Look agoing to. No legislation. Whenever a 5593 page covid relief bill is, its not a law. None of the socalled legislators of the socalled Legislative Branch right or read their own, quote, legislation. I used to be naive enough to think these perversions of laugh were at least written by staffers. Like that nice lady who sits next to Chuck Schumer who looks her best to be dazzled by his rhetoric. My best guess now its a google algorithm. The lobbyists enter their wish list at stiff the citizenry. Com and then the algorithm turns it all together and you find out you are getting 60 bucks for every month you havent been allowed to open your gym or hair salon and some Village Hedman in who gives astan 30 times that take your child bride to work day promotion. Its not a parliament. Its not legislature not a citadel of democracy. Its a Per Severitied will dungeon of democracy you are hanging upside down and no safe word. Last night we finally found out what the citadel of democracy is a cit
And also Johnson Johnson, just releasing the results from its phase three trials. Saying in its announcement it is 66 Efficacy Rate overall. 85 against severe disease. Still notably lessective than the vaccines from pfizer and moderna. What does the biden team say about that . The White House Press secretary just said this morning that President Biden is encouraged by the data coming out from j j but also said that the politicians will leave it to the scientists who we should hear from any moment. While were standing by. Lets bring in Elizabeth Cohen following the latest developments. So on this announcement from Johnson Johnson, what are they saying . Basically the bottom line here, kate, is that this vaccine does work well against covid 19, this j j vaccine. Im going to jump in. Andy slavic, one of the members of the Covid Response team is beginning the briefing now. On both the successes and the hurdles we face. I hope on these calls, that the public will get a regular and consisten
The big Silicon Valley Tech Companies had a hugely successful 2020, prompting more questions about their overwhelming dominance in financial and business terms. From san francisco, James Clayton reports. There have been winners and losers from this pandemic, and some of the biggest winners are also some of the Richest Companies in the world, based around san francisco. Take here at apple, last week, the Company Posted record Quarterly Sales of more than £80 billion. At that rate, during this 2. 5 minute news report, apple will have done 1. 5 million worth of sales. Big tech has had an astonishingly profitable pandemic. We all turned to technology more during the pandemic. Its as simple as that. We were doing more things online than ever before, from gaming to shopping, to seeing our doctor, you know, theyre not charities. Laughter you know, they are making money out of, you know, what theyre enabling. But some believe that making so much money at a time of Economic Hardship shows that
The tech giants in the us are dominating the business agenda today. Jeff bezos is stepping down as amazons Chief Executive. The Online Retail giants founder will move to become the compa ny s executive chairman. He will be replaced as ceo by andy jassy, the current boss of amazons Cloud Computing business. And this comes as the firm reported 386 billion in sales in 2020, thats up 38 on the year before. Their profits almost doubled, rising to 21. 3 billion. So whats been the reaction to the news bezos is stepping to the side, and what do we know about the new boss . Duncan howe is e commerce strategist at cheil uk, which is a Digital Marketing and advertising agency. Duncan, welcome to the programme. Executive chair man still means he will have a lot of control and very much involved in and is on, but it is the day to day responsibility. What do you think about this move . I responsibility. What do you think about this move . I think it is a bit of think about this move . I think it is
Rising tensions over post brexit checks at Northern Irelands ports the Prime Minister calls for urgent action from the eu. Remembering captain sir tom moore a minutes silence is observed in the House Of Commons, and the nation is urged to clap for him at 6pm tonight. British stars lead the pack as this years Golden Globes nominations are announced Daisy Edgar Jones, Olivia Colman and jodie comer are all up for awards. Hello, good afternoon. A huge milestone has been reached in the uks Coronavirus Vaccine programme this afternoon, which Health Secretary matt hancock has called hugely significant. Ten Million People have now been given their first dose of either the pfizer or Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine. Meanwhile, new Research Suggests the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine may reduce the spread of coronavirus by reducing transmission. A warning this report from our Health Correspondent Anna Collinson contains some flashing images. Its been the Great Unknown would vaccines stop coronavirus from