Now on bbc news, its hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. The roll out of covid 19 vaccines has boosted hopes the virus can be tamed, but it will have to be a worldwide effort if its to be effective, and right now the signs are not so good. While tens of millions have already been vaccinated in the rich west, the worlds poor are facing a very long wait the phrase Vaccine Apartheid has already been coined. My guest is the chief scientist at the world health organization, dr Soumya Swaminathan. Is Vaccine Inequity undermining the fight against covid . Dr Soumya Swaminathan in geneva, welcome to hardtalk. Hello, stephen. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to have you on the show. Lets start with an overview. Is there any reason to believe that we are getting on top of this Global Pandemic . Well, one year ago, the Director General of the who announced that this covid 19 was a Public Health emergency of international concern. That was on 30 january, 20
some 2.2 million people movedas to the southeast in just over two years. that s roughly the population of houstonroughly . and according to a new report in bloomberg, six fast growing states in the south have now added more to the national gdp than the northeast. states those six states florida, texas, georgia and the carolina, fls and tennessee, arn the middle of a $100 billion min wealth migration as the us economithc center moves sout. according to the irs. ds $100 while the south adds $100 billion in wealth, the northeast has lostlth, 60 billion. president joe biden spent today in south carolina celebrating his green energy and money printing approach to politiccelt and economics. and he says this is why theroeda is growth in the south. am i made a commitment and i d be president for all americans, whether their election officials voted foed officir or wherever you voted, visionary or not, i kept my promise. in fact, some analysis has said that as long as i ve seen you do
by downloading duckduckgo on all your devices today. this is gps the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria coming to you from new york. today on the program, the growing fear that the war in gaza will spread. could it happen? is it likely? i ll ask the new yorker s robin wright and general mark berkmeyer land. also, a.i. it s what everyone is talking about from davos to detroit, shenzhen to silicon valley. i ll talk to two of the smartest brains in technology who will tell you what you need to know now. first, the man behind chatgpt, sam altman, the ceo of openai. then bill gates, the co-founder of microsoft. but first, here s my take. for all of the focus on the many geopolitical crises across the globe, the one that is potentially the most dangerous has actually been trending in a positive direction. ian bremer, the founder of our asia group said to me the biggest up side in the past months has got
cameroon is offering the vaccine free of charge to all infants up to the age of six months old, with patients requiring four doses in total. the jab is effective in at least 36% of cases, according to researchers. the aim is to roll out the programme to 19 more countries this year. here s aurelia nguyen from gavi, the vaccine alliance. translation: to me, this is truly a turning point. - we have been working on a malaria vaccine for a very long time. it took 30 years. it is a disease that is very difficult because it is transmitted by a parasite with a lifecycle that is very complicated. therefore, to see that we have a tool which will be useful to us, which has an effectiveness that has been demonstrated, we have really studied to be sure there are no side effects which would cause problems. dr mary hemel is senior technical lead for malaria vaccines at who she told me more about the programme roll out in cameroon. there s a lot of excitement in cameroon tonight, or today,
n issues, including migrant plights and newsom s pathetic threat to throw them in jail. desantis thinks it s time for.s gaviit sn to up and get into the race for the white house. know what? stop pussyfooting around. are you going to.ow are you going to throw your hat in the ring. and challenge, joe? are you going to get in and do it? ard do e you just going to sit on the sidelines and chirp? so why don t you throw your hat in the rin g and then we ll go ahead and talk about what s happening? but i guess gavin likes being on the sidelines. herthe e he is repeatedly rug out a white house run. c are you considering runningon fo rr president in 2020 or 2028 not even. oh, not at all. it sit not my ambition and it s not the direction that i m leaning. how many times is your phonep ping a day? people saying, you need to get in this race. i see where you see where you re going with thating.? i m asking. no, and i m not answering. buweringt doesn t mean newsom wouldn t r