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astra zeneca, to oxford university in the united kingdom say their new coronavirus vaccine could be up to 90 percent effective. it can be kept for refrigerator temperatures. unlike other recently announced vaccines. astra zeneca says it will have 200000000 doses available by year's end. china has launched an unmanned mission to bring back rocks and desperately from the surface of the moon., it's the 1st mission by any nation to retrieve a lunar samples. since the 1970 s., the probe is expected to return with material that will help scientists learn more about earth's nearest neighbor, including how it was formed. this is g.w. news from berlin, follow us on twitter and instagram or visit our website. dot com. the world is starting the 3rd week in a row with news of yet another promising corona virus vaccine. today,

astra zeneca became the latest pharmaceutical to announce that its vaccine is effective at preventing asters it is. vaccine has important advantages with a price tag of just a few dollars. it is now the front runner in the race to in the pandemic, by protecting every one everywhere. i'm burnt off in berlin. this is the day we plan to begin supplying by the end of the year and what hundreds of millions of doses of vaccine supply in 2021. we wanted actually 12 not just hiding competitors across the m.r.i. . this could be very important to understand the cool don't relate to throw people

off into congress, you know, proclivity to vote, the things that come before we can actually get it. all i can say would be to introduce. thank you. thank you for what you've done. also coming up there are reports of an historic secret meeting in saudi arabia, the 1st face to face between the crown prince and the israeli prime minister, the saudis denying that the meeting ever happened. benjamin netanyahu is denying nothing. i have never commented on these things over the years and i do not intend to start now with you, our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of our viewers around the world. welcome. we begin the day once twice, 3 times with vaccine hopes. this is the 3rd monday in a row that the world has been given. a reason to think that the end of the

coronavirus pandemic may be near 2 weeks ago. it was fines are in by on tech one week ago it was mcgurn. today, it was astra zeneca that announced promising data about a vaccine that prevents coated 19. just say that hopes are high, would be an understatement. according to trial results, all 3 vaccines are exceeding expectations. their effectiveness is 90 percent or better. and astra zeneca is the 1st promising bank scene that due to its low cost, could be delivered globally. a pandemic prevention for every man and woman, regardless of geography or income. these tiles hold a promising formula for ending the covert. 19 pandemic globally. a cheap, effective, easy to distribute that scene. we have to get a lot of people, and i did. we're not thinking about the nation's work in terms of one person. it's time we have to think about vaccinating communities, populations,

reducing transmission within those populations, so that we really get on top of this pandemic. and that's what it now looks like. ray guns, have the ability to can chip the chairman, have written big way. the vaccine was developed at the u.k.'s university of oxford using the adenovirus platform. researchers took a common cold virus that infects chimpanzees, genetically engineering it to trick the human body into thinking it has been infected with the virus that causes kovac 19 and producing an immune response., over $24000.00 volunteers took part in the clinical trials in the u.k., brazil, and south africa. although the late stage trials showed the adin of viral vaccine is less effective in preventing infection than the m.r. in a vaccines developed by maternal and pfizer biotech. but does that indicate its best represented hospitalizations and severe cases of 19 people in all getting sick with the spike scene. which means that ultimately, even if you were to get ill,

you have symptoms. and so i think that's incredibly important because it will keep hospital beds free and people won't be dying from this virus. and that's not the only advantage. unlike the m.m.r. in a vaccines, it can be kept at normal french temperatures, making it easier to distribute, especially in developing countries. it can also be manufactured at scale, meaning it can be produced in much greater quantities and that much lower cost than its rivals. but i think this will be a truly global for in terms of its deploy and its accessibility. it's going to be probably more affordable in most of those 4 countries. astra zeneca has pledged it won't make a profit from the facts seen during the pandemic. if it gets regulatory approval, the firm says it's ready to produce 3000000000 doses next year. and 49,

i'd like to welcome back to the day dr. john campbell. he is an independent health analyst in the u.k. . yes, become a sought after authority on social media and all questions about this pandemic. thank you, carol. good to see you again. and it's good that we're meeting under such encouraging circumstances before we discuss astra zeneca. let's consider what researchers have achieved in less than a year. i mean, we're talking about 3, promising vaccines are going it really is quite incredible. i mean, when you think about the pfizer medellin or max it is there are quite a lot of money going into them, especially the middle. but the oxford after zeneca vaccine has been done on a relatively small budget, and it is important to realize, bret, that this is going through all the stages. the normal vaccine or normal medication will go through is just being compressed into a small spirited period of time. so even though this is been very quick, it hasn't been skipping stages all the stages or been done correctly. it's just a very impressive piece of science followed by

