Will have the latest on the us election for you and also coming up, new research on dinosaurs suggest they were thriving right up until they were thriving right up until the moment that meteorite wiped them out. Lets begin with some good news. Us pharmaceutical giant, pfizer, says latest data suggests its Coronavirus Vaccine is even more effective than we first thought. Pfizer and biontech have released preliminary data which suggests the vaccine is 94 effective in people aged over 65. Last week, the Companies Said the vaccine was more than 90 effective. And earlier this week, there was impressive data on another vaccine, made by us company moderna, suggesting nearly 95 protection. Heres our medical editor fergus walsh. The us New York Times has created this vaccine tracker. They include vaccines russia and china have improved without waiting for the results of trials. Scientists give the vaccine to thousands of people, compared to volu nteers thousands of people, compared to volunteers who receive a placebo instead. Doctor kate broderickjoins us instead. Doctor kate broderickjoins us from california. Welcome, what you make of this flurry of good news . It is wonderful news for humankind and also fantastic news for Vaccine Development, for humankind. Hopefully people can see theres a light at the end of the tunnel and for Vaccine Development it says that as scientists we thought we could do this and we have proved vaccine will protect people. It is fabulous news. Why is the news is so important about the pfizer vaccine, 94 in the over 65 . Is so important about the pfizer vaccine, 9496 in the over 65 . That is crucial. As we know, the Elderly Population tend to be disproportionately affected by covid 19. Unfortunately in general, the Elderly Population tend not to respond as well to vaccines, it is just a natural fact. So this data tells us that vaccines in general will be able to protect the people who really need to be protected. How far away from the news we have been getting over the past few days, having the vaccine, this good news, how will it make a difference . That is the big question. This is all fantastic news and i hope it gives people hope that this pandemic will be over but let us not underplay the massive effort that it is going to ta ke massive effort that it is going to take to vaccinate almost 8 billion people on the planet. People should not have the expectation this will happen overnight but should feel confident that this vaccines look like they are working on that really is good news for everyone. You are in san diego in california, tells how bad the situation is there, we have been hearing about the cases in the united states. Yes, unfortunately, i think it is a little bit of frustration which is understandable and some complacency which has led to a lot of people maybe not taking as much care as they should do. So we have really seen some very high levels of infection, actually higher than they we re infection, actually higher than they were the first time around. That is really concerning. My one concern about this fantastic news about the vaccine is that people think, everything is solved now, we can get back to normal. Unfortunately it is not as simple as that. Thank you very much forjoining us from california. We appreciate your time. Lets look at coronavirus in the us the number of people whove died with the virus has now passed a quarter of a million and daily deaths continue to rise. This graph shows the past four weeks. The us is regularly recording more than 1000 deaths a day and has the highest death toll in the world. Well, youd expect to hear from the president on statistics like that. But as our north america editor jon sopel points out this is the sixth tweet from the president on election2020 in last hour. Still not a word since that election on surge in coronavirus cases, with icus at breaking point, shortage of beds, the us about to cross 250k deaths. And on president s daily schedule today . Nothing. The worst affected state is north dakota. Roughly one in 1000 people have died from covid i9 there. And masks have onlyjust been made mandatory. Vox highlighting the two witht his tweet north dakota had the lowest mask wearing rate in the country in october, according to survey data. The state also has the highest per capita rate of covid i9 any state in the county, according to the cdc as of november six. And the federation of american Scientists Says north dakota has the highest, global mortality rate in the world, followed by the czech republic, then south dakota which has still not made masks mandatory. Anthony zurcher is in washington. With staggering figures like these in the united states, what is the president doing . He is not doing much right now. That could be because, i was with him in the run up to the election, he wanted people to stop talking about coronavirus after the election, it was all being drummed up to undermine him politically. If you contract the disease, you will get better from it like contract the disease, you will get betterfrom it like donald trump. Now we have gone past the election, perhaps he feels he does not want to be called out for saying it was going to go away. The Vice President has been continuing to meet with the coronavirus tax course but there is no public presence from this administration on a national level. Task force. We are not hearing from the white house or the Government Public Health community. There will be a new administration in two months, what can president elect biden do when he has a president who is refusing to hand over the keys . That is a challenge and something thatjoe biden mentioned in delaware at a press conference, the delays in allowing officials to communicate with Public Health officials could end up costing lives. Trying to do the best they can, Holding Meetings with their own Coronavirus Task force announced by president elect biden, it would help them to be in contact with government officials in order to preserve for distributing the vaccine which they will be in charge of in january. And vaccine which they will be in charge of injanuary. And also to get the figures and information that Public Health officials have which is not public about the spread of the virus and all the steps are taking right to suppress it. Without this information they can only hazard guesses and talk to people outside of government and make preparation as best as they can but the reality is they need that information to be fully prepared for the day Whenjoe Biden takes over. Thank you very much. We will be back to you in a minute. At 21. 