the european medical. review of. the. country started receiving. heard from the head of the russian. leaders. of the. chinese professor in the u.k. . jogging in what is believed to be the latest in a growing number of racially motivated assaults. asian people have become targets. because of the power. of. the case is.

a dramatically. she'll say of. the us government watchdog reveals washington has squandered billions of dollars in a. 247 news lie from the russian capital base. your company my name top story. the european medicines agency how started are rolling review into the safety and efficacy of russia's sputnik the vaccine it comes after a number of countries in the block 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 gamma 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 we actually are completely open and we believe that sort of barriers of mistrust and different lobbying efforts against we see you will succeed in the face of will 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 tool a good choice of which seems it's much better. by the way we also appreciated british 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 bridge 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 $27.00 member states can in import and distribute the vaccine among their populations and given the problems faced by the e.u. with their vaccine rolled out including 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 don't you hawkins taking us through

that will be head of the russian direct investment fund which really is the force behind the development of sputnik 3 shared his thoughts with us on the e.u. approval process. russia's most insisting on supplies but seen we hear few demand is really very significant so we're working on the it was countries the locals really want to look out for a russian vaccine and you know if we look at strangers through mountain what you feel nations of was polish and of more than 1000000000 so we have a major demand while we've seen and that is up to you to see easy ones would need just part of their strategy if so what the role will play there but without complete open and that we will work very closely was the may to provide some with all of the information and we are also looking forward to preserve visits and production facilities of course while. we already see as are several countries like

hungary in slovakia already approved this would never directly with their been approached by several other nations and it's very important that you know when luke rules this directly to them of violating any regulations you need you so you actually clarified for climb period slovakia really. received your this is so you can do it in peace with emergency health situations which obviously over to be just so it's up to the regulator to decide on climate and. we need to make sure that people have a choice of extremes 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 scenes because you know we're base from human though i don't think knowledge we believe has been proven to be save for the big aids and many people will choose specifically as us humans to know biotechnology because of. a chinese university professor who's

being 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 paying told us what happened. well i was out jogging i was just you know it was around the one minute walk from my home and was shot is. 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 saw 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. racial a probate you know attack the 37 year old suffered injuries to his face and arm

one suspect was arrested then released shortly after the incident an investigation is ongoing but it's far from an isolated case of alleged racial abuse in the u.k. of late police data suggest that hate crimes against british chinese on site east asian communities are up 300 percent in 2020 compared to the previous year fessor white say things have escalated since the outbreak of covert 90. it's not a surprise because you're not because of the pandemic chinese and asian people also regard you know it may have been just you know relationship here so the tactful isn't a people at least you're not that basis chris 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 in oyster. mental

mental injury you know so as i don't feel i don't feel safe as i used to feel but. i have to say that i after after these attacks were so party from stronger my university 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. wasted billions of dollars in its longest military adventure a brought the war in afghanistan the main drain on american funds turned out to be on serviceable or abandoned buildings and vehicles that's among the key findings a recent report by the us government's own watchdog of the nearly $7800000000.00 in capital assets reviewed in his prior reports special inspector general for of going

to stan reconstruction identified about 2400000000 dollars in assets that were on use to riband and had not been used for their intended purposes had deteriorated or were destroyed. well the sigar report also found that since 2008 just over $1000000000.00 of u.s. funded assets were used as originally intended outside of almost $8000000000.00 and 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 war unser coalition believes american tax dollars could have been better spent 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 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 but another report from the same government watchdog has highlighted the failures of american gender equality programs in a 5 gallon just over the period of a decade $110000000.00 were spent to support the initiative but all the effort the money seems to have failed at making any significant impact on afghan society the split the apart and shortcomings the conclusion of the report is the the program should continue u.s. foreign policy expert on the risks a's washington has repeatedly fail 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 policy which would seize 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 for every single problem in the world well since taking over the oval office in january there's something you'll have heard joe biden say quite a lot that america is back slogan we took the liberty of much and 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 staffers. american is back.