a very impressive piece of research logistics. and we hope followed up by a very impressive piece of allowing this vaccine to be, to be used to the authorizations and hopefully followed by a very efficient rollout as well. and plans are in place for all of those things. so i'm actually really thought actually quite relieved this morning when i heard this news. very good news all around and it's good news. talk to me about what distinguishes the astra zeneca vaccine from the vaccines, from the dernier and pfizer, by on 10. well, the pfizer, the pfizer biotech and the video, backseat national institute of health. maxie are both based on his messenger r.n.a. way of doing things completely new way of making vaccines. both seem to work that the oxford astra zeneca is based on as you correctly said, it's a, it's a cold virus that causes colds and you know it. in chimpanzees, it isn't a dino virus genetically modified. so that weighs injected into the body. it will express the same proteins you find on the surface of the star's coronavirus to

a vaccine for it will make the antibodies and stimulate t. cells. the big difference, as you've already alluded to, is the pfizer vaccine must be transported at minus 70 degrees centigrade. now this can be done in advanced countries, but it's difficult, but it can be done. and even a dinner vaccine needs to be transported in freezing temperatures. where is the oxford astra? zeneca vaccine is just that normal fridge. temperature is the way we keep most of our vaccines. so if you're in a remote chair area, we could for example, you could just get your cool box out, put in some ice box put in your vaccine and go off into the days pass a nation with a very, very low tech approach. this is something all health care professionals are already know how to administer. so is really ready to just hit the road. it's a nice low tech, easy to administer vaccine. where does this vaccine does it need any fine tuning it? and i'm thinking about the scene here because i understand that if you want to get 90 percent efficacy, you have to take the half those 1st right. isn't it interesting?

yeah. so if you give the full dose the full dose is $50000000000.00 viral particles, but they found that if you gave half dose 1st of all $25000000000.00 viral particles, if you gave the thirst a half dose, followed by a full dose a month later, the efficacy, there was 90 percent, 90 percent of people difference in infection rates compared to the experimental group and the control group. if you gave the full dose twice, then yes, because you may, it was only 62 percent combining those 2, it worked out at 70 percent efficacy. so i strongly suspect that they'll be doing further research into the half dose, followed by the full dose to get to 90 percent. because that what we don't know who was to be fascinating to find out what happens if we give to half doses. does that mean? yes, because it goes over 90 percent. you simply don't know that because the work hasn't been done. but the other thing about this, it would give half the viral dose for the 1st half the dose of viruses up to the

dose of the vaccine for the 1st dose. that means we can have 25 percent more people vaccinated for the same volume of vaccine. so it's actually really quite encouraging results. i don't pretend to be able to explain it in terms of immunology, but it's practically a good thing. it's really a case of less is more in case the vaccine dose. what we're who stands to benefit the most from this vaccine. i mean, at the beginning of the program, i said this is maybe the 1st global vaccine that we have against this pandemic. so please, you brought this up, bring that pfizer in the big donor vaccine, or both to clay. and you can say, this is wrong. we spoke to both declare it to be for profit vaccines. these are commercial companies, they intend to make some money out of this. but the oxford astra zeneca vaccine, they have declared that they will do this for a non profit basis. as long as the pandemic lasts. so they are going to be putting this magazine out at really low cost. now that buys a back seat, looks like it's going to be around about $20.00 euros a dose. then they did

a vaccine is more like 35 year or less diverse. where is the austin astra? zeneca banksy. it appears it's going to be slightly 3 euros. so it's like a 10th of the price down and on coffee basis. and as well as that box, that astra zeneca has teamed up with $20.00 partners around the world. so this virus is going to be made in huge amounts, for example, it's going to be made in the street. it's going to be baby south america. we believe is going to be manufactured in sweden, in quite a few european countries because they've sort of franchised down to the manufacturer of this. this is really a niigata tarion virus. so it can be made in different places for local distribution at low cost. it really is quite, quite a quite impressive humanitarian thing that you're in. yeah, it is. like you said the beginning of the program. excellent news is a great way to start the dr. john campbell as always at the campbell. it's good talking with you. we appreciate your insights. thank you for your job or like it

