thank you, ranjit baxi — more investment. thank you, ranjit baxi for _ more investment.axi for your time. much more coming up. hello there. there's going to be very little change with the weather for the end of the week and into the weekend and indeed into next week. high pressure will hold on to bring pretty benign weather. thursday looks generally cloudy, i think, for much of the country, and we'll have some patchy rain across more eastern parts of england. high—pressure sits to the west of the uk, bringing northerly winds to most areas, north or north—easterly winds, that is. a lot of cloud around generally. limited spells of brightness. early showers will clear from the south—east, but more rain will arrive across eastern england, east anglia and the south—east through the afternoon. probably the best of the sunshine will be through the central belt of scotland, where we could see 15 celsius. some sunshine for south wales, south—west england, highs of 1a celsius. but elsewhere, 10—11 celsius, and cooler along north sea coast of england, where we have that area of rai

has entered an agreement to supply the african union with up to 400000000 doses of its covert 1000 baxi in the form a giant announced monday now as part of this deal with the african african vaccine acquisition trust johnson and johnson will deliver 220000000 doses of its single dose drug starting in the 3rd quarter of this year with the option for another 180000000 doses 2 $1022.00 now the continent has been struggling to deal with the more contagious variant of the virus found in south africa the director of the f.b.i. the centers for disease control and prevention says the one shot nature of this vaccine actually makes it an easier rollout adding we need to him immunize at least 60 percent of our population in order to get rid of the virus from our continent the j.n.j. agreement in abel's us to move towards achieving this target and nice and meanwhile some areas of the united states are seeing spikes in copenhagen cases as the vaccination race heats up for more on this and the state of the global vaccine rollout let's bring in our key correspondent site after site where we monday you

the chinese cities of hong kong and macau have suspended the use of the biotech iser covert 1000 baxi defective packaging was reported in one batch of the drug but he say they have acted as a precautionary measure the vaccines manufacturers say there is no reason to believe safety is that this. german chancellor angela merkel has canceled plans for a stricter pandemic shutdown over the easter break well following an unexpected crisis meeting with state leaders just americal said the hastily drawn up plans were her own mistake this comes just a day after leaders had announced a 5 day hard along down from if a 1st which would have shut most shops and church services but there was criticism and confusion over the measures and how they would be enforced there was also anger at domestic holidays being restricted while some international trips were still out . let's take a listen now to chancellor merkel speaking at a press conference earlier today. with us but the idea of an easter shutdown was proposed with the best of intentions limiting because we urgently need to slow down and reverse

help of pressuring brazil nuts with russia's code baxi all in the name of american safety and security and u.k. hospitals they could start cussing more services unless they get billions in support with the pandemic already leaving millions on n.h.s. wait. and i welcome you watching r.t. international start this hour with breaking news tonight because the u.s. president joe biden has described russia's vladimir putin as a killer he was responding to a direct question from a journalist adding that he'll pay the price for meddling in the 2020 us elections so let's get more on this now from. he joins me in the studio quite a headline this but is there any context around what was being said well andrew this is a just quite a headline this is indeed i guess it is fair to say breaking news a groundbreaking statement from president joe biden and this puts a massive question mark over what exactly the relations between the president of russia and the president of the u.s. are going to be starting from this point but i just want to make sure we all understand what happened it was an interview to

to the vaccination role that medical experts say the blood clot fears surrounding the astra zeneca baxi unfound. you're watching news up next is close up hunting in the arctic circle in this episode i think you can always get more news on our website any time of day that's at the lead dot com i'm actually have a lot more news for you at the top of the hour. a little. bit. of. hunting in the arctic circle who has the right to do so in the land of the me there's a. sweden supreme court has ruled that exclusive game hunting and fishing rights be restored to all of. the community. it was a historic moment for the farming and a source of aggravation for swedish hunters. close up. next on t.w. . she is kurdish she is young. and now male or mustafa is the mayor of rocca. the former islamic state capital was completely destroyed in the syrian civil war. engineer wants to rebuild her city democratically and with all rights hope among the ruins. men and w. . in many countries education is still a privilege poverty is one of the main causes some young children working mine shafts instead of going

there are 2 ways you know europe according to european regulations how a baxi in ghana get approvals one day is definitely julienne 8 european medicines agency through a red sea org in the region a procedure but you will be in the regulations also say there's another way in case of emergency and these other they should be completed by the national regulators would use for the emergency even authorization so the fact that the hungary a national regulator has issue with emergency use or fraud offer a zation is nothing you know against their regulations and and that's what made us a little bit fed up you know that the way hungary has approved this we knew it was going to do dirty in the western part of europe and in global media as if we have made something of gays or you're going to regulation which is which is not true you wrote the regulations say very clearly that in a case of emergency you can make such an. icon give you an explanation why e.m.e.a. is so slow of course of course i mean bureaucratic explanations can be given any time they can say that they they expect more documenta

