Sterling as well as we get the various machinations of brexit taking place. Prime minister Boris Johnson heading to brussels with urgent talks with the European Union president , amid growing fears that the brexit talks may fail. U. S. Dollar and the pound, just weakening again. Some of that vaccine optimism is receding. So we have crude oil on the way down. Gold is where people have been going to. 1863 an ounce. You live lets bring pictures of hong kongs chief executive carrie lam, who is holding a briefing right now. She says that hong kong will address further tightening measures for covid19. Of course hong kong is grappling to put a lid on the virus cases. Hong kongs virus situation she says is worrying. Reported theyong may cut off dining after 6 00 p. M. Local time. No confirmation of that. Hong kong is continuing to struggle, with case numbers often exceeding 100 a day. That is the most since august. That has prompted the government to gradually raise social distancing measures,
Im melissa chan welcome to news asia were glad you could join us indonesia received its 1st shipment of coated 1000 vaccines from china this week as the government prepares for a mass Inoculation Program the vaccine developed by sign of act biotech will be evaluated by the indonesian food and Drug Authority for emergency use indonesian clerics are also expected to issue a whole lot of occasion for the experimental drug president joko widodo says these are only the 1st steps and more doses are on the way. You got my c. We are also still working to get 1800000 doses of vaccine to arrive in early january of 2021. Part from getting the finished version of axioms we are also getting 15000000. 00 doses of raw vaccine within this month. And later 30000000 doses in january that will be processed by the state owned Pharmaceutical Company b. O. Pharma. And indonesia isnt the only asian country looking at chinese vaccines rather than western options made by pfizer biotech where Derna Astra Zeneca
Salvage the e. U. Is 1. 8 trillion euro budget all this includes hundreds of billions in Coronavirus Relief funds which the bloc cannot deploy until Member States reach consensus the 2 day summit began with optimism poland and hungary which had blocked the budget looked welling to make a deal the 2 Eastern European countries objected initially to a provision that would prevent them from accessing funding if they continue to defy e. U. Democratic standards germany appears to have come to an agreement with them over how to proceed but that will still need to be approved by the rest of the Member States are at lets get you the latest want to turn now to our correspondent in brussels georg much as great to see you why are the 2 sides still at odds. Well the key thing here really is this rao over the rule of law mechanism and how tightly it should be connected to Financial Aid is that mainly when you look at all of the e. U. Goes to hungary and to poland exactly the 2 countries that have be
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