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feel. of. the u.s. government watchdog washington. wherever you're churning in from across the globe this hour welcome. to our team international mining pleasure your company. the european medicines agency has started a rolling review into the safety and efficacy of the vaccine it comes after a number of countries in the bloc already given the job the green light. takes us through. 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 a 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 action 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 we actually are completely open and we believe that sort of barriers of mistrust and different lobbying efforts against you we see you will not succeed in the face of more really 0 but we all know which is the road to save lives of people and i think more and more politicians understand rather than trying to you know be a cult who'll get the choice of it seems it's much better to actually. by the way we also appreciate greater support where you go from chancellor. all of the all earlier introduce you to help us originally. you know as the crawl

also has been very helpful and so does the grid delegation. of course who is you know really very or host on but it seems to be above and beyond all its use so we actually see major european leaders actually in very dramatic and the standards of genius actually would breach between russia and europe. 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 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 rowland's occluding 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. that you use vaccine portfolio would be

a step forward in bringing this pandemic to an end. we've heard from karylle dimitri of who is the c.e.o. of the russian direct investment fund which is bucking the sputnik of the job he shared his thoughts on the e.u. approval process. russia's most insisting on supplied sleep seen we hear few demand is really very significant so we're working on the it was found trees the locals really want a russian vaccine. because strangers 30 mile imported from lesions of the full tuition of more than 132000000000 so we have major demand quality seen and that is up to us to see easy ones don't need us part of their big scene strategy if so what the role of it will play there but without complaint open and that we will work very closely with the me to provide them with all of the information and we are also looking forward to preserve visits and production facilities of wood because

well. we already see that several countries like hungary in slovakia are already approved as would hear directly we have been approached by several other nations and it's very important is that you know when to cool slews directly through the multiplier late in your review legions you need you so you actually clarified for a time period slovakia really followed the exact procedure this is so you can do it in peace with emergency health situations which will be a sleepover that just so it's up to the regulator to decide on climate change. we need to make sure that people have a choice of which scenes and of orders different agencies need to grow their save but it's very important most polluted choice is that people deserve to tell all the different technology is different because. because you know we're based from human though i don't think knowledge we believe has been proven to be saved for decades and many people will choose specifically this human in the bottle to told you

because of. a chinese university professor has been subjected to what he's described as a racist attack by 4 men in the city of southampton in southern england the victim professor hwang pang told us what happened. but i was out. i was just you know it was around the one minute walk from my home and was shot it. by using reassure sed. from from a minute the car on the other side that they're all saw at the meet at the you know i got there and greet and i shot it back so far then i kept jogging salton you know they they surprise in the it day circled by and under attack me on the underground saw the pollies you know has. been the 5 days the face i saw.

racial a probate you know attack me 37 year old suffered injuries to his face and arm one suspect was arrested released shortly after the incident on investigation is on going it is far from an isolated case of alleged racial abuse in the u.k. of late police data suggests that hate crimes against british chinese and south east asian communities were up to 300 percent in 2020 compared to the previous year 1st or wang say things have escalated since the pandemic started. it is not a surprise because because of the pandemic chinese and asian people also regard you know we have more than just you know relationship here so the tactful asian people at least you know not the case is increased dramatically for. a year of $10.00 to $20.00 and not the physical injury can be can be healed you know.

someone or higher is a annoys the. 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 risky and also from different different the you're not charity groups and the people they create they hate it this is just. patriot crime. it's been revealed the u.s. has wasted billions of dollars in its longest military adventure abroad the war in afghanistan the main drain on american funds turned out to be on serviceable or abundant buildings and vehicles that's among the key findings of a recent report by the u.s. government's own what. of the nearly $7800000000.00 in capital assets reviewed in

