Do I see Switzerland in that list of shame - aren't they landlocked!!!!

As we mentioned earlier, the Trump administration has indicated it will not be joining a WHO-backed coalition of 172 countries to share equitably any future vaccines against Covid-19 – and this has got some experts worried.
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) is one of the organisations supporting the initiative, called Covax, which plans to buy and distribute fairly some two billion doses of any vaccine in 2021.

Richard Hatchett, who heads CEPI, told the AFP news agency he is worried that the US, as well as other rich nations, are already reserving the first doses for themselves – at the expense of other countries.
"What we need to persuade global leaders is that as a vaccine becomes available in these initially limited quantities, it needs to be shared globally, that it shouldn't be the case that just a handful of countries get all of the vaccine that is available in the first half of 2021," he said.

The Trump administration said on Tuesday it would "continue to engage our international partners to ensure we defeat this virus". But it has signed contracts guaranteeing at least 800 million doses from six manufacturers which, Hatchett said, puts the US "potentially in a situation of oversupply if all of the vaccines that they've invested in are successful".

"By resolving these proceedings, Daimler avoids lengthy court actions with respective legal and financial risks," the company said.

"By resolving these proceedings, Daimler avoids lengthy court actions with respective legal and financial risks," the company said.

Mustn't upset our profits

Those included payments the firm made to healthcare companies and doctors to encourage prescribing the drugs, which were ultimately paid for by public health programmes.

But critics of the plan want to see the company sold and greater effort made to recover money from the Sackler family. Court documents revealed last year that the family had transferred more than $10bn out of the company between 2008 and 2017, as scrutiny of its conduct increased.

"They say it's for maintenance, but it's never been maintained since the 70s."
Debbi-Jayne Challenger, of Little Ouse, estimated there were nearly 200 people in the vicinity who used the bridge, including farmers, who carried out the "odd repair".

In terms of bridges it is quite young - near where I live there are quite a few bridges that are well over double that age....

"I don't think it can really be fixed," he says. "As long as accountancy firms are paid by the companies they audit, and they also then throw in a bit of a consultancy, there is a conflict of interest. Nobody's going to bite the hand that feeds them."
He says that the best solution would be to have a state body audit the largest companies, just as HMRC oversees the auditing of tax collection.
"I think it matters, because we rely upon auditors to make corporations publicly accountable. And that matters, not only to investors in the stock market, but also to employees, about the safety of their pension schemes and to creditors."

Ms Kumari, like many others looking for work in the wake of corporate failure, says the blame of the collapse of BHS should lie with its bosses. But she wonders what auditors knew - or could have asked - about the company's books before the end.

BT Sport and Sky Sports reportedly want the pay-per-view model to be scrapped because of concerns about the damage it is doing to their reputation.

"You are not of positive good character. Your offending occurs against a backdrop of successive bankruptcies," he said.

"We do not understand why, as late as June, government was still making direct awards of contracts sufficiently lucrative as to enable these sorts of profits to be made," Jolyon Maugham, the project's director told the BBC.

They added: "(DHSC) Proper due diligence is carried out for all government contracts, and we take these checks extremely seriously."

This demand is based on what Mr Timms and others would regard as a moral obligation from the Greens who have huge wealth based on a £1.2bn dividend Sir Philip took from Arcadia and paid to his wife, tax-free in 2005.

"Given how prominently Arcadia brands feature in its stores, the downfall of Sir Philip Green's empire was always likely to leave Debenhams' rescue deal hanging by a thread."