Welcome to do double news isha glad you could join us the United States says there is no reason for tensions between china and taiwan to escalate to confrontation the remarks come as a senior chinese official warned that any moves towards Taiwan Independence could mean war the sharpened rhetoric from beijing matches increased military activity by its forces against taiwan the aim analysts believe is to place a new u. S. Administration and taiwan on track. Taiwanese air force pilots are on high alert this may be just a simulated thrill to show how fast they can take to the skies parts of recent months theyve been doing it for real the president laid bare the threat from their nearest neighbor. Who are in the past year our radar stations have detected the incursions of nearly 2000 Chinese Military aircrafts and over 400 vessels this allowed us to intercept and drive them away and secure our maritime an airspace. A Record Number of incursions came on january 23rd china sent 13 warplanes i
Says the first rollout could happen by mid december. The g20 discusses the virus and the potential remedies. Shotspledges to make available to all and President Trump wont say if the u. S. Will join a global effort. Haidi we are setting up for a cautious start to trading. The aussie dollar holding pretty steady. Kiwi stocks are up by half a percent. We are seeing the kiwi dollar trading just flat. U. S. Officials say the first vaccinations could be administered in just three weeks if given the green light for emergency use by the fda. Aboutare still concerns how poorer countries will be given access to any vaccine. The vaccineke Development Team has an aggressive timeline. Be do we expected to achieved and a lot of people are concerned about equitable access. Of movingre a lot parts here. A lot of movement around the world. Drug administration has an advisory meeting that day about the vaccine. Health officials really seem to think that approval could be forthcoming at that meeting or
Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us at least 16 people are dead and thousands of homes destroyed as of monday evening local time in the philippines officials continue to assess the damage typhoon goni is one of the strongest storms to make landfall there in years bringing winds of up to 200 kilometers an hour to parts of the country it mostly missed to the capital of manila but still hundreds of thousands of people have had to evacuate not just from the storm but from subsequent mudslides and floods. For a country hit on average 20 times each year by typhoons goni was the most powerful to strike the philippines this year. Rooftops were torn away debris flying everywhere as water rushed in one from the sea or downhill from mountainsides. Wind gusts reached above 300 Kilometers Per Hour and in some towns the red cross said up to 80 percent of the homes were destroyed. Goni rival typhoon haiyan which in 2013 killed more than 6000 people. But this time there were
A lot of address the reason why its also being described as a sort of lockdown light or a partial lockdown schools will room it will remain open daycare will remain open churches will remain open shops will remain open but basically Everything Else will have to close for the month of november so bars restaurants james museums theaters and so on and there has been criticism as to why exactly these areas were targeted and not other areas but thats also why the german chancellor explained that since germany at this point cannot track and trace most infections in fact 75 percent of infections then there is a need to come up with these measures then why for example schools were left open Angela Merkel has had that as a clear goal right from the start school to have to remain open as much as possible thats important socially also economically and at the same time the German Government wants to make sure that the businesses under the economy in general are affected as little as possible chanc
A whales tail the rotterdam tribe had no passengers on board its not know why it overshot the tracks. Hollywood star johnny depps lost hes libel battle with a british tabloid newspaper that said he was a wife beater after being caught in london a rule that the allegations were substantially true. To the publisher of the sun that he do so exwife. And imprisoned Saudi Arabian womens rights activist. Through has begun a new Hunger Strike to protest the conditions of detention according to family the 31 year old is one of at least a dozen womens rights sats of ists who were arrested in 2018 during a crackdown on dissent weeks before saudi arabia lift its ban on female drivers Rights Groups say shes been subjected to abuse during detention including electric shocks flunkie and sexual assault. We can speak with her sister lena local whos here in berlin welcome to t. W. Im your sisters been in detention for 2 years now what she charged with. Its almost 3 years now so there have been different