risk the side effects of the vaccination and it's worrying that something like 8000000 doses of these baxi sitting around in refrigerators across europe you know going into people's lives where you have to protect them because they're interested please you know that's a very good point as of sunday i think it was 8000000 doses waiting to be injected into people's arms you are correct or chum professor of molecular oncology at work university in the u.k. professor we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you you are let's take a look now at some of the other developments in the pandemic of the u.k. has found 2 new cases of brazil's p one coronavirus variant bringing the total of reported cases in britain with that variant to 12 u.s. manufacturer derna has started vaccine trials on children aged 6 months to 12 years and drug maker pfizer says it will deliver an additional $10000000.00 doses of it corona virus vaccine to the european union over the next 3 months. our let's take a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world at a ceremony in t

risks the side effects of the vaccination and it's worrying that something like 8000000 doses of these baxi sitting around in refrigerators across europe not going into people's aren't as well protect them because they're just lees you know that's a very good point as of sunday i think it was 8000000 doses waiting to be injected into people's arms you are correct or chum professor of molecular oncology at work university in the u.k. professor we appreciate your time in your insights tonight thank you. let's get a look now at some of the other developments in the pandemic the u.k. has found that 2 new cases of brazil's p one coronavirus variant bringing the total of reported cases in britain to 12 the u.s. manufacturer modernity have started back seed trials on children between the ages of 6 months and 12 years and the drug maker pfizer says it will deliver an additional $10000000.00 doses of its corona virus vaccine to the european union over the next 3 months or germany's leading infectious disease institute says virus cases are rising exponentially as a 3rd wave of the pandemic grips the

and using russia sputnik the colbert baxi even if the european regulator doesn't give it the green light. joe biden hints that the rise in hate and hate crimes against asians in america was stirred up by his predecessor with much of the media also piling the blame on donald trump. and thousands of israelis take to the streets calling for the prime minister to resign ahead of the country's 4th election in just 2 years. those are world news headlines for this hour i'll be back with more in just about 60 minutes so stay tuned.

yeah the johnson draws the next scene has certain advantages it is so approved as a one shot baxi so no follow up needed so that means in terms of vaccination when you're fully vaccinated the time window is much shorter and i think also without any freezing or armaments just like seneca johnson also easier transport by the one shot means very little scheduling follow up and much faster and easier logistics i think it's a game changer and i'm very looking forward to having this rule out more countries will quite you know you say that we really do we have a choice of vaccines all around the world it's almost as if there's a competition among vaccines you know you've got some people saying that they only want to take for example the pfizer buying on tech bags and they think that's the best i mean is there a qualitative difference here at all. well i think it's hard to compare oranges because the pfizer biotech vaccine overturn a vaccine were tested much earlier last summer before the rise of perry and return a much lower epidemic period while for example johnson and johnson the trials w

there ministering about 25w2x5 people are should say are receiving a baxi in every day and that's a figure that's been pretty pretty steady as you can see for more than a week now so right now in total more than 15 percent of the total u.s. population has been fully vaccinated while most states expect to open up vaccine eligibility to all adults by the end of april so far 7 states have already done the brand and there's a new report going around about the origin of the virus what they tell us about that a well this is a draft leaked report which was conducted by a joint effort by w.h.o. world health organization in china on the origins of cold in 1000 now this report is based a largely on a visit by. team of scientists to han of course the chinese city work over 19 was 1st detected now of this report concluded. the transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and more importantly that it's extremely unlikely that given $1000.00 leaked from a one on lab now this report was also inconclusive on whether the outbreak started out of one seafoo

and using russia sputnik the colbert baxi even if the european regulator doesn't give it the green light. joe biden hints that the rise in hate hate crimes against asians in america was stirred up by his predecessor with much of the media also piling the blame on donald trump. and thousands of israelis take to the streets calling for the prime minister to resign ahead of the country's 4th election in just 2 years. those are world news headlines for this hour i'll be back with more in just about 60 minutes so stay tuned. but max dies or this is the kaiser report ever wonder why a bitcoin is going like a rocket ship let's talk with stacey stacey yeah i like that mainstream economists that are allowed to go on to san b c bloomberg and all those other financial news programs and frets about the price of bitcoin and what bitcoins doing when it is the only safe harbor as max and i have pointed out now for almost 10 years from government printing and quantitative easing and other exotic sort of programs introduce over the past 2 decades and you see why we might be concerned out here in the big

