oh you mean there's a downside to artificial mortgage through. that's because reports. are headline stories this hour the european medical agency will start assessing russia's. countries have already started receiving we've heard from the russian. chinese professor in the u.k. is attacked by 4 men while large jogging in what is believed to be growing number of. people become targets to the program.

is no surprise. because. the people in the cases. dramatically feel. the u.s. government watchdog reveals washington. and. across the world to run the clock this broadcasting from moscow with me you know me. the european medicines agency has started a rolling review into the safety efficacy of russia's sputnik. it comes after a number of countries in the bloc already given the job the green light. takes us 3 . well last year sputnik v

a fact of you became the world's 1st covert vaccine off to receive the prove all 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 the vaccine 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 on sourced whether it will receive that approval now given the

politicization of the vaccine question which really has affected the distribution of the sputnik the vaccine 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 these put make the vaccine we actually are completely open and we believe that sort of barriers of mistrust and different law being efforts against which she will succeed in face off will really 0 but we all knew which was the road to save lives of people and i think more and more politicians understands us that rather than trying to you know be obstacle tool or good choice of it seems it's much better to actually has. by the way we also appreciate greater support where you go from chancellor. all of the all early introduce you to help us originally. you know as the crawl

also has been very helpful and so does the grid delegation frige by. chance will of course who is you know really very almost on going seems to be above and beyond all its use so we actually see major european leaders actually being very dramatic and the standards of genius actually would reach a 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 were a sport and it 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 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 of the e.u.'s vaccine portfolio would

be a step forward in bringing this pandemic to an end daniel hawkins taking us through that while the head of the russian direct investment fund which is the force behind the development of sputnik we shared his thoughts with us on the approval process. russia's most insisting on supplied sweet scene we hear fuge demand is really very significant so we are working on lose countries the locals really want to look out for a russian vaccine. because registered now in what you feel nations of is full coalition of more than 1000000000 so we have a major demand for oil we've seen and that is up to you to see easy ones 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 them with all of the information and we are also looking forward to preserve visits and production

facilities of course while. we already see that several countries like hungary in slovakia already approved this would be directly with their been approached by several other nations and it's very important that you know when zouk rules is directly suitable quietly in your review lesions in the u.s. so you actually clarified for a time period slovakia really folds effect proceed your this is you can do it in peace with emergency health situations which obviously over that may be just so it's up to the regulator to decide on climate change. we need to make sure that people have a choice of extremes and of course different agencies need to grow their save but it's very important most polluted choice is that people deserve to tell all the different technologies is different because scenes because you know we're base from human though i don't think knowledge should we believe it has been proven to be saved for decades and many people will choose specifically as us humans to know

biotechnology because of its benefits. to another headline stories today 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 wang pay 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 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. only 5 days at the base.

racial a grove $82.00 attack the 37 year old suffered injuries to his face and arm one suspect was arrested and released shortly after the incident and an investigation is ongoing it is far from an isolated case of alleged racial abuse in the u.k. of late police data suggest that hate crimes against british chinese and southeast asian communities are up 300 percent in 2020 compared to the previous year professor wang say things have escalated since the outbreak of covert 1000. is not surprised because 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 typical of people like this you know not that 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 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 it from from the my university and also from different the from the you not charity groups and the people they create their fate it this is just. patriot crime. let's talk some big money it has been revealed up to us 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 'd abandoned

buildings and vehicles not among the key findings of a recent report by the us government's own watchdog of the nearly $7800000000.00 in capital assets reviewed in his prior records special inspector general for afghanistan 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. you're not a rosy picture of the sigar report also find that since 2008 just over a $1000000000.00 of u.s. funded assets were used as originally intended outside of almost a 1000000000 only 340000000 dollars worth of equipment is in quote good can dish and maintained the us war just to go through in afghanistan it began quite a while ago in 2001 but the spite pledges from various presidents to withdraw troops from the war torn country there are still around $2500.00 american soldiers there brian becker from the antiwar answer 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 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 l y'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 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 while another report from the same government watchdog has highlighted the failures of american gender equality programs in afghanistan let's go through that a little and just over the course of a decade or so 110 $1000000.00 were spent to support the project but through all the efforts the money seems to have failed at making any significant impact on that subject despite the apart and short comings the conclusion of the report is that

the program should continue u.s. foreign policy expert on the risks a's 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 u.s. senate and the consecutive u.s. administrations 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 to every single problem

in the world since taking over the oval office in january will be aware joe biden's been broadcasting the america is back slogan 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. the largest opposition force in the german parliament house reportedly being placed under surveillance by the country's intelligence agency according to local media the alternative for germany party or e.f.t. is suspected of having ties with far right extremists also contributing to anti semitism the party's leadership the smiths the allegations of purely political. the aim of the federal office for the protection of the constitution and counterterrorism is obviously in the short term to weaken us until the elections

