And the show goes on despite the coronavirus pandemic for a major Film Festival in qatar. A long awaited inquiry into the conduct of a study in special forces in afghanistan has found credible evidence of multiple war crimes. The report contains details of 39. 00 unlawful killings of civilians, all prisoners, and the cruel treatment of a foe. The 2 other allegations include weapons being planted on bodies to conceal crimes, just aspersion, conceded in detail. 57. 00 allegations of incidents and issues. He found there to be credible information, to substantiate 23 incidents, of alleged unlawful killing of 39 people by 25, a strong special forces personnel predominantly from the special air service regiment. Nicola gauges in congress with more on the investigation. This is been a very long running inquiry, and it has been extremely critical of the culture within a strongly as special forces unit in afghanistan, the inquiry looked at allegations and incidents that occurred between 2520168
Boeing 737 max airplane to fly again after two crashes that took the lives of 346 people well tell you what to do if you dont want to fly on this aircraft. And well tell you what to do to keep your immune system strong as we head into winter. Early today starts right now good morning im frances rivera. And im phillip mena. Fresh off the news that Pfizers Covid vaccine is 95 effective, just hours ago astrazeneca released its own optimistic findings phase two shows that the vaccine is safe and its generating an immune response. Sara harmon of nbc is joining us from london. What have we learned about this vaccine . Reporter hi, phillip its billioning are encouraging on the vaccine front this morning were waking up from great findings from astrazeneca. This is a phase 2 trial. It was published in the medical journal the lancet. Its producing am immune response in older adults we know thats important because most adults are at risk for the virus, both for complications and risk of death. We
To provide statutory framework for the peaceful transfer of power. It has been updated several times since. We are going to discuss rising issues coming out of that in the current transition and transfer. It has been almost a week since most Major Networks designated joe biden as president elect. The biden team has been moving forward on a transition and selected a new white house chief of staff, have launched a Pandemic Task force, and soon will be announcing other white house and cabinet level positions. Theyve started conversations with foreign heads of state and a number of american political leaders. A small but growing number of senior Republican Leaders have acknowledged the outcome of the election, including former president bush, his chief of staff andy card, counselor karl rove, and a handful of republican senators. And yet, we still have not had a formal concession by President Trump. That may be a personal matter of his continuing to file legal claims in a number of states,
To anyway. The United States now has reported more than 1. 2 million cases of coronavirus in just the past week. Public Health Officials worry the Holiday Season that begins this week could make things much worse, even with the promising news that vaccines are on the way. We will have the latest in a pair of live reports just ahead. Then in our sunday focus, a look through the eyes of three insiders at the state of the cdc as it fights a Global Pandemic while under constant political pressure from the white house. Plus, in our sunday spotlight, harry smith with the chorus finding a creative way to hold its concerts during a time when even singing can be dangerous. Later, a new sunday sitdown with michael j. Fox on an extraordinary life from his back to the future success to the parkinsons diagnosis that stopped him in his tracks and the moment recently when he nearly lost the hope that has carried him through 30 years with the disease. I couldnt put a shiny face on it. I couldnt make l
Administration is helpful to the Incoming Administration in terms of making available materials from the departments and agencies. In modern times, has there been a president who resisted participating in the transition . No, they have not. You have had the, the president ial transitions act, which made it very clear that the federal government had a role in transitions. And with the coronavirus still raging, the stakes for a smooth transfer of power are extremely high. There are thousands of officials all across the government i can thely the pentagon and the department of health that want to get the vaccine out to 300 million americans and the sooner the biden team can start working with those officials the more ready they will be on january 20th. The General Services administration is usually an obscure government agency. But with the president s permission, it has now given the Biden Transition Team access to six Million Dollars in transition funds. And that the means they dont hav