directly the government has recognized the company nominated importers for office some for the various baxi the company that is importing the virus the sputnik vaccine is currently in negotiations with the government the buck regarding pricing in box b. are ready other vaccinations and that we are involved with the national command operations center under the nationalization database that we are ready to go. for that what they will write by the government and the vial and the vaccine importing companies even vaguely similar to embrace ok does pakistan have the ability to manufacture that same. i think a lot has changed in the last one year one year ago boston didn't have the capacity to make even 50 each to fulfill its own needs but 6 months later boston was exporting protected because but similarly there are several large pharmaceutical companies in boston and for that matter the national institutes of health which is going to the forefront of this fight has been very involved in developing their own production capacity i hear that they're in talks with a couple of chinese companies try an

talk of vaccine nationalism a little bit of what cya just mentioned the worry of nations holding back baxi and to take care of its population rather than sending them out to developing nations that may need them we've seen the e.u. set up export rules for delivery while india is actually held back nearly 2500000 doses of that astra zeneca vaccine to meet domestic demand is this going to be a major issue with the rollout. oh of course it is you know we don't live in a perfect global community just yet and it was clear that the developed countries would take care of their own populations before they started to think about that needing the world but this is a pandemic even if the developed countries vaccinate their population we have to be concerned about new variants occurring in the developing world and reintroducing the virus to the developed world so we must think globally we have to extend the benefit of prevention to the entire world's population and in the last one before we go there are concerns that a new vaccine may need with it be we needed within a year as mutations and new strain

world health organization experts are meeting to analyze data on the safety of the astra zeneca baxi germany france and italy now join several others in suspending the jap until reports of blood clots can be investigated. streets are empty businesses closed in the brazilian state of some polo after emergency restrictions came into effect on monday the health minister has been replaced again as the outbreak that hits record levels. in the coming hours libya's newly sworn in unity government is expected to begin its work the u.n. backed efforts is meant to help bring stability ahead of elections in december but us with an estimated $20000.00 foreign faces still in the country security will be a challenge for the government trying to reports now from tripoli. after years of divisions libya's new unity government is formed in the eastern city of 2 brooke. 35 ministers including the country's 1st female foreign minister were sworn into office. the ceremony was attended by members of parliament the new presidential council as well as several investors and broadcast on most t.v. channels he

a push for equal access to covert $900.00 baxi south africa and india appeal for suspension of patents at the world trade organization. and closer to.

there's been there's been the big issue with the in europe about the fact of age on the effectiveness of baxi. and of course as a you have to investigate every serious side effect for me but there is a big into the commercial dimension to all of this as well we need to look at the number of people who are you report said that batch of fact see they've gone to. i said probably many different countries is there a problem with. globetrotting in other countries as well or is this just a one off for example in denmark that's a really important thing to to find out and really anybody with that sort of oversight multinational oversight like the air may do that the european model of medicines agency has to take the sort of questions and concerns of each member state into account when it when it came to gives off dorothy i don't think that one can say the a.m.a. is being. sick shuttle callus you know that good that bad that questions that douse will be slightly different from regulators in the u.k. or in other countries so over roll one gets quite a broad picture of the safety of this drug was what to

the chinese cities of hong kong and macau have suspended the use of the biotech pfizer covert 1000 baxi defective packaging was reported in one batch of the drug authorities say they have acted as a precautionary measure vaccines manufacturers say there's no reason to believe safety is that base. if you know all has been held for a 7 year old girl shot dead by security forces and me more on tuesday her family said she was sitting on her father's knee and police raided their home and mandalay and opened fire he's the youngest victim of violence since the military seized power as mine. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has insisted there will be no need for a new vote despite the country's indecisive election outcome is claiming victory for his the could party but with ballots still being counted opposition parties insist they can form a coalition while now the former ally turned critic could decide who governs. binyamin netanyahu support is declaring there is only one man fed them. but this is not the decisive victory that netanyahu and his left could party had been hoping for wi

