Odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. We are going to begin with breaking news on just how soon americans may be able to get a vaccine for the deadly coronavirus. Tonight the drug maker moderna says it has applied for emergency approval from the f. D. A. For its vaccine, making it just the second company, after pfizer, to ask for emergency authorization. The company says its on track to have 20 million doses ready by the end of december. The army general in charge of distributing the shots in the u. S. Says that by june, 100 of americans who want to be vaccinated, will be. And the h. H. S. Secretary, alex azar, tells cbs news that many seniors in nursing homes, along with front line workers, will have already gotten their shots before the end of this year. But its what happens before then that has Public Health officials sounding alarms tonight. Dr. Anthony fauci the nations top Infectious Disease expert says the country is now facing a surge on top of a surge. The virus
In as many questions as possible. It is my great pleasure to introduce todays speaker, philip gordon. He is a senior fellow at the u. S. Foreign policy here at cfr. For joining the council fill a special assistant to the president and white house coordinator for the middle east, north africa in the gulf region under president obama. He previously served the assistant secretary of state for european affairs. He is responsible for the relations of more than 50 countries in europe and eurasia along with nato, eu, and the organization for security and cooperation in europe. Phil has also had a distinguished scholarly career having written and coauthored numerous books on u. S. Policy and foreign affairs. Today we are here to recognize his newest book, losing the long game, the false promise of regine change in the middle east. Former u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Powers hails it as an examination of u. S. Regime change efforts in the middle east. The journalist robin whit
Event. Election 2020, president elect joseph biden. Following a contentious u. S. Election joseph biden will be the next president of the United States and leaders in the middle east have mixed emotions about that as adults, especially those who have prospered throughout down times presidency. The entire region undoubtedly will be he retired from 2019 four years. Me say a few things about leading up to the inauguration that should happen on january january 20. One that the electoral event itself in the u. S. Resonates in the middle east and america has been the leading democracy in the world for two centuries and the middle east since the late 19th century up till yesterday was still combating or struggling over the issue of what is the best political system, should it be a form of monarch or goal or military authoritarianism or islamic system or a democracy in these things are very real issues, particularly among the populations of the middle east. President trump has been somewhat an
And india are working together to confront threats posed by china as the u. S. Times defends deals with new delhi. At the at. The end thank you very much for joining us with exactly one week to go before the u. S. Election theres been a surge in early voting partly due to end despite the coronavirus by demick more than 63000000 americans have voted by monday night thats 4000000 more than all early votes 4 years ago National Polls are getting democratic contender joe biden a solid lead although its a lot tighter in some battleground states but the coronavirus pandemic continues to overshadow the campaign infections a surging with some states concerned about the lack of hospital beds nearly half a 1000000 cases have been confirmed in the past week alone with more than 225000 deaths since the pandemic began stock markets in the. Way saw their biggest one day drop in a month on monday as concerns grow that the failure to contain the outbreak will hurt the economic recovery and rescue packa
Than 100 others a Religious School in pakistan. And calls for Peaceful Elections in tanzania off the violence and many arrest of an Opposition Leader in zanzibar. So with exactly a week to go before the u. S. Election donald trump and joe biden are spending cheese day crisscrossing the United States in an intense day of campaigning and National Polls a giving democratic contender a solid leave though its a lot tighter in some of those crucial battleground states that could swing the election a pandemic continues to overshadow the campaigning President Trump has been holding 3 mass rallies on tuesday again downplaying the effect of the virus hes been attempting to shift the focus on to the economy. Its troubling the number one region that observe the year because of fruit return that a room. 70 were going to were in the great state of. Arizona do we care who or years ago was. Well biden has been accused the president of dangerous incompetence in handling the covert 1000 outbreak and his