and in the long term to destroy the elderly opposition party in parliament that opposes the dissolution of the nation state and unlimited immigration from foreign cultures and german federal elections they're slated for a late september this year with the f.t. claiming there is a concerted effort to undermine their position ahead of the vote so far authorities have not made any official announcement about proceedings against the party a lot to discuss so let's say bring in frank christian hunt so right christian is one of the founding members of the f.t. and berlin and a member of the berlin parliament welcome to the program if i could if you know what consequences will disability health for the party well actually i hope that the consequences will not be the one expected by the central intelligence which really wants to harm us they have the political mandate in order to get us rid of the competitor as

a political competitor we have the strongest opposition party you know and what we do what we have to do is a position is to criticize the government and that's what we do we do with respect to to the to you your rescue parties huge favor that we do with the migration policy which is very dangerous for us in germany in the population doesn't want it we do it in the energy crisis we face so we actually have an opposition which really harms the government and that's why they want to get rid of us using this central intelligence civilians but i'm sure it will fail well according to media what they are saying is that the f t is in focus because of its alleged links the far right extremists is the party doing enough to distance itself from neo nazis and such groups could it do more. i think we are doing a lot but you have to see that the rate of that we are right extremist has been

implanted into the population since 2013 when we founded the party. and i have personally i have not met any nazi in our party and i know that this number is important for the government and for some of the media in order to. make a small because we have rising acceptance in the population and especially now when we have the corona crisis and i'm going to america has big problems in convincing the public of the lockdown in the almost sort lockdown and people want freedom they want open businesses they want. they want to have meetings with friends and this is on a possible doing to due to the lockdown and we are the only opposition also regarding the lockdown policy of mrs merkel and you have a major presence as you're saying in part of that that's been going from strength to strength in the last number of years i'm just thinking frank christian as i'm

speaking to you if something like this happens say here in russia with a parking known for its criticism of the government being placed under surveillance what do you think the reaction would be in the west. it would be disastrous i mean you know we took our one like in it's really quite similar and you have to see that there is no other western democracy there is an institution like the cia for internal reasons or to to check the opposition regarding constitute constitutional ideas of constitutional rights i can assure everybody within and out in the party out of the party that we are really trying to renew democracy we want to get more people into the parliamentary discussion like this in switzerland we want more participation of the people in the education and so we want to renew our democracy which through the years of mrs merkel and her grand coalition is sort of had

a problem of convincing the people that we managed to get a lot of nonvoters back into the political discourse so i think we are the greatest men to democratic movement after the reunification well just just all not in terms of the support there be a lot of people in germany elsewhere as well looking on to see how the situation actually plays out do you think that the endgame here just from what you've said yourself is it to remove the f.t. from germany's political landscape altogether or just weaken its position before the general elections in the federal elections in september. well i think it is they try to get as below the 5 percent you know we have a hurdle of 5 percent if you pass it so we are in government and they would never have expected that we more than 10 percent but we entered the court to rule the

parliament in berlin $2700.00 was more than 12 percent so the aim of keeping us below 10 percent has faded and in the eastern part of germany we have a certain. we have an electorate of more than 20 percent and we keep getting better and the west. so i think that they try to get rid of us but they will not be able to do so and i think since we will get good results and the parliamentary elections in september i think then also the part of the competitors like c.d.u. and s.p.d. will recognize that we came to stay to remain that they will not get rid of it by any means they take and then i think it will be much more cooperative of treatment of us that's what i hope that what's happened in the eighty's when the green party started from the left side and they were integrated into the parliamentary system i think the same will happen to us well it's a situation. it's a situation we'll be following closely here as well frank christian wholesale

a funding member of the f.t. in berlin a member of the berlin part of the thank you thank you very much indeed. philip sales of doctors just children's books skyrocket after the publisher dropped 6 of them over alleged racial stereotypes we put that story for you just that it. has to. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race in. very dramatic development only. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. metabolife small

molecule bodies may come. and make less of it as we get older this is one of the things i work on. because we have less of it we become more prone to infection and the crazy thing is that $190.00. 1 of the. ways of attacking the body is to deplete the body even more of that chemical which we need to fight infections. again moscow has taken aim at berlin after a top german bank notified our sister channel r.t. dortch the video agency ruptly but their bank accounts will be closed at the end of

me our senior correspondent next play 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 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 and the strangest thing happens because one 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 routes 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 last resort and this is something that russia doesn't want the one to do but it says there's been a pattern or history of discrimination and hurdles manmade hurdles 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. are 2 story getting a lot of people talking today amazon has seen a huge spike in sales of the classic doctor's zeus' children's books that's after the publisher itself decided to discontinue this series for containing what it concluded are racial stereotypes these books put 3 people in ways that are 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 6 books would be scrapped was made on the late or 1st birthday and sent seal soaring and amazon ticking them to the top of the bestsellers list within 24 hours of dr seuss enterprises it is all of the view that several books contain examples of white supremacy negative portrayals of asian people including the depiction of a jump unease character with a yellow face which was deemed to be racist the study also concluded that an image of 3 asian caracter is carrying a white person was an example of white dominance however the story of the grinch one of dr seuss's most famous works it's still available. christmas. christmas music. i push push push push thank. you. will be authors stepdaughter

supported the publishers the sit in but said the dr seuss didn't have a racist bone in his body social commentator who you are of her believes the authors 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 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. the day stories are shaping up for now i'll be here with all the.