US AstraZeneca Covid vaccine trial confirms efficacy

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A US trial of the Oxford AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine showed it is safe and effective. Linda Bauld is professor of public health at the University of Edinburgh, and discusses the implications. Also in the programme, we have an in-depth report examining the dangers involved in ship demolition, as well as new efforts to hold shipping companies to account. Plus, two spacecraft have been launched on a Soyuz rocket from the Tokyo-headquartered company Astroscale to try and demostrate a means of cleaning up space debris. Kate Arkless Grey is a space writer who explains how the process will work. (Picture: A vial of AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine. Picture credit: Getty Images.)