in the position. our shareholders and the taxpayers are using financial leisure time. to line their pockets. in the headlines this 9th of march the e.u. chief today shifting the blame to astra zeneca for block supply failures with just 10 percent of orders delivered. elsewhere normal since is how the kremlin brands fresh u.s. claims of moscow meddling this time to supposedly discredit american vaccines in favor of russian shots. switzerland becomes the latest state in europe to ban face coverings such as the burka republic drawing criticism from muslim communities we put it up for debate. and they feel. like. people. why have you chosen to come to

switzerland knowing very well that it's a christian country which even wears the cross flag. to talk about the warning for moscow this choose tell you watching our. 30 minutes of our latest for you 1st off is just heard the head of the european commission saying she feels she's been made a scapegoat for the blocks extremely slow inoculation rate and she's laying the blame directly at astra zeneca instead our europe correspondent reports. well the e.u. commission are not happy at all with vaccine manufacture astra zeneca care it's got to do with deliveries of the jobs to the e.u. as a bloc they were told that for the 1st quarter of 2021 they'd receive 100000000 doses

they have received 10000000 doses even i can do the mathematics there 90 percent is the shortfall the e.u. commission has come in for a lot of criticism over failures in logistics and planning in its vaccine program underlying the e.u. commission president though is saying that astra zeneca needs to bear some of the responsibility as well we see esther's any case delivering below 10 percent of what had been contracted for the 1st quarter we are tired of being the scapegoat the european commission president did say that we could see repeats of vaccines being blocked from leaving the european union we saw this last week when italy stopped a shipment of around 250000 doses of the astra zeneca job for heading to australia the australian trade minister called that vaccine protectionism what we don't want to see is a repeat of the well scramble we saw for resources at the beginning of the pandemic

where everybody was trying to outbid everybody else when it came to mosques and p.p. and everything else on the line though has said yes there have been problems with the way the vaccine program is being rolled out there's been problems with the way the e.u. commission has handled things. we aren't when we want to be in combating the virus we were late in granting authorization we were to optimistic about mass production and maybe we also took for granted that the doses orders would actually arrive on time we must ask ourselves why and what lessons we can draw from it even when you have vaccines there's still problems in austria they've suspended the use of one of the astra zeneca job. after one woman died and another person was taken seriously ill after they received it it's until a full investigation can be carried out as it stands at the moment they say there is no direct link between them having the vaccination and becoming ill but they

want to make sure that that's definitely not the case when it comes to getting the vaccines into the country though there is one other avenue you that the european union could be looking at not importing them from the united states but in order to do that they're going to have to convince washington to overturn their own protectionist rules that don't allow vaccines to be exported outside of the u.s. . so the camera should be to the kremlin dismisses u.s. claims of vaccine dissin from asian is nonsense we'll talk about that in just a bit. it's like switzerland's voted to ban face coverings such as the burqa and niqab in public places the referendum promoted by the right wing people's party there was held at the weekend but personally by a wafer thin margin with 51 percent voting for the ban and there are several exemptions to the new rule 2 allowing face coverings for security weather and

health reasons the ban proposal didn't mention islam directly officially saying it was to stop rioters from wearing masks but the top islamic groups already called the vote a dark day for muslims. so this is you know opens old wounds further expose the principle of legal inequality and sends a clear signal of exclusion to the muslim minority this is my my my. so i wouldn't like to someone to force we. will. put on this way that obviously they. vote no we have religious freedom we have freedom of expression you can say we have freedom and then not give it. being frees been able to show our face respect in women's dignity heaven our own identity and therefore i do not understand the discourse of people who want to imprison women behind this veil of the north i said no to this initiative because feminist ideas

are being used for something which on the contrary obstructs liberty of choice this is also borderline center for being so this goes against my will your spares was there also i think of switzerland. you were 3rd in mind some other european countries already have full or partial bans on veils in public places including belgium and austria the 1st to introduce the move 10 years ago now was france which is repeatedly fallen under a wave of criticism since for violating personal liberties earlier we discussed this potential new law than in the impact of it. it is always the same it's always the strategy of this extremist party you lost muslims and islam behind you know several laws but when we're not at death it's very very bad for us why they are continuing to use this strategy to put us out of the society and to divide the citizens between the 2 but if one does not believe if we imagine that we

