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I'm Nick Miles and 14 hours GMT on Monday, the 22nd of March. These are our main stories. The results of the long awaited trials in the US of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine have confirmed that it's highly effective.

The European Union has announced its first sanctions in more than 30 years against China over the treatment of ethnic workers in Xinjiang. Also in this podcast, there are satellites up there that weigh several tons.

And if you try and sort of grab hold of that, if you're not careful, you'll be turned over and over with it.

The perils of getting space a good clearer and how to adopt a kiosk and how it's saving a British icon that's lost its purpose.

The ones that we typically like that are really doing what I say are things like libraries, food, larders is another one, small museums. But we begin with a frustrating coronavirus conundrum for governments to solve why, when more and more vaccination trials show that they're safe to so many people, not trust them?

AstraZeneca has just released data from trials in the United States showing the shot is nearly 80 percent effective against stopping symptomatic covid disease and 100 percent effective at stopping people becoming seriously ill. The US hasn't yet approved its use as American health officials were waiting for the results of the study.

Sarah Gilbert is a professor of vaccinology at the University of Oxford and led the development of the job.

Very pleased to see these results. Another large trial in different countries to what we had before, again, reporting on the safety and high efficacy of this vaccine. So it's really good news to see that 20 percent of people in this trial were over the age of 65 and there was no drop in protection for those people. It was just as good in the over 65 years as it was in the younger people. And that's very clear from this trial.

But just as that good news was coming out, we heard that trust in the vaccine in Europe has plummeted.

I got more from our global health correspondent, Naomi Grimley. First on the good AstraZeneca news.

The key thing here is that they've got proper data on the older age groups. Now, if you remember, back in the autumn when Oxford released its results, there was a lot of criticism, including from across the Atlantic in Washington, DC, from experts who said there needed to be much more data on older adults. And that's really why Oxford AstraZeneca ran this trial to persuade the Americans about that. And it was a huge trial. It was 30000 volunteers in all age groups.

And the data shows that the vaccine is 79 percent effective against covid-19 and 100 percent effective against severe covid-19. And of course, that last figure is the one that really matters.

This is in all age groups and crucially, to know issues regarding blood clots. And that was a real concern for a lot of people.

These trial results have come through at a really good time for AstraZeneca because we've had this episode in Europe for the last few weeks where countries have been putting their rollout of the vaccine on hold because of fears of a very small number of blood clots.

Actually, this data shows there are no safety concerns to be had. There were no increased numbers of thrombosis in the trial. So it's really good for AstraZeneca to be able to point to this to allay fears in Europe. But of course, also the key thing now is it can get approval from the Food and Drug Administration in the US.

And yet fears have not been allayed if we're to believe these latest polls.

Yes. So this is a poll, a survey run by YouGov across several countries in Europe. Public sentiment and public support for the AstraZeneca vaccine has been dented quite significantly. Let me give you the example of France. 61 percent say they believe it's unsafe versus 23 percent saying they believe it's safe in Germany as well, 55 percent of Germans saying the AstraZeneca vaccine is unsafe. Now, here in the U.K., there's not been a matter of fact, quite the reverse.

In fact, confidence is still high. 77 percent of people believe it is safe. Europe is dealing with this huge, very serious third wave at the moment. So this is an example of how all these political decisions can sap confidence at a very sensitive time.

And raising public confidence is incredibly difficult, very slippery concept. It requires what, clear, consistent, transparent messaging, who's doing it well and who is?

Well, I think the country that isn't doing it well is France. They, for example, if you remember, restricted AstraZeneca in the over 65 age group. That was because of concerns about whether it was properly effective. They've now restricted it in the under 55 because of continued worries about blood clots, even when the European Medicines Agency has told them the vaccine is safe and effective. And I think the problem for the French and remember, President Macron made his own derogatory remarks about this vaccine.

The problem for the French is that they have historically always had more vaccine hesitancy than, say, in the UK or Germany. So those decisions and those unwise remarks compound the problem.

The BBC's Naomi Grimley. And there's just one other thread developing today with regards to the AstraZeneca vaccine.

The British prime minister, Boris Johnson, is reported to be preparing to speak to his EU counterparts this week as a row over cold vaccine supplies continues. EU leaders are going to hold a meeting on Thursday to discuss a ban on Oxford.

