Joe bidens, transition to the white house can now begin in earnest until now hes been doing it without the support of the federal office thats tasked with overseeing the transfer of power will then 2 weeks after his victory speech, the head of the General Services administration has finally told the president elect the transition can formally begin means bidens new administration can meet with federal officials to work on the Pandemic Response and National Security. Trump took to twitter to announce that hes ready for the transition. He wrote, i want to thank emily murphy at g. S. A. For her steadfast education and loyalty to her to our country. Shes been harassed, threatened, and abused, and i do not want to see this happen to her family or employees of the g. S. A. Ok, strongly continues. Well continue to keep up the good fight, prevail saying nevertheless, in the best interest of our country, hes recommended that emily and her team do what needs to be done. He went on to say that he
A standoff in northern ethiopia. Government forces prepare for a final assault on the city of mckenna. To grant forces refused to step aside. And the president s of african football ahmed ahmed has been banned for 5 years. Footballs world governing body farming amid guilty of breaching its code of ethics. Begin here in the u. K. Where theres more good news in the race to find a Coronavirus Vaccine. This time from the drug company astra zeneca working in partnership with Oxford University. They staged testing shows. Its candidate vaccine is on average 70 percent effective in protecting against code 19, but that increases to 90 percent depending on the way its administered. Russias and it has vaccine is the least expensive so far. And crucially, it can be stored in the fridge, which makes it easier to distribute on the vaccines need to be stored at much lower temperatures. The firm says it can have up to 200000000 doses ready by the end of the year. Possibly 3000000 by 2021. Turn how rep
Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Will the wave of anger and protest that has swept across america since the killing of george floyd in minneapolis have a Lasting Impact difference to Race Relations . Surely african america ns must surely be sceptical. Racism and discriminatory and violent policing have survived all previous efforts to make real the promises of equality and justice for all. My guest today is the historian and veteran Civil Rights Campaigner mary frances berry. What will it take to engineer genuine change . Mary frances berry, welcome to hardtalk. And thank you forjoining me from new orleans. Thank you very much for having me. We are having beautiful weather here. Well, i can see there isa weather here. Well, i can see there is a bit ofa weather here. Well, i can see there is a bit of a hurricane through your window, but let us focus on the storms that have been hitting and sweeping across america in recent days. The whole world has been
Protesters as theyre deployed to stop progress to pass a state over a controversial citizenship bill. It was being called the most important election in a generation and the u. K. Vote appears to have produced one of the largest conservative party wins in a generation voting has ended and the exit poll predictions put Boris Johnsons conservative party on track for its biggest win since Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister the conservatives are on course to secure a clear majority with as many as 368. 00 seats thats 50 seats more than they won the last election in 2017 labor is projected to get 191. 00 significantly less than the 262. 00 seats they won last time around the Scottish National party looks likely to win 55. 00 seats in scotland while the liberal democrats are projected to win just 13 lets just show you some live pictures coming into us from one of the constituencies sunderland in the north east of england sunderland is significant because every election is a race between su
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