so join us in the depths. in the shallows. the headlines this hour on. norway suspend the use of the. vaccine after reports of blood clots. among those who receive the shot. for brand new coated emotions to hospitals. public boils over a mere one percent pay rise for frontline health workers. and in many. 3 by developing a drug that could stop the disease spreading in those already suffering from corona

on the program we talked to its creators about the ongoing trial. here in the russian capital you're watching international a very warm welcome to. norway and denmark have suspended the use of the code after reports of significant complications among those who took the job. both who are in the dangerous medicines agency has to respond to reports of possible serious side effects both from denmark and other european countries and a copenhagen took that step after one person died following vaccination although health authorities stressed that no link to the astra zeneca drug has been proven in that case or in the multiple cases of blood clots the job will be suspended for 2 weeks while an investigation is conducted earlier this week austria also suspended the job after reports of one death astra zeneca though it stands by exact

scene saying it is safe of her spokesperson confirmed the company is investigating potential adverse side effects professor of molecular oncology lawrence young told us a temporary halt is the right thing to do. i think when your vaccinating very large numbers of people you've got to recognise that in the general population there are going to be a fix anyway people are suffering diseases all the time and you need to be sure that when you have beds that you see any effects that you see the vaccine or not simply because your box 1000 a large group of individuals who have other health conditions and so you have to look at it very very carefully and that's why you need to take a bit of a breather and investigate the possibility that the vaccine is it associated with these effects as far as i i can tell some of the the e.m.a.'s already looked at this in relation to austria and as for no no specific links with the vaccine because i've done that study comparing blood clots and other and other effects in

the general health healthy population should i say the normal population versus the vaccinated population so you have to look at least things very very carefully is a bit of a big issue hasn't there about confidence in vaccines generally and there's been there's been the big issue with the in europe about the fact of age on the effectiveness of vaccines. and of course as i say you have to investigate every serious side effect carefully but there is a big into. the commercial dimension to all of this is well. money down the drain that's how the u.k.'s huge temporary covert hospitals are being described after it was revealed most are now being closed down having treated only a small handful of patients it has led to questions over the government's approach to the pandemic as a partridge reports. 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. centerpiece that they could share what and say look how rapidly we have created one thing it was rules and. china managed to create a hospital and once we even even more so i mean there was an element of the showing of those who are trying to reassure that they were doing that and when when the government starts to do things right there is an injury you're going to get the

waste of money there's no one asked the question well do we need to really do we need to as it turned out. as it also turned out we start them because the main issue was basically stuff 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 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 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 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 i mean it's very cool our execution we're planning our numbers. of course are printed money and billions it's all the. non-secure all the hospitals most of which were not properly was be

a complete waste of resources. the governments the big cross was not looking at how much the issue of the stall for small states because. extra hospital facilities if you haven't got the staff to go in. the hospital closures come at the same time the government has said they cannot afford more than a one percent pay rise for n.h.s. workers well nurses have launched a petition calling for a 15 percent salary hike and more than a half a 1000000 have already signed the document one nurse explained to us what a one percent pay rise equates to. to be honest one percent is quite frankly an insult to the profession and to the n.h.s. is a home for most nurses that equates to around 3 counts of sea week and in many hostile sites across the 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 prison 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 and trace system that would pay for an n.h.s. to have 50 percent pay rise and it would still be money left in the pot after that we see nearly qualified nurses and student nurses already thinking gosh you know if i come into the right korea here we have a little 100000 nurses vacancies in the way and that 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 church these are unnecessary paying our staff i'm afraid all italy has launched the world's 1st

covert hospital training as a struggles with overflowing wards it is equipped to treat the most critically ill of patients. you know this is a medical train that has been equipped to transport and treat critically ill patients and dose intensive care 1st everybody is organized in the intensive care unit obviously this simply equipment with a ceiling able to do the job 7 patients can be transported in each carry each so in total $21.00 patients in intensive care look over cases in the country have again been on the rise this month or so north already has to put more regions into the so-called red zone with the tightest restrictions the health minister says the train will head to where it's needed most. hospital train was made available to reinforce the territory where there is a difficulty it's approximately service

a national health service that goes where there is a problem or italy years i said to become the 1st state to make russia's sputnik very vaccine with production due to start in july the european medicines agency is considering whether to approve the short and its developers are demanding an apology after the agency's chair described the authorization process as russian roulette nevertheless italy expects to manufacture a 10000000 doses by year's end of the block stuff was huge shortages from western alternatives the president of the italian russian chamber of commerce told us that this 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 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 these religious 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 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. and the job innovation is not the only russian antique over break through the russian institute of immunology is testing a drug that could stop infected people from spreading 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 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 phase i still plan to come here on the program on the international gist of i will be welcoming a german m.p. from one of the country's leading opposition parties the alternative for germany which is looking to gain ground in what's being

a super election year in the country live chat coming your way in just a moment. without . any accountability whatsoever. market reaction that used to be in the form of the bond market big. money. the gold bugs would say oh my god you know gold going to go higher because the government's out of control but both of those have been euthanized we don't have. any more. is. nobody's going to put. what to do. this money.

