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Trials to test combination of AstraZeneca and Sputnik vaccines

UK and Russian scientists are teaming up to trial a combination of vaccines

UK and Russian scientists are teaming up to trial a combination of the Oxford-AstraZeneca and Sputnik V vaccines to see if protection against Covid-19 can be improved. Mixing two similar vaccines could lead to a better immune response in people. And the WHO has announced its secured nearly a billion doses of the leading jabs for low and middle income countries.

EU leaders have agreed on a more ambitious 55% goal for cutting greenhouse gases by 2030. We get reaction from Mark Breddy of the environmental organisation Greenpeace in Brussels. And we find out how challenging the target will be for Poland, which is home to around half of all coal workers in the EU, from Robert Tomaszewski, an energy analyst at Polityka Insight in Warsaw.

Also in the programme, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Manuela Saragosa finds out why the UK's ambition to ban live animal exports after Brexit could be difficult to achieve.

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