have you with this, congratulations and welcome to the washington history seminar. you re also very fortunate to have chris mcdermitt from the department to be with us as a commentator, welcome to chris. i am christian i developed the public policy program. i am delighted to be cochairing the seminar as always with eric arnesen from george washington university who directs the national history center. today, eric will introduce our speaker and moderate our discussion. as many of you regular viewers know, the washington history seminar is a collaborative decade-long effort of our two organizations the wilson center s history and public policy program hurt international history center of the american historical association. prior to the pandemic we met on a weekly basis at the wilson center. but now we are very pleased to come to you via zoom and facebook. behind this seems there are two individuals that help produce this events, peter of the policy program rachel weekly with t
i m jarred ray thank you for joining me last minute preparations for a coronavirus vaccine rollout are underway in the united states in anticipation of imminent approval from regulators the food and drug administration looks set to approve the vaccine made by biotech and pfizer according to reports u.s. president donald trump is chief of stockpiled pressure on the f.d.a. on friday to approve the vaccine reportedly telling its head stephen hahn to resign if the i didn t see had i had not done so by the end of the day the u.s. which has a coronavirus death toll approaching 300000 hopes to vaccinate 20000000 people by the end of december before it is met rigorous expectations joining me now is dr peter chin home he isn t in 5th. disease specialist at the university of california san francisco dr chin home welcomes the f.d.a. is said to be under real pressure from the white house to hurry up basically and improve emergency use of these spy on take 5 the vaccine it seems it will a
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pro-choice activists celebrate as argentina s lower house of congress votes now really to liberalize the country s abortion laws. i m jared raid thank you for joining me world leaders will gather today for a virtual u.n. summit on climate ambition it s to mach 5 years since the power at con power is climate accord was struck and just in time for that meeting e.u. leaders have managed to reach a hard fought deal to dramatically cut their country s greenhouse gas emissions member states agreed to reduce emissions by 55 percent by the end of the decade and the new target aims to put the e.u. one track to reach net 0 emissions by 2050. judging by their faces there was no doubt it had been a long night here in brussels. after hungary and poland had finally agreed to drop their veto on the entire e.u. budget leaders could get on with tackling what was the commission s most pressing issue before the pandemic struck the climate crisis. stuff you had to see often achieving this was wo