for. patients. boils over just one percent pay rise from health workers. around 3 weeks. to. build 3. developing. those already. on the program we develop the. consumer goods. the normal for all. products. will become more inclusive.

it's needed we need to keep pushing change this is. going to be. welcome to the program here with. hundreds of millions of pounds wasted. treated that's the story of. patients closed this month as the country gradually strictest lockdown yet people are starting to question the government's handling of the pandemic and reports many find it.

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 what. we have created it was rules and. china managed to create a hospital 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 and why and when the government starts to do things right now 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

a. cashpoints much criticized coated 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 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 cool reply i mean i'm very cool our execution we're

planning our numbers. our printed money in billings it's all in the. non-secure all the hospitals most of which were not properly was be a complete waste of resources. the government's a big chris was not looking at how much the issue of the stall for small businesses know who are. extra hospital facilities if you haven't got the staff to go in. the hospital closures come after ministers announced they can't afford more than a one percent pay rise for n.h.s. workers now says have launched a petition calling for a 15 percent salary hike they add they're grateful for public clapping which of course has become a symbol of gratitude to n.h.s. workers but they warn that will not pay the bills and more than half a $1000000.00 have already signed the petition one nurse here explaining now just

what a one percent pay rise equates to. to be honest when dissent is quite frankly an insult to us to the profession and to the n.h.s. it's a home for most nurses that equates to around 3 counts of fear we and in many hostile sites across the u.k. it costs more than that to park your car to go to work a market 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 at 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 seems to see 7000000000 being used on an ineffective track system that would pay for an n.h.s. to house 50 percent pay rise and it would still be money left in the pot after that we see newly qualified nurses and student nurses already thinking gosh you know if

i come into the right korea here we have over 400000 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 to achieve that unnecessarily paying our staff i'm afraid. actually has launched the world's 1st covert hospital train as it struggles with overflowing wards doctors say it's equipped to deal with the critically ill. enough i mean this is a medical train that has been equipped to transport and treat critically ill patients and dose intensive care 1st everybody is organized as a kid in the intensive care unit obviously with simply equipment with dest ceiling able to do the job 7 patients can be transported in each parish so in total $21.00 patients in intensive care. again this month force north already has to put more

regions into the so-called red zone with the tightest restrictions the health minister says the train can move quickly to whatever part of the country is needed to most. the hospital train was made available to reinforce the territory where there is a difficulty it's approximately service and national health service that goes where there is a problem. well italy is set to become the 1st e.u. state to make russia's sputnik b. vaccine with the launch of production now slated for july the shorts still waiting for approval from the european medicines agency with job developers now demanding an apology after its chair branded authorisation as russian roulette nevertheless italy expects to manufacture a $10000000.00 doses by the end of the year at the box office huge shortages from western alternatives president of the italian russian chamber of commerce told us that the deal is 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 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 a 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 v. 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 whole job innovation is not the only russian and breakthrough the russian interviewed over immunology is testing the 1st drug that stops the virus spreading in people already suffering from the disease the head of the institute told us about the trials. with the clinical trials of mere 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 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 v. helps bring down the number of corona virus cases russia's lifting some of the remaining covert restrictions moscow's and that its stay at home advice for people over 65. campaigns been underway since december we talked about the country's anti covert measures and how they fit into 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 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 innocence and application of the set of measures are 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 we prefer to call them and me 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 tolerates even you know coming from any place my power of the trust of the people so it is very important to 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. well tell her i'm ization did not reply and vaccination passports

as evidence to give privileges or enable travel however good data actually nation are extremely important and the countries are encouraged to actually have information systems actually named all of them to long term vaccination. next an ultimatum to lawmakers germany's ruling coalition has reacted to a vast face mosques for profit scandal involving senior m.p.'s by demanding they prove they have not been lining their pockets or the alliance is now scrambling to recover its reputation ahead of crunch state elections this weekend ati's peter all of a filed this report. 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 that's after it's understood he made around 600000 euro lobbying for a must supply it during the 1st 1st lockdown 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 latinate 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. the mosque affair plus a slow rollout of vaccinations across germany will be watched keenly to see how that translates at the polls in those 2 key states on sunday the big 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 meanwhile half of all care home workers in france are refusing to get the job despite having to work closely with the elderly who are at high risk from the. other are concerns about the shots safety as well as mistrust of the government behind the driver we addressed this issue just a bit later in the program. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy thing for him to let it be an arms race in his own spearing dramatic development only.

exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. shows seem wrong. why don't we just don't call. me. yet to shape out just days after. engagement equals betrayal. when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

it is good to have you with us today consumer goods multinational unilever is dropping the word normal from all skincare products the u.k. based firm says the word makes some customers 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 unilever's also ending excessive editing of photographs of models in its advertising but that has been so far a backlash against both moves so sick of woke n'est 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 hands 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 you live it will drop the word normal from beauty products yes out to decades of cell in fairness creams in india unilever's trying to rebuild its reputation meantime after global criticism last year over its marketing of skin whitening products in asia we discussed as a 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 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 one of the most inclusive agencies and i don't think enough times to doing enough to how that can hanes inclusive and stay away from noble 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 and i think the 3rd leaving the it will have to spread 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 had this car in which she actually you know 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. they say that 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 motor was not 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 old dry old 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 but 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 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 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. means i'm only half of french care home staff are prepared to get the covert job with distrust of vaccines on the government both being cited article respondents do penske felt this report. 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 health workers are free to vaccinate it on we have lost a confidence in their government over the vaccine process people are concerned about side effects so some 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 espouse a 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 of 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 a factor but there. is only 70 percent effective so it's understandable that the medics and the rest of the population well the most effective option but there has been so much conflicts of. we shouldn't go to 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 move into vaccine 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 all a lot 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 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 geology auty paris. and sounds over the u.s. president's mental state have deepened after he appeared to have forgotten the name of his own defense secretary it does add to a raft of strange recent incidents involving joe biden including his vice president calling foreign leaders which is an action almost always reserved just for the head of state to be true pollock 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 mind mind you know the guy who runs out of town for 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 says press secretary jen 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 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 lotsof in the 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 are just about wrapping up the program for this half hour here with the international we are back with more. ironic that all the people that are in the big point bubble you know talk about the other bubbles that the fed is inflated without recognizing that they're in a bubble themselves and 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. one of the worst of

a mass shootings in america was in less vigorous in 2017 the tragedy exposed a little of the real let's begin to women who say elected officials are controlled by can see you know wounds deviate is shooting revealed where d l g m p d really is and now it's part of the stand as sheen has to the american public barely remembers that it happens but just shows you the power of money in las vegas the powerful showed that true colors when the pandemic hits the most contagious contagion that we've seen in decades and then you have a mayor who doesn't care so here's caroline goodman offering the lives of the vegas residents to be the control group. deep indifference to the people could have been saved if they were taken action absolutely keep the. machines doing is a money machine huge cash register that is ran by people who.