Single year since 2007. But we have taken spending decisions and believe you me, iam proud of them. We are spending hundreds of millions of pounds to lift children out of poverty. Through the scottish Child Payment we are putting £26 a week directly into the hands of low income families for each eligible child, a measure described as the most significant intervention in tackling inequality in europe since the 1980s, that is what youre Snp Government is doing. And labour, the Labour Government is pushing tens of thousands of children in scotland into poverty by keeping the tory, now at the labourer, to child, by sticking to Tory Debt Rules and by extension forcing the whole of the uk to do the same. Labourer appeared to want us to abandon low income families, to abandon children in poverty. Delegates, we are not going to do that. Up lets instead resolved together it to abandon the whole rotten westminster system, that is what we should be abandoning. Applause conference, next week i wi
Lockdown in wales will last for three more weeks at least but children could return to schools there after the february half term. Around 300,000 people are expected to leave hong kong for britain using a new visa route which opens on sunday. Investors respond with outrage after Trading Platforms halt the buying of shares in the us games firm gamestop and other companies. It follows days of frenzied trading that led to a massive increase in its value. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. A new Coronavirus Vaccine has been shown to be 89. 3 effective in large scale uk trials. The novavax jab is the first to show it is effective against both the uk and South African Variants of the virus. As you can see from this graph, the uk has secured 60 million doses of the jab, which will be made in stockton on tees. The doses are expected to be delivered in the second half of this year if approved for use by regulator. Meanwhile, the European Medicines Agency will mee
The announcement. Unprecedented that there should be a rich abundance of approaches, all of which rich abundance of approaches, all of which are rich abundance of approaches, all of which are essential. And new data shows another covid 19 vaccine developed in the us that may only require a single dose is 66 effective. In other news, primary schools in wales could re open to all pupils after half term though the nationwide lockdown will continue. And thousands of volunteers helping the nhs with the Vaccine Roll Out will be prioritised for a jab. Hello, and a very good afternoon. The European Medicines Agency is expected to approve the Oxford Astrazeneca Covid Vaccine for use in the eu this afternoon. The uk has been using the Astrazeneca Jab in its Mass Immunisation Programme for weeks now. Meanwhile, the European Commission has published a redacted version of its contract with the pharmaceutical giant in a continuing row about supplies of the vaccine. A contract was signed in august fo
A stop to those surveillance powers all right its time to boost your i. Q. Ever since the coronavirus pandemic forced stay at home orders which ultimately led to the shutdown of a lot of businesses congress has passed several relief measures aimed at getting americans back on their feet but after trillions of dollars got rubberstamp prove the country as a whole is nowhere near reopening and americans are becoming impatient with elected leaders and today the u. S. Treasury secretary and the Federal Reserve chairman were grilled by members of the Senate Banking committee wanting to know where all that money went arties Rachel Blevins has been monitoring the hearings today and shes joining us now. What is the current status of these loan programs for businesses and local governments so todays hearing mark the 1st time that officials were questioned by the Senate Banking committee on that 2. 00 trillion dollar cares act that was passed and the hearing was held remotely in order to abide by
A handful are preparing to set sail again all right its time to boost your new i. Q. The United States could soon be working with while way to establish 5 g. Standards one year after blacklisting the Chinese Telecom giant to keep it from working with u. S. Tech companies now the move could signal a shift in policy at a time when washington wants to be at the forefront of 5 g. We have our Rachel Blevins she joins me now to discuss more of this in detail so rachel what do we know so far about this decision well it was just one year ago when the Commerce Department announced that it would be blacklisting wall way in the 1st place and at the time they cited National Security concerns but now it appears that they may be taking a step back from that claim now reports are now saying that the commerce to partner. It has drafted a rule which would allow u. S. Companies to work with broadway to set global 5 g. Standards now they say it again all it is the importance of inclusion in creating stan