that all the people that are in the big point bubble talk about the other bubbles that the fed has inflated. generally in the. people who are. thanks for joining us. up at the start of election year which kicks off with a regional in 2 states this weekend culminating with a general election in september which. is towards the end of the year sunday's elections will give a 1st taste of the country's appetite for political change now joined by peter

foreign policy speak of the. international today i'm going to be covering a bit of a mix of topics for you to forgive me if i go on just a little bit let's start with the latest sanctions imposed by the e.u. on russia over the jailing of the opposition. shews day the e.u. imposed sanctions sanctions on a number of russian officials over the novell the case would you say that relations between europe and russia have reached a stalemate and are the sanctions going to help well the sanctions are completely useless. they are completely contra productive useless because russia didn't change its behavior even the change its thinking and a comparable act of because the sanctions didn't harm to russia but they harmed chair money especially in other european countries so we don't export as many years as we did before but if sanctions or if the sanctions are useless and what's the

point of doing them this is the political point in all of this is the showing that . pointing the finger on the russia. saying that this is this is something evil and we have fight against it. it's a it's a political sign let me talk to you just briefly about our sister channel r.t. deutsche it's suing build after the german newspaper accused r.t. of spying on alexina bali in lynnwood would you comment on that for me well. i wouldn't. i would stay relaxed because i did just investigative journalism and what this really important thing there are double standards by bill that you should do you should show how how they are working with double standards because we had a real real spying affair. 2 years ago austria in

austria you know years ago is that fair that's right and you remember secretly filming were they 2017 they do this yeah exactly forget the footage until 2019 yeah yeah right and you have to imagine that the holes where it happened was completely cabled and. equipped with hidden cameras so that was completely illegal and they kept it for 2 years and during an election. german media no it was certainly the german media namely beagle beagle and side published just 6 minutes of complete footage of more than 6 hours right just to say or they may be a corruption afterwards when it was published the whole 6 hours it was discovered that there was no corruption. was and he said we are not

doing anything illegal and yet the deputy chancellor how to resign and then suddenly snap elections were called wasn't exactly exactly it didn't said all this is illegal this is not what is going to be out there nobody was held to know exactly what to ask you r.t. dorie and the ruptly video agency they're all they're also having their german bank accounts shut down if there are political aspects to that do you think because or does it have something to do with the fact that r.t. deutscher is planning to launch a german like which channel of your own you know what do you know that couldn't happen then germany things like this and and the comments one is not under the influence of the german government but i can tell you something funny from my allies. when we had the election of the chancellor of our parliament we have been voting by cards and i put my no my cross at the know and i did the picture of this

paper and i posted it on twitter and i said not my chancellor. and oh yes i've got to find 1000 euro for that and the next day i lost my bank account they closed your bank account because of this tweet but they didn't say it was because of the street but it was just an accident. but this bank of hong was used on only on me for the money i am receiving from the bonus that for nothing else. it is politics isn't it how would you how would. you comment on the recent attempts by germany's domestic intelligence agency to put your party the f.t. under surveillance well this is really a move because germany as the only country in europe within the democratic countries which is using domestic secret service to press the opposition right there saying that you have links to fringe extremist groups

that's why they're doing that whether it's funny they should show us some proves it sounds good doesn't it just. does. a secret service. they did it all or disappear all times in the past and now. with the parties which are a right to the middle they destroyed the republican party in the ninety's and later also didn't verger also with the same methods that now they're trying with the we are too strong we are in every single parliament in every single state in the bundestag we have a strong as a position by the we are in the european parliament so they can try well i was just i was witnessing a i dare say you will only get stronger the more they continue to push you down for her yeah it is that's true because people see these see that there are there is no reason to do so because the only thing we are doing we are saying we would like our

government is following goal law not breaking the law and therefore we are right extremist sorry doesn't look good for the future of democracy in europe i have to say i want to ask you about russia as a sputnik very covert vaccine it has been approved in numerous countries but in the e.u. so far they haven't given it the green light any suspicion is there any any comment on that. i've been visiting today the institutions who are exporting the vaccine a mad to the scientists who invented the vaccine we had a very interesting towards and i think this is this is a real hit. the russian industry land it so congratulations but it doesn't take long for for certain communities to politicize the matter of course of course and your question was when when when it's going to be in europe now and the european union and this is also. a let's let's see how long does it

