in headlines this 11th of march britain's health service reveals its shutting for emergency hospitals built for half a 1000000000 pounds after they took practically no patients the scandal comes as the government insists it can't afford more than a one percent pay rise from health workers. that equates to around 3 counts. and in many states across the costs more. to. russia builds on its 3 vaccines already by the developing antiviral drug know that stops the disease spreading in those already suffering from corona virus coming up for you we talked with developers about the ongoing trial. consumers mark beauty goods unilever this morning for stripping the word normal from all skin

products that have been for a quote inclusive vision of what you think about that when we put it up for the great. normal means it's the normal extra normal not necessarily greasy yet why do you want to confuse what is wrong with these people they are doing is a step in the right direction it is not the be all end. for. hello there if it's morning where you are welcome to thursday kevin owen here at r.t. h.q. today for the next 30 minutes with our latest we've got lined up ready to tell you about 1st than the 1st hundreds of millions of pounds of wasted and barely anyone treated is the headline that's the story of u.k. emergency hospitals for covert patients due to be closed this month kate partridge

reports on the latest scandal over the government's handling of a pandemic. 4 of england's nightingale hospitals are being closed down they've been built at a cost of 500000000 pounds to preempt a surge in the pandemic but the east london venue treated only 54 patients in the 1st wave while others so not all n.h.s. officials say they served as the nation's safety net since the very early days of the been there mick the nightingale hospitals have been on hand as the ultimate insurance policy in case existing hospital capacity was overwhelmed but many permanent hospitals were already short staffed and are able to release frontline workers to the nightingales the government felt the need to show some some. centerpiece that they can share what they look how rapidly we have created it was rules and. another which i know managed to create. and once we even even more

so i mean there's an element of the showing of also trying to reassure the other we're doing and why and when the government starts to do things like essentially you're going to get waste of money no one asked the question well do we need to really do we need to as it turned out we'll. also turned out we can start them because the main issue is that we start not the actual number of boats that were available also last i was just. on behalf of the government far as i can see why that new year medics in covert hotspots were days away from having to choose to be treated and who wouldn't as record coronavirus admissions forced ambulances to wait outside a n.d. and amid the surge n.h.s. workers had to resort to wearing bin bags due to a lack of personal protective equipment some doctors even received p.p.a. which had gone beyond its expiry date over 2 years the u.k.

government has also said. aside cash for its much criticised covert 19 track and trace system 37000000000 pounds of taxpayers' money prompting a scathing report from a westminster spending watchdog despite the unimaginable resources throwing at this project testing trace cannot point to a measurable difference to the progress of the pandemic british tech space cannot be treated by the government like an a.t.m. machine we need to see a clear plan and costs better controlled in his budget chancellery she soon x. said the government had spent over 280000000000 pounds during the pandemic over 700000 jobs have been lost and the economy has suffered its biggest drop in 300 he is but tough questions are now being asked about how chunks of that 280000000000 pounds have been spent and the impact that they've had either i think a collaboration or it's very cool pre-planning

a very cool car executioner plan and. it was a mistake. of course are printed money and billions parents all these. nazi girl hospitals most of which were not properly was peter comes very resourceful. the governments of the cross was looking into the issue of the stall for a small space because there's no doubt who are. these extra hospital facilities if you don't go all soft you go in and if you look at the government policy of. students 3 rounds creating fear and if you have too much stress creates fear or if you had a rush were people who were in very small trace. my structural emission traits what we really should be is concentrating on look deeply really the trial.

so then the closure of these. agency hospitals comes after ministers announce they can't afford anything they say more than a one percent pay rise for n.h.s. workers nurses have launched a petition calling for a 15 percent salary hike huge difference though between most often what the warmth the grateful for public clapping which has become a symbol of gratitude to n.h.s. workers of course but there's a but i'm going to pay their bills more than half a $1000000.00 have already signed the petition one nurse explained what just a one percent pay rise means. to be honest one percent is quite frankly an insult to the profession and to the n.h.s. it's a home for most nurses that equates to around 3 counts if you're weak and in many hostile sites across the it costs more than that to park your car to go to work or market car and we're acutely aware of that saying i'm sure strain that's the present u.k.b.a. the pandemic. we're not saying that we deserve any more than anyone else we're just

saying that we are also does what we do and the public sector workers have seen since a well deserved raises recently and we've been left out of that again as an n.h.s. and i think when we talk about money and what's already well we've just seen the 7000000000 used on it in its extra system that we pay for an n.h.s. to how 60 percent pay rise and it would still be money left in the doctor after that we see newly qualified nurses and student nurses already thinking gosh you know if i come into the right career here we have over 400000 nurses vacancies in the day and that really causes patient safety issues across all that what we really need is to fill those vacancies and to have a committed enthusiastic and educated workforce and we're not going to achieve that unnecessarily. afraid. it's really set to become 1st to state to make russia sputnik the vaccine with the launch of production slated now for july

