the european commission spokesman neither confirmed nor denied the reports. >> whatever steps are takenuld be taken, these decisions will be taken by the commission together with the member states. this is a strategy that we implement together with the member states. for the time being, we are looking at all options which help us to ensure timely delivery of doses. anchor: a spokesperson for astrazeneca said the company was not aware of legal proceedings, but says it would continue regular discussions with the european commission and eu #'s about supplies. we will bring in our panel shortly, but let's look at inoculation campaigns across europe. the vaccine rollout has fared poorly, compared to other developed economies. only 10% of the 900 million people up so far received a single dose of vaccine. the situation changed with germany doubling the pace of vaccinations, following a boost in supplies, and has decided to let general practitioners administer the jobs. france, italy, and spain are expected to follow that lead. ok, let's bring in the panel. we have simon clark at the universit

the european commission spokesman neither confirmed nor denied the reports before there are steps are taken or would be taken decisions taken by any commission together with the member states as again this is a strategy that we implement together with the member states and so for the county to come into question we are in it only options which help us to ensure newsroom of course a spokesman for astra zeneca says the company was not aware of any legal proceedings but it says it will continue regular discussions about supply with the european commission and e.u. member states we'll bring in our panel shortly but 1st let's take a closer look at inoculation campaigns across europe the e.u. is vaccine rollout has fared poorly compared to other developed economies only around 10 percent of the blocks 900000000 people have so far received a single dose of a vaccine but the situation changed this week with germany in the early doubling the pace of vaccinations following a boost in supplies it's also decided to let general practitioners administer the jabs france italy and spain are expected

well i think it's not only european commission to blame i think we have new york post problem the. responsibility of the european commission was not given before that richard mentioned the 3rd thing to all of the 'd member countries could have done a better job to support a commission fundamental to market forces that are really not understood and if we would have investors like other countries like yet the u.k. or israel early on not only saying we don't procure accents but in back into production capacities collaborate with the different companies are kind of back that sense because they can produce much more so the argument is that some countries like us u.k. israel have been selfish that it's mostly by supporting companies and create the right incentives europe could lead to an increased production so looking more definition for everyone right now over rick how much did the e.u. underestimate possible complications and delays in vaccine production from your vantage point what were the biggest mistakes made by the e.u. when it came to actually procurement. well if we compare the

i am the 1st woman to be president of the european commission i am the president of the european commission and this is how i expected to be treated when visiting turkey 2 weeks ago like a commission president but i was not i cannot find any justification for what i was treated in the european treaties. so i have to come blued that it happened because i am a woman. would this have happened if i had worn a suit and a tie in the pictures of previous meetings i did not see any shortage of chips she's got a point now turkey has blamed the european union saying it followed protocol instructions given by the europeans really want to take a look at what happened when former european council president donald tusk and former european commission president john quote younger both men met with turkish president aired on back in may 27th team now here are the 3 men posing for the cameras they leave to conduct their talks in a room with 3 chairs for 3 presidents no one was left standing without a seat and there was loads of inside. ursula on the lie and was not expecting special treatment she simply want

the council president michel michel vs the president of the european commission the executive branch of the e.u. funded line and then they also might of course just might have been a touch of the good old fashioned old fashioned misogyny at play here all this we do not exactly know but the optics we had devastating diplomatically speaking so this isn't on the samples because the fallout on social media was just devastating . hashtags sprang up get her a chair and one of the members of the european parliament from the pena tweeted if i invited president gun to my house i would have offered to chair in spite the fact he's a man so yes there is of course lasted but there is also to court to this that once again the e.u. to be looked really to look really bad on the international stage so how has the european commission reacted to this. you could really for the last 2 days sort of literally hear them grit their teeth when they were on something hundreds of journalists question how was this allowed to happen why did child michel not give up his chair immediately to or from the line now we