AstraZeneca vaccine exports to the U.K. because of a shortage of supplies within the EU and as the roars over vaccine supplies grow, so too are the protests over restrictions of movement imposed by governments.

Over the last week, we've seen protests in Germany, Britain and many other European nations. In the US, though, a nighttime curfew has been extended in Miami Beach and Florida after thousands of tourists descended on the area for the annual spring break holiday and that risked the spread of covid-19.

A state of emergency was declared after city officials said that they just couldn't cope with a large number of people with few people wearing masks or social distancing.

Our North America correspondent Peter Bowes reports.

Party time in Miami spring break. When students traditionally descend on Florida to let off steam, the bars, beaches and restaurants are packed. But this is no time to party.

The city of Miami Beach is currently under a state of emergency. There's a curfew in effect.

These extraordinary scenes have shocked local officials who say they've been overwhelmed by the number of revelers. There's little sign of social distancing and few people wearing masks. Fights have broken out and businesses have been forced to close down. At one point, the police shot pepper balls into the crowd, urging people to leave after an eight p.m. curfew came into effect.

I think it is a good idea, even though it's fine out here, like we want to be out here and have fun. No one's doing anything. People are just out here enjoying the beach. And, you know, it's a good vibe, but they want to shut it down at eight o'clock. People will go somewhere else and take their money somewhere else. And it is what it is. But going to live runneth over when it's over. Get the vaccine, get back to business and my workers are covered.

I mean, I'm not really worried about that, you know, saying like, you know, you just got to be cautious, that's all. You know, there is no guarantees with the covid thing. You know, you can get the covid from your neighborhood, your block, your building, you know, so it don't matter. You house somewhere else, like only.

Florida is one of the few US states now fully open. During the pandemic last month, the Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, declared the state an oasis of freedom from coronavirus restrictions. Tourists have descended on the area in large numbers over the past few weeks.

Most often you got to remember where you go. I have the vaccine so I can go home. I get tested for myself.

I really kind of I think, you know, officials have blamed adults rather than college students for much of the chaos. The state of emergency and nighttime curfew has now been extended for up to three weeks. Last week, Florida recorded more than 4000 new covid-19 infections a day. This is a crisis that's far from over.

Peter Bowes, our North America correspondent, espionage and home furnishing on the most common of bedfellows. But today, the French branch of IKEA, the Swedish furniture store, has gone on trial accused of spying on its staff. The prosecution described it as an elaborate system involving corrupt police officers and private investigators.

So what exactly is IKEA accused of doing? I asked our Europe regional editor, Mike Sardis.

This all dates back to practices about a decade ago. Now, what the prosecutors say is that IKEA was spending at times up to seven hundred thousand dollars a year on private investigators to sort of snoop on staff, really to find out intimate details of people who are actually working for IKEA, France and even people who are applying for jobs there. And they were going into things like bank records, quite intimate details, and even looking at partners sometimes to make sure that they had employees who weren't going to be disruptive.

And they were especially interested in people who were trade union activists. And some of the things they turned up were that were quite bizarre.

They asked one person why he could afford a BMW car and another person they were looking into because he'd recently become a kind of environmental campaigner. And that was the kind of intimate detail they were looking at.

So who exactly is on trial? Well, there are 15 people in the dock as well as from IKEA France as a legal entity itself. There are two former IKEA France chief executives and a lot of former executives as well. And I suppose the main spotlight is on a man called. He was the director of risk management. And he says that he got lists of people to be investigated from the store managers around France. And he was acting on general guidelines from the IKEA national managing director, a guy called Doyle, who denies having given him any explicit instruction to spy on people.

I think the perhaps the most worrying aspect is that in the dock or also for people who work for the police, who are alleged to have access to the police database to hand this information on employees over to IKEA, although they deny having taken money for doing so, IKEA's lawyer said organizational deficiencies did not amount to spying.

He said IKEA France had completely revamped its hiring procedures since the period under scrutiny ended in 2012, but acknowledged reputational damage to Australia. Now, where people in New South Wales must fill blighted by nature a year after devastating wildfires scorched large parts of the Australian state. It is now experiencing some of its worst flooding. For 60 years, around 18000 people have been evacuated from their homes as heavy rain continues to batter the east coast of the country.

Torrential downpours have caused rivers and dams to overflow around Sydney, and it's forecast that it's going to continue for several more days. These residents from the town of Kempsey haven't experienced flooding on this scale before.