the shop still waiting for approval though from the european medicines agency with the developers. an apology after its chair branded authorization russian roulette nevertheless italy expects to manufacture $10000000.00 doses by the end of the year as the bloc suffers massive shortages from western alternatives the president of the italian russian chamber of commerce told us the deals about people not politics . as for public opinion leaving aside political views everyone is very much looking forward to the vaccine people are waiting for doses not those great numbers were coming from pfizer and the nick of the cording to the promise is all italians will be vaccinated by june but unfortunately we can see that it won't be the case therefore there are great hopes for v i wouldn't say that the reason it's widely anticipated is because it's a russian vaccine people want to get any vaccine and certainly one with a reasonable price and these religious sticks sputnik the meets those expectations i believe that's been in the perfectly fits into the logic of the made with russia

label let me give you a specific example the russian direct investment fund was looking for european pharmaceutical company incorporation with which you could produce a vaccine in europe as the russian italian chamber of commerce we couldn't sit idle we examined all the information concerning the vaccine i personally was one of the 1st foreigners inoculated with understand there is no life for development without a vaccine and geopolitics shouldn't be a priority all the focus should be put on people's health and business. scene. the job innovation is not the only russian nanticoke a breakthrough as well the russian institute of the knowledge she is testing the 1st drug that stops the virus spreading in people already suffering from the disease that's good news the head of the institute told us about the trials now they're going. the clinical trials of near 19 kicked off at the beginning of this year at the moment the 1st phase concerning its safety is coming to a close and we expect it to be completed by the middle of march and then as part of

the 2nd phase we will proceed to the examination of its efficacy on patients the medicine is designed to stop a virus from replicating itself it's clear already that this drug will be administered in an inhaled form and as for the period of effectiveness it's hard to say right now certainly the earlier an infected person takes the medicine the better it will work however given its immediate focus on blocking the replication of the virus we believe it can be effective at any stage of illness anyway let's wait until we get the results of the 2nd face. come soon enough and slowly but surely some light at the end of this dark tunnel around the world as the use of sputnik the helps bring down the number of russia's coronavirus cases now it's lifting some of the remaining covert instructions moscow now than ending its stay at home advice for people over 65 a muscle collation campaign has been underway since december we talked about the country's anti covert measures now they fit into the global picture with the w.h.o.

representative to russia. there has been a very good combination of. recommendations or restrictions which were not for a lot of the house although in some regions they were more close to that. and i would say and of various of people but this is very critical at the moment to maintain their newest and application of the set of measures. the most important thing is to be smart to monitor the situation and be flexible so in case of need to be flexible of returning some of the restrictions public health measures prefer to call them and i have seen in some countries a surge of cases in a gross of cases so we have very cautious everywhere. nobody's safe until everybody saves stronger tolerates even you know coming from any place mike

how are the trust of the people so it is very important to rollout to go with the vaccination encourage people especially the priority groups health care workers and elderly to get the vaccine and there are only together we can win this battle. well tell her in addition did not reply and vaccination passports and evidence to give privileges or enable travel however good data nation are extremely important and the countries are encouraged to actually have information systems actually nagel them to long term vaccination the absence of ads to the show doesn't recommend coded passports but it still the documents could still be produced anyway leaving concerns about whether the personal health information can be held securely it's a big concern the chief executive one american data privacy for warms the digitals

to the kids will lead to discrimination. and i have seen the efforts from the european union and the green you know the green initiative and while this idea that they can guarantee. that data is is safe and anonymized is just wrong it's incorrect and i think it's a real problem when governments are claiming that just like it's a problem when companies claim that your data is anonymous and will never be lost stolen or as what we're concerned about is if vaccine data and then mexican data combined with travel data starts to leak out and get going combined with these data broker profiles that anyone can buy any business can buy them any individual can buy them there are available very cheap so for example an insurance company might or might not want to insure a server give us an offer if certain amounts of that if we fall into certain

category based on that data. while the company the person we just held a poll finding in the end of it less than hoff of americans want digital health possibles says if they brought it on the essential information should be used. what i believe is so. to the problem of an opportunity a vaccine have courts is to not use or share it it is alaska knowledge years diggers years used things that replicate our data across every country we travel to or every sports venue if we want to watch of. having all of the data in it now sounds great and it sounds convenient but ultimately there is a lot of risks to our privacy in the future if we keep creating more data especially

