Or no deal. Time is running out for brussels and london to ensure smooth trades come january the 1st. Hello and welcome to do business on what to johnson berlin. Good to have you with us. The chinese president xi jinping, hits back against suggestions china could be looking to go it alone amid a rise in protectionism and trade tensions speaking at a virtual Asia Pacific Economic cooperation forum. She said global collaboration on issues from free trade to Vaccine Development is needed now more than ever. Critics, however, were quick to point out chinas increasing aggression towards trade partners such as australia and its lack of progress on long pledged commitments to open its economy. As most of the worlds Major Economies struggle to deal with, the coronavirus pandemic repeated his message. Thursday, our doors are wide open. At a video meeting with asia pacific c. E. O. s, the chinese president pledged to Carry Forward with efforts to open the chinese economy and warned that the risi
Boeing 737 max airplane to fly again after two crashes that took the lives of 346 people well tell you what to do if you dont want to fly on this aircraft. And well tell you what to do to keep your immune system strong as we head into winter. Early today starts right now good morning im frances rivera. And im phillip mena. Fresh off the news that Pfizers Covid vaccine is 95 effective, just hours ago astrazeneca released its own optimistic findings phase two shows that the vaccine is safe and its generating an immune response. Sara harmon of nbc is joining us from london. What have we learned about this vaccine . Reporter hi, phillip its billioning are encouraging on the vaccine front this morning were waking up from great findings from astrazeneca. This is a phase 2 trial. It was published in the medical journal the lancet. Its producing am immune response in older adults we know thats important because most adults are at risk for the virus, both for complications and risk of death. We
That, as things develop, nato will continue to adjust its presence. She says that even with the further u. S. Reductions that have been announced, nato will continue its mission to train, advise and assist Afghan Forces and is committed to funding them through 2024. And heres the interesting sentence, phil. She says, as secretary general stoltenberg said before the announcement, we must preserve the gains we have made in the fight against international terrorism. We went into afghanistan together and when the time is right, we should leave together. Now before the announcement secretary general stoltenberg said we will leave together. That clearly has been thrown into doubt by the us president. Well, i have told our daughter from back to you to australia. You need law to really. Because what you say, were going to hear next from the German Foreign minister, heiko mohsin. He also is concerned about these u. S. Plans. Its especially important to us that the progress weve achieved so far
We begin this morning with President Trumps efforts to reverse the results of the president ial election. Mr. Trump fired the top cyber official after the agency he has rejected the allegations of voter fraud. Joe biden is building out his white house staff as the Trump Administration continues to block his move into office. From washington, what is on tap for mr. Biden today . President elect joe biden is going to be meeting in a virtual round table with Frontline Health care workers. Hes pushing forward despite President Trump continuing to falsely claim hes won the election. Two weeks after election day, supporters of President Trump cheered on the president in pennsylvania. I want to help support the president and what hes doing and make sure all the legal votes get counted. President trump lost pennsylvania to joe biden by more than 80,000 votes. The legal effort led by Rudy Giuliani is a long shot. Every single legal vote has been upheld in every piece of litigation so far. Last
Another spike in coronavirus cases will meet the front line workers during one of the hardest jobs that there is every day. And u. S. President orders u. S. Troops to come home from afghanistan. The move is drawing fire from americas nato allies, including germany, plus 2 fatal crashes kept it grounded for 2 years now. After months of scrutiny, the boeing 737. 00 max has been cleared to fly again. I burnt off to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and to all of you around the world. Welcome. We begin tonight with politics and the pandemic. Lawmakers here in berlin have voted to give the German Government new powers, allowing it to introduce restrictions to tackle the coronavirus crisis. German president , vulture steinmeyer, signed the bill into law earlier this evening. It takes effect tomorrow. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets today to protest as politicians debated the legislation thank water cannon and pepper spray deployed by police to disperse the demonstra