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The rabbits were in the European Union and vaccine manufacturer astra zeneca took an ugly turn today as the Worlds Largest trading bloc gave Member States the power to ban the export of vaccines so what is the difference between this a vaccine nationalism that the a you on the World Health Organization says is such a bad thing im filled in berlin and this is the day. The fate of this company is to increase production and not we expect to do it if we voted and if we are not sharing. There will be street major problems is that. The providers to mediately it was full transparency one i save it would be a catastrophe one failing as a protection and safety of our citizens piece of it and 2. It keeps the funded me better. Very mindful of. Commitments and street. Very slow economic Global Economic recovery. Also coming up the battle between Small Traders and the giants of wall street but can anyone really win thats what it is its the regular joes versus wall street and thats when i put money into it i said even if this goes to 0 and i lose everything i like being a part of it and that sentiment is shared amongst a lot a lot of people. Welcome to the day will regulators have approved astra zeneca as corona virus vaccine for use in the european. Union European Medicines Agency gave the go ahead to begin in occupations and people over the age of 18 the approval comes amid a bitter dispute between the e. U. And astra zeneca over vaccine delivery delays the e. U. Accuses the company of not fulfilling its contractual obligations the contract in question has now been made public. This contract is at the heart of an ongoing feud between the European Commission and special swedish Family Company astra zeneca over the laysan vixen deliveries the e. U. Has made the contract public but many of the crucial parts have been blacked out but astra zeneca a scandal say members of the European Parliament. Are your. Pharmaceutical companies which gets a lot of your mom eat her experience. Im not really. Its those who all of the information last week astra zeneca shocked e. U. States by announcing significant delays in its 5th season deliveries to the bloc especially because the e. U. Has paid hundreds of millions of euros to produce to astra zeneca projection and because supplies to the u. K. Do not face the same shortages the dispute prompted the us introduced a scheme to monitor vaccine experts but the e. U. Commission emphasizes this is not an expert ban were not in competition or in a race against any country the only race were in this against this virus this comes as the block is facing criticism for its slow vaccine roma which so it is days are released that the vaccine has been recommended for use in the block this spider difficulties with astra zeneca its a 38 seen to gain approval. Well lets have a closer look at this with tony metz who is a member of the European Parliament for the green party and joins us from luxembourg welcome to the w. Is the right to introduce export controls on coronavirus vaccines you know we are now in a situation where we ordered so max max indows this the european citizens and now suddenly just fall littering astra zeneca says ok instead of 80 millions the are only able to give you certain millions so at mom moment and you can Commission Said ok we have to take you a little bit control of whats going on there so they want to see now they want to get resister it where did those this promise today you can you know when do they go is it really that they have trouble its in the production side its do they give it to other countries because maybe they open now at the last moment a better price so thats why they say we want to see we want a registration where the x. Sports out of the European Union goes now so i think thats thats right thank you there is a contract that has been that. What you did what you just did there is outline the situation i was asking you if you think it is right for the e. U. To introduce these export controls on these coronavirus vaccines that they want to see where they go i think that there are you know lots and so its an easy question to say yes or no is it right is it right for the e. U. To impose these controls. Controls yes but we are not speaking about band here we are in contrary do you mean commission owners talk about silly darity but just that we get those dozes contracts that we made was to 6 from a circular companies that the doses they say they would deliver in different cracow that they should deliver them right and theres its controls now but the whole point of controls is that the Companies Involved would have to ask permission in order for they things to be exported outside of the block so if you have to ask permission that permission can be granted or denied so well come back to that point 1st id like you to listen to the World Health Organizations director general speaking today if we hoard vaccines and if we are not sharing there will be sorry major problems one i say be it it will be a catastrophe more than failure. And 2 it keeps the pandemic bettany and 3 very slow economic Global Economic recovery. So today the you gave Member States the power to block exports of vaccines so how does that action square with the ted rossis. View that vaccine nationalism is a bad and immoral thing. I think we have to understand really nobody is safe until everybody is safe so and there too to cover x. Program we committed ourselves to solidarity so now we