had a similar referendum in and i slam a country like in pakistan or like in saudi arabia the question would be would you allow would you like to allow people or women wearing a bikini in public beaches for example i'm pretty sure that 95 percent or even 1009 percent of the people would vote against it we know what is democracy and we're not using emotion on rhetorical i don't know. a lot of people vote against but there is a lot of chits where people have never seen a woman. not with. that don't exist. dave poll for. people also in the villages of switzerland they are actually they read the news and they know what is going on in other parts of the word and so they

have just decided to set those limits to the cultural development off immigrants from muslim background and this is not hostile and also i think you should even consider it something which sets a useful limits to radical islamists and there are some who force their women behind veils who we are all is tearing this. very very close to rescue and. that. it's not low to get fuel to the people or to lose their. twisted country all of the and d. that you have done and. and i feel very free but i don't like to be. close to each of the people who are extrem what if the radical shift from predation already get it from. where you can live your religion freely and the

question also is why have you chosen to come to switzerland knowing very well that it's a christian country which even wears the cross in this flag in its national flag so i think you were quite clear about that 3 when you came to switzerland. but i want switch to more and more and more. it's good for diversity of richness you out. nearly all the money that the amount. of took but britain the world waking up to this accusations of the fairy tale shattered except our kids ations by prince harry's wife meghan markle than against britain's royal dominating those world headlines this morning but as aunties nichiren reports next there you've also had the effect of maybe masking wider questions about the queen and her family. well your worrying about home schooling how to pay your

mortgage and how to survive in the far reaching misery of the pandemic the witnesses are at war it was one bombshell after another and his family. charles not taking his. time and he said his relationship with his brother and. this was bigger than almost everything on american television one royal bombshell after another sprinkled with plenty of commentary to make sure you don't lose perspective. relationship between that you saw. and before you even have time to switch your gaze insteps the queen queen oprah that is with the interview of the decade which i know you've watched hartsburg for magen if she bravely held back tears when she spoke of how stressful it was to stay up late googling royal protocols and there were no pats on the back for meghan claims that in return she was bullied by the racist royal family to the extent that

she contemplated suicide i just didn't want to be alive anymore and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born with hash tag team meghan receiving a die hard following on the former actress becoming an icon of resistance to the racist outdated and downright oppressive royals' see there are reasons the royal family might be grateful for the destruction to put it this way now nobody's really talking about that little news item about the queen lobbying for a change in law to hide public wealth right government memos found in the national archives revealed that the queen's private lawyer pressured ministers to alter a proposed legislation to prevent her majesty shareholding from being disclosed to the coma this otherwise known as the public just because of the risk of.

the people basically because disclosure it's any person would be embarrassing. and what happens all the news stories about prince some group who were allegedly even low paid the u.s. government on behalf of pay to fall geoffrey epstein well the newspapers might have moved on the f.b.i. hasn't will definitely department wants to talk to prince andrew that's why the southern district has been making efforts to communicate and to arrange interview and i can think of one other person who might be relieved to be out of the spotlight the british prime minister with a 1000000 spends on a brand new media briefing room and attempt to attract donor money to finance the 200 grand restyle of his official residence it's thanks very much for your hard work and putting your lives at risk and all that and his staff but it's just a one percent pay rise for you so we can afford it so as the queen celebrates unity and her commonwealth day speech and her grandson across the pond pull scorn on the

royal family in front of an audience of tens of millions while still claiming he just wants the media to leave him alone is seems that it's business as usual in day old blighty just keep that stiff upper lip turn a blind eye stay calm and think of england. the other headlines this morning moscow's dismissed claims are spreading this information about u.s. shorts as nonsense of the state department reported on 4 russian websites supposedly trying to discredit the jobs in favor of sport the wii is talking about it. the world changed big time over the last year but some things stay the same remember russia mad as well that our global engagement center has identified 4 russian online platforms that are directed by russian intelligence services and spread disinformation about 2 of the vaccines that have now been approved by the f.d.a. in this country back to just in time to wage over vaccine war because while acking

