the european medicines agency says it will start assessing russian. nation program. countries already started receiving we've heard from the head of the russian from. bridge between russia and europe over. a chinese professor in the united kingdom is attacked by 4 men jogging and. growing number of racially motivated. people have become targets there.

is no surprise. because of the. dramatically. the us government watchdog reveals washington has squandered billions of dollars. just after midday in san francisco 5 pm and paulo 11 at night here in moscow this thursday march the 4th welcome to r.t. i mean only 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 have already given the job the green light

hawkins takes us through. 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 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 on sourced 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 have 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 those barriers of mistrust and different lobbying efforts against which she will succeed in face off will really 0 but we all know which is the road to save lives of people and i think more and more politicians understands us rather than trying to you know be a cult who will get a choice of which seems it's much better to actually. by the way we also appreciate british 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 in so you know it's a grid delegation. of course who is you know really very almost on but it 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 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 hungary such as 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 roll 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. the head of the russian direct investment fund which is the force behind the development of sputnik as you were just seeing in report shared his thoughts with us on the e.u. approval process here but more of what he had to say. russia's most insisting on supplied fleet seen we hear fuge demand. is really very significant so we are working on the it was found trees a lot of really want a russian vaccine. because strangers 3 mile in what you feel nations of is pollution of more than one thing 2000000000 so we have a major demand for oil would seem 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 we definitely

are open and that we will work very closely was in may to provide some was all of the information and we are also looking forward to zone visits and production facilities of wood because well. we already see use of several countries like hungary in slovakia already proved to us would never directly with their been approached by several other nations and it's very important that you know when to crucis directly to them of violating any regulations in the u.s. so you actually clarified for hungary and slovakia really unfolds exec procedure this is you can do in piece of emergency health situations which obviously call it a debt it just so it's up to the regulator to decide on the i mean. 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 political 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 should we believe has been proven to be saved for decades and many people will choose specifically as us humans to know biotechnology because of its benefits. 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 paying told us what happened. was out. i was just you know it was around one minute walk from my home and was shot it. by using reassure sed or us 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. 5 days at the base i say. racial a probate each year the attack the 37 year old suffered injuries to his face and arm one suspect was arrested and released shortly after the incident and the investigation is ongoing 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 and scythe east asian communities are up 300 percent in 2020 compared to the year before professor onesies 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 predation here so the tactful isn't equal to people at least you know that the case is increased dramatically for for

for that was the year of. hunting and now 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 as i used to feel but. i have to say that i after after these attacks were so parted from from the my university and also from different you from the you're not charity groups and the people they create hate it this the east. patriot crime. let's talk some pretty big figures now it's been revealed the u.s. 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

abandoned buildings and vehicles 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 over or destroyed. the cigarette report also found that since 2008 just over a $1000000000.00 of u.s. funded assets were used originally intended that's out 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 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 industry peer 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 l. wise 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 those 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 afghanistan in just over a decades 110000000 dollars were spent to support the project but all the air for the money seems to have failed that making any significant impact all nothing on society smyth their part and shortcomings the conclusion of the report is that the

program should continue u.s. foreign policy expert ali risks ace 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 for every single problem in

the world since taking over the oval office in january joe biden's being broadcasting the america's 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 staffers.

america is back. moscow has taken aim at berlin german bank notified our sister channel r.t. don't watch the video agency ruptly belt their bank accounts will be closed at the end of may or senior correspondent of and explain more. so both r.t. do it 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.t. 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 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 russian once my foreign partners to be an acceptable they're

working strictly within the scope was there legal rights a brilliant review the steps aimed at closing the 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 now this is a lot. resort and this is something that russia doesn't want the one to do but it says there has 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 cooling than germany again come to its senses. you're watching are the

international still ahead seals of dr seuss children's books skyrocket after the publisher drops half a dozen of them over alleged 'd racial stereotypes a story for you on your best sites and that. is you'll media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true what is faith.

in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or remain in the shallowness. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. 20 minutes into the program welcome back the largest opposition force in the german parliament has reportedly been placed under surveillance by the country's intelligence agency according to local media the alternative for germany party is suspected of having ties with far right extremists also contribution to the

semitism the party's leadership has dismissed the allegations as 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 only opposition party in parliament that opposes the dissolution of the nation state and unlimited immigration from foreign cultures. parliamentary elections in germany are slated for late september with the f.d.a. claiming there is a concerted effort to undermine their position ahead of the vote so far authorities have not made any official announcement by proceedings against the party earlier frank christian the funding member of the f.t. in berlin told the programme that attempts to depict the party as extremists have no basis in reality. they have the political mandate in order to get us rid of the

competitive as a political competitor we have the strongest opposition party and what we have to do as a position is to criticize the government and that's what we do we do it respectively to the euro rescue parties huge favor that we do it with the migration policy which is very dangerous for us in germany and the population doesn't want it we do it in the energy crisis we will 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 surveillance 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 we do not want to overthrow the system we do not want to overthrow the government we are really trying to renew democracy we want to get more people into the parliamentary discussion. a russian module on the

international space station is how it's working life extended by another 7 years the decision comes despite all going repairs to the crucial or starting this segment after early swear the tech that roscoe's last russia's space agency the problems are due to metal fatigue or micrometeorite impacts it's believed the work will be completed over the next week the lifespan of module won't be affected all the repairs are being coordinated with nothing. seen a huge spike in sales of the classic dr seuss children's books that's after the publisher itself decided to discontinue the series for 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 a 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 author's birthday and sent seal soaring and taking them to the top of the bestsellers list within 24 hours well dr seuss enterprises is of the view that several books contained examples of white supremacy and negative betrayals of asian people including the depiction of a japanese car actor with a yellow face which was deemed to be racist the study also concluded that an image of 3 asian people carrying a white person was an example of white dominance however the story of the grinch one of dr seuss's most famous works it's still available. chris. chris chris. the great.

the author is stepdaughter supported the publishers this season but said that dr seuss didn't have a racist bone in his body social commentator who knew or ever believes the author's relative had no option but the bow 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 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. if you'd like to dig

a little deeper into any of those stories i can recommend. creating insights 1st called tent always to be fun there. in the early ninety's. just proposed to the west but an experiment. to boys experiment was a. good model. for girls don't believe that sex with older men would help with the boys' socialization over 30 years many children were paedophiles to raise.

more. money. for good someone to go through. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only mostly. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. tactics that can be used to get innocent people to confess to crimes they didn't commit i don't even think people in the us really get that the police are allowed

to lie to you. the person who falsely confessed actually came to believe the lie that they were told about their own behavior once a false confession mistaken the case is closed and nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession and one that isn't. max keiser this is the kaiser report last a cover today on the new era of inflation we're heading into a secular bull market for interest rates oh what does that mean a sense of hey max well ok you know you and i have been talking about price signals in the absence of price signals and how that makes all of the markets dishonest really and we're going to start 1st of all with this headline that could have been

ripped sheree out of an analysis from kaiser report over any time over the past 10 years and here it is there is growing concern that market based inflation expectations have become unreliable as indicators this is due to the fed hoovering up a significant proportion of treasury inflation protected securities otherwise known as tips outstanding creating a scarcity for other investors. you know stacy we are often referred to as heterodox thinkers or we have on heterodox guests but now those heterodox guests are becoming the new orthodoxy in other words the last few years they've been warning about this inflation warning what happens when price signal is destroyed by money printing in central banks by.