>> hello, and welcome back to the france 24 newsroom. the clock's are striking 10:00 p.m., paris. these are the latest headlines. his battle to secure the white house are over, and now he is pulling out fresh guns to fight one of america's most pressing problems. president-elect joe biden unveils his covid-19 task force as the u.s. caseload reaches the 10 million mark. could it be the most thought -- much sought-after speck of light after a long and dark coronavirus tunnel? from the analys fds a new instmental vaccine protects --

offers 90% protection, and france 2 finds that is a milestone. azerbaijan says forces are edging closer to the enclave's capital after claiming victory in another strategic city. this is after armen's prime minister insists that it hasn't fallen yet. ♪ >> first then, according to the latest data released by johns hopkins university, the covid-19 infection rate continues to soar in nearly every u.s. state, with the total number of cases stateside standing above 10 million. a man who has been picked by americans to hold office in the

next white house has been detailing how he plans to stamp out the virus after a meeting with his newly formed coronavirus task force. president-elect joe biden has pleaded with his fellow countrymen and women to keep using a face mask as their best defense. this is what else he had to say. president-elect biden: this is a crisis that affects everyone. as i have said throughout this campaign, i will be a president for every american. this election is over. it is time to put aside partisanship and the rhetoric that is designed to demonize one another. it is time to end the politicization of basic public health steps like mask-wearing and social distancing. we have to come together to heal the soul of this country so we can effectively address this crisis as one country, where hard-working americans have each

other's backs. >> we had to the u.k. and speak to scott lucasa professor in the department of political science and international studies. thank you for being with us. mr. lucas, this is a man who is not yet in office, but is wasting no time, apparently trying to protect american citizens with the face mask apparently joe biden's key weapon in this fight. scott: the face mask is nothe only weapon though. indeed, as soon as the democratic national convention was completed this summer,oe biden and his vice presidential running mate, harris began a series of hearings with technology experts, which included getting an adequate track and trace system which have not been put in place by the trump administration, providing for adeque protection equipment, overseeing development d distribution of

the vacce, and ensuring effective coordination between the federal government and the state in terms of an organized coronavirus effort. they knew, biden and harris, that it is imperative fromay one to combat the surgeon th pandemic that is killing about 1000 americans a day. we are also seeing that whatever they face in terms of the administration, which may not cooperate, they are ready in january to put an effective measures after donald trump, to be honest with you, has ostracized his public health efforts. >> what differences did you spot in style and tone from the way that donald trump addressed or what have addressed this issue? scott: competence. the backgroundo this -- as your viewers probably know -- four months, the federal government has not had any type of coordinated effort. it has not worked with the

states. it has fallen prey to disinformation, the pursuit of herd immunity, leading the virus run, because there is a president who denies there is a threat. he may be denying the threat, as he said in february and march because he does not want the public to know about the threat, or he may be denying it because he does not understand what is happening, the joe biden has taken the advice of those around them. he will not be the person that makes a statement on twitter each and every day per he has made clear with his 12-member coronavirus task force it is the experts who read here -- it is the experts who should have let in february and march -- led in february and march. now we will have to wait until january for him to do so. >> joe biden has to make sure his future presidency is not marred by this virus. scott: indeed, as serious as the issue is, it is only one of issues -- the issues for the united states, probably his most important since 1945.

the biden administration has made clear on day one they will, for example, perfect 700,000 dreamers -- the ildren of undocumented immigrants -- from deportation. contact environmental regulations -- and for some of those that had been ripped up by the trump administration. rejoin the paris climate records repeal the gag rule that -- on abortions ovseas. what is significant about all of those, they can be done by executive order. the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, cannot blo these actions, even as he has clashed to be the spoiler if biden tries to pursue other legislation. >> just to go back to the man that is now leaving the white house or will leave the white house, how would you personally rate donald trump's ability in tackling covid-19? where did he go wrong specifically? scott: it is not up to me to

i simply deal with the facts as someone who has ratives and friends vulnerable to this virus . donald trump said in january the aths from covid-19 would be near zero at he said that through february. he said that through march. instead of working with the states, he insulted state governments, such as andrew cuomo of new york. instead of dealing with a coordinated response, he scrapped the pandemic response team. then when it came to organize a team for testing and tracing a personal protective increment, he handed it off to his son-in-law, jeered krishna, a man who has no experience in public health crisis, and organized 18 with no experience in -- a team with no expense in public hlth crisis. he has called his public health expert anthony fauci a disaster, called scientists idiots, and ong the way he hasfor example, preferred the quack remedies -- bleach, maybe

