Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Tuesday, April 27th, and this is your FT news briefing.

Western countries are rushing to help India as it battles a coronavirus surge,

and the oil major total is struggling after several attacks by insurgents in Southern Africa.

Plus, the FT's Patricia Nielsen tells us about only fans, the adult entertainment subscription

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There is a suspicion the platform is attracting young people who might not previously have

considered making money in this type of way, and I think that's a very interesting question.

I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day.

As the pandemic spirals out of control in India and in other countries,

wealthier governments are promising to send help. Yesterday, the White House said it would

send up to 60 million doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine overseas. The US and some European countries

also announced eight to India. On Monday, India reported more than 354,000 new infections and 2800

deaths. The eight effort here is a notable change. US President Joe Biden has said he wants to

focus on his own country's vaccination efforts first, and European countries consumed by their

own supply problems had blocked vaccine exports. I asked the FT's EU diplomatic correspondent,

Michael Peel, about this shift. Well, Mark, I think we're now seeing in very

concrete brutal terms, the outcome of something that has loomed over this crisis from the start,

and that is the profound inequality in access to treatments and now vaccines for COVID-19,

and the scale of the pandemic we now see in India is a reflection of that. And of course,

there are serious problems elsewhere, including in Brazil and no doubts and one fears in other

countries to come to. And meanwhile, you have populations in Western countries that for all the

anxiety in Europe about the slow rate of vaccination in the EU compared to the UK and the US,

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