obviously going to get off of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you there. headlining stay britain shouting for covert emergency hospitals built for half a 1000000000 pounds after they took practically no patients was over the same time over that one percent pay rise offer for frontline health workers. the most this is that equates to about 3 counties. and in many hospitals states across the u.k. it costs more. to go to. russia builds on its existing 3 code vaccines today it's developing a drug that stops the disease spreading in those already suffering from corona virus we talked to the developers about how those trials are going that. consumers mark beauty goods giant unilever for stripping the word normal from all hair and

skin care products in a bid to quote a collusive vision where we put that up for debate. we are going to there is it's needed we need to keep pushing changing the interest this is marketed this is a bit like we're going to change tomato sauce so it's going to be green. good afternoon from russians is out international with me kevin 0 in this thursday 11 from our show ok 1st the hundreds of millions of pounds wasted in barely anyone treated that's the story of the u.k. emergency hospitals for covert patients now jus to be closed this month as the country gradually exits its strictest law yet people start to question too that the government's handling of the pandemic and escape partridge reports many are finding

it wanting. 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 make 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 unable to release frontline workers to the nightingales the government felt the need to show some of the. centerpiece that they could share walk and say look how rapidly we have created one thing it was rules and another which i know managed to create a hospital in amongst even even more so i mean there's an element of basically

showing of those who are trying to reassure that they were doing things and when when the government starts to do things right is ensure you're going to get the waste of money because no one asked the question well do we need to really do we need to as it turned out. it also turned out we start them because the main issue was basically stuff and not the actual number of plates that were available so the whole thing was just. to go far as i can see why that new year medics in covert hotspots were days away from having to choose who would 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 set aside. cashpoints much criticized coded 19 track and trace system 37 1000000000 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 in 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 years but tough questions are now being asked about how chunks of that 280000000000 pounds have been spent and the impact that they've had i think a collaboration or very poor reply only very cool our execution or

planning our numbers. are printed money and beings it's all the. non-secure all the hospitals most of which were not properly speedier complete waste of resources. the governments are being cross was not looking at how that's the issue. because there's no point in. hospital facilities if you haven't got the staff to go in. course the hospital closure coming after ministers announce they couldn't afford more than one percent pay rise for those frontline n.h.s. workers that have been through so much to try to cope with it all over the last 30 months nurses of launched a petition then calling for a 15 percent hellery psych salary hike they say they're grateful for all the public clapping that people have done for them it's become a symbol of gratitude to n.h.s.

workers but now that they're they say that won't pay the bills more than half a $1000000.00 of already signed a petition one nurse explains what just a one percent pay rise would look like. the onus 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 a few weeks and in many hostile sites across the pay it costs more than that to pocket costs to go to a compact a cop we are acutely aware of this financial strain that's the brits on u.k. by the pandemic. we're not saying that we deserve any more than anyone else we're just saying that we are also decent they will say what we do in the public sector workers have seen some sadly 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 affordable we've just seemed so she 7. minutes extra trade system that we pay for an n.h.s.

to have the 50 percent pay rise and it would still be money left in the pot after that we seen any qualified mrs and student nurses already thinking gosh you know if i come into the right korea here we have a little 100000 if they can seize in the day and that really causes patient safety issues across forward what we really need is to fill those vacancies and to have a commitment enthusiastic an educated group and we're not going to achieve that unnecessarily paying our staff i'm afraid. well italy set to become the 1st state to make russia's support the vaccine now we can reveal with the launch of production slated for july the shop still waiting for approval from the european medicines agency with job developers demanding apology in fact after its chair branded authorization but unfortunate this russian roulette nevertheless italy expects to manufacture $10000000.00 doses by the end of the year as the bloc suffers huge shortages from western alternatives the president of the italian russian chamber of commerce told us the deals are about people here not about

