i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us the german government says it is preparing for possible attacks on corona virus vaccination centers vaccine shipments or vaccine makers according to the interior ministry there is a quote abstract threat of sabotage on germany's vaccination campaign and a letter the ministry said vaccination opponents and conspiracy theorists could try to break into facilities. launch cyber attacks german vaccine manufacturers have already been targeted on several occasions by hackers attempting to steal intellectual property. for more on the story we can bring in our political correspondent in money was shot here in berlin she's following the latest imo the sounds of serious of a how dangerous is the situation. well it's a very serious situation indeed in german the authorities warned against a high risk of for example cyber attacks against a research size production size so vaccination centers they say also that they have identified already some individuals responsible for such high kings and beyond they also were very. the process that are taking place

madonna was also approved adding 160000000 doses and as we listen to these numbers it seems awfully high sumi but we have to remember that since every person needs 2 doses you're only being going to be able to vaccinate half the number of people that you hear the purchase of the vaccine so when she says that we're going to have 600000000 of the biotech pfizer beseen that's going to be of course just 300000000 people right that's important to keep in mind so what do you think this agreement will need for the rollout. of course it's encouraging to know that there will be more vaccinations available but the problem really hasn't been buying them the problem is producing them and the facilities are you know in a dead neck run producing the of the drug as fast as possible but there have been delays both in produce production and in transport especially with this biotech pfizer vaccine because it needs these ultra cold conditions that not all countries were able to to create at the beginning so some of the shipments had to be delayed some of the shipments actually had to be thrown out because they

i'm sumi so much kind of thank you for joining us in india's capital delhi several 1000 angry farmers have been gathering in mass protests on one of the country's national holidays where public debt farmers are demanding the government scrap and agricultural reform that they say helps big companies at the expense of food producers the holiday marks the day india's constitution came into effect and prime minister narendra modi who's been the focus of farmers' anger. later rethought the flame of the immortal soldier in the capitol. and let's go right to delhi where our correspondent many a child is standing by for us hi many are we saw their pictures of the prime minister celebrating commemorating republic day at the same time several thousands of farmers are voicing their anger tell us about their protests today well that is true the plan was to take out a massive truck to bury these bombers in the city of the official police and again end it but only to this is their way of actually to just in their thoughts as on this national holiday by taking out a massive rate so that people know

i'm sumi so misconducts good to have you with us thousands of protesters have been on the streets in poland for another night after a near total ban on abortion came into effect on wednesday in warsaw some protesters clashed with police and several were arrested the government's ban means terminating pregnancies will only be allowed in cases of rape and incest and if the mother's life is at risk. was. was for a 2nd night thousands protested across poland chanting anti-government slogans. they are demanding a reversal of the abortion law and the resignation of the government. and it was all scuffles with police broke out. and several demonstrators were breast it was. the poll suggests more than half of the population is against the new restrictions. yet that myanmar from up a body that one cannot deprive women of their rights this is half of the nation all of us often half of the nation is deprived of their rights of the right to make decisions about themselves this is an acceptable to define of poland's right wing ultra catholic government has long pushed for tied to abortion laws it

i'm sumi so much going to it's good to have you with us germany's biggest newspaper is reporting that the government here is considering additional radical steps to slow the spread of coburg 19 the mass market paper billed says plans have been drawn up to cut international air traffic to germany to near 0 the arrival of new more infectious variants of the virus in the country is fuelling concerns at a time when the rollout of vaccines is slower than expected and germany has reported over 2000000 corona virus cases since the start of the pandemic more than 52000 people have died with copd. and let's bring in our political correspondent nina has a she's following the latest on this for us hi nina good morning to you a so germany is considering tightening restrictions so what more can you tell us. well we're hearing that chancellor angela merkel apparently told fellow politicians from her own party group that she says it's not the time to travel now and that she wants to look into plans to further ridge restrict travel into germany and impose much stricter border controls she apparently

