very warm welcome to bbc news. our top stories... britain is to roll out a mass vaccination campaign against coronavirus from next week, after regulators approved a vaccine in record quick time. when you consider the damage from as i was saying earlier, the damage that this virus has done, it is a fantastic moment. it has to stop! an exasperated election official in the us state of georgia pleads with president trump to dial down the rhetoric levelled against his colleagues over the election result. this is bbc news — i'm mike embley — with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk the french president who saw oversleeping reform has died at the age of 94. one of britain's most celebrated artists,

tracey emin, says her art "has kept her alive" — after being diagnosed with bladder cancer. ——the french president who oversaw sweeping social reforms, valery giscard d'estaing, has died at the age of 94. very warm welcome to our reviewers on pbs in america and around the globe. just how britain plans to roll out a mass vaccination campaign against coronavirus in the next few weeks is becoming clearer, just hours after uk regulators announced they had approved one in record quick time. borisjohnson acknowledged it would be a massive logisitical exercise that has never been attempted before. millions of doses of the pfizer—biontech vaccine but the prime minister and his top medical advisers warned it would still take months to get the jab to everyone who wanted it and strict rules needed to stay in place. our medical editor fergus walsh reports.

this is an historic moment. at last, there is a clear path out of this pandemic, thanks to vaccination. the uk is the first country in the world to approve the pfizer biontech vaccine, seen here on the production line in belgium. the prime minister made clear the vaccine won't change life for now, but hope is on the horizon. prime minister, now we have a vaccine, how important is this moment? when you consider that the damage, as i was saying earlier, the damage that this virus has done to human life across the planet, the economic damage, the social damage, to say nothing of the cost in life and suffering, it is a fantastic moment. more than 20,000 volunteers got two doses of the vaccine as part of the trials. it proved 95% effective at preventing covid, even among those in their 70s and 80s. side effects were mostly mild. a small minority suffered headaches and fatigue. the independent regulator mh ra began reviewing more than 1,000 pages of data injune and,

today, gave the green light. —— for the past two months, have been reviewing more than 1000 pages of data on pfizer's trials. we'll make no have been cut. —— no corners have been cut. our expert scientists and clinicians have worked around the clock, carefully, methodically poring over tables and analyses and graphs on every single piece of data. creating a completely new vaccine usually takes at least ten years, from design and development through trials, to regulatory review and production. this has been compressed to less than a year. many stages were done in parallel and pfizer began vaccine production at their own risk, even before they knew it worked. 800,000 doses of the vaccine should arrive in the uk within days. 40 million doses have been ordered in total, enough to immunise 20 million adults.

the vials have to be transported from belgium in special containers at an ultralow temperature. they then get put into a thermal ship are packed with dry ice that then maintains the temperature at —70, if an open, for ten days. — —70, if un—opened, for ten days. the committee which advises the government on immunisation says the elderly and front—line health and care workers should be first in line. we are suggesting that vaccines are offered in order to protect people who are most at risk of dying from covid—19, as well as to protect health and social care services, because, by doing so, we also protect lives. age is by far the single most important factor in terms of risk from covid—19. getting rid of social distancing and other restrictions next year will depend on tens of millions of

us depend on tens of millions of us being vaccinated. we need people to take it. this vaccine isn't going to help you if you don't take it. you will need two doses of this vaccine and most of the others to have full protection. more covid vaccines could be approved within weeks. the goal then, to immunise not just the uk, but the world. fergus walsh, bbc news. we will hear more on this just a little later from an expert on public health in the states. for three weeks president trump has made unfounded claims about the election result in georgia, but a secound recount has made no change tojoe biden‘s victory there. mrtrump is angry, and has taken it out on state officials, including the governor, who have faced death threats from supporters of the president. barbara plett usher has the story. georgia has become a focus of president from's battle to

