the morning here this wednesday in our headlines astra zeneca covert. people refuse vaccination of. the same time as the world health organization points to drastic shortages in foreign nations but some live coming up as well from the red cross fingers. elsewhere half a 1000000 american victims. yet no mass vaccination in sight despite no real pandemic policy switch since president another less us media seem to love joe biden's little changed approach. and russia slams the u.s. for undermining free trade and fair competition after washington boasts about

european companies pulling out of the north's 3 gas pipeline project in the face of american sanctions. good morning from moscow this 24th of february watching r t international with me kevin and so those headlines and some more detail in 1st the head of the world health organization warning rich countries against restricting covert vaccine supplies to developing nations many in the e.u. are refusing western shots right now of reports of poor efficacy leaving significant numbers of new use jobs here's our europe correspondent. germany is facing a touch of cognitive dissonance when it comes to covert 19 vaccinations on the one hand politicians on the population are outraged at how slow the process of giving

a vaccine to everyone in germany has been on the other hand vaccination centers like this one here in berlin at the old airport which only gives out the astra zeneca job well they've been struggling to get people to take up the offer that some sorts a line unused because not enough people enrolling or just not turning up for their appointment this is an absurd and unbearable situation as of last friday only 10 percent of the vaccines available had been administered the astra zeneca job is only approved for use in under 60 five's in germany due to a lack of data on its effectiveness and older people it's being made available to health care staff but tales of reactions to the vaccine have seen some german states suspend its use. astra zeneca has been criticized because on the one hand it seems to be less effective than the messenger r.n.a. vaccines from beyond tech and moderna and on the other hand there have been reports

of vaccine reactions both must continue to be well monitored at this point in time however we want to vaccinate as many people as possible as quickly as possible therefore i think it is justifiable to put people who refuse to regularly licensed a vaccine like astra zeneca at the back of the vaccination order there's something quite fish out there how can we give that to vaccine and then find out a couple weeks months later that it's maybe not as efficient it was as it was promised i think this shows that the way the european union has been managing this whole vaccine campaign it was not done maybe by the professionals that were supposed to be making decisions in the 1st place i think this is something which is not normal and now it's backfiring of course we see a very small. of western europeans getting the vaccine and now we've got very big doubts on some of this vaccine manufacturers big pharma that's the cynical angle of merkel spokes person even had to put out a post on social media encouraging people to take the astra zeneca vaccine because

there's a worry that the doses germany has could end up going to waste astra zeneca succeed and that it prevents many infections and protects against serious illnesses vaccination can see. france has found itself in a similar position to germany when it comes to its citizens being unsure about the astra zeneca jab a general lack of vaccines across the european union added to growing fears about their safety i mean the 2 biggest eurozone economies germany and france vaccinated just 6 percent of their populations but the head of the world health organization wants rich countries to check before ordering more shots and made diet shortages in developing nations if there are no vaccines to buy moneys irrelevant currently some high income countries are into contracts with vaccine manufacturers

that are undermine the deals that call vioxx hours in police and reduce the number of those called box come by. we've ordered millions and millions of shares and we don't even know if these vaccines are safe and now that we've got these vaccines people don't want them so what do we do with them and be of course if some kind of trees feel safe with these vaccines are they want to definitely should should have them or sell them or i don't know a good to say that to the poor countries who can't have vaccines staying in it in. some or as some call spots refrigerated areas around the yours but again before giving them now we have to go through proper medical process and saying are they safe or no and if there are some that's inside of there which are not safe this should not only not be given to the european union but they should be given to the store and will be there i mean we're not going to give them and i was you know it was the vaccines because they're not up to our standards this would be this is christmas out of while e.u. nations the did the ring over whether or not to get one of the main vaccines that

