Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. The roll out of covid 19 vaccines has boosted hopes the virus can be tamed, but it will have to be a worldwide effort if its to be effective, and right now the signs are not so good. While tens of millions have already been vaccinated in the rich west, the worlds poor are facing a very long wait the phrase Vaccine Apartheid has already been coined. My guest is the chief scientist at the world health organization, dr Soumya Swaminathan. Is Vaccine Inequity undermining the fight against covid . Dr Soumya Swaminathan in geneva, welcome to hardtalk. Hello, stephen. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to have you on the show. Lets start with an overview. Is there any reason to believe that we are getting on top of this Global Pandemic . Well, one year ago, the Director General of the who announced that this covid 19 was a Public Health emergency of international concern. That was on 30 january, 2020. And he said that there was a window of opportun
Her from two committees. The Prime Minister is being urged to block plans for a new coalmine whitehaven in cumbria. Dozens of environmental groups have written to him and saying they are mystified that the government has not intervened even though it is due to host a climate in glasgow this year. Downing street insists the government is a world leader and will not reverse the decision. Newsreel and beneath this land lie more than 200 million tons of coal. Its more than half a century since the last deep coal mine opened in the uk. The plan is to burrow under the irish sea to access a vast deposit of high quality coal. The local mayor is delighted. I think the project is absolutely fantastic. You know, itll bring huge amounts ofjobs and prosperity into the area. Its been broadly welcomed right across copeland. Ive never known a project thats carried so much public support. The coal produced here wont be used to generate power, but to make steel, he says, and means less will need to be i
Post following several controversial remarks. Scientists warned about the cacophony of Human Activity thats drowning out the natural Ocean Soundscape. And we visit the uk streets where having a Babyis The Uk Streets where having a baby is something of a lockdown trend. We begin in the United States where President Joe Biden has pledged to re engage with the world in his first major Foreign Policy speech. Its a remarkably different tone to the America First tone of the trumpet menstruation. Mr biden said solutions to problems such as Armed Conflicts and Climate Change could be solved only by working with other nations. He also said his administration would step up efforts to end the war in yemen. We would step up efforts to end the war in yemen. Would step up efforts to end the war in yemen. We are also ste |n~ the war in yemen. We are also stepping up the war in yemen. We are also stepping up our the war in yemen. We are also stepping up our diplomacy the war in yemen. We are also step
Now on bbc news, britain has one of the highest death toll from covid 19 in the world. This film follows staff at the Royal Hospital in london as they try to cope with a second way. And a warning, this programme contains content which some of may find it distressing. Shes young. Shes someone s relative. This is something precious that were holding and were trying to do. My wife lost her fight for life. Nobody wants to go through this. I wouldnt wish this on anybody. The coronavirus pandemic has hit the United Kingdom hard. I think the public want to do the right thing, but i dont feel they understand fully the scale of the problem. This is the story of one of the hospitals in the eye of the storm. So were now going to run into a problem because we havent got any beds. Weve got patients on 12 floors in total. Weve returned to the royal london, to witness for ten days the full force of the second wave of covid 19. Staff are tired, and then we have to ask them to do more and more and more
Now on bbc news the week in parliament. Hello again and welcome to the week in parliament. Is good news breaks out at westminster. Our nation, madam Deputy Speaker is getting safer every day as more and more people get protected by the biggest immunised pro Immunisation Programme in the history of our health service. Health service. Boris johnson is want he health service. Boris johnson is want he picked health service. Boris johnson is want he picked the health service. Boris johnson is want he picked the wrong l is want he picked the wrong sort of brexit. Sort of brexit. The protocol has betrayed sort of brexit. The protocol has betrayed us sort of brexit. The protocol has betrayed us and sort of brexit. The protocol has betrayed us and made| sort of brexit. The protocol l has betrayed us and made us feel like foreigners in our own country. Tea and sympathy will not cut the mustard. And a long life well lived. Not cut the mustard. And a long life well lived. Commons life well lived.