a russian soldier is sentenced to life in prison in the first war crimes trial of this now three-month long invasion. the soldier admitted to killing one man but ukrainian president zelenskyy says as many as 100 ukrainians are now dying each day near the frontlines. we re tracking developments there, but first, let s go to japan where president biden is on the second leg of his trip to asia, and will ripley is in tokyo for us. will, the president wanted to send a strong message to china on this trip. but today a bit of a mixed message. yeah. and it certainly is a mixed message when it comes to the white house staffers but not a mixed message from president biden because as you mentioned, this is at least the third time he s publicly stated the united states would come to taiwan s defense militarily if thigh china were to attack. for more than 40 years the united states has had a policy of strategic ambiguity, leaving it an open question whether the u.s. would get involved m
and this, these last rounds of vaccination in the trial i m about to give you the details of, it was during omicron when vaccines haven t worked so well. 80 % effectiveness. that is a big, big number. but it s an interim number. they have not finished their trial. so when they re done, and they present their data to the fda, it may not be eighty. i want or the clear about that. let s look at the details in the trial. this trial was much smaller than the adult trial. we re talking only a little over 16 00 children so far have received three vaccine doses. and you heard me right. that s three vaccine doses. they got two doses three weeks apart like adults do and a third dose two months later. so this is a three-dose vaccine for children. it may turn out to be that way for adults too, but for the little children, six months to five years, it will be a three-dose vaccine. the dose is one tenth the amount used for ages 12 and older. and again, the vaccine is safe and it showed that it made
vaccination, then yes, we will continue to see these variants emerge. but if we double down on vaccination around the globe and within the pockets in the u.s., we can shut those variants down. so we heard from david there as he was saying south africa and the officials there are concerned and they re angry because the world is essentially shutting them out. talk to us, though, about the fact that south africa has been very open about this, had it not been for their transparency and candidness, this could have been a lot worse, could it not? not only have they been very open but extremely good in detecting these things. in the states the reason we haven t detected omicron is we re not as good at genomic ski quencing. we should be congratulating them. instead of closing borders, putting in travel bans, we should be saying what can we do to help? what else can we do to help you to get more of this science,
over the past couple months. it s been over two months since first subpoenas were issued for him, and they haven t had a whole lot to show for it. his lawyer had offered to do some sort of written answers to questions for the committee, but the committee has signaled that would not be sufficient for them, so, you know, they re inching closer towards a contempt referral, but as we heard from congressman aguilar just now, no final decisions have been made on that. what do we know about what the committee is hoping to get from meadows? we know that chairman bennie thompson has written a letter outlining their goals about the information they re hoping to get from meadows. what do we know about that? chairman thompson told me and other reporters that this letter had been draft and this was all part of the paper trail the committee trying to leave behind before they inch towards a contempt charge. showing they ve gone back and forth, they ve made an effort in good faith to reach some so
about what should we be doing to help protect ourselves. travel bans are probably more political theater than are going to be useful. we believe these to be helpful we should have started on friday and shutting down travel from everywhere. that s not what we did. i don t think they re going to be effective and adpree with dr. anthony fauci it s likely that omicron is already here. we have to embrace those things that we know work. but at the same time, we have to say, why are we here and are these mutations, these variant, inevitable? the reason we re here we haven t done enough to vaccinate the globe. we ve been very self-congratulatory in the u.s. about getting vaccines to other countries and donated millions of vaccines. many of those vaccines haven t arrived and actually gotten into the arms that need them and donating vaccines is inadequate. we need to be pushing manufactures to share the technology for these vaccines and sharing our logistical support with other places, we have t