take they go ply they applied it and. i guess it will take some pie while i was you know one of my my concerns is that if indeed the e.u. is pushing ahead with so-called medical passports you have to get your vaccine in order to order to travel that seems that seems perhaps a little bit disturbing in a sense that you if you have the sputnik very vaccine and it is politicized and if you are a russian for example perhaps you will be barred from traveling across europe if they don't like the russian vaccine of course of course it's always possible you say how well organized and effective has the use vaccination program been so far. that you have a solution program is a total disaster and fact is that you know especially in germany and now it's just just open. and the newspaper you want even the mention booth side to criticize america. people criticizing from the lion and i received here in moscow

yesterday a message from somebody who is not going to avoid for the deal never but that the person who wrote me now i understand the deal will get really a lot of voters from the protest community below the people sort of about their so pissed off other government and off the management of the covert they're fed up are fed up but what about you do you think germany will at some point allow for the sputnik the vaccine. is strongly poured to just from the point of view did we have a free market which would be a free market should be a free competition of all the vaccines and the people should be informed about all those folk scenes that would be fine i'm afraid that there will take some time because this is again a political issue and also the issue of money and the best on

a farm are a lot be a strong the will push it so on they will try to prolong the whole procedure you know what the pandemic aside just for a moment what do you think is the single biggest issue facing germany at this point what should be addressed as a 1st priority elections are in the near future. well the biggest topic in germany is corruption connected with a call that there are there are several politico politicians who are earning money with the mask and with all that has this been confirmed. there and there have been met people at the very top who have been lining their pockets in the german bundestag with the face masks 600000 new. bank accounts paid to a politician who is in the hope of and who was pro mask to hold on a 2nd this is about it's not politics this is about people's health isn't it held my friend you know how it's supposed people. if the foreign policy speak in the

german bundestag thank you very much for your time today appreciate it thank you. that was pretty strong the f.t. foreign policy speech of the german bund star joining us here on r.t. international we are back with more. on else seems wrong. but. just. let me. just say that's a. trail. when something find themselves worlds apart. she still looks for common ground.

there are 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 fast actually came to believe the lie that they were told about their own behavior once a false confession is taken the case is closed and nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession and one that isn't. this

is boom bust one business sure you can't afford to miss i'm rachel blevins in washington coming up president biden is that can find that 1.9 trillion dollar american rescue plan after it passed in the house but will it be enough to help the u.s. economy and how does it compare to the rest of the world. secretary of state tony blinken appears before congress amid accusations that the fighting in ministration isn't doing enough to stop that nearly completed north through 2 pipelines that game stop saga continues after the stock reaches 340 $8.00 only to lose 40 percent in just 25 minutes we'll tell you why next we have a lot to get to celeste get started. the house of representatives moved to pass me 1.9 trillion dollars stimulus package today by a vote of 222 to a lot of it but while some are seeing it as much needed relief others are focusing

on the numbers mainly the fact that the total debt is exceeding the size of the u.s. economy for the 1st time since world war 2 and the u.s. isn't alone here the european union passed more than 9 $100000000000.00 in coded relief in december financed by joint debt among member nations it brought the country's debt to g.d.p. ratio to over 97 percent nearby the newly independent united kingdom has passed more than 500 $50000000000.00 in stimulus since the start of the pandemic government. $2.00 trillion or nearly 100 percent of the country's g.d.p. marking its highest point since 1968 india announced more than $35000000000.00 in relief back in november bringing the total spent on stimulus last year to 15 percent of the country's g.d.p. public debt reached a record high of nearly 90 percent russia passed more than $70000000000.00 in stimulus back in june but by the end of 2020 government debt accounted for only

around 18 percent of russia's g.d.p. while china was hesitant to pass billions in stimulus the way it did back in 2008 its debt to g.d.p. ratio still soared to over a record 300 percent in 2020 meanwhile japan passed around 3 trillion dollars in stimulus last year as the debt in the world's 3rd largest economy soared to more than 240 percent of its g.d.p. as a result global debt reached an all time high of $281.00 trillion dollars by the end of 2020 we're going to take a look at what that means for the status of global inflation but 1st here's our tease turning to chavez with the latest on the next stimulus package heading to the white house. today as the country tries to turn a corner on a pandemic that has killed more than half a 1000000 people in the u.s. and has left millions more without jobs the house of representatives is passing the

vote on president biden's $1.00 trillion dollar stimulus package and everything in this package is designed to relieve the suffering and meet demerged most urgent needs of the nation just days before unemployment aid runs out congress has approved a landmark legislation placing president biden on the cusp of an early triumph that the democratic party says will transform the economy and provide much needed financial relief to millions of americans we promised. to send people back to work by helping to revive and supercharge the economy mission accomplished the bill includes $1400.00 checks for americans with income below a certain threshold $75000.00 for individuals 112504 heads of household and 150004 couples filing jointly will each receive $1400.00 per person as a direct deposit or mailed check the legislation will also pay.