Hello and welcome to nhk newsline. Im Yoshi Ogasawara in tokyo. We start this hour in new york where the United Nations is canceling all inperson General Assembly Committee Meetings scheduled for tuesday. It comes after five people of a mission of a member state tested positive for the coronavirus. Its not immediately clear which member state is involved but the u. N. Said it is conducting contact tracing. The cancelations likely mean the Committee Vote on a japansponsored resolution to abolish Nuclear Weapons will be postponed. Most u. N. Staff that operate out of the new york headquarters have been working remotely since march. But more people have been returning to the office since july. Meanwhile, a top official at the World Health Organization is expressing concern about the latest surge of infections sweeping across europe. We are seeing very, very high positivity rates and an increasing lack of capacity to do any effective form of contact tracing. The two countries with the high
But claims he has won and alleged Election Fraud without providing any evidence. Earlier, democratic contender joe biden told supporters in delaware the results look good. We believe were on track to win this election. Yes. [ honking and applause ] we knew because of the unprecedented early vote and the mailin vote, that its going to take a while. Were going to have to be patient. Despite these claims, its still unclear who will take the presidency. Our u. S. Partner, abc news, is projecting trump will take the key battleground of florida and texas. The crucial midwestern state of ohio, which usually swings to the overall winner, is also projected to go to trump. But biden is still very much in contention in a president ial race that will most likely come down to a few key wins. Abc news is also projecting the democrats will maintain control of the house of representatives. Both trump and biden have spent a lot of time and money campaigning in north carolina, arizona, wisconsin, michig
Biden exchange a week out from election day. Plexiglass barriers were going to separate the two rivals but were removed at the last minute as both tested negative for covid19. The coronavirus pandemic dominated the first part of the debate. Trump defended his handling of the crisis while biden criticized the president s response. This is a worldwide problem, but i have been congratulated by the heads of many countries on what we have been able to do with the if you take a look at what we have done in terms of goggles and masks and gowns and everything else. And in particular, ventilators. We are now making ventilators all over the world, thousands and thousands a month, distributing them all over the world. It will go away, and as i say, we are rounding the turn, we are rounding the corner, its going away. The expectation is that we will have another 200,000 americans dead by the time between now and the end of the year. If we just wore these masks, the president s own advisers have to
Of businesses and hundreds of govements, all felt on our shoulders. Now, i think we can see light at the end of the tunnel. The messenger rnabased vaccine is considered a revolutionary, new approach, intended to boost the production of antibodies. The trial is still ongoing, and pfizer says data could change. But it plans to apply for emergency use ahorization as soon as possle. Pfizer expects toroduce upo 50 million vaccine doses globally this year, and up to 1. 3 doses next year. The company has agreed to supply japan with doses of the vaccine for 60 Million People by the end of next june. Experts welcomed the First Successful interim data from a largescale clinical test, but they say they need to know more details, especially about the vaccines safety. Right now,ere told 90 effica efficacy, but were not quite sure what that means. Does that mean preventing any illness, just serious illns . What about the transmission . Does the vaccine prevent tranission . We need a lot more informa
In a statement on thursday, the government said the serious situation has eased enough that authorities can enforce the regular laws. Bangkok has seen eight Straight Days of unrest since last wednesday. Tens of thousands of protesters marched to the Government House demanding the resignation of the Prime Minister. Organizers put the figure at close to 50,000. In a televised address on wednesday, the Prime Minister said an extraordinary session of parliament will be held next week to discuss the demonstrations. Translator the only way to a lasting solution for all sides is to discuss and resolve these differences through the parliamentary process. Protest organizeers have issued a threeyda ultimatum to the Prime Minister calling on him to resign or face another flood of people in the streets. The japanese government is mulling further easing entry restrictions for Business Travelers. It is considering an exemption of quarantine requirement for short stays of up to 72 hours. The exemptio