Hello and welcome. The European Union has backtracked this hour in a row with the United Kingdom over the export of Coronavirus Vaccines. Earlier, brussels introduced new controls giving Member States the power to block vaccines being sent abroad. Then to reinforce that, it announced the invoking of a clause in the brexit deal that would reinstate border checks between the eu and Northern Ireland, in Effect Stopping Vaccines entering the u k by the back door. It all underlines how sensitive the distribution of vaccines has become as nick beake reports. Throughout the week, this post brexit battle between the eu and a british based Vaccine Maker has been intensifying. European countries are demanding that astrazeneca delivers all the jabs they ordered, even if it means taking them from the uk supply. It all hangs on the contract the two sides signed thats now been released, although with parts blanked out. Astrazeneca says it agreed to do its reasonable best. The eu insists it was a leg
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created by the belfast and st andrews agreements has been impacted by the agreement made by the united kingdom government and the european union, which created the northern ireland protocol. it means the power sharing executive in northern ireland will cease to function. decision making affecting thousands of people s lives on hold. for some time this storm has been on the horizon. the new border checks on goods which cross the irish sea represent for unionist parties a deep betrayal and a threat to their position in the uk. last night, the dup ordered civil servants to stop carrying out these checks but there s disagreement over whether that order is lawful. well, ideally businesses, we don t want any checks on goods coming from great britain into northern ireland and we really want minimal administration as well. what we are calling for is both the eu and uk to come down and negotiate it out.
michelle 0 neill of sinn fein, also loses her position. 0ur ireland correspondent emma vardy is in belfast. political paralysis returns to stormont, something the dup have been threatening since last year. today, as the first minister stepped down, it was delivered. 0ur institutions are being tested once again, and the delicate balance created by the belfast and st andrews agreements has been impacted by the agreement made by the united kingdom government and the european union, which created the northern ireland protocol. it means the power sharing executive in northern ireland will cease to function, decision making affecting thousands of people s lives on hold. for some time, this storm has been on the horizon. the new border checks on goods which cross the irish sea represent, for unionist parties, a deep betrayal and a threat to their position in the uk. last night, the dup ordered civil servants to stop carrying out these checks, but there s disagreement over whether that order i