the first dog is back in the white house after a biting incident and two weeks of intensive training. i m christian fraser in london. laura trevelyan is in new york city. the european commission has set out plans today on how it will deal with vaccine exports. it wants tougher controls though it hasn t yet called for an outright ban. the commission will meet leaders virtually on thursday to finalise plans. going forward, whether vaccines are allowed to leave the eu will depend on three measures the destination country s level of infection, its rate of vaccination and whether they themselves export vaccines or components. clearly, the rules have been drawn up in the shadow of the eu s ongoing row with astrazeneca and a feeling on the continent that the uk is getting more than its fair share. but tonight, amid rising fears of an export ban, the two sides issued a joint statement to say they will continue working together on specific steps they can tak to create a win win sit
vaccine for every american byjuly. and 3,000 sticks of dynamite bring down donald trump s long doomed casino in atlantic city. hello, i m laura trevelyan in washington. christian fraser is in london. the brutal winter storms across the south and east of the us have left millions without power, and more snow is on the way. nowhere has been hit harder than texas, where nearly three million people are facing their third day without light or heat. the state has its own electrical grid, and it s been unable to meet the increased demand for power. it s striking these power outages are happening in a state with such abundant energy resources. texas produces more electricity than any other us state, almost twice as much as florida, the next closest. but because it has isolated itself from the rest of the grid, it can t import any, and so there is a very public row under way over who is to blame the public private partnership that operates the grid or the state politicians who overs
not, on the money, albeit less of it? last year you may remember that the governor of the bank of england andrew bailey told you not to ask for big pay rises to stop prices rising out of control. they are perhaps not so much happened as of doom and bust but of truth. they worried about and in inflationary spiral where prices push inflation out of control and uk inflation of course running around 10%, food inflation much higher than that, thatis inflation much higher than that, that is around 17%, 18%. of course workers across the public sector right now are involved in industrial action over pay rises. so is mr pill right? do wejust action over pay rises. so is mr pill right? do we just need to get used to being poorer? do you accept being poorer? let s talk. get in touch. and here is the news. the government says that over 200 british nationals have been airlifted out of sudan so far. three raf planes have already touched down in cyprus and more are expected to follow. evacu
major oil producers to cut production is described as short sighted after oil prices are pushed to a three week high. and a symbol of the economic crisis facing lebanon. the bbc speaks to a lebanese mp who held up a bank, to take out her own money. i apologise to all the people i frightened, but how does that compare to the despair, anger and grief i feel every day? hello and welcome. russia and china have been accused of shielding north korea from further un sanctions over its weapons programme. at a security council meeting, the us ambassador said they d given pyongyang blanket protection. shortly afterwards, north korea fired two new ballistic missiles into the sea. the un security council discussed north korea s test firing of another ballistic missile overjapan on tuesday. that missile travelled 4,500km before falling into the pacific ocean. well, here s what the us ambassador had to say. the dprk has enjoyed blanket protection from two members of this council. these
hit the country hard, making the economy one of the biggest issues in this election. financial markets are already celebrating a modi win. let s go live to the bombay stock exchange and our correspondent archa na shukla. looking at markets today, we are seeing a sharp sell off, what is going on? are seeing a sharp sell-off, what is going on? are seeing a sharp sell-off, what is going on? well, as the markets opened what is going on? well, as the markets opened today, - what is going on? well, as the markets opened today, they . what is going on? well, as the i markets opened today, they got a bit of a shock from the initial and early trends of election counting. projections had projected a clear mandate for narendra modi and his party and its allies, but the initial trends can begin seem to show the win could be narrower than projected. i am outside the bombay stock exchange, one of the two national exchanges in india, both of which saw a rally yesterday in monday s trade,