Lines stretching for miles are seen across the country. We will speak to raj patel, author stuffed and starved the hidden battle for the worlds food system. Then a betting pool . That is what managers at a tyson pork slaughterhouse set up a to bet on how many workers would get covid. Six workers died at the iowa plant. More than 1000 were infected. Finally, 2020 has become the deadliest year on record for transgender and gender nonconforming people. We will speak to tori cooper of human Rights Campaign. Vionce iibly toxic and all of these Different Things that make trans lives being devalued. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The Trump Administration has cleared the way for president elect joe bidens transition after 16 days of delay that threatened to derail the incoming administrations preparations for reviving the economy and battling the coronavirus pandemic. Emily murphy, the trumpappointed head o
A coming Vaccination Programs possible treatments and rapid testing. Do you think do you feel that these solutions will be spread out to distribute it in an equitable way. Well i think that as you say these are encouraging news especially on the vaccines i think we still need to look at that they dont we need to rely on more than press releases we need to look at very good publications of the results but in the meantime our regulators here in europe and the United Kingdom and the United States are proceeding with emergency authorization process is and thats important and understandable in terms of i could have the access i think its reasonable to assume that wealthier nations those with those advanced deals with companies will be the 1st to get the vaccine and distribute to their populations followed by resource constrained countries professor how long a way is there still ahead of us i mean people are so encouraged by this use of vaccines now are being approved but realistically are w
A homegrown german vaccine developer so why wasnt germany the 1st approved vaccine i put that very question a short time ago to peter cram star hes heading a vaccination approval study here in germany for drugmaker cure back. Yes we are very happy. However. In the. It must not the 1st one it is the 1st one proved the below tech vaccine but we should not forget to discuss vaccines against. Proved by the chinese and by russian government and regulatory bodies they improved our vaccines 1st already in summer and well you hope that means continue in the who will have to 1st approval in the European Union. So would you say 3 vaccines already been approved and many more awaiting approval that this is the beginning of the end of the coronavirus pandemic. Well this is how i see it it will be certainly a change in the us after having discussed axing orders and European Union and hopefully soon or so in other countries and read about since i rolled out big vaccination campaigns with the start of
A special session is there a little time lateral way out of this pandemic. Im off its good to have you with us we start tonight with the latest from the pandemic here in germany and the news is not good the head of the countrys Public Health institute says that germany is still nowhere near bringing the 2nd wave of corona virus infections under control a partial lockdown in place since early november has stabilized the numbers but those numbers remain too high. The coronavirus pandemic is not yet letting up in germany. The head of the countrys federal Health Agency issued a stark warning. Many people are still getting infected with cold and 19 and the numbers are still too high they are on a plateau but they are not yet falling noticeably. We also see that the number of serious outbreaks and deaths is increasing from week to week but since both of these always occur with a certain delay we must expect many more here. Germany has been under a partial lockdown since november 2nd the dail
The border with the trainer, and he says that they are part and parcel of the conflict already. Portal Prime Minister ahmed, of course, writes the both a missile strike. Saudi struck us mara came just hours after they threatened to carry out attacks against us tomorrow, saying that it was a legitimate target. The 1st transfer of land in the disputed region of the goto cutback is taking place as part of a deal to end 6 weeks of fighting between armenia and azerbaijan. On media is handing over the district of many people there, set fire to their homes as they prepared to leave. While the deal has been celebrated by those and as a body shot, its led to protests against armenias Prime Minister, nicole posh indian 15 nations in asia. Pacific of agreed to create the Worlds Largest free trade block. The agreement was signed at the summit in hanoi, vietnam. Its the 1st free trade deal involving china, japan, and south korea. The u. S. Has been excluded. Its seen as a potential boost to the rec