is a bit passe in electing foreign presidents is a bit wild been there done that vaccines are where it's at in 2021 and when it became clear that american scientists might vaccine the russian ones the kremlin aborts had no choice but to raise that disinform in heads again the emphasis on denigration pfizer is likely due to stay just as the 1st book seen the 2 c.m.'s use resulted in a greater potential threat to sputniks market dominance who said a global pandemic couldn't be politicized now some would say these madness a bit late to the game i mean sputnik freeze already registered in around 40 countries many of which didn't even consider pfizer not because they'd been brainwashed by mean anti pfizer notes left by undercover agents but because pfizer is logistically a much trickier vaccine it used to fall apart if it wasn't kept in specialized

freezers minus 17 degrees celsius that's now been improved to minus 25 while sputnik v chills out plus 8 and is around hof the price and then there are countries like iran which on exactly buddy buddy with the us so why buy their proxy when there's another $1.00 on the market without the political trauma logical right while unfortunately political gain. logic on friends and paranoia is alive and well it's nonsense russian special services have nothing to do with any criticism against vaccines if we treat every negative publication against the sputnik the vaccine as a result of an effort by american special services then we will go crazy because we see it every day every hour and in every anglo-saxon media the wall street

journal's resurrected disinform ation for the sake of a few critical articles but just imagine what all means over madly as it would have had twin vent if i had got the onslaught of doubt criticism hate that sputnik we got back in the day the speed of the rollout is a concern for some health professionals it's a new kind of global race that russia wants to lead there are concerns about its safety with questions of how much of it russia can produce now timing is everything the e.u. struggling with this vaccine rollout paid by production delays and shortages ready to help but may be so to block started the approval process now 5 in the us who obviously love healthy competition in a way that twitter loves paula or trump loves music is probably looking at bought and seeing a chunk of that money party just fall away never mind that it's for the good of

humanity the sputnik vaccine will not go back to russia it will save lives in slovakia i would never give it up our country is a fundamental part of the european union but i cannot turn down a quality vaccine that will save our people because it's made in russia i'm not a murderer you'll hear the good news is that 280000 doses of the sputnik vaccine arrived from russia we need vaccination as fast as possible under valving more people so yes the pandemic might have changed the wild but. something enough to change the madness that in this information back in the game did you miss. it you know it's been a year today since italy became the 1st e.u. state to bring in the nationwide looked at what here is painful of a slew of the world where the broader e.u. blog is handle the disease good or bad a walk off to the break. 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 developments only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down. and again italy's past 100000 deaths knows it marks one year of national locked arms next in our to show to do penske looks a growing frustration across the broader europe has what many see as the boston response to the virus. to sign a decree that we can describe as say at home with the flu like of a pen the life changed forever more than 60000000 people placed into lockdown as imagine c. measures were taken to try and stop covert 19 from spreading. he

went on i got surely i never experienced or imagined i'd lived through something like that especially in the 1st stages there was uncertainty i didn't know what i was allowed to do or not we did not know the enemy or how to fight it but after a few weeks the whole of italy was united we were very scared because we saw really warring images especially in the news so we thought it was right to do the lockdown as rigorously as possible scenes from hospitals could have been pulled from horror movies as medical stuff desperately trying to cope with

a virus that no one knew how to battle it's only may have been the 1st epicenter in europe but soon curve it was everywhere one by one countries closed their borders the shops schools parks measures were brought in at 1st it was simple things like being told essentially distance to water hearns but certainly these became more and more draconian. you know if. you get it. isolation and anger marriage does governmental advice change direction like the wind across the continent citizens have demanded their freedoms.

hat. was was i i i i. i was. happy. we were very scared because we saw really worrying images especially in the news so we thought it was right to do the lockdown as rigorously as possible everything the government tells us is the opposite of its contradictory instructions so it's a little bit complicated in the end we don't believe what they tell us. we can't do anything we need a revolution french people don't want to wake up we are like little dogs that are

being taken for a walk we cannot live like this anymore that malays has grown even engulfed so governments but 12 months old there is no sign of abating parts of italy back it looks down here in france as a nationwide curfew during 6 pm and 6 am it's been in place for months while many terms in cities are now also on weekends looked down and cases are searching again . we do not want to lock down it was very difficult financially above all we're suffering we lack work the ability to go out no more restaurants we are isolated at home everything has changed europe has failed i am a dog down and have suffered from the likes of freedom we have completely lost confidence in our government even as vaccines are approved and rolled out across the bloc there are massive issues trust has been lost.

