individual platform is whatsapp and instagram. now on bbc news, it s time for click. this week, we re at the biggest show on earth. there will be robots, poetry, and the biggest screen you ve ever seen. spencer singing: # ladies and gents, this is the moment you ve waited for. # in the heat of dubai. # your sweat soaking through the floor. yes, it s a year later than planned, but it s finally on. world expo 2020 has opened its doors and we re finally on the ground to see the spectacle. dubai has turned an enormous section of desert into an event where nearly every country under the sun gets to wave its flag and show off its ideas on a world stage. # tell me do you wanna go? # where it s covered in all the coloured lights? the hype has been huge, so it s time to see if it s lived up to its promise. time to find out if this is the greatest show. 192 countries, 192 pavilions, all different, some extravagant, somejust bonkers. and maybe, just maybe, some world changing ideas hidd
it s time for click. this week, we re at the biggest show on earth. there will be robots, poetry, and the biggest screen you ve ever seen. spencer singing: # ladies and gents, this is the moment you ve waited for. # in the heat of dubai. # your sweat soaking through the floor. yes, it s a year later than planned, but it s finally on. world expo 2020 has opened its doors and we re finally on the ground to see the spectacle. dubai has turned an enormous section of desert into an event where nearly every country under the sun gets to wave its flag and show off its ideas on a world stage. # tell me do you wanna go? # where it s covered in all the coloured lights? the hype has been huge, so it s time to see if it s lived up to its promise. time to find out if this is the greatest show. 192 countries, 192 pavilions, all different, some extravagant, somejust bonkers. and maybe, just maybe, some world changing ideas hidden amongst them. who knows? maybe it s the robot helpers deliver
robot: excuse me, i m in charge of the security here. please let me through. ..keeping order. maybe it s the giant displays, some of the biggest and boldest i ve ever seen. is it the architecture itself, hinting at new ways that we could live and work as we motor on into the 21st century? from the great exhibition in crystal palace in london in 1851, through paris eiffel tower in 1889, brussels atomium in 1958, and seattle s space needle in 62. these world expos are meant to make a statement and leave a mark a legacy for the host country. and this enormous expo site will certainly do that, even if the exhibits themselves don t stand the test of time. the sky garden is a garden in the sky. now, if you re tempted to ask, what is the point? i d suggest you re missing the point. in many ways, the show is all about the show. you each pavilion, a blank canvas for a country to paint itself as forward thinking and future facing. we believe we re doing this for a bigger caus
kids getting the first shot. the debate comes at a critical time. there have been more than 6 million pediatric covid cases since the start of the pandemic. just last week, 118,000 cases, a quarter of all new infections, were among children under the age of 18. the director of the national institutes of health says getting this age group vaccinated will help put the pandemic behind us. we can create a situation where more of these kids are not getting infected. we should be able to drive this pandemic down, which is what we really hope to do, even as we face the cold weather and other concerns about whether we might see another surge. we don t want that. and this would be one significant step forward in getting our country really in a better place. let s bring in senior medical one of us or both of us senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. tell us about the time line. a lot of parents are watching and listening. when is it most likely, if it does come, for emer
lost track of brian laundrie at one point thinking his mother was him. resources, money, time all wasted as the lone person of interest in gabby petito s death got away. we begin with elizabeth cohen and this key vaccine meeting going on right now. elizabeth, walk us through what s happening today. the data they are looking at and what happens next. anna, all eyes right now on this advisory committee. vaccine experts who advise the u.s. food and drug administration, these are outside experts. they have no skin in this game. they are just wanting to look at the data, so let s look big picture at the same data that these experts will be reviewing and have been reviewing today. so pfizer did a large clinical trial with children ages 5 to 11, and what they found was that the vaccine was 90.7% effective at preventing children from getting sick with covid-19. what they did is took more than 1,300 children in the trial and gave them the vaccine, followed them for a period of time.