reverse his life took miklos to joe biden, a last of his supporters, republican stronghold that he refuses to give up. that means gabriel sterling is getting more camera time than he ever wanted. a seasoned election official has been overseeing the recount of votes, but it's turned nasty and he's blaming the president. yes, fight for every legal vote, go through your due process , we vote, go through your due process, we encourage it, use your first amendment, that's fine. death threats, physical threats, intimidation, that is too much. stop inspiring people to commit potential acts of violence, someone is going to get hurt, someone is going to get shot, someone is going to get killed. in classic style, trump has weaponized his tweets, alleging massive voter fraud and attacking the state's republican officials. the second recount of votes is winding up, almost certainly without changing the result. the republican secretary

of state has stood up to the president's pressure and become one of the targets of donald trump supporters. he is urging calm. i want to extend grace to those that seem to have hate in their heart, we have all bene through alot. hate in their heart, we have all been through alot. i encourage all of you to stay engaged, advocate foryourvalues, beliefs, and goal you believe, argue and engage but do so peacefully. after sterling's outburst, tworepublican candidates have condemned any threats or violence as did the donald trump campaign, but the runoff races are stoking the political heat in georgia because whoever wins will determine which party has control. president trump is heading to the state for a rally to support them later this week.

(pres)gabriel sterling, the election official in georgia who you saw there, spoke out after one of his staff received death threats over a viral video showing him transferring a report to a computer. he spoke to the bbc‘s katty kay and christian fraser about why his anger boiled over. the secretary ran for office, we expect some level of this, i put myself out there to ask plain things in the media, you expect some level of police protection outside my house for a couple of weeks now, but this was a kid with a family who just had a job. and it was wrong on and... the president needs to realise, his words have consequences, they can be good, they can be damaging to him in this case, they are damaging, and instead of taking a step back and taking responsibility come he's doubling down. ok, so talking about the presidents were the last few minutes, the president has tweeted out a video statement of himself addressing your concerns. let's take a quick listen. as president, i have no higher duty than to defend the laws and the constitution of the united states. that is why i am determined to protect our election system which is now under coordinated

assault and siege. is that the kind of rollback that you would like to see from the president? the assault and siege is not coming from outside actors, it is essentially coming from former members of his legal team, people here in georgia today and it is just wrong. he needs to understand that his words have consequences and continuing to stoke this idea that there is some path to victory through some giant vast conspiracy is, to put it mildly, unhelpful. mac gabriel sterling speaking toa mac gabriel sterling speaking to a christian. for more on this i've been speaking to our washington correspondent, nomia iqbal. i asked her if the tide may now be turning against the president, at least among republicans. toa to a certain extent, and i don't think it's surprising that they've hit out on mr trump this way. as he said there, there's been a sustained assault by the president on georgia's election process, and this is all because donald trump can't except that he

lost. he's had enough time to prove all the fraud that he claims happened during the election. he's provided none. in fact, all of his court cases have pretty much been thrown out of court, left right and centre. and he's lashed out at republican officials as we saw in that report. the secretary of state, brad and the governor, brian kemp, who are staunch republicans but they are trump supporters, but they have said, mr president, you need to accept that you've lost. but he still does have some port to tech—support amongst her public and some a particularly the two sanders and joyner, david perdue and kelly loeffler who are big supporters of his, they've been to his rallies, they have not entirely come out and condemned the divisive rhetoric, and why would they? because they really, really want to win their senate seats, their senate seats are up for grabs, and donald trump is still hugely popular in america in georgia, even though he didn't win the states, and they are

hoping to use that popularity to try and win those seats when the very important georgia senate runoff happens in january. yes, and in the course of doing all that some of the president is encouraging millions of people to distrust the democratic process. going to georgia, as you say, george and are crucial to control of the senate. that's right some of the senate will determine just how powerfuljoe biden‘s presidency will be when he takes office on january the 20th. at the moment, the senate is split, there are 48 democrats and 50 republicans. if democrats win the two seats, then it will be easierfor them to pass the two seats, then it will be easier for them to pass through a lot of bills on a vast range of issues such as climate change and covid—19 response and gun control. 0bviously come if the republicans went it will make life much harderforjoe biden, certainly in his first two years. and it's interesting because you know community and there about trump constantly, you know, undermining the

