Good morning to you. Thanks for joining us for our midday newscast. Im marcus washington. We brought you the news of pfizers vaccine as it was breaking today in the bay. We have team coverage. Scott mcgrew is telling us wall street is celebrating that news and so is the president. First lets start with cierra johnson. She is live for us the ucsf and president elect biden found new members of his task force and you have information about the new vaccine as well . Reporter yes. A lot to cover. Days after president elect joe biden already moving forward with some of his paths he would knock out while he was campaigning. He is assembling a Pandemic Task force. This morning, biden laid out his covid plan announcing an Advisory Board would help him moving forward with treatment and new vaccines. An announcement from pfizer there were promising results in the covid19 vaccine and that is what we are going to start. Pfizer has been working on a vaccine that early results revealed it could be a
Securing peace and delivering health and humanitarian relief with regional war is raging with refugees and migration at an all time high and a Global Pandemic on top what a mess my guest today is mark low cost the point man for humanitarian relief at the United Nations and u. N. Speak he is the undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and head of the office for the coordination of humanitarian Affairs Emergency relief coordinator and the coordinator of its covert 1000 global humanitarian Response Plan marc those are a lot of titles im so glad to have you here today let me just ask you you know what is your dashboard look like at the moment when youre looking at the parts of the world that perhaps are are are not front page news but theyre suffering from all sorts of maladies and as i said theres covert 19 hitting them just as its hitting us what is your dashboard look like. While worse than ask her 25 years or even a crisis isnt just a globally the biggest crisis that will set f
Hi im Steve Clemons and i have a question is the United Nations still the go to place for the world to solve its problems lets get to the bottom line. The biggest Intergovernmental Organization in the world just turned 75 years old this year it was created by the big powers to prevent another world war and in that mission its generally succeeded but hows it doing on the other missions like securing peace and delivering health and humanitarian relief with regional war is raging with refugees and migration at an all time high and a Global Pandemic on top what a mess my guest today is mark lowe cox the point man for humanitarian relief at the United Nations and u. N. Speak he is the undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and head of the office for the coordination of humanitarian Affairs Emergency relief coordinator and the coordinator of its covert 19 global humanitarian Response Plan mark those are a lot of titles im so glad to have you here today let me just ask you you know w
President Emmanuel Mccall talking right now hits out at lebanons leaders after failing to form a nonpartisan cabinet. Also ahead getting help from space we look at how satellites are helping to reduce the Environmental Impact of farming. Theres been a major escalation in the conflict between armenia and azerbaijan over the disputed region of nagornokarabakh the violence began early on sunday morning both sides have to clear martial law and theyre blaming each other for the flare up countries around the world russia france and iran are all calling for calm turkey is backing azerbaijan and has called on the International Community to stand by it is charlotte ballasts. Armenias Defense Ministry tweeted these videos on sunday morning it says the show is eerie tanks that have just been destroyed in the disputed region of nuku nuku era back within a few hours the armenian seed 15 drones 10 tanks and 4 helicopters had been. Destroyed early in the morning ground. Forces launched large scale ag
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