i'm sumi so much kind of good to have you with us germany recorded over 13200 new coronavirus cases on wednesday that is a slight drop compared to the same day last week germany's disease control agency says the daily infection numbers are steadily decreasing but the situation does remain serious up bricks are still being reported across the country especially in nursing and care homes and the death rate remains very high with 9. $182.00 deaths registered in the last 24 hour period. and let's bring in our political correspondent nina hasa with the very latest on the story nina as we said the numbers are trending downwards but the situation remains serious and now the government is considering a new restrictions tell us about that well there's just a big fear of the more contagious version of the corona virus that is coming up here in germany as well and we're hearing that chancellor angela merkel has told fellow party members that she wants to restrict travel even further apparently she said everyone agrees that now is not the time to be traveling and those reports continue by saying t

i'm sumi so much ground it's good to have you with us the german government says it is preparing for possible attacks on corona virus vaccination centers vaccine shipments or vaccine makers now according to the interior ministry there is a quote abstract threat of sabotage on germany's vaccination campaign in a letter the ministry said vaccination opponents or conspiracy theorists could try to break into facilities or launch cyber attacks german vaccine manufacturers have already been targeted on several occasions by hackers attempting to steal intellectual property. for more on the story we can go right to our correspondent a man who i shows here in berlin she's following the latest hi emma good to see you so tell us more here how dangerous is this situation. well the german government say there was a very high risk of start should tax attempts against research facilities against production centers and attacks or if you will process that would go out of hand when it comes to empty boxes when it come to a corner. as we call them here the people who are skeptical of the virus and the

i'm sumi so much kind of thank you for joining us a court here in germany is expected to deliver a verdict any moment now in the trial of a neo nazi accused of assassinating conservative politician look 2 years ago look who was a member of angler machall c.d.u. party and had spoken out in support of refugees he was shot in the head at his home near the west german town of kos a. defendant steps but each has been on trial for nearly 8 months accused of murdering the german politician vald toluca has a legit motive hatred of foreigners under-age anglo-american refugee policies. victim in this local politician who defended merkel's policies stephanie recorded and then uploaded this video at the time hall where volatile faced far right hecklers. all. over vietnam and you have to stand up for certain values as anyone who doesn't agree with these values is free to leave the country that's a freedom every german enjoys. luko shot outside his home on the night of june 2nd 2019 stephanie confessed to the killing but the nice the charge of premeditated murder he has a long history of hate crimes sta

i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us the european commission has reached a deal with drug makers pfizer and beyond tax to double its order of their covert vaccine the move secures the e.u. nearly half the 2 firms global output of the job this year the commission has come under fire recently for europe's slow vaccination rollout tourist commission president wasn't funded line explaining what the deal means for the block. with the new agreement we could purchase a total of up to an additional $300000000.00 doses of the biotech pfizer vaccine in other words this will allow us to double the amount of this of biotech. let's go right to brussels to teri schultz is standing by for us there welcome terry what does this deal actually include yes sue me as european commission vonder law and just said this will double the number of pfizer biotech vaccines that the european commission has purchased and this is not a small issue because the commission is under fire for having purchased at the beginning to few and too slowly the number of doses that the population of almost half a 10000

i'm sumi so much god it's good to have you with us the european union's fight to secure coronavirus a vaccine supplies for its nearly 450000000 people is intensifying today the e.u. will outline plans that could see a block on exports of vaccine doses produced within its territory under certain conditions now the block is in a dispute with astra zeneca after it emerged that the drug maker would not be able to fulfill its delivery targets to the e.u. and would supply the united kingdom 1st regulators are expected to authorize the use of the astra zeneca shock for members. let's bring in our correspondent in brussels garrick matus is following the latest for us hi carol good to see you tell us more about the suspect it mean what are some of the possibilities that the european union is considering here or to secure more doses for its citizens. so me today we expect the european union to introduce a transparency mechanism that will demand from vaccine developers permission basically from the european commission if they want to export vaccine doses from the u.n. that permission could be wi

