for. hospitals. after they took practically no patients. boils over just. for frontline health workers. in many. developing a drug that's. already suffering from corona virus in the program we talked to his developers about the trials. on consumers mock. the word normal all. inclusive vision put

that up for debate. it's needed we need. change in the this is. going to change. so it's going to be. it is thursday march the 11th just after 1 pm here in moscow we've got your top stories on our international. hundreds of millions of pounds wasted and barely anyone treated that's the story of the emergency hospitals for patients now closed this month as the country gradually strictest lockdown yet people are starting to question the government's handling of the pandemic and its reports many find 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 but 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 unable to release frontline workers to the nightingales the government felt the need to show some. centerpiece that they could share what and say look how rapidly we have created one thing 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 basically showing of those who are trying to reassure that they were doing things and when the government starts to do things

right now is injury you're going to get waste 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 stop it not the actual number of plates that were available so the whole thing was just don't. 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 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 i think the collaboration are very cool reply only on very cool execution or planning. numbers that. are printed money in big spurts all the.

nicer girl hospitals most of which were not properly was be a complete waste of resources. that the government's a big chris was not looking at the issue of the soft resources because there's no point in. extra hospital facilities if you haven't got the stock to go in. the hospital closures come off the ministers announced they can't afford more than a one percent pay rise for n.h.s. workers nurses have launched a petition calling for a 15 percent salary hike and they add they're grateful for public clapping which of course has become a symbol of gratitude to n.h.s. workers but warned that won't pay the bills more than a half a $1000000.00 have already signed the petition and one nurse explained what just a one percent pay rise actually 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 of sea week and in many hostile sites across the u.k. it costs more than that to park your car to go to a cock you cop we are acutely aware of this financial strain that's the present 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 they see what we do and the public sector workers have seen some sadly well deserved raises recently and we've been left out to sas again as an n.h.s. and i think when we talk about money and what's affordable we've just seen 67. minutes extra trade system that would pay for an n.h.s. to how shifty percent pay rise and it would still be money left in the doctor we see nearly qualified nurses and student nurses already thinking gosh you know if i come into the right career here we have

a little 100000 nurses vacancies in the way i'm not really causes patient safety issues across forwards what we really need is to fill those vacancies and to have a committed and enthusiastic and educated group and we're not going treaties are unnecessary paying our staff freight. well italy is set to become the 1st e.u. state to make russia's sputnik the vaccine for the launch of production now slated for july at the shorts still waiting for approval from the european medicines agency with job developers demanding an apology for his chair branded authorization russian roulette nevertheless italy expects to manufacture a $10000000.00 doses by the end of the year at the box office shoot shortages from western alternatives the president of the italian and russian chamber of commerce told us the deal is about people not politics. russian in condition 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 though a great number 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 the 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. and their

job innovation is not the only russian. breakthrough the russian interviewed over immunologically is now testing the drug that stops the virus spreading in people already suffering from the disease the head of the institute told us about the trials. 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 the virus from replicating itself it's clear already that this drug will be administered in an inhaled form way 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. and as the use of sputnik 3 helps bring down the number of russia's coronavirus cases it's lifting some of the remaining covert restrictions moskos and that stay at home advice for people over 65 a musts inoculation campaign has been underway now since december and we talked about the countries anti covert measures and how they fit into the whole global picture that we have this conversation with the w.h.o. representative to russia. there has been a very good combination of. recommendations or restrictions which were not for love of the house although in some regions they were more close to that. and i would say and a very nice of people but this is very critical of the measures. the most important thing is to be moderate 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 me i have seen in some countries a surge of cases a new growth of cases so we have very cautious everywhere. nobody's safe until everybody saves stronger tolerates even you know coming from any place my power and the trust of the people so. it is very important rollout 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 around the world health organization did not reply and vaccination passports and evidence to give privileges or enable travel however good data on rats the nation are extremely important and the countries are encouraged to actually have

information systems actually named all of them to long term effects in ation. next an ultimatum to lawmakers germany's ruling coalition has reacted to it vost facemasks for profit scandal involving senior m.p.'s by demanding written proof from all parties about most of the haven't made money from protective equipment procurement deals the alliance is scrambling to recover its reputation ahead of a crunch state elections this weekend let's cross live now to our europe correspondent peter all of a can you bring us up to speed what's the latest that no. german politics tends not to do scandal and drama as readily as their partners in italy france or even the united kingdom but the so-called mosque affair has already claimed 2 scalps in german politics and it might not be done just yet the 2 that have gone already are nicholas loeb or from the christian democratic union party that's after

