A delayed supplies after criticism of a slow rollout so mccain has more on this now from ballin. This is the astra zeneca vaccine in use available to british patients most at risk from covert since late last month and from now on officially so too for many e. U. Citizens most at risk from the pandemic its a real pleasure to be here and to announce the 3rd positive o. Pinion for the authorize ation of the astra zeneca covert 19 vaccine this expand the range of Vaccines Available to e. U. And a Member States which will all help to bring the pandemic under control and protect the citizens of the e. U. Except that far fewer e. U. Citizens will be able to receive the vaccine for the next few months after the company cut back what it could deliver to the block astra zeneca a british swedish firm blames production problems at some of its plants and said it can only deliver fewer than half of the 80000000. 00 doses promised the europeans have complained and decided to protect all vaccine stock
Caffrey judge to achieve the maximum reduction in the our number with the minimum damage to lives and livelihoods i want to stress that this is by no means a return to the full lockdown of march were not issuing a general instruction to stay at home we will ensure that schools colleges and universities stay open because nothing is more important than the Education Health and well being of our young people we will ensure that businesses can stay open in a coded compliant way Libyas National Oil Corporation says that its restarting some production of exports libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar had imposed a blockade on Oil Facilities since january but announced an end to it on friday the state oil company says there are no longer any full fighters or foreign mercenaries in honey in the east a break in the center of the country so production can resume. A draft bill that would amend the sri lankan constitution to give the president extra pause before parliament if passed it will president rajap
With fire will get burnt the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army has firm will full confidence in sufficient ability to thwart all external interference and separatist acts of Taiwan Independence and resolutely defend National Sovereignty and territorial integrity thats enough from robert reich whos following the story from seoul. This intense military activity in and around the Taiwan Strait really ratcheting up the tension level in this part of the world of the chinas Defense Ministry has said that this exercise is necessary and reasonable but we know now from taiwans military that in response they have had to scramble friday their intercept jets when they say that they detected a number multiple chinese and military aircraft crossing over the how half way line in the straits of taiwan that separates taiwan from Mainland China 15 prodemocracy activists in hong kong are back in court for their role in last years protests among them is newspaper publisher and businessman she lay there faci
A suspect in that case there is no word that there is any other suspects and if you look behind me we had expected to be in that square but police told us if we were there that we would be arrested along with hundreds of other demonstrators who are in that square being cleared out by police on horseback and on foot and if that happens you you end up in those cuffs that weve seen so many people here wearing as a matter of fact if you look just over that direction there is a gentleman who just tried to walk past the police line and they said no its curfew and thats where hes ended up for the evening and we have seen police here respond in a much stronger way than weve seen in other cities they give an order to disperse and then they just start arresting people in this case they launched flash bang grenades and cleared this square with people in riot gear so police here are taking things very serious u. S. President donald trump has again refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power
Arms embargo and hold those who seek to evade u. N. Sanctions accountable today i will take the 1st action under this new executive order by sanctioning the array ministry of defense and Armed Forces Logistics and irans Defense Industries organization and its director. Bank is in terror all and has more on the iranian response to the us sanctions. We had foreign minister say that these new sanctions are nothing new that the intention of the United States was to bring the population to its knees and they have failed but what the real question is how iran will respond to the United States and how the United States decides to impose the these u. N. Sanctions as they see it now within iran this lots of political differences the president has and rouhani and his reformists are defending the deal domestically because there has been some opposition to it but the conservative and hardliners who make up the majority of Parliament Well they want a stronger response if those sanctions are put bac