politics. and as for public opinion leaving aside political views everyone is very much looking forward to the vaccine people are waiting for doses not for statements those great numbers were coming from pfizer and astra zeneca according to the promises all italians were to be vaccinated by june but unfortunately we can see that it won't be the case therefore there are great hopes for sputnik 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 easily just sticks and 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 sputnik we 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 but. the job innovation is not the only russian and covert breakthrough to tell you about either the russian institute of immunology now say they're testing the 1st drug that stops the virus spreading in people already suffering from the disease it's good news if it works ahead of the institute told us more about the trials that. 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. that uses put the hope spring the number of russia's coronavirus cases but more good news is lifting some of the remaining covert instructions here moscow has ended its stay at home advice now for people aged over 65 a mass inoculation campaigns been underway since december we talked about the country's antico good measures now it's fitting in with the whole global picture with the w.h.o. representative to russia. there has been a very good combination of. recommendations are restrictions which were not for a lot of the house although in some regions they were more close to that. and i would say enter 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 needs to be flexible of returning some of the restrictions public health measures will prefer to call them and i have seen in some countries a surge of cases in growth of cases so we have very cautious everywhere. nobody's safe until everybody saves stronger torics even coming from any place mike how are the trust of the people so it is very important to roll out to go with a vaccination to 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 on the world health organization did not reply and vaccination passports as and

when and to give privileges or enable travel however goods data nation are extremely important and the countries are encouraged to actually have information systems actually nagel them to long term vaccination. this is new in an ultimatum to lawmakers germany's ruling coalition has reacted to a vast facemasks for profit scandal involving senior employees but the money written proof of all the party members that they haven't indeed made money from protective equipment procurement deals the alliance is scrambling to recover its reputation had a crunch local elections this weekend but are all of our usual chorus part of the best person to go to for this the fate i was latest there this morning we. well we get used to the stability over drama in german politics but over the last few years we haven't really seen the type of scandals that have played out in the

united kingdom in france in italy even but what we have in the last 7 days is seem to figures from the conservative union here in germany having to quit their posts due to being linked to having taken money in relation for contracts being handed out for p.p. and masks one of those figures quite a senior figure in the christian social union in bavaria the reason this is particularly important though is because it's what's being called a super election year it culminates in september with the bundesliga elections that will see the replacement for angle a merkel elected but it all gets underway this coming sunday with local elections in baton boughten book and in the state of the rhineland polaha nate is well ahead of those elections and ultimatum is being put forward by party leaders from the center right they've said that all of their politicians all of their members need to sign a declaration by 6 pm on friday to say that they've had no involvement with pandemic

profiteering as m.p.'s you stand up for citizens and local companies to see yourselves as having a special responsibility for the common good it is just clear that the task must not result in any personal or financial benefits. well those corruption allegations aren't the only issue you were also seeing the c.d.u. coming under some criticism and c.s.u. as well for the slow rollout of vaccinations across germany but the conservatives aren't the only ones with problems heading into this super election year period the social democrats their coalition partners have their own issues of. civil war fighting inside the party between the left and right this comes after a senior figure in the party party ground divo is going to. accuse the left wing of the party of engaging in identity politics he's in turn been accused of shifting to

the far right they've got big issues going into the selection period but for the conservatives for the c.d.u. c.s.u. they were riding high in the polls from a boost of how they've handled the pandemic these corruption allegations don't bode well there's also the chance of this corruption look into what happened during the pandemic spreading out into a wider look at what outside of the bundestag now if that happens there's the potential for finding more financial skeletons in the closet and not of course doesn't bode well in heading towards that huge bundestag election in september yeah or i think he was posted peter all of a thank you wolf face smiles for profits scandal in germany you go to france for our next story a half of all care home workers there are refusing to get the job despite them to work closely with the elderly the high risk from the disease you may be surprised

you may not be surprised have other concerns about the shot safety is one of the issues here as well as mistrust of the government there are they not going to talk more about it bit later in the program.