This is a different one. We've I've been here for three or four floods, and I haven't seen this before. The river is only just starting to flood now. So that's yeah, it's a little bit scary. It has come a lot quicker than the last one. I think I was around 40. That was sort of slowly progress. But yeah, this one's getting to a point where we don't know if it's going to go like the levee is going to go over, go under.

We're just sort of up in the air with it all.

All been very unsettling, you know, right here on the water. And we've had a lot of rain. And that obviously led to that huge flow flood on Friday night. It was resided and unfortunately, that we've had around two of the high tide coming through. So at the moment, for us, it's it's a waiting game. It's the floods coming in and going out. And we're just now hoping to prepare that round three and four, which we're now expecting in the early week, and as bad as what we've already experienced.

Our correspondent Shyama Khaleel is in one of the worst affected areas. Well, the town of Windsor, northwest of Sydney, is one of the worst affected areas by the flooding. 13 metres is how high the waters have been. And, of course, the rain is just not letting up. We've been speaking to locals here who've said this area is no stranger to flooding. They've had floods before. Nothing on that level, though. 38 disaster zones have been announced.

And with more rain like this forecast for the next few days, the fear really in this area is that things will get worse before they get better. Remember that the areas that are currently impacted by the floods, many of them in south east New South Wales, have also been impacted by the catastrophic bushfires and years of drought. Before that, in one year, many of these communities, many families will have had will have been hit by the bushfires, then covid-19 and now the floods.

Gladys Berejiklian, the New South Wales premier, actually made that point earlier. And she said, I don't know any time in the state history where we have had these extreme weather conditions in such quick succession in the middle of a pandemic.

Shaima Khaleel in New South Wales. The 2013 Hollywood film Gravity starts in dramatic fashion.

It shows a field of space junk, bits of old satellite and the like, smashing the International Space Station to smithereens.

It took some liberties with the science, but the idea of that happening in reality is not entirely out of the question. Astronauts routinely carry out emergency exercises to meet the threat.

There is a lot of space debris up there and increasing numbers of satellites to bump into orbit and.

So that rocket taking off from Central Asia on the steps of Kazakhstan is there to help, a few years ago it took off and it could be carrying a solution to the problem. Our science correspondent, Jonathan Amos, tell me more about the plan.

So it will showcase a way of grabbing hold of a piece of junk and pulling it out of the sky. I know that you think, well, OK, is that straightforward? Is it complex is actually quite complex. A lot of this stuff that's up there wandering around aimlessly is tumbling. So how do you grab hold of something that is turning over and over, especially when it's quite massive? I mean, there are satellites up there that weigh several tons.

And if you try and sort of grab hold of that, if you're not careful, you'll be turned over and over with it. So first of all, you've got to track it. You've got to sort of use your senses to hone in on the on the actual thing that you want to grab hold of and then come up with a way of of actually attaching yourself. And in this instance, they're going to use magnetism. So they will attach to this other object via a magnetic plate and pull it in if it works.

Then asked to scale the company behind this will have a service that they can sell to other spacecraft operators.

That's the thing is now at the moment, SpaceX operatives in countries can just leave their junk up there. Who's going to pay for this? Why would they want to pay for it? Well, that is the question.

And I guess if you have a valuable service that you sell to people down here on Earth that is dependent on satellites up there, if you have things bashing into you and taking out your satellite, that's akin to having somebody blow up your, I don't know, your factory on Earth. You could lose your business. So it starts to become in the interests of everybody that we start to deal with this problem. And of course, you can imagine the lawyers and the insurance companies, they're all getting very interested in this as well, either because they see opportunities to make money or potentially to lose an awful lot of money.

It's a bit like the tragedy of the Commons that nobody is going to do anything until they feel they have to.

That is the sad thing. Often in these cases and there is a guideline that you should bring your spacecraft out of orbit within 25 years of end of operations. The compliance with that guideline is woeful. It really is. It's about 20 to 30 percent compliance over the past decade. We can't carry on like that. But really, people are realizing that something needs to be addressed and soon.

Jonathan Amos coming up in this podcast, How to Stay Alert at work during the night period.

We provide sleeping facilities where a controller can go for about two hours and rest because we want them to be at the very top of their game at about 5:00, 6:00 in the morning.