are far behind other countries he acknowledged that europe lacked ambition over its initial baxi research and particular met efforts well currently less than 10 percent of e.u. residents have had at least one shot all this far behind the united kingdom where the vaccination campaign is full speed ahead. rapid fire jobs are the order of the day in the u.k. even churches like the renowned westminster abbey have been commandeered in the battle against the fire us the strategy seen some 30000000 u.k. residents vaccinated so far just under 50 percent of the population old e.u. member countries put together have only managed 57000000 the e.u. had ordered adequate supplies from producers but pharma firms have failed to keep up. kill vaca will supply 405000000 shots but it's vaccine hasn't been licensed yet for e.u. distribution roughly the same quantities are on order from astra zeneca along with the recently approved johnson and johnson jab the e.u. wants 300000000 doses from sun aufidius soon as the european medicines agency gives the go ahead the same number from by on tech montana is expecte

that are producing baxi interest as astra zeneca should be supplying them to the south this is gotten a little bit hot over the past few weeks let's say but there is a feeling of both sides that they don't want to make this. any worse than the already bad relations that we have following breaks it so it's getting a little bit tricky. tricky indeed rob wants to do business appreciate it thanks much thank you talk about a segue here now this one is for all the single people out there lockdown has been rough on the love lives of many with bars restaurants and clubs closed and even office romance off the table with so many people working from home where you where can you make all these days well there's always drive through speed dating that's pandemic approved gumby presto is about to go car speed dating while following corona restrictions with makes me think what else can you do nothing's open there's nowhere to go you can't meet friends it could be you happen to meet someone there had faith will the 53 year old really find the man of her dreams today there are clear rules to car speed

and germany honors the scientists who brought hope to the world by developing the 1st pope in 1000 baxi biotech founders. and or shaheen will go down in history. a mommy and use of welcome to the program germany's federal and state leaders have held a virtual summit to discuss the country's stalled coronavirus vaccination drive like other european countries germany is dealing with a 3rd wave of infections following the summit chancellor merkel announced measures to speed up the vaccination process these include allowing family doctors to inoculate patients and possibly even ordering a shipment of russia's sputnik vaccines so far less than 10 percent of germans have been vaccinated as far fewer than in the u.k. or the u.s. . here's chancellor merkel talking about the vaccination drive. we want to plan for making it will become faster and more flexible. the voice we want to demonstrate the proverbial and try it untrusted german foreign minister well complimentary that with more german flexibility again. there have been plans to use germany's lockdown over the coming weeks but now case num

the other global business stories making the news venezuela has offered to swap oil for coverage 19 baxi and a lack of foreign currency in numerous u.s. sanctions mean it can hardly import food and medicine despite having the largest oil reserves in the world official figures say 156000 people have been infected with the coronavirus that with more than 1500 dead. the united states says it's suspending its trade deal with neon modern democracy is restored in the country the decision comes after the military overthrew the elected government joad leader aung san suu kyi and imprisoned protested washington had already imposed sanctions on com bomber it's controlled by army. blank make a boeing says u.s. low cost carrier southwest airlines has ordered $1737.00 max aircraft the top point $5000000000.00 deal increases southwest smacks a commitment to more than $600.00 planes it's the largest order since the model was approved to fly again at the end of 2020. the explosion in the port of beirut last august reduced large parts of the lebanese capital to rubble it also left hundreds of people home

the other global business stories making the news venezuela has offered to swap oil for coverage 19 baxi and a lack of foreign currency in numerous u.s. sanctions mean it can hardly import food and medicine despite having the largest oil reserves in the world official figures say 156000 people have been infected with the current a virus that with more than 1500. united states says it's suspending its trade deal with neon mar until democracy is restored in the country the decision comes after the military overthrew the elected government joad leader aung san suu kyi and imprisoned protestors washington had already imposed sanctions on come from are controlled by an army. but make a boeing says u.s. low cost carrier southwest airlines has ordered $1737.00 max aircraft to the top point $5000000000.00 deal increases southwest maps commitment to more than $600.00 planes is the largest order since the model was approved to fly again at the end of 2020. now the huge explosion in the port of beirut last august reduced large parts of the lebanese capital to rubble it also left hundreds of people

a push for equal access to covert 19 baxi south africa and india appealed for suspension of peyton's at the world trade organization. and closer to a political comeback former brazilian president lula da silva addresses his supporters after a court ruling bruce's chances of challenging. also the siren new step to reconcile with its colonial past france is to declassify secret documents related to algeria as war of independence. and i'm gemini with all the day's sports news as roger federer makes so winning return to tennis action after a year out and after being reelected as president of the international olympic committee thomas back from this is a safe and secure games. welcome to the news the u.s. house of representatives has begun to be. it's in a $1.00 trillion dollar relief bill one of the largest in the country's history the bill will provide $1400.00 checks for americans as well as extended unemployment benefits and tax breaks it will still need to be signed by the president around 10000000 people in the u.s. are currently unemployed a number that has risen sharply since the