this is deja vu news live from berlin. 3 weeks after the election, there is a green light for the presidential transition in the u.s. . the federal government recognizes joe biden as the apparent winner of the vote is tainted and now get started on the handover process that was told by the trump ministration. also coming up another promising breakthrough in the race to roll out a covert. 19 vaccine. astra zeneca says the vaccine could be 90 percent effective and has many advantages over rival formulas. plans,

china launches an unmanned spacecraft to the moon and a mission to bring lunar rocks back to earth. we ask a planetary scientist, what success would make for china's ambitious space program. i'm rebecca riches, welcome to the program. 3 weeks after the u.s. election president elect joe biden has finally been given the green light to start the transition process. the president donald trump tweeted tuesday that he was directing his administration to cooperate in the handover process. it's the closest he's come to conceding defeat. meanwhile, biden has pushed ahead and began announcing nominations for his own administration . looking presidential didn't elect joe biden efficiently,

revealed his picks for the top positions of his cabinet, monday, signaling his readiness to take over the helm, biden's foreign policy and national security choices. mark a clear shift away from trump's america 1st doctrine. instead, a lot of familiar faces from the obama administration so many that some are calling it the obama administration 2.0. the choice is signaled biden's intention to return to a more traditional way of doing business and interacting with other countries. biden's choices are veterans with many years of experience, like his longtime adviser, antony blinken, named for the position of secretary of state. he will be tasked with steering the country back towards the paris climate agreement, the world health organization, and they run a nuclear deal. the best known of the nominees is former secretary of state john kerry, who is poised to become biden's climate change. and boy, from

a federal reserve chair, janet yellen says to serve as treasury secretary, if confirmed she would be the 1st woman to take over. this pivotal role and would face the difficult task of shaping u.s. economic policies at a time when the country is facing both a pandemic and recession. biden also named avril haynes as the 1st woman to become director of national intelligence. a question is whether this was a wise action and alexandro majorca as the 1st latino to have the department of homeland security. biden appears to be making good on his campaign promise that his cabinet will reflect america's diversity. linda thomas greenfield was appointed to the helm of the u.s. mission to the united nations. but many of biden's cabinet picks will require confirmation in the senate where republicans still hold a narrow majority. for now,

at least with the transition poses officially under way, some of the uncertainty and turbulence of the past weeks seems to be settling down to go ahead for federal officials to start working with joe biden's tain follows weeks of legal challenges by donald trump. has been trying to overturn the election result. his data is washington correspondent karen in a chamber where finally a step that the world was waiting for. donald trump opened the door for the transition. interestingly enough, this came briefly after the state of michigan. 30 fight, by the way, this means that these 16 electoral votes are from michigan will definitely go to joe biden. and this also clearly erases any pathway for president trying to overturn the election results. we also know from last week that georgia certified by then asked the winner of that state for 36 lawsuits,

filed by the trump campaign falsely claiming election fraud over 20 have already been rejected by the courts. meanwhile, president elect joe biden is working on his upcoming administration. he has announced some of the members of his cabinet, a cabinet that includes a lot of experts that already served under barack obama's administration. and that's terms of all the stories making news this hour. shares in tokyo, open champlain hieron news of the u.s. presidential transition, going ahead in only trading the nick i rose to levels not seen in almost 3 decades like other international markets. tokyo was also boid by new vaccine news. the strain is largest in line qantas has suggested it could make a coronavirus vaccination. a requirement for international air travel is its c.e.o. says qantas would implement the as a soon as a vaccine was made available. and he thought the room could become common practice among airlines. there are more encouraging signs in the race to develop

a coronavirus vaccine. drug maker, astra zeneca and oxford university have announced their vaccine is up to 90 percent effective in preventing cove at 19. the next saying was most effective when patients were given a half dose followed by a full dose one month later. crucially, this new vaccine does not require extreme cold storage and is relatively cheap and easy to mass produce. these files hold a promising formula for entering the covert. 19 pandemic globally. a cheap, effective, easy to distribute that scene. we have to get a lot of people. we're not thinking about solutions working in terms of one person at a 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. we're going to have the ability to contribute here in

a really big way. the vaccine was developed at the ukase university of oxford using the a don't know virus 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 that 19 producing an immune response., over $24000.00 volunteers took part in the clinical trials in the u.k., brazil, and south africa. the late stage trials show the a donor viral vaccine is better at preventing hospitalizations and severe cases of covert 19 than the m.m.r. in a vaccines developed by madonna and pfizer. by on tech, but people are not getting sick with the spike scene, which means that ultimately, even if you were to get ill, you have moral symptoms. and so i think that's incredibly important because it'll keep ospital birds free and people won't be dying from this virus. and

