Last night. Meantime, cnn has learned investigators are struggling to bring officer sicknicks kill tore justice. Cnn security correspondent Josh Campbell is starting us off this morning in washington. Josh, so remarkable to be back at the scene, just a month after officer sicknicks death. Reporter thats right. Laura. And this was the Scene Of The Crime, this was the same building that former officer sicknick protected for over a decade inside at various time with the Capitol Police. A solemn ceremony as you mentioned last night, a hearse arrived at the east steps of the capitol carrying the remains of the fallen officer. Once inside the rotunda, two officers escorted his remains and an American Flag into a table at the center. We saw members of congress and his former colleagues with the Capitol Police file in, paying their respects. A very solemn, a very quiet moment, again, for this fallen officer. Now, we got word just before 10 00 p. M. Last night that the president s motorcade had
yet now, especially in europe and the western world, it feels as though the disease has passed us, even though it actually hasn t. it s as though we couldn t take all the restrictions it brought any more. life has opened up and only a minority of people are wearing masks now. in china, by contrast, the epidemic still dominates everything. i talked to fergus walsh, the bbc s medical editor, about the world s experience of this modern day plague. covid is going to be with us for years and years to come. and there was a lot of talk right at the beginning about herd immunity the idea that we d all get it once and then that would be it. well, now you can get omicron, the latest variant of concern, and you can get that again and again. so it s going to be, in a way, a little bit like flu and vaccines will be our best protection against it. they have been the extraordinary success story of this pandemic. i think the fastest ever developed vaccine was. took four years to develop an
On the vaccine. Great news in the span of a few days. Tell us in particular how the moderna one works. Mo der ma der nahas the efficacy and they dont seem to have side effects. And thirdly, for moderna, they dont need any special freezes you can use the freezes that are already in pharmacies and doctors offices. Lets talk about the clinical trials. We heard about challenge trials happening in the uk. Thats not what this is. They didnt give people the vaccine and then give them the virus. Inste instead, what they did was vaccinate a bunch of people and told them to live their lives and see what happens. So what happened in this trial was that 15,000 people were given the placebo and of those 15,000 people 90 of them went out all of them went out and lived their lives. 90 of them ended upcoming down with covid, 90 of them got sick with covid. They gave another 15,000 people the vaccine and they were hold go out and live your lives and see what happens. Five of them became sick with covid
The christmas getaway begins for University Students but they are encouraged to get themselves tested and reduce social contact before they start travelling. There have been multiple casualties after a large explosion in a warehouse at avonmouth near bristol, the fire service says. And coming up. The couple who applied to live on a remote scottish island even though theyd never been there. Hello good afternoon. The first doses of the Pfizer Biontech covid 19 will arrive in britain very soon. A Mass Vaccination Programme will Begin Next Week after the uk became the first country in the world to approve the jab yesterday. Data released last month shows this vaccine offers 95 protection against covid 19 across all age groups, and any side effects are mild. The uk has a0 million doses on order thats enough for 20 Million People. 800,000 of those are already on their way here. It will be given as two injections three weeks apart. Immunity begins after the first dose, but reaches maximum pro
Also coming up at half past three. Tom brook marks the 40th anniversary ofjohn lennons murder in 1980, in lennon remembered. The uks chief brexit negotiator is in brussels for talks with his eu counterpart to find a last minute breakthrough on a trade deal. Significant differences remain on fishing rights, competition rules and how a deal would be enforced. This morning the environment secretary, george eustice, said there was still a deal to be done, but admitted that the talks were in a very difficult position. Our Political Correspondent Jonathan Blake reports. Back in brussels, the uks chief negotiator, lord frost, arriving for whats being described as the last roll of the dice in trade talks with the eu. Weve worked very hard to try and get a deal. Were going to see what happens in negotiations today, and we will be looking forward to meeting our european colleagues later on this afternoon, thank you very much. The government says there is still a deal to be done in what a cabinet