i'm sumi so much gunboats good to have you with us the e.u. commission is calling for stricter controls on exports of covert 1000 vaccines produced inside the block the e.u. was worried about a shortfall of vaccines after manufacture astra zeneca announced it would delay deliveries to e.u. members the company is blaming supply chain problems but brussels has accused it of failing to keep contractual promises all 27 e.u. countries are struggling with slow vaccine rollouts. this may sting a little but it's over in the blink of an eye getting vaccinated maybe a speedy affair with the vaccine rollouts across the you have proved painstakingly slow the blocks executive is pointing the finger at the pharmaceutical industry the european union wants the order and 3 finance doses to be delivered as soon as possible and we want our contract to be fully traill filled that's a message for a vaccine developer astra zeneca the u.k. based firm recently announced it would be unable to fulfill its you orders in the agreed time frame astra zeneca says that's dow

i'm sumi so much gonna it's good to have you with us a new chapter is beginning in the united states president joe biden has already started undoing some of the policies of the trumpet ministration on his 1st day in office he rejoined the paris climate accord and the world health organization he also ended a ban on travelers from some mainly muslim countries in his inaugural address he called for unity and a change in tone. you know hurry to get to work new u.s. president joe biden arrived at the white house ready to roll back the policies of his predecessor within hours of taking over the oval office biden signed a stack of executive orders resetting the agenda on the coronavirus pandemic immigration policy and climate change. we're going to review while you're here. during the climate of course. as of today. wearing a mask he ordered all federal employees to do so as well biden moved quickly to fill key positions swearing in nearly 1000 new appointees and stuff virtually the new white house press secretary jens saki heralded relations with the press instead of attacking reporters a

and france criticized for having a slow rollout but now this week there's some additional criticism sumi and that is that it's been learned that well germany was president of the european council the 2nd half of last year and test was shepherding all $27.00 governments into making their purchases together to have extra leverage to meet to make these big procurements it also on the side negotiate its own deal with vaccine makers and that's something that a lot of countries are are not happy about germany of course the wealthiest e.u. countries a very powerful country and at the time the european council president so this is something that the european the european commission and the german government are being asked about how was it really ethical for germany to purchase additional doses on the side of underlying says that it did not break the european commission agreement that countries are allowed to purchase additional doses and that germany's extra vaccines will come only after the commission shipment is fulfilled . reporting from brussels good to talk to you. let's take a look now at

right sumi you know we have to keep in mind that alone in the greater area someone dies a cold every 6 to 10 minutes this is how grim it looks here and it will get worse that's what experts say because of the new more taishan so biden didn't lose any time it took him only like 2 hours in office before he signed the 1st executive order which makes it mandatory for mosques wearing on federal property and buildings and he also asked this fellow americans to wear a mosque in public for his 1st 100 days in office and he already has announced a new c.d.c. director so he is really making that a priority we also kind of have to keep in my o.b. aware. we spend some minutes of his acceptance speech to address this pandemic this is and this shows how seriously he's taking covert 19 you know as you mentioned some of those numbers from los angeles but remind us how bad the pandemic is in the u.s. right now. the problem is that there is no plan you know biden didn't tarried inherit any vaccination plan from his predecessor so he has a huge huge task to really organize the delivery but he also will

orderly transition does that mean that this is now over certainly not sumi those are the kind of mixed messages we've been getting from president trump throughout his presidency and you read it all yourself in his speech in contrast to what he said in his written statement said this is not the end this is just the beginning and he also let's be very clear did not distance himself from the protests that cost 4 lives at this point by the way and he said we lost you you are a special people so that simply shows that all trump is determined to go on he will certainly not let go as easily in the next 2 weeks will be crucial for american democracy of course after all a trump isn't is not going to disappear so quickly and there is a big danger for joe biden and his presidency that there will be some kind of right wing terrorism resulting out of that that will overshadow his presidency well these were certainly extraordinary and really shocking images that we saw from washington we'll talk about that in a moment but 1st let's take a look back at what happened. chaos unravels on capitol hill as

