Now on Bbc News, Dateline London. Hello, im martine croxall. Welcome to Dateline London. My first time hosting the programme, which is very exciting Hold On to your hats. This week, we discuss the successes and failures of the worldwide Vaccination Programmes against covid 19, and the conflict between israel and hamas. Our guests are the french journalist Agnes Poirier of the magazine, lexpress, The American Journalist And Broadcasterjef mcallister. And with me, suitably distanced still in the studio, the bbc s Science Editor, david shukman. Were welcoming you, david, Yourfirst Time back in the building for over a year. Very strange feeling but very nice. And i hear your mum is an avid dateline viewer, so she will be especially pleased to see you here for the first time she is a huge fan so i cannot make any mistakes. I cant make any mistakes. She will be so glad that you are here with me on the programme. In the uk and the us, the Vaccination Programmes against the pandemic has been h
Make any mistakes. I cant make any mistakes. She will be so glad that you are here with me on the programme. In the uk and the us, the Vaccination Programmes against the pandemic has been hugely successful, but what about elsewhere . Have policymakers really listened to the scientists . Vaccinations for some will be the key to being able to go travelling again. Fewer planes flying over the last year did some environmental good, but, more flights are scheduled, what further damage are we going to be doing to our climate . This is another area where scientists and policymakers may not be on the same page. Will this crisis be discussed at the upcoming G7 Summit being held in the uk . And are there any signs that we are prepared to suffer inconveniences, or sacrifices, if you like, to avoid a global Warming Catastrophe . Agnes, let me start with you. How well do you think European Policymakers have followed the science when it comes to vaccinations . Well, its a Balancing Act if youre a He
To go travelling again. Fewer planes flying over the last year did some environmental good, but, more flights are scheduled, what further damage are we going to be doing to our climate . This is another area where scientists and policymakers may not be on the same page. Will this crisis be discussed at the upcoming G7 Summit being held in the uk . And are there any signs that we are prepared to suffer inconveniences, or sacrifices, if you like, to avoid a global Warming Catastrophe . Agnes, let me start with you. How well do you think European Policymakers have followed the science when it comes to vaccinations . Well, its a Balancing Act if youre a head of State Or Head of a government. Of course, theyve been listening to scientists. They must be feeling as if that is all they have been doing for 18 months. But there is science and theres politics. And you have to make, in The End, political decisions. And actually, its interesting to look at the different countries in europe, because