Into k.q.e.d. San Francisco and take you we North Island Sacramento it's 9 pm. Around the world the vaccine rollout begins what lessons might mean learn as we get ready to do the same here from w.a.m. Year and n.p.r. In Washington this is one and. Today on one day it's the global edition of The Friday news roundup Canada and Saudi Arabia have joined the United Kingdom in approving ties are skilled at vaccine is the u.s. Next on the docket so far distribution is going well but a warning for people with a history of serious allergies could be an early stumbling block Meanwhile charges have been brought in the Beirut explosion that left hundreds dead earlier this year Mount Everest gains a few feet and Europe and the u.k. Start to lose hope over getting a trade deal and we'd love you to weigh in to tweet us at $18.00. Live from n.p.r. News I'm nor rom millions of Americans could begin getting vaccinated against Cofa 19 this month the Food and Drug Administration Friday night authorized the emergency use of the vaccine developed by fire and German company by an attack it's been shown to be 95 percent effective in preventing the disease in a late stage trial N.P.R.'s Richard Harris has more with this emergency youth authorisation Pfizer can begin shipping 2900000 doses of the vaccine to designated hospitals and long term care facilities around the country and hospitals can started ministering the drug to medical staff and people who work and live in nursing homes and the like you know those people face a high risk of code because they are in close contact with people with the active disease there's Bacha vaccine won't be enough to vaccinate the entire workforce by any means but you know the federal government has worked out a distribution scheme so more shipments will soon follow N.P.R.'s Richard Harris cases have been surging in the u.s. With thousands of deaths every day the u.s. Supreme Court Friday shot down president trumps a last ditch effort to block Joe Biden's election as president in a 3 sentence order the justices said they would not even consider a lawsuit filed by the state of Texas and supported by Trump that sought to invalidate the election results in 4 key states N.P.R.'s Nina Totenberg reports for the last couple of days Trump has been promoting the Texas lawsuit as the big one but just hours after the last briefs were filed in that case it fizzled with the justices saying that Texas has no legal standing to complain about the way other states have conducted counted recounted and certified their elections so barring any last minute maneuvers on Monday the Electoral College delegates will cast their votes and Biden will be formally the president elect Nina Totenberg n.p.r. News Washington President signed a short term spending bill Friday night to avert a governor. Shutdown the measure gives Congress an additional week to reach an agreement that could include the next coronavirus relief bill N.P.R.'s Winsor Johnston reports lawmakers have been debating whether to attach a bipartisan coronavirus relief measure to a spending bill if they fail to reach a deal millions of Americans will lose their extra weekly unemployment benefits at the end of the month for months Senator Bernie Sanders says Congress needs to reach a compromise before the holiday recess we cannot go back to our families while tens of millions of families also they are working toward Democrats and some Republicans say lawmakers should not return home without approving another round of direct payments to most Americans that provision is not included in the roughly $900000000000.00 bipartisan proposal Winsor Johnston n.p.r. News you're listening to n.p.r. News. Beginning Monday Endora dining in New York City restaurants will be prohibited again as Corona virus infections continue to rise New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says indoor dining is not a leading cause of the surge but rising hospitalizations in the city's high density are troubling factors the ban will be in place and definitely just weeks ago officials in the u.s. And Mexico extended travel restrictions at the border through much of December now they've been extended again until late January from member station k.j. Z.z. Kendall blast reports restrictions at the Us Mexico border 1st implemented in March to help slow the spread of the coronavirus are now set to remain in place until at least January 21st they're meant to prevent travel the u.s. State Department has defined as nonessential like tourism shopping and recreational activities travel for medical purposes work or school is considered essential u.s. Citizens and permanent residents can still return home under the restrictions because there's minimal southbound enforcement many people in the u.s. Have continued crossing the border with little difficulty while many of their neighbors in Mexico have been unable to cross for nearly 10 months for n.p.r. News I'm kinda lost the federal government put to death a man by lethal injection Friday night the 2nd federal execution this week Alfred Borgia's had been convicted of the sexual abuse and murder of his 2 year old daughter he was the 10th federal death row inmate put to death since the trumpet ministration resumed executions in July after 17 years 3 more executions are planned next month I'm nor rom n.p.r. News support for n.p.r. Comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting a private corporation funded by the American people and the e.c. Mc Foundation working to improve post-secondary educational outcomes for under-served students through evidence based innovation learn more at e.c. Mc Foundation dot org. The National Weather Service says moderate rainfall will spread from north to south through Saturday morning here in the Bay Area another system will bring more rain Saturday night into Sunday weekend highs will be in the low sixty's the Greater like toy area is under a winter weather advisory tonight for snowy and windy conditions in the higher elevations you're listening to on k.q.e.d. Public radio it's 9 o 6. It's the Friday news round up on one and a I'm Jan White in Washington British and Russian scientists are teaming up both country say they're looking at whether a combination of an asteroid Seneca and it's but Nik vaccine might improve protection against Cove it also a retreat further