A sweeping majority for president Maduro Socialist Party in venezuelas Congressional Elections the opposition has called the vote a fraud. Millions of people across the u. S. State of california are preparing for harsh new coronavirus lockdown rules to come into effect in under an hour the stay at home order places restrictions on the opening of restaurants say in stores while also limiting gatherings the measures are being implemented as the state reported its highest ever number of infections more than 30000 in a single day their fears some hospitals could run out of i. C. U. Beds now the virus is now killing more than 2000 americans a day thats 2 people every minute they hope that the food and Drug Administration will approve a vaccine soon but it will still take months for it to be fully rolled out castro has more from washington. New walk downs are being put in place in a number of regions amid the ongoing surge in Infections Health officials are considering ending even Outdoor Di
Citizens. Welcome to the program the president of the European Commission ursula fund a line is urging drug maker astra zeneca to stick to commitments to supply the e. U. With its 1000. 00 vaccine the british Swedish Company has said its cutting the number of doses by 60 percent because of production problems astra zeneca also says it is not contractually obliged to deliver but funnel line said the contract is Crystal Clear many e. U. Member states are still failing to meet their vaccination targets. Correspondent. In brussels so the president of the e. U. Commission says their contract is Crystal Clear what does it say about the livery. Look ive been looking into this contract which i have here with me for the past couple of hours and i have to tell you its its a little bit difficult to tell what it says on the delivery schedule because if you go through the Relevant Pages they they look like this so a lot of the parts are blackened out and so they do not provide the Crystal Clear few
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
Tracking to make sure infected people stay home we put that idea up for debate. I give g. P. S. Tracking is for the stand up for implementation in time anyway weve got to get back to work weve got to get back to what not to do so we dont get to come back jim if we let this continue but im worried that we still are not lots of monkeys was he going to get out of this quickly and the way to do it is to keep these restrictions going get people vaccinated. Youre watching our 2 International Coming to you live from the russian capital where its just turned 5 pm welcome to the program. The simmering spat over covered Vaccine Supplies has seen the European Commission a publish its contested contract with endless swedish drugs maker zeneca their disagreeing over definitions the firm. Says its hearing to the specified best reasonable efforts the insists the supply of volume is a binding number however you members are about to decide whether nations should be able to ring fence their own local pr
A michael joins us we start with some breaking news regulators have approved astra zeneca is corona virus vaccine for use in the European Union the European Medicines Agency gave the go ahead to begin an ocular nations in people aged 18 and over the e. U. Is facing a storm of criticism for its sluggish vaccine rollout the European Commission is expected to grant final approval for the vaccine shortly this is the 3rd vaccine to get approval from the e. U. Following shots from buying tech pfizer and madonna the executive director explained why the body gave astra zeneca the green light. The recommendation to approve the asked as seneca vaccine is based on data that shows the vaccine offer its protection against covert 19 with a reassuring safety profile while the 1st 2 approvals were for messenger r. N. A. Back scenes the astra zeneca vaccine is based on another technology its and then you know virus faith vaccine this this means that the vaccine uses a common virus from b. A d. You know