the european commission is a very angry and they're robbed of tiflis diplomatic way we behave the way we did in order to sort of save the meeting that small that's what they say it had i been or so from the line i would have walked up to the to the turkish president and say oh mr president that might be a chairman's thing here or the obvious solution i mean the one that is most obvious is of course that charles michel bit of giving up his chair and offered it to the fund on line and sort of asked for another chair for himself so this situation would have been sort of could have been saved but they didn't like the sort of. the momentary spirit and truth of make something else and it does leave the e.u. looking a bit stupid particularly shock me shelly the council president just looks like a real don't and that the geisha well barbara what do you think the effect the fallout of all of this is going to be. the fallout is that the their destiny or not the diplomatic gas in the european union i mean they want to be a big international player they say we have something to say be want to pla

i am the 1st woman to be president of the european commission i am the president of the european commission and this is how i expected to be treated when visiting turkey 2 weeks ago like a commission president but i was not i cannot find any justification for what i was treated in the european treaties so i have to come blued that it happened because i am a woman. would this have happened if i had worn a suit and a tie. in the pictures of previous meetings i did not see any shortage of. she's got a point now turkey has blamed the european union saying it followed protocol instructions given by the europeans really want to take a look at what happened when former european council president donald tusk and former european commission president john called younger both men met with turkish president aired on back in may 27th team now here are the 3 men posing for the cameras they leave to conduct talks in a room with count them 3 chairs for 3 presidents no one was left standing without a c. and there was the inside. ursula on the lie and was not expecting special treatment she simply wanted the

delivered to this country so just to just to some clear about what you're saying there the european commission says it doesn't it doesn't want the vaccine although europe wide level but if countries want to very can still try and get it and it will be. adjudicated separately by the european medicines agency. well germany is not the 1st country to negotiate with russia bilaterally it wouldn't be also the 1st country in europe to to have this vaccine and use it but that it depends a sensually on whether it is approved by the may the european medicines agency does some of the german health minister stressed today in an interview that is the precondition if germany is going to enter into those negotiations and also stress that for that to happen russia has to provide complete data to the european agency in order for the european agency to evaluate whether the vaccine can be approved if that happens in germany were discussed all the details with russia other german health minister stressed that some of the key elements that it wants to discuss to discuss with russia is when and exactly how many dol

most senior to be fair european officials went to turkey for talks that is the head of the european commission and the president of. the european council they were to meet the turkish leaders ship and. ended up having no chair to sit on instead what happened was she was sat at a sofa right next to the turkish foreign minister and according to diplomatic protocol he holds a lower rank and boom there you have it this is how the scandal began and now the european parliament is demanding a public investigation to get to the bottom of this but the harshest reaction came from the italian prime minister who called the law the dictator. i absolutely do not agree with no one's behavior and i was very sorry for the humiliation the european commission president under lane had to suffer let's call them what they are dictators with whom one nonetheless has to coordinate so those are those drug of the one a dictator how did you react to all turkey and its government were clearly outraged at that almost instant the italian a massacre was asked to show up at the turkish foreign ministry for a very serious con

the european commission has already decided to look elsewhere.zeneca is not allowed for use in denmark, it is restricted in several u mean countries in terms of the age that people can have it at on the grounds of those fears over blood clots and the european commission has already decided it is going to look to what it believes are far more reliable suppliers, namely pfizer with whom it is currently negotiating a contract that would see 1.8 billion doses delivered to the eu by 2023. essentially the commission is saying, look, we don't particularly need the astrazeneca vaccine anymore at all. >> all right. it will be interesting to see how all that ends up. melissa bell joining us live from paris. many thanks. >>> south america is also struggling to slow the spread of the coronavirus. many countries remain in the red as new infections have continued to climb during the past month. in argentina a presidential adviser says the government has resumed talks with pfizer to purchase its vaccine. brazil's senate is investigating the government's handlin

