Western country to approve a covert 1000 vaccine for public use those most at risk including Health Workers and tell her residents will get the job from next week Prime Minister baraks johnson praised scientists for their work but said people still need to be cautious Hong Kong Media tycoon and prodemocracy activist jimmy lives been denied bail after being charged with fraud the 73 year old is an outspoken critic of beijing and was arrested in august on suspicion of colluding with Foreign Forces he was later released a much japans government says it has grave concerns over the jailing of 3 other prodemocracy activists joshua wang agnes chao ivan last they were sentenced after pleading guilty to Unlawful Assembly during last years protests wong was jailed for 13 months and got 10 and 7 months respectively. U. S. President obama trying to give a speech on social media repeating his unfounded allegations of Election Fraud facebook and twitter placed warnings on his video statement. The Af
Suspicion of violating beijings National Security law to vehicle pollen reports now from hong kong. This is a very significant case particularly because. For his prodemocracy activities but hes also a huge tycoon here in hong kong for his rags to riches story hes worth an estimated worth of. Media companies. Companies so he is a big fish when it comes to hong kongs Democracy Movement here and his profile here in the city indian pharmacy amazing government ministers for a 2nd round of talks this protest against new agricultural laws intensify farmers worry that the new laws will and minimum crop prices more than 2700. 00 people in the u. S. Have died with the corona virus in the past 24 hours the highest daily toll since april hospital admissions also reached a record 100000 wednesday in the u. K. The pfizer bio and tech curve at 19 vaccine will be administered to high risk groups within days its the 1st country to approve a vaccine thats made it through all the Clinical Trials u. S. Me
Confirmed more than a 1000000 cases of call that 19 is the hardest hit country in the middle east that is easily killed almost 50000 people their Health Minister says the actual number of fatalities is likely to be much higher at that big has more from tehran many people werent tested or in Critical Condition and ended up dying before a test could be administered now the country is in a partial lockdown the figures are slightly down the death toll has decreased from come down from just over 400. 00 true around mid 3350. 00 and the new infections every 24 hours around 13000. 00 now who has to be noted is that iran is experiencing its feared wave of the krona virus or as many countries are still on the 2nd wave. Russia reported more than 28000 new cold in 1000 infections on thursday that it says highest spike yet the 2nd largest city St Petersburg has announced restrictions around the new Year Holidays meanwhile in the u. S. More than 3100 people have died from cold in 19 in a single day
Gdp readings are expected to show an 18 rebound from the covid19 fallout. 15 asiapacific nations formally launched the biggest freetrade deal. The accord covers 2 billion people and is a decade in the making. Howi lets take a look at it is feeding through. Havent seen much of a reaction when it comes to the kiwi aussie dollar. We are seeing bond markets the little bit cautious. We are seeing 3 10 of 1 when it comes to trading in sydney. Thirdquarter gdp numbers showing a sharp rebound in japan. We are seeing nikkei futures trading mildly optimistically. That is the picture when it comes to u. S. Futures. Back to thiss get incredible trade deal. After eight years of difficult negotiations, the largest ever freetrade deal has finally been signed. The regional, comprehensive, Economic Partnership includes 15 countries with china, japan, on. Ralia and all of aussie how important is the timing of this considering the damage caused by covid19 . This will be, as trade ministers will say, a bi
Listen to richard haas the prolific author and academically came out with another book entitled the world. A brief history and 300 pages its departure but i want to start because only after you turned and manuscript the world was confronted by the covidien pandemic and since that happened this crisis has highlighted so many of the themes and concepts that you tackle in the book. I just want to ask you out right what does the pandemic tell us about the world right now . Thank you for doing this also thank you to everyone on this call we hope everybody is well and safe as we get through this one day at a time its like groundhog day. With the pandemic tells us first and foremost is that the world matters and that is obvious were member of the council on Foreign Relations the world matters and what happens around the world doesnt stay there now its a small city in china where the virus broke out spread through china and then to the United States and elsewhere around the world, 9 11 it was