this is think of all the news lot from good at turning points in america struggle against the coded 19 bands that pandemic the u.s. food and drug administration has approved the biotech finds a vaccine decision clears the wife for non preceding to facts and action campaign expected to begin in the coming days. and soaring private 19 infections and fatalities confront germany with decisions will tough a lot down including closing retail stores in the middle of the christmas shopping season. and the u.s.

supreme court rejects it takes a small say 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 is now being the decision finally put an end to his hosts. a method of how bookham the american drug regulator the f.d.a. has approved the buy and take pfizer coronavirus vaccine as the u.s. readies itself to introduce mass immunization the vaccine was shown to be 95 percent effective in preventing coated 19 in a light stage trial health care workers and elderly people in long term care are expected to be the 1st recipients the vaccine gives cause for hope made these struggles with soaring in fiction rights and coated fatalities. president don't

trump announced the decision in a video released to light on friday he neglected however to mention by 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 the pandemic once and for all i am thrilled to report that the f.d.a. has authorized the pfizer vaccine we have given fives and other companies a great deal of money hoping this would be the outcome and well joining me now is dr pay to chin 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 a real pressure from the white house to hurry up and approve the use of that bond take 5 vaccine should we be concerned about the political influence here

well this is not new any dreamed 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 being spent up too fast and actually hit back hard 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 had the green light from the f.d.a. what will a vaccination program look like now particularly one that i'm still in ok like 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 to 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 beacon 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 at 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 taken away with new playgrounds new outdoing dining there was a some of the beats that are going on right now 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 been with anthony i think skepticism and there was this summer for sure around politics speeding up the science for what i've really tried and many of my colleagues and try to think about is really the bureaucracy being sped up the red being dismantled as the part of

operation was to beat but the americans as still not fully onboard 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 hitchin home thank you so much for a time thanks so much well meanwhile i spike in corona virus deaths here in germany is alarming north already is and stocking coals for a strict a lockdown at the beginning of the pandemic gemini's death toll pick capita was one of the lowest among hard hit countries with the 2nd wife though the picture looks more bleak on saturday german health authorities recorded nearly 500 covenanting related deaths and the numbers continue to trend upward and the country's disease control legend c also registered more than 28000 new infections in a single day those figures suggest that weeks of

a partial lockdown have not slowed the spread of the infection indeed tougher 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 bad and written back is not waiting for the federal government to take action. from december 12th on we are imposing a general lockdown for all of battenberg 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 try to. escape 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 mikel 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. ok let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news elsewhere in the world. because race started on the country know the strain to gas pipeline tween russia and germany almost one year after u.s. sanctions brought the project to a halt pop on is almost complete washington says it will make europe too dependent on russian gas says it will predate a secure energy supply. british media say the government is planning to patrol the country's fishing waters with the help of the royal navy if i know breaks a trade deal can be reached. reports say naval vessels would have the power to stop chick and impound all fishing boats operating in british ports.

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 schools of republican officials and lawmakers had supported the suit which challenge to president elect joe biden's victory victories. in michigan georgia pennsylvania and wisconsin the justices ruled the texas didn't have the right to challenge how other states run elections here the defeat marks a huge shift back to trump and he's been to seize electoral victory from bob. so 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 michael moore the he's an election law expert of 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 identify 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 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 i was a and then like a lawyer exposed to florida state university well china's scientists have announced they have development of the most powerful quantum computer in the world it works 100 trillion times faster than the fast to suit the computers out there at present and president xi jinping has said the research and development in the quantum science is an urgent matter of national concern china has invested heavily in this technology and recent is and this become a world leader in the field. to the untrained eye it may not look like much but this is now the world's most powerful computer 20 years in the making jang is

the brainchild of china's top scientists who are now asserting their dominance in the race for quantum supremacy so the chilled out hot sun john has show an outstanding quantum computational capability you know for a month and we are planning to use it for quantum chemistry research and graph common a toric sui search paul in the mini fruitlessly of our mini c. enjoy. it comes little more than a year after google unveiled sycamore their own quantum computer. research. team done an incredible breakthrough in quantum computing their machine needed seconds to perform tasks which conventional systems would require thousands of years to do the chinese team say their late base technique is 10000000000 times

faster than google's. remarkable achievement it's a milestone in. mental. intermedia scale quantum computers it is still early days but scientists hope their achievement will lead to the technology unlocking rapid advancements in encryption and pharmaceutical analysis. some sport for you go add in friday's bundesliga action on beijing wolfsburg hosted on track frankfurt the visit us took the lead early but a double from vick host won the guy for the hosts 1st the dutchman levelled things up from the penalty spot for his goal of the season then in the dying minutes he struck again to seal a 21 victory will specs on bait and run is now 11 games and the win puts them into champions league contention. he watching news from bear then coming up you know young mom releases

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