30 bbc news will be joined by the top american Infectious Disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci to discuss the uss latest coronavirus surge. Well also be speaking to dr atul gawande from president electjoe bidens virus task force and uk epidemiologist professor Neil Ferguson as part of a thirty minute focus on what the latest vaccine breakthroughs means for you, so make sure to tune in. To europe now. And well start in germany. Thousands of people gathered in berlin to protest against the governments coronavirus measures. Police used Water Cannons to break up the rally, because protesters were not observing the rules. More than 100 people were arrested. Germanys parliament is considering laws to allow the government to impose restrictions on social contact, rules on mask wearing, and the ability to shut shops and stop sporting events. The bill passed the upper and lower houses of the German Parliament and will be fast track to the president who has now signed off on it. We can show you pictures from the parliament, members of the adp party used black barriers to refer to the death of european law. Translation we in the bundestag and government are legitimised by parliament. The protection of health is not absolute, it must be weighed against other fundamental rights. Physical integrity is also written in the constitution. Italy has registered more than 34,000 new daily cases. And 753 new deaths. Italy has the second highest death toll in europe, behind the uk. Mark lowen is in rome. How bad is it . The numbers are not good at all. 753 deaths is the highest number of days since the 3rd of april so it is a very worrying numberfour of april so it is a very worrying number four italy. Remembering of april so it is a very worrying numberfour italy. Remembering italy was in full blown lockdown back then. Most of those deaths were people infected 15 20 days ago when the infection rate was exceptionally high in italy, there was a hugejump last month. Now the infection rate is slowing down a bit. Example, in the last week, cases rose by 3 but the last week, cases rose by 3 but the week before they were up by 25 . The week before that, up by 50 . You can see the curve is flattening a little bit which is comforting to the government. For a while back in the government. For a while back in the summer, italy was doing so well and better than european neighbours in avoiding a second wave but this has swept across the country now, not just the has swept across the country now, notjust the north like the first time. Yes, that is the difference between now and the first wave when the real focus of the infections was in lombardy in the north, one of the richest regions with one of the best health systems. Now covid is everywhere in italy and particularly worrying around naples, the rate is very high there and also down in the toe of italy in calabria, the poorest region in italy. So hospitals there are really struggling to cope. We spoke to a gp today who said there was a scarcity of oxyg e n today who said there was a scarcity of oxygen tanks in campania. In calabria, three Regional Health commissioners were named by the government in the last ten days and all three have resigned. It is not a good picture in the south. The government will be hoping that its tiered approach, red, orange and yellow zones, depending on the risk, will begin to payoff the next few weeks. The government has said were reaching the peak of the second wave in the hopers those numbers will start falling dramatically in the next two weeks. Thank you very much. The daily average in the uk is almost 23,000. 529 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, people who died within 28 days of a positive test which means on average 416 deaths were announced every day which takes the total number of deaths in the uk to over 53,000. Ministers in the uk are looking at relaxing coronavirus restrictions in december so families can celebrate christmas together. Here is our health editor. What will be crucial is reducing transmission of the virus, getting the r number below one to show the virus is receding. The challenge for westminster is what sort of regime to have december the 2nd, once this lockdown ends, how you bring back a tiered system. What we learned today is this calculation used by experts on the sage committee, for everyone day of relaxation, you need five days of tougher restrictions. Whether that would apply either side of christmas or after christmas is really not completely clear at this stage. What has become very clear today is that scientific advisers are working very ha rd scientific advisers are working very hard to come up with some sort of package of measures to allow at least some mixing of families over the christmas season. We will finish coronavirus in australia. Our coronavirus in australia. Our coronavirus update. Since the start of the pandemic, its recorded just 907 deaths and fewer than 28,000 cases. Most of those were in the state of victoria and the capital melbourne went into a Strict Lockdown for more than 100 days. That ended in october. Well now the