the european commission spokesman neither confirmed nor denied the reports before there are steps are taken or would be taken decisions taken by any commission together with the member states as again this is a strategy that we implement together with the member states and so for the county to come into question we are in it only options which help us to ensure newsroom of course a spokesman for astra zeneca says the company was not aware of any legal proceedings but it says it will continue regular discussions about supply with the european commission and e.u. member states we'll bring in our panel shortly but 1st let's take a closer look at inoculation campaigns across europe the e.u. is vaccine rollout has fared poorly compared to other developed economies only around 10 percent of the blocks 900000000 people have so far received a single dose of a vaccine but the situation changed this week with germany in the early doubling the pace of vaccinations following a boost in supplies it's also decided to let general practitioners administer the jabs france italy and spain are expected

anchor: we can't know for sure at the moment whether the european commission or various european leaders are learning their lessons with the relationship to the supra-national organization such as the european commission, but where you are, what are the lessons that the politicians at a federal level and state level have learned so far, particular as they go into wave two? >> this is an important question. india is grappling with this question now. the various states, and particularly the high-end incident states in the second wave are in a contrarian position with the high courts of six states, who have taken the view on how things are going, and whether there should be a lockdown, so there are completely contrarian views between the court in the state governments on bottom decisions. at the same time, the supreme court has stepped in and made a case that this is a national emergency. the point therefore, is if anything, that the lesson from the last year is in the is across the world, but this does require central planning. this does require central coordination, but also requires loca

signed up to or was it that the head of procurement for the european commission who has his critics a lot of them didn't actually spot that the contracts weren't as good as they could have been. well given that you know the contacts are really been redacted and we haven't you know been able to read them in death i think the issue at hand is at astra zeneca probably over promised i mean leave the world has never been in a situation where we've had to produce so many vaccines so quickly so other companies have also probably over promised but they're vaccines aren't necessarily or haven't been approved yet so we don't know if they'll be able to deliver but astra zeneca promised a lot of vaccines more than that and more they could produce to 2 different countries so i think there's you know probably some errors made on the part of the e.u. prop definitely some errors on the part of of astra zeneca but again the issue at hand is how do we increase the production and since the e.u.'s making such a large purchase you know what kind of oversight was there during the entire production process

i am the 1st woman to be president of the european commission i am the president of the european commission and this is how i expected to be treated when visiting turkey 2 weeks ago like a commission president but i was not i cannot find any justification for what i was treated in the european treaties. so i have to come blued that it happened because i am a woman. would this have happened if i had worn a suit and a tie in the pictures of previous meetings i did not see any shortage of chips she's got a point now turkey has blamed the european union saying it followed protocol instructions given by the europeans really want to take a look at what happened when former european council president donald tusk and former european commission president john quote younger both men met with turkish president aired on back in may 27th team now here are the 3 men posing for the cameras they leave to conduct their talks in a room with 3 chairs for 3 presidents no one was left standing without a seat and there was loads of inside. ursula on the lie and was not expecting special treatment she simply want

the council president michel michel vs the president of the european commission the executive branch of the e.u. funded line and then they also might of course just might have been a touch of the good old fashioned old fashioned misogyny at play here all this we do not exactly know but the optics we had devastating diplomatically speaking so this isn't on the samples because the fallout on social media was just devastating . hashtags sprang up get her a chair and one of the members of the european parliament from the pena tweeted if i invited president gun to my house i would have offered to chair in spite the fact he's a man so yes there is of course lasted but there is also to court to this that once again the e.u. to be looked really to look really bad on the international stage so how has the european commission reacted to this. you could really for the last 2 days sort of literally hear them grit their teeth when they were on something hundreds of journalists question how was this allowed to happen why did child michel not give up his chair immediately to or from the line now we

