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1. BBC
Anchor: A new vaccine for malaria developed by Oxford University is being hailed as a
breakthrough that could save millions of lives. It’s the second malaria vaccine to be
developed but crucially it’s considerably cheaper and will be produced on a massive
scale with up to 100 million doses a year. That should vastly reduce the toll of a disease
that claims hundreds of thousands of lives every year, almost all of them children in
Africa. Our medical editor Fergus
Medical Director: Thanks Sophie. Well malaria has been causing untold human
suffering for millennia. The particularly the areas marked in red here which account for
95% of the global burden of malaria. In 2021 there were an estimated 234 million cases
and 593,000 deaths from malaria in Africa. Most of those were children under the age of
five. The Oxford vaccine is called R21 and requires children to have four doses. Trials
run by Oxford’s Jenner Institute show it’s around 75% effective at preventing malaria.
Crucially the world’s biggest vaccine manufacturer the Serum Institute in India has
agreed to produce a hundred million doses a year of the Oxford jab at between two and
four dollars a dose. This will be Africa’s second malaria vaccine. The first RTSS from
pharma giant GSK costs about twice as much. Since 2019 just 1 .7 million doses have
been administered so the new Oxford vaccine could be delivered at a much bigger scale.
WHO Director-General: Today is a great day for health, a great day for science and a
great day for vaccines. As a malaria researcher I used to dream of the day when we
would have a safe and effective vaccine against malaria. Now we have two.
Medical Director: Today’s announcement follows a major trial of the Oxford vaccine
involving nearly 5,000 children across four African countries lasting several years. Our
correspondent Ansoi witnessed some of the children getting booster doses in Tanzania
and has this report.

2. Reporter: A life-saving jab giving protection against one of the biggest killers of African
children, malaria. It has taken decades to find. Three-year-old Hajira was one of
hundreds of volunteers in the clinical trials. Her mother 39-year-old Moazani Saif had a
compelling reason to enroll the youngest of her six children in the study.
CNN
Anchor: It is chaos on Capitol Hill right now and a special kind of chaos this time.
House lawmakers are getting set and ready to vote on whether or not to oust Kevin
McCarthy as Speaker at some point today or if he will be able to narrowly avoid that
fate. He’s making he’s facing a small but determined revolt amongst his own party led
by Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz. Here’s McCarthy just last hour.
House speaker: If you throw a speaker out that has 99% of their conference that kept
government open and paid the troops, I think we’re in a really bad place for how we’re
going to run Congress.
Anchor: And while this chaos plays out, it’s really basically paralyzed on the House
side. We have team coverage on Capitol Hill, CNN’s Manu Raju and Lauren Fox joining
me. Manu, you’ve been tracking, talking and tracking Republicans this morning. What
is happening right now?
Reporter: Yeah, Republicans, Speaker McCarthy is making very clear that he’s planning
to have this vote this afternoon. The first vote will be a procedural vote, Amy, to stop
Matt Gaetz’s motion to oust him from the speakership. But there’s a problem, Kate. He
does not have the votes to win in large part because of hand release. More than five

3. Republicans are expected to vote against him against the speaker on this procedural
vote. And the moment the expectation is Democrats will join those Republican
detractors. McCarthy recognizing that he could potentially lose that procedural vote.
Then they will move into what will be a historic vote on the House floor. It could
happen today. It could happen tomorrow to vacate the speakership. Something that has
never happened in the history of this country could happen as soon as today. And
McCarthy is at risk of losing that vote. And if he does lose that vote, that is where things
get incredibly tricky. McCarthy at the moment indicating that he plans to fight this out
on the House floor. He could very well be a candidate in a new speaker’s race. But in
order to elect a speaker, you need 218 votes. And at the moment, nobody has 218 votes,
especially if McCarthy continues to put himself up for the speakership. And if
Democrats don’t, at the end of the day, save him. Something they don’t seem to have
much appetite for doing at the moment. But this is all has huge significance, because lif
there’s no speaker, the House cannot act. And Congress is paralyzed, essentially putting
this institution and the efforts to make law and complete paralysis. And talking to
Republicans this morning, there is enormous frustration with Congressman Matt Gaetz,
the leader of this effort, to push out Kevin McCarthy and blunt warnings from a
number of Republicans that going ahead could cost them their majority.
Representatives: The only word can describe for that is either he’s either a fool or a liar.
I think Matt Gaetz is a chaos agent. And I don’t have tolerance for some pseudo telling
you, it definitely puts the majority in jeopardy when you see disunity.