ironic that all the people that are in the big point bubble talk about the other bubbles that the fed is inflated without recognizing that they're in a bubble themselves i mean it's like a bubble is generally in the eye of the beholder nobody can tell their own bubble and so you've got all these people who are involved in the crypto bubble they can see it. can see the goods multinational unilever than dropping the word normal from all skincare products the u.k. based firm says the wood makes some customers feel excluded we know that removing normal from our products and packaging will not fix the problem in london but it's an important step forward the company's international survey found more than 2 in 3

people full using the word normal had a negative impact unilever's also ending excessive editing to the say of photographs and models and its advertising but all that said there's been a backlash against the moves now. so sick of woken us taken to p.c. extremes normal means not and not dry do we have to turn every term on the planet into included a t p c i've never been able to use normal shampoo but at least i know that it isn't suitable for my dry and or oily 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 mutant brotherhoods yes up to decades of cell in fairness creams in india. mixed reaction when unilever is trying to rebuild its

reputation as you just heard there after global criticism last year over its marketing of skin whitening products in asia we discussed the word normal with 2 guests as well. 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 yea i agree with but the normal thing this is purely them overreacting to the trouble they landed themselves in i think it's important that they are talking about this and they are going to do their best because there is it's needed we need to keep pushing change in the industry i mean you know body land and we have probably one of the most inclusive agencies and i don't think enough time sitting enough to have that i can haynes inclusive and stay away from normal 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 earlier said that that's you know i think if they were leaving the it was all is not it doesn't i disagree so i have to agree and then i mean we we've recently hired a model who went through accident she has the best car insurance you know i think. she is doing very well now it is going to be shocking to see this is imposed and this is what we should be seeing and i think removing normal is important for a lot of people out there so i had great. there's the idea of normal i would agree with you that if somebody has got a disability or whatever i could do not understand what they call the models i take on board completely but it's the word normal when it comes to things like shampoo for a normal hair well here is are the normal greasy or dry. cracked or damaged 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 against that and i think what they are doing is a step in the right direction it is not the be all and end all but it is moving forward so i think it's an indication i don't think they're necessarily doing it to ground crass i think it's needed 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 steps of let's see the demographic of the 10000 people that they asked him 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. just half of french care home staff say they're prepared to get the

covert job but with distrust of vaccines and the government being cited covering a lot today shallow devinsky that. 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. many house workers are free to vaccinate it on 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 mark corn who claimed the astra zeneca short was quasi effective for older persons. who are curious who want to be vaccinated prefers a fires a shot because we're told it's 90 percent a factor but there. is only 70 percent effective so it's understandable that the

medics and the rest of the population are one of the most effective options but there has been so much. mation about the vaccines and now we're really confused this is another reason warehouse workers don't want to get in. 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 movie to vaccines 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

a lack of it health workers including care workers want up to date medical information to make up their minds my own situation i think housework is selfish they're not they're locked into to get a vaccine but this should not just tick more dice for them they want to protect the people they care for 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 geology will ski. race. in a prime concerns over the u.s. president's mental state of deep and to forgotten even the name of his own defense

secretary that was a raft of strange recent instance that involving joe biden including his vice president calling foreign leaders and actually usually reserved for the head of state is to retreat. well wouldn't you know it turns out sleepy joe biden is well still sleepy and it's becoming increasingly hard 2nd or 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 we recently referred to as that guy running that outfit over there and i want to thank the. former general i keep calling him general my mind you know 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 fee 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 his press secretary jen circle

back saki 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 is day time now up kemal is the one who's talking to foreign leaders the liberating 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 president lot self 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. throughout the world according to dmitri power that's the way things look in so far this thursday you download are up for the breaking news the mobile device as it happens and check it out t. dot com where he says she's here in the next hour to take through the afternoon

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tactics that can be used to get innocent people to confess to crimes they didn't commit i don't even think people in the us really get that the police are allowed to lie to the person who falsely actually came to believe the lie that they were told about their own behavior. mistaken the case is closed and nobody really can tell the difference between. them one that isn't. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. theory and dramatic development only. exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very creative. usage.