midday moscow time in the headlines this month of march the e.u. chief shifts the blame to astra zeneca for block supply failures with just 10 percent of orders delivered. nonsenses how the kremlin brands fresh u.s. claims of moscow meddling this time to supposedly discredit american vaccines in favor of russian shops. and switzerland becomes the latest state in europe to ban face covering such as the burka in public drawing criticism from muslim communities we put it up for debate for you. and they feel very free. like the. age of the people who are why have you chosen to come to switzerland knowing very well but it's a christian country which even wears the cross in this flag.

hi good afternoon from moscow this tuesday watching out international with me kevin 0 in 30 minutes of our latest for you 1st head of the european commission saying then she's think she made a scapegoat for the block's extremely slow inoculation rates and laid the blame on vaccine maker astra zeneca quite firmly peter all of our europe correspondent reports. well the e.u. commission are not happy at all with vaccine manufacturer astra zeneca it's got to do with delivery 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 where we want to be in combat in the virus we were late in granting authorization we were too 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 to learn from it even when you have vaccines there's still problems in austria they've suspended the use of one of the astra zeneca john. 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's 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 venue 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 us. something in europe i'm talking of. is coming up one of you know the kremlin dismisses us claims a shop this information is nonsense as washington's accused russian website of spreading lies will tell you more about that in a few minutes. but susan from switzerland before that switzerland voted to ban face coverings such as the burqa and niqab in public places the referendum promoted by the right wing people's party was held at the weekend but only just scraped through with a wafer thin margin 51 percent voting for the ban and there are several exemptions to the new rule as well allowing face coverings for security weather and health reasons the ban proposal didn't mention islam directly efficiently saying it was to

stop rioters from wearing masks but top islamic group not surprisingly is a ready call devoted dark day for muslims. so this isn't opens old wounds for the expose the principle of legal inequality and sends a clear signal of exclusion to the muslim minority this is my life so i would like to someone to 1st heat it up or i'll take it 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 free he's been able to show our face respect and 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 big so this goes against my veil your stance was there also i think of switzerland some other european countries already have full or partial bans on veils in public places including belgium and austria the 1st to introduce the movie 10 years ago was france which is repeatedly since following the wave of criticism for violating personal liberties we discussed the potential impact then of this new law in switzerland. it is always the same it's always this threat of this extremist party you lost muslims and islam behind you know all 7 laws but when we're not at that it's very very bad for us why they are continuing to use this strategy to put outside of the society and to divide the citizens between who believe one don't 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's vote against but it's there is a lot of it itches where people have never seen a woman up. we. don't exist. all that for the people also in the villages of switzerland they are advocating they read the news and they know what is going on in other parts of the world and

so they have just decided to set those limits to the cultural development of 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 always hearing. very very close to. that. it's not a low fuel to the people or to you lose their. freedom . country all of the deal that you have 3 and. and they feel very well in this country but i don't like to be. first stage of the people who are extrem what if the radical left from provision 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 its flag in its national flag so i think you were quite clear about that 3 when you came to switzerland. but i want switzerland more and more. it's good for switzerland diversity is a richness you are making the mind at the moment but that is the. big interview they can so much chatter today accusations by prince harry's wife make a mark against britain's royals are dominating world headlines are they but there's . reports they've also heard maybe the effect of my asking why the questions about the queen and her family. while you're 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 one royal bombshell after another sprinkled with plenty of commentary to make sure you don't lose perspective 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 hans berg for magen as she bravely held back tears when she spoke of how stressful it was to stay up late googling growth 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 of what happens all the news stories about prince some group who allegedly even lobbied the u.s. government on behalf of paedophile geoffrey epstein well the newspapers might have moved on the f.b.i. hasn't the department wants to talk to prince andrew that's why the south and district has been making efforts to communicate with him we have made it clear that we'd like to communicate with him 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 $200.00 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 it's all we can afford 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. moscow's dismissed claims of spreading this information about us shots as nonsense of the state department reported on 4 russian website supposedly trying to discredit the pfizer mcgurn the

jobs in favor of sputnik the sask a telescope story. the world changed big time over the last year but some things stay the same remember russia madelyne 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 we are aware of it we're monitoring and we are taking steps to address back just in time to wage vaccine war because while hackings a bit passe in electing foreign presidents is a bit while not vaccines are where it's at 2021 and when it became clear that american scientists might vaccine the russian ones the kremlin bolts 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 besides putin could be to see mass use resulting in a greater potential threat to sputniks market dominance who said to 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 not because they'd been brainwashed by mean anti flies and notes left by undercover agents but because that is logistically a much trickier vaccine it used to fall apart if it wasn't kept in specialized minus 17 degrees celsius that's now been improved to minus $25.00 while sputnik v chills out to 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 one on the market without the political trauma. not tickle right well unfortunately political games and 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 efforts 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 this information for the sake of a few critical articles 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 road now 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 its vaccine rollout paid by production delays and shortages ready to help but may be so to block started the approval process now pfizer and the us who obviously love healthy competition in the way that twitter labs pala or trump loves music is probably looking at that 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 vaccine