sours relations between the u.s. And China there are protests in India to catch up on and Lebanon makes a move against those blamed for recent explosion that leveled part of Beirut our guest this week our than a vase national correspondent substitute anchor for the p.b.s. News Hour on the Welcome back Jan Good to be with you also with us Nancy Youssef She covers national security for The Wall Street Journal Nancy it's great to have you great to be back and Paul Danaher Washington bureau chief for the b.b.c. Paul thanks for being here thank you so on Tuesday Britain began mass vaccinating its population seniors and front line workers were 1st in line c.n.n. Took to the streets of London to see if they could find one of the world's 1st patients to have received the Pfizer vaccine and they got lucky. He didn't know it today so you should be coming back in 21 days time according to n.h.s. Guidance 7 to 10 days after that which brings us to early January you should have developed protection immunity put in a point when I have. Anyway that was a c.n.n. Reporter speaking to a sprightly 91 year old Martin Kenyon Paul it's still in the early days but how is it going in the u.k. . It's going well I mean the thing about the u.k. Is it has a national health service so it's pretty organized in terms of being able to deliver things to the people you want to get them to in a very organized way because it is all pretty much centrally sorted out so that the process of vaccinating in the u.k. Is well established and doesn't have many hurdles to go through and the reason why the u.k. Is has been slightly ahead of everybody else is partly to do the work with the way that it analyzes the data that comes in from these firms it's partly to do with the fact that they have a kind of a rolling review site as information is gathered by the it gets sent to the government reviewers and they do it as it goes along whereas in other countries I think America is one of them they wait to the end of the process and then they look at everything in one go so the u.k. Has been fast days in Europe because it only had 3 of us the self the rest of the e.u. Has to go through 27 member states so it's partly bureaucracy it's partly the fact we have a national health service and it's partly political I think the government in the u.k. After a lot of criticism early on in the year wanted to be seen to be successful at something well the U.K.'s medicine regulator has warned against giving the Pfizer vaccine to people prone to severe allergic reactions how is that playing out in the case it's making people. Not I don't think so because but one that basically talking about the fact is if you if you've had reactions in the past you may well have a reaction again and the kind of things that people have been suffering it was 2 n.h.s. Workers that basically reacted to them and it was kind of a base not the anaphylaxis type reaction it's one that tends to involve a skin rash or all breathlessness or you know perhaps a drop in blood pressure but it's not something that's new usually fatal So what they're basically saying is if you normally have allergies then you may have an allergy to this but it's not seen as something that could impact people that are not used to having to worry about this kind of thing well I'm not Canada has also approved the Peizer vaccine prime minister just introduced as most Canadian should be. X. Needed by September 2021 but we soon by then other vaccines should also be available is that accurate that's right I mean the timeline is still very much evolving but we know now it is Pfizer vaccine produced in concert in partnership with their German partner biotech seems to be the 1st out of the gates being distributed in the u.k. Has already just yesterday here in the u.s. Kind of crossed the 1st hurdle with an f.d.a. Advisory panel meaning that it will likely be moving ahead for distribution here Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex These are just this morning with saying he estimates it could be as early as Monday or Tuesday people start getting some of those shots with this Pfizer vaccine there's another one on the horizon from Adarna and there's a 3rd one as you mentioned in your introduction from Astra Zeneca there are similar complications and similar logistical hurdles with distribution of both of those Madonna has the same kind of threshold for cold storage that the current Pfizer vaccine has and that complicates a whole host of delivery systems across the United States the Astra Zeneca one that they seem to think does not need the same level of cold storage the Pfizer vaccine has to be stored at minus 70 degrees Celsius the Astra Zeneca one does not have that same threshold but it's also not proven to be as effective so the analogy I keep hearing from experts is we are building the airplane as we're flying it there very much still figuring things out as they go but certainly a major milestone already with the Pfizer vaccine being distributed Nancy what are some of the national security issues around distribution of these vaccines both here in the u.s. And globally Well a couple things on one that sort of send that to me most is we haven't talked yet about other countries like China and Russia developing their own vaccines and what's been fascinating in the Middle East for example is that China has really use its development of a vaccine as a form of sort of diplomacy and engagement with the region and so we're seeing this as an issue of sort of an entree point in terms of China's influence and in parts of the world in terms of logistically. As you've discussed earlier you know there are challenges in terms of storage and distribution and so do we have a situation where some countries are able to distribute it better and more effectively Moreover we don't even know whether these vaccines will stop someone from spreading the virus to someone else and so far in an environment where some nations are able to distribute a vaccine more effectively than others could we have a scenario where some populations some. Economies are able to thrive and others are still stalling because they don't have the capability to distribute as other countries do well and we should mention that the United Arab Emirates became the 1st country to read a Chinese vaccine for coping $1000.00 it said it was 