. me while half of all home work is in france are refusing to get the covert job despite having to work closely with the elderly a high risk of course from the disease but there are concerns about the shot safety as well as mistrust of the government behind the inoculation for i've got more than just a few minutes time. this next though consumer goods multinational unilever is dropping the word normal from all skincare products the u.k. based firm says the word make some consumers feel excluded we know that removing normal from our products and packaging will not fix the problem alone but it's an important step forward the company's international survey found more than 2 in 3 people thought using the word normal had a negative impact you believe is also in the excess of editing of photographs of models and it's advertising too but there's been a backlash against the moves. so saeco for business taking to p.c.

extremes normal means not all the and not try do we have to turn every term in the penitent inclusive busy i've never been able to use normal but at least i know that it isn't sustainable for my dry end or the hair thank god i have always felt marginalized with my dry scalp every time in the shampoo aisle i would have to seek out a safe space because of the pain and anguish caused by seeing the word normal and my inability to ever have normal hair you know leverage just saved my life your liver will drop the word normal from buttes of brother gets years of to decades of cell in fairness creams in the india unilever's trying to rebuild its reputation after global criticism last year over its marketing of skin whitening products in asia we discussed its ban on the word normal with guests. there's no way ordinary

people think this in those kinds of numbers when it comes to the word normal the other thing about using models and changing the shots oh i agree with but the normal thing this is purely them overreacting to the trouble they land in themselves in when they were doing the discussed in practice of the lightning chremes this is what's happening this is another massive massive company basically playing to the gallery a virtue signaling to those kinds of people normal means it's the norm it's fun normal not necessarily for greasy air what do you want to confuse what is wrong with these people what planet do they live on i think it's important that they they're talking about this and they are going to because. it's needed we need to keep pushing change in the industry i mean you know body and and we have one of the most inclusive agencies and i don't think enough times it's

going enough. how that can haynes inclusive and stay away from normal so i have to agree and then i mean we we've recently hired a model who went accidentally has a desk are in chaps you know i think. she is doing very well now a fee is going to be shocking to say this is imposed and this is what we should be seeing and i think removing normal is important for not a people have asked so i had. the that the idea of nor why i would agree with you that if somebody has got a disability or whatever i could do not understand what they call the motos or take on board completely but it's the word normal when it comes to things like shampoo for a normal hair well it is are the normal greasy or dry or cracked or damaged this is marketed this is a bit like we're going to change tomato sauce so it's going to be green we're going to turn. salad cream into

a different color we're going to start making solid cream this is just a pathetic attempt to grab more market share and also say occur i disagree had during our standards and i think they were leaving the euro to go there is no it doesn't i disagree i think doing what they're doing what they're talking about removing almost stopping editing and editing especially on social media this is you know there is a definite trend again and i think what they are doing is a step in the right direction it is not the be all and end do it that it is moving forward so i think it's an indication i don't think they're necessarily doing it to ground press i think it's needed they should not be using photoshop or whatever clever new techniques have got to alter the images of women and men in their avatars and i would agree with that entirely on the father of 2 daughters and i see body image and being proud of your body whatever your body is is the right approach so are not arguing that i'm arguing the word normal you're confusing the true they

know they're doing this purely to get market share and they're doing it purely because of their offensive products that they had before 10000 people i'd love to see the stats i'd love to see the demographic of the 10000 people that they asked them whether they confuse the question ability or being confused or not my friend where you think it's about normal imagery would talk a mother would normal i don't object to any of the rest of it but the word normal it's work nonsense it's all done for marketing and you shouldn't be falling for it because they're making a mug of you. to pass the honor concerns over the u.s. president's mental state of deepened after he appeared to have forgotten the name of his own defense secretary to me to poke report. well wouldn't you know it turns out sleepy joe biden is well still sleepy and it's becoming increasingly hard to ignore which is probably why half of americans don't think he is mentally fit to be

president according to a recent rasmussen poll and it's not exactly surprising it's been 7 weeks since his inauguration and it's hard to shake the feeling that he's being hidden from the world in a basement and when he is released into the public chaos ensues he forgets the names of people he himself appointed like defense secretary lloyd austin there who he recently referred to as that guy running that outfit over there and i want to thank the. former general keep calling him general my mind the guy who runs about if you know his handlers panic any time anybody might god forbid ask him a question and he constantly loses his train of thought while reading from a teleprompter it's been 2 months and he has yet to give a news conference or answer any meaningful question but one time he did agree to some live questions the white house instantly interrupted the feed and it's not

