Emergency in what he says would be the defining task of the 21st century a new report on wednesday found 2020 is on track to be the 2nd hottest year on record. In. The United Nations has reached an agreement with if yo pia to allow aid into government controlled areas of the tea grier region for weeks the un has been warning of a possible humanitarian crisis due to the conflict between at its ababa antigua rebel forces tens of thousands of civilians of already fled the fighting into neighboring sudan. This is the news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram acted up the news of visit our website d w dot com. For. As the world enters what is predicted to be a long pandemic winter there is a deadly disconnect the euphoria over a Coronavirus Vaccine although no vaccine has been delivered yet see the u. K. And the exploding death toll from coburg 19 people losing their lives by the thousands see the United States 2 parallel tracks and there is no guarantee that the vaccines will end
That affects 15 percent of the global population and we want to zoom in specifically on one topic Disability Inclusion in the workplace lets be honest having a disability often means encountering obstacles in areas like social inclusion transport education and of course the world of work but barriers are made to be overcome and in our next report well see some spectacular examples of how technology is helping people to realize their full potential despite or even because of their disability. When humans and machines become one of mind control devices are taking on. Touch of the is about 2 pilots a car in a virtual race that cybertron a tournament for people with disabilities. His team is made up of computer scientists from the university and fan talk time and. Its a new experience its really exciting. Hes also studying Computer Science and wants to become a Games Developer has been largely paralyzed since he suffered a spinal injury in an accident when he was 15 controlling the device
Engulfed in political and economic crisis period gets its president in the span of a week and al jazeera obtains recordings of one of the worlds most wanted men, trying to negotiate immunity from prosecution. Within factions surging worldwide and government struggling to respond. Theres been another dose of hope in the battle against covert 19 u. S. Pharmaceutical firms will durness says interim results from trials show its vaccine looks to be 94. 5 percent effective in preventing the virus. Its a really important milestone in the fight against the pandemic, because it demonstrates that our magaziner morning 73 is able to prevent cope with 90 disease including severe disease. And its really just a milestone. We have a lot of work ahead of us knowing the vaccine is going to be effective is great news, but we still need to complete the regulatory process, which involves completing the study, generally more to follow safety. And then of course, we need to get busy manufacture, fellow drug
[laughter] that is not a recipe for progress. To watch the rest of this Program Visit our website booktv. Org and click on the after words tab to find deborah stones interview along with all previous episodes. High everybody. Welcome to the National Book festival and this had difficult time of the pandemic. One thing we can do, i know you are loving it as i am is to read good books. I wrote a book that was published this summer which was about a cia officer who was struggling with one of the central problems of our time. Which is knowing what is true and what isnt. And it is my great pleasure to have with me today, toeople who wrote two of the very best books of this summer. About issues related to our new technological associated world. First i want to introduce mark galvin my former colleague at the Washington Post wrote an extraordinary memoir of his dealings with Andrew Snowden that led to t revelations out nsa technology and surveillance. The subtitle of his book says the american
Plans to fill critical. To the program we begin with breaking News Pharmaceuticals giant pfizer has announced that its Coronavirus Vaccine developed in partnership with German Company built on tech is 98 percent effective 2 companies are the 1st to show successful data from a trial such a vaccine. Found no serious safety concerns and expect to see. Emergency use in the United States this month. So lets explore this with to be a support an epidemiologist a. Hospital welcome to you how significant do you feel this news is. Well i think this is a significant step and we know that several companies are working on that since and were hoping to hear this news. Soon and so today we heard the news however we have to understand this is an interim analysis so does this not the end of the trial that is currently still ongoing and its a press release so we have not seen the data in detail but we have very. Positive that this data hold true and that a lot of people who are vaccinated are protected