Takeoff. U. S. Aviation regulators say boeings 737 max can return to the skies, but only under certain conditions. And im disturbed in doha with all your support in the cricketers went to pakistan for the 1st time in 16 years. Is that a move for this news . Our u. S. Truck make a fire as a says it will request emergency approval for its coded 19 vaccine in the coming days. The vaccine developed with its german partner biotech, has shown consistent results across various demographics with no major side effects. On the results from the pfizer biotech vaccine trials showed a 95 percent success rate in all age groups. The highest of any candidate in late stage clinical trials. So far. The company says it could have 50000000 doses available by the end of the year. But its distribution is complicated by the need to store the vaccine. A temperature is of 70 degrees or minus 70 degrees celsius. We are confident that if, if we continue across the current of it, that it could could happen that, that we get not what it was until mid of the stand and quits to, to provide 1st millions of doses of experienced to the region. Get an approval on october for this because victor davis nash is a professor of epidemiology at the City University of new york and joins us live via skype. Thanks very much indeed for being with us. So are you surprised by the level of effectiveness that they, theyre claiming for the vaccine . Yes, its very encouraging to hear such high numbers. Of course, there could have been area and need to be vetted by our food and Drug Administration and the insight, but 1st as a 1st number coming out of the barn here. Its really nice to hear. I dont like that. Now, especially older adults, they, they put the figure for them at 94 percent effective is, is that something that wouldnt be seen with, with regular vaccines . You think . Well, i think some other vaccines dont have that level of ask c, especially in older people. And of course, thats the group of people that is among the most vulnerable to source code to infection and those who would come in 1000 severe kovan 1000 that comes from it. So its very curvy to hear that as well. In september, the drug company was worrying that they didnt have an a diverse enough pool of trial participants. Is that, is it your impression that they managed to resolve that . So i havent seen the detail data from either of the vaccine manufacturers, but that in their statements, they did say that across different subgroups of age and reset the city and presumably gender as well that they saw equal effectiveness or comparable effectiveness. And so my hope would be that, that enroll the Diverse Group of people into their trials. Now theres this talk of that, the complication of having to keep it so cold. How much of a hindrance is that in terms of rollout . Well yeah, the more logistical challenges you have, i think the harder it is going to be to get the vaccine from, you know, when its manufactured into the bodies of those that need to take the vaccine. And so that the more complicated the coal chain, the harder its going to be serious deliver, and many different venues around around the country in the u. S. And around the world where there may be challenges maintaining coaching. What about the need for 2 . It is my understanding that this one is the one that needs to you need 2 doses of it. How much more difficult is it to to sort out a Vaccine Program if you do need 2 doses. Yeah, well my understand is that both Companies Back senior pires 2 doses and so yeah, they may be 3 or 4 weeks apart from each other. And so individuals will need to be reached twice in order to, to receive the full, the full vaccine. And the benefits that come with it, and that makes it challenging to get people in, you know, i wouldnt say its twice as hard as getting them and twice, but it can be harder to get them in. Again, once theyve had the 1st dose and the regulators, how quick can you experience . Can we, can we expect a sort of decision on whether it has given approval . Well, i think weve seen, you know, an unprecedented year in and scientific progress and, you know, moving things that normally take years to get through the pipeline in a matter of months. And i know that, you know, the entire Scientific Community is poised to work as quickly as possible to, you know, to go through all of the data thats been generated by these trials and vet them. You know, say as much as we can about their understanding out of ethics and safety. So, you know, my hope would be that there would be a lot more eyes on these data over the next few weeks and months. And you know, were getting some kind of approval and maybe even peer review in the scientific literature, you know, much faster than we usually see. Oh please, by the end of the year, if not before, has a dentist rationing care, much indeed for joining us. Thank you. All the development has been welcome by the World Health Organization is warning that vaccines are only one part of a successful response to the coronavirus. I hold with a lot of hard work in the spring will start to have vaccine come on stream and then well have a huge extra tool. Some people think the vaccine will be in a sense the solution, the unicorn, weve all been chasing. Its not all this is the United States continues to see an acceleration of virus cases. Its reported more than what a 1000000 new infections in the past week alone. According to the Americas Branch of the World Health Organization, there are well over 11300000 cases confirmed across the u. S. , making statistically the worlds worst hit nation. Almost 249000 people have died there. After contracting the virus. Us president elect joe biden has hosted a Virtual Meeting with Frontline Health care workers battling the coronavirus. He emphasized that he wanted to hear directly from those whove seen the reality of the pandemic and how its devastating american