Few countries in the world where people can gather in big numbers and enjoy live music we take a look at the global Music Industry and how the coronavirus pandemic is changing it. We begin with a positive development on coronavirus vaccines a new shot developed by a u. S. Based Biotech Company know that x. Has proved to be 89 percent effective in late stage trials in the u. K. Meanwhile German Health officials have warned that the astra zeneca vaccine should only be used on people under 65 years old saying there isnt enough darcel on older people and the european commissions demanded belgian authorities inspect an astra zeneca plant in the country after it said the delivery of millions of doses would be delayed portugal meanwhile has extended a nationwide lockdown and announced new limits on International Travel and the highly infectious South African variant of the corona virus has reached the United States to infections were confirmed in the state of south carolina. A brazil has vacc
Christiane and ben next have a lot to get to so lets get started. Heres a headline that will surprise no one in 2020 the u. S. Economy had its worst performance in 74 years since the end of world war 2 it contracted 3. 5 percent now this was of course because of the coronavirus lockdowns and the impact of the worldwide pandemic so whats in store for 2021 especially in an economy that remains so uncertain joining me now to discuss this and more. On it chrystia i ben lets start with you can you give us a rundown of how the economy did or didnt perform in 2020. Yeah i mean as you said in the beginning here its really no surprise to anybody the economy did not do well contract at 3. 5 percent as you said the worst its done since 1946 so its been a long time since the economys contracted that much in a single year and that came off of the 2. 2 percent growth that we saw the year before in 1900 the bottom line here is this is basically every sector was down because of the coronavirus with th
See the European Union has spent hundreds of millions of euros in advance even before approval from the European Medicines Agency so that a vaccine can be produced so the moment it is approved it is there to be vaccinators so but thats also part of the problem astras is supplying vaccine to the United Kingdom isnt it. Exactly and the argument of the European Commission is that stress anika is a close call company that is producing not only in the e. U. But also in the u. K. Also in india and that supply chain problems must then affect all those countries that are buying vaccines and europe is the biggest customer and it cant be that its just europe that is carrying the burden just because the supply chain problem appears to be in a belgian factory but both are strong and the e. U. Have said its states in the contract that they respectively were right and now the redacted version of the contract that you have in front of you still doesnt shed any light on the core issues here why do you
Going to talk with. Homas schwartz he directed as an author and editor. Professional awards. Today we are going to take a to the time ofme Herbert Hoover. Tom, i want to make sure we can hear you. Are you with us . How are you doing today . Obviously the library is closed. How is everyone doing . The staff is doing well. They are eager to return on a regular basis and we are eager to be able to safely reopen to the public when the opportunity avails itself, but i appreciate the opportunity. Great. We have lots of questions. I will sign off. I will let you get into your program and i will pop back in when we are ready for q a. Have at it. Enjoy. Thank you, patrick. So, you see the exterior of the hoover president ial library museum. We are the smallest facility. We were founded as a quaker community. Hoover was our first quaker president. How did hoover get in . He predates roosevelt. This is the hoover tower at Stanford University. Herbert hoover was with president wilson in versailles
Welcome to the program the European Commission has approved corona virus vaccine for use across the e. U. Brussels signed off on the drug after the European Medicines Agency gave the go ahead to allow inoculations for people over the age of 18 he was facing a storm of criticism for the slow pace of its vaccine rollout astra zeneca is the 3rd vaccine to gain approval after those from biotech pfizer and medan. Straight to brussels that we find correspondent teri schultz welcome teri millions of people in the u. K. Have already received this vaccine why is the e. U. Been so slow. Thats right phil but despite all the pressure and the criticism the European Medicines Agency is not in the business of apologizing for taking whatever time it feels is necessary in a life or death issue like this so today in our briefing yemeni officials said that the astra zeneca data was very complex and despite the fact that it was the 1st one that they started looking to approve they were still getting data