Vaccines for the u. S. Before sending them to other countries it coincides with reports that his administration actually rejected an early offer from pfizer to double its order of the vaccines more on this from washington with mike hanna. Its clear that this executive order comes from the differences between pfizer and his administration and the refusal of the administration to commit to buying more than 100000000 doses at the time that it could the executive order ports to insist that all americans must be treated before any doses go internationally well this is simply an in forcible it would appear has signed a large number of International Contracts as has the other company but these companies contracts already in place in some cases doses have already been shipped internationally so certainly this is something that would be very hard to legally enforced president tran claims that he may invoke the National Procurement act seldom used. To force companies to actually comply but its v
That bag has more from tehran. This parliamentary vote was instigated after the assassination of irans leading scientist more in fact resulted. Now this conservative parliamentarian to hold a majority in the parliament, they control parliament. They put forward a motion. Theyre calling on the government to stop inspectors. Currently i. A. E. A. Inspectors can access Irans Nuclear sites without any prior notice. So its unrestricted under something called additional protocol. Now these conservative politicians are calling on the government to stop that. Theyre also calling on the government to increase enrichment to 20 percent currently, its just over the limit in the 2015 nuclear deal, roughly 4. 5 percent, not 20 percent is concerning because once you get to 20 percent, it doesnt take much effort to get to 80 percent which is weapons grade, but iran says it doesnt want a nuclear weapon, but what essentially is playing here is that the conservative parliamentarians that grouping has a d
An emergency approval so yes it is quicker than normal but the European Union has been quite critical of whats been going on here in the u. K. Saying that but some corners have been cut that the regulator here has been far too hasty in the e. U. s way of doing things is the best way of doing things obviously thats hugely debatable but also has to be found the United States has chimed in with interviews on u. S. Television also accusing the british regulator of just simply rubber stamping all of the research that was done by pfizer not going deeply or rigorously enough into approving the vaccines efficacy and safety as we heard there he quickly backtracked saying that he now does have confidence in british scientists and regulators and has always had confidence in all of this was just a simple mess understanding is could be a difficult backtrack though but nevertheless he has tried to explain his position by saying well look things are just different done differently in the United State
A federal judge and also significant because of the extremely scathing language he used. He likened the trump appeal to a frankenstein monster which had been put together. Have hazard lee. He made very clear that he believed there was no grounds for the trump claim whatsoever. And this makes it very unlikely that it can go on an appeal given that there are no grounds. Nevertheless, trumps lawyer says personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, who argued the case before the judge says he wants to take it to the next level, the 3rd district and from there to the supreme court. But very difficult to see how he is going to achieve that. And very significantly to the senate for pennsylvania. Pat toomey has issued a statement saying that the judge in this particular case, matthew brand, is a lifelong republican, with no legal bias whatsoever. He considers the whole matter. Now closed the legal position over and he congratulated president elect joe biden, and his administration looking forward. He says,
Imposed is that when. The regions hospitals fall below 15 percent of intensive care unit capacity then these restrictions kick in and here in Southern California which includes Los Angeles San diego and many other cities the i. C. U. Capacity has been dropping steadily on saturday it was 12. 5 percent on sunday it was 10. 3 percent we dont have the figures for monday yet but it looks like thats going to that trend is likely to continue there were 10500 new cases of cold 19 on sunday so with hospitals being overwhelmed they have no place to transfer up patients and if i see you capacity runs out its not only. 1000 patients that were talking about anyone who has a heart attack a stroke you know be ill with cancer or anything else an auto accident they need to be transferred to the i. C. U. And if the i. C. U. Is full. You know its its obviously its a its a Health Disaster as well as an Economic Disaster for many people in this part of the country in other developments the u. K. Is less t