We hear from one profession where keeping your focus can have life or death consequences.

European Union foreign ministers have agreed to impose sanctions on China for human rights abuses against ethnic workers in Xinjiang, Beijing has responded with its own sanctions are.

Asia-Pacific editor Michael Brissenden reports.

EU ministers approved travel bans and asset freezes on four individuals and one entity, including the head of the Chinese police in Xinjiang. They were imposed because of China's detention of perhaps a million Muslim workers in reeducation camps. These are the first EU sanctions against China since an arms embargo following the Tiananmen massacre in Beijing in 1989. Immediately afterwards, Beijing announced its own sanctions against 10 individuals and four organizations in the EU, including members of the European Parliament. They'll not be allowed to enter or do business with China.

Michael Bristow, our Asia-Pacific editor. There will be a fourth election in two years for Israelis on Tuesday.

Benjamin Netanyahu hopes that this time he can break the cycle of three sets of results that have failed to give him a majority. Our Middle East correspondent Tom Bowman sent this report from a town in the Negev Desert.

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The dogs are getting longer walks these days from Rajel Salim's house. She holds up her face mask. I put this.

I know the country is open. You can do because I don't do it.

She jabs at her arm. There's one man to thank for the speedy vaccine rollout.

She says only Bibi Bibi, Benjamin Netanyahu. She's the kind of loyalest Israel's leader has relied on as the country's bitter divisions saw it lurch to its fourth election since 2019.

This, my son shows me family photos. Rahel lost her daughter in law to coronavirus last year, but now she says they're turning a corner down to Bibi Appleford amidst the telephone.

No one else has the courage to pick up the phone. Izabella the guy from Fizer, the guy from Bahrain. Whether it's peace with Arab countries, countering Iran, Korona or the economy. Don't forget, Benjamin Netanyahu works day and night.

Binyamin Netanyahu. Abed Yongala. Guidelines that say that an outside stretching class is back on for the elderly life reimagined the stunning scenery here it's Perriman is a clifftop town on the edge of a desert crater. But the visitors vanished when covid came.

I head out the tour guide, Boaz Katz, who's seen trade drop two thirds, this K-Tel is very unique with its shape. It's not symmetrical. Long ago, like most of the other craters, he used to vote Likud Mr. Netanyahu's party.

But he lost faith well before the pandemic in what they thought the Likud is representing today is not representing anything that is not ego power. So what can I say? No, it's a it's a no, no, no to Bibi and his friends. I want to live in a free democratic country.

We had back from the crater's core, Mr. Netanyahu's faced protests, a PM on trial for corruption. But like the soft rocks around here, eroded by more powerful forces, the A.B. Block's best hope so far, the former general Benny Gantz, was outmaneuvered and crumbled at the hands of the PM. The opinion polls are barely budging.

Israelis are still trying to decide the future of their longest serving leader, Tom Bateman.

Right now, here's a question for you. How do you stay alert at work? We've been addressing the problem of remaining at your best throughout the working day, or at least when it really counts. Launch Knight looks at one profession which works around the clock, where keeping your focus can have life or death consequences instead of a three.

One, two, three, one, two, one, five five. My name is Neil May. I'm the head of human factors at Nats and my role is to ensure that the performance of our controllers is as good as it possibly can be.

So does that mean there's basically a whole department here? That looks exactly the issue I wanted to ask you about? Yes, there is. There's about 25 of us.

OK, so we're walking down a long corridor here at the. Now, let me get this right from the national air traffic system.

No, and that's doesn't stand for anything these days. It used to be. And that's the way traffic services. But when we were privatised, we just became that's exactly as you would imagine with banks and banks of people sitting at radar screens. I guess watching little dots moving around. They do seem very engrossed through quiet in here. That's how we like it when it's quiet. I mean, everything's going as it should be. One thing we're very, very aware of is that a controller is more likely to have an incident when they're either very busy or they're very quiet.

That's really interesting. So there's an optimal level of business. Absolutely. And we can control that by how many aircraft we allow the controller to control at any one time.

What if during the course of the day you become aware that your focus is going? Are you allowed to ask for a break or to go take a nap?

So the longest that they can be talking to aircraft is two hours and then they have to have a 30 minute responsibility for a break.

When you say responsibility free, I mean, literally, they just go sit in the cafe. Yep. Literally that if it's mid afternoon and you're feeling a bit drowsy, can you go have a nap somewhere? Yes, we can.

