A huge spike in targeted attacks on afghan state officials journalists and activists spreads fear and insecurity in the capital. And in sports south africas one Day International cricket series with england has been called off follows a positive cope with 19 tasks and breaches to the teams bio secure environment in cape town. We begin this news hour and pakistan west 6 coronavirus patients have died in a hospital and push allah off the oxygen supplies there are hundreds of other patients who also left for hours on reduced oxygen because of a delay to deliveries pakistan has so far a total of more than 400000 factions and over 8000. 00 deaths from car that 19 well our correspondent is in is on about for us to come out what more do we know about this incident and just who might be responsible here. We only know preliminary to call it send the preliminary reports be systematic take. For example. To capacity to have. Cubic meter of oxygen however. Only. Cubic meters was delivered to the ho
Ethiopia prepare for a long stay in neighboring sudan. Full the hope of imminent Vaccination Programs is doing little to reduce the devastating Global Impact of the coronavirus Record Numbers of people are being admitted to hospital in the u. S. And tougher restrictions are coming into force around the world on monday more than 33000000 people in Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley where it was stay at home or does restaurants are now closed to in person dining many other places including hair and nail salons museums and playgrounds have been shot completely in germany the chancellor Angela Merkel has hinted that harsher regulations will be required there she told Party Officials the existing measures of partial lockdown and social distancing rules would not be sufficient to get the country through the winter period and then theres been a 3rd wave in south korea and thats forced new regulations as well vera fear is that people are becoming fatigued by the restrictions on tra
P. M. Eastern on cspan, online at cspan. Org or listen live with the free cspan radio app. Next, look at what u. S. Foreign policy will look like an abiding administration. This Brookings Panel talked about afghanistan peace talks, americas role in the middle east and the impact of the troop withdrawal ordered by President Trump. This runs one hour and 10 minutes. Good afternoon, everyone and welcome to this brookings and Charles Koch Institute event. We are going to be talking today about the socalled forever wars in the broader middle east region and what abiding presidency along with the 117th congress should do about them. I am joined by a distant wish group of scholars and friends from numerous institutions all around washington but nonetheless, reflecting a real divergence and breadth of thinking experience and approach in thinking about these kinds of things. Lots of handson expertise. Americanat the new initiative at the Atlantic Council. He is a longstanding scholar. Any of yo
Is meeting to discuss the distribution of vaccines that are still in the final stages of that approval. So what we do know is that the meetings from the f. D. A. Da, those hearings will take place, will be december 10th and 17th for her and modernity, respectively. But what were hearing from mike pence, the Vice President , as he held a call with governors on monday, is that he expects these vaccines will almost immediately be rolled out. 12000. 00, jobs are now at risk in the u. K. , is that the partment store chain that has become the latest business casualty of the pandemic . Brennan has more from london. Its really not the season to be jolly here on the u. K. High street with the u. K. Retail sector in a genuine crisis at the moment in the run up to christmas. And in the midst of this pandemic, the news about especially a surprise, its been in Administration Since earlier this year. But the fact that 12000 jobs are now in serious jeopardy, just weeks before christmas is a big blow
People because as we get older. d our immune systems deteriorate. This vaccine is different from the other 2 that weve been reporting on because it is made from a weakened version of the common cold virus found in chimpanzees, which is then modified to make sure that it cannot grow in humans is given in 2 doses. And so far is reporting a 99 percent efficacy rate. All participants have been gently generating neutralizing antibodies. So it is knocking out the virus in their bloodstream with no reported side effects. And that is very good news here because this is the vaccine that britain is betting on. It has bought 100000000 doses of it so far. And so we are eagerly awaiting the phase 3 result. Whats interesting is that initially this vaccine was one of the front runners, and we thought wed be getting results much earlier. But as we know in the last 10 days, the pfizer bio and tech and the madonna vaccines have pulled ahead and, and have shown that they are more than 90 percent effectiv