process of the election, there is some concern about republicans that his rhetoric could backfire, and that a lot of his supporters might not turn out and votes, particularly in georgia which means that it could inadvertently, the victory could be handed to the democrats come january. stay with us on bbc news, still to come... a british starter is warning that a thousand unaccompanied minor children may have suffered damage to their mental health, making the perilously crossing from africa to the ca nary islands. so crossing from africa to the canary islands. so the children estimate at least 2000 miners made long crossings from places such as senegal and gambia just in the past two months. police in peru have confiscated nearly $6 million in counterfeit currency in lima, and arrested one person. cording to local officers, the fake money was due to be smuggled to bolivia and ecuador. it's been another round of talks on britain's post—brexit relations of the european union. the transition

period when the country stays aligned with the block ends in just five weeks. still, big differences over fair competition, fishing and how to solve disputes. the boeing 737 max has returned to the skies, it's been grounded for more than a year since fatal crashes. wednesday's flight from dallas to tulsa comes just weeks before the first commercial passenger flight. 0ne one of the most influential european politicians of the past half—century, the former president of france has died at the age of 94. his family say he died of complications into covid—19. giscard d'estaing was president from 1974 to 1981, and his time in office included periods of economic crisis and industrial unrest. his greatest passion was building a greater european union. in 2013, he gave an interview to bbc‘s newsnight warning the of the problems the european union would face if it did not reform. we have something that was

going well for us. until 1990. we were 12, including britain, germany, france, italy. we knew each other. we were in rather similar positions, more or less identical. and then we had a wave of new mps who pushed us from 12 to 28. and we didn't change anything. the position, the way of taking decisons. .. —— the organisation, the way of taking decisions. so it's adapted to the present dimension. to stay with us if you can, much more to come, including this, passion for painting, the british artist.

it's quite clear that the worst victims of this disaster are the poor people living in the slums which have sprung up around the factory. i'm feeling so helpless that the children are dying in front of me and i can't do anything. charles manson is the mystical leader of the hippy cult suspected of killing sharon tate and at least six other people in los angeles. at 11:00 this morning, just half a metre of rock separated britain from continental europe. it took the drills just a few moments to cut through the final obstacle and then a minerfrom calais was shaking hands and exchanging flags with his opposite number from dover.

welcome back, glad to have you with us on bbc news, one main story this hour, britain is to roll out of mass vaccination campaign against coronavirus forum next week, regulators have approved of vaccine in record time. let's stay with that story now, we can go to newton, massachusetts. the dean of the brown university school from public health joins us now. inc. you very much indeed for your time. with this decision by uk 30s put more pressure on american regulators, do you think him and to approve a vaccine more quickly? so, first of all, thank you for having me on. you know, i think there's a lot of pressure already on the american regulators. this certainly, i think, american regulators. this certainly, ithink, adds american regulators. this certainly, i think, adds one more piece. but even before this decision, i was expecting the fda to authorise a vaccine

for the pfizer vaccine next week. i think this makes it that much more likely. and you think it will be the pfizer? yes, i think the pfizer vaccine will be authorised most likely on the 10th of december. and in about a week —— about a week later, we will see an authorisation. if and vaccines acquire different vaccines for storage and administration. can you give us an idea of the scale of the logistical challenge of doing this in the united states, let alone to watch 7 billion people in about 200 countries? yes, so this is probably the most, you know, complex public health intervention in the history of humanity. —— that we are going to try to pull off openly over the next six to six months to year trend to get a buddy around the world vaccinated. in the us, we will try to get 300 million people vaccinated. and as you've alluded to, the pfizer vaccine needs to be stored at —70 celsius. the maternal vaccine also needs to be frozen, though not quite to

that same degree, very complicated logistical challenges. —— moderna vaccine. i think there will be had just met but i think largely we will be able to do it. doctor, you will know better than me, i was just looking at the major figures coming out of the states, 100,000 covert patients in the hospital in the us for the first time. the us daily death toll from coal that just passed 2700, that i think is the highest figure since april —— covid—19. is there a danger that with the vaccine on the horizon, people will be even less likely to follow safety guidelines and distancing? you know, i am worried about this. things in the united states have been absolutely awful over the last 2—3 months. our federal government, president trump and has largely given up on the pandemic and has stopped talking about it. he stopped directing the federal government's efforts in it. you know, and anything really beyond vaccines. i think a lot of american people have already taken their eye off the ball, and the vaccine makes it that much more tempting to just think, well, it's on most all over. but i'd like to remind