i am the president of the european commission and this is how i expected to be treated when visiting turkey 2 weeks ago like a commission president but i was not i cannot find any justification for what i was treated in the european treaties. so i have to come prude that it happened because i am a woman. would this have happened if i had worn a suit and a tie in the pictures of previous meetings i did not see any shortage of. she's got a point now turkey has blamed the european union saying it followed protocol instructions given by the europeans really want to take a look at what happened when former european council president donald tusk and former european commission president john quote younger both men met with turkish president aired on back in may 27th team now here are the 3 men posing for the cameras they leave to conduct their talks in a room with count them 3 chairs for 3 presidents no one was worth standing without a c. and there was very sort of inside. ursula on the lie and was not expecting special treatment she simply wanted the same treatment afforded men she says th

i am the 1st woman to be president of the european commission i am the president of the european commission and this is how i expected to be treated when visiting turkey 2 weeks ago like a commission president but i was not i cannot find any justification for what i was treated in the european treaties. so i have to come prude that it happened because i am a woman. would this have happened if i had worn a suit and a tie in the pictures of previous meetings i did not see any shortage of. she's got a point that turkey has blamed the european union saying it followed protocol instructions given by the europeans really want to take a look at what happened when former european council president donald tusk and former european commission president john quote younger both men met with turkish president aired on back in may 27th team now here are the 3 men posing for the cameras they leave to conduct their talks in a room with 3 chairs for 3 presidents no one was left standing without a c. and there was the sort of inside. ursule of an ally and was not expecting special treatment she simply wanted

the european commission is a very angry in the rada type diplomatic way we behave the way we did in order to sort of save the meeting that small and that's what they say it had i been or so from the line i would have walked up to the to the turkish president and say oh mr president that might be a chairman's thing here or the obvious solution i mean the one that is most obvious is of course that charles michel bit of giving up his chair and offered it to the fund on line and sort of asked for another chair fund self so this situation would have been sort of could have been saved but they didn't like the sort of. the momentary spirit and truth of make something else and it does leave the e.u. looking a bit stupid particularly child michele the the council president just looks like a real don't in that that geisha well barbara what do you think the effect the fallout of all of this is going to be the fallout is that the desk in another diplomatic gas in the european union i mean they want to be a big international player they say we have something to say be want to play a bigger role on the

up to 220 billion euro will be approved by the european commission we will talk more about that on thehow and what it means for the italian economy. >>> americans who have been fully vaccinated will be able to visit the eu this summer in an interview with the new york times, the president of the european commission cited the successful vaccination program and signalled tourists may require vaccine certification to travel this is good news to the airline industry particularly those that operate trans atlantic flights welcome for these economies reliant on tourism it will be good to hear american tourists can come and visit their shores again these are some of the major airlines in europe trading pos positive lufthansa up 4% in trading today. julianna >>> thank you. welcome news for americans eager to get to europe as well let's dive into the single stock. philips reported a surge of first quarter up 74% to 362 million euro and beating he expec expectation. the ceo told cnbc his company is navigating challenges posed by the global chip shortage >> we are seeing some issues in dealing wit

used to manipulate people will be banned others regulated but it's not all restrictions the european commission aims to deepen the collaboration between member states in the development and implementation of ai technologies because ai technologies are intertwined with many aspects of our lives already hunts to cancun manages the ai experience center and innovation hub of brussels free university tells us well regulation is necessary to make sure what machines learn is ethical and follows human values the count believes the collaboration efforts envisioned in the framework are likely to help small industries in their digital transformation and perhaps turn the e.u. into a role model people in india in the west and in the east are looking towards europe and are looking forward to actually have this framework as an example and to see how that this can work and how do these regulatory framework in between. the public and profit good can actually find a way to have more responsible innovation than in the past prosthetics developer p.s. hell is not sure yet how these new laws will impact his business

delivered to this country so just to just to some clear about what you're saying there the european commission says it doesn't it doesn't want the vaccine or no europe wide level but if countries want to they can still try and get it and it will be. adjudicated separately by the european medicines agency. well germany is not the 1st country to negotiate with russia bilaterally it wouldn't be also the 1st country in europe to to have this vaccine and use it but that it depends a sensually on whether it is approved by the e m a the european medicines agency does some of the german health minister stressed today in an interview that is the precondition if germany is going to enter into those negotiations and also stress that for that to happen russia has to provide complete data to the european agency in order for the european agency to evaluate whether the vaccine can be approved if that happens in germany were discussed all the details with russia other german health minister stressed that some of the key elements that it wants to discuss to discuss with russia is when and exactly how many dose

