And celebrating a legend, a nigerian novelist who knew a chair would have turned 90 years old. Today will be taking a page out of one of the best selling books. Hello, im kristie wonder why its good to have your company. Various african and european governments are pressing ethiopia behind the scenes to start negotiations with local rulers of to grice state for a 2nd week. Now Ethiopian Federal troops are backing forces loyal to the t. P. N. If i decide it will achieve victory any day from now neighboring era tray is now also safe to be involved in the conflict. Well be talking more about that after this report. The more thats the same will demand of these every train refugees in the t. Grime, capital of mckayla. They know war all too well as they fled before in the late ninetys. More than 70000, people died in the border war between with european eritrea. They say, what pains the most is that this war now is a war between people who speak the same language and share the same culture.
Engulfed in political and economic crisis period gets its president in the span of a week and al jazeera obtains recordings of one of the worlds most wanted men, trying to negotiate immunity from prosecution. Within factions surging worldwide and government struggling to respond. Theres been another dose of hope in the battle against covert 19 u. S. Pharmaceutical firms will durness says interim results from trials show its vaccine looks to be 94. 5 percent effective in preventing the virus. Its a really important milestone in the fight against the pandemic, because it demonstrates that our magaziner morning 73 is able to prevent cope with 90 disease including severe disease. And its really just a milestone. We have a lot of work ahead of us knowing the vaccine is going to be effective is great news, but we still need to complete the regulatory process, which involves completing the study, generally more to follow safety. And then of course, we need to get busy manufacture, fellow drug
Minimum. And hollywood actors more accustomed to the red carpet than the football pitch, cast their lot with a big cheer, soccer club in wales. Again, the new owners turn the club into the next liverpool or manchester united. Im Claire Richards and welcome to the show. We start with another promising breakthrough in the race for a vaccine against cove at 19. The us pharmaceutical firm says its experimental vaccine is 94. 5 percent effective. Similar to results of another vaccine being developed by pfizer and biotech expects to have enough safety data for us regulators to approve and roll out the vaccine in this year. Its nearly as since china raise the alarm about a novel current virus with the 1st class dissented in one of lou hands wet markets over 54000000. 00 cases, and more than a 1000000 deaths. The world is seeing its 2nd vial of hope in the form of the dentist kovac 1000 vaccine. This woman is one of 30000. 00 volunteers taking part in the vaccine trials, according to internal
But there is still a path to victory for both biden and President Trump as Battle Ground states continue to tally votes. Here is where we stand. Vice President Biden has 253 electoral votes. President trump has 214. 270 is needed to win. Were waiting on alaska, arizona, nevada, pennsylvania, North Carolina and georgia. Voter turnout is expected to be high in this unusual Election Year but how high in comparison to past president ial elections . Abc 7 news Leslie Brinkley looked into that question today in Contra Costa County that could be a micro cost m for the rest of the bay area. Reporter here in the east bay, there was a big push to register new voters. They received more on the roster than four years ago but no so much the sheer number of voters but the percent of those voters who actually vote. This machine takes pictures of signatures on ballots. First step in the process of counselling a vote. There are ballots dropped off at the polls and those that arrived in the mail today.
Redirected to the website and the next Virtual Event and you can learn more of the upcoming Virtual Events as well as showing up on comcast so let me briefly introduce our speakers for tonight. Susan huff lose the Research Seismologist at the Us Geological survey in pasadena. Serving as an editor and contributor for many journals and contributing editor to the magazine and board of directors of the Seismological Society of america as well as a Southern California quake center and the author of five books including henry history here tonight he covers Climate Change and innovation is needed to overcome it. For ten years he wrote about Research Findings with a weekly column and the author of the great quake about the 1964 alaskan earthquake. So now i will turn the screen over to our speakers and enjoy the talk. Thank you. Way to be here. Thank you for being here. Im excited about this even event, living in a Virtual World right now along with everybody else, but it has long been my favor