Im british by the day. Welcome to news asia. Glad you could join us. He highways leading to the indian capital of delhi, blocked as thousands of farmers protest against new agricultural laws passed by. The government. Farmers are demanding a rollback of the laws. Claim me, they removed a government assured grain purchase scheme that acted as a safety net for them. The government has assured the scheme will continue, but farmers convinced these 20000. 00 farmers arent going anywhere. Their trucks and tractors are blocking the major highways near indias capital. Each one of our tractors is loaded with rations up to 4 months. Until the time the government reverses these new agricultural laws, none of us will go back to the farmers field. Their livelihoods are threatened. They fear that the government will stop buying grain at guarantee prices. The worry is that this could leave them at the mercy of corporations who wont pay enough for their crops. Prime minister, Narendra Modi is trying t
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Overseeing Vaccine Development faster than ever before joe biden promises facts in distribution will change the course of the pandemic during his 1st 100 days in office. And venus is caught off guard by a centuries old problem thought it sold a change in the way the forecast means the cities mean flood defenses one place to hold back the time. A method how to welcome britain is forging ahead with its coronavirus vaccination if it after making history as the 1st western nation to begin immunizing its population with a fully tested 19 vaccine the 2 does vaccine was fast tracked by a German Company buying tech in partnership with the u. S. Pharmaceutical giant pfizer the u. K. Faces some Public Safety given how fast the treatment time to market. With one prick the largest Vaccination Campaign in the history of the u. K. Was launched. 90 year old margaret chain was chosen to be the 1st recipient and she played the role with grace and gratitude. I say for the 1st 50 for this it is for me an
Vaccine. Finding a compromise. Agrees to slowly add more Oil Next Year after days of an stoxx. The Saudi Arabian energy miss mr. Process excruciating. Happy friday. It is excruciating for some of those journalists who stayed up late for that press conference. Look at where we trade friday morning. The s p 500 a bit over concerns roll outow pfizer will that vaccine. We are pushing a little higher this morning on the futures. Is this durable . What stands out is a record in the u. S. , a grim record of high infections as well as hospitalizations. Hospitalizations at the highest rate we have seen the entire time this pandemic. With rates increasing, that means more lockdowns of economies in cities and states. Gavin newsom in california warning california they could be next. The labor market, we will get a read on today. The november jobs report will come out today. Lets take a look at brent crude, testing 50 a barrel, 1. 9 percent higher. You had the opec plus meeting yesterday. Brexit ta
When you can soon line up with one. We begin with mike tobin at pfizers factory up in michigan. Reporter we saw that historic first shipment leave here yesterday carrying doses of the vaccine. The followup today is more trucks, more boxes nilled with vaccine leaving the pfizer plant in michigan. Yesterday, 189 boxes left here. That works out to little more than 920,000 shots in the arm. Today, 400 boxes or 1. 9 million doses of vaccine ship from here. Within hours of the first shipment leaving here, ups landed its first plane with 38,000 doses of vaccine at its World Distribution facility in louisville, kentucky, where the doses are sorted. Planes and trucks take it from there. It is humbling, you know, being part of this vaccine process. Its going to take a lot of lives. Reporter three kentucky hospitals got 975 doses of vaccine each as the priority has been to get the vaccine to Health Care Workers. Dr. Jason smith got the First Vaccination in kentucky. The vaccine is going to 636 di