same off the small belgian town mirrors nobody ever knew about it before it's just an industrial settlement really but it has a long tradition of pharmaceutical production of belgium is the 3rd biggest producer in europe and so they do have the workforce and that is one of the big advantages and also this plan to see extremely well connected traffic wise and that is the reason behind this completely unknown place in the landscape here of flanders is the place that might possibly save the world and make history in the process barbara talk to us a little bit about everybody wants to know about the logistics all that everybody is talking about right now in terms of you know the vaccines that are produced right behind you where you are at that point how will they go about distributing that to the u.k. but also across europe and the world potentially. this is a highly refined process stay at the vaccine is put into our very refrigerated vials because we have to remember this has to be kept at minus 70 degrees in order

to sort of be effective and not to not to sort of break down and then it is put into special containers that they also developed here which are called was dry ice inside and then this is loaded this cargo is loaded onto refrigerated trucks which then roll out from here the noise you hear in the background is the highway that's right in front of us on this highway you can go to 7 tim the the airport brussels which is the main distribution hub for pfizer in europe what then 2030 minutes given traffic so it's an extremely kuwait operation there really right at it and you from here you can just move through arguably very quickly as so this is the ideal plays really to do it and they have. developed a system to track these tracks by g.p.s. in order to by remote control measure the temperature within them so they always

know that is still very very cold inside that precious cargo is still safe by barbarism reporting from per's the pfizer's plant there in belgium thank you. and british prime minister boris johnson has hailed the authorization as fantastic news and says it will enable the british people to reclaim their lives well beyond tax pfizer vaccine has gotten the green light after just 10 months of fast track research and development and has also awaiting approval in many other countries a trial participant is given the bio on tech finds a coded 19 vaccine in the german city of mind he's just one of thousands who's been part of large scale clinical trials that have already proved the vaccine is 95 percent effective in preventing the disease. now germany's biotech and u.s. pharma giant pfizer have been given approval for their vaccine in the u.k.

making it a world 1st from early next week we will start the program of vaccinating people against a covert 19 here in this country and as we know from earlier announcements this vaccine is effective the m h r a you have approved it clinically safe and we have a vaccine so it's very good news there are challenges though the vaccine has to be stored at minus 70 degrees but the british government says its health service is prepared the vaccine which uses novel emma and a technology is still awaiting regulator e approval across the rest of the wild e.u. will 30 say it could be authorized within weeks meanwhile to other western drug

companies astra zeneca and madonna have also reported trial success for their vaccines. and inoculations developed by chinese and russian research as have also shown positive results some of already been approved for american sea u.s. . the u.k. was the 1st country to reach an agreement with bae on tech and pfizer for the supply of vaccines it's already ordered $40000000.00 doses with several 1000000 expected to arrive before the end of the year. well moments ago i spoke to dr john campbell who is a health analyst in the u.k. and he told me the vaccine approval is good news but it expressed concern that it might lead people to let their guard down. yes i certainly i certainly do this news is so good and there's quite a lot of euphoria around and the scientists of police and the politicians of please

do your police and i'm pleased but this is not going to start affecting herd immunity in significant numbers in the u.k. talk march or april and the countries like germany and france where the regulations commute little more slowly there will probably talk about a pool maybe forget significant that was a herd immunity until then we're going to need to ventilate our buildings we're going to have the hands face space message needs to get through we need to consider that we're going to victim indeed to keep our union levels good overwinter everything that we're doing now has to be carried on for some months until we develop a good herd immunity and we're going to need at least 70 percent of people to become immune before we have that kind of level so this is not an overnight fix this is a process but this process that started the $800000.00 doses from belgium it's great to know that you appear vaccine and now on the way to the u.k. it's been botched tested we know that but it's good to go and i suspect people in the u.k.

will be being fascinated by it but if it is vaccine on sunday more monday depends whether you want to start it in the next few days. dr john campbell there speaking to me earlier from the u.k. well let's take a look now at some other developments in the penn demick russian president vladimir putin has ordered voluntary mass vaccination to start next week russia says it sputnik vaccine is 92 percent effective and portugal's prime minister has set securing a vaccine for all european countries will be a top priority portugal takes over the user's rotating presidency in january and meanwhile germany has reported a record 487 deaths over 24 hours a new daily record officials have been expecting deaths to trend upward following a steep rise in new infections. of course in hong kong has sentenced 3 elating pro-democracy activists to jail for their involvement in last year's anti-government protests while the longest sentence that of 13 and

a half months was handed to joshua won but he remains defiant vowing to continue to fight for democracy from prison. headed back to jail after his sentencing on wednesday joshua wang seen here in black pled guilty to charges which included inciting and illegal assembly fellow activists agnes chauhan ivan lamb also received jail terms one has been a prominent figure in hong kong's pro-democracy scene in 2014 he helped spearhead the umbrella movement for months of protests heard by a government plan to prescreen candidates for local elections one was front and center. everybody here has to stay alert this demonstration has been peaceful and the police haven't bothered us much but now they have brought tear gas and plastic bullets we have to do all we can to protect ourselves.

