The ports of military in myanmar code was draw out the results of november pause my collection. And how all these lockdown video calls from home have prompted an unexpected book the macro boost in business for books. Welcome, youre in bbc news. The European Union has announced its introducing Export Controls on Coronavirus Vaccines so that it can monitor where theyre being sent. Its the latest escalation in a deepening row between the eu and astrazeneca over supplies of the vaccine which is mostly produced here. Today the eus Medicines Regulator approved the use of the astrazeneca jab for everyone over the age of 18, though germany says it will still only give the jab to the under 65s. Our brussels correspondent nick beake reports. Throughout the week, this post brexit battle between the eu and a british based Vaccine Maker has been intensifying. European countries are demanding that astrazeneca delivers all the jabs they ordered even if it means taking them from the uk supply. It all
Hi, everyone, and welcome to the november 17, 2020 meeting of the San Francisco Entertainment Commission. Members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to various local, state, and federal regulations, orders, and directives. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda, both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Each member of the public will be allowed two minutes to speak. Sorry. 86008511633. If using zoom platform to speak, select the raised hand option to raise your hand to speak. Please call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly, and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively, while we recommend that you use zoom audio or a telephone for Public Comment, you may hit a written Public Comment through the chat function on zoom. Thank you to sfgovtv and Media Services for sharing this meeting with the public. We will start with a roll call. [roll call] all right. The first orde
That is up on the higher peaks. Always using mount st. Helena for our representative spot for what the wind will be doing in the mountains. And thats where this applies, 1000 feet and about. That is still 25 mile an hour sustained winds out of the north. Just enough wind where they cant let their guard down and they need to stay on a heightened level of alertness and readiness over the next 24 hours. And when you factor in how dry it is, and the relative humiditys will state relatively low into the overnight hours. We will talk more about what this all means, you might have noticed that your quality get a little better. So theres good news there, and wait until you see what could potentially be coming our way by saturday. Its good news, we might be looking at our first good rain of the season. Its very early on this but it is worth talking about at this point considering our current situation. I will be back with more on that coming up in a few minutes. Cooler weather and homer winds o
Face of europe the questions of the text that has been agreed on the rule of law has improved. Its a very clear in the document a very clear commitment to the rule of law and a very clear commitment to the protection of the financial interests of the union. And this is linked against this background to the fact that the commission has proposed that instrument under which in case of breaches measures will be adopted so there is a very clear link a reference to adopting or the voting will be by qualified majority voting and finally we will also introduce instruments to strengthen the controls of the e. U. Funds so there is more clarity there is more distinction in the texts and the very clear reference which was important not only to the rule of law but also to the protection of the financial interests of the union and what the overall package is concerned and your question on the priorities for the European Union it has it is an unprecedented size and scope of package that we have 1. 8
U. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer was on capitol hill to testify on the Trump Administration trade policy. The use of tariffs, trade with china and implementation of the u. S. Canada trade agreement. Mr. Lighthizer was asked about the Global Supply chain of the inquisition of personal protective equipment during the coronavirus pandemic. The Senate Hearing is just under three hours. Im pleased to welcome ambassador lighthizer. Thank you for joining us. We need to have you here because we face great challenges whether its the murder of floyd or whether its the economic downturn we had because of the pandemic or the pandemic itself. We have a lot facing our country. Its not going to be easy to bring us back on the course of iran and their brave but good trade policy will be one important part of doing so so im glad we have that discussion today. Trade policy is immediately significant because we need to make sure we dont have any unnecessary taxes on goods g2 the recovery or i