My. The worlds most promising covered 19 vaccine faces its 1st academic hurdle but optimism is hollow. Given all this is all just there a live from doha also coming up. A long night of talks but not resolution e. U. Leaders to come back for a 4th day as they debate an 857000000000. 00 the saudi arabias king saul man as admitted to hospital 84 year old one ark is having medical checkups. The race is all divided vaccines for covert 19 and the pressure is mounting for governments to be able to provide those treatments as soon as they become available the u. K. Has become the latest to lock in millions of doses of those that look the most promising britain has announced to deal securing 19000000 doses of 2 potential vaccines they include the bio intake Pfizer Vaccine had one from the French Company and a report is expected on a vaccine being developed by astra zeneca and Oxford University its in phase 3 of large scale human trials lets get more now from paul brennan who is in oxford for us
Leaders remain divided over how to implement a massive covert 19 recovery package and britains plan to encourage weight loss to lighten the impact of the coronavirus. Hong kong is tightening coronavirus linked restrictions after recording its highest one day increase in cases since the pandemic began the territories leader kerry lamb announced the measures after more than 100 new infections were confirmed on sunday she described the situation as critical and says theres no sign of it coming under control lets go live now to hong kong to aljazeera as adrian brown so adrian until now hong kongs low infection rate made it the envy of the world whats gone wrong. Well its interesting isnt it adrian if this was the United States india or brazil an infection rate of just over 100. 00 a day would be considered you know a good day but thats not the case in hong kong because of course up until a few weeks ago hong kong was recording a 0 infection rate but now in the past 2 weeks weve had more th
Down nine basis points. Europe is jumpy holding onto positive territory. Who knows . Brexit conversations throughout this week. Coming up later in the hour, we are going to speak to gregory poland of the mayo clinic to get his perspective on the latest vaccine trial results from astrazeneca and pfizer. What does it actually mean for the market . Eu leaders are reconvening about premuch now for stimulus negotiations in brussels. The goal to seal the deal signaled that they are ready to agree on 390 billion euros of funding be made available. German chancellor Angela Merkel sounded optimistic earlier. Night, wealks last worked out a framework for possible agreement. Perhaps today an agreement will be made. Is underground for us. You have been covering this from the beginning. We understand there is a lower provision for grant and loan guarantees. Are they going to have people checking . Is there going to be an Advisory Board . What i would say is the mood has changed over the past hour.
This half hour how could with 19 will mean higher costs and longer production times for the movie business. Who begin in brussels where e. U. Leaders are meeting for an extended day to hammer out their budgets and a coronavirus bailout package the budget is an unprecedented amount of money about 2. 00 trillion u. S. Dollars look at all those zeros that includes 857000000000 to help countries recover from the pandemic but the leaders can also agree on how the funds should be distributed to countries who need them the most live now to any barker who is following that story for us this half hour so neve is it beginning to look as if no ones going to blink 1st and say yeah we can all get go with this and get on to the same page. Well i mean thats the hope. In the last 20 minutes or so the austrian chancellor suggested that he did feel that some progress was being made and the possibly by the end of the day this the 3rd day of talks they might well be in agreement but all of that is very mu
Killed a top iranian general earlier this year and a warning from activists in the pandemic and lockdowns of putting women at risk. So that a you may sing in brussels thats still going on and even with the Global Pandemic and everything its brought there is still no consensus over how europe deals with the economic fallout they deserve into the 3rd day of meetings to hammer out a budget and a coronavirus buyout package and just so you know the kind of numbers were dealing with this one for a start 2. 00 trillion dollars that is the European Union budget and on precision to now and then within that number youve got this 1857000000000. 00 which is taught in significant in itself that is to help countries recover from the pandemic but that is also where the divisions begin on the one side you have for socalled. All countries who favor loans rather than straight out grants are europes 4 biggest and arguably most influential economies one the opposite there are also personal disputes to ove