he was arrested at the age of 171 became an international political figure 4 in 2016 he founded a new political party demo sisto aiming to define hong kong's long term future. one himself was too young to be a candidate though that didn't stop him from trying to run for office. in $29000.00 he was jailed for 2 months but went free in time to join widespread protests over a proposed new extradition law to mainland china this time around the demonstrations were much more violent wong was arrested along with thousands of others. in july 2020 things went from bad to worse for pro-democracy activists china passed a new security law for hong kong that made wang's demos see still party illegal the party disbanded and wang went to trial for his activities in last year's protests

undeterred he told the w in a recent interview he would not back down. for some boss never stop me from activism and thinking critically if it is such difficult hiring and awesome all of us were arrested since last summer and 2000 people were to be were prosecuted is still important for us to stay and fight. after wednesday's sentencing wang renewed his commitment to the cause he released a statement on twitter through his lawyers saying it is not the end of the fight ahead of us is another challenging battleground we are now joining the battle in prison along with many brace protesters less visible yet essential in the fight for democracy and freedom for hong kong. despite his defiance one sentence will likely keep him out of the public eye for some time to come.

back to turn our 2 avery in he's the general secretary of the league of social democrats and veteran activist in hong kong mr ng welcome did you expect joshua want to be sentenced for more than a year. unfortunately i do. i mean it is still shocking to hear such a severe sentence sentence that basically over the past year to. hong kong judicial system and the courts and judges have the tendency of punishing protesters of politico dissidents extreme. sentencing so even though that this case we will watch. and at lest it was certainly find a case today a court expect is going to be a tough legal battle and unfortunately. they are going to have to spend their

foreseeable future in prison. now you yourself mr a how are facing charges yourself related to last years or protests how concerned how worried are you about your own case. well basically i suspend no i've been going in and out of prison over the past couple of years so. i got used to it however. the shift is particularly this concern to expect leave the national security law in that i basically they sit in their own government is using the traditional system not a place for people to seek justice but also a place to actually revenge on anybody does disagreeing with. with the government so. i have to say that it's going to be the norm for hong kong people and it closed democracy not just after this but even supporters to.

not get used to but can we can not mobilize the public to return to the street because of the cold and even if there's any small protest or say in the last a dozen people that the police were used to take over it all together and then it's an excuse to to to arrest us now and i don't see this and the point where the police is going to allow or give permissions to permits to host and the gathering or even marchers in the near future but i'm hoping that once the go slow believe tego the crisis confident that people will return to the street but with extra caution now in the meantime in conclusion in the moments that we have left together what do all these developments

me and say about the freedoms. there's not much left and it is expected of us this tendency a c.c.p. . to send a strong cautionary signal waters to hong kong but to the world that no matter how much support you have in the public or in being the national community. they're going to. keep on suppressing the dissidents we've reached and i am pleased so it is going to be a tough road ahead and you know now that we don't even have a legislative congress over the stile voices in that school going to be a lot tougher to fight. every in general secretary of the league of social democrats and veteran activists in hong kong thank you for joining us thank you

and other news a german man has been taken into custody after driving his car into pedestrians in the western city of tokyo a police there have confirmed that 5 people were killed in shoes days attack including a 9 week old baby no motive has yet been established. tria the day after candles in grief as a makeshift memorial under the famous ports in the criminal element. a sad day in clear today where the city is mourning the 5 victims of tuesday's car rampage including a 9 week old baby and her 45 year old father the baby's mother and an 18 month old sibling are injured and currently in hospital hundreds of people have been coming to mourn the victims bringing candles laying down flowers saying a silent prayer many with tears in their eyes. is to be it's painful yesterday i heard about the instant on the radio and feared that

something might have happened to my relatives i'm shocked. i can't believe what happened tria is such a small city people know each other i would never have thought something so horrible could happen here. it's a huge blow for the people of we've never experienced anything like this and now it's happened here just before christmas and it's really hard to stand heart on choose day a 51 year old german man drove an s.u.v. for around one kilometer through the city's pedestrian zone hitting people at random police arrested him immediately afterwards and he's been remanded in custody investigators say there's no evidence of a political motive the reason behind the attack it's still unclear high levels of alcohol were found in the suspect's blood while questions about the attack are remain open the city is mourning the victims. the pain of the mother who