neighbouring state, south australia, has ordered a six day lockdown which authorities are calling a circuit brea ker, after a cluster of cases there. Under the new rules, only one person per household will be able to leave the home each day, and only for specific purposes. Outdoor exercise will be prohibited. Pubs, restaurants, cafes and most shops will close, as well as schools and universities. Well this has been the response long queues to get into supermarkets. Shaimaa khalil is our correspondent in australia. The approach is to go hard, to go fast, to try and lock this in as fast and accurately as they can. We now know there are 22 cases in that cluster. It started with hotel quarantine, one worker passed that virus to 13 members of the same family and now it is growing. So several days on, i think the authorities do not want to take chances. They are telling south australians, if we do this strictly enough, if we lock down the state for six days this will give it a chance to do Contact Tracing as fast and accurately as possible and also cut the road on more spread of the virus. The other thing they are concerned about, mentioned by the chief health officer, is that this particular strain of the virus is breeding very rapidly with an incubation period of 24 hours. People who are symptomatic showing very few symptoms. That is why they want to feel that they are on top of it and that is why the six day lockdown has come in. To the us now where President Donald Trump has fired a top election official who contradicted his claims of voterfraud. Chris krebs was the head of the cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency known as cisa. He was fired by tweet the recent statement by chris krebs on the security of the 2020 election was highly inaccurate, in that there were massive improprieties and fraud including dead people voting, poll watchers not allowed into polling locations, glitches in the Voting Machines which changed. Votes from trump to biden, late voting, and many more. Therefore, effective immediately, chris krebs has been terminated as director of the cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Now, its worth pointing out that president trumps claims about voter fraud in the election have been unsubstantiated and a number of his lawsuits have already been dismissed in court well have an update on some of the legal cases shortly. But first, this is the statement mr trump is referring to it says the election was the most secure in American History and there is no evidence that any Voting System deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised. As the head of cisa, mr krebs has become the public face of the efforts to prevent interference in the election campaign. Here he is in a video posted before the election, talking about the organisations rumour control page. The website debunks various claims of Election Fraud many of which have been amplified by the president himself. The last line of defence in Election Security is you, the american voter, so be prepared for efforts that call into question the legitimacy of the election. I am confident that American Voters are going to decide the 2020 election. And you should be to. So get out there and vote with confidence and help us protect 2020. Well mr krebs has himself taken to twitter saying he was honoured to serve. He also referenced star wars tagging two actors in the franchise saying in defending democracy, do or do not, there is no try. This is the way. And hes not the only official to be fored fired by mr trump after his defeat the defence secretary mark esper was fired last week. And both those dismissals will leave gaps in the countrys security structure. Heres marcus fowler, a Cyber Security expert who has worked for the cia. This gap in this level of uncertainty in terms of the us response is embolding, it is emboldening foreign adversaries. They may assume a muted or at least inconsistent response from the broader Us Government that is allowing them to be more aggressive on the cyber front and take advantage of that vulnerability, that uncertainty and a bit of the chaos with Something Like this removal as well as the removal of the secretary of defence. Heres Anthony Zurcher in washington. Even with his track record of terminating via twitter, this was quite a filing by donald trump. Terminating via twitter, this was quite a filing by Donald Trumpm was, it was telegraphed in advance in fact. Chris krebs did not believe he would be in hisjob a week ago. Finally the hammer came down. Donald trump resented the fact he was out there talking about how secure the election was. Funnily enough, they we re election was. Funnily enough, they were focusing on foreign threats to us elections, following the russian interference in the previous election but here it was the president himself who was calling into question the security of our election and talking about unfounded allegations that there was widespread fraud as a result of the election. It is a stunning development, given we are only a few months away from a new administration. Usually you do not see president s firing, usually they are looking for newjobs when the new administration is coming in. Are looking for newjobs when the new administration is coming inm there anyone else watching twitter with trepidation and winning their next four firing . There has been talk about the director of the fbi, the head of the cia also being on Donald Trumps potential list of people to be replaced at the last minute because he disagrees with their take on various Foreign Policy and intelligence issues but there have been no indications that any of thatis have been no indications that any of that is coming, at least at the beginning of the next few days. Stay with us, we will come back to you in a few minutes. This all comes as Election Officials are carryi