A standoff in northern ethiopia. Government forces prepare for a final assault on the city of mckenna. To grant forces refused to step aside. And the president s of african football ahmed ahmed has been banned for 5 years. Footballs world governing body farming amid guilty of breaching its code of ethics. Begin here in the u. K. Where theres more good news in the race to find a Coronavirus Vaccine. This time from the drug company astra zeneca working in partnership with Oxford University. They staged testing shows. Its candidate vaccine is on average 70 percent effective in protecting against code 19, but that increases to 90 percent depending on the way its administered. Russias and it has vaccine is the least expensive so far. And crucially, it can be stored in the fridge, which makes it easier to distribute on the vaccines need to be stored at much lower temperatures. The firm says it can have up to 200000000 doses ready by the end of the year. Possibly 3000000 by 2021. Turn how rep
I should say, that have been the hit by scandal. Well, so you know, the, an international, actually an astute is an International Organization kind of like to view and show your 36. 00 signatories not a single g 7 signatory, but our mission is to discover, develop and deliver safe, affordable and effective vaccines for Global Health. And actually what we did during this endemic is to say, were not going to compete, have our own back seen. It makes kind of companies uncomfortable when we tell them its, were working on our own vaccine to see what we decided was to support companies which every company came to us for assistance, helping them with assays with animal studies, with Clinical Trials, with regulatory pathways. Anything that we needed to do in order to advance a vaccine as quickly as possible. So in a sense, if the world wins that i. B. I. Wins, and that was our strategy. But being advocates of free market, Big Pharmaceutical Companies will say, the and your or your a strategy f
24 hour news live from the russian capital. This is your r. T. International pleasure. Your company, my names, you know me. The transition process for the u. S. Presidency is still in limbo with donald trump refusing to concede defeat. But joe biden is already lining up candidates for his proposed administration faces from the obama. Weve heard from the Biden Harris Administration that they have named 6 individuals that will be in their cabinet, one of those the nominee and the person they will select for their secretary of state is Anthony Blinken. Now Anthony Blinken is certainly not a newcomer to the washington d. C. Foreign policy establishment. He served as a Deputy Assistant to president barack obama as a National Security advisor to joe biden, as well as a deputy secretary of state. He has indicated that basically under his leadership of the u. S. State, department trumps america. 1st Foreign Policy will most likely come to an end, whether we like it or not. The world simply doe
Chief of staff to president obama. This is 45 minutes. Center for D International studies. This event is 45 minutes. Good evening, good morning, everybody in washington. Good evening, everybody in korea. Welcome to the 15th addition, brought to you by the good folks at kia motors. This week on the capital cable, u. S. Foreign policy, u. S. Elections, bidenharris transitions and their implications for korea and northeast asia. Our guest this week, perfectly positioned to address this critical and evolving set of issues with not just implications in washington, not just implications in seoul, but implications around the world. And we are lucky to have mr. Denis mcdonough, former white house chief of staff. Cabinet rank, we have broken the cabinet rank ceiling here. Former Deputy National security advisor and former advisor to the n. S. C. He is someone who has sat at the nexus of Foreign Policy, u. S. Politics and communication and he knows a Little Something about northeast asia as well
Have our own back seen. It makes kind of companies uncomfortable when we tell them its. Were working on our own vaccine to see what wed decided was to support companies which every company came to us for assistance, helping them with assays with Animal Studies with clinical trials, with regulatory pathways. Anything that we needed to do in order to advance a vaccine as quickly as possible. So in a sense, if the world wins that i. B. I. Wins, and that was our strategy, that being advocates of free market, Big Pharmaceutical Companies will say, and your, or your a strategy failed it is pfizer astra zeneca, those big multinationals that create the vaccines no, into your a un mandated vaccine institute. So actually, you know, our Vaccines Institute is, is funded really by, you know, the governments of korea, sweden, india, and finland and the Gates Foundation. The Welcome Trust. And our goal is really to get vaccines over the finish line. I mean, we dont think about it that vaccine is bein