we recognise cobe it 19 is a significant issue. we are once again at the same time how it was to really beauty stress. the fact that the h.i.i. of a pandemic is that it's still a 5 massive issue and we are slipping and we are not meeting the targets that we set as if it is an international community then 2016. and that will have enormous impacts into the future for future generations. but if there's any news on the positive developments front, what are the biggest names vance's in the fight against aids? i think if well, he's saying some things, some obvious improvements in terms of new new forms of prevention is injectable and profit prophylactics that can be taken to help people prevent the spread of infection. but we're also seeing quite, i think it's also important to look at some of the innovations in the way that people are accessing treatment and accessing services. so we've had, we've had modest progress in terms of what we call, what we call differentiated service delivery, where communities take a much stronger role in te

chinese citizen journalist john john has been sentenced to 4 years in prison for reporting on wu han's cobe in 1000 outbreak during the early months of the pandemic security was tight at the shanghai court where her lawyers arrived for the sentencing jiang was detained in may after posting videos criticizing the government's response to the outbreak lawyers for the 37 year old say she has been on a hunger strike and is in poor health. well for more we're joined now by d.w. is clifford coonan who has reported from china for many years good to see you clifford what exactly did junction do that got her into trouble well what she did was she challenge the narrative that this is all about controlling and hours of controlling the story about the outbreak of the pandemic which has been so damaging to the global economy but also to china's reputation and she challenge the government's position which was that they handled it well that they reported things early and that everything was done in a transparent manner she came from shanghai too and she posted these reports saying that actually things are

kind of hiding some of the things that were going on he wanted the attention rightfully settle on cobe it but however he was hiding some ulterior motives when you push through i think this point almost 50 pardons for people close to him that they could have potentially raised a lot more criticism in the media so i think it was a combination and that's why i did not intention as well as kind of like look over here not here and also you know i just don't think we can discount that he's always looking at the next election and he may very well for years the pointing back and say guys i offered you. policy analyst for during germany's 1st lockdown in spring 4 young sisters from these bar decided to make the most of the situation by developing a board game which has become a bestseller or started off as a quirky idea to kill time as quickly turned into a flourishing family business. a common pastime and their lock down but this is a special game adapted to special times. we developed the coronavirus game while at home under lockdown we heard in the media and saw a nearby supermarkets how eve

was kind of hiding some other things that were going on he wanted the attention rightfully settle on cobe it but however he was hiding some anterior motives when he pushed through i think this point almost 50 pardons for people close to him that they could have potentially raised a lot of criticism in the media so i think it was a combination of him why did not attention as well as kind of like look over here not here and also now i just don't think we can discount that he's always looking at the next election i mean he may very well for years the pointing back and saying guys i bought for you. lawmakers from the president's own republican party had to plead with the president to sign the bill before tonight's stand line what does that say about the current political climate in the u.s. . i think in part current political climate is best summarized by the exhausted middle and what we're seeing when we see the 2 republican senators running in georgia and their home urging the president and scientists read the bill folks average folks in their homes and their lives this takes so much more p

a chance to review it, but i believe that everyone will be ho, ho, ho-ing all the way home with a cobee ruhle picks up coverage right now. >> hi, there. i'm stephanie ruhle live from msnbc headquarters in new york city. it is wednesday, december 16th. let's get smarter. today the last handful of hospitals get their first shipments of pfizer's long-awaited pfizer vaccine and now a second vaccine appears to be right around the corner. the fda announcing yesterday moderna's covid vaccine is "highly effective" clearing the way for emergency authorization as early as friday. if that happens, nearly 6 million moderna vaccines will start shipping on monday. twice the number of doses of pfizer has already been sent out. more pfizer vaccines will also ship next week. thousands of health care workers already got their shots. this is just the beginning. the cdc says between moderna and pfizer we could see 40 million doses out there by year's end. enough to vaccinate 20 million americans. as the number of vaccines rises, that's a good thing, so does the number of people getting sick. a very bad th