that's not the only advantage. unlike the m.r. lay vaccines, it can be kept at normal, frigid 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 ability and its accessibility. it's going to be probably more affordable than most of those 4 countries. astra zeneca has pledged it won't make a profit from the vaccine during the pandemic. if it gets regulatory approval, the firm says it's ready to produce 3000000000 doses. next year. china's space agency has launched its ambitious mission to the moon to bring rock samples back to worth china. 5, named for the chinese goddess of the moon took off successfully from the space

center on china's southern heinen island. it's the 1st mission by any nation to, retrieve lunar sample. since the 1970 s., the probe is expected to bring back 2 kilo's of rocks and soil to help scientists learn more about earth's nearest neighbor, including how it was formed. the mission has also showcase also showcases the advances that china's made in space exploration technology. this spacecraft has towered above the southern island province of high land 5 days a symbol of china's technological prowess. and its military might a source of pride for many chinese. this is china's message to the world because china's global signature would injure your child. i think by being able to launch such moon exploration, china is making history. the china 5 rocket is comprised of

several components. one is the lander, which will dig for rocks and soil. these materials will then be transferred into the return capsule for the journey back to the current lunar program consists of 3 phases, overseeing landing and returning to china. 5 will carry out the 3rd phase, bringing moon samples back to earth that we hope this will be a success. we hope your mind that you hope, if it is a success, it would be the 1st time in 4 decades. that material has been brought back from the moon. china's space ambitions are no secret and have been growing for years. in 2003, it secured a major breakthrough when it became the 3rd country in the world to send

a man into space. 10 years later trying to hit another milestone successfully landing in unpiloted spacecraft on the moon. it was the 1st soft landing since the soviet union success in 1976. more chinese cheers in january 29th teen in a global 1st, a lunar probe. touching down on the far side of the moon, boosting china's space ambitions. mas' is also in its sights. this year beijing launched an unmanned probe to the planet. in july, it put the final satellite into orbit for its chinese navigation system. the country's rival to u.s. owned g.p.s. . but this lunar mission to bring back material from the moon is one of china's may stand bishes to date and one which beijing is determined to be another success.

well for more i'm joined by mark mccall crime. he's a senior advisor to science and exploration at the european space agency. thanks very much for joining dave. but if successful they this mission could would make china only the 3rd country to infiltrate, luna samples joining the u.s. and the former soviet union. where is china's role in space, exploration headed think it's been very ambitious over the last couple of decades as your piece just described there. and we are actually collaborating with china ourselves, that european space agency. we've sent a couple of astronauts to train with that as we may actually go to their space station as well as the international space station because we've been going for decades for 2 decades now. we're also collaborative collaborating on scientific missions to study. for example, the magnetic field of the earth and how it interacts with the sun, the so-called small missions. so i think china, as you did your piece just said is on pushing ahead on many fronts, the moon,

mars human spaceflight and science all at once. so it's very impressive program. china is not the only country that's interested in the main. this seems to be such an interest in the moonlight. why is that? well i think in part it's, it's sort of time there's been a whole new generation of space industries developing around the world space agency's looking again at what it can do to go beyond low earth orbit with the space station we've been for 20 years. and the moon is the natural destination for that. so the european space agency is now working with nasa on the same code our ryan crew vehicle which will be able to send astronauts to the moon and where europe is supplying hoff of that. that crew vehicle which will go to the moon and we just signed contracts to start building the 1st possible. it's called the gateway. so this is a small the ocean of the international space station with the same partnership in a little bit around the moon, which will then form a place to go down to the surface of the moon,

but also to do science above the radiation belts of the which protect the astronauts on the ice, and that's a stepping stone then to send humans to mars. so i think there's an awful lot of push in terms of science and technology. but also you see these new global players like china being very ambitious, and that tends to trigger a response from the traditional play as the united states, europe, russia, japan, and others. so i think there's no specific reason to be doing this now, but there is a certain sense, a lot of momentum. all right, so scientific exploration, also a launching pad to explore mas aqim and ever going to live on the name. well, that's exactly what we're trying to do. you know, we put humans on the moon in between 199972 and the aim now is not to sort of return, it's to go there with a new purpose. and that is to go to the surface and set up a large base for people to live. and that also involves getting resources like

water, metals, and oxygen out of the surface. and we developing the technologies for that. so it's a sustainable long term program as opposed to just boots on the moon and coming back you are. i'm not going corcoran. fascinating. thanks very much. you're watching dado. many news will have more news next. now. not sanction. now for business with kris kobach. give us your country to make you rich oil will provide you with jobs.