well i think it's not only european commission to blame i think we have new york post problem the. responsibility of the european commission was not given before that richard mentioned the 3rd thing to all of the 'd member countries could have done a better job to support a commission fundamental to market forces that are really not understood and if we would have investors like other countries like yet the u.k. or israel early on not only saying we don't procure accents but in back into production capacities collaborate with the different companies are kind of back that sense because they can produce much more so the argument is that some countries like us u.k. israel have been selfish that it's mostly by supporting companies and create the right incentives europe could lead to an increased production so looking more definition for everyone right now over rick how much did the e.u. underestimate possible complications and delays in vaccine production from your vantage point what were the biggest mistakes made by the e.u. when it came to actually procurement. well if we compare the

the european commission is a very angry and they're robbed of tiflis diplomatic way we behave the way we did in order to sort of save the meeting that small that's what they say it had i been or so from the line i would have walked up to the to the turkish president and say oh mr president that might be a chairman's thing here or the obvious solution i mean the one that is most obvious is of course that charles michel bit of giving up his chair and offered it to the fund on line and sort of asked for another chair for himself so this situation would have been sort of could have been saved but they didn't like the sort of. the momentary spirit and truth of make something else and it does leave the e.u. looking a bit stupid particularly shock me shelly the council president just looks like a real don't and that the geisha well barbara what do you think the effect the fallout of all of this is going to be. the fallout is that the their destiny or not the diplomatic gas in the european union i mean they want to be a big international player they say we have something to say be want to pla

i am the 1st woman to be president of the european commission i am the president of the european commission and this is how i expected to be treated when visiting turkey 2 weeks ago like a commission president but i was not i cannot find any justification for what i was treated in the european treaties so i have to come blued that it happened because i am a woman. would this have happened if i had worn a suit and a tie. in the pictures of previous meetings i did not see any shortage of. she's got a point now turkey has blamed the european union saying it followed protocol instructions given by the europeans really want to take a look at what happened when former european council president donald tusk and former european commission president john called younger both men met with turkish president aired on back in may 27th team now here are the 3 men posing for the cameras they leave to conduct talks in a room with count them 3 chairs for 3 presidents no one was left standing without a c. and there was the inside. ursula on the lie and was not expecting special treatment she simply wanted the

commission says she wants to focus on the issues at hand . she shows that marriage ties substance over questions of form or per typical and that certainly what european citizens would have expected of her it is not my job to judge what was behind the fact that we often tell one type of seat over another . a key focal point for the e.u. was for turkey to improve its human rights record. and cry recently withdrew from a treaty that protects women against a fine and discrimination the country has seen nationwide protests against femicide domestic violence and murders of women are on the rise and the diplomatic focus has sparked outrage online. some called out the political strains between the e.u. and turkey others say it reflects how women are treated in the country.

of the european commission chief. refused to share it. and ultimately relegated to a nearby sofa also this hour. with the international space station. for the 60th anniversary of the 1st spaceflight. very warm welcome to you from all of us here in moscow. we saw the program in europe where governments saw split on whether to restrict the use of the. job. the european commission warned that without a unified response public confidence could falter so we hit the streets of paris to gauge reaction. it's confusing yes because to say that the laws change from one country to another while the product is the same we wonder on which study they are based those who had complications were rather young so they said let's stop it for the young but not for the old well i mean it's weird their management of the thing is not clear what he's got for me there is a risk since it has been shown that there are people who have unfortunately died after getting vaccinated it is important to get out of this health crisis and therefore we have to weigh the benefit

the european commission is a very angry in the rada type diplomatic way we behave the way we did in order to sort of save the meeting that small and that's what they say it had i been or so from the line i would have walked up to the to the turkish president and say oh mr president that might be a chairman's thing here or the obvious solution i mean the one that is most obvious is of course that charles michel bit of giving up his chair and offered it to the fund on line and sort of asked for another chair fund self so this situation would have been sort of could have been saved but they didn't like the sort of. the momentary spirit and truth of make something else and it does leave the e.u. looking a bit stupid particularly child michele the the council president just looks like a real don't in that that geisha well barbara what do you think the effect the fallout of all of this is going to be the fallout is that the desk in another diplomatic gas in the european union i mean they want to be a big international player they say we have something to say be want to play a bigger role on the

