but a coalition of drug makers from the developing countries came with their own demands. they want the president to apply the pressure to the big american companies. they want a licence to produce the vaccine themselves, a licence for the technology involved in the manufacturing process and some assistance in aquiring the vital but scarce equipment. they argue there is no other way to meet the challenge. here s the rate of vaccination by continent. you might be able to make out the tiny red sliver at the very top of the screen. that is africa, which has received just 2% of all vaccines administered globally. and in light blue below that, asia, with some 4 billion people, that have received 66% of vaccines administered worldwide. i have been speaking to winnie byaniyima. she s the executive director of unaids an under secretary general of the united nations, and she was an early champion of a peoples vaccine against covid.
level of complacency, and i think at the government doesn t want to have to revert to plan b, we as a country don t want to be told we have to work from home. we don t want to see any kind of lockdown, then we do need to do those things, washing her hands, opening the windows, not meeting indoors if we don t need to that will make the difference. yes. that will make the difference. yes, we have it in that will make the difference. yes, we have it in our that will make the difference. yes, we have it in our power, that will make the difference. yes, we have it in our power, we - that will make the difference. yes, we have it in our power, we have the tests, we have the vaccines. matthew taylor, for the moment, thank you very much for that. in the united states, the fda will decide friday whether to approve a similar booster programme, with the expectation it will get under way as early as next week. but that has given rise to criticism in the united states and indeed here in the
earnest about where the targets were, and you are saying this is day two here, and a pattern set here, and the question to josh earnest is that it appears they are not going after the islamic state, but in other areas where there are other groups such as the al nusra, and other groups that you can see today, it is basically jisr al shughur, and then homs and hama where there was activity yesterday. if you look at the rebel groups, and where they are at the moment. we start at the top of the syrian kurds in the green, they are the northeast of the country, and the red sliver down here interestingly is the islamic state wrapped up in the self-proclaimed capital, and severe fighting heading up to alep e poe. if we look into the area here, in is an am mallmation of rebel
your colleagues, washington post found a huge disparity. the median net worth of american households hasn t changed much over the past decades, it s about $20,000, for our viewers, that tiny red sliver on the left, but congress s average net worth has ballooned, more than doubled. do you think, as you leave, do you think this gap, this political inequality gap between our representatives and our citizens is a big problem? the biggest problem is the top 1% even half of 1%, they are getting so overly rewarded for their wealth and increasing their wealth and the middle class is being pushed down. and we have this huge gap. it s not the congress that s super rich. there really is a class of super rich people and the republicans are going and trying to benefit them even more. congressman, let me push you on that more.