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World Business Report: First broadcast 26/02/2021 22:32 GMT : US house set to approve $1.9 trillion stimulus

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First broadcast 26/02/2021 22:32 GMT 

First broadcast 26/02/2021 22:32 GMT : US house set to approve $1.9 trillion stimulus

US house set to approve $1.9 trillion stimulus

BBC World Service - World Business Report, US house set to approve $1.9 trillion stimulus

US house prepares to pass President Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus package

The US House of Representatives prepares to pass President Biden's $1.9 trillion economic stimulus package to help provide support during the Covid-19 Pandemic, we speak to  the Wall Street Jounal's Christine Peterson about what new measures the bill includes.  And we hear from Adar Poonawalla, chief executive of the world's largest vaccine maker, Serum Institute of India, about the role the company is playing in getting coronavirus jabs shipped around the world.Also in the programme, three decades after the cult classic Eddie Murphy film Coming to America was released, a sequel will be screened on Amazon Prime from next week. We ask South African actor Nomzamo Mbatha, who stars in the new production, how the west's portrayal of Africa has changed since the 80s. Plus Pokemon hits 25, we find out just how the creature collecting game has kept everyone catching 'em all for so long 

(Picture: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi holds a press conference. Picture credit: EPA.)

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