this is the news live from berlin a turning point in america's struggle against the coded 19 pandemic us food and drug administration has approved the buying take pfizer vaccine decision clears the way for an unprecedented vaccination campaign expected to begin in coming days. and the u.s. supreme court rejects i texas law suit to overturn america's presidential election

president donald trump had called the suit the big one that would have kept him in office the question now being does the decision put an end to his hopes. held welcome the drug regulator the f.d.a. has approved the biotech pfizer corona virus vaccine as the u.s. readies itself to introduce mass immunization the vaccine was shown to be 95 percent effective in preventing. 19 in a light stage trial health care workers and elderly people in long term care are expected to be the 1st recipients vaccine gives cause for hope made the struggles with soaring in fiction rights and fatalities. president donald trump announced the decision in

a video released light on friday he neglected however to mention by and take the german company that played a key role in developing the vaccine. i have really good news today our nation has achieved a medical miracle we have delivered a safe and effective vaccine in just 9 months this is one of the greatest scientific accomplishments in history it will save millions of lives and soon end a pandemic once and for all i am thrilled to report that the f.d.a. has authorized the pfizer vaccine we have given fison other companies a great deal of money hoping this would be the outcome and it was but joining me now is dr pitchin home he said an infectious disease specialist at the university of california san francisco good to have you with us dr the f.d.a. was under real pressure from the white house to hurry up and approved the use of the pantech fozzy vaccine should we be concerned about the political influence here

well this is not new and in the dream the summer we were concerned because a current administration was trying to use the vaccine as a car in a political year and many folks in the public will worry that it was sped up too fast and actually it backward so the fact that the president was rushing you know on the director of the f.d.a. today was again a step probably in the wrong direction and not very reassuring for americans who are worried around influence of politics and vaccines already so dr we have the green light from the f.d.a. what will a vaccination program look like now particularly one that i'm still a know 20000000 people by the end of december. well it's going to be very slow sure i think it's a beacon of hope for showing

a metaphor of success in science and we need to end the pandemic but it probably won't have much practical use in the in the beginning because again it's a numbers game. health care workers and nursing home residents will be the 1st in line but even that wouldn't be able there would be enough vaccines immunize all of that group so we're right now in the middle of a surge and unfortunately i don't think the vaccine will make much of a dent in that i guess the obvious counter to the bacon of hope that you talk about of the vaccine is that they the deaths in the u.s. topping out 3000 now as an infectious disease specialist how wiring these numbers. very very worried anthony you know it seems heartbreaking that we have daily records that exceed 911 deaths every day and i think you know

it's very difficult to go to work every morning knowing that hospitals are being filled i'm most concerned the ice use and being filled out on the streets people are disillusioned because they have been for teeth they have been doing this for months and their freedom seems to be taking away with new playgrounds new are doing dining there was a some of the beats that are going on right now oh yeah it's easy to get the impression that there are equal measures perhaps of excitement and some skepticism around the world when it comes to the vaccine what's the attitude there among the american public. like you open with anthony i think skepticism and that was true in the summer for sure around politics speeding up the science for what i've really tried and many of my colleagues have tried to think about is really the bureaucracy being sped up the red sea being dismantled as the part of operation was speak but the americans as still not fully on board as

a community in august it was 50 percent acceptance in november with 60 percent a little bit lower than the 70 percent we need for herd immunity to pitch in home thank you so much for your time thanks so much well the u.s. supreme court has rejected a lawsuit filed by the state of texas to overturn the results of last month's presidential election president trump and scores of republican officials and low micah's had supported the suit which challenge president elect joe biden's victories in michigan georgia pennsylvania and wisconsin but the justices ruled that texas didn't have the right to challenge the states on their elections the fate knocks a huge setback for trump in his bid to seize electoral victory from bob. so then is this the end of the road for donald trump's campaign to stop joe biden

from taking office next month we put that question to a he's an election low expert at florida state university. well this one of the things that made the texas suit so unique and again the court held they didn't even have jurisdiction a lot of commentators had pointed out the numerous procedural in jurisdictional hurdles that it faced but one of the the unique aspects of the texas suit is that it essentially sought to bring the entire election before the supreme court that it identified is a 4 different states where texas claimed it had statutory and constitutional problems and invited the court to to handle the issue in one fell swoop they're still read there are still cases pending in the lower courts as a matter of fact the wisconsin supreme court has just agreed to hear an appeal of brought by the trump campaign tomorrow there are other cases where the trump campaign has lost in the lower courts where it can still ask the supreme court

