And described his plans he said where possible he would mandate mass for example on interstate travel on airplanes and in federal buildings but otherwise would seek to influence americans by his example and they said it was important for him and the Vice President themselves to wear a mask as an example of course mask wearing has become controversial in some parts of the United States so there could be some pushback on that front but both biden seeming to stress that there would be an end date that this was for a limited time 100. 00 days to get the virus under control he also talked about the fact that his plan was not to close the economy but to offer clear guidance not to impose strict or not to impose specific lockdown so much as guidance he talked about if restaurants and bars need to close for periods of time that they need to know that there would be assistance in what the ground rules were going to be moving forward of course thats perhaps easier said than done for him because
Vaccines for the u. S. Before sending them to other countries it coincides with reports that his administration actually rejected an early offer from pfizer to double its order of the vaccines more on this from washington with mike hanna. Its clear that this executive order comes from the differences between pfizer and his administration and the refusal of the administration to commit to buying more than 100000000 doses at the time that it could the executive order ports to insist that all americans must be treated before any doses go internationally well this is simply an in forcible it would appear has signed a large number of International Contracts as has the other company but these companies contracts already in place in some cases doses have already been shipped internationally so certainly this is something that would be very hard to legally enforced president tran claims that he may invoke the National Procurement act seldom used. To force companies to actually comply but its v
An emergency approval so yes it is quicker than normal but the European Union has been quite critical of whats been going on here in the u. K. Saying that but some corners have been cut that the regulator here has been far too hasty in the e. U. s way of doing things is the best way of doing things obviously thats hugely debatable but also has to be found the United States has chimed in with interviews on u. S. Television also accusing the british regulator of just simply rubber stamping all of the research that was done by pfizer not going deeply or rigorously enough into approving the vaccines efficacy and safety as we heard there he quickly backtracked saying that he now does have confidence in british scientists and regulators and has always had confidence in all of this was just a simple mess understanding is could be a difficult backtrack though but nevertheless he has tried to explain his position by saying well look things are just different done differently in the United State
Dispute to come to a resolution that we think will be satisfactory to all we have achieved set and progress septum point of time more than a year ago and then things has slowed down and right now there are some movements that we hope that this will put and for this crisis because we see that we believe actually that gulf unity is very important for the security of the region for the stability of of that region and for for the sake of our people this need this crisis needs to end. Human Rights Groups are saying the refugees have been forced onto a remote bangladeshi island the government says the group of more than 1500 people will move to ease overcrowding in camps it says only those who are willing to move have gone more than a 1000000 rangar who fled neighboring me and housed in the camps to tend the chaldee has more from cox is bizarre. Finally the controversial relocation of rowing a reference to a remote coastal island a bastion charter has started out of 2500 listed rowing as it
A battle of 2 giants france says it wont make human rights a condition for arms sales to egypt as president sisi visits paris. Really. Funny and cutting a new record bob dylan sells all his songs to universal music and one of the biggest such deals. Announced and how much of the sport as europe hold its qualifying draw for the 2022 world cup in qatar details coming up this hour. Thanks for joining us we begin in the u. S. Navigating its way through a president ial transition as well as a worsening coronavirus situation a record 100000 people were admitted to hospital on sunday with more than 2000 americans dying from the disease every day so the president elect joe bidens reportedly made his pick for Health Secretary one of the incoming administrations most consequential jobs and hes eyeing this man hes californias attorney general have you have a sarah for the position well in his home state some 33000000 californians are now under sweeping new restrictions private gatherings will be