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in the u.s. state. trials for one of the world's leading coronavirus vaccine contenders have been put on hold astra zeneca says a patient has a potentially unexplained illness which will need further investigation the pharmaceutical giant is working with oxford university to help develop the vaccine which had begun late stage testing last week thousands are taking part in the trial in the u.k. u.s. brazil and south africa last month astra zeneca agreed to supply the e.u. up to 400000000 doses if the vaccine is proved safe and effective taking its global target to $3000000000.00 well let's speak to julie fisher she is an associate research professor of microbiology and immunology at georgetown medical university she joins us now from washington d.c.

julie i know this sounds ominous to a lot of people but this is the reason you do stage 3 trials right but what does this mean for the development of this vaccine. so this is exactly as you said the reason that there are phase 3 clinical trials it is to test both whether the vaccine works and is effective and whether the vaccine is safe at this point a group of external experts will be consulted and it's a normal part of the process they'll be called in to see if any adverse events that were reported and were serious are likely to be due to the vaccine or to be unrelated and their advice will help decide whether or not the vaccine trial continues judy i see this is the 2nd time now that this specific vaccine trial has been put on hold what would it take to cause a pause like this. it would take a serious adverse event so we are all familiar with my old 1st events that can happen after vaccination like fever or pain at the site of the injection to put

a pause that has to do the event would be serious something that was perhaps related to the heart the lungs the kidneys another system in the body. that was really required medical attention and that was found to be serious enough to merit causing this very important effort to test the spec seen in order to make sure that the vaccine is safe and that the adverse events were not due to the vaccine but what then does this mean for the other thousands of participants in this trial i imagine they're feeling quite nervous now. well certainly they they will have been given instructions to monitor their own health very carefully and they will be saying clinicians on a follow up basis after day have been vaccinated as volunteers to check for any side effects or adverse events and to report if they themselves have experienced any symptoms that could be a sign of

a reaction to the vaccine julie are there concerns that moments like this in vaccine development in such a politicized climate as we're living in now my mate people scared to take a vaccine even once one is deemed safe and released publicly it's absolutely a concern and that's why it it's ironic that the steps that are taken to ensure the safety of the vaccine also can raise questions of people's minds about whether or not the vaccine is safe and safe for them this is why vaccine companies in the past couple of days have taken the unprecedented step of making clear their own commitment to this external safety review process and to not taking a back seat forward for approval by the f.d.a. in the u.s. other regulatory agencies in told they are able to show that they have taken all due diligence to make sure the vaccines are safe julie we've also seen other

vaccines being rolled out very speedily in russia and china despite concerns that they haven't been through as rigorous or lengthy testing do you share those concerns. i do i think that it's important to understand that there are there is a set of expectations to test the safety of any vaccine that will be given to 2 people and that that is that it would be tested in a small group of volunteers to make sure that it is safe and has a reasonable chance of being effective before even going into larger groups of volunteers much less the public without that kind of testing we just don't know for sure if the vaccine will protect people from an action. judy let me ask you the golden question that everyone's wondering then given where we are now with all the various trials and the spores how soon do you see a vaccine being rolled out i think we would like to see one as quickly as possible all of us but i think it's reasonable to assume that it would be at the very

earliest the end of 2020 and more likely 2021 that said none of us have a crystal ball to to determine that and we're all waiting eagerly to see the results of these trials and to see if there is compelling data that shows that these most promising vaccine candidates are safe and effective soon jellyfish are there an associate research professor of microbiology and in immunology at georgetown thanks so much great to have you back on al-jazeera today thanks for being with us thank you so much for having me well as julie was just saying the astra zeneca is one of 9 drug companies that have pledged not to rush approval for vaccines unless there prove to be safe during clinical trials the joint statement from the company's c.e.o. this comes as u.s. president donald trump continues to suggest that a vaccine could come out as early as november that would be right before election day our white house correspondent kelly halkett explains how the development of a vaccine is being even more politicized. this is unprecedented according to some

