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World Service,16 Mar 2021,26 mins

Europe still divided over AstraZeneca vaccine suspension

World Business Report

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France, Germany, Spain and Italy want further clarification before reinstating the jab, as the European Medicines Agency is expected to give its verdict tomorrow. We speak to Natasha Loder, health policy editor at The Economist. We examine technologies that might lead to greener steel production, and ask who will pay. Professor Veena Sahajwalla of the University of New South Wales in Australia discusses her research into using old car tyres instead of coal, and Swedish steelmaker SSAB's talks about its hydrogen manufacturing process, while Alan Knight of steelmaker ArcelorMittal tells us about his company's goal to mitigate carbon emissions through capture and storage of pollutants. Plus, it's exactly a year since the pandemic forced the lights to go down on London's theatres. Nica Burns is co-founder of the Nimax Theatres group, which owns six venues in London, and explains what life has been like for the theatre industry over the past 12 months. (Picture: A syringe with a vaccine. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

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