are on offer poorer nations are running the risk of having no doses of any vaccine at all peter all over r.t. berlin which must break the heart of our next guest emmanuel coper bianco director of health 'd and care the international federation of the red cross and red crescent joining us from switzerland morning thanks for making the time today yeah u.s.b. so upset to hear this poor countries are crying out for yet we're hearing some western countries well we don't know if we want this job or not i mean surely when you're driving in the seal to get a life without you you'd think but people are thinking like that what's going wrong here how are we going to work this out to get these. over to poor nations through kovacs and stuff and is it just a big p.r. problem where do you start here solving this huge issue. first kevin thank you for having the red cross on the program indeed it's unethical that we have hundreds of

thousands of those of 'd effective and safe vaccine lying unused in the european countries when we have many else workers in the developing countries that are not getting any back seeing this is that not only unethical is extremely sad because every vaccine that is not injected in the arm of a person is a potential death due to over 1000 so we really need to accelerate the distribution of vaccines and to do that one of the critical point in europe has been mis information and mistrust not only in europe we have a lot of acting around the world and i think there's a lot of work to be done to make sure that people understand that getting a vaccine that has a 60 percent efficacy rate is a great deal everybody should be going for that vaccine as long as the vaccine is safe i think does mean demonstrate a very good tree for you so there's no reason why those people should be the thing

and not taking a vaccine they're putting themselves and their community risk besides creating problems for 2 more everyone's going through around the world are you surprised the public reaction the seems to be more and more of this of we're not sure we're going to weigh in the coat the vaccines of as you say in the various degrees of africa's a why isn't there more take up it's a pay off thing is that what's going wrong. e.-t. is a p.r. thing any it's really speaks to trust that people have 2 words the the authorities towards scientist and worse they did the medical the medical group and as you know trust is not built usually during emergency trust is built before and so there is now an effort to communicate that information better and to rebuild that trust is something that we are the red cross are trying to do on a daily basis to our volunteers that work at the community level and are trying to

listen to the concerns of people and trying to respond with the evidence that we do have available to ensure that people take not only the vaccines but take those preventive measures that are important for voiding the spread of the disease you know many people are still not wearing masks despite knowing that mass are very effective many people are still going into crowded places when they know that going to a crowded place is risky behavior and yet people just don't do it so there is a lot need to re-inforce that message and trying to to make sure that people buy into really. doing this i mean your lone voice the red cross voice isn't going to be enough here governments around the world are doing the various things then so much information coming at the public we're still not really sure are we that if you have one of these vaccines and you maybe don't fall ill with it or you still can't spread it nobody's come up with a clear answer to that because it's all up in the air is still being tested isn't it. time these vaccines are going off for how long can they be stored.

kevin for me the main point is following science and science is being clear clinical trials that we ran that there are regulatory out for it the stranger. finding out whether a vaccine is safe and whether it's effective or not and so the 1st point is following science and making sure that anything that goes out is actually scientifically proven to be effective and safe 2nd we need a concern. the efforts of media politicians and organisation of civil society like the red cross to pass that right messages to people and involving the right me. keep people in the communities the leaders in the community to ensure that people get into this it's a collective effort it's not any one. for it alone unfortunately emmanuel what we got on the royal line of course russia was their last let's put the russian thing here because it deserves it 1st in the line to get this job. the 2nd myself feeling

fine what you think about the russian effort the way that russia is chipped in around the world here the selling it around the world as well it's made a push to inoculate as many people as possible in russia as russia doesn't do you think on the one world scale i think what we have seen in in russia is certainly an important work on the development of vaccines that according to this study published in the lancet is that it's fairly it's fairly effective and then generally speaking right now we do have a problem of lack of supply in the world so why in the world of scenes that are effective and safe that are out to rise. in general is a very good thing and what i am seeing right now is that almost every week we have news of more and more vaccine is coming to destroy and that will increase the supply eventually for the entire world callbacks as a nice to make is bringing vaccines out and starting. next week we'll see more