well no one can try him to revoke this result now sumi it has been certificated by the senate the electoral college and by several states but still more than 17000000 we can forget that americans voted for donald trump so this doesn't mean that the division of this country is gone this doesn't mean that there are not a lot of american citizens that are angry that that do support and they just don't trust in the politicians right now or in democracy. ok alina as we said you know it comes after really an extraordinary day and night on capitol hill scenes that we haven't seen before and we'll talk about that in a moment but 1st let's take a look at what happens. chaos unravels on capitol hill as to building a storm by hundreds of trump supporters. battling shews between riot police and the protesters as they break cost security. they stormed the senate chambers to prevent congress from certifying joe biden's election victory literally bringing democracy to a halt. bit group of black. police then through that gone once. was a woman was shot by police offices and was laid to proclaim dead was so

i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us as we mentioned we are following germany's covert 19 crisis in chancellor angela merkel is preparing now to take questions from journalists on her government's covert 19 strategy let's go right to that press conference and see if we can listen in to the chancellor's words as she gets started federal press conference we are independent and we are not part of the german government the berlin parliament journalists are usually here which is why these press conferences are organized and chaired by journalists which is a tradition for a long time and we're pleased that you are here again madam chancellor i think you were here 3 times more pleased that you are following that with the 1st month of the year you have the from madam chancellor ladies and gentlemen. we find ourselves in a very difficult phase of the pandemic and this was the reason why the heads of state and government of the federal states and the national government. continue their deliberations on tuesday and didn't wait until next monday as originally planned and that is al

that's right sumi very sadly 50000 over 50000 people have now died from or had 19 in germany they've been around 2100000 cases so far but there is encouraging news in so far as that in fiction rights are on steady decline as they stand today. is 115100000 of population over a 7 day period as i say that number has been steadily declining but not fast enough which is why the government and the states agreed earlier this week to extend current restrictions until february 14th this shuts down continues to shut down large parts of public life like schools and. shops as well and they are encouraging more medical mosque wearing and there is going to be an obligation on employers to make sure that more of their employees work from harm so that the infection risk in offices is reduced and also on public transport the big worry at the moment is these mutations that are starting to be seen in germany there have been isolated cases of them and healthful thirty's really want don't want these mutations to become dominant well those health authorities have been speaking to journalists today and tel

i'm sumi so much god it's good to have you with us we start in the u.s. state of georgia where media are projecting a democratic win and one of the 2 closely watched senate runoff elections the races have yet to be called officially but projections put democratic challenger raphael warnock ahead of incumbent kelly lefler in the other contest democrat john asafa taken a slim lead over. republican david perdue democrats need to win both seats to take a troll the senate and to help president elect joe biden advances legislative agenda. now if the result is confirmed democrats are rochelle warnock would become the 1st black senator to be elected from the south here's what he said a little while ago. so i come before you tonight as a man who knows that the improbable journey that led me to this place in this historic moment in america. could only happen here. we were told that we couldn't win this election. but tonight. we've proved that with hope. hard work and the people by our side. anything. is possible. reporter erin tell tin is following this story for u

i'm sumi so much kind of good to have you with us germany recorded over 13200 new coronavirus cases on wednesday a slight drop compared to the same day last week germany's disease control agency says that daily infection numbers are steadily decreasing but the scituate. remains serious outbreaks are still being reported across the country particularly in nursing and care homes and the death rate remains very high with 982 deaths registered in the last 24 hour period. let's bring in our political correspondent with the very latest on this hi nina as we said the numbers are going down slightly but the government is considering more restrictions that tell us about this. well what we're hearing is that chancellor angela merkel has told fellow party members that she wants to restrict travel even further because of course you have to keep in mind that germany is surrounded by 9 neighboring countries so we're right in the middle of europe and people but also viruses have it easy to cross borders and so apparently she said everyone agrees now is not the time to be traveling it so she is appare

that's right sumi very sadly 50000 over 50000 people have now died from all of it 19 in germany they've been around 2100000 cases so far but there is encouraging news in so far as that in fiction rights are on steady decline as they stand today 6 and write is 115100000 of population over a 7 day period as i say that number has been steadily declining but not fast enough which is why the government and the states agreed earlier this week to extend current restrictions until february 14th this shuts down continues to shut down large parts of public life like schools and. shops as well and they are encouraging more medical wearing and there is going to be an obligation on employers to make sure that more of their employees work from harm so that the infection risk in offices is reduced and also on public transport the big worry at the moment is these mutations that are starting to be seen in germany there have been isolated cases of them and healthful thirty's really want don't want these mutations to become dominant well those health authorities have been speaking to journalists today and