drug industry experts what i can tell you is that the u.s. president has certainly been touting that the vaccine may be released by the end of the year then as recently as yesterday on the steps behind me at a press conference he said even by the end of october of course the timing rather interesting given that election day is november 3rd and that seemed to cause some alarm among the c.e.o.'s of these major drug companies because quite unexpectedly and again without precedent they released this letter stating that they are only going to release a vaccine when it is safe to do so and they won't sort of rush for any arbitrary timeline put forward by a politician now in the case of donald trump he certainly is pushing to get this is quickly as possible looking for a success given the fact that he is lagging in the polls but he is not the only one

politicizing it in fact his rival joe biden is hammering hard on donald trump's sort of claims that he's handled the coronavirus very well in fact the focus of a new ad being put out by the biden campaign is that he's framing the contrast between himself and donald trump darkness versus a fresh start as he calls it. well now the imposition of more coronavirus restrictions has triggered a wave of anger at greece's largest refugee camp location on the eastern island of lesbos several fires were deliberately lit in the early hours on wednesday sending families fleeing from their tents the facility was placed under quarantine last week after the festa case of corona virus was found their cases have since risen to $35.00 the overcrowded facility holds more than $12000.00 people that's 4 times its capacity and has frequently been criticized by aid groups for poor living conditions rally i spoke to douglas hermann he's the co-founder of refocus media

labs an organization that works with citizen journalists inside moria camp he explains what's unfolding inside. current moment there are several fires that are kind of all over the camp. yes corona has been identified in this camp in recent days and the number of confirmed cases have been rising many of the asymptomatic people have been put into a quarantine area on the far eastern side of the camp and that area earlier this evening was attacked by individuals who seemingly do not believe that corona is actually in the camp and that it is being seen as a reason to continue a 6 month lockdown in the camp some attacks on some vehicles to move people out of the camp or to move them around ensued and some of the people that were in this current team area were fleeing from that violence and in the process of that several fires were set on the perimeter and then now those fires have been set inside the camp also office for the asylum seeking process takes place is on fire our students living quarters are on fire. numerous people have been evacuated from

the area of their own accord or are now by authorities the space that was created for quarantine was for anyone who had recently tested or had been potentially connected to anyone who had tested positive of those cases where it's symptomatic and they were just basically quarantine them off to the side for 14 days so once you know once night falls it's kind of not necessarily you know aggressively policed and in this area some individuals gathered and started arresting some of the people that were inside and some sort of violence ensued the images and the photos and the stories that are coming back from our students are that you know this violence has just kind of turned into kind of a full scale riot. well now the police chief and other senior officers in new york state's rock just a sissy have announced their retirements as criticism grows over the department's handling of daniel prince arrest protests erupted after details amounts to about 3

subsequent death back in march a black man's family released previously unseen video which showed police pursing a hood over his head as he knelt naked and restrained on the street during an apparent mental health and said and he died a week later after he was taken off life support john hendren has an update. the police chief of rochester new york has resigned following an incident in which another black man has died at the hands of police it began in late march that's when police say they found daniel prude naked and ranting in the streets of rochester at some point the officer said he said something about corona virus and was spitting so they put a bag over his head and he died shortly thereafter the police chief around singletary told the mayor that someone had died in police custody of a drug overdose and that's where things stood until last week that's when the family of mr pruett got a hold of body camera footage from police through

a public information request that video showed an officer kneeling on mr prudes back with a bag over mr prudes head the coroner did an investigation and determine the cause of death was homicide by its fixation prosecutors are now looking into the case and on tuesday the police chief resigned along with most of his command staff saying his honesty and integrity were being called into question these officers are simply the latest to come under the microscope since george floyd was killed at the hands of police officers in minneapolis now the block of 10 southeast asian nations known as a san is holding about summit starting off with an opening ceremony and yet none looking for grays in. in the region of the u.s. and china who will also take on those talks and ascot hider explains from bangkok the u.s. will most likely use the platform to continue to push back against china. the any

meetings are viewed as an opportunity for the host country this year vietnam to showcase its culture progress and position but not only have 2020 meetings and summits switched to virtual gatherings their traditions and the usual focus on the big regional issues this year are taking a backseat because of covert 19 but even more than the pandemic itself it's the dire economic downturn the region is preparing for i think that this is foremost in the minds of foreign ministers and i think they'll be looking for creative and practical ways of trying to. quickly recover in 2021 they may also be talking about opportunities for allowing tourism or travel bubbles or other things like this have been discussed primarily bilaterally between governments in the past while the 10 countries of austria look to work together to help restart their economies superpowers china and the united states continue to ratchet up their rhetoric and posture in the region tension between china and the u.s.