counters pushing into low income countries in enough rekha where we have little vaccine so i. hope. there is again a clue. always says that efforts with many suppliers of vaccines don't need to create great we're just also lying to them just really briefly going to show to me just 10 seconds do you know if you've had one sort of action if you've been lucky enough to be able to have it because people are saying oh gosh i'm going to wait for a better one to come along does that preclude you from having another kind of vaccine in the future or not you know the answer to the 10th circuit i think i think you know once you get a vaccine that is effective and safe and you have you could you to get it get it because that's what we have at the moment they did more vaccine will come in the future but that's what if you get the vaccine now that he's safe and effective because it's your chance to avoid a very difficult disease any it's your chance to protect the rest of the world by taking a back and protecting yourself emanuel couple of the international federation of red cross and red crescent thank you for making the time through with us and have a good. thank you. joe biden's old all flags on

federal property meantime to be lowered to half mast to mark 500000 u.s. deaths from coronavirus but as caleb maupin reports media glowing in their praise for the president's covert approach despite little apparent difference from the previous administration. america's death toll from covert 19 is now more than a half a 1000000 that's more than world war 2 and vietnam combined biden marked the occasion with a solemn ceremony at the white house on monday that's more lives lost to this virus and any other nation on earth. but as rick knowledge the scale of this mass death in america. remember each person the life they lived on the campaign trail biden castigated donald trump for his mishandling of the pandemic he

promised that when he got into office he would turn things around he seems to have tempered expectations it did as back in january he said he was powerless to change the trajectory of covert 19 and his anti co the defense has one key aspect where maleness everyone be mandated to wear a mask mask mandates mask up mask implants or mass for god's sake. word mask if not for yourself for your loved ones well masks are proven to stop the spread of coded but is that it he's got the same advisor that trump had dr felt she now says will probably be wearing masks until 2022 do you think americans will still be wearing masks for example and 2020. you know i think it is possible that that's the case many hope that under biden massive vaccinations might save the day but so far it does not look that way in the next few months masks on facts are the

best defense against kuvin 90 biden even visited a farm a facility to show he's got a handle on things however he says that vaccines won't be available to everyone until midsummer we're now on track to have enough vaccine supply for all of our work by the end of july it seems like the amount of time that donald trump that it took the chump ministration to develop this vaccine which is record time now the by the ministration say says that will take just as much time in order to have enough doses biden has had since november to start planning his approach to quit what did he do what did he spend november december january doing well he had a stack of executive orders waiting on his desk to sign it seems bizarre because we know that there are millions upon millions of doses already out there perhaps he's just lowering expectations now you might think that mainstream media would now lash out on biden just like they did on his predecessor remember when all the deaths

were being blamed on donald trump but think again we see with president biden he's demonstrated to the country what a difference. the change of presidents has made president biden is confronting this enormous loss directly and publicly help americans heal on any front that something good so biden is uniquely qualified to do resident joe biden giving america a message tonight them and one i think the only this president president could give not the former one seems that joe biden is being judged by a different set of standards deaths are rising but he is not catching any flak oh well i guess we should all just get used to wearing masks for another year the major media isn't demanding the rollout be. suter because there are guys in office this is a media that said a vaccine would be impossible to get out in 2020 and made that happen and instead of the media focusing on what's happening with the bye to mr ration and

their vaccinations instead we're seeing stories about joe biden's dog and we're seeing stories about him playing video games with his grandchildren if donald trump was playing video games with his grandchildren at camp david it would be a national scandal 'd and they would say he has graham was blood on his hands of course joe biden's right in that he can play video games with his grandchildren at camp david and say that it's going to be til the end of july and we have another vaccinations you're the president united states make it happen that's what plenty of americans are asking but of course the media isn't asking that because it's their guy and they're going to protect him and they're going to do their brand of meat bad journalism and it's all going to be fluff and softball and human interest stories for the next you know 3 and a half years. will follow the twists and turns around the world live from russia and that you won't see this is international now coming up us democrats own efforts to. have media they want digital t.v.