in the trust of. the west. but trust. for. the west made. even. in a time of the stress and be the. norm in a normal deterioration. just more than and more than. people. when the moment someone. is written it's a blank canvas and what's gone before us never has to hold us back if we take in really from our mistakes but is anyone really listening so what do you. see paris. say were long years been for us all around the world but a small comfort if you've been living here compared to other european capitals

moscow's enjoyed less strict restrictions. to moscow's deputy mayor about the latest in the naki lation campaign here. it's and we're back in a sort of let's get straight to the main point to vaccinations in moscow so how is it going. at the moment it's going very well with what exactly is going so well we have vaccinated more than 700000 people in moscow since the beginning of the campaign this means that approximately 121-5000 are vaccinated every day depending on the day of the week we always have free slots we have made the widest range of possibilities for muscovites in order to choose a vaccination point for everyone out of this total number 300000 are elderly we have vaccinated 93 percent of all nursing home residents with the 1st and the 2nd doses let's go back than to when it all started when matter a year ago when corby was already in moscow how did we 1st understand that the big epidemic would begin in moscow it was clear from the middle of february last year

that it would be not only chinese but the whole world this year despite the fact that we have the longest border with china we were not the 2nd country which was infected it was clear from the middle of february last year that it would be not only chinese but the whole world this year despite the fact that we have the longest border with china we were not the 2nd country which was infected our turn was later italy and spain were 1st new york next so we could observe how the situation might develop we did have a time lag so we can make the best sees of this time therefore from the beginning of march we apply to 1st restrictive measures it is clear that moscow is a huge hope with a high population density and that we would not be able to ignore the situation the only question was when and to what extent we would be ready for their arrival of the pandemic can it compare moscow with some metropolis for the better or for the worse. is that if we take comparable things then it could be new york you can

compare us with new york city we do better or worse than new york i believe we did well enough compared to new york and to chris trick to. measures on time starting lockdown in march we imposed a lockdown in march with 1200 cases per day when new york close and 20000 in fact it per day basically it did not make sense because it's not only about introducing a lockdown it's important to make it on time. why did they close why did they choose these tactic or a mosque on russia's chose a different one i mean yes many countries are doing locked and but the problem is that they did not open during lockdown many european countries have chosen a tactic in which they have been close for a 2nd year and therefore any attempt to open up to reduce restrictive measures automatically leads to an explosive increase in cases we had looked at last year on these printing after that there were no locked as in moscow there have been certain reasonable restrictions but despite the whole of europe from september moscow has

lived a full life everything worked everything was open and gradually over these 6 months i said population immunity was formed a lot of people have already been ill do you think the 3rd wave will come. when not making predictions for the 1st 2nd or 3rd wave at all i understand that today we are ready for any scenario. you have fingers crossed for better times talk of the which of the story with happy ending story next where a special 3 d. mosque is providing hope for one young girl whose face was severely burned at a palestinian refugee camp the family of 8 year old is now counting very much on her recovery. we were in school my mom picked us up and we went to the market 1st there were still then there was fire that we got separated we didn't know where we were.

this out. of the 4 months of therapy that doctors without borders they made this mosque they call it a street demas that makes the skin soft and heals it up 70 percent. but when i wear the mask of feel better the doctors made it for me i used to go to the doctors to have my dressings changed then they made a mask for me now my words are almost healed. i have this. at home i wear the mask but i don't like to wear it when i go out i feel shy when i wear it because everyone starts looking at me but the doctors told me to wear it at least 6 hours

a day. to wake up one day and see their faces back to normal because it's really affecting them both psychologically a pretty good for this full recovery. you know very best tomorrow not to go through but we're rooting for you well if you will see more of what we're talking about today this choose day check it out t. dot com or never social media if you have to watch the clock let me tell you it's 30 minutes past the hour we have a great day and catch up with against. join me every 1st week on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or.