at least go into bilateral talks with russia over the sputnik vaccine is by saying that the european commission had informed the different countries that it was not going to sign a contract with the sputnik v. as it had done with other producers like for example by own take pfizer so basically that left it in the hands of the countries themselves to decide whether they would go into bilateral negotiations and that's something that the german health minister yes informed his european colleagues during a meeting earlier so that's how the german government has explained this change of strategy the german government is planning this in 2 phases the 1st one waiting for the european union approval on dr vaccine and 2nd then going into concrete discussions with russia on the specific elements of that possible delivery. let's talk about the data here thomas because but the wii is as you said not yet approved and slovakia has recently reported that batches of the vaccine do not have the same standard as the batches that were used in studies published in the lancet magazine does is this indeed mean that

out and in brussels we do european commission they allow bureaucracy to get in the way of putting needles lifesaving needles in people's homes and that's why more and more countries have be as starting to act for themselves and to hungry for instance has bull the backseat other countries have pull the us command zeneca others have pull why is that now. the centralized method you used and now completely discredited in brussels is for him to pieces. go without a still to come the brazilian president doubles down on his resistance to lockdown starts to spite the country soaring kovac death toll it's our next story after this . remember monopoly it's great to have hotels on boardwalk and park place. while we're entering. a biological fukushima that's how a scientist describes the situation in brazil after more than 4000 deaths in a single day he's been outlining the scale of the problem to us. the current situation is this 3 really severe in brazil is very critical right now we are in the middle of a national hospital collapse and exponential growth of new cases in the country for the 1st tim

still struggling to get hold of enough vaccines and to inject it quickly enough here's the european commission spokesperson earlier today in terms of the counter sometimes of the contract has not been respected in the company has not been a position to come up with a reliable strategy to ensure that i'm to delivery of doses what matters to us in this case is that we want to make sure that there is a speedy delivery of a sufficient number of doses that the european citizens are entitled to and which have been promised on the basis of the contract. we want to bring in now our very own georg much as he's on the story for us in brussels tonight good evening to you georg so how confident is the e.u. that it will win this lawsuit and do we know what would victory look like. brand you can bet that the e.u. commission thought long and hard about this and in fact they tried for a long time to avoid as an hour or the like that a lawsuit because that is not exactly the way that will speed up things if you're looking for a partner who puts in some some extra goes the extra mile to delivers those structura

bans most uses of ai for surveillance including technology for so-called social scoring the european commission says it wants to set global standards for a technology that staminate by china and the united states. artificial intelligence it's a poorly understood phenomenon which is a cause of concern for many bodies but not him peer shuttle is the founder of the belgian stored up accidents bioethics together with his team he's developing a revolutionary form of prosthetics with the help of ai what is clearly seen here is that the ankle joint is being articulate that you can see that during its warping it changes it moves the priest is just going to adopt to the ground they're walking on in the not true way like a natural foot would. sophisticated and smart software. this adapt instantaneously to its environment whereas a traditional fake would limit the person wearing it walking on different kinds of terrain here becomes much easier in areas such as energy agriculture and medicine artificial intelligence is playing a bigger and bigger role regulation so far has been limited but e.u. commission

of being placed in equal rank according to diplomatic protocol or so the fund and i and the european commission president was placed on a sofa while the men took center stage. it draws stock comparison to previous years where un turkish leaders were seated in equal standing whether the optics were intentional or not it may have added further strain to the relationship but the spokesman for the european commission says she wanted to focus on the issues at hand. shows that marriage ties substance over questions of formal particle and that sets in the what european citizens would have expected of her it is not my job to judge what was behind the fact that we offered one type of seat over another a key focal point for the e.u. was for turkey to improve its human rights record. on car recently withdrew from a treaty that protects women against a fine and discrimination the country has seen nationwide protests against femicide domestic violence and murders of women are on the rise and the diplomatic focus has sparked outrage online. some called out the political strains between the e.u. and turkey ot