in the south china sea has surged both in moving military assets into the areas of disputed territory but also diplomatic action sanctions and threats with the need for both nations to be involved in the region for economic and security reasons they look to avoid flashpoints countries in this region they look at hong kong right and they see a very sort of concerning trend where if you play into one of the you know superpower arguments if you become sort of an object of super power competition it tends to go very badly for you and i think countries in the region are are watching that example very carefully so while the foreign ministers look to make progress and working better as a region along. powerful outsiders will be focused on plotting a path for their collective 650000000 people who face years of post pandemic economic recovery it's got hotter out 0 bank are. still ahead here on al-jazeera.

not quite so black and white why fair housing activists in the us say president trump is clinging to an outdated vision of america sometimes. hello the typhoon has really done its worst however it is not just going to sit through this northeastern section of china all this time because the that is the remnants of that typhoon and it will continue to produce some very heavy amounts of rain and this on top of a typhoon may cite which produced flooding across this entire region such a wednesday the downpours will continue but also exciting for the south across the korean peninsula and again some or all the heavy rain across much of the central japan in the rains a quite extensive again across the central southern half the china in fact extending right the way across into the northeast of india now by thursday we'll

see this front continue to clear across much of japan so again some heavy downpours at times but it does begins to improve across the korean peninsula but those shows still very widespread across the northeast of china and really it's only the eastern side of china shanghai for example the conditions are fine and dry say those rains extending all the way across tools india and in fact there's some very heavy rain to need to work its way towards the coast coming out of the southern sections of the bangle so whole the way along the west coast to the west and gaston down into account in fact that also warnings in place the heavy rains and carola they will continue as we head on into those and again the rains fairly heavy through edition and in particular into west bengal. but. the world's biggest economy was put on hold. deregulating industries of old deliver new growth for

a president who promised greatness again. from the coronavirus pandemic has seen resurgence replaced with a recession as the world eagerly watches on to see out either presidential candidate might revive the flagship u.s. economy. details coverage of the u.s. elections on al-jazeera. the arab . hello again i'm just on the attainder let's remind you about top stories here the salah trials for one of the leading corona virus vaccines have been put on hold astra zeneca says a patient has a potentially unexplained illness which will need further investigation. several

fires have been burning in greece's largest refugee camp located on the island of les boss dorothy's have reportedly evacuated most people with strong winds fanning those flames the overcrowded facility holds more than 12000 people. the police chief and other senior officers a new york state's roughest authority have announced their retirements as criticism grows over the department's handling of daniel freed's arrest creed's family released previously unseen video of the march incident which showed police putting good over his head as he knelt naked and restrained on the streets. now a prominent a better russian opposition politician tore up her passport and jumped out of a car to prevent being expelled from the country that's according to allies of maria kolesnik over who was detained at the border with ukraine after reportedly being forcibly taken there she was seen being snatched from the streets in the capital minsk kolesnikov a has played

a key role in organizing mass protests against president alexander lukashenko she's insisted she will not leave voluntarily talking to russian media their president claimed kolesnikov who was fleeing to ukraine. this just of the of the border has been under increased security measures so we added an extra station naturally they were stopped near the restart she was either thrown out from the car in motion simas i mean they threw her yes there were 3 of them who else could throw her or border services officers of course detained her they followed the rules and centered to the border services unit the others want to cross the border by the ukrainian post well the 2 other opposition activists who were taken to the border with maria kolesnik over and out in ukraine they described a dramatic series of events. she was shouting that she wouldn't go anywhere sitting in the car she saw his passport on the front seat and towards into many

small fragments crumpled them and threw them out the window after that she opened the back door and walked back to the belorussian border there's unconfirmed information that she's at the mosul border unit we don't know for sure if it's true or not officials refused to provide this information to but the fact of the matter is she was actually kidnapped when all of us were detained on monday nobody knew where we were to such a brutal kidnapping that neither her lawyer nor her relatives understand where she is. at least 110 people have now died from severe flooding in sudan the river nile has reached unprecedented levels and the government has declared a 3 month state of emergency hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced and as i have a morgan reports from khartoum they're desperate for help. this is how never had a man arrives to the door steps of her home these days she comes to see if the water which flooded nearly 2 weeks ago has receded the yard which was once dry and where she used to spend most of her evenings is still covered with water from the