arrived from russia and 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 and this information back in the game did you miss them. well over one thing that changes soon cove it by the way choose day marks exactly a year since it's really became the 1st state to bring in a nationwide lockdown coming up after the break we assess the block's generally how it's handled the disease. head.

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high gain 1000 past italy's past 100000 deaths as it marks one year national locked arms. looks a growing frustration though across broader europe but what many see as the botched response to the virus. to sign a decree that we can describe as said 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 trying to stop it 19 from spreading. yeah yeah. yeah yeah.

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 foreign 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 cause it was everywhere one by one countries closed their borders their 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. isolation and anger in marriage does governmental advice change direction like the wind across the continent citizens have demanded freedoms. hat. i. hat. was

i i i i. i am. i. happy to see you we were very scared because we saw really worrying images especially in the news so we thought it was right to do to look down 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 was no sign of abating parts of italy back it looked 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 look down and cases a surge and 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're 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 block there are massive issues trust has been lost. we see. but trust to be good for the rest made or more even. in a time of the stress and be. no.

nation will be just more than and more than. people. when they want some of this is it's a blank canvas and what's gone before us never has to hold us back if we take no. for a moment stakes but is anyone really listening so what do you. see paris . of course to some point in the future we try to look back and see the countries of dealt with it all differently a small comfort if you lived here the compared to the other european capitals moscow has enjoyed pretty much less restrictions all rome he's on herself spoke to moscow's deputy mayor about the latest in the no collation campaign here. but it's a way of progress sort of the let's keep straight to the main point to vaccinations in moscow so how is it going. at the moment it's going very well or 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 3 slots we have made the widest range of possibilities for muscovites in order to choose a vaccination point for everyone that's out of this total number 300000 are elderly we have vaccinated 93 percent of all nursing home residents within the 1st year and the 2nd dose is about as goldberger than when it all started it will matter year ago when corby was already in moscow how did we 1st understand that the big epidemic would begin in moscow when it was clear from the middle of february last year that it would be not only in chinese but the whole world issue of 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 is so we

could observe how the situation might develop i mean we did have a time lag so we could make the best use of this time and therefore from the beginning of march we were polite to 1st restrictive measures is part of it is clear that moscow is a huge help with a high population density and that we would not be able to ignore the situation which the only question was when and to what extent we would be ready for the arrival of the pandemic can you compare moscow with some metropolis for the better or for the worse. if we take comparable things then it will be new york you can compare us with. new york did we do better or worse than new yorkers because i believe we did well enough compared to new york and to chris tricks of measures in the time of starting lockdown in march we imposed lockdown in march with $1200.00 cases a day when new york less than $20000.00 in fact is per day basically it did not make sense because it's not only about introducing a locked and it's important to make it on time which are they close by do they change the police tactic or almost going to russia chose

a different one yes many countries are doing long dance 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 at least restrictive measures medically leads to an explosive increase in cases we had looked at last year one in spring after that there were no looked as if 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 the 6 months it said population immunity was formed a lot of people have already been ill do you think the 3rd wave were comparable if we're not making predictions for the 1st 2nd and 3rd wave it all but i understand that today where ready for any scenario. here fingers crossed about a time soon for all of us now if you want to see more what we're talking about this

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in the depths. or a maid in the shallows. this is crude oil. so they need to actually physically pump it out of the ground you would have well well. a lot of money with your oil and with that comes. a lot of a lot of people from all over the country. if you don't make a $100000.00 a year. as a minimum there is an issue. here in the. they were all 16 hours a day. hard work well workers not used to work and so they want to relieve their

stress of how do they relieve their stress these men need that outlet these men need that comfort these men need so that. people have been murdered up here people been raped there are massive drug issues up here you have a boom you have everything else that comes along with money. like why does someone do that right that's what everybody wants to know and they're liable to happen to you that well i took those pretty well as those played well because i think most people would like to think i would like to think to myself i would never do that but did you ever say to yourself damn why do i tell these lives why do i tell these lies about my son been there done that exists in my room. as i would just are i just throw.