in italy, gloria taliani, professor of infectious diseases at la sapienza university of rome. ondon, max lawson, head of inequality policy at oxfam international. a warm welcome to you all. if i could start with gloria, in italy, so, why is the eu excluding some vaccines, like covishield, which is a variant of astrazeneca, but made in india? >> well, the question is very interesting, because we really don't know exactly what the reason is. apparently, the declaration of the emaa society, the organization was, the factory, where the vaccine is produced, is not perfectly adequate for production of this kind of vaccine. or at least, it's not been certificated in a proper way. sami: if i could jump in, does that suggest the vaccines are not effective? >> well, this has not been proved. this has not been proved at all. the point is, the institute which produces the vaccine, the covishield, is the most relevant factory for vaccine production over the world. just remember that 60% of children are vaccinated with vaccines produced by this company. so it seems at least a little bit funn

at last, at the end, the university of rome and in london, max lawson, head of inequality policy at oxfam international war. welcome to all, if i could start with gloria in italy. so why is the e u in excluding some vaccines like covey shield, which is, of course, just the variant of astrazeneca made in india. well, the question is very interesting because really don't know exactly what, what the research apparently the declare ation of the email a 5 to the email conversation was that the maggie factory where the vaccine is going to be produced is not perfectly adequate production of this kind of acts, you know, at least it's not been certificated in a proper way, does not like to jump in. does that suggest that the vaccines are not effective? well, this is not be crude. this is not true that all the point ease the sooner institute, which produces being vaccine, the covariance, sheena is the most relevant factory for vaccine production all over the world. just remember that 60 percent of children are vaccinated with vaccines produced by the company. so it's, it seems that at least a littl

gloria tele, on, he has a garage just and a professor for infectious diseases at less up in the university of rome. she explains how the delta variance is spreading more easily and are in a very producing and overwhelming number of very and every, every step of replication. and the most advantage. the changes div give to the virus and that most fitting the virus becomes and the, the mostly it becomes dominant prevalence of the other variance. therefore, what we see at the moment when the phase is that these y, n, is became in the prevalent one because simply it's capable of infecting more easily . the patience is producing a larger amount of particles of particles and therefore is able to spread with a much higher efficiency than before. and what we know at the moment is that by vaccinating and by producing out a high amount of c, but it's been vaccinated. subjects we can protect with a sufficient acceptable section the vaccine use, but we really don't know for how long this protection will work. since new variance we can appear in the future. in the u. s. multiple tornadoes of touch down in penns

jani, who is a verola just and professor of infectious disease that diseases at laptop ends at university of rome. she's on skype, from abilene in italy today. great to have you with us doctor. this is going to sound very, very simple, but is the delta variant essentially cov at 19? now i know it's an evolving disease that has all these different variance, but when the bulk, now this delta variance is that now almost the baseline for cobit 19. this is a difficult to answer the question because you know, are in a very producing and overwhelming number of very and every, every step of replication. and the most advantage the, the changes div give to the virus and that most fitting the virus becomes and the, the mostly it becomes dominant relevant for the other very. and therefore, what we see at the moment when we face is that these by n is became in the prevalent one, simply it's capable of infecting more easily. the patient is producing a larger amount of particles of particles and therefore is able to spread with a much higher efficiency than before. and so we have, sorry to interrupt you. and so

from rome, the codirector of a 2021 report and deputy derek rector -- director. and a researcher at the universityrogram director, a warm welcome. let me start with you. around the world, how much force to food insecurity and hunger get? >> it is a story one would say in the year of the pandemic, we have been analyzing the situation in 2017. at that time, we are seeing complex test conflicts. we are creating problems for hunger. in the next year we did not realize it is explaining a lot. then again, we detected economy slow down. then the pandemic comes. we will already noticing that 2 billion people could afford a diet. the covid-19 comes, in a nutshell, we had already seen that conflict in the economy get slowed down, but in addition, the cost in food goes up. the pandemic and economy downturn makes this much worse. given the statistical uncertainty, we have found between 729 people to 811 million. if you go -- you miss more people. qualities drivers and worsened by covid-19. anchor: hearing those statistics , i am left with this thought. the concerns about food insecurity predate the pandemic.

university of east anglia. the england team are back home after their stunning euro 2020 quarter final victory over ukraine in romee most—watched live sporting tv event of the year, attracting a peak audience of 20.9 million people. england are now the bookies' favourites to win the championships. they are due to meet denmark at wembley on wednesday in the semi—finals. 0lly foster reports. gareth southgate was right. he said a change of scene, a first match in the tournament away from wembley, would be good for the players, and this was rome, sweet rome. because of quarantine and travel restrictions, there were only a few thousand england fans inside the stadio 0lympico, but millions were packed into the fan parks and beer gardens back home, and this is just a taste of what could be a very special week ahead. i know what will be happening at home, and that's great. you know, it's lovely to send everybody on a saturday night, beer in hand, in the air, wherever it is, and they should. they should enjoy it. england have been moving through the gears at this tournament. they are now accelerating fast. sterling has got