A dutch court finds shells nigerian subsidiary responsible for multiple pipeline leaks and or does it to pay damages to farmers. And we look at why namibia is government is auctioning off 170. 00 elephants despite the pills by conservationists im 7 asked with sports event is that cage and perrier refuses to criticize christiane around his top scorer faces a Police Investigation for breaching coded 19 rules by going on a ski trip. Alone welcome to the news hour we begin with the race to vaccinate the world against 19 and fears the poorer nations are being left behind and richer countries are rushing to secure supplies johnson and johnson has become the 1st company to announce trial results for a single dose jab it says its vaccine is 66 percent effective in preventing moderate to severe symptoms of covert 19 and plans to seek emergency authorization in the United States next week thats just a day off the American Company novaks said its vaccine was 89 percent effective in u. K. Trials b
A deal the Prime Minister and the European Commission president will be holding a meeting on a post deal thats after sides failed to work out a joint agreement despite a looming deadlock. Confronting russia and china and imposing additional sanctions u. S. House of representatives approves hardline measures as part of americas on your defense bill with a majority. Very good morning to you 10 am here in the russian capital youre watching international. 6 people have died during the phase of covert vaccine trials including 2 people who didnt get a placebo this was reported in the u. S. Food and Drug Administration briefing document however the authority responsible for approving the vaccine doesnt raise safety concerns saying deaths represent events that occur in the general population at a similar right donald trump has signed an executive order aimed at ensuring americans have priority when it comes to access to vaccines produced in the u. S. Both the outgoing and incoming president s
The formal application caps a period of speculation that this would be occurring. We are seeing pfizer in premarket rise nearly 2 , biontech down. 3 . Interesting to see how this is confirming what a lot of people have expected, but adding to the risk on feel that we are seeing in markets today. The sense we are going to move past this period that has been incredibly painful economically, as well as socially. Francine lets get the details from fan from sam fazeli from bloomberg intelligence. The news is out. How quickly can some of these clearances be given . Sam good morning, francine. Fdahe u. S. We have the meeting coming up on december 10. It is possible they move on that pretty quickly the next day or the day after. And then in europe, this is the combination of a process that started off sometime in early october where the companies have been filing their manufacturing , and there is no new data in the press release. So it is possible that we should get a European Response by bef
Cuts for health services, dedication, desperate for food and aid. We report from sudan where thousands of refugees who fled the fighting in ethiopia are getting help. President donald trump has suffered another court loss in his attempts to overturn the results of the us president ial election. A District Court judge in pennsylvania has thrown out a lawsuit filed by the Trump Campaign, which sought to exclude millions of mail in ballots. In the states, the judge issued a scathing ruling saying that it had failed to provide evidence of those of fraud. From campaign is now lost or withdrawn, dozens of similar lawsuits. 0 as mike hanna reports from washington account is more than 30 since the elections brought in various key swing states. But this very significance because its a ruling by a federal judge and also significant because of the extremely scathing language he used. He likened the tramp appeal to a frankenstein monster which had been put together haphazardly. He made very clear
Evacuations in australia Scientists Say 2020 is on course to be the hottest year ever. Thank you very much for joining us we begin with the continuing fallout from the corona virus pandemic more than 100000 people were admitted to hospital in the United States on sunday the highest number on record since the outbreak began the virus is now killing more than 2000 americans a day thats 2 people every single minute nearly 33000000 people in the state of california are under a stay at home orders aimed at slowing the spread of the virus in south korea meanwhile the president has deployed the military to help with expanded coronavirus testing and tracing more than 600 cases where reported on monday the 30th day in a row of triple digit increases and globally more than 67000000 people have now been infected and about 1500000 have died in the last week alone an average of more than 10000 people died every single day around the world well have more on the situation in the u. S. Very shortly bu