governments are split on whether to restrict the use of the astra zeneca covert jab on thursday the european commission warned that without a unified response public confidence in occupation could falter and we got reaction in paris. it's confusing yes because to say that the laws change from one country to another while the product is the same we wonder on which study they are based those who had complications were rather young so they said let's stop it for the young but not for the old well i mean it's weird their management of the thing is not clear. for me there is a risk since it has been shown that there are people who have unfortunately died after getting vaccinated it is important to get out of this health crisis and therefore we have to weigh the benefits and the risks of saying the risk is low in their best interest i think so they are never going to say that the risk is high and so that's really that doesn't surprise me confusing there is a bit of confusion we don't know what to trust so i feel a bit of the dark concerns over a potential link between astra zeneca and red blood clots is expo

took aim at the european council president for not playing his part in standing beside the european commission president technician officials are pointing blame at the e.u. . british rather than join russia and i was on their request of the e.u. are met and the problem parts of coles applied in the scope of this high level meeting that took place in a presidency the seating arrangements were made in line with the e.u. suggestion because for now it may be a long road ahead to establish better ties between the 2 sides. are let's talk about this to do that i'm joined by correspondent barbara. barbara i mean i want i want us to consider the optics of this this is an every day situation you've got 2 men a woman and there aren't enough chairs if it had been me and you i would have offered you this seat do we know why not either of the team in all for ursula fund a lion a seat do we know. i expect nothing else from you of course friend but looking at the acting mynheer in the room there and we have president. he would think if he if the focus off the 2nd coming off the our man empire we also know wil

somebody could get out to get a seat and if the protocol is sure that both people the european union and the commission and the council have the same rank then 1st of all the european union should have told the turkish protocol to turkish were to call this situation. nobody is going to ask say sorry about the situation the turks are saying is that her opinion is faulty your opinion is your opinion is that it's turkey's fault and this just it victimizes the relationship between the european union and turkey which are really really in a dire situation or a very bad situation now you know that was the whole point of this meeting wasn't it to try and deal with these foreign relations between turkey and the e.u. so how is that looking now very bad if they can't agree on who is supposed to be sitting next to each other how are they going to agree on much much more i would say not dangerous but more important situations like massive immigration and the u.s. being turkey 6000000000 euros 3 to manage immigration it's apparently not working turkey has been expanding as fed been expanding its military in syria in

still struggling to get hold of enough vaccines and to inject it quickly enough here's the european commission spokesperson earlier today in terms of the counter sometimes the contract has not been respected in the company has not been a position to come up with a reliable strategy to ensure that the time to the degree of dose is what matters to us in these cases if we want to make sure that he's a speedy delivery of a sufficient number of doses that he have been citizens are entitled to and which has been promised on the basis of the contract. we want to bring in now our very own georg much as he's on the story for us in brussels tonight good evening to you georg so how confident is the e.u. that it will win this lawsuit and do we know what would victory look like. brand you can bet that the e.u. commission thought long and hard about this and in fact they tried for a long time to avoid a scene are of the like that a lawsuit because that is not exactly the way that will speed up things if you're looking for a partner who puts in some some extra goes the extra mile to delivers those crucial va

i absolutely do not agree with one's behavior and i was very sorry for the humiliation the european commission president under lane had to suffer let's call them what they are dictators with whom one nonetheless has to coordinate the turkish government to hit back at mario draghi remarks calling them impudent and ugly and on thursday the foreign ministry summoned the italian ambassador to express its condemnation meanwhile the european council chief charles michel has defended his own conduct explaining why he had not tried to defuse the situation by vacating his seat. i was convinced that any reaction among the college could be perceived as paternalism there was a risk of provoking an even more serious incident which would reduce the already fragile chance of having less negative relations with turkey. we asked the political analysts in europe and turkey how suffocate could i think both of these persons in history shows and restored again probably didn't show themselves as a gentleman however there is a protocol in these types of situations and it appears that within the european union they d