well no one can try him to revoke this result now sumi it has been certificated by the senate the electoral college and by several states but still more than 70000000 we can forget that americans voted for general trump so this doesn't mean that the division of this country is gone this doesn't mean that there are not a lot of american citizens that are angry that that do support donald trump and they just don't trust in the police right now or in democracy. ok alina as we said you know it comes after really an extraordinary day and night on capitol hill scenes that we haven't seen before we'll talk about that in a moment but 1st let's take a look at what happens. chaos unravels on capitol hill as the building is stalled by hundreds of trump supporters . battling shoes between riot police and the protesters as they break cost security. based on the senate chambers to prevent congress from certifying joe biden's election victory literally bringing democracy to a halt. by. police then true that gotten this. was was a woman was shot by police offices and was laid to proclaim dad was some prote

i'm sumi so much gun it's good to have you with us the u.s. congress has certified joe biden as the winner of november's presidential election after a day of chaos and violence in washington the session was forced into emergency recess when a violent mob of president trump supporters forced their way into the capitol building to try and stop lawmakers from certifying the vote. congress reconvenes later for proceedings that went late into the night and saw several republican lawmakers abandoning their planned objections to the election result. well the unprecedented scenes unfolded after trump had urged his supporters to rally at the capitol as lawmakers debated the results after biden's victory was certified trump released this statement here he said even though i totally disagree with the outcome of the election the facts bear me out nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on january 20th he went on to say i have always said we would continue our fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted while this represents the end of the

i'm sumi so much going to it's good to have you with us well it is inauguration day in the united states the ceremony will be taking place at the capitol in washington d.c. right here behind me but the event will be muted by the pandemic and overshadowed by security fears over possible civil unrest in his last hours in office outgoing president donald trump made a final farewell speech to the nation he wished the incoming administration luck but did not mention his successor by name on the eve of his swearing in president elect joe biden spoke about the importance of healing as he and vice president elect harris paid tribute to the country's 400000 covert 19 victims. we must remember it's hard sometimes to remember. but that's how we hear. it's important to do that as a nation that's why we're here today between sundown and dusk. shine the lights in the darkness along the sacred poor reflection remember all we will do davies peter valid is following the story for us hi peter as we heard inauguration day is going to be very different this time around very little pomp and circumstance tell

sumi spent spent the first hour of our programs about president-elect's picks, the cabinet picks so farking them if diversity matters in the cabinet. type it into what you are writing about. does diversity matter, and your opinion for the selection of the president-elect or any president coming in? see that i was listen to that very comforted by a lot of people calling and saying diversity does matter. for example you need diversity of experience. you need people not just educated at harvard and yale, you need people who perhaps have not graduated college or have gone to a state school. this idea that we are to be run by an elite of people who graduate singularly from the ivies has not been very good to great swaths of america. you need also your graphical diversity people from appalachia, from the deep south, the pacific northwest, new england, not just people from the corridor between washington d.c. and new york city. and many areas i would imagine not in the cabinet, and newsrooms for example you also need diversity of views. you need to have people and college campuses in academia

i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us a british judge has ruled that wiki leaks. julian assange cannot be extradited to the united states to face espionage charges the judge said the extradition would be oppressive to his mental health. supporters and celebrated the verdict outside the courthouse in central london a songe would have faced up to a 175 years in prison if convicted of violating the u.s. espionage act in 2010 he would least thousands of classified u.s. military files online yes trail ian was 1st arrested in britain 10 years ago and sought asylum in the ecuadorian embassy for 7 years as lawyers have consistently argument that a songe was acting as a journalist and is entitle to freedom of speech protection. let's go right to london for the latest in standing by for a stay there good to see you tell us more about the judge's reasoning in this ruling. the judge has ruled purely on the mental health grounds so all the other all the other arguments that julian assange just supports is abra going forward effectively he's a journalist and that's in the publi