86 percent effective what's the global response to a vaccine developed in China one of the things we're hearing is on one hand it's promising that there's now another venue for a vaccine we don't really know much about how the u.a.e. Reached this conclusion we know that they had 31000 volunteers from 125 nations but we don't know how many were actually were given the vaccine versus a placebo and so I think what we're hearing is while there's so much hope from the u.k. That it will provide information about how to proceed that this process and the vaccine and out of China is a lot more opaque and so I think there are concerns about really understanding how it operates relative to some of the other vaccines the other thing that I would note that I think for developing countries in particular is quite promising it doesn't require the level the temperature of refrigeration that we've seen from some of the other vaccines and it's a boost to China's biomedical ambitions and potentially opens the door for a cheaper more easily distributable more distributable vaccine for developing countries that don't have the resources to store. Things at the temperatures that some of the other vaccines require or can't distribute them or get people to take of act. Every 21 days and some of these other alternatives are demanding simple lots of talk about that seems but in the u.k. What's being communicated to people about the possibility of continuing to spread the virus even if you're vaccinated is there clear communication about that. I mean what they're basically saying is this is not the end of the road we have to basically continue doing what we're doing there are still 3 tiers of lockdown in various parts of the u.k. And people are being told look you know this is we can see the light at the end of the tunnel but we're still a long way off so they're trying to encourage people not to say you know this is the silver bullet now we can all move on because we clearly aren't there yet but one of the things I think that's quite important and that Nancy just talks about this what I think we're seeing it is an acceleration of what we began to see with Huawei and that is a recognition that globalization has allowed people like countries like China to begin to invest in areas that have incredible strategic importance they began with 5 g. They've been building their own pharmaceutical industries and I think what we're going to see coming off the back of coded is a recognition by Western countries that they're going to have to shake the market a lot more than they perhaps wanted to because they now realise that the the kind of impact of things like over the impact of the impact of new technology is no longer just about dealing with consumers it's about the power you have to convey to your power around the world and I think what we're going to see coming out of this and the collaboration within Western countries is begin to see it moving to many other areas they're going to turn around and say Is this technology something that is strategically important or maybe in the future and if it is we need to make sure that it's controlled by us rather than just left to the market because they believe the market is being distorted by companies that have basically a front for the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party Well now what does that mean for the us in for a vaccine destroyed. And here I think one of the things that's been revealed by the pandemic and the rush to a vaccine here in the u.s. Is just how dependent the u.s. Is on the rest of the world in particular on China I mean remember all the bottlenecks early getting in p.p. And getting that to the front lines and that remains to this day front line health care workers I talked to still say they do not have what they need to be able to care for covert patients which is a somewhat remarkable thing to be saying 1011 months into the pandemic here and the other thing is you know now lying on foreign vendors and foreign companies to provide the vaccine there is enormous help out here in the u.s. About how much to buy up in advance how much to reserve a still has to go through the very stringent f.d.a. Domestic u.s. Policies and now assess before it gets rolled out but it's also being implemented on the top of the existing health care system here which as Paul mentioned is not like Britain Britain is a small country it has good infrastructure there's a national health system here in the u.s. You're dealing with 50 different health systems and that's going to enormously complicated vaccine distribution it's the Friday news round up on one a we're here with Nancy Youssef She covers national security for The Wall Street Journal also with us national correspondent substitute anchor for the p.b.s. News Hour and Paul Dan a hard Washington bureau chief for the b.b.c. I'm Gen-Y. It will be back with more in just a moment this is one day from w.a.m. You and n.p.r. . This week. Representative of. The joys of being. Which. He. Was the worst. He can. Be with us for selective. Support for n.p.r. 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Steve Inskeep asked Kerry whether it would be possible to work together with China to fight climate change we were a partner. As we continued with among other things during the Obama administration we've been there done that but if we don't work as a primary extraordinary effort on the fly but we're all cooked Nancy what are going to be the major obstacles when it comes to working with China . Well we've had 4 years of really heightened tensions between the United States and China over trade there have been sanctions and terror of there's been a band of students and other officials coming in militarily we've seen a much more aggressive u.s. Force posture in the Asia Pacific and now we have an envoy coming in who's been elevated to a member of the National Security Council there to talk about climate and the expectation is that he is able to engage with China on climate while all these other issues are right there just as important to the u.s. And where there's a real sense of. Tension The other thing I think that John Kerry will face in the job is that while President Trump was in office we saw the u.s. Leave things like the Paris crime Issa chord and I think from the world community there's been a sense of