communities. Joe biden told his guests that they deserved leaders who would work hard to support nurses and carers lets go to she have a chance. Hes in wilmington, delaware, and she had joe biden has big plans in terms of dealing with a virus. Right. And then these sort of on this local level, joe biden as president can do quite a bit even without congress. So from the testimony of those, those Frontline Health workers, they were complaining about the lack of personal protective equipment, for example. They were somehow doing tales of having to reuse by nurses and by 5 men and by others. And also stories of nurses having to go to work even though theyve tested positive for covert showing symptoms. But their employers are forcing them to go into work and all these sorts of areas the president can do quite a lot. He can do what i didnt do, which is invoke the defense production act and streamline the production of personal protective equipment. Get the infrastructure all together. Centralized production, seize the means of production. These are muxes, frasers probably biden. Good news. So its not pumping out p. P. For so from a centralized, centralized locations and distribute them widely around the country. Trump refused to do that. He left it to states to try and fight with themselves to try and get b. P. As far as nurses going into work, covert positive than his existing regulate tree. There are rules for which are which ensure that a workplace has to be safe. The trouble ministration hasnt been, hasnt abiding by those rules or making sure that those rules are abided by so he can do a great deal that well, by dint of businesses having a great deal of trouble, there is on the issue of vaccine potential vaccine distribution. Because the federal government on the trunk is still not giving the trumpet transition to any information about supply chains about problems about what issues have already popping up, what they feel might be to come. So they call and prepare for that. So they have a real problem down by months, again today saying look, i mean, why are there more people will die as a result . As a result of that, thats it. And thats not just a problem there for bite. Its a problem for the states as well. Because actually the individual states, were just talking about the new potential vaccine, the may be distributed in the coming months that i dont being told either as to how many seen doses they can expect from the federal government, how much they should prepare for them. They say they dont even have the money necessary to train the staff, to, to administer the vaccine, to take in all the data thats necessary to be transmitted to the c. D. C. Although some states even refuse to transmit data to the c. D. C. Out of privacy rules. So there are all these issues which might take congressional action, and congress doesnt want to act, not just on extra money for the states, for vaccines that was seen, but even for helping people in a lockdown survive. And new york facing new restrictions and the rising infections that we just heard that the Public School system as a result is going to be shut down on thursday. But the, the 3 percent average test Positivity Rate over 7 days has been reached. And theres this, there was a limit when you made it a great priority to reopen the schools in new york city about 2 months ago. When he did that, he said if that average test positive or the rate reaches 3 percent, the schools would shut down again. Its reach 3 percent shutting down. But this isnt because it is spreading within schools. And this is, this is an interesting point which is being discussed. One of the many nuances of covert policy, i guess, is it could spread within schools is still very, very, very low minuscule. But because the citys average test positive you rate is going up, thats why the schools are being shut down as a great debate as to whether this is the correct test, Positivity Rate for schools to be shut down. In fact, about 300000 children of the 1100000 children, all students who are in the school system. So only a fraction actually had gone back to school. But clearly this will cause a great deal of our people and the lives of parents and students. And for childcare, im forgetting for money as it was cheaper to say thank you very much. The chinese vaccine is also showing positive results in trials and the drug known as corona back. His now in the final stage of testing researches say the vaccine led to a quick immune response in around 700 trial patients. There are several vaccines being developed in china. Some of which are already being administered, katrina use in beijing and says the Chinese Government is showing confidence. China has 5 vaccines in total, which are undergoing final stage days. 3 trials. But the clear front runner here is a vaccine thats been developed by the company signed of that vi otec called corona vac. Now this vaccine works by including an inactivated form of the virus. That is a virus that has been chemically killed in a lab. And that will be injected into a subject and ideally produce and an immune response in somebody who is receiving it. Now, according to an article published in the medical journal lancet, this vaccine had some success in mid stage trials. This is based on study and a study of about 700 people, although the article didnt say what the success rate of the vaccine was. Now that was done that was accumulated in april and may instance then quite a bit has happened with the son of that vaccine. 