ultraviolet treatments. in other ways, i hate to put it to you, in this 21st century virus, i wanted a century pandemic, donald trump is a snake oil salesman, and if you re not present, you would be looking at a -- president, you would be looking at a situation that ordered on criminal negligence. >> scott lucas, thank you very much for being with us. scott: thank you. >> moving on, today is a great day for science and humanity -- that is what developers from toledo pharmaceutical companies have said after pfizer and biontechave announced their experimental covid-19 vaccine is over 90% one professor at the university of oxford says this news had -- one per -- 90%. one professor the oxford -- university of oxford said this news has made him smile year-to-year. >> in the words of pfizer, a

great day for humanity. >> we understand the hoax of billions of people and millions of businesses, and hundreds of governments fell on our shoulders. now we can see light at the end of the tunnel. >> the news has sparked hopeful but cautious optimism from leaders across the globe. in a tweet, the world health organization said the development was encouraging, and paste an unprecedented scientific -- praise than unprecedented scientific collaboration and innovation. the director general repeated the warning against vaccine nationalism. tedros: the world has come together like never before to make sure these life-saving tools are advocated fairly. not become one more reason why some people are left behind. >> the european union also

welcomes the vaccine breakthrough. european commission president ursula von der leyen said they would sign an agreement for up to 300 million doses, but urged not to slacken their result against the pandemic. -- slack in their resolve against the pandemic. a similar, came from scientists, -- similar tone came from scientist, underlying it is -- >> the director of public health has announced that 3500 new infections have been registered -- 25,000 new infections have been registered. the total caseload is 1,807,479. the number of patients being treated for the virus in hospitals across the country has jumped above the 31,000 mark for the first time since april 17.

jerome salamone has stressed the big of the wave has yet to come, but he has also made it clear the virus is now spreading at a slower rate in those cities that were pressed -- placed under a curfew. jerome: the pick of the epidemic is ahead of us. the second wave of us is still progressing. as of this evening, we reached 1,7,479 cases, and more than 40,807 deaths. hospitals have seen 551. in 24 hours. >> elsewhere in europe, the domino affect of covid-19 lockdowns and restrictions continues across the country. these were scenes in budapest earlier this monday after the hungarian government through its strictest blanket of measures over the country. small businesses there have to

-- all businesses there have to shut up shop by 7:00 p.m. and citizens have to remain indoors between 8:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. further south in portugal, said -- state of emergency has been imposed on residents who have to slam the front door shot by 1:00 in the afternoon on weekends. governor say the new measure could be rolled out wider and for longer if they don't bring the infection rate down. in other world news, armenia's prime minister has, to say fighting is continuing in the key town of sushi. this came a day after pressure by jean said its forces captured the strategic -- azerbaijan said its forces captured the strategic city. we have more of a civilian impact of this conflict for the residents of this regional capital. >> for the residents, there is

no time to lose. the road leaving out othe capital have climbed into a halt as thousands flee a city taking with him as many as they can. >> [speaking foreign language] >> just a few kilometers south, azerbaijan's forces are making a major push. the country's president claimed the army had taken control of a town with massive chip to jake importance. but the armenian government immediately denied the reports. in the capital, there was shock and disbelief that the town had fallen.

>> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> both sides have been locked in bloody fighting for six weeks over the territory that is recognized as parts of azure but jean but is populated and governed by ethnic armenians. efforts to broker a cease-fire have amounted to nothing and it has cost the lives of thousands of people. >> in a separate but related development, azerbaijan has apologized after accidentally shooting down a russian military helicopter in the skies above armenia. the defense ministry says two people have died with a third crewmember injured and evacuated.

azerbaijan says the decision was made to open fire on the helicopter due to the "10 situation in the region and increased -- due to the tents situation in the region and increased combat." bolivia's former president evo morales cross the border into argentina with hundreds of his indigenous supporters coming out to welcome him home the day after luis arce was sworn into office as the country's new president. morales will spend three days in the region where he rose to prominence as a leader, but still faces charges launched by the conservative interim government of treason. a judge has ordered an -- a warrant for his arrest. at the end of this month, shoppers are cross the global be

storming stores and flashing cash to get hold of a bond -- bargain or two, but in france, a group of trade associations have called for a ban of black friday. a reporter separate the good of this report. >> to the death of their businesses, dozens of workers protested a closed -- against closintheir stores amidst france's lockdown. they say upcoming black friday sales only make matters worse. >> [speaking french] >> [speaking french] >> the event attracts more and more french buyers every year. in 2019, shoppers spent 5.9 billion in black friday sales, 4.9 billion spent in-store with

the remaining 1 billion online. they fear sales will go to large, online stores. we tell federations are calling for a ban on the promotion and for online stores to be restricted to necessity items. >> [speaking french] >> the finance ministry says it is considering the issue, but that it is not responsible for organizing the shopping event. since france was sent into lockdown on the 30th of october, small businesses have voiced ncern of a competition from surmarkets and online stores. in response, the government's last week call to ban the sale of nonessential items including books, games, and flowers, however the move has done little

