the mission to kill. someone took over. the headlines an r.c. the european medical agency launches a rolling review freshers sputnik fever saying you countries are receiving which. also this hour a chinese professor in the u.k. is attacked by 4 men one that what is believed to be the latest in a growing number of racially motivated to solve the victim says asian people have become targets too to the pandemic. is no surprise because because of the kind. of people like this one of the cases. dramatically. as i. started. however well intentioned they have worked the end of nations being bombed into democracy ministration says no

more u.s. backed regime change we ask why whether i would have its might. and the us government watched the fields of washington and squandered billions of dollars in afghanistan on the one to. follow they're just gone 6 o'clock and moving in moscow you watching the international. pain medicines agency has started a rolling review of the safety and efficacy of russia's sputnik the vaccine does come after a number of countries in the block have already given the job the green light with more details has done a hawk. well last year sputnik v a fact of you became the world's 1st covert vaccine after it received approval here in russia and it was a mission initially met with quite a lot of skepticism 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. 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 its high efficacy is 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 were a sport and it can be stored and transported at relatively high temperatures and thirdly cost this has 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 medan or pfizer for example and for them as sputnik has been and will continue to be quite literally a lifesaver 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 in import and distribute the vaccine among their populations and given the problems faced by the e.u. with their vaccine role articulating 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. that whole. it is then that hate crime or hate crime stories are on the rise in the u.k. with the recent incident showing a chinese professor being subjected to a racist attack by 4 men in the city of southampton the victim professor wang peng told us what happened when i was out jogging i was just you know it was around one minute walk from my home i was shot it. by using reassure sed worst from from a minute in the car on the other side they're all so i immediately shouted see you know i got there angry and i shouted back saw i have jogging salton you're not a surprisingly it day circled by and under attack me on the ground

so the pollies you know has. defied this case. racial grove a teacher you know attacked the 37 year old suffered injuries to his face an arm on suspect has arrested him really shortly after the incident and an investigation is ongoing but this is far from an isolated case of alleged racial abuse u.k. police data suggest that hate crimes against british chinese and southeast asian communities were up 300 percent in 2020 compared to the previous year professor wang says that things have escalated since the pandemic started. is not a surprise because because of the pandemic chinese and asian people also regard you know it may have been just you know predation here so the tactful isn't at people at least you know not that the case is creased dramatically for. a year of

$10.00 to $20.00 and not the physical injury can be can be healed you know or. someone or higher is noise. mental mental injury you know so as i don't feel i don't feel safe i say i used to feel bad but i have to say that i after after these attacks were so party from stronger my you know or a state and also from different the from the you're not charity groups and the people they create their fate it this the east. patriot crime. that washington has said it will no longer carry out military interventions abroad some are questioning its new commitment given america's long record of backing coups and joe biden supporting ninety's bombing if you can slavia at wapping

assesses this week in foreign policy announced by the secretary of state we will incentivize democratic behavior but we will not promote democracy through costly military interventions or by attempting to overthrow or thora tearing 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 and 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 nicholas murderer to go what's interesting is that just a day ago we actually had a tweet from anthony blinken in which he 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 juan guede 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 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. 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 mars 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 well and he blinken has repeatedly biden's america is backsliding goodness me saying there is plenty of skepticism about what exactly that means. was.

with. with. america is back. of speaking of america's seemingly never ending foreign wars has been revealed washington has wasted billions of dollars in its longest military adventure abroad the war in afghanistan the main drain on american funds turned them to be unserviceable abandoned buildings and fake overs as among the key findings of a recent report by the us government's own watchdog off the nearly $7800000000.00

in capital assets reviewed in his prior records specialist back to general for of going to stun reconstruction identified to buy a $2400000000.00 and messages that were used to rebound and had not been used for their intended purposes had deteriorated over or destroyed. the cigar report also found say that since 2008 just over $1000000000.00 if u.s. funded assets were used as originally intended well only $340000000.00 worth of equipment is quote maintained in good condition the u.s. war in afghanistan began in 2001 but despite pledges from various presidents to patrol troops from the war torn country there are still around 2500 american soldiers there brian becker from the antiwar answer coalition believes american tax dollars should have been spent better this is amazing levels of waste fraud and abuse in 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 their 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 it 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 the 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 you 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 while another report from the same government watchdog highlights the phase of an american gender equality program in afghanistan during this time $110000000.00 was spent to support the project but all of the effort the money seems to have failed at making any significant impact on afghan society despite their the apparent shortcomings 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 can't impose these western models on