was illustrate how quickly vaccine development is improving the overall narrative. germany is now expecting the 1st vaccinations to be administered nationwide by mid december. at the same time, the nationwide partial lockdown. it's expected to stay in effect into the new year a glimmer of hope in germany defrost coronavirus vaccinations could take place within weeks. suki. so by want to quickly begin to offer vaccinations as soon as a vaccine is available. unless there's a reason to believe that we can stop at the latest, at the beginning of next year, maybe already at the end of this year. and these in the vaccinations will be a row that in 2 stages. starting this, been a mobile people. the need is urgent. the latest partial lockdown has failed to cut infections. the way tathata belies the daily rate. it means that we have

not yet managed to bring the numbers fact to a low level. we have basically only managed to get past the 1st step so far, studies to stop the exponential increase of infections and we are no stable. but our numbers softies very, very high fight. patience is wearing thin, leading to end to long down protests and fears. the far right is instrumental izing tensions. but many of germany's 16 federal states doubling down saying the partial lockdown must be extended and intensified with tighter caps on gatherings. with christmas, just weeks away, the pressure chancellor meets state leaders on wednesday. then if this isn't time it has been almost 3 weeks since voters in the u.s. went to the polls to select a president. it has been 2 weeks since the ballot count showed joe biden. winning

the popular vote and the electoral college. and yet president remains in denial, refusing to admit that he lost refusing to allow the transition of power to begin pressure on the president to accept reality is building today more than 100 current and former national security officials signed an open letter calling on republicans to stop enabling trump's intransigence saying that his baseless legal challenges to the election are now in danger of national security. this is what they writes. we are former senior national security officials who served in republican, administrations under presidents reagan, george h.w. bush, george w., bush, and or donald trump, or as republican members of congress. we believe that president trumps refusal to concede the election and allow for an orderly transition constitutes a serious threat to america's democratic process. and to our national security. we

therefore call on republican leaders, especially those in congress to publicly demand that president trump seize his anti-democratic assault on the integrity of the presidential election. our, let's take this story now to washington d.c. . our correspondent stefan simons joins me now from our bureau to youth chiffon high level pressure from outside for the president to give up his challenges. and we've got high level implosions taking place within the president's own legal team . talk to me about how bad the infighting is. right. president trump going to trace in under huge pressure to actually allow a transition. because again, as you pointed out in this, quote, national security is at stake here in the eyes of many, many, many. and then you have on the other side, the, as you called it, rightfully so. the implosion of the legal efforts and the legal team,

basically trump, and this is the elite strike force team. who is the elite strike force team? that is rudy giuliani, jenna alice and sydney powell. and apparently sidney powell is not part of the team anymore. yeah, the team distancing itself from sydney powell reportedly because for conspiracy theories went too far even for the likes of rudy giuliani and this is what powell said at a press conference just last week. take a listen, dominion voting systems, the smartmatic technology software, and the software that goes and other computerized voting systems here as well. not just a minion, were created and billions in venezuela at the direction of hugo chavez tonight. sure, he never lost an election after one constitutional referendum came out the way he did not want to come out. all right, to fund the deceased hugo chavez,

venezuela, and the us presidential election. so how far would you say we are from the twilight zone right now? around if there is something beyond to try, let's all of them, we're past the twilight zone and we're actually behind that or beyond that in my view, at least because that is just that i don't have almost any worse nor have any observer . see, or most observers and in the washington press corps here, forefoot for this. there are no words to describe this in any way or form, legitimately or seriously. i mean, you heard it's hugo chavez. hugo chavez died in 2013. the latest comment with no, the punch cards in, in those demonic dominion machines are, cia makes no sense in the powell. remember one tidbit he used the lawyer

of michael flynn. lost all credibility from observer. so by observers and apparently so even rudy giuliani couldn't go that far in outlandish claims of what's going on here with this election. and then we've got president elect joe biden. he is drawing to move forward with this transition confirming that he will nominate tony blinken to be secretary of state. talked to me about what we know about lincoln and what his nomination says about biden's foreign policy plans. i think here we leave the kindergarten and now we're talking between adults are under adults here. so tony blinken is a former well known and well worst obama aide. he was a former national security advisor, a worse deputy secretary, secretary of state under obama. so with this, with his nomination, joe biden,

signals to the world that trump shenanigans in foreign policy are over and that at least this is how joe biden approaches this, that they are over. and that he is installing people who are actually well worst and have a background and experience in foreign policy. that also means that probably the biden administration will do a lot of repair work. and blinken is the right guy, the right man for this, since the biden campaign. because he is really well versed there is not this the foreign ministry in germany, or france, or anywhere in europe or in the middle east, or in latin america or in asia. they know tony blinken, they have dealt with him before they know what to expect. and again, the big signal is to get people in my administration with background, with experience, and with vision, who also have this, this tremendous experience and who can repair, repair, the scorched earth. even in foreign policy,

