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
Saying rich nations need to show solidarity towards the global south face the consequences. Plus the game stop friends ends the week with fuel thats outrage on small investors also on line growth has restricted the buying of the companys shares so what will happen next in this wild ride on wall street. Has welcome to the show the president of the year European Commission also a fund a line has urged Pharma Company astra zeneca to stick by its commitments to supply the e. U. With its covert 900. 00 vaccine comments come after the british swedish firm said it was cutting the number of doses for the e. U. By 60 percent because of production problems. The drugmaker also said it was not contractually obliged to deliver on the line said the contract is quote Crystal Clear the controversy comes as the bloc faces pressure with many countries countries failing to meet their vaccination targets. Other w. s correspondent mark martins joins us now from brussels hes following this ongoing story the
We got a boost from the bank of england a little early around. We will hear from the governor in just a moment. The cable rate, 1. 31. Keep an eye on the critical lines in the sand as we come through tomorrows session. We are starting to see yields a little bit higher here in europe today. A little bit of stabilization may be in the bond market after yesterdays big move, but a much flatter curve. Lets dive into the bank of england decision to boost its bond buying program. 150 billion, a little bit of a surprise. The market was expected 100 billion to be added to the program. Why the bigger number . That was the question i put to the governor. Gov. Bailey i think that was what we learn from our earlier experiences with covid. It is important that we act both quickly and that we act clearly in scale. That was an important consideration for us. The second thing is that we have to meet the inflation target sustainably over time. So a lot of work we did on our forecasts, employing the pers
Controversial path to achieve its aim by passing a resolution in beijing, but not letting the matter to be resolved in hong kong. Because according to the existing laws, there have been the mechanics to unseat a lawmaker in this way that beijing is not taking that. Its more easier for them to do it in beijing. But this will trigger more like legal controversy on local level or International Level talk about what the now strategy and representation going forward. Because there is now only an extra parliamentary opposition. What does it mean for the opposition movements . Voice in the parliament and in the end, does the resignation on mass play into chinas hands. Well, knowledge that this is not actually not the 1st time for beijing and hong kong authorities to try to kick out prodemocracy and opposition lawmakers out of the parliament. But these time with only less than 20 opposition lawmakers remaining in the parliament, the opposition lawmakers. They found that they are just acting in
5 government ban on demonstrations prodemocracy protesters rally again pressing for reforms to the government and the monarchy. Follow up terry martin good to have you with us u. S. President donald trump and his democratic challenger joe biden have been answering questions from voters at separate televised events held at the same time but on different channels the t. V. Town hall meeting says they are known replaced the 2nd president ial debate which was canceled after trump was diagnosed with copd 19 and then refused to conduct the debate online as we report the 2 rivals showed they have very different approaches in both style and substance. Always confident at times defensive as the incumbent u. S. President donald trump now has a record to pick apart and he got a grilling starting out with the nations biggest crisis a coronavirus. I knew it was a big threat at the same time i dont want to panic this country i dont want to go out and say everybody is going to die everybody is going