to appear smaller businesses. >> time for another look at that some of the latest business news with yuka. tubule pharmaceutical giants say there experimental covid-19 maxine has been 90% effective at preventing covid-19, and the news has global stocks rejoicing. tell us more. yuka: that's right, global businesses and investors rejoicing at the news of a potential breakthrough in the ongoing pandemic. shares of wall street hitting record highs. all three main indices hit record highs after pharmaceutical giant pfizer announced the first successful data from a large scale, late-stage clinical trial of a covid-19 vaccine, and as you said, which pved 90% effective. pfizer, and the german partner biontech jumped on t

announcement, but other companies made bigger gains in the deck seen makers themselves. deck seen makers themselves -- vaccine makers themselves pictures of airlines and cruise lines rose between 30 and 80% on hopes that global travel will resume again. other shares like energy, retail, manufacturing, also rose, but u have to put this into context. many of these companies suffered heavy losses earlier in the year and there shares are still worth far less than they were last year. the news also came after market sentiment was somewhat lifted by the apparent victory by joe biden in the u.s. presidtial election. let's listen to one new yorker who is talking about the mood today on wall street. >> the economy will come back because people will start to be normal again, and i think for a

long time people were not normal, and i think this falsity in why the economy got great and crashed all of a sudden will come back to normal. hopefully we have someone in office that can help us get rid of the covid crisis and bring jobs back. i mean, it is not like people are not working because they don't want to -- they are having a tough time going to work. >> there is hope that the president-elect joe biden will act swiftlyo bring the u.s. economy back on its feet yuka -- feet. yuka: while the biden harris campaign unveiled a plan that put economic recovery as one of the four men pillars, priorities -- main pillars are priorities for the administration. the president says his plan is uplifting american families.

biden promises to make millions of well paying jobs -- make it easier for workers to organize unions. duri the campaign, the president-elect also promised to raise the federal corporate tax rate, which was lowered from 35% to 21% by president trump, baup to 28%. -- back up to 28%. he also wants to help small businesses to bring manufacturing back to the net states, and to make the u.s. supply chain less dependent on foreign countries. but how far reaching his reforms will be will very much depend on the makeup of a new u.s. congress. they might have distance in the senate, which will like to remain on the republican control, but business -- welcoming the prospect, which would slow down policy changes

that could add to u.s. public debt. >> finally, the eu has resumed trade talks with the u.k. with less than two months left before a post-brexit transition period ends. yuka: that is right. britain left the european union earlier this year, back in january, but right now it remains in the block's single market and customs union until the transition period expires at the end of this year on the 21st of december. the latest round of talks began on monday. the two sides still have significant differences on things like fishing quotas and competitions. british prime minister boris johnson said on sunday the outlines of an agreement of a deal were clear and his finance minister sounded confident that a deal can be done, but, again, the deal isn't there yet, and if

there is no agreement by the end of this year, the trade between the two sides will defau to wto rules -- wto rules. >> thank you very much. let's move on now to our focus report, which today takes a closer look at one heartbreaking event that is not regularly registered or spoken about each year -- some 200,000 miscarriages take place here in france alone. they aimed to find out more. >> miscarriage -- one in five women have had one or more. the french charity supports women and couples whose pregnancies have ended abruptly.

annie had two miscarriages in 2016. >> [speaking french] >> [speaking french] >> [speaking french] >> fre thee voices of women who have experienced a miscarriage -- that is what this support group hopes to achieve. >> [speaking french]

>> [speaking french] >> every year, 200,000 miscarriages take place in france -- some before the woman knows she is pregnant. most happen because of genetic abnormalities and have nothing to do with the woman's behavior or lifestyle. >> [speaking french] >> a miscarriage is a significant event for many women, but not always for health care workers that see them every day. >> [speaking french] >> [speaking french]

>> why have these women not experienced more compassion? insufficient training, lack of time, resources in hospitals -- the head of this maternity ward in paris says he is well aware there is a problem. >> [speaking french] >> in france, if a fetus dies weighing more than 500 grams or after 20 weeks in the womb, parents can officially recorded name and hold a funeral, but for pregnancies that end earlier,

knowing if and how to grieve can be difficult. that the cemetery in paris, we meet a legal expert and blogger on pregnancy and childbirth. >> [speaking french] >> not all couples wish to grieve in this way, but for those who do, there are only a handful of cases like this in france. for mary ellen, it has its roots in sexism. >> [speaking french]

>> even though they don't physically experience them, would be fathers also suffer the emotional pain of miscarriages. breaking the silence could help men, too. >> that is all for now, but do stay tuned to france 24. ♪

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