commission i am the president of the european commission and this is how i expected to be treated when visiting turkey 2 weeks ago like a commission president but i was not i cannot find any justification for what i was treated in the european treaties. so i have to come prude that it happened because i am a woman. would this have happened if i had worn a suit and a tie in the pictures of previous meetings i did not see any shortage of. she's got a point now turkey has blamed the european union saying it followed protocol instructions given by the europeans really want to take a look at what happened when former european council president donald tusk and former european commission president john quote younger both men met with turkish president aired on back in may 27th team now here are the 3 men posing for the cameras they leave to conduct their talks in a room with count them 3 chairs for 3 presidents no one was worth standing without a c. and there was very sort of inside. ursula on the lie and was not expecting special treatment she simply wanted the same treatment afforded men sh

the european commission has already decided to look elsewhere. astrazeneca is not allowed for use in denmark, it is restricted in several u mean countries in terms of the age that people can have it at on the grounds of those fears over blood clots and the european commission has already decided it is going to look to what it believes are far more reliable suppliers, namely pfizer with whom it is currently negotiating a contract that would see 1.8 billion doses delivered to the eu by 2023. essentially the commission is saying, look, we don't particularly need the astrazeneca vaccine anymore at all. >> all right. it will be interesting to see how all that ends up. melissa bell joining us live from paris. many thanks. >>> south america is also struggling to slow the spread of the coronavirus. many countries remain in the red as new infections have continued to climb during the past month. in argentina a presidential adviser says the government has resumed talks with pfizer to purchase its vaccine. brazil's senate is investigating the government's h

i am the 1st woman to be president of the european commission i am the president of the european commission and this is how i expected to be treated when visiting turkey 2 weeks ago like a commission president but i was not i cannot find any justification for what i was treated in the european treaties. so i have to come prude that it happened because i am a woman. would this have happened if i had worn a suit and a tie in the pictures of previous meetings i did not see any shortage of. she's got a point that turkey has blamed the european union saying it followed protocol instructions given by the europeans really want to take a look at what happened when former european council president donald tusk and former european commission president john quote younger both men met with turkish president aired on back in may 27th team now here are the 3 men posing for the cameras they leave to conduct their talks in a room with 3 chairs for 3 presidents no one was left standing without a c. and there was the sort of inside. ursule of an ally and was not expecting special treatment she simply wanted

commission aims to deepen the collaboration between member states in the development and implementation of ai technologies because ai technologies are intertwined with many aspects of our lives already hunts to cancun manages the ai experience center and innovation hub of brussels free university tells us well regulation is necessary to make sure what machines learn is ethical and follows human values the count believes the collaboration efforts envisioned in the framework are likely to help small industries in their digital transformation and perhaps turn the e.u. into a role model people in india in the west and in the east are looking towards europe and are looking forward to actually have this framework as an example and to see how that this can work and how do these regulatory framework in between. the public and profit good can actually find a way to have more responsible innovation than in the past prosthetics developer p.s. hell is not sure yet how these new laws will impact his business but he remains optimistic that people will recognize the benefits and opportunities of artif

economy italy is up .20% a big sign up for the european commission of the italian recovery plan. up to 220 billion euro will be approved by the european commission we will talk more about that on the show and what it means for the italian economy. >>> americans who have been fully vaccinated will be able to visit the eu this summer in an interview with the new york times, the president of the european commission cited the successful vaccination program and signalled tourists may require vaccine certification to travel this is good news to the airline industry particularly those that operate trans atlantic flights welcome for these economies reliant on tourism it will be good to hear american tourists can come and visit their shores again these are some of the major airlines in europe trading pos positive lufthansa up 4% in trading today. julianna >>> thank you. welcome news for americans eager to get to europe as well let's dive into the single stock. philips reported a surge of first quarter up 74% to 362 million euro and beating he expec expectation. the ceo told cnbc his compa

