one of the. ways of attacking the body to deplete the body even more of that chemical which we need to fight infections. headlines in r.t. the european medical agency launches a rolling review of russia. saying. these tactics in the past however well intentioned haven't worked the end of nations being bombed into democracy ministrations says no more u.s. backed regime change we ask whether old habits die hard and the u.s. government watchdog group feels that washington has squandered billions of dollars in the. maintenance. poll finds that 64 percent of americans believe that cancer culture poses a threat to freedom and we put the a shake up that. we have to keep in mind that people want ideologies

that simply should no longer exist well i would hate to live in a world where one people or heck even a group of people got to decide what was and wasn't racist and therefore what was and was not acceptable. for the well can you watching our international just go on that 5 o'clock in the afternoon. now the european medicines agency has started a rolling review of the safety and efficacy of russia's vaccine it comes after a number of countries in the bloc have already given the job the green light so let's get more on this now go to our correspondent dan hawkins is across the story 1st good afternoon dan just give us more details then on this rolling review and its significance well last year sputnik very effectively became the world's 1st vaccine after it received approval here in russia and it was initially met with quite a lot of. this isn't by western countries and media largely to do with the question

of how quickly such a vaccine could have been developed it appeared on the russian market just the fact that really months after the pandemic began in earnest fast forward around 8 months and that situation is pretty much gone full circle the latest news that the european regulator is now launching this rolling review of the russian produced a vaccine now what exactly does that mean the regulator will be assessing the data published by the government to institute the producers of the vaccine in various prominent international journal such as the lancet and assessed that in line with e.u. standards to do with safety with effectiveness and with quality this process could take anything from one number of weeks to a number of months probably closer to the latter the estimate is around june for a yes or no answer as to whether it will receive that approval now given the politicization of the vaccine question which really has affected the distribution of the sport that we've actually worldwide this news coming in from europe can only

be a good thing as stated by the head of the investment fund here in russia are responsible for backing the sport make the vaccine. vaccine partnerships should be above politics and cooperation with the enemy is a perfect example of demonstrating that pulling efforts is the only way to end the pandemic following e.m.e.a. approval we would be able to provide vaccines for 50000000 europeans starting from june 2021. v. has already been approved in around 40 countries across the world from the middle east africa south america asia many countries have chosen to go with the russian vaccine for several reasons one it's high efficacy it's going to efficacy of over 90 percent secondly the ease of storage and transportation and some of the other vaccines that have been mass produced so far require a deep freeze in order to do that we're a sport that can be stored and transported at relatively high temperatures and thirdly cost this is been especially important for developing countries many of

whom have been unable to afford the high price of some of the western made vaccine such as pfizer for example and for them sputnik has been and will continue to be quite literally a life saver so despite of a lack of an e.u. wide approval as of yet there have been countries within the european union who have broken ranks such as hunger research or slovakia which have already approved vaccines for the sputnik vaccine for their populations the czech republic which has expressed an interest in doing so as well and of course the final stage will be an approval from the regulator which will mean that all 27 member states can import and distribute the vaccine among their populations and given the problems faced by the e.u. with their. distribution issues supplier problems legal wrangling over imports and export the public skepticism this can only be a good thing that's confirmed of course by the w.h.o.

european director who said that any expansion of that you use vaccine portfolio would be a step forward in bringing this pandemic to an end. ok let's hope all that happens thanks for the update that was down hawkins reporting. now washington has said it will no longer carry out military interventions abroad but some are questioning its new commitment given america's long record of backing and joe biden supporting nato bombing if you can tell a whopping assesses now this switch in foreign policy announced by the secretary of state we will incentivize democratic. but we will not promote democracy through costly military interventions or by attempting to overthrow oratory regimes by force we've tried these tactics in the past. however well intentioned they haven't worked quite an interesting use of words but the pattern from the united states of intervening in the affairs of other countries destabilizing and

overthrowing governments around the world is quite well known one looks at the history of iraq of libya afghanistan one looks throughout south and central america one can see many examples of the united states intervening in other countries affairs destabilizing and overthrowing governments in fact in recent years we've heard many calls from u.s. leaders for governments around the world to be overthrown and for leaders to step down assad needs to go we will continue to work with our partners in the international community to press. the to leave the time has come for nicolas maduro to go what's interesting is that just a day ago we actually had a tweet from anthony blinken in which she gave full support to one guede 01 grade 0 is an individual in venezuela who has proclaimed himself to be the president and has been engaging in violent attempts to destabilize venezuela to overthrow the elected government there of even u.s.

