Its been a quiet year for hollywood, but the awards season is underway with female directors making history as three women are nominated for Best Director. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or Around The World, and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. Finally, vaccines are being produced that might help us return to Something Like the lives we had before covid. Here in the uk over ten million doses have already been given out, but at the same time, new variants are emerging too first here in the uk, then in brazil and south africa. So, scientists are turning their attention to how to adapt vaccines to make sure they work against all new variants. Astrazeneca and Oxford University say they plan to have a Next Generation Covid Vaccine ready for the autumn. Our medical editor fergus walsh reports. The scientists at oxford who created the astrazeneca vaccine are continually monitoring how coronavirus is evolving. The current vaccine is t
stress test showed they have enough capital to weather a severe economic slump. they have more than $100 billion in assets each. the results are a vote of confidence for the financial sector after the collapse of the silicon valley bank earlier this year. elsewhere in the united states, presidentjoe biden has vowed to restore the american dream, in a speech promoted his so called bidenomics policy. michelle fleury reports from new york. michelle fleury reports from new york- michelle fleury reports from new york. , ., ., new york. joe biden went on the road to make new york. joe biden went on the road to make his new york. joe biden went on the road to make his pitch new york. joe biden went on the road to make his pitch to - road to make his pitch to sceptical americans. the president sceptical americans. the president outlined - sceptical americans. the president outlined his i sceptical americans. the president outlined his economic vision for the future, and la
a severe economic slump. the 23 banks tested at more than $100 billion in assets each. that results in a vote of confidence for the financial sector after the collapse of the silicon valley bank earlier this year. elsewhere in the us, president joe biden has vowed to restore the american dream in a speech promoting his so called bidenomics policy at a rally in chicago. he is courting voters ahead of the presidential re election bid next year. michelle fleury explains. joe biden went on the road to make his pitch to sceptical americans. the president outlined his economic asian for the future and laid out what his policies have delivered so far. ., , his policies have delivered so far. ., . ,, ., , far. today, the us has the hithest far. today, the us has the highest economic - far. today, the us has the highest economic growth i far. today, the us has the - highest economic growth rate, leading the world economies, since the pandemic. the highest in the world. find since th
sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here s chetan. we start with what is a defining week for manchester city. they could be english premier league champions at the weekend but before that, they have the chance to reach the champions league final on wednesday. real madrid come to manchester with the tie all sqaure at 1 all from the first leg. it s the only major trophy manager pep guardiola s yet to win at city: my legacy is already exceptional already. we have been here many times already, we are not stupid to know how important it is to our games, edit one of the most important maybe one of the most important games, we cannot deny that. manchester city and real madrid will know their opponents in the final before they kick off because the first semi final second leg is later on tuesday between the two milan sides. trailing inter 2 0 from the first game ac milan are boosted by the return of rafael leao who is back in traning and expected to start in
welcome to the programme. the un secretary general, antonio guterres, has been in kyiv today hoping to shore up a deal struck that was between ukraine and russia in the summer to allow for the export of grain from both countries. the agreement, which was brokered in turkey and is overseen by the un, must be renewed by 18 march, but there s concern, moscow will refuse to renew it. the deal also aimed to facilitate the export of russian food and fertilisers. moscow says those shipments are still being disrupted by us and european sanctions. exports of ukrainian, as well as russian food and fertiliser are essential to global food security and food prices. i want to underscore the critical importance of the rollover of the black sea grain initiative on 18 march, and are working to create the conditions to enable the greatest possible news of export infrastructures through the black sea, in line with the objectives of the initiative. this really matters. ukraine is one of the to