just want to see when a Pharmaceutical Company says we are not able to live to do this crime titty we promise we recommit to 2 in the contracts than it is to ride of the European Commission to see but where is the problem i didnt live outside i did it outside the European Union of whats going on so they also have a notice also written in the parts of the contract of nica now also a lot of to do some audits to really understand where the money goes but also to see what is the problem was not delivering and thats part of the just analyzing where is the problem when they say we can not deliver 80 millions but only certain millions they have the right ok i did it again i just read with it when youve made that point i want to keep us moving has the a you done a good job of coordinating europes coronavirus rollout. I think in general they did a good job by disadvantages to cheer me mint yes that was a success compared to 2009 when we had displaying to what every country tried to have this medication is tax in so its really a progress and the European Commission showed that we can act together and that we can deal better prices that are conditions so one of the 1st but now this lack of transparency it really is is it puts a shadow of bad and dark light on dissent cest story and thats different leave pity because if you want you have to citizens that they have to trust in the vax in but also to proceed years behind that you have to be transparent right you so what you seem to be saying is that the vaccine rollout is good because it was not as bad as it was the last major health about to say that it had to deal with but we see that it was what was it was signed Something Like 3 months after the u. K. And others assigned their deal the u. K. Has rolled out 11. 4 doses behind for people the u. S. Has doled out 7 point one doses for 100 people in you average is 2. 3 do you stand by your assertion that the e. U. Is handling this well. You know because we have other conditions for example i simply did very strongly e. M. A. P. The european medication and i just needed a very good job also by analyzing the Clinical Trials probably and that also when do you clean news im sorry i just have to interrupt you there because it is and youre just youre just what you just told me is that the a. M. A. Did a very good job of doing their job thats their job i dont see why they get credit for doing their job and they did their job and it took them a lot longer to do their job than it took them to a british medical aid is to do the same assessment and they the u. S. A medical agency has or to come to the same conclusion. Sorry to interrupt you did do you know only due to same assessment i dont know that i dont at all you know that each of you a bit each of those medical regulators has to pass those drugs as being fit for use for their people and their european nonsense agency was much slower and took much longer than the british and the americans but you say theyve done a good job now i just saying that that we have the principles i think that in the u. K. In union for example also megastate in the close of play ability negotiating the price and also considering the different to make to different analyzes of the Clinical Trials i have confidence that they have you know made was doing this job was a lot of scrutiny im not saying that the u. K. Didnt but i note if you look at the end principles of the youve been union i know d m a it was really weird 24 hours and 25. 00 or so i think they did. The problem why they had told about about liability and about price people died. I seemed its not a question now of one week 02 weeks more and it makes now its we need to have they have to negotiate very key of principles of liability de need to do with negotiating of course there were 27 Member States around the table but i think they did they did their very best and its not not all week later oh yeah thats going to be such a big difference its also that you have to do need to lose this stick have to be done also in the different Member States the complaining has to be done ok so it was there was do little to. Thank you so much for joining us and making that clear to me mats member of the European Parliament for the green party thank you. For astra zeneca vaccine is one of 3 being used as part of britains vaccination drive the country has one of the highest death tolls in the world but its also making more progress than many other countries especially here in europe when it comes to in the uk in waiting its citizens they dont live shot at chelsea impel takes a closer look. This is the most advanced spent Scene Program in europe just like that this lady joins at the 7000000 people in the u. K. Weve received the 1st dose of a k. The vaccine the u. K. Is on track to vaccinate some 15000000 people by the middle of february thats every one of the 70 care home residents and the clinically vulnerable as well as health and social care stuff that. Was quite happy to get it actually it was very nice the people were so friendly so polite. When i was happy it was dead easy to book online lots of appointments very efficient its a Great Program the government has undertaken and its extremely rarely organized the u. K. Started its funk scene rollout in early december it was the 1st to have proof with the fires of biotech and offered astra zeneca vaccines it since set up over 1400. 