Nearly 90 percent effective against covert 90 in china says it will no longer recognize a special british passport issued to people in hong kong and accuses the u. K. Of political interference and. Communities in nigeria a dutch court is expected to deliver its verdict against Oil Giant Shell this hour. With your support of the 14 days of quarantine the worlds top tennis court in australia and friends were. Welcome to the news hour the European Union is expected to give astra zeneca kovan 1000 Vaccine Limited emergency approval in the coming hours now thats despite a growing dispute between the blog and the company about a short. Of supply so the e. U. Says the vaccine maker has breached its multimillion dollar contract it was expecting at least 80000000. 00 doses by the end of march but astra zeneca cut supply a week ago blaming manufacturing issues now on thursday brussels warned it may have to ban exports of vaccines produced on the continent to protect stock and its questioned why
A big difference and so there is still room for discussion but the hour long acrimonious debate that has been characteristic of these meetings one is trying to avoid today theres been a lot of consultation in the last few days and one is hoping that this paper that has been agreed on will be passed more or less without much resistance part of the discussions about a hard lock down and the impact it will have on business and we issue the meeting of nickel and they state leaders will also discuss compensation. Yes absolutely that will be one Central Point of discussion theres been an open letter today from some of the major retail chains in germany and theyre warning that if a locked on is taking effect immediately before the christmas before christmas that they are going to lose their christmas business that that business is going to be pushed into the internet and they say this could be the end of high street retailing as we know it so there is a lot of stake a lot at stake and a lot o
Across the country, eight prefectures saw a Record Number of new cases. One was the western prefecture of osaka where the figure surpassed 200 for the first time. All of japans 47 prefectures have now reported cases after two infections were confirmed in ibate. Tokyo continues to be the hot spot with 250 new cases. Public Health Officials are also closely watching the raid of positive test results, a key indicator of how much the virus is spreading. That number stood at 1 on may 25th with a nationwide state of emergency was lifted. As of last friday, it had risen to 6. 6 . This Infectious Disease expert is worried, but he says weekly averages give a clearly picture than daily infection numbers. Translator the Current Situation seems very much like in early april when the first wave came just before the state of emergency was declared. I think well have to take thorough preventive measures more than ever without overreacting to the number of infections reported each day. In total more t
Next Immigration Services director testifies on supporting critically ill children and their families. At a House Oversight subcommittee hearing he talked about his decision to stop processing deferred action earlier this year. Good morning everyone, thank you for letting us today. The subcommittee will come to order without objection this years authorized clearly says the committee anytime, 33 with examine the administrations decision to support children with critical illnesses and decision that was recently reversed following public outrage and pressure from the subcommittee. I will now recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement and then i will tell you the Ranking Member. We are here to get to the bottom of the administrations mysterious campaign to the port critically ill children and their families. It appears that this family is policy has been reversed after congress in American People rose up in an outcry in this policy. Treat this hearing as an honor but as
Without objection this years authorized clearly says the committee anytime, 33 with examine the administrations decision to support children with critical illnesses and decision that was recently reversed following public outrage and pressure from the subcommittee. I will now recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement and then i will tell you the Ranking Member. We are here to get to the bottom of the administrations mysterious campaign to the port critically ill children and their families. It appears that this family is policy has been reversed after congress in American People rose up in an outcry in this policy. Treat this hearing as an honor but as a hearing in direct pursuit of the policy objective that was close to his heart that threatened deportation of six children with such an outrage that is very last official act before his death was to issue subpoenas to hold the administration to work out. On wednesday in the waning hours of his life through all of hi