people that with the vaccine so close, particularly important not to have infections and deaths right now. everybody was getting infected now could be vaccinated within a couple of months, and those lives could be saved. there is also a strong possibility, isn't there, that are not a lot of people will not trusted and will not take it. what kind of ta ke will not take it. what kind of take do you need for it to be effective? so, even if 30-40%, it will help, but it is absolutely true that we need to get to 70—80% take—up to really bring this pandemic under control. that will take a lot of effort. it will take very good communication, it will ta ke good communication, it will take addressing people's concerns and hesitancy. i think it's doable, but it's not swing to be an easy task. dr ashish jha, very good to talk to. thank you. thank you. is thank you. is a thank you. is a quote thank you. is a quote for thank you. is a quote for you, "0ur planet is broken." 0ur planet is waging where an age nature is tracing back with growing force and fury. that comes from the us secretary

general and the special bbc broadcast. as we learned this year, it's one of the warmest on record. —— despite all those panic lockdowns. our environment correspondent justin rowlatt reports. as if suffering a pandemic wasn't enough, now we learn that 2020 is on track to be one of the three hottest years ever recorded, and that is not all. the past decade, obviously, is the warmest on record, and the last six years are the warmest years on record. the bad news is even the covid—19 lockdowns haven't made a difference. the coronavirus restrictions imposed around the world may have shut down our cities and lead to a small reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, but the world meteorological 0rganisation is saying today it hasn't been enough to stop the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from continuing to increase. the un chief, antonio guterres, told the bbc today global action is needed now.

let's face facts, the state of our planet is broken. humanity is waging war on nature. this is suicidal. the science is clear. for example, unless the world cuts fossil fuel production by 6% every year between now and 2030, things will get worse, much worse. i've been talking about this for a long, long time... sir david attenborough joined him to warn time is running out. young people are very impatient, and quite rightly so. for nothing to come out, except words, is very dispiriting. we need action. the un chief says the world now faces a moment of truth. he says the choice is very simple. start cutting carbon emissions now — or face disaster. justin rowlatt, bbc news.

0ne one of the most celebrated artists has told the bbc her artists has told the bbc her art has kept her alive. since she was diagnosed with bladder cancer the summer. she was diagnosed with bladder cancer the summer. she's 57 yea rs cancer the summer. she's 57 years old, she's had major surgery, years old, she's had major surgery, and said planning a new exhibition helped her carry on. in conversation with our a rts on. in conversation with our arts editor, she talked of her passion for painting and a love of life. edvard munch's work is about his emotions, and identifying them. 1870, 1890, it wasn't really cool to be a man, and go around saying, "i'm filled with rage and jealousy." and with your paintings, are you a body through which these works are created? the work comes from an energy, and it's an energy that i can't hold within myself, that has to come out. and i think if it doesn't come out, ifeel like i'm going to spontaneously combust. these paintings are like, bang, totally direct. they're hiding nothing. she's not interested in beauty. she's interested the truth. and she's never shied away from that. you don't have to make art that makes people happy.

you have to make art that makes people feel. it's like being a conductor. it's like "boomph!" you know, you really, really go for it. i think that painting is about unrequited love. a lot of people know what that feels like. at the moment, like, i want you to see my face. but you're not going to see it because we're stuck in these covid times, you know? i haven't had a hug, i can't remember last time anybody hugged me. everyone's rushing out to buy puppies and kittens, because they need love and affection. what would you do, tracey, if you couldn't express yourself through art? i would have been dead a long time ago. were you making any of these works when you knew you were poorly? no, because... share it with the group — because i had something wrong with my bladder, it was just always presumed that's what the problem was. but the reason why i have them is is because i had full—blown cancer. and it was picked up injune.

