The freeman foundatiby. Udy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; americas neglected needs. To this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Hello. This is outside source. More goodews on vaccines against coronavirus. Shows its vaccine is even more effective than first thought, appearing to protect 94 of over 65s. New york announces it will close its schools again as the virus claims 250,000 lives in the United States. Three suspects appear in a canyon court after a bbc africa eye investigation exposes the trafficking of stolen babies. The government promises further action. Ensuring that we protect our children and ensure our love our children and mothers are addicted. Coming up, new research on gedinosaurs sugst they were driving right up until the out. A meteorite wiped them welcome to our viehers on pbs innited states and around the globe. Glets begin with sod news. Pharmaceutical giant pfizers the latest data suggests its Coronavirus Vaccine is even more effective than we first thought. Pfizer and biontech have pole plumbing every data which suggest the vacne is 94 65, that is up from last week when the company said it was more than 90 effective. Earlier this week, there was impressive data on another vaccine made by u. S. Company madera, suggesting moder, suggesting 95 . This vaccine tracker keeps track of them all. There are six with ely or limite approval, including vaccines that china and russia have approved without waiting for the results of these three trials. Lets get the latest from a vaccine expert. It is just wonderful news for humankind, and so fantastic news for vaccine development. Fohumankind, hopefully people can see a light at the end of the tunn. For vaccine development, i, sa scientists, we thought we could do this, and weveave been p that a vaccine can protect people. Fabulous news all around. The Development Today about thezer vaccine, why is it so important that it is over 94 effective in over 65s . That is absolutely crucial. We know, unfortunately, the Elderly Population tendso be disproportionately affected by covid19. Elderly populations tend not to respond as welto vacnes. That is just a natural fact about all vaccines. This data tells us that the vaccines in general will be able to protect the people who really need to berotected. How far away are we from the kind of news that we have been getting over the last few days, all of this good news, having people getting the vaccine in society and making a difference . That is the big question. Itsta all fic news and i hopet gives people hope that this pandemic will be over, but lets not underplay a massive effort it ll take to vaccinate almost 8 billion people on the planet. People really should not he the expectation that this is going to happen overnight, but should feel confident that the vaccines look like they are working. That really is good news for everyone. You are in san diego, california. Tell us how bad the situatio is. We havean heard howcases there are in the United States right now. Na unforly, a little bit of frustration, which is understandable, and also some hacomplacencled to a lot of people maybe not taking as mh care as they should do. We have seen some very high levels of infection, actually higher than they were the first timeun a. That is really concerning. I guess my one concern about this fantastic news about the vaccine is that people think, everything is solved. We can get back to normal. Fo unately, it is not as simple as that. s look at coronavirus in the u. S. The number of people who have died with the virus half past a quarter million. Daily deaths are trending upward. Th graph shows the past four weeks. Theis u. S regularly recorded more than 1000 deaths a day, the t death toll in the worl you would expect to hear from the president on statistics like that, but as our editor points out, this is theixth tweet about the election in the last hour. Stl no word since the election about the surge in coronavirus caseswith i see you icus at the breaking point, but on thes president chedule today, nothing. Lets get more on the response from president trump. He is not doing much right now in addressing this. Part othat could be i was with him in the runup to the president ial election and he was telling rally crowds that if people stop talking about that people would stop talking coronavirus after t election, that it was drummed up politically. Now that we have reached the election day, gone past it, perhaps he is feeling like he doesnt want to be called outit for saying thaould just go away. Mike pence has been connuing, the Vice President has been continuing to meet with the Coronavirus Task force but there really is not any public presence from this admiration on a National Level to address these rising cases. We are only hearing off the record reports from people within the white house or Government Public Health community. In just over two months time, there will be a new administtion. What can president elect biden against coronavirus when he has a presiden unwilling to hand over the keys . That is a challenge, i was up in delawaren monday. He mentioned that the delays in allowing transition officials to communicate with Public Health officials could end up costing lives. While they are trying to do the best they can, they are Holding Meetings with their own conavirus task force that joe biden announced last weelp it would hem to be in contact with government officials in order to prepare for distributing the vaccine, which they will be in charge of in january, and also to get figures and information that Public Health officials have that are notublic that they can have on the spread of the virus, different tngs,teps they are taking right now to address it. Withou can only hazard guesses, talk to hepeople outside government, try to prepare the best they can. The reality is, they need that contact in order to be fully biden is inauguratay that joe we will have more later. In new york city, Public Schools will close from thursday, affecting