thank you so much forjoining us, helen clark, - forjoining us, helen clark, former prime minister tomonths of negotiations, the president said compromise and consensus were the only way to get things done in a democracy. after months of top negotiations present biden has announced revised spending plan calling a historic adventure in the country's future. it's a stripped down version of the $3.5 trillion plan needs to be improved by members of his own democratic party who hold the majority in congress. here is what the person had to say when he announced the new framework. it's a framework that will create millions ofjobs, grow the economy, invest in our nation and our people. turn the climate crisis into an opportunity to put us on a path not only to compete, but to win the economic competition for the 21st century. against china and every other major country in the world. it's fiscally responsible, it's fully paid for. i7 nobel prize winners in economics have said it will lower the inflationary pressures on the economy. peter bowes says this is a significant climb down from what pr

one of the signatories is helen clark, the former prime minister of new zealand who also served as anistrator to the un development programme for eight years and she explained some of the thinking behind the letter. i co—chair the independent panel for pandemic preparedness and response as requested by the wealth health organisation when we reported in may we said then that high income countries like yours and mine had ordered twice as many doses as they needed and they needed to redistribute them. we said that1 billion could have been distributed by september and a billion by the middle of next year and the 67 met in the uk and talked the talk but the redistribution hasn't happened and this latest call we are making says vaccines are going to go to waste while people are literally dying and getting extremely ill in developing countries because they can't get access to them. there needs to be a quick response by high income countries now to get the surplus doses out there and the latest calculations which gordon brown helped put together show that by january or february next year you