to give a more favorable picture of something that is deteriorating. the european medicines agency says it will begin assessing russia's sputnik the vaccine with the block seeking to speed up its vaccination program that's a some e.u. countries have already started receiving the shot we've heard from the head of the russian fund the facts the vaccine. so initially she major european leaders should be very i'm going to stand it would she be sexually woodridge between russia and europe and the political. a chinese professor in the u.k. is attacked by 4 men while out jogging in what is believed to be the latest case in a growing number of racially motivated assaults the victim told us asian people have become targets due to the coronavirus. is no surprise because because of

the pandemic the actual invasion of people in the cases. dramatically i don't feel i don't you'll see this i used to. and the us government watchdog reveals washington has squandered billions of dollars in afghanistan on maintenance. check the time it's the top of the hour wherever you are and you're watching our teams or national i'm donald quarter welcome to the program. the european medicines agency has begun rolling out a review into the safety and efficacy of russia's sputnik vaccine it comes after a number of countries in the bloc have already given the shot the green light as daniel hawking's 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 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 space all of them will really 0 but we all know which is the road to save lives of people and i think more and more politicians on this earth rather than trying to you know be a cult who'll get the choice of which seems it's much better. by the way we also appreciate greater support we go from chancellor. into. all of the all earlier 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 he 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 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 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 and import and distribute the vaccine among their populations and given the problems faced by the e.u. with their vaccine relative clued in 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 to an end. you heard in that report from the head of

the russian direct investment fund that's the force behind the development of sputnik v let's listen to what else he had to say on the shots e.u. approval process. russia's most insisting on supplied by the scene we have huge demand is really very significant so we're working on the it was found trees the locals really want to look out for a russian vaccine. because rangers 3 mile in which you pull nations of is polish and of more than 1000000000 so we have a major demand to quote sheen and that is up to you to see easy ones don't need just part of their strategy if so what is the role to play there but without complaint them and that we will work very closely was leading me to provide them with all of the information and we are also looking forward to preserve visits and production facilities of course well. we already see that several countries like

hungary in slovakia are already approved as would you directly we have been approached by several other nations and it's very important that you know when to cruises directly through google quietly to any regulations you need you so you actually clarified for clinton period slaughter's you're really holds the exact procedure this is so you can do it in peace with emergency health situations which will obviously call that maybe 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 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 technologies is different because. because you know we're both from human though i don't think knowledge should we believe has been proven to be saved but look aids and many people will choose specifically this human in the viral technology because of. a chinese university professor has been subjected to

what police are investigating as a racially aggravated assault in the english city of southampton wang pang said he was attacked by 4 men on the street. i was out jogging i was just you know it was around the one minute walk from my home i was shot is. by using reassure sed who are from from a minute the car on the other side that they're all so i immediately had to be you know i got very angry and i shouted back so then i kept jogging sold and you know they they surprisingly it a circular bike and under attack me on the underground so the pollies you know has. i believe 5 days the pace i saw. racial aggressive

a teacher you know attacked 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's far from an isolated case and of alleged racial abuse in the u.k. as of late police data suggests that hate crimes against british chinese and southeast asian communities were up 300 percent in 2020 compared to the previous year professor wang says things have escalated since the outbreak of covert 19. it is not a surprise because because of the pandemic chinese and asian people also regard you know there may have been just you know relationship here so the attacks will asian people at least you know not the case is increased dramatically for for for a year of. hunting and not the physical injury can be can be shield you

know. someone higher 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 these attacks i were so party from stronger my you know risky and also from different the from the you not charity groups and the people they create they hate it this least. they treat crime. it's been revealed that the u.s. has wasted billions of dollars in its longest military adventure abroad the war in afghanistan the main drain on american funds 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 records special inspector general for of going to stun reconstruction identified by a 2400000000 dollars in assets that were on use to rebound and had not been used for their intended purposes had deteriorated or were destroyed. the sego report also found that since 2008 just over $1000000000.00 of u.s. funded assets were used as a 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 despite 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 and fraud and abuse and perhaps. 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 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 another report from the same government watchdog has highlighted the failures of american gender equality programs in afghanistan in just over one decade $110000000.00 were spent to support the project but all the effort and money seems to have failed to significantly impact afghan society despite the apparent shortcomings the conclusion of the report is that the program should continue u.s. foreign policy expert ali risk says washington has repeatedly failed to see when something is clearly not working. there is this. a lack of understanding of the local culture you come to impose these western models on countries which have

a completely different culture but regardless the u.s. senate and the consecutive u.s. administrator ins continue to pursue these kinds of policy which would allow cities which have the proven to be of no avail i think this could be described as a somewhat psychological mindset or a psychological problem the u.s. continues to stick to policy despite the fact that these policies have proven to be up the failures i think it's 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 been broadcasting the 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.

