Person faces criticism for its approval of the Pfizer Vaccine raising worries the debate could undermine public confidence. Indias army denies reports it carried out reprise of attack the kashmir after the deaths of 2 soldiers. In the former president of the Central African republic is barred from running for office of allegations of war crimes. The global death toll from the crowd of ours had to make now has passed 1500000 with a 3rd of those in just the last 2 months the United Nations secretary general is once again calling for a unified Global Response to the pandemic which is infected more than 65000000 people a number of countries have been reporting record high record high deaths among them basically despite overall cases dropping just under a 1000 people died in the last 24 hours. The u. S. Is experiencing a surge of infections with hospitalizations and deaths are reaching new heights president elect joe biden says he will ask americans to wear a mask during his 1st 100 days in
Covert 1000 locked down measures. President Joe Bidens Administration signals a more assertive approach to the conflict in libya on turkish and Russian Forces to leave immediately. And claims of contaminated communities in the geria dutch court is expected to deliver its verdict against oil giant shell. So we begin with news of another Coronavirus Vaccine that could soon enter circulation late stage trials of the u. S. Produce novaks vaccine show it to be almost 90 percent effective and shown promising efficacy against both the u. K. And to a slightly lesser extent South African strains of the virus meanwhile the head of the European Commission says drug maker asked as zeneca has not given a plausible explanation for delaying is deliveries after the block leaders demanded an inspection of their plant in belgium and Germany Health officials have warned that the astra zeneca vaccine should only be given to people under the age of 65. 00 saying there isnt enough data on older people but i
Hello im terry martin good to have you with us lawmakers in the u. S. Congress have moved to block president all trumps order to withdraw all u. S. Troops from germany its a rare instance of the democratic and republican parties working together to pass legislation the final version of the annual defense bill which still needs to be voted on voices support for the continued presence of u. S. Forces in germany and it would require an Impact Assessment before any troops are removed in july the pentagon announced it would withdraw about a 3rd of the 36000 u. S. Troops based here. While Stefan Simmons is standing by for us in washington how likely is it that u. S. Troops will not be drop withdrawn from germany no. I think the likelihood just increased actually it is very likely that there wont be any with you all at least not under the reigns of this administration of the triumvirate ministration as you pointed out the budget defense budget. Which is 4500 pages that is a double whopper the
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