Life well planned. The eeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. In new york city. I am Laura Trevelyan in new york city. This is bbc world news america. Covid hospitalizations are reaching a new high. [chanting] anchor prodemocracy lawmakers resign in protest after four members resign in china after being unpatriotic. Plus, meeting santa in the age of social distancing. How st. Nick and his helpers are making sure that christmas does not get canceled. Laura welcome to bbc world news america. Until them vaccine hits the market, we face with a u. S. President elect because a dark winter, trying to contain the virus. The red dots on this map show more than 50 million cases of coronavirus recorded worldwide. Here and the u. S. , more than 10 million americans have been infected. In a troubling record, more than 60,000 people are in the hospital figh
Where many embassies are based. It was a little after 8. 30 in the morning when the 1st rocket landed in the Afghan Capital for the next 10 minutes, it felt like kabul was under attack. Witnesses say the attack during the morning rush hour was timed to cause maximum damage. So for the record, what they got was morning and we were leaving our home when an explosion happened 2 of my sisters and my mother wounded. So we took them to hospital. I would have thought the way for book it was around 9 am. Rockets hit the bakery, wounding an employee who needed hospital treatment. Lots of shopkeepers are going to suffer financially because of this. I still has claimed responsibility for the attack. It came just hours before the u. S. Secretary of state might bump a 0. Arrived in qatar as capital doha, hes talking to both Afghan Government and taliban negotiators. Involved in peace talks, there shows richies and security that are just breath yet again. So that the sort of weaponry gets into the c
Hopefully the 1st people who will be immunized across the United States across all states. In all the areas where this, the state department of health will have to told us where to deliver the vaccine. Shavar dancing has more on the situation in the us from wilmington, delaware home state of president elect, joe biden. The midwest is a particularly big head to the middle of the country, basically is being particularly hard hit 200000 dollars 200000 cases a day, you know, being, being recorded. And the fear is that we have the spike right now with hospital beds on the overstrained. And we might be heading for yet another spike because of the thanksgiving holiday, which is coming on on thursday, the c. D. C. Pleading with americans not to travel to visit their families this week. They really think that it will become a huge super spreader event. Basically if i giving as families gather around dining tables, theyre all suggestions of some of the arrogance of these are heeding those warnin
High profile dismissal President Donald Trump announces hes fired defense secretary marc esper on twitter. Thousands leave the regional capital in nagornokarabakh as fighting between azerbaijan and armenia intensifies. Terms in doha with only sports news 27 team asas champion Sergio Garcia withdrawals from this weeks tournament after testing positive for corona virus. American drug maker pfizer has released interim results show its vaccine is effective against the corona virus the news has been welcomed by scientists and World Leaders and triggered a surge on Global Markets the vaccine developed by pfizer and german start up by on tech was found to be more than 90 percent effective in preventing covert 19 among study participants no serious safety concerns were observed among the more than 43000 Party Percent across the globe a study showed just 94 confirmed cases of kevin 19 of the news has been called a great day for science and humanity and while the World Health Organization says t
Consistent with our established plans and strategic objectives. Supported by the American People and does not equate to a change in u. S. Policy or objectives. When our White House Correspondent can really help it. This was anticipated and already in advance of this announcement, there was pushback because Top Republicans, including mitch mcconnell, the Top Republican in the u. S. Senate saying that this is really going to affect not only the ongoing peace efforts in negotiations in afghanistan with regard to the taliban of course, those negotiations taking place in doha, but also the fact that there is concern this could affect u. S. National security in terms of its counterterrorism efforts. But we should also point out that this is some of the same advice that was given to the u. S. President from top officials in the pentagon. But whats notable about this is the fact that the president just last week in fact, put in place a number of loyalists at the pentagon in order to push this