river which is now steady after rising to levels not seen in more than a century fly down in the senate in ways that we were surprised this year when the ny waters entered our neighborhood and we didn't know what to do there are no sandbags there is no one to come and help us with what's happening we decided to act on our own. but we found the water coming in from all directions as much of a heads neighborhood in the southern part of sudan's capital khartoum is now flooded some homes have collapsed as a result of the force of the water as the river which was once nearly 3 kilometers away became one with the area the levels of the nile started rising 3 weeks ago causing destruction as it flooded its banks and flowed into villages and towns more than 100 people have died in the past month as a result and more than 100000 homes have been damaged or destroyed more than half a 1000000 people have been displaced most left their homes with the help of their neighbors who also lost their homes in baghdad heidi the people here are struggling

despite all the difficulties we're helping each other out because we can't abandon each other we grew up together so we can't just turn our backs on each other and we have to make sure that everyone here gets out so i flee because we're part of one neighborhood one neighborhood in the midst of dozens that have seen the same devastation those affected by the flood walls of the response so far like the building of this makeshift barrier using sandbags has been their own volunteers have also formed groups there is this helping with food and collecting donations and all have criticised the government thing considering floods from the mild happen every year its response has been far from enough sudan's government declared a 3 month state of emergency days ago and now it's the country is now a natural disaster zone it says that one. plans were put in place to respond to this year's floods the levels exceeded expectations. than on it who are using sandbags to block the areas that are being swamped however we cannot use them along the whole river over the past few days water levels reach records high even bridges

were flooded residents in affected areas have been evacuated and warnings were sent to those exposed after the destruction and loss of lives that is slowly starting to recede but hundreds of thousands of people are now desperate for shelter and aid they say they hope the government will soon get them out of this crisis people morgan on to 0 hot zone. well fires continue to rage across california which the governor of a says have been spared by climate change dozens of people had to be airlifted to safety on tuesday after more than 200 who rescued over the weekend. reports. that were fueled by record temperatures strong winds and dry conditions wildfires are once again sweeping across america's most populous state the fire season is only just beginning here but already california has set a record with more than 9000 square kilometers burned safe and this at least 2 more

months of this to come we are experiencing unprecedented confluence of issues this year that we did not experience last year unprecedented record temperatures a heap dome that impacted the entire west coast of the united states not just a few states the west coast we are dealing with the reality of some 14000 lightning strikes over 72 hour period trust me that did not occur last year that had previously occurred in the late 1980 s. . in fresno county dozens of people were lifted to safety after becoming stranded by wildfires burning through the sierra national forest that's after more than 200 people were rescued over the weekend so so far the creek incident has burned 143929 acres the containment remains at 0 percent which is have over a 1000 foreign fighters working on the incident right now with more en route and

more resources being ordered to come help out with this incident with just over 5000 structures still threatened right now. the impact stretches far beyond evacuation zones with california's pacific gas and electric utility company cutting power to more than 170000 homes and businesses to minimize the risk of power lines sparking additional fire is and it promises to be a tough week for thousands of firefighters the rough terrain high winds and low humidity all hampering their efforts to stop the flames spreading the tour again to be their. home meanwhile in the u.s. state of colorado temperatures took an extreme turn there after several days of scorching heat and wildfires a snowstorm hit the region take a look at these pictures just 24 hours early at the temperature was around 30 degrees celsius forecasters say it's because of a powerful surge of cold air from canada that came with damaging winds the sudden

for years has been welcome to though by crews battling those wildfires in the state . speaking of climate change and environmental protection in a dramatic turnaround u.s. president donald trump has extended a ban on offshore drilling along florida georgia and south carolina coastlines drilling is a key political concern for states such as florida a must win space state for the president's reelection this announcement is a reversal of administration policy trumpeted expanded offshore drilling at the tank in 2018. but today i have a very important announcement i don't know if it's bigger than the things we just announced of the things that we've already done or were in the process of completing in a few moments i was on a presidential order extending the board torun on or off shore drilling on florida's gulf coast and expanding it to florida's that lead to coast as well as the coasts of georgia and south carolina. well now the u.s.