So we provide quiet areas where controllers can nap for about twenty minutes. One of the big issues we have is keeping people fully alert in the middle of the night so we ensure that the temperature, the lighting and so on is consistent throughout the day. So it doesn't matter if it's day or night. It feels the same to the controller. During the night period, we provide sleeping facilities where a controller can go for about two hours and rest because we want them to be at the very top of their game at about 5:00, 6:00 in the morning when the arrivals are starting to come into Heathrow and other kind of tricks of the trade.

If you want to keep yourself alert, get through to the end of your shift. So we encourage controllers to stand up and to move their arms and their legs to talk to each other. I've also heard that listening to music can help. We definitely don't encourage listening to music. Anything that would distract them from their task we would not allow. Wow, that will wake you up. That was Lawrence Knight.

Well, from staying awake to a rather drowsy walrus last week, we brought you news of this very large animal that found itself on the coast of Ireland, thousands of kilometres from its home in the Arctic Circle.

Well, it appears it may not have been the only intrepid travel. Another one? Or is it the same? We're not quite sure at the moment. But one has been spotted off the coast of Pembrokeshire in Wales as well. Ellie West is from the RSPCA, the largest animal welfare charity in the UK, and has been off to see it.

A very unusual call that I received from our colleagues that we work closely with the Welsh Marine Life Rescue. We went to have a look and I was aware of the Arctic wolves that had pulled out last week in Southern Ireland. So although this type of call, we would have probably maybe thought a member of the public was seeing things. There was an inkling that this was quite possible and in fact, it was. And whilst it is a very unusual sight and probably something that I will never see again or any of my colleagues, it is quite a sad occurrence because we have to remember that this force is a very, very long way from from where he should be.

We're talking about a wild animal that's still very mobile, clearly a very large animal as well. So we're talking about much bigger than than are normal cells that we would usually see on a coastline in Pembrokeshire. So we usually deal with grey cells down here. And this one, although he is of a large size, he is a bit underweight. But who isn't known to be underweight? If you've had that massive journey at the moment, we don't know where he is.

Obviously, he was last seen swimming away, so we would rely on if there's any sightings to be reported. But that said, we've got to remember, we're still we're still maybe in a lockdown and having to edit rules. But the biggest thing is not disturbing him. So if he she is seen, it really is keeping disturbance to an absolute minimum.

That was Ellie West from the RSPCA. Finally, for many of you listening around the world, what do you think of British icons? You may think perhaps of the royal family, double decker buses and, yes, those red telephone boxes.

But sadly, in this age of mobile communications, that famous piece of street furniture has rather lost its purpose.

However, that's not the end of the red telephone box. British Telecom is offering communities around Britain the chance to adopt a kiosk to tell us more.

Laurence Pollard spoke to Betis, James Brown.

We still have a big estate and pay phones are not being used so much nowadays, particularly the red phone box variety, albeit some still are. And those are the ones we still keep. And that's important. And I still I still see people being photographed outside in London. People are still being used for that. And for those that are not from a telephony purpose, they don't serve a great role for us anymore. So understanding people still like having their photos outside the front of them and they're still important sort of places for people to meet and do other things.

We've put them up for adoption. And to be specific, there's a lot that individuals can adopt them. That's really for local community groups, local parishes in the UK.

So what sort of things do people do with them? Well, we insist that it has to be something with a positive social intent. So we have a process whereby people are able to adopt them, go online and do that, and then we filter the applications. And the ones that we typically like that are really doing what I say are things like libraries, food, larders is another one, small museums for local area. So people can sort of remember what the area really gives somebody something to do.

I suppose it saves you the money of it. And so now we've got a lot of listeners outside the UK, presumably. Is there any way that they could adopt a bit difficult to be a community group in the UK if you're outside the UK?

Yeah, well, regrettably, they will struggle, to be honest, because all these payphones are located obviously on UK soil and they're already in situ.

So it's very difficult to adopt answers on a postcard. Do they still exist?

Well, that was James Brown from British Telecom there, and that's all from us for now. But there will be an updated version of the Global News podcast later. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is Global Podcast at BBC, Dot UK, the studio manager. Today was Ash Taylor, the producer with Tracey Gordon, and the editor is Karen Middleton. I'm Nick Miles.

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