moscow has taken aim at berlin after a top german bank notified our sister channel r.t. deutsche on the video agency roughly about their bank accounts will be closed and of me are senior correspondent morocco's the of can explain more. so booth. 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 it's launching. 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 in the strangest thing happened because all of these banks they either did neither qwest rejected or just ignore all communications from now 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 review 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 often clued in 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. seen a huge spike in seals of classic doctors zeus' children's books that's after the publisher itself decided to discontinue this series for a containing what it concluded 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 the announcement that 6 books would be scrapped was made on the late or 3rd birthday soaring on amazon taking them to the top of the bestsellers list within 24 hours or doctor's voice enterprises is of the view that several books printed examples of white supremacy and negative portrayals of asian people including the depiction of a japanese character 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 over the story of the grinch one of doctors who says most famous works it's still available. this christmas.

christmas music. to the great bush. the author's stepdaughter supported the publisher's decision but said dr zeus didn't have a racist bone in his body social commentator julio rivera believes the or thursday relative had no option but to bow down to the 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 families money maker 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 terminal 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. or just telling castle culture the rise hell that is being seen by some a such a threat to freedom of speech that one u.s. lawmaker is calling on congress to address the nation. council culture is a dangerous phenomenon whether you agree or disagree with the view has been censored if cancel concert continues unchallenged it is not just the unpopular controversial viewpoints that are its risk so what do the public think all a recent poll found that 64 percent of americans agree that boycotting or removing certain types of content does pose a threat to freedoms in the country but also concluded a hefty 80 percent of republicans consider council culture a major problem just under half of democrats do know the issue has been highlighted by a number of high profile cases over the past year just days ago amazon pulled

a book by a conservative or 3rd that challenges the transgender movement earlier to democratic representatives called on cable companies to stop i'd right hosting conservative leaning news channels also this story last year the opinion editor at the new york times resigned after i'd read from the left over a piece by republican senator advocating the use of military force in protest was posted no we put council culture for debate. 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 we'll find things that are just and racism to some integrity to who america is that to strip people that racism seems anti american and some who have people who want a little better instead she's all know this with my great great grandfather well ok

but her great great grandfather that black people were killed some who were 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 rip down all of the structures that are harmful whether they're on face book or a mine in a park it's time to take those down and move forward and you're with us or you're not. and i stick it to the stars briefly the russian module of the international space station it's working life extended by

a further 7 years since the decision comes despite ongoing repairs to the cross to after early word detected ross cosmos that is russia's space agency says the leaks are g 2 metal fatigue or micrometeorite impacts or it's believed the work will be completed so over the next week or so the lifespan of the module the effect of all the repairs are being coordinated with us. now the former 1st minister of scotland is back on your screen in moments of asking come donald trump still be a force in front line politics the i like some and show it begins a moment. there's a myth metabolife small molecule that out bodies may come. from it and make less of

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the way. to. go at. the at last i . welcome to the alex aventura from scotland where we are trying to the subject of american politics and the future of the republican party now far from licking his roots don't make a truck look fit to strengthen his political hold on a party he once led from presenting success to comprehensive defeat today we

interviewed 2 top guests with vastly different views on the road ahead for the grand old party as martin president of the phyllis schlafly eagles and rhenish albert outta who is fighting to off republican women for biting. all of that much more to come up in the show but 1st to your tweets emails and messages in response to our show last week featuring professor richard murphy in our discussion on economics and political economy terry says professor murphy is extremely eloquent he makes complex issues excess a bill view such as his and those of common weale are what we need coming out of the pandemic terrorists al says it was an excellent show as always but particularly good this week as richard murphy explains what a newly independent scotland can be and how energy will see it we are happy says exciting stuff from professor murphy encouraging for scotland norman says we need to get that information the professor was discussing there so that more can he.