countries which have a completely different culture but regardless the u.s. senate and the consecutive u.s. administrations continue to pursue these kinds of policy which would allow the seas which have book proven to be of no avail 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 trying to show that america is that one which knows the solutions for every single problem in the world that. moscow has taken on that perlin after a top german bank notified us this to channel and our video agency ruptly that their bank accounts will be used at the end of may so let's get more details and i

would joined by artist jasper has been following things for us not to get even just talk us through them this developing rabble tween russia and germany. well commerce bank a big bank in germany notified. ruptly the video agency that their accounts would be shut down by the 31st of may just out of the blue so you know our t. used to use the these hurdles from from states and the you know it's just it's just another day at sea they said out many requests other banks request to put accounts in other banks and the strangest thing happened so all of these banks either denied requests to open accounts or they just outright ignored every communication from from now you know that there are many forces in germany powerful enough to force banks not to not to do business with

a certain company or certain entities so it appears that the german government made called send out memos the bidding german banks from doing business with the t. the the russian foreign ministry has commented on the issue and it's called that it's german counterparts and berlin to come to its senses. for them we consider such early hostile treatment of media outlets including russian once foreign partners to be unacceptable they're working strictly within the scope of their legal rights abroad we view the steps aimed at closing bank accounts belonging to russian media a spot of political pressure on journalists and a blatant violation by germany of its commitment to press freedom. or outs or else the foreign ministry says it will have to do something it really doesn't want to do and that is take restrictive steps measures against german media german media which

there is plenty of working in russia including state funded german media that this is a last resort the foreign ministry says that it doesn't want to go down this path it doesn't want to set a precedent but this isn't the 1st time that russian journalists have faced hurdles manmade hurdles in the temps in their work in germany so the server there obviously they're obviously calling on the germans on berlin and the government to you know goo back in these restrictions to to roll them back unless r.t. . ruptly which is worked out of germany for many years now carry on with their business ok we'll just have to sit and wait to see what happens next thanks and that was artie's more advanced yes. the international criminal court has launched a probe into alleged war crimes by israel in palestine this includes the 24 hours of 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. the.

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 bag 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. it's probably still a visual i assure you 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 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 of the united states has been a longtime ally of israel the united states firmly opposes and is deeply disappointed by this decision the international criminal court has no jurisdiction over this matter 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 the mains to be seen is just what comes out of this investigation or a slave there will in my colleague you know and they will discuss the investigation

with naftali bennett 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 haven't they 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 weapons 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 have an israeli soldier while defending itself. of the news now amazon has seen a huge spike in sales of the classic dr seuss children's book that's after though the publisher decided to discontinue the series for containing what it says a racial stereotypes these books put 3 people in ways that were hurtful and wrong ceasing sales of these books is only part of our commitment and there are a broader plan to ensure dr seuss enterprises catalog represents and supports all communities and families the announcement that 6 books would be scrapped was made on the late author's birthday incense sale song and am isn't taking them to the top of the bestsellers list in just 24 hours well yes researches do say that several books contain examples of white supremacy and negative betrayals of asian people

including the depiction of a japanese character with a yellow face which was doing to be greatest in the study water concluded to the image of 3 asian people carrying a white person was an example of white dominance however the story of the grinch though one of dr seuss's most famous works is still available. response. to prescription music. to the glory of my shop at christmas thank. you all to step daughter supported the publishers decision but said that dr seuss didn't have a racist bone in his body editorial director of fear bullies though that the author is relative actually had little 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 let's face it 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 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 kinds of cultures being seen by some such a threat to freedom of speech that one us who like you 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 cancel concert continues unchallenged it is not just the unpopular controversial viewpoints that are at risk. a recent poll found that 64 percent of americans do agree that boycotting or removing certain types of content does pose

a threat to freedoms in the country it also concluded too that 80 percent of republicans consider cancel culture a threat while only 48 percent of democrats actually have the same opinion now the issue has been highlighted by a number of high profile cases over the past year or so in fact just last week amazon pulled a book by a conservative author that challenges the transgender movement to democratic representatives called on cable companies to stop posting conservative leaning huge channels and in 2020 an editor at the new york times resigned over an opinion piece by a republican senator 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 one things that are just i mean racism is so meant to .