearing now is, i guess, examining the u. S. Approach to early covid19 treatments. I thought it was i originally set out a title of early treatments for covid, a essential component of a covid solution. It was inevitable that the coronavirus pandemic to be politicized into the tragedy it was. From the start, i knew it was impossible to have a perfect response. We were facing a new virus. No one wanted to underreact, and as a result i feared the tendency would be overreact. The challenges facing us were daunting. Our National Strategic stockpile had been reduced during the h1n 1 pandemic. It took time to develop a test. The fact that a large percentage of people that become infected exhibit no symptoms made the coronavirus even more difficult to detect and contain. I
Scientific achievement were not carried away with over optimism or fall into the naive belief that the struggle is over its not weve got to stick to our winter plan u. S. Officials say they hope to have around 40 percent of adults immunized by the end of february vaccines developed by pfizer and her expected to be approved next week thats as the u. S. Hit a new daily record of more than 100000 people being admitted to Hospital Health secretary alexeis are says millions of Vulnerable People could be vaccinated by the end of the year. U. S. President donald trump has released a 46 minute speech on social media outlining why he believes the election was stolen from him he continued to lead forward took place during the election despite the failure of several legal challenges. The Afghan Government and taliban negotiators have agreed on a framework for talks after weeks of stalemate negotiations in doha nato secretary general has welcomed this as a positive 1st step the United Nations has