roughly 300,000 children, but restaurants and remain open. Mayor bill de blasio elained the move on twitter, saying the city has reached the 3 testing positivity threshold, which means unfortunately Public School buildings will be closed out of an abundance. To europe, germany, thousands of people gathered in berlin to protest against the government coronavirus measures. Police used Water Cannons to break up the valley. Witnessesay demonstrators threw bottles at officers and set of smoke bombs. E protests came as german lawmakers debated a bill to give government greer powers to issueocial distancing rules, require mass in public, and close stores and other venues to slow the spread of the virus. It passed both houses of the parliame and was fast tracked to the president , who sign off on it. These were pictures o parliament today. Members of the right wing calling the death of german constitutional law. Germanys Health Minister responding to their criticisms. We in the government legitimized by Parliament Must weigh what damage we cr. The protection of health is not absolute. Wit must ghed up against other rights. Phtyical integ is also written into the constitution, which you just referred to. Italy has registered more than 34,000 new daily cases and 3 new debts. Italy has the second highest death to in europe he high th u. K. The numbe al. Not good at 753 deaths is the highest since the third of april. It is a very worrying number. In april, italy was in fullblown lockdown. Most of those deaths were probably peoplete inf15 to 20 days ago, when the infection h. Rate was exceptionally h there was a huge jump last month. Now, the infection rate is slowing down. In the last week, cases rose by 3 . E week before that, they were up by 25 . Eethebefore that, 50 . You can see the curve is flattening a little bit, and that will be the comfort of the government will take in the figures. Almost were almosin20,000 new ctions. More tn 1700 people have been admitted to hospital on average each day over the last week to last saturday. 529 deaths reported, people who died within 28 days of a positive test. Average, 416 deaths are announced every day, and that takes the total number across the u. K. To more than 53,000. Ministers are looking at whether they can relax coronavirus restrictions in december, so families can celebrate christmas. Here is our health editor. T will be absolutely crucial to reduce transmission of nge virus, gethat r number below one. The challenge for the government inngland is what sort of regime to have after december 2 ter the current lockdown ends, how you bring back a tiered system with maybe tupper rerictions in some areas. Wh we learned today is this calculation used by experts that fo every one day of relaxation, you need five days of tupperware restrictions. Whether that would aidly on eitherof christmas or after christmas y, if allowed a relaxation over the Festive Season is not completely clear at this stage. What has become clear today is that scientific advisors are working very hard to come up withck some sort of e of measures to allow some mixing of families over the christmas update in australiish our corons since the start of the pandemic, its recorded just 907 debts, fewer than 28,000 cases. Most of those were in tic state ofria and its capital of melbourne went into lockdown for more than one days. That ended in october. H now sostralia has ordered a sixth day of lockdown which authorities are calling a circuit break after a cluster of cases. Under the new rules, only one person per household will be able to lee each day a annually for specific purposes. Ohoutdoor exercise is ited. Pubs, cafes, and most shops will close, as well as schools and universities. Ththis has been response come along queues to get into permarkets. The approach is to go hard, go tast, tlock this in as fast as they can. Weow know there are 22 cases in that cluster. It started with hotel quarantine. One worker passed it onto 13 members of the same family, and now its growing. The authorities dont want to take any chances. Theyre telling south australians that if we do this strictly, if we lockdown estate state for six days, that will give us a chanceo do Contact Tracing as fast and accurately a as possible, bo to cut the road on more spread of the the other thing they are concerned about, and this was mentioned by the healther offic this particular strain of the virus is breathing rapid within an incubation period of 24 hours. People who are symptomatic actually showing very few symptoms, and that is why they want to be on top of it. That is why the lockdown has come in. You may remember how yesterday we told you about the bbc africa eye investigation that exposed a child Trafficking Syndicate in kenya. Adtoday, police in kenya arrests. This was the sne inside court, three medical officers that work at a Public Hospital were detained. Prosecutors say they are being investigated for possible collusion with child traffickers. The allegations camight in this bbc africa eye documentary which uncovered a series Illegal Networks where children were stolen from homeless onmothers and sol the streets for as little as 450. The public for showing what was happening. I want to say thank you toof thosou that volunteered information. And thank you to tgi media for br these out. The minister responsible for social protections as further action would be taken. All the Government Agencies involved in children protection have been mobilized. They will get to the bottom of this issue. No effort will be spared in ensuring we protect our children and assure that aen of our chilre safe. Have a correspondent has the latest on the story. The Police Issued a stateme saying that we need to break the syndicate of child trafficking. Shortly after there were three officersho were arrested and arraigned in court. Police are asking for 24 more hours to detained them as they continue with the investigations. They say this is a serious issue and they are doing all they can to address