Head of the u. N. Heralds the role sputnik we can play in the battle against time damage. A very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our church here in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. The simmering spat over covert Vaccine Supplies has seen the European Commission publish its contested contract with anglo swedish drugs maker astra zeneca their disagreeing over definitions the firm says its of hearing to the specified best reasonable efforts while the e. U. Insists the supply volume is a binding number you members earlier met to decide whether nations should be able to ringfence their own local production charl devinsky explains. This ra is really heating up in brussels made the threat that it will look to ban exports of the 19 vaccines from the blog thats going to have massive implications not just for the but also other countries in the world and this comes amidst a huge shortage of the curve in 1000. 00 vaccine here in the e. U. Now leaders are meeting on frida
Latin american states to get hundreds of thousands of russian coated shot doses as the head of the un harold the bold but the feat and play in the battle against the pandemic. Good evening am i happy friday to you all this is our 2 International Coming to you straight from the russian capital welcome to the program. We start with some breaking news the European Union is imposing export controls on coronavirus vaccines made in Member States amid a row over supply shortages brussels has also just given the green light to the drug at the heart of the dispute made by british firm astra zeneca we can now cross to our to charlotte n. C. And paris charlotte to major announcements from the European Commission and the European Medicines Agency talk us through whats happened. Well as you mentioned the European Union has confirmed that it is taking this extraordinary step of introducing export controls on vaccines this means that any that scene that is manufactured within the block thats the 27.