00 sites with everything from cathedrals mosques and cinemas converted to rollout the scheme is no doubt that the u. K. s Vaccination Program is an impressive just a cool feat but this is just one side of the u. K. s 900 story well it might be leading the rest of europe in terms of the number of people being vaccinated it also has one of the highest death tolls in the world and thats a fact not lost on anybody here. Over 100000 people have died in the u. K. But in 28 days of a positive test thats more than the entire capacity of Londons Wembley football stadium. The emergence of a new more transmissible there into the virus has further deepen the crisis it spread like wildfire across the country and left hospital struggling to cope numbers now higher than the any other time we have a hand in this undamaged so the system is under massive stress we have come stop aeration his cancer treatments were running in blood she crosses my look after it was crowbar missing and also the Associated Press latch is this desperate race between the new variant and the vaccine that shaping the u. K. s rollout strategy its opting to leave up to 12 weeks between doses deviating from this 3 week camp trials by pfizer by giving some immunity to the maximum number of people authorities hope to cut fatalities and reduce pressure on the health service. Professor rob it reads a member of the independent committee which approved the strategy under normal circumstances you must adhere to the regulated however these are not normal circumstances we have to birds nature as many people as we can as quickly as we can and its our job. That by doing this my home. The corroboree of that is that if we dont you this there will be considerable home through lost opportunity. But this strategy has its critics with some warning there isnt enough child ated to support it all the u. K. Rollouts off to a strong start this is a marathon not a sprint and potential hurdles still lay ahead but in a world where vaccine supply is becoming increasingly challenging those driving away today know that the lucky ones. The world of finance has been turned on its head this week a Small Traders networking on social media sites like ready and facebook a took on the might of the hedged. Funs big gains in the share price of a Company Called game stock of led to big profits for some records hughes headaches for wall street giants well unpick what some are describing as a david versus goliath battle in just a moment 1st this report. This is game stop a brick and mortar retailer specializing in video games its pretty popular with gamers even though much of the market has moved to streaming a trend that will likely continue threatening to put game stop out of business just like Record Stores and video rental chains some big time investors on wall street have foreseen this and try to make a buck on the obvious trend hedge funds have been short selling the stock which means they have borrowed shares and sold them hoping to later buy them back i dont know what price and thats where things got out of hand and gamers and hobby investors came together to go after wall street. Yemen and column mccloughan im here in Houston Texas im 31 years old and i have been in the stock market for the better part of the last 10 years and i bought game stop earlier this week on tuesday when i saw some traction around in the wall street bets for. Wall street bets is an online forum way users discuss their big plan to buy up as many game stop shares this possible driving up the price and hurting those hedge funds who had bet against it their plan worked and looking at an insane rally in the stock price multibillion dollar hits funds found themselves in the squeeze quickly buying back shares to cut their losses among them high profile names like melvin capital citroen capital and point 72 Asset Management the total damage to the hedge funds over 5000000000. 00 wall street cried foul and warned the new investor. About the danger of losing damn money in the long run it turns out they already knew. Thats what it is the regular joes versus wall street and when i put money into it i said even if this goes to 0 and i lose everything i like being a part of it that sentiment is shared amongst a lot a lot of people. So its not only about money its a david versus goliath fight that might win after all under pressure Trading Platform robinhood which most game stop bias used has now limit to trading with the embattled shares sparking protests in the community and even on capitol hill. They were only given the option to sell and not given the option to purchase which would necessarily be an or rather you know quite expect that we drive down the stock price you know i think these are things that are just called a lot of attention and and as i mentioned earlier the Financial Services committee is probably to look at it would it be so its off to another round as the future of game stop share is unclear as is the future of the company itself. Lets get more from daniel winter from d. W. Business welcome daniel so were talking about short selling stocks this is borrowing shares at one price with the obligation to sell them back later at the market price and hoping that that price actually thought so you can make money by pocketing the difference and this is normal and perfectly legal its normal and perfectly legal i mean it used to be the preserve of the pros because the trades are slightly more complicated and you can end up losing a lot of the money if youre the trades go the other way if the stock price rises but now anyone can participate in short selling through