hello, i m shaun ley. welcome to the programme, which brings together some of the uk s leading commentators, bbc specialists, and those journalists who ve worked as foreign correspondents, filing stories to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week: will there be enough vaccine doses? the uk closes its doors to some but infuriates china by opening them to kong hongers. hong kongers. and what a disputed prime ministerial visit tells us about the future of the union. on dateline s panel this week: janet daley, whose columns appear weekly in the sunday telegraph. jeffrey kofman is a former tv anchor and foreign correspondent in canada and the united states. and here with me in the studio is vincent knee, a china specialist with bbc world news. warm welcome to all of you. the european commission has been piling pressure on the vaccine manufacturer astrazeneca all week, angry that millions of doses it agreed to supply to the eu before the end of march may be cut by
almost several controversial remarks. a0 years after the decommissioning almost a0 years after the decommissioning of the uk s coal mines there is controversy over plans to open a new one. and we visit the british street where having a baby is becoming something of a lockdown trend. we begin in the us, where president biden has pledged to rebuild america s alliances and re engage with the world, in his first major foreign policy speech. it s a markedly different tone to the america first approach of the trump administration. mr biden said solutions to problems such as armed conflicts and climate change could be solved only by working with other nations. we are stepping up our effort is to end the war in yemen. i have asked my middle east team to ensure our support for the united nations led initiative to impose a ceasefire, open humanitarian challenges channels and restore long dormant piece talks. early earlier i spoke dormant piece talks. early earlier i spoke to