sumi asked teachers, what portion of their students had access to internet we asked about assignment completion be found those two results were correlated predestinate surprising right? if you cannot connect to the internet you not only don't have access but then you also don't not readily access your teachers. for a lot of reasons why bet broadband connection is really important. it is to expanding broadband access. which is great news not only for schools, but for lots of other reasons. for businesses, for workers trying to find employment, a kinds ofho things. >> host: let's talk to jordan who's calling from north carolina. jordan good morning. >> good morning how are you guy guys? >> host: go-ahead jordan. >> caller: alright, so, so i note this pandemic is going on. but i want to know how julia's about kids going back to school we should be wait until after the pandemic is over. >> guest: jordan to just say that a little bit more you are breaking up i'm not try got your whole question. >> caller: i said i know that this pandemic is still going on, but how do you feel when this is

i'm sumi so much gun that's going to have you with us germany has recorded more than 50000 coronavirus deaths since the start of the pandemic that number has risen sharply over recent weeks even as infection figures are finally declining hundreds of deaths sometimes more than 1000 have been. daily across germany over recent weeks in some parts of the country intensive care units and crematoriums have reached their limit the situation has prompted the german government to once again extend the country's lockdown. germany's health minister he had spawn has been giving an off date alongside health officials he says the coronavirus case numbers are encouraging but still too high this time dr just what still in the script the nation program is giving us hope in the current situation. the crisis is at its peak but we're beginning to leave the pandemic behind us step and to me because. i know it's made you feel that this is not happening quickly enough i would also like to have more backs and dozens of bailable so that more people can be immunized the truth is this may have to give and. let's

i'm sumi so much gunboats good to have you with us the european commission has reached a deal with drug makers pfizer and by on tech to double its order of their code vaccine that secures the e.u. nearly half the 2 firms global output of the job this year the commission has come under fire recently for europe's slow vaccination world out here is commission president was the last on the line explaining what the deal means for the block. with the new agreement we could purchase a total of up to an additional $300000000.00 doses of the biotech pfizer vaccine in other words this will allow us to double the amount of this biotech. let's go right to brussels to teri schultz is standing by for us there welcome terry what does this deal actually include. sumi as european commission vonder lion just said this will double the number of pfizer biotech vaccines that the european commission has purchased and this is not a small issue because the commission is under fire for having purchased at the beginning to few and too slowly the number of doses that the population of almost half a 1000000000 nee

i'm sumi so much going to it's good to have you with us we start in the u.s. state of georgia where media are projecting a democratic win in the 1st of 2 closely watched senate runoff elections the races have yet to be called officially but projections put democratic challenger raphael warnock slightly ahead of incumbent kelly lefler in the other contest democrat john has taken a slim lead over republican david perdue the democrats need to win both seats to take control of the senate and help president elect joe biden advance his legislative agenda if the result is confirmed the democrats rochelle warnock would become the 1st black senator to be elected from the southern state here's what he said earlier.

i'm sumi so much kind of thanks for joining us a new chapter is beginning in the united states president joe biden has already started undoing some of the policies of the trumpet ministration on his 1st day in office he rejoined the paris climate accord and the world health organization he also ended a ban on travelers from some mainly muslim countries in his inaugural address he called for unity and a change in tone. you know hurry to get to work you need u.s. president joe biden arrived at the white house ready to roll back the policies of his predecessor within hours of taking over the oval office biden signed a stack of executive orders resetting the agenda only coronavirus pandemic immigration policy and climate change. we're going to review are all here. during the climate of course. as a. low to be wearing a mask he ordered all federal employees to do so as well biden moved quickly to fill key positions swearing in nearly 1000 new appointees and stuff virtually the new white house press secretary jens psaki heralded relations with the premise instead of attacking reporters and spr

i'm sumi someone's gonna it's good to have you with us the u.s. congress has certified joe biden as the winner of november's presidential election after a day of chaos and violence in washington the session was forced into emergency recess when a violent mob of president trump supporters forced their way into the capitol building to try and stop lawmakers from certifying the vote congress reconvenes later for proceedings that went lame. it into the night and saw several republican lawmakers abandoning their planned objections to the election results. the unprecedented scenes unfolded after trump had urged his supporters to rally at the capitol as lawmakers debated the results after biden's victory was certified trump released the following statement he said even though i totally disagree with the outcome of the election and the facts bear me out nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on january 20th he then added i have always said we would continue our fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted while this represents the end of t

