ways of attacking the body to deplete the body even more of the chemical which we need to fight infections. for headline stories of the european medicines agency say it's. seeking to. countries have already started receiving we've heard from the head of the russian from. the major european leaders. reach. a chinese professor in the u.k. is attacked by 4 men while our jogging in what is believed to be the latest in a growing number of racially motivated assaults the victim told us asian people have become targets due to the ice. is no surprise because

because of the pandemic. the case is. dramatically i don't feel safe. in the u.s. government watchdog reveals washington has squandered billions of dollars in afghanistan . from moscow to the world this is r.t. international long my name's you know neal to our top story. the european medicines agency has started a rolling review into the safety and efficacy of russia's sputnik ve seen it comes after a number of countries in the bloc have already given the job the green light to.

take 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 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 the rozzers and trying to you know be a cult tool a good choice of which seems it's much better. by the way we also appreciate british support where you go from chancellor. to. all of the all are we introduce

you to help us originally. you know all the crawl also has been very helpful and so you know sigrid delegation of. course who was you know really very almost on because she was being above and beyond all it was so ridiculous the major european leaders should be 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 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 are but unable to afford the high price of some of the western made vaccine such as medan or pfizer for example and for them sputnik has been and will continue to be quite literally a life saver so despite of a lack of an e.u. wide approval as of yet there have been countries within the european union who have broken ranks such as hunger research or slovakia which have already approved vaccines for the sputnik vaccine for their populations the czech republic which has expressed an interest in doing so as well and of course the final stage will be an approval from the regulator which will mean that all 27 member states can in import and distribute the vaccine among their populations and given the problems faced by the e.u. with their vaccine role articulating distribution issues supply 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. when you heard in report there from the head of the russian direct investment fund which is the force behind the development of sputnik let's listen to what else he had to see on the jobs e.u. approval process. russia is more insisting on supplied sweet scene we hear few demand is really very significant so we are working on the it was found trees the locals really want a russian embassy. because traitors 30 mile imported from the shelves of was full of more than 132000000000 so we have major demand while we've seen and that is up we'll to see easy ones won't need us part of their strategy if so what the role of it will play there but without complete open and that we will work very closely

with the me to provide them with old information and we are also looking forward to their visits and production facilities of wood because well. we already see that several countries like hungary in slovakia are already approved as you directly we have been approached by several other nations and it's very important as a human one to cool slews directly through them all quietly in your review legions you need you so you actually clarified for 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 axioms and of orders different agencies need to grow their save but it's very important most political choice so that people deserve to tell all the different technology is different because. because you know we're big from human though i don't think knowledge should we believe has been proven to be saved for

big aids and many people will choose specifically is this your money in the bottle to told you because of a. turn other of her 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 paying to list what happened. i was out. i was just you know it was around the one minute walk from my home i was sharded. by using reassure sed worst 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 surprisingly it day circled by and under attack me on the

underground saw the pollies you know has. defied this case i said. racial a probate attack. the 37 year old suffered injuries to his face an armed suspect was arrested and released shortly after the incident and an 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 inside the east asian communities are up 300 percent in 2020 compared to the previous year fessor wang say things have escalated since the outbreak of covert 90. it is not a surprise 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 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 shield you know. sun or higher is. 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. us top figures now on big ones apart it has been revealed that the 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 abandoned

buildings and vehicles that's among the key findings of a recent report by the us government's own watchdog of the nearly $7800000000.00 in capital as says 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. well the cigarette poor it also found that since 2008 just over a $1000000000.00 if u.s. funded assets were used as originally intended outside so almost $8000000000.00 and only $340000000.00 worth of equipment is in quote maintaining 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 stationed 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 dollars of equipment that's no longer available to be used buildings that were constructed in can't be used because they're industry appear but this is reflective of how the afghan war has gone from the be guinea 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 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 when another report from the same government watchdog has highlighted the 3 years of american gender equality programs in afghanistan in just a red decade $110000000.00 were spent to support the project but all the effort the money seems to have failed at making any significant impact on afghan society the spike be a part and shortcomings 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 you are cygnus trajan's continue to pursue these kinds of policies which would allow the seas which of the present 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 kind of at the should if you would like at the question 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 joe biden's main broadcasting that

america is back slogan we took the liberty to imagine what that could actually mean for the world bearing in mind the not so peace loving track record of many of the president's top staffers. was. america is back.

moscow has taken aim berlin after a top german bank notified our sister channel r.t. joy on the video agency roughly about their bank accounts will be closed at the end of may our senior correspondent can explain 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 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 bags 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 view the steps aimed at closing bank accounts belonging to russian media a spot of political pressure on journalists and a blatant violation by germany of its commitment to press freedom. or routes the russian foreign ministry added russia will have no choice but to do something he doesn't want to do which is take measures equal with strictures 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 last resort and this is something that russia doesn't want the one to do but it says there has been a pattern a history of discrimination and hurdles man made rules set up to slow at the work of russian media in germany so this is why the russian foreign ministry is cooling than germany again come to its senses. still ahead seals of

doctors in children's books skyrocket after the publisher drops half a dozen of them over alleged racial stereotypes that story feed just. russia e.u. relations right an impasse the kremlin has made it clear it will no longer tolerate the e.u. lecturing about values and so-called international norms and the russians have ended up with the e.u.'s interference in russia's internal politics refuses to treat russia as an equal partner until this changes despite a lot of relationship appears to be on hold. metabolife small molecule in our bodies make or. make less of it as we get older

this is one of the things i work on. and because we have less of it we become more prone to infection and the crazy thing is that could 19th sars could be to one of its ways of attacking the body to deplete the body even more of that chemical which we need to fight infections. hello again the largest opposition force in the german parliament house 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 called to putin to altie semitism the party's leadership as

this mess the allegations of purely political. as for france the aim of the federal office for the protection of the constitution and counterterrorism is obviously in the short term to weaken 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. german federal elections are slated for late september with the f.t. claiming there is a concerted effort to undermine their position ahead of the vote no so far authorities have not made any official announcement about proceedings against the party for christian hunt so a member of the berlin city parliament for the f.t. told us 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 is a position is to criticize the government and that's what we do we do with respect to to the euro rescue parties huge favor that we do 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 face so we actually have an opposition in. the government and that's why they want to get rid of us using this central intelligence. 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 problem and to read discussion. a russian module on the international

space station how it's working life extended by another 7 years that decision comes despite all going repairs to the crucial or starting a segment after early exit where the tech did. russia space agency so yes 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 the module will be affected all the repairs are being coordinated with nasa. hers seen a huge spike in sales of the class the doctors use children's books that's after the publisher itself decided to discontinue the series or containing what it concluded are racial stereotypes. these books portray people in ways that are. ceasing sales of these books is only part of our commitment and the broader plan to ensure dr seuss enterprises catalog represents and supports all communities and

families the united spent 6 books would be scrapped was made on the late or thursday birthday sent seal soaring on amazon taking them to the top of the bestsellers list within 24 hours 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 japanese character with yellow face which was deemed to be racist now the study also concluded that 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. christmas. christmas music.

and the author's stepdaughter supported the publishers this season but dr theodore seuss the racist bone in his body social commentator julio whatever believes the author's relative had no option but to go to the war 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 our 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 yeah i have to admit didn't see the uncommon well that is

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no one and free from any domination. by fellow americans they are far away from america but the world and. the security of southeast asia will be in danger if laos loses its neutral independence and i want to make it clear to the american people and all the world that all we want and layoffs. and. that you and i want to. get through.