A situation a former Prime Minister is described as apocalyptic and 70 is on to they were driven to local extinction jack you as a bank in their natural habitat in argentina. We begin with the race to vaccinate against covert 19 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 and plans to seek emergency authorization in the United States next week or last just a day off to the American Company novak said its vaccine was 89 percent effective in u. K. Trials meanwhile the European Union which is already secured 2 vaccines is now approved astra zeneca job for all adults this while it tussles with the company of a delayed supplies and faces criticism of a slow rollout there is dominic kane has more now from the german capital ballin. This is the astra zeneca vaccine in use available to british patients most at risk from covert since late last month and from now on officially so too for many e. U. Cit
A decision be made on which to take and what data to trusts also this hour a hong kong prodemocracy activist and media mogul jimmy lie is denied bail as he faces charges of fraud and a different type of exam season half a 1000000 students in south korea tackle the most important day in their academic calendar. And on peoples temple the school says n. B. A. Players get back to training the Houston Rockets trade old stalled home gold Russell Westbrook to the Washington Wizards. Thank you very much for joining as we begin this hour with the coronavirus pandemic in a new phase with countries racing to approve vaccines but in some parts of the world the picture is getting worse with cases on the rise as winter approaches since the start of the pandemic theyve been more than sea. 34000000 confirmed cases and nearly 1500000 deaths iran is now the hardest hit country in the middle east and has passed 1000000 confirmed cases over 1000 has killed almost 50000 people there but the Health Minister
Loyal, so the opposition bloc in hong kong resigned altogether. Dani the present news from tom the present news from china, but it can wait until armistice day. The arc de triomphe in early 19thcentury century. Not known, the first internal flame was lit in the western centuriesenturies and in 1920. It starts an interestiay for remembrance worldwide. A course in france, there is always a tone here of the cost and the price of one were one. I would say that this dovetails with the Remembrance Day of an aging queen and the United Kingdom. In the United States overnight, francine, there will be no focus on armistice day. There is absolute chaos, no other way to put it, at the pentagon, with the resignation of the secretary of defense. It is a very different Remembrance Day this year. Also because the coronavirus is limiting public services, so a lot of people are respecting the twominute u. K. Ce, which falls in the usually an hour from now. There are so many things that people are thinki
Support. Michael keenan welcome to conflict zone thank you hong kong has started off this new year with mass arrests 53 prodemocracy politicians and activists detained on the grounds of subversion under the new National Security law the move has been condemned by the worlds leading democracy has Rights Groups law associations as being nothing more than a crackdown is hong kong witnessing a dismantling of its freedoms and its opposition wont i dont think so 1st of all just like you were never deals in the world we are busy fighting the pandemic. Certainly the massive arrest that happened earlier this year is about a primary being held there last year it involving 5060 people who participated in a primary in preparation for last years election ok so so far the basis of the. Primaries involves a lot of candidates whose election platform. Volley. Article 22. 00 of the National Security law which is to paralyze the government to stop everything from functioning to basically opposed every si
What ideas do they have of their future. D. W. Dot com africa megacities the multimedia. Could enter. The for. Islands and immunization for indonesia a logistical nightmare. Its the Worlds Largest archipelago. Shipping shots to hundreds of millions of citizens spread across more than 17000. 00. From the been there very good good from actually taking a public boat is not an ideal condition for distribution of fact. Ceilings on drugs over the wall but i think its just not safe to carry vaccines in crowded conditions not moving at least in parts of vermont. And the countries Vaccination Campaign is highly controversial it prioritises younger people over the elderly. The government argues that they make up the bulk of the countrys workforce that the breadwinners. Critics say theyre more vulnerable could lose out. Indonesia has dropped 1000000. 00 coronavirus cases and to clamp down on the soaring infectious rate its launched one of the worlds biggest vaccine drives but its strategy is cont