out and in brussels we do european commission they allow bureaucracy to get in the way of putting needles lifesaving needles in people's homes and that's why more and more countries have be as starting to act for themselves and to hungry for instance has bull the backseat other countries have pull the us command zeneca others have pull why is that now. the centralized method you used and now completely discredited in brussels is for him to pieces. go without a still to come the brazilian president doubles down on his resistance to lockdown starts to spite the country soaring kovac death toll it's our next story after this . remember monopoly it's great to have hotels on boardwalk and park place. while we're entering. a biological fukushima that's how a scientist describes the situation in brazil after more than 4000 deaths in a single day he's been outlining the scale of the problem to us. the current situation is this 3 really severe in brazil is very critical right now we are in the middle of a national hospital collapse and exponential growth of new cases in the country for the 1st tim

complied with the advance purchase agreement with the european commission and will strongly defend itself in court we believe any litigation is without merit and we welcome this opportunity to resolve this dispute as soon as possible and astra zeneca agreed to deliver its vaccine at cost meaning the company will make no profit from this is it going to wind the e.u. any friends is it. well what the. diplomats or in fact member states would tell you on this one is that this isn't about winning friends this is about securing e.u. interests and in fact securing e.u. lifes because what the e.u. wants to make sure that the next time around we face a pen demick they they had builds their main you know q. lation drive on astra zeneca 180000000 doses in the 1st quarter of which they received a fraction and in fact that is one of the key reasons why the rate mishal rollout has been rather slow and what they want to achieve here and to answer your questions about what would be a successful outcome is a recognition by a court to say yes they have violated their contract they have not delivered on wha

president for not playing his part in standing beside the european commission president turkish officials are pointing blame at the e.u. . goodish rather than your restaurant i was them their requests of the e.u. are met and the problem protocols applied in the scope of this high level meeting that took place in our presidency the seating arrangements were made in line with the e.u. suggestion because for now it may be a long road ahead to establish better time between the 2 sides. me and maurice ambassador to the u.k. has been locked out of the embassy in london he said representatives of myanmar as military junta have taken control of the building is going to go ok. thank you. who is in the building for. the events of the today chief. be ok by my embassy. the one time i had attempted to recall the ambassador last month after he spoke in support of civilian leader aung san suu kyi and urged for her release from detention this comes as daily protests against the coup grow increasingly dangerous at least 15 people were killed across me in mar on wednesday . journalist and tun has been cove

commission aims to deepen the collaboration between member states in the development and implementation of ai technology as. any i technologies are intertwined with many aspects of our lives already hunts to cancun manages the ai experience center and innovation hub of the brussels free university tells us well regulation is necessary to make sure what machines learn is ethical and follows human values the count believes the collaboration efforts envisioned in the framework are likely to help small industries in their digital transformation and perhaps turn the e.u. into a role model people in india in the west and in the east are looking towards europe and are looking forward to actually have to there as an example and to see how the disk and work and how the regulatory framework between. the public goods and profit goods can actually find a way to have more responsible innovation than in the past prosthetics developer p.s. is not sure yet how these new laws will impact his business but he remains optimistic that people will recognize the benefits and opportunities of artificial intell

union and the commission and the council have the same rank then 1st of all the european union should have told the turkish protocol to turkish were to call this situation. nobody is going to ask say sorry about the situation the turks are saying is that her opinion is faulty your opinion is your opinion is that it's turkey's fault and this just it victimizes the relationship between the european union and turkey which are really really in a dire situation or a very bad situation now you know that was the whole point of this meeting wasn't it to try and deal with these foreign relations between turkey and the e.u. so how is that looking now very bad if they can't agree on who is supposed to be sitting next to each other how are they going to agree on much much more i would say not dangerous but more important situations like massive immigration and the u.s. being turkey 6000000000 euros 3 to manage immigration it's apparently not working turkey has been expanding as fed been expanding its military in syria in libya it's been doing this in the mediterranean sea in. never going to care