less than four weeks later, i was having major surgery and having everything removed. even the things that i need, removed. to know that i could have possibly been dead by christmas, that could have so easily have been the outcome. and then people would have been coming to the show and i would have been dead. it would have been so tracey. when you've had a near death experience like that, when you have to really plan for your death, because that looks like it's probably going to be the outcome, you are so grateful for every day. if i could maintain this attitude of feeling positive and having this kind of energy, all that i've lost, all the cancer, everything, would be worth it, because i feel so much more enlightened. how are you now? how are you feeling now? yeah, i'm good. yeah, every day i'm getting better. tracy sharing her thoughts with will gompertz. finally, an

unusual number in south africa's lottery has brought accusations of fraud. 20 people wa nt to accusations of fraud. 20 people want to share of the jackpot as the draw in tuesday's marble lottery produce the numbers five, six, seven, eight, nine, the powerball itself was coming have guessed it, ten. the organisers say that frequency —— that sequences often picked by playing the lottery, but some have alleged a scam, an investigation is under way. it's very rare for multiple winners to share the jackpot. they each won 5.7 million. that's the equivalent of about $370,000. that's main story just briefly again, britain's pro minister, boris johnson will say it will take some months for all of those most wonderful to coronavirus will get the covid—19 vaccine. it's welcomed the fact that the regulator in the uk has given approval to the jab developed by pfizer and can be rolled out from next week. that's it for now. much more any time for you on the bbc website. thanks for

watching. hello. we've a much colder snap of weather on the way for the next couple of days, so there's a much greater risk of some ice and some snow. snow from these showers in the north through the course of today, and even perhaps in this band of more persistent rain in the south just on the hills because we got that cold airjust nudging further southwards, hanging around through today, hanging around through tomorrow as well. and look at this strengthening wind that will accentuate the chill. so, yes, we do have warnings out at the moment, especially across the northern half of the country, and the snow mainly on the hills and you can get the details on those warnings from the website. the showers are falling as snow on the hills in the north, but across scotland, even to lower levels with a slight covering. and here, with a widespread frost, northern england, northwards, a risk of ice.

some treacherous conditions potentially further south, there could be some patchy frost and a little bit of snow in this system as well across the welsh mountains, perhaps the moors of the southwest. as it edges its way northwards and eastwards, perhaps bringing some snow into the midlands as well, the showers further north still falling as snow over the hills. this, as you can see, slowly migrates eastwards through the day, giving way to showery weather further west, some hail and thunder here. whilst for scotland and northern ireland, the showers perhaps becoming fewer, more confined to the coasts with more sunshine, but it's cold for all of us, accentuated by the strengthening wind around that area of low pressure. and then those weatherfronts spiral their way around the low pressure overnight, so an increased risk as we go through into the coming night of snow potentially across northern and eastern areas, and a more widespread frost with the surfaces damp even in the south. there's a risk of some ice as well. so, quite a difficult one on friday in terms of the details because we've got these weather systems spiralling around that area of low pressure. certainly, it's

going to be cold. it'll be windier as well with a risk of gales for the west coast of scotland and also through the irish sea, and these bands of rain pushing their way gradually westwards with some snow potentially. the lower levels on the western flank, and look at the temperatures, they are quite low. in the heavier bursts, that snow level comes down as well, could even be a smattering further south as well. certainly lots to keep our eye on at the moment for our first widespread taste of winter. the weekend sees things drying a little bit, but it stays pretty chilly, as you can see. the warnings, as i say, are on the website.

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britain is to roll out a mass vaccination campaign against coronavirus from next week, after regulators approved a vaccine in record quick time. the prime minister has acknowledged it will be a massive logistical exercise thatis massive logistical exercise that is of a benefit to before. man's of dozes of the pfizer biontech fax info arrive in days. an exasperated election official in the us state of georgia pleads with president trump to dial down the rhetoric levelled against his colleagues over the election result. mrtrump is angry mr trump is angry that a second recount there has been no change to joe biden's recount there has been no change tojoe biden's victory. the french president who oversaw sweeping social reforms, valery giscard d'estaing, has died at the age of 94. his family say he died of complications linked to covid—19.

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