EU-UK vaccine tensions, grounded ship blocks Suez canal
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 25 March 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
British and European officials on Wednesday issued a joint statement saying they’d discussed developing a “reciprocally beneficial relationship” to tackle Covid-19, after a top official in Brussels accused the UK of “vaccine nationalism”; a grounded container ship has blocked traffic in one of the world’s most critical shipping passages; and the rush to produce hydroelectric power in the Himalayas is adding to a crisis already exacerbated by climate change.
UK and EU move to calm tensions over access to vaccines
https://www.ft.com/content/da800a0d-cd27-48d1-a06f-d0c49599c5d2
Suez Canal blocked after huge container ship runs aground
https://www.ft.com/content/eec9f3a6-2817-45f5-b007-a290f3e530c6
Facebook says Chinese hackers tried to spy on Uyghur dissidents
https://www.ft.com/content/70b94c78-474a-475a-b242-924f6b11929f
Crisis in the Himalayas: climate change and unsustainable development
https://www.ft.com/content/387f5b4d-69cd-45f6-b0fc-69d659381109
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Thursday, March 25th, and this is your |
| 0:06.8 | FT News Briefing. After an EU official accused the UK of vaccine nationalism, the two sides |
| 0:14.0 | are trying to reduce tensions over access to vaccine supplies. A massive container ship |
| 0:19.4 | has run aground in the Suez Canal and is blocking one of the world's busiest shipping |
| 0:23.8 | passages. And we'll take you to the Himalayas, where climate change and hydroelectric power |
| 0:29.2 | plants are adding to the region's instability. I'm Lila Raptopoulos, in for Mark |
| 0:34.5 | Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:40.2 | Tensions have flared between the UK and the EU over access to the coronavirus vaccine. Yesterday, |
| 0:46.1 | the two sides issued a statement promising to work together to create a win-win situation |
| 0:51.0 | that would expand supply for all its citizens. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson insisted |
| 0:56.0 | he didn't want to see a quote-unquote tit for tat vaccine more. Britain offered to help |
| 1:01.4 | boost production of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine at a plant in the Netherlands, where |
| 1:05.7 | it claims to have been contracted to buy millions of doses. The EU, however, also claims |
| 1:11.0 | those doses. Today, EU leaders will be discussing controversial new rules to tighten restrictions |
| 1:16.9 | on vaccine exports, which are aimed at countries that are failing to share. Britain's health |
| 1:22.3 | secretary said the EU would be making a serious mistake if it started blocking vaccine exports |
| 1:27.4 | to the UK. Meanwhile, one top EU official has been pressuring AstraZeneca. He wants to |
| 1:33.4 | know why the company has been so much better at meeting its commitments to Britain than |
| 1:37.0 | to the block. |
| 1:39.2 | A massive container ship has run aground in the Suez Canal in Egypt. And it's blocking |
| 1:48.2 | one of the world's most vital shipping arteries. The Taiwanese-owned ship is called the |
| 1:53.1 | Evergiven, and it's as long as the Empire State Building is high. The FT's David |
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