justice department is seeking to take over donald trump's defense in a case brought forward by woman who's accused him of rape the unusual move means government lawyers would defend trying to make american taxpayers responsible for any damages awarded the defamation suit was filed by columnist e.j. and carol her lawyers have requested a d.n.a. sample from trying to determine whether it matches the genetic material from the alleged rape. just and now the u.s. president has replaced a rule implemented by his predecessor barack obama that sought to end racial discrimination in housing donald trump says this will give local governments more freedom from federal regulations but as castro reports from maryland the move is also part of trump's campaign strategy tying race to the safety of suburban communities. it's a beautiful day in this washington suburb of silver spring maryland and the election is less than 2 months away that means over picnics the discussion is

sometimes politics and i think that we need a change in the united states we need. a new leader it's very important for us to take it seriously we're going to make that difference in 2 months they were heard like these are critical in picking who is president suburbs continually half of all u.s. voters and in 2016 they delivered a narrow victory to donald trump but this here he is struggling to keep those votes reach 911 i'm sorry that there is no one here to answer your part of the column with polls showing trump trailing joe biden in the suburbs the trump campaign has aired ads like these playing to what the campaign believes to be the fears of white suburbanites will save our cities and our server observe the future of crime and chaos store up should an economic collapse that puppet joe biden would actually showed america but american suburbs are going through

a dramatic transformation suburbs are now home to more immigrants and more african-americans no longer the white enclaves of tribes thinking she wrongly assumed that people in other people of color are not already integral members of suburban communities and also rightly assume that white people in suburban communities are racists who want to keep everyone out. but trump continues to attack democrats and their housing policies canceling and obama rule they have forced cities to report on housing discrimination in their local communities new orleans had made strides under the obama rule says fair housing advocate delfin it martin she says trump will likely lose votes by demonizing minorities he's not really concerned about. he again trying to appease and tap into the minds of those who are already fallen it remains to be seen whether trump's racially

charged campaign strategy works to sway those few who remain undecided. castro al-jazeera silver spring maryland now south african runner caster semenya has lost her latest appeal against wild athletics rules which limit naturally high testosterone levels and female athletes her case against the court of arbitration for sport was dismissed by switzerland supremum course this all means she can't defend her 800 meter pick title in tokyo next year unless she agrees to limit her testosterone with medication also a jury which she has repeatedly said she will not do. so again this is al jazeera and these are the headlines trials for one of the leading coronavirus vaccines have been put on hold astra zeneca says a patient has a potentially unexplained illness which will need further investigation

a spokesperson for astra zeneca says the standard review process triggered a pause to vaccination to allow the review of safety data jellyfish as an associate research professor of microbiology and immunology at georgetown medical university she explains why these steps have been taken. there is a set of expectations to test the safety of any vaccine that will be given to 2 people and that that is that would be tested in a small group of volunteers to make sure that it is safe and has a reasonable chance of being effective before even going into larger groups of volunteers much less the public without that kind of testing we just don't know for sure if the vaccine will protect people from an action i think we would like to see one as quickly as possible all of us but i think it's reasonable to assume that it would be at the very earliest the end of 2020 and more likely 2021 creases largest refugee camp has been partially evacuated after several fires broke

out in the early hours of wednesday strong winds fanned the flames at moria camp on the island of less boss the police chief and other senior officers in new york state throughout just a city have announced their retirements as criticism grows over the department's handling of daniel prince arrest crudes family released previously unseen video of the march incident which showed police putting a hood over his head as he knelt naked and restrained on the streets a prominent belorussian opposition politician tore up her passport and jumped out of a car to prevent being expelled from the country that's according to allies of maria kolesnik over who was detained at the border with ukraine after reportedly been forcibly taken there. well those are the headlines next stop it's rewind the morning after. i put these days it's hard to filter out the noise and keep track of what's really important the bottom line tackles the big

issues the united states its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the world the bottom line only on al-jazeera. hello and welcome again to rewind on the product back in 2006 when we 1st launched al-jazeera english our goal was to find stories that other channels simply weren't covering here on rewind we revisit some of the best of them to find out how the story has moved on in the years sense today we rewind into 2009 to the web.