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moscow has taken aim at berlin after a top german bank notified our sister channel artie deutsche and the video agency ruptly that their bank accounts will be closed at the end of may our senior correspondent were i guess dia of 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. 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 patent a history of discrimination and hurdles man made rules set up to slow the work of russian media germany so this is why the russian foreign ministry is cooling than germany again come to its senses. cancel culture strikes again sales of dr seuss children's books skyrocket after the publisher drops half a dozen of them over alleged racial stereotypes that story just ahead.

russia e.u. relations are at an impasse the kremlin has me clear it will no longer tolerate the e.u. lecturing about values and so-called international norms and the russians have been enough of the e.u. 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. because of the metabolife small molecule that embodies make up. and make less of it as we get older this is one of the things i work on it's going to be. because we have less of it we become more prone to infection and the crazy thing is that could 19 to sars could be 2. 1 of the ways of attacking the body is to deplete the body even more of that chemical which we need to fight infections.

welcome back to the program now president joe biden has used an unusual turn of phrase while criticizing the decision of the texas governor to lift covert restrictions. in the last the last thing before i think you have to. take. it still. texas came under fire after its governor announced a full reopening plus an end to obligatory facemasks greg abbott noted that cold hospitalizations were at their lowest since october with a record number of daily vaccinations texas is not the only u.s.

state that's relaxed to mask wearing rules though it's received the lion's share of the criticism texas we hear you you didn't want to be part of the electrical grid and now you've removed your mask mandate and overlearning large crowds together we hear you code it is a hoax so you don't need our precious vaccine we'll send it to people who are saving lives by wearing masks this isn't dangerous the entire country and beyond where in the pandemic it's dangerous why are we wasting vaccinations on texas if texas has decided to join the side of the virus what's abbots is doing is extraordinarily dangerous he's the worst governor in modern texas history this will kill texans earlier i spoke with wayne allen root a former libertarian vice presidential nominee and conservative radio host he told us that biden lashed out at texas because of the valid the values it represents. texas has this image of mavericks and rebels and conservatives who devoted it big

for donald trump and it's the symbol that democrats and liberals and communists and socialists in america and so they're using texas as the whipping boy texas is a symbol of freedom and if it ever comes to it if there's ever a division of our country there's a session or what i like to call a divorce you go our way we go our way everyone separates text this would be the leading state that would say look we're not going to follow by these rules anymore because this is start to be ridiculous and so i think they've always aimed their guns at texas because it represents freedom and it scares the big government big brother bureaucrats it's ridiculous overreaction makes no sense of course there are cases of course people get the infection it's highly contagious nobody could say oh i have the key to what i will never get sick you have to weigh risk versus reward let everyone live their lives who's under the age of 75 and be very careful and

spend a lot of money protecting the people who are over 75. the largest opposition force in the german parliament has reportedly been placed under surveillance by the country's intelligence agency according to the 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 quote purely political. few days for the name 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. now german federal elections are slated for late september with the f.t. claiming there's a concerted effort to undermine their position ahead of the vote so far authorities have not made any official announcement about the proceedings against the party

frank christian hansal and member of the berlin city parliament for the a.f.p. 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 put is huge 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 face so we actually have an opposition. to the government and that's why they want to get rid of us using this central intelligence civilians 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 we

got in constitute constitutional ideas of constitutional rights i can issue a 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. russian module on the international space station has had its working life extended by another 7 years the decision comes despite ongoing repairs to the crucial visit or star and english segment after air leaks were detected rust kosmos that's russia's space agency says the problems are due to metal fatigue or micro meteorite impacts it's believed that the work will be completed over the next week and the lifespan of the module will not be affected all the repairs are being coordinated with nasa by the way. amazon has seen a spike a huge spike in sales of the classic dr seuss children's books that's after the publisher itself decided to discontinue

a number of titles in the series for containing what it concluded are racial stereotypes. these books put 3 people in ways that. she sing says these books is only part of a commitment and damn a brutal plan to ensure dock to seuss enterprises catalog represents and supports all communities and families. meant that 6 books would be scrapped was made on the late author's birthday and sent sales soaring on amazon taking them to the top of the bestsellers list within 24 hours dr seuss enterprises of the view that several books contained 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 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 is still available.

chris. chris chris music. the great. cover. the author stepdaughter support of the publisher's decision but said that dr theodore seuss didn't have a racist bone in his body social commentator julio rivera believes the author's relative had no option but to bow to bow down to the quote. 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 because that'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 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 or other world news headlines for this hour it's hard not to sidelines but stories i'll be back with more in just about 30 minutes i hope to see that. is you'll be via reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation full community. are you going the right way or are you being led so. direct. what is true what is faith. in the world

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