headline stories this hour the european medicines agency will start. a blog seeking this. program. e.u. countries have already started receiving that we've heard from the head of the russian. the shops. and. the chinese professor in the u.k. is attacked by 4 men while out 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 spread.

of the power. tax. increase dramatically. in the u.s. government watchdog reveals washington squandered billions of dollars in afghanistan on maintenance. fly from moscow this is our to international mining's you know mail and 30 minutes of news and views starting. the european medicines agency has started a rolling review into the safety efficacy of the faxing it comes after a number of countries in the block of 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 after it received approval here in russia and it was a myth 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 action worldwide this news coming in from europe can only be a good thing as stated by the head of the investment fund here in russia are responsible for backing the sport make the vaccine we actually are completely open and we believe that sort of barriers of mistrust and different lobbying efforts against we see you will not succeed in space or will really 0 but we all knew it would be which was the road to save lives of people and i think more and more politicians understand that rather than trying to you know. who'll get the choice of it seems it's my birthday. by the way we also appreciate british support we go from chancellor. into. all of the all or we introduce you to help us originally. you know the also has been very helpful in so you know sigrid

delegation of. course who is you know really very almost on going seems to be above and beyond all of us so we actually see major european leaders should be in very big. genius to 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 got an 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 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 and import and distribute the vaccine among their populations and given the problems faced by the e.u. with their. 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 well you heard in daniel's report there from the head of the russian direct investment fund which is the force really behind the development of sputnik the let's listen to what else he had to say on the jobs e.u. approval process. russia is more insisting on supply conflict seen weaker fuge demand is really very significant so we're working on the it was found trees the locals really want a russian vaccine. because strangers 3 mile in what you feel nations of was populated of more than 132000000000 so we have a major demand while we've seen and that is up we will to see easy ones won't need us part of their strategy if so what the role of it will play there but without complaint open and that we will work very closely with the me to provide them with old information and we are also looking forward to their visits and production

facilities of wood because well. we already see as are several countries like hungary in slovakia are already approved as you directly with your being approached by several other nations and it's very important you know when to croon slews directly to them of violating your review lesions you need you so you actually clarified for a time korea slovakia really unfolds the 2nd procedure this is you can do in peace with emergency health situations which obviously called it a day just so it's up to the regulator to decide on climate change. we need to make sure that people have a choice of which seems kind 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'll be from human though i don't think knowledge should we believe that it 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 as bad. a chinese university professor as being subjected to what police are investigating as racially aggravated assault in the inner city of southampton one pain that he was attacked by 4 men while i jog. i was out jogging i was just you know it was around the one minute walk from my home i 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 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. been the 5 days i saw.

racial a crime a teacher you know attacked a 37 year old suffered injuries to his face an arm one suspect was arrested and released shortly after the incident 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 and so if east asian communities are up 300 percent in 2020 compared to the previous year professor wang things things are best collated since the outbreak of covert 90. 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 that the case is increased dramatically for for for that was a year of. hunting and not the physical injury can be can be shield you

know earth sun or fire is noise. 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 at least attack or so party from stronger my you know risky and also from different different the you're not charity groups and the people they create they hate it this the east. patriot crime. it's been revealed to us wasted billions of dollars in its longest military adventure abroad the war in afghanistan the main drain on american firms turned out to be unserviceable 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 reports special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction identified about 2400000000 dollars in assets that were and used to rebound and had not been used for their intended purposes had deteriorated or were destroyed. the cigarette port also found that since 2008 just over $1000000000.00 of us from the vast sets 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 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 in disrepair 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 well let's take you through another report if we can from the same government watchdog which is highlighted the theater's of american gender equality programs in afghanistan now and just over a decade 11 years 110000000 dollars were spent to support the project but all the effort and money seems to have failed at making any significant impact on afghan society the spite the apartment shortcomings the conclusion of the report is that the program should continue u.s. foreign policy expert alley risk sees washington has repeatedly failed to see when something is clearly not working. there is this. a lack of

understanding of the local culture you can't impose these western models on countries which have a completely different culture but regardless the us senate and the consecutive us cygnus trajan's continue to pursue these kinds of 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 job broadcasting

america is back slogan we took the liberty to 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. american is back.

