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A Government Expert says its a big step forward. It means that we can spread the vaccine around, it means that we can really start to impact on this pandemic notjust here but right the way across the world. Some Primary School children in wales could be back in the classroom after half term, if Infection Rates continue to fall. And the trailblazing African American actress cicely tyson has died at the age of 96. And coming up in sport on bbc news, Dina Asher Smith makes a winning return to International Athletics as she storms to 60 metre victory at the World Indoor Tour event in germany. Good evening. The Prime Minister says the European Union must urgently clarify its intentions over its decision to temporarily override part of the brexit deal as the row intensifies with astrazeneca over a shortfall in supplies. The eu has introduced new controls giving Member States the power to block exports of the Coronavirus Vaccine to countries including the uk should they want to. Under the bre
A moment of reckoning at the u. N. General assembly, word leaders convene for a special session, is there a multilateral way out of this pandemic . And the number of deaths in russia suggest the virus is taking a far greater toll than the government is admitting, we will meet an undertaker who tells us he is overwhelmed. A key architect of the European Union and the g summit dies from covid19, former french president led france during the 1970s and laid the foundation for europes single occurrence currency. To our viewers all around the world welcome, we start tonight with the latest from the pandemic here in germany and the news is not good, the head of the countries of look Health Institute says that germany is still nowhere near bringing the second wave of Coronavirus Infections under control. A partial lockdown in place since november has stabilized numbers, but those numbers remain too high. The coronavirus pandemic is not yet leading up in germany. The head of the countrys federa
Ive told me a lot of well its good to have you with us covered 19 on the road to recovery thats the focus of a special session of the u. N. General assembly almost 100. 00 World Leaders are taking part in the 2 day summit coincides with the release of a u. N. Study that shows that more than 1000000000 people could be living in extreme poverty by 2030 due to the long term effects of the corona virus now the german chancellor Angela Merkel addressed the assembly via video link and she stressed the need for Global Cooperation to ensure equal access to vaccines around the world through 200. 00 need we must never forget the pandemic can only be truly beaten in the long 10 when everyone in the world has fat access to effective vaccines. Oh the coming the pandemic in the long term also means doing everything we can to a much stronger with regards to future challenges and crises to this and we need to close the International Cooperation above all with strong the International Organizations the