1st of all they began phase 3, final stage trials overseas. Now those trials couldnt be conducted here in china because of the lower number of carved 19 numbers, but theyve since began in indonesia, bangladesh, and in brazil, a southeast chinese province called judge in september, started up a Pilot Program for members of the public to receive this sign of that vaccine and since september, the judge on government says 740000. People have received that vaccine, including Many International students who were about to go overseas to commence their studies, as well as international businessmen. Now of course medical experts around the world say it is extremely risky to be giving members of the public or people this vaccine before the phase 3 trials have been have been ended, and theyve had any conclusive results. But certainly, the Chinese Government does seem to be very, very confident in this particular vaccine. Pakistan is one of many countries around the world dealing with a 2nd wave of coronavirus infections. The government has not imposed another knock down, but is restricting Public Events including political rallies, rhetorical b. Reports. This hospital in islamabad is struggling to cope with the number of 1000 patients being admitted to its wards. Infection rates across pakistan have increased significantly in the last 2 weeks. Second wave is very serious. Hospitals are once again parked. Its very difficult to cope with the crisis when the Health Care System is already so fragile. The government has ruled out a 2nd national lockdown, shops, restaurants, and factories can stay open, but must follow, say, szell distancing measures and weddings are restricted to a 2 hour gathering, but up to 300 guests can attend Prime Minister imran khan has banned his p. T. I. Party from Holding Public rallies and asked others to do the same opposition parties accuse him of playing politics. The role of the army, the ban on political rallies is not acceptable to be categorically reject the governments decision and our rallies will happen. Daily infections in pakistan peaked at more than 6800 in june. That number fell to a low of 213 in august and to stay below 700 for most of the last 3 months. Now its back above 2000. People are worried about how theyll cope during the previous, lockdown or businesses were destroyed. Now we hear on t. V. , the 2nd wave is more dangerous. What is the government doing for us . They waste time arguing with opposition parties instead of caring for the people. The government says it will decide next week whether to shut schools, teachers say theyre doing their best to ensure students a safe. Yes he did, and the role didnt go. But yeah, gave them masks a checked as well as the temperatures. The 2nd wave is spreading rapidly, so weve divided our classes into 2 groups. Come in the morning and group being in the evening and that way we can ensure social distancing and avoid any spread by the Prime Minister says hes worried about the number of people being admitted to hospitals and visiting people who wear masks in public and avoid crowds to prevent the 2nd wave of coronavirus being worse than the 1st, victoria aljazeera coming up on this news hour from london, the president continues his twitter attacks on the u. S. Election results, even as more states reject his campaigns court actions. Marching on the capital is here, his Prime Minister says the army is closing in on t. Grays biggest city and sports with peter asian champions, league football, turns to call to action on the way police in uganda say 3 people have been killed during clashes between protesters and Security Forces, supporters of the pop star turned politician known as bobby wine tires in the streets after he was again arrested. Officials have accused him of violating coronavirus restrictions. Are campaigning for the upcoming president ial election. Welcome web is monitoring developments from nairobi and status update. The winds wife has published on social media Uganda Police charge. She says that on this occasion then its certainly not the 1st time hes been arrested on this occasion. Hes been charged with actions that could cause the spread of disease. So this is relating to those covert 19 restrictions that the government has laid out. You doss where youve been taken. Police have said that they dont know he was taken by counterterror police. His wife says that she believes hes being held at a Police Station in the eastern city of ginger. Now the Security Forces often find themselves between a rock and a hard place in these kind of situations. They appear to be under instructions to often prevent opposition. Political activities from taking place in european theres been legislation to prevent that for almost 10 years now in uganda. But on the other hand, when popular opposition figures are arrested and detained, that can cause on rest. That itself can bring people on to the streets. Thats exactly what weve seen today with will be one campaigning in one part of the country. His arrest leading to protests and on rest in the capital, which is more than a 100 kilometers away. So pleased at this point have the choice of either blocking those Political Activities or releasing, releasing their captive to prevent the armrest getting any worse. What they often try to do is kept it into a bar and take the back roads and try and take them home so that the opposition figures taken away and released from detention, but without attracting any further crowds. Ethiopias Prime Minister says his troops are nearing victory over forces in the northern tier, a region that has refused International Calls for mediation, and says military officials, a marching on capitol hill, a federal troops launched an offensive against the Peoples Liberation front earlier this month. Hundreds of people have been killed and the conflict has forced thousands of people to flee many into sudan, hip or morgan is there a worst humanitarian crisis is unfolding as thousands of people cross the border every day. The number of refugees that continue to arrive today have been rising over the past few days. The United NationsHigh Commission for refugees. Thats the Refugee Agency said that on sunday, more than 5000 arrived on a single day. More than 2300. 00 arrived in the next day. And they say that