Who remain unaccounted for weeks off to nationwide these protests. You protests in nigeria . Hello, im kristie one boy. Its good to have your company was off to being handed a 72 all the deadline to surrender. The it is off, thats a gripe. Peoples liberation front showed no signs of giving in at the weekend. Ethiopias Prime Minister made gave the t. V. A lift until wednesday to hand themselves over all face a final assault. A spokesman for the Ethiopian Ministry wants of millions in the besieged to grab capital mechanic, that there will be no mercy if they dont save themselves befall a, find it offensive to flash else defiant, regional leader, the hundreds, and possibly even thousands have been killed in fighting in a strike and is strikes that he brought early this month about 40000, people have fled into neighboring sudan. And for more on this story, im joined by athlete solomon from chatham house. Hes a researcher on the wall, hold off africa. Welcome to deja vu news africa. So what
Along the border with sudan is worsening, and u. S. President elect joe biden is set to announce his 1st cabinet appointments and tony blinken, a former Obama Administration official, is expected to be named secretary of state. An unschooled, the head of african football has been handed a 5 year ban a by the sports world governing body fifa. Ahmed ahmed was found guilty of financial misconduct following an investigation. Thank you very much for joining us. We begin this news hour with a promising breakthrough in the global race to find a vaccine for corona virus. Raising hopes of an end to the pandemic could be within reach the u. K. Pharmaceutical company, astra zeneca and the university of oxford have said they have caught a vaccine for the world. They say that on average have seen is 70 percent effective, but that may increase to 90 percent depending on the dosage at 2. 50 is the cheapest potential vaccine so far with no serious side effects. This is the 3rd Major Company to report
New york correspondent. Its like something straight out of a spy thriller revealing predetermine to russia wherever youre tuning into the program from this hour. Welcome to our, to international my names. You know, many of you with us 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. There are some familiar faces from the obama era. From the details, lets speak to our u. S. Correspondent, kill up in kill of the biden hardest team name, their next secretary of state, tell us more about him, and indeed the significance of the appointment. Indeed, well, at this point, 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
Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell says President Trump is right to protest the vote cap. The u. S. Sanctions more people in hong kong over chinas increasing control. Washington has suspended its treaty with hong kong and ended reciprocal treatments on shipping. Haidi lets take a look at this market situation we are setting up for. It is firmly risk on after all the really bullish view overnight on account of the high efficacy from the biotech vaccine. Asx 200 trading higher by 1 10 of 1 . It is a handful of asiapacific markets there is or going into overboard territory. One of those is new zealand. We are seeing kiwi stocks of about 9 10 of 1 . We have the rbnz decision ahead of us this week but that market is up now for six consecutive sessions. Nikkei futures reversing pretty dramatically at the moment. Above looking at opening 25,000 for the first time in 30 years. Trading at thell highest since november 1991. A quick look when it comes to u. S. Futures as well. S p active futures u
By the spring of 1950, only five short years after the last shots of world war ii had been fired, the United States army had been reduced to an active force of 600,000. A great number of these were scattered about the world on occupation duty. But the armed forces of the communists, soviet russia and red china, remained on a strong wartime footing and in belligerent posture. Aggression was soon to come. Americans would be fighting against tyranny for the third time in 32 years. Korea. A crowded Little Finger of land, but a key importance to the free world in the far east. What happened here opened the next major chapter in the history of the United States army. The war began here at the 38th parallel. Just how did this imaginary line become the fuse for a threeyear explosion . Before the japanese surrender in world war ii, we made an agreement with the russians who were then our allies. When surrender came on the asian mainland, Russian Troops would accept the surrender of Japanese For