commission warned that without a unified response public confidence in inoculation could falter we've been getting reaction in paris. it's confusing yes because to say that the laws change from one country to another while the product is the same we wonder on which study they are based those who had complications were rather young so they said let's stop it for the young but not for the old well i mean it's weird their management of the thing is not clear what he's for me there is a risk since it has been shown that there are people who have unfortunately died after getting vaccinated it is important to get out of this health crisis therefore we have to weigh the benefits and the risks of one use of same the risk is low in their best interest i think so they are never going to say that the risk is high and so that's what that doesn't surprise me confusing there is a bit of confusion we don't know what to trust so i feel a bit of the dark concerns over a potential link between astra zeneca and red blood clots is exposing the latest divisions within the e.u. after the book's agency that

president for not playing his part in standing beside the european commission president to catch a fish as a pointing blame at the e.u. . goodish rather than join russia going on isn't there a crisis of the e.u. on max and the problem parts of coles applied in the scope of this high level meeting that took place in our presidency the seating arrangements were made in line with the e.u. suggestion because for now it may be a long road ahead to establish better times between the 2 sides. are let's talk about this to do that i'm joined by correspondent barbara. barbara i want i want us to consider the optics of this this is an every day situation you've got 2 men a woman and there aren't enough chairs if it had been me and you i would have offered you this seat do we know why not either of the 2 men all for ursula fund a lion a seat do we know. i expect nothing else from you of course friend but looking at the acting mynheer in the room there and we have president. he would think see if the fulton off the thick and coming off the our empire we also know would believe him what do you think

president for not playing his part in standing beside the european commission president turkish officials are pointing blame at the e.u. . rather than i was on their request of the e.u. are met and the problem parts of coles applied in the scope of this high level meeting that took place in our presidency the seating arrangements were made in line with the e.u. suggestion because for now it may be a long road ahead to establish better time between the 2 sides. look at some more stories making headlines around the world protesters in northern ireland have heard explosives across the so-called peace walls and clash with police in belfast a bus was hijacked and set on fire violence has flared over the last week or fueled by a pandemic and a post back to trade barriers with the rest of the u.k. . alexina valley's been diagnosed with 2 spinal discourteous according to his lawyer imprisoned russian opposition leader is said to have lost sensation in his hands and legs in a valley is on hunger strike in the penal colony. of these days the market is going digital investors are spending enormous a

president for not playing his part in standing beside the european commission president technician officials are pointing blame at the e.u. . british rather than join russia and i was on their request of the e.u. are met and the problem parts of coles applied in the scope of this high level meeting that took place in a presidency the seating arrangements were made in line with the e.u. suggestion because for now it may be a long road ahead to establish better ties between the 2 sides. are let's talk about this to do that i'm joined by correspondent barbara. barbara i mean i want i want us to consider the optics of this this is an every day situation you've got 2 men a woman and there aren't enough chairs if it had been me and you i would have offered you this seat do we know why not either of the team in all for ursula fund a lion a seat do we know. i expect nothing else from you of course friend but looking at the acting mynheer in the room there and we have president. he would think if he if the focus off the 2nd coming off the our man empire we also know will believe him what do you think

complied with the advance purchase agreement with the european commission and will strongly defend itself in court we believe any litigation is without merit and we welcome this opportunity to resolve this dispute as soon as possible and astra zeneca agreed to deliver its vaccine at cost meaning the company will make no profit from this is it going to wind the e.u. any friends is it. well what the e.u. diplomats or in fact member states would tell you on this one is that this isn't about winning friends this is about securing e.u. interests and in fact securing e.u. lifes because what the e.u. wants to make sure that the next time around we face a pen demick they they had built them main you know q. lation drives on astra zeneca 180000000 doses in the 1st quarter of which they received a fraction and in fact that is one of the key reasons why the real initial rollout has been rather slow and what they want to achieve here and to answer your questions about what would be a successful outcome is a recognition by a court to say yes they have violated their contract they have not delivered on