his prior report special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction identified about $2400000000.00 in assets that were used to riband and had not been used for their intended purposes had deteriorated or were destroyed. well the sigur report also found that since 2008 just over $1000000000.00 of the us funded us sets were used regionally intended only $340000000.00 worth of equipment is quote maintained in good condition the u.s. war in afghanistan began in 2001 but the spy pledges from various presidents to withdraw troops from the war torn country there are still around 2500 american soldiers there brian becker from the antiwar unser coalition believes american tax dollars could have been better spent this is amazing levels of waste fraud and abuse and perhaps. 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 all 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 allies in afghanistan or that 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 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 to 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 a nother report from the same government watchdog has highlighted they feel years of american gender equality programs in afghanistan let's go through this briefly at the last that are around 11 years and 110 $1000000.00 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 the conclusion of the report is that the program should continue u.s. foreign policy expert on the risk ses washington has repeatedly failed 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 us senate and the consecutive us cygnus trajan's continue to pursue these kinds of policies which would allow the seas which of the 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 should if you would like addiction of american supremacy trying to show that america is that one which knows the solutions to every single problem in the world since taking over the oval office in january joe biden's been broadcasting the end merica is box little then we took the liberty to imagine what

that could actually mean for the rest of the world bearing in mind the not so peace loving track record of many of the president's top stouffer's. america is back.

moscow has taken aim at berlin after a top german bank notified our sister channel or t.v. dortch the video agency ruptly about their bank accounts are going to be closed off the end of may or senior correspondent rough guess the it has more. so both r.t. and ruptly the video agency were notified at the same tab that their accounts at commerce bank would be getting shut down out of the blue by the 31st of may this is all happening by the way exactly one month after he announced that its launch an r g deutsche which is a german language channel belonging to the r.t. family now. efforts to gag to shut up. a

daily thing undaunted they send out all these requests to other bags to open an account and the strangest thing happens because all of these banks they either did neither qwest rejected or just ignore all communications from see that the only reasonable explanation is that someone made phone calls a lot of them sent out memos and there aren't many forces in germany capable of dictating to the banks who to do business with the new to blacklist but the german government the russian foreign ministry has come out and commented on the issue and they're calling they've besieged the german counterparts and burleson to come to their senses which of them we consider such early hostile treatment of media outlets including russia wants my foreign partners to be an acceptable they're working strictly within the scope of their legal rights a brillant we knew 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 the russian foreign ministry added russia will have no choice but to do something it doesn't want to do which is take measures equal restrictions apply equal restrictions to the work and operation of german media in russia which there is plenty of including state funded german media that this is a lot. resort and this is something that russia doesn't want the one to do but it says there's been a patent history of discrimination and hurdles man made rules set up to slow the work of russian media in germany so this is why the russian foreign ministry is calling them germany again come to its senses. denmark has stripped almost 100 syrian refugees of their residency permits seeing this

should return home know that major parts of the country including the capital are considered safe the danish immigration minister insists they had been quote open and honest from the start that this would happen we have made it clear to the syrian refugees that their residence permit distemper it it can be withdrawn that protection is no longer needed well it is a historic move denmark's the 1st european nation to make such progress in regards to syrian refugee movements the government the 94 migrants whose asylum permits have been revoked will be sent to danish deportation camps they will be forced to leave from their doubts in the hope they'll want to go back to syria eventually on their own accord now the move is a part of the ruling party's aim to have 0 asylum seekers applying for residence that is a left wing party by the way human rights groups have lashed out at the. that the

danish government is seeking to force people back into the hands of this brutal regime is an appalling affront to refugee law and people's right to be safe from persecution. let's welcome on to the program curry she author of minority rights consultant speaking to us from copenhagen you're very welcome. i was just going through with their inner peace the refugees were made aware that this was the plan all along that is what senior ministers in the government are saying in any case was this not what the syrians themselves wanted to return home as soon as they actually heard. first of all thank you for the negation sure. if i can give you a little bit back room so that people understand the whole issue i've been there now for 50 years and have worked for 30 years and that's the minority so i know the whole situation not from tradition but since for decades denmark historically has

been. 'd quite progressive country when it comes to immigration minorities a few g.'s but since 2002 is policies have slowly but constantly changing from bad to worse that's important remember there are many reasons for that but the main reason is an increase in extreme far right political parties which pressure boats or democrats and liberals to make one distinction after another so today denmark is like you also said one of the most restrictive and communities and some of it will be country in the west i can give you an example of how that the government what would say they are not islamophobia they would want to point out of course the refugees won't be forced onto a plane but rather sent to danish deportation camps do you think they will decide that syria is a better option and seeks to go home themselves ok so last week there was

