Forces, their size in afghanistan, will be 2,500 troops. Our force size in iraq will also be 2,500 by that same date. The announcement was made by acting u. S. Defense secretary chris miller. He replaced mark esper, who was fired by President Trump after joe biden won the electioner in this month. Troops have been gradually reduced as part of a peace deal struck earlier this year. U. S. Media reports say 4,500 soldiers are now believed to be deployed in afghanistan, and 3,000 in iraq. Republican Senate Leader Mitch Mcconnell is raising concerns about the timing of the latest move, and warned against any earth shaking changes to defense or Foreign Policy in the coming months. The planned reduction comes amid a recent resurgence of violence in afghanistan. The government and the taliban are engaged in ongoing peace talks, but they have yet to achieve a breakthrough. Turning to the latest on the coronavirus here in japan. Infections continue to spike across many parts of the country. Its
Says the first rollout could happen by mid december. The g20 discusses the virus and the potential remedies. Shotspledges to make available to all and President Trump wont say if the u. S. Will join a global effort. Haidi we are setting up for a cautious start to trading. The aussie dollar holding pretty steady. Kiwi stocks are up by half a percent. We are seeing the kiwi dollar trading just flat. U. S. Officials say the first vaccinations could be administered in just three weeks if given the green light for emergency use by the fda. Aboutare still concerns how poorer countries will be given access to any vaccine. The vaccineke Development Team has an aggressive timeline. Be do we expected to achieved and a lot of people are concerned about equitable access. Of movingre a lot parts here. A lot of movement around the world. Drug administration has an advisory meeting that day about the vaccine. Health officials really seem to think that approval could be forthcoming at that meeting or
The week into the weekend coming up. Lets check with gianna and how that morning commute is inup. A couple hot spots already. Along 580 working your way east around north glenn weve got a crash in the left lane. I checked with chp and they will run a traffic break to get everything to the shoulder. You will see brake lights temporarily and then things should open up. On the flip side west bound which is the commute direction, we are seeing crowding, a busy ride out of tracy. Starting around Mountain House onto 580, it gets better past north flynn to the dublin interchange. Thanks. New, a woman is in the hospital after she survived falling off devil slide trail cliff in pacifica. It happened just before 10 00 last night. The woman and her boyfriend saw their car trying to be towed so she tried to run toward it. In the darkness she fell off a cliff. Firefighters scaled down the cliff, found her alive and brought her back up. She was taken to the hospital immediately. We are waiting for w
Super super super cold and the other is just really cold. To stay stable pfizers needs to be stored at 94 degrees. But during us at 4 what that means is that we cant just put it amazon box or put it take it to the post office and mail it out to walgreens or cvs or pharmacies to distribute right now only certain facilities are equipped with Proper Storage like hospitals or Research Facilities so keeping these vaccines extremely cold while transporting them to far away places like oklahomas rule communities poses a real challenge the last thing you would want to do is get all this effort to make vaccines and then have it be natured not working because something in shipping storage but doctor shocker of art he says other vaccines in the pipeline may not require such special storage and those could be promising for those rural areas there going to be other available hopefully that dont state and federal leaders have a lot of details to work out identifying facilities that have the storage
Hope, but mainly to rich countries. Like developing nations may be germany are playing for time in the poisoning probe, repeated requests for information. We want to know the truth. So we said, please help us if you have information that we do not have, please share it with us. But no one wants to cooperate. Just after 1 in the morning in doha right here in moscow. Welcome to our 2 international my names. You know me. Russias president sees fighting has come to a complete halt in the disputed region of the gorno cutback since the signing of a cease fire between im sure by john armenia updated his cabinet ministers on the situation in cairo book where almost 2000 russian peacekeepers have been deployed armenias Prime Minister has defended his decision to sign the russian brokered cease fire, saying it prevented catastrophic loss of life. But hes facing strong public resistance. Throughout friday, kreutzer gathered, yet again its side parliament calling for in the coal question younes re