A looming election join me Steve Clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u. S. Politics and society on aljazeera. I have to be ok you are watching this stream june 27th tina Grenfell Tower fire cured 70000 people this week the Public Inquiry resumed taking a break for covert 19 your downs in the u. K. So what not to do on todays program is find out how is the investigation going and will the people who were around when the tower the survivors the families the community will they see justice for granted. Im going to say hello to the guest the guests were introduce themselves to new hello say tell everybody you have. Hello im celeste mehta im a barrister i hope some expertise in human rights law criminal law and also fire regulation or by advice fire brigades and also advise companies in relation to fire good to have you in todays conversation and i like a great have you on the strange introduce yourself i important in this conversation go ahead
The numbers. We begin with the fight against covert 19 and a breakthrough in the race to develop a vaccine the Lancet Medical Journal has published encouraging results from scientists at Oxford University whove been conducting early human testing they found there vaccine appears to be safe and produced a strong immune response right now is being tested in large numbers in the u. K. As south africa and brazil there are more than 250. 00 different vaccines being worked on around the world 23. 00 of them already in human trials well the World Health Organization has welcomed the progress but says that any viable vaccine must be available to everyone. With political commitment of course. Thats the only way you can get you know Fair Distribution but one of the warning part of this we see is. Some countries moving the other direction of course more and more countries are joining the. Benefits the advantages of making this Global Public good. Paul brown has more now from oxford. Phase one rea
Politicians divided over a new covered 19 aid bill there as the number of cases in the country edges closer to 4000000. 00 plus. Im going home reporting from the island which used to be the largest exporter of life in the world well tell you why the numbers appeared to do it before. But theres been a breakthrough in the race to develop a curve a 1000 vaccine the Lancet Medical Journal has published some promising results from scientists at Oxford University who have already been conducting early human testing Scientists Say its safe for humans and also triggered the critical immune response which could stop the virus in its tracks while the findings are encouraging larger trials still need to be done and has more from oxford. Phase one really couldnt have gone much better for the oxford team early positive signs now confirmed in the published research so this is an important milestone on the par but were now moving rapidly forwards to trying to evaluate whether the vaccine actually pro
Works on a qualified majority is very early in the morning when you had more time to read the details you see how ambitious this compromise is. Around the table people spoke frankly looked at each other in there and tackle this issue to progress or our common values move them forward move government forward i reaffirm this was ambitious. This was an ambitious decision. And then on the amount. One can also say this is the 1st time this european project weve negotiated. Such a big financial package people are giving the impression that there arent many resources where theres 1. 74 trillion in. Office and then 750000000000 in the recovery. Which trigger very fired up to some feeling that there is very substantial we talk about ambitions but you have to look at will be if it contains. To deal with you medium and long term strategic challenges this massive injection of boozed persona 50000000000 users. Economic recovery but also health transformed the european project 19 hitters but even be
A live from doha also coming up. More protests expected in mali calling for the resignation of the president as International Mediators heads to the west african nation. And china warns the u. K. Over interference in hong kong as britain scraps an extradition treaty with its former colony. European Union Leaders have struck a historic multibillion dollar coronavirus rescue deal after nearly 5 days of intense negotiations its worth nearly 860000000000. 00 its going to help member countries deal with the effects of recession as a result of the pandemic leaders have been divided over several issues. More than half the package is being offered as grants and the rest in loans austria and the linz sweden and denmark the socalled frugal 4 opposed to a bigger ground fund the deal will need to be approved by the parliaments of Member States which could prove contentious caught. In week we spent 4 long days and nights of negotiation more than 90 hours but it was worth it this agreement is a sign