i absolutely do not agree with one's behavior and i was very sorry for the humiliation the european commission president under lane had to suffer let's call them what they are dictators with whom one nonetheless has to coordinate the turkish government to hit back at mario draghi remarks calling them impudent and ugly and on thursday the foreign ministry summoned the italian ambassador to express its condemnation meanwhile the european council chief charles michel has defended his own conduct explaining why he had not tried to defuse the situation by vacating his seat. i was convinced that any reaction among the college could be perceived as paternalism there was a risk of provoking an even more serious incident which would reduce the already fragile chance of having less negative relations with turkey. we asked the political analysts in europe and turkey how suffocate could i think both of these persons in history shows and restored again probably didn't show themselves as a gentleman however there is a protocol in these types of situations and it appears that within the european union they d

complied with the advance purchase agreement with the european commission and will strongly defend itself in court we believe any litigation is without merit and we welcome this opportunity to resolve this dispute as soon as possible and astra zeneca agreed to deliver its vaccine at cost meaning the company will make no profit from it this isn't going to win the e.u. any friends is it. well what the e.u. diplomats or in fact member states would tell you on this one is that this isn't about winning friends this is about securing e.u. interests and in fact securing e.u. lifes because what the e.u. wants to make sure that the next time around we face a pen demick they they had built them main in occupation drive on astra zeneca 180000000 doses in the 1st quarter of which they received a fraction and in fact that is one of the key reasons why the rate mishal rollout has been rather slow and what they want to achieve here and to answer your questions about what would be a successful outcome is a recognition by the courts to say yes they have violated their contract they have not delivered on w

guy: that was the european commission -- alix: that was european commission executive vice president speaking with maria tadeo. it echoes what is happening in the u.s. with taxes and the constant scrutiny the industry is coming under. today you have apple and google executives will head to d.c. for an antitrust conversation with some regulators. they are low-level, but still, the constant scrutiny. guy: and it is a discount that has to be applied to the stocks. it was during lockdown. increasingly there is a storm brewing for this sector in terms of what is happening. you look at what has happened with netflix, the forward trade, tech did very well. interest rates are going up. you have the added scrutiny. one of the biggest shifts is the biden administration shifted on taxation it's going to have global ramifications and will allow taxation in a much different way to take place. it will be something i think europe is so to take advantage of. text is in the spotlight. alix: most european countries. other ones are like do not do that to us. guy: ireland in particular. european stocks

they have to submit it to the european commission and to f. stop so the european food safety authority and they have a penalty experts that looks at the studies and then they say ok it's safe or not. so what we have found is that within these expert panel so you have a lot of people with ties with the food industry so that means a conflict of interest. so overt home 3 stem the communication agence he's in the regular to reargue and sees how the same scientists and they were in order to promote the commercialization of their product. this is why if you ask them something you have the same answer and they say it's a consensus. exactly like in the middle ages you were asking to the priest what is the truth in the whole you are asked to these scientists in regular to religion sees what is the truth and they act in the same manner as magician you know because they work in secret compounds with secret effects they say that you cannot publish that however they say they have the truth. if you spend a huge amount of money doing a study a study on somet

that's what the european commission said they're aiming for. essentially the extension of the green passport allowing europeans to travel to be extended to countries where the vaccination rates are as good as they are in the united states. from now and mid june, that's going to take a lot of work to put in place. >> melissa bell, thanks. >>> the story is very different in india, which has broken the global record for new delhi cases for a fifth straight day. health authorities reported nearly 353,000 new infections monday putting the total number of cases since the pandemic began to over 17 million. there are shortages of medical supplies and in the nregion, hospitals are. putting out the s.o.s. they explain why helping india is crucial. >> we take the very difficult situation that india is going through very, very seriously. you know, the united states and india are the two countries now that have suffered the most. th things like getting vaccinations is on the table. >> it matters for several reasons. first and foremost, we are human beings a