his company was understood to have profited by around 250000 euro for being the middleman in a deal to provide masks and p.p. while a new sly and a senior figure within the christian social union has also said he won't be running at the next election after it's understood he made around 600000 euro lobbying for a must supply it during the 1st part 1st locked down in the pandemic mr mifflin says he's done nothing wrong but he is facing a corruption probe in his local party in bavaria over that well what the reason that this is so important is because this 2021 is what's called a super election year in germany serious votes are going to be cast culminating in september when there's the national election that will elect who will be the the replacement the successor to angola merkel before we get there though it all kicks

off on sunday with regional elections in the states of by then voting book on the rhineland pilapil nate that has prompted senior figures in the conservative union in german politics to say to all of its members all of its politicians by 6 pm on friday you've got to sign this declaration that you have had nothing to do with punt demick 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 the mosque affair plus a slow rollout of vaccinations across germany will be watched keenly to see how that translates out at the polls in those 2 key states on sunday the bigger issue for this though is that the look into pandemic profiteering could well end up

casting a wide a net looking at earnings for politicians outside of the bundestag if that happens which it looks like it is going to that could well be some more financial skeletons found in various people's closets artie's that you're of course one of peter oliver thank you. in the meantime hof of old work is in france are refusing to get the job despite having to work closely with the elderly at high risk from the disease. there are also concerns about the shot safety as well as mistrust of the government behind the inoculation dr if we do talk about this a bit later in the program. is you'll media a reflection of reality. in

a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being so. direct. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or in maybe in the shallows. ironic that all the people that are in the big point bubble talk about the other bubbles that the fed is inflated without recognising 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. good to have you with us today a consumer goods multinational unilever is dropping the word normal from old skincare products the u.k. says they would it makes some customers feel excluded. no 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 that more than 2 or 3 people thought that using the word normal had a negative impact now you know levers are also ending excessive editing of photographs of models in his advertising but there has been a bit of a backlash against the moves so sick of woken us taken to p.c. extremes normal means not only 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 lohan 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 beauty brother it's yes of to dick it's of sale in fairness creams in the media you know livers trying to rebuild its reputation ultimate event of a day after global criticism last year over its marketing of skin whitening products and asia and 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 nor will the other than about using models and change in the shots oh i agree

with but the normal thing this is purely them over reacting to the trouble they landed themselves in i think it's important that they are talking about this and they are going to do this because. it's needed we need to keep pushing change in the industry i mean you know body and and we have probably one of the most inclusive agencies and i don't think enough times to doing enough to how that 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 so i can i disagree i don't think that's 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 an accident she has to be scarring she has you know i think. she is doing very well now a fee is going to be shocking to see but 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 great. there's the idea of normal i would agree with you that if somebody has got a disability or whatever 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 i think doing what they're doing or 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 that 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 a bit like your being confused or not my friend where you think it's about normal imagery would your grandmother would normal i don't object to any of the rest of it but the word normal it's world nonsense it's all done for marketing and you shouldn't be falling for it because they're making a mug of you. only a heart of french care home staff are prepared to get the covert job with distrust of vaccines on the government being cited it's a report now with artie's john it happens again. 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 afraid to vaccinate it on have lost a confidence in their government over the vaccine process that people are concerned about. 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. 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 pfizer shot because we're told it's 90 percent effective but there. isn't a 70 percent effective so it's understandable that the medics and the rest of the population are well the most effective option but there has been so much for. mation about the vaccines so 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 health workers who received it reported suffering off 2 words 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 know i just 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 r.t. paris. concerns over the u.s. president's mental state have. forgotten the name of his own defense secretary it adds to a raft of strange recent incidents involving joe biden clipping his vice president calling foreign leaders that is an action usually reserved for only the head of state. reports. 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 generally 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 the 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 for 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 know joe biden gets questions like when 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 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 his daytime nap 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 law itself 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 about just about wraps up the program for this half hour here on the international many more stories coming our way 32 minutes from now but between now and then. and the kaiser report.

the or 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 you the person who falsely confessed actually came to believe the lie that they were told about their own behavior once a false confession the stake in the case is closed and nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession and one that isn't. seemed wrong. to me new world that is yet to shape out they become educated and gains from it equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

one of the worst mass shootings in america was unless vegas in 2017 the tragedy exposed a little of the real last vegas where many say elected officials are controlled by casino owners the degas shooting reveal where the p.d. really is and now it's partly because finishing 1st in the american public barely remembers that it happened but just shows you the power of money on las vegas the powerful showed that true colors when the pandemic hit the most contagious contagion we've seen in decades and then you have a mayor who doesn't care so here's care i goodman offering go lives of the vegas residents to the control group to the shiny facades conceal a deep indifference to the people.