Hello, and welcome if youre watching on pbs in the us or Around The World, and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. The European Union is introducing Export Controls on Coronavirus Vaccines produced in europe. The move will force Pharmaceutical Companies to get permission before supplying doses outside the bloc. It comes amid a Supply Dispute between the eu and two major vaccine suppliers, astrazeneca and pfizer. The European Commission says Export Controls are necessary to ensure that all eu citizens had access to vaccines. Nick beake reports from brussels. Throughout the week, this post brexit battle between the eu and a british based Vaccine Maker has been intensifying. European countries are demanding that astrazeneca delivers all the jabs they ordered, even if it means taking them from the uk supply. It all hangs on the contract the two sides signed thats now been released, although with parts blanked out. Astrazeneca says it agreed to do i
Hidden in an abandoned bag in the main hall pakistani an afghan students teachers and other members of staff are among the dead and injured several are in a Critical Condition Police Expect more faith tallaght. The injured were taken to the citys main hospital where relatives gathered waiting for news of. The attack comes days after pakistans Intelligence Service warned that armed groups could target public buildings including Religious Schools across pakistan Prime Minister imran khan condemned the bombing. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack the Pakistani Taliban condemned the bombing and denied involvement the group has targeted schools mosques and the military since 2001 when pakistan supported the us invasion of afghanistan the big star. And you know the men. And women. More than 1000 students were at the school when the bomb went off police say most of those killed were young people in their twentys victoria gates and be. A car bomb blast near a special forces unit i
Retirement homes but as in the spring you can only leave home to work for a medical visit to help someone for essential shopping or exercise in a home of. The number of new clothes that cases is rising fast in france with more than 50000 on some days more than half of the countrys intensive care unit beds are occupied by covert patients this doctor says that Health Workers would want for months at a 2nd wave was coming and would be worse than the 1st november is going to be very very hard and we have so we have you know to break that wave that is coming because if we keep accumulating really the cases in the case in cases then very soon we wont have any beds anymore. Really not any for months the government and president of urge people in france to live as normally as possible with the virus but these new restrictions reveal just are challenging that really is possible rather. Government astroid to navigate delicate pasts try to find if i could go in terms of focusing more on. The econ
It has been described as a first step on a 1000 mile journey. Israel and lebanon meet on their land order to discuss a prolonged dispute over their sea border and talks overseas by the u. S. And the u. N. The streets of several french cities will be locked from this coming saturday as the government pulls out weapons in its war against covid19. In a televised interviewew, president mccrone has announced that between 9 00 p. M. And 6 00 a. M. , a curfew will be brought in for at least four weeks in the e capital and its its surrounding region and in other hotspot cities. The state of Health Emergency is being reimposed to deal with the crisis but mccrone did make it clear that a new nationwide lockdown would be disproportionate. This is a snippet of what he told. [speaking nonenglish languauage] w wlisted into the president s interview. He gives us hisis take on what s announced. He says france can get through this crisis if citizens stick together but at the same time, the president al
A response said Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to an extreme situation. Countries are tightening restrictions from says been reporting record daily figures but a leading scientist who advises the french government believes the infection rate could be twice as high adding to calls for full a short term lockdown. The virus is so present around us today we no longer have a choice we have to downsize a bit like what the irish and the welsh have done to reset a time or allow ourselves to reorganize and to stop the situation of intensive care units. In parts of russia doctors are understaffed and overwhelmed during the 1st wave this hospital in siberia handled only a few mild cases now its over a 3rd of hospital staff have tested positive. Its an ongoing war and we have daily losses as medics get sick and people get sick rushes racing against time to develop a vaccine its one of a dozen internationally in the final stages of testing in the u. K. The Oxford University astra zeneca vaccines repo