Have british manager, welcome to news asia. Glad you could join us. He highways leading to the indian capital of delhi, blocked as thousands of farmers protest against new agricultural laws passed by. The government. Farmers are demanding a rollback of the laws. Claim me, they removed a government assured grain purchase scheme that acted as a safety net for them. The government has assured the scheme will continue, but farmers convinced these 20000. 00 farmers arent going anywhere. Their trucks and tractors are blocking the major highways near indias capital. Each one of our tractors is loaded with rations up to 4 months. Until the time the government reverses these new agricultural laws, none of us will go back into the farmers field. Their livelihoods are threatened. They fear that the government will stop buying grain at guarantee prices. The worry is that this could leave them at the mercy of corporations who wont pay enough for their crops. Prime minister, Narendra Modi is trying
Congress. The aid package has support from democrats and republicans and includes around 70000000000. 00 in support for airlines. Irans parliament has passed a draft motions a halt on restricted access by the International Atomic Energy Agency to its nuclear sites. The proposed changes could allow iran to resume uranium enrichment at levels of 20 percent of the government and the Foreign Ministry have already announced their thoughts that they dont agree with this action plan. Its not a necessary nor helpful. Its not clear if the parliamentarians get what they seek. Unfortunately, they didnt Pay Attention to our points of view. The United Nations has appealed to me. Theo, p. N. Authorities for access to thousands of eritrean refugees in the growing region. Prime minister had claimed victory over the to great Peoples Liberation front on saturday, but the t. P. I. Left leader is warning that the conflicts between his forces and the National Army is not over. Forces have emerged of what a
Hello, everyone. Thanks for joining us. In the race for a covert vaccine, the European Union does not appear to be first in line in the race for a covid vaccine. It may need another month to decide on granting approval for a shot. Meantime, the United States and britain are aiming to get the green light to a vaccine before christmas. The eu is not far behind with a meeting scheduled for december 20 92 consider approval for the shot developed by pfizer. Our correspondent dave keating has more on how the process will play out. It certainly is not the normal process. These processes could normally take years, but, obviously, exceptional circumstances call or exceptional measures. All along, we have known that the eus regulatory bodies, just like those of the u. S. , u. K. , and other countries, would perform a special authorization process for these vaccines. Basically, the regulator would approve the vaccine, but the maker of the vaccine would continue conducting tests to make sure they
In fact is that they would be brought here to, to her and to the most of the many, the founder of the Islamic Republic on saturday. His body was taken to the holy city of mashhad to a holy shrine there. Yesterday, it was taken to the holy city of rome, and we understand it will be a quiet affair, partly because of the coronavirus pandemic. And partly because of security reasons. They could be minister defense officials attending then also other scientists who may not want to be seen on camera. But i think that part of it will be broadcast on state t. V. But the questions about the security of the country continue their headlines to ground forces, shot down an Ethiopian Military plane and captured the pilot a day after the Prime Minister declared victory in the region. Meanwhile, state media say at least 70 graves have been found as well. In the chicken town of the matter is 210 civilians killed in northeast nigeria and what the u. N. Is calling a gruesome massacre of farmers tending th
Was taken to the holy city of mashhad to a holy shrine there. Yesterday, it was taken to the holy city of rome. I went to stand. It will be a quiet affair, partly because of the coronavirus pandemic. And partly because of security reasons. They could be minister defense officials attending there and also other scientists who may not want to be seen on camera. But i think that part of it will, be broadcast on state t. V. , but the questions about the security of the country continue yesterday. We had Fars News Agency thats linked to the revolutionary guard, publish a version of events. They said that there were 3 security cause one went up ahead to scout the route and then there was a machine gun inside and pick up the pickup truck. The pickup truck that was remotely controlled and that began to fire. The pickup truck was then blown up and that was the cause. And they said that there were no gunman. Now that is in stark contrast to what we heard following the event state t. V. Ran inter