lost her child and her husband takes my voice away. there will never again be the laughter of the father and the child. and hundreds of others who have to mourn the dead feel the same way they will never again have their loved ones around them. the city has opened a helpline for the relatives of those killed and the 18 people enjoy it as well as the traumatized eyewitnesses. and now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world the united nations has reached an agreement with ethiopia to allow aid into government controlled areas of to grey region all this as tens of thousands have already fled into neighboring sudan the un has been warning for weeks about a possible humanitarian catastrophe due to the conflict between i decide and tikrit rebel forces. taiwan's highest court has acquitted prime minister pray you to of

an ethics breach allowing him to keep his job while the opposition accused him of a conflict of interest by remaining in his military residence after he retired from the army the ruling comes amid months of pro-democracy protests demanding the resignation. the u.s. justice department says it's found no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the presidential election a statement from u.s. attorney general william barr is a blow to president all tromped he's challenging the election result and still refuses to concede to joe biden. new zealand has declared a climate emergency and pledged that its public sector will become carbon neutral by 2025 prime minister said there are dern told parliament urgent action is needed for the sake of future generations the country joins 32 others who have issued emergency declarations over global warming. on the zealand they're already on board as the united nations urges world leaders to make 2021 the year they commit to

fighting. i'm a change where u.s. secretary general antonio with terrorists a mate the appeal saying humanity is waging war on nature in a report the u.n. is highlighting 20 twentieth's record breaking weather and fossil fuel extraction. are very happy to have here with media environment reporter louise osborn to talk more about this report what struck you the most about the findings of this un report ok so there were actually 2 reports that were out today at the un e.p.a. report and also the report from the world meteorological organization and basically they said that 2020 is set to be one of the woman ever on record in the top 3 maybe even the 2nd warmest temperatures have been about $1.00 degrees over pre-industrial levels this year which is significant if you consider that parse agreement wants to talk temperature levels at

a 2 degree rice $1.00 degrees if it were possible so it's well on the way towards that. the report from the w.m.o. also highlighted that oceans have increased in temperature which has led to obviously sea level rises which we've seen there have also been the events that we've seen all over the world with regards to wildfires being more intense heaviest storms and flooding as a result. and also a record breaking atlantica hurrican season has been difficult 22 weeks is going by what you've just outlined that is it was so surprising you think there'd be lower emissions this year because obviously we're going through this covert pandemic flying i mean in terms of aviation there's not that many flights so why are we not seeing lower emissions this year well we have seen some lower emissions i mean in april for example they measured a 17 percent drop in

a missions but it's just not enough. said that that would be. a temporary blip with regards to the amount of carbon dioxide that is in the atmosphere the long lifespan of carbon dioxide means that the levels are basically just still rising in the atmosphere which means that obviously this just hasn't had enough of an impact. but the w.m.o. and the u.n. have both highlighted steps that can be taken that you know covert is leading to a new opportunity for countries to have a look at how they are going to reinvest in recovery following the recession that is now taking place and looking at you know whether they can make more green investment so that we can use this as kind of a springboard into a green a future you reference the paris or climate accords i mean what does this report mean in terms of that agreement that everybody hopes to resuscitate briefly if you

can ok so the countries that are obviously not able to come together they see a way which is a shame so they can't discuss that any further at the moment but they do need to do more. everybody is relieved obviously that the u.s. will be rejoining the agreement as the 2nd biggest emitter and the u.s. has also president elect. joe biden has said that they want to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 along with the e.u. china which is the biggest emitter set until 2060 if they would like to do that that's all positive all the asli but they still haven't put together their goals for the 2030 and they really need to up their game if they have any hope of reaching those levels crossed fingers 2021 louise did a reason as one thank you so much great having you here on the set. of sports news now and make sure her the son of ferrari grade michael schumacher

will make his formula one debut. next season who raced for the u.s. own team haas after they signed him 21 year old german on a multi-year contract will make dominated formula 3 before moving up to formula 2 where he's currently leading the championship by 14 points. on football champions league action continues later today and there is one match in particular that is set to make history well stephanie afaf bar will become the 1st woman to referee a man's champions league game when the u. ventus hosts deny moet kiev while the french referee recently took charge of her 1st you won't believe game in october and she also oversaw the u.a.e. for a super cup last year and the women's world cup final in 2019. while the u.s. women's national soccer team has settled part of a lawsuit against its employer over an equal working conditions but the settlement

does not include their dispute over unequal pay the u.s. soccer federation has agreed to provide the women's players with services that are similar to those of the men's team when it comes to flights hotel accommodations and venues u.s. women a file the gender discrimination lawsuit back in 2019 the same year that they want a record 4th world cup i he was alone in captivity for years but now the elephant known as the world's loneliest finally has a new life kahan was transported from a zoo in pakistan to cambodia after animal rights groups and u.s. singer cher launched a campaign to save him from miserable conditions like any other travelers avan had a covert test before his flight yet you really did is now settling in alongside several other elephants. ah you're watching the every nears all my life rock and i'm your business magazine made in germany is top

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