Welcome to the program. Global air travel is looking for a way out of the devastation the pandemic has been causing the International Air transport association. I. X. Have believes its possible to save the industry from ruin by reopening safety as soon as possible. And it seems to be high time. The industry body expects losses to belong to 84000000000. 00 in this year alone. The unprecedented drop is due to demand in the industry tanking by well over 60 percent. Now today i asked is holding its annual meeting where measures to remove travel restrictions will be high on the agenda. And a move towards what could become common across the industry. Australia. Squanto has announced that International Travelers wanting to fly with the carrier will need to be vaccinated against cove. At 19, earlier i spoke to director general and c. E. O. And xander vision yack and asked him what ideas the industry body had to move forward. You know what we are a commending because of that scene is not there
Plus of chinas on manned spacecraft rockets to the moon and its mission to bring back lunar rocks. We asked an expert on space relations. What chinas ambitious launch means for the global space rightist. Im rebecca written. Welcome to the program. 3 weeks after the u. S. And lection president elect joe biden has finally been given the green light to start the transition process. President donald trump tweeted on tuesday that he was directing his administration to cooperate in the handover process. Is the closest hes come to conceding defeat. Meanwhile, biden has pushed ahead and began announcing nominations for his own administration. Looking for president ial president elect joe biden officially revealed his picks for the top positions of his cabinet, monday, signaling his readiness to take over the helm. Bidens Foreign Policy and National Security choices mark a clear shift away from trumps america 1st doctrine. Instead, a lot of familiar faces from the Obama Administration. So many
Confirmation in the senate, where republicans still hold a narrow majority. For now, at least with the transition poses officially under way, some of the uncertainty and turbulence of the past weeks seems to be settling down. Peter joins with the studio now for some analysis, peter, after 3 weeks, this transition is can finally begin about time. Its a big a big deal. Is this right on a normal set circumstances . This would not be a big deal. I mean, this is something that usually goes very smoothly in the mallets, you know, just days after the election, we see the, the 2 teams come together and start the transition. But in this case, it is a big deal for exactly the reasons that were 3 weeks in. Were looking at competing crises, we have a pandemic. Theres an economic crisis and experts are really said, you know, if every day that this transition is delayed, means that more american americans could be dying from the co bit because the governments are just not ready to handle the price a
Three humanitarian organisations have called for collaboration with media houses to ensure that their activities are relayed to the public for greater impact and increased partnership opportunities. The trio, Churches Action in Relief and Development (Card), Find Your Feet and Malawi Red Cross Society, made the call on Friday during a media engagement in Blantyre.
Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (Luanar), Mwapata Institute and Catholic Relief Service (CRS) have urged government to invest in drought-resilient crops and other initiatives to wean the country from its over-dependency on maize. This is one of the recommendations from a survey titled ‘From Harvest Decline to Food Crisis: The Looming Threat of