like the media is even giving him a hard time with the questions it's not like with trump or they were doing their journalistic duty by constantly grilling him about his mental health the russian conspiracy theories and other frankly absurd allegations and criticisms no joe biden gets questions like one will there be a 1st white house feline how are the dogs doing how is it living in the white house and even some of these questions get delegated to this press secretary jan circle back psaki so the question is who the hell is running the white house while apparently it's kemal harris you know the one that barely got any votes during her presidential run got completely demolished during the democratic debates. and was later tacked on to biden's bill despite nobody liking her apparently while biden is taking his daytime nap kemal is the one who's talking to foreign leaders deliberating middle east responses and sanctions some are even suspecting

a secret transition period has already started so americans are in kind of a rough spot on who to be following on the one hand you have a senile sleepy president locked up in a basement and on the other hand you have a woman who really nobody likes who was in the white house really on a technicality gotta love democracy. just half of french care home stuff say they're prepared to get the covert job with distrust of both vaccines and the government being cited showed 2 penske reports this morning. they are all the workers on one of the front lines battling against it caring for patients many of which are vulnerable in residential care homes across france homes which have been some of the hardest hit by the virus official figures say that around $25000.00 people in care homes have died as

a result of the pandemic so you'd think their carers would be lining up to get the vaccine but that's not the case. but it helps workers are free to be vaccinated we have lost a confidence in the government over the vaccine process people are concerned about side effects so so want to wait and get more information. front is known for having a high level of vaccine skepticism but amongst health workers the rate is even higher the concern over low uptake is even prompted the health minister to intervene health care workers who get vaccinated is not only protect themselves but also patients and residents i ask you fuel cells your colleagues with the people of france if you're not you're vaccinated quickly is a sponsor collective security and the capacity for health system to function but.

says the government has been partly responsible as it's locked clarity over the vaccines doubts have also been fueled by president mccord who claimed the astra zeneca short was quasi effective for older person. health workers who want to be vaccinated referred to pfizer shart because we're told it's 90 percent effective but their stress any of accent is on the 70 percent effective so it's understandable the medics and the rest of the population when the most effective option but there has been so much has. from a shit about the vaccines so now we're really confused this is another reason a warehouse workers don't want to get inoculated. other concerns have been raised around the side effects from the astra zeneca jab last month around $150.00 health workers who received it reported suffering off to it from high fever that was

temporary and not apparently dangerous but it's enough to make some people think twice the situation is now so bad that the national academy of medicine is recommending making the couvade back scene compulsory for health workers while some talk about conspiracy theories is the reason that so many are refusing to be vaccinated the c g t union says this is more of a problem with communication or a lack of it health workers including care workers want up to date medical information to make up their minds. think housework is selfish they're not they're locked into to get a vaccine but they should not be stigmatized for that they want to protect the people they care for the patients and care home residents as the vaccination program continues to be rolled out the government is attempting to persuade health

workers that having the job is good for them and of course with those that they care for if that doesn't succeed the government may have to take things a step further and make the vaccine compulsory. auty paris. doctors in madrid have launched an indefinite strike now over the failure to pay them for overtime work and also of a poor working conditions. that is what we are. looking to limit the situation is hopeless one in form. medical workers has to seek mitigation to go to book and everything and if psychological help to rule can do it in endless stream of cases this is simply impossible to deal with. most of us come to work with the feeling of exactly every day because we don't know what we are going to face we open the agenda and find 40 appointments at least best case

scenario this number increases during the morning because we receive new appointments from patients by phone most doctors have to arrive in our work early because of the stress to be able to finish some of them leave 2 hours late and of course this hours and not paid because they are not recognized. their protests doctors held signs saying that they're going to go on strike they also brought faceless mannequins along as well for so message that they thought their not been seen and heard but they say the government is failing to even engage in talks once again it's been shown that politics is heading in a different direction than health care professionals this is a force postponement due to the political earthquake experience today and that leaves the doctors without any interlocutor facing a possible negotiation here those medics are furious at the government claiming that it cares but in practice is doing little they say that help front line workers . and on it of course the whole line or google promised there would be more

attention and primary health care with more stuff and funding the promises remain just moods the government departments shift responsibility on to each other but this situation has not changed in any way for several years and this is especially bad since in tampa if we don't get people to listen to us there will probably be no primary house doctors in the province of magic in a few months because those who can now will be so exhausted that they will no longer be able to do their jobs. if they don't think this if they don't make an urgent plan economic and organizational primary care will disappear where and then danger specious. thanks for watching this morning the sort so we're talking about so far this thursday but if you want more of a breaking news if it happens throughout the day and when it comes immediately for download our up construction mobile device of course i was r.t. dot com as well for now though it's 29 minutes past the hour coming up to 30 minutes past the hour if you have to go off and do something today i hope your day

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