i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us for a new chapter is beginning in the united states president joe biden has already started on doing some of the policies of the trumpet ministration on his 1st day in office he rejoined the paris climate accord and the world health organization he also ended a ban on travelers from some mainly muslim countries in his inaugural address he called for unity and a change in tone. you know hurry to get to work you u.s. president joe biden arrived at the white house ready to roll back the policies of his predecessor within hours of taking over the oval office biden signed a stack of executive orders resetting the agenda only coronavirus pandemic immigration policy and climate change. we're going to review your role here. you are in the climate of course. as a. fellow to be wearing a mask he ordered all federal employees to do so as well biden moved quickly to fill key positions swearing in nearly 1000 new appointees and stuff virtually the new white house press secretary jens psaki heralded relations with the premise instead of attacking re

i'm sumi so misconducts good to have you with us anticipation is high in front of london's criminal courthouse as a british court is due to rule on whether wiki leaks founder julian assange should be extradited to the united states supporters greeted us songes he arrived at the court and central london this morning he faces up to 175 years in prison if convicted of violating the u.s. espionage act in 2010 he released thousands of classified u.s. military file. and has avoided extradition ever since the australian was 1st arrested in britain 10 years ago seeking asylum in the ecuadorian embassy where he spent 7 years i was songe and his lawyers have always maintained he was acting as a journalist and he should be entitled to freedom of speech protections. judy in this song became a global celebrity in 2010 after wiki leaks publish classified us army material supplied by an intelligence analyst. containing documents and video footage from the wars in afghanistan and iraq. some of the footage was shocking seemingly implicating u.s. troops impossible who all crimes. i believe that if those killing

that's right sumi very sadly 50000 over 50000 people have now died from or had 19 in germany they've been around 2100000 cases so far but there is encouraging news in so far as that in fiction rights are on steady decline as they stand today. is 115100000 of population over a 7 day period as i say that number has been steadily declining but not fast enough which is why the government and the states agreed earlier this week to extend current restrictions until february 14th this shuts down continues to shut down large parts of public life like schools and. shops as well and they are encouraging more medical mosque wearing and there is going to be an obligation on employers to make sure that more of their employees work from harm so that the infection risk in offices is reduced and also on public transport the big worry at the moment is these mutations that.

i'm sumi so much gun it's good to have you with us u.s. president donald trump has repeated unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud on the eve of a crucial senate runoff election taking place in the state of georgia trump made those claims at an election rally of dalton georgia he was there to boo support for the 2 republican incumbents who are trying to fend off a strong challenge by democratic rivals u.s. president elect joe biden also campaigned in georgia he told voters they could set the country's course for a generation by. acting to democrats to the senate. was to tuesday's a special election will determine president elect biden's chances of pushing his agenda through congress democrats will soon hold the white house and the house of representatives but if republicans hold control of the senate they will block biden from pushing through many of his policies let's take a look now at the balance of power in the senate where republicans currently hold 50 of the 100 seats and democrats and 2 independent allies they hold 48 seats right now

i'm sumi so much kinder it's good to have you with us we start in the u.s. state of georgia where media are projecting a democratic win in one. i have 2 closely watched senate runoff elections the races have yet to be called officially but projections put democratic challenger raphael warnock ahead of the incumbent kelly lefler and the other contest democrat john also has taken a slim lead over republican david perdue democrats need to win both seats to take control of the senate and to help president elect joe biden and vance his legislative agenda. now if the result is confirmed of the democrats were not would become the 1st black senator to be elected from the south here's what he said a little while ago. so i come before you tonight as a man who knows that the improbable journey that led me to this place in this historic moment in america. could only happen here. we were told that we couldn't win this election. but tonight. we proved that with hope. hard work and the people by our side. in the thing. is possible. we have a reporter aaron tilton with us n