last year in retaliation for paris taxing large tech firms can cross live now to paris and charlotte devinsky for more on this so charlotte france has been spared a fresh u.s. terrorists what's behind that decision. well this is a huge step. down from washington that was due to impose these additional taxes over the last few days on french luxury goods such as handbags but also on things such as cosmetics that were exported to the us this would have added some 25 percent to those products in terms of cost and would have brought in around $1300000000.00 in terms of additional taxes now this was all in a dispute over the so-called gaffe attacks this is a tax france has been talking about imposing on digital giants here in france on the revenues and the profits that they create here in france this is tech companies such as amazon such as google facebook and the u.s. has long said that taxing these companies for their profits in france in france would have been unfair this is what the u.s. trade representative is now saying. the u.s. trade representative has decided to suspend the tariffs in ligh

charlotte devinsky with more. france's vaccine has been rolled out and criticized by many is being done at as snail's pace in the weeks since that program has been rolled out only a few 100 is said to have had the job compare that say to germany where over 40000 people have already received the 1st inoculation now there are some reasons for that here in france you have to give written consent to have the 19 jab and of course there is this huge distrust of vaccines so 40 percent of people say that they will have the vaccine meaning around 60 percent of people who have responded to surveys here in france say they won't be having it now the government says that yes it's being cautious but this is a marathon and not a sprint others though are saying that in needs to be more urgency there is still time to make up for this feeling of a sluggish start to vaccination it is a matter of urgency now to give an optimistic outlook now the e.u. has also come under fire for not ordering enough vaccine 1st of all this criticism c

have been left with no means of funding their studies as a strain is taking its toll as art is charlotte devinsky found out. this is emma she's a 21 year old was a student in paris who dream is to become a history teacher but like students across france and even the world the comb very dependent makers turned life upside down and inside out in october there was the governor on this idea that every university would because then i just stayed up my place and i was remotely running for the world so mr i want perspective and also having to sit in that some of the best years of my life wasted i have some friends that are really strong handymen but they don't call tell me too much about this there's a kind of shame of not being able to properly those concerns have been heard by the president says he look to ensure universities provide daily meals price to one euro a day it's a picture playing out across the higher education system in france and for some the distress is manifesting in tragic ways one student threw himself out of a 4th floor window in little he remains in a critical condition another stu

council of state many are concerned that france has crossed a red line and it may not retrieve it charlotte devinsky after paris. global oil markets have been handed a new year boost after russia and saudi arabia reached a compromise overall production for the next 2 months a group of major producers agreed to keep the oil supply broadly steady in february and march that's after the pandemic for some economies back into lockdown while government struggled to roll out vaccines and while russia and kazakhstan have been permitted to wear the combined 75000 barrels a day for both those months so i do rabia pledged an additional unilateral cut of a 1000000 barrels a day. breaks down the deal you can see the full program here later today. saudi arabia and russia they were deadlocked monday over whether their producer's alliance should boost crude output but were able to actually come to an agreement on tuesday why was there such a deadlock and what was this compromise well it really came down to a time when there was an original e. agreed to timeline that said last year when we were in the middle of this

to develop its own code job has become a source of shame for the political establishment as charlotte devinsky reports. france has a little in famous history when it comes to vaccinations i mean after all the so-called father of even your logy is louis pastor the french microbiologist so it's been a base of a blow that the institution that bears his name failed to find a viable vaccine it's described its own results as disappointing in these trials involving the 1st administration to humans the vaccine candidate was well tolerated but the immune responses in just by the vaccine were inferior to both those observed in individuals who recovered from natural infection and those observed with the vaccines currently authorized for covert 19 the vaccine they were attempting to produce was less effective than no natural immunity who hits hard and it seems the french are really feeling it but the fear yes indeed it is real because when pastor rick cannot get out a dose of the vaccine that is amazing so i think it is incompetence it's everywhere or maybe there are too it's a competition between differe

artie's charlotte devinsky in paris thanks for bringing us that report the vaccine shortages are being particularly felt in spain where the 2 most populous regions have halted their inoculation campaigns and are blaming brussels we must stand up to brussels and demand more doses we need more vaccines and more tests and everything that distracts from this task will prolong the fight against the virus catalonia and the madrid region have used up almost all their doses with remaining biles needed to give 2nd shots to those who've already had the 1st one that ruins government plans to inoculate most of the population by june and the head of the country's vaccination association says the shortage is nationwide so. the number of doses we're receiving has been significantly reduced the vaccine is not being delivered to the rate that we anticipated it's a real problem for the national vaccination plan and it means a ton of us regions will have to review their strategies the supplies we do have will be needed to give 2nd doses to those who have already started the vaccination process so we will

country move comes to the dismay of many business owners who are concerned about their futures charlotte devinsky reports. france remains under couvade restrictions the border with the u.k. will also remain closed for the moment for all but essential travel reasons the prime minister confirming what many see it and she just said the time because incomes are joan to normal was to meet one person to intensive care every 7 minutes and one in 2 people in this of care of their focal that 90. that means the curfew currently set to 8 pm in most parts of france will continue at least for the next few weeks while a further 10 departments saying there could if you tightened that will not start at 6 pm boers restaurants cultural places all hoped to be opening in the next few weeks probably that's now been pushed back with mid february looking more likely another blow to a sector which says it is all new verge of collapse. from 5 to 7 pm is where people leave work so there's obviously a lot of turnover because when people leave at 5 they want to have a wonder round so the situation has now been complicated.

rolling out charlotte near live doesn't seem to be getting very much simpler or clearer as you mentioned there let's hope fingers crossed for the coming future many thanks to all the devinsky in paris. nice not just in europe where the mass vaccination rollouts been criticised in america the process has been branded as a chaotic and plans to reduce the dose size and end of year targets having being missed r.t. saskia taylor explains. it might be a new year but it's cool to buy the same old problems on the fast day of 2021 the u.s. hit $28000000.00 kopechne $1000.00 cases but just out was before as the clock struck midnight thousands flooded the streets hoping that the next $365.00 days would just be that little bit that. i've been scared i don't know what will happen 1st rule for 2021 don't talk about anything and i believe this is there we go she started here we did. that everything is going to get better and actually working at the c.v.s. and his own crazy with the coded vaccine and everything right now really hope that everything goes back to normal this christmas and new year many wished for a return to our old normal lives something top medical advisors have been prom