military contractors that have been involved in those military coup attempts so having anthony blinken you know you know voicing support for one great oh the unelected individual who claims to be venezuela's leader kind of flies in the face of his claim that the united states won't be using force now if there was one loophole you could say in anthony blinken remarks he did create a pretext in which the united states would be continuing to use force against governments of course we will never hesitate to use force when american lives and vital interests are at stake now what exactly would constitute such a threat he did not lay out any specific criteria so it seems that though the united states through its new secretary of state is announcing that no more force will be used many wonder if this will see. embley bia a changing of rhetoric looks like the united states will most likely be continuing its foreign policy activities but only time will tell he did leave that huge

loophole where he said vital interests vital interests can mean almost anything are the moon you name it it could be a vital interest to america if a politician wants to say that's the case you know trump certainly had his own style that was very bombastic and out there and other presidents have been more reserved in their or in their description of activities but when you look at the actual policies we've seen no change and i think it sounds like rhetoric not something that we can count on yet you know president trying started a trade war with china and now president biden's talking about well we're going to cooperate with other countries but we're also going to have trade agreements that protect our workers and do this and that which in the end probably means the exact same policies as a national trade war so i don't see biden tearing up a lot that is substantial i see him rebranding a lot of the same old thing but on the brink and has repeatedly echoed joe biden's

america is back slogan and as we've heard some a skeptical about what exactly is. the was was. was. was america is back. was. was.

or speaking of america's seemingly never ending for most it has been revealed the washington wasted billions of dollars in its longest military adventure abroad the war in afghanistan the main drain on american funds turned out to be unserviceable or abandoned buildings and vehicles among the key findings of a recent report by the us government's own watch took off the nearly $7800000000.00 in capital assets reviewed in his prior reports specialists back to general for afghanistan reconstruction identified to buy a $2400000000.00 and assets that were used to rebound and had not been used for their intended purposes had deteriorated over or destroyed the report also found say that since 2008 just over 1000000000 dollars of u.s. funded assets were used as originally intended well and 340000000 dollars worth of

equipment is quote maintained in good condition the u.s. war in afghanistan began back in 2001 but despite pledges from various presidents to withdraw troops from the war torn country there is still around $2500.00 american soldiers that brian becker from the antiwar believes american tax dollars should have been better spent. this is amazing levels of waste and fraud and abuse and perhaps that you have $2400000000.00 of equipment that's no longer available to be used buildings that were constructed in can't be used because they're in disrepair but this is reflective of how the afghan war has gone from the beginning hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent and i would say tens of billions of dollars have either been looted by american military personnel or they're elway's in afghanistan or the money has been completely

disregarded so it's fraud and it's abuse the reality is the american government the congress passes these giant military budgets almost a trillion dollars a year and there's no accountability at but if you have these huge bundles of money available to be spent then there's an incentive to make a contract with someone who's going to build a building and perhaps not really build it or build a building that's not needed take some of the money in the form of profit and give it to goes who made the contract for them in other words a kickback this is a big system of criminal activity and it is a form of corruption but because it's in the name of national security in the name of defense no one asks important questions. well another report from the same government watchdog has highlighted the failures of an american gender equality program in afghanistan during this time $110000000.00 were spent to support the

project but all the effort and money seems to have failed at making any significant impact on afghan society despite the apparent shortcomings though the conclusion of this report is that the program should continue u.s. foreign policy expert on the risks says that washington has failed time and again to see when something is clearly not working there is this. a lack of understanding of the local culture you call to impose these western models on countries which have a completely different culture but regardless the us certainly the consecutive us signals trajan's continue to pursue these kinds of policy which would also use which are to proven to be looking who are viable i think this could be described as a somewhat psychological mindset or a psychological problem the us continues to stick to policy despite the fact that these policies have proven to be utter failures i think it's

a kind of at the if you would like addiction of american supremacy tried to show that america is that one which knows the solutions for every single problem in the world the. international criminal court has launched a probe into alleged war crimes by israel in palestine this does include the 2014 gaza war which was one of the deadliest conflicts between the 2 sides. the decision to open an investigation full of the painstaking preliminary examination undertaken by the office that lasted close to 5 years our central concern must be for the victims of crimes both palestinian and israeli arising from the long cycle of violence and insecurity that has caused deep suffering and despair on all sides kwaku.