thisdi ste, this child Trafficking Syndicate goinon in the country. We also heard from the interior minister, who says he is satisfied with how the police have dealt with the matters since it came in the public b following th africa eye investigation. An if yout to find out more about that bbc africa eye yearlong special investigation, go to the bbc website where the team has written an article diving deeper into what they found. That is at bbc. Com africa. Alternatively, you can watch the full documentary at youtube. Oralso here on bbc news saturday night. Stay with us. Still to come, u. S. Regulators clear boeings 737ax to fly again more than 18 months after two deadly crashes saw them all grounded. Thes u. K. Broht forward a proposed ban on selling cars powered by fossil fuels to the 03year our chief environment correspondentooks at how the u. K. s target compares with other countries aroundhe we are seeing large numbers of countries signed up to the emissions to net zero. Duce any emission they nnot get rid of, the will find ways to capture and store and keep out of the atmosphe. We have already seen europe, china at the u. N. General assembly, said they wod have a net zero Carbon Record by 2060. Joe biden has ambitious carbon cutting plans. The u. N. Claims 125 countries have signed up to net zero plans for 2050 or thereabouts. What that means is we he more than two thirds of world gdp, more than two thirds of world admissionsovered by countries that do say they want to bear down on cutting carbon. Y areatching outside source. Our lead story, pfizer says its coronavirus vaccin could protect 94 of over 65 bus they can even more effective than first thought. The u. S. T regulator, federal aviation authority, has given the boeing 737 max airliner permission to fly again, nearly two years after it was grounded following two fatal crashes. The 73max was boeing bestselling plane but all of them were spended after the incidents. 100 89 people died in the first crash in october 2018 on a lion air aircraft. Sha second cnvolved Ethiopian Airlines. Automated software bause the both claims and nosedived shortly after takeoff. One man lost his wife and three children in the Ethiopian Airlines crash. Bcthe spoke to him last year about his campaign to stopflhe planes frong again. We still have our lawycos fighting it. The faa is supporting boeing. They cannot even produce the documents they have been asked to produce. What are theyidg . Ome and stand befor cameras and tell the world these plans are safe. Who is going to believe them . Not me. The decision to let them flyw fo lengthy investigations. The head of the faa gave his own personal backing to the planes. Based on all the activities we have undertakenn the past 20 months, in my personal experience flyingt aircr, i can tell you now that i am 100 comfortable with my family flying on it. Boeing released a statement saying it would never forgets te li lost in the two tragic accidents and said the Lessons Learned had reshaped the company. Th boss of its commercial airplanes arm said that we will continue to work with regulators and customers to return the airplane back into service worldwide. We have been following what regulators have been saying in the u. S. Thewent on to reiterate that this was the most scrutinized plane, that for more than 20 months you had american gulators looking over all of these changes that ha been made to the 737 max. It is not going tmestart flying ately. The f, the american regulator, still needs to approve the plans being put forth by boeing in terms of additional Pilot Training before the planes can go back up in the air. In terms of commercial operation, we dont expect to see the plands until thef the year or right into next year. It has been an absolutely dire time for boeing. Can it recover from th reputational damage that this has done . Ultimately, whether or not people gon to these planes, whether the flying public trusts these planes again will be up to the individual. It comes at a te in which we are already seeing that people are not getting on planes and going anywhere these days because of the global pandemic. You heard from the gentleman who lost his family, just how difficult it has been for him, how he does not trust that plane. E thre several levels of oversight that failedpo tt out the kinds of issues that exist with the planes. You might be hearing from regulators and from the playmakers that these plans are safe but ultimately it will be a personal decision for every individual. The parliament in thailand io voting whetherccept changes to the constitution demanded by prodemocracy protesters. These were the scenes in bangkok earlier. They wanthe reforms of the monarchy and the resignation of the prime minister. These demonstrations have been going on since july but were at oltheir most t on tuesday. Protesters tried to reach the parliament building. This is quite the contrast to the chaotic scenes that we sawou ide parliament in the past is crowd of largely ordinary folk have joined a peaceful rally, listening what is going on in parliament. Everyone is sitting quietly, and you get the sense that this protest movement is slightly lacking in direction. Heall of had been backing one of seven proposals being discussed in parliament. This one was forep sg reform of everything in the constitution, even including the status of the monarchy, something sensitive in thailand, but a core demand of this movement. Parliament, the mps, and the appointed senators have rejected that notion. They have approved two other proposals to start the process these are very modest steps. Thailand has h lots of constitutions, they have not necessary lead to better vernance. About, it could take years for a new constitution to come forward. Opdisappointing for the here. For the raid that they have expanded the debate in thailand about what should happen, ultimately, change can only take place within thailands institutions, in parliament. L of these people say that is compromised by being under a milit