is something else to make you aware of today most co-host taken aim at birdland after a top german notified our sister channel are to doit's on the video agency roughly one 3rd bank accounts will be closed at the end of may a senior correspondent morocco's the of can tell us 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 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 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 was strictures apply equal restrictions to the work and operation of german media in russia which there is plenty off 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 has been a pattern a history of discrimination and hurdles man made rules set up to slow at the work of russian media germany so this is why the russian foreign ministry schooling than germany again come to its senses. still ahead council culture strikes again sales of dr seuss children's books skyrocketed after the publisher

dropped half a dozen of them over alleged racial stereotypes that story just ahead. russia

e.u. relations right an impasse the kremlin has made clear it will no longer tolerate the e.u. luxury about values and so-called international norms and the russians of the e.u. interference in russia's internal politics he refuses to treat russia as an equal partner until this changes this relationship appears to be on hold. 20 minutes into the program welcome back the largest opposition force in the german parliament has reportedly been placed under surveillance by a big country's intelligence agency according to local media the alternative for germany party is suspected of having ties with far right extremists and also

contributing to anti 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 until the elections and in the long term to destroy the opposition party in parliament that opposes the dissolution of the nation state and unlimited immigration from foreign cultures. well german federal elections are slated for late september this year with the a.f.p. claiming there's a concerted effort to undermine their position ahead of the vote so far authorities have not made any oficial announcement about proceedings against the party front christian helsel a member of the berlin city parliament for the f.t. told me earlier the 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

a solution 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 an. internal reasons or 2 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

it's working life extended by another 7 years the decision comes despite the ongoing repairs to the crucial or starting their segment of their early swear that did not cause most russia's space agency the problems are due to metal fatigue or a micro. it's believed the work will be completed over the next week and the lifespan of the module won't be affected all the repairs are being coordinated with us. ok to a story that's got a lot of people talking today i seen a huge spike in sales of the classic doctor's use children's books that's after the publisher itself decided to discontinue a number of titles in the series for containing what they concluded are racial stereotypes. these books portray people in ways that. 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 found 6 books would be scrapped was made only late or 3rd birthday and sent sealed soaring and amazon taking them to the top of the bestsellers list within 24 hours while doctors zeus' enterprises is of the view that several books contain examples of white supremacy and negative portrayals of asian people including the depiction of a chinese character with a yellow face which was deemed to be racist no the study also concluded that an image of 3 asian. people carrying a white person though is what the cartoon was an example of why dominance over the story of the grinch one of dr seuss's most famous works it's still available.

to the great. the author is stepdaughter supported the publishers this season but said the dr theodore seuss did not have a racist bone in his body social commentator who you are a verb believe the author is relative had no option but. to the walk again. 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 that face that i mean that's their family's moneymaker they don't want to get canceled the imagery that people are are kind of harking on and making a big deal about i guess could be considered by people who are extremely sensitive and probably looking for something to be upset about but i but again i think that

this is an example of you know 1st world problems let's call it that when you've got nothing else to worry about than did this is what you're going to focus on kind of nonsensical stuff and i think that the cancel culture the p.c. police we live in a time of phony outrage maybe i'm a little bit different maybe just whatever and i don't know if it's the way that i'm wired but i don't personally find offense to it but then again i don't walk around online watching t.v. walking the streets looking for something to be offended by you know to me that's not really you know. something that we should be upset about like you know the anti-semitism of the 1930 s. in germany is something that merits 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. and if you'd like to dig deeper into any of those stories i can recommend r t dot com as a solid starting intriguing insights fresh content always to be fun there and buy from. and so that if a boy doesn't. come along with them it's also. about the human. rights. types to use a pen in. the in the next. moment going to have. been

. used and feel good to know it has a. little. doesn't. because i'm a metabolite small molecule bodies maker. i make less of it as we get older this is one of the things i work on it's. because we have less of it we become more prone to infection and the crazy thing is that. sars could be to one of the. ways of attacking the body to deplete the body even more of that chemical which we need to fight infections. join me every thursday on the alex salmond shill and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sport i'm show business i'll see you then.

hi i'm max kaiser this is the kaiser report lots to cover today on the new era of inflation we're heading into a secular bull market for interest rates oh what does that mean hey stacey 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 we've been warning about this inflation warning what happens when price signal is destroyed by money printing in central banks buying back their own paper and austan centered heterodox but now the new arthur doxy is to recognize that there's been complete and utter market failure now for years and we're.