in february the trial chamber of the international criminal court determined that the hague court has jurisdiction for opening a criminal investigation into the activities of israel and the hamas leadership for alleged war crimes in east jerusalem gaza and the west bank the palestinians have said that this is a victory for the victims they say it's a landmark historic decision but as expected the israelis for some time has been campaigning against precisely what was announced today back in february the israeli

prime minister benjamin netanyahu had this to say when the i.c.c. investigates israel for fake war crimes this is pure anti-semitism. as promised a residual sure we will fight this barrage of justice with our might what this means is that hundreds of israelis could find themselves out on the wrong side of the law and we're talking here about the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu right on to his ministers and even ordinary soldiers the country's defense minister benny gantz has said that he's never been afraid of crossing over in the lines and this announcement doesn't make him feel for either the united states has been a longtime ally of israel and when the former president donald trump was in power he sanctioned the international criminal court after a tried to open an investigation in the palestinian territories now however under his successor joe biden it is possible that there is pressure to lift the sanctions

and of course israel is lobbying against this what remains to be seen is just what comes out of this investigation that was born a slave that will be my colleague you know neil discussed the investigation of the bennett is israel's former defense minister and current candidate for prime minister. this is a perversion of justice of any basic morals you know when one side or another the 2nd side has a right to self-defense the court is not a court you know they call it the i.c.c. i view it the international circus of clowns let me tell you something you know i thought in quite a few wars defending my family come us shoots rockets at israeli from within hospitals within homes within schools and then when we want to fight back then this i.c.c. thing tells us that we're immoral and you are saying that the militants were based

in hospitals and schools but by firing bach were actually schools and nurses and doctors where working civilians were killed there is very much a sense of proportionality to be to be held here isn't there an israel did not. is there you know if if someone is shooting your kids your kids from within the school how proportional are you going to react well there's a sense of self defense of course i agree with but in terms of doing that do you not prolong the war on the victims in israel as well as palestine making it even worse for future generations surely there's a stage where you have to say listen we're going to go after these people but we're not going to try to kill as many civilians as we did before oh no you're distorting things we never are out to kill civilians being killed. oh they've been killed by their own government hamas which places rockets next to their children so yes let

me but you know if your rep and ever places rockets from within civilians he is murdering his own people not israel there's an evil side that is an attack in there's a good side that's defending and the only side that holds any responsibility is the offender let me be very clear you know if there is a list of people. or going to the ha going to be at the top of the list we will never be hands of an israeli soldier while defending itself. once more to come this hour including the sales of dr seuss children's books skyrocket often the publisher drops 6 of them over racial stereotypes have a look at the details of the store's history site to come and a couple of. shows

seem wrong. just don't call. me. yet to shape out this day to educate and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is on offer and spearing dramatic developments only really going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

again now amazon has seen a huge spike in sales of the classic dr seuss children's books that after the publisher decided to discontinue the series for containing what it says a racial stereotypes these books portray people in ways that were hurtful and wrong ceasing sales of these books is only part of our commitment and our broader plan to ensure dr seuss enterprises catalog represents and supports all communities and families the announcement that 6 books will be scrapped was made on the late author's birthday incense sales those soaring and amazon taking them to the top of the bestsellers list in just 24 hours now u.s. research is to say that several books contain examples of white supremacy and negative portrayals of asian people including the depiction of the japanese

character with a yellow face which was deemed to be racist while the study also concluded to been an image of 3 asian people carrying a white person was an example of white dominance however the story of the grinch one of dr seuss's most famous works is still available. first christmas. first post. i. think. the author's stepdaughter supported the publisher's decision but did say that doctors these didn't have a racist bone in his body at the stroke director with beliefs that the office relative had no option. all this has been manufactured to the point where of course she's probably going to say something like that because it's the smart thing to say so that long term it doesn't damage the dr seuss brand going forward to that

