President of the European Commission ursula fund arline welcome to the program and thank you so much for joining us thank you its good to be with you. On monday the European Union is joining forces with Global Partners to raise 7500000000 euros in a worldwide pledging initiative to support coronavirus diagnostics and vaccines what is the top thing that you hope to achieve. Well for us its important that we give a strong answer to the corona virus because we know it knows no borders it knows no nationalities and we can only defeat that virus by a vaccine and for that we need a global coordinated action because we want to prevent that there is a run to the vaccine once we have it for those who can afford it so we need to coordinate research on the vaccine when we have it and we start right now already we have to build up capacities to manufacture and zillions of those and then we have to make sure that we can deploy to every corner in the world right now fear and affordable price and tha
But will it be enough to protect hundreds of thousands of people to live there and hundreds of protesters some armed to gathered in the Capital Building in the United States state of michigan to demand and and to coronavirus restrictions. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program the European Union aims to raise 7500000000 euros next week to Fund Research into a vaccine for the coronavirus as well as developing new treatments and more efficient testing but you Commission Says that the goal is to develop a vaccine treatment and tests that are available to all who need it and at an affordable price the hope is that donors will continue to stump up funds and can in the coming months so that the effort. In be scaled up and to help pay the cost of distributing the vaccine and to medical equipment. Earlier i spoke with the president of the European Commission ursula funder line i asked her whether she agreed with the u. N. Secretary general that a vaccine should be along to the entire world. Wel
November. Super excited about that and i cannot tell you everything we have coming up because i want to leave room for the people we have invited to speak tonight but i want to put one thing on your radar, which is our annual radical book fair pavilion at the baltimore book festival coming up november 1 through november 3 and its an incredible lineup of people both from baltimore and from outside of the city who are coming to present their work and talk about their book and be in conversation together somberly incredible folks some really incredible folks plus a whole bunch of really awesome critical engaged scholar activists from baltimore. We will do two panels on the book baltimore revisited which is amazing contribution contribution to Baltimore City so i definitely encourage you to come down to the inner harbor even if you dont normally do come check us out in a big tent all weekend. Tonight, im excited to be introducing stuart schrader. Someone who has been a relatively recent tr
Where a 15 year old schoolgirl from london went missing more than a week ago. Wales have a shot at becoming the worlds number1 ranked team if they beat england this afternoon as the sides kick off their world cup preparations at twickenham. And following the death of the Nobel Prize Winning author toni morrison, we have a special edition of talking books coming up at 2. 30. The government has announced a package of new measures in a crackdown on law and order. The Prime Minister has promised to create an extra 10,000 prison places after an increase in Violent Crime. This will involve the building of new prisons and the expansion of existing ones at a cost of around £2. 5 billion. Stop and search powers will also be extended to all Police Forces in England Wales which will allow police to stop someone in an area where they think a crime may be committed. Borisjohnson also called for tougher sentencing and an end to the Early Release of prisoners convicted of violent or sexual offences.
Puerto rico has suffered enough, and its pretty much barbaric, what hes doing. We are tired, and we are angry. Hello and welcome to bbc news. The uk is seeking to put together a european led Maritime Mission to protect ships passing through the strait of hormuz. It comes after a british registered tanker was seized there by iran last week. It is the latest development in the growing tension in the region. This is the strait of hormuz. On one side are the arab states, including a number of key western allies and oil producers. On the other is iran. At its narrowest point, it is only 21 miles across, about 35 km, but a fifth of the worlds oil exports pass through this narrow channel. Our chief International Correspondent lyse doucet has more. First images of the men seized at sea, the crew of the stena impero. Indians, russians, a latvian, a filipino. Images released by iran. Is this what life is like on board now, or is this just for show . A crew member heard saying, dont look at the c