a syringe where the asked who should be admitted to hospital because of corona 20 percent in said muslim should be the last one who should stand in the queue so it gives you better information as far as seriousness look dublin convention ask only that any country rapex to people who run away from their countries who are prosecuted like in syria they should come and see asylum yeah he supports i support them going home eventually. well if deval mentally want to go and then there is a situation where dinner. then is fine but imagine that day 4 yesterday in european parliament and he is asked syria to stand for war crimes now and then mark was part of that in your union argument

so on one hand you are calling to have a court case in international court against syria and then you want to make. you know plans with assad to send those people back doesn't make any sense to you are to anybody i think sending back your few g.'s that is not new it has been going on for a long time but the country itself is it is safe or it doesn't need to be rebuilt they do need syrian help syrian themselves don't they to help rebuild out and also just to put another aspect here you've got a right wing party in denmark suggesting that the government should make some sort of deal as you're going through with syria sending the refugees there straight away instead of being kept in the deportation camp. from your extensive experience in the country which do you think is those faces which is going to happen. but those

people who are being sent some of them who have been refused asylum some have who only had asylum so. this is now the question of putting people in detention center are sending them back the issue is is syria see for those refugees to go back i don't know if you know that did the same team be the one to start if you didn't put them in pakistan instead of putting the inventors down and said now you're on your own what i'm saying is that if you just should be allowed to go back you do your own will and not the street them from beer there's a residence in your country and then deport them you know syria is not saved we all know that when it's done is not safe you know it is not safe the problem is my friend what are their attention there are sections of the country that are safer including the capital damascus where you're not the kind of people in the room we're going one place and you say that they're safe their countries are not country

is either sick are they are not serious the problem is that the danish government does not wonder if you do not want asylum seeker from middle east and that is the problem that is why the minister of the state and the prime minister and and interviewed mr have said we are so proud that there is 0 asylum now and then that is the bottom line is not sending 200. that is the problem belmont want. asylum seekers from muslim countries and that is i keep on saying that is because they don't want to have a they they they would they would say as well it's not from from muslim cultures it is all refugees but i'm sorry we have to finish there right out of a regular record record is very clear ok author of minorities rights consultant life from copenhagen thank you sir you are comedian. seen a huge spike in sales of the classic doctors use children's books that's after the

publisher decided to discontinue the series for a containing what it says' are 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 then a broader plan to ensure dr seuss enterprises catalog represents and supports all communities and families when the announcement 6 books would be scrapped was made on the late or 3rd birthday no doubt sense seals soaring and amazon taking them to the top of the bestsellers list within a day. us researchers know this is where it gets very interesting we said that several books contain examples of white supremacy negative portrayals of asian people including the depiction of a japanese caracter with a yellow face which was deemed to be racist now the study also concluded that an image of 3 asian people carrying

a white person was an example of white dominance of the story of the grinch wall of dr seuss's most famous works it's still available. to. the authors stepdaughters supported the publisher is the solution but said the doctors didn't have a racist bone in its body social commentator whoever believes the author to relative had no option but the down to the walk brigade. 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 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 if you know provided wonder to children for years to being in some sort of odd nazi or something. speaking of council culture it's being seen by some as such a threat to freedom of speech that one u.s. lawmaker is calling on congress to address the issue. council culture is a dangerous phenomenon whether you agree or disagree with the views being censored if cancel concert continues unchallenged it is not just the unpopular controversial view points to our it's risk let's look at some numbers a recent poll finds 64 percent of americans agree that boycotting removing certain types of content does pose a threat to freedoms in the country also concluded that i have to majority 80 percent of republicans consider council culture a threat just under half of democrats to the issue has been highlighted by

a number of high profile cases over the past year just days ago almost on polled approved by a conservative or 3rd that challenges the transgender movement earlier to democratic representatives called on cable companies to stop posting conservative bleeding news channels on last year the opinion editor at the new york times resigned after drage from the left over a piece by republican senator advocating the use of military force in protests we put council culture for debate a problem with cancel 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 cancel culture does not allow for that i said things that i think you know in 20 years maybe you'll look and say oh you should have sent that well that's true and it makes us all need to be more mindful.