itself to hear those cases so over the upcoming days and potentially even weeks i expect to see continued litigation i think it's extraordinarily unlikely that any of those lawsuits will succeed but the the short answer is no this is this case while it presented one unified package that would have allowed the court to consider all of the objections being raised right across at least in most of the states across the board the court's rejection of this case doesn't shut the door on all these other cases that remain pending in the lower courts and for michael moore the in florida let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news elsewhere in the world. started on the country this controversy you know the stream to gas pipeline between russia and germany almost one year after u.s. sanctions brought the project to a halt pipeline is almost complete washington says it will make europe too dependent on russian gas perlin says it will create

a secure energy supply. a police officer in albania who shot a man dead on choose day for violating a coronavirus curfew has been remanded in custody shooting of the 25 year old man has triggered violent protests in the capital tirana and led to the resignation of the interior minister. or world leaders will gather today for a virtual un summit on climate ambition it's marking 5 years since the paris climate accord was agreed and just in time for the making a year that is have managed to reach a hard for deal to drift dramatically cut the country's greenhouse gas emissions and the states agreed to reduce emissions by 55 percent by the end of the deck i had and the new target to put the e.u. on track to reach 0 emissions by 2050. judging by their faces there was no doubt that had been a long night here in brussels. after hungary and poland had finally

agreed to drop their veto on the entire e.u. budget leaders could get on with tackling what was the commission's most pressing issue before the pandemic struck the climate crisis. to keeping this was worth a sleepless night i can't imagine what would have happened if we weren't able to reach this result. she's talking about the e.u. says new more ambitious climate goals compared to 990 the planned now for sea slashing greenhouse emissions by 55 percent in the next 10 years by investing in green energy and technology the e.u. has pledged to become climate neutral by 2050 the previous target of 40 percent had been criticized as being far too low but some eastern countries with coal dependent economies feared serious consequences they demanded more clarity on funding to ease the transition according to the outcome of the meeting each member states

individual situation will be addressed level to the issue. and will is to take into account that different countries had different starting points to take up the issue with the spirit of equality and solidarity with. the polish prime minister's office tweeted we have an agreement which creates the conditions for a just transformation of the polish energy an economy. with another major obstacle out of the way it was time for us to wrap up germany's e.u. council presidency the stuff in dog and i can tell you the german presidency was a lot of fun although we weren't able to achieve a lot of things that we planned this is all for me last time and i think it's come 2021 portugal will be taking over germany has reported another 496 deaths from 19 countries disease control agency registered more than 28000 new infections in i single day weeks of partial lockdown

haven't slowed the spread of the infection tough of restrictions same almost inevitable now something chancellor angela merkel and state leaders will discuss in emergency talks on sunday. here the record infections are not just a number german hospitals like this one in mannheim are struggling to treat the rising number of patients with covert 19 get out on the streets you might not know the country is in crisis the so-called lockdown light restrictions mean shops and schools are still open the german state of baton written back is not waiting for the federal government to take action you file. from december 12th on we are imposing a general lockdown for all abaddon read back. from saturday residents there may only leave their homes with a valid reason such as going to work or school. the situation is dangerous

all lawmakers seem to agree on that several other german states are urging action at the national level. we can see it getting away from us slipping from our hands we have to make a decision that's clear more resolute and more understandable and. is good this is a matter of life and death to put it clearly it's a matter of ethical responsibility that we in the government have chancellor i'm going to mikkel is also in support of stricter measures on sunday germany's federal and state leaders will meet once more to discuss the crisis. meanwhile germany's schools are preparing for more restrictions or a possible expansion of the vacation period yet education ministers are asking for as few cuts to schooling as possible. in our opinion vacation should not be extended but rather we should introduce remote learning or even a lifting of compulsory attendance or

a combination of both these are 3 models we have. just under 2 weeks to christmas eve and a holiday that will probably be a lot quieter than usual. to football now and friday as bundesliga action on hosted on track frank that the visitors took the late but a double from verge of a course to one game for the hosts 1st the dutchman levelled things up from the penalty spot where his 8th goal of the season then in the dying minutes he struck again to seal i 21 victory run now stretches to 11 games and the win puts them into the champions league place. well the vatican has officially integrated its christmas tree on some pages square earlier this evening we're going to leave you with pitches from the ceremony for now i'm anthony out from behind the team here and thanks for watching.

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