now on bbc news, it s dateline, london. hello, i m shaun ley. welcome to the programme, which brings together some of the uk s leading commentators, bbc specialists, and those journalists who ve worked as foreign correspondents, filing stories to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week: will there be enough vaccine doses? the uk closes its doors to some but infuriates china by opening them to kong hongers. and what a disputed prime ministerial visit tells us about the future of the union. on dateline s panel this week: janet daley, whose columns appear weekly in the sunday telegraph. jeffrey kofman is a former tv anchor and foreign correspondent in canada and the united states. and here with me in the studio is vincent knee, a china specialist with bbc world news. warm welcome to all of you. the european commission has been piling pressure on the vaccine manufacturer astrazeneca all week, angry that millions of doses it agreed to supply to the eu before the en
wouldn t deny he said it, it was even clear his tenure wasn t going well for the administration. his tenure of secretary of state wasn t good for the state department. it was really a bad idea all around that turned out worse than you might have thought from the initial badness of the bad idea. one of the things that happened at the state department over the past four years under the previous president is that they basically stopped talking to the public or the press. i mean at the u.s. state department the practice going back to the 1950s was regular, almost always daily press briefings. under the last president they stopped doing that without ever explaining why. and it is a weird thing, right. i mean this is the part of the u.s. government that is responsible for diplomacy, the united states of america promoting their interests and getting their way by persuasion and argument and diplomacy and by talking to other people and other countries into our way of seeing things. un
hello, i m shaun ley. welcome to the programme, which brings together some of the uk s leading commentators, bbc specialists, and those journalists who ve worked as foreign correspondents, filing stories to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week: will there be enough vaccine doses? the uk closes its doors to some but infuriates china by opening them to kong hongers. hong kongers. and what a disputed prime ministerial visit tells us about the future of the union. on dateline s panel this week: janet daley, whose columns appear weekly in the sunday telegraph. jeffrey kofman is a former tv anchor and foreign correspondent in canada and the united states. and here with me in the studio is vincent knee, a china specialist with bbc world news. warm welcome to all of you. the european commission has been piling pressure on the vaccine manufacturer astrazeneca all week, angry that millions of doses it agreed to supply to the eu before the end of march may be cut by
executed a humiliating u turn. it highlights, though, something we talked about on this programme last weekend, the risk of vaccine nationalism, particularly at a time when both astrazeneca and pfizer have warned of production delays. jeffrey, was this about securing more vaccines, do you think, or was it more about trying to pacify eu governments after the commission failed to meet its objectives? trier? failed to meet its ob ectives? very clearl the failed to meet its ob ectives? very clearly the eu failed to meet its objectives? very clearly the eu governments are feeling clearly the eu governments are feeling the pressure, looking across the channel here at the uk and seeing the channel here at the uk and seeing the astonishing numbers not been vaccinated. probably the only thing been vaccinated. probably the only thing the been vaccinated. probably the only thing the uk government is unwell. to its thing the uk government is unwell. to its credit, is done very
now on bbc news dateline london. hello, i m shaun ley. welcome to the programme, which brings together some of the uk s leading commentators, bbc specialists, and those journalists who ve worked as foreign correspondents, filing stories to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week: will there be enough vaccine doses? the uk closes its doors to some but infuriates china by opening them to kong hongers. and what a disputed prime ministerial visit tells us about the future of the union. 0n dateline s panel this week: janet daley, whose columns appear weekly in the sunday telegraph. jeffrey kofman is a former tv anchor and foreign correspondent in canada and the united states. and here with me in the studio is vincent knee, a china specialist with bbc world news. warm welcome to all of you. the european commission has been piling pressure on the vaccine manufacturer astrazeneca all week, angry that millions of doses it agreed to supply to the eu before the end of