Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm Krupa Bhatti.
In a moment, we're going to be taking a look at the US decision to stop funding for mRNA vaccines.
Now, these are the vaccines which were successfully developed during the COVID pandemic.
What are the implications of this move?
Also, it is the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima.
We're going to be hearing from survivors of that devastating nuclear bomb.
And why female gorillas value... new relationships with other females.
It has often been assumed that females, gorillas,
will not invest so much in those relationships because why invest in a relationship
if you or the other member might just emigrate?
And here we're showing that dispersal does not have to be the end of the social relationships.
Actually, they can, you know, maintain old relationships as well as create new relationships.
More on that story in around 20 minutes time.
But first,
the COVID-19 pandemic brought to light many gaps and many concerns in our global healthcare systems,
among them the need for fast and effective vaccine development during public healthcare emergencies.
It was the mRNA vaccines developed at speed by scientists and pharmaceutical companies that became the main drivers in saving millions of lives and curbing the spread of COVID-19.
the US Department of Health and Human Services has announced plans to wind down its mRNA vaccine development activities,