the trumpet administration has left behind, at least this is how the biden administration or by the future of private ministration and biden campaign, sees that orange to fund simon's all this work force in washington. stefan is always thank you. if it's true, we are talking about history in the making. israeli media is reporting that prime minister benjamin netanyahu held talks with the crown prince of saudi arabia. mohammed bin soundman, in saudi arabia on sunday. and an unnamed israeli official was quoted saying netanyahu was accompanied by the head of israel's spy agency. the mossad in an interview with the wall street journal, a saudi official confirmed the meeting, but the solti foreign minister tweeted that the meeting did not happen. prince, soundman didn't meet with u.s., secretary of state might pump a a in the city of the yom. pumpin has been traveling with members of the american

press pool during his mid east tour, but he left reporters at the airport when he met with the crown prince. the jump administration has brokered deals between israel and bahrain, the united arab emirates, and sudan. but a deal with saudi arabia has so far remained elusive. so what is going on here? the more i want to bring in trade of parsi, he's the executive vice president of the quincy institute for responsible state craft in washington. and it's good to see you again, and i'll ask you what everyone, what everyone's been asking, who's heard this story? which switch do you believe? did this meeting happen or did it i suspect that it's quite likely that it did happen as also quite predictable that the saudis with deny it projected mindful of the tensions that exist within the well founded as to whether there is wisdom to such a movement. clearly we know that the current king is opposed to it and that it is

much less forgiving over the israelis are doing to the palestinians. whereas m.p.'s seems much more eager to move in this direction in particular. and from of that significant challenges. and yes, as long as it's being in washington, it under miscreation, it seems quite likely that he would likely have such a meeting in order to use it to his favorite washington. we have seen that you ease decisions and recognize israel did not do anything to promote peace in the middle east, but it is quite a lot to improve the u.a.e. standing in washington. a ha, and let's assume that this meeting did happen. what is the, what's in it for the israelis? well, you know, it's a nose perspective. being able to show that major arab powers no longer have a problem with the israeli occupation of palestinian territory. is something that

vindicates his strategy, which is that occupation? an exception is ok and then surely the rest of the world will simply accept this. i that israel is taking and large and arthur part of control over palestinian territory. whereas the israeli left for quite some time has been making the argument that occupation is not sustainable. it wasn't the threat to israel and that the arab world and other neighbors will never accept it. and so from his perspective, this makes a lot of sense. but i think there's a broader issue that is at play here, which has less to do with the palestinian issue less to do with iran as well. which, is the key thing that is raining the saudi use, the u.a.e., and these ratings together is their interest in keeping the u.s. as security umbrella for better in the middle east. meaning that the united states remains militarily committed to the region. the greatest threat that they've been facing at the last 50 years is that the american public is tired of the u.s.

being in the middle east and wants to get out and measures of this kind, creating these alliances and using it to collectively fresh pressure. washington to remain committed to the middle east is something that we have seen that the israelis and the saudis, that you, we have done before, even sure of this formal recognition. so good. can you imagine that the crown prince, it's in his interest to basically sacrifice the fate of the palestinians in order to have the israelis allied with him as a bulwark against iran. so that the americans still continue to see the iranian threat. is that what you're saying? part of it, i mean iran is very much used as that collective threats in order to justify this, but the bigger issue i think is to keep the u.s. in a teacher as part of the reason why these 3 countries were the only countries in the world that were all poles to the iran nuclear deal, because he meant that the tensions between the united states and iran would reduce,

which would enable the united states to have an easier time starting to withdraw its troops from the region, which was what the recording that they were against sacrificing policy because something that the saudis in the u.a.e. and others have already done for quite some time is just getting much more open and formal about him. but what about that big weapons deal? we've got about 30 seconds left. that big weapons deal between the u.s. and saudi arabia that happened after trump took office. yes, that's an other element that the g.c.c. countries are using to keep the united states committed to their security. if you buy $60000000000.00 worth of american weaponry, whether you like it or not, whether washington likes it or not, there is an implicit security ante that is extended when you purchase that and of weaponry. and that is what needs countries and using michael the fact that they do not have formal defense pacts with the united states. you know, it's a very good point for the parties. always good to talk with you. we appreciate your insights tonight. thank you. and your well, the day is always done,

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