face that i mean that's their family's moneymaker they don't want to get canceled the imagery that people are are kind of harking on and making a big deal about i guess could be considered by people who are extremely sensitive and probably looking for something to be upset about but i but again i think that this is an example of you know 1st world problems let's call it that when you've got nothing else to worry about than did this is what you're going to focus on kind of nonsensical stuff and i think that the cancel culture the p.c. police we live in a time of phony outrage maybe i'm a little bit different maybe just whatever and i don't know if it's the way that i'm wired but i don't personally find offense to it but then again i don't walk around online watching t.v. walking the streets looking for something to be offended by you know to me that's

not really you know. something that we should be upset about like you know the anti-semitism of the 1930 s. in germany is something that merits outrage dr seuss's books do not somehow he goes from being this great children's all sir that you know cream up with these great stories that have you know provided wonder to children for years to being some sort of odd nazi or something. arises cycle comes from cultures being seen by some to such a threat to freedom of speech that one he less rule maker is not calling on congress to address the issue. council culture is a dangerous phenomenon whether you agree or disagree with the views been censored if cancer cancer continues unchallenged it is not just the unpopular controversial viewpoints that are at risk now a recent poll has found that 64 percent of americans agree that boycotting or removing certain types of content does pose a threat to freedoms in the country it also concluded to that 80 percent of

republicans consider cancel code for a threat while only 48 percent of democrats also have the same opinion now the issue has been highlighted by a number of high profile cases over the past year or so last week amazon pulled a book by a conservative author that challenges the transgender movement earlier to democrat representatives called on cable companies to stop posting conservative leaning news channels and then in 2020 an editor at the new york times resigned over an opinion piece by a republican senator advocating the use of military force in protests we've got views on both sides of the argument. the problem with cancell culture is that when we're looking into people's past 20 years ago 30 years ago in some cases what does it look like holding people responsible now for things that they have done i mean almost a generation ago can't people change can't people become better people as time goes on council culture does not allow for that have i said things that i think you know

in 20 years maybe you'll look and say oh you should have said that well that's true and it makes us all need to be more mindful of how we conduct ourselves and what we say it's not ok to just speak so freely about people of different colors of different races socioeconomic status or handicaps we need to be mindful that our society has locals of so many types of people there are of course racist people out there is the best way to change their minds and improve race relations to simply silence anyone who goes against the narrative or should we actually be doing more to engage with those people and maybe explain why their actions might hurt others or try to change their opinions how many people have had their mind changed by being silenced it just doesn't seem like a long term strategy that will work our society has largely built on greyson's of our society is largely built for on things that are just and racism to some integrity to who america is that to strip people that racism seems anti

american and so on who have people who want a little better instead she's all know this with my great great grandfather well i'll take with her great great grandfather that black people were from some who are being and that they should have rights so you know we have to keep in mind that you have a lot of people holding on to ideologies that simply should no longer exist well i would hate to live in a world where one people or heck even a group of people got to decide what was and wasn't racist and therefore what was and was not acceptable in the public sphere that goes just intrinsically against the concept of freedom of expression which is essential if you hope to have a culture in a society where different people with different. indians can actually live peacefully together we're not going to continue to coddle racism in america and that's simply not the role that we we should probably take it's best that we began to doubt all of the structures that are harmful whether they are on facebook or a mine in a park it's time to take those down and move forward and either you're with us or

you're not watching us international thanks for company today so that's how things are looking more from us in half an. since it other than. pay them is only. about the human. rights. clock effects you're not just the type to use a punishment to me in the next just tons of mom i'm going to have a. few ties and few get in though it is a. little to melt down with them it wouldn't get us on those. is your media a reflection of reality. in

a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation whole community. are you going the right way or are you being so. direct. was his fate. in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a maybe in the shallows. the or tactics that can be used to get innocent people to confess to crimes they didn't commit i don't even think people in the us really get that the police are allowed to lie to you the person who falsely confessed actually came to believe the lie

that they were told about their own behavior once a false confession is taken the case is closed and nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession then one that isn't. this is boom bust one business show you can't afford a number to bore in washington coming up in the wake of fresh u.s. sanctions that russia has vowed to retaliate we take a look at into the impact of sanction efforts around the globe plus more optimism has risen in the fight against copa 19 as president biden claims there will be enough vaccines available for all u.s. adults by may we'll catch you up on all believe.