apps like robin hood which has become famous through this whole game stop saga all right so weve got this group of small investors now involved in this why are they targeting short sellers well short sellers in general like i said anyone can participate in short selling but hedge funds tend to do the vast majority of short selling activity and some of them have an extremely Bad Reputation because theyre known for being almost vulture like you could say targeting Weak Companies and then trying to distort information about them not in a way which is against the law but lets say emphasizing the downside in order to bring the reputation of this company down and so their trades end up giving them lots of money lots of profit in the end because that it sounds like the sort of thing that ought to be illegal it ought to be illegal for you to bad mouth a company so that you can drive its price down and make money out of it well you know but it depends in what kind of range you do it so if you make up facts about a company that is clearly illegal and the f. C. C. Will be knocking on your door if you do that a securities as the securities and Exchange Commission in the United States which is the financial regulator there but if you simply emphasize a fact which is true then thats entirely up to you and there are good reasons for that because you may want for example as a short seller you may want to hold a board to account for Something Like that of. Theyre not managing the company well so there is a there is a good side to that as well so why is this suddenly taking off now well theres a long history to a game stop on this particular forum which is a cause all this excitement but recently a Short Selling Hedge Fund called Citron Research put out a document saying we think that game stop is worth half its current share price it was 40. 00 they say its worth 20 because theyre betting that it will go down they put their research out there thinking people catch on to that but reddit is took that as an affront reddit is the web site where all of this this took off and they saw what citron did as generating pad pessimism for game stop now remember short selling can actually damage firms because if the price does head south that makes it difficult for a firm to be able to borrow against their shares in order to you know be able to fund lets say a turnaround of their fortunes but this is this is the thing which which is why wall street bets were so invested in this on reddit theres one particular user called keith gill who back in summer of 2019 invested 50000. 00 on game stop betting that the price would go up. Now thanks to all of this frenzy thats come out around it people have a getting behind him on reddit his initial investment is worth between 30. 00 and 50000000. 00 so hes winning on this even of the hedge funds and so the game still investors say the short sells are the bad guys. Of u. S. Regulators likely to take the same view its really hard to say because what the f. C. C. Is looking out for the regulator in the u. S. Is is there any market manipulation going on here now what the rules say is extremely fuzzy you can interpret it either way but the f. C. C. Has released a statement and they say that they will protect investors identify and pursue wrongdoing which is extremely fuzzy but this is the key bit they say they will watch out for anyone who hinders traders ability to trade stocks now theyre referring to the likes of robin hood which put a halt on orders in order to try and you know shore up their own particular finances so the s. E. C. May be seen just as lightly as coming out on the side of the individual investor so those of us who are in the world we can lots of us all look at it as a world good for the little guys give it to these both the billionaire hedge funders but this could come back and bite all of us couldnt it it could in a way yes so Pension Funds for example they can often invest in hedge funds so they will use the money from your pension or my pension and put some of it into a hedge fund the hedge funds job is basically to make money no matter what happens on the market market goes up market goes down you make money now Pension Funds are meant to keep our pensions safe so they dont invest a lot of their overall amount of money that theyre in charge of into hedge funds but still it will affect us in that kind of way but also if you look at the market more broadly so short sellers they have racked up their. Expenses because of the likes of game stop and other bets which have been made by these people are completely burnt out that doesnt just mean that they news what they initially invested it racks up their costs massively now what the short sellers of have to do is theyve had to sell all of their good bets the things that were going well in order to be able to cover the costs and that means the overall market has gone down happened on wednesday weve seen it happen during the day today as well and that means if youre invested in some way in one of the broader index as the s. And p. 500 the dow or whatever then your investments going down as well. I understood that so i could argue for that youre very welcome daniel its unfermented every business. And the day is almost done but the conversation continues online you can join us on twitter either. You know sort of follow me up to fill get all good for the teams hashtag of the day i was watching a good day. The fun. Thing to get. 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