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Hello, everyone. Thanks for joining us. In the race for a covert vaccine, the European Union does not appear to be first in line in the race for a covid vaccine. It may need another month to decide on granting approval for a shot. Meantime, the United States and britain are aiming to get the green light to a vaccine before christmas. The eu is not far behind with a meeting scheduled for december 20 92 consider approval for the shot developed by pfizer. Our correspondent dave keating has more on how the process will play out. It certainly is not the normal process. These processes could normally take years, but, obviously, exceptional circumstances call or exceptional measures. All along, we have known that the eus regulatory bodies, just like those of the u. S. , u. K. , and other countries, would perform a special authorization process for these vaccines. Basically, the regulator would approve the vaccine, but the maker of the vaccine would continue conducting tests to make sure they
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Department revises how death sentences can be carried out as it tries to rush through more executions before they buy women straight and takes office. Im natasha patna in paris where shocking video is fueling debate about police found in irans Supreme Leader says the country will retaliate against the killing of a top Nuclear Scientists whom the u. S. And israel accused of masterminding, a secret Weapons Program gunman, a vehicle carrying most and factories a day and his bodyguards near the cops on friday, president Hasan Rouhani says, the killing will not slow down to Irans Nuclear program, which he says is peaceful. Well have more on that shortly with our correspondent doors, the jabari in teheran, but 1st, this report from a bag the aftermath of the killing bullet holes in a car and blood on the floor injured in the attack. Mostyn, factories are there was taken to hospital, but later died. He had been one of irans most senior Nuclear Scientists and had already survived a previous as
Advocate, joe biden, we speak the u. K. , queens counselor chris door about why the u. S. U. K. Approach to prisons is catastrophic. And why its now time to shut down prisons here and abroad for good. And why does the us have the highest number of coronavirus deaths with over 240000 counting when the country to militarily blockade communist cuba has fewer than 200. We speak to the core presenter of cuban covert, 19, Public Health and solidarity about fighting about endemic with internationalism. Oliseh more going on today is going underground. A 1st of joe biden ever becomes us president. In january, he will preside over a country with the highest prison population in the world, 26 years after he supported a crime bill. The critics claim was responsible for a system of math incarceration that imprisons more per capita than stalin or mao. Joining me now as a criminal defense lawyer of a 25 years because korea and us Justice Systems in his new book, justice on trial, radical solutions fo