Vaccines for the u. S. Before sending them to other countries it coincides with reports that his administration actually rejected an early offer from pfizer to double its order of the vaccines more on this from washington with mike hanna. Its clear that this executive order comes from the differences between pfizer and his administration and the refusal of the administration to commit to buying more than 100000000 doses at the time that it could the executive order ports to insist that all americans must be treated before any doses go internationally well this is simply an in forcible it would appear has signed a large number of International Contracts as has the other company but these companies contracts already in place in some cases doses have already been shipped internationally so certainly this is something that would be very hard to legally enforced president tran claims that he may invoke the National Procurement act seldom used. To force companies to actually comply but its v
Saying rich nations need to show solidarity towards the global south face the consequences. Plus the game stop friends ends the week with fuel thats outrage on small investors also on line growth has restricted the buying of the companys shares so what will happen next in this wild ride on wall street. Has welcome to the show the president of the year European Commission also a fund a line has urged Pharma Company astra zeneca to stick by its commitments to supply the e. U. With its covert 900. 00 vaccine comments come after the british swedish firm said it was cutting the number of doses for the e. U. By 60 percent because of production problems. The drugmaker also said it was not contractually obliged to deliver on the line said the contract is quote Crystal Clear the controversy comes as the bloc faces pressure with many countries countries failing to meet their vaccination targets. Other w. s correspondent mark martins joins us now from brussels hes following this ongoing story the
An emergency approval so yes it is quicker than normal but the European Union has been quite critical of whats been going on here in the u. K. Saying that but some corners have been cut that the regulator here has been far too hasty in the e. U. s way of doing things is the best way of doing things obviously thats hugely debatable but also has to be found the United States has chimed in with interviews on u. S. Television also accusing the british regulator of just simply rubber stamping all of the research that was done by pfizer not going deeply or rigorously enough into approving the vaccines efficacy and safety as we heard there he quickly backtracked saying that he now does have confidence in british scientists and regulators and has always had confidence in all of this was just a simple mess understanding is could be a difficult backtrack though but nevertheless he has tried to explain his position by saying well look things are just different done differently in the United State
Massive Mainstream Media bias against the tapes of c. N. N. Briefings leaked. Ive been on these calls theres no diversity of opinion nobody objects nobody challenges. Oh good afternoon just gone for moscow you watching International Employees of russia affiliated news agencies. Have been released from interrogations on condition that they will not leave latvia that after the journalists were charged with violating the sanctions. That the. All we know at the moment is that theyve been accused of violating personal European Union sanctions against the c. E. O. Of russias a receipt a seaboard a news agency be tricky still for now the Russian Foreign ministry they have already reacted to whats happening in riga and they said that latvias crackdown on russian speaking journalists under the pretext of the violation of a huge sanctions is absolutely unacceptable the Foreign Ministry also said that the e. U. Restrictions are all of a personal nature against mr kissel off and they cannot apply
18 Warner Brothers films big films for not no no extra charge and thats a huge huge deal but if you look at the broader picture and look at cinema this is devastating for the cinemas who are hoping were counting actually on wonder woman in the United States which was supposed to come out of christmas as a way of maybe bouncing back recovering a bit of the losses that they made through this year for some months of being shot. This new model that Warner Brothers presenting basically undercuts their business entirely because you know why would people pay 15000. 00 to go to the movies if they can you know sit home on their couch and walk the exact same movie at the exact same time so its really interesting to see what impact this this has on the whole industry and whether or not this is a temporary measure as Warner Brothers is still saying its going to be there for just doing this for the krona time period or if this is a marks a sea change in. In the whole industry and if this is the way