Continental controversy | Tony Blair & Liz Truss

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🗓️ 31 January 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Former Prime Minister Tony Blair slams "foolish" and "unacceptable" vaccine nationalism by the EU. He also calls for teachers to be prioritised for vaccines. International Trade Secretary Liz Truss says diverting vaccines to teachers could cost others' lives. She says the UK could share its vaccines with foreign countries.

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0:00.0	The world is becoming increasingly complex and volatile.
0:03.5	How can we make sense of it all?
0:04.9	I'm Richard Engel.
0:05.7	And I'm Yalda Hekeem.
0:06.7	And we're the top international correspondents at NBC News and Sky News.
0:10.9	And we present Sky News's latest podcast, The World.
0:14.7	Each week will cut through the noise to guide you through the week's global events
0:18.6	and explain to you why, what happens out there
0:22.4	matters to you wherever you are.
0:24.5	Listen now to the world with Richard Engel and me Yalda Hakim, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:32.1	Hello and welcome to the Safia Ridge on Sunday podcast. After the EU rode back from plans to impose a border in Ireland as part of a ban on vaccine exports,
0:41.9	we spoke to the former Prime Minister Tony Blair and the International Trade Secretary Liz Truss,
0:47.3	where the teachers should be prioritised the vaccines also came up.
1:03.2	We're joined as usual on the podcast by Matt Lavender.
1:05.0	Hello, how are you? How are you feeling?
1:13.5	Yeah, well, fine. So I, we didn't do the podcast last week because we were both self-isolating.
1:13.8	Yeah.
1:16.5	After I got COVID.
1:17.2	Yeah.
1:18.3	Yeah. So method journalism there.
1:19.7	You decided you've spoken about it so much that you should actually see what it was like.
1:23.8	And how was it for you?
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