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join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see that. one from moscow now moscow's question the u.s. commitment to free trade after washington bragged that more than

a dozen companies had quit russia's nord stream to gas pipeline project after american threats the u.s. state department has acknowledged that america is undermining the principles of free trade and competition subjugating market laws to its own political interests and acting in spite of the will of sovereign nations with more as a correspondent it goes down off on the growing scandal around the us response than . from the very outset the u.s. has been hell burned on do you really ignored stream to me so this time the u.s. state department has compiled and submitted a report to us congress kind of detailing the measures they have taken so far in this direction and how effective these measures have been this report by the way also comes at a very sensitive timing because the biden administration has been accused of world inaction of not being keen enough on preventing nordstrom too from coming to fruition this report is not yet available to the public but ned price the spokesman

for the u.s. state department has revealed or that some 18 companies european companies have decided to pull out of the nord stream to med u.s. pressure and when i say pressure i mean sanctions so far the united states have been sanctioning the russians while the e.u. firms have remained sort of in the clear but that's only so far this constant threat of sanctions coming from washington while it has always been and is still hanging over european firms so well 18 of them have decided that better safe than sorry and while they decided to cut ties with the project now when it comes to russia moscow as always been saying that the north that north stream too has nothing to do with with the united states that it is strictly a matter of relations between russia and europe and germany in particular because that's where the pipeline is going and all these efforts that the u.s.

has been taking russia views it as world geopolitical warfare but there's an added layer of irony to this story because remember how they said that 18 companies have decided to cut ties with nordstrom to the right and the way this information was delivered to the media by price the spokesman for the state department one might you might be misled into thinking that all of that was achieved under the under the biden administration which turns out. is not the case and it only came to light when price was confronted by a peace matley over the issue of how to listen our strategy including the legislative strategy of the strategy of course congress is has been behind has been working to good effect the point credit for the companies winding down all of this work was done of the previous administration out of all the been months mabyn all the been in office a month right are you telling me that unless i am more weeks these 18000 is all of

a sudden as always you are going to not know anything when i am speaking for all. guys are taking credit for stuff that the man who submitted i am not all i have studying for the department of state ok the people who have been working miss ok the people who are working this now wear the same people a month ago where the same people remotes ago 3 months ago. us democrat congress members meantime of the pressure on top digital and cable networks by asking them to justify their hosting of conservative t.v. channels like fox news the lawmakers letter to the head of one provider accuses him of spreading covert misinformation and promoting last month's capitol hill riots by working with the right wing stations some purported news outlets of longer misinformation rumor mill some conspiracy theory hold but that produce can't and that leads to real harm yet to our knowledge the cable satellite and over the top

companies that disseminate these media outlets to american viewers have done nothing in response to that misinformation. it's no surprise and the republican representatives are up in arms over it saying the moves as a politically motivated assault on freedom of expression. the democrats are sending a message that is as clear as it is troubling these regulated entities will pay a price if the targeted newsrooms do not conform to democrats' preferred political narratives this is a chilling transgression of the free speech rights that every media outlet in this country enjoys. and legal and media analyst lionel didn't mince his words either then the democrats moved the disturbing threats he said the constitutional values since when is this a cunt shirt at home like. what if they say something that is wrong to live with it on there's always something wrong who says it's wrong who says it's

misinformation the next time your spouse or a partner or a lover or relative if they say listen i want to talk to you as he knelt i don't want to talk to you why because you spout misinformation when you listen to the ad so why the name of god do we put up with this nonsense we are looking at it complete and total disintegration of the 1st amendment and freedom of speech because now we're saying oh no no no we want you to speak we just don't want to hear misinformation disinformation and bad information conspiracy theories unfounded who decides that since when is that a disqualifier of the dissemination of information my god i'm telling you right now you're not going to believe this but i'll bet you somewhere someplace somebody might think that what you and i are saying is descend from asian so what do we do

shut us down if you don't like it go someplace else or clarify it this is the most frightening i have ever seen ever. and to hear that from lionel ok let's get away from the troubles of the day's news take to the skies next to the pets k.v.a. sion center of western russia trains top military pilots and is given r t unique chance to test its high tech gear up a valid for 1st in the queue belted up and took control. if you believe peds k.v.a. sion center is a school of excellence is to teach pilots in the air force the most difficult types of flight training young lieutenants are told he had to fly the new and modernized aircraft that are now entering sadness in russia everything related to modern military aviation is important here therefore while undergoing training pilots are

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