officials and the most senior turkish officials the head of the european commission and the president of the european council went to turkey. to meet the president and the ministers there but for some reason for their lane there was no chair so she had to sit on a sofa right across from the turkish foreign minister and according to diplomatic protocol he holds a lower rank and she does and then boom that's how the scandal began and now the european parliament is demanding public debate to get to the bottom of this situation but then i can tell you that the harshest reaction came from italy and its prime minister and this is exactly what mario draghi said. i absolutely do not agree with no one's behavior and i was very sorry for the humiliation the european commission president under lane had to suffer let's call them what they are dictators with whom one nonetheless has to coordinate. dictators wow no surprise turkey wasn't happy with that at all there was outrage and almost immediately like you said the italian ambassador was asked to show up at the turkish foreign ministry for a ver

still struggling to get hold of enough vaccines and to inject it quickly enough here's the european commission spokesperson earlier today the terms of the counter sometimes of the contract have not been respected and the company has not been in a position to come up with a reliable strategy to ensure the time to the degree of those what matters to us in this case is that we want to make sure that there's a speedy delivery of a sufficient number of doses that he had been citizens are entitled to and which have been promised on the basis of the contract. we want to bring in now our very own georg much as he's on the story for us in brussels tonight good evening to you georg so how confident is the e.u. that it will win this lawsuit and do we know what would victory look like. brand you can bet that the e.u. commission thought long and hard about this and in fact they tried for a long time to avoid a scene are of the like that a lawsuit because that is not exactly the way that will speed up things if you're looking for a partner who puts in some some extra goes the extra mile to delivers those tr

guy: that was the european commission -- alix: that was european commission executive vice presidentg with maria tadeo. it echoes what is happening in the u.s. with taxes and the constant scrutiny the industry is coming under. today you have apple and google executives will head to d.c. for an antitrust conversation with some regulators. they are low-level, but still, the constant scrutiny. guy: and it is a discount that has to be applied to the stocks. it was during lockdown. increasingly there is a storm brewing for this sector in terms of what is happening. you look at what has happened with netflix, the forward trade, tech did very well. interest rates are going up. you have the added scrutiny. one of the biggest shifts is the biden administration shifted on taxation it's going to have global ramifications and will allow taxation in a much different way to take place. it will be something i think europe is so to take advantage of. text is in the spotlight. alix: most european countries. other ones are like do not do that to us. guy: ireland in particular. european stocks have wra

they have to submit it to the european commission and to f. so so the european food safety authority and they have the tenor of experts that looks at the studies and then they say ok it's safe or not. so what we have found is that within these expert panel so you have a lot of people with ties with the food industry so that means a conflict of interest. there. the stem the communication engine seas and the regular to reaction cease have the same scientists and they were in order to promote the commercialization of their products. this is why if you ask them something you have the same answer and they say it's a consensus. exactly like in the middle ages you were asking to the priest what is the truth in the whole you ask to these scientists regular to religion sees what is the truth and they act in the same manner as magician you know because they work in secret compounds we secretly effects they say that you cannot publish that however they say they have the truth. if you spend a huge amount of money doing a study a study of something there's

that's what the european commission said they're aiming for. essentially the extension of the green passport allowing europeans to travel to be extended to countries where the vaccination rates are as good as they are in the united states. from now and mid june, that's going to take a lot of work to put in place. >> melissa bell, thanks. >>> the story is very different in india, which has broken the global record for new delhi cases for a fifth straight day. health authorities reported nearly 353,000 new infections monday putting the total number of cases since the pandemic began to over 17 million. there are shortages of medical supplies and in the nregion, hospitals are. putting out the s.o.s. they explain why helping india is crucial. >> we take the very difficult situation that india is going through very, very seriously. you know, the united states and india are the two countries now that have suffered the most. th things like getting vaccinations is on the table. >> it matters for several reasons. first and foremost, we are human beings an