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World Business Report: First broadcast 04/03/2021 22:32 GMT : Italy blocks AstraZeneca vaccine exports to Australia

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First broadcast 04/03/2021 22:32 GMT : Italy blocks AstraZeneca vaccine exports to Australia

Italy blocks AstraZeneca vaccine exports to Australia

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Italy has blocked the export of an AstraZeneca vaccine shipment to Australia.

The Italian government has blocked the export of an Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine shipment to Australia. The BBC's Theo Leggett explains what's behind the row, and International Chamber of Commerce's John Denton tells us just what the global cost vacinne nationalism might be. Also in the programme, the US has suspended tariffs on Scotch Whisky and other UK products put in place over a dispute about EU subsidies to Airbus, Michael Bilelli from the Wine and Spirts Wholesalers of America tells us how bad the tariffs hit whisky sales there. The Moscow Metro plans to implement facial recognition technology for people to pay fares by the end of this year. Ksenia Idrisova is cyber-security specialist at BBC Monitoring, and explains why many people are opposed to the move. Plus, continuing our series looking at the impact of the pandemic on people's mental health, Nigerian artist Ken Nwadiogbu discusses his hyper-real art, and how it has become a form of therapy for the issues he faces. 

(Picture: A syringe being filled with a dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. Picture credit: EPA.)

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